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.
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.
