20 YEARS AGO

A newly-born Rutherglen baby had given her older sister the gift of life as it emerged that their bone marrow was an identical match and could help the older girl battle against leukaemia.

Police were appealing for witnesses to a road crash which had left a father and son dead.

Pesky rodents were causing grief for a number of residents in the Rutherglen area after they surfaced from behind Jenny’s Burn.

Plans were afoot to build a housing estate roughly 150 metres from Farmecross Road in Rutherglen.

A Cambuslang woman who wanted to set up a private car firm exclusively for women was told that it could not go ahead as it discriminated against men.