The 13 areas of Scotland with most new Covid cases as FM delays lockdown easing

Jun 16, 2021

Sam Shedden

Engagement Editor

Good morning,

Welcome to your midweek newsletter from The Scotsman.

The astute among you will have noted no newsletter was sent yesterday. Apologies. We weren't wallowing after Scotland's upsetting defeat, rather we had some technical issues.

Today our Westminster correspondent Alexander Brown reports the Cabinet Office have been ordered to disclose polling on the Union following a tribunal.

Tommy Sheppard, the SNP MP pushing for the release of the information said: "We have the right to know how much of taxpayers’ money has been spent on it, and what the polling says."

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	Cabinet Office ‘ordered to disclose’ polling on union after SNP tribunal case

	The Cabinet Office have been ordered to disclose polling on the Union following a tribunal.

13 areas with the most new coronavirus cases

Yesterday Nicola Sturgeon announced a likely further delay of restriction relaxations until at least July.

Ms Sturgeon said the significant part of the population yet to receive two doses of the vaccine was the “biggest vulnerability” for Scotland.

But which areas of Scotland are the Covid hotspots right now? We looked through the latest numbers to find the 13 areas of Scotland with the most new coronavirus cases last week.

Meet Scotland's only great-great-great-gran

A family from Edinburgh has become one of only a handful across the UK to have six generations alive at the same time.

And thanks to the birth last month of the latest generation, Mary Marshall, 86, has become Scotland’s only great-great-great-gran.

High-speed motorbike chase through Highland village for latest Indiana Jones movie

The Indiana Jones movie crew were spotted filming a high speed motorbike chase through the Scottish Highlands.

The plot of the new Indiana Jones 5 has been kept tightly under wraps – but these exclusive photos of stunt actors racing on motorbikes through the village of Glencoe, western Scotland, give a first insight into the secret plot of the new film.

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Sam Shedden

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