HOPES that Lanark will ever see the return of its historic landmark wooden auction ring faded this week.

THE Lottery has turned down Biggar’s application for funding for the new museum on the Stephens Garage site.

DIRE predictions over the fate of a village’s medical service have come true – sooner than expected.

THE fight goes on – that’s the view of the Dovesdale Action Group after a public meeting in Kirkmuirhill this week.

IN one move, Lanark’s long quest for a place to bury its future dead ended this week – AND the town’s Common Good Fund scooped a £90,000 boost.

Sheriff Robert Dickson has listed a number of failings after a Fatal Accident inquiry into three deaths in three months of patients having gallbladders removed by keyhole surgery at Lanarkshire hospitals.

COMPUTER users in Carluke are being urged not to fall for a scam fraudulently linked to PC giant Microsoft.

Veteran MP Jim Hood has ended up blasting changes to the borders of his constituency he himself demanded years ago.

COULD the Clydesdale Route soon be joining the West Highland and East Coast on the list of the nation’s famous rail lines?

HUNDREDS of Clydesdale women who are, or were, council employees could soon be in for a share of a massive £200 million in ‘back pay’.

POPULAR Biggar couple James and Charlotte Reid of Langvout have celebrated their Diamond Wedding anniversary, having been married in Innerleithen on January 26, 1952, less than a fortnight before the Queen’s Ascension to the Throne.

It has been on the cards for years, but now it has been confirmed: the town’s Roadmeetings Hospital is to close.

NHS Lanarkshire has confirmed that it will be shut by the end of March.

FOLLOWING a killing and a spate of other crimes, police have launched a fresh crime crackdown in Lanark’s Smyllum area.

THERE are soon to be certain parts of the Clydesdale countryside which will be bucking the national trend by seeing electricity bills FALLING.

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A series of `techno-scams’ have been aimed at Clydesdale folk, ranging from bogus bank calls in Lanark to fake Inland Revenue refund offers in Rigside.

LANARK’S tribute to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee could be to provide a throne for all the townsfolk – by building a new public lavatory.

A HEART-BROKEN dad has hit out at vandals who destroyed a tree specially planted in memory of his late daughter.

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RESIDENTS of the Douglas Valley will have another opencast coal mine on their doorstep following the decision by South Lanarkshire Council to grant planning permission at a site near Hawksland.

THE long campaign against the Dovesdale Incinerator, near Blackwood, appears to be at an end after campaigners lost their Judicial Review case against the council.

Falklands war hero Simon Weston added his endorsement to Carluke Rotary Club’s Call For Heroes campaign.