Town centre residents and business owners welcome council U-turn on parking charges

direct to your inboxA second coronavirus vaccination centre is to open in Rochdale next week. The site, at the Phoenix Centre on Church Street, Heywood, will take its first patients on Tuesday, December 29.

A Seattle-area Antifa member, who has been arrested multiple times during violent protests and tweeted out a list of businesses that supported the city's efforts to clean out a homeless encampment, has been identified as a children's camp counselor and substitute teacher.  On Dec.

Bury line last night show a crowded carriage with passengers unable to socially distance. The images sent to the Manchester Evening News were taken on a Metrolink service approaching Abraham Moss at around 8pm on Monday.

Glasgow is at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak after 38 staff tested positive for the deadly bug. Royal Mail bosses today confirmed the cases at the Glasgow Mail Centre in the city’s Springburn, where around 1,000 people are employed.

bomb squad has been called to a busy Scots call centre after the discovery of a ‘suspicious package’.The alarm was raised at the Tesco Customer Engagement Centre in Dundee shortly after 10am on Monday.Police locked down the surrounding roads including the city’s Kingsway as a precaution.Staff were also been evacuated from the building ‘as a precaution’ while emergency services dealt with the ongoing incident.A spokesperson for Police Scotland said:"We were made aware around 10.10am on Monday, 21

direct to your inboxStockport council has U-turned on ‘reckless’ plans to change school transport for special needs pupils after an outcry from parents.The authority had planned to switch to new taxi and minibus providers in January - something which usually happens when schools go back in September but was delayed this year due to the pandemic.But parents reacted furiously.They said bringing in new drivers and assistants would disrupt Covid ‘bubbles’ which had been unchanged since March,

What is the course and who is it aimed at?The Small Business Leadership Programme is a free 10-week online course to support business leaders to guide their businesses through survival and growth in response to Covid-19. It provides timely management training in areas including innovation, financial planning, marketing, and employee engagement.

NHS worker was given a ticket for being 'parked in a car park' despite displaying a pass that entitled him to free parking. Si Gracey works in IT and was delivering computers to Bury Older People’s Memory Assessment Service at the Ribchester Centre, in Parsons Lane, Bury, last Tuesday (December 8).

Cambuslang councillor has written to the Scottish Government to demand it does more to kick-start the local economy.

link.Conservative group leader Meghan Gallacher, who seconded the successful joint motion, said: “We were pleased to work alongside opposition councillors to scrap these throughout North Lanarkshire.“Both the Conservatives and the SNP agreed that parking charges would have a devastating impact on our town centres and communities.“This shows the strength of collegiate working between opposition groups to ensure the right decisions are made for the communities we represent.”Parking charges had

Perth councillor - who sits on the NHS Tayside board - is urging people to be patient when it comes to the COVID vaccine. Perth City Centre councillor Eric Drysdale made the remarks as he opened Wednesday’s IJB meeting.

Some governors are favoring celebrities and Hollywood in the enforcement of coronavirus-related shutdown orders, Fox News contributor Joe Concha said, reacting to a business owner in California who blasted an entertainment company for setting up a tent to feed its crew near her establishment, which had been forced to close due to public health concerns.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThere will be free parking in Ayr in the run-up to Christmas.South Ayrshire Council has stopped the pay and display charges in the town for the whole of December. Motorists can leave their vehicles for free in all street bays and council run car parks including Barns Crescent, Charlotte Street and Kyle Street. It will make life easier for shoppers if First Minister Nicola Sturgeon allows non

A small business owner said Sunday that California's new coronavirus shutdown may force him out of business.  Alex Miladi, the owner of a karate academy in South Yuba City, told "Fox & Friends" his business has already taken a 70% hit as a result of prior California lockdown measures to contain the virus. “This coming lockdown will pretty much put us out [of business],” he said.

set to be officially scrapped at a meeting of the council’s policy and resources committee tomorrow, 10 months after they were first agreed and just weeks after a new outpouring of opposition following the publication of related traffic regulations which would also have introduced restrictions including permit zones on surrounding streets.

East Kilbride town centre.