Charges introduced for North Lanarkshire's community alarms

the new £3.40 weekly cost is “putting elderly and vulnerable folk at risk”, and vowed to “continue to work with SNP councillors to try to get it overturned”.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A coronavirus outbreak has been identified at a council building in Motherwell.It is understood eight staff members at North Lanarkshire Council’s Dalziel building have tested positive for the virus over the last week.An entire floor within the building has been closed for a deep clean whilst investigations are being carried out.Council bosses say the cause of the Covid-19 cases has yet to be identified,

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire Conservatives have accused Shotts MP Neil Gray of hypocrisy over recent comments regarding community alarms.Mr Gray slammed the decision to introduce the £3.40 per week charge in last week’s Wishaw Press.However, the local authority’s Tory Group state they voted against the charges being introduced in February’s budget, with SNP and Labour voting to reintroduce the charges, and they

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Shop, eat and love local.That’s the key message from North Lanarkshire Council, as the area continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic.The council has launched an information campaign – Think Local – to encourage residents to safely use the shops, cafes, restaurants and businesses in Wishaw and across the local authority area and help them start the recovery process.The campaign also aims to reassure the

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A trial which would have seen overloaded North Lanarkshire bins not being emptied has been postponed.The local authority instead will take part in a separate electronic tagging initiative to monitor recycling.Councillors had given the go-ahead in February for a three-month pilot project to address the problem of bins being too full to be collected safely; first by offering recycling help or additional

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire Council has agreed its winter service project for 2020-2021.The plan contains no changes from last year and covers only normal services, not major events such as 2018’s Beast from the East.Following February’s budget, grit bin provision has been rationed to focus on the areas most in need, with the overall number being reduced by 20 per cent.Maps of gritting routes are available online and

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserThe Easter holiday would run from schools closing on the afternoon of Friday, April 1, and would run up to and incorporate Easter Monday on April 18 2022; with classes resuming the following day.An in-service day is planned for May 5 2022, to coincide with the council elections that year when many North Lanarkshire schools will be in use as polling stations – and the next academic year would end under the proposals on June 29

Motherwell■ Lady Anne Depot in Airdrie■ Coshneuk in Stepps■ Garrel Road in Kilsyth ■ New Edinburgh Road in ViewparkSome services will be transferred to other depots before they too close, leaving facilities in just Bellshill and Cumbernauld. All staff will be relocated.Waste will be removed from Souterouse in Coatbridge, land services will be moved from Bellshill, while Bonkle and Netherton will be retained on a temporary basis only.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Thousands of North Lanarkshire residents who rely on community alarms in their homes will soon have to pay for the service.From September 14, service users will be charged £3.40 a week for the lifeline.Until now North Lanarkshire was one of only two local authorities in the country still to provide the service for free.The community alarm service assists vulnerable people and those over the age of 75 who

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserTrudi Marshall, the nurse director of Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire, said: “When visiting care homes it’s vital people continue to physically distance, wear a face covering and practice good hand hygiene.“It is also vitally important that anyone who is a designated visitor for a family member in a care home complies with all current Scottish Government guidance in their personal life.“The vast majority of people have

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserHead of waste solutions Andrew McPherson told the virtual meeting: “We need to drive up our recycling rate and this is hopefully one way that will be done; North Lanarkshire has been chosen because ZWS realise the potential to recycle more is there.“The data won’t be used at household level but is to inform national and better targeted recycling campaigns in the future and see initiatives’ impact on the amount of waste being

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A man has been charged with murder after a shooting in a South Lanarkshire town.Graham Williamson, 26, was in his garden in Caithness Street, Blantyre, when he was shot on August 17.He managed to make his way on to the street, where he was helped by members of the public until an ambulance arrived.He was taken to University Hospital Wishaw but died a short time later.On Wednesday, Derek Felvus, 23, of

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.COUNCIL tenants in Monklands and surrounding areas are receiving letters from the local authority as it recommences electrical safety testing in homes.The appointment letters are going out to more than 7000 tenants across North Lanarkshire now due their five-yearly safety checks.Following the Scottish Government’s Phase Three announcement, North Lanarkshire Council s expanding the range of repair and