What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds City Council has laid out ambitious plans to promote active travel. This includes an additional 100km of segregated cycle lanes, temporary widened footways and low traffic neighbourhoods. Their published map shows the cycle route between Elland Road Park & Ride scheme to the city centre via Holbeck Moor as
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The stillness of a pandemic night is unnerving having spent seventeen of my twenty years in Leeds ‘On The Corner’ of Tunstall and Dewsbury Road. Where once the sound of car engines being gunned at the junction, bowel juddering bass from others sat with engines idling outside the garage, arguing
Thanks to a National Lottery grant, Health for All will be launching a new project to support Chinese and other isolated elders in Leeds to cope through the Covid-19 pandemic. The new build Beeston Village Community centre will be the Hub from which staff and volunteers with appropriate language skills
Leeds residents are being reminded that the NHS is still here for them when they need it, and to telephone their GP if they have signs and symptoms of cancer. Dr Sarah Forbes, GP in Leeds and Clinical Lead for Cancer at NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “In Leeds
Leeds theatre company The Performance Ensemble is on a quest to grow its company and gather 1,000 stories from the city’s older population that will ultimately create a piece of theatre for the Leeds Cultural Festival in 2023. The Performance Ensemble is a company of performers over the age of
People across Leeds are being encouraged to stand in solidarity with those peacefully protesting against racism and all other forms of prejudice by taking part in 8for8 on Monday evening. The 8for8 initiative asks residents to perform one of the following gestures for eight minutes at 8pm on Monday evening
In Volunteers Week 2020 we salute all the volunteers, including writers and people who help distribute the paper for their contributions. Without them there simply wouldn’t be a South Leeds Life either online or in print. Thank you! South Leeds Life CIC, the company that publishes South Leeds Life, is run
White Rose Shopping Centre will be introducing a number of additional health and safety measures, effective from the date non-essential retail stores are permitted to open, in accordance with government guidelines. White Rose is preparing for non-essential retail stores to open on the Monday 15 June 2020, unless otherwise announced
When LS-TEN skatepark reopens after the lockdown it will boast new branding having run a competition amongst its members. Carl Harrison explained: “We ran the LS-TEN logo competition following a suggestion from a member Charlie Halligan. Over the course of 3 weeks we had over a hundred designs sent in