Killiecrankie Visitor Centre could become a cafe as trust looks for a tenant for dramatic beauty spot building

Jason Leitch said further research was required on the latest mutation of the virus but added experts were so far confident it would not be able to resist the jabs currently being rolled out to health workers and care home residents. It comes as UK health secretary Matt Hancock warned today the country faced an “enormous challenge” controlling the new strain after scientists found it was able to spread more rapidly.

care home has combated Covid restrictions by building an outdoor visitor hub for residents to see their families. Abbeyfield House, in Irvine, has created a safe space for the old folk to meet their families in a garden setting - while managing to be undercover and warm in the winter.

Kilmarnock test centre is part of the largest network of diagnostic testing facilities created in British history.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The mass testing centre set-up in Covid-19 hotspot Johnstone flushed out 15 people who were positive. A total of 5,031 people who either live, work or attend school in the area got the test within Johnstone Town Hall .It was by far the biggest turnout among the eight pilot centres in Scotland.The 15 who tested positve all had no symptoms and were quickly told to isolate.The Public Health Scotland results

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

Cambuslang councillor has written to the Scottish Government to demand it does more to kick-start the local economy.

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happens The couple say the timing and sudden closure of the Capability Scotland facility has been “horrendous”.The shock move will leave 16 families from the area who have disabled kids without “vital” support from the end of this month.Frustrated Evelyn, 53, told the Paisley Daily Express: “Respite is such a vital thing for families who have a disabled child.“This year, in particular, has been really tough as Corseford was closed all throughout

Glasgow shopping centre. Emergency services raced to the scene after the car hit the woman on Barrhead Road near the Silverburn shopping centre at around 5.40pm this evening, December 14.

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East Kilbride have officially launched Scottish Water’s latest Top up Tap at the Country Park.

collapsed at a Scots scrapyard. Police and fire fighters have been seen at Burnside Motors in Montgomerie Drive, Leven after the roof of the structure fell down.

Also Read: Jodie Foster to Direct True Story About Theft of the Mona Lisa“The Mauritanian” is based on a true story and a memoir by the real Ould Slahi called “Guantanamo Diary,” which wound up on the New York Times Best Sellers list and documented the man’s fight for survival against all odds.Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) directs this political and legal thriller that also stars Zachary Levi, Saamer Usmani and Shailene Woodley.M.B.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Only people who live, work or attend school in Johnstone are being asked to take part in the mass Covid-19 testing scheme.Scotland’s first mass testing centre for people with no symptoms of the virus is set to open in Johnstone Town Hall on Wednesday.The pilot project will see up to 12,000 people tested for the virus over the following seven days.Now Renfrewshire Council has confirmed it will only be locals

struck by a vehicle in Glasgow city centre. Emergency services responded to the incident at the junction of North Street and Sauchiehall Street.

Edinburgh University are lobbying for a campus building to be renamed after the first Scot to win Bake Off - who studies there. Pete Sawkins, 20, became both the youngest person to win the Great British Bake Off and also the first Scot, on Tuesday night.

Perthshire town fell through. PKC had pledged £383,000 from its £2 million Town Centre Fund to develop an improved civic space for events and markets at Pitlochry’s Memorial Garden.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Crieff has secured a windfall of £365,000 which will be used to improve two of the town's eyesores.Members of Perth and Kinross Council’s strategic policy and resources committee met on Wednesday to discuss the re-allocation of some of the region’s portion of the Scottish Government Town Centre Fund (TCF).Initiated in 2018, an original stipulation of the TCF funding was that it should be spent by September

graced the cans of Tennent's Lager.One of the most famous Scottish promotional campaigns of all time, these models with their big hair and sexy poses, helped put the Glasgow-based lager brand on the map.Definitely from another age, the cans have been described as innovative and eye-catching by some and sexist and exploitative by others.Now, as part of a new study, a drinks historian is hoping to create a more complete picture of this famous ad campaign by interviewing the models and collectors,

mess. As well as small fires, the yobs left tents, chairs, piles of bottles and cans and even a double airbed, floating in Loch Morlich.