Mum of little Scots boy with brain tumour has fresh hope after doctors remove growth

eye test for a new pair to reveal a giant deadly brain tumour. Beth McKendrick Rafferty, 14, who has worn glasses since she was a toddler, was blighted with 'stabbing' headaches and assumed it was a sign she needed her prescription upgrading.During a routine eye appointment at Specsavers, Beth, then 12, passed the reading tests with flying colours so was baffled by what was causing the crippling pain.

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Edinburgh hospital in 1975, aged just a week old.The 71-year-old has always maintained that a body she was shown after her  newborn’s death was not her son and, after exhuming his grave three years ago, a forensic expert confirmed it contained no remains.She is now preparing to go to court to have what is left of her son's remains returned to her while also launching a £75,000 legal case against the Crown Office and Scotmid Cooperative Funerals, who dealt with Gary’s burial.The mum, from

four-and-a-half times the drink-driving limit when he set off from his home through residential streets in the middle of the afternoon to visit his local shop.Police were alerted after another motorist noticed O’Neill’s silver Vauxhall Mokka “approaching very quickly from behind and appearing to sway”.The incident happened at about 2pm on June 22, on New Hallglen Road, Falkirk, near the former midfielder’s home.O’Neill pled guilty to drink-driving at Falkirk Sheriff Court.

The Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown's official account recently have been very outspoken about the coronavirus pandemic.

straight to your inboxZack Steffen is set to make his Manchester City debut in the Carabao Cup third round next week.But the Blues’ newcomer is in no rush to make a first team place his own, and acknowledges that Ederson is the man in possession.USA national team keeper Steffen has replaced Claudio Bravo as number two at the Etihad Stadium and has been training with the squad since they returned a fortnight ago.The management at City want Steffen to push Brazil international Ederson – he is a

online has been branded “a danger to women” after he returned to a dating app following his release from jail.Pervert Steven McGinley joined Tinder just weeks after he was let out of jail for attacking a woman on their first date.They had arranged the meeting on an online dating app but after tricking his victim into a flat, he sexually assaulted and spat on her.The victim had to flee to a nearby chip shop to get help after escaping his clutches.McGinley, 35, was sentenced to 15 months inside –

a version of 'Higher and Higher' with lead vocals by Happy Mondays legend Rowetta.Joel will start university in London next week and in the meantime, the fundraising efforts will continue.Ian says: “He is quite excited about going to uni now.

miracle baby Annabelle Main, who was born with half a heart, is home after six life-saving operations. The tot has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and weighed just 4lb when she was born in January .

parents of a boy with a ponytail have been left furious after his school told him he can't wear his hair in a bobble. Rachael Howard and Robert Brown say they are 'disgusted' after their son, 11-year-old Tyler Brown was told he is not allowed to pin his hair up while in school.

Scots tot left his family hallway looking like a ‘murder scene’ after smearing melted red wax over the halls and carpet.Archie Lees had swiped one of his big sister’s makeup brushes and dipped it into a wax burner before ‘redecorating’ the room with fragrant red goo.Not content with just using a six-metre stretch of the wall, the one-year-old also flung dollops of wax onto the carpet at the family home in Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire.Mum Emma Smith first became aware that her ‘feral’ child was up

straight to your inboxIlkay Gundogan couldn't hide his frustration as his Germany side conceded a lead again to draw with Switzerland, ensuring their wait for a first ever Nations League win goes on.Manchester City midfielder Gundogan had opened the scoring for Germany with a lovely placed effort from the edge of the area, but Switzerland hit back midway through the second half and earned a point.

Hey, so, over the weekend Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown outed himself as a COVID-19 conspiracy theorist. Great stuff.Posting on Twitter on Saturday, Brown wrote: “NO LOCKDOWN NO TESTS NO TRACKS NO MASKS NO VAX #researchanddestroy”.This came after the government announced the latest changes to local lockdown rules in Brown’s hometown of Manchester.

rain tumour.Neurosciences graduate Kaite ­Bourgeois, 29, was doing a ­post-grad in radiotherapy oncology when she developed symptoms.She said: “At the beginning of 2018, I began to suffer from tinnitus. I had suffered from ­build-ups of ear wax as a child and I passed off my experience and the fact that my hearing on one side seemed to be muffled.

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brain tumour have paid heartfelt tributes to their 'kind and sweet boy' as he 'left for the stars'.Heartbroken Jonnie and Devon Peek, from Edinburgh, have announced that their two-year-old Dax died on Monday after battling acoustic neuroma/vestibular schwannoma.Little Dax had only been diagnosed with the disease in March after the youngster was vomiting and could no longer walk in a straight line.Now in tragic posts on Instagram, the pair said he had been freed from his fight with the

A new public art trail from the producers behind the popular Bee in the City event is set to take over Manchester this autumn.50 different artists will take over windows and spaces right across the city centre with their creations for the 50 Windows of Creativity trail.It's Manchester's first ever window display trail, effectively turning the entire city into an outdoor art gallery.Displays will be made up of a mixture of fine art paintings, photography, murals, mosaics, ceramics and more.Some

cystic fibrosis patient is enjoying her best period of health for three years.Hailey Mann, 24, had been told she was looking at end of life care even though she knew there was a drug, Kaftrio, which could help her.But because the drug - a real game changer - wasn’t licensed in Europe she could only get it on compassionate grounds from drug company Vertex.However, just days after the Daily Record began to campaign on her behalf, Vertex agreed she could get the drug.Cystic fibrosis causes a

parents a Scots girl who died of a rare brain tumour have launched a charity in her honour. Aoife Kidd passed away on December 16 after a four-an-a-half year battle with a brain tumour.