Adam Forrest

Edinburgh, Glasgow

Scotland Correspondent at The i Paper

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Articles

Dangerous spike in fraudsters offering fake compensation to Waspi women

8 hours ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Waspi women face a “dangerous” rise in fraudsters offering fake compensation, money expert Martin Lewis and other campaigners have warned. The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) group has urged women born in the 1950s to be wary of websites falsely offering compensation over the rise in the state pension age is available.
Who could be the next Pope and how will they be chosen?

3 days ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Following the death of Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88, discussions over who will succeed him are underway. Conversations about who will be named the next Pope have been going on for some time within the Catholic Church hierarchy, according to Vatican experts. Power changes hands only when the Pope dies or resigns. It is the duty of the dean of the College of Cardinals – currently held by 91-year-old Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re – to organise a conclave to elect a successor.
I claim PIP - Labour cuts will backfire and push people like me out of work

4 days ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Labour’s plan to cut benefits to boost employment levels will backfire by pushing disabled people out of work, ministers have been warned. Disabled people in work who also depend on personal independence payments (PIP) told The i Paper they were being unfairly targeted for “soul-destroying” welfare cuts. Last month the Government announced big changes to PIP and the incapacity element of universal credit aimed at saving almost £5 billion a year by the end of the decade.
How the gender self-ID ‘disaster’ could get worse for the SNP

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

The SNP must drop gender self-identification policies or face “disaster” at the 2026 Scottish election, leader John Swinney has been warned. The First Minister is facing calls to make clear that the plan pushed by his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon to make self-ID easier for transgender people is now dead.
I couldn’t pay my council tax bill - so the local authority took my benefits

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Local authorities have been urged to stop their “aggressive” debt recovery methods as some families struggle to cope with this month’s council tax rises. Widespread use of court action, threats of imprisonment from bailiffs and deductions to benefit money is causing misery for council tax bill payers in financial hardship, say charity leaders.
Labour told to block Chinese firms from these energy projects after steel crisis

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Labour has been urged to phase out Chinese ownership from UK oil, nuclear power and renewable energy infrastructure after claims of attempted “sabotage” at British Steel. Keir Starmer’s Government is facing growing calls to block investment from Chinese firms in the likes of Grangemouth oil refinery, new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point C, plus other solar and wind projects.
Should Starmer stand up to Trump? Political experts on the pros and pitfalls

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Keir Starmer must make it clear to the public that Donald Trump is wrong to pursue a global trade war with his “unacceptable” tariffs, Labour grandee Harriet Harman has said. Baroness Harman has warned No 10 it would be unwise to continue to avoid the “elephant in the room, which is that Trump is wrong on this, we don’t agree with him”.
Teens crossing border to Scotland for risky 'Wild West' lip fillers on the rise

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

A growing number of teenage girls from England are risking their health by heading to Scotland for cosmetic lip filler treatment from unqualified “Wild West” back street beauticians. The growing cross-border trade is possible because there is no Scottish ban on under-18s getting risky cosmetic work. Health professionals said Scotland’s lack of regulations made the country the “worst in Europe” when it came to botched Botox and lip filler treatments.
Weight-loss jabs could face price rises and shortages due to Trump's trade war

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to cause “chaos” by disrupting the supply and pushing up the price of weight-loss drugs and other medications to the UK. The US President said on Tuesday that he would “very shortly” be announcing a major tariff for the pharmaceutical industry. He claimed US-based multinational drug companies with operations overseas would come “rushing back into our country” to avoid the extra costs of doing business outside America.
New cancer drugs could face NHS shortages and price hikes due to tariffs

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Adam Forrest

Donald Trump’s tariffs could push up prices and disrupt the supply of vital US medicines needed by NHS patients such as cancer drugs, the Government has been warned. The Health Secretary Wes Streeting said on Tuesday that the supply of medicines in the UK could be adversely affected by tariffs imposed by the US. Although pharmaceuticals were spared from direct inclusion on the White House’s tariffs, the industry remains anxious that Trump could decide to impose additional levies in future.