Ms Sturgeon announces lockdown restrictions, including the closure of pubs, are to be reintroduced in Aberdeen.

She says this is a "significant outbreak" which may involve some community transmission.

In addition to the Hawthorn Bar, 20 other licensed premises are part of the contact tracing picture.

The first minister confirms further steps are required to limit the outbreak.

The Scottish government, in line with the local health team and Aberdeen City Council, has agreed the following new advice:

• People should not travel more than five miles for leisure purposes
• Travelling for work or education is permitted, but other travel is not advised
• Do not travel to Aberdeen
• Do not go into each others' houses (with the exception of extended household groups)
• All indoor and outdoor hospitality in the city to close tonight, which will be enforced if necessary

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirms 54 cases are associated with the Aberdeen cluster.

191 close contacts have been contacted but this is expected to increase in the coming days, she adds.

Overall, 64 new cases across Scotland have been reported, with 36 of these in the Grampian health board area - though it is unclear if all of these are connected to the Aberdeen outbreak.

A total of 4,208 Scots deaths have been linked to Covid-19, official figures show.

The National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures indicate seven people died in the week ending 2 August, a decrease of one from the previous week.

The figures are higher than the daily figure announced by Nicola Sturgeon because they include all cases where Covid-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, even if the patient had not been tested.

The weekly data on coronavirus-linked deaths will be published by National Records of Scotland (NRS) at noon.

Last week showed eight deaths registered between 20 July and 26 July - up slightly from six the week before.

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will deliver her daily briefing shortly afterwards at 12:15. She will be joined by interim chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith.

We are expecting an update on the Aberdeen cluster, where 32 people have tested positive for the virus.

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MPs are to investigate the financial stability of Scottish universities in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

The sector has warned it could lose more than £500m next year due to a drop in the number of students from outside Europe, who pay large tuition fees.

The Scottish Affairs Committee has said the pandemic, combined with long-term funding issues, could create a "perfect storm".

The number of non-EU students who have applied for a place at a Scottish university has gone up, but it is not yet known how many people will actually take up their places.

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TV viewing in Scottish households increased hugely during the early stages of the coronavirus lockdown, according to watchdog Ofcom.

It said people in Scotland spent an average of five hours and 46 minutes per day - or 40 hours a week - watching something on a TV screen in April.

This was an 85-minute increase on 2019. The biggest factor behind the increase was people spending nearly twice as much time watching video-on-demand services such as Netflix and YouTube.

Read more.

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BBC Radio Scotland

With coronavirus still dominating the headlines, environmental campaigners are worried about the impact on the planet.

Dr Lisa Ackerley, a chartered environmental health practitioner, insists it is important to “grab the good things and then try to work on the things that perhaps went backwards slightly."

She highlights air pollution has dropped, but we need to focus on reducing use of single-use items. She suggests more people should look to use reusable face masks and avoid disposable gloves when it is possible to wash hands.

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Environmentalist Zarina Ahmad agrees, saying the environment has become secondary in this pandemic with a lot of progress having been forgotten.

“It’s not just an individual responsibility. I think also from a government and local government responsibility, there isn’t enough bins out there. Bins weren’t being emptied, the rubbish was lying around and then it just gets blown about and we forget about that environmental impact.”

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Scotland's education secretary has rejected claims that bright pupils from deprived areas were unfairly penalised by the country's exam system.

He said he accepts that "individual results" affected by the national exam moderation system will have caused disappointment.

But he points to the fact that overall pass rates are up and three-quarters of teacher predictions for pupils' grades were accepted.

He told Good Morning Scotland: "That's why the final part of the process that was put in place by the SQA was an open and free appeals process.

"I would encourage any young person who feels disappointed by their result, and feels they should have had a better result, to use that service."

Read more here.

Douglas Fraser
Scotland business & economy editor

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Nearly 400 jobs are to go at M&Co, the Renfrewshire-based clothing retailer.

The company, which used to be known as Mackays, says the focus of cuts will be in towns and suburbs rather than city centres.

M&Co has been put into administration and its assets immediately bought back by the family that built it up.

A total of 47 shops are to close, while 215 will remain open. According to the administrators Deloitte's, the deal means that around 2,600 jobs can be retained.

It said the company has faced a number of difficulties, in common with other retailers, and coronavirus made these worse.

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BBC Radio Scotland

John Swinney says that, amongst the "very legitimate debate" about the exam results, there are some "fundamental points that have to be acknowledged".

"The first is that there has been an improvement in the pass rate and performance of young people," the education secretary says.

"And secondly, young people from the most deprived backgrounds in Scotland have seen the highest increase in the pass rate in Highers in recent years.

"That's a significant measure of the progress that has been made in the closure of the attainment gap."

Andrew Black
BBC Scotland Business Presenter

As the boss of one of the UK's biggest owners of businesses and property, Legal and General chief executive Nigel Wilson is selling the country as a great place to put money into the next generation of companies which will help the recovery from coronavirus.

He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme life sciences and house-builders would be particularly vital.

"Interest rates are at an all-time low, liquidity is at an all time high," he said.

"We have to step up, work together and really invest in lots of exciting new projects which exist right across the UK."

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William Hill says 119 of its High Street betting shops will not reopen after the shutdown forced by the coronavirus outbreak.

The company, which has 1,500 UK outlets, said it did not expect customers to return in the numbers seen before the Covid-19 pandemic.

The news came as it posted profits of £141m for the first six months of 2020, compared with a loss of £63m last year.

It also said it would repay £24.5m received from the UK furlough scheme.

Read more here.

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BBC Radio Scotland

Parents and teachers are continuing to hit out against the SQA for downgrading students from teacher estimates.

Andrew from Dumbarton, whose daughter received Higher results yesterday, says people from deprived areas should be given another chance.

He says: “I think there should be a special sitting, say October/November. Anyone that didn’t get what they wanted, they could do a quick cram and give it a go. That’s the only fair solution.”

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Others are relying on the appeals systems. Saj Sharif says her daughter Shaaray was downgraded from As and Bs to Cs and Ds. “It’s stopping her from doing her Advanced Highers,” she says.

Lindsay Paterson, professor of education policy at the University of Edinburgh, says the process was not fair and the SQA has "behaved as if it was a secret society."

“Because each student's grade has been adjusted, or checked to be in line with the school's recent history, then schools with a merely average performance find their outstanding students being dragged down,” he says.

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Mr Swinney says it would not serve young people "in any way" if there were doubts about the validity and credibility of the qualifications system.

Gillian Sharpe
BBC Scotland

The Covid-19 pandemic may have had a positive effect on religion in Scotland, according to senior church figures.

Moving services online after the country was asked to stay at home may have boosted the appeal of the church.

According to a former Church of Scotland moderator, lockdown has helped churches "imagine things differently".

The Very Rev Dr Russell Barr said online services had attracted new people to the fold.

Find out what Scotland's other faiths took away from the lockdown experience.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that the moderation process was necessary because, if teacher recommendations had been accepted without changes, results would have been "vastly inflated".

Jon Swinney says he supports the view that teachers are "optimistic and aspirational" about their pupils, but what an exam system does is different.

David Cowan
BBC Scotland

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An Edinburgh man who is the only survivor from a household hit by Covid-19 has warned the public not to drop their guard against the disease.

Scott Miller was critically ill in intensive care when his mother and her partner died from the virus.

He knew nothing of their deaths until he was brought out of a medically-induced coma.

Read Scott's story here.

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The Scottish Qualifications Authority is under fire this morning after thousands of Scottish pupils received worse results than they had been expecting.

Scotland's exam body intervened to lower nearly 125,000 grades estimated by teachers - nearly a quarter of the overall total.

The SQA say they acted to ensure fairness for everyone and overall attainment has risen.

Are the results "credible"? Critics say they are postcode lottery with children in more deprived areas more likely to have been given downgraded grades.

So was it fair? Stephen Jardine is taking your calls and texts. Call 08085 929500 or text 80295.