Families across Scotland had £60 quietly deducted from benefits during height of lockdown

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.There’s a kind of magic surrounding a new addition to the team of animals at Amazonia visitor attraction in Strathclyde Park.The indoor tropical rainforest, the only one in Scotland, welcomed a new baby Goeldi’s Monkey into its family.It’s the first birth of an animal there for over a decade, with the last in 2009.The newborn has been named Mercury by staff at Amazonia after coming into the world on the same

coronavirus measures are introduced.

family their son had died in a horrific crash. The (unnamed) 18-year-old was badly hurt when a red Ford Fiesta veered off the road into a field in Aberdeenshire.

Rutherglen MP was suspended from the SNP last Thursday evening, an hour after media reports of her trip to London and back. The party is believed to have been informed of her diagnosis on Wednesday, although party leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was not told until the following day.Ms Sturgeon expressed her anger at Ms Ferrier’s actions.She said: “She accepts she made a very serious mistake and error of judgement and is not trying to evade responsibility.

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RAF hero, who they believe was murdered on his base, have spoken of their upset about being snubbed for months by the UK Veterans Minister.Robert Fleeting, 24, from East Kilbride, died at RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, in 2011 in what has been ruled as a suicide.Mum and dad Susan and Charles believe that injuries he sustained point to foul play and suspect his death came about during an initiation ceremony.The pair say they had been given assurance of a meeting with veterans minister Johnny Mercer

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Scottish judges have ordered protected documents held by the UK Government be released to the court as part of an appeal to clear the Lockerbie bomber.The family of late Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi want to review secret files as part of their case.Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said producing the documents, which are covered by a public immunity certificate, would cause “harm to the

charity in her memory.Seven-year-old Freya Skene and mum Brooke Reid were dragged down a series of waterfalls in the River Braan near Dunkeld on July 9.Despite Brooke and her partner Sean McKiddie's best efforts to save her, Freya sadly passed away.Heartbroken Brooke has now set up a fundraising page in the hope of starting up a charity called 'Freya's Wish' in her daughter's honour.She said: "Like a flash of a light, a current dragged us both down multiple waterfalls."I was lucky to survive,

search for a missing Scots mum. Police made the grim discovery of a 48-year-old woman in Broomhoouse Road, Bonnybridge, around 11.10am on September 29.

wealthiest 20 families in Scotland are as rich as the bottom 30% of the population combined, a shock trade union report has found. The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has today published its "People’s Recovery" paper, which aims to pressure on Holyrood ministers to focus the economic recovery from coronavirus on the needs of ordinary people.The findings have been backed by Scottish Labour and the Scottish Greens, as well as the SNP’s employment spokesman at Westminster.

Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. International student Reese Chamberlain, 18, was told that he would receive three meals per day while isolating.

mum has been warned she is on the Police's Covid "alert list' after a neighbour reported her for having family 'nipping in' to her house to deliver birthday gifts for her daughter. Ayrshire mum Leanne Macdonald, 36, celebrated her 10-year-old daughter, Myla's birthday yesterday, but due to coronavirus restrictions decided to just stay at home in Irvine with partner Gary, 37 and the couple's youngest daughter Rylee, two.

knife-wielding thug has been caged for two years after launching a “terrifying” attack on a Paisley family at their home.Jamie Maley, 30, targeted David Moran and Toni Lavelle while they were in their flat in Glen Street with their three young children, in a late-night vendetta.Maley leapt over a veranda, climbed onto their balcony while holding a large kitchen knife in his hand, when he made threats and kicked around furniture and threw items at their window.Paisley Sheriff Court heard Maley

Game of Thrones stars, Rose Leslie and Kit Harington, have announced that they are expecting their first child together. Rose confirmed the exciting news to UK's Make Magazine, published this weekend.  The British actor couple met on the set of HBO smash hit Game of Thrones - Rose played Ygritte and Kit played the role of Jon Snow - which concluded its eight-year run in 2019.

justice system in England, which is set to bring far tougher sentences for young killers.Janet, who was regarded by her grandson as his “second mum”, said: “Doherty was known for her past behaviour. We want to know what was done to monitor her before Conner died, but we can’t get any answers.“Someone like that should be watched by the system until they’re an adult.

Nicola Sturgeon is expected to this week set-out further restrictions on everyday life aimed at slowing the transmission of coronoavirus across Scotland.

protest has been held outside a Glasgow hospital by a Scots family unable to visit their seriously ill relative in intensive care. Tracy Donaldson, 43, and her family are demanding relatives be allowed to visit loved ones in intensive care amid tightened coronavirus restrictions.