PPE

Nadhim Zahawi shouldn't have remained an MP after his part in the expenses scandal (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Tory sleaze, downplayed by BBC, has corroded UK's institutions – Kenny MacAskill

Peterhead Farmers Market was just one of the successes of the BID.

Great events, initiatives and projects for Peterhead BID

Martin Bignell, Scottish and Northern Representative, Rail Freight Group

Rail freight playing major role in bringing Christmas down the line

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves number 10 Downing Street ahead of the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

PMQs: Sunak says he was left 'shocked' by Baroness Mone allegations

Tory peer Baroness Mone, who is at the centre of controversy over her alleged links to a firm awarded a PPE contract, will take a leave of absence from the House of Lords with immediate effect, the PA news agency understands. Issue date: Tuesday December 6, 2022.

Baroness Mone to take a leave of absence from the House of Lords

Michelle Mone is a Scottish Conservative Baroness. Photo by Stefan Rousseau

Government has ‘far wider questions to answer' after Baroness Mone PPE reports

Alasdair Rankin, managing director, Aitken Turnbull Architects

Balance is key as healthcare sector faces up to climate change

High Court judge Lady Poole has stepped down from the Scottish Covid-19 inquiry

Lady Poole resigns as chairwoman of Scotland’s Covid-19 inquiry

Kenneth Branagh as Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Picture: PA Photo/©Sky UK Ltd/Phil Fisk

TV review: Sky Atlantic's This England drama about Boris Johnson and Covid

Under threat: A white-tailed eagle chick on the nest with one of its parents

Mull sea eagle chick killed by bird flu

The council have cleared hundreds of dead seabirds over the last few days.

Leave the collection of dead seabirds to us, urges Aberdeenshire Council

The council's Landscape Services staff are continuing to remove dead seabirds suspected of carrying Avian Influenza from our shorelines.

Challenging time as Avian Influenza clean-up continues in Aberdeenshire

NHS staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital participate in the Clap for Carers and key workers during week six of lockdown on April 30, 2020. While daily life is moving beyond Covid for many, we must not forget those who worked on the frontline of the health crisis and who continue to struggle, writes Elsa Maishman. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

This summer, please lets not forget about our struggling health workers

The items of PPE discarded in hospitals could be recycled into new products for the NHS such as operating theatre clogs, plastic bed pans, medical scrubs and even prosthetic finger joints.

Scottish face masks among discarded PPE to be recycled into products for NHS

Lorna Gibson has created a unique dress using fabric exclusively from excess material from Globus’ PPE manufacturing process for her final year university project.

Fashion debut for dress made out of excess material at Scottish PPE business

Professor Edward Sweeney.

Business as usual not an option - Professor Edward Sweeney

The pandemic has seen millions of tonnes of plastic PPE,, including respirators and masks, dumped in landfill in 193 countries.

Heriot-Watt project could give discarded PPE a second life

Tory peer Baroness Mone is facing investigation by the Lords standards watchdog over the awarding of Government contracts worth more than £200 million to a PPE supplier.

Michelle Mone faces Lords standards inquiry over award of PPE contracts

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

Sturgeon could face criminal charges over care home transfers, lawyer says

Alison Culpan , Director of ABPI Scotland. Picture: Martin Shields

Eight experts from across life sciences reveal what they have learned since Covi...

Ivan McKee MSP. Picture: John Devlin

Ivan McKee MSP: How the Scottish Government’s efforts offer support to the life ...

Scottish Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone referred a company to the UK Government's 'VIP lane' for Covid-19 procurement.

Scottish Tory peer helped PPE firm gain £200m Covid contract

Cynthia Guthrie, chief executive of Guthrie Group, which is based in Livingston.

West Lothian firm wins £1m deal to supply PPE and workwear for Scottish college

Doctors and nurses prepare to enter the Covid ward putting on the PPE safety equipment at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

PPE contracts handed out 'fairly' but just 20 per cent hit transparency target

Almost 4 in 10 Brits admit to leaving litter on a beach - and say they will cont...

All six major Morrisons stores in Edinburgh will trial the zero waste scheme

Edinburgh Morrisons stores to become 'zero waste' trial centres

Alastair Davis, CEO of Social Investment Scotland and co-founder of SIS Ventures

Impact investment can make a positive difference - Alastair Davis

Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Pandemic will have 'long-lasting impact' on intensive care staff

The review has just been published

Fast-changing coronavirus rules ‘problematic’ for frontline staff, review finds

12.6 billion PPE items are stored in the UK as central stock, which costs around £6.7 million per week (Photo: Getty Images)

Taxpayers will be paying costs of pandemic for decades - with Covid bill already...

The First Minister seems to have less to say on Covid of late, reckons reader (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sturgeon strangely silent after Covid surge

Linga was on the market with offers of £250,000.

Scottish entrepreneur buys 64-acre uninhabited island

Hot Flame in Livingston. Picture: JPIMedia

Restaurant hits out at customers who left without paying during fire alarm

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock pictured in December

It's not about one rule for them and another for us. It's worse -Janet Christie

Screengrab taking from the video posted by Matt Hancock on his Twitter feed where he resigned as Health Secretary. Picture: Matt Hancock/PA Wire

Hancock's affair with aide 'tip of the iceberg' of Tory cronyism, says Murray

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock leaves 10 Downing Street with aide Gina Coladangelo. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP demand investigation into appointment of Hancock adviser from lobby firm

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar raised the issue of PPE shortages in the early days of the pandemic

Sturgeon says claims better PPE supplies could have saved lives 'not the case'

The latest updates on Covid-19 in Scotland and around the world.

Live Covid Scotland RECAP: Thursday's updates

Nurses at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in April 2020. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Less than a day's worth of some PPE supplies held at points in April 2020

Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings has published a WhatsApp exchange in which the Prime Minister appeared to describe Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s performance as “totally f***ing hopeless” (Photo: Shutterstock)

Johnson called Hancock 'totally f***ing useless' in WhatsApp messages, Cummings ...

The swift development of a Covid vaccine was fortunate, but the next pandemic organism could be a fungus, rather than a bacterium or a virus, warns Professor Harry Burns (Picture: Michael Gillen)

The next pandemic could be caused by fungus – Professor Harry Burns

The government was not as prepared as it could have been for the Covid pandemic, the National Audit Office found (Photo: Shutterstock)

Government did not have ‘detailed contingency plans’ in place for pandemic

Porsche Macan EV

Porsche Macan EV pictured testing on public roads

Allowing customers to remove masks for beauty treatments would help salons 'save themselves from the brink', according to the group (file image). Picture: Eric Lalmand/Belga/AFP via Getty Images.

Beauty industry urges rule change in Scotland over wearing masks

Passed inspection: The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Concerns over waste, PPE and handwashing at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon being shown the Near Me platform in March 2020.

One year of Covid : How the pandemic might change the face of healthcare

Treating poor mental health in childhood can prevent problems persisting into adulthood (Picture: John Devlin)

Covid crisis may have effects on mental health that last years – Julie Arthur

More than one million face masks issued to NHS workers may fail to meet safety standards, the Government has warned (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

NHS told to stop using over a million masks issued to workers that ‘may not meet...

People wave from inside a care home during the Christmas period (Picture: Michael Gillen)

Care home visits will end ‘torture’ of isolation – Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP

Medicines and other essentials can now be delivered to the island by drone picture: Josh Sorenson

Drones used to carry coronavirus samples to Scottish island in 'a UK first'

Companies like internet retail giant Amazon, founded by the world's richest person, Jeff Bezos, seen wearing sunglasses at Wimbledon in 2019, need to pay more tax, says Andrew Morrison (Picture: Mike Egerton/PA Wire)

Why internet retail giants must pay their fair share of taxes – Andrew Morrison

Matt Hancock has clashed with Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan on Tuesday morning, and refusedto apologise for breaking UK transparency laws.

Hancock clashed with Piers Morgan and refuses to apologise for breaking the law

Fosters Family Funeral Directors, which has been operating since 2005, is also using the money to upgrade its current limousines and ambulances.

Scottish funeral firm invests £600,000 in 'state-of-the-art' vehicles

Matt Hancock acted unlawfully over pandemic procurement contracts - what happens now? (Photo by Molly Darlington - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Matt Hancock acted unlawfully over pandemic procurement contracts - what happens...

"We’ve seen the disparity between people get even wider". Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

We can’t go back to the way things were - Karyn McCluskey

Care home residents in Scotland will be allowed two designated visitors, who can each meet them indoors once a week

Visits for Scots care home residents to restart in early march

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Deposit return scheme: "Real possibility" scheme will be scrapped this week

Ange Postecoglou could be set to leave Celtic for Tottenham Hotspur. (Photo by Ewan Bootman / SNS Group)

Ange Postecoglou 'agrees terms' with Spurs, John Kennedy's Celtic future

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had faced criticism over his promise to block new North Sea oil and gas exploration.

Oil and gas will be part of UK energy supply for 'many years', Starmer insists