Scotland's poorest school kids to get share of £215m to close attainment gap

We will bring you all the latest news by following our live blog below.Tougher sentences should be imposed on those who deliberately spit, cough or sneeze on police in a bid to infect them with Covid-19, the body which represents rank and file officers has insisted.The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) branded such incidents as being "disgusting and unpleasant" - and said that the coronavirus pandemic meant they brought a "new level of risk".However, Caroline Macnaughton, the SPF's north area

Jason Leitch said clinical advice is “very, very clear” that giving people their doses at a shorter interval will not offer people enough protection. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has called for the gap between first and second vaccinations to be halved to four weeks to deal with the “out of control” spread of coronavirus.

iOS - Android Mr Gray’s motion, so far supported by 12 other MSPs, adds that “camps for disabled children, organised by the pupils, are recognised as lifesaving by people in Malawi”, and “commends the schools on its work, Mission Rabies, which has led to it winning Young Scot awards”.The MSP added: “The pupils and staff at St Margaret’s have done a phenomenal work for the people of Malawi, and I felt it was only right for them to get recognition for all their efforts over the years.“For one

iOS - Android National figures showed that more than 200,000 households across Scotland are seeing their benefits reduced by an average of £75-a-month due to the way Universal Credit payments are made.The month of February the figures showed that Rutherglen and Hamilton West saw 5400 households lose £399,000 in repayments , the third highest in Scotland.

Glasgow, 20C in Edinburgh, while it will be 18C in Aberdeen. Setting the picture for the weather on Sunday, the Met Office said: “A fine dry spell of weather with some long sunny spells, and becoming warmer.

Johnstone High School have been honoured with a top environmental award for their work cleaning up the community.Youngsters at the Beith Road secondary school picked up the Summer Clean Hero Award, which was given to them by environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful.The award nod recognised the school’s contribution to the charity’s Clean Up Scotland campaign, and particularly the Summer Clean, and it will be given additional litter picking equipment, provided by Helping Hand Environmental,

Scotland has recorded a weekend spike in the number of Covid patients being treated in hospitals across the country.Figures published by the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland today show 158 people are currently being treated for the virus in the nation's hospitals compared to 128 on Friday.The rise comes as a further 1,250 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Scotland in the last 24 hours – including 112 in Ayrshire.Public Health Scotland say the national figure is lower

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Scotland's fan zone before our crunch match against England at Wembley. Around 3000 socially distanced supporters took to their feet before belting out Flower of Scotland at Glasgow Green on Friday evening.

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