30 YEARS AGO

Desperate pleas for cash to remove the“deadly menace”of asbestos from flats in Whitlawburn had fallen on deaf ears, with it being claimed it was a matter for the district council to sort out.

Car thieves made a disabled Rutherglen woman a prisoner in her own home, after stealing her car - clearly marked with disabilty badges - from outside her King Street home.

Hundreds of Cambuslang people packed into the city chambers to hear the start of the inquiry into Morriston playing fields.

A squad of parks workers were drafted into Rutherglen to help beat a backlog of summer grass cutting.

A campaign to save Rutherglen Town Hall got underway.