While MPs debate small fixes to budgets, we look at the human cost of years of cuts and austerity.

From hollowed out health services, to public sector strikes, the problems run deep.

The team also looks at Unison’s targeted industrial action in Perthshire, as council staff look for elusive money.

In a special episode of The Stooshie, The Press and Journal's Adele Merson and The Courier's Alasdair Clark are joined by Perth MP Pete Wishart and former Scottish political editor Alan Roden to remember former first minister Alex Salmond after his sudden death on Saturday.

They discuss Alex Salmond's complex legacy and the difficult set of emotions many of his friends and former colleagues are dealing with, as well as tales from his early days and an insight into what it was like to cover him as a reporter.

From Scotland to Georgia, this week’s episode covers a lot of ground.

We get to grips with Labour’s shaky start, Dundee election setbacks and winter fuel payment woes.

We discuss our exclusive reporting on the human cost of long waits for breast cancer surgery and reconstruction in Grampian.

And we speak to Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP Stephen Gethins on why political unrest in Georgia, on the border of Russia, matters here.