Children’s cancer services are to be kept in all four of Scotland’s main cities.

A FATHER who sexually abused his daughter’s five-year-old friend almost 30 years ago was brought to justice today.

Businesswomen in Aberdeen have helped a leading charity support people looking for work.

A NEW campaign aimed at stamping out domestic violence caused by alcohol has been launched in West Lothian.

Almost three quarters of health charities across Scotland have warned they have no funding beyond this month and may have to close.

Police call them the kids on the cusp, the perhaps one-in- four young people in troubled areas who find themselves, often unwittingly, on the fringes of Scotland-s violent gang culture.

THE owner of a nursing home facing closure has offered to lease it to the council free of charge to make sure the elderly residents do not have to move.

AS COLIN Norris listened to the lecture about how a nurse had been found guilty of murdering a patient with a dose of insulin, the seeds of a killing spree were sown.

A nurse who stole silver and antiques from an elderly couple she was looking after has been told she will stay out of jail if she behaves herself.

A couple who worked at the former care home in Jersey at the centre of child abuse allegations have said they will help police with their inquiries.

Tom and Morag Jordan, from Kirriemuir in Angus, were house parents at Haut de la Garenne from 1971 to 1984.

They said they noticed nothing untoward during their time at the home and stressed they had “nothing to hide”.

Officers are searching the property for human remains after the discovery of a child’s skull on Saturday. Some 160 people have now come forward claiming they were the victims of abuse at the home.

The inquiry into the allegations stretches over 40 years.