What we learned from Johnson’s 5pm press briefing

here"The administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland hold responsibility for their own lockdown restrictions and they will respond to the united view of the Chief Medical Officers at their own pace, based on their own judgement, but all parts of the UK are now travelling in the same direction and we will continue to work together to ensure that everyone in our country gets the support they need."Thanks to our progress, we can now go further and safely ease the lockdown in England."At

Boris Johnson.The First Minister hinted progress has been made exactly three months to the day since the whole country was shut down.Sturgeon was speaking at her daily briefing on the day the Scottish Government sets out changes to its back-to-school plan.Meanwhile in England, Boris Johnson announced major changes by cutting the two-metre rule in half and confirming pubs, hairdressers and restaurants will open south of the border next month.The rules are not changing in Scotland - but Sturgeon

lockdown tomorrow, including when restaurants and pubs can reopen in England. The Prime Minister had a crunch meeting with the Government’s top scientific advisors on Monday night on changing the 2 metre social distancing rule - increasing the pressure on Nicola Sturgeon to do the same in Scotland.

would scrap plans to update the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) to allow transgender and non-binary people to change their birth certificates without medical diagnosis.

Vaccines- Over-50s first in the queue Matt Hancock set out who could be first in line for a coronavirus vaccine if one is proven to be effective. Priority would be given to frontline health and social care workers, the over-50s and those with heart and kidney disease.

Kurdish rebels, ran into the road outside the gates to Parliament in front of the convoy. This forced the lead vehicles in the convoy - a police motorbike and the Prime Minister's Jaguar - to stop, with a support vehicle running into the back of the luxury saloon carrying the Prime Minister.

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happens The £4.5million handed over by the Scottish Government will be used by education chiefs to mitigate the impact of coronavirus on children’s learning.The money is part of the Attainment Challenge Fund and will allow the council to plough cash into schemes that best support children from the area’s most deprived households.It will be shared across all 62 schools in the local authority area. Read More News: The council can also take advantage of a

1 - Go for goal The Labour leader started off by congratulating the PM on his U-turn over free school meals after pressure from Marcus Rashford. Starmer didn’t go in studs first though, preferring detailed questions on poverty rates and warnings from local councils, including Tory ones, that they are about to go bankrupt.

Department of International Development with the Foreign Office. Johnson’s announcement that he is folding the aid department back into the Foreign Office has been condemned across the board and drew rare criticism from former Prime Minister David Cameron.

teenage boy has been arrested after an alleged assault on another teen in Dunbartonshire. Officers from Police Scotland have charged a 15-year-old following an incident at around 6pm on Sunday, June 14 at the skate park area of Lennox Park in Milngavie.We previously told how cops were called to the scene.

Scotland's “test and protect” system. Both have the same purpose - to find everyone that people who test positive for coronavirus have been in touch with and get them to self-isolate.

1 -  Grandparents will be able to hug grandchildren, but only in England.Boris Johnson announced new rules allowing households to create “support bubbles” to give some relief to single people who feel isolated at home as lockdown drags into its 12th week.From Saturday around 11 million people living alone or as single parents will be allowed to “bubble up” with one other household of any size.Anyone in the bubble will be allowed to “act as if they live in the same household”.

coronavirus test which caused a scare last week, took the 5pm press conference.

1 - That’s still a no-go to sunny SpainMatt Hancock signalled that there is little chance of quarantine rules forcing people into 14 days self-isolation if they return from travel abroad being lifted in time for Scottish school holidays.The policy will be reviewed at the end of June, by which time Scottish schools will be out for the summer.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics newsletter.We cover Holyrood, Westminster and local

Covid-19 pandemic must be delivered within months to prepare for a second wave of the disease, Scotland 's former chief scientific adviser has said.

sell the house where her husband was found dead last year.The Scots actress, who stars in Sky 1 comedy drama Agatha Raisin, has put the four-bedroom house on the market for £850,000, seven months after Terence Beesley took his own life.Terence, 60, who had appeared in Victoria and BBC1’s War and Peace, was found dead in a car in the garage.The couple, who had been married for 10 years, moved back from Los Angeles after Annan-born Ashley’s successful stint in hit TV comedy Ugly Betty.They bought

Residents near a Scots beauty spot have been left furious by day-trippers parking their cars in blind spots during coronavirus lockdown.

The death of George Floyd which has triggered protests across the US was “inexcusable”, Boris Johnson has said.

Police are appealing to the public for help to identify a man pulled from the water in Lanarkshire.

A probe has been launched after a teenager was raped in a Glasgow park.