Scotland

As you’ve just been hearing Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she has “very serious concerns” about the backlog of test results and the impact that’s already having.

We spoke to Nigel Harris, a rail expert and managing editor of Rail Magazine.

Three people, including the driver, have died after a passenger train derailed in Aberdeenshire during heavy rain and flooding.

Earlier Krishnan Guru-Murthy spoke to Douglas Ross.

The Scottish government has announced a new lockdown in Aberdeen after a local spike in the number of coronavirus cases. 

Boris Johnson has defended a planned new law  which he says protects jobs and prevents barriers between trade within the UK, as new rules on food and environmental standards are drawn up after Brexit.

You could call it a highly ambitious grassroots project – a group of Scottish villagers in Dumfries and Galloway is hoping to raise more than six million pounds to turn the UK’s most famous grouse moor into a new ten thousand acre nature reserve.

A coronavirus outbreak is also being investigated at a call centre in north Lanarkshire, which is used to handle test and trace calls for NHS England.

In Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged the public to behave responsibly as pubs and cafes were allowed to have customers outside for the first time – as the country continues its tentative opening up.

As the urgency of the anti-racism movement forces cities up and down the country to expose the darker sides of their past, protests in Edinburgh have focused on the statue of Henry Dundas

In Scotland, bereavement payments do not cover carers. Six care workers have been officially confirmed to have lost their lives in Scotland.

ore than half of coronavirus deaths in Scotland are now taking place in care homes, according to new figures

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tells Channel 4 News what the key things to measure would be before Scotland moves to the next stage.

Are all Covid-19 related deaths being recorded?

Politicians in Scotland have this week begged people not to flock to the country’s remote beauty spots, worried that limited health care and other resources will simply be overwhelmed.