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SOCIALLY aware youngsters have completed a project learning about homelessness and the work of the housing sector.

TEENAGERS are learning about the hardships of homelessness through a pioneering social and educational project.

THE answers to Mark Smith's question ("So what is going on in the secretive world of Scotland’s Don’t Know Ten Percenters?", The Herald, February 15) are clear. First, there is no overwhelming appetite for Scottish independence, and never has been. In the last Holyrood election in 2016, out of around 4.3 million registered voters only just over one million bothered to go to the polls and tick the box for the party that claimed there is overwhelming desire for separation. The reason the SNP keeps winning elections is because the pro-UK opposition parties, individually and collectively,...

THE RICH PAY MORE TAX, WE ALL BENEFIT JUST how long are we going to accept increased poverty (including in-work poverty), foodbanks, homelessness, zero working hours, poor health, anti-trade union laws, nuclear weapons, reactionary economic and social policies, the lowest benefit support in Western Europe, and all the horrendous ways that inequality impact negatively on our people? How long are people going to continue to blame those groups of people who they deem to be less worthy than themselves – e.g., immigrants, asylum seekers, the unemployed, the sick, when we should be supporti...