WISHAW’S very own star-in-the-making Nicki Paton has gone from a girl who used to flip burgers in McDonalds to rubbing shoulders with pop icons like Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and the Kings of Leon.
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A SHOTTS man is lucky to be alive after he was driving behind a lorry that ploughed into a footbridge and caused it to come crashing down in the middle of Salsburgh’s busy main road.
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AN angry parent has hit out at council bosses after she was told that a kids’ swimming competition at Wishaw Sports Centre had been rained off – even though the pool is indoors!
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WISHAW man Iain Thewliss has been given a second chance at life after fighting back from lung cancer – and now he’s trying to raise cash for the people that helped him through it.
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A WISHAW man has made an emotional journey to Japan in a further attempt to get official recognition of the appalling treatment his father received while a Prisoner of War.
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AN Allanton man who has endured the amputation of both his legs and fought a debilitating battle against the superbug MRSA has hit out at the ambulance service.
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WELL-KNOWN Coltness man James Rocks spent decades in Alcoholics Anonymous helping other people – and after passing away last month his body will now be donated to science.
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WE know that sometimes a book can be just too gripping to put down – but recent figures show that absent-minded borrowers from Wishaw and Motherwell libraries are refusing to let go at all.
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WISHAW’S Tesco supermarket is under scrutiny this week – after a North Lanarkshire Council inspector found 13 bottled beers past their best-before-date there.
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