What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The proposal for the redevelopment of Middleton Park Golf course and to use this land for a Hub cycling track. Building on from the legacy of Tour De France. Also a competition Mountain bike facility. Plus education, skills and coaching of cycling. Middleton Park golf Course was closed on
The shutters roll upwards at the PGA Academy at Oulton Hall on the evening of Wednesday 18 March 2015. Suddenly, an expanse of green land dotted with small white golf balls opens up before me. I am here to meet 14 year old Middleton golfer and Cockburn High School pupil,
She’d have to be called Chardonnay, wouldn’t she? In my day agony aunts were called Evelyn, Edith or Marje and the last was a bit modern – what was wrong with Marjorie? My great aunt was called Marjorie but I digress. I was skimming through “Compulsives’ Confessions” which thunders
I arrived at the show, expecting very heavy rain as forecast, but luckily there was only a drizzle all afternoon although it was very windy. I was told lots more people turned up last year, but then it was a beautiful day. You can see from the photos in
‘I think that I shall never see: A poem lovely as a tree.’ As a golf hacker (first class) I’m not so sure. I have never had the run of a golf ball interrupted by a poem. In a recent round with Invisible Andy I managed to hit a
In recent weeks if you are a regular reader of South Leeds Life, you’ll have noticed that you can hardly raise an eyelid without reading about Middleton Park. Quite right too. There’s no doubt that the Park is seriously underrated and under visited. Did you know that it’s over 90%
Poor old Belle from Belle Isle was a stray dog that locals had reported seeing over the past four months. Dog wardens were this week able to coax the greyhound into their care with steak after reports of the dog wandering the Newhall Road area of Belle Isle starting coming in,