Newly elected MSP confirms her intention to continue as North Lanarkshire councillor

iOS - Android Youngsters from Cathedral Primary in Motherwell joined Glasgow city council leader Susan Aitken for the inaugural planting event at Cart and Kittoch woodland near Carmunnock, where 40,000 trees will be planted to connect the woodland with nearby Cathkin Braes.Meanwhile, North Lanarkshire leader Jim Logue planted a tree at Clarkston in his home town of Airdrie to help launch the project.The Clyde Climate Forest aims to link up the region’s 29,000 existing but fragmented hectares of

Haley Bosselman editorOn April 25, North Korean authorities publicly executed a man who illegally sold USBs and CDs that contained South Korean movies, music videos and dramas, as reported by the Daily NK.The Seoul-based non-profit organization provides coverage of North Korea through its inside network.

iOS - Android In 2019, 16,310 children in Scotland were looked after or on the child protection register, 850 of which were from the North Lanarkshire region.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIndependent filmmaker and educator Deborah LaVine has been tapped to run the film program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA).

iOS - Android The girls will also choose a charity that is close to their hearts and endeavour to highlight the cause and raise as much funds for them as possible over the course of the coming months. Jan Sue Smith, director of Miss Scotland, Lanarkshire Live : "This year there is sadly no big in person event.

Royal rampage. Prince William isn’t impressed with Prince Harry after he opened up about his mental health struggles — and the ways he felt abandoned by his family — in his new docuseries, The Me You Can’t See.

John Rakich has been elected president of the Locations Managers Guild International, succeeding Mike Fantasia, founding member and president since 2018. Founded in 2003, LMGI is a global organization of location professionals in the motion picture, television, commercial and print production industries. It is not a union, however. Teamsters Local 399 represents location managers at the bargaining table.

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionLizanne McMurrich, the council’s head of communities, told how there had been “a 71 per cent increase in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits between March 2020 and January 2021”, and said: “When the furlough scheme ends in September, we expect to see unemployment rise again.“Evidence shows that the people most affected are those in the lowest-paid, least secure and

iOS - Android Applications were received from people living in all 32 local authorities in Scotland, including 8395 from North LanarkshireBy end of March, 7650 payments were made - meaning a total of £289,860 has been paid to applicants from North Lanarkshire.Across Scotland, an estimated 78,775 children have already benefitted from Scottish Child Payment.

link!There were 10 purchases in Shotts and the same number in Bellshill, while the council purchased a further five properties in Motherwell, Cumbernauld, and Kilsyth.

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Perthshire ’s food and drinks industry recover from COVID. The newly elected Perthshire South and Kinross-shire MSP is keen to turn things around.

Apple - Android Speaking to Lanarkshire Live, Dr Russell said: “It is a remarkable milestone to have undertaken more than half a million vaccinations.“However, a programme of this scale would not have been possible without the willingness of Lanarkshire residents to receive the vaccine and the extremely hard work of NHS staff, and staff from both North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire Councils.“The staff have been key in the running of our vaccination centres and have overcome many

Lanarkshire Live : “I am delighted we have received this award.