Electro 80’s Night

The BIG Electro 80’s Christmas Curry night is taking place this Saturday evening. Being held in the Miners Welfare, this much anticipated evening is still going ahead. Organiser Peter Houghton of PH Promotions told us, “ We want this event to go ahead as safely as possible, so please help us help you enjoy the […]

Calderglen Care Home Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Victoria House Care Home in Blantyre to become the new manager and lead their wonderful staff team. This post has become available as the present longstanding manager is retiring. Glasgow G72£30,000 – £60,000 a year –  Full-time, Permanent ADVERT: We are a 50 bed care home for older adults based in […]

DLB Change of Hours

Looking after visitors, volunteers and staff is David Livingstone Birthplace’s priority. As COVID cases begin to rise through the winter months, they have made the decision to: Close from 20 Dec – 7 January 22 Open weekends only from 8 January 2022 (until February 2022)DON’T FORGET – With Visit Scotland, you can get 50% off entry! Details below.  […]

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 […]

Emergency Traffic Management

Roads and Transport have erected Emergency Traffic management on Glasgow Road at Springwells, Blantyre, due to problems with the existing Miller’s Fireplace building. The roadworks are in place and been erected due to dangerous building no. 26-28 Glasgow Road with the footway closed. The building is in a terrible state of repair, subsided and has […]

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Would YOUR children or grandchildren like to visit Santa this Saturday?!! We’re excited to announce, flying in from the North Pole, Santa is coming to Glen Travel to delight local children and spread some festive cheer this very weekend! Yes! Santa will be at Glen Travel on Glasgow Road this coming Saturday 18th December between […]

Stonefield Public Park Orchard

Open grassland in Stonefield Public Park in Blantyre has been transformed this week as many dozens of fruit trees were planted to form a little orchard. The public park is one of 13 parks throughout Lanarkshire which are receiving hundreds of new trees to beautify the area and being planted as a memorial to the […]