A bitterly cold and icy night for central Scotland tonight with temperatures potentially dropping to around – 6 or -7. Very cold and icy with clear skies developing for most areas. Mainly dry but the odd light isolated snow flurry is possible. Bitter north-westerly winds. Thursday Tomorrow will see another windy and cold day with […]
The travellers who were camped up the last couple of weeks at Hamilton Technology Park, High Blantyre, are now away, having moved on. However, what an absolute mess has been left! Unfortunately, Bags of rubbish everywhere, gas bottles, the carpark at the western side of the Tech Park looks like its had a tornado ripped […]
Some awful breaking new tonight as we’re so very sorry to report that Blantyre’s Kat Ferguson has sadly passed away. Her family have been in touch and asked for us to make this post to make everybody aware. Kat (27) had been terminally ill for some time and passed away earlier this evening. You may […]
Had a message or two about this over the last few weeks, about the rubbish being tipped near public bins. There’s constantly rubbish at the side of the charity bins (near the top of the Asda carpark). Bags of unwanted things, in amongst broken glass. It can take a while for this to be picked […]
Festive bin collection and waste services information is available: No bin collections on Wed 25 Dec, Thu 26 Dec, Wed 1 Jan Changes to collection days: • Mon and Tue collections remain the same • Collections from Wed-Fri (Christmas week) will be 2 days later • Collections from Wed-Fri (New Year week) will be 1 […]
After a bit of a delay, (and a wild rumour that there were actually no lights on Blantyre’s trees this year!), we’re pleased to say the Christmas lights in this town are now all on! Last year High Blantyre’s tree snapped at the base after a sudden storm and wasn’t replaced. Hopefully there are no […]
There was a shock for the owner of the ‘Wee Wool Shop’ on Main Street, High Blantyre today. Earlier today, Tuesday 19th November, Anne went over to the post box out on the pavement to change the knitted post box topper from Remembrance Day themed crochet, to Christmas theme, but was shocked to find….. it […]
Disgruntled residents in Station Road, Blantyre awoke this morning to find much of Station road coned off, with many of them not being notified. This happened late last night, and it would appear many households were not notified of the work. One angry resident told Blantyre Telegraph, “I wasn’t informed, nor my neighbours. The traffic […]