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Monday, January 10, 2011

Leeds today: Belly dancing, Cross Keys, Headingley LitFest and Royal Park public meeting

Good morning Leeds. A reminder that the next Leeds Social Media Surgery is on Wednesday at the Round Foundry in Holbeck Urban Village from 6pm to 8pm. The surgery is a free advice session for community and voluntary groups, clubs, societies and small arts organisations. Come along to find out how you can use free websites and social media like Twitter and Facebook to organise activities, promote events, raise funds, collect feedback from your participants and keep a record of everything you do. What's making Leeds tick today? A public meeting to discuss the potential community takeover of Royal Park Primary School in Hyde Park will be held at 2pm on Saturday at the Burley Lodge Centre. Organisers the Royal Park Community Consortium are billing it as a chance to find out more about the community's plans to turn the former school into a community hub and how they can help. Victoria Jaquiss writes about good times returning to Hyde Park and Woodhouse in her Leeds Schools Campaigner blog . North West Leeds police are appealing for information after a man was stabbed during an attempted street robbery in Pudsey. Police are also appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision in the Bramley. South Leeds Life blog enters the riddle of a stolen laptop and the Date Protection Act. Headingley Litfest will this year run 14 to 27 March. The Headingley LitFest blog reports acclaimed African writer Ben Okri will be speaking on the final Saturday of the festival at the new Heart centre in Bennett Road. And, on the subject of Headingley, the folks at Zomadic blog went along to Saturday's open day for Headingley's latest community building, Heart. Check out their first impressions of the new facilties here . Oriental belly dancing in Leeds. Yes, you read that right. Check out My Life in Leeds blog for more. The Cross Keys in Holbeck Urban Village is reviewed over at Leeds Food Leads blog . And Leeds Grub blog revisits Tampopo in South Parade. What the papers say The Yorkshire Evening Post reports how the life of Rothwell cancer heroine Jane Tomlinson has been celebrated in a new book. Morley Specialist High School has now become Morley Academy, one of the government's flagship high-achieving schools with increased powers to govern itself, the Morley Observer reports . Councillors are being urged to keep an open mind on proposals to build hundreds of new homes on the edge of Horsforth, reports the Wharfedale Observer. South Asian curry welcomed people of all faiths to churches in Pudsey and Thornbury, reports the T&A . Do you have news, views or events to share? Feel free add them to the comments below or contact me by email or on Twitter @GdnLeeds .

Source: The Guardian ↗

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