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Kim Leadbeater was honoured for promoting social cohesion and combatting loneliness after far-right loner Thomas Mair killed her sister in 2016.

The couple are honoured for their charity work after daughter Natasha, 15, had an allergic reaction and died after eating a baguette.

Professor Gerry McCormac is being recognised for leadership in higher education.

St Johnstone Football Club and hairdressers named in the New Year Honours list are among the employers who failed to pay staff the minimum wage.

A former MP and the University of Stirling’s vice chancellor have been made knights in the New Year Honours list.

The UK’s top scientists as well as a host of inventive entrepreneurs were honoured for their work helping the nation through the crisis.

People who realised the mental health impact of Covid-19 on frontline workers are among those named in the New Year’s Honours List.

Professor Sheila Rowan is also chief scientific adviser for Scotland.

Work to be recognised include introducing a new method of reaching vulnerable people through the pandemic.

Healthcare staff have been describing the pressure felt on the front line.

On Tuesday, analysis from the Scottish Government suggested key fishing stocks landed by the Scottish fleet are set to fall as a result of the deal.

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Members of the royal family carried out engagements throughout the pandemic, albeit without handshakes.

Nationwide Building Society’s index revealed all regions of the UK saw annual house price growth in 2020.

Care home residents will be included in the first rollout of the vaccine, the Health Secretary said.

Professor Andrew Pollard said the development and approval of the vaccine is ‘an absolute triumph of academic collaboration’.

Including the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, the UK Government has secured doses of seven vaccine candidates.

Nationwide Building Society said the average UK house price jumped 7.3% this year after rising 0.8% in December alone.

Experts believe the coronavirus vaccination programme in care homes will be speeded up by approval of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab.

British regulators have adopted the phrase ‘safety is our watchword’.