May 10, 2020

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A round up of the most popular news stories this week.


	SNP demand details from over Johnson’s plan to quarantine UK arrivals

	The UK Government could be set to announce a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all travellers into Britain.

Urgent appeal to find missing Aberdeenshire man

Police need information to find 23-year-old Connor Mackintosh.

The question Nicola Sturgeon failed to answer about Covid-19 in care homes – Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson says Nicola Sturgeon should answer the question put to her in the Scottish Parliament by Neil Findlay: “Why on earth are we continuing to discharge patients from hospitals to care homes without establishing whether they are positive for Covid-19?”

Obituary: Ian MacDougall, Scottish historian with a special interest in the Labour movement

Ian MacDougall, historian. Born: 14 December 1933 in Edinburgh. Died: 11 April 2020, aged 86

Mum’s the word – Generation covid forced to grow up fast

Many of our frontline workers are the youngest members of society

Imaginary Highland rail routes create lockdown escape

A fantasy rail network across the Highlands has been conjured up by an author whose forthcoming book chronicles a failed Victorian scheme to build a line to Ullapool.

My father went from hospital to care home despite Covid symptoms. Why? – John McLellan

John McLellan’s father, who died after contracting Covid-19, had a temperature while in Glasgow’s Queen Elizabether Hospital, but was not tested for coronavirus and was sent to a care home.

PPE logistics key to war on Covid – leader comment

A new contract for a million surgical gowns suggests Scotland is starting to get its act together on personal protective equipment.

Cars could talk to each other to send out pothole alerts

Cars could be able to “talk” to each other to warn about dangers on the roads using 5G technology in future, according to Scottish researchers.



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