Bellshill, Scotland News

HUNDREDS of votes have been received for the Young Voice of 2009 - but the end of coming! You have to act quickly, the closing date for votes is Monday, January 4, at noon.

A GLASGOW MSP has hit out at ScotRail for cutting train links between Cambuslang and Edinburgh.

TALENTED pupils from secondary schools all over Lanarkshire played a starring role in ensuring the 13th Supercounty Supershow was another resounding success.

An initiative being piloted in Lanarkshire which sees firefighters taking to the streets on bikes in a bid to spread their fire safety message is claimed to be a success.

THE Labour whip at North Lanarkshire Council may ask for a change in committee membership to improve the chances of keeping St Matthew's Primary open.

DITCH effort failed to stop the re-possession of Orbiston Kennels in Bellshill this week because of mortgage arrears run up by the business's owner.

A PETITION signed by over 1,200 people calling for North Lanarkshire Council's controversial Bellshill town centre action plan to be put on hold has fallen on deaf ears.

Parents protesting against school closures fear they will fail to save a North Lanarkshire primary.

TALENTED pupils from secondary schools all over Lanarkshire played a starring role in ensuring the 13th Supercounty Supershow was another resounding success.

A firefighter wrongly assumed pensioners had been evacuated from a fire-ravaged care home because of the a oecalm and relaxeda nature of the nursing staff.

Brent South MP Dawn Butler has made history as the first black woman to speak at the Commons despatch box.

Firefighters in Lanarkshire are taking to the streets on bikes in a bid to make them and their fire safety message more accessible to the public.

Parents at closure-threatened primary schools in North Lanarkshire have vowed to fight the proposals.

A 65-year-old man has died in a collision on the M8 in Glasgow after he drove his Peugeot 206 in the wrong direction down the motorway.

Drivers in Lanarkshire face a fortnight of disruptions as work begins on a 1m project to rebuild the southbound carriageway of the M74.

By John Robertson Law Correspondent AN OVER-the-limit driver who crashed his car and killed a passenger was jailed for six years yesterday.

SUPERMARKET chain Tesco opened its much-awaited new store in Bellshill this week, bringing over 200 jobs to the area.

BELLSHILL town centre will lose another shop this week with the closure on Monday of the Victoria Wine shop in Main Street.

MINDLESS firebugs torched a cleansing depot and caused 100,000 worth of damage. Around 100 plastic bins and a bin lorry were set on fire at the PHS All Clear yard in Main Street, Calderbank.

THE unfortunate supermarket employee who engaged the services of the Bellshill Imperial Flute Band to open the new Tesco outlet in the North Lanarkshire town got an instant lesson in the tribal divisions that plague the south-west of Scotland.