Dumfries and Galloway nursing and midwifery vacancies nearly treble in six months

A Scots A&E nurse who was caught with a haul of vile child abuse images has been banned from the profession by a watchdog.

Schoolchildren are to be given the chance to take part in a controversial survey which asks intimate sexual questions.

A Fife nurse who failed to stop an evil carer from dragging a dementia patient backwards on a chair at a care home has quit the nursing profession.

Brave Dumfries teenager Pagan Mitchell is vowing to battle through the pain barrier of a broken leg to carry on delivering food parcels.

Several hundred dead birds have been removed from a nature reserve as the region copes with the biggest avian flu outbreak of recent years.

A whistleblowing nurse who tried to prevent a patient being given medication to which he was allergic has claimed bosses tried to blame him for the man’s death.

Dumfries and Galloway Council’s budget settlement was yesterday labelled “a real nightmare before Christmas”.

Shock new figures have revealed rape survivors are waiting up to 16 months to access vital services.

A great-grandfather died in agony after being given seven doses of medication hospital staff had been told he was allergic to.

People visiting friends or family in hospital must have tested negative for Covid-19 before arriving.

The impact of widespread child poverty in Dumfries and Galloway has been significantly worsened by the pandemic, according to a new report. And the prolonged lockdown restrictions “disproportionately affected low-income families with young children.” With more than 6,200 youngsters in poverty across the region at the last count in 2019/20, this placed Dumfries and Galloway as the seventh worst out of 32 council areas in Scotland.

A forces charity boss had a lucky escape during Storm Arwen.

Bosses at a charity ravaged by fire are "truly humbled" after smashing their fundraising target for repairs by several thousand pounds.

A Scots chip shop owner has told of how she almost died giving birth to her daughter - but was saved with multiple blood transfusions.

Winds with a 'danger to life' warning will thrash Scots in the north as two weather warnings have been issued for tonight and Monday.

The family of a missing 74-year-old man from St Andrews have issued a new photo as part of a fresh public appeal nearly three months on from his disappearance.

A Dumfries community council is going national in a bid to clip the wings of marauding seagulls.

A Perth mum who has been told she has months left to live from advanced cancer made the radical decision to host her own funeral, surrounded by her closest family and friends.

Scottish comedian Paul Black has just announced a new show to take place at Glasgow's SEC Armadillo in the new year.