Category: Crime

Garden Prowler

We don’t normally post crime on the main news page here, saving that for our Supporters group, but in this instance, we thought we’d post a wider alert, given some idiot is prowling around gardens in the Village. This was last night, Friday 13th December as a prowler illegally trespassed in a garden in The […]

Protecting Your Phones

There’s been a rise in the number of phone thefts. Phones being grabbed, or picked up when left lying around. Of concern is the rise in phones being grabbed from trains and buses as thieves hover and use the exits, hoping the owner won’t follow. Tips for looking after your mobile phone:

Fire at Derelict Bairds Building

Firefighters rushed to the scene of a blaze at the former Baird’s department store on Duke Street, Hamilton, this morning Friday 13th December at 6:40 AM. Crews worked to extinguish the fire, with reports of four fire appliances at the scene. The cause of the fire is still unknown. Safety concerns around asbestos were noted […]

Witness Appeal

Road Policing Officers are appealing for information following a fatal road crash on Quarry Street, Hamilton on Sunday, 27 October, 2024. Around 12.40am, a pedestrian was stuck by a small black car, possibly a Mercedes A-Class. The driver failed to stop after the crash. Police and ambulance attended and a 70-year-old man was pronounced dead […]

Police Hunt for Driver

Following a crash this morning outside Hunter Primary School, East Kilbride, police have launched a hunt to find the driver who fled the scene. The one car crash happened this morning around rush hour, shocking many people who were nearby. Police quickly attended the scene at Calderwood Road. It was a serious crash allegedly into […]

Burnbank Incident

Around 3.50pm this afternoon, on Monday, 21 October, Police received a report of two men injured within the Burnbank Centre, Hamilton and quickly attended the scene. A 36-year-old man was sadly pronounced dead at the scene and a 59-year-old man was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow. Officers remain in the area and […]

Breaking: Arrest for Uddingston Murder

Following the death of 38-year-old, David Graham, from Cambuslang, officers have now arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with his death. Enquiries remain ongoing. Around 7.35pm, on Sunday, 6 October, 2024, Mr Graham was walking in General’s Gate when he was attacked. He was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow […]

Uddingston Murder Enquiry

Police have revealed that that the man sadly murdered in Uddingston on Sunday , was a 38 year old devoted dad named David Graham. David who lived in Cambuslang, had been walking alone in the General’s Gate area of Uddingston when he was attacked by an unknown assailant around 7.35pm on the evening of Sunday […]