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Scottish councils are due to get direct funding from the UK Treasury in a Brexit move by Rishi Sunak that will turn Wednesday’s Budget into a financial weapon against the SNP’s independence campaign.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe California Film Commission announced Monday that it has awarded $15 million in tax credits to two TV shows, inducing them to move production to California.The funds come from the increase to the state’s film and TV tax credit program authorized by the Legislature and signed by Gov.

Work has started to extend the footpath in a Falkirk park after a massive £105,352 funding boost.

Molten, an enterprise cloud startup aiming to deliver a comprehensive set of insights for clients across several parts of the evolving streaming marketplace, has raised $7 million in seed funding.

self-absorbed press statement announcing the company, Trump complained that “we live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced,” and said the company will be “a rival to the liberal media consortium.”The company will be created by a proposed merger between “Trump Media & Technology Group” and a company called Digital World Acquisition Corp., which is listed on NASDAQ, the statement says.

Boris Johnson has been urged to “rethink” the decision not to support a massive carbon capture project in Scotland by the man leading efforts to help the transition from oil and gas to green industries.

The loss of funding for a massive carbon capture storage scheme in Scotland has been described as a "betrayal" and a “stab in the back” by an SNP MP.

A massive carbon capture scheme in the North East of Scotland has lost out in its bid for UK government funding in the first round.

A Scots mum left heartbroken after her four-year-old died of a brain tumour is campaigning for more funding after medics failed to diagnose him and ignored persistent headaches.

Liza Foreman Films can take years to finance, but for the filmmaking team behind the documentary feature “Bull Run,” the production was fully financed within 24 hours of launching the idea to a group of private investors.Then the money landed in their crypto currency wallet. Filming proper begins on Monday.“We did the presentation on the Thursday.

The deadline is looming for the Drake YolanDa Award, a funding scheme for emerging artists headed up by entrepreneur/philanthropist James JP Drake and saxophonist/broadcaster YolanDa Brown.The scheme seeks to provide funding to independent artists to help them with upcoming projects that will develop their careers, which might include recording new music or videos, touring activity, a branding or marketing project, or purchasing new equipment.

his criticisms of AT&T this week -- his HBO show's own parent company -- after the recent report that the far-right One America News Network is primarily funded by the telecom giant. On Wednesday, Reuters reporters that OANN — which routinely broadcasts conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the 2020 election to its conservative audience — was actually an idea from AT&T executives, who, according to testimony reviewed by Reuters, asked now-CEO Robert Herring Sr.

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration announced on Tuesday $2.21 billion in new funding under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program for cities, counties, states and local community-based organizations providing care for low-income people with HIV/AIDS.

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Prince Andrew’s growing legal bills are being funded by his mother, Queen Elizabeth.

Casa Ruby has been left scrambling to raise money for shelter beds for LGBTQ homeless youth after it received a letter from the District of Columbia’s Department of Human Services notifying the organization that its grant of $839,460 to provide low-barrier housing will not be renewed as of Oct. 1.Ruby Corado, Casa Ruby’s founder and executive director, told Metro Weekly she was notified on Friday, Sept.

Three regions in Poland have voted to cancel resolutions declaring themselves to be “LGBT-free zones.”With local authorities seeing pushes for gay rights as an affront to traditional Catholic family values, nearly 100 regions in Poland passed anti-LGBTQ resolutions in 2019, which the EU said violated discrimination laws.The European Commission later threatened to pull up to $150 million in funding for five local governments if they didn’t cancel the resolutions.In response, Podkarpackie,

report from The Information. The subscription sports news site is looking for funding as it explores a sale at a possible valuation of $750 million.

dot.la. “We aren’t quite ready to share any details about it yet other than it’s in pre-alpha and getting a seat in our daily playtests is always a race,” he added.In February 2020, Elodie had previously annnounced $5 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and 1Up Ventures, PocketGamer.biz reported.

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Perth and Kinross achieve their potential has had its funding extended. It follows an independent review of the Strategic Youth Work Partnership across Perth and Kinross by youth and community development consultancy Catch the Light.

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The Hollywood Reporter the money will be used “to fund its growth initiatives including expanding Vice’s direct-to-consumer offerings, content licensing opportunities, commercial and experiential expansion, as well as M&A.” A representative did not immediately return TheWrap’s request for comment or further information.Beyond the new number, much of the reporting from earlier this week still stands, though THR noted co-founder Shane Smith will stay on as executive chairman.

iOS - Android Dugald Craig from NCL told Lanarkshire Live : “The experiences offered will provide students with the opportunity to learn and practise their skills in a novel environment whilst encountering another culture which may seem familiar, because of the shared language of English, but with some interesting differences.

iOS - Android The additional money for upgrading was welcomed by Neil Gray, the Airdrie & Shotts MSP – who asked residents for their opinions on local play facilities three years ago when MP for the same constituency.He received 137 replies, with more than three quarters of respondents calling for better play equipment to be installed.Mr Gray said: “The response was overwhelmingly negative when I ran a survey across Airdrie & Shotts to see what people thought of the standard of their local play

Fox Corp. has come in as the lead investor in a $100 million Series A fundraising round for blockchain platform provider Eluvio.

play parks across Scotland – with more promised in future years. The Scottish Government – which pledged to improve parks during this year’s Holyrood election campaign – says the money is the first round of £60 million worth of funding.

according to The Hollywood Reporter.“Mine was a small part, of course. I probably get a lot more credit than I deserve,” she said of her $1 million donation toward the cause.

Dolly Parton is opening up about contributing to production of the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19.

Dolly Parton saw it all coming.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorReddit announced that it is raising up to $700 million in new funding, giving the community-discussion site a post-money valuation of more than $10 billion, the company said.Reddit, founded in 2005, has raised $410 million in funding to date. The new Series F funding, led by previous investor Fidelity Management and Research Co., includes participation from previous investors.

PBS on Tuesday introduced several new funding initiatives, revealed updated producing partner criteria and announced that it has hired an SVP Diversity Equity and Inclusion.

Highland Perthshire arts centre will be reopening its doors to the public again after it received vital funding. Birnam Arts’ return comes after it was one of 53 projects in total sharing in over £1.2 million of National Lottery funding in the latest round of Creative Scotland’s Open Fund awards.

Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterPitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) received £485,112 through round two of Creative Scotland’s £12 million Performing Arts Venue Relief fund.These funds are directed to ensure the theatre’s solvency and support through the economic fallout caused by the pandemic.Between September and December, PFT will deliver seven key projects which will support the theatre’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Plan, to

Billboard reports that the US Small Business Administration (SBA) received a total of 15,429 applicants for the federal Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, which looks to soften the blows faced by independent venues after over a year of closures forced by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Over $16billion was allocated to the program altogether, with almost half of that going towards venues specialising in live music events.

Queer Screen’s Completion Fund awarded $15,000 across three different screen projects last Friday and the timing couldn’t have been better. The additional round of the Completion Fund was announced on the Closing Night of the Mardi Gras Film Festival in March, in light of the devastating effects of COVID-19 on the independent filmmaking industry.The seventh round of the Completion Fund attracted seven applicants.