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Parkour helps patients live well and stay independent

On 4 August 2017 By Jeremy Morton

If you’ve heard of parkour, or freerunning, it probably conjures images of young people jumping from building to building at vertigo-inducing heights. But in Beeston older people with chronic health conditions are using the techniques of parkour to improve their everyday mobility. As South Leeds Life has previously reported, Beeston

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South Leeds Roundup: Poems, partnerships and playdays

On 15 February 2017 By Jeremy Morton

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 on the quarry steps down from Noster Terrace where Phil Pearce has been performing his poem ‘Beeston Life.’ You can watch his YouTube video remembering days gone

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South Leeds Roundup: Art exhibitions, new kerbs and parkour videos

On 1 February 2017 By Jeremy Morton

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 at The Tetley art gallery where a new exhibition is opening. If you’re free on Thursday (2 February) evening 6-8pm why not pop along to

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South Leeds Roundup: Brushes, boxing and wheelchair basketball

On 12 October 2016 By Jeremy Morton

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 Friends of Hunslet Moor who helped with a clear up of the knot garden last Saturday, there are some great photos on the Leeds Parks

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South Leeds Roundup: Panto, parkcour and crossing patrols

On 21 September 201621 September 2016 By Jeremy Morton

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. And if it looks a bit thin this week it’s because we struggled to find much news that we hadn’t already covered, or are working up into full articles – so

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South Leeds Roundup: Vader, volunteers and veterans

On 6 April 2016 By Jeremy Morton

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 Cross Flatts Park on a rainy Saturday morning asking what links Darth Vader, the Flintstones, Clark Kent and a pantomime horse? It’s got to be the

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White Rose Cheerleaders find new home in Beeston

On 9 February 2016 By Jeremy Morton

White Rose Cheer was started by Kelly and Allie last year in Tingley, but has found a new home at the new Level Up Academy on Lockwood Court in Beeston. White Rose specialise in acrobatic cheerleading routines and run classes for under 8s, under 11s and over 11s; as well