Scots couple worried for rum business after contracting Covid and losing sense of smell

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coronavirus in the last 24 hours and 2,693 new cases had also been identified overnight. Council areas with rates of 400+ of positive cases per 100,000 of the population (September 22 - 28)1. South Ayrshire571.6 positivity rate and 641 infections2. West Lothian521.2 positivity rate and 958 infections3. East Ayrshire 519.7 positivity rate and 632 infections 4. North Ayrshire468.

Edinburgh around 10.50pm on Tuesday September 28. The victims, both in their sixties, were approached and threatened by three males, who arrived and left on a motorcycle.The first is thought to be of Asian appearance with a Scottish accent, around 6ft tall, of a medium build and clean shaven.

Covid ahead of the winter months. Millions of vulnerable Scots are being offered a third dose of the the vaccine - with care home residents and healthcare staff beginning to receive theirs.

Paisley couple were woken in the middle of the night by a speeding driver ploughing through their garden fence. Toni Bryson and her partner Sean Morton now face a hefty repair bill for the damage to their property in Fereneze Drive following the early-hours smash.

assaulting teenage schoolgirls with his drumsticks, subjecting a sixth-form girl to sex-talk, and engaging in a months-long "illicit affair" with a 17-year-old girl pupil. James Clark, a former cowhand who joined the services when he was 20 and rose to be chief instructor for pipes and drums for the entire British Army, had taught drumming at the "traditional" Perthshire school since 2012.

campervan with their dogs. Victoria MacDonald, 28, and Scott Ross, 32, lived in a swanky three-bed pad which even had a ballroom - but found the pressure of their careers was bringing them down.

Falkirk, around 7.30pm on Sunday following reports of a chemical gas leak.

cancer so his family can make precious memories. Little Lennon Duncan, 7, was initially diagnosed with brain cancer - medulloblastoma - on his fourth birthday in January 2018 after mum Chelsey noticed a squint in his eye.

crash on the A77 left three people injured and shut down the busy road.Two cars collided just south of the Bellfield Interchange at Kilmarnock, around 8am this morning.The female driver of a Mini has been rushed to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital by air ambulance.Meanwhile the male driver of a Vauxhall Insignia has been taken to Crosshouse Hospital, along with a female passenger in the Mini.None of the injuries are believed to be life threatening.The road is currently closed while

rural farmland in Fife in a bid to find a missing pensioner who vanished 11 days ago. Denis Findlay was last seen at around 5pm on Tuesday, September 14, at Waverley Train Station in Edinburgh.

police officer was left bloodied by his cop fiancée in an attack after a Covid lockdown-breaking bash, a court has heard. Police Constable Gordon Dunn, 33, said he was left "broken" and in tears after being assaulted by Lara McAulay, 31.

surgeon has been banned from treating patients for three months after he made a series of unwanted sexual advances towards a string of junior female colleagues.

children so they can afford to pamper their three pooches. Claire Kelly Johnston, 35, and Stuart Johnston, 38, have spent £20,000 on their ' babies ' - Cupcake, three, Teddybear, two, and Popcorn, two - and have said they don't plan on having any children now they have dogs.

worker who became the victim of a horror abduction and rape has been fined £20,000. The Action Group, which provides housing and community support to those with additional needs, had pled guilty to health and safety at work breaches.

drugs after cops spotted him “sweating profusely” in Edinburgh’s Waverley train station. Lee Brunton was approached by officers in the station who suspected he and a pal were “under the influence of something”.The 28-year-old was searched and 104 benzodiazepine tablets were recovered from his rucksack.Police also found four screwdrivers in the bag and Brunton, a painter and decorator, was arrested.

ship used that was nearly sunk after dragging a barge were not 'necessary competent' for the task, a watchdog has ruled. The Shearwater was severely damaged and flooded after repeated collisions with the unmanned barge Agem One near Kinlochbervie in the Highlands on April 9 last year.

police dogs, boats and worried locals have all joined a desperate overnight search for a missing Scots child. An urgent appeal was issued after little Carson Shepherd, 7, vanished from Afton Bridgend in New Cumnock, Ayrshire last night.

catching coronavirus on a cruise ship where several other passengers have fallen ill. Marilyn and David Thomson, from Saltcoats, boarded the MSC Virtuosa on September 1 for a relaxing week-long break around the British Isles.

toddler was turned away from hospital with “a tummy bug” but a day later died from sepsis. Now Harper Aitken’s mum Lori Mullen is begging other parents to “follow your gut” if children are ill and to mention sepsis to doctors if they see a rash.