THE parents of Reamonn Gormley have spoken of the pain on the first anniversary of their son’s death.
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THE heartbroken parents of Reamonn Gormley this week told how they are calling for changes to knife law – exactly a year on from their son’s brutal murder.
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TRIBUTES were this week paid to a missing teenager who was found frozen to death in Hamilton.
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A YOUNG woman suffered a broken arm after being viciously attacked on the Hamilton Palace’s dance floor.
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A KIDNEY donor match has been found for a young Larkhall man suffering from a rare form of renal failure.
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A Blantyre schoolgirl is through to the semi-final of Britain’s top TV dance competition.
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The Hamilton boy who starred in last year’s most talked-about Christmas advert is keen to take on a major movie role.
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NHS Lanarkshire have been fined £24,000 by a sheriff – after a patient contracted the potentially-lethal Legionnaires’ Disease while in hospital.
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LARKHALL Professional and Businessmen’s Club president Steve Winterbotham welcomed a full house to their Burns Supper at the Strathaven Hotel.
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COUNCIL chiefs were this week looking at ways of making a pedestrian access for children walking to a new £9.7million primary school in Larkhall safer after complaints from angry parents.
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CONCERN has been raised over a council-run bus service for 17 children with learning difficulties which takes over 90 minutes to get to school each day.
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Multi-million pound contracts to provide steel for the new Forth Road Bridge have all been awarded to foreign firms... sparking anger at the Dalzell steelworks in Motherwell.
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A SHOW being held in Motherwell Concert Hall that features nudity and a dwarf performing stunts using his genitals will NOT be censored by council officials.
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SOUTH Lanarkshire could become a ‘Fairtrade Zone’.
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A BLANTYRE woman is heading to Malawi to help out in hospitals and schools there.
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A CAMPAIGN to tackle knife crime is being launched next week in Hamilton – a year after the murder of Reamonn Gormley.
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A FAMILY-RUN bakery chain is going out of business after 145 years, taking with it 46 jobs.
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FURTHER to your article last week about the break-ins to cars at the £1-a-day parking area beside the Palace Grounds retail park in Hamilton, I would like to thank officers of Strathclyde Police for their help during a difficult time after mine was one of the vehicles targeted.
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TOM HATELEY has warned his Motherwell team-mates that they could be on the end of a Scottish Cup shock if they take the threat posed by Greenock Morton lightly.
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TWO neighbouring county clubs head into the West of Scotland Cup, second round ties on Saturday admitting that they have sights set on other targets - promotion in their respective divisions.
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THORNIEWOOD UNITED are the only county side listed for Super League First Division action this week as Shotts Bon Accord are on West Cup duty and Lanark United have a blank weekend.
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TRANSPORT bosses have pledged over £800,000 to provide a new park and ride facility in Motherwell.
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THERE’S been a fresh twist in the long-running controversy over Hamilton’s troubled Cadzow Gait development.
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AN investigation is under way after a fire broke out at a disused Newarthill pub last weekend.
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POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was stabbed during an unprovoked attack in Bellshill.
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FRIDAY night’s frost all but wiped out Saturday’s county Junior card. Only one Lanarkshire club made it to the starting line – and they lost!
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SECTION of the M74 was closed this morning (Wednesday) after a lorry driver was knocked down while attending to his vehicle.
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BOTHWELL'S Kirsty Gilmour is on course for a semi-final clash with four-times champion Rita Yuan Gao at the Yonex Scottish National Championships this weekend.
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HAMILTON’S trip to Edinburgh to face Stewart’s Melville survived the freeze on Saturday, but it was the Bulls who were left out in the cold at full-time despite dominating the first half.
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MOTHERWELL consolidated their third-place slot in the SPL with a vital win over rivals St Johnstone at Fir Park on Saturday.
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Forecasters have warned people to take extra care as snow is expected across much of the country.
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Almost three out of 10 people believe house prices in Scotland will rise rather than fall this year, a survey has shown.
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Actor and director Peter Mullan is to reopen a community swimming pool following an 11-year campaign.
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Two men have been arrested in connection with the death of a man who died after he was shot in a village street.
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Three members of a family killed in a crash when their car skidded may not have died if a crane leaking oil had been properly maintained, a sheriff has ruled.
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A man has been arrested in connection with the death of an elderly woman.
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The Met Office has issued weather warnings for snow forecast to fall across Scotland over the weekend.
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The parents of a man who went missing after a party have vowed to keep up their search for him as they spoke of their torment at not knowing where he is.
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Political leaders, trade unions, religious groups and campaigners have called for a march by a far-right group to be banned.
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A vandalism spree has caused several thousand pounds-worth of damage to 19 cars, police have said.
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The Scottish Government has been accused of staging a "misinformation campaign" on the impact independence or devo-max would have on the country's finances.
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The SNP's preferred referendum question could increase support for independence by up to 8% compared with a differently phrased question, a poll suggests.
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A woman accused of murdering an eastern European man whose body was found at a farm has appeared in a public court for the first time.
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Construction work on a visitor centre at the site of the Battle of Bannockburn to mark its 700th anniversary will start this summer, the First Minister has announced.
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A ScotRail conductor who featured in a video watched by millions of people online has said he is delighted to be back at work.
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Alex Salmond will have talks with the Scottish Secretary about the independence referendum in just over a week's time.
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An emergency was declared at an airport after a passenger plane was forced to turn back because of technical difficulties.
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Bankers' pay is too high and needs to be "corrected", the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Sir Philip Hampton has said.
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Police are hunting two fraudsters who have made around £2,500 by selling off cardboard as "laptops".
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Scotland is expected to shiver as cold weather grips the country after a night of sub-zero temperatures.
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An independent Scotland is likely to be more constrained on economic policy than as part of the UK, according to a research paper.
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The Scottish Parliament has been accused in the Lords of "discriminating" against students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland over tuition fees.
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One of the world's largest tobacco firms has lost its latest legal challenge to plans for a ban on the open display of cigarettes in shops.
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Women with PIP breast implants have said they are living a "nightmare" and have called for a public inquiry into the scandal.
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Scotland is experiencing a knock-on boom in tourism because of the Olympics in London this year, according to online travel firm Expedia.
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The family of murdered schoolboy Jack Frew has welcomed the conviction of his killer after 11 days of "harrowing and distressing evidence" at his trial.
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A teenager has been convicted of murdering a "happy, loving, vibrant" schoolboy said to have had the world at his fingertips.
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The family of murdered schoolboy Jack Frew have welcomed the conviction of his killer after 11 days of "harrowing and distressing evidence" at his trial.
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Watermelons may be the source of a salmonella outbreak across the UK which has affected 35 people, leading to one death.
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The First Minister is in "danger of becoming the Fred Goodwin of Scottish politics" by pursuing a case for independence which under scrutiny "falls apart", Labour has claimed.
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A serial conman with 30 previous convictions for fraud has been jailed for eight months at the Old Bailey.
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Experts are investigating whether watermelons are linked to an outbreak of salmonella across the UK.
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A teenager has been found guilty of murdering a school friend he claimed had pestered him for sex.
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A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a teenager accused of murdering his schoolmate.
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Opposition parties have been accused of promoting "anti-Scottish" education policies.
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The Scottish Government has been urged to scrap a plan to replace independent prison visiting committees.
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Oil giant BP has announced a multimillion-pound contract with a specialist offshore engineering firm for the second phase of a massive project off the Shetland Islands.
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Four exotic turtles have been abandoned as temperatures dropped to below freezing.
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An expedition to one of the deepest parts of the ocean has discovered a "supergiant" species.
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A Labour peer has called for two separate ballots held one month apart to settle Scotland's constitutional future.
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A fire board has been criticised for its decision to man one of its stations overnight, despite "relatively low" levels of activity and risk.
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A rescue operation has been launched after a fishing boat began taking on water 50 miles from land.
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Aquarium staff are working round the clock to care for a baby meerkat rejected by its mother.
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David Cameron and Ed Miliband have traded accusations over City bonuses as the Labour leader called for banks to be forced to disclose how many executives earn more than £1 million.
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A fraudster is to have £75,000 of assets seized under proceeds of crime laws.
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Visitor numbers at Edinburgh Zoo are up 200% thanks to the recent arrival of giant pandas.
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Colleges will be restructured across new regions in a shake-up announced by Education Secretary Michael Russell.
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Proposed legislation to force householders to keep high hedges in check has taken a step forward.
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A bridge will be the first man-made structure to join an exclusive club alongside the Queen and David Beckham - by receiving a Blue Peter badge.
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The Scottish retail sector has seen sales grow at a faster rate than Britain as a whole over the last year, new figures show.
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Renewable energy projects have been shelved because of uncertainty about energy market reform and a controversial decision to cut subsidies for home solar panels, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has said.
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First Minister Alex Salmond has told a summit on youth employment that giving hope to young people is a top priority.
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NHS Scotland offers a "leading example" of how British public sector industrial relations can help improve service delivery, according to a new report.
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Alistair Darling has criticised the "tawdry" treatment meted out to Fred Goodwin after the banker was humiliatingly stripped of his knighthood.
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Alistair Darling has criticised the "tawdry" treatment meted out to Fred Goodwin after the banker was humiliatingly stripped of his knighthood.
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Controversial changes to the welfare system amount to a "bedroom tax", a Scottish Government minister has said.
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Scottish accents are strongly associated with hard work, success and reliability, according to a poll.
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Grants to revive Britain's poorest regions are "wasted" on firms of more than 150 employees, according to a study.
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A local authority is to postpone introducing exams related to the Curriculum for Excellence by a year.
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A teenager should not come through the school system simply to end up as an "unemployment statistic", First Minister Alex Salmond has said.
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David Cameron has hailed the decision to complete Fred Goodwin's disgrace by removing his knighthood.
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The Scottish Government has announced extra cash for housing, job programmes and roads.
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Further investigations are needed at a beach where radioactive particles were found before anyone should take full responsibility, Defence Minister Andrew Robathan has said.
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More houses were sold in the final quarter of last year but the average price fell, new statistics show.
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Broadband internet could become five times faster under a new plan to improve Scotland's digital infrastructure.
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A woman has been sexually assaulted just yards from a busy birthday party at a social club.
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The oldest resident of Edinburgh Zoo has died at the age of 50.
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The long-awaited upgrade of the A9 to a full dual carriageway will begin in 2017, it has been announced.
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Members of the RMT union are to ballot for strikes over the sacking of two workers.
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Forcing retailers to set a minimum unit price on alcohol could keep grocery bills down, the Health Secretary has suggested.
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