What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Here’s your weekly guide to what’s making South Leeds via the area’s blogs, websites and social media. The Hunslet Club reminds us there’s a Family Fun Day & Party In Aid of The Callum Wingate Appeal on Sunday. In seperate news, the YEP sad;y reports how con artists have hijacked fundraising efforts by friends
Police are holding another public meeting to discuss work on building the new Holbeck Division Police HQ off Elland Road. Council bosses are to press ahead with controversial proposals to extend Leeds’s Cottingley Springs gipsy and travellers site amid fears they could be creating a ‘ghetto’, reports the YEP. The paper
Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making south Leeds tick on other websites and blogs: Don’t forget there’s the big Hunslet clean-up on Saturday! Local residents are being urged to take part. Aire Valley Homes have posted maps where skips will be placed in the area over on their Facebook
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites and blogs. A newsagent’s shop in Dewsbury Road has been given the go ahead to sell booze until 2am despite the concerns of nearby residents, reports the YEP. The paper also reports on how a loyal former amateur rugby
Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making south Leeds tick this week from other websites and blogs. The YEP reports on a good news story that a Leeds businessman is pumping £500,000 into turning a formerly notorious pub on Dewsbury Road into an Asian supermarket. Sad to see the negative tone of some
Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s been making south Leeds tick on other websites and blogs: Veteran actor Peter O’Toole has announced he is retiring from the stage and screen, at the age of 79. The Irish-born star – best known for playing Lawrence of Arabia in Sir David Lean’s
Here’s what’s making south Leeds tick this week on other blogs and websites: Cottingley TRAC are holding their next meeting tonight at Cottingley Primary School, starting at 7pm. Here’s what they’ve posted on their Facebook page: “We have someone coming to talk about the wheelie bin scheme and you should be
Cottingley resident Nigel Keer, who last year sprang to national fame in the press and on TV as the ‘naked rambler’ after receiving a court fine for tramping around Otley Chevin wearing nothing but a baseball cap, boots and a backpack, has launched a campaign for better train services on his estate. Nigel
The lure of the summer sun didn’t affect the turnout at last night’s meeting of the Cottingley TRAC group. Local residents heard from Chris and David, the new owners of Cotttingley Pharmacy. They appealed for the support of everyone on the Cottingley Hall estate and said that the estate had great
Here’s your weekly roundup of what’s making south Leeds tick on the area’s blogs and websites. Councillors, police and Aire Valley Homes officers will be present at tonight’s meeting to discuss local issues at the Cottingley TRAC group meeting at Cottingley Primary School (7pm). The need to reopen the estate’s