Scots mum sparks fierce debate over Next's gender labels on children's rainbow shoes

baby’s skull deformity before it’s too late.Heidi Aitken is 11 months old and has brachycephaly, or flat head syndrome.She should have had treatment when she was five or six months but her mum Shannagh said she was talked out of it by health visitors.If Heidi doesn’t get it soon, her skull soft spot will close and her head will be misshapen for life.The treatment is not available on the NHS and the family need to raise £2000 to pay for the helmet.Heidi’s head, the result of a breech birth, is as

SPIDER BITE left her tot needing emergency surgery for a 'tangerine-sized abscess'.Emily-Jane Stuart had been at a funfair when she is believed to have been bitten by the eight-legged creature while playing on the slides, initially leaving a pin-prick-sized sore on her arm.The six-year-old carried on enjoying her day but her mum Ashley Simpson, 26, noticed a bright red sore rapidly spreading across her skin two days later.Soon the bite had turned into a bulbous blister that would not pop and

transgender child’s frozen sperm from being destroyed has won a 'temporary reprieve'. Louise Anderson, 45, plans to go to the highest court in Scotland after being told samples saved by her 16-year-old daughter Ellie –  who died suddenly in July this year – could be soon destroyed by the NHS.

mum of a Scots schoolgirl fighting cancer has shared shocking pictures of the brutal treatment she has endured in her battle with the disease. Sharon McCallister says she could 'smell' cancer on daughter Kaiann weeks before doctors finally diagnosed her with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - a type of cancer so rare that only 650 people in the UK are diagnosed with it per year.

mum claims she was trapped in her house for two days and forced to eat pizza through her window after Argos delivery drivers blocked her only exit with her new couches. Sarah Miller, from Tayport, in Fife, said staff told her they were unable to bring the two sofas up her stairs because that would breach new coronavirus restrictions.

shopper has hit out after her hand got covered in human faeces whilst buying chicken nuggets from Iceland.Mum-of-four Lynne McCabe said she was horrified to discover she had been smeared in poo after putting her hand inside a freezer in the Saltcoats store at 3.30pm yesterday.Lynne, from Kilwinning, realised there was human excrement on the packaging of the nuggets she was buying for her children's dinner when she accidentally touched her nose.The 35-year-old said: "The smell was awful.

daughter's first birthday after a long battle with cancer.Jolene Patrick was told just weeks after giving birth in August last year that her triple negative breast cancer had returned for a second time and had already spread to her lymph nodes, liver, ribs, lungs and bones.The 31-year-old from Stenhousemuir, Falkirk, fought the disease but sadly lost her fight on August 22, the same day her 'miracle baby' Emmeline turned one.Jolene's devastated husband Alan said he will never understand why his

missing Scots mum who vanished more than 50 years ago have released a computer-generated image of what she would look like today. Isabella Skelton, nee Dowell, from Glasgow, was living in Manchester when she left her home in June 1969 and never came back.

terminal cancer.And when finally diagnosed she only discovered how serious her condition was by reading notes left discarded on her bed by a nurse.Jackie Johnson, 50, has stage four cancer of the oesophagus and has been told by medics there is no hope for her.

neighbour-from-hell attacked five police officers after they arrived to break up her asbo-breaching nine hour through the night party.Sarah Stewart, 23, reacted by tearing off their PPE and telling them she had coronavirus, as well as threatening to firebomb their families.Sheriff Tom Hughes jailed Stewart for 27 months and told her: "It is quite clear that on the night in question you caused considerable difficulty to your upstairs neighbour when there was an asbo against you."You paid no

mum -of-five says her family had a lucky escape after they were roused by a fire as it ripped through their back garden. Kat Roy, from Kilwinning, was woken by the inferno just inches from her home as her family slept in their beds.

mum has launched a bid to stop her dead transgender child’s frozen sperm being destroyed.Louise Anderson, 45, plans to go to the highest court in Scotland after learning that samples saved by her daughter Ellie, 16, who died suddenly last month, could be destroyed in days.Ellie, of Stirling, who was born a boy, identified as a girl from the age of three, and planned to have gender reassignment surgery at 18.The teenager, who identified as a straight female, delayed taking hormone blockers to

pub - before insisting she was "at it". Sharon Goldie claimed Robyn Goldie was 'attention seeking' despite the sick 13 year-old begging for help.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A Scots mum was left with a bleed on the brain after she tumbled from her bicycle in a horror accident.Carrie Smith, from Fraserburgh, was thrown over the handlebars and knocked out while she was cycling on Mormond Hill in Aberdeenshire.Emergency services rushed to the area on Tuesday and she was raced by ambulance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.Medics found she had suffered a bleed on the brain but no

Scots mum was left shocked after discovering the face of Jesus in an Aldi supermarket potato. Nikki Halkerston, 44, was unloading her shopping onto the kitchen counter when she saw the face of Christ in a pack of £1.15 Aldi tatties.She immediately called her husband over to take a look and he agreed it looked like the son of God.

A Scots mum ate a stranger's parking ticket after her new colleagues hilariously decided to prank her. Mariea Mohan, from Prestwick, took matters into her own mouth after thinking she had been slapped with a £60 parking fine in Ayr yesterday, August 14.

Scots mum found dead in woods after vanishing from her home say her sons have been left devastated after going back to school without her there to see them off. Natasha Harrison's body was discovered on Saturday, August 8, two days after she went missing on Thursday the 6th.  This week her two boys went off to school as Kendrick, seven, returned for P3 and little Haiden, 5, faced his first day of primary one without their doting mum.

bowel cancer was missed by doctors because he was 'too young'.Mark Newberry, 41, visited an out of hours service and his GP twice in the days leading up to his shock diagnosis where he was told he was suffering from a stomach ulcer and colic.Mark, from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire said: “I had been having irregular bowel movements for a few months but didn’t think much about it.

mums who created cheeky 'Buck Foris' kids clothing during lockdown to throw shade at Boris Johnson have raised thousands of pounds for charities - despite having never even met each other. Mums Katie Connelly, 36, and Emi Ozmen-Pendergast, 38, launched Dream On Playwear together at the height of the coronavirus pandemic after following each other on Instagram.Between them Katie, a freelance stylist from Edinburgh and Emi, from Stamford, Lincs, have more than 40,000 followers thanks to their