A nurse was jailed for 15 months yesterday and now faces deportation after tormenting dementia sufferers at a care home. Jefferey Ednalan, 34, was convicted of a catalogue of abuse including stuffing a deodorant can in the mouth of a 95-year-old man to stop him shouting and two counts of indecent assault.

Forty babies a year are being identified for fostering in the Lothians – before they are born. Most are being taken from drug addict mothers by social workers immediately after birth for fear they may come to harm.

Housing must be placed at Scotland’s political and financial heart over the coming four years and beyond if we are to ensure everyone has a home. That will be the message – at a major housing conference – from housing and homelessness charity, Shelter Scotland.

A move to privatise residential care homes for the elderly in the Highlands may be reviewed. The SNP group on Highland Council have asked officials to revisit the decision to transfer them to the private sector.

Aberdeen city council is defending plans to reorganise social work provision at the north-east’s biggest hospital. It has been suggested the permanent on-site team at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary could be

A move to privatise residential care homes for the elderly in the Highlands may be reviewed. The SNP group on Highland Council have asked officials to revisit the decision to transfer them to the private sector.

Wearing only a flower-patterned bikini and flip flops, the young Thai woman politely explained the charge would be £60 for a half-hour massage. The exchange might be typical of ones which take place every night and day in the city’s saunas. But this was happening in a smart tenement flat on Leith Walk.

A senior nurse who was caught watching porn in the residents’ lounge of a Scottish care home was yesterday struck off. The Nursing and Midwifery Council found Jessie MacPhee, 42, guilty of sleeping on the job as well as five counts of abusing colleagues and one of improperly storing medicine.

More children are being locked up in Scotland’s only asylum detention centre. Inspectors found 122 youngsters had been held at the Dungavel House unit in Lanarkshire in the first 11 months of last year, up from 94 in the whole of 2005.

The new administration in East Lothian has ordered an inquiry into the controversial £130,000 redundancy payment promised to the authority’s outgoing chief executive. The SNP and Liberal Democrat coalition has demanded that lawyers investigate the details of the payment to John Lindsay which was agreed by the council’s previous Labour administration.