ELDERLY residents at a scandal-hit care home were left to eat stew with their fingers, a damning report has revealed.

A new home for charities in the city has proven so popular it already has a waiting list of organisations wanting to take up residence.

Scotland’s largest voluntary social care organisation has urged the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), government and health boards to maintain their investment in services despite the tough financial climate.

A report into an Aberdeen nursing home at the centre of a police and council investigation found the quality of care was “weak”, BBC Scotland has learned.

ORGANISATIONS across North Lanarkshire are to benefit from more than £210,000 of council funding.

The government is being urged to make an emergency statement following the death of a woman who had been living at an Edinburgh nursing home.

The public is to be quizzed on how criminals should be put to work to pay the community back for their crimes.

A DAMNING report into a care home under investigation by police has revealed that patients were kept in “terrible” conditions and a number of staff were not properly trained.

AN agreement to invest £1.25 million in services to older people in East Lothian has been approved by the Scottish Government.

THE last inspection of a city care home at the centre of a police investigation was so poor its manager “resigned with immediate effect”, it was reported today.