IT’S more than 30 years since Phyllis Corish – who had just lost her 29-year-old brother and 34-year-old sister to drugs within weeks of each other – walked into the newly opened Rialto Community Drug Team in Dublin looking for help ...
SCOTLAND’S drugs crisis is often in the news, as the Government grapples with high rates of drug deaths and enduring poverty-linked drug misuse ...
JENNY was only 12 years old and still in Vietnam when her grandmother, who raised her, died of cancer. It was not her first experience of loss.
WHEN Jenny first met Home Office officials it had been a long time since she had enough to eat or drink, or slept. Brought from Vietnam to Europe by traffickers on a plane, she had been forced to trek for days before being put on a small boat across the channel. The journey was frightening and made her sick.
SITTING in the midst of the usually buzzing Strathclyde University campus, you might be forgiven for forgetting that – with three weeks to go till polling day – a General Election campaign is raging across the country. Term finished last month and very few students are still here.
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NEITHER Scotland’s police watchdog or Crown officials investigating the Sheku Bayoh case considered the role racist language used by police – or perceptions he may have been a terrorist – could have played in his death, it has emerged.
When we arrive at Megan’s small two-bed house in Cumbernauld she’s already peering out of the window and she waves. Until recently she wouldn’t have done that. She owed about £1800 in rent arrears and, living in fear she would be evicted, kept the curtains shut tight ...
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CHARITIES have called on the Scottish Government to declare a national housing emergency, claiming Scotland’s homeless system is at breaking point due to a worsening cost of living crisis and a new Home Office policy that puts refugees on the streets.
