Famous Ayr hair salon Francis John announces closure after 33 years in town

Black Lives Matter protest in Aberfeldy reveals racism splitMr Swinney said schools should prepare to go back fully if progress continues to be made in suppressing the coronavirus.In a statement to Holyrood, Mr Swinney laid out certain conditions for full-time schooling to resume and announced £100m of extra funding for a back-to-school plan.Schools had expected to use a 'blended' learning model with some face-to-face learning mixed with home schooling.In Perth and Kinross schools, some parents

John Swinney will bow to pressure by announcing plans for a return to full-time schooling by AugustIn a major u-turn, Swinney is expected to say schools should prepare to go back on this basis if progress continues to be made in suppressing the virus.It is understood he will lay out certain conditions for full-time schooling to resume and announce £100m of extra funding for a back-to-school plan.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics

John Swinney will face MSPs at Holyrood on Tuesday for an update on the August 11 return to class. The Scottish Government is working with councils on a part-time model which could see some children in class for just a day a week.

Perthshire minister has jumped from the pulpit to the famous Soldier’s Leap to deliver his church service.Church of Scotland minister Neil Glover has been unable to deliver sermons to his church in person since lockdown.Like many other ministers, Rev Glover has switched to posting services online but has seen the numbers “attending” his services triple with viewers watching from across the globe.Ten schools could reopen fully in AugustHe and the other Highland Perthshire ministers have decided

"blended learning". John Swinney will face MSPs at Holyrood on Tuesday for an update on the August 11 return to class.

Carol Lannen was found dumped and partly covered by snow in Dundee’s Templeton Woods.The part-time sex worker was last seen getting into a car in the city’s red light district.Less than a year later, trainee nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe, 20, was found dead 100 yards from where Carol’s body had been left. She too was near-naked and had been strangled.Fear gripped the city.

cooking her meals - and it's even helped her shed weight.Margaret McKinley, from Edinburgh, has saved an astonishing £2,700 in total since she started cooking her food in advance before freezing it.The savvy Scot said it only takes her a few hours a week to prepare the meals which gives her plenty of free time on weeknights to spend with her family.Margaret said: "I started batch cooking about 18 months ago, because my then 18-year-old son left school and was taking a year or two out to decide

Nicola Sturgeon 'announces' that ‘the pumping can begin’. The First Minister announced that Scotland would be moving into phase two of the Scottish Government’s roadmap out of lockdown earlier today.

pit closures due to a lack of local job and educational opportunities, a report has found.Almost 20 years since the last deep mine north of the Border shut, coalfield towns and villages remain among the most disadvantaged areas of the country.Analysis by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) found that when compared to the national average, many have lower life expectancies and higher rates of 16 to 19-year olds not in education or jobs.The report added there remained "significant and

Famous Scots have joined a new campaign to support refugees across the country.

Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw has called on health chiefs to get on top of care home staff testing in Ayrshire.Mr Carlaw challenged Nicola Sturgeon on the matter at First Minister’s Questions after Sturgeon revealed only a fifth of staff had been routinely tested across the country.Scottish Government statistics reveal that across Scotland’s 14 health boards, only 11,195 care home staff have been tested out of an estimated 50,000 across the country.In NHS Ayrshire and Arran 689

Ewan McGregor and Eve Mavrakis have finalized their divorce more than two years after the actor moved on with Mary Elizabeth Winstead.The pair settled their estate earlier this month, according to new legal documents obtained by The Blast on Wednesday, June 10. The papers revealed that the estranged couple submitted a plan detailing their financial settlement.The Scottish actor, 49, filed for divorce from Mavrakis, 53, in January 2018, after 22 years of marriage.

Madeleine McCann finds closure as he continues his battle for answers.Allan Bryant has been trying to find out what happened to his son, also called Allan, after he went missing after a night out in Glenrothes, Fife in November, 2013.This week, there have been dramatic revelations about the long-standing Madeleine McCann case.Maddie vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007 aged just three.German police are treating her disappearance as a murder

A rapper jailed for the manslaughter of Scots actor John Michie’s daughter will have to wait to discover if he has won an appeal against his conviction.

Janey Godley has been keeping Scots in good spirits with her hilarious Nicola Sturgeon voice overs.

Primark could reopen stores in Scotland by 'late June' as it anticipates lockdown measures easing following the coronavirus pandemic.

Jean Johansson is set to head into the Celebrity MasterChef kitchen later this month, but what else do we know about the Scottish presenter.

Comedian Janey Godley had fans in stitches as she warns Scots couples there’ll be “ nae rumpy pump y” during lockdown meet-ups.

The husband of a brave mum who died from cancer just three years after losing her son to the same disease has paid tribute to his “gorgeous and kind” wife.