Photography
Members took part in the Hugh Shaw Memorial Print Competition, the last competition of the year. Hugh Shaw was a member of the Motherwell Photographic Society for many years and his particular passion and skill was in making and displaying prints of the photographs he had taken. Hugh however developed
A car boot sale is being held in Newmains later this month. The event organised by Newmains & District Community Council will take place on Saturday, April 23. Running from 10am until 3pm in the car park of the NCT Centre situated at 15 Manse Road, Newmains, Wishaw, pitches can
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Children in Need As usual our fantastic nurture unit pulled out all the stops when celebrating this year’s Children in Need with a bake sale and sweep stake. Mrs Andrea Currie and the pupils of the ‘hub’ organised and hosted the bake sale on Thursday, November 18 whilst a
Active Girls Day Recently, our young Sports Ambassadors organised an Active Girls Day filled with activities, such as football, netball, volleyball and sessions in our fitness suite, to enable our pupils to develop and strengthen skills. Thank you to our ambassadors for putting together an action-packed and fun-filled day which
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It was a very special meeting at Motherwell & Wishaw Inner Wheel as the club came together to celebrate its 74th birthday. Founded in 1947 it is one of the oldest clubs in the district and it was only fitting that one of the longest standing members, Myra Wilkie, cut
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It was “all hands on deck” as the Motherwell & Wishaw Inner Wheel Club correspondent, Nancy Ralston, was welcomed on board the TS Queen Mary II. “The Glasgow Boat” as it was known affectionately was built in 1933 and used to carry thousands of people “doon the watter” every summer.
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A man sustained a head injury after yobs threw items from the roof of a building in Bellshill. The incident happened in the town’s Hamilton Road on Wednesday, October 20. Police received a report about youths climbing on the roofs of buildings and throwing items, which resulted in injury
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It was very much an “inspirational ladies night” at the monthly meeting of the Motherwell & Wishaw Inner Wheel Club. The speaker, Liz Macintyre Allan, gave a wonderful presentation on the pioneering doctor, suffragist and surgeon Dr Elsie Inglis. Among Elsie’s many achievements was as founder of the Scottish
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The speaker at Friday’s meeting of Carluke Camera Club was Marilyn Stewart from Edmonton Camera Cub in London. Her subject was ‘A Grand Tour of China’ with her husband Mike. Their extensive tour started from Beijing, which is also known as the Forbidden City, to Shanghai which is on
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“It’s one to look forward. We have had many successful Halloween Nights in the past, and hope after having very little fundraising events in quite some time, that this will be great success.
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Get Walking Lanarkshire is looking for volunteers to lead health walks in Wishaw. The partnership project between Paths for All, NHS Lanarkshire and both North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire councils aims to increase physical activity levels and improve health and wellbeing of Lanarkshire residents by offering free, short and easy
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Police made three arrests following incidents involving weapons in Wishaw and Newmains in the past week. On Monday, September 6, they received a report of that someone armed with a hammer was allegedly behaving in a threatening manner in Greenhead Road, Wishaw A 34-year-old man was subsequently arrested and charged.