A family are celebrating after winning their fight to get their disabled son’s overnight care reinstated. Glasgow MSP Paul Martin pushed for talks with health and social work bosses after the Evening Times highlighted the plight of Marie and Thomas Adams from the city’s East End.

The extent of Edinburgh’s homelessness crisis was laid bare today as it emerged 700 people are begging for help every week.

A carer faces jail after downloading child porn images at his workplace. David Yates, 33, of Blantyre, Lanarkshire, was a support worker at the Richmond Fellowship care centre in Rutherglen,

A council has moved to end a disabled access row which ended up going before the Scottish Executive at one stage.

A prison which was once “notorious” for violence has been praised by inspectors for its improvements. Shotts Prison is “unrecognisable” from the institution where less than two decades ago clashes between staff and inmates were common, a report has said.

Aberlour in Scotland are one of the four lucky charities to receive a share of the half a million raised by The Co-operative Group UK. Staff from the group’s various businesses supported by Scottish consumers have been hosting a series of fundraising events since the 2nd April 2007.

He doesn’t know it, but Dionne McMillan’s newborn son may have saved his mother’s life. The six-week-old has proved a lifeline for the young mum, who was bullied at school and has attempted suicide at least ten times.

Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon today called for NHS24 to increase its number of smaller call centres so there is a base in every health board area.

A crisis centre set up last year to help people with mental health issues is experiencing a rise in people using the service.

An elderly woman died yesterday and two other people are seriously ill from E-coli poisoning in cases linked to eating cold meat.