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The show did go on for Perth Theatre’s production of Jack and the Beanstalk after two days of panto performances were cancelled due to a COVID outbreak among the cast.

Lidl has pulled a range of smoked fish products from their shelves just days before Christmas amid Listeria contamination fears.

Morrisons has managed to split shoppers on social media for selling a Christmas turkey with a whopping £147 price tag.

At least 17 fluffy tern chicks defied the odds to thrive at a Scots nature reserve despite bird flu devastating other sites this year. Scotland’s wildlife agency NatureScot said the survival of the plucky little birds at Forvie National Nature Reserve in Aberdeenshire was “little short of a miracle”.

Those hoping for some snow to fall this festive period might just be in luck, as parts of Scotland could be in for a white Christmas.

Parts of Scotland could be facing even more snow and ice before the end of the week, the Met Office has predicted.

An avian flu outbreak has been confirmed at a historic Scots castle after a number of geese have died.

Outbreaks of Strep A have swept across four South Ayrshire primary schools.

People have been asked to avoid Findhorn Bay in Moray after 22 pink-footed geese and an “unusual” number of gulls were found dead of suspected bird flu.

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! is facing chaos after production has been hit with a Covid-19 outbreak just days before the series finale.

Asda has become the latest major supermarket chain to ration the amount of eggs that shoppers can buy following the national shortages.

An outbreak of Scarlet Fever in Scotland has promoted health professionals to issue urgent advice to the public with cases on the rise.

A surveillance network has been set up to monitor migrating geese and wintering waterbirds.

Braiiinnnsss! Resident Evil has experienced not one but two reboots recently.

As UK bird flu cases rise, a Scottish farmer has warned there will be a shortage of Christmas turkeys this year.

Three months after his hoped-for Broadway comeback Paradise Square closed amidst bad box office, legal battles, a Covid outbreak and allegations of a toxic work environment, producer Garth Drabinsky is suing Actors’ Equity for $50 million, accusing the union of waging “an intentional campaign of harassment and abuse” when it placed the Canada-based Drabinsky on its Do Not Work list last summer.

The Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium closed several exhibits on Saturday after a pink-backed pelican passed away due to highly pathogenic avian influenza.  In a statement, the Nebraska zoo said the Simmons Aviary, Lied Jungle and Desert Dome would be closed for at least 10 days. The pelican died on Oct.

Jeff Barnaby, a filmmaker and member of the Mi’kmaw tribe who brought Indigenous cinema to greater attention, has died at 46. He had a yearlong battle with cancer, his representative confirmed.

A brazen Ayrshire business chief has been banned from being a company director for ten years after spending the majority of a Covid loan on herself.

Michaela Zee editor Dr. Anthony Fauci believes that he should’ve been “much more careful” in his messaging during the initial U.S. COVID-19 outbreak, saying that his early statements should’ve repeated “the uncertainty of what we’re going through.” “When I said, ‘At this particular time, we should not necessarily do anything different,’ that’s when there was, like, five cases in the country,” Fauci said. “But then I said — I kid around about it — it was semicolon, ‘However, this could change rapidly and we need to be prepared.'” Fauci spoke with Washington Post national health reporter Dan Diamond on Oct. 5 at a seminar hosted by the University of Southern California’s Center for Health Journalism. Along with discussing COVID and monkeypox, Fauci recalled the media coverage of his role during the pandemic, and how he was both scrutinized and revered by the public.

It might be a staple of the Christmas dinner but this year turkey could be missing from the menu for millions across the UK. The chairman of the National Farmers' Union poultry board said the current bird flu outbreak could cause 'carnage' on the supply chain this festive season.