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05/03/2010	A member of a notorious Glasgow crime family has admitted killing a man during a road rage incident. Paul Lyons, 28, rammed 32-year-old Mark Fleeman's van on the M74 motorway near Larkhall in June last year. The High Court in Glasgow heard that Lyons was high on drink and drugs and banned from driving at the time. Mr Fleeman died after his van spun off the road and overturned. His 17-year-old passenger Lee Allsup was seriously injured. Both men were from Uttoxeter. 　　 Irn-Bru is adding the fizz to a new campaign aimed at revolutionising the packaging of food and drink. Maker AG Barr has agreed to back new targets which include increasing the recycling content of grocery packaging where appropriate, as well as upping recycling rates. The aim is to slash the carbon impact of packaging by 10%. The Cumbernauld-based soft drinks giant uses PET plastic containers for its drinks and plans to cut the use of 375 tonnes of PET a year – the equivalent of 18million half-litre bottles. Chief executive Roger White has signed up to the Courtauld Commitment, a UK-wide voluntary agreement involving major retailers and brand owners. 　 COMPARED to other North Lanarkshire towns, Cumbernauld is having a fraction of the money spent on it that its neighbours - including Kilsyth - enjoy. Figures from the council's regeneration services department show that in the period 2004-2012 just £70 per person is being spent on regeneration in Cumbernauld Town Centre per resident,, a total of £3.5million since 2004/05. 　　 A 33-year-old man has been arrested after the body of another man was discovered at a flat in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. Kevin Black, 34, was found dead at a property in Dunkeld Place on Monday. Police said earlier this week that they were treating his death as suspicious. The 33-year-old man is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal. 　　 A Lanarkshire steel firm has secured £2m worth of new contracts, including work on the new Shotts Prison. GR Contracts, based in Wishaw, has signed a £1.3m deal with construction firm Carillion to supply and install steel for the new-build jail. It will also provide structural steel for builder Cruden for a development of new flats in Govan, Glasgow. Bosses at the firm said funding from UK Steel Enterprise (UKSE) was helping them through difficult economic times. 　 The decision to pay hypnotist Paul McKenna £20,000 to give a "pep talk" to jobless youngsters has been criticised by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce. The government-funded agency Skills Development Scotland is hosting the talk as part of a Get Ready for Work event for 16-19 year olds in Glasgow. Scottish Chambers of Commerce director Liz Cameron said the fee could have been spent on apprenticeships. The Scottish government said it was funding extra apprenticeship places. 　 He has tackled some of the biggest names in the comic book world. Now Scots writer Mark Millar has announced plans to direct his first film in Glasgow starring Scottish superheroes. Millar, who made his name writing for comic books including Superman, the X-Men and Spider-Man, plans to hire local actors and crew for the as-yet-untitled film, which will be filmed this summer. The 40-year-old has already tasted Hollywood success with the 2008 adaptation of his Wanted comic, which starred Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and fellow Scot James McAvoy. Later this month, the £40m big screen version of his comic Kick-Ass starring Nicolas Cage will be released. The Coatbridge-born writer plans to cast the new movie next month and film at various Scottish locations in the summer. It is expected to be released in late 2011.



02/03/2010	Police are treating the death of a 34 year old Hamilton man as suspisious. Kevin Black of Townhill Road was discovered at a flat in Dunkeld Place. Relatives have been informed and a full report has been sent to the Fiscal. the cause of death is yet un-known. A notorius Cumbernauld family have had there home made bullet proof following the death of Kevin Carroll The Lyons Clan who own property worth 1 million pounds fear a revenge hit - state of the art Cameras have been installed along with strenthened Glass. One family memeber Eddie Jnr survived a murder bid in 2006 when he was blasted on the doorstep of his previous home. Kevin Carroll also known as the gerbil was shot dead in the car park of Asda in Robroyston in January. 　 Work on Scotland’s largest park-and-ride car park is to begin next month. The project at Croy railway station in North Lanarkshire will result in spaces for 700 cars. Construction of the car park will be carried out in two phases to ensure no parking spaces are lost during the work. It is hoped it will be open by the end of the year. The project is being funded by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, which has appointed Barr Holdings as contractor. Its costing 1 . 8 million pounds 　 Demand for five-a-side football pitches has boosted profits at Goals Soccer Centres. The East Kilbride-based firm now hope to expand and open there first US Outlet. Pitch rental sales rose by 1% in 2009. New sites and food and drink revenue put total sales growth up to 10%. The company said they believed the World Cup in South Africa would do more to boost interest in the centres. 　　 A cancer day centre at Strathclyde Hospital in Motherwell, is 30 thousand pounds richer Thanks To All Star Mr And Mrs. Snookers John Higgins and his wife Denise scooped the money after answering all of the questions correctly on the Saturday Night show. The Bothwell Based star is a patron for Daziel Hospice. 　　　 Sir Paul McCartney has announced he will play Hampden Park in Glasgow. The shows are part of four being held outdoor this summer, including at the Isle of Wight festival and London's Hyde Park. The Ex beatle says the Shows will be a blast for Fans. Tickets for the stadium shows in June will go on sale on 8 March.



01/03/2010	First Scotrail says is "business as usual" despite a 24-hour strike by workers. Members of the RMT union are fighting plans to have drivers instead of guards operate the doors on a new rail link between Airdrie and Bathgate. The union is holding its second one-day stoppage over the issue, which it has described as "safety-critical". ScotRail said it intended to run at least nine out of 10 trains, as it did during the previous strike. 　 A 38 year old man and a 19 year old woman have appeared at airdrie sherrif court following the death of a 36-year-old woman who was found dead in her home. The body of Annmarie Kelly was found at the weekend in High Coats in Coatbridge. 　 Scottish parents are to be given the right to learn whether people who have access to their children are convicted sex offenders. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said the scheme would allow parents to ask for background checks on anyone they may have concerns about. Police would then tell them whether the person in question had convictions. A pilot of the scheme has been running in Tayside since September. 　　 Tens of thousands of workers in Scotland are to take part in a national civil service strike next month. The Public and Commercial Services union has voted to hold a 48-hour stoppage on 8 and 9 March in a dispute over changes to a compensation scheme. The union said some 30,000 staff in Scotland would be involved in the action, including 5,000 who work for the Scottish government. 　 ONE of Scotland’s most popular leisure centres is undergoing a £6 million revamp. The Time Capsule in Coatbridge, will get a new water slide and improved spa facilities as part of a major improvement programme, commissioned by North Lanarkshire Council. Building work, led by Ogilvie Construction, has just started on site. The project is expected to take around nine months to complete. The time capsule attracts around 700,000 visitors a year,



30/11/1999	Work to install four huge beams as part of the M80 upgrade project will continue this weekend, after mechanical problems caused delays. The beams, which form the new Mollinsburn overbridge in North Lanarkshire, were due to be put in place last week. But a 1,200 tonne crane brought in to lift them developed a fault. Motorists and football fans travelling to the Old Firm match at Ibrox on Sunday were warned to expect delays. The £320m project to upgrade an an 11-mile stretch of the A80 between Stepps and Haggs began last year and is expected to be completed by 2011. A 56-year-old motorist has died after the car he was driving crashed in Bishopbriggs. Strathclyde Police said the man was driving his Mercedes on Auchinairn Road on Friday when he apparently lost control of the vehicle. The car then left the road and hit a safety barrier. The injured man was taken to the Glasgow's Royal Infirmary but died a short time later. There was no one else in the car at the time A 44-year-old has been arrested after a man was stabbed to death and his brother was injured in a disturbance at a flat in Glasgow last week. Louis Shields, 46, died at the property in Cambuskenneth Place in the Craigend area of the city in the early hours of Thursday 18 February. His brother Peter Shields, 47, was treated at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and later discharged. Police said the 44-year-old man was being detained in custody. THE gangland hit squad who executed drug boss Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll used guns previously fired in an attack on a house, it emerged yesterday. Forensic experts have linked the murder weapons with a gangland warning attack on a house near Milton, in the north of Glasgow. Six shots were fired through a front window in the 2007 incident but no one was injured. Now the connection between the shooting and Carroll's execution last month outside an Asda supermarket in Robroyston, Glasgow, has provided detectives with an Aladdin's Cave of evidence. A police source said: "In the preparation and execution of the murder, there has been a degree of recklessness. "The killers were careless in disposing of the weapons behind a public library. "And it beggars belief that the guns had already been used in a previous incident. "As we examine the background and motive of the earlier case, other people are coming into play. "Carroll had a lot of enemies and there has been much speculation about who may have been behind the murder. "But the guns link is opening up opportunities to eliminate different groups and it may provide a clear path to those responsible for the shooting." Underworld sources have claimed Carroll, who worked as an enforcer for the Daniel crime clan, was killed as part of a running feud with the Lyons family. Detectives believe that Eddie Lyons Jnr, 30, was shot by Carroll just days before he was assassinated. Eddie Jnr is rumoured to have been shot three times by Gerbil, with two shots hitting his bulletproof vest and a third striking his arm. The dad-of-two is understood to have left his £250,000 home in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, after Carroll's murder and he is now believed to be in Spain. His dad, Eddie Snr, 51, is the head of the notorious crime clan. EIGHT of today's scheduled games in the SFL games have been called off and more could follow after another week of severe weather conditions. First Division leaders Dundee have seen their game against Raith Rovers pay the price while another morning pitch inspection KO'd Airdrie's home match with Queen of the South. Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor has been questioned by police over alleged "inconsistencies" in his claim to have been assaulted outside a nightclub. McGregor had alleged the attack happened in Bath Street, Glasgow, on Saturday night. It was reported that McGregor was treated in hospital for facial injuries after being violently assaulted.

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