What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
Next step Outstanding for Cockburn School on its journey of “Transformation to Excellence” On Wednesday 30 January 2019 Cockburn School received a Section 8 ‘one day inspection’ by Ofsted. The purpose of the inspection was to determine if the school is continuing to provide a ‘Good’ education. There were three
Cllr Paul Truswell (Labour, Middleton Park) has welcomed proposals for a new gym extension at Middleton Leisure Centre. A report going to Leeds City Council’s Executive Board in February is seeking to spend £1.146m to deliver the new 75 station gym and a re-modelled entrance for the Leisure Centre. The
Here’s another entry for the 2019 St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, it has been submitted by Danielle Watkins on behalf of Leeds Dynamire. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. We are a self funded community dance group based in Middleton – Leeds 10 at
Here’s another entry for the 2019 St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, it has been submitted by Lauren Wilson on behalf of Leeds Baton Rouge Majorettes. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. We are a Majorettes troupe based in Middleton, and we hold training sessions