Congratulations to local man, Chris Skelton who ran an incredible 67 miles from Crianlarich to Blantyre, finishing at the Parkville Hotel. It took him 20 hours yesterday! An amazing achievement and we can only imagine who tired he must be this weekend! Chris was raising awareness for Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month and supporting Men With […]
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 […]
Another lovely wee story of kindness in the community. This time the Good Samaritan was caring Shelley Hilston of Hamilton. Shelley and her daughter were in Blantyre Asda today and was at the checkout putting their shopping through when they noticed an elderly lady in the other lane getting her shopping scanned at the same […]
A sensitive story tonight about a Blantyre family going through a painful and difficult time as one of their own is diagnosed with a terminal illness. A family in need of our collective help. Pictured is Kat, who has just turned 27 on the 2nd of October. She is the first born daughter and is […]
Here’s a nice wee story to get the weekend off to a great start! A tale of honesty and kindness. One of our readers, last night, accidentally put an unopened parcel on top of her car last night and unfortunately drove off forgetting it was there! She soon discovered the parcel was missing and spent […]
Here’s a great story of a local lad doing well. Well done to Calderside Academy pupil, Josh Cameron (15) for making the top 25 best valeters out of 5,500 schools pupils! Incredibly, Josh trained 700 fellow pupils at 8 different schools in Glasgow and North Lanarkshire and even got a chance to valet luxury sports […]
Remember we posted about Blantyre’s Tyler Meechan who was heading off to London last weekend to compete at the ITFU Taekwondo European Championships? Well, we have some excellent news all about this talented 11 year old! Tyler took part in the popular tournament which brought people from all over Europe. She was competing in two […]
Hope you will join us in wishing Blantyre’s Tyler Meechan the very best as she heads off to London this weekend to compete in the ITFU Taekwondo European Championships! The talented 11 year old currently holds the European Title for Patterns at this same event which was held in Madrid last year and she has […]