What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. There’s always so much going on at the Hunslet Club. Their Facebook page is a great place to keep up to date with everything from Zumba to Boxing to Latin Fusion. We
New Asda and Aldi stores in Middleton will open for business soon Exciting developments for two new supermarkets in Middleton are well underway. Councillors Kim Groves, Judith Blake and Paul Truswell (Labour, Middleton Park) visited the building sites for the new Asda and Aldi branches in the centre of Middleton.
As part of our series of articles for National Debt Awareness Week, we look at a low cost alternative to pay day loans and overdrafts. The Middleton Branch of the Leeds City Credit Union, located at the St George’s Centre, has been open since September and has made a
A review of bus services in the Belle Isle and Middleton areas is being carried out by Metro, Middleton Park Ward Councillors and bus operator First. The consultation will see if improvements can be made to the local network and if passengers’ needs are being met. Online and email consultations
Emissions of Mercury could be cut from Cottingley Crematorium with the installation of new cremators (the units where cremations take place). Cremators in crematoria up and down the country are independently tested for emissions each year. These tests check the level of mercury pollution caused when old, amalgam tooth
It can’t have escaped your notice that this year marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. South Leeds Life has published two stories already and this week the national press has been full of debate sparked by Michael Gove’s attack on various historians and the
In September South Leeds Life reported: There will be a report to the Council’s Executive Board in October, followed by public consultation on the “options” because that its what we were told at the Council’s Inner South Area Committee. However, there was no report to the Executive Board at
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Let’s start down in Stourton where, as usual there’s lots going on at Skelton Grange Environment Centre. They’re digging a new pond and looking for new volunteer officers to learn how to
The growth of food banks has been really noticeable in the last few years. In our city there are now five open or about to start work, including one operating in South Leeds. Across Yorkshire and Humberside the number of people – adults and children – needing help from
A few months ago I was asked if I’d take part in a new initiative that was starting, The Leeds Poverty Truth Challenge. The Challenge itself will be formally launched next month, when people with direct experience of poverty will meet to tell their stories to the city’s leaders