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171 people test positive for Covid-19 in Scotland
A total of 171 people in Scotland have tested positive for Covid-19.
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Scotland’s National Clinical Director on ‘herd immunity’, testing and how the country is tackling coronavirus
We’re joined by Scotland’s National Clinical Director, Jason Leitch – who discusses how Scotland is tackling coronavirus, herd immunity and widespread testing.
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Scotland advises ban on gatherings of more than 500 people
Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has gone further than Boris Johnson in saying that public gatherings of more than 500 people should be banned from next week.
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Scotland Health Secretary on measures to prevent coronavirus spread
SNP politician Jeane Freeman – Scotland’s Health Secretary – discusses emergency measuresthat could be put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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Most investigations into drug deaths in Scotland a ‘token effort’, says police officer
The drugs death rate in Scotland is now among the worst in the world.
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Football abuse victim claims he was trafficked from Scotland to paedophile Barry Bennell
Exclusive: former youth footballer says he was trafficked as a child from Scottish to English football – where he was abused by paedophile Barry Bennell
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Scotland’s Finance Secretary resigns after reports he sent hundreds of messages to teenage boy
Scotland’s Finance Secretary has stepped down from his post and been suspended from the SNP over reports that he had sent over 200 messages to a 16-year-old boy.
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Scotland plans new migrant visa scheme
EU citizens heading here to fill job vacancies in areas like social care, will soon have to apply for a visa to live and work here long term.
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‘UK government doesn’t have great track record on climate change’, says Friends of the Earth Scotland’s Caroline Rance
The UN Secretary General says he is disappointed with the outcome of the latest climate change conference.
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‘An independent Scotland becomes a bridge between Europe and the UK ‘, says SNP’s leader in Westminster Ian Blackford
The SNP’s leader in Westminster Ian Blackford joins Matt in the studio.
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Sturgeon brands Johnson ‘danger to Scotland’
In Scotland, the Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has been campaigning in Edinburgh with a direct attack on Boris Johnson, describing him as “the greatest danger to Scotland of any Tory Prime Minister in modern times”.
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FactCheck: has Scotland ‘subsidised the rest of the UK’?
The claim “UK government figures make it absolutely clear that Scotland has subsidised the rest of the UK in most of the last 40-year period.” Ian Blackford Ian Blackford, the leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons, has been making the case for Scottish independence ahead of the general election. The…
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Tories campaign in Scotland where 13 seats could mean victory or defeat for Boris Johnson
In Edinburgh – perhaps more than anywhere, the general election is about far more than the next five years. The very future of the United Kingdom, let alone Britain’s place in the EU, is at stake.
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SNP’s Angus Robertson: “The fact 62 per cent voted remain in Scotland is a defining influence on election”
We are joined now by the former leader of the Scottish Labour Party Kezia Dugdale who now works as director of the John Smith Centre, and by the SNP’s former Westminster leader Angus Robertson.
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Scotland: Could the election break or save the union?
Throughout this election I will be travelling to all corners of the United Kingdom – assessing the state the union and asking if our island story is about to be drastically rewritten.