More than 3,100 restaurants in Scotland signed up for UK Government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme - meaning eateries were buzzing again for the first time in months.Ruth Sutherland (below), who runs the Carfraemill Hotel in the Lammermuir Hills, says the introduction of the promotion saw demand 'quadruple'.The UK Government has given firms across Scotland vital support to protect jobs and help them weather the storm of the Covid-19 crisis.
In March Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a package of loans, grants and tax breaks to mitigate the fallout from the pandemic, followed in July by the Plan for Jobs.As coronavirus spread, the hospitality sector was hit especially hard, and, was soon seeing bookings cancelled.But now Ruth's hotel has.
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