New heating benefit due to start next year will replace Winter Fuel Payment for one million older people

The Scottish Government recently announced a new devolved disability payment designed to provide additional financial support for people of State Pension age will not include a mobility component. However, it has also confirmed the new benefit will not include any face-to-face assessments as part of the application process.

Rose Ayling-Ellis is leading a TV adaptation of Will Dean‘s first Tuva Moodyson novel about a deaf journalist in development with Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures.

Jordan has been crowned the winner of the 2023 Big Brother civilian series, as voted for by the public. He scooped the £100,000 jackpot, with Scots star Olivia coming second, as they left the house for the final time to a chorus of cheers from the live crowd.

New funding will allow Lancashire’s most famous haunted house to unlock new rooms to the public for the first time in seven centuries.

Christmas is edging closer with many starting preparations, from food to presents. However, one thing that is difficult to prepare for is the weather.

“Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival” — out Nov. 28 — detailed how Harry and William, the heir to the throne, feuded as their late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, was taking her final breaths.Palace insiders tore into Scobie’s claims that William “ignored” his brother’s desperate calls as he raced to be at the Queen’s bedside in Balmoral last September.“It appears no matter what happens behind closed doors, even in a time of such pain and grief, that where the royal family are concerned it will one day emerge,” a royal insider told the Mirror.“Nothing is off limits with William and Kate appearing to be this author’s number one target.

Royal insiders are said to be 'furious' at the string of claims that Prince William ignored his brother's texts as the late Queen lay dying in Balmoral last year. Author Omid Scobie shared revelations about Princes ­William and Harry’s feud during a time of personal grief for the Royal Family in his new book Endgame which is due out on November 28. According to The Mirror, the book claims: "Harry sent a text message to his brother asking how he and Kate planned to get to ­Scotland and whether they could travel together.

A thug who torched two cars at a firefighter 's home was jailed for 15 months on Monday. The vehicles were targeted shortly before Scott Kennedy was due to give evidence in a court case.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have reportedly fuelled a new war with the royals as Prince William and Kate Middleton are reportedly at "breaking point" over the Sussexes' "hypocrisy".

North Ayrshire Council is revamping all of its playparks with improvements, repairs and modernisation already carried out at 45 sites - with an additional 30 playparks currently scheduled for improvement work.

Lorraine Kelly was one of the first journalists on the scene of the Lockerbie disaster in 1988 and, after returning to the town 35-years later, the TV host unlocked undiagnosed PTSD.

UPDATE: Donald Trump continued to attack the judge and prosecutors in his civil fraud trial, but the proceedings later in the morning did get into some of the nitty gritty details of his property valuations.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have an incredibly close knit circle of friends who have been in their lives ever since their school days and time at university. Many of the most trusted members of their group have been honoured by the couple when they were asked to become a godparent to either Prince George, Princess Charlotte or Prince Louis. One person who makes this list is Emilia Jardine-Paterson.

Kate Middleton and Prince William kept their romance a secret at university with a number of “elaborate decoys”, a Royal expert claimed. The current Prince and Princess of Wales met at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 2001 - white Kate was studying art history and William was working towards a degree in geography.The special moment has been recreated in Netflix ’s Royal drama The Crown in scenes expected to be shown in season six of the show when it airs in the coming months.

King Charles couldn’t help but gush over his son Prince William’s sweet proposal to Kate Middleton during his and wife Queen Camilla’s five-day trip to Kenya.In a speech Thursday, the King conveyed just how special Kenya is to the royal family, revealing details about the Prince and Princess of Wales’s engagement.“It was here, in sight of Mount Kenya, that my son, the Prince of Wales, proposed to his wife, now my beloved daughter-in-law,” Charles said at a state banquet.William famously popped the all-important question to Kate on Oct. 20, 2010.However unlike most proposals, this one was not a surprise for the couple as planning for it had been in the works for some time, according to reports.The pair had been dating for eight years prior to the engagement, and first met during their respective stints at the University of St.

Local authority chiefs have been planning council tax rises of 10 per cent - piling pressure on Humza Yousaf to say how his government will pay for a freeze.

They're known for a shared love of sport as well as a bit of healthy competition, so the Prince and Princess of Wales wasted no time in getting stuck into a mountain biking challenge on a trip to Scotland. Prince William and Kate Middleton, who are known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay when visiting Scotland, have been spending the day in Burghead, Moray and Inverness and looked thrilled at the chance to get competitive with each other again.

EXCLUSIVE: Film Bridge International is launching sales at AFM on horror Xelter, whose producers include The De Laurentiis Company (Hannibal) and Head Gear Films (Talk To Me).

A member of staff was shot as he tried to diffuse trouble at a sell-out Halloween party, the Manchester Evening News can reveal. The victim, in his 20s, was blasted in the leg outside the venue.

A Scots mum who discovered her "loving" husband had multiple other wives and 13 children is set to feature in a new documentary. Mary Turner Thomson first met American man William Allen Jordan online in 2000 before getting married and having two kids together.