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#LOCKDOWN

Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland’s lockdown would continue for at least another three weeks.

@4949_undefeated wrote: “Nicola Sturgeon has hit the nail on the head. Extended the lockdown by three weeks. Whereas we have no idea what Boris and his clowns are going to do.”

@Toshj11 said: “Not keen [on] Nicola Sturgeon but totally agree with this, our R number higher, better safe than sorry.”

@sparklyhannahb said: “Oh good, here is a sensible grown-up in Nicola Sturgeon. Only reason [UK] government want to ease lockdown is that the workers aren’t making them any money. Profit over people.”

@Elmdag wrote: “She’s put the health and well-being of the Scottish public at the forefront of her planning from the off. Single minded, led from the front, while being clear and concise. Something we’ve never had and never will have with @Borisjohnson at the helm.”

@JCOOKUK claimed: “Sturgeon will do the opposite of whatever England does. It’s all political.”

@Houstie1886 wrote: “I take it the unionists that won’t be listening to Nicola Sturgeon and will be going back out and about have some sort of immunity to Covid? Just like Boris... oh yeah wait.”

#MILLIESMALL

Ska legend Millie Small has died. The Jamaican singer’s 1964 hit My Boy Lollipop is credited with breaking ska music into the mainstream of pop music.

@hubertelski wrote: “My Boy Lollipop changed the world of music.”

@Anniemurphy6 tweeted: “Loved Millie, that song was on loop all the time!”

@n69n said: “She made our hearts go giddy-up.”

@jacobusjudex said: “In 1964 I was playing a gig at Keirby Hotel Burnley. The barman would not serve the band drinks after the performance as the bar had closed. She was staying at the same hotel and having heard of the band’s plight bought a round, pointing out that as a resident bar hours were not applicable.”

@Black8mamba2 added: “How great is this song to be a No1 song with Beatlemania going on?”

@Cristalpanther said: “May she rest in peace. What a beautiful woman and talent.”

@Byronik said: “I was 7 years old and almost everybody at my school regarded My Boy Lollipop as thinly veiled obscenity.”