As the United Kingdom is set to introduce a new major stimulus to support the economy amid the country s third national coronavirus lockdown, Chancellor Rishi Sunak was.
A BENIGN tweet the other night by my fellow National columnist, George Kerevan, provided an illustration of the difficulties newspapers face in the dead zone that occurs between Christmas and New Year. Kerevan got a little carried away in conveying his zeal for Scottish independence by appearing to equate it with Nelson Mandela’s struggle against apartheid in South Africa and Martin Luther King Jr’s black civil rights campaign in the US. I hear what you’re saying George, but I’m not sure any of us will be required to do a spell in the pokey for the cause.
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WILDFIRE raged through the Galloway Forest Park GROWING BARLEY for whisky is a mainstay of Scottish arable farming – but under lockdown, maltsters and distillers had to put the brakes on production, casting doubt on what harvest market will be waiting for the crops that many growers had just finished establishing. It costs a lot of time and money to completely shutdown and restart a distillery, so many of Scotland’s were still open with a skeleton staff to keep them ticking over, with some producing ethanol for hand sanitiser, but none were going ‘full bore’ at whisky production. Distillery bosses were understood to be keen to resume full production, but were awaiting an indication from the authorities that their business was sufficiently important to justify bringing a full staff back in.