Gardening scheme could be blooming great

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the East Kilbride News.

Our news feature on pages 4 and 5 today focuses on the Hunter Community Gardening project.

We took a trip to meet those behind the scheme, which aims to assist those who cannot maintain or pay for their gardens to be maintained.

But the project also wants to help young people and the long-term unemployed find work.

Employment, training and development opportunities are to be made available and this could be a case of everyone in the community being a winner.

It doesn’t matter if you’re government, local authorities, public sector agencies or private enterprises.

Everybody needs to do what they can to help people out of work who want to work find work.

Good luck to those at Hunter Community Gardening.

Elsewhere in the paper there has been the inevitable fallout following First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s speech on the prospect of a second independence referendum at the Scottish Parliament last week.

You can read what our MSPs think of the current situation on page 6.

Should there be another vote scheduled or is it time to park this issue for a wee while? Tell us your thoughts.

You can contact the newsdesk via one of the methods on the left-hand side of this page.

We have picture specials from St Leonard’s Primary School’s gala day and Strathaven’s Drum and Pipe Band Festival.

And don’t forget to enter our fabulous competitions run in association with EK, East Kilbride and Di Maggio’s East Kilbride. Colin Paterson