Letters: Sturgeon is right to show caution on lockdown exit. Why can t she do the same with indie?
Nicola Sturgeon has been criticised for the pace of the Scottish Government s proposed route out of lockdown I WOULD not have thought it a surprise to anyone to read your front-page headline on the latest Covid announcement from Holyrood (“Outcry over Sturgeon’s ‘too cautious’ lockdown exit plan”, The Herald, February 24). Doubtless the criticism is prompted by a comparison with the similarly-timed but more specific timetable announced from 10 Downing Street for unlocking England. However, we must always bear in mind that Boris Johnson is a journalist and therefore very conscious of the public mood and how he can reflect it in the media.
Stacey Dooley on fame after Strictly: I underestimated how much interest there would be in my personal life
She has investigated everything from sweat shops to sex trafficking for her TV series - and won Strictly. And she s done it all her way
16 January 2021 • 6:00pm
Stacey Dooley shot exclusively for Stella magazine. She wears: jumper, Raey; skirt, Joseph; gold earrings, Deborah Blythe
Credit: Helen McArdle, stylist Jodie Nellist
Stacey Dooley is no stranger to the assumption that women can’t be interested in politics and beauty, simultaneously. ‘It is hideously outdated and it’s really boring when people say, “Are you a serious female interested in activism or do you care about hair?”’ she says. ‘Why can’t I care about both?’
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Turkey has had record numbers of new coronavirus infections recently with around 30,000 positive cases a day. That number has now dropped slightly, and the Health Ministry says restrictions have begun to bear fruit. But how did it get to this, in a country which was initially regarded as doing well in the pandemic? Now the government has been accused of covering up the spread of the virus, and putting lives at risk, as Orla Guerin reports from Istanbul.
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