The Scotsman - 2020-10-28

• Tourism businesses ‘face closure until New Year’
• Civil servant deleted text about ‘war’ over Salmond
• Opening the next chapter at Mitchell Library
• High church: Jim Wallace chosen for top job at Church of Scotland
• Lennon blasts critics
• Edinburgh Napier Graduation­s List
• European firms not Brexit ready, warns French customs boss
• Plan for performanc­e space in ‘unloved concrete cavern’ beneath Kingston Bridge
• £1.6m funding for wireless electric van charging trial at Heriot-watt
• A generation failed as rate of drug-related hospital stays triple
• 45% hit by Covid pay cut as think tank warns of long term effects
• Hospital admissions related to drug use have soared while government drugs death taskforce faces pandemic pressure
• Fireworks warning as public shows cancelled
• Hospitalit­y staff told not to use Protect app
• Plan could create 100,000 jobs
• Future of Scottish medical research under threat from funding slump
• Maybury boss urges government to reverse the closure of casinos
• A chance to buy your own wildlife park as owners sell up
• Pubs may be struggling with the crippling effects of the Covid crisis and closures but punters appreciate them even more
• Ross branded a ‘rank hypocrite’ over not voting for school meals
• Traditiona­l toys tipped for festive sales success
• Blair would not have denied Janner a peerage despite child abuse claims
• Freedom-of-speech protection­s ‘under active considerat­ion’
• Royal High School hotel bid rejected
• Low interest rates ‘a challenge’ as banks rethink strategy
• Health board says sorry for distress and anxiety over flu jab failures
• Barrett wins Supreme Court place to cement conservati­ve majority
• At least 8 dead and hundreds injured in bomb attack on Islamic seminary
• It’s time to repair damage caused by Trump and set us back on course
• Bishop’s Christmas ‘truce’ offers us not hope, but fear
• It all ends in tiers but will it save Xmas?
• Inside Arts
• We need town-by-town Covid breakdowns
• Mixed messages
• ON TWITTER
• Health check
• The Scottish hospitalit­y industry will need better support to survive Covid
• The SNP have failed Scottish industry
• 10 Best hotels for history lovers
• Meet Charlotte Blackler from Herb Majesty
• Ranald’s crisis
• Think of loved ones and plan for the future
• NOW & THEN
• Tom Fidelo
• Numnuts pain relief for sheep
• EU under fire for proposed shift in farming support
• BP swings back into profit after a bruising Q2
• ASI acquires Finnish energy business
• Scottish dental group looks to fill gap in portfolio with acquisitio­ns
• Developer Kelvin Properties expects huge demand as it announces BTR project near Glasgow's Mitchell Library
• Quiz posts a loss as Covid restrictio­ns hit trading
• London markets slide again as rising Covid-19 cases weigh on trading
• With decent form on a quicker surface, Bathiva is a banker
• Title hat-trick for Scottish tour founders Lawrie, Tait and Henry
• Down to the wire: Six Nations final-round permutatio­ns ahead of Super Saturday
• Barbarians’ Covid breaches will not be investigat­ed by police
• Scotland return to Wales in very different circumstan­ces but confidence is flowing
• Halliday consigns 2016 final to history as he seeks Hampden glory with Hearts
• Scottish Cup sponsors make Hearts Twitter blunder ahead of Hibs clash
• Ross hopes his Hibs balancing act will send capital rivals crashing out of cup
• Bassey is the ideal and long-term alternativ­e to Barisic at left back
• Zungu to train with squad for first time ahead of Euro clash
• Lennon hits out at ‘shocking’ criticism of Duffy and says defender has his backing
• Duffy isn't a bad player, but he is the wrong type of defender for Celtic
• ‘We’ve still got that confidence. We’ll go down to Wales pushing and expecting to get a good result’

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