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Staff shortage forces closures at Stirling city nursery

.Management point to "significant challenges in recruiting and retaining qualified nursery staff" and actions have included "merging rooms".

Daily Record · Mar 7, 2023

Renfrewshire hospice makes cash plea as it warns of looming palliative care crisis

Accord, which employs 80 people, will see its wage bill alone rocket to £3.3 million in 2023/24 as it match funds the NHS pay rise.

Daily Record · Mar 7, 2023

World's most premature twins celebrate first birthday - after overcoming 0% survival odds

The world's most premature twins have defied the devastating '0% chance of survival' prognosis they were handed at birth, and have now celebrated their very first birthday together

Daily Mirror · Mar 7, 2023

Tributes paid to volunteering hero and family man ahead of his funeral next week

Andy Mount died peacefully with his family around him after a long illness, on February 23 aged 82

Daily Record · Mar 7, 2023

Overseas transplant groups to be surveyed

Following the recent arrest of a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization's director on multiple charges of unauthorized mediation of overseas organ transplants, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has said it will survey about 200 medical institutions across the nation to investigate the actual state of transplants abroad.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Mar 7, 2023

East Lothian woman told she can't have fertility treatment because she is single

Legislation does not currently allow single women entry to publicly run IVF clinics. Females need to be in a relationship for at least three years until they are considered to obtain treatment.

Edinburgh Live · Mar 7, 2023

Prices at Coychurch Crematorium in Bridgend are set to increase this year

The crematorium was opened in 1970 to cover the need for services in Bridgend and the surrounding areas

Wales Online · Mar 7, 2023

‘Heartbroken’ family plans on laying to rest twin sisters who died just weeks apart

Joint funeral to be held for sisters Shaunie and Shavanna Thomson

The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2023

Three care homes to be bought out of administration

165 jobs will transfer across as part of the sales, although four head office staff are to be made redundant

Insider UK · Mar 7, 2023

Pregnant woman and elderly couple can't use garden after neighbours build fence

Lorraine cannot get her buggy past, her elderly grandparents now have difficulty using the steps

Wales Online · Mar 7, 2023