30 YEARS AGO

The future of Dechmont Range in Cambuslang was under threat after the Army ordered an immediate shutdown in the use of live ammunition, following an incident where a stray bullet crashed through a bathroom window.

Staff at Rutherglen Maternity Hospital had to fight back the tears at a special presentation for the retirement of a popular social worker at the hospital.

The draft local plan for Rutherglen and Cambuslang was altered to give the district council greater powers to safeguard the future of local shopping,

Suggestions that an urban aid grant for Burnhill would be scrapped were dismissed as a scare story.

Cambuslang Rangers lost 2-1 to Shotts.