Lockdown restrictions easing in Scotland from today including restaurants and hairdressers

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Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterPubs and bars ushering in a new era of service have praised punters for embracing “the change of a lifetime”.Hostelries were finally able to reopen indoors last week – but the warm welcome has changed dramatically in look.However, from big chains to small independents, businesses were bowled over by the willingness of customers to turn back out in force.Bosses at Ayr’s Arthur Street Kitchen

tourism begins to reopen across the country. All self-catering, hostel and guest house accommodation along with its café and restaurant have been officially closed until August 31.

lockdown - by offering Nicola Sturgeon style hair cuts.

While it’s still difficult for adult teams to return to training, it is slightly easier for the region’s youth teams.Groups of up to 10 players, as well as two coaches, can meet for full contact training, with small sided games also allowed.

although figures reported by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) on Wednesday reported 4,187 deaths linked to the illness have been registered up to Sunday, July 12.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Patients in hospitals across NHS Lanarkshire will again be able to receive visits from a loved one.Hospital visiting is now being re-instated in a staged approach.This comes after hospitals across Scotland had to take the exceptional step of stopping all but essential visitors coming into hospitals.Susan Friel, nurse director for Acute Services at NHS Lanarkshire, said: “Stopping hospital visiting was absolutely

Police Scotland were subjected to almost 90 coronavirus-related attacks in the first weeks of lockdown. A total of, 265 assaults were directed at officers and other members of staff within Police Scotland between March 24 to April 30.

coronavirus.Norma and John Wiggins, from Hamilton, escaped the deluge of storm Dennis in February for an extended break in Tenerife but were left confined to their room when sand from the Sahara desert engulfed the Canary Islands, grounding hundreds of flights.And just four weeks later they found themselves stranded in their Tenerife apartment once again by the coronavirus lockdown.Their trip was originally supposed to last six weeks, but the retired couple only made it back to Scotland

Coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Scotland are being relaxed, as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed dates for hotels, indoor pubs and hairdressers to reopen and announced plans to lift restrictions on funerals and worship.In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Ms Sturgeon said the ongoing decline in the prevalence of coronavirus means the country can move into phase three of its four-step plan to exit lockdown.She confirmed that from tomorrow, people can meet in extended groups

The Castle Douglas branch of Legion Scotland is working towards re-opening its bar on August 6.And nearby Market Inn is “leaning towards” waiting a bit longer than July 15 to reopen.

Travis have shared a new track called ‘Valentine’ – you can listen to it below.The Scottish band announced their ninth studio album ’10 Songs’ last month, while also offering up its first cut ‘A Ghost’.Arriving yesterday (July 7), the raw, electric guitar-led new single ‘Valentine’ was written and recorded in London late last year.“’Valentine’ was recorded as a predominately live performance in December 2019 at RAK Studios in London,” Healy explained.

Edinburgh woman claims she had ‘beer goggles sex’ on lockdown date with married man.Deborah, 34, from Musselburgh, revealed how she slept with the businessman after alcohol put her in the mood for passion as pub gardens reopen in Scotland.The casino croupier 'blamed lockdown' for her actions as she had not originally intended to sleep with her date, a businessman in his 40s.Deborah confessed: “This was definitely beer goggles sex and I am blaming it on lockdown."It had been a few weeks since I

The Scottish SPCA’s Ayrshire Animal Rescue Centre is back finding animals their forever home after lockdown saw rehoming completely suspended for almost two months.After trialling a limited rehoming service in May, the centre is now rehoming animals using a combination of an online-only application system, carefully controlled appointments and ‘virtual home checks’ where prospective owners and their homes are vetted via Zoom calls.Now the charity have this lovely girl (pictured above) in their

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.A young musical maestro has bagged himself thousands of fans after wowing people with his performance on the piano in a lockdown competition.Aidan Connell, from Barrhead, played his own boogie woogie piece in the contest organised by Paisley’s PS Pianos.The 15-year-old talent not only won the competition, but bagged himself fans from across Scotland, with his online performance viewed an incredible 22,000 times.The teen,

Ayrshire, no new cases have been reported for three consecutive days now and the total remains at 1,257.There remain fewer than five patients, within the health board's region, in intensive care with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.Meanwhile, the number of people in hospital with confirmed coronavirus at midnight also stands at fewer than five.The symptoms of coronavirus are:But these symptoms do not necessarily mean you have the illness.The symptoms are similar to other illnesses that are much

lockdown later this week as infections from Covid-19 across the country continue to fall. Nicola Sturgeon is due to appear at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday where she will update MSPs on the latest measures being taken to allow the country to return to a degree of normality.

Dumfries and Galloway will be lifted today.Travel curbs were retained in parts of the region last Friday after a "cluster" of Covid-19 cases was discovered.Twelve people were confirmed to have been infected.

Scottish Government  has given pubs, restaurants and cafes the green light to open their outdoor facilities for service as part of its route map out of lockdown. Two-metre social distancing, Perspex screens and contact gathering are among the  strict measures  taken by most bars up and down the country.

attractions and estates have reopened from today as the lockdown continues to ease. The National Trust for Scotland announced that around 30 of its sites will be back open for tourists as staff begin to return from a period of furlough.