South Lanarkshire Council ban popular app TikTok

Lanarkshire care home residents have been vaccinated.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.NHS Lanarkshire has now completed administering the first dose of its coronavirus vaccine to eligible care home residents.Hamilton’s Abercorn care home was the first in Scotland to have residents vaccinated in min-December with 90 year old Annie Innes being the country’s first care home resident to receive the vaccine.Since then, almost 2,990 Lanarkshire care home residents have been vaccinated.The first

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

link.“All political parties should be willing to work together to end the stigma, save lives and to help Scotland’s recovery community thrive.”Former public health minister Joe FitzPatrick has since been sacked by the Scottish Government and a new minister for drugs policy, Angela Constance, has been appointed in the role.

NHS Ayrshire & Arran has recorded another 140 new coronavirus cases overnight.The region's total now stands at 10, 996.NHS Ayrshire & Arran Covid hospital patient numbers are down by seven to 194.But ICU numbers are back at a second wave high of 12.Latest 7-day case rates per 100,000 show that North Ayrshire is currently the worst-hit in the county (341.4) with East on 320.5 and South on 266.4.Across Scotland 1,877 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours - a 10 per cent positivity

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.NHS Lanarkshire is getting ready to vaccinate those aged 80 years of age and over as it rolls out the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine into GP and community settings from January 11.With mainland Scotland now in lockdown, Mark Russell, Associate Medical Director from NHS Lanarkshire today reminded those eligible who will be invited in the coming weeks, that getting the COVID-19 vaccine is a permissible

drug” racket exposed by the Daily Record.We revealed yesterday how Telegram, owned by tech tycoon Pavel Durov, had been used by dealers in Scotland to flog heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy, high-strength cannabis and prescription pills.They tried to hide their trade behind the app’s end-to-end encryption – but we unearthed a chat group called weed/coke/420/pills/lsd/glasgow/uk that included price lists and pictures of the drugs available.The Scottish drug selling group had more than 14,700

Rutherglen and Cambuslang has the highest rate of new cases in the region, at 3.84 per 1000 residents.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Scotland is being plunged back into a tougher lockdown to deal with soaring levels of COVID-19 infection.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the harsher measures in an emergency statement at the Scottish Parliament, telling the public to "stay at home".She said: "The Cabinet met this morning to assess the up-to-date COVID situation - which is extremely serious - and discuss what further action is

found in a popular Scots park. Police were called following reports from members of the public after the 18-year-old's body was discovered by walkers in Meadowfield Park, in Edinburgh which is situated below Arthur's Seat.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Meet little Ciaran Quinn – Lanarkshire’s first New Year baby.It is believed that the wee bundle of joy could also be Scotland’s first arrival of 2021.His mum Lisa-Anne, of Hamilton, gave birth to the beautiful baby boy at 12.19am on January 1at University Hospital Wishaw.Proud dad Barry looked on as they welcomed the 8lb 15oz arrival, who was due just before Christmas but decided to put in a late entrance on

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

South Lanarkshire grandad Pat Dolan a card that would extend his life by six weeks, his loving family backed him all the way when he turned it down. They wanted him to live with terminal pancreatic cancer – not die trying to spend an extra few weeks with them.Pat was aged 64 when he was diagnosed with the deadliest common form of cancer in Scotland, with tragically low survival rates.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) said thousands of struggling people last year were nearly £7m in arrears.They are calling on the Scottish Government to consider wiping out the debt or creating a special hardship fund.CAS, which advises people with money problems, says council tax debt is the number one issue their network deal with.In 2019/20, they said 2,257 people sought help from them over a debt issue involving council tax, with arrears totalling £6.8m.CAS fears the end of furlough and

Police have arrested and charged a man in connection with 14 alleged bogus crime incidents and stolen car pursuits. The 33-year-old was nicked after a major operation by Police Scotland officers in the Greater Glasgow and Lanarkshire areas.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.New College Lanarkshire came out tops in the Employer Connections at the CDN College Awards 2020 for its role in connecting and supporting businesses across Lanarkshire.The prestigious annual awards, hosted virtually by Elaine C Smith, celebrate innovation in Scotland’s college sector.The Lanarkshire Business Hub brings vital partners, industry experts and the business community together as part of monthly

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Alcohol-related deaths in Lanarkshire have fallen to their lowest level since 2001.Figures released by the National Records of Scotland revealed that there were 137 deaths in the region counted as being due to alcohol in 2019.Of those deaths, 91 were in North Lanarkshire – the lowest since 2013 – and 46 were in South Lanarkshire – the lowest since 1997.The figures represent a 19 per cent drop since 2018 –

Rutherglen ’s MSP has warned ”tough” times lie ahead, as Lanarkshire prepares to re-enter tier four restrictions on Boxing Day amid the specter of a new, significantly more transmissible strain of coronavirus.