The Scotsman - 2020-04-11

• UK suffers bleakest day since virus hit Europe
• Best boxset binge?
• ‘Several more weeks’ of staying in
• House party warning as police issue more than 500 lockdown fines
• St Andrews University facing worst financial crisis ‘of modern times’
• First Scottish prison inmate to die from coronaviru­s named
• Johnson able to do ‘short walks’ during recovery
• Carlaw ‘pragmatic’ about extension to Brexit in light of coronaviru­s outbreak
• Virus testing nothing more than a ‘postcode lottery’ says care home boss
• ‘It’s brought us close to neighbours’ - Hastings dance steps raise spirits
• Couples who moved in together over virus could face financial risk
• More than half of Scots workers
• Report raises concerns over PPE for key staff
• Concerns as workmen spotted on ‘non-essential’ city council building site
• University creating PPE for frontline
• Easter is a ‘time to look towards rebuilding our common life’, says cardinal
• Colleagues applaud ‘bubbly and loving’ nurse who died after contractin­g virus
• ‘Odds were stacked against me’: Mother’s remarkable recovery
• Grocer revisits family Spanish flu link by making food deliveries
• MP forced to change phone number after it was shown during TV interview
• AI song contest ‘should inspire musicians to embrace technology’
• Brothers to scale Everest in their own home
• Warning that viral pandemic is threatenin­g internatio­nal peace
• Locust swarm bigger threat to parts of African than coronaviru­s
• Labour gets back on track
• We need more scrutiny of Sturgeon
• Rules must be clear so we can obey them
• Proper PPE not
• Fancy dress for NHS
• We can’t let Scotland’s fruit crops rot in fields
• Robert the Bruce was just as much a conqueror as the kings of England
• ON TWITTER
• Boris on mend
• Wainwright has worked his way to the sweet spot
• North Sea operator Cairn can handle ‘much lower’ prices
• Farming cooperativ­e in strong place to fight Covid-19
• Online marketplac­e allows independen­t UK boutiques to continue selling
• More lenders added to CBILS
• Further blow to cereal growers
• Plea for help to offset higher costs of sick pay
• Don’t be taken in by fraudulent ‘help’
• John Prine
• NOW & THEN
• FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD
• Kelso side of the 80s were ultimate sevens kings but Gala also excelled
• Kingsbarns’ 20th birthday celebratio­ns are put on ice
• ‘Russia’s ban should be forgotten in view of virus’
• Edinburgh rivals and fans are left wondering what might have been
• What a strange way to operate - the SPFL deserves the mess it’s in
• Morgan praises Beckham for guiding Miami through crisis
• Six Barcelona board members quit in protest at way the club is run
• Elliot’s Hampden roar in derby rout
• Rangers and SPFL
• Lennon, Lawwell and Celtic players take cut
• Dundee left with casting vote on SPFL resolution
• “My agent hustled for me to take over as James Bond when Sean Connery was giving up the role”
• Crime pays
• In the frame
• Fjord focus
• Album reviews, plus Jim Gilchrist talks to Hamish Napier about his new album, The Woods
• An online Callanetic­s class from Walk the Talk Studios, Edinburgh
• Gaby Soutar picks up an order from Alby’s, Edinburgh
• Novel approach
• Alistair Harkness reviews Who You Think I Am
• Joyce Mcmillan talks to Fergus Linehan of the EIF
• Allan Massie on Michael Arditti’s The Anointed
• If you listen, you might not like what you hear
• Home comforts
• Harvest problems could blight the 2020 vintage
• ALSO STREAMING
• Truth in fiction
• The Clearing
• Hamish Napier collaborat­es with stags and owls on latest album
• Paws in the Borders
• Sharing secrets from city neighbourh­oods
• Add a horticultu­ral challenge to your planting
• Support for older people is obviously vital just now, but don’t mistake grey hair for fragility
• Your life in the stars

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