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Online grocery shopping is up by a third this year, and marketing experts expect the shift to be sustained.

That’s while prices of some groceries have been rising, but non-food prices are being discounted.

It comes as Tesco said people had reverted to shopping the way they did a decade ago by making one big weekly trip to the supermarket.

Read more from our economy editor Douglas Fraser

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Police Scotland's assistant chief constable Duncan Sloan says that tackling domestic abuse remained a "top priority" for the force.

"Clearly some people's homes are not a safe place to live and our response has not changed," he told Good Morning Scotland.

He said officers would be trying to identify "high risk individuals" who might pose a risk to the people they were living with and intervening where they could to prevent abuse happening in the first place.

Police figures have shown that the coronavirus lockdown has sparked a surge in requests from people wanting to know if their partner has an abusive past, under the Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse in Scotland.

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The director of UCL's Institute of Making says he is in favour of the Scottish government's recommendation for people to wear masks.

Mark Miodownik said as long as it was not going to produce a plastic waste problem there was no harm to be had, "only benefits".

But he cautioned that people should take care to wash the masks regularly and rotate them frequently to reduce the risk of contamination.

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Ms Davison said that a mask made with two layers of decent cotton weave was "quite sufficient" for the public to wear in shops and on public transport.

She told Good Morning Scotland it was important to distinguish between the two reasons for wearing a mask - front-line clinical staff use high-grade masks to protect themselves, but Ms Davison said the general population did not need this level of protection.

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A former public health doctor and co-founder of the Masks4All UK campaign says she is "delighted" at the Scottish government recommendation that people cover their faces while in some enclosed public spaces.

Helen Davison told Good Morning Scotland there was "increasing evidence" that countries who incorporated mask-wearing into policies, alongside social distancing and good hygeine, saw reduced levels of coronavirus infection.

She said Slovakia, the Czech Reublic, South Korea and Taiwan were all good examples of places where this had happened.

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Police Scotland say there has been a big rise in people asking for information about whether their partner has an abusive past.

Requests to the Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse have risen by 18% since the start of the lockdown.

Fiona McMullen from the charity Assist, says the coronavirus pandemic is presenting particular challenges for those in vulnerable situations.

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The Children’s Commissioner for Scotland says there should be special payments to parents on low incomes across the country to help them through the coronavirus crisis.

It comes as BBC Scotland research showed there was inconsistencies in the way councils supported families where children normally received free school meals.

Most were making payments, but about a third of councils were providing vouchers or food instead.

Bruce Adamson told Good Morning Scotland there should be direct payments backed up by additional local support.

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The coronavirus lockdown has sparked a surge in requests from people wanting to know if their partner has an abusive past, police figures show.

The Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse in Scotland gives people the right to ask police about the history of their partners.

The legislation also gives police the power to tell someone if they think they may be at risk.

There has been an 18% rise in requests to reveal past abuse since lockdown.

Police Scotland, which runs the scheme, said the majority of the increase was down to "power to tell" requests made by police officers and social workers raising concerns about someone they think may be at risk of abuse.

Bacteriology expert Prof Hugh Pennington is not so sure about the new advice.

He told The Nine they were ineffective.

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In case you missed it, The Scottish government has recommended people cover their faces while in some enclosed public spaces, such as shops and public transport.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said there could be "some benefit" in wearing a cloth face covering in places where social distancing was difficult.

But she said it was "not a substitute" for existing lockdown restrictions.

Downing Street said UK ministers were considering the scientific evidence for introducing similar advice.

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Good Morning.

Welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.

It's Wednesday, so the National Records of Scotland will release its weekly figures which give a fuller picture of coronavirus cases and deaths other than those in hospitals.

We'll bring the latest updates to you right here throughout the day.