8 h. ago Girvan housing support service held in "high regard" says report

The gradings follow a spot check on its service provision in August with the findings now published.

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30 h. ago Pilot scheme to run additional buses on three MyBus routes in North Lanarkshire now operating

Following a successful bid by North Lanarkshire Council for People and Place Funding, additional buses will operate as a time limited pilot until March 2026 to support demand on specific services for MyBus in Motherwell, Monklands and Cumbernauld.

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50 h. ago Lanarkshire locals urged to start their own business with help of Business Gateway

Business Gateway, Scotland’s national business support service, has launched Scottish Start-Up Month, a nationwide campaign to celebrate Scotland’s entrepreneurial spirit.

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3 d. ago West Lothian locals urged to start own business with help of Business Gateway

Business Gateway, Scotland’s national business support service, has launched Scottish Start-Up Month, a nationwide campaign to celebrate Scotland’s entrepreneurial spirit.

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6 d. ago ChatGPT encouraged Adam Raine’s suicidal thoughts. His family’s lawyer says OpenAI knew it was broken

Jay Edelson rebukes Sam Altman’s push to put ChatGPT in schools when the CEO knows about its problemsAdam Raine was just 16 when he started using ChatGPT for help with his homework. While his initial prompts to the AI chatbot were about subjects like geometry and chemistry – questions like: “What does it mean in geometry if it says Ry=1” – in just a matter of months he began asking about more personal topics.“Why is it that I have no happiness, I feel loneliness, perpetual boredom anxiety and loss yet I don’t feel depression, I feel no emotion regarding sadness,” he asked ChatGPT in the fall of 2024.In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be foun...

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9 d. ago Paisley mental health support service praised by users and watchdog

An RAMH service user told inspectors they'd be "lost" without the local service.

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1 week ago Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously

Nobody’s Girl, which Giuffre had been working on before her death, is set to be released this autumnThe posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, will be published in the autumn, a publisher has announced.Giuffre had been working on Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, with the award-winning author and journalist Amy Wallace before her death earlier this year.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counsellor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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2 w. ago New support in Greenock for people living with secondary breast cancer

Leading research and support charity, Breast Cancer Now, is launching a new service in Greenock for people living with incurable secondary breast cancer.

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2 w. ago Ravenscraig hosts football festival aimed at supporting people recovering from addiction

The Recovery Cup Festival is an inspiring annual event organised by Street Soccer Scotland and turning point in partnership with local recovery communities, treatment services, and support charities.

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2 w. ago Putin won in Anchorage. Now Zelenskyy and Europe are in an even more perilous position | Rajan Menon

Trump’s summit failed to achieve a ceasefire, but the Russian president will be very happy with how events are unfoldingDonald Trump portrays himself as a hard-nosed dealmaker. Yet in the run-up to Friday’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, his claim that the Russian leader held him in high regard and was therefore serious about ending the war in Ukraine sounded naive. Putin doesn’t let sentimentality shape his political and military decisions. Nor has he disavowed his longstanding claim to four Ukrainian provinces: Donetsk and Luhansk, which together comprise Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south. Despite Russia’s overwhelming numerical advantage in troops and weaponry, Putin occupies only one province, Luhansk, almost entirely. Yet he persists.In the days before his meeting with Putin, Trump said the Russian economy “stinks” and that falling oil prices would cause Russia’s war to run aground. The war has certainly placed severe s...

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2 w. ago Disabled people fear being "pushed out" of support service amidst £1,000 bills

People attending the Disability Resource Centre have just been told how much they will pay each week as part of a means-tested review

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3 w. ago Ayrshire singer opens her garden to the public to raise money for Red Cross

Renowned international mezzo-soprano Linda Finnie has opened up the garden at Whitewin House in Girvan to raise funds for the Red Cross

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3 w. ago Housing support service is asked to improve aspects of care provision

Balmoral Homecare, Housing Support Service, based in Prestwick, was graded as ‘adequate’ across four quality indicators.

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4 w. ago JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip

Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, the Guardian has learned.The request from the US Secret Service was made to “support safe navigation” of the US vice-president’s security detail for an August outing on the Little Miami River, according to a statement by the US army corps of engineers (USACE). Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Public Service Broadcasting Glasgow Kelvingrove Bandstand Stage Times: Gig set times, support, weather forecast, tickets, likely setlist

The band are well known for their live performances.

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