10 YEARS AGO

Police were still hunting the killer of an innocent 50-year-old Cambuslang man. John Miller was found with serious head injuries on a pavement in Motherwell.

Rutherglen was at the centre of a bird flu scare when two dead swans were found in Richmond Park, just outside town.

Tyres set on fire near Rutherglen train station left a thick film of black smoke over the Main Street. They had been dumped at the Network Road depot and set alight.

A man from Fernhill who quit his job after his boss punched him on the nose won his constructive and unfair dismissal claim and a total of £13,550.

Cambuslang Rugby coach Marc Pope quit after guiding the team to an eighth place finish in the BT Scotland Premier Three.