Good afternoon, This is a breaking coronavirus bulletin from The Scotsman. Thank you for your support this year. If you've not already, consider taking out a digital subscription with us from just £3 a month. Alternatively, you can now give the gift of a digital subscription to a loved one here. Readers of this newsletter can get a 20% discount on gift subscriptions with the promo code SCOTGIFT20 80% of the Scottish population now in Level 3 There are now 21 councils areas in Scotland in level three - covering 4.35 million people or 79.7% of the population. East Lothian, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire have been added to 18 council areas already in the second-highest restriction tier. Find out about your area here. Keir Starmer joins mounting calls for rethink on Christmas rules Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has demanded an urgent review of the relaxation of Covid rules over Christmas. Sir Keir urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to call an emergency meeting of the Government’s top-level Cobra committee to review the situation. The statement follows a joint editorial published in the Health Serice Journal and the British Medical Journal, warning that the four nations approach means the nation is ‘blundering' into a third wave of coronavirus cases. More Covid-19 headlines from today >> Follow our LIVE blog for the latest coronavirus updates as they happen. Thanks for reading, stay safe. Sam Shedden |