Category: Stourton

News and events for the Stourton area

Hitting the high notes with South Asian music in South Leeds

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

International Womens Day in Belle Isle

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

Queen’s Visit To South Leeds in 1958 – where you there?

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

Hunslet Club Installs Solar Panels

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

New waste incinerator in south-east Leeds discussed at planning

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