Lockdown sees coffee machine sales soar as Scots become a 'nation of at-home baristas'

food banks as McDonald’s restaurants, research has found.The Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) has said new analysis to be published shows there are 165 venues where the public can donate food.In addition, there are 129 food banks run by the Trussell Trust charity, bringing the total to 294.

SAS legend has urged a missing Scots teen to return home to his family. Former special forces hero Big Phil Campion made a heartfelt online appeal for Kai Rae to get in touch with his worried relatives after he disappeared.

Newton Mearns.Images showed smoke billowing across the sky when the fore started this afternoon at Ladeside Close.Fire crews were contacted around 3.17pm and four engines rushed to the residential area.

a four-nation approach to the festive season was confirmed on Tuesday night. She admitted some people thought the decision to allow people to form a "Christmas bubble" with three households over a five day period was too little, but others thought it was terrible.

coronavirus by posting online videos for the over-60s.Dot Bremner hosts a daily Dancercise with Dot session from the garden of her home in Elgin, Moray.She set herself the challenge of dancing every day this month to raise money for charity North East Sensory Services (Ness), which  supports 6,500 people in North-east Scotland who have vision or hearing loss.Dot, who is partially sighted and almost completely deaf without a hearing aid, toured the region before the virus outbreak to run dance

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterNicola Sturgeon says she hopes to agree a "common framework" for Christmas lockdown across the UK today.But the First Minister warned easing of restrictions in Scotland "might differ" to the rest of the country as key talks take place around the festive break.The First Minister is currently locked in a meeting with leaders from the devolved administrations and Cabinet Office Minister, Michael

Glasgow tattoo artist has gone viral for his furious rant to a cheeky customer who tried to flout lockdown rules.David McKinlay, owner of Archangel 1608 Tattoo Studio, gave one rude 'dobber' a piece of his mind after an altercation at his shop on Thursday.The potential client had demanded to be tattooed and even tried to push his way through the closed door and push past the artist ignoring Covid-19 restrictions.He was then raging that 43-year-old tattoo boss David, who has owned his shop for 15

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lotto millionaire Jane Park has jetted off on a luxury Dubai holiday. The EuroMillions winner, from Edinburgh, flaunted her latest getaway on social media on Saturday as she soaked up the sun at a five-star hotel.

First Minister spoke out in her daily briefing one day after an ambitions timetable raised hopes a million Scots could be vaccinated by January. Sturgeon was highlighting level 4 lockdown restrictions in Glasgow - where she lives - and 10 other neighbouring council areas today.

travel ban is being imposed tomorrow along with closures for non essential shops affecting nearly half the population. The measures attracted a major backlash from businesses who now fear disaster in the normally busy festive season.Sturgeon, at today's coronavirus briefing, said the rate of infection is showing signs of improvement but there are big regional variations.

ITV show watched as newlywed Sarah Barlow went into a epic meltdown over her estranged husband Adam. The Underworld factory manager ranted at Adam for trying it on with neighbour Alina Pop in a bid to make her jealous after they broke it off shortly after getting hitched.

Cultins Road  after the alarm was raised shortly before 10.30am on Saturday.A source have told the Record that the parcel was addressed to Nicola Sturgeon and was 'leaking smoke.'The Scottish Government would not comment. A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We were called around 10.25am on Saturday, 14 November, to a report of a suspicious package at a sorting office in Cultins Road, Edinburgh.

COVID-19 lockdown. Scottish-born Allana Allard was over the moon when she and her Aussie husband Tim, 31, discovered they were going to become first-time parents back in October, 2019, The 29-year-old from Davistown, New South Wales, Australia, said she and Tim had been trying to have a baby for just two weeks before discovering a positive result on a home pregnancy test.