Schools could face restrictions if outbreak gets out of control in Aberdeen

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Some schools in South Lanarkshire could go more than a decade without a formal inspection.Education Scotland currently have “no plans” to restart inspecting schools this academic year after standing down that part of their operation following the UK-wide coronavirus lockdown in March.Carole McKenzie, head of education for school improvement, updated councillors during a meeting of the council’s

pest infestations have been logged by schools in Scotland in just three years. The enormous number of call-outs include a wide range of problems from moles in Dumfries and Galloway to maggots and even seagulls in West Dumbartonshire.

murder after a block of flats in Aberdeen was set on fire. The blaze ripped through the building in Printfield Terrace in the Hilton area of the city on Sunday, July 26.

Airdrie,  Uddingston  Grammar and Stepps Primary School were the latest schools in Scotland to record positive cases in the last 24 hours. Yesterday a nursery in Fife was forced to close after a young child tested positive for Covid-19.

Covid-19 - but that harm from missing school was a certainty.

blended learning if virus outbreaks meant it was required to keep pupils and teachers safe. But the First Minister stressed the Scottish Government's priority remained keeping children in class full-time and returning schools as close as possible to normal.

Aberdeen. The fire broke out this morning on the Green sending thick plumes of black smoke into the Granite City sky.

schools began to reopen yesterday – with many pupils, parents and teachers still expressing anxiety over Covid-19.Only Borders and some Shetland schools reopened to pupils, with the vast majority of Scots children heading back today.All pupils will return by next Tuesday. Fears have been raised about how well-prepared teachers are to deal with mitigating  the spread of the virus.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterScotland has recorded 52 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.It brings the pandemic total for the nation to 19,079 cases.But there have been no coronavirus deaths announced by the Scottish Government since July 16.

schools across Scotland begin to return after lockdown there are major changes in place for parents, pupils and staff. While individual school rules, start days and times will vary from place to place, the Scottish Government have published a full list of guidelines which schools must follow, but what exactly are they? The Scottish Government say the guidance is "designed to support a safe return to school for all children, young people and staff".

EasyJet will ‘provide flexibility’ to Scots looking to fly to and from Aberdeen amid renewed lockdown restrictions. The budget airline currently allows customers to change their flights free of charge up to 14 days before the flight.A charge of £32 will be applied outside of those 14 days.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Education bosses in Renfrewshire have insisted they will support any staff who have concerns about returning to school after a union survey indicated the majority of teachers fear sufficient safety measures are not yet in place.The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) survey showed out of more than 24,000 members who had so far responded, two-thirds felt either "somewhat unsafe" or "very unsafe" about returning to

Rishi Sunak has ruled out any extra Treasury support for lockdown in Aberdeen or other areas in Scotland that might go into local lockdown because of coronavirus clusters. At the beginning of a visit to Scotland, the Chancellor said the Rishi’s dishes scheme will not be extended in Aberdeen where restaurants are closed during for part of the month of August the discount offer covers.

Aberdeen has woken up to its first full day of lockdown after tighter restrictions were imposed by the Scottish Government. The streets of the Granite City were left completely empty as all bars and restaurants shut their doors at 5pm on Wednesday evening.Nicola Sturgeon enforced Scotland’s first local lockdown after a spike in cases emerged in the city over the course of the week.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/no-plans-impose-lanarkshire-lockdown-22398658Aberdeen residents woke up this morning to being back in lockdown as the first local crackdown is implemented in Scotland.Bars, cafes and restaurants in the city have shut for at least seven days and more than 228,000 residents were told they can't enter each other's homes or travel further than five miles.Following the outbreak at the Sitel call centre last month, where staff members were advised to

coronavirus cluster, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said today.