Scots gran battling cancer weighed just three stone at death after DWP stopped benefits

dance moves to his gran. Student Scott Whitelaw thought the leg jump move would bring a smile to Marion McCoulloch’s face at her Glasgow home.

NHS heroes deserve to have their pay looked at, say Scottish Labour. The party called for talks ahead of a planned protest by health and social care workers in Glasgow today.

TikTok baby prank. More than 14,000 people have liked the viral clip after Stewart McGonigle captured the stunt on camera.

baby owl will be starting a Scottish 'owl school ' next week as it learns how to become fully grown. The six-week-old spectacled owl will be taught how to walk, hop, bounce, flap and finally fly, which it will finally do at 12 weeks old.

John Swinney after receiving her exam results claiming she has been penalised for the school she goes to. Eva Peteranna, 17, says her dreams of being a medic could be at risk after she was given a disappointing set of results.

lockdown - with her gran providing the kidney she needed. Ruby Simpson, two, has spent most of her life on dialysis and medics had feared she may not survive.

drink from a petrol station in Scotland. The girl made the eye-brow raising road trip from England to up north after discovering a secret dessert bar going viral on social media.

cancer. Holly Blake, 35, dialed NHS 24 after a persistent pain in her right calf and breathlessness, which she initially feared was a pulmonary embolism - a type of blood clot in the lungs.

hospital following two suicide attempts.Paul Quinn, 19, passed away from a drug overdose around 12.30pm on Thursday, July 30, having been taken to Wishaw General Hospital on two separate occasions the evening prior.Paul had been feeling low following the death of a friend five weeks earlier.Mum Christine Cunningham says her son, from Glasgow's Cardonald, was initially found lying on the street around 4pm on Wednesday and had to be resuscitated before being taken for treatment.

cancer faces running out of money for a life-extending drug available in England at a fraction of the cost.Linzi Page, 37, has been forced to pay £1400 every three weeks for Avastin, a treatment unfunded on the NHS that is keeping tumours in her bowel, liver and lung at bay.The medicine is giving her precious time with son Calan, six, and three-year-old daughter Charlotte, after she was given two years to live in April 2018.But Linzi, of Burntisland in Fife, will soon no longer be able to pay

Outlander  fans who can't get enough of stars Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish are in for a treat this year, as the pair unveil a new book and TV show.The hit Starz show that features the duo as Jamie Fraser and Dougal MacKenzie, is currently waiting to begin filming for season six with the shooting schedule currently put on hold due to the coronavirus outbreak.Thankfully, Sam and Graham have been only too happy to take up the slack with their new travelogue project.Inspired by Outlander, the

missing for five days have been found "safe and well". Heather Fraser, 29, and son Jack Meldrum, from Sauchie in Clackmannanshire, were reported missing on Monday, July 27.

new sighting emerged. Tom Graham, 32, was last seen by a family member in Elderpark Street in Govan, Glasgow, in mid-October 2018, before being reported missing to police on November 26.

Falkirk.She was born in a nearby village, Blackbraes, and still has vivid memories from her childhood.The mum-of-one attributed her long life to not worrying too much - and not letting things 'fester'.Marion said: "Just carry on day after day."I believe if you are really worried and don't know where to turn, a wee talk to God helps."When you come to 100, you've had your worries and you come through them."Just deal with them as soon as you can and do the best you can."Don't let them fester

Facebook but got a 'flimsy, plastic' doll with 'stained clothes' instead.Irene Lundy, 56, wanted to treat her granddaughter, Maisie, 18 months, with the toy from online retailer, Goodealsus.Retiree, Irene, from Ardrossan, North Ayrshire thought the site, punting the doll for £39, looked 'clean and professional'.The doting gran, who lives with her husband, Bill, told the Record: "We saw it on Facebook and it looked really lifelike and thought Maisie would love it."It was advertised on Facebook as

stargazers took to the skies as word spread of the International Space Station passing over the country last night. Legendary British astronaut Tim Peake urged people in Scotland to keep an eye out on the high-flying laboratory at around 11.16pm on Tuesday evening.

cancer after she claims doctors hesitated to investigate her mole last year.Katie Davidson, 24, who used to visit tanning salons four to five times a week for six years, asked medics at Crosshouse hospital to cut off a strange new spot growing on her leg in the autumn 2019 because it's appearance made her feel insecure.She had been visiting the dermatology department at the hospital for an unrelated cyst condition at the time. But Katie said doctors told her not to remove the mole because she

killer blood infection.Scott Dyer, from Bonnyrigg, came home from work feeling seriously unwell on February 7 but believed he was suffering from a stomach bug so went to bed.But just eight hours later, the 46-year-old was left fighting for his life and placed in a coma after being diagnosed with meningococcal septicaemia and pneumonia.The dad-of-two’s family were warned he was unlikely to survive the night before spending the next four weeks in intensive care.Doctors were forced to cut off both

family have told how they witnessed a miracle when their 1lb baby fought back from the brink of death after doctors suggested they turn off the life-support six times.Distraught parents Michaela Lugton, 21, and Barry McLachlan, 37, watched as their little boy, Noah, took what should have been his final breaths in March 2019 at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.As soon as he was born, their baby son had been rushed straight into the neonatal intensive care unit and placed on a ventilator as he was so