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Security guard hurt in robbery

A security guard has been taken to hospital after he and a colleague were robbed by two masked men as they filled a cash machine at a college.

The attack happened at South Lanarkshire College, in East Kilbride. The officers, aged 56 and 45, were filling an ATM when one of the cash boxes was snatched. The older of the guards was taken to hospital for treatment. The other man was not hurt.

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