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The first Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment of 2023 is worth £270.50 and due in June.

The Young Carer Grant is for Scots aged 16, 17 or 18 who provide up to 16 hours of care each week.

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Over half of adults feel they have lost their sense of fun as they have got older - and say 27 is the average age at which this happens

The significant milestone was reached yesterday as the Hospice team ushered in work on the site.

Our condolences go out to their families and friends

The service for Flight Sergeant Peter Brown will now take place at St Clement Danes, the RAF Central Church, in Westminster so more people can attend.

A surge in requests to attend the Flight Sergeant’s ceremony came after a hugely successful campaign to find his family

Years of widening economic inequality, compounded by the pandemic and political storm and stress, have given Americans the impression that the country is on the wrong track. Now there's empirical data to show just how far the country has run off the rails: Life expectancies have been falling.