Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tag: poverty

Calls for £10 an hour minimum wage from Scottish Greens

ALL those working or in training should be paid £10 an hour - according to the Scottish Greens. This week they will lead a Holyrood...

Potter author ‘gets’ the poor

JK ROWLING has hit out a politicians for not understanding levels of poverty. The Harry Potter author, who is worth £560 million, said that even...

Pensioners consider using crime to get ‘an easy life’

INCREASING numbers of elderly Scots being charged with criminal offences has been blamed on high poverty levels. The pensioner ‘crime wave’ was revealed in figures...

Irvine Welsh hosts special screening for charity

By Amanda MacMillan BEST-selling author Irvine Welsh is hosting a special screening of his famous first novel to help raise funds for a Scottish charity...

Shackled doctors demand release of imprisoned Indian GP

By Scott Shepherd A GROUP of campaigners chained themselves together yesterday to campaign for the release of a top doctor jailed for speaking out about...

Angel nurses to the rescue for second time 337

By Alexander Lawrie A FIVE-STRONG team of Scots medical TV stars are off to a tiny Carribbean island to help save some of the world's...

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