North Lanarkshire rental housing programmes to be expanded

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

Lanarkshire care home residents have been vaccinated.

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

North Korea has been relatively quiet until recently, but that looks like it is changing. Keeping the Hermit Kingdom from becoming President-elect Joe Biden’s first crisis could well require learning some lessons from what the outgoing administration of President Trump got right.

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

A mysterious shipwreck has emerged from the sands of a beach in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Tour guide Ray Stallings posted photos of the wreck on Facebook on Dec.

studying at home for at least the next three weeks due to the current coronavirus restrictions. Users from across the country reported access problems or slow running as the new term got under way this morning.

sectors, carers and people who use services.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A new prevention campaign being launched in North Lanarkshire is encouraging people to talk openly about suicide.“Let’s Talk”, a North Lanarkshire Council initiative, is focusing on raising awareness about suicide prevention as the latest figures show a worrying increase in people taking their own lives.During 2020, 49 people in North Lanarkshire have taken their own lives with the rate amongst 15 to

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Councillors have expressed cross-party support for local authority employees to receive the same £500 bonus being awarded to health workers.Members of North Lanarkshire Council’s Joint Consultative Committee for local government employees unanimously agreed to send an official letter to the Scottish Government supporting calls from trade unions that its recently announced bonus fails to acknowledge the work

The death of a North Carolina teenager on Tuesday has led police to investigate whether she may have been the victim of human trafficking. The Greenville Police Department said officers responded to a report of an apparent overdose at the Baymont Inn. First responders were unable to save the victim, a 16-year-old girl, police said.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The amount of council housing in North Lanarkshire is to more than double in the next 15 years.During a meeting held earlier this month, councillors agreed to expand their current housebuilding target from 2150 new homes by 2027 to 5000 by 2035.This will mean a capital investment of £306 million, almost half of which will be used to make all local authority housing more environmentally friendly and energy