Disabled people at high risk in Dumfries and Galloway due to cost of living crisis

A Scottish coffee roaster is worried for the future of his business, as the crippling cost of living crisis is set to jack up prices of the well loved drink.

Porridge Radio have announced that a set number of discounted tickets will be set aside for each of their shows, designed to help fans struggling to afford them in the current economic climate.The initiative comes after it was reported that the annual cost of energy bills in the UK is forecast to hit £4,347, following Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss’ recent U-turn on government support.Posting on the band’s Instagram account, they wrote: “In response to the current cost of living crisis, we’ve decided to set aside 30 tickets per show for our headline UK shows to be discounted for people who have not been able to buy tickets due to financial worries. We hope this makes the shows more accessible to those who want to come.“These tickets will be sold purely on an honour system – we will trust that those who do not need the discount will not use up the limited supply.

Dumfries and Galloway Council will play its part in combatting tax dodgers after agreeing to sign up to a national campaign.

Earlier this month, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed that by September 30 it had processed almost six million £150 disability cost of living payments to eligible claimants across the UK, worth around £900 million in total.

Millions of people currently receiving Pension Credit across the UK are due to receive extra financial help during the autumn period.

Belle & Sebastian has shared his thoughts on the Conservative Party  during a recent appearance as a panellist on BBC’s Question Time.The Scottish musician was joined on the panel by a range of politicians from his home country, including Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross.During the show – which was filmed in Musselburgh and aired yesterday (October 13) in the UK – the panel discussed a range of topics, from Scottish Independence to the country’s view on UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. When asked for his opinion of the UK’s Conservative Party – of which Truss is the leader – Murdoch said: “the Conservative [Party] don’t care about people.”“What an insult that we should be expected to eat the crumbs off a rich person's table…we should be at that table”Musician @nee_massey discusses public opinion of the Tories #bbcqtWatch now on @BBCiplayer: https://t.co/MAupYw9noo pic.twitter.com/oR8lTaOJJi— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) October 13, 2022“I feel like we’re living on a completely different planet,” he said, “they’re tone-deaf to the needs of ordinary people.” Later, Murdoch referenced Truss’ trickle-down economic plan, which she announced as part of a “mini-Budget” introduced last month.

Millions of Income Support claimants across the UK should expect to receive extra financial support from the government this autumn.

Lizzo has opened up about the use of an ableist slur in one of her songs, explaining that she’d never heard it used in an offensive context before.The singer was criticised after her song ‘Grrrls’ – featured on her latest album ‘Special’ – included a slang abbreviation of ‘spastic’, a word use primarily to describe cerebral palsy, with derogatory connotations going at least as far back as the 1980s in the UK.The original line reads: “Hold my bag, bitch, hold my bag / Do you see this shit? I’ma sp*z.” Lizzo later changed the line in question to “Do you see this shit? / Hold me back,” following online criticism, and apologised to fans.Speaking to Vanity Fair in a new interview, the singer said: “I’d never heard it used as a slur against disabled people, never ever. The music I make is in the business of feeling good and being authentic to me.

A climate emergency group run by Dumfries and Galloway Council needs to up its game, a councillor has claimed. Annandale North Councillor Gail Macgregor has not been impressed by the work done by a cross-party collective of councillors on reducing the region’s carbon footprint.

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced an extra £421 million will be available for local authorities across the UK to help households with energy bills, food costs and other daily essentials during the cost of living crisis. Scotland will receive an additional £41 million as part of the Barnett Consequentials, for a total of £123 million from this support fund so far.

The Scottish Government has launched a new website providing information on the wide range of advice, information and financial support available to people across the country. Similar to the UK Government’s dedicated pages on GOV.UK, the site has been developed as a ‘one stop shop’ designed to help households struggling with the rising costs of daily living and soaring energy bills to find out if they are eligible for additional support.

Stacey Solomon has admitted that she may struggle to pay her energy bills this winter amid the cost of living crisis.

night before, Carlson took the position that the attack had been orchestrated by the Biden administration. In a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, an unnamed Senior Military Official told Fox News’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin that the U.S.