LANARK Music Connections is getting its third year of bringing live entertainment to the town underway by welcoming back an old friend later this month.

Dazzling award-winning musicians Mairearad Green and Anna Massie will be bringing their unique talents to Lanark later this month.

South Lanarkshire Council’s budget for the next financial year has been finalised – with over £12 million of cuts.

AN EVENING of top quality music is in store at the Crown Inn in Carluke on Saturday night.

Singer-songwriter Christine Bovill will be honouring French singer Edith Piaf with a special concert at the Biggar Corn Exchange.

IT seems barely a few months ago that the Gazette heralded the very first meeting of Lanark’s new branch of activities group U3A, now an organisation with one of the biggest memberships in town.

THE latest member of the Lanark Writers group to be published can’t be accused of playing it safe with her first work.

Pupils at Carnwath Primary School received a maths lesson with a difference – from Scottish darts ace Gary Stone.

BIGGAR Music Club welcomes celebrated young British pianist Lara Melda to the Municipal Hall later this month.

Carluke singer Mark Hawthorne is definitely now going places with band Broken Alphas.

BIGGAR Young Farmers will be hoping for another successful week as its annual variety concert takes to the stage.

Youngsters from High Mill Primary in Carluke had the chance to meet Scotland’s Makar (poet) Liz Lochhead, when she gave a live broadcast to children across Scotland in a special Robert Burns celebration via the Scottish Book Trust website.

MEMBERS of Coalburn Silver Band were rewarded for their fine performances over the past year at its third annual awards evening.

Hundreds of students at UKTheatreSchool – including 17-year-old Lesmahagow girl Steffi Rollo – took part in a live singing and dancing Flash Mob at Prestwick Airport.

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Biggar Theatre Workshop’s latest production is just too good to be true.

Legendary Scottish entertainers The Alexander Brothers will be in Clydesdale in March as part of a festival celebrating the over 50s.

There were plenty of people in New Lanark reaching for the stars last Saturday night – thanks to New Lanark Trust’s Stargazing Live event.

It may be the first month of the New Year but, for literary lovers, Atkinson-Pryce Bookshop is already welcoming more big names to Clydesdale.

A new monthly live music event begins in Biggar this weekend.