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East Kilbride schoolgirl hopes to draw a line under a ‘gloomy’ 2020 after winning Nicola Sturgeon’s festive card competition.Sophie Blackett was one of 700 children across Scotland to submit artwork for the First Minister’s official Christmas card this year.Nicola Sturgeon was on the hunt for a design that “represents kindness” for the 2020 card.The 10-year-old's design celebrated the hard graft Scots citizens have put in to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus across the country.Her

Scottish stag to pose for a wee photo would be porridge oats.

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coronavirus vaccine. The decision to use a 0300 number - rather than a free phone - came under fire from disgruntled healthcare workers and it has now been revoked by NHS Lothian with promises staff will be reimbursed.

Prince William and Kate Middleton's Royal tour which today kicked off in Scotland during lockdown. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Edinburgh Waverley station on Monday morning as they began their whistle-stop tour of the UK, aimed to thank frontline workers of the pandemic.

Edinburgh University are lobbying for a campus building to be renamed after the first Scot to win Bake Off - who studies there. Pete Sawkins, 20, became both the youngest person to win the Great British Bake Off and also the first Scot, on Tuesday night.

Sam Heughan has shared a sneak peek from the star-studded set of new film Text 4 You. The Outlander hunk is a main character in the upcoming romantic drama by Sony, alongside Celine Dion and Priyanka Chopra-Jonas.

brain tumour. Heartbroken friends and family of little Sophia Walker have paid tribute to the Glasgow youngster after she died from the terminal condition.

animal rights group said. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is looking for planning permission for a memorial to be created in East Lothian.

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

killed by her vicious ex-boyfriend during a horror three day ordeal has spoken out. Molly O’Connor was punched, kicked, strangled and emotionally blackmailed by serial abuser James Stewart over the course of their three-month relationship.

squirrel has gone viral for its giant 'boobs'. Photograper Martin Brown captured the hilarious picture at Tentsmuir National Nature Reserve in Fife yesterday.

beauty vlogger Jamie Genevieve has overhauled her look with a dramatic new hairstyle - and fans are obsessed. The Scottish make-up star, who lives in Glasgow, swapped her long locks for a new choppy bob with a fringe ahead of Scotland's latest lockdown.

thugs terrorised a girl on a West Dunbartonshire cycle path. They struck as their victim made her way along the path, near to India Street, Alexandria, at around 5.30pm on Friday, November 13.

Nairn man's threats sent through social media. Craig McNeill carried out a campaign against a total of 11 girls between February, 2018 and November, 2019.

crash on the Black Isle last week. Paul Nichol was declared dead at the scene of the incident between the villages of Munlochy and Avoch last Thursday.

schools are "not significant areas of transmission" based on expert research. But teachers union the EIS said the move to the highest level four restriction in Glasgow and much of central Scotland is making them anxious.

dementia, was visited at the Aspen Hill Village care home by her policewoman daughter Denise Hobbs.Owners of the home in Leeds said they were evicting the 78-year-old - who is originally from Stirling - because Denise breached visitation policy by trying talk to her frail mother through an open patio door, according to The Mirror.Denise told the Daily Express: “My mum is being evicted just because I love her and want to see her."The care home have denied any suggestion that Elizabeth is being