Skills Olympics coming toregion

The UK’S biggest skills competition is coming to Lanarkshire.

New College Lanarkshire’s Motherwell campus has been chosen as a venue for the Worldskills UK national finals, widely known as the Skills Olympics,

The campus will host students and apprentices from across the UK as they compete for gold, silver or bronze medals in their chosen skills discipline.

The contest is normally staged annually at Birmingham’s NEC exhibition centre, but this year will be held at 23 venues in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Seven of the competition’s 64 disciplines will be staged in Motherwell. These will be held over the course of two days, from November 17-18.

Professor Christopher Moore, principal and chief executive at the college, said: “I look forward to extending a very warm welcome to students and apprentices from across the UK.”