It’s “Cake Saturday” here at Blantyre Telegraph! We’ve been out this morning delivering free boxes of cakes to several hard working businesses around Blantyre. A wee lunchtime unexpected surprise for staff and their customers. Supporting local business too of course by buying them in the first place from the excellent Jinxy’s Bakery in High Blantyre. […]
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More Checkout Staff at Asda
Asda has announced it is putting more staff back on to checkouts after admitting it has reached a limit with self-service tills. Asda’s CFO announced that whilst self-checkouts work well for customers, it wants to invest additional hours into having manned checkouts. However, the company maintain it is not about shopper’s preference for a human […]
Job Opportunities
New cafe “Lime to Go – Blantyre” based at Blantyre Industrial Estate are looking for 2 part time members of staff. Working hours will be between 7am and 3pm Monday to Saturday. Ideally the candidates will have experience in catering and deli service to customers. This experience is preferred but not essential. One of the […]
Education Staff Absences
Article by Columnist, Jordan Tennant Psychological concerns are common amongst South Lanarkshire education employees. A council report has found a third of all staff absences in education resources for September were due to psychological reasons. This resulted in 1,715 working days lost for that month alone and absences relating to respiratory problems had doubled from […]
Parkville Pensioners Lunch
The Parkville on Glasgow Road was the scene of a recent successful Christmas Party for pensioners. The business held their annual Pensioner’s Christmas Lunch on Tuesday 4th December 2018 , which was a roaring success with over 200 people attending and clearly a great time had by all. What makes this all the more special, […]
David Livingstone Centre, Certificate of Excellence
The David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre has been awarded a prestigious certificate of excellence from ratings website , Trip Advisor. It is one of four attractions in Central Belt that have been recognised by visitors as being a top tourist destination. David Livingstone Centre was praised particularly for its “welcoming staff”. National Trust assistant director Keith […]





