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Follow along with the latest coronavirus news in Scotland and further afield.

SCOTS are now ordered by law to stay at home except for essential reasons as Nicola Sturgeon put the country back into lockdown to halt a “steeply rising trend of infections”.

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WE forget, I think, that modern work patterns were never designed to fit alongside parenting. That is, the expectation was that one parent would work while the other cared for the children.

THE Scottish textiles industry has hailed its resilience during the coronavirus pandemic but faces a further challenge as it seeks to restock stores that still have a backlog of inventory.

Michael Gove has said that the UK Government is working on a coordinated approach to international travel.

LAST Saturday’s Big Read ("Angry locals battle to save the Bonnie Banks from large-scale developments", The Herald, January 2) offered a highly unbalanced view on our plans to build the Hunter Global Leadership Centre (HGLC) in partnership with ...

US actress Tanya Roberts, known for her roles in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, Charlie's Angels, and That 70s Show is still alive, after earlier being reported as dead.

IT IS usually a sure sign of political idiocy to believe the crudest caricatures of political stances, especially when they embrace all supporters of a given party or cause. The idea that every supporter of a given group actively wants to do down ...

President Donald Trump has vowed to "fight like hell" to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden when they convene this week to confirm the Electoral College vote.

THINGS can only get better. Then again? With the kind of natural pessimism that would make Private Frazer from Dad’s Army look like a glowing beacon of positive thinking, I still have my reservations about the year ahead.

THE Scottish Government has been accused of leaving communities at risk of flooding because of “glacial progress” on protection schemes.

ACTRESS Barbara Windsor openly campaigned for a dementia charity before her death from Alzheimer's Disease, while Sean Connery's wife only disclosed he had been suffering from the illness after he died in November.

A spike in slips and falls due to freezing conditions risks overwhelming some hospital emergency departments and placing an increasing number of people at “significant” risk of catching Covid-19, it has been warned.

NORTH Sea-focused Jersey Oil & Gas has agreed a settlement to a legal dispute with a Norwegian contractor, which the company said had left its finances in a stronger than expected position.

By Ian McConnell

Police have arrested the leader of far-right group Proud Boys, who is accused of burning a Black Lives Matter banner in downtown Washington last month.

Michael Gove said the country was in for a “very difficult” few weeks and could give no firm date for lifting the lockdown.

BY MIKE MERRITT

IT is a piece of history that tradition says was the base in which Robert the Bruce raised his standard prior to the Battle of Bannockburn.

Gone to pot

Staged

MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested and charged after an alleged breach of coronavirus rules.

BORIS Johnson has urged Britain to “pull together” as he announced a third lockdown for England and warned the toughest weeks in the fight against the coronavirus now lie ahead.

FAMILIES with relatives in care homes have called for visiting restrictions to be relaxed if residents have received their first dose of the Covid vaccine.

BUSINESS leaders have called the return to a full Covid lockdown a blow to Scotland’s economic recovery which will cause “heartbreak” to smaller firms.

Boris Johnson has imposed a third national lockdown on England and shut schools to most students to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed by surging coronavirus infections.