Some rough sleepers have reportedly been at Terminal 5 for two weeks during lockdown.

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The World Pipe Band Championships has joined the list of major events to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

About 200 groups from around the world were due to descend on Glasgow Green in August to compete.

The event has been held every year in the city since 1986.

Ian Embelton, chief executive of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, said: "The safety of everyone taking part and the integrity of the competition at all grades were the key factors in taking this decision now.

"Although very disappointed, we will look forward to being back at Glasgow Green in 2021."

Glasgow first hosted the World Pipe Championships in 1948. Last year, 195 bands from 13 nations competed in front of about 35,000 people.

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Hibernian players and senior staff have agreed to defer salaries by "between 20% and 50%" during the coronavirus shutdown.

The Edinburgh club said they had reached "mutual agreement to furlough the majority of its people", including their first-team squad.

A core group of club staff will work from home to maintain operations.

"The club hopes that taking this action will ease some of the cashflow pressure," said chief executive Leeann Dempster.

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A drop in the purity levels of illicit drugs could lead to an increase in overdoses as dealers see disruption to their supply chain, according to a charity.

We Are With You interim executive director Andrew Horne said: "Some of the people we work with here in Scotland have been telling us that they're stockpiling drugs.

"But we're also hearing about supply difficulties too and that the purity of many drugs is decreasing as dealers cut them with different substances to increase their bulk."

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With the protocol on wearing face masks varying from country to country, advice from officials has become conflicting - particularly in the last 24 hours.

New York has become the latest place to call on its citizens to cover their faces outside.

At the same time, US coronavirus taskforce co-ordinator Dr Deborah Birx raised concerns that the masks give people a "false sense of protection".

Prof Jason Leitch, the Scottish government's national clinical director, told BBC Scotland that there is "no evidence" to support members of the public wearing protective face masks.

So what is the official advice? Read the full story here.

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Debenhams, the department store chain, is facing administration for a second time.

The retailer is set to appoint administrators as early next week to protect the company against claims from creditors as it tries to restructure its business.

Debenhams has already closed 22 stores this year and plans to shut a further 28 in 2021.

However, the coronavirus outbreak has ramped up pressure on the firm.

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Snow has fallen over parts of the northern Highlands and Northern Isles.

Sutherland - where this impressive snowman was made - along with Caithness and Shetland were among the places to see snowy weather on Friday morning.

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Boris Johnson will carry on self-isolating after continuing to display mild symptoms of the coronavirus including having a temperature.

The prime minister tested positive for the virus last Friday and had been due to come out of self-isolation today.

Mr Johnson continues to work from home and chaired a coronavirus meeting on Friday morning.

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More cases, more people in hospital, more deaths. This sombre briefing underlines the grim fact that coronavirus is spreading fast, and infecting more people.

Yesterday the UK government set out plans for NHS England to test 100,000 people every day, by the end of April.

Nicola Sturgeon was pressed on the Scottish figures and gave a robust response. She insists the Scottish target - 3,500 per day by the end of this month - is more ambitious.

She said the correct comparison with England is tests done in NHS and public health laboratories - what's called their “pillar one” target - which is 25,000 tests a day.

The rest – pillar two – could be made up by universities and private sector partners such as Amazon and Boots. That, the first minister says, means Scotland will out-test England.

The NHS continues to prepare - and we're told Scottish hospitals now have 500 ventilators for critically ill patients. Orders are in place for more, we're told, and there's no upper limit on how many the NHS will buy.

There's no end in sight. Easter's approaching - and as the weather improves the current lockdown will be harder for many to bear. But Nicola Sturgeon was at pains to make clear there's no sign the danger and death toll will peak by Easter.

She said it's still uncertain when it will be - and restrictions will be in place for "a long number of weeks".

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The Queen will address the nation in a televised broadcast on Sunday, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The broadcast will be aired at 20:00 BST (19:00 GMT).

The Queen has suspended her royal duties and is currently at Windsor Castle in Berkshire with the Duke of Edinburgh.

Last month she issued a message on the outbreak,saying the UK is “entering a period of great concern and uncertainty”.

Sunday's address will be only the fourth of her 68-year reign beyond her traditional message on Christmas Day.

The other three previous speeches to be aired came after the Queen Mother's death in 2002, ahead of Diana, Princess of Wales's funeral in 1997 and about the First Gulf War in 1991.

The Queen is to make a televised address to the nation on Sunday after a further 684 people die with coronavirus in the UK.

Peter MacMahon, from ITV Border, asks the FM when she thinks the peak of coronavirus will be in Scotland, from all the information she has seen.

Ms Sturgeon says she can't say right now, but she hopes that "over the next couple of weeks, we will start to be able to give more certainty in our predictions as to when a peak might happen".

But the first minister reiterates that she has seen "absolutely nothing" to suggest the peak will come in a week's time in Scotland.

David Henderson, of BBC Scotland, asks Nicola Sturgeon why the Scottish target for coronavirus testing (3,500 per day by the end of April) is "so modest" compared to the rest of the UK.

The first minister reiterates that the equivalent target - the first of the five testing "pillars" announced by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Thursday - for the UK is 25,000 per day by the end of the month, rather than 100,000.

"So actually, proportionally, our target is a bit more ambitious than the UK as a whole," she insists. "It is not the right comparison to compare our 3,500 with the UK's 100,000. The comparison is 25,000.

"We are both trying to get to the level ultimately that for the UK is 100,000, and for us to would be the approximate 10% of that."

Catherine Calderwood, the chief medical officer for Scotland, reiterates Nicola Sturgeon's message that there is no reason to believe the current lockdown measures will be lifted anytime soon.

While she says teams are now transitioning from using computerised modelling of the potential spread of the virus to "real data" from "real people", now is "not the time to think that it will all be over soon".

"Many months will be needed before we can get on top of this virus, to be sure we are not going to have a worse scenario later," she says.

The first minister thanks people for adhering to the lockdown measures so far, and urges everyone to resist any temptation to go further afield during the coming holiday period and stay at home.

"This is how we will slow the spread of the virus, how we will protect our NHS from being overwhelmed, and how we will save lives," she adds.

Ms Sturgeon notes that from this weekend most schools around Scotland are entering the Easter holidays period, "one of the most unusual holiday periods we have known in our lifetime".

All local authorities will keep learning and childcare centres open during the holiday period for those who require it, she says, even if arrangements may vary from those in place during term-time.

"We can make sure children are well looked after while their parents are able to do critical jobs," she says.

She also stresses that maintaining the current restrictions is "absolutely essential", despite media speculation that the virus may peak in a week's time.

"Nothing I have seen gives me any basis whatsoever for predicting the virus will peak as early as a week's time here in Scotland," she said. "I don't want people to have a false expectation based on what they are hearing in the media."