Suicide prevention campaign is urging North Lanarkshire residents to talk about their emotions

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

first doses for all eligible care home residents had been completed, and say that work with GP surgeries has been taking place since January 11 to contact everyone aged over 80 and people who are housebound.

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

Lanarkshire care home residents have been vaccinated.

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

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

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserShirley Mitchell, who is NHS Lanarkshire’s tobacco control programme manager, said: “Giving up smoking isn’t something people have to do on their own, and this service is available for those who have any queries about stopping smoking.“While face-to-face support cannot be provided at this time, phone-based support can be just as effective; and there’s never been a more important time to support people who smoke, both to quit and

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.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

Donald Trump picked the city for the first of his signature campaign rallies of the coronavirus era.

CARING charities across North and South Lanarkshire helped Aldi donate around 10,898 meals to people in need on Christmas Eve.The supermarket paired up its stores with local charities, community groups and foodbanks to make the most of unsold fresh and chilled food after stores closed before Santa’s arrival.Around 210 tonnes of food were donated throughout the UK, with more than 500,000 meals donated and over 750 British causes benefitting from the initiative in total.The donation is Aldi’s

local authority can buy “off-the-shelf” properties which will then be used for rental, sought proposals in five areas including Monklands this summer and has to date led to “a number being considered with potential to deliver over 300 homes”.

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

A MOTION calling for more than 200 additional teachers in North Lanarkshire schools has been passed.The plan, proposed by the Conservative group, would see 208 extra teachers in schools across the local authority area and was passed by 37 councillors with an SNP amendment being defeated.The motion also called on councillors to agree that a letter would be sent from the local authority to the SNP Education Secretary John Swinney to state North Lanarkshire Council’s support for this policy and