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Britain today confirmed 12,718 new coronavirus cases and 738 deaths amid signs that the country’s outbreak may have stopped shrinking, with the symptom-tracking study suggesting infections are now rising in parts of the UK. The unofficial ZOE and King’s College app suggests the number of people reporting symptoms of Covid-19 has started rising again in … Read more
Scotland’s way ahead Nicola Sturgeon made several announcements today ahead of a full roadmap out of lockdown she expects to present next week. Addressing MSPs in Holyrood she said: Schools would reopen from February 22, starting with limited primary and secondary age groups No other years would return to face-to-face teaching before March 15 Scottish … Read more
Comedian Rory Bremner sells his seven-bedroom Scottish country mansion and estate for £2.7m after restoring it to its former glory Comedian Rory Bremner bought the 10,000 square foot property for £1.5 million in 2009 The estate was built for Captain James Paton who made his fortune with the East India Company Paton used a network … Read more
Comedian Rory Bremner sells his seven-bedroom Scottish country mansion for £2.7m after restoring it to its former glory Comedian Rory Bremner bought the 10,000 square foot property for £1.5 million in 2009 The estate was built for Captain James Paton who made his fortune with the East India Company Paton used a network local informers … Read more
Free speech campaigners today blasted Police Scotland over its decision to charge a man over an offensive tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore. A tweet sent shortly after war hero’s death last Tuesday read: ‘The only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn.’ Joseph Kelly will appear at Lanark Sheriff Court … Read more
A mother and daughter have been stabbed to death before a man crashed a car into a viaduct in a suspected double murder-suicide. Nurse Emma Robertson Coupland, 39, was knifed outside Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, Scotland, at 7.45pm. Her daughter Nicole Anderson, 24, was attacked 20 minutes later near a takeaway shop she worked at and … Read more
Boris Johnson is ‘bailing out’ Nicola Sturgeon’s stuttering vaccination programme in Scotland by deploying more military personnel to speed it up, a minister said today. Jacob Rees-Mogg made the claim as he batted away SNP demands for more money for Scotland, to be used by politicians there. British Army medics began helping administer jabs in the country … Read more
A care home has been slammed for uncleanliness after 19 residents died during the coronavirus pandemic. Staff at Lomond Court Nursing Home in Glenrothes, Fife, left clean laundry on the floor and uncovered milk and food in a dirty fridge that was not connected to power. The Care Inspectorate raised serious concerns and judged the … Read more
Joanna Cherry is sacked from the SNP’s Westminster frontbench after row over gender recognition and trans rights as widely-tipped leadership challenger to Nicola Sturgeon blasts party chiefs Joanna Cherry said she had been ‘sacked’ from the SNP Westminster frontbench She is widely tipped as a future SNP leadership challenger to Nicola Sturgeon Ms Cherry has … Read more
Blizzards bringing up to 16in (40cm) of snow are set to blast across a swathe of Britain this week – with yet more rain predicted for saturated parts of the country, after temperature fell to -7C (19F) overnight. Forecasters warn the wintry weather will hit from 10pm tonight and could last the rest of the … Read more