10 h. ago Project to refurbish and futureproof Glenkens Community Centre completed

New features include insulation, solar panels and an air source heat pump.

Politics

31 h. ago Plan to save activities at Falkirk community centre gets councillors' backing

The council will spend £300,000 on modular units to replace the centre which faces a repair bill of more than £3 million.

Politics

62 h. ago Scottish Government Minister Kaukab Stewart joins class at Hamilton Judo Club

The Minister for Equalities was able to see first-hand the outstanding work that is being done at Hillhouse and Earnock Community Centre.

Politics

3 d. ago Rough sleeper falsely reported murders and kidnaps in 72 police calls in 13 days

Richard Lawton, 37, was handed a community order at North Staffordshire Justice Centre after making repeated calls to 999 incorrecly telling operators that serious crimes were taking place

Events

3 d. ago Man, 46, is arrested after mosque with people inside is set on fire

Two men were inside the Peace Community Centre and Mosque in East Sussex and managed to escape when it was engulfed in flames shortly before 10pm on Saturday.

Events

9 d. ago West Lothian SNP calls special meeting citing no confidence in administration

The meeting of the full council follows the opposition group’s recent walkout after their bid to debate the future of community centres was rejected.

Politics

2 w. ago Busy Falkirk community centre facing a £3 million repair bill

The centre's management committee don't want the community to lose the facility but the costs of keeping it appear too high

Economics

2 w. ago Police lock down area near Glasgow community centre amid Loch Lomond death riddle

FORENSICS teams are carrying out searches near a community centre in a probe believed to be linked to remains found at Loch Lomond. Several police cars and vans were spotted parked outside Castlemilk’s Jenniburn Centre this afternoon as officers in hazmat suits combed the wooded area next to it. Graham, 38, was found near Tarbet,...

Events

2 w. ago Inside major new city housing scheme that people didn't want built

Ty'r Groes, which is built on the site of Canton Community Hall, will provide council housing for older people and includes a new community centre

Politics

2 w. ago West Lothian community centre say donations to local area could disappear under council plans

Bathgate is one of over 30 centres facing management changes as the council tries to save more than £1m in the running of community spaces across the county.

Events

2 w. ago Basslines over goalposts, cricket club bhangra nights: the gatherings where British diaspora music really grows

Away from the algorithm, the sound of multicultural Britain blossoms in sports halls and group chats, supporting community and inspiring the next generation of musiciansI don’t learn about music from record shops or curated playlists. I discover it on muddy football pitches in east London, with the smell of chips drifting from the van at half-time; in rented cricket halls in Bradford where there is always a giant urn of tea bubbling in the corner. The sounds that have shaped me as a Black British person aren’t designed by algorithms or commissioned by labels. They come from battered speakers balanced on trestle tables, bhangra basslines rattling the walls of community centres in Southall and WhatsApp threads buzzing long after everyone has gone home.I remember attending a Somali football league in east London where the match ended but no one left. The players, still in muddy boots, piled into the clubhouse to eat rice from foil trays while a DJ wired up his decks at the side of the ...

Politics

2 w. ago Please Don’t Feed the Children review – Destry Spielberg debut splices 1970s exploitation with YA fairytale

A band of roving, feral orphans – asymptomatic carriers of a plague that turns adults into cannibals – regret accepting a stranger’s act of apparent kindnessThis low-budget horror thriller comes with an almighty directorial last name, but Steven’s daughter Destry serves up precious little that is classically Spielbergian in her debut feature. Forget Dad’s signature childlike wonder; the youngsters in this post-apocalyptic outing – ostracised because minors are asymptomatic carriers of a plague that turns adults into cannibals – are completely feral, opportunistic and worryingly keen to kill. Spielberg’s film is a surprisingly nihilistic, if uneven, splicing of 21st-century young-adult and 1970s exploitation flicks.After making a break for the border, roving juvenile Mary (Zoe Colletti) takes up with a band of orphans squatting a nearby community centre. Leader Ben (Andrew Liner) is wounded during a botched armed robbery on a service station, so they take refuge in an isolated house....

Society

3 w. ago Late bid to stall West Lothian community centre management changes

The motion calls for a review of the budget savings plan, which it says “risks losing essential community input and involvement in these vital facilities.”

Politics

3 w. ago West Lothian villagers reject future plans for community hall

Answering to a September 5 deadline, the villagers who run Torphichen’s community centre refused to sign up to any option.

Politics

3 w. ago North Lanarkshire’s Cultural Committee celebrating Black History Month

The event will take place at Jerviston Community Centre in Motherwell on Saturday, October 4, from 10.30am to 3pm.

Culture

3 w. ago ‘There was something special happening’: how a Tyneside bingo hall became a mecca for ravers

Promoter and artist Man Power brings world-class DJs and dance acts to King Street Social Club in North Shields You can’t miss the King Street Social Club.Its exterior is made up of hundreds of coloured tiles and a no-nonsense red sign that make it stand out on the North Shields street it occupies. Inside the club, which is at the centre of the former fishing community around Newcastle upon Tyne, something else is brewing. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago West Lothian community centre managers refuse to sign up to changes

The current management committee which oversees lets of public space in the Bathgate partnership building on South Bridge Street had proposed its own dissolution.

Politics

3 w. ago Muslim priest who sexually abused four young girls in mosque is jailed for 10 years

Qari Sher Mohammad, who was the iman at the Muslim Community Centre in Chatham, Kent, targeted children for almost a decade.

Events

4 w. ago West Lothian Council may struggle to make savings in its school community wings

In January the 12 schools were controversially included in the £1m savings plan built around community centres.

Politics

4 w. ago West Lothian drivers warning over closure of B792 between Blackburn and Bathgate

The works, which are due to take place over the weekend of September 19 to 22 and on the nights of September 22 to 26, are the latest phase in an ongoing major project to refurbish the B792 bridge.

Events