One hundred schools needed follow up health and safety visits over Covid guidance

link.Area organisers form a 420-strong team covering every city, town and village in Scotland, helping the charity to pin up to five million poppies on to Scotland’s coats, jackets and jumpers to raise funds for the armed forces community.

mum is facing an agonising wait for a transplant after a traumatic premature birth of her 1lb baby uncovered hidden kidney disease.Doctors discovered 23-year-old Lauren Ballantine had been living with underlying kidney disease after she underwent an emergency Cesarean section when she was just 25-weeks pregnant.The young mum, from Newmilns, had been suffering from potentially fatal pre-eclampsia and was rushed to Crosshouse Hospital at 24 weeks pregnant.Doctors we able to stabilise the East

Nicola Sturgeon has revealed a new strategic plan for tackling coronavirus will be published at the end of this week.The First Minister announced today she would discuss the outline of the framework with opposition leaders tomorrow.Sturgeon has previously said a tiered alert system, similar to what was put in place in England last week, will be part of the Scottish Government’s approach.The First Minister said: “One of the things the framework will set out are the different tiers or levels of

close schools in Scotland again if that's what it takes to stop the spread of Covid, a leading teaching union has warned. It comes as Holyrood ministers prepare to publish a framework later this week which will better explain the criteria for introducing local lockdowns in the future.

legal battle against prison bosses who stopped him visiting his ill grandmother. Scott Snowden, 44, was blocked on two different occasions in 2019 from visiting his granny who suffers from dementia and is too unwell to go to see him in jail.

cryptocurrency scam is to be played by Kate Winslet in a new Hollywood movie.Jen McAdam lost around £9,000 to the OneCoin Ponzi scheme which has conned up to £4 billion from people around the world.She also persuaded family and friends to put in around £220,000, before realising they were not going to get the money back.The 50-year-old, from Glasgow, has since become a campaigner for justice for investors who lost money and runs a support group for them.The rights to a book about her experience,

James McClain After relisting it over the summer for a princely $5.5 million, Calvin Harris has succeeded in unloading his idiosyncratic Los Angeles home, albeit at a discounted $5.1 million. The highly-compensated Scottish DJ barely broke even on the sprawling estate, which he bought in 2017 for a few hairs over $5 million from fellow DJ Steve Angello.

Karen Gillan has said that if she hadn’t become an actress she would have been a therapist.The Hollywood star said she enjoys reading psychology essays and is fascinated by the subject.The 32-year-old, who has starred in hit films such as Avengers: Infinity War, Guardians Of The Galaxy and Jumanji, said she likes learning about mental health conditions in her free time. Karen, from Inverness, said she then uses that knowledge to improve her acting roles.She used psychology essays to research

Cambuslang after testing positive for covid-19 was due to the illness making her "act out of character". Ms Ferrier had been asked to quit by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford and numerous other colleagues to stand down from her post.

Martin Compston appealed to Scots to 'follow the basic guidelines' to help stop the spread of Covid-19. Greenock -born Martin pleaded with fans through NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's social media accounts on Thursday.

Calvin Harris has sold his luxury mansion in the Hollywood Hills for almost £4 million. The Dumfries -born DJ put his 6,000sq ft home in the Los Angeles neighbourhood on the market earlier this year.

school after gas was found in the building this morning.All kids and teachers from the 950-capacity Harlaw Academy in Aberdeen were taken from the school earlier today after the find.It is currently closed as a probe takes place and it is unclear exactly how many were inside.Parents of pupils at the Victorian-era school were texted by education bosses this morning warning that 'trace amounts' of gas had been found.A council spokesman confirmed that the school had been closed with gas detected

coronavirus, Scots researchers have found.Experts at Edinburgh University reassessed a model which predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths if no action was taken to stop the spread of Covid-19.They found that closing schools reduced the reproduction number of the virus but had the unexpected effect of increasing the number of deaths.The authors wrote in The BMJ: "In the absence of an effective vaccine for Covid-19, school closures would result in more overall deaths than no school

received criticism for the way staff were treated after many casual staff were shown the door earlier in the year. Tycoon King was slammed for quickly announcing redundancies in March.

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Nicola Sturgeon has given the clearest indication yet that Scotland may have to enter a stricter period of lockdown to deal with the rising number of people testing positive for Covid.The First Minister said it was "possible we will have to do more" after a further 697 people were confirmed as having the virus yesterday.The SNP leader will meet with health officials later today to assess the latest data from across the country but stressed no final decision on entering stricter lockdown had been

police and firefighters two days before it was torched, we can reveal.The ground floor flat in Kincaid Court, Greenock, went up in flames on Monday night – the fifth fire in two weeks over the seaside town’s drug trade.Neighbours claim a safety visit was carried out by Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in the days leading up the firebombing.

uni have been basted as 'draconian' after emailing students threatening huge fines or even expulsion if they're caught in each other's flats. Aberdeen University has warned students of the consequences facing them if they breach national Covid-19 related guidance.