Category: Holbeck

News and events for the Holbeck area

South Leeds Sports Centre: ‘One of the top 10 eyesores in Leeds’ says council

Leeds City Council has identified the top ten worst eyesore sites in the city with a view to working on them to bring them back into use – and South Leeds Sports centre, at the bottom of Beeston Road, is one of them. Next week at a meeting of Leeds

South Leeds roundup: Peter O’Toole, Middleton banana squirrels and Cottingley issues

Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s been making south Leeds tick on other websites and blogs: Veteran actor Peter O’Toole has announced he is retiring from the stage and screen, at the age of 79. The Irish-born star – best known for playing Lawrence of Arabia in Sir David Lean’s

Beeston burglary suspects sought by police

Holbeck Police have today released a pair of e-fits in a bid to identify two suspected burglars in Beeston. The attempted burglary took place on Tuesday 26 June around 1.30pm on Allenby Road. [googlemaps https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=allenby+road+leeds&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Allenby+Rd,+Leeds,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&ll=53.765428,-1.557404&spn=0.004997,0.01281&t=m&z=14&output=embed&w=425&h=350] The suspects are believed to have used a garden spade in an attempt to force entry

Beeston Hill and Holbeck PFI: Council to step in after cash shortfall

The troubled Little London, Beeston Hill and Holbeck PFI Project has suffered so many delays thanks to a costly wait for government decisions you’d be forgiven for thinking it might never happen – and now it appears there are even more delays to the scheme which was due start this month. On-site work

Cigarettes: Plain packaging event gets Holbeck’s support

Local residents in Holbeck and Beeston turned out to support a campaign for plain packing on cigarettes – despite the puring rain! The event, at St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck, saw  in the region of 30 people brave filthy weather to find out more about the campaign, It was also attended

South Leeds Life launches community correspondents website

Your South Leeds Life is making it easier than ever before to contribute to our blog! You may have noticed that more and more South Leeds residents are contributing articles and reports to this blog – which is great, this is YOUR blog and it’s open to all who wish

Holbeck Elderly Aid warns residents over computer phone scam

Our friends at Holbeck Elderly Aid have produced their latest summer newletter. Included amongst all the latest information about the organisation there’s a timely warning about a telephone scam which some older people in the area have reported. Holbeck Elderly Aid have asked their members to be aware of calls

Why don’t we have doggy bag dispensers in our parks?

Why don’t we have doggy bag dispenses in our parks? I’ve just come back from a holiday in Austria, which has to be a dog lovers country – there’s no end of dogs accompanying their owners everywhere. But however hard I tried I couldn’t find any evidence of these dogs