What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
ice&fire – the human rights arts charity and theatre company – is staging one-off performances of its ground-breaking ‘Tales from the hostile environment’ across the UK in the run-up to voting in the general election on 4 July. On Sunday (30 June 2024), it will be staged at Slung Low
What makes a neighbourhood a good or a bad place to live? Last Friday Leeds-List published an article called ‘Best and worst places to live in Leeds’. Beeston and Holbeck featured on the list, but for my money in the wrong section. The article kicked up quite a storm on
I’ve lived in Beeston for nearly thirty years. I like it here, who wouldn’t? Friendly people, affordable houses, (reasonably) good facilities. But I’m very conscious that I’ve bucked the family trend. My father was born in a mining village outside Sheffield. He studied at Cambridge and Manchester and went to