Bosses at Glasgow University have voted to axe a raft of courses despite months of protest from academics and students.

A dementia sufferer was dragged along the corridor of a care home by the woman who was supposed to be looking after her.

Scottish ministers have been urged to ensure nobody with learning disabilities has to live in a hospital following the case of Winterbourne View in Bristol.

Glasgow City Council’s largest arm’s-length firm has appointed a new managing director.

USERS of North Ayrshire Council’s care services will get greater independence under a radical new makeover agreed this week.

Police in East and Midlothian have teamed up with the national anti-domestic violence charity White Ribbon Scotland.

The number of children being referred to the Children’s Reporter for criminal offences has fallen by almost a fifth, according to new figures.

A teenager who jumped with her friend from a bridge over the River Clyde had written a suicide note a year before the double death tragedy.

SOCIAL work bosses have defended the controversial reshaping of day services for Borders adults with learning disabilities.

THE chief executive of a top veterans’ charity quit his post just days before a damning report was published into one of the group’s care homes.