Drugs crusader Peter Krykant has delivered a proposal to open official Overdose Prevention Centres in Glasgow and Dundee within four months.
25.01.2022 - 13:23 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Nicola Sturgeon will deliver another Covid update to the Scottish Parliament later today.
The First Minister will update MSPs and Scots on the state of the pandemic in Scotland as the country continues to battle through the Omicron wave of the virus.
The Scottish Government's latest update comes a day after the remaining Omicron restrictions imposed following the festive break were scrapped.
Social distancing and table service rules in pubs and restaurants have been lifted, while nightclubs can reopen once again.
The SNP leader is expected to deliver her speech from around 2.20pm this afternoon.
Here is what we expect her to announce during that speech later today.
More details on the Scottish Government’s ‘strategic framework’ are expected to be revealed later today.
The document will act as a roadmap as to how Scotland will deal with Covid as it moves from pandemic to endemic.
Nicola Sturgeon said that the framework will future proof Scotland’s response to the virus without the restrictive measure we have seen in the past.
The Scottish Government is said to be consulting with businesses, organisations and Parliament before the framework is published in full in the coming weeks.
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Describing what the strategic framework is,
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football team in Scotland over its signing of a player who was ruled by a judge in 2017 to have raped a woman.Crime writer Val McDermid slammed Raith Rovers’ decision to sign David Goodwillie on Monday as a “disgusting and despicable” move that “shatters any claim to be a community or family club.”Goodwillie, a 32-year-old former Scotland international, and an ex-teammate at Dundee United, David Robertson, were ordered to pay damages of 100,000 pounds ($135,000) to a woman they raped, a judge ruled in a civil case in an Edinburgh court in 2017. No criminal charges were brought against either Goodwillie or Robertson.Goodwillie left English team Plymouth following the ruling and has played for Clyde in Scotland’s lower two divisions since then.McDermid, who has sold more than 17 million books, was a Raith director and her name is on the front of the team’s home shirts.She wrote on Twitter she would be ending her lifelong support of the team.“Goodwillie has never expressed a shred of remorse for the rape he committed,” she wrote.
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COVID-19 restrictions are to be eased in Scotland from Monday January 24, with nightclubs reopening, large indoor events resuming and social distancing rules dropped.Restrictions on outdoor events in Scotland were previously lifted on January 17. This allowed fans to return to outdoor concerts and football matches, after COVID restrictions were put in place on Boxing Day, reducing outdoor events to a capacity of 500.Nightclubs had been closed since December 26 but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had said that all restrictions, including the closure of nightclubs, could be lifted from January 24.The new changes will take effect after a “significant fall” in new case numbers, with Sturgeon commented that Scotland had “turned the corner on the Omicron wave”.
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