Good evening and welcome to the Daily Record's Sunday briefing.The top stories you need to know today include taxpayers footing the bill for a Scottish MP's second home, a Scots programmer struggling on £36,000 a year, and how Susanna Reid lost 1.5stone without working out.Here are the latest headlines from Scotland and beyond.
Taxpayers are footing gas and electricity bills for multi-millionaire Scottish Secretary Alister Jack – while vulnerable families cut off their supplies in terror at rising prices.
The MP – who is a senior member in Boris Johnson's zombie government – claimed £4,059 of utilities for his second home on expenses over the last three years.
But a Sunday Mail investigation has found thousands of pensioners and low-income households are being forced to "self-disconnect" because they have no money to put in pre-payment meters.Read more.
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