Young people on PIP, ADP or DLA to receive one-off £235 winter payment this year

Maybole is gearing up to welcome a ‘new and improved’ supermarket at the end of the week.

The Scottish Government has announced that third sector organisations are to be paid a fee for helping provide supporting information for people applying for Child Disability Payment or Adult Disability Payment. The £33.50 fee will be paid when they are asked by Social Security Scotland to complete a supporting information request form.

This week marks Carers Week and Social Security Scotland is encouraging young people aged 16, 17 or 18, to check if they are eligible for the Young Carer Grant, an annual payment worth £359.65. The devolved benefit is for young people who spend an average of 16 hours each week caring for someone with a health condition who is in receipt of a disability benefit.

Scotland's Home of The Year search has ventured to the south of Scotland as judges Anna Campbell Jones, Banjo Beale, and Michael Angus secured the final home.

Angry residents of a West Lothian village who say they are cut off due to a lack of buses are calling on the council to step in and help.

A Scots mum has accused her local council of ignoring her pleas after they refused to move her family from a house infested with bed bugs. Samantha, 29, from Edinburgh, has said that the insects are making her and her sons aged 10, eight and six, life a living hell.

More people in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will now start moving to the new Adult Disability Payment, according to Social Security Scotland. The devolved benefit provides the same financial support as the DWP for people living in Scotland between 16 and State Pension age, who are disabled, have a long-term health condition or have a terminal illness.

The Scottish Government has been urged to help a mum and her son to find lifesaving treatment for Lyme disease.

The death of two teenagers who tragically took their own lives at a Scots young offenders institution are set to be examined by a sheriff after a five year wait. Katie Allan was just 21 when she died at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, near Falkirk, in June 2018 while serving a sentence for a driving offence.

The search for Scotland's Home of The Year continued this week as the judging panel examined three stunning properties in the central region.

The family of a young woman who died after medics failed to spot a silent condition that kills thousands of Scots every year have spoken out two decades after her death.

Campaigning lawyer Aamer Anwar has given shocking details of a racist attack on him by police officers and said he fears a bid to stamp out prejudice will face barriers within the force.

Two stunning local homes are in the running for the title of Scotland’s Home of the Year.

The chief constable of Scotland's police force has accepted his public admission that the service is "institutionally racist and discriminatory" could have come sooner.

A team of budding entrepreneurs from Annan Academy are heading to Hampden Park for the Young Enterprise Scotland company programme finals.

A mum has died following a disturbance in the street in Edinburgh on Thursday night.

Post Malone surprised a Glasgow singer by making a donation towards his house deposit.Gregor Hunter Coleman was performing his regular gig at Glasgow’s Wunderbar when the rapper walked in, not long after finishing a show at the city’s Ovo Hydro on Saturday (May 13).As he finished his set, Coleman was invited over to meet Malone, who told him he’d “smashed it”.Coleman told BBC Scotland: “He said, ‘Do you want a drink?’ I was like, ‘Listen, I’m saving for a house so I’m not drinking just now. Which was daft, my mates were, like, ‘Why did you turn down a drink from Post Malone’?”Malone then told Coleman he respected his decision and invited him to sing at his gig’s official afterparty.“He started saying, ‘How much will you charge?’ I said ‘Nothing, it’s Post Malone, this is the chance of a lifetime’,” Coleman continued.

Post Malone was in Glasgow this weekend performing at the OVO Hydro on Saturday night.

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.

Perth golfer Danny Young produced four consistent rounds on the Challenge Tour last week.