Almost three quarters of health charities across Scotland have warned they have no funding beyond this month and may have to close.

Police call them the kids on the cusp, the perhaps one-in- four young people in troubled areas who find themselves, often unwittingly, on the fringes of Scotland-s violent gang culture.

THE owner of a nursing home facing closure has offered to lease it to the council free of charge to make sure the elderly residents do not have to move.

AS COLIN Norris listened to the lecture about how a nurse had been found guilty of murdering a patient with a dose of insulin, the seeds of a killing spree were sown.