Funerals for bin lorry victims begin

Scotland: Erin McQuade and her grandparents Jack and Lorraine Sweeney, who were killed in the Glasgow bin lorry crash on December 22, will be buried today in their home town of Dumbarton.

They were among six people who died after the vehicle went out of control in Glasgow city centre.

Police Scotland expect a large attendance at the funeral, with road closures and diversion in place to cope.

Plane blown off airport runway

Scotland: An investigation started yesterday after a passenger plane was blown off the runway at Stornoway airport on the Isle of Lewis.

A passenger reported that the tail of the aircraft had been caught by a crosswind as the 8.35am flight set off for Glasgow. All 26 passengers and three crew were evacuated safely.

There were delays and cancellations to flights as the plane, a Saab 340 aircraft operated by Loganair, was removed from the runway.

Police callouts to hospitals rise

NHS aggro: Police are being called out 175 times a day to NHS hospitals and clinics.

Officers attended 64,728 incidents in 2013 — up 1,700 on the previous year, Sky News has revealed — and those figures do not include the Metropolitan Police area.

Royal College of Nursing chief executive Dr Peter Carter said separate figures revealing just 1,600 convictions from 68,683 reports of assault on NHS staff in the year to March 2014 were “lamentable.”