What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
2019 marks 100 years of Remembrance. World War One officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919. Later that year on the first anniversary of the World War One Armistice on 11 November 1918 the Royal Family, senior politicians, military and religious leaders gathered
Sunday (11 November 2018) marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice that brought the First World War to an end. Services and acts of Remembrance are being held across South Leeds to remember the local men and women who died in the armed forces in both World Wars and other
On Sunday (11 November 2018) an Act of Remembrance will be held at Holbeck Cemetery on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which brought the First World War to an end. Two minutes silence will be held at 11am on Sunday 11 November – the eleventh hour of the eleventh
Residents of the Cottingley Hall estate, including D-Day hero Bill Cutler, gathered to mark Remembrance Day today (Friday 11 November 2016). Children from Cottingley Primary Academy read the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ as part of a service led by Sharon D’Ambrosio. The children have been studying the First World War
Last Wednesday (11 November 2015) saw a short, simple but powerful Remembrance Day event outside the Holy Spirit church on Tempest Road in Beeston. It was attended by people from across the community: veterans, councillors, staff and members from Hamara, pupils from Park View Primary, and a range of local
Wednesday was Remembrance Day, it’s a day full of contradictions that I always find difficult. The first question is who are we remembering? It varies from ‘those brave young men that made the ultimate sacrifice to defend democracy’ through to ‘all victims of all wars’. The second definition I can
Twenty-five students from the newly formed Elland Academy have learnt about the importance of remembrance this week, thanks to an education charity that draws on the values of ex-Forces personnel. The students learnt about conflicts in the past, reflected on those who lost their lives, and made poppies which were
Residents of Beeston Hill will, alongside children from local primary schools, be marking Remembrance Day this Tuesday (11 November 2014) – in the new community garden taking shape outside the unused Holy Spirit church building on Tempest Road. The short event will be led by local vicar Rev Lindsey Pearson
We had a really good Big Conversation event at the St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck last Friday. This is the second in a series of Big Conversations that I am holding around my constituency with our ward councillors. It works on a very simple basis. We invite local