Scots businessman's new firm investigated after claims he cheated pensioners out of thousands

dementia was left waiting more than 19 hours for an ambulance despite suffering symptoms of a stroke. Frail Joyce Meikle, 82, was unable to lift her leg and became unresponsive in her Rutherglen home after her health deteriorated through the night on Sunday, August 22.

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East Lothian home, Thomson told cops: “Come on, you know how it is? I’ve just being arguing with the missus.”Thomson, 22, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday and admitted a charge of threatening and abusive behaviour.Fiscal depute Christine Brownlie said Thomson had been at his partner’s house on May 21.Ms Brownlie said Thomson went through the woman’s phone while she was out of the living room.When she returned, the court heard Thomson accused her of “cheating on him” as he’d seen

Scots pensioner who suffers from dementia. They are "increasing concerned" about the welfare of 73-year-old Mary McFarlane who has been reported missing from the Menzieshill area of Dundee.

NHS crisis. And exactly a week later 67-year-old Helena Walker was kept waiting eight hours for an ambulance before spending another eight hours on a trolley in a hospital corridor after a stroke.

Alan Cumming and Harry Potter star Miriam Margoyles visited for a new piece of a walking stick. Staff at the Shopmobility Highland office in Dingwall couldn't believe their eyes when the pair came in, with Margoyles asking for a new 'ferrule'- or rubber end of her walking aid.

falling from scaffolding in Aberdeenshire. George Forbes, 77, passed away after falling at St Peter's Episcopal Church in Peterhead at around 3pm on Wednesday, August 18.Emergency services scrambled to the scene but the pensioner could not be saved.

sex attacks on a brother and sister for nearly a decade has been caged. Alan Williams, 74, was described as "despicable" and "disgusting" by a sheriff before he was jailed for four years and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for the rest of his life.

Emergency services scrambled to Townhead Street in Hamilton after the horror crash happened at around 1.30pm on Monday, August 16.Ambulance crews attended and the 65-year-old woman was rushed to Queen Elizabeth University Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow.She suffered life threatening injuries.Police say their enquiries into the incident are ongoing.A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 1.30pm on Monday, August 16, 2021, officers were called to a road crash on Townhead Street, Hamilton,

wedding party. Stephen and Sherree Sutherland were heartbroken after hundreds of pounds went missing from a handbag at the bash in their Bonhill home.

kidney transplant during lockdown and is now enjoying his new found freedom. And as he runs about with his wee sister, Lexii, five, looking every inch a typical seven-year-old, it is hard to believe his mum was told he wouldn’t live to two weeks old.

missing at a scenic Scots beauty spot. A major search was sparked when the 82-year-old vanished at the Loch of Cliff in Unst, Shetland yesterday.

grave of her late daughter twice in just two days. Police were called after the grieving parent discovered damage to a cherub ornament at the plot in Newhills Cemetery, Aberdeen, on Wednesday, August 4.

Fire crews were called after the Sanctuary boss's house in Knightswood went on fire around 1am on Friday, August 6. Police have launched a probe after a vehicle was set alight at Lessani's garage, at the front of the property.

Edinburgh has told how she was left shocked after watching a workman wander into her front garden to take a nap.

missing pensioner's car has been found parked at an area frequently used by walkers to access a Scots mountain. Police searching for 84-year-old John Smith, who is known as Frank and is from Nottingham, say he was last seen leaving the Crianlarich Hotel at around 7.15am on Thursday, August 5.

jailed yesterday for using a hidden camera to record up schoolgirls’ skirts. Robert Malaney then shared the illegal footage with other perverts across the globe.

flirty exchange by their granddaughter Holly Innes, 21, while they were fixing their fence in Stirling last week.

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happensHe revealed a punk rock archivist in New York had made contact to seek additional information on the Paisley punk scene, while a London record label is now wanting to put out a compilation album featuring material that went out on the Groucho Marxist label locally.Loudon added: “It’s a tricky one as those records were financed from a fund held by the local branch of the Socialist Workers Party, I believe, and were all pulled together by a character