Argos latest big name to close in Perth as MSP calls for furlough scheme extension

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“Penguin Bloom” may star Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, but it’s the film’s scene-stealing birds that are nabbing all the attention — including from the stars themselves.

coronavirus crisis, is set to come to an end next month.The new petition arrives after claims from many in the live music industry that, despite socially distanced indoor gigs being allowed in the UK from mid-August, the vast majority of venues are not viably able to host events with restrictions in place.You can sign the petition on the UK Government and Parliament petitions website here.Despite the government’s £1.57billion bailout for venues and arts spaces, which was announced back in July,

an estimated £3.5 billion may have been wrongly paid as part of the coronavirus jobs retention scheme (CJRS).

has also called for a furlough extension to help businesses.

UK Government to end its furlough scheme next month.She has also made clear it will not be 'acceptable' for the initiative to stop without Scotland being given the ability to set up an alternative.The First Minister said the UK Government ending the scheme – set up by Chancellor Rishi Sunak at the height of the coronavirus pandemic – will “narrow the options available to us in controlling the spread of the virus in the next few months”.By the end of June, some 736,500 workers across Scotland had

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterPrestwick Airport has been criticised for how workers have been treated while on furlough. Bosses did not top up furlough pay past the 80 per cent wages awarded by the UK Government.Instead staff have had to use holidays to make their pay packet up to 100 per cent at the Scottish Government owned airport. A councillor said: “I am concerned that Scottish Government airport employees did not receive

hereMotorists were urged to avoid the area by Transport for Greater Manchester.A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police confirmed brief details of the incident.No details about the pedestrian have been released.They were taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary although their condition is not thought to be life-threatening.Bramhall Lane was re-opened following the incident.

Sign up here - it only takes a few seconds.Fourth place seems a reasonable expectation. Skipper Zelem expects at least that – and hopefully more.“Some new players have come in and fitted in brilliantly with the squad,” she said.

@LabourRichard resigns are the ones who told us that Better Together was a huge success story for Labour and that Jim Murphy was the salvation of the Party - they have been repeatedly wrong and are wrong again - it’s treachery with a snarl.” Leonard has insisted he is staying on and will lead the party into the Holyrood election on a platform of "building a National Care Service, establishing a quality Jobs Guarantee scheme and reviving Scotland's economy with a Green New Deal".He said: "If any

Chelsea Houska, 29, and Cole DeBoer, 32, are two of the many couples who happily announced that they are expecting during quarantine. The Teen Mom 2 stars revealed their joyous baby news in early August on Instagram, with Chelsea posting a photo of all of their names on the wall (Chelsea, Cole and their children Aubree, Watson and Layne) with their 4th child (who will be a girl) added at the bottom.

Tenet was kept secret during production. And like many Christopher Nolan films – most notably Inception, which it feels like a companion piece to – its plot developments are complicated enough to make your brain ache.

straight to your inboxManchester City are the odds-on favourite to be Lionel Messi's next club.The bombshell dropped on Tuesday night that Messi has told Barcelona that he wants to leave the club after 16 glorious years.The announcement comes just 11 days following Barca's humiliating 8-2 demolition at the hands of Bayern Munich to send them crashing out of the Champions League at the quarter-final stage and amid growing frustrations with the club's board and president Josep Maria Bartomeu.It's

East Kilbride performed best for that week with 90.5 per cent of patients seen within four hours compared to 79.6 per cent in Monklands in Airdrie and 84.8 in Wishaw. Mr Simpson said: “The SNP need to be providing more resources to ensure that NHS Lanarkshire A&E wait times are improved.

Perth teenager whose baby sister’s grave has been targeted by heartless vandals is urging politicians to push for CCTV to be installed in cemeteries.Fifteen-year-old Natasha-Lee McGilligan set up an online petition to persuade politicians that cameras are needed in graveyards in the wake of two attacks on her sister Roxie’s grave in the city’s Jeanfield Cemetery.The Perth Grammar School pupil decided to do something to draw attention to the problem after toys and other tributes left by Roxie’s

Lili Reinhart is opening up in a brand new interview with the LA Times about her new movie, Chemical Hearts, her sexuality, Riverdale and more.