Ghosts of Christmas call for end to child poverty
SCROOGE and ghosts of Christmas past, present and future will be visiting the Scottish Parliament to call for action to end child poverty.
Campaigners from Save the Children will be dressing up today to raise awareness of the 240,000 Scottish children living in poverty. They are calling on the government to fulfil its promise to halve child poverty by next year, and end it by 2020.
Douglas Hamilton, Save the Children's head of Scotland, said: "We hope a visit from our three spirits will make the government see the error of their ways."
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