A survivors’ group has hit out at “unconvincing” apologies from a religious order that ran a controversial care home where children were allegedly abused. John Scott QC, representing In Care
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A nun in charge of a Catholic order has offered its “deepest and most sincere apologies” to anyone who may have been abused in its care at a controversial care
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Health chiefs are pressing ahead with plans to deliver a treatment centre for heroin addicts in the hope of tackling a city’s drug problems. Glasgow City Health and Social Care
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A nun has told an inquiry she “slapped” children in her care at an orphanage but said she is “not aware” of beating a boy unconscious. The 73-year-old was giving
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An elderly nun has denied children were beaten, force-fed and humiliated at a controversial care institution. The 92-year-old woman told Scotland’s Child Abuse Inquiry she had not witnessed any cruelty
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Allegations of historic child abuse at an orphanage have been described as “absolute rubbish” by two former residents. One witness to the Scottish Child Abuse inquiry said he had been
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Nuns at an orphanage used anti-Semitic threats while beating a boy of Jewish descent, an inquiry has heard. The witness, who was at Smyllum Park in Lanark during the 1940s
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A Scottish health board is redeploying office staff and postponing non-urgent procedures amid soaring demand for accident-and-emergency (A&E) services across the country. NHS Lanarkshire said its three hospital sites at
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A homeless man who stood guard by an open car to make sure a handbag and money was not stolen has been overwhelmed by a campaign that has now seen
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Anti-rape apps create a “climate of fear” where responsibility for gathering evidence of a sexual assault is pushed on to victims, according to a new study. Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian
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