INSPECTORS say “positive progress” is being made by Stirling Council in protecting the area’s most at risk children.

Drug users who terrorise communities by funding their habit through violent crime and theft face a crackdown.

A proposed increase in allowances to foster carers in Dumfries and Galloway has been narrowly rejected.

A COUNCIL has taken account of public anger over plans to cut thousands of hours in respite care and announced it will phase in a new service instead of introducing it in little more than a month.

An elderly man has been placed on the sex offenders register after he admitted indecently assaulting a carer while she was trying to help a stroke victim.

The number of people declaring themselves homeless in Inverness has dropped by more than half, according to the Scottish government.

A WOMAN bit her home support worker’s hair and pulled it out by the roots, Inverness Sheriff Court heard.

Public sector bodies in Scotland may struggle to make the required savings to their budget this year, risking the future delivery of effective public services, auditors are warning.

PLANS for West Dunbartonshire Council to merge services with other local authorities are set to be scrapped.

THE application to build a 30-bed residential care home in Ascog will be decided at a public hearing in Rothesay.