Scots care home where 22 people died from Covid-19 hit with new virus outbreak

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

mask-clad thugs held couple at 'gunpoint' in their own home in a terrifying robbery in a Scots town last night. Three men broke into the house on Clydebank's Montrose Street at around 5pm last night.

12 years of a life sentence.Jahche Broughton is making a bid for freedom after being locked up for battering Karen Aim to death with a baseball bat in January 2008 as she visited Taupo on a trip around New Zealand.After he was sentenced, Karen’s family vowed to fight to keep Broughton behind bars for his whole life.Two years ago, her dad Brian said he would campaign against any bid for freedom “for the safety of the public in New Zealand”.He added: “If he’s released, he’ll be 26 and that is just

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.

care home residents will be able to receive more visits from friends and family from Monday, it was confirmed today. Up to three outdoor visitors from no more than two households will be allowed - if the home meets infection control criteria.

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,

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has revealed that more than two-thirds of Scots who are eligible for a UK Government payment to combat fuel poverty are not receiving it. The study shows just 9.3 per cent of all households in Scotland have applied for the Warm Home Discount (WHD).

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.

Kerri Watt has started selling off cherished mementos from her music career to help human trafficking victims.The performer is even parting with the T-shirt she wore at Glastonbury last year to raise funds for a charity which supports those forced into the sex trade, servitude and exploitation.Kerri, who has toured with the likes of Coldplay, Nina Nesbitt and Embrace, is flogging her vintage, high street and designer clothes in aid of Stop the Traffik.Fans will recognise some of the gear from

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".

East Kilbride.Monica Lennon reported the facility - run by Thistle Healthcare - to the Care Inspectorate in May but in a summary report to the Scottish Parliament shortly after the home was praised for "good infection prevention and control procedures”, despite the "significant outbreak".Ms Lennon said the report left "too many unanswered questions" and was little comfort for grieving families.One of those families features in a BBC Scotland Disclosure documentary airing tonight.In the programme

police search. Heather Fraser, 29, and her three-year-old child Jack Meldrum were last seen at Stirling Train Station at around 3.15pm on Friday, July 24.

Highlands has been found safe and well. George McGowan sparked a major search and rescue operation after failing to return from a motorbike ride at Ben Bhraggie in Sutherland on Monday afternoon.

racist abuse.Debora Kayembe, 45, has compared the racially motivated attacks she's suffered in the Midlothian town she lives in as 'like Alabama in 1964' - the epicentre of the US Civil Rights movement where black people were subjected to abhorrent racism.Single mum-of-two Debora, who lives in Bonnyrigg with her two teenage children, left her home in the Congo in 2005 after a backlash against her investigative work into a massacre of women and children put her life at risk.  She has forged a

stabbed a Scots housing association worker who was trying to help him has been jailed for life. Peter Cannon launched the unprovoked attack on Lynne Robertson as she sat behind her desk at River Clyde Homes, Greenock, on September 30 last year.

BBC film that exposes blunders in the country’s care homes during the pandemic.They have stepped into the shoes of real-life care workers, whose jobs would be on the line if they were identified.The documentary ­Disclosure: The Care Home Scandal calls for a probe into where Scotland went wrong.