One in five households across Scotland are now in serious financial difficulty, with the rapidly escalating cost of living crisis disproportionately impacting on families north of the border, according to a new report.
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  Sep 29, 2022  
     
 

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Welcome to your Thursday update from The Scotsman.

 

Here are 5 key stories to kick off the day:

📉 Fifth of Scots in 'serious financial difficulty' amid housing crash

🚨 Warning of civil unrest as Police Scotland numbers left 'unsustainable'

💰 LIVE: Updates as Liz Truss faces media amid mini-budget turmoil

⛴️ Ferguson Marine ferries for CalMac delayed again and now three times over budget

🐕‍🦺 Dogs can sniff out the scent of stress, new study suggests

 

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Joshua King

  
     
  Fifth of Scots in 'serious financial difficulty' as analysts warn of falling house prices  
     
  One in five households across Scotland are now in serious financial difficulty, with the rapidly escalating cost of living crisis disproportionately impacting on families north of the border, according to a new report.  
     
Fifth of Scots in 'serious financial difficulty' as analysts warn of falling house prices
     
   
     
 
Warning of civil unrest as Police Scotland numbers left 'unsustainable'
Warning of civil unrest as Police Scotland numbers left 'unsustainable'
 
Police officer numbers in Edinburgh are “unsustainable” and could be cut despite “unprecedented” demands on overtime in order to keep a safe number of police on the streets, the divisional commander in the Capital has said.
 
     
 
Ferguson Marine ferries for CalMac delayed yet again and now three times over budget
Ferguson Marine ferries for CalMac delayed yet again and now three times over budget
 
Yet more delays to two CalMac ferries that could see them completed up to another three months late and cost three times over budget have been revealed by builder Ferguson Marine.
 
     
 
Meet Scotland's record-breaking unicyclist weightlifter
Meet Scotland's record-breaking unicyclist weightlifter
 
A self-professed "extreme sports superstar" with a passion for unicycling and weightlifting has said it is a "real honour" to be part of the latest Guinness World Records book for a unique act.
 
     
 
Dogs can sniff out the scent of stress, new study suggests
Dogs can sniff out the scent of stress, new study suggests
 
Better known for their drug and explosive detecting skills, new research now suggests dogs can smell stress from human sweat and breath.
 
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
   
   
   
 
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