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Click here for more from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserPeople are also being encouraged to light a candle and place it in their windows, as part of a campaign to encourage remembrance being run by the Holocaust Memorial Trust.North Lanarkshire provost Jean Jones said: “Today is such an important occasion as we remember the terrible human cost of Holocaust.“It is vital these harrowing tragedies are never forgotten and we must try to prevent future genocides and create a better safer future

link.East Kilbride MSP Linda Fabiani said the health board had been clear that GP’s and local teams were vaccinating the over 80s, with other groups being vaccinated in hub centres.

some £30 million to North Lanarkshire alone. “The generous SNP Government extra grants for new-build housing and for purchasing extra housing.“Cash for insulating homes, saving families £400 a year on their heating bills.

Adapted from the fictional memoir by Nico Walker based on events in his life, Cherry stars Tom Holland as a Cleveland kid who joins the Army as a medic, sees an inordinate amount of carnage and comes home with a raging undiagnosed cast of PTSD. He developed an addiction to the opioids prescribed him and soon begins committing armed bank robbery to feed his addiction, as hopes and dreams with his young wife give way to their drug habit.

It’s the first workday for “Joseph Robinhood Biden,” as The Daily Show host Trevor Noah called him. Among his first duties was to swear-in the “4,000” appointees that will be assisting him. But that swearing in via Zoom came with a warning from the 46th president.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Food takeaways have formed an almighty alliance to ensure no child needs to go hungry while schools are closed after further Covid-19 restrictions were put in place.Among the North Lanarkshire businesses forming the Takeaway Alliance is a recently opened cafe in Wishaw.That Place in Caledonian Road, owned by Coltness couple Owen and Arlene McGhee, is offering kids meals free-of-charge to hungry children who

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The extent of the mental health toll on school staff in North Lanarkshire has been revealed.Startling new figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, show that from April 2017 up until the start of 2021, an incredible 35,608 school staff days have been lost in North Lanarkshire for mental health reasons.The figures include 21,557 lost days for teachers, 2153 for head and deputy heads and

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A Shotts mum claims education bosses are failing her young son and is pleading for them to place him in school for children with additional support needs.Louise Brown, 34, says her six-year-old son Harly – who has undergone diagnosis for pathological demand avoidance (PDA), an autism spectrum disorder, is being let down by North Lanarkshire Council’s education department and isn’t getting the education he

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserTrudi added: “I fully understand we’re all eager to get vaccinated – however, I’d call for people across Lanarkshire to please be patient as we work through priority groups.“What I must stress is that the vaccine is only one element in a wider range of ways we can keep ourselves and loved ones safe from – and cut down transmission of – Covid-19.”She emphasised the continuing importance of physical distancing, hand washing and

Hamilton’s Abercorn Care Home resident Annie Innes, 90, became the first person in a care home to receive the vaccine.Trudi Marshall, Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire nurse director, who is managing the care home vaccination programme across the whole of Lanarkshire, said: “We very rapidly scaled up our nursing workforce and carried out detailed planning in a very short time to enable us to roll the vaccinations out to some of our most vulnerable residents.“We have been vaccinating every

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserSNP group leader Councillor Johnston hit back, saying that authorities’ settlements cannot be determined until the overall Holyrood budget is finalised – and said the council leader was being “highly selective” in his comments as he highlighted projects across North Lanarkshire which benefit from Scottish Government funding.Addressing why Welsh councils have been given settlements while Scottish authorities are still waiting, he

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Encouraging people to talk openly about suicide is at the heart of a new prevention campaign.The Let’s Talk initiative, being launched by North Lanarkshire Council, is focused on raising awareness about suicide prevention as the latest figures show a worrying increase in people taking their own lives.Last year, 49 people in North Lanarkshire took their own lives with the rate amongst 15-24 year old men in

Brooke Vincent has admitted she “cried into her washing” as she waved her adorable one year old son Mexx off on his first day of nursery. Coronation Street star Brooke, 28, asked fans for reassurance as she shared a sweet photo of her son Mexx standing up wearing a jacket and backpack ready for his first day at nursery.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Covid restrictions will be tightened in Wishaw and across North Lanarkshire amid fears that the ‘Stay at Home’ message is not getting through to the public.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned that the situation in the country “remains very precarious and extremely serious”.From Saturday, click-and-collect services will be limited to retailers providing essential items only which includes clothing,

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Thieves have been cashing in on an upsurge in cycling during the Covid-19 pandemic.Police in North Lanarkshire say that, while more folk have been taking to the saddle, there’s been a rise in thefts.Over a five-month period from the beginning of lockdown, 108 bikes were stolen across the area.Lizanne McMurrich, North Lanarkshire Council’s head of communities, said: “More people are using pedal cycles for

sectors, carers and people who use services.