Conservative MSP Bill Aitken has resigned as convener of Holyrood’s justice committee over comments he was said to have made about a gang rape.

Ideas on delivering health care in remote and rural communities in Scotland have been tested in Australia.

The Scots leader of Britain’s doctors could be forced to step down amid a revolt over the Government’s planned shake-up of the NHS.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to convert a sheltered housing unit into a social work office have been approved by North Ayrshire Council despite concerns about parking from nearby residents.

A FORMER boys’ football club coach who bought drink for a 15-year-old and let him drive through a busy town centre has been banned from working with children for three years.

A NURSING home owner was yesterday blamed for the deaths of 14 elderly residents in a fire by the local health board’s legal team.

Union leaders fear that up to a third of sheltered housing wardens in Aberdeenshire could lose their jobs as part of a proposed revamp of the service.

NHS Scotland has said that health boards will share £11.4bn in revenue and capital spending in 2011-12

Social work chiefs in Fife have denied claims staff and relatives of care home residents were deliberately left out of meetings discussing the future of the region’s residential care provision.

Low-income households in Scotland will lose more than £80 million in support because of the UK government’s housing benefit changes, a report has warned.