REACTION poured in following the death of rock 'n' roll pioneer Little Richard, who died yesterday at age 87.

A long-time resident of Trench Town, Donnette Dowe has seen the trials of urban life up-close and personal. Like many inner-city Jamaican communities, crime, teen pregnancy and poverty are rife.The 50-year-old mother of five children (ages 26, 24, 21, 16 and 12) is director and tour manager for Trench Town Culture Yard, a renovated tenement which was once home to Bob Marley and his family.

Award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald columnist Ian Bell has died at the age of 59.

THE Treasury has bombarded us all week with facts, figures and forecasts making the case for the UK to remain in the European Union. Its big report, on Monday, warned Brexit would tip the country into a year-long recession, resulting in up to 820,000 job losses within two years.

THE warning is becoming louder. It was raised by the Leave team during Thursday's TV debate and, on the same day, by the Chancellor, George Osborne, and two former prime minsters, Sir John Major and Tony Blair. Brexit, they said, posed a serious threat to the Union.

RUTH Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, will take on Boris Johnson in the BBC's final EU debate, grandly entitled The Great Debate, which will be broadcast at 8pm tonight.

It didn't take long for the list of warnings about Brexit to start coming true.

The accepted unit of measurement for long books is War and Peace. Library shelves bend and buckle under the weight of bigger doorstops, but it's Tolstoy's classic that has become the shorthand for a hefty tome.

Nicola Sturgeon has promised to exhaust all options in an effort to keep Scotland in the EU after the country voted by 62 per cent to 38 per cent against Brexit.

When Theresa May declared "Brexit means Brexit," Nicola Sturgeon's response was pithy and to the point. "Remain means Remain," she said, making an apparently all-or-nothing commitment to securing Scotland's place in the EU after the country voted decisively to stay.

DOMINIC McKay, Scottish Rugby’s chief operating officer, has warned that if Covid-19 social distancing measures mean that rugby cannot resume by the end of November, the financial impact will be considerably more than the £12m lost revenue quoted by chief executive Mark Dodson in respect to the Autumn Tests not going ahead. The organisation’s total turnover last year was £61m.

By Deborah Anderson

Scotland will not adopt the Prime Minister's new coronavirus slogan which drops the 'stay at home' message, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.

LEARNING from the problems and delays over PPE and testing will be essential to getting the vaccine strategy right, experts say.

Grief

What if the lockdown was lifted and nobody came? A lot of people seem quite happy with life under Covid, especially educated middle-class people on social media who are happily swapping Spotify playlists and recipes for sourdough bread.

The paths around Hoolet are hard trodden these days, as the village takes its daily gulp of fresh air. Along hedgerows, down tree-lined avenues, through the woods and by the stream, legions of boots have stomped, marking out time. With almost no rain for six weeks, the lanes are dusty and tracks that were made by tractors, horses and bikes in the February mud have solidified into treacherous ruts.

One size fits all? How wrong you are

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BEIJING (AP) - Yao Ming, the former Houston Rockets star and now president of the Chinese Basketball Association, says the league has three options for resuming the season that has been on hold since Feb. 1 over the coronavirus pandemic. Yao said the league might play out the full schedule; ...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci , the nation’s top infectious disease expert and member of the White House coronavirus task force, says he’s going into a “modified quarantine” after coming into contact with an administration staff member who contracted COVID-19, CNN reported Saturday . Read more...

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Teens attending TeenStreet Europe in July will raise money for a project to bring reconciliation to the ethnically divided youth of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Jesus speaks to a Roma (gypsy) man in a dream one night, which leads to the man’s salvation.

Bosnian teenagers attend TeenStreet Europe for the second time—learning more about God and His plan for their lives.

A scholarship from OM Bosnia gives a young woman from a needy family the chance to go to school.

OM worker Jael shares about believers in North West Bosnia growing in faith and learning the joy of giving.

European youth more than ever need good relationships with adults, says OM Europe’s Empowering Kids&Youth team, who focus on positively impacting Europe’s next generation.

In postmodern Finland, an international church in Helsinki preaches God’s Word as it is and challenges its congregation to ‘get into the Bible’ daily.

In an area of Tampere, Finland, seemingly shrouded in hopelessness, one teenager and her father reach out to un-churched youth struggling with alcoholism and depression.

OM strives to give 'church' a whole new meaning in the land of the Finns.

OM Europe hosts its third annual Youth Factors Conference in Pälkäne, Finland, in April, which offers participants an opportunity for reflection and self-discovery.

After years of dreaming and praying, OM Finland purchases a new vehicle to replace the old Bus4Life, opening more opportunities to reach Eastern Europe.

An Iranian refugee surprises a long-term worker by stating his desire to become a Christian.

Johanna went to TeenStreet for the first time when she was 14 years old, but the experience impacted her beyond the one-week duration of the event.

OM El Salvador sets out to redeem a rough neighbourhood.

A pastor of a small community church was about to resign when God brought new hope through the work of OM El Salvador.

The power of unity and the diversity of the body of Christ was enjoyed during an outreach in El Salvador.

With the vision to promote healthy lives, OM educates people in topics like diabetes to reduce its incidence among members of the community.

Anna Filion came to El Salvador as a nurse, but learnt that God had bigger plans for her during OM El Salvador’s Samaritan Adventure outreach.

Tony and his son Gabriel are moved by the mission-oriented heart of a local Pastor in El Salvador and decide to lend a hand.

Michelle never expected to be involved in missions, but God had other plans.

Pason lost his family when he fled Myanmar. By playing football with OM team members, he finds friendship and hope.

In a nation filled with tribal tension, OM works toward reconciliation through youth conferences, relief outreaches and a bookshop filled with Bibles.

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong

In Arctic Russia, reindeer are the Nenets' life. Living among these people, ES longs for the Nenets to know Jesus, the true source of life.

Jude, project coordinator of OM's Refugee Relief Serbia describes her busy role, and how OM’s service can be a powerful practical witness of the love of Jesus to hundreds of refugees.

Years of consistent Christ-centred community allow an OM worker to develop friendships with Pakistani women and study the Bible with them.

If God can speak to a national faith believer, and move him to cross continents to share his love for Jesus with other refugees, despite dangers and difficulties, what more might He achieve with more workers prepared to take the same risks for the gospel?

Small outreach teams will share the life-changing message of the gospel with hundreds of women in brothels and on the street this Easter.

Bahia Blanca, Argentina :: A missionary couple teaches church members about serving God as a family.