On a foggy February morning in Falkirk, outside the Lesser Town Hall in West Bridge Street, Alzheimer Scotland launched its first Memory Bus.

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.

More than 600 Glasgow primary children are to be given counselling to help them cope with problems at home and school.

Esther Rantzen CBE, journalist and founder of ChildLine, addressed those working with children and challenged the current court system at a conference organised by CHILDREN 1ST.