Police appeal following unexplained death in Beeston
Further to our report on Monday, Police investigating the unexplained death of a man from Leeds are making an appeal for any information or witnesses who may have seen him in the time before he died. Officers were called at 8:29am on Wednesday 19 March 2025 to a report of
Police appeal after man found dead at Beeston property
A scene has been in place outside a house on Marsden Grove in Beeston since Wednesday (19 March 2025). In a statement, West Yorkshire Police said: “Police were called at 8:29am on Wednesday, 19 March, to a report of a concern for safety for a man at a property on
Pedestrian killed in Belle Isle crash
Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision in Leeds. At 5.31pm yesterday, police were called to Blakeney Road, Belle Isle, where a male pedestrian had been hit by a white Renault Master Tipper truck. The man, aged in his forties, was pronounced dead at the scene.
South of the River – Remember Me
Here we are at the last column of 2016. Which at least 48% of us don’t feel it’s been a great year. I blame myself. This time last year I was warning people: “Do you realise that by the end of 2016 we could be out of the EU and
South of the River – Absent Friends
Our dog died last week, it was very sad, but at 13 1/2 she’d had a good innings. Meg was a lovely Border Collie, eager, intelligent and very loyal. Some of you will be saying she was only a dog, it’s not as though you lost a family member.
South of the River – Hatch, Batch and Dispatch
My in-laws’ next-door neighbour has died so we’re off to Preston for the funeral on Tuesday. I seem to be going to too many funerals these days. I guess it’s just a phase. The great marker points in life are birth, marriage and death, or “hatch, batch and dispatch” in