By STEWART PATERSON CAR parking charges at NHS hospitals in Scotland are to be abolished, the Health Secretary announced yesterday. After a review of charging policies, and an interim cap of GBP3 per day, Nicola Sturgeon revealed charges at the 14 hospitals which charge will be scrapped.

By DAVID ROSS HIGHLAND CORRESPONDENT THE First Minister yesterday visited the Maggie's Centre in Inverness to launch a new programme of support for people who have cancer in remote and rural areas .

GRIEVING relatives yesterday thanked motorists who saved a Dutch mum and her girl from a death crash. Karina Coffeng and her daughter Carliyn, four, were pulled from the burning wreckage of a smash that killed four.

Aberdeen's new emergency care centre is among north-east projects to be funded with a pounds525million cash injection into the NHS in Scotland, it was announced yesterday. Under new plans for the Foresterhill site, accident and emergency, G-Med and NHS 24 would be brought under one roof.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon will give a speech in Inverness today as part of events marking the 40th anniversary of Stirling University. She will speak at the Centre for Health Science at Raigmore Hospital.