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MSPs are set to push through emergency powers to tackle the coronavirus crisis in a single day at Holyrood.

The Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill sets out new rules to prevent tenants from being evicted and to keep the judicial system running during the lockdown.

The legislation is sure to pass, having been drafted in consultation with opposition parties.

However, there is dispute over some points and amendments will be debated. Some proposed changes to the justice system have proved controversial in particular.

Timetable for the day

9:30am: Debate on general principples

11:30am: Statement on social security

12:00pm: First Minister's update - replacing the usual media briefing

2:00pm: Amendments to the coronavirus emergency legislation

5:00pm: Final debate

6:00pm: MSPs vote to make it law

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a new initiative encouraging people to play online video games during the coronavirus crisis as a way of staying in touch.

Dr Matthew Barr, a director of the Scottish Game Developers Association, said it was a "welcome change of direction" from WHO.

He told Good Morning Scotland that the social aspects of playing games online were "often overlooked".

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Many online gaming services have seen a big increase in demand as many countries go into lockdown.

Dr Barr, who is also a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, said online gaming was a "diversion" from lockdown boredom and a good way to keep in contact with friends.

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Mr Cole-Hamilton set out some alternative options to the suspension of of jury trials in Scotland:

• Using bigger venues such as theatres or cinemas so social distancing could be achieved
• Testing everyone involved in the trial for coronavirus every day
• Excusing people in high risk categories
• Video conferencing

He said these options were being investigated in England.

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A Scottish soft fruit farmer says he needs to find hundreds of pickers to harvest 1,000 tonnes of strawberries due to coronavirus restrictions.

James Porter said 200 workers normally travelled to his farm in Scryne, Angus, from eastern Europe.

But the restrictions meant they had been unable to come to Scotland.

Mr Porter said it would be "devastating" if he could not find enough people to pick the 80 acres of strawberries on his farm.

Mr Cole-Hamilton says jury trials are an essential part of democracy and the "social contract" in Scotland.

He told Good Morning Scotland that a recent report had found that juries in Scotland were effective, efficient and fair, and that moving to a judge-only trial changed everything.

He said no-one had been consulted about the changes and added that the moves had been "greeted with horror" by those who loved the law.

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Mr Cole-Hamilton tells the BBC that he wants to continue the spirit of concensus around emergency coronavirus powers, but says he want to demonstrate that there is more resistance to the measure than perhaps the Scottish government first thought.

"That's typified by the thought that I now find myself in an unlikely alliance with Joanna Cherry and Michael Gove who have both come out in vociferous opposition to the plans to get rid of jury trials in Scotland," he says.

The MSP says he wants to the Scottish government to understand that the legislation around juries does not need to be passed on Wednesday so other options could be looked at.

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The Lib Dem MSP for Edinburgh Western, Alex Cole-Hamilton, says there is "real concern" over the proposal to suspend jury trials in Scotland, just one week into the lockdown.

The proposal is part of a raft of emergency powers being debated by the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday.

He told BBC Scotland that jury trials in Scotland had survived the bubonic plague, the Spanish flu and two world wars.

"We're not aware of any other country in the world that has jury trials that's looking to take this radical step," he said.

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Glasgow hairdresser Sam Goodwin says cutting your own hair should be a "last resort".

Hairdressers and barbers have not been able to open since the UK lockdown came in last week.

The owner of Goodwin's Hair Boutique in Glasgow City recommends that men grow their hair in rather than going for the buzz cut to give them more options for different style in the future.

Ms Goodwin also advises against the use of cheap boxed hair dyes at home.

"We don't want people to be coming back to the hairdressers with disasters of cutting their own hair or others and using home boxed dyes," she told BBC Scotland.

"It just makes your next trip to the hairdressers so much longer and so much more expensive."

The director of the Centre for Behavioural Change at University College London, Susan Michie, says people have generally been complying with the huge changes to life in the UK over the last few weeks.

But she told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that the pressures will increase as the lockdown continues - possibly for months.

Ms Michie said the biggest psychological issues that the population faces were boredom, frustration, anger and depression.

She added that social and community support would become more important as we head into the summer.

Scottish Women's Aid has warned that virus lockdown measures could bring "unprecedented challenges" for victims of domestic violence. New legislation came into force one year ago.

Chief executive Dr Marsha Scott said: "Unfortunately, it is our job to point out that domestic abuse is not taking a break for this virus and that robust implementation of the new law is now more urgent and important than ever.

"In fact, all indications from other countries and other epidemics is that children and women will need more protection and faster responses than ever.

"And the increased fear and danger that women and children are experiencing must not be considered acceptable because of the pandemic."

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When the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in Scotland few could have predicted the speed, scale and scope of what happened next. Covid-19 touched everything and changed everything.

It triggered an unprecedented lockdown and, overnight, put the UK into hibernation mode. The pandemic also created a new reality defined by terms such as social-distancing and self-isolation.

BBC Scotland has been looking back on a surreal month that transformed life as we know it.

The papers: Postal staff calling for a ban on junk mail and criticism of the new Covid-19 laws make the front pages. The postal row centres on 80 workers at a Clackmannanshire sorting depot walking out in protest at the amount flyers they are being forced to deliver during the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile, senior lawyers have branded the government's new emergency laws an attack on Scotland's centuries-old justice system.

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An oil industry analyst says a long period of low crude prices caused by the coronavirus pandemic could see some North Sea fields decommissioned early.

Paul de Leeuw from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen says some companies will be looking at whether it is worth keeping some production going.

Prices have tumbled in recent weeks to less than 30 dollars a barrel - with Brent crude down to 22 dollars earlier this week.

NHS Western Isles has said it is taking steps to try to identify how two people in its area became infected with coronavirus.

The patients on Lewis are the first confirmed cases of Covid-19 on the Western Isles.

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Social care workers in Scotland have been told by the health secretary that protective equipment is on the way and that their status as key workers is confirmed and secure.

Jeane Freeman has now written to care bodies outlining what measures are being taken.

A number of carers have told BBC Scotland that services have already been scaled back due to Corona virus fears.

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MSPs are expected to vote through emergency legislation giving the Scottish government new powers to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

Ministers have worked closely with opposition parties in drafting the bill.

The most controversial measure is expected to be the proposal to introduce trials without as jury for serious offences.