Category: Alerts

Apple Outages

If you have any apple products or services, you may be experiencing some difficulties tonight. A number of Apple services are experiencing outage, according to a support page on the firm’s website. Apple’s system status page shows that the services affected include Maps, Apple Store, Apple Arcade, the iTunes store, podcasts and Apple TV+. The services […]

Apple Devices Important Update

If you’re the owner of an Apple Device, (e.g Mac, Ipad, Iphone or Iwatch), you’ll want to pay attention to an urgent security update pushed out this weekend. Apple have rolled out the update to attend to a serious security flaw and are advising users to update their devices as soon as possible. That makes […]

Scam Text Messages

A whole wave of scam text messages has been doing the rounds again. The latest one, this time is a text message coming from a mobile number, pretending to be a track and trace service. This is a common occurrence during the last few weeks in this local area. Please look out for people in […]

Alert: Garden Prowler

Alerts about crime are normally reserved only for our Supporters Group, but given this has just happened and we received a couple of messages about it, the person may still be in the area and so we’re posting here. A Garden prowler has been spotted in Gordon Terrace, Priory Bridge tonight Thursday 16th December just […]

Road Lighting Not working

Street lights have been out for 5 nights in a row beyond the Westend and at parts of Coatshill, Blantyre. Scottish power have been working to repair an LV Fault near Glasgow Road which has resulted in the entire street lighting from the bend at Old Spittal bridge right along to Dunallan loop and also […]

Alert – Overflowing Sewers

An alert for Pedestrians, cyclists, dogwalkers and indeed anybody at Livingstone Crescent, Blantyre. The recent heavy rainfall has caused a sewer to overflow and the road is covered in sewage. (Human Waste). Take care as it looks like earth or dirt, but isn’t! We wouldn’t want anybody treading it into homes. Scottish Water have been […]

Parkburn Estate Fire

Emergency fire crews were called out to the Parkburn Industrial Estate in Blantyre today as a vehicle fire spread. Firefighters arrived on the scene near Springwells after 1pm today, Tuesday 13th July 2021 and were confronted by a van which had caught fire in the small Industrial Estate. Unfortunately, the fire quickly spread to an […]