Sam Shedden Engagement Editor

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It's a golden morning for Team GB after Tom Dean and Duncan Scott produced a Team GB one-two in the 200m freestyle swimming final, marking the first time in more than a century that two male British swimmers have finished on the Olympic podium together.

Scott, from Glasgow finished just 0.04 seconds behind his teammate in a thrilling race. Congratulations to both men!

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Humza Yousaf stresses self-isolation exemptions are not compulsory

Health secretary Humza Yousaf has stressed that no exemption to the self-isolation requirement for health and social care workers is compulsory.

The confirmation comes after unions raised concerns over healthcare staff being “pressured” into returning to work amid high rates of absences.

Canadian businesses named after Scottish politician Henry Dundas to benefit from fund to rebrand

Across the pond, Canadian businesses named after a Scottish politician with links to the slave trade are to benefit from a $5.1 million (£3m) fund to rebrand themselves as the name of a main thoroughfare in Toronto is changed.

The name of the major thoroughfare in the Canadian city, which shares a moniker with one of Edinburgh's best known streets, was described as "problematic" due to his connections to delaying the abolition of the slave trade by campaigners, who launched a petition to have the street renamed. Toronto city council voted to do so earlier this month.

Bid to save threatened factory with 'compelling proposal'

A "compelling proposal" to secure the future of the closure-threatened McVitie's biscuit factory in Glasgow will be made to the owners of the site.

Nearly 500 jobs are at risk at the Tollcross factory, which opened nearly 100 years ago and makes biscuits like Hobnobs and Rich Tea.

Parent company, Turkish-owned Pladis, has blamed "excess capacity" at its UK sites and plans to shutter the Glasgow factory in the second half of 2022 and move production elsewhere.