People on any of these seven benefits may be due £100 monthly payment for children under 16

Six months and counting! Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke are inching closer to their wedding day — but their guest list is still being decided.

Members of Falkirk Council 's executive have criticised the Scottish Government for the sudden delay to its Deposit Return Scheme. The council was been forced to extend its contract for 'black box' kerbside recycling for another year after the Scottish Government's sudden announcement that its bottle return scheme would be delayed until March 2024.

Chronic or persistent pain is defined by one that carries on for longer than 12 weeks despite medication or treatment. Most people get back to normal after pain following an injury or operation, but sometimes the pain carries on for longer or comes on without any history of an injury or operation.

The best way to plan your household budget for the coming months is to be aware of any notable financial events taking place, whether that's adding them to a calendar - online or paper-based - marking them in a diary or marking a pile of sticky notes and pinning them on the fridge. Knowing what to expect and when, especially as the summer holidays draw nearer, can help prevent any unwelcome financial surprises.

As crowning moments go for a beauty brand, it doesn’t get much bigger than a royal warrant.This prestigious endorsement is only handed out to an elite circle of brands, after supplying royal households for a minimum of five years in the past seven.They’re awarded across a host of industries, from home and household goods to food and drink, but of course we’re particularly intrigued by the beauty brands deemed good enough to find a space in a palace cabinet. Previously, royal warrants could only be awarded by Queen Elizabeth II or the Duke of Edinburgh, as well as King Charles III in his former capacity as the Prince of Wales.There’s no word yet on who will be dishing out the honours in the new era, but for now the late Queen’s brands get to carry the royal arms for another two years.

A man has been jailed after he arranged to commit child sex abuse online.

Fashion’s Super Bowl! Patrick Mahomes traded in his NFL uniform for haute couture with wife Brittany Mahomes (née Matthews) at the 2023 Met Gala.

Independent Age recently delivered an overdue invoice for over £1.1 billion to the UK Government, to highlight the massive amount of Pension Credit that is still going unclaimed by hundreds of thousands of pensioners across the country. The charity has calculated that the amount of money that has been set aside for older people on a low income is large enough to pay the annual average energy bills for 454,000 UK households.

A woman who waited five months for cancer treatment to begin is now facing a waiting game to see how long she will survive.

and —are here to help you navigate 2023. For each of the 12 signs, we pull a unique tarot card to predict the month ahead for every member of the zodiac. Be sure to check out both your sun and for the most accurate reading. This year has already started off with many important transits, and May is full of surprises—including the Pluto retrograde in Aquarius that starts on the 1st.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Celebrating the 10 th anniversary of her hit “Brave,” Sara Bareilles has announced the “Brave Gowns Collection,” a series of garments for children’s hospitals in partnership with the California-based company of the same name, started by Summer Germann, who lost her own younger brother to cancer.  The collection includes a line of colorful hospital gowns for children intended to provide an alternative to traditional patient wardrobe. Dupporters can gift these gowns to children in hospitals across the United States or contribute a donation of any amount. Head here for more information. Bareilles said, “Over the years, I have seen healthcare communities adopt ‘Brave’ as an anthem — weaving my song into all kinds of stories of patients and their families as they face different challenges and continue to meet each moment with resilience and grace. I am so inspired by the very difficult work being done on the front lines by our health care facilitators and hospital staff and especially by the young patients in hospitals all over the country showing up every single day, even when it’s hard, with bravery and strength. This collection is meant to remind them all HOW BIG THEIR BRAVE IS and how much we love them!”

A controversial new recycling scheme has been delayed.

Metacritic has confirmed it will be implementing “stricter moderation” going forward, after Horizon Forbidden West‘s Burning Shores downloadable content was review bombed due to an LGBTQ+ relationship with the game’s protagonist.Although Burning Shores holds an aggregated Metascore of 82 among critics, its user-submitted reviews score currently sits at 3.9 out of 10.While some of the negative reviews criticise the game’s story and brief length, others have scored the review negatively purely because of a dialogue option that results in a kiss between the game’s protagonist, Aloy, and her companion Seyka.The inclusion of an LGBTQ+ relationship has resulted in a number of bigoted reviews flooding the Metacritic page, with users taking aim at the game’s perceived “agendas” and “woke propaganda”.In a statement sent to Eurogamer, Metacritic and its parent company, Fandom, confirmed that it would be taking steps to crack down on the “abusive” reviews.“Fandom is a place of belonging for all fans and we take online trust and safety very seriously across all our sites including Metacritic,” wrote the site. “Metacritic is aware of the abusive and disrespectful reviews of Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores and we have a moderation system in place to track violations of our terms of use.”“Our team reviews each and every report of abuse (including but not limited to racist, sexist, homophobic, insults to other users, etc) and if violations occur, the reviews are removed.

A health charity has accused the new First Minister of acting like the “spokesperson” for the whisky industry.

Prince Harry’s battle with the British tabloids will continue this week with the preliminary hearing into his action against The Sun newspaper set to take place in London Tuesday.

Stevie May’s acrobatics against 10-man Hibs were not enough to pull St Johnstone further away from relegation playoff worries.

up that rocket explosion, joking after playing a clip that it was “the most expensive penis overcompensation in history.”“The starship was in the air for about four minutes. Until multiple engines went out, and it blew up,” Kimmel continued. “Which, for some reason elicited a big round of applause from the company.”Kimmel mocked the unusual euphemism SpaceX used to describe the explosion — “rapid unscheduled disassembly” — joking that it was “the same thing that happened to Twitter when Elon Musk took over.”“I have to hand it to them.

The latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that in August last year there were 956,448 people receiving weekly payments for Carer’s Allowance, including 83,196 living in Scotland.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced that it has written to over one million people on Tax Credits advising them about the upcoming £301 cost of living payment, due to start arriving in bank accounts between May 2 and 9, 2023. Letters are expected to arrive between April 19 and 24 and will confirm whether a claimant is due the first part of the £900 means-tested cost of living support.

A ‘chaotic nursery has been slammed for failing to provide a ‘safe and nurturing environment’ for the children in its care. Squirrels Children’s Day Nursery, in Middleton, was rated ‘inadequate’ following a visit from Ofsted inspectors - who also hit it with an enforcement notice due to a number of safeguarding and welfare concerns.