Scots care home residents allowed more visits from friends and family - if home is Covid free

pen pals for lonely residents hoping to make new friends after lockdown restrictions eased. The Dalmellington Care Centre in Ayr has issued a public appeal for open letters and pictures to be sent to their residents after visiting was prohibited for months during the coronavirus pandemic.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Residents from a Hamilton care centre have been keeping in touch with each other by showing off a variety of their talents.Throughout the pandemic, Lornebank Care Centre’s priority has been ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all its residents and staff.Whilst the home’s units remain isolated from one another in the best interest of residents and staff, the care centre has continued to encourage a

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserTrudi Marshall, the nurse director of Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire, said: “When visiting care homes it’s vital people continue to physically distance, wear a face covering and practice good hand hygiene.“It is also vitally important that anyone who is a designated visitor for a family member in a care home complies with all current Scottish Government guidance in their personal life.“The vast majority of people have

NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Tayside have ruled out indoor visiting. Meanwhile many care homes have missed the deadline for setting out their proposals for meetings inside which had been set by the Scottish Government for Monday, August 24.

mum -of-five says her family had a lucky escape after they were roused by a fire as it ripped through their back garden. Kat Roy, from Kilwinning, was woken by the inferno just inches from her home as her family slept in their beds.

nurse fears she won’t get a mortgage after being hit with nearly £700 of parking tickets.Vicky McGuire - who was ticketed while working at a coronavirus testing facility in Dyce, Aberdeen -  was reassured by contractors that they’d be waived.She has spent her weekends during the pandemic carrying out vital tests on offshore workers at the oil and gas firm Aker Solutions, in addition to her job at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.However, despite filling out the appropriate paperwork before she

Ian Murray is “over the moon” after becoming a dad for the very first time. The Scottish politician shared the exciting news that he and long-term partner Mariam had welcomed the new arrival on Thursday night.

cardiac arrest and she suffered a miscarriage two weeks later. Tammi Walker, 22, is fighting to keep the memory of her partner Steven Scobie alive after he died suddenly aged 38 at the couple's home on March 29.The couple had found out Tammi was pregnant weeks earlier and had began to plan for their new arrival after moving into their new home together.

Brian CoxBrian Cox is Emmy-nominated for his memorable work in HBO’s “Succession” as patriarch Logan Roy, the head of a ruthless and viewer-addictive family of power-brokers.Cox, born in Dundee, Scotland, has created many memorable characters in his six-decade career, including roles in such works as HBO’s “Deadwood,” blockbuster films such as “Braveheart” and “Troy,” and cult faves like “Rushmore,” “Zodiac,” “Super Troopers” and “Adaptation.” He was also the screen’s first Hannibal Lecktor in

Mae Hamilton A charming contemporary-inspired traditional-style home owned by “Grey’s Anatomy” star Kevin McKidd, a kind-of-Colonial-meets-Cape-Cod mashup, has come available for rent at $15,000 a month. The Scottish actor shelled out a little more than $2.9 million for the family-sized residence a little more than two years ago, but it’s not clear that he ever lived in the house himself.

Covid-19 vaccine will not be truly visible until around Easter. As coronavirus cases continue to rise in Scotland, members of the public are being urged to hunker down for the foreseeable future.

coronavirus. The decision was made to shut Peterhead Central School on Wednesday night, August 12, as several employees went into precautionary self-isolation.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.A family have launched a desperate bid to find a missing Scots mum-of-two who suddenly vanished from her home.Natasha Harrison, 27, was last seen in Saltcoats yesterday at around 3pm and has been missing overnight.Loved ones told the Daily Record it is extremely ‘out of character’ for the ‘shy and quiet’ mother to go missing or not be in contact.One family member told the Daily Record: “She has never been missing before,

doughnut has been released as a warning to others. The Maritime and Coastguard Rescue Agency shared the short clip after being called to the sea in the Moray Firth on Saturday afternoon.

baby is in a coma after he bit into a washing detergent liquid capsule.10-month-old Pearce Shepherd ingested some of the contents of a capsule while his mum’s back was turned at his family home, in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, on Friday July 31.He was rushed to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow after the toxic chemicals burned his stomach and caused his lungs to swell up with mucous.Mum Melissa Cairney, 27, was at home with her partner, David Shepherd, 36, and their four other

Northern Ireland peace process and hailed as “Ireland’s peacemaker”, has died aged 83. The current SDLP leader Colum Eastwood described him as Ireland’s “most significant and consequential political leader” of the 20th century as tributes poured in.

22 people died from Covid-19 has been hit with a new outbreak of the virus.Five people tested positive for Coronavirus last week at Fullarton care home in Irvine including two members of staff.At the height of the pandemic in May, watchdogs found the home was dirty with poor infection control and not all staff had been trained in the use of PPE.When the Care Inspectorate revisited on July 6, the home had improved but a relative of one resident said the new outbreak was “horrifying”.The relative,

Covid-19 response.We revealed in January how 79-year-old dementia sufferer Irene Marandola was found freezing and badly injured at 2.30am after wandering more than a mile from Kintyre House in Invergordon, Ross-shire.A probe by the Care Inspectorate concluded that the pensioner had been repeatedly failed by her carers and now it has branded the home’s care during the coronavirus pandemic as “weak”.An unannounced inspection in recent weeks raised concerns in relation to the safeguarding of

Scottish Government 's handling of care homes during the coronavirus crisis breached public health legislation. The Scottish Conservatives have written to Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC, saying ministers' actions have had "harrowing and devastating consequences for the residential care home sector".