Airdrie to host Covid mobile test centre

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A Johnstone community has emerged as one of the worst Covid-19 hotspots in Scotland, despite efforts to contain the virus.Johnstone South East, which flanks Elderslie, has seen the rate soar to the equivalent of nearly 500 cases per 100,000 people.It’s the only area in Renfrewshire that makes it into the highest outbreak level of above 400 cases.The cases were almost double the prevalence of number two on

Bolton MP has said he is "not concerned" about the high rate of Covid-19 infections in the borough, stating hospital admissions and virus-related deaths were "down dramatically".

link!Orrs closed in 2007 and the building was bought by Clyde Valley Housing Association the following year, but the group’s approved plans to create 14 flats plus retail units stalled, while a subsequent potential sale fell through in 2016.Airdrie MSP Alex Neil has previously campaigned to get the building demolished and welcomed the impending plans for the site.He said: “I am very much in favour of the redevelopment of the Orrs building site.

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Hugh Bonneville has taken on a new role – a volunteer marshall at one of England’s COVID-19 vaccination centres.

direct to your inboxA botched terror training exercise which foreshadowed delays in getting firefighters to the Manchester Arena bombing was a 'disaster', the public inquiry into the atrocity has been told.The emergency services took part in a huge terrorism training exercise, in which a suicide bomber scenario was played out at the Trafford Centre in May, 2016, a year before the real attack at the Arena.But Greater Manchester Police failed to alert fellow blue light colleagues about the

Filming on Disney+’s upcoming series Big Shot starring John Stamos has been suspended for 10 days. The decision was made last week after a positive Covid-19 test was produced as part of regular screening. I hear the affected individual was in Zone 1 on set.

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direct to your inboxAs the fight continues against the Covid-19 pandemic, a number of key buildings have been transformed into testing and vaccine centres.But one new facility - which will offer tests to asymptomatic key workers in Greater Manchester - might be the grandest yet.Manchester Rates Hall, which forms part of Manchester Town Hall, has been transformed into the city's latest Coronavirus lateral flow testing site.The Grade 2 listed building carves a narrow line between Manchester's Town

Perth and Kinross as part of the next phase of NHS Tayside’s COVID-19 programme. Work is underway to set up jab hubs at Dewars Centre in Perth, which the PA revealed last month, Blairgowrie Town Hall and Atholl Leisure Centre in Pitlochry.

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direct to your inbox When staff at the Everest Pharmacy in Whalley Range were asked to work extra hours to help with the Covid-19 vaccination programme, they didn't question it.

Innovative indie act the Flaming Lips performed two shows in Oklahoma this month, protecting their fans and themselves from one another by placing everyone inside their own inflatable bubble so as to make the concert “safer than going to the grocery store,” said frontman Wayne Coyne.“We collect everybody and then we take them row by row to their bubbles,” Coyne, a long-time bubble enthusiast, told Rolling Stone last month of the strategy.

Local vaccine hubs revealedBoth Dumbarton and Alexandria will have Covid mass vaccinations centres NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has confirmed.Following the success of the initial vaccination programme for staff at NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital and eight hospital sites, these centres will support the next phases of the vaccination programme - with the health board revealing the venues today.Dumbarton’s Concord Centre and Alexandria’s Community Centre will be the area’s two vaccine hubs, with 14