20 YEARS AGO

Police urged parents to keep an eye on their children after two young girls were indecently assaulted in a swing park in Toryglen on a Friday lunchtime.

Sharp-eyed neighbours helped avert disaster at West Parish Church in Rutherglen after they spotted flames at the building and alerted the emergency services.

A Whitlawburn mum claimed that housing bosses were forcing her family to live with the threat of electrocution because they had not fixed a problem with water coming into their house and striking lightbulbs.

A knife-wielding thug who robbed a Rutherglen bingo hall was jailed.

Police were hunting two youths who took pot shots at Burnside residents with an air rifle.