What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds United’s Chief Executive, Shaun Harvey, told Beeston Forum tonight that the club’s ambitions to develop the Elland Road stadium were still on track. Mr Harvey was updating the Forum on the situation following the recent takeover of the club by GFH Capital, a Dubai-based private equity group. He said
City and Holbeck CID are appealing for witnesses to a robbery that took place on Low Grange Crescent in Belle Isle on the 7 December. The robbery took place at around 7:30pm when the victim – a 42-year old man – was parking his Honda Civic at his home on
Ed Carlisle has been in touch to tell us about interesting developments at one of South Leeds’ hidden gems: the Garden Gate pub in Hunslet. Tucked away on a back street in south Leeds – overlooked, and until recently unloved – lies an architectural gem from a bygone era. The
2012 will be remembered in Britain as the Olympic year. Never mind Jessica Ennis, Bradley Wiggins or Ellie Simmonds, on Monday 25th June the Olympic Torch came through South Leeds. Thousands of people came out to see the torch make its way through Hunslet, up to South Leeds Stadium, then
The Council have announced their plans for dealing with bin collections and recycling over the festive period. Black and green bin collections will be moved to avoid public holidays. the arrangements are as follows: Household Waste Sites will be open 8:00am – 4:00pm every day except Christmas Day, Boxing
The St Andrew’s Pantomime is a fixture on the Beeston social calendar. The group have staged a production every year for over forty years. Many of the cast and crew that staged “Aladdin” back in 1970 are still involved and one of them, Steven Roddy, is still acting! “I can’t
Hamara’s third annual Community Awards celebrated community activists around the city. In the first of a series of profiles on the winners, Jeremy Morton talked to Shakeel Mir about his award for Service To The Community. I met up with Shakeel Mir at Leeds Prison where he works as Diversity
So Middleton Golf Course faces closure as Leeds City Council seeks to make more than £50 million in savings. The official line from on high is that the council has already made £145m in savings over the past two years and yet more are needed. Council leader Keith Wakefield says
There was a barnstorming Christmas Party at Belle Isle Working Men’s Club. Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO) held their 9th annual community Christmas party which attracted 200 people. Among those attending were families and friends from the local community, BITMO board members and staff and the three ward councillors. Guests were
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