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A much-loved care home has been forced to close due to a shortage of nuns.

The Little Sisters of the Poor announced yesterday that it is to withdraw from Edinburgh after spending 154 years looking after the elderly.

The religious order based at St Joseph’s House in Gilmore Place said it is fully committed to finding another care provider for the home, in order to ensure as little disruption as possible to the 48 residents who live there, their families and the staff.

The convent is one of three homes the Sisters have in Scotland - the others in Glasgow and Greenock are both unaffected by the announcement.

Sister Kathleen Taylor, Mother Provincial of the Little Sisters of the Poor, said that both social services and the Care Inspectorate will be informed of the order’s intentions so as to enable them to work closely together at every

“We want to find an organisation with a similar ethos to ours, who will respect your life here and provide you with the highest quality of care”

SISTER KATHLEEN TAYLOR