Scots midwife furious as she's suspended for stepping in to help mum with home birth

mum says she 'cried for days' after being stuck in hospital for nine days alone with her new baby under strict Covid rules.Jenna McFarlane said she felt lonely and isolated after giving birth to her baby son Caleb during lockdown because coronavirus restrictions meant her family were refused entry to the ward see her or the new baby.The 26-year-old first time mum is now backing the #butnotmaternity campaign and calling for less restrictions on expectant mothers and maternity wards.Jenna's

Police are probing the death of a woman after a body was allegedly found dumped in a wheelie bin. The grim discovery was made during a search for missing Victoria Streight in the north of the country.

Johnstone dad who has been missing since Sunday. Police say Kevin Turner, 50, was last seen at home around 3am on October 25 and family say it is very “out of character” for him to disappear.

‘dognapped’ by thieves. Rosie the Boston Terrier vanished from her home in Duddingston, near Edinburgh, on Sunday night after bolting out an insecure gate.

farmer has vowed to dump a lorry load of buffalo dung into a shop that has been dumping piles of rubbish onto his land. Steve Mitchell discovered a fresh mountain of cardboard and plastic packaging had been tossed onto a track at the Buffalo Farm in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Tuesday morning.

mum is facing an agonising wait for a transplant after a traumatic premature birth of her 1lb baby uncovered hidden kidney disease.Doctors discovered 23-year-old Lauren Ballantine had been living with underlying kidney disease after she underwent an emergency Cesarean section when she was just 25-weeks pregnant.The young mum, from Newmilns, had been suffering from potentially fatal pre-eclampsia and was rushed to Crosshouse Hospital at 24 weeks pregnant.Doctors we able to stabilise the East

schoolboy who is battling a life-threatening condition which leaves him unable to eat are desperately appealing for help to stay close to his hospital 70 miles away from their home. Little Ryan Cairnie was diagnosed with intestinal failure when he was just two-years-old after projectile vomiting everything he ate.

Rangers midfielder Liam Burt the chance to impress on trial at Aberdeen.The 21-year-old was at Pittodrie for Tuesday night’s thumping win over Hamilton as a guest of the Dons after leaving the Hoops in the summer.Burt had been training with Barnsley last month and also had a short stint on trial at Sunderland.But the five-times capped Scotland Under 21 international is still on the lookout for a club as a free agent and has taken up the offer of a trial stint at the Dons.McInnes said: “We just

Bathgate, West Lothian, has been left in chaos after workmen failed to install the new wet wall suite she paid more than £2,000 up front for.The 60-year-old’s old bathroom was ripped out after she signed a deal with Supreme Wetwall Bathrooms.But when the subcontractor assigned to refit it repeatedly stalled on the job, plumber Luke Campbell took the opportunity to have a snooze – a day after the work should have been finished.The stunned mum told how she “blew a gasket” after snapping this photo

smoke and heat detectors, as new safety regualtions come into effect. The rules, which are already in place for private rented properties, are set to become mandatory in all home across the country.

baby loss and help others enduring a similar ordeal. Angela Kenney was 'naive' to the devastation baby loss causes, tuntil her unborn child's heart stopped beating on June 30 this year.

week ago. Ian Cameron was spotted getting in his car at his home in Milray Avenue, New Cumnock, Ayrshire to drive to work around midnight on Tuesday, October 6.

human trafficking.Police Scotland recruited officers Hiep Nguyen Hoang and Duy Nguyen Xuan for a six-month secondment, where they will be used in raids and routine visits to root out exploited slave labour. The officers, who arrived two weeks ago, are usually based in Hanoi and were recruited after Police Scotland visited Vietnam last year, to foster cross-country links and stem the flow of people smuggling.

cops after they received intelligence about a device at his home accessing child pornography.Officers seized a computer device from the Edinburgh home that Strauka shared with his mother.An examination of the device found in his bedroom uncovered sick footage of girls aged eight to 15.Strauka appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Thursday and admitted possessing child porn between January 10 and February 20 last year.The court heard Strauka was a Lithuanian national who had lived in the UK for

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A gang of masked thugs broke into an Scots home and battered a man in front of children in a sickening raid.Cops are probing the violent incident which took place at 3am on Friday morning in Irvine, North Ayrshire.The 49-year-old man was with his partner and young children at the Tarryholme Drive address.Three masked men burst into the property and violent attacked the victim.He was rushed to Crosshouse

by a gang of intruders who had smashed their way into their house.The 45-year-old was forced to listen as the gang set about her son and left him with serious injuries including a punctured liver, two abdominal wounds, one to each buttock and his thigh.Detectives have launched an investigation and are treating the incident, which happened in Edinburgh last night shortly after 11pm, as attempted murder.Police sources said the drama kicked off when the 19-year-old victim and his brother were

discovered in the search for missing teen Andrew Baird.The 16-year-old vanished from the Forfar area at around 4.30pm on Saturday evening.He was last spotted in the Reid Park area of the town.When he was last seen, he was wearing a black leather jacket, sandy coloured camouflage trousers, a black hooded sweatshirt, dark green walking boots and carrying a navy 'Superdry' backback.A Police Scotland spokesman said today: "Police Scotland can confirm that a body was found on the morning of Sunday, 4

Police have issued an urgent search for a missing teenage boy. Andrew Baird, 16, vanished from the Forfar area at around 4.30pm yesterday evening.