20 YEARS AGO

A terrified Rutherglen pensioner had to prove he had paid his poll tax after the bailiffs turned up at his door and threatened to take away his furniture.

A local lawyer pledged £250 to aid the installation of CCTV in Rutherglen and Cambuslang, as a steering group in favour of the project was set up.

Earthworms were introduced to the Hallside Steelworks in an attempt to accelerate the soil forming process.

Cambuslang’s traders feared that a proposed development of the Cambuslang Investment Park could wreck the town’s existing shopping centre.

Firefighters spent more than two hours fighting a‘towering inferno’in Whitlawburn that gutted a ninth floor flat.