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• Long wait for mental health treatment

  A Lanarkshire youngster seeking mental health treatment had to wait nearly two years before being seen.

• Funding helps create jobs and new centre

  A Monklands firm is to create 12 new posts and set up a research and development centre after receiving Scottish Enterprise funding supporting the creation of new green jobs.

• Pick-up for real trees by council

  Monklands residents with real Christmas trees can have them disposed of by the local authority free of charge.

• Teenager helped with first steps into work

  An Airdrie teenager is building a successful career after being helped with the first steps on his journey into work by North Lanarkshire's supported enterprise service.

• IBS sufferers could claim PIP

  Monklands residents living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can claim up to £608 a month from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).

• Top honour for college team

  Students and staff from New College Lanarkshire are celebrating winning the top institution title at a major skills competition for a fifth time.

• NHS kids'flu vaccine reminder

  NHS Lanarkshire has issued another reminder to Monklands parents and carers of children aged two-to-five (not in school) that it's not too late to make sure their children are protected against flu.

• Selfless paramedic gets the royal seal of approval

  A trailblazing Monklands paramedic received the royal seal of approval as he received a top honour in recognition of his work and volunteering in the community.

• Festive tradition leads to feast for foodbank

  Generous staff at Monklands Hospital carried on a newlyestablished Christmas tradition by collecting trolley-loads of donations for Airdrie foodbank.

• Former top council executive was'a remarkable woman'

  Fulsome tributes have been paid to distinguished Coatbridge resident Mary Castles, who died suddenly last month aged 69 after a short illness.

Featured documents

• Board game is a racing certainty

  A creative former Airdrie resident has backed a winner by creating a new horse racing-themed board game - which is now being produced for sale more than three decades after it was first devised....

• Memories of our baby boy will never fade

  As she peeked into the bedroom to check on her sleeping fouryear-old daughter, the little bear from Kelly Forbes'stillborn baby son's memory box caught her eye....

• Hard road to a new start

  During Cervical Screening Awareness Week, charity Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust highlighted the importance of cervical smear tests, which can halt cancer before it starts....

• Layton passed away in his daddy's arms... but his suffering is over and he is at peace

  A grieving young Airdrie mum, whose baby boy was born 15 weeks prematurely, has spoken of her heartache at watching him die in his father's arms at the age of seven weeks....

• My role as a carer is much more than a job ... it's my calling

  Charity Sense Scotland, which supports hundreds of disabled people and their families in thousands of projects and services, this week embarked on a recruitment drive for support workers in Lanarkshire. It also launched a new Facebook jobs page, SENSESCOTLANDJOBS, which shares inspiring stories...

• I pray we find a cure for this disease and can save life's great people like my dad...

  Tragically, only one in four people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survives beyond a year....

• 'I could never be more in love with somebody than this wee boy'

  Mum Donna Quinn shares a remarkable bond with the special little boy she waited for so long to love....

• List of awards scooped by senior Academy students

  The full list of impressive awards given to Airdrie Academy's successful senior students by immensely proud staff is as follows: CarysYoung (1st National 5 art and design, 3rd National 5 drama), Beth McPhee (2nd National 5 art and design, 1st National 5 chemistry, 2nd National 5 engineering science,...

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• COLIN'S Airfield FIELD OF DREAMS

  The lush 88-acre meadow that is circled by the tops of the Pentland Hills, Tinto and Goatfell is, to Colin MacKinnon, a field of dreams....