Shamed CEO banned from working in childcare in Scotland after £330,000 cash row

flood warnings have been issued for Scotland after heavy rain battered large parts of the country last night. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has handed out 26 warnings for potential floods.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Anger towards shamed Hamilton West MP Margaret Ferrier is evident after correspondence received by the Scottish Government about her actions was revealed.In September, Ferrier travelled from London to Scotland despite having Covid-19 and documents released through Freedom of Information laws last week showed that a string of furious messages were submitted about her behaviour.Among the letters and emails

education secretary is under pressure to cancel next year's school exams after Wales decided to scrap them in full. John Swinney has so far only confirmed limited plans to call off National 5 exams but press ahead with Highers for Scots pupils.

Daily Record of the horrors she witnessed during her career as a carer, which began at the age of 18 in 2004 and lasted until 2016 when she began a new chapter as a teacher.Residents left sitting in their own urine, going hungry for hours and violent physical assaults were commonplace occurrences during Fiona’s time in the industry.She described private homes as running like “factories” and said “skeleton” staff numbers amounted to widespread neglect.Fiona believes a national care service is

11-year battle to stop an incinerator being built.Plans for the facility at Carnbroe, near Coatbridge, were rejected by the Scottish Government last week.Ministers said the buildings, including an 80-metre chimney, would be “out of keeping” with the adjacent residential area.Residents feared fumes from the plant would put people’s health at risk.

United States of America.Nicola Sturgeon tweeted just moments after it was announced that the Democrat candidate had secured enough votes to claim victory over Donald Trump.The Scottish Government leader also offered her heartfelt congratulations to Vice President elect Kamala Harris who has become the first woman of colour to be elected to the role.Sturgeon wrote: “Congratulations from Scotland to President-Elect Joe Biden and the history-making Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris.”She added:

Remembrance Sunday. The donation, described as "significant and meaningful" is made every year and will go toward the charity 's education project.

Glasgow. The thug threatened staff at a Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Shawlands with a 'bladed weapon' yesterday at around 1.30pm during the 'terrifying' ordeal.

Harry Potter fan fears getting killed for his collection as he raffles off his rarest book. The frightened enthusiast will part with the treasured £40,000 first edition, first print hardback of the Philosopher’s Stone in a promotional prize draw for his new business venture.

coronavirus pandemic shows no immediate signs of slowing right down. Workers up and down the country have converted their bedrooms and kitchens into makeshift office spaces since the national lockdown of the spring.

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Motorbike enthusiast Sam, from Dumfries and Galloway, sat the first of the two-part exam with his test centre in Rutherglen before the country went into lockdown in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.  The busy heartthrob then had to wait until tests were back up and running again at the beginning of August for his chance to get out on the road for the final part.Speaking to the Daily Record at the time, BikeRite Rider Training owner Roy McCulloch said: “He had been training with us for the

Rutherglen and Cambuslang that our local MP has ignored the lockdown restrictions we’ve all had to follow, leading to widespread calls for her resignation.

Belhaven Brewery Company Ltd discharged some 8,000 litres of undiluted caustic solution into a public sewer when an automatic cleaning process went wrong, a court heard. The discharge of concentrated sodium hydroxide in December last year breached health and safety guidelines.Dunbar based Belhaven stopped the discharges when they discovered what had happened and alerted Scottish Water.

Join thousands of others who have signed up to the weekly Scotland Now newsletter for the latest Scottish heritage and culture news.A Scots artist has filmed the moment she and her dog were forced to hilariously leg it from a herd of cows after walking through a field.Vee Somerville captured the comedic moment on TikTok before sharing it with her nearly 60,000 followers.The artist was out walking her pet Koko when she spotted the cows at the end of the path she was on.Jokingly apologising to the

Labour prime minister has called for the UK and Scottish Government to offer a “jobs guarantee” for 16-24 year olds to avert a crisis caused by the pandemic.A new report by the Alliance for Full Employment (AfE) has painted a bleak picture of the impact of covid on jobs.Written by Professor Paul Gregg, and containing a foreword by Brown, the report reveals one million young people across the UK are facing unemployment.Brown said: “This winter, 100,000 young Scots are in need of support to find a

Ayrshire has recorded 38 new infections in the past 24 hours bringing the region's total to 2,926.A total of 53 people were in NHS Ayrshire & Arran hospitals yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; with seven in intensive care.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