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Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionLanarkshire continues to make great progress in driving down smoking rates, however, smoking remains the biggest preventable cause of ill-health and premature death in Scotland.The joint campaign with ASH Scotland, focuses on encouraging residents to seek support and advice when they’re ready to quit smoking.Marion continued: “I feel very lucky and thankful to have this brilliant

family are paying tribute to their tragic dog by putting out a bucket of free balls for other pets.Kerry Grace, 35, and husband Tom, 40, from West Kilbride made the emotional gesture this morning as they grieve their dog Kaiser.The 12-year-old American Cocker Spaniel had to be put down on Wednesday after vets discovered a cancerous lump in his leg.Kerry and Tom along with their seven-year-old son vowed never to forget him.They decided to put out a bucket at his favourite spot at Seamill beach in

Scottish Government to do more to help society's most vulnerable recover from months of tough restrictions on life.The third sector organisation has shared with the Record the results of a survey carried out with more than 100 of its frontline workers, who see every day the impact lockdown is having on those least well-off.Almost half of its staff reported that despite receiving some government financial help, families are still worried about making ends meet.And the charity also warned that

debts of £21,000 in just one year. Joe and Linda Ashby were thrilled to win a week's stay at a plush resort in 2008 - but still owe £9,000 to Seasons Holidays, with no prospect of being able to retire.

micropig.Francisco, a three-and-a-half year old Vietnamese potbellied cross, was falsely sold as a micropig, but had an Instagram account which caught the eye of a 15-year-old girl.The teen begged her parents for the cute piglet and the family, from Glasgow, travelled down to England to buy him - but three months later he was given to an animal sanctuary.He now weighs 20 stone, twice the weight of a healthy adult, and is 1.2m long.The giant hog is living in a three-bedroom house after getting

puppy farmers are using rented flats as shop fronts to lure in victims. A ring of closely-knit Irish breeders is booking lets in flats in Glasgow to create a false impression of pups being well looked after in family settings, the Record can reveal.

Covid jabs to Scots health workers also helps protect everyone in their house against the disease, a study has found.

puppy farmers who dropped her off lifeless on the doorstep of a Scots family. Little Skye was advertised for sale in Glasgow on Gumtree for £1000 and was bought by a family in Rutherglen.Mum Carolann Thomas, said the seller dropped the puppy off at their house on February 27 and everything seemed fine until they took Skye inside.She noticed immediately that the puppy was extremely underweight and could barely walk. Carolann said her paws and tail were covered in dog poo and urine burns.She told

link!The Covid-19 crisis has had a devastating impact on its income and, as a result, research funding had to be cut in half this year, putting future life-saving discoveries at risk.James Jopling, head of BHF Scotland, said: “Our research in Scotland and across the UK to help save and improve lives is only made possible thanks to wonderful supporters like Linda and her family, and we need the public’s support now more than ever.“The closure of our shops during lockdown and the cancellation and

teen who died after having heart surgery say the charity set up in his name helped them survive losing him.Zak Scott was born in April 1996 with a congenital heart defect called pulmonary atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect (VCD) - more commonly known as a hole in the heart.The Kilwinning youngster underwent surgery almost every year of his young life, culminating in an open heart operation on March 9, 2011, in what doctors at Glasgow's Yorkhill Hospital and his family thought would be the

Paisley woman Patti Henry says her family are desperately seeking an end to their four-year ordeal.Mother-of-one Patti, 46, was reported missing in March 2017 and, despite extensive searches, she has never been found and is believed to be dead.A pensioner was arrested and charged in connection with her disappearance in 2019 and is due to stand trial later this year after delays due to the pandemic.But her frustrated family are now calling for closure and hope that they will one day be able to

border collie puppy Karma for £1000 from a female seller on Gumtree last week.The 38-year-old, from Kilwinning, had saved up money to purchase the dog for her two daughters aged 15 and nine. But the family were left heartbroken when Karma began to defecate blood and died just hours later.

property converted from a 'tattie shed' into an incredible home has gone on the market for £735,000.Denfield Steadings, in Arbroath, Angus, was designed by the late architect Heinz Voigt for his family to live in and features eight bedrooms and seven bathrooms.Dubbed "the tattie shed" in homage to its humble beginnings, the house even includes a further three-bedroom converted house designed for another family to live in.The property listing promises the homeowner to feel "spoiled rotten" but

Glasgow during World War 2, was handed to a military museum in Poland after being found in the belongings of a late veterans’ chief.Posted to the Stalag XXB prisoner of war camp in northern Poland from the dad’s home in Bridgeton in 1941, Agnes’ poignant letter reads: “I only wish this was all over to get you back home to me.

East Kilbride care home residents say there is “light at the end of the tunnel” as visiting restrictions ease.Indoor visiting of Lanarkshire’s care home residents by relatives, friends and carers is set to resume this week – that allows residents to have up to two separate designated visitors once a week.The move follows the Scottish Government guidance ‘Open with Care’ to support the reintroduction of “meaningful family contact” in care homes.Natasha Hamilton's mum, Anne, is in a care home in

link!After learning that S Collins & Son had followed up its previous Scottish Butcher’s shop of the year coups in 2012 and 2017, senior partner of the Lindsaybeg Road shop, and third generation butcher, Stewart Collins said: “For an independent family-run butcher to win the high profile honour not once but three times is absolutely amazing, and a true testament to our craft skills, quality products and service.“I dedicate it to the entire 45-strong team, experienced and dedicated butchers and

cancer.Laura Mcaloon, 36, from Bathgate in West Lothian, was given the heartbreaking news that she had up to a year to live after she was diagnosed with the aggressive illness in August 2020.The devastating news left the mum-of-three's family broken, with her youngest - two-year-old Connor - unable to understand why he's not allowed to give mummy a cuddle because it makes her sore.But despite the bleak outlook, Laura's fiancé Mark Smith, 37, and their other children Tiegan, 20, and Demileigh,

Dumfries couple and their 13 kids are facing homelessness if a house big enough for them doesn’t become available in just nine weeks.Deborah and Craig Douglas have until the end of April to move out of their Heathhall home after their landlady decided to sell.Despite applying for a number of private lets and pleading with housing associations, the family still haven’t found anywhere big enough for their brood.And Deborah, 38, feels they are being “discriminated” against because of the size of

Catholic mother after a burst pipe flooded their family plot.Elizabeth Briggs repeatedly told her loved ones that she wanted to be buried with her late husband Charles and four-month-old son William at Cockpen Cemetery in Bonnyrigg.The mum-of-five had purchased the plot after losing her baby to cot death in 1970 and buried her 61-year-old husband in 2000.But after passing away on February 5, daughter Tracey Gillan discovered that her father’s casket had only been buried 3ft down - leaving no