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Scottish Government to use new welfare powers to help former professional footballers whose dementia is linked to heading a ball.Senior politicians and trade unionists want diseases like Alzheimer’s in ex-pros to be recognised as an industrial injury.Glasgow Labour councillor Martin McElroy, who is leading the campaign, said: “The Scottish Government has the opportunity to right this historic wrong, and to ensure former players get the support they need.”Research published in 2019 showed that former professional footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia.Glasgow University experts, led by Dr Willie Stewart, had investigated concerns that heading a football could be linked to brain trauma.Dr Stewart said the risk

Glasgow council firm which runs the city’s entertainment venues have been awarded nearly £200,000 in bonuses.Top of the payment league for SEC Ltd was chief executive Peter Duthie, whose £266,807 remuneration included a £36,972 bonus.News of the bonuses came after it emerged that hundreds of staff based at the SEC could be made redundant.Glasgow Labour councillor Martin McElroy said: “At the same time as the council could cut funding to five citizens advice bureaux, we learn that the SEC have awarded extravagant bonuses to senior figures.“Now more than ever, there is no justification for fat cat-style bonuses and they should not be paid.”Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics