Bin strikes: Union chief hits out at SNP government for slashing council funding for 12 years

This Morning chef Clodagh McKenna has shared her close link to the Royal family as she paid tribute to The Queen. The Irish cookbook author and TV presenter, 47, took to Instagram to share a photo with her 229,000 followers as she announced she was taking a short break from social media out of respect. Clodagh posted a black and white snap of her late father in law Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon – known as Lord Porchester – with Elizabeth II.

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Dumfries and Galloway is set to be hit by bin collectors strikes after unions rejected a new pay offer.

Councillors fear a surge in fly-tipping reports following days of strikes which have stalled bin collections and shuttered recycling centres.

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A family from Edinburgh have been left 'flabbergasted' after they were forced to cancel their first holiday in years after their energy bills rose from £199 a month in January to a whopping £756 per month.

Talks aimed at ending a council worker strike that has seen rubbish pile up in Scottish streets are continuing amid warnings over the impact on public health. Bosses at Public Health Scotland have told local authorities the “decontamination of public areas where bins have overflowed may be required”.

A trade union leader has savaged the Scottish Government over its role in the dispute over council workers' pay.

K.J. Yossman Paramount+’s chief content officer and Paramount TV boss for scripted originals has revealed the streamer is working on a documentary about Louis C.K., the disgraced comedian who stepped back from public life after he was caught up in the #MeToo movement. According to Nevins it will involve the New York Times reporters who broke the story that Louis C.K. had been accused of sexual misconduct by five women. “Louis CK is a slightly different situation [to Harvey Weinstein] and a great, great comedian who has come back in his own way,” said Nevins during a talk at the Edinburgh TV Festival in Scotland on Thursday morning. “I don’t think the social change that #MetToo has brought about is resolved at all,” Nevins said. “There’s a bit of backlash against #MeToo, who has to go away and who’s allowed to come back.”

John Swinney has said "intense dialogue" needs to take place between unions and Cosla to end the current bin strikes across Scotland.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney is to hold an urgent meeting today with council bosses in a bid to stop national bin strikes by helping reach a pay deal.

Council workers in West Dunbartonshire are considering a better pay rise offer from the Scottish Government - with West Dunbartonshire Council saying they ‘desperately’ need funding from the Scottish Government to manage the proposed improved offer.

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claims on his YouTube channel that the monarch favors a strawberry preserve made from fruits picked in her Balmoral Castle grounds in Scotland.“The queen was served jam pennies in the nursery as a little girl. She’s had them for afternoon tea ever since,” he says in a recently surfaced video published in July last year.

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A wheelchair-bound Scots mum says she has been left suicidal after being forced to ‘bum shuffle’ around just two rooms in her home due to inadequate council housing. Danielle MacArthur woke up to discover both her legs were suddenly paralysed in October 2019 before later being diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder.

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