Nicola Sturgeon says she hopes to "pause" shielding policy at the end of the month

EXCLUSIVE: Hallmark Channel has greenlit A Holiday Spectacular, a new Christmas movie starring Academy Award-nominated Ann-Margret, Eve Plumb, Tony Award-nominee Derek Klena, Ginna Claire Mason, and featuring the Radio City Rockettes. The movie will air as part of the 2022 Countdown to Christmas programming.

EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group (AMG) proudly announces the promotion of Nora Zimmett to President of News and Original Series for Weather Group. Her previous title was Chief Content Officer and Executive Vice President, overseeing live and original programming for The Weather Channel, as well as its world-renowned storm coverage.

Sony Pictures, Filmocracy, the Lantos Foundation and OUT.LI.ER, introduce the 8th Annual Women’s Voices Now Film Festival. The festival will take place on March 24, 2022 and the keynote Speaker is Jaina Lee Ortiz. Like the previous year, the festival will again take place virtually. 

Nick Stoller and Carla Kettner’s Florida dramedy is finally heading to the small screen.

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has picked up world rights on Zach Golden’s action-comedy High Heat and will release later this year.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have cancelled their scheduled concerts in Russia and Ukraine “in light of current events”.The group were due to perform at Bol Festival in Moscow, Russia on June 18 before visiting the Palace Of Sports complex in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 19 as part of a wider run of dates for 2022.Sharing a statement on social media, Cave and co. said they had “no choice but to cancel” the shows following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week.

Neneh Cherry has reacted after Robyn covered her hit song ‘Buffalo Stance’.Cherry shared the news that Robyn had covered her debut track on Twitter earlier today (March 1), and revealed that the new version was part of a “new project” that she will be “able to talk about soon”.“It feels strange to be doing this with everything going on in the world right now but… I am still so honoured & excited to announce that my incredible friend @robynkonichiwa has covered ‘Buffalo Stance’ with @Mapei & Dev Hynes for a beautiful new version!” she wrote.“I am truly touched and I can’t wait for everyone to hear it…Released on Thursday it’s part of a new project I’ll be able to talk about soon, in the meantime you can pre save the track now.”The track arrives on Thursday (March 3) and can pre-save the track here now.It feels strange to be doing this with everything going on in the world right now but… I am still so honoured & excited to announce that my incredible friend @robynkonichiwa has covered 'Buffalo Stance' with @Mapei & Dev Hynes for a beautiful new version! https://t.co/D48KiFMq5H pic.twitter.com/ZkAdmdzkxP— Neneh Cherry (@misscherrylala) March 1, 2022I am truly touched and I can’t wait for everyone to hear it

Phoebe Bridgers is set to host a new radio show on SiriusXM.The show will be called ‘Saddest Factory Radio’ after the singer-songwriter’s label, Saddest Factory Records, which she launched last year.‘Saddest Factory Radio’ will see Bridgers in conversation with a number of artists, including signees to her label MUNA, Sloppy Jane, Claud and more.It will also feature Bridgers sharing some of her favourite songs with listeners.Speaking to Rolling Stone, Bridgers said: “My favourite way to consume music is incidentally — something playing in the grocery store, an opening band I’ve never heard, a college radio station while trying to find signal on a road trip.To celebrate the launch of Saddest Factory Radio on @siriusxmu, we put @phoebe_bridgers' DJ-ing skills to the test.

Playground Games has released a new Forza Horizon 5 update which adds sign language support.Previously announced last year, the sign language support feature has been in development for a while but has finally arrived today for all platforms.When players boot up Forza Horizon 5, they should be able to find both American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL) features in the settings.The sign language update will support 150 in-game cinematics that are shown throughout the game, making the driving game much more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing players.The newly released YouTube video shows how the feature has been implemented, with actors from the deaf and hard of hearing community signing in the corner of the screen during the cinematics, story segments, and challenges.In a new blog post detailing the update, Microsoft’s chief accessibility officer, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, discussed the new update and talked about her own deafness, saying that with the addition of signing in the game, she no longer needs to ask her family what she missed.“There are so many people with disabilities and people who are deaf. And, there are a lot of closed doors every day.

Former Coronation Street and EastEnders star Jill Halfpenny is back on our screens tonight (Tuesday March 1st), in a tense drama about a group holiday that goes seriously awry. It’s the latest role for the Geordie star who started her career as a teenager in Byker Grove alongside Ant and Dec, but hit the big time as Rebecca Hopkins in Coronation Street, the nurse with whom Martin Platt cheated on Gail.

Olivia Bowen is currently living the life of luxury in Tenerife with her husband Alex Bowen on a loved-up babymoon ahead of the arrival of their first child.The Love Island couple - who announced their pregnancy on New Year's Day - tell OK! they have been enjoying their days on the beach and celebrating their happy news of becoming parents. This week, Olivia, 28, has given her fans an insight into their romantic holiday as well as showing off her blossoming baby bump in a number of gorgeous snaps on her Instagram.

As Russian president Valdamir Putin declared war on Ukraine last week, Ukraine has been on the fore-front of everyone's minds.The Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv has been bombarded with strikes as Russia has continued its offensive on its Eastern European neighbours. With the harrowing news coming from the ongoing war, Ukraine and its capital city has been the forefront of everyone's minds. And the spelling and pronunciation of its capital city has also been called into question as people continue to share support for Ukraine.

Covid-19 in recent days could be linked to the outbreak at a call centre in North Lanarkshire.

Jeremy Clarkson, 60, has declared he is "fed up" with Nicola Sturgeon,50, after he claimed she used her "thunderstorm of hindsight" to criticise Prime Minister Boris Johnson,56.The motor expert said that no matter what appears to happen, Nicola finds a way to see it as "Boris' fault".Jeremy questioned: "Is anyone else getting fed up with Nicola Sturgeon as she rides around on a thunderstorm of hindsight, criticising Boris Johnson for absolutely everything that's wrong with the world?"His complaint follows Nicola's condemnation of Boris' "absurd and ridiculous political comments" after the latter said that she could make people potentially quarantine if entering Scotland from other parts of the UK.At the Scottish Government's coronavirus

Nicola Sturgeon has declared it was a good day for Scotland as the country's hospitality sector reopened and the number of deaths from Covid-19 continued to fall. But the SNP leader once again urged Scots to "keep the heid" as she admitted to being nervous as the single biggest easing of lockdown restrictions in four months took place.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterScotland has recorded no new deaths from coronavirus for the seventh day in a row, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.The latest figures were revealed as the country took a key step out of lockdown today, with pubs and restaurants opening indoors for the first time.Attractions such as cinemas and museums have also been reopening, while long queues have been waiting at the country's barber shops and hair salons.The First Minister confirmed at her daily press briefing that a further five people had tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours - taking the total to 18,373.A total number of 611 patients are currently receiving

Nicola Sturgeon said the opening of pubs indoors was the “highest risk” since exiting lockdown began and encouraged those going to the pub to “do so carefully”.Speaking as Scotland celebrated a sixth day with no deaths from the virus, she said: “I think we all know where alcohol is being taken, sometimes our inhibitions are lower ... we behave in a way we wouldn’t normally do, getting closer to people.

coronavirus lockdown yesterday with non-essential shops in shopping centres reopening across the country. Kids under the age of 17 were allowed to play organised outdoor contact sport for the first time since late March.

coronavirus relate to a singe care home in Glasgow.The First Minister did not name the home, but said all necessary checks were being carried out.Speaking at her daily press conference, she said on Friday and Sunday there had been a higher number of cases than would normally have been the case in recent weeks.She said: “With respect to yesterday, the 19 cases that were reported yesterday, we know that 12 of these cases were in Glasgow and seven of those, all of which were asymptomatic cases related to one single care home.

Sturgeon has blasted reported UK Government plans to hold on to a key economic lever after the Brexit transition period.It has been claimed Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not devolve control over ‘state aid’, which allows Governments to subsidise companies.The First Minister tweeted this morning: “This would be a full scale assault on devolution - a blatant move to erode the powers of the Scottish Parliament in key areas.

Nicola Sturgeon. The First Minister reminded Scots of the new rules on face coverings during the Scottish Government’s daily coronavirus press conference today.