Former first minister Alex Salmond is set to appear in court later on Wednesday accused of offences against 10 women, including attempted rape and a series of sexual assaults. The
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Prince Charles visited a project aiming to turn an art installation into blankets for homeless people. He met those learning to knit parts of the project, including a rugby team.
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A groundbreaking clinical drug trial for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has been launched which will allow patients to undergo more than one treatment at a time. MND-SMART is a UK-wide
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Care experienced students taking part in a new service to improve their outcomes met with Scotland’s first minister this week. The students from Glasgow’s three colleges and West College Scotland
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One of the first people in Scotland to take part in a new trial for Huntington’s disease (HD) says the programme has taken him from a “real place of darkness”.
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There was widespread abuse of children at care establishments in Scotland, an interim report has concluded. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has published its findings into residential institutions run by
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The brother of Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr has been jailed after he was convicted of stalking two fans of the band. Paul Kerr’s trial heard that he threatened to
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An out-of-school care provider in Edinburgh and the Lothians must make urgent improvements in the care experienced by children at three of its services, inspectors have said. The Care Inspectorate
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Two competitions which recognised the contributions of social workers and social care workers in Scotland are to merge, it has been announced. The Scottish Social Services Awards (run by the
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A man who cut off a disabled woman’s hand in her home will be monitored for life after he was given a lifelong restriction order. Stephen Brisbane, 34, attacked Sandra
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