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Why is Bruce Springsteen on our cover? Well, finally, after years of waiting – Leeds has a fantastic new Arena and The Boss is opening it this month! Now we’ll be able to look forward to seeing all those great stars and shows that bypassed us previously. And, according to Billboard, the First Direct Arena is rated as one of the top such venues in the world!

It’s another exciting month, with Open Season at The Playhouse, Opera in the Park, Kirkstall Festival and St Gemma’s Garden Party. There are more awards for The Myrtle in Meanwood; Abbey Runners celebrate their 20th year with the Eccup 10; and there’s a great exhibition ‘From Page to Screen’ coming to The National Media Museum (currently under threat of closure, so please support them).

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There is so much going on around Leeds that it is impossible to fit it all in – so don’t forget to check our website (www.northleedslife.co.uk), you’ll find many more stories there and news items too. Follow us on Twitter for notification of events and website additions, and there’s Facebook too – so please Like us there and give us your feedback.

With holiday season coming up it’s easy to forget to send in your news – so make a note… editorial deadline for August is 1st July and for September it’s 1st August.

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We look forward to hearing from you.

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In This Issue

It’s Open Season at The Playhouse West Yorkshire Playhouse throws open its doors for a month-long showcase of youth and community performance.

20 Restaurant Review: Kendells Bistro You can forget Nouvelle Cuisine when you visit Kendells Bistro!

27 Leeds Mencap is Yorkshire Society’s Charity of the Year The award is particularly fitting as the charity marks its 60th anniversary this year.

28 Kirkstall Festival Promises to be a Superb Event

Bruce Springsteen to Open First Direct Arena ‘The Boss’ is coming to town!

Springsteen requests to play new Leeds Arena.

Now in its 33rd year, Kirkstall Festival brings a riot of colour, music and activity to the beautiful grounds of Kirkstall Abbey.

42 It’s Festival Season!

A quick guide to some festivals coming up right on our doorstep.

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An exhibition exploring the creative processes behind adapting children’s books and stories for the screen.

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St Gemma’s seasonal fairs are popular and very important, raising in excess of £40,000 a year. This anniversary year they hope to raise over £10,000 for patient care, which will pay for 22 days of care.

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JOHN WIGNALL LEATHER (1810-1887) Civil Engineer

Some of the great pioneering engineers of the nineteenth century, like Brunel and Stephenson, are household names today, while others remain in the shadows. Among them is Leeds engineer John Wignall Leather, whose work helped to transform life in Leeds. He partnered his father in the vast project to provide the town with a desperately-needed supply of pure water. He also planned and oversaw the vital drainage and sewerage of the town, essential to civilised life.

John Wignall Leather came from a family of distinguished engineers: his grandfather George Leather had been an early railway engineer, and his father was consulting engineer for the important Aire and Calder Navigation, and surveyor of coal mines for Bradford, where John Wignall was born in 1810. After school at Hipperholme and Durham, where he excelled in mathematics, he joined his father’s firm in Leeds and began his professional training – no academic qualifications were available or needed then.

One of the first projects he building of further reservoirs, remains was involved in was the planning of the basis for the city’s water supply a new water supply for Leeds. Few today. houses had a piped supply, and what While the Leeds scheme was in there was came from the River Aire progress, John Wignall Leather was and streams like Sheepscar Beck, also working on a new water supply stinking with human and industrial for Bradford, while his father, George, waste. Otherwise people relied took on the construction of reservoirs on boreholes and wells, and water in the hills near Holmfirth – a project carriers who charged an extortionate which was to end in tragedy in two shillings a week. By the 1830s, as February 1852 when the Bilberry dam the population multiplied, it was clear collapsed, killing 81 people. George that a new supply of clean water had Leather bore some of the blame, and to be found to meet people’s everyday retired three years later, leaving John needs and to fight the diseases and Wignall to carry on. epidemics which were rampant.

By then he had established Several engineers submitted himself as an outstanding engineer plans, including George Leather, through his work on railways, docks, but the project got bogged down and bridges – notably the spectacular in rivalry, technical disputes and Stanley Ferry Aqueduct which still political conflict over issues of public carries the Aire and Calder Navigation or private control. After frustrating over the river Calder, and the elegant years of argument, the work was Crown Point Bridge in Leeds. He finally entrusted to the Leathers, won medals for both at the 1851 whose scheme involved building a Great Exhibition. But his other major reservoir at Eccup, and bringing the work for Leeds was in designing water through a tunnel, an aqueduct and overseeing the construction of (the Seven Arches in Adel woods, still a comprehensive scheme for the there though long disused), and pipes drainage and sewerage of the town. to storage reservoirs at Weetwood Instead of the river serving as an open and Woodhouse Moor and on to the sewer, waste was to be piped away to town. This vast undertaking, one of the the east, to Knostrop, where it could earliest of its kind, involved complex be treated and used as fertiliser. negotiations over compensation After a number of initial problems, claims and land purchase, and major work began in 1850: an ambitious, engineering challenges, particularly costly project, but of enormous lasting in building the tunnel, but it was benefit to the town. completed successfully in 1843 – for He continued to work on a wide the first time people had access to range of engineering projects, later clean water at low cost. This scheme, acting as consultant, including on the though later greatly expanded by the expansion of the Leeds water supply.

One of the first projects he was involved in was the planning of a new water supply for Leeds

He seems to have had a comfortable personal life: in 1834 he married Caroline Cadman, daughter of a wealthy liquor merchant, and they had four children. Their first home was a large house in Wellington Street, but by the 1860s they had moved out to Potternewton, and then to the grandeur of Potternewton Hall, and finally to de Grey Terrace (where the University Parkinson building stands now). He died there in 1887 aged 77 and is buried with his wife at Lawnswood. Leeds owes him much.

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Optical and hearing care specialist, Scrivens Opticians recently relocated its Headingley North Lane branch to the Arndale Centre, Otley Road.

The family-owned optician, which has branches across the country, has been steadily growing its customer base since acquiring its original Headingley branch from Co-op Eye Care four years ago.

“This is a great move for Scrivens as the Arndale Centre is a popular shopping location, with good transport links”, said Chris Nutter, Branch Manager. “We offer the very best eye and hearing care using the latest optical and audiology technology, together with with that personal, local shop service that you’d expect from a family business. It’s this personal approach, alongside a fantastic range of designer frames and digital hearing aids, that has seen our business grow steadily over the last few years.”

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JOHN CRUICKSHANK’S BOOK IS MORE THAN A HISTORY OF LEEDS The Thoresby Society’s most recent publication is ‘Headingley-cum-Burley c.1544 – c.1784’ by John Cruickshank.

This is the most detailed study yet published of any Leeds township during the early-modern period. Based on his PhD thesis at the University of Leeds, it covers such areas as the changing pattern of landownership and landholding in response to continuing political and economic change; the transformation of transport and communications; and the development of agriculture and industry in conjunction with the commercial and administrative development of Leeds. The Appendix examines the corresponding population changes, using not only the Leeds parish and chapelry registers, but also independent sources.

Aimed at both the academic and the interested lay reader, this work is not simply a history of one township, but makes a significant and invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the development of the town of Leeds and to our wider understanding of the role of extra-urban areas in the growth of towns.

John Cruickshank is a former Orthopaedic Surgeon, who completed a PhD in History at the University of Leeds in preparation for his retirement. His current research interests are centred on the cartographic history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular reference to the topographic mapping both of Britain and of central and eastern Europe.

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This Summer, West Yorkshire Playhouse is throwing open its doors from 18th June – 20th July for ‘Open Season’ – a month-long showcase of youth and community performance. From dance and drama, poetry, new plays and youth theatre productions, The Playhouse is welcoming a diverse and energetic array of talents, bringing together people from Leeds and further afield to strut their stuff in a vibrant celebration of creativity in our city. This includes: The Coming of Age (Part of Voices of a New Generation) on Thursday 27th June 7.30pm. Free.

An evening of poetry from some of the North’s leading spoken word artists.

Voices of a New Generation – A youth poetry slam produced

by Leeds Young Authors on Friday 28th June, 7.30pm (£5). Five teams of young people from Leeds, Ireland and Nottingham work with leading spoken word ar tists and battle it out to become 2013 slam champions.

The Look of Love & Benchmark A Feeling Good Theatre and Heydays double bill on Wednesday 3rd July, 7pm, (£5).

Inspired by Dusty Springfield, The Look of Love explores the nature of love. Performed by West Yorkshire Playhouse Heydays members and directed by Sue McGeorge.

Benchmark investigates the fascinating stories benches hold – in school, church, garden, park, or home. Devised and performed

by Feeling Good Theatre Company with associate director Aisha Khan.

One Leeds on Thursday 4th July, 7pm, is an evening of song and dance by young people from Carr Manor High, the Cooperative Academy of Leeds, John Smeaton

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Raising The Game – The Leeds Youth Theatre Network on Tuesday 2nd July, 7pm, (£5).

Six youth theatres join forces to present a range of plays and devised work.

Young Theatre Makers on Friday 5th July, 7pm, (£5) return for a third year, bringing together four diverse groups of young people with four professional theatre makers to create an evening of theatre which is both funny and touching.

WYP Youth Theatre Showcase on Saturday 6th July, 7pm (£5) is an end of term showcase from the Playhouse Youth Theatre. More than 100 members aged 10 – 19 perform.

Gospel: A Celebration of Gospel Music on Saturday 6th July, 7.30pm (£8/£6) An uplifting evening of gospel music.

Ooh La La… It’s Bollywood! on Saturday 13th July, 7.30pm (£8/£6) Zoobin Surty Karma Dance presents a celebration of 100 years of Bollywood Dance – from Indian Classical dance to contemporary funky moves – with a community cast of dancers.

Girls Like That from Thursday 18th – Saturday 20th July 7pm & 2.30pm on 18th (£5) The Playhouse Youth Theatre performs a newly-commissioned play by award-winning playwright Evan Placey.

U.DANCE 2013 Friday 19th – Saturday 20th July, 7pm (£8) Youth Dance England’s national youth dance festival. Young dancers present some of the most inspiring, energizing and dynamic dance.

The Playhouse is welcoming a diverse and energetic array of talents, bringing together people from Leeds and further afield

Shakespeare’s Shrew takes to the stage at Kirkstall Abbey and Dagmar Wood (off Grosvenor Road, Hyde Park LS6) this month when Theatre of the Dales brings this comedy to boisterous life in a swift new adaptation by David Robertson.

The show has a bonus feature: the proceedings kick off with witty love scenes from As You Like It, Much Ado and Henry V from the company’s current road show ‘Get Thee a Wife’!

Theatre of the Dales stages a free preview in Dagmar Wood on Friday 12th July at 7pm, returning to finish up there on Sunday 28th at 4pm (£10/ £8). It plays at Kirkstall Abbey on Saturday 27th July at 3pm and 7pm (£14/ £10 or online £10/£8). Nearby venues include Lister Park in Bradford, Knaresborough Castle and York Museum Gardens. Visit www. theatreofthedales.co.uk for full details.

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Soprano Laura Wright and operatic quartet Amore will join Aled Jones at this year’s picnic-style Opera in the Park at Temple Newsam Estate, on Saturday 27th July.

Laura Wright topped the classical music charts in 2011 with her debut album ‘The Last Rose’ before embarking on a series of sell-out performances with Alfie Boe and Russell Watson. She was chosen to perform the official song ‘Stronger As One’ for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee last year, and also sang the national anthem at all of England’s home matches in this year’s RBS Six Nations Rugby Union Championship.

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The music for the evening will be performed by the Orchestra of Opera North,

“Classic FM is delighted to partner with Leeds City Council once more for Opera in the Park”, said Sam Jackson, Managing Editor of Classic FM. “Laura Wright and Amore are great friends of the station and, as one of our presenters, Aled is already part of the family! We’re also thrilled to be working with Classic FM’s Orchestra in Yorkshire, the Orchestra of Opera North, for what’s set to be a brilliant evening of live music in a stunning setting.”

Tickets (£5 - £10) are available from the City Centre Box Office at The Carriageworks on 0113 224 3801, www.leeds.gov.uk/ opera or the Temple Newsam gift shop.

HRH EARL OF WESSEX RENEWS PATRONAGE OF NORTHERN BALLET HRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO has renewed his Royal Patronage of Northern Ballet, a position he has held since 2003.

The news was confirmed recently during Northern Ballet’s run at Sadler’s Wells in London, where the company performed ‘The Great Gatsby’ to soldout houses. ‘The Great Gatsby’ has now concluded an extensive national tour, during which it was performed at nine venues, breaking box office records and making this Northern Ballet’s most successful Spring season ever. More than 50,000 people attended performances generating £1.24m in ticket sales.

“We’re really delighted that His Royal Highness has renewed his patronage of the company”, said Mark Skipper, Northern Ballet Chief Executive. “He has been an excellent and genuine ambassador for us and shows us terrific support. He comes regularly to see the company perform at venues around the country and he officially opened our award-winning home in Leeds.”

n eclectic new arts programme, Juliana’s Bike, will run throughout the city in July and includes workshops, exhibitions, games, and a smorgasbord of artistic interventions.

East Street Arts and partners will explore the potential of cycling through a range of activities

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After a successful year with their interim chorus master – Darius Battiwalla – Leeds Philharmonic Chorus recently announced Richard Wilberforce as their new chorus master, starting in the 2013-14 season.

Richard trained as a Choral Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge under David Hill (the Phil’s current music director) and at the Royal College of Music, and now juggles a career as countertenor and composer. He’s one of the country’s most exciting young choral directors.

He was also recently “I’m passionate about the ability appointed director of the Hallé of amateur singing to bring Youth Choir, is artistic director and communities together, and few conductor of the Exon Singers, choirs can boast such an enduring and director of the London- and central role within a city’s based Orlando Chamber Choir, cultural community as ‘The Phil’. which specialises in music from “My experience as a the Renaissance and Baroque professional singer gives me Canons. the tools to teach choirs about He recently directed the Choir vocal technique, and to coax of the American Cathedral in Paris the very best sound out of the and the Paris Choral Society, as available voices. Having worked well as founding the French vocal with the choir earlier in the year, ensemble, Les Voix Filigranes, I am encouraged by the quality which performs a contemporary of voices, and am confident that the Philharmonic will consistently and renaissance repertoire.

“I’m very excited to be achieve musical results of taking on this illustrious and the very highest quality. The venerable choir”, said Richard. 2013-14 season is shaping up

My experience as a professional singer gives me the tools to teach choirs about vocal technique, and to coax the very best sound out of the available voices

to be very exciting, with plenty of opportunities for our singers to get to know some real masterpieces.

You can guarantee we’ll give memorable performances for singers and audience alike!”

As a consort singer, Richard works regularly with La Nuova Musica, The Dmitri Ensemble and English Voices amongst others. Much of his week is spent singing in the choir of St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, as well as with those of Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral.

Richards’s first work with the Phil will be Elgar’s ‘Spirit of England’ and Vaughan Williams ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’. It will be performed on 2nd November at Leeds Town Hall, supported by the Hallé Orchestra and conducted by David Hill.

HLF GRANT FOR SNOWGOOSE WRITERS’ COMMUNITY Snowgoose Writers’ Community is one of the first groups in the UK to receive a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) ‘All Our Stories’ grant. Their exciting project, ‘Unheard Voices - the Civilian Experience of the First World War in Yorkshire’, based around Leeds and Shipley, has been awarded £6,800 to research, explore and give creative expression to the lesser known stories from this conflict – those of the civilians.

“I think it’s a great opportunity for us”, said Jonathan Hall, founder member of Snowgoose Writers’ Community. “It’s what our writer’s community is all about: local writers telling local stories.”

‘All Our Stories’, launched earlier this year in support of BBC2’s ‘The Great British Story’, provides an opportunity for everyone to get involved in their heritage. With HLF funding, community groups will carry out activities that help people explore, share and celebrate their local heritage. The popular series, presented by historian Michael Wood, got thousands of people asking questions about their history and inspired them to look at history through the eyes of ordinary people.

As part of the centenary commemorations of the First World War, Snowgoose Writers’ Community will use archival material to learn about the lives of people on the Yorkshire home front, their dayto-day realities, privations and personal experiences. This will form the basis of a series of dramatic monologues, creating a resource for the region and telling Yorkshire stories to Yorkshire audiences.

‘Unheard Voices - the Civilian Experience of the First World War in Yorkshire’ is one of hundreds of successful projects around the UK to receive a grant. Snowgoose aims to develop and encourage people’s own writing journey and help to develop new voices in the telling of these untold stories.

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“It is really tremendous that the people of Leeds and Shipley have been inspired to get involved to tell their own story and to dig deeper into their own past”, said Michael Wood. “It’s brilliant that so many people are being given the chance to get involved through the All Our Stories grants. I am certain that fascinating and moving stories will be uncovered, which will not only bring to life the excitement of local history, but will illuminate and enrich every community’s connection with the national narrative.”

Snowgoose Writers’ Community is a group of local writers that aims to develop writing for performance in the region. The group meets regularly in Shipley and, over the past four years has staged over 100 pieces of new writing and run four new writing festivals. For further information: 07590 411 460, snowgoose2006@gmail.com.

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t was early evening as we made our way to Kendell’s Bistro on St Peter’s Square, opposite Leeds College of Music. It was chilly, quiet, and there were only a couple of people on the street. Kendell’s unassuming frontage also seemed chilly and quiet – then we opened the door…………

A cacophony of chatter hit us. The place was already packed (the theatre crowd, we were told).

It was warm, welcoming, and a hive of activity. Three blackboards with the dishes of the day took up virtually the whole of one wall. As we squinted from our table, binoculars were thrust into our hands and all became clear! Supreme de Volaille, Confit de Canard, Tar te Provençal, Cassoulet, Saumon en Croute – I could see already there was going to be a problem making a choice! Everything sounded so good, but choices had to be made.

We all opted for seafood to start – a fabulous Soupe au Poisson with earthy, subtle but distinctive flavours, melt-in-the-mouth scallops on a bed of pea purée with bacon, and awesome Moules Marinière – definitely the biggest, meatiest mussels I’d seen in some time, in a lovely sauce, which we were soon all dunking bread into.

On to the main course:

Cassoulet – a wonderful rustic dish with a slab of belly pork that lay langourously over the French sausage, flavoursome, slow-cooked beans and rich tomato-based sauce, definitely taunting the diner; a Tarte Provençal like no other with aubergine, peppers, onions and broad beans (skinned of course!), pine nuts and goat’s cheese nestled in puff pastry on a bed of crushed chilli-infused tomatoes, topped off with a little lacy fascinator of melted cheese; and Confit de Canard – preserved duck leg with smoked sausage, green beans wrapped in bacon (not individually!) and Dauphinoise potatoes with just the right amount of creaminess. A rich dish full of intense flavour.

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Dessert? It would be positively rude not to and hadn’t I just noticed a Tarte au Citron? Sometimes you can be disappointed with the level of citron but not here – it was intense, a positive explosion of citroness!

And the pastry was by far the thinnest I had ever seen. The Parfait aux Pruneaux was rich and creamy and lovely, but that Tarte au Citron was a definite winner.

This was an evening where you certainly couldn’t ignore the food – it demanded attention and we were happy to sit up and take notice.

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s soon as Summer peeps out from behind a curtain of cloud, we head en masse for the shorts, beer, and the BBQ! But summer eating isn’t all about blackened meat, hotdogs and lager – with a little imagination, al fresco dining can become a much more exciting culinary experience.

Start things off with a dressed in a Caesar dressing big platter of antipasti – with bacon lardons and garlic summer local cheeses and breads, croutons will be an instant charcuterie, freshly whizzed crowd pleaser. eating isn’t up pesto and hummus dips, Be adventurous! Paella is olives and chunky salsas. another dish easily prepared all about Keep the grilled meats, but outside in a large paella pan head for your local butcher on an open BBQ – full of plump blackened where you can get great quality rice cooked in good stock meat and good cuts for with fresh seafood meat, the BBQ. Choose and summer locally produced vegetables. hotdogs sausages and Drinkscoat them in wise its time a sticky chilli for cocktails and lager – and big punch glaze. Rub chicken thighs bowls full of with a little with Moroccan Pimms! Ginger spices, or head and elderflower imagination, to Leeds Market cordial added to al fresco soda or sparkling water for some superb fresh fish, which is lovely make great drinks for those dining can barbecued with garden herbs. not drinking alcohol. And, Then accompany these with white wine spritzers with a become a wonderful fresh salads – generous squeeze of lemon check your local farmers’ just shout long afternoons in markets for the ultimate in the sun. Of course, there are much more freshness. numerous ales and lagers exciting A chargrilled vegetable perfect for outdoor drinking cous cous is a great addition and many of them locally culinary to any outdoor meal, with brewed – seek them out. chunks of haloumi and chorizo Most importantly, keep experience mixed through. Little gem things simple. If you cook lettuces sliced into quarters, with good quality ingredients, lightly toasted on you are half way to making a the BBQ and great meal. Let the sun inspire you and bring a little bit of the Mediterranean to your English BBQ.

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MORE AWARDS FOR THE MYRTLE! The Myrtle pub on Parkside Road, Meanwood, has just been awarded the Leeds CAMRA ‘Most Improved Pub of the Season Spring 2013’ – which comes hot on the heels of the Enterprise Inns Community Hero Award that was awarded to manager Scott Westlake just last year.

Scott took over the pub in March 2011 and had quite a challenge on his hands – its reputation was shot and not many wanted to set foot in it! Today it is thriving. Scott has re-established The Myrtle as a community local. Monday quizzes are attracting over 80 enthusiasts weekly; Rock ‘n’ Roll Bingo on Thursdays is great fun; and there are good local bands taking advantage of Open Mic night on the first Tuesday of each month.

Last year Scott approached Simon Bolderson of Ridgeside Brewery to create a special beer for the pub. Simon came up with ‘Myrtale’, which has been a runaway success, selling over 56 gallons a week. To celebrate, Scott is giving over three pumps to Ridgeside brews for the whole month of July.

Food at The Myrtle Now, following extensive renovations and new equipment in the kitchen, The Myrtle is ready to serve food. The bar menu has great Nibbles and Platters, ranging from buckets of fries, garlic bread, nachos and fresh house salads, to sharing platters with chicken wings, Brie wedges, cheese stuffed Jalapenos, garlic mushrooms and loaded potato skins. This is available from 5 – 9pm all week.

In addition, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday there is a ‘Mediterranean inspired’ Specials Menu that changes every week. We dropped in recently to give it a try and thoroughly enjoyed it. We started with lovely Feta Cheese and Spinach Filo Parcels with homemade tzatsiki and a Chicken Summer Salad with grilled chicken, great big green olives, baby spinach leaves and a tasty dressing. We followed this with a Spicy Grilled Chicken Burger, marinated in a chilli, honey and garlic sauce, with French fries and homemade coleslaw; and a delicious Vegetable Lasagne with a chunky cucumber and tomato salad topped with feta. The freshly-made Banoffee Pie was super! Next time we’ll try the ‘Myrtle Mess’!

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News From Your Councillors CLLR JUDE ARBUCKLE

Horsforth Town Council The ‘In Bloom’ judges will soon be here – so could everyone please make a special effort by putting the finishing touches to gardens, verges, baskets and other floral exhibits? The Community and Environment committee is making sure that the hanging baskets and the Jubilee Garden are in perfect order.

Our thanks go out to everyone who is involved with the Horsforth Gala. The Gala committee, and their many volunteers, continue to make this an entertaining and successful annual event.

The Council also welcomes the efforts of Horsforth Churches Together and their monthly Farmers’ Market. You can catch it on the first Saturday of each month in the car park of St Margaret’s School, opposite the Jubilee Garden.

Have a good Summer!

CLLR CLIVE FOX Adel & Wharfedale Ward

If you are aged 38 or over and living in Leeds then, however modestly you rate yourself, you are a cut above the average.

Average age that is. There’s no easy way of telling you this but the average age of Citizen Leeds is a mere 37.6 years.

Blame those census people again who will insist on revealing more about what you told them in the first place. They don’t tell you this but one reason for the low average age is the number of students in Leeds. Excluding students increases the average age to a slightly less disconcerting 43. Despair not for Leeds still boasts 111 centenarians or at least it did at the time of the 2011 census.

Hard on their heels come a further 102 people aged 99 and 142 aged 98.

We learn of 12,310 households with a bedroom occupancy rating of minus one or less. It might seem somewhat intrusive even to enquire what that means. More positively, whilst 94.7% of Leeds households now have

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Adel & Wharfedale Ward Cameras to cut down on fly-tipping The Area Committee recently awarded a grant of £490 from the Wellbeing Fund to purchase two mini covert cameras to help clamp down on people illegally dumping rubbish in the area. The cameras are triggered by movement and can take pictures both day and night. They will be mounted in areas where fly-tipping occurs regularly. They are also mobile, so Ward members can nominate sites where they can be used. If you have any particular areas to suggest, please do contact me.

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central heating, how many can actually afford to run it isn’t disclosed.

Almost 70% of us between 16 and 74 are working. What the census fails to tell us is how many of the 291,035 full and part-timers are ‘hard working’ (a quality much beloved of our politicians), rather than merely ‘working’.

Officially they are deemed to be ‘economically active’. Why use one word when two will do?

We are told that some 41,000 workers are engaged in ‘elementary occupations’ (shades of Sherlock Holmes), whilst another 61,000 are engaged in ‘routine occupations’.

Now there’s a detailed break down for you.

Incidentally, just in case you wanted to know, 740 people are engaged in agriculture, forestry and fishing and 246, including 23 women, work in mining and quarrying.

Finally, there’s how we all get to work.

479 people claim to use the underground, light rail or tram. Do they know something we don’t? Whilst most travel by the usual train, bus, vehicle, bicycle or on foot, no less than 1,629 say they are confined to ‘other travel to work’. Now there’s a thing. Helicopters and donkeys apart, just how do they get to work?

Answers on a post card please. clive.fox@leeds.gov.uk

siteallocations. Objections, supporting statements or otherwise can also be sent to Local Development Framework, Leeds City Council, Thoresby House, 2 Rossington St Leeds LS2 8HD. Rogue traders set to get cold reception New Cold Calling Control Zones will soon launch with the aim of discouraging rogue traders and doorstep sellers. After pressure from local residents and myself, working in conjunction with West Yorkshire Trading Standards, properties in Adel, Cookridge and Holt Park will be included.

Residents will be contacted by letter asking whether they would like to see a scheme implemented in their locality. Once the areas have been determined, residents will receive a booklet and sticker, and street signs will be erected.

I’m delighted that this initiative is rolling out. Thanks is due to two local residents in particular who worked tirelessly to make it happen. Without the match funding and support of the Adel Association and advice from West Yorkshire Trading Standards it would not have got off the ground. www.barryanderson.yourcllr.com Twitter @barryanderson19

Sadly this will be my last message on behalf of the Adel Association as I am reluctantly resigning as Chairman after seven years. I have really enjoyed it and believe that we have created many initiatives, stopped or at least impacted a number of developments that our community felt strongly about, and provided a forum for people to raise issues.

The police now regularly report to us and we have tremendous support from our three councillors, Barry Anderson in particular. In addition, no one could have had a more skilled secretary than I had with Caroline Anderson. Her minutes are extraordinary. I also had great support from my deputy, Paula Brown, who chaired sessions when I was elsewhere, and from Jean Griffiths as treasurer.

As many of you know, I have a portfolio career. I chair two companies and I believe that it is not healthy to go on for a long period in that role - there is something to be said for a maximum of three years. In addition to my seven work roles (!) I am also a carer for my wife who had a major stroke two and a half years ago.

Huge challenges will face our community as they plan to build over vast swathes of our Green Belt. We fought against this through our Adel Neighbourhood Design Statement and more recently in court. The Association desperately needs someone to succeed

me - preferably someone significantly younger! The job is time consuming but incredibly satisfying. If you are interested, please email me. I still intend to come to meetings whenever I can and will offer as much help as I can initially to my successor.

The Neighbourhood Forum is a highly significant development, especially with the latest planning proposals. It is currently establishing the focus groups that will analyse and produce the detail that will contribute to the development of the Neighbourhood Plan. These groups are: green space and heritage, housing, education, community facilities, business and highways. If you are interested in being involved, contact Ian Bond on bondster@btopenworld.com or visit www. adelneighbourhoodforum.co.uk/ Let’s continue to develop Adel into the lovely, green, eccentric and vibrant community that we love for all ages and social groups.

Dr Barrie Hopson, Chairman barriehopson@ashlingpartnership.com

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WORLD WAR I MEMORIES 1914 -1918 Horsforth Museum is collecting material connected with World War I for an exhibition next year commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of that war.

If you have any civilian clothes, artefacts, photographs, uniforms or parts of uniforms that relate to that period, and that you would be prepared to lend to the museum for eighteen months, please get in touch with them.

Two hundred and twelve Horsforth people lost their lives in WW1. Stephen Brown has put together five portfolios of the details of these war dead which can be viewed in the Museum every weekend (Saturday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 2pm – 5pm).

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Joseph Lillywhite is five and is fighting stage four neuroblastoma.

He had a few weeks of being generally unwell with viral type symptoms, then became really unwell and was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare and very aggressive childhood cancer. A tumour had grown around his kidney, and there was cancer evidence in his bone marrow, hip and thigh bones.

Joseph is currently receiving frontline treatment from a fantastic team at Leeds General Infirmary. Unfortunately, long term survival for children with high risk neuroblastoma is less than half the average rate for other childhood cancers and relapse rates are high.

Despite neuroblastoma being high risk, there is no protocol in the UK for relapse if treatment is needed. More often than not, children and their families are required to raise money for

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Joseph’s family is trying to raise £500,000 through fundraising for the Neuroblastoma Alliance UK, which will help if Joseph cannot join the UK trials, or if he needs treatment that is only available abroad. They desperately need your help. This could be through donating on their Just Giving site www.

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If you would like to help, please contact them at 08444 879227 or hello@josephlillywhite.co.uk.

You can also follow his journey on Facebook/Joseph Lillywhite’s Journey.

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MEANWOOD PARK GETS Leeds Mencap recently received the Yorkshire FACE LIFT Society’s ‘Charity of the Year’ Award.

Thanks to local councilors, Meanwood Park has received a £104,000 makeover.

Councillors Sharon Hamilton, Rebecca Charlwood and Alex Sobel worked with staff from the Council’s Parks and Countryside Service and the Meanwood Valley Partnership to identify priorities. Improvements have been made to the car park, signage has been enhanced, and the tennis courts refurbished. There are new paths around the bowling greens and a new entrance path to the tennis courts.

Plus drainage and fencing works have been undertaken and five-aside football posts installed.

This work makes a real difference, and we will continue to make further improvements where needed in the future “It is vital that we do everything possible to keep the area in great condition”, said Councillor Sharon Hamilton. “This work makes a real difference, and we will continue to make further improvements where needed in the future.”

“Leeds Mencap is proud to be the Yorkshire Society’s Charity of the Year in what is our Diamond Jubilee year”, said Martin Staniforth, Chair of the charity. “As a small local charity we are heavily dependent on organisations and individuals to enable us to provide muchneeded services for our users, both children and adults. This award is a real recognition of our work and will help us to raise the money we need to maintain and expand our services.”

The award is particularly fitting this year as the charity marks its 60th anniversary.

Leeds Mencap is celebrating with a whole range of events,

ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM – A COMMUNITY GALLERY? Abbey House Museum aims to involve people more in the way it plans and designs its exhibitions.

It is currently planning to change the existing Nursery Room into a community-themed gallery, and would like your ideas about what it should look like, and the best ways to get a range of people involved. All ideas will be put to public vote on the weekend of the Kirkstall Festival (13th July).

To join the conversation, email abbey.house@leeds.gov.uk with ‘community’ as the subject.

Or fill in a ‘community gallery’ flyer and hand to a visitor assistant or pop it in the suggestion box in the museum.

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Mutu Hairdressing on St Anne’s Parade, Headingley, recently raised over £500 for new fixed playground equipment for St Chad’s Primary School.

On Monday 3rd June, family and friends of St Chad’s took advantage of superb hair and beauty deals at Mutu and all the money raised was donated to the school’s playground fund.

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SUNSHINE AND SMILES – On Saturday 13th July the annual LEEDS DOWN Kirkstall Festival will once again bring a SYNDROME riot of colour, music and activity to the NETWORK

beautiful grounds of Kirkstall Abbey.

“This year will be our 33rd annual festival. There have been many changes over the years, I think mostly for the better. Of course there will always be new faces on the committee and I’m pleased to say we now have a few younger members, which helps to keep us up to date – although we still stick to the original format of providing varied entertainment aimed at the whole family.

Remember, things get underway in the grounds at 11am, but our Parade, led by the City of Leeds Pipe Band, leaves Hesketh Road at 12 noon, finishing in the Abbey grounds around 12.45pm.

Come along and watch or even join in.

There is something to please everyone – a fairground, birds of prey display, pony rides, mini motorbikes, Marvellous Tea Dance marquee, food from all over the world, Punch & Judy, music stages, dancing, majorettes, climbing wall, over 100 stalls, music and dance in the Cloisters and the Abbey Nave, canoes on the river, a rugby tournament,

This year will be our 33rd annual festival.

There have been many changes over the years, I think mostly for the better

tennis competition, Morris men, dog show, festival church service in the Nave at 4.30pm, and too much more to mention.

If you have to bring a car, there’s a free car park on the playing fields opposite the Abbey.

But we encourage people to come by bus or walk.

Bring all the family and enjoy a wonderful day. And, please remember to buy a programme – this helps towards the funding for next year’s festival.”

John Liversedge, Chair Kirkstall Festival Committee

Sunshine and Smiles is a support network for families and carers who have a child or young person with Down Syndrome. They meet on the second Monday of the month, 1.15pm – 2.45pm at Moortown Children’s Centre, and there are monthly family sessions on a Saturday at St Chad’s Parish Centre in Headingley.

Sunshine and Smiles offers informal support and advice. They have activities for children, including music, tactile and water play, painting, singing and signing. At the Children’s Centre there is a sensory room and a quiet space. The group recently visited Sensory Leeds and the Donkey Sanctuary with further trips planned over the Summer.

They are currently working towards running Speech and Language groups and also some Early Development Support groups, both of which are vital for children with Down Syndrome.

The group is run entirely on an voluntary basis, with all funding coming from small grants or fundraising activities.

Their next fundraiser is the Great Charity Book Giveaway on Saturday 13th July, 10am - 4pm at Immaculate Heart Church Hall, 294 Harrogate Road, LS17. Admission is by donation, then choose your free books from a selection of over 2000!

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n entry in Edward Oates’ diary for May 1850 reads: “The 20 cottages of quarry owner Mr Husler (sic), now completed in the most extraordinary situation”. They were built on land leased from Henry Englefield. When the Englefield estate was sold in 1858 Edward Oates bought Hustler’s Row. From a recording made in June 1982, Eric Bumby, an My elderly resident of Hustler’s Row, recalled his childhood grandfather there. “My grandfather came to came to live live in Hustler’s Row when only half of it was built. He brought in Hustler’s up a family in this house.

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Gardens should now be at their best. With the long evenings you can hopefully sit out, relax and enjoy them. Maybe you’ll even entertain friends with a barbecue and impress them with freshly picked salad leaves from your garden. uly is usually a dry month, so water early morning or after sundown. To ensure roots get water, plant empty drinks bottles with bottoms cut off and necks inserted near to the plant – fill these with water and add a feed once a week.

Take a walk around the feeding with a high potash garden and make a note of fertilizer. Cut lavender and herbs what may be in the wrong place for drying ready for use in the ready to move in the autumn winter. or spring. Keep deadheading Lift shallots and onions, to make sure your plants keep leaving them out to dry when the on flowering, especially sweet leaves turn yellow – garlic too, peas. but cover it if rain is forecast.

Now’s the time to take semi Once strawberries have finished ripe cuttings of carnations, fruiting trim all the leaves with pinks, hydrangeas etc. and shears and add to the compost to transplant seedlings of heap. Remove straw mulches biennials sown earlier in the and mats, clearing all debris year. Disbud dahlias to get from the crowns, weed and larger blooms. Pinch out the gently fork over the ground tops of runner beans when between plants. they have reached the top of They say that women’s the stakes. Do the same with work is never done neither is outdoor tomatoes when four the gardener’s! We can always trusses have formed, removing find something to do. any side shoots at the same time. Fill any gaps in the beds - Kath Hall, Paxton or borders with bedding plants. Horticultural Society Sow the last of the vegetables for harvesting in the autumn.

Order Spring flowering bulbs, or look out for them in garden centres from August.

Pick strawberries, raspberries and other soft fruit.

Don’t let them rot, otherwise it will attack the rest of the plant.

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Shrubs in containers need regular watering, and weekly

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Numbers are swollen in Spring and Autumn as birds migrate from West Africa to the high Arctic to breed, then back again. Relatively few nest in Britain, mainly in the Grampians and northernmost Scotland.

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This latest tune from Biscuithead and his Biscuit Badgers, and its accompanying video, is packed with all the eccentric charm one has come to expect from these delightful oddballs.

With their typically off kilter musicians to simply be dismissed approach to subject matter, Soy as just a novelty act, and yet Milk finds the group puzzling over being too unashamedly silly to the perplexing nature of the titular be regarded with any degree of dairy alternative. Indeed, just how seriousness. does one milk a bean?

Over the gently lilting, ukulele led calypso accompaniment, the video depicts the Biscuit Badgers conducting all manner of strange and unusual experiments in both kitchen and shed, attempting to unlock the mysteries of the enigmatic, soya-based beverage.

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This month sees the long awaited opening of the First Direct Leeds Arena and we couldn’t have wished for a more spectacular inaugural gig – none other than bona fide Rock ‘n’ Roll behemoth, Bruce Springsteen! That’s right, The Boss is coming to town! With a forty year career already behind him, Springsteen is unreservedly adored and respected by fans and critics alike and he and his long time backing group, The E Street Band are famed for their high octane, three hour plus shows.

Not merely a safe pair of hands to christen our new arena, but a guarantee of a live experience like no other.

The actual official opening is still in September and the honour of playing that show has gone to Sir Elton John, whose hip credentials were recently bolstered by an appearance on the latest Queens of the Stone Age album. Also in September, we have the magnificent Leonard Cohen to look forward to, another hugely impressive booking. The arena is sure to offer something for everyone and, casting an eye over the upcoming listings, it can appear something of a mixed bag (Nickelback? Really?).

But with The Boss kicking off proceedings the standard is set particularly high and it’s clear that Leeds Arena will attract the most prestigious acts the world has to offer.

It’s certainly been a long time coming. For too long we have missed out on big name acts that have bypassed Leeds en route to other cities with the venues to accommodate them.

The arena’s opening represents the slotting into place of a piece of the puzzle that has hither to been missing.

Finally we have a purpose built, state of the art facility that can more than hold its own against similar venues the world over.

The 13,500 capacity arena boasts

With The Boss kicking off proceedings the standard is set particularly high and it’s clear that Leeds Arena will attract the most prestigious acts the world has to offer

world class acoustics and features a fan-shaped seating structure which ensures that each seat is focussed on the centre of the stage. There’s not a bad seat in the house and the bowl is designed so that, even at the furthest point from the stage, you’re never more than 60 metres away from the action – in similar venues that distance can be up to 130 metres.

We were treated to an arena tour recently and found the space, whilst vast, not overwhelmingly so. The generous performance area is capable of housing stage sets of epic scale but the distance from the seating is surprisingly short.

Should the stage area need to be expanded, the seating up to the first tier can be retracted to create more floor space – handy for heavy rock acts who require a sizable mosh pit.

I remember when construction began considering the designated site too compact and thinking surely there’s no way they could fit an arena in that space. As the raked seating went up it looked like it would be far to steep and I feared that those seated up in the gods would be gazing down on the stage from virtually a vertical perspective. But, venturing into the upper echelons, it became clear this isn’t the case. The interior is laid out so each seat provides a clear and comfortable view of the stage.

User-friendliness seems

to have been key in the design and there are ample access points on each level to prevent excessive crowding.

A common gripe about arenas or stadiums is that, especially in the case of music gigs, the vast, cavernous venues usually deliver a cacophonous, rather soulless experience. With Leeds Arena care seems to have been taken to ensure, if not exactly intimacy, then at least the highest degree of connectivity between audience and performer. The building’s exterior honeycomb structure even incorporates lighting design which changes colour to reflect the mood of each event, a nice touch.

Of the 140 events to take place in the next year, many will be

World class acoustics and its fan-shaped seating ensures there’s not a bad seat in the house

musical acts, but the versatile stage is also suitable for comedy, theatrical productions (Cirque du Soleil is slated to appear), national conferences and even some sporting events – well, WWE wrestling fans will be catered for.

During our tour we were also treated to a few fun facts. For instance, the portcullis loading entrance at the back of the stage has the same dimensions as the gateway to the T-Rex enclosure in Jurassic Park. The main front entranceway has been affectionately nicknamed ‘Vader’s Mouth’ for its striking trapezoid shape. In the arena’s first year, it’s predicted that the concession stands will sell one million hot dogs. That’s enough frankfurters to comfortably reach one and a half times around the inner ring road if laid end to end.

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BYZANTIUM DIRECTED BY: NEIL JORDAN STARRING: GEMMA ARTERTON, SAOIRSE RONAN, CALEB LANDRY JONES, SAM RILEY, JONNY LEE MILLER, DANIEL MAYS CERT: 15 - RUNNING TIME: 118 MINS Buffy, Twilight, Blade, True Blood – with such a glut of bloodsuckers hurled in our direction over the last several years, the whole world should be suffering from vampire fatigue by now. Surely the un-dead have been done to death.

Not so, it seems. Byzantium suggests there’s life in the old genre yet and reinforces the standing of the vampire as a potent and enduringly fascinating creature in our collective consciousness.

Neil Jordan’s grubby, grimy neo-gothic tale is a brilliantly shot, deeply atmospheric picture with a compelling narrative and the most interesting take on the vampire theme since the wonderful ‘Let the Right One In’.

Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan play mother and daughter Clara and Eleanor, a pair of centuries-old vampires eking out a grim and desolate existence in inner-city London. The ruthlessly resourceful Clara provides for her daughter by working as a prostitute and, at roughly two hundred years of age must be one of the oldest operatives in the world’s oldest profession. The action kicks off when Clara is tracked down in a lap-dancing club by a mysterious stranger and, after a foot chase, dispatches her assailant in spectacularly bloody fashion.

Clara and Eleanor promptly flee the scene, pitching up in a dilapidated seaside town. While

looking to ply her wares amongst the fairground rides, Clara encounters the lonely, guileless Noel who takes the women in. Clara wastes little time turning his recently deceased mother’s guest house into a brothel.

The more sensitive, kind-hearted Eleanor is disgusted by her mother’s methods and spends much of her

Favouring gritty realism over the more fantastical trappings of the genre, Byzantium just about manages to sidestep the usual hoary old vampire clichés focussing instead on the existential crises, which are part and parcel of the burden of eternal life

time in solitude recalling her life so far, writing her story and casting the pages to the winds. With a surprisingly humane approach to her blood-based diet, Eleanor chooses only to feed from those at the end of their lives, essentially providing a kind of vampire-assisted euthanasia for the old and infirm.

After forming a friendship with the sickly Frank, Eleanor finds herself inclined to reveal her secret while those in pursuit of her and Clara close in.

Neil Jordan has previous form with this kind of material but Byzantium eschews the high camp of his Interview with the Vampire or The Company of Wolves. After an uncertain start the plot becomes more engrossing as the women’s story is revealed in flashback.

Favouring gritty realism over the more fantastical trappings of the genre, Byzantium just about manages to sidestep the usual hoary old vampire clichés focussing instead on the existential crises, which are part and parcel of the burden of eternal life.

I mentioned ‘Let the Right One In’ earlier - Byzantium is very similar in style and tone. Admirers of Tomas Alfredson’s beguiling and moving film will find much to appreciate here.

I’m not sure if this is a brand spanking new release or not, but it’s new to me and it’s good and it’s local so here you have it.

I came upon these fellows playing a support slot recently and, while the performance may have been a little rough around the edges and a tad wet behind the ears, the songs were definitely there with solid riffs and attention grabbing hooks.

As for this EP, the recording retains a pleasing lo-fi, DIY quality and boasts eyebrow-raising rhythmic shapeshifting and a nice bit of clatter and twang. The first track, ‘Drive Around Him’, opens by coaxing the listener with a halting intro riff before shifting gear and hitting its stride and barrelling along, while driving its catchy vocal refrain into your brain.

The vintage garagey vibe is cemented by a freewheeling guitar solo with just enough scuzziness. Succinct, too, clearly making its point in just over a couple of minutes.

‘I Don’t Know’ leads in with a lurching, almost menacing bass riff before that grinding, fuzzy, buzzy guitar falls in. Then it all goes a bit mental with a little swirling psych freak out that comes out of nowhere. Then just as quickly we ease back into the main riff and, again, we’re all done before the three minute mark.

‘Alice’ combines a spacey groove with swelling vocal harmonies and this time it does seem a little too brief, the breakdown to the rumbling bass mid way through seems to hint at a more prolonged and exploratory jam but short and sweet seems to be this band’s M.O. Never more so than on the last track, ‘Oh You’. At a scant 1 minute 30 it’s a languid, reverb-heavy, hazy strum-along.

It’s really quite lovely and before you know it, it’s over.

Low-key, unpretentious and unassuming, this EP certainly doesn’t demand a great deal of your time but it’s time well spent. I reckon with a few more gigs under their belt Jonny Quits could quickly develop into a formidable live act and with songs of this kind of duration they could probably pack a double album’s worth of material into a half hour set.

A band to keep an eye out for, then. And that’s Jonny Quits. Let’s hope they don’t.

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The festival season is already underway. Here’s a quick guide to some of those coming up right on our doorstep.

and this year’s event boasts an absolutely cracking line-up but still remains reasonably small scale. Basement Jaxx, The Charlatans, Seasick Steve, Johnny Marr and Public Enemy, to name but a few, will be bringing the noise.

Beat Herder 5 – 7 July

With only 250 tickets available, Fell Foot Sound is a particularly intimate festival held on a beautiful site overlooking Lake Windermere.

Curated by British Wildlife Records, the festival offers an intriguing selection of left-field and experimental acts such as Quack Quack, Juffage, Mucky Sailor, That F**king Tank and others.

Those who like their beats big and their festivals dance orientated may wish to venture across the Pennines to Beat-Herder in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley. With a number of smaller stages, this festival has a varied line-up that encompasses the entire dance music spectrum. Big acts this year include Groove Armada, Jimmy Cliff, Jaguar Skills and Chic featuring Nile Rogers.

Beacons 16-18 August From its humble beginnings as Moorfest, Beacons has evolved into a fairly formidable fixture on the festival calendar.

Taking place at Heslaker Farm just outside Skipton, this year’s line up includes Django Django, Local Natives, Stealing Sheep and currently blowing up local lads, Hookworms to name but a few.

Deer Shed 19-21 July If you have little ones, this family-friendly festival held at Baldersby Park, Topcliffe, North Yorks could be just the ticket. Billing itself as a Music, arts and science festival, Deer Shed has a number of exciting workshops and activities alongside an impressive line-up including Edwin Collins, Public Service Broadcasting, Gaz Coombes, Darwin Deez and more.

Tramlines 19-21 July No camping required at this inner-city music festival over in Sheffield. Not dissimilar to our own Live at Leeds, Tramlines features a great selection of both established and up and coming acts at various

Fell Foot Sound 26 – 28 July

venues across the city. This year punters can look forward to seeing the likes of Lianne La Havas, The Selecter, The Jim Jones Revue, ALASKA, Veronica Falls and New Young Pony Club among others.

Kendal Calling 26 – 28 July This highly regarded, awardwinning, independent festival in the Lake District continues to go from strength to strength

Bingley Live 30 August – 1 September

Leeds band ALASKA plays Tramlines

Over the last few years this small festival has proved itself capable of attracting high profile headliners and this year is no different. Nile Rogers & Chic, Primal Scream, The Cribs, The Human League and The Frattellis will all be gracing the Bingley stage this summer.

MUSICLISTINGS Jonathan Wilson Mon1 July, Brudenell Social Club, £10. Warm, supple melodies etched in layers of stringed instruments & willowy organ motifs accompanied by North Carolinian drawl.

H2O Tue 2 July, Brudenell Social Club, £12.Melodic hardcore/punk band from New York City.

It Bar 57 New Briggate Wed - Acoustic Sessions; Thurs - A Funk from Outer Space with MJazz: Sun – Open Mic Night, anything goes Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Wed 3 July, Brudenell Social Club, £15. New York Hip-Hop collective combining brass, jazz, Afropop, hip-hop, funk, soul and R&B. Jamie Taylor & Outside Line + North Leeds Jazz Orchestra Thurs 4 July at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. Concert celebrating life of guitarist Colin Watson who died last year.

P***ed Jeans/Hookworms Thurs 4 July, Brudenell Social Club, £10. For fans of Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips, Bardo Pond.

Steel Threads Fri 5 July, The Cross Keys,Free. English ‘Power-Folk’ band, blending their love of Rock, Folk &Acoustic music Joe Tatton Trio Fri 5 Julyat Cafe Lento, North Lane, Headingley. 8pm. £5 The Ukrainians Fri 5 July, Brudenell Social Club, £10.

Only major exponent of fusion of traditional Ukrainian & Western music.

Whole Lotta Led Fri 5 July, The Wardrobe, £13.One of the biggest tribute acts in the UK & an established, professional Led Zeppelin tribute band. astonishing level of musicianship

The Biscuit Badgers Sat 6 July The Fox & Newt, Burley St LS3.

Celebrating launch of video Soy Milk! With Raphael Attar www. biscuithead.co.uk Seven Unplugged monthly acoustic music night, Seven Arts, Harrogate Rd. Chapel Allerton. Wed 10 July 7.45pm: Americana night with The Bean Train Gang, Backyard Burners, Traveller & more. £5/£4. It’s going to be a belter!

The Despoilers Fri 19 July at The Old Ball, Horsforth Garforth Festival: Playground Party Sat 6 July, Garforth Academy, 2:30pm, £22.

Featuring: Bellowhead, Kate Rusby, Ruby Turner, Lau. Fusion Sat 6 July, Otley Courthouse, £8-£10. Multiinstrumentalist band delivering mix of jazz, folk, flamenco & world music with a staggering range of instruments.

The Temperance Movement Sat 6 July, Brudenell Social Club, £7. Five piece bluesdrenched, soulful, loud & explosive rock & roll band.

Mestisa Sat 6 July, HEART, Bennett Rd. Headingley. £6.Traditional & popular music from Latin America; ranging from romantic Boleros & Peruvian marineras, to lively Bolivian huaynos.

Jazz Café & Jam Session Sun 7 July, 1 – 4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, featuring Seven Jazz workshop band & Seven Jazz choir.

Ultramagnetic MCs Tue 9 July, Brudenell Social Club, £16.

American hip hop group based in Bronx, NY, founded by Kool Keith.

Martin Stephenson Wed 10 July, Brudenell Social Club.

Outstanding singer/ songwriter formerly of The Daintees.

Nils Frahm Wed 10 July, Howard Assembly Room, £12.50.Stunning pianist &

composer from Berlin.

Kendrick Lamar Wed 10 July, O2 Academy, £25. Dr Dre endorsed, up & coming West Coast rapper, compared to the likes of Tupac, Eminem, Nas, & Jay-Z. Dinosaur Pile-Up Wed 10 July, Brudenell Social Club, £7. Expect heavy riffs & yelps aplenty from this Leeds rock three-piece.

Modest Mouse Fri 12 July, Leeds University Union, £17.50. Regarded as saviours of American post-grunge, MM creates an eccentric cocktail of distorted guitars, disjointed rhythms & haunting vocals from infamous lead singer Isaac Brock.

Cocoon in The Park Sat 13 July, Temple Newsam, from 10am, £45. Cocoon founder & Godfather of Techno, Sven Vath headlines with support from Richie Hawtin, Riccardo Villalobos & Craig Richards.

Pigbag Sat 13 July, Brudenell Social Club, £12.50. Legendary British post-punk band perhaps best know for ‘Papa’s Got A Brand New Pig Bag’. Support from Copasetics playing ska influenced punk with an agenda.

Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer Sat 13 July, The Wardrobe, £10. Introduce hip-hop to the Queen’s English, Mr. B is delighted to present Chap-Hop. Will Powell’s ‘Short Stories’ + The Dominic Moore Group Sun 14 July 1 – 4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. Two top local jazz groups.

Jurassic 5 Tue 16 July, O2 Academy, £25. American alternative hip hop group featuring rappers Chali 2na, Akil, Zaakir, Mark 7even & DJs Nu-Mark & Cut Chemist Pelican + JK Goldflesh Tues 16 July, Brudenell Social Club.

Post-metal band from Chicago £14.50 from Jumbo.

Josh Record Wed 17 July, Nation Of Shopkeepers, free. Brixton-based singer/ songwriter, a unique talent whose star is on the ascent.

IntroducingLive Recreate ‘Discovery’ Fri 19 July, Brudenell Social Club, £10.

Take a classic electronic album & recreate it with a live band.

Tonight they bring Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ to life!

Dread Supreme Sun 21 July 1 – 4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, with Richard Ormrod – John Coltrane given the dub treatment!

The Thermals Mon 22 July, Brudenell Social Club, £9.

Distorted guitars, drums, bass & vocals all collide into perfect distorted pop songs.

B & B+Jennifer Jordan+Peter Marshall +Lomos Tues 23 July, Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. Musical Comedy 8pm. £10.

Emily’s Army Wed 24 July, The Cockpit, £6. Punk rock band from Oakland, California.

Influenced by classic power pop, & garage rock.

Leeds Bluegrass Club Thurs 25 July from 8.30pm, Grove Inn, Back Row, Holbeck. Live Americana Roots/ Bluegrass/ Country. Resident bands + guests Picking sessions.

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Six By Seven Sun 28 July, Brudenell Social Club, £10.

Atmospheric rock influenced by the likes of My Bloody Valentine and Spaceman 3.

‘Somethin’ Else’ with Brendan Duffy + Band Sun 28 July, 1 – 4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton.

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After the fantastic success of the first Otley Cycling Festival last year, Otley Cycling Club is expecting to double attendance at this year’s festival on Sunday 14th July.

The day will feature eight different cycle rides, ranging from a five-mile cycle path ride to an 80 mile road ride. All are free to enter – so there’s no excuse to stay home! Each ride will have a ride leader, assisted by a rear marker to ensure the group remains together. So whether or not you’re an experienced rider, the club would love to see you there.

Following the rides there will be plenty of fun, food and drink at Weston Lane Football Club. The Whitakers Arms will be providing refreshments.

The day will feature eight different cycle rides

This year there will also be lots of children’s activities, an Otley Lions plate smashing stall, roller racing and much more (most activities will run 2 – 5pm).

Otley Cycling Club would like to thank Otley Town Council and Chevin Cycles for their generous sponsorship, without which the festival wouldn’t be possible.

For more information visit www.otleycycleclub.co.uk/ festival or their Facebook page or follow them on Twitter @OtleyCycleFest

ECCUP 10 CELEBRATES 20TH YEAR! Abbey Runners are putting the final touches to their preparations for the Ring Automotive Eccup 10 road race, which takes place on Sunday 7th July, starting from Adel War Memorial Association on Church Lane, Adel.

The Eccup 10, now in its 20th year, takes a scenic route around country lanes and closed roads in Adel and Alwoodley, and around Eccup reservoir. Junior races and a Family Fun Run are also scheduled and registration is open right up to race day.

“Last year the race attracted a record turnout on one of the sunniest days of the year”, said Martin Browne, Race Director. “Although we can’t guarantee sun, we can promise another enjoyable race, stunning scenery and a quality T-shirt to all our finishers.”

It isn’t just athletes who enjoy the benefits of the Eccup 10. “Over its 20 year history, we have donated over £30,000 to local charities”, Jim Whittaker, Treasurer of Abbey Runners, told us. “Plus many participants raise money for their own charities. This year we are supporting Wheatfields Hospice and Hollybank Trust.”

The Eccup 10 is part of the Leeds Athletics Network Race Series, comprising 18 races between one and ten miles, as well as the 10 mile Championships for both the Yorkshire County Athletics Association and the Yorkshire Vets Athletics Association.

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There was another large turnout for the popular Apperley Bridge Canter on Thursday 23rd May, organised by Horsforth Harriers.

Horsforth Harriers’ next race will be on 29th September

The 2013 race saw victory for Woodhouse Grove School, the host location of the race since its inception. Phillip Tedd, Woodhouse Grove’s Director of Music, romped home in 33:06, almost two minutes ahead of second place finisher Joe Baxter (34:56), with Saltaire Striders’ Simon Pass in third place (35:12).

Finishing fourth in 35:34 was Mark Smith, who was running in Horsforth colours for the first time. The ladies race was won by Aiveen Fox in 38:22, also making her Horsforth racing debut. Mark and Aiveen both recently joined the club after moving to the area. Aiveen was also ladies winner of the Guiseley Gallop on Easter Sunday, as well as ladies runner up at the Leeds Half Marathon.

Second in the ladies race was former winner Donna Edmondson Booker of Idle AC (38:58) with Stainland Lions’ Lucy Thompson in third place (39:14).

H o r s fo r t h Harriers’ next race from Woodhouse Grove School will be on 29th September when they host the annual Horsforth 10K, the road race alternative to the Apperley Bridge Canter.

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hen Matthew Lewis, best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films, recently visited the Thackray Museum’s new Magic of Medicine exhibition he was fascinated by the links between the history of magic and medicine, and how medical notions and magical potions still complement each other in modern-day practice.

“It’s one of my favourite museums”, said Matthew. “I was amazed at how fascinated the children were by the element of magic in medicine and healthcare.”

The Museum’s year-long magic project explores the timeless association between bedpans and broomsticks, helping to dispel fears that the story of medicine is just gory or scary. In addition to the Magic and Medicine exhibition, the museum is hosting Harry Potter’s World, a travelling display from the National Library of Medicine in the USA. Visitors will learn how historic medical resources from the history of medicine have been woven into the magic of J.K Rowling’s much

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Young footballers at Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School are celebrating a season of glittering prizes after winning six trophies!

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“The future looks bright for this very gifted young squad”, said team coach, Philip Teggart. “The boys showed impressively high levels of commitment throughout the season. Everyone at Cardinal Heenan is very proud of them.’’

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The National Media Museum, Bradford, has partnered with Seven Stories National Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle on a family exhibition.

‘Moving Stories: Children’s Books from Page to Screen’ explores the process of adapting children’s books to film and television and runs from 12th July – 6th October.

The exhibition draws on both organisations’ knowledge and experience to explore the creative processes behind adapting some of the best loved children’s books and stories. “This is an exciting exhibition for all the family about how and why books inspire so many great films and television programmes”, said Claire Hampton from the National Media Museum. “’Moving Stories’, designed with families in mind, is interactive and bursting with wonderful stories, intriguing objects, and fun.”

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CBBC, in collaboration with BBC North and Leeds City Council, is coming to Millennium Square in Leeds from 25th – 27th July for a live weekend of events.

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THE FROEBELIAN GETS WIRED! The Froebelian School in Horsforth was recently a hive of creative activity as the brilliant wire sculptor Christine Moss conducted an art project entitled ‘Get Wired!’

The children made wire butterflies, brightly coloured leaves, insects and birds, all of which formed part of a large wire tree. Younger children made brightly coloured tiles, which became part of a large mural. Both of these are now proudly on show in the school’s newly refurbished library.

Sustrans, the sustainable transport charity, is working within Horsforth School on the Access to Education Programme, which aims to deliver a series of activities and events to encourage young people and their families to walk, cycle and use public transport more often.

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Horsforth Museum Guided Walk Sat 13 July, 11am from Corn Mill House, Troy Rd. Approx 6 miles through North Horsforth with short break for lunch. £1 per person.

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Coffee Morning with toasted teacakes, 10.30am 1st Sat of month, West Park United Reformed Church. Proceeds to Caring For Life, Cookridge.

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Great Charity Book Giveaway Sat 13 July,10am - 4pm at Immaculate Heart Church Hall, 294 Harrogate Rd, LS17. Admission is by donation, then choose your free books from a selection of over 2000! In aid of Sunshine & Smiles Leeds Down Syndrome Network.

Headingley Farmers’ Market 2nd Sat of month, The Rose Garden in front of The Arc, North Lane. 9am – 12.30pm.

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Indoor Car Boot Sale Sat 20 July, 10am – 1pm, St Gemma’s Hospice, 329 Harrogate Rd, Moortown. Entry by donation. Details: Jenny Dixon 218 5565, jennyd@st-gemma.co.uk Meanwood WI Cream Tea Sat 20 July, 2 – 4pm Meanwood Parochial Hall, Church Lane. In aid of Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Lots of yummy cakes plus stalls & raffle. Adm £3 (includes cake & a drink).

St Gemma’s Garden Party Sun 14 July 12 – 4pm at the Hospice on Harrogate Rd. Moortown. Fun & games for all ages, huge variety of stalls, live entertainment, international cuisine & BBQ, licensed bar & Pimm’s tent. Donations welcome for fundraising stalls. Please leave at Main Reception. Details: 218 5570, michelleb@st-gemma.co.uk Summer Fair Sat 29 June, 10am – 1pm Headingley Methodist Church Hall, Chapel St. Jewellery, plants, books, bric-a-brac, Traidcraft, homemade cakes, tombola & raffle.

208 Squadron (North Leeds) Air Training Corps Summer Fayre Sat 6 July 11.30am – 4pm, Towerhurst HQ, Oakwood Lane (100 yards from Library). Drill displays, art, craft & food stalls, children’s games & activities, BBQ, live music. Lord Mayor attending. All welcome. Entry: £2/ £1. Details: 2661184

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GROUPS/CLUBS Adel Bridge Club meets Fri, 7.15pm Adel Memorial Hall, Church Lane.

Relaxed Chicago Bridge club. New members all abilities welcome. No partner needed. Details: Janice 230 6387 or 07713 402405 Adel Crag Community Assoc. keeps you informed about what is happening in your neighbourhood Up-to-date information on local news, events etc. Details: Francis Garbutt 261 0846, www.adelcrag. org.com Adel & District Horticultural Society Autumn Flower & Vegetable Show Sat 31 Aug, 2 - 4.15pm, Methodist Church Hall, Holt Lane.

Entries from non-members welcome.

Details of classes from Mrs S Halliday, 267 1708. Society meets 2nd Mon (Sept – May), 7.45pm Friends Meeting House, New Adel Lane. New members welcome.

Details: Mrs Tarn Everett, 2613095 Air Yorkshire Aviation Society Interested in aviation, aircraft old & new, airports? Regular guest speakers, trips & social events.

Details: Dave Senior 282 1818, www.airyorkshire.org.uk Bramhope in Bloom Awarded ‘Silver Gilt’ 2012. New projects planned. Volunteers most welcome.

Details: Kit Hemsley 203 7666, kit. hemsley@working-it.co.uk.

Bramhope Bridge Club meets Mon 1pm, & Tues & Thurs 7pm, Robert

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Craven Memorial Hall, Old Lane.

Friendly duplicate bridge sessions.

New members welcome. Details: Leslie Brown 250 2378

supervision of Parks & Countryside Ranger. Meet 10am in main car park, Otley Rd. Tools & hot drinks provided.

Cookridge Amateur Dramatic Society Wants you to come & join them! Open Evenings Wed 26 June & Wed 24 July, 8pm at Cookridge Village Hall, Moseley Wood Lane, LS16. New members needed for both on & back stage.

Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery Members’ Event Sat 20 July, 3pm.

A walk ‘Legal Leeds’ led by Andrea Hetherington, lawyer & previous Chair, followed by afternoon tea in the Garden Room, Friends Meeting House, New Adel Lane.

Cookridge Camera Club meets Wed 7.30pm in Cookridge Village Hall.

Learning sessions, visiting speakers & competitions. New members welcome. Details: Richard 230 1853, cookridgecameraclub.co.uk

Friends of Leeds City Museums raise funds to finance acquisitions for Leeds’ museums, through range of exciting trips & social events. New members welcome. Details: 269 3899, jspearsonster@gmail.com

Cookridge Methodist Community Film Society Enrolling now for new season Oct – April. 7 films @ £20 or 5 films @£17. Shown on giant screen in Church Hall. Details: Shirley 267 2464

Greenpeace Leeds meet 1st Mon of month, 6.30pm Wharf Chambers, Wharf St, LS2. Join the growing action to protect our forests, oceans & stop climate chaos. Details: Joe 07929 610773, www.greenpeace. org.uk/groups

Cookridge Gardening Club Sun 30 June - coach outing to Tatton Park & Gardens. Call Katherine Hill 267 1858 for availability. Remember to prepare for Annual Sept Show.

Photography classes are wheels, Interesting lines, seed heads, rocks/ pebbles, Cookridge landscape.

Cookridge & Horsforth U3A meets Mon 1 July, 10.30am at Cookridge Village Hall. Details: 07876 562686, u3asites.org.uk/Cookridge Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery Action Days 1st Sat each month to help tidy the cemetery. Under

Headingley Games Club Thurs 6.30 – 10.30pm at HEART, Bennett Rd. Board games: Settlers, Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, mst Euro-games, etc. Tabletop games: 40k, Hordes, Flames of War, War machine & Role Playing Games. Details: 275 9762, http://headingleygamesclub.com Holt Park Tenants & Residents Association Provides a voice for residents & tenants in Holt Park area. Regular monthly meetings at Ralph Thoresby School. Details: Alan Mann 07901 656886, www. holtparktra.btck.co.uk

Horsforth in Bloom meet Sat 6 July, 10am in Horsforth Museum. Helpers always needed to keep Horsforth looking beautiful! Litter Pick Sun 30 June, 2pm. Summer Judging Thurs 4 July. Details: 258 3521 Horsforth Cemetery Needs Volunteers! Friendly group would love some new members. Meet inside gates of Horsforth Cemetery (adjacent to Park Lane College) Calverley Lane, 1st Sat, 10am – 12 noon. Details: 07960 221417 Horsforth Duplicate Bridge Club Weds 7.15pm & Thurs 1.15–4.30pm The Horsforth Club, New Road Side.

New members welcome. Details: Mike Bent 258 1580 Horsforth Museum Family History Meeting Sat 29 June & 27 July, 2pm in Stanhope Room. For beginners wishing to start researching their ancestors. All welcome. £2.

Horsforth Retired People’s Club meets 2nd & 4th Thurs, 9.30 – 11am St Margaret’s Parish Centre.

Speakers & time to socialise. Visitors & new members welcome. Details: Everett Cooke 258 9149, Beryl Harland 258 6907 Human Writes in Leeds (HWIL) meets Fri 26 July, 1.30pm in café of West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Participants bring short pieces of their own writing for discussion.

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60 Kaleidoscope Social Club for over 50s & unattached with zest for life.

Monthly programme of events. Not a dating agency. Details: 262 1455 or 261 2619, www.kaleidoscopeleeds. weebly.com Leeds Cat Rescue is run by a group of cat loving volunteers who rehabilitate & do whatever they can for lost, neglected & forgotten cats & kittens. If you can offer a loving home for one of them, please contact them. Details: 268 0488, leedscatrescue@googlemail.com, www.leedscatrescue.btck.co.uk Lawnswood Bridge Club Tues 1pm Lawnswood YMCA. Small friendly club playing Chicago. New members with partner welcome. Details: 285 2522 Leeds Caledonians Join them for enjoyable outdoor summer activities – bowling match, BBQ. Details: 267 0424, www.leedscaledonians.org.uk Leeds Hospital Alert Small group campaigning for preservation of the NHS. Meets Muir Court, St Michael’s Rd. LS6. Upcoming meeting Wed 24 July & Thurs 29 Aug. Details: Beatrice Rogers 278 5495, info@ leedshospitalalert.org.uk Leeds Microscopical Society can help anyone interested in using a microscope. Details: Mike Smith 293 5991, leedsmicroscopical.org.uk Leeds Movie Makers Get more out of your camcorder & film making.

Stainbeck United Reformed Church Hall, Stainbeck Lane (rear entrance), Fri 7:30pm. Details: George Woolley 225 6444, Doreen Wood 278 2972.

Leeds Oxfam Group campaigns on issues of interest to everyone concerned about global justice.

Volunteers needed to fill interesting roles. Details: www.oxfamleeds.org. uk/, or Facebook Leeds Photographic Society meets alt Tues, 7.30pm St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Pk Rd LS8.

New members of all ages & abilities welcome. Details: www.lps1852. co.uk Leeds Skyrack Lions Club meets 2nd & 4th Thurs, 7.45pm New Headingley Club, 56 St Michael’s Rd. Headingley. New members & helpers welcome. Help needy of Leeds & create new friendships.

Details: 01943 510106, Granville. barker@sky.com, www.105c.org.uk/ leedsskyrack Let’s Go LEEDS! Free, volunteer-run social group organising variety of events in North Leeds & city centre.

All ages & friendly people welcome.

Details; www.lets-go-leeds.co.uk Mah Jong Thurs 10am – 12noon Robert Craven Memorial Hall. Lively, Chinese game played with small tiles. Happy, friendly group. No experience necessary. Details: Jenny 230 0094 National Trust Leeds Association meets throughout the year. Summer

programme now underway. Join your local branch. Details: Pam 258 8178

chrisjdenton@gmail.com To book choir: Jan Wilkinson 01943 461318

North Leeds Model Flying Club New members welcome. Building or flying, plenty of friendly advice.

Regular meetings Horsforth or airfield at Almscliff Crag. Details: 217 8348, www.nlmfc.org

Cookridge Primary Intergenerational Choir A choir of children & older members of the community - meets Tues 1212.30pm & Thurs 3.10 - 3.45pm.

Sings mixture of modern & traditional songs. Currently looking for more adults! Details: Debbie Fletcher 386 2500

Otley & Wharfedale MacMillan Cancer Support Fundraising Group meets monthly to plan events. New members welcome. Details or to book speaker: 261 3758/ 01943 467299 Paxton Horticultural Society Summer Show Sat 6 July, Paxton Hall, 186 Kirkstall Lane, LS5 2AB. Open to public 2 – 4.30pm. Adm free. Schedules from Graham Wheatley 256 3055 or website.

The Fairfax Singers rehearse Tues pm in Burley in Wharfedale.

Vacancies for singers in all categories. For auditions (12 Aug & 10 Sept), call 01943 877464 or 01274597024. The choir sings to raise funds for charities, weddings & corporate events. Now taking bookings for 2014. Details: 01274 597024, www.fairfaxsingers.org.uk

Robert Craven Bridge Club meets Fri, 7 – 10pm, Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Old Lane, Bramhope.

New members welcome. Tuition available for at least four players if required. Details: Ewart 267 8001

Horsforth Choral Society Fri 19 July, 7.30m in St Margaret’s Hall. Café style concert including Mozart ‘Ave Verum’ & selection of Gilbert & Sullivan. Details: info@ horsforthchoralsociety.co.uk

Royal Park Community Consortium meets regularly.

Details: Sue 07796 784018, Paul 07962 255621, huayhuash@rock. com

Horsforth Leeds City Brass Band Friendly, community band welcomes new players. Rehearsals: Mon 7.30 – 9.30pm Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth. Details: Hannah Rowlands 250 0208, Betty Emberton 267 6529

Social Events Club Meals, pub nights, theatre/film/music, walks, badminton, book group, weekends away, holidays & more. Mainly over 30s. Details: www.leedsivc.org.uk The Other Bridge Club Friendly bridge played Thurs 7.15 – 10.15pm Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Bramhope. New members welcome.

Details: Sandra 01943 463332 Trackrod Motor Club Meets 1st Tues, 9.30pm Old Modernians Club, Cookridge Lane. New Members welcome. Details: www. trackrodmotorclub.co.uk West Yorkshire Fuchsia Society meets 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Moorside Tenants & Residents Community Centre, St Catherine’s Dr. Bramley, LS13. Learn about growing this delightful flower & exhibiting at gardening shows. Details: Graham Wheatley 256 3055, Sid Tagger 268 7868 MUSIC ‘Autumn Leaves & Stormy Weather’ Sun 7 July, 3pm in St Mary’s Church, Broadgate Lane, Horsforth. A concert by Leeds Guild of Singers. Tickets £5 on door in aid of Cancer Research.

Bell Ringing at St Chad’s Thurs 7.30 – 9pm. Beginners & experienced ringers welcome.

Details: Simon Futers 230 0186, t.s.futers@leeds.ac.uk Chippendale Singers Mixed voice choir, meets Wed, 7.45 – 9.30pm Methodist Church, Boroughgate, Otley. Folk songs, spirituals & songs from shows. Vacancies for male singers (music readers essential).

Details: Chris Denton 284 3744

Lawnswood Singers Female choir, practices Wed 7.30pm Holy Trinity Church, Green Lane, Cookridge.

Good female singers welcome. Wide repertoire, friendly people! Details: Brenda Hawer 267 1292, www. lawnswoodsingers.co.uk Leeds Guild of Singers Welcomes new members, especially tenors & basses. Confident sight-readers.

Singing renaissance & contemporary music. Rehearsals Tues 7.30 – 9.30pm Leeds University. Details: Liz secretary@leedsguildofsingers. org.uk Moor Voices Wed fortnightly, 7.30 – 9pm, Old Tetley Hall, Headingley.

Informal singing group. Beautiful harmonies from around the world.

No auditions. Details: 278 3120, airasa.ms@gmail.com Phoenix Concert Band Community concert band for players Grade 6 & over. Rehearsals Thurs 7.30 – 9.30pm The Grammar School at Leeds. Details: secretary@ phoenixband.co.uk, www. phoenixband.co.uk Players for Pleasure Playing opportunities to adult amateur musicians. All levels, all instruments, over 18s. Friendly, informal & supportive atmosphere. Details: www.playersforpleasure.co.uk Society of Recorder Players – meets 2nd & 4th Sat pm in Bingley & Headingley. Intermediate players, all recorders. New members welcome. Details: Caroline 01943 467348

West Riding Opera Vacancies for chorus members to participate in concerts. All voice ranges welcome, no audition. Details: 01274 595978, davewb8@sky.com The White Rosettes Female barbershop chorus, 12 x national champions, rehearse Wed 7.30 – 10pm Moorlands School, Foxhill Dr, Weetwood Lane, LS16. Details: Jan Spencer 07852 210640, membership@whiterosettes.org.uk Yorkshire Late Starter Strings (YLSS) rehearse Sat, 10am – 12.30pm. Friendly, informal orchestra of adult learners. All abilities welcome. Specific beginners group. Details: www.ylss.org Yorkshire Clarinet Ensemble Rehearses alt Wed, 8 – 9.45pm (term time) at HEART, Bennett Rd, Headingley. For players Grade 5+ standard. New players welcome.

Details: Deborah Pennington 07910 414586, mpenn.dpenn@ntlworld. com SENIORS Cookridge Luncheon Club meets Wed, 12 – 1.30pm Cookridge Methodist Church, Tinshill Rd. Hot meal for just £4. Good food, good company. Details: Liz 261 0675 Craft Club Thurs, 2.15 – 4pm Stainbeck Church, Stainbeck Rd, LS7. Informal group for all crafting abilities. Join in group activities or bring your own. All welcome. Details: 393 0600, www.interact.uk.net Leeds & Bradford Friendship Group meets 1st Wed, 1.30pm Pudsey Civic Hall LS28 5TA. Speaker or entertainment. Activities for people of retirement age. Days out, dining, walks, etc. New members welcome. Details: 258 5955/ 267 5657 Lunch Club Mons & Weds 11am -1.30pm (£4). Stainbeck United Reformed Church, Stainbeck Rd. Meal, friendship, gentle exercise.

Transport provided. Volunteers welcome. Details: Avril or Brian 293 5847, Angela 225 3766 Luncheon Club meets 12 noon Tues Headingley Methodist Church Hall, Church St. Open to over 60s. New members welcome. Two course hot meal £4. Please book. Details: 275 5615, 275 1592 OWLS (Older Wiser Local Seniors) provides activities for seniors in Headingley, Burley, Little Woodhouse & parts of Kirkstall. Membership free to 60s or over. Details: 369 7077, infoowls@gmail.com St Chad’s Lunch Club Weds 12 - 1.30pm St Chad’s Parish Centre. Tasty 2-course meal & good company £4.50. Open to all of retirement age close to St Chad’s.

Transport provided. Details: Anne 274 9917, Claire 275 2917

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Sequence Tea Dances Mon 2 – 4pm, Bramhope Methodist Church Hall. Everyone welcome. Details: Marjorie 267 9802.

STEP (Supporting The Elderly People) Based at St Andrew’s Church, Butcher Hill LS16. Mon 1 – 3pm: Tea & Cakes with bingo & raffle; Tues 10 – 11am: Tai Chi Gentle Exercise; Thurs 10 – 11.30am: Drop in Group cuppa & chat; Thurs 11.30am – 1pm: Bingo & Lunch Club. Details: 275 7988, www.stepleeds.org.uk, step.2.step@ btconnect.com SPIRITUAL Adel Baptist Congregation Sunday services 10.30am Adel Primary School, Tile lane, LS16. Informal with mixture of contemporary & traditional songs. Also variety of daytime & evening groups. Details: 275 4989 Adel Methodist Church (corner Holt Lane/ Gainsborough Ave). Sunday Services 10.30am, incl Junior Church.

Bramhope Methodist Church Sundays Services: 10am Morning Worship. Prayer Breakfast 2nd Sun 8.30am. Alive@9 on 4th Sunday, 9am informal worship for young families. Evening Communion 4th Thurs 8pm. Morning Communion 2nd Tues. All welcome.

Catholic Churches Our Lady of Kirkstall Parish: Holy Name, Otley Old Rd (267 8257); Saint Mary’s, Broadgate Lane, Horsforth (258 2607); The Assumption, Spen Lane. Parish Priest: Fr PA Smythe, Assistant Priest: Fr BK Akpoigbe. www.ourladyofkirkstall.org.uk Christian Meditation Group Meets every other Tues, 7.30pm Trinity University College, Horsforth. Part of World Community for Christian Meditation. All welcome. Details: 258 3780, www.christianmeditation. org.uk Cookridge Methodist Church 10.30am Morning Worship. All ages welcome. Crèche facilities & refreshments. 1st Sun of month: Family Parade Service - informal, friendly worship for all ages.

DharmaMind Meditation & Discussion Thurs 7 – 9pm The Yoga Space, Meanwood. Side door, up stairs. Suitable for all. Suggested donation £3. Details: Tom 770 256 5336, team@dharmamind.net, www. dharmamind.net Fourth Way Philosophy Group Introduction to Fourth Way of GI Gurdjieff. Readings from ‘In Search of the Miraculous’. Meetings in Leeds & Otley. Free. Details: 07581 080667, rb@gurdjieff-leeds.com, www.gurdjieff-leeds.com

Free Lunchtime Guided Meditation Tues 12.30 – 1pm (term time) in Adel (2, 9, 16 July). Spaces limited.

To book go to Groups & Events at www.physishealth.co.uk & click Register Now. Details: Rachel 07946 071 672

Weds 10am Holy Communion. All Welcome. Details: 275 7885, www. holytrinitymeanwood.org.uk

FREE Workshops Sun 30 June, 10am – 4pm: ‘Awakening the Dreamer – Bringing Vision To Life’ at Weetwood Hall, Otley Rd. LS16.

Details & booking: 275 7727, leeds@uk.bkwsu.org

Kagyu Buddhist Group Tues, 7.30pm Friends Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, LS2. Dropin meditation class practising calm-abiding, reflective meditation suitable for all. £4. Details: 01282 841570, yorkshire@dechen.org, www.dechen.org

Happy 65th Birthday NHS! Sun 30 June, 3pm Headingley Methodist Church (opp Arndale Centre). Service of celebration & thanksgiving for the NHS. Tea & cakes after. Everyone welcome.

Hare Krishna Programme Tues 7 – 8.30pm Cardigan Centre, 145 Cardigan Rd. LS6. Mantra Meditation, Kirtana Yoga, Enchanting Music, Ecstatic Dancing, Discourses on Bhagavad Gita & great vegetarian food. All welcome. Details: 07726 688778, gouranga108@gmail.com Headingley St. Columba United Reformed Church 70 Headingley Lane. Sunday service 10.45am.

Details: www.headingley-urc.co.uk Holy Trinity Meanwood Sun 8.30am Said Holy Communion (call or see website for venue); 10am Sung Eucharist; 11.30am Gather (relaxed cafe style). 2nd

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Details: 275 7215, www.mvbc. org.uk Meditation & Modern Buddhism Classes Tue 7.30 - 9.30pm at Ratnasambhava Centre, 22 Wetherby Rd, Oakwood, LS8; Thurs 7.30 - 9.30pm at Yorkshire Dance, 3 St Peter’s Building, LS9. Details: 265 2188, info@ meditationinleeds.org, or www. meditationinleeds.org Our Lady of Lourdes Church 130 Cardigan Rd, LS6 Sunday Mass 8.45am; Fri Holy Hour with Mass 7pm. Details: 225 9751 www. dioceseofleeds.org.uk

Quaker Meeting for Worship & Children’s Meeting Sun 10.45am Quaker Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, LS2 www. leedsquakers.org.uk Raja Yoga Meditation Course Drop in Group Meditation Sun 78pm (ex 3rd Sun: 6.30-7.30pm).

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South Parade Baptist Church, North Lane, Headingley. Lively services Sundays 10.30am (+ Junior Church) & 6.30pm. All welcome.

St Augustine’s Church (Wrangthorn), Hyde Park Corner 10.30am Sunday services.

1st, 2nd & 4th Sundays Holy Communion, 3rd Sunday shorter family service. 6.30pm evening service. All Welcome.

St John the Baptist, Church Lane, Adel Sunday Services 8 & 10am, & 6.30pm. Also Wed 11am. All welcome.

St Luke’s Lutheran Church Alma Rd, Headingley. Worship Sun 10.30am, followed by refreshments. All welcome. Open Day Sat 30 June 10am.

St Michael & All Angels Headingley Parish Church Service times: Wed 10.30am Communion Service; Thurs 8am Communion Service; 2nd & 4th Sun 8am Communion Service; Sun Parish Communion 10am; Communion Service 12.30pm; Evensong 6.30pm. All welcome.

Details: www.st-michaelsheadingley.org.uk

St Paul’s Church, Raynel Drive LS16 Said Eucharist Sun 8am; Sung Eucharist 10am. 1st Sun – Family Eucharist with band.

3rd Sun – Kid’s Club. In Church Hall - Cubs: Tues 6.30 – 7.45pm (2676994); Rainbows: Thurs 5 – 6pm (07786 497378); Brownies: Thurs 6 – 7.30pm (2613730) Details: Revd Dr Ian J White 2673676, Revd Linda Ludkin 2301564 www. stpaulirelandwood.org.uk St Urban’s Catholic Church Grove Lane, LS6. Mass times: Sun 10.30am; Mon – Fri 9.15am; Tues Mass Rosary Benediction 7pm; Sat 11am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, 12noon Mass, 6pm (Sun Vigil). Details: 225 9751 www.dioceseofleeds. org.uk Serenity Circle meets Tues 7.30 – 9pm Horsforth Healing Centre, 58 Victoria Mt. Includes guided meditation. Focus on different aspect of spirituality each week.

Details: 2581126/ 07906 065694 West Park United Reformed Church, Spen Lane. Sunday Service 10.30am. Crèche for young children. Refreshments after service. All welcome.

SUPPORT Arthritis Care Leeds Branch meets 3rd Tues, 7.30 – 9pm, St Chad’s Parish Centre, Far Headingley. New members welcome. Details: Pat 275 7694 Crohn’s & Colitis UK Support for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) & their families. Regular meetings.

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They listen for as long as you need. Details: 245 6789, 08457 909090 Open Door Café For people with dementia & their carers. Last Mon (ex bank hols), 2-4pm, New Headingley Club, St Michael’s Rd. Details: 231 1727 Overeaters Anonymous Tues 7pm at HEART Headingley; Weds 6.30pm at Roundhay Friends Meeting House; Sat 10am at Rawdon Friends Meeting House.

All welcome. Details: 07981 940603, www.oagb.org.uk Parkinson’s UK Leeds meet 2nd Wed, 2pm St Chad ‘s Parish Centre, Headingley. Exercise classes in Otley, Horsforth, Moortown. Details: Linda Thompson, 01943 461640 Wharfedale General Hospital Cardiac Club For former cardiac patients & their partners. Exercise classes under supervision of qualified instructors. Mon, Wed & Thurs Wharfedale General Hospital. £3. Details: Clive Wilkinson 267 1721 The Yorkshire Cancer Help Centre Day Therapy Unit, St Michael’s Hospice, Harrogate two Saturdays each month. Support for people with cancer & their loved ones. Details: Esme 01423 881392/ Karen 01937 573166, www.ychc.org.uk TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Leeds Astronomical Society 2nd Wed. Guest speaker presentation & regular telescope nights at Quaker Friends Meeting House, Woodhouse Lane, LS2.

Visitors welcome. Details: info@ leedsastronomy.org.uk, www. leedsastronomy.org.uk Lecture: John William Inchbold Painter & Poet Fri 12 July, 7.15pm at St John the Baptist Church, Church Lane, Adel.

Professor Paul Crowther talks about the artist who is buried in Adel Churchyard. Tickets £7 (incl. drinks & nibbles in The Stables 6.45pm) from Sylvia Halliday 2671708, Beryl Thompson 2673875.

Talking Allowed in Leeds (TAIL) meets Fri 19 July, 1.45pm Veritas Ale & Wine Bar, Great George St. Topic: ‘Agency’. Details: Warwick 228 8584, warwick.t@ntlworld. com Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Family History Section) Sat 13 July, 2pm at 23, Clarendon Rd. Leeds, a lecture on ‘150 Years of Genealogy’ by Anthony Camp, author & former director of Society of Genealogists. Free.

Details: Mrs J. Butler 263 9540 WOMEN’S GROUPS Adel Ladies Luncheon Club meets 1st Wed, Castle Grove Masonic Hall, Castle Grove Dr. LS6. July 3: Dr Tony Nicholson, Historian, on ‘Secrets of the Attic.

Details: Mrs Huntley 230 1584 Bramhope Methodist Church Thursday Group 2nd Thurs, 8pm.

Warm welcome to ladies who enjoy an evening out, speakers, activities & a chat.

Cookridge WI Lively, mixed age group meets 1st Tues, 7.30pm Holy Trinity C of E School, Green Lane. Various activities, talks & outings. Everyone welcome.

Details: cookridgewi@yahoo.co.uk Meanwood WI Quiz Tues 16 July, 7.30pm in Meanwood Institute, Green Rd. All welcome. Details: 294 5626.

Soroptimist International Meet 2nd Mon, 7pm Weetwood Hall.

All ladies welcome. Details: www. sigbi.org/leeds White Rose Ladies Speakers Club meets 7.45pm Farsley Library, Old Rd, Farsley, LS28.

A friendly environment in which to improve your speaking skills.

Details: Pauline Neale, pauline. neale@ntlworld.com, 269 3542, www.the-asc.org.uk

Details: Tracey 242 4003 Charity Five a Side Football Tournament Sun 21 July.

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Bouncy castle, inflatable slide & shoot out goals! Details: hello@ josephlillywhite.co.uk, 08444 879227 Hope Pastures Horse & Donkey Sanctuary Weetwood Lane, LS16. Visitors welcome 10am – 2.45pm. Free. Donations welcome. Details: 261 4344, www.hopepastures.org Football Tournament & Family Fun Day Sun 4 Aug, kick off 10am (event continues ‘til late) at Farsley AFC, Throstlenest, Newlands LS28. Featuring stars of Emmerdale & Calendar. Bouncy castles, face painting, live bands, BBQ, bar, WAG’s Boutique & more. In aid of St George’s Crypt.

Tickets £5 adult/ £2.50 child/ £12 family.

Horsforth Museum 25th Birthday Celebration Sat 20 July. Something for all ages.

Quizzes, ‘Guess the Object’ & the Bell Chapel Trail. Various craft demonstrations, including rug making. Museum open Sat 10am – 4pm & Sunday 2 – 5pm. Coffee mornings last Sat of month.

Mobile Phones for Cancer Research UK Stephen Fowler is collecting unwanted mobile phones for Cancer Research. If you would like to donate, send or deliver them to Stephen at 22 The Gardens, Farsley, LS28 5HW. Call Stephen on 07538 594 362 to arrange collection, or visit www. justgiving.com/phoneforacure Open Your Garden for St Gemma’s Show off your garden & raise funds! Hold you own event & be included in Hospice’s 2013 Open Gardens booklet.

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Organised by Leeds Osteoporosis Group, supported by National Osteoporosis Society. Includes speakers & refreshments. Details: 01423 779662.

Leeds Cross-Cultural Book Fair 26-27July, 9.30am – 5pm, Upper Level at St John’s Centre, Leeds. This 1st non-profit book fair provides an opportunity to browse, read, discuss, judge & buy books at affordable prices.

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Meanwood Family Fun Day Sat 13 July, 10.30am – 2.30pm, Parochial Church Hall, Memorial Dr. Delicious homemade produce, Body Shop specials, bouncy castle, face painting, BBQ, photographer for relaxed sittings, penalty shoot out, car washing & much more. Details: hello@ josephlillywhite.co.uk, 08444 879227

Antiques Evaluation Afternoon Sun 14 July, 1 – 4pm at Milford Sports Centre, Beecroft St. Kirkstall LS5. Hosted by the Oddfellows. 50p per evaluation.

Meanwood Valley Partnership Family Fun Day Sun 30 June, 1 – 4pm at Cricket Pitch by Myrtle Tavern, Parkside Rd. Meanwood. Cream teas, arts

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