What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
No one can deny that Middleton Park plays a massive part in the lives of local people as one of the biggest and oldest parks and woodlands in Leeds with thousands of visitors every year. The Friends of Middleton Park (FoMP), work tirelessly to improve the park and put on
My father, Wesley (Jack) Hollingworth drove the tram on the Middleton Woods route in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Sometimes on Sunday afternoons, if my father was working, my mother would take me and my brother Philip on an outing to Middleton, walking from our home in Beeston
We have been distributing copies of our September newspaper to venues around LS10 and LS11 since Friday (2 September 2022). Copies are available from various food shops including Beeston Nisa Extra, and Dewsbury Road Tescos as well as many small neighbourhood shops, charity shops, Community Hubs and Libraries, community centres,
Oldham RLFC 30-18 Hunslet RLFC Hunslet’s chance of promotion from League 1 was ended yesterday afternoon (4 September 2022) at the Vestacare Stadium in a tight end to end clash with Oldham. The Roughyeds have been hunting down Hunslet over the last few weeks and ended up with today’s win
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to a fancy awards show. My first thought was excitement, followed by “what on earth do I wear?” It was during the really hot spell of weather; the idea of a floor length dress wasn’t appealing. I’d be reduced
You probably have to go back to the 1970s to find a time when the pressures on family finances were so acute. Then, it was the trebling of oil prices; now it is the huge increase in the cost of gas and electricity. The cost of living is rising at
Detectives in Leeds are investigating an incident where a potential gun was fired at a car on Woodview Terrace, Beeston. Officers were called at 6.45pm yesterday evening (3 September 2022) to reports a white Fiesta was being chased by a red and white off-road motorbike. The Fiesta was later found
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning Monday 29 August 2022: Non-illuminated sign Golden Crown Management Ltd First Floor 2 Lindon House Sardinia Street Hunslet Leeds
In April 2022 Maria Read wrote to South Leeds Life about Hunslet Moor Primary School where she currently works, as part of her research into the history of the school. The letter included a photo and one of the questions she asked was “The photo is of a piece of
Following the hottest and driest summer on record with frequent pictures on our TVs of empty reservoirs revealing previous villages which had been submerged, there have been calls to re-nationalise our water supply. But water was never a nationalised industry or service. After the widespread cholera outbreaks in the early