What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Middleton Railway is pleased to announce success in two local competitions. The railway was nominated in the Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2019. These awards encourage tourist attractions to be as child friendly as possible and Middleton is delighted that we are considered to be in this category. The second
Middleton Park GP surgery will continue with new owners from 1 April 2019 as the Fuller & Forbes Partnership takes over the practice. As South Leeds Life reported last year Grange Medical Services which currently runs the surgery decided not to extend its contract and the NHS Leeds Care Commissioning
Students from Cockburn School visited New York in February 2019 as part of their prize for winning The Big Deal 2019 – an enterprise competition run by York University. The team consisting of Bradley Blackburn, Amadou Dibba, Samit Miah and Jamie Myers took their winning product to pitch to executives
Well known Supermarket chain, Asda, presented Middleton Railway with a cheque for £500 on Tuesday 26 February at their Middleton store. Along with two other local charities, Middleton Railway was part of Asda’s Green Token Scheme, whereby customers get tokens to place in one of three slots, each of which
It’s sixty years since the UK’s finest first-generation tram route closed. Elsewhere in the city few knew that it existed. In South Leeds in the ‘thirties, ‘forties and ‘fifties everybody knew it was there. They had nearly all been for a ride on it in one of the special trams,
In 2011, Leeds City Council took the decision to close and demolish several swimming pools in Leeds and now local residents in Middleton are calling for investment in a new one. The Council has recently found £1.4m for a new gym at the Leisure Centre which has made people think
Leeds Libraries and Halifax have teamed up to bring digital skills training to over-65s at Middleton Elderly Aid in another example of how different organisations are collaborating as part of the 100% Digital Leeds movement to fight the digital divide. In late 2018 we wrote about how this relationship came
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 25 February 2019: Development of 28 dwellings with associated landscaping, driveways, gardens, vehicular access, parking, refuse store, cycle store
Here’s another entry for the 2019 St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, it has been submitted by Hayley Chalders on behalf of Supreme Starlets. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. Supreme Starlets is a majorette troupe which is based in Belle Isle /Middleton. We train
Middleton Elderly Aid some time ago had an electronic organ donated by a member. Unfortunately nobody at the centre can play the organ. Also the centre no longer has the room for it. We would love to find a new home for this lovely organ (free of charge). So if