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The Belfast launch also coincides with the arrival of Pret’s hotly anticipated festive menu, which is available until Christmas Eve. It includes seasonal favourites such as its famous Christmas Lunch Sandwich, Brie and Cranberry Baguette, Boxing Day Toastie and a host of festive barista-made drinks including the Merry Berry Hot Chocolate, the Salted Caramel Latte and the popular Gingerbread Latte

Sandwiches and sweet treats that help support charities this Christmas

With its own jetty, gym, and spa the Lake District house really is the stuff of dreams

Take a look inside the £4 million home you could win for just a tenner

Cash prizes are on offer alongside a £4 million house

One week left to enter a special £1m Omaze bonus Christmas prize draw

Prizes of up to £500,000 are up for grabs

Omaze announces special Christmas giveaway with cash prizes to be won

Omaze Prize Draw: Win £4m lakeside home with jetty and spa in the Lake District

Omaze: Win £4m lakeside home with jetty and spa in the Lake District

Flexibility Works has discovered that one in five over-55s would like flexible working. Picture: Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images.

Scottish bosses encouraged to consider greater flexible working for over-50s

Kevin Dorren, CEO at Parsley Box: 'The NHS is at crisis point, and we need to take a joined-up approach when considering how to free up hospital beds and get people safely back to the comfort of their own homes.' Picture: John Need

Meal delivery firm Parsley Box hopes 'wellness packs' will cut bed-blocking

As temperatures continue to plummet the NHS has issued advice to vulnerable people during the cold snap

NHS issues cold weather advice as temperatures plummet

People watch as workers place a giant bobble on top of a 23 foot high bobble hat in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the innocent Big Knit in partnership with Age UK (photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

First News: It's a supersize Bobble Hat

Kevin Dorren CEO of Parsley Box

We need team work to provide care at home for the elderly - Kevin Dorren

Loneliness this winter (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Over 150,000 older Scots can’t afford Christmas this year, say Age Scotland

Thousands of older Scots face spending this Christmas alone this year as they struggle to stay warm amid the cost-of-living crisis.

We can all help older Scots feeling lonely this Christmas

A significant proportion of elderly people plan to cut back on the amount of money they spend on care

Elderly ‘cut back on care’ as cost-of-living crisis bites

Iceland is giving pensioners £30 voucher to help them buy food - how to get one

Iceland shoppers over the age of 60 will be able to make a 10% saving on their shopping (image: AFP/Getty Images)

Iceland to launch discount for shoppers over 60 as cost of living soars

Many young people rely on grandparents for emotional support, research found (photo: Adobe)

Mental Health Awareness Week: Let's hear it for the grandparents

Higher energy bills are stretching many family budgets to the limit (photo: adobe)

Cost of Living Campaign - Pensions up... but bills even higher

Chancellor Rishi Sunak should at least consider a windfall tax on oil and gas companies (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Why emergency windfall tax on oil industry could be justified – Scotsman says

Millions of people at risk of losing free prescriptions in government shake-up

Immobility, loneliness and an inability to grieve as normal due to the Covid pandemic is leaving “deep physical and emotional scars” on a large proportion of the UK’s older population, a charity has said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Pandemic leaving ‘deep physical and emotional scars’ on large proportion of olde...

A charity has warned that older drinkers who do not have smartphones to order food and drinks at pubs and restaurants are at risk of being discriminated against (Photo: Shutterstock)

Older people who do not have smartphones are ‘at risk of discrimination’ in pubs...

Fish is a key part of a Mediterranean diet

Edinburgh study suggests a Mediterranean diet can help you stay sharp as you age

Experts have warned that, without visits, elderly people could lose the will to live (Photo: Shutterstock)

Experts warn a blanket care home visiting ban 'could risk premature deaths'

Care homes will be prioritised for testing. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Care homes will be given free PPE until March under new coronavirus plans

Call to bridge digital divide and help older people get online

The lockdown has left a quarter of adults thinking they have no real friends

Carers Week is an annual event which takes place each year, celebrating the fantastic work of carers in the UK (Photo: Shutterstock)

Carers Week 2020: UK national awareness campaign celebrating carers explained, t...

Special VE Day programmes on Age UK's The Wireless - includes Angela Ripon prog...

Boyzone’s Keith Duffy and Westlife’s Brian McFadden have teamed up as Boyzlife

Boyzlife release single to help the elderly during coronavirus outbreak

This is how you can help your elderly relatives and friends during the coronavir...

The BBC will delay TV licence fee changes for over-75s - here’s why

For many, Christmas is the loneliest time of the year (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how you can tackle loneliness this Christmas by helping those facing it ...

The Scotsman has launched a campaign to help combat loneliness in the countdown to Christmas

Loneliness kills: experts say isolation can be fatal

Spending time on shared activities with like-minded people is one way to help combat loneliness. Picture: contributed

Loneliness Crisis: 106,000 Scots over 65 on their own at Christmas

Bellshill Mens Shed is one of a number of similar projects that help tackle loneliness (Picture: Eoin Cooper/Age Scotland)

Scotsman launches campaign to tackle loneliness – leader comment

The value of the private senior living market, currently £39.6bn, will increase to £55.2bn in four years. Picture: Laurence Winram

David Alexander: Rental market for the elderly is still in its infancy

Boosting fluidity at the top of the property ladder will energise the entire chain, says Whyte. Picture: contributed

Comment: Scots law missing a trick on ‘later living’ projects

Age UK: Pensioners Sue, David, Radha and Tony visited 10 Downing Street today. Photo: Georgia Scott / Age UK / PA Wire

Pensioners deliver petition Downing Street urging Boris Johnson to save free TV ...

The decision has been criticised. Picture: Contributed.

Hundreds of thousands sign petition opposing changes to over-75s TV licences

Nearly four milllion over-75s will have to pay for a TV licence from next year (Photo: Shutterstock)

TV licence fee: BBC say nearly 4 million over-75s must pay

Rules are changing around pension credit. Photo: Shutterstock.

Pension credit changes: mixed-age couples are no longer eligible to claim

Why not donate warm clothes to help homeless people? Picture: John Devlin

James Walker: Goodwill to all starts with the gift of giving
The holiday season is often associated with overspending and eating. But we're also a nation of givers in the UK. From charitable donations to volunteering and ...

Scottish Ballet principal ballerina Elaine McDonald performs the Dying Swan from Swan Lake in February 1983.

Scottish Ballet pays tribute after its first stage star passes away

Weather warnings are in place for much of Scotland.

Scotland's weather: Warning for elderly as '˜Beast from the East' hits

A report warned elder people were being 'marooned' on hospital beds. Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

NHS patients could be put in '˜AirBnB style' accommodation

The anonymity of the internet means the quest for love online is fraught with risks. Picture: PA

Old romantics urged to beware fraudsters on dating sites

Playing the piano can help people feel good as they age, according to a new study

Singing and home ownership '˜boost wellbeing in later life'

Age UK was slammed for promoting expensive E.ON tariff to elderly. Picture: PA

Criticism of Age Uk and E.ON prompts halt to Â£6m tariff deal

Age UK has raised issue of fuel poverty while selling E.ON tariffs. Picture: John Devlin

Age UK to be probed over Â£6m energy firm payoffs

John Lewiss Christmas advertising campaign highlights how society tend to treat the elderly as if they live on another planet. Picture: PA

Lori Anderson: Don’t turn blind eye to the lonely

The new John Lewis advert features a man alone on the Moon. Picture: YouTube

Video: New John Lewis ‘Man on the Moon’ Christmas advert

Government is betraying vulnerable if it doesn’t redirect care savings

Work on developing robots to serve in the health and care industries is ongoing. Picture: AFP/Getty

Could robot nurses ease the pain at NHS?

Picture: Getty

Middle-class pensioners risking health with wine

Older people are more likely to be the targets of vishing scams and hand over their cash. Picture: Getty

Older people fall victim to phone scams

The study is the first of its kind to include octogenarians. Picture: Contributed

Revealed: The very active sex lives of the over-80s

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries