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By Patrick Goodenough | May 6, 2021 | 4:34am EDT Scotlands First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon campaigns ahead of Thursdays election. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Pool/AFP) (CNSNews.com) – British voters go to the polls Thursday for a series of votes that will provide an indicator of the national mood 14 months into the coronavirus pandemic and 15 months after the United Kingdom left the European Union, two major issues tha...

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has met voters at a Glasgow polling station on the morning of what her party has dubbed one of Scotland’s most important elections. The SNP leader visited Annette Street Primary School in Govanhill – part of her Glasgow Southside constituency – along with Roza Salih, who is the lead SNP candidate on the Glasgow regional list. Ms Salih will become the first former refugee to be elected to Holyrood if she wins a seat, with this year’s poll being the first in...

If Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party (SNP) wins a decisive victory at Holyrood this week, she is expected to use the result as a mandate for a fresh referendum on independence.  Breaking away from Westminster would give Scotland the chance to rejoin the European Union after being forced out against its will, but the new foreign policy possibilities do not end with the well-worn debate over Brussels.  Just as important for many Scottish voters is the issue of nuclear disarmament, whi...

Submitting... Over the last week I have felt like I was working in an upside down office as I tried to make sense of the bewildering landscape Scottish cultural venues and festivals have found themselves in. The good news is that a reopening date of 17 May is firmly on the horizon. Attractions like the National Museum of Scotland, Kelvingrove and V&A Dundee have already returned, along with bars, restaurants and hotels. A return to normality is a real prospect for many. Imagine then how it must...

Scottish beer company BrewDog is going global. But are its sustainability and retail expansion ambitions realistic?

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Covid-19 vaccination bus returns to Mansfield today A mobile Covid-19 vaccination bus is to return to Mansfield today (Thursday) as part of efforts to make sure as many people as possible have access to the jab. Thursday, 29th April 2021, 11:25 am The bus will be stopping off in the parking area outside of Ladybrook Post Office, on Ladybrook Lane, from 1-4pm, after visiting Oak Tree Tesco in the town on Tuesday. Health chiefs say the bus helps to get the vaccination rolled out in areas where ta...

Douglas Ross backs Boris Johnson in row over alleged lockdown comments April 27, 2021, 10:33 am Boris Johnson has strongly denied saying he was prepared to let ‘bodies pile high’ rather than order another coronavirus lockdown (Ian Forsyth/PA) Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross has defended the Prime Minister as a row erupted over comments Boris Johnson is alleged to have made. SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford insisted the Prime Minister had a “duty to resign” if the remarks attribut...

Ark. woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine Grace Thomson receives the coronavirus vaccine from Paula McMahon at the Louisa Jordan Hospital as the roll out begins on December 8, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell – Pool /Getty Images) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 10:20 AM PT – Sunday, April 25, 2021 An Arkansas mother of five was fired for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Samantha Wise was let go from her job at a marijuana dispensary in Conway, Arkansas after the business requir...

Adeline Kon/Food Dive This is the third article in a four-part weekly series that looks at how food and beverage companies fared during the pandemic. The first part looks at how the pandemic boosted the CPG food business overall. The second part features charts comparing several publicly traded food companies pandemic-period sales to those a year prior. Next week, Food Dive looks at how companies are likely to perform moving into the post-pandem...