Scotland’s Patient Safety Commissioner has backed calls for a national funding model to meet the £144 million cost of hospice care – warning too many dying patients are being denied the support and choice to die at home. eu1.hubs.ly/H0yCYNL0
"That man destroyed my life and took everything from me. I was the fittest player on the field and literally had the world at my feet when Dundee United sent me to Eljamel for treatment for a back issue." eu1.hubs.ly/H0yCYM00
Lizzie Magie came up with the original concept that became Monopoly, but has largely been airbrushed from history. A Scottish theatre company hopes to change that...
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A major action plan featuring the views of 2,258 Scots on the future of our town centres has been presented to First Minister John Swinney as part of our Fresh Start campaign. eu1.hubs.ly/H0yCYM50
In a full circle moment, Gayle Rankin is heading back home to Scotland to play the lead role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - the first play she ever appeared in as a teenager.
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This year’s El Nino is already the strongest on record – scientists are calling it the supersized El Nino – prompting warnings of unusually strong storms and heavy rain across the UK this autumn. eu1.hubs.ly/H0yCYHG0
It's 25 years since the premiere of A Shot At Glory ⚽
We spoke to Ally McCoist and some of the other Scottish footballers who became film stars about their memories of the film and working alongside the iconic Robert Duvall.
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Inside today:
• Photographer’s passion project to support and empower breastfeeding
• From pies to pots of honey...local food and drink producers are winning hearts and minds of Scots
• El Nino: should we be frightened?
Inside:
• Theatre group comes out batting for ‘inventor’ of Monopoly who lost out in property grab
• How ‘secret listeners’ in Scottish towns helped fight against the Nazi war machine
• Ally McCoist reminisces about Robert Duvall ahead of 25th anniversary of A Shot At Glory
Inside today:
• Mum was killed by partner already awaiting sentence for assault... yet police left her in flat after 999 call
• Cost of weight loss jabs soars to £46m in a year as experts warn helping everyone who needs it could bankrupt NHS