News Archive
15/10/2020
Quarantine Measures Reinstated For Further Destinations
Travellers arriving from Italy, San Marino and Vatican City State must self-isolate from Sunday. Travellers arriving in Scotland from Italy, San Marino and the Vatican City State will be required to quarantine at home, or another specified address, for 14 days from 4am Sunday (18 October).14/10/2020
Tourism Committee Tackles Motorhomes And Wild Camping
In advance of the 2021 tourism season, Members of The Highland Council's Tourism Committee have agreed that the local authority will continue to work and engage with partners, national agencies and local communities to meet the challenges and opportunities that exist in the region for motorhomes and wild camping tourism. Councillor Maxine Smith, Tourism Committee Chair said: "While coronavirus and the increased demand for staycations in the UK have played a large part in the massive increase in demands placed on the Highlands of Scotland from across the UK, the evidence does show that motorhome ownership and hire has been increasing over recent years.14/10/2020
Lessons learnt from easing COVID-19 restrictions: an analysis of countries and regions in Asia Pacific and Europe
Article published in The Lancet. The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis.14/10/2020
The Scottish Government Cannot Hide Behind Boris Johnson's Strategy
Craig Dalzell at Source News has written a pretty damning piece on how Scotland is now hiding behind the UK governments Covid planning and actions. Why is Scotland following the country with amongst the worst results on Covid in Europe.14/10/2020
Can We Actually Learn To Live With Coronavirus? Not Until We Have A Vaccine
As we move into the last quarter of 2020, the virus that has defined this troubled year is showing no signs of going away. In the absence of a vaccine or a broadly effective treatment, some are now saying that we must learn to live with COVID-19.
14/10/2020
Northern Ireland Breaks Ranks From UK With Much Tighter Restrictions
Northern Ireland Executive tightens restrictions to curb Covid-19. The Executive has agreed a range of significant time-bound interventions to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.14/10/2020
Scotland's Marine Economic Statistics 2018
The Chief Statistician released experimental statistics today (14 October 2020) showing that in 2018, the Scottish marine economy generated £4.3 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA), a decrease of 17% from 2017 (adjusted to 2018 prices). In 2018, the Scottish marine economy provided employment for 74,200 people, a decrease of less than 1% from 2017.
14/10/2020
What Does The Latest Labour Market Data Tell Us?
From Fraser of Allender Institute. New labour market data were released by ONS on 13 October 2020.
13/10/2020
COVID-19 will probably become endemic - here's what that means
We can't say with any certainty what the future of COVID-19 is. But based on our experience with other infections, there is little reason to believe that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 will go away any time soon, even when vaccines become available.13/10/2020
An autoimmune-like antibody response is linked with severe COVID-19
This article was first published on The Conversation web site on 4 October 2020 - Author, Matthew Woodruff, Instructor, Lowance Center for Human Immunology, Emory University. In the earliest days of the pandemic, many immunologists, including me, assumed that patients who produced high quantities of antibodies early in infection would be free from disease.
13/10/2020
Physical Punishment And Discipline Of Children: How The Law Is Changing
Highly controversial the law is changing on smacking children in Scotland. The majority of the public were against the change but a majority of MSP's voted to change the law.13/10/2020
Coronavirus has exposed UK government's failure to implement a long-term food plan
This article was first published on The Conversation web site - Author, Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London. Planning failures and financial cuts are being exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
13/10/2020
Dingwall and Highland Marts Ltd - Sale 12 October 2020
STORNOWAY, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 12th) sold 1,941 sheep of all classes. Lambs (858) sold to £90 gross for a Cheviot from 6 Glen Kyles, Leverburgh, Isle of Harris.13/10/2020
Coronavirus: R number does not measure risk - financial disaster modelling offers a better alternative
This article s first published on The Conversation web site on 12 October 2020 - Author Stefano Soccorsi, Lecturer in Financial Economics, Lancaster University. The most important measure on the state of the pandemic is the R number.
13/10/2020
Remdesivir Study Finally Published - An Expert In Critical Care Medicine Gives Us His Verdict
This article was published on The Conversation web site on 12 October 2020 - Author John Kinnear, Head of School of Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University. The results of the ACTT-1 trial , which looked at the effectiveness of remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, have finally been published.13/10/2020
People Living In Newer Homes Found Lockdown More Difficult: New Research
This article was published on The conversation web site on 12 October 2020 - Author, Matthew Carmona, Professor of Planning and Urban Design, UCL. Lockdown shrank many of our physical worlds to our homes and their immediate neighbourhoods.
13/10/2020
Care Home Visiting Restrictions Eased
Care home residents and their family and friends will soon be able to enjoy longer visits together and greater personal interaction, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has announced. Updated guidance published by the Scottish Government recommends easing restrictions on visiting in a range of ways, including extending indoor visits from 30 minutes to up to four hours.13/10/2020
Council provides details on accessing Covid-19 Self-Isolation Support Grants
The Highland Council has published new information on the Coronavirus Covid-19 button on the front page of its website on how people can access the new Covid-19 Self-Isolation Support Grant. https://www.highland.gov.uk/coronavirus Funded by the Scottish Government, the new grant is available for individuals who are asked to self-isolate by the NHS Test and Protect Service, in receipt of low-income benefits and who will lose income as they are unable to work from home.13/10/2020
The Narrow Corridor - Suggested Change To The Job Retention Bonus
This article from The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) which is a registered charity and the UK's pre-eminent progressive think tank. The Chancellor's ‘Winter Economic Plan' included a redesigned version of the Job Retention Scheme - the Job Support Scheme.
13/10/2020
