Heartbreaking moment emotional 104-year-old care home resident fights back tears as she begs to be reunited with family barred by Covid lockdown Mary Fowler, 104, from Scotland, has asked to be reunited with her family The care home resident said the current measures were ‘cutting her to bits’ Comes as Nicola Sturgeon said testing for … Read more
A remote Scottish holiday cottage where Boris Johnson stayed during the pandemic has been booked up by staycationers who want to holiday like the PM until May 2021. A tourist board has welcomed the surge in bookings but campaigners warn the influx could overwhelm local services in the small coastal village, and spread Covid-19. The … Read more
Scottish Nationalist MP Amy Callaghan, 28, has thanked medics after a four-month hospital stay as she was treated for a brain haemorrhage. The East Dunbartonshire MP, who defeated former Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson for the seat in last year’s general election, fell ill at home on June 10. She left the Queen Elizabeth University … Read more
A woman has described the moment a ‘creepy’ stranger started messaging her after taking her number from a pub’s track and trace. Toni Drummond, 20, went for an evening out in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a friend last month and wrote her name and number down on card at the entrance to a restaurant. Later in … Read more
Support for Scottish independence soars to record high in new poll as 58 per cent now back move to split up the UK and most want a new referendum within the next five years Analysis by Ipsos Mori for STV about Scottish attitudes to independence 58 per cent say they would vote Yes, while 42 … Read more
The free-spending Chancellor joined Boris Johnson at a live television news conference tonight as The PM warned that the UK cannot ignore the ‘flashing warnings’ about surging coronavirus cases.
The UK today announced 13,972 new coronavirus cases and 50 more victims as Boris Johnson plunged millions of people into deeper lockdowns. Today’s new infections are up just 11 per cent from last Monday, when 12,594 cases were recorded, but triple the 4,368 recorded on Monday, September 21. Data on September 28 was rendered invalid due to … Read more
SAGE experts met today to demand Boris Johnson gets even tougher by imposing a nationwide ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown – despite the PM already facing a backlash from the North over plans to shut pubs and restaurants in hotspots. Scientists are warning that coronavirus has a ‘gun to the head’ of the country as daily cases … Read more
Boris Johnson (pictured) is set to ignore critics and impose Tier Three restrictions – the highest level of a new alert system – in Covid-hit areas of the north Boris Johnson faced fury from Northerners and a massing Tory revolt today after it emerged he will plunge 10million people in Covid hotspots into even tougher … Read more
Ten million people living in the North of England are to be hit with tougher lockdown restrictions – including the closure of pubs and restaurants – from next week in a bid to bring spiralling coronavirus infection figures under control. In a move which could spark outrage among leaders in the impacted cities and a … Read more