What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
People in South Leeds can help to take potentially deadly weapons off the streets during a week-long knife surrender which starts next week. The initiative comes as part of the ongoing knife crime intensification month tied to the Knife Angel’s continued residency in the city. The 27ft tall sculpture, created
Detectives in Leeds are appealing for information after two males were seriously assaulted in an incident in the Beeston area yesterday afternoon (20 November 2022). Police received reports that two males had been attacked with bladed items at around 6:10pm on Sunday. One of the males suffered serious abdominal injuries
Police have arrested a man who tried to enter the Abu Huraira Mosque in Beeston carrying a knife this lunchtime. The man had been seen acting suspiciously with a knife in a butcher’s shop on Beeston Road at 12:18 according to a Police statement. He left the shop and officers
Detectives are appealing for information following a knifepoint robbery in Leeds City Centre on Monday (12 November 2018). The incident happened at around 6.25pm at a car park on David Street in Holbeck when the victim, a 36-year-old woman, was walking to her car. As she got close to the
Police have released CCTV images of two men they want to identify in connection with the robbery of a schoolboy in Leeds last July. The 15-year-old boy was assaulted and threatened with a knife before his phone was stolen in
A fight in the street in Middleton has left a man with what are understood to be head injuries caused by a knife. Police arrested a man in Middleton Park Avenue at about 3:20pm this afternoon (15 December 2017). A West Yorkshire Police spokesman told the Yorkshire Evening Post: “Officers
Update (at 23:51pm): Police report that the incident on Thorpe View in Middleton is now at an end. A 20-year-old man has been arrested and two women who were inside the property are now out. No one was seriously injured during the incident. Police were called to an address on