Driving tests in England restart - the rules and how they will work

Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Stirling’s Macrobert Arts Centre was this week among 11 leading Scottish performing arts venues calling on the Scottish Government to urgently review social distancing requirements as lockdown eases.The venue is part of the Scottish Theatre Producing Consortium and Federation of Scottish Theatre, which pointed out that the current two metres-plus distancing requirement makes presenting and producing

lockdown restrictions on social distancing to ease for the first time in months. During Tuesday's coronavirus briefing, Nicola Sturgeon admitted she felt 'emotional' as she announced that people could now hug each other from Monday, May 17.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday. He admitted driving in Nivensknowe Road in Loanhead, Midlothian, with 106 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.

tomato sauce.NHS Grampian have issued a statement stating that no condiment is capable of tricking the tests into providing positive results. They said that anyone who has tested positive for coronavirus using the lateral flow devices are then given a ‘gold standard’ PCR test to confirm their result.

Ross, who heads to Holyrood as leader of the largest opposition party with 31 Scottish Conservative MSPs, signalled he will not be relying on numbers to stop the SNP’s independence plans. At a press conference to mark his return to the Holyrood chamber, the Moray MP and now list MSP, spelled out why UK cabinet minister Michael Gove was confident the referendum bill would not end up with the UK government taking the Scottish Government to the Supreme Court.

Culloden Moor Inn, near Inverness, posted several pics taken just four days apart that show a bustling beer garden in the sunshine followed by the same area completely deserted and covered in a layer of snow just a short time later.Owner Linsey McLeod, who runs the pub with her partner Gordon Morison, took the first pair of photographs on May 1st just after beer gardens were allowed to reopen as part of the easing of restrictions by the Scottish Government.They show a bustling beer garden with

court orders again he would end up in prison. Alasdair Beaton, a Royal Highland Show sponsor, stables owner, and boss of a civil engineer firm with Scottish Government contracts, was stopped by police last month on his way to tend the ewe in Slammannan, Stirlingshire.

Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda

restaurant s have slowly started to reopen, with punters now able to enjoy a drink in a beer garden. Thousands have flocked to the pub over the past week since alcohol was allowed to be served outside from April 26.

Scottish SPCA investigation has been launched after a man was seen dumping cockerels in an Aberdeenshire woodland. The first three birds were discovered in a wooded area besides Cedar Avenue, Stoneywood, near Aberdeen, on March 25.

SNP leader used an interview with an Irish newspaper yesterday to explain there would be detailed work to minimise "any practical difficulties for businesses" that rely on cross-border trade.The UK Government and the EU spent years negotiating how to avoid a hard border between the Republic of Ireland, which remains in the Euro bloc, and Northern Ireland after the UK voted for Brexit in 2016.Sturgeon said the resulting deal offered an example of how an independent Scotland would handle a border

Scotland will be able to order a free rapid coronavirus test from today, even if you are showing no coronavirus symptoms. Lockdown restrictions are easing for the first time in almost five months this week, with beer gardens, shops and gyms welcoming back customers as the country moves to Level Three.

Paisley town centre. The town’s sheriff court heard the plumbing and heating engineer feared a row with his girlfriend and got behind the wheel of his Vauxhall Corsa and went out for a drive on March 27, when he was stopped by the police at Candren Road, Linwood, at around 12.35pm.

Scottish Government has published a series of rules and guidance that Scots should adhere to when visiting the pub during the coronavirus pandemic. From Monday, Scots will be able to enjoy a pint at their local beer garden as part of a series of changes being made to the lockdown.

Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox

iOS and Android. Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms, or anyone who has been identified as a close contact, should book a test in the usual way via nhsinform.scot or by calling 0800 028 2816.

could create jobs in the south of the country. But the First Minister insisted: “Nobody in the SNP wants to see a border between Scotland and England”.

SNP MSP has drawn criticism after claiming more jobs would be created if there was a hard border with England. Emma Harper made the claim while being interviewed on ITV tonight, when she was asked about whether there would be checks along the 108-mile border should Scotland become independent and rejoin the European Union.