HAPPY, smiling and together - this was the Gillans as a family of five for their last Christmas just over a year ago.
As the threat of covid began to hit home and the pandemic reached our shores, many families like the Gillans had been going about their routine as normal until the extent of the threat to life the virus posed saw the nation plunged into lockdown.
One year on since the first Scottish death to covid and first national lockdown, the family should have been looking forward to celebrating twins Ebony and Hope’s 21st birthday next month.