Nicola Sturgeon has conceded Scotland is set to continue its spell in lockdown and warned there is "very little room, if any, for changing the restrictions" currently in place.
17.04.2020 - 13:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she would deviate from the UK Government's lockdown measures if her advisers told her it was in the best interests of her country.
Ms Sturgeon told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "If I was being advised, and if the judgment I was applying to that advice told me that I had to do something different to the rest of the UK because it was right and necessary to continue to control coronavirus in Scotland, of course I would do that.
"I think people
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