Marion Scott

More than 1,100 nursing and ­midwifery jobs have been cut this year despite Scottish Government promises not to reduce frontline health staff.

MSPs have accused the government of failing to take robust action over Creative Scotland's funding of sexually explicit porn film Rein which sparked a major scandal.

Among the proposals by Health Minister Neil Gray is almost £10m slashed from women’s services and “reducing contingency funding for transvaginal mesh”

Sally Magnusson will be one of the first Scots to take tests to discover if she is at risk of developing the cruel Alzheimer’s disease which claimed her mother.

Author Angela Proctor is so distressed by the number of homeless kids that she has brought out a film to help them cope with stigma.

The inquiry into police handling of the murder of Emma Caldwell faces even further delay because of public disorder in England.

Sohier Elneil, a surgeon hailed as a hero for saving mesh injured women has been found guilty of serious misconduct and dishonesty.

Mothers are worrying about whether to continue with pregnancies as families struggle due to Universal Credit’s two-child cap.

Scotland has just 30 specialist officers in the Serious and Organised Crime Financial Investigation unit, despite the exploding £20 billion crimewave.

Staff at Cairneyhill Primary near Dunfermline watched while a disabled child banged his head off a wall then failed to tell his parents.