Nicola Sturgeon apologises for breaching Covid rules

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was pictured in a pub for a funeral wake without a face mask on (Russell Cheyne/PA)
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was pictured in a pub for a funeral wake without a face mask on (Russell Cheyne/PA)

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has apologised after she breached Covid rules by taking off her face mask at a funeral wake.

A photograph published in the Scottish Sun showed the First Minister chatting to three women in a bar while standing at a distance but without wearing a mask.

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