New Scottish Child Payment for low-income families to open for applications in November - and start paying out in February

Richard Leonard has doubled down on his vow to stay as Labour leader into the Scottish elections despite a volley of calls from colleagues to step down. The beleaguered Scottish Labour leader began what is expected to be a week of fightback interviews this week with an early morning appearance on Sky News.

Richard Leonard to stand down, piling pressure on the embattled party leader.Peers Helen Liddell, ex Defence Secretary George Robertson and Meta Ramsay have urged Leonard to step down.They were joined by fellow Labour peer George Foulkes, but the former MP and MSP is already on the record calling for Leonard to resign.Leonard, leader for nearly three years, is fighting for his political life over terrible election results and dismal opinion polls.In recent days, four of his own MSPs - James

The Record recently published CCTV evidence of a masked man attacking two BMWs parked on Campbell’s drive in Strathaven, where he serves as a Tory elected member.

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Aberdeen council leader claimed Glasgow escaped a harsher lockdown because it is a "Yes city". Tory Douglas Lumsden suggested it all came down to independence and central belt bias in an angry backlash on social media after Nicola Sturgeon imposed restrictions on the city.

@LabourRichard resigns are the ones who told us that Better Together was a huge success story for Labour and that Jim Murphy was the salvation of the Party - they have been repeatedly wrong and are wrong again - it’s treachery with a snarl.” Leonard is under pressure to quit following a succession of flops at the ballot box.His performances at Holyrood have also alarmed colleagues who believe Labour is headed for a heavy defeat at the Holyrood election.Marra, a List MSP for the north east, told

industry with no young people coming through to whom he can pass on his expertise.Great-grandad Rob Beaton started his career aged 14 as a textile mill apprentice – and uses a loom dating from 1928.Over the decades, he has worked at five mills in and around Galashiels and Selkirk and at one time he used to make 25 miles of fabric a week.But Rob says mechanisation has meant older looms like the ones he uses, some of which are nearly 100 years old, have fallen out of use and the knowledge about

Scottish Labour leader.James Kelly, who was his party’s justice spokesperson, resigned on Tuesday night after saying Leonard had not taken the party forward.In a brutal resignation letter, Kelly said: “I have no confidence in your ability to shape the party’s message, strategy and organisation.

Pregnant Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt have tried their hand at tie-dying baby clothes.The loved-up pair, who met on the popular ITV dating show Love Island, took to their individual Instagram feeds to share photos of their experience with their combined 2.3million followers. Model Jamie, 30, posted a series of snaps from their short break away in Scotland as they enjoyed the chilly weather in the fields with a little pup called Crumpet.

coronavirus cases has been identified in a Scottish Highlands town. NHS Highland’s Health Protection Team confirmed five news cases of Covid-19 today and have said contract tracing is underway in the Grantown area.

beautiful holiday cottages in the Scottish Borders is on the hunt for a couple who will move there to live and work - and get paid £35,000. Lucky applicants of the one-of-a-kind job opportunity will get to stay in a two-bedroom cottage with bills paid for and can even bring their pet.

Jay-Z and Pharrell‘s new music video.Michelle and Robert Sullivan are the subjects of the star rappers’ new visual for recent collaborative single ‘Entrepeneur’.The new video aims to spotlight Black entrepreneurs, creatives and business owners around the world.

Balmoral Castle doing everything from hunting to fishing.Due to the pandemic, their 2020 trip to Aberdeenshire was thrown into doubt due to the Queen and Prince Phillip social distancing at Windsor Castle.But the royal family are not letting the outbreak get in the way of family tradition this year - but their summer holiday may look a little different.The royals will spend the next few months at their 50,000-acre Scottish estate and their relatives and in-laws will come and stay at different

lock down restrictions, the country's hospitality industry is beginning to welcome back visitors. According to the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), Scotland's whisky distilleries welcomed a record number of visitors in 2018, surpassing two million for the first time, following a year-on-year increase of 6.1%.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).The latest figures show that around 5.5 million people are now claiming benefits across the UK.And with a total of 779,500 workers placed on furlough across Scotland, more job losses are expected as the UK Government’s Job Retention Scheme comes to an end in October.While Scottish Government ministers have been calling for the scheme to be extended, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed it will close on October 31.

devolution.The Abolish the Scottish Parliament party launched itself on social media earlier this month and aims to do what it says on the tin - scrap Holyrood and return Scotland to direct rule from London.But the leader of the anti-devolution movement insists he's not being undemocratic with his demands, despite 74% of Scots backing the creation of a parliament at a referendum in 1997.John Mortimer told the Record the reality of devolution in 2020 was very different to the idea Scottish voters

new benefit to support 16 to 24-year-olds into work if they have been unemployed for six months has opened for applications. Job Start Payment is a one-off £250 payment to help with the costs of starting a new job.