The first planned blackouts in decades might hit parts of the country this winter if power plants cannot get enough gas to keep running, the body that oversees Britain’s electricity grid has warned.
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  Cost-of-living crisis: Three-hour long planned blackouts could hit UK this winter to save National Grid from collapse, warns electricity grid body  
     
  The first planned blackouts in decades might hit parts of the country this winter if power plants cannot get enough gas to keep running, the body that oversees Britain’s electricity grid has warned.  
     
Cost-of-living crisis: Three-hour long planned blackouts could hit UK this winter to save National Grid from collapse, warns electricity grid body
     
   
     
 
More Scots with long Covid than there are residents of Aberdeen
More Scots with long Covid than there are residents of Aberdeen
 
There are now more Scots living with long Covid than there are residents in Aberdeen, new statistics show.
 
     
 
Landlord fears homelessness for tenants if new legislation forces landlords to sell
Landlord fears homelessness for tenants if new legislation forces landlords to sell
 
A landlord fears the consequences of rent freeze legislation will push many like him to sell their property as Scotland’s housing crisis rages on.
 
     
 
JK Rowling wears T-shirt calling Nicola Sturgeon ‘destroyer of women’s rights’
JK Rowling wears T-shirt calling Nicola Sturgeon ‘destroyer of women’s rights’
 
JK Rowling has photographed herself wearing a T-shirt calling Scotland’s First Minister a “destroyer of women’s rights”.
 
     
 
Plans to develop home of Robert Burns being drawn up by architects and heritage experts
Plans to develop home of Robert Burns being drawn up by architects and heritage experts
 
A new plan to develop Robert Burns’s first home is being pieced together by some of Scotland’s leading architects and heritage experts.
 
     
 
RMT considers new ScotRail pay offer as threatened strike on Monday looms
RMT considers new ScotRail pay offer as threatened strike on Monday looms
 
     
 
War in Ukraine: Russian rockets slam into Ukrainian city near nuclear plant
War in Ukraine: Russian rockets slam into Ukrainian city near nuclear plant
 
     
 
Clan jewels fit for the first Scottish chief in 340 years revealed
Clan jewels fit for the first Scottish chief in 340 years revealed
 
     
 
BBC Young Musician 2022: Inspiring blind Scottish pianist reaches grand final
BBC Young Musician 2022: Inspiring blind Scottish pianist reaches grand final
 
     
 
Of the 59 people reforming Scottish education, you'll never guess how many are practising teachers – Cameron Wyllie
Of the 59 people reforming Scottish education, you'll never guess how many are practising teachers – Cameron Wyllie
 
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
   
   
   
 
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