Church leaders are warning that Scotland faces a crisis unless older people are put at the top of the political agenda.

The battle over extending home tagging as a way of cutting Scotland’s record prison population is to go to a full vote at Holyrood, after the government accused Labour of “playing games” yesterday by forming an alliance with the Tories to block it.

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.