Homes without water as temperatures drop to -11C in parts of Renfrewshire

Met Office extend the yellow weather warning for ice and snow.

Covid deaths. The BBC reports the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service's dedicated Covid-19 Death Investigation Team (CDIT) is probing the circumstances of coronavirus-related deaths in care homes across the country.

Lanarkshire care home residents have been vaccinated.

Aberfeldy in Perthshire were in the dark late on Friday afternoon after an electricity blackout in the morning was still causing power failure seven-hours later in some homes. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) was alerted to a fault at just before 10am on an overhead transformer in the Highland Perthshire town.

Perthshire town when a car was allegedly set alight on purpose.

food brand is set to beam an ‘augmented reality’ Scotsman into people's homes this Burns Night using special packs.The virtual kilted host will recite the ‘Address Tae A Haggis’ during Burns Suppers across the country, thanks to over 300,000 special AR McIntosh of Strathmore ‘Haggis Neeps & Tatties’ packs.Designed to help Scots celebrate the big night during lockdown, those who pick up the special pack from supermarkets will simply need to the Zappar app on their smartphone to start the fun.From

care homes have been identified after nineteen residents tested positive for the bug. NHS chiefs have confirmed they are investigating the two separate clusters at the homes in Invergordon, which have also resulted in several staff being told to self-isolate.

care home residents.Nicola Sturgeon said a total of 113,459 people, including medics, got their first dose by January 3.The figures cover the initial Pfizer vaccine so numbers are expected to rise more quickly now a second vaccine is available.Sturgeon gave the update at the regular coronavirus briefing from Edinburgh.She said: "We are now well over half way through vaccinating care home residents with their first dose of the vaccine."That is extremely important, as you have just heard, more

direct to your inboxA yellow warning for ice has been issued across Greater Manchester starting tomorrow as temperatures are set to plummet.The mercury will dip to minus 1 but with chilly winds making it feel like minus 3 in Manchester.In some places, temperatures could fall as low as minus 6.The Met Office has issued a warning covering much of the UK over the coming days.Wintry showers will move south from Scotland bringing rain and hill snow, forecasters said.In Greater Manchester, a yellow

weather warning has been issued for Scotland as temperatures continue to drop across the country. The warning for ice has been issued for large parts of south east and central Scotland from 4pm today to 11am on Wednesday.