Young fingers are green fingers thanks to Kilbryde Early Learning Centre's bio-diversity garden, which even has diverse origins: the UK Government's Climate Emergency & Resilience Fund gave £2500; the children helped staff plan it; and their families helped with its construction. #ScotClimateWeek
03.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
For every £1 invested in our Money Matters Advice Service, over £12 is gained by South Lanarkshire residents.
15.09.2025 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This image shows Mr and Mrs Reid with depute Provost Bert Thomson and Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Lanarkshire Dr William Morrison Young on the occasion of their Diamond Wedding Anniversary
EK has definitely proved far more than OK for one pair of childhood sweethearts.
Agnes and Raymond Reid moved to East Kilbride eight years after getting married – and are still there, 52 years later and celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary.
More in the View:
https://orlo.uk/OOef6
15.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We're turning a vacant business centre into temporary accommodation to help get South Lanarkshire through the homelessness emergency. Find out more here 👇
27.06.2025 13:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Council and social tenants
Council and social tenants
Are you a South Lanarkshire Council tenant?
Help us shape the future of tenant engagement in your homes, communities, and neighbourhoods.
What’s working well? What could be better? How do you want to get involved?
Consultation is open until 31 July 2025: https://orlo.uk/nqN16
27.06.2025 09:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Clean energy future to be 'built in Britain'
Government publishes its Clean Energy Industries Sector Plan to ensure the clean energy revolution is built in Britain.
Britain's clean energy future is being built now.
Our Clean Energy Industries Sector Plan, part of the Industrial Strategy, will unlock growth potential across the country.
Today, we set out the next phase of Britain’s clean energy transformation:
www.gov.uk/government/n...
23.06.2025 16:39 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 2
This image shows a council employee installing a new digital community alarm system
The digital switchover for community alarm users across South Lanarkshire is almost complete.
The transition in South Lanarkshire is expected to be completed by August this year – with more than 6,000 systems already transferred.
More details in the View:
https://orlo.uk/K7zDn
23.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One of our councillors will be in touch to find out what's going on and help
15.04.2025 20:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Come and meet the Guide Dogs at Kirktonholme with East Kilbride United!
All to promote a good cause and raise funds for the Provost's charity appeal
13.04.2025 00:08 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Out of the starting blocks early for #election26 and our fantastic @scottishlabour.bsky.social candidate @joejfagan.bsky.social
29.03.2025 12:56 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Was listening to Bloomberg radio earlier.
I didn’t realise “a Liz Truss scenario” was a term about the bond market that Americans used when talking to other Americans for a mostly American audience.
Is this soft power?
07.03.2025 16:30 — 👍 507 🔁 61 💬 26 📌 7
This image shows Provost Margaret Cooper and Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Lanarkshire, David Russell, at the launch of the 2025 Touch a Life, Make Difference charity initiative. A guide dog is in the foreground
Led by the Provost’s Office, and supported by the Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire’s office, the initiative launched last year with more than £75,000 raised for the Kilbryde Hospice.
More details in the View:
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/view/news/ar...
28.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Remarkable surge for the Canadian Liberals after a decade in office - the Trump effect.
02.03.2025 17:01 — 👍 50 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
A £55 million building back programme, over £1bn of spending on jobs and services and one of the lowest Council Tax rises in Scotland.
26.02.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a generic image of road workers carrying out resurfacing work on a road in South Lanarkshire. Two traffic cones are in the foreground, with two road workers and a man in a resurfacing vehicle in the background
Find out all the details of the 2025/26 Budget in the View:
www.southlanarkshireview.scot/news/article...
26.02.2025 16:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What are we here for as public servants if not to make a difference that will outlast us? Marmot is a lens to improve people's life chances, extend people's lives and refocus public policy.
26.02.2025 00:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
woman and child in a family support hub
South Lanarkshire’s Family Support Hubs are multi-disciplinary teams that provide whole family support to babies, children, young people and their families across South Lanarkshire. Please read more in the View
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/view/news/ar...
18.02.2025 12:09 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Kirkitilloch East, North and Twechar (East Dunbartonshire) by-election, first preferences:
Lab: 958 (30.2%, +1.0)
SNP: 726 (22.9%, -16.0)
Lib Dem: 677 (21.3%, +2.6)
RUK: 476 (15%, new)
Con: 131 (4.1%, -7.8)
Grn: 128 (4%, new)
Alba: 63 (2%, new)
Sovereignty: 18 (0.6%, new)
Labour elected stage TBC.
13.02.2025 23:51 — 👍 24 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 10
Councillor Leader Joe Fagan holding a young tree about to be planted to replace an ash tree that has been removed due to Ash Dieback disease
Chair of the Community and Enterprise Resources Committee Councillor Robert Brown with the council's Arboriculture officer during an Ash Dieback removal programme
Work is now underway to safely remove the most dangerous trees affected by ash die-back disease. More details in the View
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/view/news/ar...
13.02.2025 16:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lynsey Hamilton and Joe Fagan with members of Clydesdale and East Kilbride Labour
Joe Fagan speaking in the former Council Chamber of East Kilbride District Council
Heartfelt thanks to all those who have chosen me to be Scottish Labour's candidate for East Kilbride - and congratulations to @lhamilton89.bsky.social, our great new candidate for Clydesdale.
It's time to recapture the spirit of 1999 and build a better Scotland.
13.02.2025 01:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to have been selected as the @scottishlabour.bsky.social candidiate for Clydesdale tonight 🌹🌹
Congratulations also to @joejfagan.bsky.social on being selected as the candidiate in East Kilbride.
The hard work begins now ❤️🌹🎉
12.02.2025 21:29 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Weather Warning – schools closure
Due to the Red Alert weather warning issued for much of Scotland, including South Lanarkshire, the decision has been taken to close all our schools and nurseries tomorrow, Friday 24 January 2025. Staff and pupils should not travel to these establishments tomorrow.
23.01.2025 13:30 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Prime Minister Takes On Claims Of 'Cover Up' Over Southport Attack
Keir Starmer has taken on claims of a “cover up” in the case of the Southport attack last July.
Keir Starmer today sought to take on claims of a 'cover-up' in the Southport case:
The PM: “If this trial had collapsed because I or anyone else had revealed crucial details... while we were awaiting a verdict, then the vile individual who committed these crimes would have walked away a free man"
21.01.2025 09:55 — 👍 254 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 4
Building blocks lying on a table spelling out the word 'BUDGET' with the numbers 202 on top with a hand holding the next block between the numbers 5 and 6 indicating the financial year 2025 to 2026. Still time to tell us what you think at www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/budget-consultation
There are only two days left to complete the consultation and have your say on the future of our services. The consultation closes on Friday 17 January 2025.
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/budget-consu...
15.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Building blocks lying on a table spelling out the word 'BUDGET' with the numbers 202 on top with a hand holding the next block between the numbers 5 and 6 indicating the financial year 2025 to 2026. Still time to tell us what you think at www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/budget-consultation
Have your say on the future of our services. There’s one week to go until the consultation closes on Friday 17 January 2025.
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/budget-consu...
10.01.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
06.01.2025 19:25 — 👍 6288 🔁 2288 💬 266 📌 94
CEO at Energy Systems Catapult. Helping clean tech innovators thrive in the future energy system.
Ex-SPAD/PAD/wonk/hack. Uncertain about much....
South Lanarkshire Active Schools Coordinator | Caledonia Gladiators Professional Basketball Event Lead | Re-shares are not endorsements | Views are my own.
East Kilbride West, South Lanarkshire Council
Councillor in South Lanarkshire Council, Clydesdale West ✌🏼 Chair of Education 📚 Maw 👶 Feminists and cake enthusiast 🧁
News and information from your local council.
This page is only monitored during office hours.
Visit our website at www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk for service information, to make applications, payments and enquiries and report issues.
ITV Border's political programme, with all the stories from Holyrood and Westminster that matter to the South of Scotland.
The definitive guide to the world's hidden wonders 🗺️
Start exploring at atlasobscura.com
Comms and freelance journalism. Bylines in the FT, Guardian, the Times, Big Issue, the Herald, Scotsman etc. Still trying to convince the people of Nigeria to forgive Dundee United.
Politics, health & social care, Labour Party Activist, ASN mum, permanently frazzled and constantly juggling. Personal not professional account.
TV Presenter Channel 4 A Place In The Sun 🌞 Columnist Sunday Mail 💋
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
COSLA is the voice of Local Government in Scotland.
https://linktr.ee/cosla
🎓 Associate Professor of EU/tax law. 🌹 CLP Secretary (@moraylabour.org.uk); SEC rep (Highlands/NE); National Policy Forum (Scotland). 🏞️ Moravian.
History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism.
Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
Cold War weirdness (mostly). More here... https://conelrad.blogspot.com/
Historian, parent, husband, occasional Bondologist
#BondianColdWar book
https://martindbrown.substack.com/
https://www.routledge.com/The-Bondian-Cold-War-The-Transnational-Legacy-of-a-Cultural-Icon/Brown-Granieri-Blaive/p/book/9780367569365
Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
