Pride as Rouken Glen wins award for best-kept park

From our archives 5 years ago

ROUKEN Glen Park in East Renfrewshire has been named the best-kept park in Scotland. Each year, the Fields in Trust awards showcase some of the UK’S best open spaces and highlight the efforts of the people who ensure they can be enjoyed by the public. The Fields in Trust charity protects open spaces from sports pitches to children’s playgrounds, bicycle trails and country parks, safeguarding them for future generations.

Chief executive Helen Griffiths said: “The people of Giffnock have sent a clear message that they love their park and on behalf of everyone at Fields in Trust, I would like to congratulate Rouken Glen Park.

10 years ago

WARNINGS have been issued that the real-terms cut in benefit payments will push more Scots into poverty at a time of rising joblessness. Around 140,000 Scots will see their unemployment benefits rise by just £1 a week or less as Chancellor George Osborne seeks to hold the majority of welfare benefits way below the rate of inflation. Those in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance will see their payments – a maximum of £115 a week – rise by 1%, with claimants of Income Support – those on a low income who work 16 hours a week or less – to receive the same increase from next April.

25 years ago

THE Scottish Football Association yesterday urged the Tartan Army not to get in touch after its switchboard was swamped with inquiries from fans desperate to make the trip to France 98. Staff took hundreds of calls following the draw, which matched the Scots with champions Brazil as well as Norway and Morocco. Expatriate fans from as far afield as Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Bosnia contacted the Park Gardens offices for information. Approved tour operators also reported a hectic day’s business. However, the SFA expressed concern that the operators could sell Scots fans tickets which would put them among opposition supporters.

50 years ago

THE Government are to make an annual report to Parliament on North Sea oil and gas, and the first will be published before Christmas, Mr Peter Emery, Under-secretary of State, Department of Trade and industry, told the Scottish Grand Committee yesterday.

At the same time the Government will publish the international management and engineering group’s report on the engineering aspects of the new industry, and Government decisions will be made as a result of the report.

Mr Emery, making one of the rare appearances by an English Minister in this Committee, disclosed, before embarking on a vigorous defence of Government policy and action, that he had a Scottish grandmother.