The first minister also said only 0.3% of coronavirus tests were coming back with positive results, well below the 5% threshold at which the World Health Organisation considers outbreaks to be “under control”.
Month: July 2020
WALKING ON SUNSHINE …
Finally inveigled a reluctant friend to walk the 17,000 glorious steps over Ballard Down with me today. One of the best walks in Britain (according to me, Julia Bradbury and my grateful friend). Words and pictures by MT Rainey
ALMOST 400,000 CANCER SCREENINGS DELAYED DURING CORONA VIRUS LOCKDOWN
The Holyrood parliament was told the shock figure of 400,000 cancer screenings which were delayed during the Covid-19 lockdown.
BOOKS: Memoir of Edna O’Brien who wrote The Country Girls
Review by Maureen O’Connor Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls was published by Hutchinson & Co in London in 1960. She is pictured above alongside John McGahern, another
BOOKS: It reflects badly on the town when I go to book festivals and other Arts and Culture events to have to admit that of bookshops in Dumbarton we are completely bereft
It may be a joke to the Council, which is only now recognising the fact that AJ Cronin, one of world’s most successful authors of popular books, much of them about Dumbarton, by naming a few streets after him along the banks of the Leven. And not before time.
BOOKS: Survivor of a stroke, he taught literacy for a time to people in Glasgow housing schemes such as Drumchapel
Since so few people get out and about anymore, were the new generation of authors picking up ideas from what they read on Facebook in the same way their elders would have done from what they overheard on buses and trains?