North Lanarkshire Council urges Wishaw residents to shop local as pandemic continues

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Health and social care staff have been praised for their willingness to embrace change as they continue to deliver vital services in North Lanarkshire.Staff have had to alter the way they work due to the “enormous impact” of the Covid-19 pandemic, and embrace new technologies.North Lanarkshire’s Integration Joint Board (IJB) has also been updated on the intention to renew focus on the ambitions set out in

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.MORE than 23,000 free sanitary products have been distributed across North Lanarkshire since the start of a council scheme aimed at tackling period poverty.Women who menstruate will now have greater access to the products as these are made available in community outlets, schools and community hubs, early learning and childcare centres and health board establishments across the region.In addition, an

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser“People are worried they will permanently lose their local centres, so we need answers to these key questions and openness about the challenges of Covid-19 for recovery of culture and leisure services.”Councillor Linden has written to Culture and Leisure NL on three occasions in the past asking about facilities in his ward and more generally across North Lanarkshire, but says the only response has been that plans will go to a

link.She added that further “funding for 2020-21 for 30 to 35 small vans” had been accepted which will mean “34 per cent of the fleet will be electric”.That grant of £337,000 includes £90,000 to install nine new charging points across the council’s estate.Councillor Joe Fagan (East Kilbride Central North), leader of the Labour group, praised the council for “its good record when it comes to electric vehicles”.However, he compared the choice between electric and hydrogen power with the choice

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link.“Emissions from fuel used within our fleet has continued to reduce.

was about recruitment statistics for the council – an issue, along with the online abuse, that almost drove Mo to quit because he was “fed up” with the lack of change. Mo added: “What happens with an ethnic minority councillor or politician is that you are put up to a higher standard.“Anything at all gets put in and you get slaughtered.

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the new £3.40 weekly cost is “putting elderly and vulnerable folk at risk”, and vowed to “continue to work with SNP councillors to try to get it overturned”.

a squatters group, however they were soon evicted by the Wellington Pub Company who own the building. It has since been unoccupied.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A coronavirus outbreak has been identified at a council building in Motherwell.It is understood eight staff members at North Lanarkshire Council’s Dalziel building have tested positive for the virus over the last week.An entire floor within the building has been closed for a deep clean whilst investigations are being carried out.Council bosses say the cause of the Covid-19 cases has yet to be identified,

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire Conservatives have accused Shotts MP Neil Gray of hypocrisy over recent comments regarding community alarms.Mr Gray slammed the decision to introduce the £3.40 per week charge in last week’s Wishaw Press.However, the local authority’s Tory Group state they voted against the charges being introduced in February’s budget, with SNP and Labour voting to reintroduce the charges, and they

link.“To give just one example of this work, the committee will hear about the fantastic progress being made, with the help of Scottish Government funding, to reduce the carbon footprint of our vehicles by the introduction of more electric vehicles.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A trial which would have seen overloaded North Lanarkshire bins not being emptied has been postponed.The local authority instead will take part in a separate electronic tagging initiative to monitor recycling.Councillors had given the go-ahead in February for a three-month pilot project to address the problem of bins being too full to be collected safely; first by offering recycling help or additional

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire Council has agreed its winter service project for 2020-2021.The plan contains no changes from last year and covers only normal services, not major events such as 2018’s Beast from the East.Following February’s budget, grit bin provision has been rationed to focus on the areas most in need, with the overall number being reduced by 20 per cent.Maps of gritting routes are available online and