What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Holbeck CID are today appealing for witnesses after a taxi driver was robbed in Beeston on the 29 December 2012. At around 6:30pm the 37-year old male taxi driver picked up two men from Haslewood Drive and took them to Noster Grove. At Noster Grove, the taxi driver was threatened
Holbeck In Bloom and Beeston In Bloom will be making good use of confiscated criminals’ gardening equipment following the discovery of a cannabis farm at the Britannia pub in Holbeck. Police raided the pub on Thursday and discovered cannabis being grown in an upstairs room. They also found 22 sacks
Holbeck CID are appealing for witnesses after a taxi driver was robbed in Beeston on the 29th December 2012. At around 6:30pm the 37-year old male taxi driver picked up two men from Haslewood Drive and took them to Noster Grove. At Noster Grove, the taxi driver was threatened with
Allotment holders at Old Lane in Beeston have launched a petition calling on the Council to reverse its latest rent increase. Steve Johnston from the group explains that allotment rents have risen above the rate of inflation for the last 3 years. As previously reported, Leeds City Council is being
I’ve known Councillor Angela Gabriel since 2003 when she roped me into joining the Beeston Festival Committee, but when I spoke to her this week I wanted to find out about her role as a Leeds City Councillor. I started by asking what the role of a Councillor is: “I
South Leeds Life reader Suzy Grace has been in touch via our Facebook page about a review of tendered bus services in the Leeds area. Tendered bus services are those which Metro wholly or partly funds. Perhaps readers might want to have their say? Suzy writes: “Hi, just saw that
The St Andrew’s Pantomime is a fixture on the Beeston social calendar. The group have staged a production every year for over forty years. Many of the cast and crew that staged “Aladdin” back in 1970 are still involved and one of them, Steven Roddy, is still acting! “I can’t
Ed Carlisle has been in touch with news of an exciting project for Holy Spirit Church on Tempest Road, Beeston. There are (very tentative) conversations happening about buying the old Holy Spirit church on Tempest Road, and making it available as a low-tech, affordable, inter-community events venue for the wider
Councillors sitting on a council plans panel at Leeds Civic Hall this afternoon have gone AGAINST planning officers’ recommendations to refuse plans for new Asda and Tesco stores in Old Lane, Beeston. Members of the south and west plans panel heard that planning officers were recommending that BOTH plans – for
Tomorrow is D-Day for plans two supermarket giants have for Old Lane in Beeston. Asda is looking to extend its current store while Tesco seeks to build a completely new store – however planners are recommending that BOTH applications are refused by councillors when they hear the proposals at a planning