UNISON Scotland members at four Scottish universities are set to strike for five days in September and October, seriously disrupting freshers' week and the first weeks of teaching at a number of institutions. UNISON members at Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian, Napier and Robert Gordon universities will take strike action on September 19th, 20th, 21st and October 3rd and 4th.
Scottish Government Help in Brief to help with cost of living. Rent and fuel fares will be frozen from today (6 September) Ms Sturgeon announced several reforms.
First Minister's statement to the Scottish Parliament on the Programme for Government, 6 September 2022. Presiding Officer This Programme for Government is published in the context of the most severe cost crisis in our lifetimes.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will set out a raft of actions today (Tuesday 6 September 2022) in a Programme for Government designed to help people through the cost emergency. The package will include an increase in Scottish Child Payment to £25 per eligible child per week from 14 November, with the ground-breaking anti-poverty benefit also opening to applications for all eligible under-16s from that date.
At the meeting of the Highland Licensing Committee today (6 September 2022), Members considered the views expressed to the public consultation exercise and agreed a final Short Term Let Policy Statement and a final set of additional conditions, in light of the responses received. Members agreed: To note and consider the views expressed to the public consultation exercise which was carried out between 21 June 2022 and 5 August 2022.
UNISON, Scotland's largest local government union, has called on the First Minister not to put care at the bottom of her list as she issued a statement today (Tuesday) outlining measures to help with the cost-of-living crisis. The union is calling on the Scottish Government to protect the most vulnerable by withdrawing the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill as it is not ‘fit-for-purpose' and keeps profit in care.
Upgrading your home is both an exciting and nerve-racking process. You have decided what areas need improving, have spent time planning your refurbishments, and you might even have a specific image in your head of what you want the end result to look like.
Gas for delivery tomorrow has surged by 140% to 360p per therm, after Russia's decision to shut the Nord Stream 1 pipeline intensified the energy crisis facing Europe. That more than wipes out Friday's dramatic falls, when the markets were hopeful that Nord Stream 1 would resume operations on Saturday morning, as expected.
More than two million people will be offered appointments. Elderly care home residents are among the first to receive COVID-19 and flu vaccines as the winter vaccine programme gets underway.
The UK economy shrank in August, in a sign that Britain's economy could be falling into recession as energy prices spiral. The composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which covers UK service firms and factories, has fallen into contraction territory, due to a "severe and accelerated drop in UK manufacturing output" and a slowdown in the services sector.
Act now on NHS pay to avoid winter of discontent, warns UNISON. UNISON Scotland says Health Secretary Humza Yousaf can no longer ‘look the other way on pay' as NHS workers gear up for strike ballot.
Liz Truss beat Rishi Sunak to become the new leader of the Conservative Party. Tomorrow she will go to Balmoral to see the Queen to be invited to form a new government when she will become the new prime minister..
Wetherspoons in Wick will close on 11 September 2022 The popular pub will reopen under new ownership about a week later. The pub opened at Wick's former post office in May 2003 and is named after the Watten-born inventor of the electric clock Alexander Bain who lived from 1810 to 1877.
Following last month's announcement of interim community council elections for 15 Highland communities. The Highland Council is today, 1 September 2022, able to confirm that 11 have been formed uncontested.
Patients and healthcare staff will no longer face second-hand smoke at hospital doors as a nationwide ban comes into effect tomorrow (Monday 5 September). The new legislation means anyone found lighting up within fifteen metres of a hospital building could face a fixed penalty notice of £50 or a fine of up to £1,000 if the case goes to court.
British troops have taken part in Exercise Vigilant Knife alongside Swedish and Finnish Armed Forces. British troops have taken part in Exercise Vigilant Knife alongside Swedish and Finnish Armed Forces, further strengthening our interoperability in anticipation of Sweden and Finland's accession to NATO.
Published advice updated to include an additional bivalent vaccine now approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Following on from the previous advice on which vaccines should be used in this year's autumn booster programme, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has updated its published advice to include an additional bivalent vaccine now approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Strikes that had been due to close hundreds of schools and leave bins unemptied across Scotland next week have been called off. A new offer will mean a 10% pay rise for the lowest paid staff instead of special cost of living payments this year and next.
Fuelled by rising energy prices, CPI inflation in the year to July hit double-digits (10.1%), its highest level since 1982. In response to rising inflation, on 3 August the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted by 8-1 to increase Bank Rate from 1.25% to 1.75%.
The latest Stats from the Office for National Statistics show a decline in the numbers for Covid. The percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) continued to decrease in England, Wales and Scotland in the latest week (ending 23 August 2022).
