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Universal Credit: health element changes and above-inflation rise news

Liz Kendall, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, leaves after attending the weekly Cabinet meeting of ministers at 10 Downing Street on March 18, 2025 (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Government announces major changes to PIP and Universal Credit

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PIP changes: new eligibility and assessment points system explained

Crowds soak up the St Patrick's Day atmosphere at Malones in Edinburgh

So much we can learn from Ireland - Angus Robertson

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PIP reforms - what changes to disability benefits could mean for you

Activists from the American-based anti-abortion group 40 Days For Life outside the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow (Picture: John Devlin)

Get angry and get active - Alys Mumford

Business stories in 2 minutes: Trump tariffs threat to steel industry

An electricity pylon is pictured beyond newly built residential properties at a construction site for new houses and homes near Aylesbury in July 2023 (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Energy bill discounts for some - but price hikes for millions more

Rachel Reeves, poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual budget to Parliament in October 2024 (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Spring Statement 2025 - when it is and what Chancellor could announce

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1000s will benefit from payment rise in April 2025 offering relief

Thousands of vapes seized daily

One in four adults reckon they’ve been sold a counterfeit vape

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Homes will get £2,500 bill discounts under new Government plans

Diane Park who runs Wave of Nostalgia in Haworth says sustainability is at the heart of her business

The Willow Review issues new recommendations for UK small businesses

Household Support Fund: what we know about future of lifeline payments

Keir Starmer greets Volodymyr Zelensky in Downing Street on Saturday in stark contrast to the disgraceful treatment of the Ukrainian president by Donald Trump in Washington

Britain is leading at a key moment in history - Ian Murray

(left to right) Anthony Jones, chief commercial officer at HadFab, Douglas Alexander MP, Bobby Waddell, operations manager at HadFab, and Jonathan Clemens

MP backs East Lothian steel fabricator’s local push for a clean energy future
Douglas Alexander, the MP for Lothian East, recently visited Tranent based HadFab, one of the UK’s leading structural engineering and metal fabrication companies in delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions, to discuss key issues affecting the industry and opportunities for growth.
Stephen Harrison

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay delivers his latest keynote speech at the Royal Scots Club in Edinburgh earlier this month (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Left-wing big state not working - Miles Briggs

Young journalists questioned the Prime Minister at the heart of Westminster

Young journalists quiz Prime Minister Keir Starmer

A Scottish Government decision in 2022 to remove the need to show a local connection to the council area where you make a homelessness application has resulted in people from all over the UK making applications in popular cities like Edinburgh, says Iain Whyte (Picture: Artur Bogacki/Getty Images)

Reintroduce local connection - Iain Whyte

1.5 million UK savers are currently using a LISA

City with UK's savviest first-time home buyers revealed

Gregor Poynton MP speaking in the House of Commons

Gregor Poynton MP backs Labour Government's action to support women in the workp...

Kirsteen Sullivan, Labour and Co-operative MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow

Kirsteen Sullivan MP champions collaborative local power plans

An artist's impression of the new Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion

New eye pavilion thanks to Lib Dem budget win - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Edinburgh residents can help by writing to their MP - Animal News Agency

'Allo 'Allo! star Vicki Michelle urges Edinburgh residents to write to their MP ...

Stuart Preston

Majority of businesses struggling to secure additional funding required to suppo...

The Labour Government has approved multiple solar energy farms, says Ian Murray (Picture: Getty Images)

Clean power will secure energy independence - Ian Murray

More than 700 properties in the Midlothian area use the RTS system.

Call to protect households ahead of energy meter switch-off
Acting Climate Action Minister Alasdair Allan has called on the UK Government to direct “urgent and proportionate action” to protect tens of thousands of Scottish households ahead of the planned switch-off of the Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) later this year.
Mark Dowie

Aluminium cans for recycling

Poll: Public demands recycling revolution across Scotland

The initiative aims to support UK mission to reduce energy bills, create green jobs, and advance climate action

Social housing in UK to have cleaner energy come new initiative

Displaced Palestinians return to Rafah, Gaza Strip yesterday, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Moment of hope in Gaza - Angus Robertson

Scottish Secretary Ian Murray

Labour losing the plot - Sue Webber

The Exascale computer will be pivotal in ensuring the UK AI, data and tech sector keeps pace with other global sector hot spots

Edinburgh should house AI supercomputer - Angus Robertson

The UK Government has revealed plans to combat both price gouging for resale tickets to events across the country and a look into the practice of "dynamic pricing."

Price of resale tickets will soon be capped - what you need to know

Edinburgh residents can help by writing to their MP - Animal News Agency

Stars including Ricky Gervais and Dame Judi Dench need help of Edinburgh residen...

Time-to-fill, by city

Slowest hiring cities: Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh take over a month to fill...

Ian Murray meets Grace Fu, Singapore minister of trade relations

The year of getting Scotland back on track - Ian Murray

The Department for Education has published attainment results for all of the city's schools.

We need stability, confidence and consensus - Jane Meagher

First Minister John Swinney looks on as Finance Minister Shona Robison presents the budget at the Scottish Parliament on December 4, 2024. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Problems aplenty for Capital’s food and drink sector - Sue Webber

First Minister John Swinney looks on as Finance Secretary Shona Robison presents the Scottish Government's Budget. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

SNP’s Scottish Budget is a lost opportunity - Ian Murray

David Smith, director of Screen Scotlan, Screen Scotland executive director Isabel Davis, Scottish culture secretary Angus Robertson, Emma Picken, chief executive of the charity Be United, which worked on the recent Amazon series Anansi Boys, and film producer Bob Last, co-founder of FirstStage Studios in Leith.

Major funding boost is great news for the arts in Scotland - Angus Robertson

Investment in housing is critical, says Simita Kumar

Mitigating impact of Westminster choices - Simita Kumar

Junk food adverts are set to be banned from October 2025 (Photo: beats_ - stock.adobe.com)

Junk food advert ban - which foods will be included?

A petition calling a general election has been signed by over 1 million people. Pictured: Keir Starmer. Photo: STEFAN ROUSSEAU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

How online petitions work and what happens at a million signatures

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay

Standing up for real wealth generators - Sue Webber

Respondents expect on average to get into £343 worth of debt this Christmas

Parents may be forced to sell their kids' stuff to cope this Christmas

Midlothian MP Kirsty McNeill has welcomed the release of funds to former miners.

Nearly 1000 former miners get pension boost

Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch (front 2nd R) is joined by MPs Mel Stride, Chris Philp, Esther McVey, Claire Coutinho, Victoria Atkins, Andrew Griffith, and Priti Patel as they take part in the farmers rally on 19 November 2024 in London (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The real reasons farmers are protesting over Inheritance Tax changes

Folic acid will be added to non-wholemeal flour.

Extra vitamin to be added to white bread to help protect babies

Edinburgh placed tenth overall, with tenants paying an average 40.3% of their salary on rent.

Edinburgh named among ‘least affordable’ cities for renters

Disorder in Niddrie on November 5 this year

Communities broken after 17 years of SNP rule - Sue Webber

The price of carrots may rise due to NI payments, says Christine Grahame

Follow the carrot calculator over coming months - Christine Grahame

Post Office bosses are set to close 115 locations in a new bid to restructure the company

Post Office set to close 115 branches and axe jobs amid major cuts

Civil defense workers extinguish a fire caused by a giant diesel tank which ignited, burning more than a dozen cars in a parking lot and damaging a building nearby, in a residential Beirut neighborhood on Saturday. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Important we keep focus on Middle East - Angus Robertson

VAT will be added to the fees of private schools such as Fettes in Edinburgh

Labour have no answers on private school VAT - Miles Briggs

The winter fuel payment cut is hitting millions of pensioners

Union threatens legal action over Labour's Winter Fuel Payment cuts