What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Belle Isle Family Centre are now offering a fantastic breakfast club on Friday mornings from 10am till 12noon. Free and open to all, the Happy Fridays café invites you to come cook up a storm, share recipes, and have a natter. We are a laid back and sociable group,
There has been a spate of traffic accidents in Beeston over the last few weeks and tragically people have died in three of them. What’s going on? With inquests and potential court cases pending I have to be careful not to speculate about the details, but at the risk
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start with that community walk over the Three Peaks of Yorkshire, it’s all over the web. Debs Davies has written for us about the Three Peaks walk, and she’s
One evening as I trawled through my timeline on Facebook, a picture of happy South Loiners grinning at the bottom of Snowdon caught my attention. Underneath was a caption which described a new adventure, this time Ed Carlisle was offering to take us out of Beeston and Hunslet and
Last Wednesday (17 September 2014) Leeds City Council’s Executive Board decided to close Middleton Park golf course at the end of October, but what happens next? We spoke to Cllr Judith Blake and Alan Shaw, Chair of Friends of Middleton Park (FOMP). Judith Blake is a councillor for the
On the evening of Friday 19th September, the Beeston Wanderers, played against the mighty Yorkshire Amateurs open age team at 11–a-side football at their ground. Beeston Wanderers are an open age group of young people aged 14 to 19 years old; who live, train and play football for fun
Macmillan Coffee Morning, What’s it all for? Cancer is the toughest fight most of us will ever face. And as treatments improve, more and more people are living with cancer in their daily lives. The money you raise at the coffee morning will help make sure no one has
Last night I found myself in the middle of a very emotional news story. No, not the Scottish Referendum. I was at Beeston Parish Centre for the Aspiring Communities consultation meeting and I found myself with two jobs. I was speaking as a member of the group’s Advisory Committee
Last night (18 September 2014) 150 residents packed into the Beeston Parish Centre to discuss Aspiring Communities’ revised plans for the Ice Pak site on Barkly Road. One man tried to disrupt the meeting by shouting “Don’t want it. Go away” as the architect explained the plans, but the majority
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start with news that Beeston’s popular chip shop Park Fisheries has won Gold from Yorkshire In Bloom. Fantastic – well done guys! Here’s a picture to celebrate: Beeston Festival