Scots restaurant forced to close after employee tests positive for Covid-19

restaurant and bar offering half-price meals in Scotland. The Eat Out to Help Out scheme launched this week, with hungry diners able to get cut price meals throughout the month of August.

jail block has been locked down after a prison guard tested positive for Covid-19. An officer at HMP Low Moss prison, near Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, became unwell and tests yesterday have now confirmed that they have the virus.

Scottish Government advisor has voiced her opposition to the reopening of indoor pubs amid a significant cluster of cases in Aberdeen. Professor Devi Sridhar said that the opening of indoor hospitality “seems to be the step that causes super-spreading events”.

Fife building are set to be laid to rest one week apart.Danny Allardyce and Terence Thornber were both sadly killed during the horror collision on Windygates Road in Leven on July 17.Devastated pals rallied around the families of the two men - aged 29 and 27 - raising more than £13,000 to help give them a proper send off.A touching candlelight vigil was also held on a beach in their hometown where dozens gathered to remember the men who were described as “humble, genuine amazing people”.The

UK Government scheme providing a 50% discount on food and non-alcoholic drinks.Chancellor Rishi Sunak's "Eat out to help out" scheme, designed to encourage a return to the hospitality industry, begins on Monday.The initiative will provide up to £10 off meals to diners eating out every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during August at participating businesses.At least 3,766 outlets in Scotland have signed up, though this figure does not include chains which have more than 26 premises.Across the UK

cancer faces running out of money for a life-extending drug available in England at a fraction of the cost.Linzi Page, 37, has been forced to pay £1400 every three weeks for Avastin, a treatment unfunded on the NHS that is keeping tumours in her bowel, liver and lung at bay.The medicine is giving her precious time with son Calan, six, and three-year-old daughter Charlotte, after she was given two years to live in April 2018.But Linzi, of Burntisland in Fife, will soon no longer be able to pay

pub boss has blasted "drunken young fools" who forced him to close early by threatening staff and refusing to social distance. The long-time owner of the Ship Inn in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, said louts who descended on the coastal town's harbour with carry-outs during good weather on Friday caused chaos and spoiled the occasion for others.

meals at budget prices from Monday due to the Eat Out to Help Out scheme. The initiative has been launched by the UK Government in a bid to restart the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area. The cases are linked to the M&D Green pharmacy in John Wood Street, Port Glasgow and an Amazon warehouse in Gourock, Inverclyde.

gyms will not be open until the middle of September. Nicola Sturgeon, outlining the latest steps out of lockdown, said the focus is on a safe return for schools, and more freedom for shielded people while trying to keep a lid on coronavirus.

https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/eat-out-to-help-out/find-a-restaurant/ML1 - MOTHERWELL■ Battered and Salted, 118 Merry Street■ Bizarre Bar Ltd, Strathclyde Country Park■ Coffee Shop, Strathclyde Country Park■ Costa Coffee, 99 Brandon Parade South■ Dalziel Park, 100 Hagen Drive■ Electric Bar, 291 Airbles Road■ Hup Lee Restaurant, 131 Merry Street■ Indian Villa, 68-70 Windmillhill Street■ Lochview Themepark (Scotland) ltd t/a Alona Hotel, Strathclyde Country Park■ McDonald’s, Brandon Parade South■

coronavirus patient is warning others not to underestimate the deadly bug. Medics didn't know if Stephen Cameron from Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, would survive Covid-19 after spending 65 days on life support.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterPubs and bars ushering in a new era of service have praised punters for embracing “the change of a lifetime”.Hostelries were finally able to reopen indoors last week – but the warm welcome has changed dramatically in look.However, from big chains to small independents, businesses were bowled over by the willingness of customers to turn back out in force.Bosses at Ayr’s Arthur Street Kitchen

conwoman who helped herself to her elderly mother's life savings has been sent to prison for a year. Elizabeth Reid was locked up after she admitted targeting her own mother and several other frail and elderly victims to fund a drug addiction.

social media app.A sexual predator messaged them directly, asking to see them naked, and sent pictures of himself on an app called Wink.It allows users to make new online friends by swiping either right or left, an identical system to adult dating app Tinder.

Perth residents can sit in at the two McDonald’s stores in the city. The fast food giant announced on Wednesday that, after a successful pilot, its’s restaurants were now able to have customers in them.This will impact the McDonald’s at Broxden and on Dunkeld Road. Call for urgent action on road named one of the most dangerous in Scotland Residents previously rushed to the stores when the drive thru service opened in June.

fast food chain will offer table service and ask diners to leave their contact details in line with strict new rules. McDonald's fans will be able to enjoy their favourites inside 700 restaurants from Wednesday, July 22.

A Scots call centre worker has told how at least four people have tested positive for Covid-19 after an outbreak at a contact tracing centre.The 19-year-old was employed at the Sitel building in Maxim Park, near Motherwell, alongside as many as 200 other people before it was locked down by management.The teenager, who worked for Virgin Media on the upper floor of the building, discovered there was a cluster of cases after arriving for work on Saturday.A number of workers from the contact trace