The 12 areas with the highest Covid rates in Scotland As the country moved into level zero on Monday, the latest figures published by the Scottish Government reveal the areas with the highest number of Covid-19 cases. The whole of Scotland moved to the lowest level of its five-tier system on Monday. However, Nicola Sturgeon has warned Covid restrictions are being “eased, not abandoned” as ‘Freedom Day’ applies to England only. The 2,000-year-old village in Outer Hebrides at risk of falling into the sea The remains of a 2,000-year-old village in the Outer Hebrides which are at risk of falling into the sea will be surveyed as part of “urgent” work to record the impact of coastal erosion on Scotland’s historic sites. The tiny island off North Uist, was home to a significant Iron Age settlement around 25 BC to 380 AD with remains of a number of dwellings exposed by the receding coastline earlier excavated. The site is now one of around a dozen to be included in a new research project that will look in detail at coastal historic sites at risk from environmental changes EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Government forced to apologise to vaccine manufacturers Ministers were forced to write letters of apology to the managing directors of Pfizer and AstraZeneca after publishing commercially sensitive information around Covid-19 vaccine supply, The Scotsman can reveal. Ministers were forced to write letters of apology to the managing directors of Pfizer and AstraZeneca after publishing commercially sensitive information around Covid-19 vaccine supply, The Scotsman can reveal. Read the full story here. Thanks for reading, Sam Shedden | 
