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South of the River – on International Women’s Day

On 8 March 2013 By leeds11

Now I’m not a woman, but I do celebrate International Women’s Day, which is today. And I prefer it to Mothers Day, or Mothering Sunday as it was called when I grew up, which falls on Sunday. My mother was a feminist, the first in her family to go to

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South of the River – Where the cold winds of austerity blow

On 22 February 2013 By leeds11

The cold winds of austerity are beginning to bite. April is just around the corner and with it comes the Bedroom Tax and further cuts to the Council’s budget. The there are big changes being made to the benefit system. In October “Universal Credit” will shake up the entire benefits

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South of the River – Plate Spinning

On 15 February 2013 By leeds11

Whether it’s the housing PFI scheme, booking a holiday, or Beeston Festival, life increasingly seems to be about spinning plates. The Council are getting a lot of flack for the Beeston Hill & Holbeck PFI-funded housing scheme. It seems to have been dragging on forever. Everything has taken a lot

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North of the River – corrections and clarifications

On 1 February 2013 By leeds11

Sorry, that should be “South of the River”. You see no newspaper or blog gets it right all of the time. South Leeds Life has made a couple of minor errors this week. The first was mine. I wrote up our public meeting about Stank Hall Barn and said it

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South of the River – poetic licence

On 25 January 2013 By leeds11

Tony Harrison’s controversial poem “V” is in the news again. A programme is being made and an updated version of the poem will be read by Harrison on Radio 4 next month. The poem is controversial because of the liberal use of four letter words – the words Harrison found

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South of the River – Life in the Motorway Triangle

On 11 January 2013 By leeds11

Never mind the Rhubarb Triangle, South Leeds is surrounded by the Motorway Triangle. The M62 and the M621 form a triangle that encases Beeston, Cottingley, Belle Isle and Middleton and rips straight through Hunslet and Holbeck. It means we are very well connected (at least for cars) but it has

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South of the River – Looking Forward to 2013?

On 4 January 2013 By leeds11

January’s a funny time isn’t it? It’s named after the Roman god Janus who had two faces: one looking forward and one looking back. The media is full of articles reviewing the last year and looking ahead to what might happen in 2013. I think this is in part because

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South of the River – Hatch, Batch and Dispatch

On 14 December 2012 By leeds11

My in-laws’ next-door neighbour has died so we’re off to Preston for the funeral on Tuesday. I seem to be going to too many funerals these days. I guess it’s just a phase. The great marker points in life are birth, marriage and death, or “hatch, batch and dispatch” in

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South of the River – in “City Centre South”

On 7 December 2012 By leeds11

Before the present consultation about a new high school, I confess I hadn’t heard of “City Centre South”. Hunslet? Yes. Holbeck? Yes. But City Centre South? Where’s that? Where is this new part of Leeds? It is bounded by the River Aire to the north, the Inner Ring road extension

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South of the River – Education for education’s sake

On 30 November 2012 By leeds11

What have crystallography and a community reporters course got in common, apart from taking place in Leeds? Let me explain. The science of crystallography uses x-rays to look at the structure of materials, how the atoms link together. It was first used with crystals but now can look at any