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England for Christmas as she returned to Scotland yesterday amid a strict cross-border travel ban.Lisa Cross, 34, should have been married earlier this month and starting a new life in Blackpool with her hubby, but her plans were postponed due to coronavirus.She now faces Christmas without her fiance after returning to Glasgow after the announcement, to be with her two children.

direct to your inbox The Christmas bubble rules have been dramatically tightened across all parts of the UK. The previous five-day travel window has now been scrapped, with people now only allowed to meet with their selected households on December 25.

flipped onto its side on a rural Scots road. Emergency services were called to the scene on Torbain Road, between Kirkcaldy and Lochgelly in Fife, at around 1.40pm on Sunday.

banning all travel and freight from the UK.

coronavirus across Scotland.

drug deaths.Peter Krykant took his converted mini-bus to Holyrood, where he dared public health minister Joe Fitzpatrick to come out and face him, just one day after another year of record drug deaths were announced.Krykant also addressed Scotland’s Lord Advocate, pleading with him to adopt a “non-prosecution stance” that would effectively decriminalise people taking drugs on the van and people helping keep them safe.Krykant broadcast a live video from the van, saying: “I ask that the Lord

police officer who downloaded child rape videos while he was in the force has been jailed for a year. Derek Kennedy was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years after being caught with thousands of sickening child porn images.

direct to your inboxLeaders from all UK nations have agreed to keep the current plans to ease coronavirus restrictions over Christmas in place.From December 23 to 27, up to three households will be allowed to form a 'Christmas bubble' allowing them to mix indoors for what could be the first time in months.But calls have been mounting from scientific experts for the easing of lockdown measures to be scrapped or reduced, due to a rise in Covid-19 cases across the UK.During Prime Minister's

including Edinburgh. And public health officials are recommending a return to level 3 rules for Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.

So hasn’t himself from “Fifty Shades of Grey” gone all forty shades of green in the new fillum, “Wild Mountain Thyme,” named for the haunting ballad that we Irish are taught at the teat, and apt to burst into once we’ve a bellyful of stout in us.

SNP Cabinet Secretary has totted up over £8,000 in expenses when hide nor hair has been seen of him in Parliament." Mackay resigned on February 6 - the day he was due to deliver the Scottish Budget - over his messages to the teenager on social media.It was reported he sent the school boy 270 messages over six months, including calling him “cute”.He has not set foot in Holyrood since his resignation.As previously revealed, Mackay claimed £4,406 in allowances in February and March this year.This

Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams, "Plastic Bouquet” (New West)Second cousins Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum emerged from rural Saskatchewan in the past decade as a dynamic traditional folk duo who evoke the Canadian prairie, Appalachia and the Scottish Highlands.The musical reach extends even farther — to the Southern Hemisphere — on “Plastic Bouquet,” which features a collaboration between Kacy & Clayton and New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams.It would be difficult to find

Perthshire -based politician is calling on the Scottish Parliament to be made more family friendly.

infection spreading in communities. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it is "likely" she will be able to make major changes at the next review.

Judith Mackinnon, a key figure in the Scottish Government’s botched probe into the former first minister, said police involvement had not been the “intention” of the complainants initially. A Holyrood committee is investigating how in 2018 the SNP Government handled complaints of sexual misconduct against Salmond when he was First Minister.

Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire councils after recent outbreaks in the north-east. Both authorities are in level two but could go to level three, forcing pubs and restaurants to stop serving alcohol.

Newton Mearns.Images showed smoke billowing across the sky when the fore started this afternoon at Ladeside Close.Fire crews were contacted around 3.17pm and four engines rushed to the residential area.

Kate Forbes, the Scottish Finance Secretary, has accused Rishi Sunak of cutting the Scottish government’s capital spending budget while increasing overall spending across the UK.