Introduction of parking charges in Wishaw streets will penalise workers and "destroy" town centre

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThere will be free parking in Ayr in the run-up to Christmas.South Ayrshire Council has stopped the pay and display charges in the town for the whole of December. Motorists can leave their vehicles for free in all street bays and council run car parks including Barns Crescent, Charlotte Street and Kyle Street. It will make life easier for shoppers if First Minister Nicola Sturgeon allows non

direct to your inboxFashion boss Seema Malhotra is fighting back after lockdown by launching her first ever dedicated store.Seema, the owner of the Manchester-based online fashion brand Forever Unique, has opened the shop in the Trafford Centre.Determined Seema, one of the stars of the hit ITVBe reality series The Real Housewives of Cheshire, believes there's now light at the end of the tunnel for retail and Manchester - the 'fashion city' - where her brand was founded."Who could have predicted

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remaining open for a 24 hours, it didn't stop enthusiastic bargain hunters flocking to the store to shop for the first time since the national lockdown started. Dubbed 'wild Wednesday', retailers were expecting swathes of shoppers to head to the high street as they welcomed customers back after a month of closure.  And while many stores reported less footfall than expected, Primark saw hundreds descend on the Trafford Centre branch in the early hours of Thursday morning.

set to be officially scrapped at a meeting of the council’s policy and resources committee tomorrow, 10 months after they were first agreed and just weeks after a new outpouring of opposition following the publication of related traffic regulations which would also have introduced restrictions including permit zones on surrounding streets.

East Kilbride town centre.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterCouncil bosses are to spend government cash covering up empty shop windows in towns and giving business owners £3,000 grants to tidy up their premises.Plants sprouting from buildings will also be weeded out.

With lockdown set to lift for shoppers in England on Wednesday, the Trafford Centre is asking people to plan ahead if they want to visit.Many shoppers might prefer to visit the centre during quieter periods, which are generally earlier in the day and later in the evening. Quieter shopping times will be posted weekly via The Trafford Centre’s social channels.The centre is open 10am - 10pm on weekdays and some larger stores - including Selfridges, Debenhams, John Lewis, Boots, Primark and

“Covid just isn’t impacting us here like it is with students at other places, and because of that we are still getting the hands-on experience that we were promised.“In terms of getting a job, I feel like we will probably be in work as a result of this – and that wouldn’t be the case if we had enrolled at another university.”Those interested in applying to study at Hopwood Hall College and University Centre are welcomed to 'stay near and go far' and to drop into its Virtual Open Event for Higher

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Crieff has secured a windfall of £365,000 which will be used to improve two of the town's eyesores.Members of Perth and Kinross Council’s strategic policy and resources committee met on Wednesday to discuss the re-allocation of some of the region’s portion of the Scottish Government Town Centre Fund (TCF).Initiated in 2018, an original stipulation of the TCF funding was that it should be spent by September

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire Council could be set to perform a u-turn on controversial car parking charges.Council leader Jim Logue announced on Monday afternoon that he would seek to delay the introduction of parking charges at a key council committee – as Covid-19 continues to pose a financial challenge to the council.The proposal was initially passed by councillors in February to counter catastrophic cuts to the

A woman racially abused a driver in a Trafford Centre car park then stuck her fingers up in a fit of rage, a court heard.Emma Fallon, from Merseyside, was caught on camera swearing at the victim and using a racist term after the car she was in was 'cut up' on the motorway.Fallon's son, who was six at the time, was present and had pleaded with his mum not to confront the victim on July 20 last year. "The complainant was making her way to the Trafford Centre at 1pm.

Angela Rayner, the party's deputy leader, demanded a £10-an-hour living wage ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review on Wednesday when the Chancellor is expected to confirm the freeze.About 15,000 UK government civil servants in Scotland working across areas like Job Centres, Customs and Excise and other UK agency staff could be affected.Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said Sunak must use Wednesday’s statement to abandon the plan.Teachers, council workers, emergency service workers and

the hugely controversial scheme – only given the go-ahead in January via a casting vote – does not take place while the local economy recovers from the impact of the pandemic.

Oasis their name has closed down for good, it has been announced.The Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon was the inspiration behind the band’s moniker, Liam Gallagher suggesting they use it instead of their previous name The Rain after seeing it listed on an Inspiral Carpets tour poster.Although Oasis themselves never performed at the space, Noel Gallagher visited it in 1991 when he was a roadie on the aforementioned Inspiral Carpets tour.The venue, which includes a swimming pool, slides and wave

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: The producers of popular Netflix franchises such as The Princess Switch and Christmas Prince have struck a book-to-film deal with novelist Adele Parks, one the biggest-selling women’s fiction authors in the UK.Veteran U.S.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A 90-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was struck by a car in Hamilton Town Centre on Friday morning.Emergency services rushed to the town at around 9.30am after reports of an elderly man being hit by a car.Police are now appealing for information after the OAP was seriously injured.Officers say at around 9.25am on Friday, November 13, the man, who was using a three wheeled walker, was crossing

the landmark changed hands.