A fast-track justice scheme has seen nine out of 10 offenders “paying back” to their communities within 24 hours of being sentenced, new figures have shown.

The University of Edinburgh has become the latest educational institution in Scotland to publicly pledge its commitment to work with “see me” to tackle the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental ill-health.

A NEW million pound project will help give some of Inverclyde’s most vulnerable children a better start in life.

A JOBS fair aimed at potential care home recruits is to be staged in Perth on Thursday.

A CARE worker at Craw Wood, the specialist home for dementia sufferers at Tweedbank, has been dismissed.

INMATES at the new £120 million Low Moss prison will be made to work a 35-hour week, in a bid to stop them reoffending when they are eventually released.

Dumfries and Galloway councillors are being advised not to implement a rate rise in foster carer allowances.

A NURSE from New Galloway has been struck off for failing to report a fall which preceded the death of an elderly care home resident.

CALLOUS thieves caused severe water damage to a holiday home for ­children with cancer after they stole lead from its roof.

A NEW service to help those inflicted by an addiction has opened in Stranraer this week.