Lanark Tolbooth's wet exhibition

YOU'D have been forgiven for thinking all the paintings at an art exhibition in Lanark's Tolbooth last week were watercolours.
By The Newsroom
Published 19th Nov 2010, 20:39 BST

And they all very nearly were as the rain poured into the bottom floor of the historic building – despite warnings being given months ago that its guttering was in serious need of repair.

Now there are allegations that the town's Common Good Fund is to be charged thousands of pounds for repairs that would have taken just hundreds if South Lanarkshire Council had acted when first alerted to the flooding threat back in APRIL this year.

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The problems predicted by the Tolbooth Committee, which organises the lets of the building for public events and is only responsible for its internal upkeep, became a cold, wet reality early last week.

Torrential rain which hit Lanark quickly made its way through the Tolbooth roof and down the internal walls and into the lower floor where the Corra Linn Art Group was holding its Christmas exhibition of members works.

A spokesman for the council confirmed that 6000 expenditure from the Common Good Fund had been agreed on November 9.

For more information on this story, pick up a copy of this week's Carluke and Lanark Gazette which is in the shops now.