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Accelerating the UK's transition to a low-carbon energy system will require substantial investment—much of which must come from private capital. Energy providers, investors, policymakers, and consumers each have a critical role to play in ensuring that investment in low-carbon infrastructure and technology scales up rapidly enough to meet the UK's net zero targets.

First Minister John Swinney has confirmed that pensioners in Scotland will receive no less than they would under the new UK Winter Fuel Payment scheme. During a speech on public service reform and preventative public health measures to ensure Scots live longer, healthier, wealthier lives, the First Minister confirmed further details of the Winter Fuel Payment scheme will be set out in due course and that ‘the Scottish Government will always seek what is best for Scotland's pensioners’.

Insolvency-related activity in Scotland hit a 29-month high in May 2025, according to new research from R3, the UK's insolvency and restructuring trade body. R3’s analysis of data provided by Creditsafe shows there were 141 cases of insolvency-related activity in Scotland in May - the highest number on record since December 2022’s figure of 142.

The Adam Smith Institute commissioned its partner organisation, Adam Smith Insights, to conduct a nationally representative poll of adults in Great Britain. The polling showed that only 5% of Brits believe that their taxes are well spent, with over half of Brits saying that taxes are too high.

The UK government's spending review has set out its priorities for the next three years. But behind the rhetoric about boosting growth lies growing concern about small businesses being locked out of the wider UK economy.

The UK is facing a security crisis. Great power competition has returned, and the threat of hostility from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is increasing.

Whenever the UK government decides to spend public money on a new project, it needs to weigh up the costs against the value of the benefits it hopes to achieve. And it's rarely a simple calculation.

The leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, recently announced that if in government, his party would abolish the two-child limit on benefits. This social security policy restricts the payment of means-tested benefits to the first two children of a family.

The NHS has again grabbed the lion's share (90 per cent) of the extra funding for day-to-day public services allocated at the Spending Review, with inflation-adjusted per-person spending flat or falling for most other departments, leaving little to rebuild other public services, the Resolution Foundation said on Wednesday. After two fiscal events dominated by tax rises and welfare cuts, Spending Review 2025 was finally an opportunity for the Chancellor to deliver good news by allocating an additional £149 billion of day-to-day public service spending (RDEL) and £115 billion of capital spending (CDEL) relative to plans inherited from the last Government.

The Spectator's economics editor Michael Simmons is joined by the outgoing boss of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson and the CEO of the Resolution Foundation Ruth Curtice to understand why Britain's economy is in such a bad place. Given it feels like we are often in a doom loop of discussion about tax rises, does this point to a structural problem with the British economy?.

The British state is slowly turning into a National Health State. With half of all public-service spending set to allocated to health and social care by the end of the decade, according to the Resolution Foundation's overnight analysis of Spending Review 2025.

Over the past year the Office of the Traffic Commissioner has been working with the 293 operators who relied on a transport manager that holds an Acquired Rights Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) for light goods vehicles. As the certificate could only be used to satisfy the professional competence requirements on an operator's licence until 20 May 2025, it was important that they had a suitably qualified person specified on their operator's licence before this date.

Children most in need across the country will be kept from going hungry during the school holidays thanks to funding announced in the Spending Review. Major support package will help ensure the poorest children don't go hungry in the school holidays and give vital support to communities.

Join David Gange, author of The Frayed Atlantic Edge, for a special illustrated talk and conversation, featuring vivid excerpts and images from The Frayed Atlantic Edge and a sneak preview of his forthcoming book, Afloat. Part of LAC's Between Two Beaches programme.

Adults £10, Concessions £5, Children 12 to 16 years £5, Children under 12 years - free. The Halkirk Highland Games, a traditional and spectacular Scottish sporting event is held in Caithness in the far North of Scotland, near to Thurso, the North Coast 500 travel route and the famous end of the road landmark of John O’Groats.

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See poster for times and dates of the weekend. Calling all 12-17 year olds - join us for The Living Camera! Build recycled pinhole cameras, forage for natural developing materials and develop pinhole photographs with local ingredients… Workshop led by artist Jess Holdengarde Fri 20th - Sun 22nd June Lyth Arts Centre & nearby beach (transport provided) Free to attend but booking required BOOK NOW: https://lytharts.org.uk/event/the-living-camera/.

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Camps Bar Donated £250 To Healing Hub, Wick..

Camps Bar donates £250 to Homestart Caithness..

Several groups received £250 each from Camps Bar..

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Artists and communities across Scotland will be given an opportunity this summer to help inform the independent Review of Creative Scotland. Eight roundtable discussions will be held across the length and breadth of Scotland this summer to ensure any recommendations are evidence-led and reflect a national perspective on Creative Scotland's role.