What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Year 9 students at Cockburn John Charles Academy took a bold step forward in developing their communication skills this week as they participated in the nationally acclaimed Talk The Talk workshop. The full-day event, delivered by facilitators from the educational charity Talk The Talk, aimed to empower students with the
Pyramid, a Leeds-based charity that supports people with learning disabilities and autism to get into the arts, is running their annual summer art market in Holbeck on Saturday (19 July 2025) from 10:30am-2pm. The market features artwork and goods from local artists and businesses including Nourishing People, SLATE and Dragon’s
A new training centre at Meadow Court, Millshaw for NEET young people was officially opened on 3 June by Deputy Lord Mayor, Cllr Barry Anderson. The centre, run by Birmingham-based provider Juniper Training, runs vocational training, apprenticeships and employability programmes, helping young people gain the skills, confidence and qualifications they
The chorus of Opera North were on hand to entertain guests assembled for the official launch of Hunslet Square, the public open space outside Hunslet Library on 24 June 2025. The event had to be moved into the Library due to the weather but that didn’t dampen the audience’s enjoyment
Ashington-born Joe Conroy, a resident at Pennington Court Care Home in Beeston, recently enjoyed a visit back to his old stomping ground of Elland Road, home of Leeds United FC — the club he proudly represented during the 1950s. Joe’s connection to football runs deep. Growing up in Ashington, Northumberland,
Hunslet RLFC 4-70 Featherstone Rovers 15 June seems a long time ago, when Hunslet pushed and should have beaten Featherstone on their own patch. The Flat-cappers were in no mood for another close game at the South Leeds Stadium on Friday night (11 July 2025) as they ran out easy
It’s almost the school holidays again, and I can already hear the collective cry of frustration from children up and down the country: “I’M BORED!” I can’t help but smile when I hear it. I said those words too as a child, not very often though. Not because I was
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 7 July 2025. Click on the description to see the full application: Hybrid planning application for partial redevelopment
Finally, after months of disruption things have finally quietened down here on ‘The Corner’. The simmering tensions created by displaced drug related activities, accentuated by the occasional machete attack, seem to have calmed down and the kind of peace that used to pass for normal has returned.
Edmund James Arnold was born in Sherborne, Dorset, on 28 May 1840 his father was James Arnold, a tailor and woollen draper and his wife was called Ann. Edmund went on to serve an apprenticeship with a London printer. He must have been an ambitious lad because in 1863 he