EK at 75: 'Applying for EK News job is best thing I ever did', says breakfast TV star Lorraine Kelly

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East Kilbride has been very good to me.It’s where I spent my teenage years and where I got my first big grown up job.My family and I moved from the East End of Glasgow to East Kilbride back in 1973 when I was almost 13 and my brother Graham was six years old.Compared with a one bedroom tenement flat in Bridgeton, our new three bedroom house in Turnberry Place in Greenhills felt enormous.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Things changed really quickly. A shopping centre was built and we got to know our neighbours and feel a sense of community.At that time there was no secondary school in