Scots dementia OAP who sang through care home gates records second single

A lucky care home chef who works 80-hour weeks has won £50,000 from a 50p bingo bet.Donna Brookhouse immediately sprung up on the tables of her local bookies and "danced with joy" when she'd realised she'd won the Betfred Bingo jackpot - for “less than the price of a Mars bar”.The 52-year-old from Warrington scooped the winnings with her favourite set of consecutive numbers - 24, 25, 26, 31, 32 and 33.She said: “It’s something I’ve wanted to do all my life and couldn’t help myself.“It’s not

mum “just wants to die” after being left in a care home without proper family contact for six months.Allan Cairns has watched retired shop worker Nan – who turns 80 next week – lose three stone over the course of lockdown.Visiting has been restricted to shouting down a ramshackle path to a fire escape door where she is wheeled out, weather permitting, for just 30 minutes a week.Allan, 43, an engineer from Cardonald, Glasgow, now believes she is suffering from depression and has given up on

Safety first as Perth College UHI students return However, new home manager Cheryl Banks says it is quite the opposite.“I was shocked when I learned so many staff were related,” said Cheryl.

Manchester Evening News has spoken to care home bosses who say the major delays - nearly trebling the Government target of 'up to 72 hours' - are causing them stress and anxiety as they brace themselves for a potential second wave.

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care home has admitted it was at fault over the death of a multiple sclerosis sufferer who choked on a sausage roll. Richy Passmore died after being left to eat lunch on his own, despite clear instructions that he should always have been supervised.

Covid-19 in a Scots care home hopes legal action will prevent other families enduring a similar ordeal. Colin Harris passed away in April after catching the deadly bug.

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.

Manchester Evening News : "She's had quite a tough life, losing two husbands and three children - but has always found a way to be so positive. "Last time we saw her she was just so happy we were there but she was saying she was trapped and asking why we couldn't go out.

Covid-19. The cases were detected at Parkdale Care Home in Perthshire.

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East Kilbride News the facility “should have been shut a long time ago”. The distraught family spoke of the neglect their 72-year-old relative faced and how they found him on his death bed “filthy, unshaven and with a massive bruise on his face”.That’s only after they were told he was being taken to hospital and “not to rush” there as it was “nothing too serious”.Hours later, he died from advanced pneumonia.

coronavirus testing system after a tiny number of staff received their results last week. Tony Banks of Balhousie Care said only six results were returned from 846 staff last week, following demands put on the system by pupils getting screened.