Follow along live with the latest coronavirus lockdown news in Scotland.

The singer's publicist Jay Schwartz announced her death early on Tuesday morning

The Met Office a severe amber warning for snow in place, in effect until 9pm tonight, for Scotland between Glasgow and Edinburgh and north to Perth.

On Monday, Sue Ruddick said she had reported an act of “physical aggression” by Mr Salmond to the police

FEARS have been raised that the housebound elderly are being left behind in the vaccine rollout, with some people in their 90s and 100s or those with serious health conditions yet to be contacted.

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MSPS have been warned that plans to regulate Airbnb-style short-term lets could put thousands of jobs in rural parts of Scotland at risk and wipe out more than £113m from the economy in isolated communities.

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A FIREFIGHTER is still recovering a year after he suffered two strokes caused by Covid-19 after his body started to attack itself.

SHARES in Omega Diagnostics leapt after it responded to a press report that it is one of three companies selected by the UK Government to make rapid Covid-19 tests.

A LIFE sciences and healthcare recruiter has reported a turnover increase of 110 per cent to £4.6 million and a 47% growth in headcount last year.

HOLYROOD is to hear calls for Scotland's third national park to be created in Galloway.

A Caithness firm that has pioneered the development of smart battery technology has announced plans for a multi-million pound fund-raising ahead of an expected flotation on the stock market.

LAST week’s decision by energy regulator Ofgem to raise the cap on prices payable for electricity and gas was a baffling move that raised fresh questions about the effectiveness of the regime it supervises.

IT has become a colour which has joined families together who have lost loved ones to coronavirus in the past 10 months.

WHEN it came, the envelope was not blue. It was one of your ordinary, prosaic white ones.

AT heart, the SNP – from top to toe – emanates an aura of hostility towards the media. The party doesn’t like the press, it doesn’t like the BBC, it doesn’t like newspapers, it doesn’t like journalism full stop. In truth, the SNP doesn...

People aren’t the only ones being cooped up indoors during this pandemic. Poultry are also in lockdown, as the UK faces its largest ever outbreak of avian influenza – more commonly known as bird flu.

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Dozens of Scottish children fell victim of cybercrimes every day in 2020, new figures revealed.

‘OBSCENE’ pandemic profits, a mised miscarriage in lockdown and the promise of better days were the topics raised by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

IT MUST be a tiring business, constantly looking for new ways of being offended. The Calcutta Cup match on Saturday, which all sane people will have found excellent in every possible way, didn’t seem to give much scope for it, but the relentless...

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NHS Fife has apologised for "significant issues" at some of their Covid-19 community vaccination clinics, after patients were left queueing outside a number of venues today and some did not receive their vaccines.

THE SNP's plan to continue to use the pound after independence before later switching to a new currency would be a "hugely risky experiment", it has been warned.

UPTAKE of the Covid vaccine has been close to 100 per cent in Scotland among residents in care homes for the elderly.

Scottish Labour leadership hopefuls Monica Lennon and Anas Sarwar went head to head tonight in a televised debate.

KEIR Starmer has defended his leadership of the Labour Party as polls suggest he is struggling to overhaul support for the Conservatives during the coronavirus pandemic.

THE SNP’s ruling body has been asked to consider suspending Nicola Sturgeon’s husband to stop the party being brought into further “disrepute”.

BORIS Johnson and UK Government scientists have mounted a staunch defence of the homemade Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine amid concerns it could be less effective against the South African variant.

Organisers of The Royal Highland Show have said they are remaining positive as they continue to plan for their 180th show to go ahead in June.

Leading aerospace coorporation Lockheed Martin has chosen the rocket it will use for the UK's first ever vertical satellite launch, taking place in Shetland.

SCOTLAND’S Environment Secretary has hit back at claims her strategy to cut carbon emissions is "on the fringes of credibility” ahead of her being quizzed by MSPs on the ambitious blueprint.

The weather has been nicknamed 'Beast from the East Two'

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she will tackle some of the “ridiculous suggestions” around the Alex Salmond affair when she gives evidence to MSPs next week.

A medical diagnostics firm is creating hundreds of jobs in Scotland to help the fight against coronavirus.

The UK's terrorism threat level has been reduced from “severe” to “substantial”.

POLICE Scotland has appealed for witnesses after confirming the identities of the three people killed in Kilmarnock on Thursday.

As ballots open, both MSPs are seeking to take Scottish Labour into the next Holyrood election in May

A young nurse from Glasgow said she felt as though she were "dying" from Covid-19 in a recovery process that has lasted ten months.

A man has been charged following an alleged offensive tweet about Sir Captain Tom Moore.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s husband should be investigated by prosecutors for giving false evidence under oath to the parliament, the Scottish Tories and Labour have said.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s husband has been accused of giving unbelievable evidence to the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair.

Speaking during the daily briefing on the state of the pandemic in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 risen by 928.

THE latest annual audit of our food retailers’ plastic footprint, carried out by Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency pressure group, finds that supermarkets are using more plastic than they were in 2017. “We had hoped to see a m...

NICOLA Sturgeon’s husband has repeatedly refused to say whether he gave a false statement under oath to the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair.

Professor Jason Leitch believes the country is "not out of the woods" yet, though the number of people being infected by the disease has fallen. 

ALEX Salmond has threatened to pull out of the Holyrood inquiry into his legal fight with Nicola Sturgeon’s government in a row over censored evidence.