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Anglers from across Lanarkshire gathered in the Clyde Valley to mark the start of this year’s salmon season.

2025 SAG Awards on Sunday, Jamie Lee Curtis presented the award for Male Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series, and before she read Colin Farrell’s name as the winner, she leveled a playful accusation at the Irish actor.“And the actor goes to… the man who gave me COVID at the Golden Globes, Colin Farrell,” Curtis, 66, said.“The Penguin” star, 48, went on stage to accept his award, hugged “The Last Showgirl” actress, and said to the crowd, “Guilty as charged!”“But Brendan Gleeson f—ing gave it to me, so I was just spreading the love,” Farrell added, as Curtis laughed on the side of the stage.Farrell and Curtis appeared to be referencing the 2023 Golden Globes, where they both were nominated for their respective projects “The Banshees of Inisherin” (also starring Gleeson, 69) and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”Three days after the January 2023 award show, Curtis announced that she contracted COVID.“Sadly, this head cheerleader is not going to be at all the weekend festivities cheering on her friends and colleagues,” the actress wrote on Instagram. “Life on life’s terms.

A new coronavirus has been discovered in bats which could have a higher chance of infecting humans than other coronaviruses.

Ayrshire motorists are being warned of disruption and weekend closures on the A78 next month.

North Lanarkshire's Provost has welcomed the commitment to new schools in the council’s latest budget.

Although SNL50 was a huge hit for Peacock, at least two Saturday Night Live alums have contracted COVID.

The Scottish Government have confirmed plans to "explore" the nationalisation of Ardrossan Harbour.

Key actions to grow the local economy, create jobs, build new homes and improve the transport network in the year ahead have been agreed by North Lanarkshire Council.

North Lanarkshire Council’s allocation from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund has dropped by more than £2 million.

A woman who hit her partner on the head with a shoe has been placed under supervision for 18 months.

A popular online vlogger visited Ayrshire to rank the county's "worst towns".

Proposals to make the new Troon Library more accessible have been approved.

A knifeman fleeing from police officers ran into a health centre before throwing the blade away.

Police officers in Lanarkshire have seized controlled drugs worth around £150,000. On Friday, February 7, officers acting on intelligence searched a man and a woman on Muir Street, Motherwell recovering cannabis with a street value in the region of £150,000. A 40-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman were arrested and charged in connection with this recovery. They are due to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday, February 10.

Lanarkshire MSP Gillian Mackay is urging the Scottish Government to support tenants by maintaining protections on rent rises that are set to expire in March.

The M74 northbound will be shut overnight from February 8 to 14 between junctions six and five, along with three of its on-slip roads at Hamilton and Motherwell.

Plans to expand South Ayrshire Council’s Additional Support Needs (ASN) provision have been approved.

Lanarkshire residents were among the more than 11.5 million taxpayers who beat the Self-Assessment deadline to file their tax returns for the 2023 to 2024 tax year.

An opening date has been confirmed for Blantyre’s new supermarket, which is getting set to welcome back customers after being completely rebuilt.

A thug who held a knife against his elderly aunt's throat claimed he was only trying to find his violent father.

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