But a report from the Scottish Fiscal Commission says while Uk Government policies have contributed to the pressure, much of it comes from the Scottish Governments own decisions. Heres our scotland editorjames cook. This is the reality of life less than four miles from the scottish parliament. A Community Centre handing out free bread to help the residents of muirhouse make ends meet. And yet, now, here and across scotland, the tough times could be about to get worse. Prolonged westminster austerity, the economic damage of brexit, a global pandemic, the war in ukraine, and The Cost Of Living crisis, have all placed enormous and growing pressure on the public finances. I must take further and more urgent action now to ensure that we can balance the scottish budget in 2024 25. And i call. There is also £800 million of additional spending for new pay offers, and all that means £500 million in direct service cuts, plus a raid on the Proceeds Of Offshore Wind and publicly owned scottish w
Band of Snp Mps at westminster, took the Election Defeat on the chin. In this room we all know and understand that hiding from that harsh reality will fix nothing because the right response never lies in easy excuses, the only right response is rooted in reflection and responsibility. Flynn also attacked the new Labour Government in westminster, saying they were opposing austerity. He said the snp has to reroute itself in the priorities of the scottish people, priorities and we believe the party has moved away from. John swinney will take that on when he takes the stage, he also wants a less polarised national debate, claiming he wants to intertwine the Snps Independence Campaign with those priorities. Andrew kerr, Bbc News. We will hear that speech in full on the Bbc News channel at around 3 30pm. It is 10 32am. Injanuary, the uns top court, the international court ofjustice, ruled that israel must take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in gaza, including public statements that c
London, where labour is making billions in cuts after promising an end to austerity. That is politics at its most cynical, total breach of trust with all of those who supported lab our. A Labour Party that promised change is delivering more of the same, the same dory debt row, the same tory cuts agenda. Labour hasnt delivered change, it is delivering the same damaging austerity as the tories , ~ , same damaging austerity as the tories , ~ , tories Thes Mr Swinney said his government tories Thes Mr Swinney said his government had tories Thes Mr Swinney said | his government had expanded childcare, ensured scots could afford university and Mid Welfare Payments to the prince families, but after a thumping and the general election, he said the party was focusing on why scotland should be independent is not how it should happen. My independent is not how it should happen. My promise to ou is should happen. My promise to you is that should happen. My promise to you is that i should happen.
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This is scary. Translation: as soon as i heard about the start of the polio vaccination campaign, i came. My son was the first child to get the vaccine. Today, there was one shot and another in four weeks. By that time, he will have another full dosage which will prevent him from getting the infection and any disease in the coming years. This is how the polio vaccine will be distributed throughout gaza. The world health organization campaign will be split across the territory s five governates, from north gaza through to rafah in the south. Deir al balah and khan younis have the greatest number of children under 10 more than 200,000 in each region. The who plans on having more than 200 vaccination sites in each of those regions. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today