Nicola Sturgeon cancels lockdown easing in Glasgow amid Indian variant fears
She said an outbreak in the south side of Glasgow meant it would join Moray by staying in Level 3 of her lockdown restrictions.
14 May 2021 • 7:31pm
Nicola Sturgeon has said Glasgow will not move to Level 2 on Monday
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Nicola Sturgeon has cancelled the easing of lockdown in Glasgow on Monday following evidence the more transmissible Indian Covid variant is driving the surge of cases in the city.
The First Minister said an outbreak in the south side of Scotland s largest city meant it would join Moray by staying in Level 3 of her lockdown restrictions, while the rest of the mainland moves to Level 2.
LEE Conetta is Glasgow food royalty, with many years’ experience helping to run one of the city’s biggest restaurant groups. Each fortnight in Times Out, she will share memories of her life less ordinary, and the food she loves to cook. This week, Mrs Conetta shares the story of how her late husband’s beloved Di Maggio’s was born and cooks up a hearty lasagne… When Joe and I lived in Bothwell in the 1980s, we often went to a restaurant called Da Luciano. It was owned by our friends, Mr and Mrs Poli, and one evening, they asked us if we would like to buy the restaurant as they were thinking of retiring.
By Ian McConnell The owners of the restaurant group which includes Di Maggio’s and Café Andaluz have warned of the coronavirus pandemic’s “catastrophic” long-term toll on the sector, while revealing they expect to make an operating loss this financial year. Mario Gizzi, co-founder of The DRG, said: “Our trading had been going well until Covid hit, but the total shutdown of the sector for month after month has taken a catastrophic toll on huge numbers of well-known and much-loved businesses, many of which will struggle ever to reopen.” He added: “Our group is one of the most robust and well-managed hospitality operators in the country and we will do what we have to do to make it through this, but if the hit to our trading and operations is anything to go by, there will be many businesses which will simply remain shut even when the lockdown restrictions are finally lifted.”
Glasgow restaurateur Lee Conetta at home near Lanark. STY .Pic Gordon Terris/Glasgow Times.18/11/20. EVERYONE has a story to tell. Over the decades, running some of Glasgow’s best-loved restaurants, Lee Conetta has heard her fair share of them. “I learned a lot working in the east end, at the Briggait, in Cambuslang – all over the city,” she explains. “I met many wonderful characters, and I learned a lot about Glasgow and her people. Most of all, I learned every person is a life, every person has a story to tell.” Meet the woman behind the Glasgow Times’ exciting new food column, Cooking with Mrs Conetta. Each fortnight, starting tomorrow (Thursday, January 28) she will be sharing one of her favourite recipes with our readers alongside some moving, funny anecdotes about life as part of the city’s ‘food royalty’.