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A daily drop-in clinic at Golspie has been reinstated and further outreach clinics have been added in Brora, Helmsdale and Lairg.
Finances hit by Covid-19? â Money Map could help By Contributor Published: 13:00, 16 January 2021 Get the Northern Times sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Help at Hand column by Rachel MacDonell Before the coronavirus pandemic struck, many people in Sutherland and Scotland as a whole were already living on a financial cliff edge. Families were surviving from pay day to pay day, just making enough to cover essential bills, with no financial cushion. East and Central Sutherland CAB manager Rachel MacDonnell. Covid-19 has led to a p...
Avoid 'Christmas on credit' and get on top of your spending By Contributor Published: 17:10, 12 December 2020 Get the Northern Times sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Spending Christmas on credit can add up in the new year. Polling for Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) shows that almost half of people in Scotland (45 per cent) are planning to spend less than usual this Christmas, but that 16 per cent are planning to pay for their Christmas by taking on debt. The polling, carried out for CAS by YouGov, shows that only five per cent are pla...