For three years now, the Birth Information and Tracing Act, which gave adopted people access rights to key birth information, has been law.

Ann Traynor , 61, from East Lothian, said her mother Winifred Bolland found the ordeal "frightening and degrading". Ms Bolland, a former teacher, was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh last ...

Ann Traynor, 61, from East Lothian, said her mother Winifred Bolland found the ordeal “frightening and degrading”. Ms Bolland, a former teacher, was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ...