First Minister Nicola Sturgeon recently announced that the Scottish Child Payment will be doubled to £20 per week per child from April 2022.
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The Scottish Government has launched a consultation for a new heating benefit that would give around 400,000 low-income households a guaranteed £50 payment every winter towards their energy bills.
The Low Income Winter Heating Assistance will be introduced from winter 2022 to replace the current UK Government Cold Weather Payment scheme.
The current benefit, delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) triggers a £25 payment only when temperatures are recorded or forecast at below
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon recently announced that the Scottish Child Payment will be doubled to £20 per week per child from April 2022.
The jury in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial began deliberations on Monday after hearing closing arguments over whether the British socialite set up teenage girls to have sexual encounters with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
It has been another challenging year for everyone due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and with household bills now rising for more than 14 million homes across Scotland and the rest of the UK as a result of the energy price hike, financial pressures are set to be exacerbated even further over the coming months.
Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentWhen Amazon announced in August 2021 that its billion-dollar “Lord of the Rings” TV series would shift production to England, fans were stunned. Though J.R.R.
More than two dozen energy suppliers have gone bust since the start of September, putting thousands of people out of work and leaving millions of homes in limbo as they wait for a new supplier.
Scottish singer KT Tunstall has just announced she will be headlining this years huge Hogmanay celebrations at Times Square in New York City.
Scots singer KT Tunstall has made the huge announcement she is headlining the Hogmanay bash at Times Square in New York City.
Scotland has become the first UK nation to give a booster or third dose of Covid-19 vaccine to more than half of its entire adult population.
New World game director Scot Lane has discussed the MMO’s rocky post-launch and shared more on how development has been impacted by exploits.In an interview with PCGamesN, Lane was asked how disruptive recent exploits have been to Amazon Game Studios‘ plans for server balancing.Lane admitted that “exploits have been very disruptive and we’ve had to put a large amount of our team’s focus into correcting them”.Lane adds that although “the percentage of players and companies using exploits is
Winter has arrived early in Scotland with many regions experiencing gale force winds, power cuts, plummeting temperatures and even some snowfall over the last few days.
Faith No More have cancelled their scheduled tours in UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.The group put the cancellation down to what they describe as “current challenges”.In a statement shared on Facebook, the group wrote: “An update from our camp at FNM. Unfortunately due to our current challenges, we aren’t going to be ready to perform for the upcoming Australian, New Zealand and UK/European tours.”They continued: “To play at anything less than 100% after so long is not an option for us.
Carole Horst The American movie business started in New Jersey.Between 1893 and 1896 in West Orange, N.J., Thomas Edison was developing the early motion picture tech, inventing new ways to capture images in motion, and the result is that “you have the only fully operational motion picture studio facility in the world,” says Richard Koszarski, professor emeritus of English and cinema studies at Rutgers University, and expert in the early motion picture industry in New York and New Jersey.His
A winter lockdown cannot be ruled out amid fears over the Omicron variant, a leading Covid expert has said.
More than one third of Scots believe their spiralling energy bills are unaffordable, according to a new poll.
Sam Heughan and his Outlander co-star Graham McTavish released their second book Clandlands: The Almanac last month, and already it has made the New York Times Best Seller list.
#MenInKilts Season 2! pic.twitter.com/UHSz4kJHljSeason 1 of the show saw them exploring their native Scotland and taking part in various events. There was also a heavy food component to the show, with the actors quite happily sampling cuisine wherever they went.
Renée Zellweger appears to be fitting in well with her boyfriend Ant Anstead’s family, as she was spotted with the British TV personality and his son Hudson at a football game on Thanksgiving. In an adorable snap shared to Ant’s Instagram, the Oscar winner, 52, was seen holding the two-year-old tyke in her lap while they watched the New Orleans Saints take on the Buffalo Bills.
British Airways has launched its Black Friday deals a day early with the biggest discount, and most likely to sell out quickly, being 20,000 return flights to New York, Boston and Philadelphia priced just £299.