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room) but the area of the other exhibits is small compared to the areas occupied by the café and restaurant.

On going outside, we were faced with the building opposite which is now looking worse than ever with the fake brick cladding.

If only it had been all glass then it would have reflected the V&A. Nicoll Merchant. 14 Chapman Drive, Carnoustie. subjected the people of the UK, well the poor people anyway, to 10 years of austerity, causing 20% of the population to live on incomes below the poverty line, nearly one in three children to live in poverty, and which the Institute for Public Policy Research says has made the UK “the fifth most unequal in Europe”.

England’s Children’s Commissioner in 2016 said that living in poverty has a lasting impact on children’s lives, adversely affecting their development, education, health and wellbeing.

At the age of three, a child who has been raised in poverty is likely to have poorer health and a lower level of educational attainment than one who has not.

We all know this, but unfortunately there is very little that the Scottish Government can do when control of the economy and the benefits system are held by Westminster.

The Scottish Government is putting its main efforts into pre-school services, to try to make it easier for parents to get out to work, lessening the

Picture: AP. Visitors watch a light show inside the installation Triangle Mirror Video Kaleidoscope at a shopping mall in Hong Kong.