A missing schoolboy has sparked a huge police investigation in Renfrewshire.
10.02.2022 - 14:37 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A year after leaving the EU, the real costs of Brexit are becoming clear to many West Lothian businesses.
SNP group leader, Councillor Janet Campbell, has told how Brexit costs are adding to every facet of daily life, from medicines to door locks.
In her work as a community nurse, Councillor Campbell said she had witnessed real difficulties in obtaining vital wound dressing and medications.
There was also a heightened anxiety about the supply of insulin, she told a meeting of the council’s Partnership and Resources Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel (PDSP).
Brexit had also started to hit many of West Lothian’s small businesses in both their import and export trade and with extra costs.
And difficulties could loom with even fundamentals such as electronic door systems and lift parts - many of which are manufactured in Germany .
Giving a horizon scan report on the national, Scottish and West Lothian economies to the PDSP, the head of finance Donald Forrest detailed effects which had hit since Brexit.
The UK economy is currently around the same size as it was in early 2015, after Covid-19 and possibly Brexit wiped out five years of economic growth in little more than a year.
His report said: “Official UK figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in July showed the UK recorded a record fall in trade with the EU in January 2021, as the economy struggled with post-Brexit rules and the Covid-19 pandemic; they were still lower in July 2021 compared with pre-Brexit figures.”
And Mr Forrest answered a question from Councillor Campbell about the impacts on small West Lothian businesses due to disruption, agreeing that there is still uncertainty.
British imports from and exports to the EU have been hardest hit by new border
A missing schoolboy has sparked a huge police investigation in Renfrewshire.
Concerns are growing for a man who has been missing from his home for a week.
A local councillor has expressed disappointment claiming a “lack of community engagement” over major roadworks taking place on two of Perthshire ’s motorways.
A Dumfries mum is raising awareness of domestic abuse a year after her daughter died in hospital days after attempting to take her own life.
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It was a dress seen around the world — and now it’s officially a part of fashion history.
Meghan Markle wore for her and Prince Harry's bombshell sit-down with Oprah Winfrey was selected as the museum's Dress of the Year 2021. A version of the garment — a silk, belted v-neck dress by Giorgio Armani with flower embroidery — will be on display in the museum's exhibition, A History of Fashion in 100 Objects. Markle's March 2021 look was selected for the museum's esteemed title by magazine’s Ibrahim Kamara and Gareth Wrighton.
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Meghan Markle wore for that wave-making interview with Oprah Winfrey has gone down as the dress of 2021 by the Fashion Museum in Bath. A version of the Giorgio Armani dress will go on display as the final item in its headline exhibition, A History Of Fashion In 100 Objects. For the interview, the duchess wore a black dress featuring white lotus flower embroidery, which the museum says had a ‘symbolic association with rebirth, self-regeneration and spiritual enlightenment, and its ability to flourish despite seemingly challenging conditions’.
Prince Harry is said to be “unlikely” to return to the UK next month for Prince Philip’s memorial over continued safety concerns. Harry, 37, has recently raised concerns about his safety during trips to the UK and even threatened legal action to acquire security for his family after his request to buy police protection was denied.
according to walesonline.com.“It’s fast and furious and total bedlam at times, but it’s so funny,” said Cowan, 56, who works with her husband Alasdair on the project. “Sometimes I am crying with laughter.”“Alasdair cuts up around [22 pounds] worth of cheese into cubes, but he has to do different sizes for small dogs and big dogs,” she said.
A vulnerable elderly woman has gone missing from her Dundee home as police and family grow concerned for her whereabouts.
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Lorraine Kelly took to social media to raise awareness of female genital mutilation in the UK as well as Hibo Wardere's activism.