Care home with 26 Covid-19 deaths criticised for cleanliness levels following inspection

raiding her home.Lee Trotter, 43, from Fort William, set up a camera in the porch of her caravan (with a few eggs left out to entice the thief), after a number of eggs were stolen from a bucket there.All in all the brazen thief managed to steal 27 eggs over two nights.Lee explained that she normally doesn't leave the eggs that she collects from her chickens in the bucket on the porch but had been busy doing other things and hadn't got round to moving them.Surprisingly, when she reviewed the

Loch Ness will become a black magic hub.Boleskine House was once owned by infamous 'ceremonial magician’ Aleister Crowley - who called himself the 'wickedest man in the world'.Crowley - who died in 1947 - drank blood and staged huge orgies there fuelled by heroin and cocaine.This week protesters demanded council bosses throw out plans to turn the estate - that also used to be the Highland home of Led Zeppelin’ guitarist, Jimmy Page - into ten holiday lodges.Opponents claim the sprawling property

care home has been caught on camera. Former Coronation Street actress Leandra Ashton filmed the shocking scenes after her mum Ylenia Angeli, was placed in handcuffs in Hull, Humberside, on Tuesday.

Clydebank after a former nursing home went up in flames. Emergency services were called to the scene at Boquhanran House, near Shakespeare Avenue, at around 6.45pm on Wednesday.

Halloween looks at home. Instagram star Ellie Hand-McCready, from Dunbar, has built a following with her ghoulish tutorials and transformations which rack up thousands of views on social media.

Karen Gillan has given fans a sneak peak inside her quirky Los Angeles home as she revealed the interesting items she owns. The Avengers star, 32, invited Vogue for a tour of her house as she shared her idea of the perfect night in, which includes writing horror scripts, playing piano and watching Love Island.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Fresh Covid-19 cases have emerged among residents in Renfrewshire care homes, the Express can reveal.The deadly virus, which has already claimed the lives of 113 residents in care homes across the region, has returned to a number of facilities.Currently, 96 care homes in Scotland are actively dealing with outbreaks of the virus.Yesterday, the area’s Health and Social Care Partnership confirmed that some of

Islamophobia after he was grilled for more than an hour at Glasgow Airport. Campaigner Mohammad Asif, of the Afghan Human Rights Foundation, who adopted his nephew Mohammad Sudais after he suffered terrible facial injuries in a gas explosion spoke out after he was stopped when he arrived back from Dubai.

coronavirus outbreak in Scotland without being Covid tested.And the Public Health Scotland Report into Discharges from NHS Scotland Hospitals into Care Homes published today also showed at least 123 cases who did test positive were sent to care homes.Between March 1 and May 31 this year there were 5,204 discharges to care homes but of this number 3,061 were untested.Of that number 2,949 were discharged between March and April 21.On April 21 Health Secretary Jeane Freeman announced patients

Johnstone dad who has been missing since Sunday. Police say Kevin Turner, 50, was last seen at home around 3am on October 25 and family say it is very “out of character” for him to disappear.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The organisers of Scotland’s biggest indoor gin festival, which is usually held each year in Hamilton, have come up with a novel way of bringing the event to your home - well almost!With Covid-19 pushing the Hamilton Town House GinFall festival into 2021 those behind the popular event, Social and Cocktail Events, have come up with another way to keep gin-lovers involved.The company say events have become

Dumfries and Galloway Care Home after testing positive for coronavirus. It is understood “more than 30” people had been affected by a Covid-19 outbreak at the Fleet Valley Care Home in Gatehouse of Fleet.

Scroll down for the latest updates.The number of positive coronavirus cases in Scotland has passed 60,000, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.She said 28 coronavirus deaths and 1,202 positive tests have been recorded in the past 24 hours.The First Minster gave the latest Covid-19 figures as the Scottish Government prepares to reveal how a new tiered system of restrictions to tackle the virus will apply across the country.Decisions on which levels will apply to each region will be announced on

universities could work from home after Christmas instead of returning to halls of residence in a bid to reduce the spread of Covid. SNP ministers will urge higher education institutions to offer more remote learning after a wave of infections spread through student accommodation in September.

Covid-19 outbreak at a Scottish care home. The deaths at the Charnwood Lodge Care Home in Dumfries triggered a deep clean and additional infection control measures.

Pilot Fish Media has been keeping tabs on the popularity of this year's line-up of participants and is running an online scoreboard which is being updated every week. Daniella Karaoglan, Head of Agency at Pilot Fish Media has commented on the impact of TV appearances and becoming an influencer: "When looking at the likes of Love Island, Gogglebox etc, you can see just how powerful TV exposure is.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A brother and sister are pleading with health bosses to reopen Renfrewshire care homes for indoor visiting — so they can hold their father’s hand.Alan and Alison Bruce (pictured left) say the current 30-minute outdoor visits in the Scottish winter are “inhumane” as they urge the Scottish Government to look at a range of measures that would reduce the risk of families bringing Covid-19 into care homes.The

human trafficking.Police Scotland recruited officers Hiep Nguyen Hoang and Duy Nguyen Xuan for a six-month secondment, where they will be used in raids and routine visits to root out exploited slave labour. The officers, who arrived two weeks ago, are usually based in Hanoi and were recruited after Police Scotland visited Vietnam last year, to foster cross-country links and stem the flow of people smuggling.

GP who was sacked while taking time off to care for her dying father has been given £16,000 compensation.Dr Alison Sneddon was working part-time at Tranent Medical Practice in East Lothian when her dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2019.He moved into her home in North Berwick, East Lothian, but the toll of caring for him left her feeling unable to work and she was signed off by her GP.Dr Sneddon offered to take unpaid leave but the offer was declined and, three days before her dad died,