Love Island’s Laura Anderson is set to permanently move back to Scotland when lockdown is over after admitting she feels ‘lonely’ living in London By Raven Saunt For Mailonline Published: 13:20 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 13:27 BST, 22 April 2020 She is currently isolating alone at her flat in London. But Laura Anderson … Read more
A shoe addict who moved her huge footwear collection worth £25,000 more than 400 miles from London to Scotland has revealed she still wears her stilettos to work from home every day during the coronavirus lockdown. Self-confessed footwear obsessive Katie Porter, 51, owns one of Britain’s largest collections of shoes with more than 500 pairs … Read more
Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland hammered with share of £71m fine by the Swiss watchdog over currency rigging Citigroup, JPMorgan and MUFG Bank are the other three banks implicated Switzerland’s WEKO said it uncovered ‘several anti-competitive practices’ By Press Association Published: 11:56 BST, 6 June 2019 | Updated: 12:09 BST, 6 June 2019 Barclays … Read more
Millennials love to think they discovered everything and have even come up with a whizzy term – cottagecore – to describe an appreciation of the aesthetic beauty and romance of rural life. Fuelled by the power of social media, the cottagecore trend is currently sweeping the United States, but this idealisation of style has been … Read more
My hotel room in Stornoway, capital of the island of Lewis and Harris, was the tweediest place on the planet. The chairs were upholstered in cream Harris Tweed. My blanket was in a heather-purple shade of Harris Tweed. I added to the effect by buying a sponge bag — in tartan Harris Tweed. I bought … Read more
A new interactive map has revealed the locations of the most impressive Christmas light displays in Britain. But the map doesn’t pay any attention to town or city centre displays. Instead, it champions the efforts Britain’s residents have gone to in bringing twinkling festive cheer to their streets. In total, 200 dazzling spots have been … Read more
Scotland records 16 more coronavirus victims as UK’s death toll increases to 1,805 Scotland was the first country to declare new COVID-19 deaths and cases today Yesterday was the worst day of the outbreak so far for the UK, especially England The deaths of 381 people were announced on Monday, plus 3,009 infections Coronavirus symptoms: … Read more
SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND: The £220m Scottish fund… scouring the world for stocks By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:07 BST, 13 April 2019 | Updated: 10:31 BST, 15 April 2019 Although you wouldn’t guess from the name, Securities Trust of Scotland is an investment fund that scours the globe for dividend-friendly businesses. … Read more
‘You’re killing people!’: Moment police officer shouts at man walking down the street while claiming to have coronavirus The man tells police he has coronavirus while in a street in Perth, Scotland One furious officer tells the man to ‘go home’ more than a dozen times The officer also warns the man that he is … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more