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Famous West Lothian nightclub torn down to make way for nursing home

A right of passage for most folk in West Lothian, it’s also been known as Zen and Melvilles over the years before the space was most recently used for church meetings.

Edinburgh Live

London children’s hospice faces energy bill increase of £140,000

Shooting Star Children’s Hospices says ‘hundreds of nights of respite care’ could be cut

Evening Standard

Dumfries goes daffodil crazy to support Marie Curie

March is the charity's annual daffodil appeal with people encouraged to make a donation and wear the charity’s yellow floral badge

Daily Record

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Canadian babies set record for being most premature and lightest twins ever born

‘They were perfect in every sense to us,’ Shakina Rajendram says

The Independent UK

What is the CQC? Social-care regulator accused of failing to keep care homes safe

The CQC’s traffic light ratings are increasingly important for people looking to place relatives in England’s 17,000 care homes, amid a staffing and funding crisis.

Evening Standard

Angry Midlothian resident says workers 'trampled her flowers and left pipes in her garden'

Marie Dufty had been left distraught after claiming that her pride and joy back garden was trampled over by contractors for Midlothian Council during roofing work being carried out next door.

Edinburgh Live

INMO calls for immediate action as 30 children confirmed among hundreds on trolleys

613 admitted patients are waiting for beds this morning

Irish Mirror

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Scottish businesses invited to share views on parental employment

Parliamentary committee seeks to follow up visits to meet parents and employers across the country

Insider UK

Nearly a fifth of NHS staff want to quit as soon as they find another job, survey finds

Findings lay bare the extent of dissatisfaction among NHS workers over pay amid a wave of industrial action

Evening Standard

Woman, 98, with 230 great-great-grandchildren meets her great-great-great-grandchild

MaeDell Taylor Hawkins, who married her first husband at 16 when he was 50, has more than 600 descendants and has released an incredible photo of six different generations of women in her family

Daily Mirror

End of an era as famous West Lothian nightclub pulled down

Club Earth - also knows as Zen and Melvilles - will make way for a new nursing home

Daily Record

Lanarkshire groups can continue to help residents thanks to grants from lottery community funds

A total of 22 organisations were selected to receive grants totalling £351,261

Daily Record

Moment hero Edinburgh bus driver stops to help struggling man across the road

The heart-warming incident was captured by a passenger on the service 26 after the man realised he was heading in the wrong direction. The driver got out and aided him to the correct bus stop

Edinburgh Live

£128k children's services head sought as director makes early departure

Martin Birch announced his resignation last month and was expected to leave in April

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The Independent UK

Price of childcare costs now an ‘eyewatering’ £15k per year

Increased prices are ‘freezing parents out of work’ and gaps in availability are ‘leaving disadvantaged children at risk’, a charity has warned

Daily Record

Beads programme for ill youngsters comes to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary

Children who receive treatment for cancer or blood conditions there will now be able to track their progress with special beads

The Independent UK

Childcare place now costs an ‘eyewatering’ £15k per year

Increased prices are ‘freezing parents out of work’ and gaps in availability are ‘leaving disadvantaged children at risk’, a charity has warned.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s cheaper to not work’: childcare shortage in England puts strain on parents

Three families share their struggles with finding and affording nursery places and childminders

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Wales Online

More parents struggling to find childcare places and face ‘eye watering bills’

The average weekly price of 25 hours of nursery childcare for a child under two is now around £150 a week - and is forcing parents out of work

ABC News

Independent SA MP Troy Bell calls for subsidy to assist regional nursing students with city placement costs

A state MP is calling for a subsidy to help regional nursing students in South Australia undertake essential city placements, in the same way city students receive support for regional placements.

The Independent UK

More families struggling to find childcare places and face ‘eye watering bills’

Increased prices are ‘freezing parents out of work’ and gaps in availability are ‘leaving disadvantaged children at risk’, a charity has warned.

The Independent UK

More than half of young carers report increased responsibilities – survey

Charity Carers Trust found that 47% of the 1,109 children and young adults it surveyed aged under 25 said they now care for more people than before.

Belfast Live

Co Antrim parent's delight as formerly conjoined twin girls celebrate first birthday

Posting on social media on Wednesday, proud mum Hannah said: "How very appropriate that you were born on International Women’s Day"

ABC News

Aged care sector facing worker crunch to meet 24/7 nurse requirements by July

Like so many others in aged care, Viv Allanson says it is going to be "impossible" for her facility to meet key government deadlines for new standards in the sector, saying "the pressure is absolutely enormous".

The Independent UK

Man charged with murdering great-great-grandfather

James O’Connor, from Hilltown in Dundee, Scotland is due before magistrates in Somerset on Thursday accused of killing 89-year-old Frederick Burge.

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