Scots hotel workers left with ‘nowhere to go’ after being made redundant just weeks before Christmas

A carer who moved a pensioner’s buttocks ‘like a mouth’ while making ‘garbled noises’ at a Scots care home has been struck off. Jill Marina Philip admitted a string of sickening behaviour whilst employed at Balhousie Alastrean Care Home in Tarland, Aberdeenshire, during 2018.

Christmas present” she could ever receive.We told last month of the family’s fears for Amy as she lay in ICU at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital following an urgent op to remove a tumour.Medics were worried about the amount of time it was taking the Shettleston teen to come round from the surgery and had broken the news that what was thought to be a benign tumour was cancerous.Now, five weeks on from the operation, Amy is awake and has given the thumbs up to her delighted mum.And

Demi Lovato has had a roller coaster of a year. The singer walked into the COVID-19 induced lockdown in the US with a secret relationship with actor Max Ehrich.

Christmas aged just three-months-old.Devastated Stephanie and Craig Simpson from Banchory, Aberdeenshire said goodbye to their infant daughter Peggy-Mae last Saturday after she passed away after being born with rare chromosome condition Trisomy 13.The condition affects around one in 25,000 babies and doctors told the couple  that little Peggy-Mae would only live between seven and ten days when she was born on September 9.The young couple, aged 26 and 25, will spend Christmas without their

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.

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.

crime in just one year.Prosecutors used confiscation orders to grab assets and dirty money in more than 200 cases across the country – seizing almost £500,000 more than the year before.The biggest payback orders were handed to two members of what was described as Scotland’s “most sophisticated” criminal gang.Gangland figures Anthony Woods, 45, and Francis Mulligan, 43, who were jailed at the High Court in Glasgow in January 2018 after admitting multiple charges linked to serious organised crime,

Loch Ness Clansman was gutted by the surge of water sent pouring through the car park after a burn burst its banks.

Christmas. Hundreds of pounds and food were snatched during the break in at Moray Food Plus in Elgin on Sunday morning.

coronavirus vaccine. The decision to use a 0300 number - rather than a free phone - came under fire from disgruntled healthcare workers and it has now been revoked by NHS Lothian with promises staff will be reimbursed.

Perthshire hotel has told some of its staff they will be out of a job two weeks before Christmas.