Scottish officials have criticized a police department after a male stripper was arrested 22 times -- but never convicted -- for impersonating a police officer. The Grampian Police have spent nearly $240,000 arresting Aberdeen University student Stuart Kennedy, 25, 22 times on allegations of impersonating an officer and holding him in custody for a total 123 hours, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

EXTERMINATORS have been called in to deal with hundreds of infestations of rats, mice, cockroaches and fleas at Scots hospitals. In one case, an operating theatre was infested with millipedes. At another hospital, insects were found in food stores.

Doctors removed a firefighter's healthy lung unnecessarily after he was wrongly diagnosed with cancer, it was reported yesterday. Laurence Ball, 58, was told he had a tumour in his lung and needed surgery to remove the organ, it was reported.

By Jonathan Brown A firefighter whose lung was removed after he was misdiagnosed with cancer said yesterday that he had received neither an explanation nor an apology from the health trust responsible for the catastrophic error.

HEALTH bosses yesterday agreed to fund a dying cancer patient's treatment. Barrie Clark, 61, from Insch, Aberdeenshire, is battling terminal kidney cancer and was given free medicine that could prolong his life.