Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey has highlighted the importance of free prescriptions after the Trussell Trust, the UK’s biggest food bank network, this month warned that people across the UK have been forgoing their medication due to costs.

Rutherglen MSP, Clare Haughey, reports that she has been contacted by the Royal Bank of Scotland, who say that they will not close their Rutherglen Branch on the 24th September as originally planned. 

Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors have come in for a wave of criticism after voting to cut free school transport provision.

Rutherglen’s Labour MP has been criticised for voting against an amendment at Westminster calling for the two-child benefit cap to be scrapped.

Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey has written to the UK’s new energy secretary, Ed Miliband, asking him to personally intervene after residents in Newton Farm experienced yet another power cut.

The number of women attending breast cancer screening appointments is at the highest ever level across Lanarkshire.

Women born in the 1950s affected by changes to the state pension age are owed compensation, the UK’s Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has said.

New figures released by the Scottish Government have shown that over 30,000 South Lanarkshire households were supported through the Council Tax Reduction (CTR) scheme in December 2023.