Scotland

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has imposed a full lockdown across the mainland from midnight tonight. In a statement to an emergency session of the Scottish Parliament, the first minister said schools would remain closed until February at the earliest, with a legal requirement for everyone to stay at home, except for essential reasons. The…

Our Scotland correspondent Ciaran Jenkins has been talking to voters who previously rejected independence to see if the tide is turning, and what might be behind their change of heart.

Scotland has announced that all Higher and Advanced Higher exams will be cancelled next year.

A major incident was declared at a care home in Aberdeenshire after almost all its residents and 45 of its carers are thought to have contracted Covid-19.

Scotland’s health secretary, Jeane Freeman, has today been talking about Scotland’s vaccine plans.

We spoke to the shadow Scotland secretary, Labour’s Ian Murray.

An unprecedented polling trend in favour of independence.

Beavers were reintroduced into the wild in Scotland more than a decade ago and given protected status last year. Now, numbers are thriving – but not everyone is happy. Some landowners want the animals gone because they say they are causing damage. But 105,000 hectares of woodland – considered the perfect habitat – can’t be…

There have been questions today about access to the furlough scheme for businesses outside England

In the central belt of Scotland, pubs and restaurants closed their doors for the next two weeks at least as part of the Scottish government’s plan to tighten covid restrictions.

“Short, sharp action” is how the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, described the decision to impose tough new restrictions on hospitality and socialising in the central belt of Scotland.

Wildlife volunteers have been attempting to herd a group of bottlenose whales out of a loch in Scotland – and lure them back into the open sea. 

In Scotland, 120 coronavirus cases have been confirmed at Edinburgh Napier University.

The Scottish government imposed stricter rules after a major Covid outbreak at Glasgow University where over a hundred students tested positive.

Nicola Sturgeon has announced even tougher restrictions for Scotland, imposing a nationwide ban on visiting anyone else in their home