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£3M funding will make for warmer homes and cheaper bills

The City of Edinburgh Council is to spend at least £3.3 million to make private homes across the capital warmer, more environmentally friendly and...

How a generation – and 113 miles – separate today’s pensioners from their children

SCOTS aged 35 and over now live an average of over 110 miles from their parents, a new survey reveals. It means most OAPs and...

OAPs body-swerve cops to occupy Scotland Office

PENSIONERS breezed past police to “occupy” the offices of the Secretary of State for Scotland yesterday - only to discover he was on holiday.   Veteran...

OAP with no feet wins Blue Badge victory over council bunglers

A SCOTS pensioner who had both feet amputated has won a victory over bungling council chiefs who refused him a blue badge. Tom Hannah had...

Health Board Condemned for Night Discharges

A SCOTTISH health board has been condemned after discharging almost 1,400 OAPs from hospital during the night. NHS Fife admitted that 1,363 patients aged over...

Ambulance bosses sent paramedics on a 999 dash to change a pensioner’s bandages

AMBULANCE bosses sent paramedics on a 999 dash to a pensioner’s home - after she called NHS 24 to change a bandage. The ambulance raced...

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