Tag: pensioners

Ambulance bosses sent paramedics on a 999 dash to change a pensioner’s bandages

Scottish News

Guest - July 3, 2013

AMBULANCE bosses sent paramedics on a 999 dash to a pensioner’s home - after she called NHS 24 to change a bandage. The ambulance raced...

Pensioners facing eviction will fight back

Local News

Deadline News Journalist - April 30, 2013

A GROUP of Scottish OAPs have vowed to “barricade” themselves in rather than leave their threatened sheltered housing. The pensioners say managers of the complex...

Five victims targeted in two days by bogus callers

Local News

Guest - February 1, 2012

By Emma Hamilton BOGUS callers have targeted a number of pensioners, making of with thousands of pound of cash The thieves took five victims over just...

Pensioners robbed of Christmas savings

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - November 9, 2011

AN elderly couple were robbed of their Christmas savings by a thief who posed as a workman. The pair, who are in their seventies, lost...

Pensioners consider using crime to get ‘an easy life’

Court & Crime

Christine Lavelle - February 27, 2011

INCREASING numbers of elderly Scots being charged with criminal offences has been blamed on high poverty levels. The pensioner ‘crime wave’ was revealed in figures...