Posts by yorkshire reporter

11 private gardens in and around the village will be open to view. Admission is £3.00 per person with free parking at Jack Heaps Field on Main Street. Refreshments, including delicious home-made cakes, will be available throughout the afternoon at the Village Hall where there will be a plant sale.…

The next generation of tradespeople went head to head at York College and Leeds College of Building, as part of a series of qualifiers for a place at this year’s WorldSkills UK Competitions. The colleges hosted the regional heats for the SkillBuild and SkillPLUMB competitions – both of which are…

Leeds City Council has instructed digital property auctioneer BidX1 to sell a green field site in its next online auction on 24th July. The site, located at Grange Farm in the popular village of Colton on the eastern outskirts of Leeds, is listed with a guide price of £500,000. The…

The Leeds Cultural Quarter is set to become a skills hub for the creative arts, following a collaboration between Leeds Playhouse and Leeds City College. The education provider is currently putting the finishing touches to its new £60m campus, which will be the new home for its School of Creative…

Public consultation on proposed modifications to the Leeds Core Strategy Selective Review is open. Leeds City Council’s executive board approved six weeks of consultation to run until Friday 28 June with the details and the opportunity to comment at; www.leeds.gov.uk/cssr The modifications, which propose enhancements to a number of Core…

As the UK becomes increasingly concerned about plastic pollution and sustainability, Leeds residents have already shown the rest of the country how keen they are on recycling on-the-go. The pioneering #LeedsByExample campaign to improve recycling on-the-go has proven a huge success. The number of people recycling paper cups, cans and…