Two Asian teenagers were stabbed by a gang of youths in Glasgow city centre in a suspected racist attack.

Almost all civil cases in Scotland, including the most complex and expensive divorce proceedings, could be transferred to the sheriff courts under recommendations being drawn-up by Lord Gill, the Lord Justice Clerk.

Absent parents in Glasgow owe their children £37.5m in maintenance payments. New figures published today show there are nearly 13,000 families scraping by, waiting for ex-partners to pay for their children’s upbringing.

The intensive care unit of Glasgow’s hospital for sick children has been closed to new admissions because of concerns over a dangerous bacterium.

A backlog of complaints means patients can wait years before their concerns about the NHS are dealt with, campaigners claim.

The head of a prominent charity was at the centre of a race row last night, after he warned of a cultural take-over by “the wretched Chinese”.

An Aberdeen care home is to move to new premises, it was announced yesterday.

A man who had sex with two under-aged girls will face a tougher sentence at the High Court after a sheriff said the powers at his disposal were “woefully inadequate”.

Kerb crawlers face Asbos and prosecution in Dundee as part of a two-pronged attack on prostitution in the city.

A YOUNG child who died from meningitis may have been saved if NHS 24 had got him to hospital earlier, an inquiry heard yesterday.