20 YEARS AGO

East Kilbride mums-to-be learned they were to lose the option of going to Rutherglen Maternity Hospital to give birth. At the time more than 60 per cent of local babies were born there.

Members of the East Kilbride Group of Amnesty International were given the unexpected news that their letters had been instrumental in releasing more than 350 political prisoners.

Traders in the Olympia boarded up their shop windows in protest at “mindless vandalism”in the town centre.