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Article£4.5M WRITE OFF

More than £4.5 mil­lion in uncol­lec­ted debt has been writ­ten off by South Lanark­shire Coun­cil. Coun­cil tax arrears worth £2,235,476 – dat­ing back as far as 1993/94 – have been scrubbed. A fur­ther £1,489,336 owed by busi­nesses in unpaid...

Article13,680 sup­por­ted by pen­sion dis­ab­il­ity cash

New fig­ures show Pen­sion Age Dis­ab­il­ity Pay­ment has sup­por­ted 13,680 pen­sion­ers in South Lanark­shire, provid­ing vital sup­port to older people who have sig­ni­fic­ant care needs due to being dis­abled, ter­min­ally ill or hav­ing a...

ArticleFam­ily opens up after bal­cony fall

A Larkhall woman left with a broken back after plunging from a third-floor hotel bal­cony dur­ing a birth­day trip to Greece has spoken out from her hos­pital bed. Denby Mclaren, 30, suffered dev­ast­at­ing injur­ies includ­ing a broken ver­tebra and...

ArticleMum’s out­rage as bene­fits offi­cials refused to accept doc­tor’s note on her severely dis­abled daugh­ter’s fit­ness to work

ArticleJail­ford­warf whopestered school­girls­for nud­e­pho­tos

A dwarf who dressed as an Oompa Loompa for hen and stag parties has been jailed for four years after pes­ter­ing school­girls for nude pho­tos. Marc Cor­ri­eri, who has a pre­vi­ous con­vic­tion for sim­ilar offend­ing, paid two teen­agers for...

ArticleAnger after new homes get approval

Plans for four new homes on a patch of Hamilton green space have been approved by coun­cil­lors – des­pite 21 objec­tions from angry neigh­bours. South Lanark­shire Coun­cil’s plan­ning com­mit­tee backed the applic­a­tion by Hamilton and Kin­neil...

ArticleJailed for using wooden baton to bang on neigh­bours’ door

A serial offender who armed him­self with a wooden baton and banged on neigh­bours’ doors in the dead of night has been jailed for 18 months. David Mcin­tosh claimed he was look­ing for a drug dealer’s house and needed to pro­tect him­self. The...