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Raising council tax, better bus services and pledges to protect jobs are just some proposals being tabled by opposition groups when Perth and Kinross Council (PKC) sets its 2024/25 budget this week.

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Labour turns up heat on SNP over opposition to windfall tax on energy giant profits

Labour has turned up the heat on the SNP over its opposition to a windfall tax on energy giant profits.

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People urged to 'speak to your GP', amid huge spike in Victorian disease

Health officials have launched an investigation to determine why cases of tuberculosis - an infection commonly associated with the industrial revolution and Victorian times - have increased in England. There was an 11 per cent rise in TB cases in England in 2023 compared with 2022, according to provisional data.

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Greek Culture Minister hits out at Netflix’s “low quality” Alexander The Great series

Netflix‘s new Alexander: The Making Of A God series and branded it a “fiction of extremely poor quality” and “full of historical inaccuracies.”The show, which focuses on Alexander the Great, landed on the streaming service last week. It charts the rise of the Macedonian general from the moment of his father’s assassination to the conquering of his own empire.Greek Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni made a statement in Parliament after she was asked to officially condemn the series, reports The Greek Herald.While she said there are inaccuracies in the series, she also emphasised that the Ministry of Culture does not censor art or proceed with actions that result in its prosecution.“The elements of Alexander’s personality are not brought out in the Netflix series, which does not serve the historical truth.

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Focus Features Buys International Rights to Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist,’ Starring Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones (EXCLUSIVE)

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Focus Features has bought international rights to Brady Corbet‘s “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn, Variety has learned. Corbet, who sits on the Berlinale jury, penned the film with Mona Fastvold (“The World to Come”), a Swedish filmmaker who is also his wife. The film charts 30 years in the lives of visionary architect László Toth and his wife, Erzsébet, who flee post-war Europe in 1947 and witness the birth of modern America.

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Over three million households in fuel poverty last year, official figures show

More than three million low-income households struggled to pay their energy bills for draughty homes in 2023, according to official figures. In England, a home is considered in fuel poverty if it has a poor energy efficiency rating of band D or below and the household's disposable income after housing and fuel costs falls below the poverty line.

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Canary Islands tourism warning as officials say 'something is wrong'

Authorities of the Canary Islands are concerned about poor living standards for locals, despite being a major tourist destination.

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Law firm issues word of warning to wives heading for divorce

Award-winning law firm, Slater Heelis, is issuing a word of warning to wives following the release of Scottish Widow’s ‘Women & Retirement Report 2023’, with some of the findings reflecting what it is seeing in practice.

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'Hatred' of Margaret Thatcher 'still burns bright' in Scots mining communities 40 years on, says MP

“Hatred” of Margaret Thatcher “still burns bright” in Scottish mining communities 40 years on, an MP has said.

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'My mental health has suffered so much': Beloved community shop announces shock closure

In a sad turn of events, the community-based project Use 'Ya' Loaf in Wigan has announced its closure.

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Kangana Ranaut’s Indira Gandhi Film ‘Emergency’ Sets Release Date – Global Bulletin

Naman Ramachandran “Emergency,” written, directed and produced by Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut, has set a release date. The film focuses on one of the most controversial periods of post-Independence Indian history from 1975 to 1977 when then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a nationwide state of emergency. During that time civil liberties and press freedom were curtailed and elections were canceled.

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The 'social failure' leaving our children facing destitution

In the shadow of modern Manchester's new skyline, hardship is deepening. Across some areas of Greater Manchester, the number of children living in poverty is perilously close to one in two.

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Director Debra Granik on How She Wove Ex-Cons and the Fitness Industry Into Sundance Doc Series ’Conbody VS Everybody’

Gregg Goldstein Few directors have had greater success exposing the harsh realities of American life than Debra Granik. But after a drug abuse-themed first feature, “Down to the Bone,” the Jennifer Lawrence-led poverty saga “Winter’s Bone” and a documentary (“Stray Dog”) and drama (“Leave No Trace”) about haunted military vets, her new multipart doc, “Conbody VS Everybody” might be her most upbeat take on a tough topic to date.

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DWP urged to give specific groups of older people an automatic £3,900 annual income top-up

A Scottish Liberal Democrat MP has urged the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to consider a new approach in its ongoing efforts to increase take-up of a benefit specifically aimed at helping low-income pensioner households. During a debate on the impact of the cost of living crisis on pensioners, Wendy Chamberlain told MPs in Parliament that two million older people are living in poverty, a staggering one-in-six.

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While MPs fought over sending people to Rwanda, the plight of starving children went unnoticed

It's one of the biggest issues facing Greater Manchester and the UK. But in Parliament, it was debated in a room of empty chairs.

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Older people urged to contact charity to check for unclaimed benefits or discounts this winter

New research commissioned by the charity Independent Age indicates that one in four older people (24%) had to rely on savings last winter to help cover daily living costs, including higher heating bills and soaring supermarket prices. The older people’s financial hardship charity said this figure increased to one in three (33%) for those with a household income under £20,000.