What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
This month (October 2026) saw the unveiling of two new tree sculptures in Hunslet Lake park, near Middleton Railway – and have already become much-loved local icons. The sculptures combine images of nature, including a red kite and an owl; and local heritage – including sports, remembrance, industrial history including
Several ash trees in Cross Flatts Park have been felled over the years because of ash dieback, a serious fungal disease caused by Hymenoscyphus fraxineus. As we reported here, in 2024 Friends of Cross Flatts Park, and Honorary Alderwoman Angela Gabriel BEM in particular, raised funds to turn one of
The Friends of Middleton Park have launched a Go Fund Me page to help pay for a tree sculpture in the park. Chair of the Friends, Alan Shaw, explains: “When the Friends learnt from the Council Estate Officer for the Park that one of the trees by the lake needed
Residents in LS10 worked together to solve a long-standing neighbourhood problem this month – and even turn it into something positive. Storms last year blew down a tree on the Telfords in Hunslet – but the Council’s over-stretched forestry team were unable to respond to local requests to clear it
‘I think that I shall never see: A poem lovely as a tree.’ As a golf hacker (first class) I’m not so sure. I have never had the run of a golf ball interrupted by a poem. In a recent round with Invisible Andy I managed to hit a