North Lanarkshire car park charges set to start in 2021

torched outside a Scots home. Firefighters from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were spotted at around 6am this morning, November 27, on Duntocher Road in Clydebank.

Another series whose production was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic has successfully finished its season. Genius: Aretha, the third installment in National Geographic’s anthology series, wrapped production today in Atlanta.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A car was deliberately set on fire in a Blantyre on Tuesday (November 24).Police are appealing for information on the “reckless" act which took place in Valerio Court at around 11.25pm.Fire crews attended the scene and extinguished the blaze safely, and there were no injuries.Enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances surrounding the fire, which is currently being treated as suspicious.Police

link.There was a whopping 244 per cent rise in recorded cases of indecent images of children while other sex crimes rose from 61 to 94 – a 54 per cent increase.An NSPCC Scotland spokesperson said: “The conditions created by the coronavirus pandemic have given child sexual abusers a perfect opportunity to target children who have been spending more time online.“And, now more than ever, it is right and crucial that Police Scotland makes tackling these crimes a priority, through arresting suspects

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.

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.

Cops are hunting a driver after a pedestrian was hit outside a Scots supermarket. The victim was walking across the Lidl car park on South Road, Dundee, at around 1pm on Thursday, November 19 when the hit-and-run took place.

with two houses in Motherwell being set ablaze.Labour group councillors will now propose a motion at next month’s full council meeting calling for action, including asking the UK government to introduce maximum noise legislation of 90 decibels, and requesting that Holyrood uses its powers in relation to fireworks to prevent them from impacting animal welfare, vulnerable people and tragic incidents”.Depute council leader Paul Kelly said: “Some of the scenes from this year’s Guy Fawkes night were

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire will move into the toughest tier four lockdown restrictions for three weeks from Friday.It means all non-essential retail, hospitality businesses other than takeaways, gyms, hairdressers and indoor visitor attractions will be closed until December 11.Schools will remain open, unlike during the original lockdown in March; but travel restrictions asking people not to leave their local

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.There’s still time to bring some Christmas cheer back to North Lanarkshire.That’s the view of NLC’s Tory councillors, who are calling on Labour and the SNP to reconsider the cancellation of Christmas lights throughout the towns and villages in North Lanarkshire.The decision to cancel festive lighting was taken during the North Lanarkshire Council budget meeting, held in February this year.Central Wishaw

council’s budget in February.The savings package included £150,000 from ceasing Christmas lighting in town centres “to reduce energy, erection, maintenance and storage costs”; plus a further £100,000 which would previously have been spent on illuminating the area’s villages.Both the Labour administration and SNP groups included the cuts in their budgets, but the move was opposed by the Conservatives – whose Airdrie Central representative, Trevor Douglas, says it should be reconsidered.

proposed costs for motorists ranging from 80p to £4 to use nine council-owned car parks in the town – plus a further eight in Coatbridge and another 34 across the local authority area – “could, and probably will, see the end of high-street shopping in North Lanarkshire”.

Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser: “It’s mainly flats which are affected, and there are also some houses like terraces which just don’t accommodate the four bins.

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserEaster holidays in 2022 will run from schools closing on the afternoon of Friday, April 1, up to and including Easter Monday on April 18 that year, with classes resuming the following day.May Day then falls on May 2 in and pupils will also be off on Thursday, May 5 in the same week, to allow schools to be used as polling places for the 2022 council election; while May 27-30 will also be a holiday weekend.School will be out for