Scotland-England border checks could stop air passengers avoiding quarantine hotels

Glasgow, was left devastated after son Kyle, 24, passed away on Tuesday February 23.The tragic loss came the day before he was to carry older brother Jim’s coffin following his short battle with cancer.Single dad Tam had been a sole carer to Kyle, who had cerebral palsy, for the last ten years since the death of his wife Marie in 2011.Celtic-fan Kyle passed away “peacefully” from kidney problems and complications from his condition in hospital with his dad at his side.“It was very, very quick,”

hotel quarantine with his dad on the stroke of midnight last night after their “nightmare” stay was extended at the eleventh hour.We told last month how Sami Caraballo had flown alone from Finland to be reunited with his dad after several months apart only to be escorted to an Edinburgh airport hotel on landing under Scotland’s strict new Covid-19 travel restrictions.Dad Antonio, 44, who believed his son would be allowed to isolate at home due to his age, was forced to stump up more than £2,000

fascist salute at an Italian flight attendant before head-butting him after being asked to wear a face mask has been jailed.Daniel Hendry, from East Kilbride, mocked the worker’s nationality and raised his arm in a Mussolini-style salute onboard the Ryanair flight on January 29.The 25-year-old, who was travelling from Tenerife to Manchester, repeatedly ignored requests to put on a face covering after knocking back almost a litre of vodka.Did you know you can keep up to date with the latest news

Labour leader said the Government has not “secured our borders in the way we should have done” after the new strain was detected in six travellers, three of whom came to Scotland, before the February quarantine rules were introduced.An enhanced contact tracing effort is under way after three Scottish residents tested positive for the new strain after flying into Aberdeen from Brazil, via Paris and London.Other passengers who were on the same flight from London are now being contacted.Starmer

quarantine hotel  fees for a heartbroken Scot mourning the loss of her sister. Billie Gray has been forced to isolate after travelling from Sweden to Scotland as the sudden death of her sibling does not entitle her to a ‘compassionate grounds’ exemption.

quarantine hotel as the sudden death of her sister does not entitle her to a ‘compassionate grounds’ exemption.Billie Gray had to say goodbye to her sibling Maryanne, 48, over the phone as she lost her fight for life at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Monday.The 27-year-old, who has been working in Sweden since August, believed she would be able to isolate at her mother’s home in Fife after providing two negative coronavirus tests.But when she landed at Edinburgh Airport on Friday morning,

coronavirus case number in all local authority areas in Scotland has been published by health officials.Public Health Scotland said that in the week between February 15 and 21, Scotland recorded a total of 5,736 positive cases of Covid-19 - which represents 5.0% of people tested for the virus.Scotland’s seven-day positivity rate per 100,000 population in those seven days stood at 105.0, according to the latest data.Falkirk recorded the highest number of cases per 100,000 population during this

reopen the country's tourism industry this year.He told MSPs the Highlands and Islands were "very busy" during summer months last year but "there were no outbreaks of any significance linked to tourists".The comments are a boost to Scotland's tourism industry which is desperate to reopen after months of lockdown.

Sam Heughan and Cirdan Heughan were born on this planet, but you would be mistaken for thinking they are from Middle-earth.

Holyrood for a site at Cairnryan in Dumfries and Galloway. It was described as a consequence of Brexit and means there will be checks on goods such as animals, fish, plants and food between different parts of the United Kingdom.

roadmap out of lockdown in the House of Commons today, the Prime Minister announced that schools will fully reopen in two weeks.With growing fears that unlocking too quickly could spark another surge in infections, he had been urged to take a similar approach to Scotland and Wales, which have opted for a phased return of pupils - with the youngest starting back in primaries today.But Boris Johnson insisted that while 'lifting the lockdown will result in more cases, isolations and sadly more

Vamps star Connor Ball has asked fans to petition for more Irn Bru in English shops.

Pippa Middleton’s husband James and his brother Spencer Matthews have been claiming taxpayer funds to pay furloughed staff.

sexually abused children on his PlayStation gaming console has been handed a community sentence.Jonathan McGregor, 50, was made subject to social work supervision for two years and will remain on the sex offenders’ register for the same period.In addition to child abuse images on his PlayStation, a court heard McGregor downloaded photographs onto his mobile phone showing youngsters being subjected to sickening sexual acts.Police raided his home in West Lothian, after receiving information that