ALMOST twice as many pensioners in the Lothians are admitted to hospital with malnutrition than anywhere else in Scotland, figures have shown.

Almost 200 Angus children — including several under the age of one — have been victims of sex crimes since the start of 2008.

The slow recovery in Scotland’s jobs market has gone into reverse, according to a survey of recruitment companies.

New figures have shown almost 90 per cent of Scots young carers feel that their schools and GPs do nothing to support them – and that’s despite the fact that Scotland’s carers and young carers save the public purse more than £7.6 billion a year.

The hearing into a blaze at a care home which claimed the lives of 14 elderly residents has finished taking evidence.