Amanda Keenan

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

After tipping the scales at 24 stone and being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, Angela Brown knew she had had to quickly shed the pounds to get her health back on track. The 52-year-old gran transformed her diet and started exercising, but after her weight stalled at 18 stone, she turned to medication Mounjaro, which has now helped her achieve remission from diabetes.

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

The council’s Rapid Response staff are being sent to lift discarded needles and other potentially deadly drug paraphernalia in wooden areas off Tobago Street and Elcho Street in the East End. They say the situation has become so dire they fear they will find someone lying lifeless from an overdose, as well as raising concerns about their own safety. Now union bosses are calling for an urgent risk assessment to be carried out in the area by the local authority.

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Amanda Keenan

The highest pay out to staff was £447,487 in the financial year 2022/23, while £181,804 was paid during 2023/24. Physical injury was the most common reason for action being taken, with 161 claims submitted. This number was followed by physical and psychological injuries, with 45 local authority employees successfully lodging actions. Councillor Paul Carey BEM says more care needs to be taken to safeguard people doing their duties and subsequently protect the public purse.

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

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that Glasgow City Council has been forced to fork out an eye-watering £629,291 over the last three years to workers injured in slips, trips, falls and manual handling of defective equipment while at work. The highest pay out to staff was £447,487 in the financial year 2022/23, while £181,804 was paid during 2023/24. Physical injury was the most common reason for action being taken, with 161 claims submitted.

3 weeks 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.