'Kitchen worker' at Scots high school tests positive for Covid-19

NHS Ayrshire & Arran patients have died after contracting coronavirus, it was revealed today.Scottish Government data released this afternoon shows the people were from East Ayrshire.The tragic news comes as six deaths are reported across Scotland today with the national death toll now at 2,550.Public Health Scotland figures show that 175 people have died from coronavirus in the NHS Ayrshire & Arran health board area.But National Records of Scotland data says that 294 Ayrshire deaths have been

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Airlines and holiday firms have demanded blanket Covid testing at airports in Scotland to save their industry.Plans to reduce the 14-day quarantine by testing incoming travellers have so far failed to deliver.Travel agents and ­aviation businesses say that unless people can confidently book holidays, more jobs will go.Jonathan Hinkles, boss of Glasgow-based ­Loganair, urged the UK Government to introduce

Scottish FA have apologised to their English counterparts after a positive Covid-19 test forced the cancellation of an Under-19s friendly between the two home nations. Head coach Billy Stark has tested positive for the virus and will now travel home 'in isolation' to quarantine for 10 days.

by a gang of intruders who had smashed their way into their house.The 45-year-old was forced to listen as the gang set about her son and left him with serious injuries including a punctured liver, two abdominal wounds, one to each buttock and his thigh.Detectives have launched an investigation and are treating the incident, which happened in Edinburgh last night shortly after 11pm, as attempted murder.Police sources said the drama kicked off when the 19-year-old victim and his brother were

coronavirus cluster at a Scots primary school has now grown to seven cases, health chiefs have confirmed. Staffing shortages now mean Carnegie Primary School in Dunfermline will be closed from today until after the October holidays.

coronavirus linked to several deaths and 82 infections.The clusters are being probed at Redmill in East Whitburn, West Lothian, a residential home run by private firm HC1, and at Milford House in Edinburgh.NHS Lothian would only say there were fewer than five deaths, but the Record understands three residents have died.In Redmill Care Home, a total of 53 other residents and staff have been confirmed with Covid-19.

school cleaners who worked during lockdown should receive a 'key worker' bonus, one union says. GMB members will protest outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday in a bid to secure the additional payment for council workers.

NHS Ayrshire & Arran patient has died after testing positive for coronavirus, it was revealed today.The person's death was announced alongside six others across Scotland this afternoon.

coronavirus pandemic. Instead of the 2020 we all hoped, this year has seen lockdowns, social distancing, toilet paper panic buying, quarantines and Zoom funerals.

coronavirus, health bosses have confirmed. The staff from Kettle Produce in Balmalcolm, Fife, have mild symptoms and are currently isolating at home - as are those who came into close contact with them.

Dundee has soared to 45. Health chiefs confirmed that more residents at Parker House have caught the bug, as hundreds of others remain in self-isolation.

car crash caused by a show-off driver high on drink and drugs have described their "torment". Jack Frame's parents first thought the tragedy in Lanarkshire in February last year was an accident but said finding out that the driver acted illegally "just turned everything upside down".

sexual and physical abuse that left them permanently injured and suicidal.Victims say they were regularly attacked by staff members at remote Fornethy House after being told they were going to a holiday camp.Detectives are investigating allegations of sexual and physical assaults at the girls-only facility which was run by Glasgow’s local authority in Kilry, Angus.Poorly youngsters from working- class families were taken to the school 90 miles from the city for “convalescent” breaks after it

Ayrshire in the past seven days.While a huge rise in cases has been recorded in other areas of Scotland, Ayrshire's daily case total has remained relatively stable this month.In the past 24 hours 13 new cases have been recorded with the total for the region now at 1,527.Across Scotland 350 new cases have been declared with the national case total now at 24,126.Tragically, three deaths have been confirmed in the past 24 hours.

Police are hunting a sick flasher who indecently exposed himself near a Scots school. An investigation has been launched after the man was seen near Tayport Primary School in Fife at around 11am on Wednesday.

mum who almost choked to death when she was a baby has thanked the hero Asda worker who saved her 26 years ago. Jodie McLaughlin, 27, had stopped breathing in Asda carpark in Blantyre when George Barclay sprung into action to save her.

Bake Off contestant Peter Sawkins have revealed he’s been a Star Baker from an early age.Student Peter, 20, is the youngest contestant on the new series of The Great British Bake Off.Now his older brother Andrew has posted a family photo showing off his brother’s kitchen skills aged around five.The picture shows Peter, from Edinburgh, proudly showing off a plate of ­strawberry tarts he has made.Andrew, who is also in the photo with a tea towel draped over his arm, couldn’t be prouder of his