Nicola Sturgeon will make her weekly statement on coronavirus today as Omicron restrictions in Scotland are finally scrapped.
Social distancing rules in pubs and restaurants were lifted on Monday while nightclubs can now reopen for the first time in a month.
The First Minister will update MSPs later today on the latest steps in Scotland's fight against coronavirus.The SNP leader is expected to provide more detail on a revised strategic framework” to move Scotland to a “less restrictive” society in managing the impacts of the pandemic.It comes as amid reports Boris Johnson had a lockdown-busting birthday party in Downing Street in June 2020 at time when covid rules forbade social gatherings indoors.
In another shocking revelation of events in Downing Street, ITN News has discovered that up to 30 staff celebrated with the Prime Minister in the cabinet room where his wife, Carrie, surprised him with a cake.