gran who spent decades working in the care sector has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease just days before Christmas. Sandra Craig, from Carmyle in Glasgow's east end, was given the horrific diagnosis on December 4.
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blind after a planned op was postponed is hoping to see her family at Christmas - as her daughter starts fundraising for private surgery.Terrified Kathryn Nicoll, 64, from Whitburn, West Lothian, woke up two weeks ago to find her sight gone after developing cataracts.Devoted daughter Laura Grant, 35, began fundraising for an operation which could cost £5,000 privately in hopes it could happen before Christmas - and nearly £1,000 has been raised.Bus driver Laura said: "If we can raise enough
.gran who spent decades working in the care sector has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease just days before Christmas. Sandra Craig, from Carmyle in Glasgow's east end, was given the horrific diagnosis on December 4.
car and fleeing the scene.Cara McCarthy, 24, was left in “hysterics” when a black car being driven erratically ploughed into her Audi, near Barrhead, East Renfrewshire - leaving both vehicles badly damaged.Police are still hunting the occupants of the Vauxhall Omega - who ran off without trying to help Cara and left the wrecked car at the scene.Cara, from Barrhead, said: “They didn’t try to communicate with me at all.
investigating an alleged racist attack on an Edinburgh University student after he was jumped by a gang outside the main campus library. The 22-year-old posted shocking images showing injuries to his face and neck after he was allegedly ambushed by seven people last Friday evening.
Edinburgh woman was left £24,000 in debt after her husband was forced back to Africa. Margaret Locke was horrified after the partner was refused his right to remain leaving her to tackle her financial hell solo.
Little Mix have confirmed they will complete their Scots 2021 tour dates as a trio after Jesy Nelson announced she has quit the band. In a heartfelt message posted yesterday evening the 29-year-old shocked the nation with her announcement.Jesy said that "with a heavy heart" she would be taking a step back, admitting being in the band was "taking a toll" on her mental health.
hospitalised in a horror gas blast at his home have set up a fundraiser to 'get him back on his feet'.
was set on fire on the driveway of their home, which sources said was the property of one of three men accused of Williamson’s murder.A 50-year-old woman, her 49-year-old husband and two teenage girls, aged 17 and 13, were inside the property in Ferniegair, near Hamilton, when the vehicle was set alight.The blaze spread to the front door of the house before emergency services, including police and two fire engines, reached the scene just after 1.35am on Saturday.Debris from the burnt-out vehicle
missing Scots dad has sparked a re-appeal from police probing his disappearance. We told how Graham Hilton Brady was last seen by his family on the evening of Tuesday, December 1 at his home in Carluke, South Lanarkshire.
So hasn’t himself from “Fifty Shades of Grey” gone all forty shades of green in the new fillum, “Wild Mountain Thyme,” named for the haunting ballad that we Irish are taught at the teat, and apt to burst into once we’ve a bellyful of stout in us.
pounds have been raised for a much loved Scots Big Issue seller after he was brutally attacked by youths. Former soldier Garry Buchan, who is well known for his local heroics and charity work, was robbed and severely injured during an unprovoked assault by a gang.
stole their own grandparents’ life savings have hit out after they escaped jail - and dodged an order to pay back the money.Heartless Clair and Louise Smith, 25, posed as doting carers while swiping £8,000 from the bank account of their grandparents in Irvine, Ayrshire.The twins pleaded guilty to clearing out the cash while running errands for vulnerable Crawford Pirrie, 73, and wife Marlene, 75.Yesterday the twins were sentenced to a three-month tagging order - branded a “slap in the face” by
“Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other,” the book by Outlander‘s Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish is currently on sale and now is your chance to buy the hardcover version for the holidays!
missing Scot has told of his horror when he realised the beloved dad-of-two had disappeared.Graham Hilton Brady, 35, was last seen in the early hours of Wednesday morning December 2, on CCTV in his home town of Carluke, South Lanakshire.Loved ones haven't heard from the plumber, who lives in Whitehill Crescent, since last Tuesday.His worried parents, Graham and Lynn Brady, both 58, became concerned on Friday as their son had been 'feeling low'.Since then a frantic search was launched to track
cancer. Little Isla McPhee was a fit and healthy two-year-old before she started appearing 'under the weather' and 'really tired' at the beginning of February 2018.
tied the knot in a special ceremony in a high dependency unit of a Scots hospital as the groom awaits an important organ transplant. Staff at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary managed to organise the celebration in just two days for patient Rory Wilson, 24, to marry beloved girlfriend Rebecca Macadam.
base were scrambled to follow Russian military planes after they were found over the North Sea. The Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth, in Moray, left the tarmac at 8am this morning after the submarine hunting planes were discovered.
oronavirus outbreak has been identified at a Scots extra care housing development in Peebles after 28 people caught the killer bug. A total of 16 residents and 12 staff have now tested positive for Covid-19 at Dovecot Court.
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A MUM-of-four caught pocketing £20,000 in benefits after failing to reveal she was living with a partner has been hit with a six-month curfew order.Kirsty Benn didn’t tell the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) she was living with Mark Campbell at her home in Wallyford, East Lothian.The 35-year-old benefits cheat appeared for sentencing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday after admitting the charge at