Council leader says whole of Ayrshire should face same restrictions

East Ayrshire primary school with no heating or hot water is to partially close today.Crosshouse Primary's P5-7 classes along with the early years centre cannot open to children, the local authority confirmed.East Ayrshire Council said that children already at the school will be cared for until parents are able to collect them.A statement from East Ayrshire Council reads: "Due to an issue with the heating system the Crosshouse campus does not have any hot water or heating today and cannot open

infection rate in the borough is 165.9 cases per 100,000 people - down 20pc from the previous week. Councillor Greenhalgh believes that if the downward trajectory continues, the infection rate will be below 150 by the time that the tiers are reviewed next Wednesday (December 16).

National Geographic’s anthology series Genius will become a Disney+ original, starting with Season 4. The announcement was made during Disney’s Investor Day by Nat Geo President Courtney Monroe. She unveiled that Season 4 will focus on civil rights movement icon Martin Luther King, Jr.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVMartin Luther King Jr. will be profiled in an upcoming season of National Geographic’s “Genius.”National Geographic exec Courteney Monroe announced the programming move Thursday during the Walt Disney Company’s investor relations day presentation.Previous seasons of “Genius” have profiled Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso.

They are available until 5.30pm on Wednesday December 9 from Kincaidston Bowling Club and Lochside Community Centre in Ayr and Maybole Town Hall.

New lockdown orders in California will rescue strained hospitals, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert.

Luther creator Neil Cross has confirmed that there will not be a sixth season of the BBC detective series.The hit show, which stars Idris Elba as DCI John Luther, has been off screens for nearly two years – though it seems a follow-up to season five on the small screen is now off the cards.“There is not going to be a season six — definitively no season six,” Cross told Australia’s Insider magazine (via Daily Mail).However, he did announced that some “exciting news” was on the way, which comes

Luther creator Neil Cross has confirmed that there will not be a sixth season of the BBC detective series.The hit show, which stars Idris Elba as DCI John Luther, has been off screens for nearly two years – though it seems a follow-up to season five on the small screen is now off the cards.“There is not going to be a season six — definitively no season six,” Cross told Australia’s Insider magazine (via Daily Mail).However, he did announced that some “exciting news” was on the way, which comes

Perth and Kinross Council leader Murray Lyle has defended a decision to allow three members of senior management to move to a higher pay grade.

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We’ve missed out on so much in 2020 that it’s possible to lose sight of the reason we celebrate Thanksgiving. With everything that has been taken and stripped away this year, dedicating a day to thankfulness seems like a cruel joke.

national lockdown is lifted. The whole of Greater Manchester will be placed in the 'very high' alert level, meaning that hospitality will remain closed, alongside other entertainment venues such as play areas and cinemas.

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Mancunians who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 will be given a place to help them remember and deal with their trauma 'when circumstances allow', the city’s leader has said.More than 55,000 people have died from the virus since March - with people in Manchester accounting for over 540 deaths.Sir Richard Leese said it was 'absolutely vital' to provide a space where those affected could remember and deal with their loss, though it remains unclear what form it could take.The leader of Manchester

The work will be primarily delivered using a daytime convoy system, with a series of overnight full road closures, between 8pm and 6am, on the following dates: Preparatory siding out work will take place from Monday, November 30 to Monday, December 7 under temporary traffic lights.

Guy Lodge Film CriticEven in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker-dependent, the former (and final) Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev is an imposing, even intimidating figure — formidable enough to have stymied the venerable Werner Herzog two years ago. The German auteur’s oddly cautious 2018 doc “Meeting Gorbachev” was a missed opportunity, colored by the filmmaker’s obvious admiration for his subject but never getting under his skin in any sense.

told USA Today in an interview published Friday.As the holidays begin to take shape, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid down the law on travel. The organization is currently warning people to stay home rather than visit family and gather in large groups, which could potentially advance the new surges of COVID-19.