Crime

A member of staff at a Clydesdale care home courageously challenged three men attempting to break into the building in the early hours of Monday morning.

A Crossford electrician who took more than £5,000 for kitchen work that was never done has been found guilty of fraud.

The Scottish SPCA is appealing for information after the bodies of two golden Labrador puppies were found suspended in a hedge in Lanarkshire.

A thief or thieves were very busy indeed on Friday night in Carluke with police saying that 16 of the 20 lock-ups at Caneluk Avenue had allegedly been broken into.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a spate of alleged rural offences around the Biggar area since the start of the New Year.

A hotelier in Biggar has been trading as the Shieldhill Castle Hotel in the full knowledge she was an undischarged bankrupt and therefore could not hold a company directorship, or run up further debt.

Police say that around half-past midnight on Sunday their officers had to intervene in a disturbance in Biggar High Street.

There were further troubles this week for the company who run the Shieldhill Castle Hotel as they found themselves being chased for debt at Lanark Sheriff Court.

Brides-to-be have been left devastated after their chosen country wedding venue locked the doors and shut up shop following our previous revelations about their financial predicament.

Police Scotland can confirm a 36 year old man has been arrested and charged in connection with alleged attempted murder in Lanarkshire.

Police have launched a murder inquiry following the death of 37 year-old man in Rigside, Lanark, on Sunday, December 16.

A Law man who lashed out with a knife during a street brawl has been warned to expect a “substantial” prison sentence when he returns to court.

A 56 years-old woman who breached her animal cruelty ban has been given a £360 fine and an additional 21 month disqualification order added on to her current 15-year ban.

Police officers in Wishaw are appealing for information following a theft in Forth last week.

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.