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Lanarkshire MSP calls for free school meals to be extended to all pupils following Challenge Poverty Week

Monica Lennon MSP is urging the Scottish Government to extend the scheme to P6, P7, and secondary pupils.

Daily Record

Scottish Government refuses to rule out abolition of peak rail fares

Transport minister Jenny Gilruth said the government was looking at ways of making ScotRail fares "easier".

Daily Record

Lanarkshire postal workers commence strike action after 'laughable' pay offer

The Royal Mail has since blasted the planned 19 days of industrial action as "reckless".

Daily Record

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Mel B and Giovanna Fletcher among stars backing our campaign to end period poverty

The Sunday Mirror's End Poverty Now campaign is calling for England and Wales to be brought in line with Scotland by making sanitary products free to those who need them

Daily Mirror

Lanarkshire MSP supports assisted dying bill

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill was launched this month.

Daily Record

Lanarkshire MSP backs charity's warning that cost of living crisis is 'catastrophic' for children

Save the Children warn that solutions must be implemented urgently.

Daily Record

Lanarkshire judo club commended for work in boosting physical and mental wellbeing in community

A motion was submitted in the Scottish Parliament with high praise for Hamilton Judo Club.

Daily Record

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Schoolgirls having to ask staff for period products say they're being 'stripped of dignity'

Zara Stuart claims girls at Woodfarm High School in East Renfrewshire are forced to walk for a long time while bleeding to get items such as tampons and sanitary pads.

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Teen says female students 'stripped of dignity' after begging school for period products

Zara Stuart, 14, says female pupils at her school have been left "feeling like staff don't care" after they removed sanitary products from their toilets, following vandalism in the boys' lavatories

Daily Mirror

Girls 'stripped of dignity' at Scots school after having to ask staff for period products

Zara Stuart, 14, has told how girls at Woodfarm High in East Renfrewshire say they are being left mortified and scared in case they bleed through their school uniforms.

Daily Record

'Deeply unsettling' precedent set on abortion rights in new Cabinet, campaign group says

CAMPAIGN group Back Off Scotland have said there is a “deeply unsettling” precedent being set in Liz Truss’s new cabinet when it comes to…

The National (Scotland)

Disappointment as plans thrown out for new chemist in growing Lanarkshire community

NHS Lanarkshire this week refused the application, saying it was 'neither necessary or desirable'

Daily Record

Wait times for follow-up cervical screening tests slammed as 'unacceptable' by Lanarkshire MSP

Central Scotland MSP Monica Lennon says local women are being left in 'emotional limbo' during excessive waiting times

Daily Record

Festival delight as hundreds enjoy popular Lanarkshire fun day in the sun

The Hillhouse Festival has been hailed a huge success after many turned out for the event on Saturday

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Praise for 'unsung heroes' running vital Lanarkshire community hub to help locals through cost of living crisis

The Burnbank Community Hub offers food provisions, clothing and signposting to a number of services.

Daily Record

NHS Lanarkshire faces £70m funding black hole as government warned of 'financial catastrophe'

The organisation warned there is a “very high” risk of being unable to maintain essential services while balancing their budget

Daily Record

Scots NHS board faces £70m funding black hole as government warned of 'financial catastrophe'

EXCLUSIVE: A paper seen by the Daily Record shows the full extent of the cash crisis faced by NHS Lanarkshire.

Daily Record

MSPs enjoying cheaper parliament lunches as Nicola Sturgeon blasted over free school meals U-turn

The First Minister is now facing furious criticism after revelations that the parliament spent over £230,000 of taxpayer’s cash in just three months to give cheaper meals to politicians and staff.

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Lanarkshire politicians call for Margaret Ferrier to resign after shamed MP pleads guilty to 'inexcusable actions'

The Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP pleaded guilty to behaving in a culpable and reckless manner

Daily Record

Lanarkshire MSP writes to Health Secretary after health board re-entered Code Black status

NHS Lanarkshire declared a Code Black situation in October 2021 and was only stood down to red on May 4. It was placed back into the highest level on July 27.

Daily Record

Over 3500 Lanarkshire kids left on waiting list for autism assessment with one waiting nearly three years to be seen

The significant delays are described as 'unacceptable,' with one parent explaining they're struggling to support her child

Daily Record

Lanarkshire MSP 'proud' as landmark law to end period poverty comes into force

Labour's Monica Lennon has been campaigning to end period poverty since 2016

The Independent UK

Scotland becomes first country in the world to offer free period products

The legislation was introduced by Labour MSP Monica Lennon

Daily Record

Lanarkshire MP branded Westminster's 'junket queen' over £44k worth of freebies

She has has tens of thousands of pounds worth of hospitality from taxhavens, dictatorships, a gambling firm, bankers and others

Daily Record

Period products law to be introduced in Scotland tomorrow in world first

Labour MSP Monica Lennon called the act a 'beacon of hope' amid the cost of living crisis.

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