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Daily Record
5 days ago
- Business
- Daily Record
South Lanarkshire Council secure £13.5million for capital and revenue projects
Councillor John Anderson said: 'This is a fair chunk of money we are getting here and I would like to welcome it, particularly the money that is going to help unemployability and child poverty." More than £13.5million of funding has been secured by South Lanarkshire Council to fund a wide range of capital and revenue projects. Funding of £4,683,431 was given from the Scottish Government to support 'No One Left Behind (NOLB) - Employability' the Executive heard on Wednesday. The money has been provided for delivery of NOLB employability support for the financial year 2025-2026, supporting the vision for economic transformation and tackling child poverty. And £102,000 has been given by the Scottish Government to 'No One Left Behind (NOLB) – Approach to Employability Funding' for 2025-2026. That money has been provided to support the strategic aims of child poverty and transforming Scotland's economy. This funding is a continuation of previous years, and a Tackling Poverty coordinator is in post. Some £140,000 has been given in revenue funding in connection with the People and Place Local Authority Direct Award active and sustainable travel behaviour change programme through Transport Scotland. Ring-fenced grant funding of £7.740m has been received from the Scottish Government for 2025-2026 for the purposes of delivering and commissioning Justice Social Work Services. A full award of Active Travel Tier funding for 2025-26 of £2.296 million has been secured through Transport Scotland. Although the full award is £2.296 million, however, £1.439 million of Cycling, Walking and Safer Routes funding was already advised and is now rolled up into the Active Travel award with the increase totalling £857,000. Capital funding of £70,000 has been provided in connection with the People and Place Local Authority Direct Award active and sustainable travel behaviour change programme through Transport Scotland. East Kilbride SNP councillor John Anderson welcomed the funding. He said: 'This is a fair chunk of money we are getting here and I would like to welcome it, particularly the money that is going to help unemployability and child poverty. "In this cost of living crisis we are finding a lot more people living in poverty including children.'
Forbes
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Tracy Lawrence On How George Jones Helped Him & His Way Of Paying It Forward With New Artists
Country artist Tracy Lawrence His careers spans more than three decades with 18 No. 1 hits that includes familiar songs like 'Time Marches On,' 'Paint Me A Birmingham,' and 'If the World Had a Front Porch,' just to name a few. He continues to tour and still draws a crowd, too, with last week's sold-out show at the Ryman Auditorium as the latest example. Tracy Lawrence performs at his sold out show at the Ryman Auditorium - Sunday, May 18th, 2025 - ... More Nashville, Tennessee And yet, Tracy Lawrence accepts that he's on the 'other side' of his country music career and now is a time to enjoy all he's accomplished and make way for the younger artists striving to make their way up the ladder in hopes of achieving success. It wasn't all that long ago he was in 'their' position. 'I remember the whole country music movement in the early 90s when things started to change and the format was shifting away from the Haggards and the Jones and Waylons,' Lawrence recalls. 'A lot of those older cats were really upset with us because they'd been on the radio for years and all of a sudden radio stations weren't playing their records anymore.' Lawrence saying in the middle of that struggle, he remembers how George Jones showed a lot of class in welcoming those new artists. 'I saw the way George Jones handled that and the way he embraced us young kids. I spent a couple of years on the road with him. It was me and Mark Chestnutt and John Anderson that kind of rotated in and out of that tour. I watched how gracious George Jones was, and as I've gotten older, I realize I'm in that same place now. I'm not getting played on the radio anymore. But I've had my time and it's a young person's game now.' Lawrence has found his own way of 'connecting' with today's young artists. He created a podcast called 'TL's Road House' And from the comfortable setting of his tour bus, he spends time with country's up-and-coming stars. So far, he's interviewed Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, HARDY, and many, many others. 'What I strive for when I go into these interviews is to find a common ground that we share like the passion for the music,' Lawrence says. 'And to talk about what their frustrations are within the industry, relationships with record labels, and so on. And with the diversity of the different artists, no two conversations are ever the same.' Zach Top with Tracy Lawrence for "TL's Road House" - recorded on Lawrence's tour bus Jelly Roll appears on Tracy Lawrence's tour bus for the podcast "TL's Road House" He's discovered everyone has their own, unique country music journey. 'We all come from a different place,' he explains. 'We all had a different family life. Some people came up with a musical family, some didn't. There are some people who were born singing Christmas songs and church songs, and others who didn't tap into their passion until they were in their twenties. It's a fascinating conversation to have with these young people. He chose the tour bus setting because it tends to put people at ease. Tracy Lawrence and Ella Langley on Lawrence's tour bus for "TL's Road House" Riley Green and Tracy Lawrence for "TL's Road House" 'I wanted to do it on the bus because of the comfort factor artists have. When you spend time on a bus, it's your safe space, There's a feeling they get when the come in and sit down that everything is cool. It has a charm to it. The only frustrating thing is having to set it up and tear it down for every podcast we do. It takes about an hour and a half to do that. So, I keep everything in boxes back in the closet.' As busy as he stays with the podcast, Lawrence is still playing shows. He's also busy with a host of other projects including his Mission Possible charity for the homeless. He and a group of artists, athletes, and celebrities held his fifth annual golf tournament fundraiser in Nashville last week, raising more than $200,000. Fellow country artists, athletes, and others took part in Tracy Lawrence's fifth annual Mission: ... More Possible Celebrity Classic Golf Tournament at Old Hickory Country Club outside Nashville, TN on May 19th, 2025. They raised more than $200,000. Lawrence, who grew up in a Christian home with a mother very active in the church, says it started out as a small way to give back twenty years ago and has now become a major annual event. 'It was never meant to be a big charity thing, it was just a handful of us that wanted to do something for the community, shine a light on the Rescue Mission, and feed the homeless,' he says. 'That first year for Thanksgiving, I think we cooked 200 turkeys. Last November we cooked 1700 turkeys and raised about $300,000. It's amazing to see how something with no strategy or plan has evolved into something unique and every special.' While Lawrence may not see his songs played on the radio or make their way up the country charts like they did years ago, he continues creating new music and is currently working on a new album. Thanks to social media and streaming services, he knows it'll find its way to the people who want to hear it. More than thirty years after it all began, Lawrence still loves performing. He says there's nothing like playing to a packed house with the crowd singing his biggest hits right along with him. 'I still love it, I still love being out there,' he says. 'I played Stagecoach in April and getting on stage and feeling that energy from people… When I hit 'Paint Me A Birmingham' at the end of my set, they were so loud. I guarantee it was 115,000 deep because my front house engineer told he had to turn it up (the audio) three times to get it over the people in the crowd. It was awesome!' Singer Tracy Lawrence performs on the Palomino stage during the Stagecoach Music Festival on April ... More 27, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photo byfor Stagecoach)
BBC News
27-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
'The club have to protect themselves' - Anderson on Wilson deal
Former Newcastle player John Anderson believes keeping Callum Wilson at the club is worthwhile if the deal is is out of contract this summer, and it is not believed he has been offered an extension on his current 33-year-old striker made 18 Premier League appearances this season - the majority from the bench - but failed to register a said: "There's stories flying around about a 'pay as you play' deal. I don't think that's a bad shout on the club's part."When you look at Wilson's history, the club have to protect themselves."He's been great when he plays, the majority of time when he plays he scores. The problem was he was never fit for long enough."
ABC News
24-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Labor's thumping win exposes how broken the right is in this country
Australia's political right spent much of the past three years lamenting and fomenting over what it diagnoses as the collapse of Western order. "Wokeism", identity politics, "support for" radical Islam and belief in climate change and renewable energy top a long list of "deluded" obsessions driving the Anglosphere over the edge, assert our contemporary Hanrahans. Newspaper columns and cult-like conferences headlined by people called Jordan and Niall reinforce the idea that deranged "leftists" are sending the world to hell in a handcart. "Disunity is death," declared former Nationals leader and deputy prime minister John Anderson in the Menzies Research Centre's annual "John Howard Lecture" in 2020. "My friends, I think we all share a deep concern that those elites who hold the bulk of the microphones and, it seems the cultural heft in the West today, seem determined to divide us — not unite us — at every turn," he asserted. "We are, it seems, at war with one another: men versus women, race versus race, and generation against generation." Two consecutive federal losses and it's clear Australians aren't buying what Anderson is selling — a dark and bleak interpretation of our circumstances. But he might be right in so far as Labor's thumping win exposes how broken the right is in this country. As much as the issues he identified influenced voters' choices on the May 3 election, the results pretty much speak for themselves. The elites that voters worry most about are on the Coalition's side, it seems. People instead picked a government that said and demonstrated how it was focused on the more prosaic but relevant issues of importance to households. Fire and brimstone over the future of civilisation be damned. The savage ballot box rebuke three weeks ago continues to reverberate. A result so dramatic and painful for one side was always going to send certain players over the edge. The surprise has been how far they were prepared to leap. Over the past few days the Coalition's behaviour has resembled a clown show. Actually, scrap that, let's describe it accurately. Like chimps. In a room. Flinging faeces. At random. While seeking applause. On Tuesday the National Party's night-watchman leader David Littleproud wrote to supporters saying that "after careful consideration" the party room had decided now was not the time to continue the decades-old alliance with the Liberals. Much better to strike out solo. As a minority party. With fewer staff and less financial backing. Less than 48-hours later, presumably after more careful consideration, Littleproud announced the party room had changed its mind. It may not have been such a good idea after all. When voters kicked Labor into the dust at the 2013 election, a deeply divided and internally shattered party quickly regrouped around Bill Shorten. Three years later, despite its own internal divisions, Shorten came tantalisingly close to unseating the Coalition. Anderson's 2020 lament about disunity was aimed at Labor and the Greens. But in 2025, it's the National Party — Anderson's old stomping ground — that is providing Australians with the strongest evidence of decay, dissipation and dubious moral clarity. Sadly for its supporters, the Coalition's melodrama has further to go. Even if Littleproud and Liberal leader Sussan Ley renew the agreement between the two parties, as now seems likely, the policy and personality divisions remain unresolved. Across the four big points of difference with the Liberals — the policy hill that Littleproud appeared so willing to die on — the most significant is on climate. Both parties state they support net zero by 2050. But there is no plan on how to get there, let alone what its position will be on the pending 2035 national emissions target the government will soon take to the UN. Voters rejected Peter Dutton's promise to build seven nuclear power stations. But rather than dumping nuclear energy, the Nationals and Liberal party rooms decided they will continue to advocate for the energy source. Albeit in a much more limited way — by arguing for the repeal of John Howard's 1999 nuclear power moratorium. It is not clear how this revised position will deliver on the broader net zero goal or any interim targets the country signs up to under Labor. Another area of supposed tension — supermarket divestiture powers — the Liberals remain in the ideological box seat with a mutually-agreed policy that will only allow for the break-up of large retailers if there are no job or shareholder losses. Some critics in the Nationals recognise that for what it is; a clause that ensures the divestiture powers are dead-letter law. Then there's the $20 billion regional Australia "Future Fund". Announced during the federal election, the fund will start with $5 billion in "seed capital" before growing over time thanks to "windfall" commodity tax revenues. If you believe this will ever happen, the National Party would like to sell you a bridge. Aside from the policy debates — and it's not obvious that any of the things mentioned above address things voters care about — leadership remains the most egregious issue for both Coalition parties. Littleproud and his leadership team, which includes Bridget McKenzie and Kevin Hogan, have been seriously tarnished inside the party this week. Already there's open discussion about replacing Littleproud, even if there is no obvious contender. Sources tell this column that Littleproud's week of living dangerously has wounded him in other ways. They say he failed to level with his own party room about all the demands he put to Ley. Many Nationals only learnt from leaks to the media via the Liberals that cabinet solidarity was one of the sticking points. And others say they were not told about the "four demands" at the meeting on Tuesday when they agreed to break from the Liberals. Those items only became apparent after the fact. Many are also wondering about Littleproud's performance under pressure — perhaps for the first time — in the full frontal glare of the nation's media this week. 'He's been outwitted and encircled by Ley's office,' said one National Party source. It was only two weeks ago that Littleproud saw off a leadership challenge from Matt Canavan. The subsequent split and reunion with the Liberals appears to have divided many of his own backers. That does not mean he's about to lose his job, say Nationals insiders, especially as the Coalition appears to be back on track. But it does mean the next time leadership comes up, Littleproud may not be able to rely on all the party room members that backed him over Canavan. A recipe for more chaos from the centre right, now well and truly in its dark night of the soul.
Daily Record
23-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Record
East Kilbride wellbeing charity hosts inaugural South Lanarkshire Charity Cup
Agape Wellbeing united various local charities together through football. Agape Wellbeing hosted the first South Lanarkshire Charity Cup and the event was a huge success. Youth, Family & Community Learning Service took the inaugural trophy on the day at Kirktonholme Pavilion in East Kilbride which united various local charities together through football. They included: Turning Point Scotland, The Givit, Healthy and Active, Move Forward Movement, The Wise Group, The Beacons, Skills Exchange, East Kilbride Universal Connections YFCL and Family Connections. Event organiser and chairperson of Agape, Emma McLean said: "We came up with the idea for the South Lanarkshire Charity Cup back in October - just as a way to bring people together through football and support the amazing work local charities do across the area. Download the Lanarkshire Live app today The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now. Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7. The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you. Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android "Since then, we've been blown away by the generosity of others — from donations to offers of help — it's what made the event possible. The atmosphere on the day really reflected that community spirit. We're grateful for all the support and the partnerships that have come out of it. That's what it's all about. "Kirktonholme Pavilion kindly let us use their space for the event. Wouldn't have been possible without them." Agape Wellbeing supports families with young children as well as people with mental health barriers, learning difficulties and, more recently, addiction issues. For the last decade the community hub has been bringing people together in a safe space with the aim of promoting positive wellbeing for all. At their base in Cornwall Way, Agape offer weekly men's group and women's wellbeing classes, arts and crafts for people with learning difficulties, women's pregnancy yoga, a menopause cafe and partner with the Village Centre, The Beacons, Time to Tackle, EK Yoga Wellbeing and Roads to Recovery. They also offer baby massage, messy play, silly sensory song time and Bookbug for parents of young children. Councillor John Anderson, who sponsored the event, added: "The inaugural South Lanarkshire Charity Cup tournament was a great success. It was not just about winning, it was about building friendships, and most importantly it was about having fun. "I would like to acknowledge the effort and dedication of all participants efforts in assuring the games were played hard, played fair with the best sportsmanship whether they won or lost, and I look forward to next year's tournament taking place. "Thank you Agape Wellbeing for hosting such a great day." Thanks go to Stuart Lovell at Street Soccer Scotland, Melissa Reid from Turning Point Scotland and The Wise Group's Heather Coulthard for helping to organise the event and referees Steven Brock, Daniel Thomson and George Lennon who donated their time. Also thanks to Morrisons, Turning point and Greggs who donated food/snacks and drinks for the day. *Don't miss the latest headlines from around Lanarkshire. Sign up to our newsletters here. And did you know Lanarkshire Live is on Facebook? Head on over and give us a like and share!
