What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A local group fighting to reopen South Leeds Sport Centre following its closure over a year ago have turned to famous street artist Banksy for help. Members of the SPLASH campaign have sent the following email asking Banksy to support the next protest by either designing a new t-shirt, logo or even
Plans for a new Asda store off Old Lane in Beeston will be discussed at Thursday’s Beeston Forum meeting. Representatives from Asda will be at the meeting to give local residents more details about the plans, which would see the existing store demolished and replaced with a larger store at the
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out
Everyone here at South Leeds Life would like to wish you all the very best for 2012. We’ve got some exciting plans for the New Year, so keep your eyes peeled! We’ll be keeping our eye on the big issues such as the new supermarkets planned for Beeston and Middleton,
It doesn’t seem 13 months since South Leeds Life filed its first post: This is South Leeds Calling. More than 23,000 page impressions and a few hundred posts from more than a dozen different community writers later we’re on the verge of entering 2012. We thought it was the perfect
Wishing all our readers a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from everyone at South Leeds Life…
Planned improvements at Middleton Leisure Centre have today received a boost worth more than £140,000. The centre is one of 350 local community sports groups/facilities which are celebrating today after being offered a total of £17.4 million in Olympic legacy funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities Fund. The money will go
PUBLIC TRANSPORT Christmas Eve Buses – a Saturday service will operate until 1800. After this time services will be reduced with no service after 2000. Trains – a Friday service will operate until 2000. After this time services will be reduced with no service after 2200. Christmas Day No bus
South Leeds Life is just one ‘hyperlocal’ blog in the Leeds blogosphere. Yesterday we featured a festive round-up of local South Leeds blogs and websites – today we look at the blogosphere across the city. He’s the Zorro of the Leeds blogging world – he’s the Leeds Citizen! Putting the
Discovered this video of the proposed new Asda store in Middleton the other day, courtesy the I Live in Middleton (Miggy) LS10 Facebook page. Looks an interesting proposal, once it actually gets built. Last we heard, Asda were planning a 2013 opening, unless anyone’s heard otherwise… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pycr1wLbkb0&w=560&h=315]