Thankfully, on Monday afternoons, Helensburgh Community Hub is open as a designated welcoming space. (And their boiler has been recently fixed so it is genuinely warm now.) ...

Consular support is being provided to ‘a number of British nationals and their families’, the Foreign Office said.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was ‘not immune’ to the difficulties facing businesses but there was no alternative to her Budget tax raid.

The NHS England boss said the service would worry about the ability of the workforce to ‘step up again’ in such challenging circumstances.

A “grown-up debate” is required about the future of the Grangemouth refinery, a senior official from its owners has said. Petroineos announced in September the refinery will close in the second ...