THOUSANDS of people have signed petitions in a bid to stop a Scottish Labour-run council from closing 39 sports facilities, libraries and community…
A public protest is being planned for this Thursday afternoon outside North Lanarkshire’s Civic Centre headquarters following the decision.
Another more general petition simply calls for all the community facilities to be saved with five swimming pools, seven leisure facilities, seven libraries and 20 community centres to close. She said: “Labour have shown themselves to be heartless when it comes to selling out our future generations as a direct result of their mismanagement of finances and services; as SNP councillors demonstrated this was an unnecessary decision and we will work with local communities to fight it.”
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