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Massive coronavirus testing lab due to open in Scotland is hit by delay as officials reveal they have yet to secure a building

January 17, 2021

A scientist prepares a sample for Covid-19 testing at Glasgow Lighthouse facility

A masked vendor walks through a market decorated for Chinese New Year in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province.
One year ago yesterday, a notice sent to smartphones in the city announced the world’s first coronavirus lockdown. Now life has largely returned to normal for the 11 million residents of the city where Covid-19 was first detected. Wuhan accounted for the bulk of China’s 4,635 deaths, but has been largely free of further outbreaks since lockdown was lifted on April 8. Questions, however, remain over the virus’s origins – and the authorities’ response.

Government gives go-ahead for the first research into rollout as clinicians criticise decision to delay the second dose of vaccine

January 24, 2021

Prime Minister and Conservative Leader, Boris Johnson visits Bute House to meet First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.

Coronavirus comparison: How Scotland and England have done things differently

January 24, 2021

Devolution expert, Jess Sargeant.

“At the start of the crisis we did see politics set aside, but the longer it has gone on we have seen that creeping back”

January 24, 2021

CCTV footage stills, of camera 331
, showing Allan Marshall being restrained by prison officers - he later died from his injuries.

Chiefs refuse to ban use of ‘unapproved’ force to restrain prisoners despite inmate’s violent death

January 24, 2021

Sculptor David Annand with his statue of Chic Murray.

Daughter of comic icon Chic Murray backs Sunday Post campaign for statue of Billy Connolly to sit alongside Big Yin’s lifelong hero

January 24, 2021

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What have they got to hide? Campaigning father asks why ministers have redacted key report into the working hours of doctors

January 24, 2021

Latest Scottish News

Vanessa Hudgens (Ian West/PA)

Vanessa Hudgens returns to Scotland a year after filming Princess Switch sequel

January 25, 2021

The trade union Unison has endorsed Monica Lennon in the contest to find the next Scottish Labour leader (Jane Barlow/PA)

Monica Lennon wins backing of Unison union in Labour leadership race

January 25, 2021

Nicola Sturgeon has suggested a dramatic drop in the number of vaccines carried out on Sunday could be due to a lag in reporting (Jane Barlow/PA)

Sturgeon defends seven-day vaccinations after numbers halved on Sunday

January 25, 2021

Douglas Ross said he took ‘flak’ both as leader of the Scottish Tories and as an assistant referee at football matches (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Douglas Ross says he gets ‘flak’ at football and as leader of Scottish Tories

January 25, 2021

Nicola Sturgeon was speaking at the Scottish Government’s coronavirus briefing (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Early evidence lockdown restrictions in Scotland are working, Sturgeon says

January 25, 2021

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service extinguished the blaze (Jane Barlow/PA)

Woman, 91, dies in house fire in Dumfries and Galloway

January 25, 2021

Latest UK News

Jack Whomes, then 44, arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London in February 2006 (Johnny Green/PA)

‘Essex Boys’ killer can be freed from jail – Parole Board

January 25, 2021

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Pupil motivation on remote education ‘significant concern’ for parents – Ofsted

January 25, 2021

Patients waiting for a Covid-19 vaccine inside the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley (Jacob King/PA)

Latest weekly Covid-19 rates for local authority areas in England

January 25, 2021

Heathrow and trade bodies have expressed their concerns (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Quarantine hotels would be ‘catastrophic’ for aviation industry

January 25, 2021

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Jack Whomes, then 44, arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London in February 2006 (Johnny Green/PA)

‘Essex Boys’ killer can be freed from jail – Parole Board

January 25, 2021

President Joe Biden meets with secretary of defence Lloyd Austin (AP /Evan Vucci)

Joe Biden signs order reversing Trump’s transgender military ban

January 25, 2021

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Pupil motivation on remote education ‘significant concern’ for parents – Ofsted

January 25, 2021

Vanessa Hudgens (Ian West/PA)

Vanessa Hudgens returns to Scotland a year after filming Princess Switch sequel

January 25, 2021

Patients waiting for a Covid-19 vaccine inside the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley (Jacob King/PA)

Latest weekly Covid-19 rates for local authority areas in England

January 25, 2021

Heathrow and trade bodies have expressed their concerns (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Quarantine hotels would be ‘catastrophic’ for aviation industry

January 25, 2021

When will the lockdowns end in each UK nation? (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

When will the lockdowns end in each UK nation?

January 25, 2021

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Hospital charity appeals for donations for ‘exhausted’ frontline staff

January 25, 2021

Stanley Booker (SSAFA/PA)

Veteran, 98, receives Legion of Honour medal for role in France’s liberation

January 25, 2021

Guidance issued said patients should only wait in ambulances in ‘exceptional circumstances’ (PA)

Paramedics to ensure adequate ventilation in waiting ambulances – Public Health

January 25, 2021

Senior ministers will meet on Tuesday to discuss the introduction of tougher travel measures such as quarantine hotels in response to new coronavirus strains (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Timeline of UK’s response to overseas coronavirus variants

January 25, 2021

A woman using a microscope (Lynne Cameron/PA)

Scientific discovery could aid those affected by deadly heart condition

January 25, 2021

Snow disrupted the rollout over the weekend (Jane Barlow/PA)

Welsh Health Minister unsure if over-80s vaccine target has been met

January 25, 2021

Rachael Thorold, 36, holds her five-month-old baby son Louis Thorold hours before a van struck his pram (Family/PA)

Baby boy with ‘joyful smile’ killed after van hit his pram

January 25, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson sees how a dose of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca Covid 19 vaccine is prepared for a mobile vaccination centre at Barnet FC’s ground at The Hive, north London, which is being used as a coronavirus vaccination centre. Picture date: Monday January 25, 2021.

‘Nothing I want to do more’ than reopen schools – Boris Johnson

January 25, 2021

Former US president Donald Trump (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump emoluments lawsuits thrown out by US Supreme Court

January 25, 2021

Keon Lincoln (West Midlands Police/PA)

Mother of murdered teenager appeals for help to track down son’s killers

January 25, 2021

Pupils arriving at Manor Park School and Nursery in Knutsford, Cheshire (PA)

‘Contact lost with vulnerable children in pandemic’ as schools stay closed

January 25, 2021

The Moderna coronavirus vaccine is effective against new variants, the firm has said (Moderna/PA)

Moderna coronavirus vaccine effective against new variants, company says

January 25, 2021

This undated photo privided by the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn (Schoenbrunn Zoo) on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 shows a chameleon in Vienna, Austria. Over 70 species-protected chameleons were to be smuggled into Vienna this week. Customs at the Vienna airport stopped the smuggling and brought the animals to the zoo. (Tiergarten Schönbrunn/Anton Weissenbacher via AP)

Man stopped in attempt to smuggle 74 chameleons past customs

January 25, 2021

A man wearing a facemask in the Barbican Estate in London (Victoria Jones/PA)

Covid-19 regional rates drop to pre-New Year levels in most regions

January 25, 2021

Some publishers have concerns about the move (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Google ‘confident’ third-party cookie alternatives are right for ads and privacy

January 25, 2021

Singer Will Young outside St Pancras Coroner’s Court, London (Aaron Chown/PA)

Singer Will Young questions why tragic brother not assessed by psychiatrist

January 25, 2021

Chancellor Rishi Sunak was at the launch of the Government’s Kickstart scheme (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA)

Fewer than 2,000 young people start new roles through £2bn job scheme

January 25, 2021

Police presence at Brighton seafront after the incident (@HLOBlog/Twitter/PA)

Brothers guilty over fatal hit-and-run crash near Brighton Pier

January 25, 2021

Leah McCallum (left) and Rebecca Ross, S4 students at St Columba’s High School, Gourock, put on their protective face masks (Jane Barlow/PA)

What is the science behind Covid-19 and schools?

January 25, 2021

A man leaves after delivering doses of the Oxford/Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccine arrive at The Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. The open air museum, which has previously been used as a set for the BBC drama Peaky Blinders, is now being used as a covid vaccination centre. Picture date: Monday January 25, 2021.

Black Country Living Museum defies snow as ‘game-changer’ vaccine centre opens

January 25, 2021

A woman viewing the online offers in the Boxing day sales at Debenhams on a tablet (John Walton/PA)

What do Debenhams and Topshop deals mean for future of the high street?

January 25, 2021

Australian of the Year winner Grace Tame (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame named Australian of the Year

January 25, 2021

Police outside Bristol Magistrates’ Court (Ben Birchall/PA)

Four charged with damaging Colston statue ask for case to be held at crown court

January 25, 2021

Supporters of former president Donald Trump marching towards the Capitol on January 6 (AP/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Republican opposition to Trump impeachment proceedings grows

January 25, 2021

Matthew Mason, 19, who has been found guilty of murdering a schoolboy (Cheshire Constabulary/PA)

Farmer’s son to serve minimum of 28 years for murdering schoolboy

January 25, 2021

Amy Appleton, 32, (left) and Sandy Seagrave, 76, who were both killed outside a semi-detached house in a quiet street in Crawley Down on 22 December 2019. Daniel Appleton, 38, is set to be sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Monday after being found guilty of two charges of murder (Sussex Police/PA)

Husband jailed for brutal murders of wife and pensioner days before Christmas

January 25, 2021

More deadly and transmissible coronavirus variant is a ‘turn for the worse’ (Andrew Matthews/PA)

More deadly and transmissible coronavirus variant is a ‘turn for the worse’

January 25, 2021

Debenhams has been wound up by a judge in a specialist court (Fiona Hanson/PA)

Judge issues winding-up order against ‘rudderless ship’ Debenhams

January 25, 2021

Parts of the UK woke up to almost seven inches of snow, the Met Office said (Joe Giddens/PA)

UK sees ‘snowiest spell’ in two years as almost seven inches falls

January 25, 2021

Men working in process plants, as security guards or as chefs had some of the highest Covid-19 death rates in 2020, new figures show (Jacob King/PA)

Plant workers, security guards and chefs among highest Covid-19 death rates

January 25, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets staff and patients at Barnet FC’s ground The Hive (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Johnson hints at lockdown easing as he faces pressure to reopen schools

January 25, 2021

Drink-drive limits should be cut in England and Wales due to the failure to reduce deaths from crashes, ministers have been told (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Ministers told to slash drink-drive limit

January 25, 2021

A woman writes Support The Colston 4 in chalk outside Bristol Magistrates’ Court (Ben Birchall/PA)

Four deny criminal damage following toppling of Colston statue in Bristol

January 25, 2021

The Winter Gardens in Blackpool has been converted for use as a Covid-19 vaccination centre (Peter Byrne/PA)

In Pictures: Seaside leisure venues, shops and football clubs join vaccine drive

January 25, 2021

The India-China border in India’s Ladakh area (AP/Manish Swarup)

Indian and Chinese soldiers clash again along disputed border

January 25, 2021

The number of Crown Court cases awaiting trial in Northern Ireland has risen to more than 500 during the pandemic (Liam McBurney/PA)

Crown Court cases backlog rises to more than 500

January 25, 2021

Geoff Holland, 90, and Jenny Holland, 86, from Mansfield after receiving their injections of the Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine(Joe GIddens/PA)

Newlyweds, 90 and 86, get their Covid jabs at converted former DIY store

January 25, 2021