A local Village resident has asked to put out this alert after finding thumb tacks and pins deliberately strewn over the pathway on the David Livingstone Memorial Bridge. Thinking it was just litter, she cleared them and was later shocked to find more had appeared, scattered again the very next day, looking like a deliberate […]
A security alert. This comes after separate messages came in about door handles and windows being tried at both Low Blantyre and High Blantyre during the last couple of nights. On the early hours of Monday morning 4th May 2020 around 2am, a High Blantyre house alarm was set off and sensor lights tripped after […]
Receiving a lot of messages about seeing smoke in High Blantyre this evening, Saturday 02 May 2020. This was due to a serious fire at a house in Kirkton Avenue. Reports started coming in around 8.20pm. Emergency Services attended the scene, the fire now out. It’s understood that nobody is injured. Residents in the street […]
Local woman Holly Walker got a shock yesterday after she returned from her essential food shopping trip. When she returned from Aldi in Cambuslang, she was unpacking and noticed something unusual. She had bought a packet of breaded chicken, a favourite dinner of her young son but when she popped it in the oven, she […]
Holmswood Avenue / Farm Rd We’ve had an alert in the last hour of suspicious activity in the Holmswood Avenue area of Blantyre. A man thought to be in his forties chapped a woman’s door this evening giving some strange story about a friend being trapped in a nearby close. She was alarmed enough to […]
A police incident took place last night around 10.30pm at Fernslea Avenue where a few houses were taped off. Units were also lifting manhole covers indicating a serious incident may have taken place. Today, this morning Thursday 19th March 2020 the police are still there were houses near St Blanes Primary closed off, potentially making […]
We’re hearing reports of fake £20 notes circulating in the Blantyre area. An alert goes out to local businesses to please check transactions and be mindful of this. Several pubs and shops have already been affected by this and it is currently unknown how widespread the problem is. Please share.
Local people came to the aid of a man requiring medical attention yesterday at Springwells. Between 2pm and 3pm yesterday, Tuesday 11 February 2020, a male driver in a Red Fiesta ’68 car became unwell behind the wheel near to Lidl on Glasgow Road. A local man and his partner and 3 other ladies saw […]