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Campbeltown Courier Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall. However,  To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic. The good news is that for the whole of December we will be running a specia...

The First Minister said that reopening schools was a priority but it would not be safe to have all pupils back from the start of February.

13 January 2021 • 12:01am Mavis, 87, is pushed by her daughter out of the Covid-19 vaccination centre at ExCel London, home to the London Nightingale Hospital Credit:  DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP SIR – My 90-year-old aunt experienced total chaos on Monday morning when attending her appointment for a Covid-19 vaccination at the new Epsom Downs Racecourse vaccination hub. Her appointment was for 10.05am. On arrival, she joined a queue of cars, where she remained for four hours, waiting to be processed. She was then told she could leave the car and join a walking queue in the freezing cold, whic...

RECRUITMENT during the coronavirus pandemic has pushed teacher numbers in Scotland up to more than 53,000, latest figures have revealed. Statistics from the Scottish Government reveal the number of teachers in 2020 rose by 1153 to 53,400. Adaptations due to the pandemic are a “major contributing factor”, along with the reduction in the pupil-to-teacher ratio to 13.3 and an increase in the number of educators on temporary contracts. The Scottish Government pledged to recruit an extra 1400 teachers to deal with the effects of the pandemic, as well as to reduce class sizes and allow ...

COVID-19 recruitment has pushed teacher numbers in Scotland up to more than 53,000, the latest figures show. Statistics from the Scottish Government reveal the number of teachers in 2020 rose by 1153 to 53,400. Adaptations due to the pandemic are a "major contributing factor", along with the reduction in the pupil-to-teacher ratio to 13.3 and an increase in the number of educators on temporary contracts. The Scottish Government pledged to recruit an extra 1400 teachers to deal with the effects of the pandemic, as well as to reduce class sizes and allow for social distancing, but oppos...