A multi-million pound housing project backed by football hero Graeme Souness faces being scuppered by medieval farmers. An archaeologist has warned that numerous structures dating back hundreds of years will be destroyed if planning permission is granted for Europark in Lanarkshire.
We revealed four years ago that ex- Rangers and Scotland star Souness and his son Fraser had teamed up with members of the wealthy Gillespie mining dynasty to develop the site, close to Airdrie and the M8.
Their firm – Orchard Brae Limited – wanted to build 2600 homes on land owned by daughters of the late Tory Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw.Former Rangers player manager Souness, 68, is a significant shareholder in the company, while Fraser, 40, is a
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