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Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up “It has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me.” Today marks the first anniversary of Ross Mitchell’s Lockdown Life photography project, in which he captures portraits of people with their four-legged companions. Agnes Widley as photographed by Ross. Based in Kinross, the 41-year-old has captured around 2,500 portraits since he began on April 1 last year. He walks around seven miles each day, with his photos telling the story of people amid the coronavirus pandemic. Hi...

From victim to victor after drink spiking incident Updated Diane Macpherson Share this: Drink spiking is a serious problem, as one local family discovered. In this week's KindnessCan podcast,  Jane Linley-Thomas and Paul Bushell catch up with Peach Piche, who has taken her family's frightening personal experience and turned it into something that can help stop drink spiking. Drinkerbell Drink spiking happens more often than you might think. It happens in nice restaurants in the middle of the day, and in nightclubs in the middle of the night. It happens to young and old. It happens to women...

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Lockdown has had a 'devastating' impact on children's learning, new study finds

Like – a lot. Even in the middle of winter – when the temperatures are well below freezing – schools and creches ask that children come in dressed in layers and outdoor gear so that they can spend as much of the day outside as possible. It is common to have babies take naps outside too – all wrapped up warm in their prams and buggies, of course. And on the weekend, families will often go hiking, snowboarding, cycling – anything, really, as long as it is outdoors. In fact, childcare settings are legally obliged to provide five times more outdoor space than indoor space per child, so...