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A cold and windy Polar maritime airmass, with its origins over northern Canada, will spread southwards across the UK in the next 24 hours, bringing a real taste of winter to the whole of the UK from tomorrow (Thursday). We love our WindyTV. Wrap up e...

Fair work will be at the heart of the SNP’s drive to help more young people into work, as figures show that youth employment in Scotland is higher than in the rest of the UK.   Youth unemployment is at its lowest level since 2001 and is co...

Daniel Blake, Ken Loach's gritty drama about the British welfare system, will compete with glittery Hollywood musical La La Land for best film, alongside American coming-of-age story Moonlight, sci-fi movie Arrival and melancholy...

SNP MP Corri Wilson has called on the UK Government to clarify whether a mobility car scheme for people with disabilities is to be extended after a Department for Work and Pensions Minister announced the move during a Westminster debate but has since...

From 10am tomorrow there is a jobs fair at New Walk jobcentre, please feel free to call in and speak to employers and support organisations.

If you want to know what the future holds we have included this presentation by the Office of Budget Responsibility.  You can download the whole report below which makes for some interesting reading.  Shares in Next dived 9% as the retailer...

Please find this booklet below on the Citizens Basic Income. According to Wikipedia: A basic income (also called unconditional basic income, Citizen's Income, basic income guarantee, universal basic income or u...

The High Pay Centre, a think tank that studies corporate pay has designated today as Fat Cat Wednesday. Why Wednesday? Because, according to the group, “after just two and a half days [in 2017], Britain’s top bosses will have made mo...

CNN Money's Heather Long and Poppy Harlow report that Ford is cancelling a Mexico plant and creating 700 American jobs as a "vote of confidence" in Donald Trump. But Columbia journalism professor Bill Grueskin isn't impressed, tweeting,&nbs...

Mhairi Black vows to be “thorn in the side of UK government” over benefit sanctions Mhairi Black has today (3rd January) vowed to be “a thorn in the side” of the UK Government over the “horrific and unfair” benefit...