23 h. ago Kirkcudbright Citizens Advice sessions doubled to meet rising demand

Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Service will now run outreach clinics at The Johnston twice a month.

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32 h. ago Nurseries 'could struggle to meet demand due to staff shortages' as free childcare rolled out TODAY

Low pay is one of the biggest barriers to recruitment, with nursery workers earning only slightly above minimum wage, according to The National Foundation for Educational Research.

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5 d. ago Meghan claims she's had to order one MILLION jam jars and lids to meet demand for her latest AsEver product drop

The Duchess of Sussex , who resides in Montecito, spoke to Bloomberg's Emily Chang to promote the second season of her Netflix lifestyle series, With Love, Meghan, on Tuesday.

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1 week ago India’s flight safety systems face ‘existential threat’ from staff shortage, committee warns

MPs say aviation watchdog is facing a ‘profound and persistent shortage’ of staff with almost half its posts unfilled

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1 week ago Angela Rayner hit with legal challenge over datacentre on green belt land

Exclusive: Campaigners complain no environmental assessment made for 90MW Buckinghamshire facility The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has been hit with a legal challenge after she overruled a local council to approve a hyperscale datacentre on green belt land by the M25 in Buckinghamshire.Campaigners bringing the action are complaining that no environmental impact assessment was made for the 90MW datacentre, which was approved as part of the Labour government’s push to turn the UK into an AI powerhouse by trebling computing capacity to meet rising demand amid what it terms “a global race” as AI usage takes off. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Rubbish collections are delayed because of a staff shortage... after binmen went on holiday

The council said that while some workers were on sick leave, it expected disruption to continue until holidays finished in September.

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2 w. ago Surge in global oil production will meet slowing demand growth, warns IEA

Paris-based energy advisory body makes fifth consecutive monthly cut to demand outlook

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2 w. ago As octopuses dwindle in Spanish waters, suppliers look to imports and farming despite concerns

Spain is turning to farms and foreign fisheries to meet the demand for octopus as local stocks dwindle

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4 w. ago Police Scotland overtime bill hits £31.5m as union warns of chronic staff shortage

The new figures are published today in 1919 Magazine.

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