The new Prime Minister has been slammed by a Renfrewshire MP for ignoring calls to keep benefits in line with the cost of living. Despite questioning from the SNP’s Westminster Leader, Ian Blackford MP, at his first session of Prime Minister’s Questions, the PM refused to confirm whether social security benefits will keep pace with the cost of living, with inflation running at 10.1% on the latest measure. Around 10,000 Child Benefit recipients live in Renfrewshire, while 11,0

UK minister have been urged not to leave pensioners and working familied behind as inflation rates once again hit record levels. The latest inflation figures found overall costs are rising for households at 10.1% a year, equalling the highest figure recorded in 40 years. Energy and household prices were found to be rising at a much faster rate than other goods, with costs increasing by 20.2% over the past year, while food makes up the 2nd highest component, coming in at 14.5%

A Renfrewshire MP has hailed the opening of a veterans support fund aimed at helping improve the lives of former service personnel and their families. The Scottish Veterans Fund, created and supported financially by the Scottish Government, has £500,000 for projects across Scotland that support former armed forces members and their families. A key priority for this year’s Fund is to make sure veterans and their families are supported in response to the ongoing cost of living

Ian Hamilton KC, who has died at the age of 97, was one of the most significant figures of post-war Scotland, not just in the annals of political activism, but also for a legal career that saw him become the oldest member of the Faculty of Advocates and one of the country’s top lawyers. Born in Paisley in 1925, Ian’s father was a tailor who, besides raising a remarkable son was key in having the monument to Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert the Bruce, erected on Renfrew Road