Crime

Less than a week after it opened, a shameless person or persons unknown tried to break into Carluke’s newest charity shop, the Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland Boutique outlet in the Rankin Gate Centre.

Police in Clydesdale are asking for the help of local folk in investigating the following recent offences.

The new police commander for Lanarkshire, Chief Superitendent Alan Waddell, has made reducing violent crime his first major priority through an exercise called Operation Forward.

Someone put Carluke schoolchildren in potential danger last week and the police are keen to know who they are.

When the Gazette carries a police appeal for information about a “plant theft”, it usually means the stealing of a digger or cement mixer from a building site.

Even scenic areas like Lanark Loch can be the scene of a crime Police Scotland said this week.

Decades of dark rumours of abuse of children at Lanark’s Smyllum Orphanage have finally been confirmed as being all too tragically true.

A bizarre ‘smash-and-grab’ raid was made in the centre of Forth in the early hours of Friday morning.

Police are appealing for witnesses to an early morning attack on a teenager just yards from their Lanark base.

Local opposition politicians have been quick to blame the Scottish Government for the first increase in Clydesdale’s crime figures for a decade.

A convicted rapist from Lanark who continued his campaign of violence in the Scottish prison system has been told he will stay behind bars until he ceases to be a danger to others.

Police Scotland based in Lanark have issued their weekly crime call roundup and have asked that anyone with information on these alleged crimes come forward.

The Scottish SPCA is appealing for information after 18 rats were cruelly dumped in Lanark on Monday (September 18).

Police are seeking more information on the recent attempted mugging of a woman in Carluke.

A five-year initiative launching in South Lanarkshire this year to help young people avoid being drawn into a criminal life could have an impact far beyond the county’s borders.

It has claimed that the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry legal bill being run up by the order of nuns who ran the former Smyllum Orphanage in Lanark could be around £400,000.

At around 10.50am on Sunday there was a collision between a car and an HGV on the M74 near Cairn Lodge Services.

A mental health nurse who worked at Lanark Health Centre from May, 2013 to April, 2015 has been struck off the nursing register for sending “inappropriate” late-night texts and social media messages during his time there.