Allan Minto is 69 and lives with his son Hamish at 3 Doolittle Crescent. He is diabetic and has become a wheelchair user since his right foot had to be amputated due to gangrene resulring from neuropathy that occured after his wife died and when his son wasaway at Drama college. His eyesight began to fail at the same time. Allan enjoys sitting in his garden with their cat Smudge