Move to create ‘Frank’s Law’

The Scottish Conservatives will lodge legislation to extend free care to under-65s with conditions such as dementia at Holyrood today.

A member’s bill brought forward by Conservative MSP Miles Briggs seeks to implement the so-called Frank’s Law, named after the footballer Frank Kopel.

Mr Briggs will be joined at the launch of the legislation by Amanda Kopel, wife of the former Dundee United footballer, who died in 2014 after a battle with dementia.