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The SNP Government rollout of free school meals for poorer children is in “disarray” over a £14m funding black hole row.

Labour has turned up the heat on the SNP over its opposition to a windfall tax on energy giant profits.

Health officials have launched an investigation to determine why cases of tuberculosis - an infection commonly associated with the industrial revolution and Victorian times - have increased in England. There was an 11 per cent rise in TB cases in England in 2023 compared with 2022, according to provisional data.

Netflix‘s new Alexander: The Making Of A God series and branded it a “fiction of extremely poor quality” and “full of historical inaccuracies.”The show, which focuses on Alexander the Great, landed on the streaming service last week. It charts the rise of the Macedonian general from the moment of his father’s assassination to the conquering of his own empire.Greek Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni made a statement in Parliament after she was asked to officially condemn the series, reports The Greek Herald.While she said there are inaccuracies in the series, she also emphasised that the Ministry of Culture does not censor art or proceed with actions that result in its prosecution.“The elements of Alexander’s personality are not brought out in the Netflix series, which does not serve the historical truth.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Focus Features has bought international rights to Brady Corbet‘s “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn, Variety has learned. Corbet, who sits on the Berlinale jury, penned the film with Mona Fastvold (“The World to Come”), a Swedish filmmaker who is also his wife. The film charts 30 years in the lives of visionary architect László Toth and his wife, Erzsébet, who flee post-war Europe in 1947 and witness the birth of modern America.

More than three million low-income households struggled to pay their energy bills for draughty homes in 2023, according to official figures. In England, a home is considered in fuel poverty if it has a poor energy efficiency rating of band D or below and the household's disposable income after housing and fuel costs falls below the poverty line.

Authorities of the Canary Islands are concerned about poor living standards for locals, despite being a major tourist destination.

Award-winning law firm, Slater Heelis, is issuing a word of warning to wives following the release of Scottish Widow’s ‘Women & Retirement Report 2023’, with some of the findings reflecting what it is seeing in practice.

“Hatred” of Margaret Thatcher “still burns bright” in Scottish mining communities 40 years on, an MP has said.

In a sad turn of events, the community-based project Use 'Ya' Loaf in Wigan has announced its closure.

Naman Ramachandran “Emergency,” written, directed and produced by Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut, has set a release date. The film focuses on one of the most controversial periods of post-Independence Indian history from 1975 to 1977 when then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a nationwide state of emergency. During that time civil liberties and press freedom were curtailed and elections were canceled.

In the shadow of modern Manchester's new skyline, hardship is deepening. Across some areas of Greater Manchester, the number of children living in poverty is perilously close to one in two.

Gregg Goldstein Few directors have had greater success exposing the harsh realities of American life than Debra Granik. But after a drug abuse-themed first feature, “Down to the Bone,” the Jennifer Lawrence-led poverty saga “Winter’s Bone” and a documentary (“Stray Dog”) and drama (“Leave No Trace”) about haunted military vets, her new multipart doc, “Conbody VS Everybody” might be her most upbeat take on a tough topic to date.

It's one of the biggest issues facing Greater Manchester and the UK. But in Parliament, it was debated in a room of empty chairs.

New research commissioned by the charity Independent Age indicates that one in four older people (24%) had to rely on savings last winter to help cover daily living costs, including higher heating bills and soaring supermarket prices. The older people’s financial hardship charity said this figure increased to one in three (33%) for those with a household income under £20,000.

Thousands of parents face putting their children in care because of a poverty epidemic sweeping Scotland, Gordon Brown has warned.

The residents of the poorest town in the UK have revealed that children walk the streets barefoot, and those who abuse drugs hang around on the streets.

chronicled her struggles as a single mother scrubbing toilets for minimal pay in “Maid,” her bestselling memoir from 2019 that was adapted into a hit Netflix series starring Margaret Qualley. At the end of that book, Land took her 3-year-old daughter, Emilia, and moved away from an abusive partner in Washington State to Missoula, Mont., in pursuit of a college degree and a better life.She was in for a real education. Land’s latest, “Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education” (Atria) focuses on her senior year at the University of Montana.

author Cash Carraway, is set in England and follows struggling and impoverished single mother Costello Jones (Cooper), her daughter Iris (Fleur Tashjian) and Costello’s best friend Selby (Jack Farthing, “Poldark”) — a wealthy gay man who is Costello’s pseudo “soul mate” and Iris’ father-figure. “It’s an unconventional love story, really,” Cooper, 36, told The Post. “[Costello and Selby] are from opposite ends of the spectrum. He’s very affluent, she’s poor, and they’ve both been neglected in different ways and haven’t got the skills to have a normal healthy relationship, so it gets toxic.

sights set on the controversial Bitcoin market.Gilmore, 38, was raised by his single mother in Atlanta with his two siblings.He remembers nights when the power went out, his family lived off cereal and sandwiches and visited their grandparents to be fed as his mom Sandra — who passed away in 2019 — struggled to keep up with the bills. “Don’t get me wrong, my mom was a saint — but times were tough,” Gilmore told Jam Press. “One thing that stands out for me is how my mum used a portable stove to heat water on whenever the power would go out, and we’d then pour it into the bathtub.

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Kath and Danny Brink always had a vision to help children in need and the destitute, but never knew quite how. For as long as they could remember, the couple of Morning Star, Cape Town, wanted to have a family.