Jeane Freeman said the NHS in Scotland is ready to start distributing the first vaccine, developed jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech, as soon as approval is granted. UK approval of the first vaccine by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is due on Monday, December 7, with jabs being delivered immediately.
Douglas Stuart hopes Booker win helps working-class writers
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LONDON -- Fittingly in this year of work-from-home and lockdowns, Douglas Stuart’s life-changing moment came to him on his sofa.The Scottish writer was at home in Manhattan when he was announced as the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize last week. Stuart won the 50,000-pound ($66,000) literary award for “Shuggie Bain,” the powerful story of a boy coming of age with an alcoholic mother in poverty-scarred 1980s Glasgow.
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29.11.2020 / 16:15
Nicola Sturgeon sidesteps Alex Salmond questions and is accused by Douglas Ross of 'clear-cut lie'
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29.11.2020 / 10:27
Campaigners demand action as Scottish council stand firm over Irish Catholic sectarian street slur row
Catholics.Call It Out vowed to take its complaint to the Scottish Government if East Dunbartonshire Council refuses to remove “Taig” from the names in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow.The Oxford Dictionary lists the word as a “derogatory term for a Catholic or Irish nationalist”.But officials say Taig Road in Waterside was named after Councillor Nathaniel Taig in 1946 and is not an insult.
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27.11.2020 / 23:11
Man rushed to hospital after 'violent attack' in Grangemouth street as police race to the scene
hospital for serious injuries after being allegedly violently attacked in Grangemouth.Emergency services were called to a block of flats on Portal Road near to the junction with Burnbank Road at around 3.25pm on Friday. Two marked police vans, two ambulances and a specialist paramedic were sent to the scene after the alarm was raised.Police Scotland confirmed that a 34-year-old man has been arrested and charged.
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27.11.2020 / 13:42
Car torched on Scots street in early morning targeted attack as cops launch probe
torched outside a Scots home. Firefighters from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were spotted at around 6am this morning, November 27, on Duntocher Road in Clydebank.
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27.11.2020 / 11:29
Tesco and Iceland offering free fruit and veg to people with a Best Start Foods card this winter
Scottish Government has announced that families receiving the Best Start Foods grant can now pick up free fruit and vegetables in Iceland and Tesco this winter. Customers who show their Best Start Foods card in Iceland stores can get a £1 bag of frozen vegetables when they make a minimum payment of £4.25.
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22.11.2020 / 18:03
Douglas Ross insists he can oust Nicola Sturgeon to become next First Minister
Scottish Conservative leader insisted he was "in it to win it" when asked if he had any chance of ousting Nicola Sturgeon in May 2021.
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21.11.2020 / 20:59
'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize
LONDON -- Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for “Shuggie Bain,” a novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow that was turned down by 32 publishers before being picked up.Stuart, 44, won the prestigious 50,000 pound ($66,000) award for his first published novel, the product of a decade of work.
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20.11.2020 / 13:47
Douglas Ross clash with Boris Johnson in Tory devolution row
Scottish Tory leader said he had been in touch with the Prime Minister following his damaging exchange with Tory MPs from the north of England this week. Ross and other Scottish Tories were left furious when Johnson was caught out telling MPs on a zoom call that devolution had been Tony Blair's "biggest mistake".In a BBC interview Ross said: "Yes, I’ve been in touch with the Prime Minister this week, but don’t share what we discuss.
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19.11.2020 / 23:32
Kids injured in Glasgow's Duke Street as two youngsters hit by car
hospitalised this evening after being hit by a car in the East End of Glasgow.
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17.11.2020 / 17:42
Terminally ill Scot to marry sweetheart in surprise lavish ceremony thanks to kind strangers
strangers in a lavish 'surprise' ceremony. Eddie Matheson, 61, 'takes each day as it comes' after being diagnosed with stage four cholangiocarcinoma, also known as bile duct cancer, a couple of weeks ago.
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17.11.2020 / 17:40
Douglas Ross left defending Boris Johnson's devolution disaster comments
Boris Johnson after the Prime Minister claimed devolution was a "disaster" in Scotland.