📣 MAJOR WORKS ALERT📣
🗺️ #M80
📆 Mon 13th April 19:30 - Mon 13th July 6:00
🚧 A major programme of works will affect the #M80, #M876 and #M9.
Motorists should #PlanAhead and expect delays.
For details of the various phases and closures, click here 👉 https://t.co/5AAy2BqGAy
In a rare interview Angela Merkel speaks to @BBCKatyaadler and defends ties with Russia and blocking Ukraine from Nato.
Read here 👇or watch the full interview tonight at 19:00 on @BBCTwo and @BBCiPlayer
https://t.co/z9RH9NvgG2
Footage obtained by ITV News shows a company burying salmon on a beach four months after the practice was made illegal in Scotland.
Whiteshore Cockles said it is "not happening at all" now and refused to comment on the clip, ITV News Scotland Reporter @LouiseScottITV reports
NEW: Alcohol related deaths in Scotland have reached their highest level since 2008.
▪️Mortality rates for those aged over 65 are the highest since records began in 1994.
▪️Alcohol deaths in the most deprived areas are 4.5 times higher than the least deprived. @itvnews
NEW: The Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer has arrived in Edinburgh on the first stop of his nations tour. Walking in with Scottish Labour leader @AnasSarwar to meet some of the 37 MPs and the new Secretary of State for Scotland @IanMurrayMP. @itvnews
What’s at stake in Scotland?
The SNP put independence front and centre of their campaign: page 1, line 1 of the manifesto. They made it clear a vote for them is a vote for independence. Today John Swinney said a vote for anyone else risks “damaging independence as a cause.” 🧵
SNP leader John Swinney has told @PeterAdamSmith the prospect of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage becoming an MP 'horrifies' him.
Swinney discussed migration, Scottish independence and the fractured relationship between former party leaders Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond, when ITV News cameras were exclusively allowed onto the SNP battle bus.
'How can people express their view that they do not want Scotland to be an independent country?' @PeterAdamSmith asks the SNP's @JohnSwinney
Swinney insists the 'wishes of the people of Scotland are clear' on independence after the SNP won in the 2021 Scottish elections
SNP leader @JohnSwinney tells ITV's @PeterAdamSmith he is going to 'intensify pressure' on the UK government over Scottish independence
'The Scottish Parliament was elected in 2021 with a majority of MSPs supportive of a referendum on independence', he insists