Two Lanarkshire apprentices honoured with top awards

An exclusive school in Crieff is celebrating top marks after being named among the best 10 prep schools in the entire UK.

Research around Scotland's most haunted places has just named Edinburgh as the country's spookiest spot ahead of Halloween.

Line of Duty's Martin Compston and Kelly Macdonald will join other nominees including James McAvoy, Lawrence Chaney, Tilda Swinton, Jack Lowden as finalists at this year's Scottish BAFTA ceremony.

Family doctors should be permitted to give cannabis-based drugs which prevent children suffering epileptic seizures, a neurologist has said.

Scotland’s streets are expected to be filled with trick-or-treaters dressed in the outfits of Squid Game's death squad this Halloween.

Mick McCann says appointing Craig Pettigrew as captain was an easy call – now revitalised Glenafton are chasing five wins on the spin, writes Mike Wilson.

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iOS - Android The group’s hard work was recognised at the virtual awards ceremony last month.They posted on their Facebook page: “Winning our first gold medal in 2018 was one we would never forget that was followed by our second in 2019 culminating in receiving our Queens Award for Voluntary Service.“Yesterday we received our third gold and its the cherry on top of the cake after so many changes and setting up a new growing area and a global pandemic thrown into the mix.“Today we did a wee bit

iOS - Android Joe's family are concerned for his wellbeing.Inspector Morven Sutherland, based in Dumbarton, said: "We're appealing for anyone who has seen Joe to contact us."Our enquiries have established Joe may be in the Uddingston area, but we are keeping an open mind so anyone who has any information should let us know."Anyone with information should contact Police Scotland on 101 quoting incident number 3195 of 29 September.

iOS - Android Wishaw MSP Clare Adamson said: “People are struggling even with the uplift. Yet the Scottish Tories have the temerity to defend this abominable cut."They are failing in a basic duty as MSPs to advocate for our most vulnerable constituents.

decriminalisation of personal drug use has been recognised at the Scottish Press Awards. The campaign, led by our chief reporter Mark McGivern, was praised by politicians and activists alike.We consistently called for radical measures to be taken to combat the country’s horrific drug death crisis.

iOS - Android An inquiry will be held into the circumstances of his death at a later stage.Callander was jailed for a minimum of 14-and-a-half years after admitting murdering Brian, 54 at an address in the town.Brian suffered injuries including smashed ribs, a ruptured spleen, fractured vertebrae and brain damage.

Perth -based group inspiring and supporting women in business are “delighted” to be a finalist in the 2021 Association of Scottish Businesswomen’s national awards. The hard-working Perthshire Businesswomen’s Network (PBN) is one of only three finalists in the ‘best affiliated group of the year’ category.

iOS - Android Health chiefs say that they hope to have cleared the waiting list by March 2023, and added that services are still reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.The figures have been described as "a crisis" by politicians. Pam Duncan-Glancy, the Labour list MSP, told Lanarkshire Live : "These figures need to be a wake-up call for the Scottish Government.

iOS - Android The global pandemic also presented significant challenges to supporting people faced with homelessness.Changes in legislation to prevent landlords evicting tenants for rent arrears were also introduced across Scotland in response to COVID-19.

iOS - Android This can cause trains to overshoot signals or platforms and affect signalling systems - making it harder to track where trains are on the network.From this week until December, Scotland's Railway's fleet of specialist rail-head treatment trains will be in operation around-the-clock, using high-pressure water jets to clean tracks before coating them with a special adhesive.At a further 110 locations across the network, special "traction gel applicators" have been installed to help

iOS - Android It will offer sit in, take away, drive-thru, deliveries and mobile order and will complement Hamilton's existing Starbucks drive thru on Palace Grounds retail park.Starbucks latest drive-thru is being brought to the town again by Glasgow-based OCO Westend, one of the firms longest licensed partners in the UK, who recently opened another new store in Polmadie.Recent growth means OCO Westend, owned by JJ O'Hara, now employs 273 people across 13 stores in Scotland including Rutherglen

On a daily basis, he also stocked a free food bin for residents in need.And this year, Graham and two staff members, Elaine McCann and Nettie Squibb, smashed their 30-day quest to boost funds for a mental illness charity, Support in Mind Scotland, and raised a fantastic £4,270 from a walking and cycling marathon.The awards ceremony is being hosted virtually at 6pm on Wednesday, October 27.

iOS - Android The sad statistic of 67 suspected deaths in Police Scotland’s Lanarkshire division area is the second highest of any in the country, exceeded only by the Greater Glasgow division.The newly released figures by the Scottish Government compiled from police management information has revealed that the number of people who died from suspected drugs deaths in Lanarkshire for the latest quarter – April to June 2021 – was recorded as 29.