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Incident management team tasked following ‘unusual infections’ at Aberdeen children’s hospital Updated: May 17, 2021, 5:49 pm © PRESS AND JOURNAL Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up NHS Grampian has set up an incident management team (IMT) after a small number of unusual infections were detected at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital (RACH). The health board said due to the small number of patients involved, and the unusual nature of the infection, they were unable to confirm any details withou...

By Readers' Letters © Andrew MacColl/Shutterstock I am struck by the apparent claim that there is not a mandate to call a second independence referendum, given that, by itself, the SNP does not command an overall majority. To initially highlight the scale of the SNP victory, the party achieved 47.7% of the constituency vote in these elections. That is the highest achieved by any party since Labour’s victory in the 1966 UK General Election when it achieved 48% of the vote, including 49.8% in Scotland. The SNP now holds an amazing 85% of the constituencies in Scotland, smashing the 63%...

Pay unsung heroes of the volunteer coastguard, union demands © SYSTEM A union has warned it is prepared to take legal action on behalf of thousands of volunteer coastguards unless they become paid employees of the UK government. GMB Scotland said more than 2,800 rescue workers across the UK were “denied even the most basic rights of respect and recognition” by their employer, Her Majesty’s Coastguard, which is part of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency ( MCA). Prepared for legal action The union is demanding that their status as workers is “properly recognised and the work they do is...

Updated: May 17, 2021, 6:50 pm © SYSTEM Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A union has warned it is prepared to take legal action on behalf of thousands of volunteer coastguards unless they become paid employees of the UK government. GMB Scotland said more than 2,800 rescue workers across the UK were “denied even the most basic rights of respect and recognition” by their employer, Her Majesty’s Coastguard, which is part of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency ( MCA). Prepared for legal action The uni...

Two-vehicle crash closes part of A90 Dundee to Aberdeen road Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Emergency services attended at the accident, southbound on the road near Oathlaw, Forfar. Police said this evening there were no life-threatening injuries. Carriageway reopened A spokesman for Police Scotland said: “Police were called around 6.50pm on Monday May 17, following the report of a two-vehicle road crash on the A90 Southbound near Oathlaw, Forfar. “Emergency services attended and there does not appear ...