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Eshaness Cliffs

21 Scenic Scottish Holidays for 2021

January 25, 2021

Senior ministers will meet on Tuesday to discuss the introduction of tougher travel measures such as quarantine hotels in response to new coronavirus strains (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Timeline of UK’s response to overseas coronavirus variants

January 25, 2021

People on the high street in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales in 2020. Customer service satisfaction with businesses is at its worst levels overall since July 2015, according to the Institute of Customer Service (Ben Birchall/PA)

Customer satisfaction with businesses ‘at worst levels since 2015’

January 25, 2021

Micheal Martin said Ireland was ‘not in a position to seal the border’ (Julien Behal Photography/PA)

Ireland and UK holding talks on ‘two-island’ mandatory quarantining solution

January 22, 2021

More countries have been added to the arrival ban list in a bid to prevent the South African Covid-19 variant from taking hold in the UK (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Tanzania and DRC added to ban list as UK attempts to block South Africa variant

January 21, 2021

Transport Secretary Michael Matheson said the policy will help Scotland ‘build back better’ (Stagecoach/PA)

Legislation to provide free bus travel for under-19s lodged at Holyrood

January 21, 2021

It is not clear when international travel will be able to resume more widely, Fergus Ewing said. (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

‘Unclear prognosis’ for return of international travel, MSPs warned

January 21, 2021

Dundee staycations Hays Travel

Staycations to remain popular this summer, as bookings for trips abroad next year rise

January 21, 2021

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The travel corridors will be scrapped from 4am on January 18 (Owen Humphreys/PA)

What are the new travel rules and how do they affect passengers?

January 15, 2021

Covid transmissions linked to supermarkets, Mark Drakeford says (Ben Birchall/PA)

Covid transmissions linked to supermarkets, Mark Drakeford says

January 15, 2021

Government scientists put the latest reproductive number – the R rate – for the UK at 1.2 to 1.3, for data examined up to January 11

Concerning Brazilian variant ‘should not affect vaccines’, Number 10 says

January 15, 2021

Stricter rules for supermarkets in Wales to be introduced (Ben Birchall/PA)

Stricter rules for supermarkets in Wales to be introduced

January 15, 2021

Professor Wendy Barclay said the variant may have been ‘introduced some time ago’ (Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA)

One Brazilian coronavirus variant detected in UK before travel ban – virologist

January 15, 2021

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he is ‘not aware’ of any cases of the Brazilian coronavirus variant in the UK (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Shapps ‘not aware’ of Brazilian variant in UK as South America travel ban hits

January 15, 2021

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps (Tolga Akmen/PA)

Don’t take any travel advice from me, says Shapps

January 15, 2021

Vaughan Gething (Isabel Infantes/PA)

Wales introduces mandatory testing for international arrivals

January 15, 2021

Karolina Jania and Brian Keith start their walk up the snowy Sidlaw Hills.

Met warns Tayside to expect more winter weather disruptions this weekend

January 15, 2021

Kingsway West, in the second national lockdown.

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Higher traffic levels than first lockdown indicate ‘stay at home’ message failing in Dundee

January 15, 2021

A cable car makes its way up to the top of Sugarloaf mountain from Urca Hill, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Travel to UK from all of South America and Portugal banned over Covid variant

January 14, 2021

The research found many people believe the short-term letting industry could be important in encouraging visitors back to Scotland (PA)

Most Scots want short-term let changes paused during pandemic, Airbnb poll shows

January 14, 2021