20 YEARS AGO

It was revealed that local maternity care in Rutherglen was set to be run from Portakabins for at least the next 12 months.

Rutherglen and Cambuslang Citizen’s Advice Bureau was pulled back from the brink of closure after being awarded £31,000 by South Lanarkshire Council.

South Lanarkshire Council were forced to backtrack, after admitting that a controversial housing publication released just before a by-election might have caused confusion.

Labour enjoyed a comfortable win in the by-election in Cairns, taking nearly half the vote.

A Rutherglen pensioner had to wait five days before syringes were removed from her back garden, despite repeated calls to the police and environmental health.