11 h. ago Desperate family raising £500k for young Scots girl with rare cancer

A TEN-YEAR-OLD girl battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer has just weeks to raise £500,000 for a life-saving treatment.  Kim Wilson first noticed something was wrong when her daughter Sophia when she stopped eating. The mum from Sauchen, Aberdeenshire said: “She was still winning all her races at sports day and gymnastics when...

Economics

12 h. ago Desperate family's 'world has crumbled' in bid to raise £500k to save daughter's life

Sophia Wilson from Sauchen, Aberdeenshire, is battling aggressive Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) and urgently needs a specialised treatment in the US.

Economics

3 d. ago Women behind the lens: ‘They waited in a kind of deranged inactivity for the possibility of a visit’

In her portraits from an overcrowded Venezuelan detention centre, Ana María Arévalo Gosen captures the frustration of women desperate for news from their lawyers and familiesThis photograph was taken inside the Poli-Valencia detention centre, where I began to understand what imprisonment means for women in Venezuela. The room had once been an investigation office, converted into a cell after authorities decided to move the women out of the main area, where they had been held alongside male detainees.When I returned a year later, the space had been transformed. The women had made it their own, covering the walls with names, phrases and small drawings of hearts, even taping up a poster of the Colombian singer Maluma. What had once been a sterile office now held traces of their presence, their effort to hold on to a sense of identity in a place meant to erase it. Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago Teenager’s slight rash and headaches leads to devastating diagnosis

A family has launched an urgent appeal for a stem cell donor to save the life of their teenage daughter, who was diagnosed with an extremely rare blood disorder just days after her 13th birthday.

Politics

9 d. ago 'I know what it is to go hungry — now I deliver food to others in need'

Sainsbury’s donates £500K to our campaign taking total raised to £1.9M

Society

2 w. ago Daughter begs 'save his life' after dad goes into coma after holiday heart attack

Teigan's father went into cardiac arrest when his heart stopped beating for 70 minutes

Events

2 w. ago Council failed to inspect trees in park where mother, 32, was crushed to death by falling branch in bid to save her daughter

Madia Kauser, 32, was tragically crushed to death while out on a family walk with her husband Wasim Khan, 33, and their two children near Witton Country Park in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Events

2 w. ago Child among six dead after atmospheric river storm drenches California

Lingering thunderstorms pose risk of mudslides in areas around Los Angeles recently ravaged by wildfiresA powerful atmospheric river weather system has mostly moved through California but not before causing at least six deaths and dousing much of the state.Among the dead was a seven-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean by waves estimated up to 20ft at a state beach on Friday. The girl’s father, 39-year-old Yuji Hu, of Calgary, Alberta, was killed while trying to save his daughter. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago I saved myself hundreds on pricey wallpaper with genius way – people’s jaws drop when I tell them how I did it

A MUM has been labelled a "genius" after sharing the clever hack she used to save herself hundreds on wallpaper. Katie has been decorating her daughter's bedroom, turning it into a "big girl room". She explained in a video on her TikTok page that she hadn't wanted to shell out loads on the transformation -...

Politics

2 w. ago Hero dad dies trying to rescue daughter, 5, as she was swept away by California waves

Yuji Hu, 39, and his family were among the more than 200 people who were reported missing after being swept off a beach in California. Hu tragically died trying to save his daughter

Events

3 w. ago Hundreds of parents forced to pay for ADHD diagnosis and treatment as NHS won’t fund it

Desperate families are shelling out thousands to go private for neurodiversity assessments and ongoing medication.

Economics

3 w. ago Mum of teen who died at 13 says Scot Gov should be "horrified" by suicide figures

Ruth Moss, 54, whose 13-year-old daughter Sophie died by suicide in 2014, hailed the Record's Save Young Lives campaign, which was launched last week in response to a mental health crisis among children

Events

3 w. ago Sara Sharif: Council checked old address for girl, 10, days before she was killed

Social workers, police, teachers and health professionals were 'groomed and manipulated' by brutal Urfan Sharif and numerous opportunities to save his 10-year-old daughter were missed, the report concludes

Events

last month Grieving parents deliver "powerful" message on youth suicide at parliament meeting

Mike Palmer, Andy Airey and Tim Owen - who each lost a daughter to suicide - are backing a Daily Record campaign to Save Young Lives.

Politics