Millions of flying ants could descend on Scotland as sightings across UK increase

meals at budget prices from Monday due to the Eat Out to Help Out scheme. The initiative has been launched by the UK Government in a bid to restart the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

second wave of infections.Confirmation that the length of time is to increase came in a joint statement from the UK’s four Chief Medical Officers.Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, told reporters the change was being made due to the “low but real possibility of infectiousness” between seven and ten days after the onset of the illness.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics newsletter.We cover Holyrood,

law coming into force. The huge crackdown will see 16 and 17-year-olds banned from Lotto and Thunderball in a bid to stop teenagers gambling.

new sighting emerged. Tom Graham, 32, was last seen by a family member in Elderpark Street in Govan, Glasgow, in mid-October 2018, before being reported missing to police on November 26.

Nicola Sturgeon has said shielding in Scotland will be paused as of August 1 as long as the Covid-19 infection rate continues to decline at its present rate.About 180,000 people Scots were told by medical professionals to remain at home from March as they were at the greatest risk of becoming seriously ill or dying from the virus.But the First Minister said that as of tomorrow, they would be able to meet indoors in groups of up to eight people from up to two other households, as well as being

coronavirus lockdown today with beauty salons and tattoo parlours opening for the first time since late March. Enhanced safety measures will be put in place to prevent any spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus.

leading universities could lose millions in tuition fees if escalating tensions between the UK and China leads to Beijing discouraging students from studying overseas. Both Glasgow and Edinburgh have been increasingly reliant on cash generated by the thousands of Chinese students who arrive in Scotland each year to study at the country's historic seats of learning.

coronavirus are to be manufactured in Scotland. The UK government has struck a partnership with the Valneva company to provide up to 100 million doses of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, to be manufactured at its facilities in Livingston.

Everyone's been talking about Flying Ant Day this year - the day the flying insects are spotted across the UK.Now a HUGE swarm of the pests has been spotted over the south east coast.The Met Office’s weather radar picked up the cloud of ants, around 50 miles wide, over Kent and Sussex.Smaller swarms can be seen over London.The Met Office tweeted a video of the swarm and said: “It’s not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise…“The radar is actually picking up a swarm of

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coronavirus, Boris Johnson is set to announce later today.The new legislation has divided the government and will not come into force until Friday, July 24 – raising fears over the virus spreading in the next 10 days.It comes more than a week after Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, announced face coverings would be compulsory in shops in Scotland – rules which came into force on Friday (July 10).As The Guardian reports, only 36% of people in the UK currently wear a face mask in

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

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.