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Covid Scotland LIVE: Patients in hospital with Indian variant after despite vaccine While large parts of Scotland will move to level two next week, the First Minister did confirm that Glasgow and Moray would remain at level three due to a rise in cases Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Welcome to Edinburgh Live s coronavirus in Scotland live blog on Saturday, May 15. Nicola Sturgeon yesterday gave an important update to the Scottish Parliament regarding the easing of lockdown restrictions amid fears about the Indian variant. The First Minister confirmed that while large parts of Scotland would move down to level two from Monday, Glasgow and Moray would remain in level three due to a rise in cases. This will be for at least a week. ....
SHOCK BILL Grieving Scots family given £800 bill after grandmother died from Covid while living at care home for less than a month Updated: 15:48, 9 May 2021 A GRIEVING Scots family have been handed an £800 bill after a grandmother died from Covid while living at a care home for less than a month. Margaret Laidlaw, 65, passed away at Drummond Grange in Lasswade, Midlothian, where she had stayed for just three weeks. 2 The grandmother-of-six, who had vascular dementia, had been moved there from a council-run residence. A report on the death of Ms Laidlaw, who used to be a hairdresser, has been sent to the Crown Office as part of a review into Covid deaths at care homes. ....
Long list of horrific scrambler bike crashes after woman, 26, killed Crashes involving scrambler bikes have led to the death and serious injury of many pedestrians in recent years Updated Merseyside Police at Court Hey Road in Roby, Huyton (Image: Photo by Colin Lane) The death of a woman who was struck by a scrambler bike in Huyton is the latest in a series of horrific crashes involving off-road bikes. The 29-year-old rider of the bike remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition. Emergency services were called to Court Hey Road on Friday lunchtime following reports an off-road vehicle had hit a woman. ....
JAMES HOGG defies categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots and English. Labelled the Ettrick Shepherd, the former Borders farmhand, whose life spanned the 18th and 19th centuries, befriended many of the great writers of his day, including Walter Scott, John Galt and Allan Cunningham. Even though he was celebrated off and on in his own lifetime, some details of the author’s life remain unclear. Records place his baptism on December 9 1770, but Hogg long believed that he had been born on January 25 1772 Burns Night, no less. This complicates attempts to commemorate his 250th birthday, unless we embrace his fantastical world view. Fiction mattered to him more than fact. Besides, Hogg’s sestercentennial will inevitably be overshadowed by Scott’s own such celebration on August 15 this year. ....