Cost of living scam warning as criminals offer fake energy refunds and tax rebates during crisis

The managing director of under-fire train operator Avanti West Coast has stepped down from his role, it was confirmed tonight. Phil Whittingham will leave his position on September 15 to 'pursue other executive leadership opportunities'.

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Manchester United centre-back Will Fish is set to join Scottish club Hibernian on loan.

New changes in Scotland are coming into force this month as the year. As the start of autumn begins, there are six dates to be aware of this month.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a new phone scam warning concerning National Insurance (NI) numbers. It has been over a year since the last spate of scams involving NI numbers swept across the country, resulting in tens of thousands of incidents being reported to Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, by June 2021.

Housing campaigners have branded figures showing almost 200 children are living in temporary accommodation in Stirling as “disgraceful”.

Nearly half of Tory voters want to renationalise energy firms to help the UK cope with the cost of living crisis, a new poll has found.

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Martin Lewis has called the new energy price cap "devastating" and has warned that "lives will be lost", as rising costs will put vulnerable people at risk.

The boss of Ofgem has urged the next prime minister to do more to help the country deal with the impact of October's energy price cap rise.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has backed a new multi-million pound fund to help over 750 West Lothian families during the cost of living crisis - despite facing criticism for scrapping free school meals for all P6 and P7 pupils this summer.

A Perth charity - forced to cancel a fundraising ball over fears supporters couldn’t afford the £60 tickets - has turned its focus to helping local people through the cost-of-living crisis.

A sex plot blackmailer who was caught when he left his DNA on a handwritten ransom note has dodged a prison sentence.

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.

A man who has been left in agony and bleeding from his backside after an operation to treat a burst appendix says he has been left in a "living nightmare" as medics struggle to determine the cause of his symptoms.

Anas Sarwar will today call for an emergency rent freeze to be implemented as soon as MSPs return from their summer break next month.

Make no mistake, the cost of living crisis is a national emergency on the scale of the pandemic. People are facing the worst fall in living standards since the war. Millions of people are already struggling and it’s going to get worse as summer turns to winter.

Labour is set to call for the energy price cap to be frozen at its current level of £1,971 as UK households struggle to pay their bills.

Scots are being warned over a tiny fish that hides in the sand close to the water's edge on beaches around the UK, and has a venomous sting.