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In person services have been cancelled again meantime .On the Church’s website you will find up-to-date information. Unfortunately suspended until further notice due to Covid- 19 are the Girls Brigade, Boys Brigade, GuiId, Fellowship Group, Thrift Shop, Friendship Group and other hall users groups.

ARMADALE THISTLE

The league has resumed but unfortunately due to Covid-19 restrictions no spectators can attend.

MEMORY CAVE CAFé

The cafe which is normally held within Armadale Partnership Centre on the 3rd Friday of each month is postponed until further notice due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation.

Volunteers Fay, Ann and Grace hope all the attendees at the café are keeping safe and well and hopefully the café can resume soon.

The café is for people with dementia and their carers and is supported by Alzheimer Scotland and run by volunteers from the Armadale community and is a place where carers and family members can drop in at any time between 10am – 12 noon and provides a place to meet where people understand dementia, gain peer support and information.

When the café resumes please drop in and enjoy a good blether with a varied programme each month which can include games, quizzes, music and crafts or sometimes just a good blether.

Carers or family members with someone they are caring for with dementia are always made most welcome.

WEST LOTHIAN DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICE -

Hannah Bardell says the Covid-19 vaccine being produced in Livingston is the biggest investment in the county of her lifetime and presents people with the chance to build careers.

Ms Bardell was speaking after it was revealed that clinical trials have started for Valneva’s unique inactivated vaccine.

She says that 200 jobs at a minimum will be coming to West Lothian now that the vaccine is in clinical trial stages,

The Livingston politicians has played a vital role in lobbying the UK Government about funding for the project.

Now as we head into the new year she is excited to be getting involved again in the recruitment process.

She said:“What we are now embarking on with Valneva is to help recruit local people.

“You are talking at least 200 jobs, with the possibility of more.

“To be able to do all of that in Scotland would not only be amazing for the UK but the rest of the world.

“We have a long history of innovation so what I have tried really hard to do in all of this is promote West Lothian.

“We suffer a wee bit with being between Edinburgh and Glasgow but this will help as far as placing us on the map. There are challenges there, being between Scotland’s two biggest cities but there is huge opportunity.

Ms Bardell says there will jobs for everyone.

She added:“Obviously a lot of those jobs will be highly skilled and highly paid but there will be other jobs across the spectrum. There is huge opportunities locally for people to build a career at Valneva. In the new year are plans are to do online recruitment, and hold seminars so people can listen in, or record, to hear what kind of opportunities there will be.”

Ms Bardell came aboard to help out right at the beginning with funding and has been working hard with the lead, David Lawrence, the chief financial officer at Valneva ever since.

The MP wrote to UK vaccine taskforce chief Kate Bingham and PM Boris Johnson and expressed her support for Valneva’s VLA2001 vaccine.

She highlighted Valneva’s proven track record in vaccine production and locally she said it could“safeguard existing jobs