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The Scottish Government’s Resilience Room (SGoRR) has met as the country faces a “multi-hazard” weekend of weather warnings. The group, attended by the First Minister and chaired by the Justice and Home Affairs Secretary, met on Saturday after the Met Office issued multiple weather warnings across Scotland for Sunday that extend into Monday.
When heavy snow hits, it can spell disaster for mass transit, especially trains. But these snowplow trains have the power to clear the heavy snow from the tracks. On Monday, these trains were sent out to clear feet of snow from the tracks in northern Scotland,
The first minister says the NHS is making the recovery it needs to make from the Covid panic. "He's not living in the real world," he adds. Sarwar points out that Swinney "promised to eradicate delayed discharge a decade ago".
Scotland are set to make June 15 a national bank holiday in honour of their first men’s World Cup appearance in 28 years.
Scotland is set to get a new bank holiday in 2026 to mark it’s mens national team playing in the World Cup for the first time since 1998. . First minister John Swinney has proposed that Monday June 15 be declared a bank holiday to allow Scots to celebrate the major comeback.
Abbie Draper had experienced a whirlwind couple of years. She was a finalist in the Miss Scotland beauty pageant, then started a new job travelling the world as an airline steward. But in late 2014 she got a Facebook friend request that would change her life for the next decade.
Prices in Edinburgh ticked up, while high-end home values declined almost everywhere else, including prime London