GLASGOW City Council is to cut 600 jobs in a radical cost-cutting exercise aimed at saving £30million.

Planning approval has been given for a £27m mental health centre near the Crichton Hospital in Dumfries.

HIGHLAND Council is delaying its £30million programme for building five replacement care homes because of its continuing budget crisis, the Press and Journal can reveal.

A STRATHSPEY action group has fired a withering broadside at Highland Council’s social work department over its provision – or lack of it – for care at home services in the area.

A MENTALLY ill man who stabbed his father to death was considered by carers to be a “gentle giant” who was incapable of doing harm, a critical report found today.

Hundreds of elderly people are being charged thousands of pounds extra for their residential care to subsidise others who are given free places.

A SENIOR city councillor has come under fire after telling care groups worried about their income that he “wouldn’t mind working for £12.65 an hour”.

Firemen took almost seven minutes to mount a rescue attempt after they realised pensioners were trapped in a care home fire that would kill 14 people, an inquiry heard.

A ground-breaking bid to criminalise the purchase of sex was launched in City Halls, Glasgow today.

A formal complaint has been made against a council’s handling of plans to shut its centres for adults with learning disabilities.