Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish Government will pass on "every single penny" of extra cash it receives from Westminster to ease the cost of living crisis.
18.01.2022 - 20:40 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Concerts and large indoor events in Scotland will be back on in time for Burns Night as Nicola Sturgeon said restrictions on large indoor events would be lifted on Monday 24th January.
In her covid update to Holyrood the First Minister said that in light of the improving situation with Omicron most of the restrictions imposed at the turn of the year would be lifted.
Sturgeon said the limits on on attendance at indoor public events would be lifted in addition to ending the requirement for 1 metre physical distancing between different groups in indoor public places.
The need for table service in hospitality premises serving alcohol is also being lift as is the ban on nightclubs opening.
As is usual the First Minister entered a note of caution with the announcement even though she said Scotland had “turned a corner” on the Omicron wave.
She said: “It is important to stress this point: notwithstanding the improving situation, the level of Covid infection circulating in the community is still high.
"So to minimise the risk of us getting the virus it would be sensible for all of us to remain cautious in our social interactions at this stage."
Sturgeon added: “Even though from Monday we will no longer recommend a fixed upper limit on numbers of households, if we all continue to keep gatherings as small as our circumstances allow for now - until the end of this month - we will reduce our risks of infection.”
“And, of course, we should continue to take lateral flow tests before meeting up with people from other households.”
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Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish Government will pass on "every single penny" of extra cash it receives from Westminster to ease the cost of living crisis.
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football team in Scotland over its signing of a player who was ruled by a judge in 2017 to have raped a woman.Crime writer Val McDermid slammed Raith Rovers’ decision to sign David Goodwillie on Monday as a “disgusting and despicable” move that “shatters any claim to be a community or family club.”Goodwillie, a 32-year-old former Scotland international, and an ex-teammate at Dundee United, David Robertson, were ordered to pay damages of 100,000 pounds ($135,000) to a woman they raped, a judge ruled in a civil case in an Edinburgh court in 2017. No criminal charges were brought against either Goodwillie or Robertson.Goodwillie left English team Plymouth following the ruling and has played for Clyde in Scotland’s lower two divisions since then.McDermid, who has sold more than 17 million books, was a Raith director and her name is on the front of the team’s home shirts.She wrote on Twitter she would be ending her lifelong support of the team.“Goodwillie has never expressed a shred of remorse for the rape he committed,” she wrote.
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COVID-19 restrictions are to be eased in Scotland from Monday January 24, with nightclubs reopening, large indoor events resuming and social distancing rules dropped.Restrictions on outdoor events in Scotland were previously lifted on January 17. This allowed fans to return to outdoor concerts and football matches, after COVID restrictions were put in place on Boxing Day, reducing outdoor events to a capacity of 500.Nightclubs had been closed since December 26 but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had said that all restrictions, including the closure of nightclubs, could be lifted from January 24.The new changes will take effect after a “significant fall” in new case numbers, with Sturgeon commented that Scotland had “turned the corner on the Omicron wave”.
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