37 minutes ago Edinburgh at 'sharp end' in Scotland's homelessness crisis as Cyrenians launch winter campaign

The Scotsman has joined forces with Cyrenians to raise money for people experiencing homelessness

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38 minutes ago Scotsman campaign: Here's how you can help victims of Scotland's homelessness crisis this Christmas

A ten per cent rise in homelessness in Scotland’s three biggest cities since before the Covid pandemic shows the problem is getting worse, not better

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38 minutes ago Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee

I have campaigned for the right to avoid a needlessly agonising death all my life. After this vote, I hope I will no longer have toThe time has come for a defining moment early in a Labour era that has so far lacked definition. This is the week a Labour parliament can make its mark in the long campaign for personal freedoms over birth, sex, life and death. If not, if MPs prove pusillanimous in the face of loud but thinly supported objections backed by organised religion, they will ignore the opinion of a public that is strongly in favour: the British social attitudes survey’s first polling in 1983 found 77% of people in favour of assisted dying, and that figure has hardly varied since then. After campaigning all my life on this, I feel: if not now, then probably not in my lifetime.Every...

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1 hour ago Readers' Letters: Sale of indulgences is alive and well among COP29's climage change pilgrims

If climate change is a religion then COP summits are cathedrals attracting worshippers, says a reader

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2 hours ago December 2024 dates for benefit and pensions as PIP and DLA payments increase revealed

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3 hours ago REVEALED: I'm A Celeb campmates Jane Moore and Maura Higgins will face snakes and crocodiles in terrifying Fight At The End Of The Tunnel Bushtucker Trial

The task will see the presenter and reality star but their communication skills to the test as they try to navigate a complex series of pipelines full of creepy crawlies.

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3 hours ago Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's 'most important lesson' revealed in final message she wrote while dying of cancer

Susan Wojcicki, once the CEO of YouTube, wrote a touching message shortly before she died from lung cancer this summer. In her final words, she revealed the 'most important lesson' she learned in her life.

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4 hours ago The moment it all went wrong for Meghan and the Queen: RICHARD EDEN reveals in his show Reading The Royals how a wedding row over 'respect' was the beginning of trouble

The moment where things went wrong for the pair's relationship has puzzled royal experts, but now Richard Eden has studied the evidence in a new YouTube television series - Reading The Royals.

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4 hours ago Why I started the petition for another General Election: 'Fed up' pub landlord reveals what sparked viral campaign to get rid of Labour

Pub landlord Michael Westwood said he decided to launch the petition having seen Keir Starmer and his MPs go back on their manifesto promises.

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4 hours ago ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and visit from RFK Jr

A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli’i.Itila, 3, and his twin siblings, Tamara and Sale, 13 months, had a fever and their parents hoped to cool them down. The children were ill with measles and were not vaccinated. When they worsened, on a Sunday, Fa’aoso took them to hospital in Apia, 9km away. They were seen, and sent home. Continue reading...

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