21 m. ago Pensioners can claim winter heating payments of up to £305 until next March

Pension Age Winter Heating Payment will be issued automatically to most older Scots, but some will need to claim.

Economics

42 m. ago More than a million pensioners missing out on up to £110 a week from DWP

Attendance Allowance is paid to people with long-term physical or mental conditions or disabilities

Economics

43 m. ago Scathing James Tavernier Rangers comments get strong defence as Danny Rohl makes 'my job' admission

Captain was left ‘raging’ by performance against SK Brann

Events

44 m. ago Cruel owner left animals starving and forced to eat own waste in filthy house

RSPCA inspector Emma Smith found a dachshund called Woody and a cat called Ginge both in an emaciated state when she went to the stinking Cardiff home of Chloe Britton, 22, following a tip-off

Politics

44 m. ago ‘I hate that they show my bum in the first scene!’ David Duchovny on poems, podcasts – and his TV comeback

Playing Fox Mulder made him a global phenomenon then he walked away to save himself. As he stars in killer-nanny thriller Malice, David Duchovny talks art, his beef with Gillian Anderson – and being murdered by Jack WhitehallHalfway through our hour-long conversation, David Duchovny slumps in his seat a little then gently chastises me. “I got tired while you were talking,” he groans. In fairness, I had been talking a lot, but only because I was trying to list everything he’s managed to do in the past year.There’s his podcast, Fail Better, in which he’s wrung incredibly candid interviews from notoriously reticent stars like Alec Baldwin and Robert Downey Jr, more on which later. There’s his book of poetry, About Time, which came out last month. There’s his History Channel show Secrets Declassified With David Duchovny. As we speak, he’s just finished an eight-date tour, where he performed songs from the three folk-rock albums he’s released over the last decade. We are ostensibly here ...

Culture

44 m. ago Donald Trump has built a regime of retribution and reward | Sidney Blumenthal

The president’s purges and attacks on his enemies have developed into a system in which injustice is made routineDonald Trump’s voracious desire for retribution has quickly evolved into a regular and predictable system. In the year since his election his rage and whims have assumed the form of policies in the same way that Stalin’s purges could be called policies. Figures within the federal system of justice who do not do his bidding are summarily fired and replaced by loyalists. Leaders who have called him to account or are in his way may face indictment, trial and punishment. Opponents have been designated under Presidential National Security Memorandum No 7 as “Antifa”: “anti-American,” “anti-Christian,” and “anti-capitalist,” and threatened with prosecution as a “terrorist”. Meanwhile, many aligned with him escape justice, whether through the hand of the Department of Justice or the presidential pardon power. Now, he demands compensation for having been prosecuted to the tune of...

Politics

57 m. ago US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm

Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspiciousAn artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him. Continue reading...

Society

60 m. ago China ‘enemy’ reference was removed from spy case evidence ‘to fit Tory policy’

National security adviser Jonathan Powell said Counter Terror Police and the Crown Prosecution Service were aware of the change.

Events

64 m. ago Celebrity Traitors Lucy Beaumont breaks social media silence with huge confession

Lucy Beaumont has explained to fans why she has remained silent on social media while Celebrity Traitors is on air but left her followers even more confused

Politics

69 m. ago Police descend on Edinburgh street after bus and car crash which saw man taken to hospital

A man has been taken to hospital after a crash in Edinburgh involving a bus and a car.

Events

73 m. ago Benn names world champion who is ‘highly likely’ to be next after Eubank Jr rematch

Conor Benn already knows who he wants to fight after next month’s rematch with Chris Eubank Jr

Sport

76 m. ago Wizards of the Coast release an adventure from their new book early, and its free

Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn releases next month, and Wizards of the Coast have released a level 3 adventure from the book early

Politics

78 m. ago Conor McGregor breaks silence after drugs ban with emotional speech

Conor McGregor has been handed an 18-month ban from competitive competition after missing three drugs tests last year - but the Irishman has now broken his silence

Events

79 m. ago 'My postman left something odd on my doorstep and then ran away'

A woman expressed her confusion on social media after discovering a Royal Mail bag full of post had been left on her doorstep - with no sign of the postman anywhere

Politics

80 m. ago Ukraine foiled plans to reconnect Zaporizhzhia power plant in time for Putin’s birthday

The power plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine was without external power for a month before repairs were made

Politics

81 m. ago Drill rapper jailed for murdering man whose brother was killed years later

Lekan Akinsoji and accomplice Sundjata Keita were found guilty of murder eight years after 21-year-old Ahmed Deen-Jah was killed.

Events

81 m. ago Ghost village where everyone forced to leave overnight and heartbreaking note pinned to church

The tiny village of Tyneham in Dorset was a bustling community until World War Two when the British military requisitioned the village for training purposes and gave the residents a month's notice to leave

Politics

81 m. ago Man, 46, jailed over Britain's 'biggest ever' Ketamine haul after being found with £17m of drugs in his kitchen work van

Police said Paul Farrelly, 46, appeared 'nervous' when he was stopped - and after searching the back of his van it became clear to officers why.

Economics

82 m. ago Celebrity Traitors fans tease final twist that left them ‘screaming at TV’

The Traitors' celebrity cast have been doing their best to avoid being murdered and banished, but fans think they know who will win

Sport

83 m. ago Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins died from stab to neck in prison attack

He was serving a 29-year jail sentence for child sex offences. when he was set upon earlier this month.

Events