What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Councillors on the Adults, Health and Active Lifestyles Scrutiny Board received an update this week on out of hours bereavement arrangements in Leeds following an in-depth service review to improve the experience of bereaved families. South Leeds councillors Mohammed Iqbal, who has been engaged in this work for some time,
Here’s a roundup of some the main events taking place over the coming week in South Leeds. For full listings go over to our What’s On calendar here. We start this week in Beeston at St Andrew’s Community Centre on Cardinal Road where the curtain goes up on this year’s
Eight former Leeds councillors received one of the highest civic honours the city can bestow at a special session of full council yesterday (17 January 2024). The group of former councillors, who have 170 years of public service between them and include a former Lord Mayor and a Deputy Lord
White Rose Shopping Centre has installed new sanitary facilities in its men’s toilets throughout the centre as part of Prostate Cancer UK’s ‘Boys Need Bins’ campaign. The centre was alerted to the campaign by regular visitor Susan Childs, whose family has sadly been impacted by prostate cancer. According to Prostate
re-stART Creative Outreach CIC, a not-for-profit art training company, has been funded to provide free art sessions to people living with Long Covid. The programme is designed to be relaxing and mindful and over eight weekly one-hour sessions participants will create their own art journal or sketchbook. All materials, sketchbooks
People in South Leeds are being encouraged to download the latest version of the NHS App which has been refreshed to make it simpler and easier to access NHS services. Patients using the updated NHS App will find the homepage more streamlined, navigation simpler and the language clearer. Some items have
A team of employees from the Amazon sortation centre in Leeds visited the team at the Leeds South and East foodbank to deliver a donation of food and essential supplies worth £1,000. Leeds South and East Foodbank has been supporting the community since 2013, providing emergency food parcels with three
With temperatures across Yorkshire are set to drop this week, and Yorkshire Water is reminding its customers to insulate their pipes to prevent them from freezing and bursting. Temperatures across Yorkshire have dropped this week, and Yorkshire Water is reminding its customers to insulate their pipes to prevent them from
Northern Trains has launched a recruitment campaign to attract the engineers of the future. Engineering apprentices are being sought at five locations across the north of England, including Neville Hill in Leeds, to learn as they earn while working on and maintaining Northern’s nearly 400 strong fleet of trains. These
There have been two nasty incidents in two popular parks in South Leeds in recent months. First, the two swans were shot in Middleton Park at the end of November. Then a man, who almost certainly knew his attacker, was shot in the leg in Cross Flatts Park earlier this