Monklands nurseries and early learning childcare can apply for outdoor learning funding

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Emily Shak has shared a ten year throwback picture of her early modelling days and she looks unrecognisable. The 31-year-old stunner is one of Scotland's most famous influencers and this week, for the first time ever, Emily decided to do a Q&A on her Instagram account, answering all her fan's questions.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterPolice are on the scene of a car fire in Kilwinning town centre.The blaze broke out around 5pm in Howgate, near Rainbow Nursery.Officers are currently directing traffic in the area.A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: "Around 5pm on Thursday 7 January 2021 officers were called to Howgate in Kilwinning where a car was on fire.

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser“It is important that we continue to provide quality learning and education for all our children and young people without widespread disruption to their learning, but it is vital that we do this within appropriate environments and with hygiene and physical distancing guidance in place to reduce the risk of transmission of coronavirus.“The change in guidance from the Scottish Government will make care and support for our children

Kate Forbes, the Scottish government finance secretary, called out the Chancellor for committing no new funds to deal with the latest lockdown as the Treasury trumpeted emergency support for businesses. Sunak laid out plans for an extra £4.6 billion in business support on Tuesday including £375 million for the Scottish government to distribute.

West Dunbartonshire schools close until February as strict lockdown announcedCouncillors across all parties in West Dunbartonshire have agreed that schools should remain closed while the council area is in tier four, throwing their weight behind the EIS teachers’ union’s stance.The council will meet this Thursday to discuss the very latest announcements with regard to Covid restrictions and extended school and nursery closures.A report has been compiled which confirms that applications will be

Scotland is heading back into lockdown from midnight, with schools being closed to pupils until at least February 1, all non-essential businesses shutting and the “stay at home” message once again becoming a legal requirement. The new restrictions, which will be in place throughout the month of January, have been imposed in response to rising coronavirus rates caused by the new and more transmissible strain of the infection.

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament at a specially-recalled session this afternoon: “We are now seeing a steeply rising trend of infections – I am more worried now than at any time since March last year.”She also noted that NHS Lanarkshire is one of three health boards currently operating at above 60 per cent of their capacity, and told how the number of Covid patients nationally “is now close to the April peak”.The First

breast cancer - for which there is no cure.But instead of withdrawing into her own world Lisa Fleming, 37, launched her own charity, Make Seconds Count, to fund research into the disease and provide a support network for other women with the same diagnosis.And just two years after beginning her charity she has raised enough cash to make a real difference to the world of research.Her own oncologist in Edinburgh Olga Oikonomidou began specialist research on tumours from metastatic breast cancer

recycling fund should be spent on tackling Scotland's rising rat numbers, the Tories said. The lump sum was announced back in September by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

honoured at the UK-wide lottery awards in October, winning the community category in the annual search for the country’s “favourite lottery-funded people and projects” after judges were impressed by her tireless work to continue the organisation’s work during and since lockdown.

Are you ready to get smacked in the face with another barrage of nostalgia and random pop culture references? A sequel to Steven Spielberg‘s “Ready Player One” could already be in the works thanks to the pandemic. “Ready Player One” author Ernest Cline has revealed during a chat with Inverse that his follow-up novel “Ready Player Two” is now in the gestation phase of development at Warner Bros.

NHS Lanarkshire’s director of public health has written to all care homes in Monklands to advise them on changes to visiting.The correspondence follows the news that the area will join the rest of mainland Scotland into level four coronavirus restrictions for at least a three-week period on Boxing Day.In terms of the current position pertaining to level four, the highest protection level, guidance from the Scottish Government states that: “For areas in level four, only essential visits are

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterPlans to build a new £14.5 million school in Irvine moved a stage further this week.North Ayrshire Council want to build a primary school and early years centre which will serve the Montgomerie Park and Knadgerhill areas of the town.And on Friday the council found out it had been successful in a funding bid that will help develop their plans.Plans for a new non-denominational school – to satisfy an

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterCouncillors voted to close the schools in North Ayrshire early after the area recorded the highest weekly Covid  infection rate in Scotland.But is claimed the Scottish Government refused to allow the region’s schools to switch to online learning.North Ayrshire’s virus case rate hit 205 per 100,000 between December 12 and 18 according to Public Health Scotland figures.  It is the only council region

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Scottish Conservatives leader claimed allowing the children of key workers to return to class as of January 5 while others must wait a further week until blended learning begins risked widening the attainment gap. Under government plans announced on Saturday all pupils will not return to school on a full-time basis until January 18.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A tot dressed up as Nicola Sturgeon is the star of a  hysterical Christmas play about Santa and lockdown that’s going down a storm.One of the wee ones at the Rainbow Nursery, in Paisley,  dresses up just like the First Minister.Three-year-old Ella boldly announces: “You’ve been telt!”Ella wears a single colour royal blue outfit normally used by the kids for dressing up as Mary Poppins.T’was the Night Before

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentTo celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine. Read more from the archives here.Meryl Streep first caught the public’s attention in a few high-class projects: in 1977, the Fred Zinnemann-directed “Julia”  and, in 1978, “Holocaust” and “The Deer Hunter,” where she earned her first Emmy and Oscar nominations, respectively.