Run your own island boozer! The only pub on Scotland’s ‘sunshine isle’ of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides is up for sale for £650,000 The Colonsay Hotel in the Inner Hebrides has been listed for sale at £650,000 Jane Howard, who currently owns the hotel, says it was booked up last year She bought the … Read more
The first of many! Delighted daughter hugs her 90-year-old mother indoors for first time in three months as Covid restrictions ease Mary Cook, 90, and daughter Fiona Scott hugged for first time in three months Care home residents in Scotland now allowed two designated visitors a week Ms Scott visited her mother at Queen’s House in … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon has taken a swipe at Boris Johnson over his response to the coronavirus crisis as she appeared to back claims that Scotland had done better than England. Ms Sturgeon tweeted a story published by the Financial Times with the headline ‘Scotland reaps dividend of Covid response that diverged from England’. The Scottish First … Read more
Professor Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh Britons from other parts of the UK who holidayed in rural Scotland last year did not cause any coronavirus outbreaks, a top Government scientist claimed today. Professor Mark Woolhouse, an infectious disease expert at Edinburgh University, said that, despite being ‘very busy, … Read more
Covid symptoms appears to be on the rise in Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of England, raising fears that Britain’s outbreak has stopped shrinking. Scientists behind a symptom tracking app have spotted cases are ‘starting to trend up again’ and called it a ‘hitch’, given that every other key metric shows the second wave is firmly … Read more
Scotland’s way ahead Nicola Sturgeon made several announcements today ahead of a full roadmap out of lockdown she expects to present next week. Addressing MSPs in Holyrood she said: Schools would reopen from February 22, starting with limited primary and secondary age groups No other years would return to face-to-face teaching before March 15 Scottish … Read more
Scotland’s first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer will lead an Edinburgh University review into buildings and statues linked with the slave trade. The consultation follows controversy over the university’s decision to rename the David Hume Tower due to the 19th century philosopher’s controversial views on race – including that black people are ‘naturally inferior to … Read more
Comedian Rory Bremner sells his seven-bedroom Scottish country mansion and estate for £2.7m after restoring it to its former glory Comedian Rory Bremner bought the 10,000 square foot property for £1.5 million in 2009 The estate was built for Captain James Paton who made his fortune with the East India Company Paton used a network … Read more
Free speech campaigners today blasted Police Scotland over its decision to charge a man over an offensive tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore. A tweet sent shortly after war hero’s death last Tuesday read: ‘The only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn.’ Joseph Kelly will appear at Lanark Sheriff Court … Read more
A mother and daughter have been stabbed to death before a man crashed a car into a viaduct in a suspected double murder-suicide. Nurse Emma Robertson Coupland, 39, was knifed outside Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, Scotland, at 7.45pm. Her daughter Nicole Anderson, 24, was attacked 20 minutes later near a takeaway shop she worked at and … Read more