Mobile Overdose Prevention Centre rolls into Holyrood

skidding off a Scots road and colliding with electricity wires. The female driver had a lucky escape after the silver Vauxhall left the B9097 road near Loch Leven on Monday morning as icy conditions blighted the region.

thieves after a defibrillator was stolen from a dry ski slope in Aberdeenshire. The life-saving machine was swiped from Alford Ski Centre in the village's Greystone Road.

First Minister said the rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant is of "very serious concern". She stated: “The steep increases and severe NHS pressure being experienced in other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead.

Sturgeon is set to recall Holyrood on Monday as the Scottish cabinet meets to consider the possibility of keeping schools closed throughout January to fight the surge in new coronavirus cases.

Nicola Sturgeon revealed the number as she confirmed a second vaccine, which could be the key to restoring relative normality to people's lives, will be rolled out from Monday.

SNP, Scottish Labour, Lib Dem and Green MSPs voted to refuse “consent” to the Bill linked to the agreement.

East Kilbride this year, with very few people stirring at the shopping centre. Pictures shared with us by local, Imran Nawaz, show the popular centre all but empty as Scotland’s national tier 4 coronavirus restrictions took place.Usually expected to be brimming with activity because of the annual sales, there was hardly a soul to be seen, with few shops opening for trade.

HOLLYWOOD – Doctors and staff clapped after Keith Leach, a black frontline worker healthcare coworker at the Los Angeles LGBT Centre, received his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination Tuesday morning. The first of 400 doses received by the Centre, it was dispensed by Dr. Ward Carpenter, co-director of health services at the Centre’s McDonald/Wright Building located on North Schrader Blvd.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A dedicated support worker who used yoga therapy to help her colleagues during the pandemic has narrowly missed out on a national health award.Fiona Baxter, senior support worker at Dumbarton Adult Training Centre in Bruce Street, was shortlisted as a finalist in the Scottish Health Awards’ Healthier Lifestyle category.During the pandemic, Fiona recognised the need to support the wellbeing of her colleagues

Child Disability Payment is set to replace Disability Living Allowance (Child) and will be the next new benefit to be introduced by the Scottish Government.In an update to the Scottish Parliament last month, Cabinet Secretary for Social Security, Shirley-Anne Somerville, said Social Security Scotland will start taking applications from summer 2021 as part of a pilot scheme, ahead of a full roll-out across the country from autumn 2021.This will be followed by the introduction of Adult Disability

direct to your inboxA second coronavirus vaccination centre is to open in Rochdale next week. The site, at the Phoenix Centre on Church Street, Heywood, will take its first patients on Tuesday, December 29.

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Nicola Sturgeon announced the tighter restrictions as fears grow that a new variant of Covid-19 is spreading. Sturgeon announced the new rule in her final review of the levels imposed on Scotland’s 32 council areas.

bomb squad has been called to a busy Scots call centre after the discovery of a ‘suspicious package’.The alarm was raised at the Tesco Customer Engagement Centre in Dundee shortly after 10am on Monday.Police locked down the surrounding roads including the city’s Kingsway as a precaution.Staff were also been evacuated from the building ‘as a precaution’ while emergency services dealt with the ongoing incident.A spokesperson for Police Scotland said:"We were made aware around 10.10am on Monday, 21

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

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

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Scotland's failure to tackle our drug crisis has been confirmed - up six cent on the worst death rate in the world the previous year.The data for 2018 reveals the worst fears that our poorest communities, already ravaged by cheap street drugs, are sinking ever deeper into despair.Total deaths rose from 1,187 in 2018 to 1,264 in 2019.