What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Police are reminding people of the dangers of riding quad bikes and off road bikes irresponsibly and sometimes illegally. PC Lee Armstrong, one of Rothwell NPT’s off-road bikers, spotted three quad bikes being ridden through the woods at the rear of Sissons Road in Middleton. The quads drove off when they saw that
You can see what happens at a Breakdance Battle at the Hunslet Club here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GDkGLoTGM] Check out the links and more videos at previous Speak To The Streets Breakdance Battles at the Hunslet Club here. More Info: http://www.speaktothestreets.com/ and on the Speak To The Streets Facebook Page
Guest blogger Maria Spadafora of South Asian Arts-uk posts a feature about music classes being run in Leeds 11. She is looking to recruit young people to take part in free workshops exploring the City Varieties Music Hall as part of the Breeze International Youth Festival… South Leeds is brimming with opportunities to
Pampering, information and afternoon tea are all on offer at an event to celebrate afternoon tea at Belle Isle Family Centre. Leanne Drinkall, of Health for All’s Family intervention service, said: “There are lots of pamper treatments available including henna, hand wraps, mini manicures and pedicures, hair workshops and straightening
Fancy your six year old son or daughter working down the mine, tied to stop them escaping the pitch black conditions for 14 hours a day? That was the question posed to members of the Middleton Life local history group as they went deep underground at the National Coalmining Museum near Wakefield. Middleton’s
What are you giving up for Lent? South Leeds Life reader and regular contributor Deacon Al Henry has sent us details of some Lent hunger lunch events, which will be held every Tuesday from 11am-12.30pm. The hunger lunches are held in Middleton Methodist Church Hall, Hopewell View, off Town Street.
Further to the story earlier this month about film footage and recently recovered photos from the Queen’s visit to South Leeds, more particularly the R.W Crabtrees factory, a TV production company is looking for anyone who attended that day or met the Queen, to talk on a documentary to be
The Hunslet Club in South Leeds has become one of the first pioneering youth clubs in the country to install solar panels to its roof, generating power used at the club during daylight hours and selling back any excess made to the national grid. Greener, friendlier to the environment and
Plans for an incinerator that would burn up to 300,000 tonnes of commercial and industrial waste a year were discussed at a Leeds City Council planning meeting. Waste management specialists Biffa plans is to build a plant at the site of the former Skelton Grange power station near Stourton that would
Local resident Al Garthwaite, from our friends at South Leeds Community Radio, has written this guest post for South Leeds Life on useful ways of keeping warm in the cold: A new programme and information CD, Keeping Warm in Cold Weather, on practical, low-cost ways of keeping warm in cold weather