Harry Potter author JK Rowling has spoken of the pain of losing her mother to multiple sclerosis (MS) and her anger at what she sees is a lack of care for sufferers in Scotland. The creator of Harry Potter tells how when she heard of her mother's death on New Year's Eve 1990, it was "the worst New Year ever, the worst day of my life so far".
Writing in The Sunday Herald, the patron of the MS Society Scotland said the pain of her mother's death was added to by what she claimed was the NHS's failure to provide care.
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1990 - lost her mother with MS.