What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
South Leeds Life hosted an online hustings meeting this evening (30 April 2026) as part of our local election coverage. All the candidates standing in the Beeston & Holbeck ward were invited to attend and take questions from our readers. Subjects covered included: what issues they were most concerned about,
Nominations for candidates standing in the General Elections have closed today (7 June 2024) and the list of candidates has been published. LS10 and LS11 sit within the new Leeds South constituency. The candidates are as follows: AZEEM, Muhammad – Workers Party BENN, Hilary – Labour Party BICKERDIKE, Janet –
Nominations for candidates standing in the General Elections have closed today (14 November 2019) and the list of candidates has been published. LS10 and LS11 sit within the Leeds Central constituency, represented since 1999 by Hilary Benn for Labour. The candidates are as follows: BENN, Hilary – Labour Party CARLISLE,
Lists of candidates have been announced today (25 April 2019) for the European Parliamentary elections which are set to go ahead on Thursday 23 May, unless a deal on Brexit is concluded before then. The European Parliamentary elections are run on a proportional representation system. We will be electing six
South Leeds will see some changes amongst its representatives on Leeds City Council next May even if Labour hold onto all nine local seats. The Labour Party has been holding meetings in each ward to select the candidates that will fight the local election on 3 May 2018. Next May’s
Residents in Beeston will have an opportunity to put their questions to the candidates standing in Leeds Central at the general election. St Mary’s Parish Centre in Beeston is to host an election hustings on Sunday 28 May 2017 at 7:30pm. The meeting will be chaired by Rev Lindsey Pearson,
Nominations for candidates standing in the General Elections have closed today (11 May 2017) and the list of candidates has been published. LS10 and LS11 sit within the Leeds Central constituency, represented since 1999 by Hilary Benn for Labour. The candidates are as follows: BENN, Hilary – Labour Party CARLISLE,
South Leeds Life will be bringing you details of all the candidates standing in the Leeds Central constituency, which includes LS10 and LS11. As usual we will give them the opportunity to tell you why they are standing, but we would like them to answer your questions too. What is
I recently published an article asking if Leeds Central Liberal Democrat candidate, Emma Spriggs, was some kind of superwoman. I asked this question because I’d spotted that Emma was simultaneously running for MP in Leeds Central and running to be a local councillor 300 miles away in Bucklebury, Reading. I
People from the Leeds Central constituency will deliver a ‘Save Our NHS’ petition signed by local people to their MP candidates this Saturday (25 April 2015). The petition will be handed over on the front steps of Leeds Civic Hall in Millennium Square by Peter Haughton, a member of independent