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A meeting of the local authority’s communities committee is due to take place on April 27 to deliberate the plans, which could see the rink replaced by a play and fitness area.

Concerned Monklands skaters have hit out at council proposals to close the ice rink at The Time Capsule leisure facility in Coatbridge.

A meeting of the local authority’s communities committee is due to take place next Monday, April 27, to deliberate the plans, which could see the rink replaced by a play and fitness area.

Members of North Lanarkshire Figure Skating Club say the ice rink is a “vital training ground” and its closure would “remove a key pillar of sporting infrastructure in the area”, while Coatbridge politician Fulton MacGregor has called on people to “make their voice heard” regarding the proposals.

An online petition against the plans has also been launched and gathered nearly 3700 signatures.

Janet Maxwell, a North Lanarkshire Figure Skating Club committee member, said: “While play facilities are already well provided for and, in many cases, saturated, across the area, ice rinks are extremely limited resources that serve a much smaller but highly dedicated user base.

“As a committee member of North Lanarkshire Figure Skating Club, as well as a parent of a competitive skater who trains at the rink, I was extremely concerned and disappointed to learn that this proposal has come forward, particularly as this is the first that many of us within the skating community have heard of it.

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“This rink is not just a leisure facility; it is a vital training ground that has helped develop local talent over many years.

“Skaters from this very rink have gone on to compete at high levels, including performances in Disney on Ice productions and other competitive achievements. Removing such a facility would not only disrupt current development pathways but would also significantly limit future opportunities for young people in the area.”

Gemma Chaddock, a North Lanarkshire Figure Skating Club coach, added: “Our club is proud to support a thriving community of approximately 60 members, all of whom are female.

“At a time when participation rates for women and girls in sport remain significantly lower than for their male counterparts, our club represents a rare and vital success story within North Lanarkshire. The ice rink itself is an essential facility that serves a broad age range.

“Removing this facility would disproportionately impact these age groups and further reduce accessible pathways into sport.

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“For these athletes, the Time Capsule rink is not simply a recreational venue—it, is a critical training base and a stepping stone towards representing Team GB on the global stage, including potential Olympic participation.”

Meanwhile, Coatbridge politician Fulton MacGregor posted on Facebook: “We need to understand the impact of closing such a well used resource on the groups that use it and the communities it serves. No decision has been taken yet so it’s therefore important that if you are likely to be affected by these changes, or you are affiliated with a club that uses it, that your voice is heard.

“You can email me on fulton.macgregor@snp.org and I’ll make sure your views are passed to councillors.”

And Mr MacGregor told Lanarkshire Live: “No-one seemed to know about this. The council seems to have effectively said, lets just close this and then let people know.

“There is nowhere else nearby for people to go and losing this facility would be a major blow.

“The strength of feeling has blown me away and I am sure this will lead to these plans not being approved.”

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Council leader Jim Logue said “As part of the budget in February, the council agreed to an investment of £2.5m to modernise the Time Capsule with a view to increasing the number of users thus ensuring long term community and commercial viability.

“Leisure Industry Consultants were commissioned to look at all possible options to effect such changes.

“Their report highlighted that the Time Capsule was opened in 1991 and that a number of areas now required significant attention and investment. It also highlighted the decreasing amount of customers using the ice rink, with an annual reduction of over 14 per cent year on year with the overwhelming use now being confined to skating and ice hockey clubs.

“As such, the removal of the ice rink area would allow greater flexibility to attract more individual users to the facility.

“I appreciate that this will be disappointing news for the private clubs but to sustain future leisure facilities, at a time of less grant funding, there is a compelling need to maximise the number of users in every leisure facility.”

A North Lanarkshire Council spokesperson said: “A report will be discussed at the communities committee on April 27.”

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Splendid Hotels Ltd has proposed to transform an office block and its associated coach house in Tanner Row into brand-new luxury accommodation.

The hotel would feature 12 bedrooms and 26 one to three-bedroom suites, sharing services with the firm’s flagship hotel – The Grand, in Station Rise.  

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The Grade II, four storey building was established in 1850, when it opened as The George Hotel.

It was converted to offices in the mid-20th century and is currently occupied by Historic England.

The new hotel would be operated by the Splendid Hospitality Group Ltd – named one of the fastest growing hospitality services in the UK – who hope to restore the building to its original use – achieving the same 5* rating as The Grand in York.

Speaking on behalf of the firm, O’Neill Associates said: “The Splendid Hospitality Group already holds a varied portfolio of hotels in the city including the Ibis Styles on the Mount, Hotel Indigo in Walmgate, the Holiday Inn at Hopgrove and the Grand Hotel and Spa on Toft Green, as the flagship hotel in York.

“The proposal is to return the building to its original function as a high-status hotel.

“This will involve stripping out the low-grade fittings, finishes and mounted services which have accumulated within the building during its use as an office to facilitate its sensitive conversion to a 5-star hotel.”

The company would use its expertise, O’Neill Associates said, to change the internal features of the building.

It added that the design team had worked closely with planning officers at City of York Council and Yorkshire Heritage Consultants in preserving the building’s historic features, with respect to the original floorplan.

Planning documents explained that Historic England were now actively seeking for alternative smaller facilities nearby, after staffing levels within the building had dropped due to home-working practices.

Recent findings from research we have been carrying out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Geneva suggest that we might be closing in on signs of undiscovered physics.

If confirmed, these hints would overturn the theory, called the Standard Model, that has dominated particle physics for 50 years. The findings suggest the way that specific sub-atomic particles behave in the LHC disagrees with the Standard Model.

Fundamental particles are the most basic building blocks of matter – sub-atomic particles that cannot be divided into smaller units. The four fundamental forces – gravity, electromagnetism, the weak force and the strong force – govern how these particles interact.

The LHC is a giant particle accelerator built in a 27km-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border. Its main purpose is to find cracks in the Standard Model.

This theory is our best understanding of fundamental particles and forces, but we know it cannot be the whole story. It does not explain gravity or dark matter – the invisible, so far unmeasured type of matter that makes up approximately 25% of the universe.

In the LHC, beams of proton particles travelling in opposite directions are made to collide, in a bid to uncover hints of undiscovered physics. The new results come from LHCb, an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider where these collisions are analysed.

The result comes from studying the decay – a kind of transformation – of sub-atomic particles called B mesons. We investigated how these B mesons decay into other particles, finding that the particular way in which this happens disagrees with the predictions of the Standard Model.

An elegant theory

The Standard Model is built on two of the 20th century’s most transformative advances in physics; quantum mechanics and Einstein’s special relativity.

Physicists can compare measurements made at facilities such as the LHC with predictions based on the Standard Model to rigorously test the theory.

Despite the fact that we know the Standard Model is incomplete, in over 50 years of increasingly rigorous testing, particle physicists are yet to find a crack in the theory. That is, potentially, until now.

Our measurement, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters, shows a tension of four standard deviations from the expectations of the Standard Model.

In real world terms, this means that, after considering the uncertainties from the experimental results and from the theory predictions, there is only a one in 16,000 chance that a random fluctuation in the data this extreme would occur if the Standard Model is correct.

Although this falls short of science’s gold standard – what’s known as five sigma, or five standard deviations (about a one in 1.7 million chance) – the evidence is starting to mount. Adding to this compelling narrative are results from an independent LHC experiment, CMS, that were published earlier in 2025.

Although the CMS results are not as precise as those from LHCb, they agree well, strengthening the case. Our new results have been found in a study of a particular kind of process, known as an electroweak penguin decay.

Rare events

The term “penguin” refers to a specific type of decay (transformation) of short-lived particles. In this case we study how the B meson decays into four other subatomic particles – a kaon, a pion and two muons.

With some imagination, one can visualise the arrangement of the particles involved as looking like a penguin. Crucially, measurements of this decay let us study how one type of fundamental particle, a beauty quark, can transform into another, the strange quark.

This penguin decay is incredibly rare in the Standard Model: for every million B mesons, only one will decay in this manner. We have carefully analysed the angles and energies at which these particles are produced in the decay, and precisely determined how often the process takes place. We found that our measurements of these quantities disagree with Standard Model predictions.

Precise investigations of decays like this are one of the primary goals of the LHCb experiment, and have been since its inception in 1994. Penguin processes are uniquely sensitive to the effects of potentially very heavy new particles that cannot be created directly at the LHC.

Such particles may still exert a measurable influence on these decays over the small Standard Model contribution. This kind of indirect observation is not new. For example, radioactivity was discovered 80 years before the fundamental particles that are responsible for it (the W bosons) were directly seen.

Future directions

Our studies of rare processes let us explore parts of nature that may otherwise only become accessible using particle colliders planned for the 2070s. There are a wide range of potential new theories that can explain our findings. Many contain new particles called “leptoquarks” that unite the two different types of matter: “leptons” and “quarks”.

Other potential theories contain particles that are heavier analogues of those already found in the Standard Model. The new results constrain the form of these models and will direct future searches for them.

Despite our excitement, open theoretical questions remain that prevent us from definitively claiming that physics beyond the Standard Model has been observed. The most serious question arises from so-called “charming penguins”, a set of processes present in the Standard Model, whose contributions are extremely tricky to predict. Recent estimates of these charming penguins suggest their effects are not large enough to explain our data.

Furthermore, a combination of a theory model and experimental data from LHCb suggests that the charming penguins (and therefore, the Standard Model) struggle to explain the anomalous results.

New data already collected will let us confirm the situation in the coming years: in our current work we studied approximately 650 billion B meson decays recorded between 2011 and 2018 to find these penguin decays. Since then, the LHCb experiment has recorded three times as many B mesons.

Further advances are planned for the 2030s to exploit future upgrades to the LHC and accrue a dataset 15 times larger again. This ultimate step will allow definitive claims to be made, potentially unlocking a new understanding of how the universe works at the most elementary level.

Sarah Brennan posed as a man to dupe another woman into sending her nude pictures.

A catfisher who posed as a man to dupe another woman into sending her nude pictures lost her job because of her actions. Sarah Brennan, 32, bombarded her victim with calls and prowled near her home after her sick ruse was exposed.

The warped charity worker also pretended to be a high-flying male lawyer to strike up an online relationship with another female, who was left suffering panic attacks. Brennan, of Glasgow’s Drumchapel admitted two counts of romance fraud and stalking last month.

Brennan appeared today in the dock at Glasgow Sheriff Court to be sentenced. However, matters were adjourned until June after Sheriff Stuart Reid was recommended by social worker to call for a psychological report on her.

Her lawyer earlier told the hearing that his client’s “employment was ended” due to the conviction. The court was previously told she messaged the first victim on Instagram in 2019 posing as a fella called Matthew Jay, who claimed to be Brennan’s cousin.

The pair swapped intimate pictures over six months. Brennan sent images of “a male’s body with no face visible”, the court was told.

But her hoax was revealed when the victim chatted to Brennan’s mum — who “did not know of any family members of that name”. When confronted, the perv claimed she had been “bored”.

But the weirdo went on to phone her victim 250 times in one day, sent her a screenshot of a map indicating she was near her home, and threatened to release her explicit images.

The woman went to cops when she received a card, necklace and pendant inscribed “stuck with you”. Brennan was arrested and it emerged she had contacted another woman online in 2021 posing as a lawyer also called Matthew Jay.

They grew close, but Brennan sparked suspicion by cancelling meet-ups. The woman’s loved ones traced the same Instagram profile to an Englishman living in Dubai.

He confirmed he had been “contacted before” and that his identity had been stolen by “a female in Glasgow, who had entered into an online relationship”.

Michael Tierney, defending, told today’s hearing: “She is accepting of her guilt and has shown a great deal of reflection in regards to her behaviour.

“As a result of her conviction, her employment was ended but she continued to work until that date. She is now no longer working and is applying for Universal Credit.”

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The warning was given to defendant Callum Garbutt after he changed plea and admitted a charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, at a hearing at Durham Crown Court.

Garbutt, 21, who appeared via video link from HMP Durham, attacked another man in Spennymoor, on December 14, 2024.

The court was told the defendant had previously admitted the lesser offence of unlawful wounding, but without the intent element.

Now he has admitted the more serious wounding with intent allegation, the other plea can be vacated.

Calum McNicholas, for Garbutt, said: “The facts are relatively straight-forward but there may be some complexity to this defendant.”

Mr McNicholas asked for sentence to be adjourned to allow for preparation of both a psychological assessment on the defendant and a background report by the Probation Service.

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Judge Nathan Adams agreed to the adjournment for the reports to be compiled but said the starting point, according to the sentencing guidelines, is likely to be four or five years.

Adjourning the case until the sentencing hearing, on Friday June 12, Judge Adams told Garbutt, of Catherine Close, Spennymoor: “As you have now pleaded there no longer needs to be a trial.

“But you will remain in custody in the meantime.”

Comedian Dapper Laughs spoke out for the first time after being called out by Katie Price, over a ‘joke’ he made about her eldest son, Harvey.

Dapper Laughs has broken his silence after being called out by Katie Price, over a joke he reportedly made about her eldest son.

The mum-of-five was left raging after the comedian seemingly took aim at Harvey Price while on stage at a recent gig, before telling the crowd to “pretend he didn’t say anything” about the 23-year-old – who was diagnosed with genetic disorder Prader-Willi syndrome.

The content creator, 41, ignored the brewing controversy and instead posted a new video on social media, urging fans to change up their mentality. He said: “Happy Monday! It’s a brand new fresh week – don’t start with the same mentality you ended last week on. Shift it, f**k it, let it go. Whoever is getting you down, f**k them,” he instructed.

“Switch it up, change your perspective. Whatever it is you’re thinking about and worrying about, f**king shift it out the way and focus on the positive things in your life.

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“I’m thinking about all of the beautiful things in my life today and I’m like, “Today, I’m going to take a f**king day off worrying”. Why don’t you do the same thing?”

He followed this up with a screenshot of his lock screen, which has the quote: “Don’t worry about calming the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass”.

“Please try to ket it go… Put yourself first [sic],” he added, before clarifying that “ket” was a typo in another post.

Katie is known for being fiercely protective of her family and previously voiced concerns she has over her firstborn child, who was also diagnosed with autism and septo-optic dysplasia.

Over the weekend, she called out Daniel over a remark he reportedly made on stage, fuming: “So I hear last night @dappersinstagram made a joke about my son Harvey AGAIN then said ‘pretend I didn’t say anything or I’ll get cancelled again’. He does charity football games for children and sure he has his own kids.

“Having to use my son with complex needs and can’t defend himself for a joke, makes this man a disgusting human being, so I prey he gets cancelled for EVERYTHING [sic].”

In another post, she begged fans to report the comedian for “bullying” her son and demanded an apology for “his horrible words to others”.

Katie’s husband, Lee Andrews, also made his feelings known over the matter and called for Daniel to meet him in the boxing ring.

Uploading a picture of the Celebrity Big Brother star’s Instagram page, he added: “Daniel, I’ll fight you in Miss-fits in June. I won’t ever train for it so I can knock your fat t**t all over like the stodgy little round punching bag you (are) son.”

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Written and directed by Charlotte Regan, the show follows Shannon (Laird), the daughter of her area’s dominant crime family, who is desperately searching for romance in the shadow of her father, Dylan.

She ends up falling hard for Arran (Coyle-Larner), a member of a rival crime family who has newly arrived in town.

A synopsis for the show adds: “While Shannon and Arran are navigating their forbidden romance, elsewhere, things are imploding for Shannon’s family.

“Early in our series, Dylan (Sam Riley) decides to step down as the head of the family for mysterious reasons.

“Sam (Neil Leiper), Dylan’s second in command, steps up to take over, though his diverging tactics start to raise alarm”.

Despite the crime family aspects of the story, it is secondary to the romantic plotline.

Explaining why she wanted to make the programme, Charlotte Regan shared: “I’ve always loved gangster shows, gangster films, and I’d wanted them to centre around the women in the families.

“I think I always thought they were like the backbones of those kinds of families when you read about them and watch them.

“So, it came from that, really, it started with Ollie (Lindsay Duncan), the grandma – she was one of the first characters and it just went from there.”

Meanwhile, Emma Laird shared that Regan’s previous work encouraged her to take on a role in Mint.

She said: “I was a big fan of her film Scrapper and thought she was great.

“I was mid-shoot on another project and was flying to Venice Film Festival the next day but I went in to read [for the part] – I was so terrible at the Scottish accent, despite my dad being Scottish!

“I met Charli and from that first meeting, it was just super collaborative.

“It gave me a taste for what it would be like to be on set with her.

“And it has been the most beautiful collaboration; it’s exceeded my expectations.”

Mint full cast list for BBC series

• Emma Laird as Shannon
• Benjamin Coyle-Larner as Arran
• Sam Riley as Dylan
• Laura Fraser as Cat
• Lindsay Duncan as Ollie
• Lewis Gribben as Luke
• Neil Leiper as Sam
• Lucy Howard as Young Shannon

• Gordon Brown as Eddie
• Thierry Mabonga as Spencer
• Murray Fraser as Jasper
• Russ Bain as Ben
• Connor Newall as Liangelo
• Tav MacDougall as Colin
• Lucas Green as Young Liangelo
• Joseph Ogbu as Young Arran
• Emma Hartley-Miller as Nadia
• Hannah Collins as Jackie
• Clive Russell as Andy
• David Carlyle as Tom

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When will Mint be on TV?

The first episode of Mint will air at 9pm on BBC One on Monday, April 20, with the second episode following immediately afterwards at 9.30pm.

The remaining six episodes will air in the same timeslots over the next few weeks.

Alternatively, all eight episodes will be available to watch from 6am on Monday, April 20, on BBC iPlayer.

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