Updated Councillor Grant Ferguson Two BSL interpreters had been arranged for just two hours by South Lanarkshire Council to allow Councillor Grant Ferguson to participate in two council meetings which were “always going to be long”. Provost Ian McAllan apologised to members and said: “We need to learn from this experience and certainly on my watch, it will not happen again.” Executive director Paul Manning “profusely apologised” to members after the meeting for the error and inconvenience as a result. Councillors had been debating a motion from Liberal Democrat group leader Councillor Robert Brown which would have committed the council to becoming pesticide-free.