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Glasgow Life has suspended all its services from this evening.

This will apply to every Glasgow Life venue across the city. It expects the suspension to continue until the end of April.

All Glasgow sport activities will be suspended, including indoor and outdoor activities as well as the outreach programme.

Glasgow Club membership fees will be automatically frozen.

Museums, concert halls and libraries will close, along with community facilities.

The first minister told Reporting Scotland's Laura Miller: "It is highly possible we will see a more blanket approach to school closures in the coming days."

Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish government's reticence to close all schools at once was because of the impact on children's welfare and on frontline NHS and social care staff.

She added that this approach was "not fixed" and that scientists were still looking at evidence.

However she acknowledged that as the virus spreads, teacher absences are increasing and there was "pressure" on teacher attendance.

At present, schools in Scotland remain open, though attendance is reported to be low in some areas and most activities, clubs and trips have been cancelled.

Stephen Leckie, chairman and CEO of the Crieff Hydro family of hotels said he welcomed the government's offer of financial help but said: "We need to understand more", particularly about how a business rates holiday works in Scotland.

Mr Leckie, who owns nine hotels and is chairman of the Scottish Tourism Alliance, said it costs about £100,000 per day to open just two of his venues - Crieff Hydro and Peebles Hydro.

He added that some businesses were "looking down the barrel" of 10% occupancy, an "unheard of" slump.

However, Mr Leckie says he has not laid off staff and has started by taking a pay cut himself.

He said: "We, me, are starting with significant salary reductions. We will do everything in our power to rescue the people in this business and the business and that starts with me at the top.

"My senior team is the same."

Elgin High School is to introduce a partial closure because of staff shortages.

From Wednesday, all pupils in S1, S2 and S3 are being told to stay away from school until further notice.

The health board says visits will only be allowed in very limited circumstances.

Staff shortages at a high school in Fife mean that from Wednesday some pupils will be asked to remain at home for the day.

Queen Anne High School in Dunfermline is asking its S3 pupils to learn from home on Wednesday, S1 pupils to do the same on Thursday and S2 on Friday.

The rota will also be in place next week in order to help the school priorities pupils with extra needs and those in the senior years preparing for exams.

Pupils who have been asked to remain at home but those who receive free school meals will be able to go to the school to get a packed lunch or stay for a hot meal.

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The big number from the UK chancellor is one-third of a trillion pounds. That's £330bn of loan guarantees.

This is for businesses if they need to borrow to pay rent or other bills like suppliers or salaries.

On top of that, you have got commercial lending made easier through the Bank of England for the big corporates.

There is a special package being put together for the airlines.

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The retail, leisure and hospitality end of things, which were particularly hard-hit by the measures announced yesterday are getting a business rates holiday for the whole of the next financial year. If they are not insured against the loss of businesses, then there could be cash grants of up to £25,000 to help them bridge this. Basically to keep businesses afloat over the next three, four, five months where they could have almost no income at all.

What we did not get was a deal to be worked out on an employment support package.

As we've been reporting, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak have pledged further action on top of measures announced in last week's Budget to help families and business affected by the coronavirus outbbreak.

Among the new help just announced is:

• Government backed and guaranteed loans of £330bn to support companies
• A potential support package specifically for airlines and airports
• A three-month mortgage payment holiday for homeowners
• £10,000 cash grants for smaller firms
• An extension of the business rate holiday announced in the Budget

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At the budget last week, the chancellor committed £1bn to support vulnerable people through the welfare system and hardship funds for local councils.

But he plans to increase that further, with the announcement that mortgage lenders will provide three-month mortgage holidays for those that need them.

"In the coming days I will go much further to support people's financial security," he adds, promising to talk to trade unions and business groups to arrange new support.

But he also wants to reiterate his promise that "this is first and foremost a public health emergency and... whatever resources the NHS needs they will get."

The prime minister says the government will do whatever it takes to support the UK economy.

Boris Johnson says the UK "must stop the disease spreading to a point where it overwhelms our NHS".

He says coronavirus is "so dangerous and so infectious that without drastic measures to check its progress it would overwhelm any health system in the world".

Mr Johnson says the steps announced yesterday will "have an effect on the spread of the disease".

He adds: "I stress although the measures are extreme we may well have to go further and faster.

"And we must act like any war-time government and do anything it takes to support our economy."

Boris Johnson seeks to reassure the public, adding: "Yes, this enemy can be deadly, but it is also beatable.

"And we know how to beat it and we know if as a country we follow the scientific advice... we know that we will beat it".

He says: "However tough the months ahead, we have the resources and the resolve to win the fight."