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Body camera footage shows moment police officer tasered 95-year-old gran at nursing home

The police chief declined to say whether he thought a police officer with 12 years experience had used excessive force by firing a stun gun twice at a 5ft 2ins and 6.7st "much loved" elderly woman

Daily Mirror

Uncertainty surrounding future of Perthshire GP brought to light at Scottish Parliament

Invergowrie Medical Practice patients were told in February the health facility would shut permanently on June 16

Daily Record

NSW Health report finds worker shortages impacted COVID-19 pandemic response in regional and remote areas

A new report into NSW Health's response to COVID-19 shows already under-staffed rural and remote health services did not have capacity to "surge" the workforce at the peak of the pandemic.

ABC News

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Tribute paid to Paisley boy with 'big, loving heart' found dead in flat by council director

The director of children's services at Renfrewshire Council has paid tribute to four year-old Kayden Frank, who was found murdered inside a Paisley flat as he confirms he was known to social services.

Glasgow Live

Afternoon Update: Tasering of 95-year-old woman under investigation; Stan Grant steps down; and falling for a sex worker

Clare Nowland remains in a critical condition in hospital after the incident at her Cooma aged care home

The Guardian - AU

Mother of Jasmeen Kaur 'tormented' by daughter's murder, South Australian court hears

Tarijkot Singh wanted to "forcibly marry" 21-year-old Jasmeen Kaur after she refused him "one hundred times", Ms Kaur's mother tells a South Australian court.

ABC News

Cemeteries to merge after audit on Sydney grave space

Three embattled state-owned cemetery managers in Sydney will be merged as Muslims and those of some Orthodox faiths face running out of graves in three years.

AAP

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Grandmother, 95, fighting for life after being tasered

A 95-year-old woman with dementia was tasered after staff at her aged care home, fearing she was carrying a knife, called NSW Police.

AAP

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral cost UK government 162 million pounds, Treasury papers reveal

The UK government releases its costing details of the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, but remains tight-lipped about the costs of King Charles's coronation.

ABC News

Council boss pays tribute to 'loving' boy Kayden Frank after murder

Steven Quinn, Renfrewshire Council' director of Children Services, confirmed Kayden was 'known to social work' in a heartbreaking statement.

Daily Record

Women Feel More Confident Today Than They Did 10 Years Ago

Seven in 10 women, however, admitted that they care what others think or say about them.

Zenger

Thousands wait years for healthcare in Wales as NHS misses its target

Patients have been waiting more than two years in more than 30,000 cases in Wales

Wales Online

Kirkintilloch parents scramble for childcare as much-loved nursery announces shock closure

The Tender Loving Childcare Centre has announced it will be 'forced to close' on May 23 after it was given just a week's notice by the new owners of the building.

Glasgow Live

Inquiry into major UK maternity scandal slams NHS for failure to consult Black and Asian families

Investigation into death of babies at NHS trust triggered by report in The Independent has involved 250 white families – but only 20 from ethnic minorities

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Daily Record

Humza Yousaf urged to ‘do the right thing’ and reinstate fund for social care staff

The First Minister was asked to continue to fund a scheme that ended on March 31st.

Chronicle Live

Shiremoor charity using life experiences to help fight poverty in North East

Support and Grow North East is celebrating a year of making a real difference to people's lives across the region

Daily Mirror

Woman, 95, fighting for life after being tasered TWICE by police in care home

Clare Nowland, a 95-year-old mother-of-eight, was found by staff holding a knife at her care home Yallambee Lodge, in southern New South Wales, in Australia

Daily Mirror

Woman, 106, reveals her secret to long life is a daily shot of coffee liqueur

Esperanza Cortinas from Ourense, Spain, has lived through two world wars and pandemics and she says her long life is down to her enjoying a daily shot of coffee liqueur

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West Lothian dad who lost mum to cancer undertakes brave 1,243-mile charity cycle

Colin says that he hopes to emulate in some way the mental health isolation that his mother, Dot, must have experienced when her cancer robbed her of the ability to speak to her loved ones.

Chronicle Live

'Massive shock' care home closure leaves County Durham residents just weeks to find a new place to live

Shotley Park in County Durham will close within a month.

Nottingham Post

Black and Asian women share ‘deepened mistrust’ of Nottingham maternity services

Black and Asian families have said that they feel “easy to ignore”

ABC News

People 'keen to donate' in push to reopen Kalgoorlie blood donor centre a decade after closure

Outside of the state's south, there's almost nowhere to donate blood if you live in regional Western Australia, but residents in Kalgoorlie-Boulder hope to change that.

Daily Mirror

Grandma, 77, marries herself in 'dream wedding' she always wanted after life of heartache

Dorothy 'Dottie' Fideli put on a white wedding dress and married herself in a stunning ceremony at her retirement home in Ohio on May 13

The Hindu

Kerala: an exemplary story in palliative care

Kerala shows how diverse groups of people — across religious, caste, class, and gender divides — forged solidarities to create care infrastructure

The Independent UK

Nurse ‘slapped elderly patient while he lay in hospital bed’, court told

Primrose James denies ill-treating the patient in Haverfordwest, Wales, in May last year.

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