'Fast and Furious'-inspired car meets are forcing disabled locals out of their homes and 'traumatising' dogs in a Lanarkshire village.
The Big Birkenshaw Takeover sees hundreds of car enthusiasts descend on a retail park close to a housing estate. Motors race along public roads and do 'doughnut's on the street at unlicensed events in Birkenshaw, near Larkhall.
A local B&M store hired a security team and forked out thousands on emergency fencing following an event on Saturday night that hundreds of 'boy racers' attended — allegedly leaving piles of rubbish in their wake. There are now calls to ban the 'takeovers' from fuming local residents, the Daily Record reports.
