RESIDENTS are demanding action to clear the eyesore that is the former Bellshill Athletic football stadium.

NEIGHBOURS were stunned to learn this week that a Carfin pensioner had been jailed for molesting four young girls.

NORTH Lanarkshire Council is producing a Town Centre Framework for Motherwell, designed to help guide ‘future improvement and change’.

A VIEWPARK cat owner has slammed a cruel thug who shot her pet in the face.

members of Lodge St Enoch 1288 Tannochside laid on a treat for local senior citizens last week when they held their annual pensioners’ dinner at Tannochside Olde Club.

North Lanarkshire Council leader Jim McCabe accused the Scottish Government of financial blackmail as the 2012/13 budget was unveiled.

HEALTH chiefs have been criticised after an inquiry into the deaths of three patients who had gall bladder surgery at Lanarkshire hospitals.

A TEAM from Bellshill Academy were rewarded for daring to enter the ‘Dragons’ Lair’ when they scooped first prize in a business enterprise competition.

UDDINGSTON and Bellshill MSP Michael McMahon has hit out at the Scottish Government for snubbing Lanarkshire for the second time in a month.

ALMOST 2,000 more people are to be helped into work after plans to combat unemployment in North Lanarkshire were given the green light.

HUNDREDS of disabled parking badges are still in circulation in North Lanarkshire after the permit-holders have died.

A MOSSEND woman this week hit out at those responsible for putting a four-week-old kitten in a plastic bag and leaving it to die.

SAINSBURY’S proposed development in Motherwell could be in doubt after the Scottish Government stated the Hamilton Road site should not be used for shopping.

WORKERS at the Dalzell Steelworks in Motherwell are up in arms over the Scottish Government overlooking them as a supplier for the new £1.5 billion Forth Road Bridge.

NORTH Lanarkshire Council has apologised for misleading public transport users at the start of the year-long environmental improvement works in Hamilton Road and Muir Street.

A 59-year-old man suffered only minor injuries after the lorry he was driving tipped onto its side at the railway bridge on Craigneuk Street, Motherwell, last Wednesday around 11am.

NEIGHBOURS were shocked this week to learn that a serial sex offender had been housed beside them in Motherwell.

ORGANISERS of a petition against the feared closed of Airbles Station presented hundreds of signatures to Motherwell and Wishaw MSP John Pentland last week.

A SPECIAL event will be held next week to mark the 25th anniversary of an Uddingston factory workforce’s struggle to save their jobs which captured international headlines.

MILLIONS of pounds is set to be spent tacking unemployment throughout North Lanarkshire.