What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Campaigners fighting to get South Leeds Sports Centre reopened are set to join the Leeds May Day rally on Saturday. The event will see trades unions undertake their annual rally and protest against government and council cutbacks. The SPLASH campaign has been fighting to reopen the centre, which was closed
Sally Cieslik from the SPLASH campaign fighting to reopen South Leeds Sports Centre guest posts on a mock South Leeds Olympic Torch event on Sunday, April 1 at noon to highlight what they claim is a lack of sports facilities in the area. The real Olympic Torch is due to come
Those of you passing through Beeston and Holbeck in recent days may have seen lots of posters springing up in shops, community centres and bus stops advertising the latest event from the SPLASH campaign to reopen South Leeds Sports Centre. The posters are advertising SPLASH’s own ‘Olympic Flame Run’ protest,
Campaigners fighting to get South Leeds Sports Centre reopened will today lobby councillors before a meeting of the full council at Leeds Civic Hall. Councillors are meeting to set the budget in Leeds for the next financial year – a budget which sees the council attempting to save £55 million
Police stimate that about 1,000 Leeds United fans marched from City Square, through Holbeck and parts of Beeston to Elland Road foootball ground yesterday to call for a change in ownership of the club. Check out more details here. Here’s a short video of part of the march: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrCtoA1YCbM&w=420&h=315] And
A GROUP fighting to reopen a Leeds sports centre lobbied councillors as they discussed proposals for it to be replaced by a school in south Leeds. Leeds City Council’s executive board was yesterday considering moving forward with the plan for a primary school on the site of the former South
Around 50 people turned out in the rain on Saturday to support the SPLASH (Save our PooL And Sports Hall) campaign to get South Leeds Sports Centre reopened, one year on since it was closed by the council. Since it was bonfire night, people were invited to wear ‘V’ for