What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
sc4L, the people delivering the housing regeneration project in Beeston Hill and Holbeck have advertised 23 construction apprenticeships. We also have details of all current available apprenticeships across the city. Opportunities to train and earn a wage exist in sectors ranging from manufacturing, business, retail, IT and catering. Download
A very special club, that has been at the heart of the community in south Leeds for more than seven decades, has been selected as the charity of the year by White Rose Shopping Centre. The Hunslet Club, founded in 1940 by local GP Dr John Wylie to keep
Leeds City Council has resurrected its plans to close Middleton Park golf course. A public consultation is underway and closes on Friday 4 July 2014. The proposal to close the golf course comes against the background of continued cuts to the council’s funding. Grants from central government have reduced
It’s one of those weeks where I’m frightened that my head is going to explode. I’m pulling together two big projects and my main survival strategy seems to be writing to-do lists to make sure I don’t forget anything. I’m still at the stage where the lists are getting
Twelve men, many of them from Beeston, appeared at Leeds Magistrates Court yesterday (Tuesday 3rd June 2014) following a protracted investigation by the Leeds District Safeguarding Unit. Chief Superintendent Paul Money, District Commander for Leeds, said: “The alleged offences relate to one, female juvenile victim from the local community
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We start this week in a wildflower meadow in … Holbeck. It might surprise some people in the city, but parts of Holbeck have been imaginatively planted with wild flowers. Holbeck in
Having little need to be in Holbeck, except those times I used the number 86 bus to go to Bramley and once to Pudsey, I didn’t see much of it. Moving house recently necessitated using buses going through Holbeck more often like the number 64 and 74 to town.
As a volunteer for Citizens Online, and like other volunteers I lead quite a busy life. If I’m going to volunteer there has to be benefits like being close to home for dropping off and collecting kids from school (with a bit of exercise in between of course). Citizens
Everything retro will be on offer at the Feel Good Vintage Fair next Saturday (7 June 2014). From ‘Kitchenalia’ to clothing, furniture, jewellery and household niceties, the good old days will be returning at the fair which takes place at Hillside in Beeston. As well as the many stalls
What is there to learn from last week’s local elections? Looking at the basic facts nothing changed in South Leeds. We had nine Labour Councillors before last Thursday and we have the same nine Labour Councillors after the election. UKIP’s ‘earthquake’ certainly saw their vote rise significantly, but in