Above, BBC Scotland’s array of gossip and tabloid intrigue for the insatiably nosy but apolitical mind.

Not anywhere but here and on the Scot gov website, this heart-warming good news and further evidence that the SNP is Scotland’s leftist party, committed, one-arm tied, to reducing inequality with all the harms it produces, and revealing the awfulness of UK Labour:

An initiative which will support low income families to take part in community action and advise on improvements in local services is being funded as part of a wider programme to help develop new approaches to child poverty.

The project, led by Midlothian Sure Start in partnership with Midlothian Council, is one of nine successful applicants to the Child Poverty Practice Accelerator Fund – which was set up to explore promising approaches or redesign services to maximise their impact on child poverty.

A Cash First Fund, which aims to reduce the need for emergency food parcels and food banks, will also fund eight partnerships to provide help to low income families. Six of these will provide new sources of cash-first support.

More at: Supporting people in need – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)