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Around 500 Scots suspected of having Alzheimer's will be offered a test by their GP in the biggest study of its kind

Scots offered Alzheimer's blood test from GP in 'landmark' study

Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Baroness Heather Hallett

NHS came 'close to collapse' during the pandemic

Ex-Hartlepool MP Lord Peter Mandelson, left, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer before Lord Mandelson was sacked as US ambassador.

Keir Starmer U-turns over Mandelson files after Labour MPs rebel

Michelle Mone

PPE Medpro: Michelle Mone linked firm fails to repay funds by deadline

Baroness Michelle Mone

Thousands sign petition to banish Michelle Mone from House of Lords

Michelle Mone. Picture: PA

PPE firm linked to Michelle Mone ordered to repay almost £122m

Michelle Mone during her interview on BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture: BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Mone on 'five years of torture' in PPE scandal 'poster couple' claims

The sheriff described their actions as an "egregious breach of trust"

Doctor and husband jailed for selling stolen PPE during lockdown

Michelle Mone shows off her OBE, awarded at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2010 (Picture: Dominic Lipinski/WPA pool)

How we all played a part in the creation of Michelle Mone Stephen Jardine

Avove appoints nine arborists

Avove appoints nine arborists to reach new heights as part of its Scotland team

Former Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health Jeane Freeman arrives ahead of her appearance at the Covid-19 Inquiry on Monday (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scotland hobbled by Westminster when it came to Covid PPE

Former health secretary Jeane Freeman with former first minister Nicola Sturgeon at the Scottish Parliament

Scotland avoided PPE ‘VIP lane’ due to devolution, Covid Inquiry told

From left to right: Tracey Brady, Managing Director of Bellway Scotland East, Ellie Traynor-Meldrum, trainee apprentice assistant site manager, and Kimberley Burke, Bellway Scotland East Finance Director.

Bellway’s Balance Network drives practical changes to help female construction w...

Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes and First Minister John Swinney.

What the Scottish Government will do in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic

Asbestos is the greatest cause of workplace deaths in UK - still risky

Another pandemic is certain to strike at some point and the world must be prepared (Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Covid, influenza and HIV caused pandemics because of one key thing Professor Hugh Pennington

Gyms and other rehabilitation spaces in some hospitals are now being used for additional beds

Hospital stays longer as physio spaces remain repurposed, Covid inquiry told

Paul Arkinson, a senior organiser with GMB Scotland, is set to tell the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry in Edinburgh that workers were pressured to work despite displaying symptoms of Covid, creating “a huge amount of mistrust and anger towards these employers”.

Union leaders and care home bosses clash over Scottish pandemic response

A member of staff takes a sample from a member of the public at a Covid-19 Test Site at Edinburgh Airport. Picture: PA

Scottish Government ‘dismissed’ concerns over airborne Covid transmission

Baroness Michelle Mone. Picture: PA

David Cameron defends nominating ‘proud Scot’ Michelle Mone for peerage

Jeane Freeman, former Scottish health secretary, departs the UK Covid inquiry at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Jeane Freeman says she will regret care home deaths for the rest of her life

Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, were interviewed on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (Picture: BBC/Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg/PA Wire)

Mone’s husband says family ‘treated as punchbag’ in PPE row

Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, were interviewed on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (Picture: BBC/Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg/PA Wire)

Michelle Mone: ‘Ministers knew about my links to PPE company’

Baroness Michelle Mone ahead of the State Opening of Parliament in 2017. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Exposure of Mone's PPE profits shows why press freedom is vital John McLellan

Michelle Mone during her interview on BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture: BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Rishi Sunak says he is taking the Michelle Mone scandal ‘incredibly seriously’

Michelle Mone during her interview on BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture: BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

SNP demands full disclosure over 'botched' PPE contracts after Mone interview

Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Michelle Mone says lying over PPE contract links 'not a crime'

Scottish Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone. Picture: PA

Michelle Mone breaks silence over PPE Covid contracts scandal

As Covid cases rise, this time Scottish Government must take experts seriously Jackie Baillie

Tess White said the high number of deaths across the region were “extremely worrying”.

More than 4,000 wild birds found dead or sick in North East in under a year

Scotland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Catherine Calderwood, who has said she is "truly sorry" for not adhering to coronavirus guidelines by visiting her second home, adding she had "no excuses" for "not following the advice she has been giving to others".

Calderwood: Scotland did not implement recommendations for Covid outbreak

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
Efforts to remove larger numbers of dead seabirds suspected of having Avian Influenza have continued apace this week, with around several hundred collected from...

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...

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