Scottish Care has blasted new immigration rules for staff in Social Care as “discriminatory”, warning some services in remote and rural areas may be forced to close. The requirements mean overseas workers must now be paid more than local staff, but care homes say they’re already dealing with recruitment challenges and rising costs. The Home Office says the move will help end the UK’s reliance on overseas recruitment. #stvnews #scotland #scottishcare #immigration | STV News

Scottish Borders Council has launched fresh court action to evict a self-styled “African tribe.” The three members of the so-called Kingdom of Kubala - Ghanaian national Kofi Offeh, 36, Zimbabwean-born Jean Gasho, 42, and American Kaura Taylor - were officially removed from a private woodland camp near Jedburgh by sheriff officers on Tuesday morning. But just metres away, on the other side of a wire fence, they set up a new encampment. | BBC News Africa