Over 60,000 people in Lanarkshire given Covid-19 vaccine

direct to your inboxA 12-year-old from Stretford raised more than £3,000 for the children's hospice who provided 'invaluable' care to her 15-year-old brother until his death last year.Hasan was born in 2004 with Lissencephaly, a neurological condition affecting his development that caused partial blindness, epilepsy and reduced muscle tone.He was non-verbal but, over the years, he had learnt how to say ‘mum’.

link!The sheriff told Davidson: “Viewing and downloading indecent images is part of the process of child sex abuse.“It creates demand for this material and encourages its use.“The sentence has to reflect the nature and extent of the abuse in the images.“Over a period of 17 months you accessed and downloaded more than 13,000 indecent images of children.”Sheriff Brown reduced the sentence from 16 months because of Davidson’s guilty plea.He will be on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

Jacqueline Jossa has helped to raise over £50,000 in just one day in memory of the late Caroline Flack. Monday marked one year since former Love Island host Caroline tragically passed away at the age of 40.

direct to your inbox Health bosses say Oldham has taken ‘another step towards normality’ after more than 50,000 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Care home residents, frontline healthcare staff, the clinically vulnerable and the over 70s have been able to access the first jab since the middle of December.

link!Dr Russell added: “We are vaccinating people as quickly and as safely as possible.

People aged over 80 and people who are aged over 80 and houseboundNHS Lanarkshire worked with colleagues in GP practices to vaccinate this group. If you are in this age group and have not received your vaccination, please contact your GP practice.

direct to your inboxOnline fashion giant InTheStyle has released a new clothing collection in memory of Caroline Flack, a year on from the former Love Island presenter's sad death.The 'Kindness' collection has been created in collaboration with mental health charity Samaritans, and 100% of the proceeds go to the organisation.

Katie Price is planning to set up a new petition regarding the sectioning of people with autism. The 42-year-old star has previously campaigned for Harvey's Law – to make online trolling a criminal offence – and wants to stop people with autism from being sectioned as it as "completely different" issue to mental health.

direct to your inboxA 'crash for cash' plot which could have netted £33,000 has been smashed by police after three convictions.A couple from Merseyside and a man from Cheshire - who police said conspired to 'stage' a crash - have been brought to justice.Detectives said the trio had a 'colourful history of making personal injury claims' and thought they could 'cheat the system.An investigation found they had lodged 15 claims over a seven-year period, police added, and evidence 'strongly suggested

Australian pop star Sia has come under fire for her depiction of people with autism in her new movie Music.

direct to your inboxThe leader of Manchester Council has warned vaccination queue jumpers will face action - as it's revealed more than 440,000 people in the region have received the jab so far.Among those to have received their first round of vaccinations, 50,631 are care home residents and staff.People aged over 80 account for 115,555 doses, while 102,686 healthcare workers have been inoculated.Meanwhile, 54,481 social care workers, which includes domiciliary workers and special school staff,

If you haven’t binged all five episodes of the new moving drama It’s A Sin, then you really need to. Set in busy London in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, the Channel 4 programme shows the realities of the Aids epidemic and the misinformation and homophobia that was around at that time.

Over the past few weeks, California’s Covid-19 numbers have dropped dramatically, easing fears of a continued surge in cases. But state health officials have also begun to warn about the spread of new variants of the virus that may be more adaptable and/or more vaccine resistant.