North Lanarkshire Council provides update on plan to deliver 5000 new homes

iOS - Android This can cause trains to overshoot signals or platforms and affect signalling systems - making it harder to track where trains are on the network.From this week until December, Scotland's Railway's fleet of specialist rail-head treatment trains will be in operation around-the-clock, using high-pressure water jets to clean tracks before coating them with a special adhesive.At a further 110 locations across the network, special "traction gel applicators" have been installed to help

iOS - Android It will offer sit in, take away, drive-thru, deliveries and mobile order and will complement Hamilton's existing Starbucks drive thru on Palace Grounds retail park.Starbucks latest drive-thru is being brought to the town again by Glasgow-based OCO Westend, one of the firms longest licensed partners in the UK, who recently opened another new store in Polmadie.Recent growth means OCO Westend, owned by JJ O'Hara, now employs 273 people across 13 stores in Scotland including Rutherglen

Afghanistan in a Scots council area. So far 18 volunteers from East Dumbartonshire have raised nearly £6,000 by walking the distance between Syria and Scotland which is just under 3,000 miles.

iOS - Android The sad statistic of 67 suspected deaths in Police Scotland’s Lanarkshire division area is the second highest of any in the country, exceeded only by the Greater Glasgow division.The newly released figures by the Scottish Government compiled from police management information has revealed that the number of people who died from suspected drugs deaths in Lanarkshire for the latest quarter – April to June 2021 – was recorded as 29.

iOS - Android Professional singer Jane, who is set to star in upcoming comedy show Divas at the East Kilbride Arts Centre later this month, gave up her home for a week in the summer, for the BBC to film the series which stars Sharon Young of Outlander fame, Iain Connell (Burnistoun) and Scot Squad's Louise McCarthy.And Jane was delighted with the end product after watching the comedy on television.She told Lanarkshire Live: "The Scotts on BBC Scotland.

iOS - Android Fearless.org is the youth programme of independent charity Crimestoppers.Nine out of 10 of those caught with offensive weapons in Scotland are on average under 30 years old and male.Lyndsay McDade, National Youth Projects Coordinator for the charity Crimestoppers Scotland, said: “In our experience, young people want to do the right thing and speak up, but they’re often worried about being labelled a grass or physical reprisals.“We’re urging young people to continue to tell our

iOS - Android The college was shortlisted alongside companies such as Capital City Partnership, Springfield Properties and Together Energy Limited.The judges commended its enhanced approach to equality, diversity and inclusion across all stages of the employee journey.The college’s commitment to diversity and inclusion has been recognised through various engagements and awards recently including Disability Confident Employer, Carer Positive Engaged award and the LGBT Youth Scotland Silver

iOS - Android HIT Scotland’s annual lunch was designed to raise funds for the trust and allow students the opportunity to hone their skills in one of Scotland’s top hotels.The event, which was held earlier this month, was hosted by journalist and radio presenter, Tam Cowan.At the lunch, students made and served the guests a chocolate dome with orange curd and chocolate mousse dessert.There was also a Glasgow traffic cone made from chocolate.The famous cone that resides on the head of the statue

iOS - Android The Society, with an animal rescue centre in Hamilton, hopes to raise funds for Scotland’s animals by asking the public to share how their pets have helped them through lockdown and the important role they play in their lives. Stories will then be displayed on the Society’s ‘hall of fame’ webpage, and be entered into a draw to win prizes including six-months-worth of pet food.

Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletterWest Lothian Council has imposed a new 40mph speed limit on roads approaching a busy roundabout.The move is said to “help reduce accident frequency and severity in the area and make the roundabout and surrounding roads safer for all users.”A statutory process is set to get underway which will see the speed limit on all roads approaching the A801 Boghead Roundabout to be set at the

iOS - Android In a bid to prevent people being hospitalised with flu and relieve pressure on the NHS, more people than ever – over four million – are being offered the free vaccine this year.Among the groups being offered are those aged 50 and over; children aged two to five years who are not yet at school; children over six months of age who are deemed ‘at risk’ with medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, heart and lung diseases, or autoimmune

Get the latest parenting news sent straight to your inbox with our weekly newsletterSchool clothing grants could double to £300 if Labour topple the SNP in next year’s local council elections, it has been claimed.Leader of the West Dunbartonshire Labour group, Councillor Martin Rooney tabled a motion at a recent council meeting proposing the rise to be implemented between 2022 and 2027.It comes after the Scottish Government funded an increase in the grants available for primary pupils to £120

book lovers by revealing it's actually from New Zealand. For decades we have assumed the book was Scottish - a belief so widely held that it has been taught in schools and is even found in the Scottish section in bookstores and online.The book, which was published in 1983, tells the story of dog Hairy and his adventures with his animal pals.

Perth and Kinross Council is confident of meeting the deadline to install interlinking fire alarms.

iOS - Android Glasgow came sixth with 3400 while Edinburgh ninth on the list, dropping down to 800 complaints - but West Dunbartonshire received no neighbour noise complaints in the last year at all.Steven Williams, head of Churchill home insurance, said: “The pandemic has seen us confined to our homes which means we’ve probably all become very aware of noises around us.“As we go into more of a ‘new normal’, many of us will carry on working from home, at least part of the time, so noisy

iOS - Android The Tories’ Central Scotland list MSP Meghan Gallacher said: “The amount of Community Payback Orders cut by the SNP in Lanarkshire is absolutely staggering.“They’ve let criminals off the hook by writing off these sentences.

iOS - Android In neighbouring South Lanarkshire, 6155 families had 21,275 payments totalling £1.05m.So far, across Scotland 108,000 children have benefitted from the payment which provides eligible families with £10 per week.

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happensMark, who lives in Lounsdale Drive in Foxbar, has an allocated garden space within the grounds of the block-of-four flats.However, he claims he has felt he has been unable to use it since March 2020 when the Ring doorbell camera was installed.The 55-year-old has lived in the property for nine years, and says he feels like his privacy is being invaded as it films directly onto his garden.But he says he is getting nowhere with the local authority to

iOS - Android And for the week ending August 22, this dropped to 65.5 per cent of 4290 attendances - compared to 75.1 per cent across Scotland. At Hairmyres in East Kilbride 64.1 per cent or patients were seen, admitted or discharged within four hours, with 453 waiting over four hours, 83 patients over eight hours and 17 over 12.

iOS - Android Marc Lamnbert, CEO of Scottish Book Trust, told Lanarkshire LIve: "“The Live Literature School Residencies Programme (LLSRP) is incredibly important."It allows authors to build relationships with a school over time, working together with pupils on a dedicated project."The LLSRP, now in its sixth year, is funded by the Walter Scott Giving Group and delivered by Scottish Book Trust, the national charity changing lives through reading and writing.Schools across the country were