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Storm Boelo: Scottish garden curator named as man killed by falling tree
SSEN said 8,636 customers were still without power on the evening of 26 October, with more strong winds forecast across the north of Scotland on 27 October.
State Pension payment dates November 2026: your payday
GOV.UK’s guides do not say whether St Andrew’s Day, a bank holiday only in Scotland, changes a State Pension payment due on Monday 30 November.
UK bank holidays 2027: every date, by nation
Easter Monday is not a bank holiday in Scotland, while Northern Ireland has two days of its own, GOV.UK’s official list shows.
October half term 2026: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Welsh councils, Essex and Southwark give 26 to 30 October, but Surrey’s break starts on 19 October and Edinburgh’s and Highland’s on 12 October.
Nasa scientists head to Highlands in hunt for Mars life clues
The team hiked the cliffs of Scotland’s Stoer formation, where 1.2 billion-year-old rocks hold signs of ancient microbial life.
Universal Credit payment dates November and December 2026
Payments due on a weekend in November and December move to the Friday before, and those due on 1, 2 or 3 January 2027 arrive on Thursday 31 December.
Scotland’s drug deaths rise to 1,133, driven by men
Scotland has a higher rate of drug-induced deaths than any country reported by the European Union Drugs Agency, with cocaine now implicated in more than half of all…
Air traffic fault at Prestwick delays Scotland flights
The UK’s air traffic control provider said the Prestwick fault had nothing to do with the failure on 8 September, which a preliminary report traced to a software defect.
