What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Beeston Broncos were defeated by Keighley Albion in the Yorkshire Juniors Continuation Cup Final last Saturday at Featherstone Rovers’ Bigfellas Stadium. Trailing by 20 points to 4 at half time to a powerful Keighley side the Broncos showed great spirit and skills to fight back magnificently in the second half
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with Beeston blogger Mike Wallis. He’s tweaked the Desert Island Discs format and selected five desserts to be stranded with on the mythical desert island. I’m not
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with Yorkshire in Bloom gold medal winning Park Fisheries in Beeston. They like nothing more than to brighten up the street scene. Usually it’s their floral displays,
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with the Leeds Waterfront Festival, which takes places at various sites along the River Aire on the weekend of 25/26 June. Now you’ve heard of flash mobs,
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at Elland Road Police station. Middleton Girl Guides paid a visit last week and had their fingerprints taken. They weren’t in trouble, it was a trip to
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Hunslet where the Assisted Living Leeds centre near the Royal Armouries was hit by the Boxing Day floods. The service is still recovering and you can
Chev Walker celebrated his testimonial in front of 1,158 fans at South Leeds Stadium last Sunday (3 January 2016); but he ended on the losing team as his Hunslet Warriors side were edged out by Hunslet Club Parkside in the inaugural State of Hunslet clash. Before the derby match, the
As part of its ongoing community engagement, the Inner South Community Committee hosted their latest quarterly public meeting on the evening of Wednesday 9 December 2015. City & Hunslet ward were the hosts, and light refreshments were served in the grand entrance of the Civic Hall. With the German Christmas market
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with a team of young people who took up The Challenge and came to Cross Flatts Park last Saturday to help Beeston In Bloom by clearing overgrown
At the Hunslet Club on Saturday night honours were even between the three Hunslet community rugby clubs, with each picking up one trophy apiece. Chev Walker was there to present the awards with Hunslet Warriors Under 16s Dyson Nicholson winning the Grabsie Wilson Memorial Award. Other awards went to Andrew