A77 to undergo week of overnight closures as vital resurfacing work takes place

The Scottish Government’s Job Start Payment is a one-off grant of £250 to help with the costs of starting a new job. The upper age limit rises to 25 for care leavers and the payment rises to £400 if the person has a child.

new benefit to support 16 to 24-year-olds into work if they have been unemployed for six months has opened for applications. Job Start Payment is a one-off £250 payment to help with the costs of starting a new job.

A Scots mum ate a stranger's parking ticket after her new colleagues hilariously decided to prank her. Mariea Mohan, from Prestwick, took matters into her own mouth after thinking she had been slapped with a £60 parking fine in Ayr yesterday, August 14.

SNP members have demanded they keep a place at the "decision-making table" as the fall-out from a row over how the party selects its candidates continues. Divisions among Nationalists have emerged after the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) ruled that any sitting MP would have to resign their seat  before they could stand for election to the Scottish Parliament.

picturesque villages or farmsteads with plenty to offer any visitor.Much like the rest of the UK, Scotland has its fair share of odd place names, here are some of the most bizarre and where they may have originated from.A place located near to the village of Newmachar in Aberdeenshire, it is thought the name is likely to have originally been Brokenwynd - with wynd a Scots word for a narrow curving path or lane leading off a main thoroughfare.Speaking of wynds...The butt of a joke for many

unemployment benefits has more than doubled over the last year as lockdown continues to hammer the economy. The Scottish Government has again called on Westminster to extend the furlough scheme amid fears the full scale of the jobs crisis will only become clear when it ends in October.

holidays from Scotland to Cyprus from next week. The budget airline previously cancelled all trips to Paphos and Larnaca from Scottish airports due to Cyprus' “prohibitive entry restrictions” amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA fresh spike in coronavirus cases across Scotland has seen 60 new positive tests declared by the Scottish Government.The latest figures show 60 more cases have been detected in the past 24 hours. The total for Scotland now stands at 18,950.But there has been no new COVID-19 deaths in the country for 23 days now.In Ayrshire and Arran, one more case has been identified overnight.

coronavirus figures in Scotland continues to rise after a further 60 cases were identified overnight. The latest Scottish Government figures revealed there have now been no deaths related to the killer virus for the last 23 days but the total number of confirmed cases is now 18, 950.

Stewarton’s busiest roads next week.

coronavirus deaths registered in Scotland for a 20th day but 64 new positive cases have been confirmed. The total number of positive cases is now 18,781 according to the latest Scottish Government released figures.

coronavirus and the need for another lockdown, Tony Blair has warned. He has urged Boris Johnson to appoint a Minister with sole responsibility for testing and said that without a vaccine or an effective treatment, mass testing is the only way to control the spread of Covid-19.

pupils in Scotland are finding out their exam grades as results are published amid a row over how they have been reached during lockdown. Teachers were forced to estimate results because exams were cancelled in the pandemic.

Northern Ireland peace process and hailed as “Ireland’s peacemaker”, has died aged 83. The current SDLP leader Colum Eastwood described him as Ireland’s “most significant and consequential political leader” of the 20th century as tributes poured in.

President Trump still earns substantial income from his three decades of work in film and TV productions, according to his 2019 financial disclosure forms. The forms, which were released late Friday, detail all of his financial holdings and income.

River Carron after a large scale overnight search and rescue operation. The grim discovery was made near the viaduct in Larbert, near Falkirk, on Thursday morning in the search for a missing fisherman.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Ask a lot of parents and they will tell you that kids and the word “relax” don’t go together that often in the modern day.Helena Kelman, 58, from Motherwell is a Relax Kids coach, and provides children with coping methods to help them unwind.The mum-of-two was delighted last week when the work of the organisation was recognised in the Scottish Parliament in a motion lodged by Motherwell and Wishaw MSP Clare