John Swinney rejects teaching union claim returning secondary pupils to school was 'political decision'

radio presenter Jenni Falconer was mugged by a gang of thugs on bikes during a run in London. Jenni who regularly goes running was making her way through Parliament Square in London when she was robbed by a group of boys on cycles.

Nicola Sturgeon voiceovers. This time, the Glaswegian star has now taken the chance to have a little fun with the Scottish leaders’ debate held earlier this week.

Ryanair’s CEO has predicted that foreign holidays for Scots could resume as early as ‘June’. Michael O’Leary spoke on Good Morning Britain today, where he claimed that all restrictions on short-haul travel from the UK to some European countries could be lifted in the summer.

MP and will take place alongside a series of local elections in England and votes for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments. Prescott is standing for the Reform UK party which used to be Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.

Meghan Markle '. The Scots comedian hit out at the controversial celeb on twitter claiming his behaviour 'isn't normal'.

Scotland's largest local authority but will now try to win election as an MSP in May.The councillor for the Shettleston ward will stand on the Glasgow list at the forthcoming Scottish Parliament poll.Salmond stunned the Scottish political world last week when he announced the establishment of a new pro-independence party.Two SNP MPs - Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey - quit Nicola Sturgeon's party over the weekend to join Salmond's new movement.Ferns is the fourth serving councillor to join

Kenny MacAskill is "somewhat of a relief" after he quit to join the newly-formed Alba Party. Alex Salmond launched his latest political project on Friday as a means to create a "supermajority" of pro-independence supporters in Holyrood.

Janey Godley has had the last laugh at trolls who say she isn't funny as she scooped her second comedy award in one week. This week alone, the Scots comedian was awarded "Woman of Influence" comedy award and also a Chortle award for being a 'legend of lockdown'.

lockdown restrictions begin to ease. The high street retailer was forced to close, along with a raft of other businesses, when stay at home lockdown restrictions were imposed in Scotland on Boxing Day last year.

Janey Godley 's latest video had fans in stitches as she took a swipe at Scots Tory Ruth Davidson. Yesterday, the Tories at Holyrood lodged the motion on the First Minister over her government's botched handling of the complaints against Alex Salmond.

Perthshire humanitarian hero is urging fellow Scots to join a fundraiser – to walk, run or cycle 154km over 31 days – to aid some of the 11 million Syrians forced to flee their homes. Those people who left Damascus travelled that distance to reach the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, to escape the brutal conflict brought about by the Assad regime which has killed more than 500,000 Syrians.

sexually aggressive behaviour' of male comics.The Scots funny woman claims she as been personally 'called out' multiple times after men in the industry were exposed for inappropriate behaviour.The social media star says she has been accused of not 'saying anything' about predators' actions after sharing a stage with them.But Janey insisted she either had no idea or was immediately threatened with lawyers 'shut up letters' when she did speak out.The 59-year-old, who was abused as a younster, says

Marvel’s Avengers eagerly awaiting for Spider-Man to join the roster of heroes will have to wait even longer.According to an IGN interview with Crystal Dynamics studio head Scot Amos, the web-slinger is still currently in development and won’t be coming to the game before Summer 2021 at the earliest.During the inaugural Square Enix Presents event, the 2021 content roadmap was revealed for Marvel’s Avengers – highlighted by a new Black Panther expansion – and was notable for its omission

British Army soldiers on campus. Elizabeth Heverin says she was handed a two-week ban by the Aberdeen University Students' Association after she quoted the song during an online meeting.

paint left handed – two days after a stroke left him unable to use his right.The 73-year-old Navy veteran collapsed at his home in Largs, Ayrshire, 10 months ago.His initial thought when he got to hospital wasn’t would he live or die but would he be able to draw and paint?Barry couldn’t feel his right hand so the first thing he did was ask for paper so he could try to draw with his left.He said: “I managed it very quickly.“It was very important to me to draw and paint again.

the vaccine programme in an attempt to drive home the benefits of the Union in a speech to the online Scottish Conservative conference on Sunday.He told the conference that Scotland is playing its part, as “millions of doses of Valneva’s vaccine are rolling off the production line at a high-tech plant in Livingston, ready for approval”.The Tory strategy to use the vaccine as a vote winner comes as a new poll showed Boris Johnson opening up a 10 point lead over Labour in a UK-wide survey.

link!Councillor Jordan Linden added that he felt this was a display of “faux outrage” by Labour to discredit Mrs Adamson ahead of the May elections and highlighted the numerous schools the Scottish Government had contributed funding towards.Councillors voted on whether to approve a motion to note the Scottish Government decision, return the town hub project to “unapproved” status and write a complaint to John Swinney or a composite SNP/Conservative amendment to simply note the decision and

motion of no confidence in the Deputy First Minister at Holyrood today following an ongoing row about the disclosure of evidence to the Alex Salmond Inquiry.Scottish Parliament bosses confirmed a vote could go ahead tomorrow but just moments later the Greens announced they would refuse to back it.The Conservatives argue that Swinney should resign after waiting four months to publish legal advice regarding the botched handling of complaints made against Alex Salmond in 2018.MSPs twice voted for

SNP education secretary said that infection levels had continued to fall, despite children in nurseries and P1 to P3 returning to the classroom on February 22 – a move that came two weeks ahead of pupils in England.Swinney today insisted that earlier return had happened “because we felt that was a safe thing for us to be able to do because of the low prevalence amongst younger children”.And Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gregor Smith, said since then there had only been “one or two small

coronavirus in Scotland in the last 24 hours.The latest figures were announced by John Swinney this afternoon.The Deputy First Minister revealed that 501 new cases of the virus were recorded overnight.654 people are being treated in hospital while 59 are currently in ICU.The latest figures mean that since the start of the pandemic, 7422 people have lost their lives to coronavirus in Scotland.It comes as 28 people were arrested in connection with lockdown flouting celebrations of Rangers fans