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Graham Blaikie, the owner of the Mercat Bar and Grill in Musselburgh, says energy is costing his business £280 every day. He’s having to plan how to survive the winter. “I might close Monday to Thursday, and only open for customers Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” he says.

At the side of the race circuit, Lady Helen was “his stopwatch” – F1 legend Sir Jackie Stewart often praised his wife’s ability to time his laps to the millisecond with unfaltering accuracy. But since a dementia diagnosis in 2014, her “razor-sharp mind” has been slowly fading away. She can no longer walk without aids and requires round-the-clock care at their home in Switzerland.

Demelza Sully, a 40-year-old from the village of Eredine, near Oban, is a Scottish woman on a mission. When refugees began fleeing war-torn Ukraine, she decided to take her parents’ car and turned to social media to offer a lift to any refugees in need of transport. Since the war started, she has driven a total of 5000 miles and brought three Ukrainian families across Europe to safety. Speaking to STV News, she said: “I was on holiday from work and I couldn’t sit by and watch.