Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a benefit for people aged over 16 and under State Pension age with a disability, long-term illness or mental health condition who need help completing daily tasks inside their home or getting around.
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Flo have won this year’s BRITs Rising Star Award, making them the first group to bag it since it was launched as the Critics Choice prize back in 2008. They saw off solo artists Cat Burns and Nia Archives to take the trophy.“From growing up watching the BRITs, to finding each other and forming Flo, releasing our first body of work in 2022 and winning a BRIT award in the same year”, say the trio.
“We are so shocked and grateful. We are the first group to win the BRITs Rising Star! We’ve just made history and couldn’t have done it without our wonderful fans and supportive families.
It’s truly a dream come true. We feel so empowered creating the music we love and we hope others feel that too”.Signed to Universal’s Island Records, Flo released their debut single, ‘Cardboard Box’, in March this year.
The BRITs Rising Star is chosen by a panel of journalists, heads of music at radio and TV stations, songwriters, producers and live bookers. Eligible artists must not have had a top 20 album or more than one top 20 single in the UK before 31 Oct.The main BRIT Awards ceremony will take place on 11 Feb.
.Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a benefit for people aged over 16 and under State Pension age with a disability, long-term illness or mental health condition who need help completing daily tasks inside their home or getting around.
Spice Girls singer Melanie Chisholm, known as Mel C, has pulled out of a New Year’s Eve gig in Poland over “issues” against communities she supports. The “Never Be The Same Again” singer confirmed the news on social media.
At least 17 fluffy tern chicks defied the odds to thrive at a Scots nature reserve despite bird flu devastating other sites this year. Scotland’s wildlife agency NatureScot said the survival of the plucky little birds at Forvie National Nature Reserve in Aberdeenshire was “little short of a miracle”.
Bathgate comedian Fern Brady is in the running for an entertainment award, going up against the likes of Sarah Pascoe and Emily Atack.
Brendan Fraser will receive the Spotlight Award, Actor at the Palm Springs Film Festival’s awards ceremony, taking place in person at the Palm Springs Convention Center on January 5. The award comes in recognition of the actor’s performance in the critically acclaimed A24 drama The Whale from filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
John Swinney has hit back at the suggestion Scotland will become a "less attractive" place to live and work following tax rises in the Budget.
The initial line-up for next year’s BRITs Week has been announced, with Beabadoobee, Bob Vylan, Cavetown, Easy Life, Frank Turner, Kojey Radical, Metronomy, Rina Sawayama, Sea Girls, The Hunna, The Snuts and Years & Years all set to play one-off intimate shows around the UK in the run-up to this year’s BRIT Awards in February.As ever, tickets for the shows will be given out via prize draws, with entry fees used to raise money for the War Child charity. A limited number of tickets will also go on sale tomorrow, but only to those who sign up here today.“Announcing this brilliant line up, with more names joining the class of BRITs Week 2023 early in the new year, is just joyous”, says Maggie Crowe, Director of Events & Charities as BRITs organiser the BPI.
UK broadcasters and streamers have “not been understanding or tried to help with costs” since the recession started biting, according to nearly half of UK producer respondents to a Pact survey, with indies reporting costs rocketing by 10% to 20%.
The weather station at Drummond Castle near Crieff in Perthshire has been collecting readings for the Met Office, the national meteorological service for the UK, for 50 years.
Basic and New State Pension payments will increase next year by 10.1% for some 12.5 million older people across the UK, including 992,052 living in Scotland. The honouring of the Triple Lock rule was confirmed last month during Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement and means that older people are set for an income boost from April, 2023.
An avian flu outbreak has been confirmed at a historic Scots castle after a number of geese have died.
FLO have won the BRITs Rising Star 2023 award, becoming the first girlgroup to scoop the honour.
A dad who thought he had 'man flu' then devastatingly lost all of his limbs and part of his face to Strep A. Alex Lewis, 42, says he is 'lucky to be here' after fighting the illness and is begging parents to be vigilant of symptoms in children after recent deaths.
Akin to domestic, it was a rather sleepy weekend at the international box office. Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever again won the frame, with $20.2M from 50 overseas markets for an offshore total of $339.3M and a global tally of $733M through Sunday.
Tributes are pouring in for an award-winning search and rescue dog that has sadly passed away. Thirteen-year-old springer spaniel Diesel, who works for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, has spent time rescuing people after earthquakes in New Zealand and Nepal.