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Cyclist returns

A round-the-world charity cyclist who was badly injured when he was knocked off his bike in America is finally home.

Josh Quigley, 27, said he was lucky to be alive after the 70mph accident in Texas just before Christmas.

He has been receiving treatment in America since then but was delighted to return to his home in Deans this week.

West Lothian Courier Dialysis crisis

The recruitment crisis facing the health service in the Highlands was laid bare this week after it emerged that long-suffering kidney dialysis patients in Skye and Lochalsh will face a further wait to access lifeline treatment closer to home.

NHS Highland has been unable to appoint the staff it needs to deliver the procedure from the hospital in Broadford.

West Highland Free Press

Wrong bin cost

Environmental vandals are costing Fife Council more than £2 million a year by dumping waste into the wrong bin.

Food and garden waste wrongly put into blue bins accounted for a staggering 12,000 tonnes in 2017 – 27% of Fife’s total landfill that year.

Councillor Ross Vettraino said those responsible were “environmental vandals”.

Dunfermline Press Cardinal acquitted

A French appeals court has acquitted a cardinal of covering up the sexual abuse of minors in his flock.

The appeals court in Lyon gave no explanation on Thursday for its ruling.

Cardinal Philippe Barbarin had been convicted in March and given a six-month suspended sentence for failing to report a predator priest to police.

France24 Russian PM’s wealth

Newly-appointed Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s financial declarations list him as a “user” of real estate in the Moscow area whose total value is around £37 million.

Mishustin is not the official owner, but all of it is registered to his relatives.

These are the claims made in an investigation by opposition politician Alexey Navalny.

Meduza