Young people on PIP and DLA to receive £214 payment to help with energy bills this winter

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced an extra £421 million will be available for local authorities across the UK to help households with energy bills, food costs and other daily essentials during the cost of living crisis. Scotland will receive an additional £41 million as part of the Barnett Consequentials, for a total of £123 million from this support fund so far.

Two people have been hospitalised after a car ploughed into trees in North Ayrshire. Emergency services were alerted to the smash having taken place shortly after 2pm today on Maree Place, Castlepark, Irvine.

A lucky Scots community are celebrating after winning a combined jackpot of £3.2 million on the People's Postcode Lottery. More than 100 neighbours in Seaton, Aberdeen, shared the combined prize pot.

A jealous Scots beautician launched a frenzied stiletto heel attack on an innocent young student while on a cocktail of cocaine and alcohol.

Mummy, is that you? Princess Kate and Prince William’s three children are all too familiar with their parents’ engagement photos — and they had an unexpected reaction to the throwback snaps when they saw them for the first time.

The countdown to winter is underway and with days already beginning to cool, Scots are concerned about impending energy bills.

Police have arrested and charged 13 people in connection with drug offences after cocaine, heroin and street valium tablets worth £14,000 were seized. Officers from the Lanarkshire Proactive Crime Team targeted more than a dozen properties in Hamilton on Monday, September 26.

King Charles III and his wife Camilla, Queen Consort, sent a message to the people of Atlantic Canada amid the devastation caused by Storm Fiona.

A Scots pervert caught collecting child abuse images over eight years confessed to cops about his sick “sexual desire” toward young girls.

“Normal People” heartthrob Paul Mescal has quickly parlayed his breakout popularity on TV into a burgeoning film career. After appearing in last year’s “The Lost Daughter” from first-time director Maggie Gyllenhall, he’s now the star of another feature debut from a female filmmaker on the rise.

Scots comedian Janey Godley has listed common ovarian cancer symptoms in the hopes of saving the lives of others.

Police have launched an ‘unexplained death’ probe after the body of a young man was found at a property in Fife. Emergency services were called to the scene on Wemyss Street in Rosyth at around 9.30am on Friday, September 23.

Cops are hunting a masked man driving a car who approached young girls in two separate incidents in Grangemouth last week.

River City actor Jordan Young, who plays Alex Murdoch in the Scottish soap, says it has 'changed his life' as the cast and crew prepare to celebrate 20 years since the first episode aired.

After a week filled with tributes and events after Her Majesty’s death, many Royal fans are wondering: Who attended Queen Elizabeth’s funeral? 

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued updated guidance on State Pension, Tax Credits and benefit payments scheduled to be made in the two days immediately after the bank holiday for the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were among the royal family members waiting at Buckingham Palace to receive Queen Elizabeth II‘s coffin on Tuesday, September 13.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were among the royal family members waiting at Buckingham Palace to receive Queen Elizabeth II‘s coffin on Tuesday, September 13.

Former Pop Idol star Darius Campbell Danesh died from “inhalation of chloroethane”, a US medical examiner's office has confirmed.