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National ATOS protests 19-2-14: My interview with Tom Smith, the man who made it happen

  7:40am, outside Leeds Medical Assessment Centre. Transcript: TS: I decided just before Christmas that I wanted to set up a demonstration against ATOS in Leeds so I put the idea out there on Facebook. A colleague of mine, Paul Kelly says, “Look, we’ve got something like 30,000 people saying

Inner South Area Committee Newsletter

  The Council’s Inner South Area Committee has published its latest newsletter which you can download here: Inner South Area Committee Newsletter December 2013 The Committee, which is made up of the nine Councillors from Beeston & Holbeck, City & Hunslet and Middleton Park wards, funds many projects throught the

Old Bamber muses on Santa Claus and a couple of Nicholases…

  Walking down Old Lane the other evening I came across a plaintive message: ‘Santa Stop Here’ and it started me thinking. Well, what passes in the Old Bamber brain for thinking.  Santa Claus, Father Christmas, St Nicholas – all seems a bit confusing… If I’d expressed any interest in the

Hilary Benn – Part Two

  We had a really good Big Conversation event at the St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck last Friday. This is the second in a series of Big Conversations that I am holding around my constituency with our ward councillors. It works on a very simple basis. We invite local

Hilary Benn writes for South Leeds Life

  South Leeds Life is pleased to tell you that Hilary Benn, MP, has agreed to write a monthly article for us – here’s part one of the first one! Apparently, 8 million people have so far viewed Jeremy Paxman’s interview with Russell Brand on You Tube. I was both intrigued