The following backpay will apply: backpay of 4.25% from April 2025 (or the earliest date on or after April 2025 by which you were employed on a relevant resident doctor contract with NHS Scotland).

This matters because wages in Scotland have been rising in cash terms. In 2024, the median weekly pay for full-time employees was £739.70 (around £38,500 a year), with nominal earnings rising by 4.3% ...

BBC Verify Live has been focusing on a series of AI-generated fake videos claiming to show huge snow drifts in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula.

The increase will take the average bill in Scotland to £532, which remains among the lowest of any water company in the UK.

British inflation rose by more than expected in December, pushed higher by air fares and tobacco prices, but the fastest rate of price growth among the world's big, rich economies is still likely to ...

Inflation in the United Kingdom rose in December for the first time in five months, pushing further above the Bank of England ...

In England, average rents rose to £1,424, an annual increase of 3.9% and also the slowest pace since May 2022. Wales saw rents climb 5.7% to £822, while Scotland recorded a 2.8% rise to £1,018, the ...

The UK's Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation rose by 3.4% in the 12 months to December, in part due to rising ...