Scots dad had kids taken into foster care after he struck wall with belt

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.

Motherwell on Sunday evening where numerous police vehicles and an ambulance were seen parked outside. Locals said there had been an assault in the back garden of a flat block on the street but this has yet to be confirmed.Police officers remain on the scene this evening and part of the garden has been taped off.

Cops raced to reports of a collision to find the vehicle overturned in the middle of the road late last night. Officers from the Road Policing Unit shut down the road while they dealt with the incident.

James McAvoy has said he became so addicted to video games that it was affecting his acting career. The actor admitted he was obsessed with gaming and would stay up until the early hours of the morning playing before shooting scenes.

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.

mum has shared a heartbreaking back-to-school message after losing her five-year-old son to a deadly virus. Arlene Smith's son Jack passed away in December 2012 after falling ill with a adenovirus infection - a common virus which in most cases sees patients suffer from upper respiratory symptoms.

court today that the fatal incident was an accident. Adriana Ciurar, 25, said she had pushed Samoila Stoica when she had a knife in her hand as she was doing washing up in the kitchen.

puppy was hit by a car when she slipped out of her harness and bolted into the road. Moira Nimmo feared springer spaniel pup Bella might not survive after she sustained serious injuries in the horror incident.

Netflix on her phone. Dora Somuah has been rapped by watchdogs at the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) for her actions during her time as the principal care assistant at Blenham House Nursing home in Edinburgh and Pine Villa Nursing Home in Loanhead.

lightning during a walk. Sophie Pass, 33 and her partner Richard, 33, were on a wild swimming trip in the north of Scotland last week when huge thunderstorms broke out.

stroke victim has been left feeling like "a prisoner in his own home" after being stuck in a top floor flat. Graeme Baxter's life was turned upside down when he suffered a devastating total anterior circulation infarct (TACI) on June 17 last year.TACI is a type of cerebral infarction affecting the entire anterior circulation supplying one side of the brain, and the 56-year-old has been left completely paralysed down the left side of his body since falling ill.

water 'for days' An 18-inch water main burst on Saturday affecting supplies to Biggar, Thankerton and Symington leaving many elderly and vulnerable residents unconnected.

social media to hunt down local children he could bombard with graphic sexual images and conversation. Paedophile Steven Gibson trawled through Facebook to find young girls near his home and then posed as a child to lure them onto a SnapChat group he set up.

RAF dog handler who lost his leg after stepping on an improvised explosive device (IED) has been reunited with the Chinook crew who saved his life. Mick McConnell, 47, was patrolling a farmer’s field in Afghanistan in 2011 with his dog Memphis when he set off an IED.

indecent pictures of kids, with watchdogs warning he poses a 'high risk' of re-offending. Gavin Dunlop, who worked with Fife Council, was convicted of taking or making the pictures of children and also having possession of the images.

bogus benefit claims for children she did not have. Dundee medic Kiyo Adya was today found to have filled out fraudulent paperwork and made phone calls to HMRC officials pretending to be eight different mums before her businessman boyfriend was jailed for a £35,000 child benefit scam.

A thug was found armed with a blade while out of his face at a Scots supermarket. Cops caught Steven Galloway in possession of the razor blade in the car park of an Asda Superstore.

High Court in Edinburgh on Monday. The crook was given ten years by judge Lady Stacey at the High Court in Glasgow in February 2021 alongside his accomplice 56-year-old David Murdoch.

vaccinated, a leading health expert has said. Linda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, wants to see children given the coronavirus vaccine that has been successfully rolled out across the country to the majority of the adult population.