Recently added articles from Carluke Gazette (Carluke, Scotland):
Superstore shift.
Aug 01, 2008 ... TESCO, Lanark's biggest private employer, is staying tight-lipped about widespread rumours that it is about to move out of the town centre to a new location on the fringes of the Burgh. Talk has been circulating that the supermarket giant feels that its Gallowhilll store, just a ...
Burning issue.
Aug 01, 2008 ... A BATTLE between flora, fauna and fears of flooding is raging in Biggar. Claims have been made to the Gazette that over-eager environmentalists are now putting parts of the town in danger of a mini-disaster. A largely behind-the-scenes row has been rumbling on for ...
We're not licked.
Aug 01, 2008 ... TWENTY years ago, historic New Lanark deserved to have its own Royal Mail stamp. Now it has been told that it doesn't even deserve its own post office. But the Post Office looks set to have a fight on its hands closing down the World Heritage Village's sub-post ...
Gear up for Knockhill.
Aug 01, 2008 ... SCOTLAND'S National Motorsport Centre, Knockhill Racing Circuit, is offering Gazette readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to the most exhilarating motorsport weekends of 2008. Winners can choose tickets for one of two thrill-packed race weekends ? the British ...
Nick of time.
Aug 01, 2008 ... POLICE Constable Colin Baird proved to be a speedy hero when he stopped to help a pregnant woman and her husband ...as she prepared to give birth in the back of a car! PC Baird and three of his colleagues, PC's Stuart Graham and Graham Neilson and Sergeant Alistair Lewis, were ...
Lofty home for bats.
Aug 01, 2008 ... OLD churches famously have bats in the belfry, but an Abington couple have bats in their loft ? and they have to live with them. Bats are a protected species, so the pensioners can do nothing about their surprise guests until autumn when the bats fly off to cooler spots. ...
Community spirit rools!
Aug 01, 2008 ... 'A LONG time ago, dinosaurs rooled the world'. These were the words scribbled into an A3 sketch pad by five-year-old Carluke youngster Ben Hastie, just a few days before the freak A73 road accident which took his life earlier this summer. And they'll always be ...
Well-loved laddie.
Aug 01, 2008 ... ONLY a fortnight ago a family celebrated the 18th birthday of a much-loved son ? but within days he was dead. Aidan Millar had just left school, where he was a prefect, and was waiting for his exam results which would decide his place at university. But he died in a ...
