Scotland's biggest Loony Dook cancelled due to coronavirus fears

Universal Credit next spring. Citizens Advice Scotland worked out 80% of people who had asked for help with "complex debt" would be unable to pay their way after the cut in March.

Lewis Capaldi‘s debut album ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Heavenly Extent’ has been revealed as the UK’s most popular album of 2020 so far after shifting more than 300,000 copies this year.As Official Charts reports, the Scottish singer’s 2019 debut record also recently secured one million charts sales in the UK, and has yet to exit the Top 10 since its release in May last year.Harry Styles‘ second album ‘Fine Line’ is also riding high in 2020, despite arriving at the very end of last year.

Isle of Harris - which, as the house name suggests, is home to the globally-renowned Luskentyre Beach. The stretch of white sands and turquoise coloured waters has been regarded as one of the best in the world according to a recent TripAdvisor study.

Marvin Gaye has knocked the Beatles off the top spot. There are five women in the top 30 as well as 13 black musicians.1 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going OnGaye’s most political album was number six in 2003.

drugs bust on a Scots hotel has led cops to finding more than three-quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis. Responding to a tip-off officers searched the Highlander Hotel on West Church Street in Buckie, Moray on Sunday night.

parents are backing a national 'pumpkin trail' idea after Nicola Sturgeon admitted Halloween may be cancelled due to Covid-19. The First Minister told Holyrood that children may be banned from guising this year in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.

bigoted tongue.Karen Mason, 49, verbally abused people in Bo'ness, West Lothian, “almost daily” for nearly two-and-a-half years.Many of her targets were neighbours of her elderly mother.In one particularly nasty outburst she called a man “a homosexual, flag-waving Jew”, a court was told.Prosecutor Kristina Kelly said: “Comments directed at other neighbours included, ‘That’s the black b******’.”Falkirk Sheriff Court heard Mason’s behaviour got so bad that a couple living in Links Road, Bo’ness,

raped an 80 year-old woman in her own home has been locked up for eight years. John Laming struck last Christmas Eve just 12 days after he had been freed from jail.

“We’re also looking to increase our partnerships with other organisations, such as Visibility Scotland and Capability Scotland, and create a new role which will effectively be a volunteer co-ordinator.“Through the groups you learn about the wide variety of backgrounds people have and we’re hoping to harness the skills and knowledge of people in the Glenkens for the benefit of the community.”

care homes.Professor Jason Leitch was speaking on a live radio interview today about the rising number of positive tests for coronavirus north of the border and the potential impact on the social care sector.Appearing on BBC Good Morning Scotland, the national clinical director was asked if he was concerned by the situation in Scotland's care homes."Concerned in the sense I want to protect them as much as I can from this virus," he said."We've learned both in Scotland and around the world, the

online has been branded “a danger to women” after he returned to a dating app following his release from jail.Pervert Steven McGinley joined Tinder just weeks after he was let out of jail for attacking a woman on their first date.They had arranged the meeting on an online dating app but after tricking his victim into a flat, he sexually assaulted and spat on her.The victim had to flee to a nearby chip shop to get help after escaping his clutches.McGinley, 35, was sentenced to 15 months inside –

coronavirus pandemic. Councils have pulled the plug on events in East Lothian, North and South Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross, South Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Highland.

hereEarlier today, the First Minister uged Scots to download a new 'Protect Scotland' contact tracing app - the latest tool in the fight to stop the spread of coronavirus.The symptoms of coronavirus are:But these symptoms do not necessarily mean you have the illness.The symptoms are similar to other illnesses that are much more common, such as cold and flu.always wash your hands when you get home or into workuse hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not availablecover your mouth and nose with

sex trafficking gang luring vulnerable women to Scotland has been busted in a series of raids across Europe.Guns, knives, luxury cars and cash were seized by officers and 24 traffickers were arrested in raids in Scotland, England and Romania yesterday.Trafficking victims who had been snared by the violent gang were also rescued in the UK and Romania.The operation spearheaded by Police Scotland saw four properties in Glasgow and Aberdeen targeted as part of a series of co-ordinated dawn raids.Ten

coronavirus cases - the highest daily increase in positive tests for more than 17 weeks. The last time more people tested positive for Covid-19 was May 8, when there were 225 new cases of infection.The increase, up from Saturday's figure of 141 people, takes the weekly total of confirmed infections to 1,079 - the most over a seven-day period since May 6.