Amanda Keenan

2 days ago | glasgowtimes.co.uk | Amanda Keenan

Jo Curtis told how spouse Stewart began suffering from crippling stomach pains while training to take part in a marathon and, after visiting his GP, the dad-of-two was put on a waiting list to see a gastroenterologist - but was told this could take months. After NHS speech therapist Jo noticed her husband was becoming jaundiced, the couple went to A&E where a CT scan revealed the heartbreaking diagnosis.

1 week ago | glasgowtimes.co.uk | Amanda Keenan

The benches are in a poor state (Image: Supplied) COUNCIL bosses are set to remove ‘unsafe benches and eyesore decking’ from the city centre after they were left to rot since the Covid pandemic. Critics say the seating areas in Queen Street have become unsightly and dangerous as a result of being unmaintained since their installation five years ago. Now local authority chiefs say they will go as part of a planned £20 million revamp of the streets in and around George Square.

2 weeks ago | glasgowtimes.co.uk | Amanda Keenan

City Chambers (Image: Newsquest) A cash-strapped council has spent £13 million propping up its cleansing services across Glasgow over the last eight years. A freedom of information request has revealed the eye-watering sum paid to private firms to supply agency staff to be deployed by the local authority. The approach has been criticised by a city councillor.

3 weeks ago | glasgowtimes.co.uk | Amanda Keenan

Scott McKernan with daughter Skyla (Image: supplied) A FURIOUS dad says a faulty smart meter saw him charged hundreds of pounds for energy he never used. Scott McKernan noticed his monthly costs with Octopus Energy increase from £90 to £328 leaving him struggling to support himself financially. After complaining to the firm when his bill shot up to £888, Scott says he was shocked to be told that his smart meter had been affected by an ‘industry-wide issue’.

3 weeks ago | albanyadvertiser.com.au | Amanda Keenan

Aurelio Costarella, one of the greats of Australian fashion, has died aged 60 after a short but stoic battle with a rare brain disease. Aurelio had recently been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a cruel incurable condition that also took the life of his sister Gracie. The son of Italian migrants beloved as a gentle and generous genius in a cut-throat industry, Costarella dressed a generation of school prom princesses and even a real-life one in then Princess Mary of Denmark.