What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Dancers from Dynamite Leeds, the Middleton-based dance outfit, have returned from the USA having covered themselves in glory. The group spent two weeks in Orlando, Florida competing over two weekends at two huge World Championship competitions. At the Allstar World Championships, both the open age (16+) Leeds Dynamite Bomb Squad
Leeds bare knuckle boxer Mark Holmes travels to Stoke on Trent next Saturday (18 May 2024) to compete for the title of European champion in the city’s Bad to the Bone promotion. “It’s just two months since I lost my mother following a short illness” said Holmes. “I felt bereft.
Saturday (4 May 2024) marked Middleton Woods Parkrun’s sixth birthday from Event 1 and what a diverse 6 years we have had. The last 6 years have seen us welcome 6,632 athletes to our course, and 18,923 parkruns have been completed. There are a lot of people to thank, from
Easter was an extremely busy period at Middleton Primary School. Every class in school had an afternoon visit to Middleton Baptist Church, where Alison Wain and her team taught the children of the Christian Easter Story through song, games and crafts. Back in school, they raised lots of money for
I spoke to two Health Care Assistants at my monthly News Café. Abbey and Rebecca. The Café is held on the first Thursday of every month at Gascoigne House. See what they had to say about the joys of working at the new Gascoigne House Extra Care complex in Middleton.
In a heartening initiative aimed at supporting the well-being and education of its students, Sharp Lane Primary School has forged a partnership with NGC Networks, part of the Cloud Clevr Group, and the Greggs Foundation to provide free breakfasts for children. The collaboration comes at a crucial time when child
The Friends of Middleton Park have unveiled their summer programme of events for 2024 and as usual it includes live music, dance, history walks, some Shakespeare and the Great Middleton Park Show. It starts this weekend with Bluebell Walks. FoMP volunteers will meet Middleton Railway passengers at Park Halt at
Hunslet Rugby Foundation goes from strength to strength, but it’s not just about rugby Hunslet Rugby Foundation is approaching its 10th anniversary. Often the clue’s in the title, but Michael Nuttall, the Foundation’s manager, is worried that people don’t realise how much work they do beyond rugby. On Thursdays and
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 Monday 22 April 2024. Click on the description to see the full application: Raising of ridge height to form
Tonight (23 April 2024) South Leeds Life hosted an online hustings meeting as part of our local elections coverage. All the candidates standing in the ward were invited to attend and take questions from our readers. Subjects covered included: what issues they were most concerned about, transport, policing and anti-social