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Heartbroken Scots family hit with £800 bill for care home where gran died from Covid-19 after just three weeks
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Grieving Scots family given £800 bill after grandmother died from Covid while living at care home for less than a month
Updated: 15:48, 9 May 2021
A GRIEVING Scots family have been handed an £800 bill after a grandmother died from Covid while living at a care home for less than a month.
Margaret Laidlaw, 65, passed away at Drummond Grange in Lasswade, Midlothian, where she had stayed for just three weeks.
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The grandmother-of-six, who had vascular dementia, had been moved there from a council-run residence.
A report on the death of Ms Laidlaw, who used to be a hairdresser, has been sent to the Crown Office as part of a review into Covid deaths at care homes.