43 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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43 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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43 minutes ago Shane MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke: ‘There were days when I felt suicidal after Shane died’

Exclusive: Artist, writer and long-term partner of the late Pogues frontman speaks about her grieving process a year on from his death, and how she’s channelled that into art for her first solo exhibition

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43 minutes ago Celtic told Club Brugge man to watch as Brendan Rodgers handed inside track on Champions League rival

Max Johnston - formerly of Motherwell - faced the Belgians in the competition last month

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43 minutes ago Debenhams Black Friday sale cuts 70% off bedding that makes any room look 'royal'

The Sanderson Ashbee duvet cover is available in single, double, king and super king sizes and is available in three different colours - ivory, beige and grey

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82 minutes ago Elderly woman dies after being surgically removed from mattress infested with cockroaches and bedbugs

Three women have been accused of neglecting an elderly woman after she was found dead, stuck to a mattress infested with cockroaches, bedbugs and feces in Massachusetts, USA

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2 hours ago Snow could well be on its way to parts of the UK with temperatures falling to a freezing

The UK is set to be hit by more cold weather next week and some areas could even see snow fall in the early hours of Wednesday, December 4, according to the latest weather maps

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4 hours ago Supreme Court hearing which will determine the definition of a woman begins TODAY

A feminist group will argue trans women should not be able to fill roles for biological women under laws designed to ensure equal numbers of men and women on company boards.

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