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A teenage boy has been arrested after a teacher was stabbed at a secondary school in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

Secondary school lockdown: Teenage boy arrested after teacher stabbed

Downing Street has been put on lockdown after a suspcious packaged was reported

Downing Street on ‘lockdown’ after suspicious package reported

Alan Bissett is Falkirk's hardest granny, Moira Bell, who returns to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022

Falkirk's hardest granny returns to make it a Festival hat-trick

Joe Wicks

The Body Coach, Joe Wicks, announces Edinburgh date for his Feel Good Food tour

Local businesses in Bruntsfield and Morningside have shown how they have adapted over lockdown over the past year and have thanked their communities for sticking by them. (Pic: The Little Felt Shop)

Easter Competition for all the family

Alex Jones has revealed she is pregnant for a third time with her first baby girl. (Photo: Matt Crossick/PA)

The One Show's Alex Jones is expecting her third child - here's how she announce...

An image created with a confocal microscope shows cell nuclei (blue) being infected by SARS-CoV-2 (red areas), the virus which causes COVID-19,

In Pictures: Coronavirus - The Work Continues

New Role: Virtual Finance Director Graeme Morrison

Accountancy firm Empowered By Cloud quadruples staff to meet soaring demand

Nicola Sturgeon said dates would not be set for lockdown easing.

Scotland’s route out of lockdown - your views online

Nicola Sturgeon said that sending all children back to school would 'lead to parents socialising more'.

Nicola Sturgeon's lockdown route map - your views online

Richard Dixon and Claire Kinloch are to launch a new rum brand from Scotland after setting up their own spirits business. Picture: Peter Dibdin

Scots business duo to launch new rum

Atholl Duncan is the author of Leaders in Lockdown, which is available on Amazon, Waterstones and WH Smith.

Business leaders including top Scots say 'no going back' to pre-Covid world

A handful of award winners and speakers from the night

Edinburgh neighbourhood centre celebrates young people at film premier

'Social distancing is impossible' - lockdown ‘more difficult’ for those with sig...

Tourists seeking serviced flats may now prefer to deal with bona fide agencies, says Alexander. Picture: Ian Rutherford.

‘New normal’ challenges facing housing market - David Alexander comment

These are 30 world records you can try and break at home

Ryan Sturrock with his debut novel Death’s Whisper, now available on Kindle and in paperback from Amazon.

Plague plot of Bonnyrigg library assistant’s debut novel sounds familiar

Here are five ways that locked-down Brits can save money

Hibs manager Jack Ross says injured stars are fighting back to full fitness.

Hibs trio find benefit during lockdown

If you had to cancel your wedding because of lockdown, Channel 4 wants to hear f...

Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, has failed to get Susan off her sofa (Picture: Getty)

Lockdown: I’ve found a new hobby that doesn’t involve Joe Wicks – Susan Morrison

The government imposed the UK lockdown on Monday 23 March (Photo: Shutterstock)

How long have Spain and Italy been in Lockdown? And when UK lockdown could be li...

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon holds a briefing on the COVID-19 outbreak in Edinburgh. Picture: Andy Buchanan/PA Wire

Scotland in lockdown: Nicola Sturgeon speech in full