30 YEARS AGO

Furious workers at Hoover’s Cambuslang plant were preparing for a major confrontation over what they saw as the company’s plans to rip off more than £100 million from their pension fund.

A Rutherglen florist had won the title of Florist of the Year by Interflora, after impressing judges with her arrangements and designs.

A traffic management plan was being considered for the Rutherglen area in a bid to end the problems with traffic at Greenhill Road and Farme Cross.

Sixty kids were left unhappy at Cathkin Primary school after they could not get into the school building for their playscheme.

Cambuslang’s new drug abuse support group held a public meeting that drew over 100 people.