From The News

40 YEARS AGO

Residents in some multi-storey flats in East Kilbride were having to climb the stairs because of an unofficial strike by lift engineers.

Both lifts at Clyde Tower at St Leonards were out of action and one of the two lifts at both Whitecart Tower and Lister Tower were immobilised.

Meanwhile, mopping up got underway after a fire at Hannay’s waste paper factory.

The army was praised for its “magnificent” handling of East Kilbride’s first blaze since the firemen’s strike began.

And there were ruffled feathers in Torrance Road after the district council gave planning permission to a pigeon racing club, the Excelsior Flying Club, to build a clubhouse nearby.

30 YEARS AGO

Some residents feared that East Mains was beginning to resemble a‘deprived inner-city area’due to a spate of vandalism.

The community council raised issues but police suggested the comments were“a bit alarmist”.

A petition signed by 3790 people from East Kilbride was presented to parliament by local MP Adam Ingram as part of Labour’s campaign against the community charge.

20 YEARS AGO

Two workers struggled for five hours to free themselves after armed robbers raided a printworks at the Kelvin Industrial Estate in East Kilbride.

A major police investigation was launched after thieves made off with thousands of pounds worth of computer equipment.

It has been love in the first degree for East Kilbride couple Frankie and Lorraine Mallon.

The husband-and-wife duo, both 27, graduated as primary school teachers from St Andrew’s College, Bearsden.