Dear Readers

By the time this magazine drops through your door, we hope the weather will have sorted itself out so everyone can enjoy the numerous festivals and fairs that are planned for the next couple of months!

In this edition, as Hyde Park gears up for its fabulous Unity Day, concern is expressed about how some people are destroying this lovely facility; encouraged by HDT’s success with Bennett Road Primary School, the Royal Park Community Consortium continues its efforts to acquire the old Royal Park School building; and Councillor Martin Hamilton gives us a quick update on the Arndale Centre renovation and urges people to tidy away their bins after collection - you could get fined! In addition, South Parade Baptist Church celebrates 100 years at its North Lane site; there’s a new social network in Headingley; and there’s Shakespeare at Dagmar Wood again!

Every month we get phone calls, letters and emails from readers with various queries and we do our best to answer them all. A number of these, we feel, could have interested other readers too - so, we are going to introduce a ‘Letters Page’ in the September edition. Every month we will print a selection of your letters, and there will be a ‘Star Letter’ which will receive a prize!

If you haven’t tried Blink yet, give it a go - hundreds of you have already. Blink is a super way to link business to the community and it is exclusive to the North Leeds area. See page ?? for more information.

Don’t forget our new Letters Page in September. Write to us by the deadline on 1st August and yours could be one of the featured letters.

Kind regards.

Carole & Jack