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The Scotsman
2 Apr, 2020
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Bagpipers band together for big Scottish thank you to brave coronavirus workers
Bagpipers across Scotland and beyond are tuning up in preparation for a unique mass tribute to all the workers and ordinary people helping to keep society safe and functioning during the coronavirus crisis.
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Alexander McCall Smith: Coronavirus provides a fresh perspective on life

This period of isolation as a result of the coronavirus outbreak is helping us realise what is truly important, writes Alexander McCall Smith.

Test your knowledge: Can you name these 12 Edinburgh landmarks?

Edinburgh has its fair share of landmarks. These are just some of them.

How much retirement money could you release from your home?

The value of your home could be a huge benefit when it comes to planning for your retirement.

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Inmates at Scottish jails not following social distancing, warn prison officers

Inmates at prisons across Scotland are continuing to mix as normal during the coronavirus pandemic and are putting themselves and staff in danger as a result, the justice secretary has been warned in a stark letter from a Holyrood committee.

How Iran’s despots are hiding the vast scale of coronavirus deaths – Struan Stevenson

Iran’s theocratic regime was ill-equipped to deal with Covid-19 and their lies and incompetence have made the crisis much worse, writes Struan Stevenson

Sport Update
Grandson of Celtic legend found dead in Amsterdam

Family said its hearts ‘are broken’

Andy Murray can return for Wimbledon 2021 says mum Judy Murray

Wimbledon is the latest sporting event to fall foul of the coronavirus pandemic but Judy Murray has sought to quash fears that son Andy would not get the chance to play on the grass of SW19 again.

Wimbledon reaction: Andy Murray ‘very sad’ while Roger Federer is ‘devastated’

Andy Murray and Roger Federer are among the top tennis stars to express sadness over the news that Wimbledon has been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus crisis.

And finally...
Book review: The Bass Rock, by Evie Wyld

I would like to say I enjoyed this novel, but enjoyment would seem to be a singularly inappropriate response to it. It is a kind of lure, and it deals with ideas of luring in quite remarkable ways. Wyld’s previous two novels were both artfully constructed. After The Fire, A Still Small Voice was a fragmented history of damage across three generations of a family; All The Birds, Singing had a single, female protagonist in two temporal trajectories, a present day that progressed forwards and flashbacks that unfurled, as it were, anti-clockwise, each further into the past.

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