Bagpiper Euan entertains nursing home residents during lockdown

care home residents will be able to receive more visits from friends and family from Monday, it was confirmed today. Up to three outdoor visitors from no more than two households will be allowed - if the home meets infection control criteria.

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happens Lauren’s English grade is among thousands across Scotland being questioned after the SQA confirmed students’ past work and predicted grades were slashed purely because of where they live.The exam body - which this year had to find a new way of grading students performance in absence of the usual exams - controversially also looked at each school’s previous history of results.This downgraded the pass rate for the poorest pupils by 15.2 per cent,

Government snub to their coronavirus efforts.While other public sector workers will be rewarded with pay rises, the nurses on the frontline – and other hospital staff – have been excluded because they are midway through a three-year pay deal.Karen, 46, of Bathgate, West Lothian, said: “The reason we are protesting is because our NHS needs protected.“It is currently run on the goodwill of people who start before their time, finish after their time, stay back to complete tasks and miss their

Edinburgh nurse is escaping her ‘boring’ marriage by having 'exciting' sex flings with married men.Chloe, a 32-year-old hospital nurse, has revealed how she began cheating on her husband to inject some passion into her life.The mother-of-two has been with her husband since she was 16 and they had got stuck into a mundane routine where the sex was unadventurous.She began to use online websites to kick-start her affairs which were covered by telling her husband she was working night shifts at the

lockdown - with her gran providing the kidney she needed. Ruby Simpson, two, has spent most of her life on dialysis and medics had feared she may not survive.

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.

Residents in Greater Manchester have been told to 'cancel' any plans to visit Scotland.The message from Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Friday (July 31), came just 12 hours after it was announced more than four million people will face tougher lockdown restrictions, including in parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire.Scottish people are advised to avoid travel to areas in northern England facing the new tougher restrictions after a spike in coronavirus cases.Travel between

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Police have issued a warning to Wishaw residents after reports of a rise in bogus workers targeting households.Officers took to social media after reports emerged of crooks trying to con local residents.A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Reports have been received of bogus workers targeting vulnerable households by offering to carry out gutter/roof cleaning and repairs in the Wishaw and Motherwell areas.“Please remain

East Kilbride where we operate Tony Macaroni and Tony2Go.

Perth residents can sit in at the two McDonald’s stores in the city. The fast food giant announced on Wednesday that, after a successful pilot, its’s restaurants were now able to have customers in them.This will impact the McDonald’s at Broxden and on Dunkeld Road. Call for urgent action on road named one of the most dangerous in Scotland Residents previously rushed to the stores when the drive thru service opened in June.

NHS medical and dental staff across Scotland are to receive a 2.8% pay rise, Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman has announced.

blaze at an industrial estate in Cupar.Emergency services were called to the scene at the Cupar Trading Estate in Fife at around 10.23am on Tuesday.The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service confirmed they have one appliance already in attendance with a further five on the way.Pictures from the scene show a massive plume of black smoke billowing into the air, which is visible from neighbouring towns.Local residents have also reported hearing "an explosion" coming from the site shortly after the fire

concerts, theatre and bingo from Wednesday as long as they remain in their cars. The Scottish Government said the risk of Covid-19 being transmitted in drive-in events is low enough to give them the green light.

Police officers were pelted with eggs after being called to a street protest against an alleged paedophile in Fife. A large crowd gathered in Blamey Crescent, Cowdenbeath, at around 6.40pm on Wednesday demanding the man be removed from the area.

Police have issued a warning after cruel scammers offering garden services in Glasgow targeted a victim on social media.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.The number of operations carried out in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) dropped by more than 12,000 during lockdown, figures have revealed.Recent statistics from ISD Scotland show between March and May this year, 4,998 scheduled elective operations took place, compared to 17,314 in the same period last year.Now MSP Maurice Golden has called on the Scottish Government to outline plans to deal with a backlog of

Police have arrested three women following an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of resident in a Scots care home. A probe was launched into the Springvale Care Home in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire last month.