A prototype house which will be used in Scotland's first village for the homeless was unveiled today. The village will include 10 homes for people who are currently living in mostly unsupported temporary accommodation, shelters, and B&Bs. Social Bite co-founder Josh Littlejohn with Prototype house for Scotland’s first Social Bite ...
With so much terror and misery on our streets these past few months, we can be excused for wondering how any light or positivity can come out of these dark times. But every tragedy has a human story that sometimes profoundly touches people beyond the devastated families and friends of ...
One of Britain's “most exquisite” butterflies which was almost extinct a century ago has seen a 138% rise in population. Experts say the warm weather and increased use of nettles as a food plant have resulted in the surge in numbers of the Comma over the last 40 years. The ...
More than one million households with children suffering under ‘cruel’ Government pay pinch Shocking new figures from GMB, the union for public sector workers, show almost 2.5 million children are being hit by the public sector pay cap. Analysis of the latest ONS figures show an estimated 2.4 million children ...
Damning new research has revealed public sector workers are turning to payday loans to make ends meet. The study has been revealed a day after Theresa May narrowly defeated a bid to end the pay freeze in the House of Commons. Labour’s amendment was defeated by 14 votes, with 309 ...
Within Death in the Afternoon – a paean to Bullfighting, published in 1932 - Author, Journalist and keen drinker Ernest Hemingway wrote: “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest ...
A woman's powerful account of her personal experience of the NHS has been shared by thousands in the run up to the general election. The Facebook post has been shared almost 40 thousand times. As election day approaches, take a read and see if this will change the way ...
It was a question we posed in November last year that was to set the tone for the unravelling of the Conservative's election campaign. How, after two terms of crippling austerity cuts, dismantling of the welfare state and a referendum that was used as bait to secure a second term did ...
Of all the ways to be roused on a Sunday morning I can think of plenty worse than the dulcet tones of leather on willow emanating from the local cricket field, chirping birds outside the window or the rustle of thick Sunday newspapers next to your bed. Mixed with the homely ...