Council insists plan to transform Wishaw town centre on track despite coronavirus

Universal Credit is a payment intended to help people out of work or on a low income with living costs. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been unprecedented levels of claims for benefits.

Residents in Greater Manchester have been told to 'cancel' any plans to visit Scotland.The message from Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Friday (July 31), came just 12 hours after it was announced more than four million people will face tougher lockdown restrictions, including in parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire.Scottish people are advised to avoid travel to areas in northern England facing the new tougher restrictions after a spike in coronavirus cases.Travel between

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Paisley’s Business Improvement District (BID) has demanded further consultation is carried out on council plans to introduce temporary cyclepaths across Renfrewshire.Communities were invited to share their thoughts throughout last week until Sunday on proposals to install cycle lanes on nine main commuter routes after Renfrewshire Council received £540,000 in Scottish Government funding.But there are claims many firms in

coronavirus cases.NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) confirmed on Wednesday night that eight positive Covid-19 cases had been identified in the area, with a "thorough investigation" under way.Several businesses including a pharmacy are linked to the cases, with a worker at Amazon's warehouse in Gourock also among those to have tested positive.Jason Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme that further contact tracing would continue on Thursday and labelled pharmacies in

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.THE leader of North Lanarkshire Council’s Conservative group has criticised payments of more than £12.2 million made by the authority to departing staff in recent years.Councillor Meghan Gallacher says these figures highlight how council resources have been “stretched to the bone” by Scottish Government cuts to local authorities.The council has made 475 agreements in just the last three years, with the bill totalling

Perth’s Christmas light switch-on and other Winter Festival events will take place this year.Councillors are expected to make a decision on whether to pull the plug on the annual celebration at a meeting next month.And council leader Murray Lyle has admitted it would be “challenging” to run the events as they usually doCall for urgent action on road named one of the most dangerous in Scotland The news follows the decision in Edinburgh to cancel its traditional Hogmanay street party, with

Scottish Labour veteran Frank McAveety is to stand down as the party's leader on Glasgow City Council to allow a new generation to take charge. The former Holyrood minister will not stand for the role when the local party stages its forthcoming AGM, it was announced today.

a visit to Scotland tomorrow to talk up his dream of a bridge to Northern Ireland. He will also urge Cabinet colleagues to be more "vocal" in Scotland about the UK Government's role in the economic recovery from coronavirus.

blaze at an industrial estate in Cupar.Emergency services were called to the scene at the Cupar Trading Estate in Fife at around 10.23am on Tuesday.The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service confirmed they have one appliance already in attendance with a further five on the way.Pictures from the scene show a massive plume of black smoke billowing into the air, which is visible from neighbouring towns.Local residents have also reported hearing "an explosion" coming from the site shortly after the fire

the region’s beauty spots. The group is formed of Perth and Kinross Council, Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, with help from local communities, and could see motorists fined or have their cars removed by police officers if they feel they are causing a dangerous obstruction to emergency services.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterSouth Ayrshire Council has been told to apologise to a disabled woman over the way her new recycling regime was introduced and implemented.The local authority was brought to book by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) after they probed the case.And in their findings the SPSO said SAC should apologise to the woman for “failing to appropriately consider making reasonable adjustments” over

quarantining visitors.Beth MacLeod, who runs the Knockderry Country House Hotel in Argyll, said she has received three calls a day from people worried about whether they can come to Scotland.In a message to Nicola Sturgeon, who has not closed the door on a cross-border quarantine, Beth said: “I would like her to make it clear that English visitors are welcome in Scotland.”It comes after Marc Crothall, chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Alliance, said that some customers from south of the

The Last of the Mohicans and TV credits including Doctor Who and Star Trek, has died at the age of 83. The news of his passing was confirmed by his agent Lovett Logan in a statement.

closures across Scotland will have to be reversed, a top civil servant has admitted. Some 13 Job Centres across Scotland, including six in Glasgow alone, were closed in 2018 as applications for Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit moved online.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterNorth Ayrshire Council has started the phased re-opening of its public toilets as Covid-19 restrictions are eased nationwide.The facilities were closed in March as lockdown was introduced to combat the spread of Coronavirus.Now, as Scotland enters the latest stage of the route map out of lockdown, the council is starting to re-open the public toilets which are under its ownership.The toilets at

flights from Scotland to Spain after the Scottish Government refused to add the holiday hotspot to the quarantine exemption list. The airline has scrapped flights from both Glasgow and Edinburgh Airport that were due to travel to mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

Perth and Kinross Council is making “progress” in its engagement with young people in the region. The report, published by Being Heard, reviews all 32 Scotland councils’ performances over the course of 2019 in relation to young people's participation and engagement with decision makers and decision-making processes with the local authority.

caravan on Gumtree for just £800 gave it this amazing makeover - in just a week. Ellie Sharkey, 22, and Charlotte Tasker, 24, decided to buy the caravan on a whim after their holiday to Canada was cancelled due to coronavirus.

The Scottish SPCA’s Ayrshire Animal Rescue Centre is back finding animals their forever home after lockdown saw rehoming completely suspended for almost two months.After trialling a limited rehoming service in May, the centre is now rehoming animals using a combination of an online-only application system, carefully controlled appointments and ‘virtual home checks’ where prospective owners and their homes are vetted via Zoom calls.Now the charity have this lovely girl (pictured above) in their