‘How much is my life worth?’ Young Scots mum given 12 months to live weeks after being told she had beaten breast cancer

mum is facing an agonising wait for a transplant after a traumatic premature birth of her 1lb baby uncovered hidden kidney disease.Doctors discovered 23-year-old Lauren Ballantine had been living with underlying kidney disease after she underwent an emergency Cesarean section when she was just 25-weeks pregnant.The young mum, from Newmilns, had been suffering from potentially fatal pre-eclampsia and was rushed to Crosshouse Hospital at 24 weeks pregnant.Doctors we able to stabilise the East

Silentnight has found that Scots aged 25-34 are the most likely to own an electric blanket, and 48 per cent of the UK’s electric blankets are owned by those aged 18-34. It's believed that younger people opting for electric blankets as more people spend time getting cosy at home.

Bathgate, West Lothian, has been left in chaos after workmen failed to install the new wet wall suite she paid more than £2,000 up front for.The 60-year-old’s old bathroom was ripped out after she signed a deal with Supreme Wetwall Bathrooms.But when the subcontractor assigned to refit it repeatedly stalled on the job, plumber Luke Campbell took the opportunity to have a snooze – a day after the work should have been finished.The stunned mum told how she “blew a gasket” after snapping this photo

pandemic that they don’t know how to play with pals.Childcare expert Natalie Connell fears the lost Covid generation will need years of special support to deal with their trauma.She told the Record that poverty, adversity and soaring levels of domestic abuse during the coronavirus crisis have created a toxic mix.Natalie said: “You would think that play comes naturally to children, however this is sadly not the case.“The young people who come into our care have not always been granted this start

lockdown completely alone as she battled breast cancer but she still managed to pass her exams – and has been named Student of the Year.Samantha Currie, 37, even found time to cut off her own long hair, before undergoing chemotherapy, which she donated to the Little Princess Trust to make wigs for child cancer patients. The remarkable mum of two spent 14 weeks apart from her beloved sons Max, five, and Robbie, 10, which was a painful separation.

baby loss and help others enduring a similar ordeal. Angela Kenney was 'naive' to the devastation baby loss causes, tuntil her unborn child's heart stopped beating on June 30 this year.

cancer after complaining of symptoms for five years. Kay Richards, 40, claims she was made to believe her symptoms, including body aches, weight loss and a persistent sore throat, were due to severe health anxiety and depression and was referred for counselling by her doctor at the Charleston Surgery in Paisley.

raped by older boys.The Scottish Justice Secretary apologised to one of the mums and admitted her boy had been let down by the system.He pledged to write the traumatised young victim a personal letter of support.Yousaf also promised to help the second victim get the help he needs to overcome the trauma of his attack.Both meetings took place via online Zoom calls and were arranged with the help of the Daily Record after the mothers joined forces and asked us to put pressure on the government.The

hospitalised after a brutal nighttime attack near a Scots graveyard. Emergency services found the 26-year-old with serious injuries after reports of a 'disturbance' at Hawkhead Road near the cemetery in Paisley last night.

breast cancer believes she wouldn’t be here today if she hadn’t pushed medics to take her health fears seriously. Lori Delaney, 34, was diagnosed with an aggressive stage three form of the disease this time last year after being repeatedly told she was too young to be at risk.

firework fears there will be more injuries this year after public displays were cancelled.Amy McCabe’s son Ben was just four when a stray rocket from a display near his home in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, flew inside his jacket and exploded on his chest.Ben, now 13, suffered third degree burns to his chest, neck, right arm and behind his left ear.Amy has backed calls for a ban on the public sale of fireworks so no one else has to go through the agony her son suffered.This year many public firework

son to spend his 21st 'birthday in heaven' over a year after his body was found.Rhys Bonner was just 19 when he was found dead, half naked, on August 8 last year, on marsh ground between Glasgow's Easterhouse and Gartloch Village.The teenager had been reported missing on July 24 sparking a massive search.His death is being treated as unexplained. Mum Stephanie today has been reflecting on what would have been her son's 21st birthday- including putting a bottle of beer on a special memorial bench

search for a missing Scots mum. Police made the grim discovery of a 48-year-old woman in Broomhoouse Road, Bonnybridge, around 11.10am on September 29.

Tributes have poured in for a “lovely” and “wonderful” Inverness cafe manager who died suddenly in her sleep. Andrea MacDonald, 32, ran a popular social enterprise cafe in the Highland town where she was a much-loved member of the local community.

mum has been warned she is on the Police's Covid "alert list' after a neighbour reported her for having family 'nipping in' to her house to deliver birthday gifts for her daughter. Ayrshire mum Leanne Macdonald, 36, celebrated her 10-year-old daughter, Myla's birthday yesterday, but due to coronavirus restrictions decided to just stay at home in Irvine with partner Gary, 37 and the couple's youngest daughter Rylee, two.

miscarriages. Jodi Gray, who is more than 16 weeks pregnant, began having contractions on Tuesday afternoon and called the maternity unit at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.The 25-year-old was told medics would not be able to see her in person because she was just days short of the 17 week cut off point.

car crash has branded the driver who tried to frame her a 'toxic monster'. Ellie Plenderleith, 20, said she has lived in constant anxiety since the horror crash which killed friend Jack Frame, 16, on New Trows Road, Lesmahagow on February 10, 2019.

breast cancer just weeks after giving birth. Rebecca Broughton, who is just 26, has challenged herself to see 30 and watch her two baby sons' first days at school.