What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
This year’s Beeston Festival took place on Saturday 8th June in Cross Flatts Park, the event was officially opened by the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP. This was followed later on in the afternoon with a visit from the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Tom Murray. I love coming
The Leeds Citizen brings news that the planning war on Old Lane, Beeston between Asda and Tesco is over. Well nearly … It’s been a long, hard-fought struggle, but it looks like the store wars in Beeston in south Leeds between supermarket giants Asda and Tesco could finally come
ASDA, Morley will be the location of the first supermarket collection of food for the South Leeds Foodbank on Saturday, August 3rd, 2013. Will you be there? Beeston Festival ’13 was indeed a hive of activity and I spent a few moments with some of the people that are
Last Tuesday night at South Leeds Stadium the Hunslet Hawks community team hosted another charity touch rugby tournament for juniors and adults. The juniors kicked off at 5pm on a glorious Tuesday evening. The teams involved were The Leeds Irish Clovers, Beeston Broncos and Harehills. Harehills and The Leeds
On Saturday thousands flocked to a sun-soaked Beeston Festival in Cross Flatts Park to enjoy music, dance, stalls, food and of course the fun fair. [slideshow_deploy id=’16856′]
Tomorrow it is Beeston Festival and for those of you that don’t know, I’m one of the organisers. I had planned to save this topic until next week, but my head is so full of things festival that I can’t think, or write about anything else this week. The
South Leeds Life (SLL) is holding an important meeting to discuss its future next Tuesday (11th June 2013) at 10am at South Leeds Community Radio in Beeston and you are invited! Since beginning in December 2010 SLL has built up its readership to the point where we had more
Twenty CWU members and supporters rallied on Beeston Ring Road on Wednesday morning outside the O2 call centre following the announcement that 3,700 O2 staff are to be transferred to service industry giant Capita as part of a outsourcing deal affecting staff in a number of centres. Yesterday’s
It’s National Volunteers Week and by lucky coincidence we see the return of Julia Hogan, the girl who started out as a volunteer at the Hunslet Club, soon demonstrating her talents and becoming a football coach before being whisked off to America on a prestigious sports coaching degree course. Well,
My assignment from the Community Reporters Course, or my mission, should I choose to accept it, was to sign up for a new social media account and write a story from a social media site I already use. I’m on Friends Reunited. Look me up, Kenneth Ingram Hunslet Carr