What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The choices for birthing in Leeds have opened up to more appealing options as I discovered in my role as Chair of the Maternity Voices Partnerships (MVP) at Women’s Health Matters. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has opened its doors to the new Alongside Midwifery Led unit (AMU) at the
The play Be My Baby was first performed in 1997, is set in the 1960s, and yet here it is being staged twenty two years after it debuted and still being relevant in the present, where arguments over women’s bodies are playing out in the here and now. The set
‘Yellow is the Colour of Sunshine’ is the latest family-friendly show from Leeds theatre company Tutti Frutti, that my daughter Emily (4) and I saw today at the Carriageworks Theatre. We were the official South Leeds Life press team, and treated accordingly – being ushered around to meet the actors
THhe countdown has started to the Race for Life events at Temple Newsam, with just two weeks left until the big weekend. This year, for the first time, Cancer Research UK is inviting everyone – men, women and children – to join the Race for Life over the weekend of
Having been out with the bin men in Cottingley, I was keen to see what happens to the rubbish they collect. I got the opportunity to have a tour of the Leeds Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility (which is the massive building with a shiny roof you can see in
It’s not every day that Beeston welcomes a visiting dignitary. But last Tuesday Magid Magid, the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, came to give a public talk entitled ‘Local Politics: What’s the Point?’ Magid (29) came to national attention when he became Sheffield’s youngest ever lord mayor, as well as the
2019 will see BasementArtsProject presenting a series of exhibitions that takes the global aspect of art and pulls the focus to centre on the wealth of international talent that resides amongst us.
MindWell, the award-winning mental health website for people in Leeds, commissioned by NHS Leeds CCG, has launched ‘MindWell at Work’, a new employee wellbeing guide for employers in Leeds for Mental Health Awareness Week. The guide, produced in partnership with Mindful Employer Leeds, will provide an open online resource for
A few weeks back I stood in the local elections and it became apparent to me that many people simply don’t understand why they are voting or even what they are voting for, so many chose not to vote at all. Only 43.2% of those who voted wanted Paul Truswell
It is often said that the best food in Beeston is the food that is cooked at home! Now a project that aims to bring those recipes together is launching with a special event at Beeston Library next Tuesday (21 May 2019) and everyone’s invited. Anyone who calls South Leeds