Five people rescued by helicopter on Scots island after group failed to return to bothy

Statistics from Social Security Scotland show that almost £20million was paid to nearly 400,000 people on low incomes across the country during February and March to help with higher energy bills. In the first year of the new Winter Heating Payment, a total of £19.7 million was paid to 394,135 households, with the vast majority of eligible Scots receiving their payments of £50 automatically.

The cost of living crisis continues to squeeze millions of household budgets this year, despite the lower energy price cap and inflation finally starting to drop. The UK Government’s cost of living payments have already provided lump sums of £301 for families on means-tested benefits and £150 for those claiming disability benefits.

The constant worry that their little girl will catch a cold and fall desperately ill doesn’t fill the waking hours of parents Lyn and Ed French when they are busy making memories together at children’s hospice Robin House.

The Triple Lock will determine the level of uprating to be applied to the State Pension for the 2024/25 financial year and pays the highest between September’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate, earnings growth, or 2.5 per cent. The frontrunner for the uprating is currently earnings growth, which came in at 7.8 per cent (excluding employee bonuses) for the period between April and June.

A mum has been slammed for leaving her child alone in a restaurant, leaving a waitress worried.

New statistics published by Social Security Scotland show that more than 84,000 people received Carer’s Allowance Supplement payments of £270.50 in June, worth a total of £22.8 million. The devolved payment is made twice each year to people in Scotland in receipt of Carer’s Allowance on specific dates in April and October.

New statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show there are now 12.6 million people across Great Britain receiving State Pension payments of up to £203.85 each week. Basic and New State Pensions are contributory benefits which provide crucial financial support to those who have paid at least 10 years’ worth of National Insurance contributions.

The most 'Instagrammable' destinations in the UK have been revealed - and five Scottish beauty spots are included. The results come from a survey that asked 2,000 adults to name the most social media-worthy locations around the nation.

An "amazing" and "great value for money" spa in Perthshire is currently available to stay in for a bargain price.

Two bikers have died and a third is in critical condition following a horror crash in Fife. Emergency services rushed to the A914 between Balmullo and Dairsie on Monday, August 14, to reports of a serious road traffic accident involving two motorbikes.

Four people have been charged following a high-speed chase on the M8 in West Lothian. Officers were called to reports of a stolen car on the M8 Junction 4A near Heartlands at around 6.50pm on Sunday evening, August 13.

A much-loved pensioner suffered a "horrific" death from an operable brain tumour after doctors failed to properly monitor her scan results, her husband has said.

Five people have been rescued from a fire at flats in Falkirk.

An 'emaciated' dog has been rescued after a member of the public confronted a man about the state of the animal on a Scots street.

It’s that time of year when more people start paying attention to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate, as the September figure is used as part of the Triple Lock measurement to determine the annual State Pension uprating for the following financial year. The June CPI was 7.9 per cent, down from 8.7 per cent in May, and its lowest rate since March 2022.

Holly Jones With ruminating obscurity, the ambitious Negu Film Collective – which includes filmmakers Ekain Albite, Mikel Ibarguren, Nicolau Mallofré and Adrià Roca – works to explore the contradictions of a Basque conflict that weighs heavy on all that lived through it. Stakes, set in slow succession, portray reverberations of the era’s traumas.

It has been almost a year since Adult Disability Payment (ADP) rolled out nationwide across Scotland and replaced new claims for Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Social Security Scotland administers the new devolved payment, which is worth between £26.90 and £172.75 each week, for successful claimants.

Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick are over.

A man is in hospital seriously injured after a horror crash and an assault in a Scots town.

Three more people have been charged in connection with a serious assault in north Manchester which left a woman critically injured.