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The ongoing council pay row makes some of the front pages in Scotland. The Scot leads with Nicola Sturgeon commenting that all options to increase the wage offer have been “exhausted”. The First Minister tweeted to say she wished she could offer more help to councils, but that Scottish Government budgets were “finite”.
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The Glasgow Times leads with the rejection of the unions’ latest pay offer on Monday and says the strikes will continue. It depicts growing piles of rubbish in Glasgow’s George Square.
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The rejected payment offer also makes the front page of Scotland’s Daily Express, which says “rubbish piles up”. It also says moves to stop further industrial action, which will hit schools and nurseries next week, are now in doubt.
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Another image of piles of rubbish, this one outside the Perth Concert Hall, headlines the front of The Courier. The paper also quotes Nicola Sturgeon as tweeting: “If we could go further, we would.”
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“What a mess,” writes The Herald, as it also depicts a messy George Square. He reports that the 5% pay offer has been rejected by unions, with one calling it “a waste of precious time”.
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The cost of living is the other main story and energy bills in particular. The Metro headlines ‘Last orders for pubs’ as it reports thousands of pubs will be forced to close if the government doesn’t help them with ‘skyrocketing fuel bills’. He says the bosses of six of the country’s biggest chains are reporting a 300% increase in operating costs, while customers have less money to spend at the bar.
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The Edinburgh Evening News covers the same story, reporting that pubs – and breweries – will “fail within months”. He says that without government intervention, there could be serious and irreversible damage to the sector.
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Energy prices also lead the P&J, which reports that Shetlanders face bills of £10,000 next year, double the UK average. It says 96% of people there will live in energy poverty and a household would need to have an income of £104,000 to avoid it.
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In the i newspaper, we learn that Tory leadership favorite Liz Truss will not reveal her plans to tackle the cost of living crisis until after she takes office because she has not had “data and information from the Treasury” . The document says no detailed meetings are taking place to help tackle rising energy bills despite pressure on Mrs Truss to reassure her party and the public that measures are in place if she wins.
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The Evening Express reports a shortage of volunteers to staff charity shops. He says this is a problem because of the need for these stores during the worsening cost of living crisis.
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Liz Truss will approve a raft of North Sea oil and gas drilling licenses in one of her first acts as Prime Minister, The Times says. The move, according to the document, is part of a long-term plan to ensure the UK’s energy security.
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“Another bombshell interview” with the Duchess of Sussex makes the front page of the Scottish Daily Mail. The paper reports that the Sussexes’ “rift” with the royal family could deepen after a 6,400-word magazine article in which Meghan made a series of “apparent swipes”, warning she could “say anything” now who has left the company.
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The Sussexes are also fronting The Scottish Sun. He says Meghan has claimed Prince Harry told her “I’ve lost my father” during her split from the royal family. A spokeswoman for the duchess later said Meghan was referring to her own father, from whom she is estranged, and said she hoped the same would not happen to her husband.
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In The National, the SNP attacks Labor over claims the party is proposing a ban on working together because it supports unionism.
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The Daily Telegraph reports on research which finds that statins do not cause common aches and pains and those who take them simply age. The paper says GPs have been advised to offer patients greater assurance about the drugs, which can protect against heart attacks and strokes. Oxford University researchers said they had “definitively” disproved the widespread belief that statins are a likely cause of muscle pain, the paper says.
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The Daily Record is leading a court case involving former Hearts player Lee Makel and threats he allegedly made to his wife.
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The Evening Telegraph carries a story about a man who allegedly caught fire while setting fire to his mother’s car.
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And very worrying news appears at the front of the Daily Star of Scotland, which claims poisonous false widow spiders are “invading homes” and snakes are “on the loose” after being “dumped as expensive pets” in the cost crisis of life
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