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Vanessa Taaffe

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📺🎥 Broadcast Journalist @STVNews and @ScotlandTonight. Glasgow based. From the hills of Donegal. ✉️ [email protected]

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🔹Scotland's Housing Minister defends the Scottish Government record on homeless prevention. 🔹That's as latest figures show 40,685 people are homeless, the highest since 2011. 🔹More than 10,000 children have no place to call home & 16,330 households are in temporary accommodation.

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Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar calls on the Housing Minister to resign after he told STV News the Scottish Government has a ‘good track record’ preventing homelessness-there were 40,685 homelessness applications. First Minister said they're 'getting on with' tackling the housing emergency.

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🅿️Parking permits could cost residents in the west of Glasgow city up to £300 under proposals by Glasgow City Council. 🚗 The price will be based off a vehicles emissions. 🔹Residents says it's 'unfair' and that it'll impact families on the lowest incomes. More 6pm. Producer Iona Brownlie

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🔔 The Scottish Government announce £768m for the housing sector in the 2025-6 budget. 🏠They plan to deliver more than 8000 new homes for social & mid-market rent and low-cost ownership. 🗣️ This is a reversal of the cuts to the sector last year. STV News

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First bulletin of the year for me ☑️ First workday walk ✅ (with the fab Vanessa Taaffe ) Then at 6️⃣ tonight, the first STV News at 6 of 2025 📺 See you then.

First bulletin of the year for me ☑️

First workday walk ✅ (with the fab <a href="/vanessataaffe/">Vanessa Taaffe</a> )

Then at 6️⃣ tonight, the first <a href="/STVNews/">STV News</a> at 6 of 2025 📺 See you then.
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🏠Today's homelessness figures highlight stark reality of Scotland's housing crisis. 🛠️The uncomfortable truth is the Scottish Government is failing to meet vital targets it has set to build new homes. news.stv.tv/politics/homel…

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Team 🙌 Vanessa Taaffe, producer Daryn & director Andrew today! 📺 Good Friday @stvnews bulletin ✅ Now let’s get Easter weekend underway!! 🐣 🍫 🍫

Team 🙌 <a href="/vanessataaffe/">Vanessa Taaffe</a>, producer Daryn &amp; director Andrew today! 📺 

Good Friday @stvnews bulletin ✅ 
Now let’s get Easter weekend underway!! 🐣 🍫 🍫
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The Catholic church has a new Pope, with cardinals in Rome electing the church's 267th leader. Vanessa Taaffe has the latest. i.stv.tv/4d4QVQC

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🏘️Why can’t Scotland solve its housing emergency? 🚨One year on from Scottish Government declaring a national crisis, there are intensifying calls for radical intervention to tackle the escalating emergency. 🔹More of my analysis below and on STV News 6pm. news.stv.tv/scotland/why-c…

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🔹Given Scotland's housing emergency has been decades in the making, the odds of the crisis easing soon feel slim. 🔹The sector has expressed anger it hasn't been tackled in the way you might expect an emergency to be handled.  📺Full report here: youtu.be/64XABzbijF0?si…

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Police seize 1,000 hours of CCTV in hunt for teen missing for three weeks Cole Cooper was reported missing on May 9. Vanessa Taaffe reports. i.stv.tv/43tXI1P

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📜More than 250,000 people are on a waiting list for a social home in Scotland. 🏘️Scottish Government say housing is a top priority for them but Scotland's new Cabinet Secretary for the brief was unable to answer how many are in need. 📺More @stvnews 6pm.