50 YEARS AGO
An Overtown family were facing the threat of being made homeless after being told they had no claims on a county council house.
A boundary fence was to be erected around the grounds of Coltness High School at a cost of £1500.
Nine children were injured when a bus taking them from school collided with a lorry in Merry Street, Motherwell. The pupils were all from Braidhurst High School but thankfully no-one was seriously hurt.
Members of thewomen’s Royal Voluntary Service donated a top class turntable to the internal broadcasting unit at Radio Cleland Hospital.
Police and farmers were out in the Fortissat area after a pack of dogs killed two sheep in the area.
Newcastle United planned to watch Wishaw goalkeeper Dan Stevenston in the Junior Cup tie against Petershill.