THE life-saving link between maternity and children's services at Yorkhill is essential for mums-to-be in Glasgow.

Former health minister Malcolm Chisholm listened to the voices of many tens of thousands when he reversed the deeply unpopular decision to sever it.

The Evening Times led the fight to guarantee a linked maternity and Sick Kids' Hospital was built.

And, when the new triple-co-location hospital was eventually announced, it was promised by 2011 and everyone agreed it would be world class.

Somewhere since 2006 that time-scale has been abandoned.

Ministers and the health board should now work to minimise the delay and provide an explanation for the delay. Showing signs of success

CRANHILL has always had more than its fair share of social problems.

Like many similar communities it has issues with unemployment drugs and crime.

However it also has resilience, which the women of the area showed when they stood up to drug dealers.

Over the last ten years a massive effort has gone into transforming the area.

Local people say it is unrecognisable as the drug ravaged estate of the 1980s and 90s.

That is down to the hard work of those who care deeply about their community and its people and do something to help.