South Lanarkshire Council’s Consumer and Trading Standards team has launched a ‘Scams Alert Network’ with the aim of beating fraudsters who steal up to £7m each year from the local purse.
A veteran dog breeder’s trip to Lanark at the weekend turned into a nightmare after her favourite pug puppy was ‘snatched’ from a show at the Agricultural Centre.
A specialist police officer described as a trailblazer in investigating dog attacks on livestock has been called south from his Argyll base to help police in Galloway tackle the scourge.
In a unique joint operation between the police, fire service and council, a Clydesdale village became the centre of a dragnet on Monday to catch a firebug whose ‘pranks’ of the past eight months might end in a tragedy.
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 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 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.
