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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news: | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
�36,000 - the cost of a degree for students coming to Scottish | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
universities from the rest of the UK. I think it is slightly unfair | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
because Scotland students seem to get away with quite a lot. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Later in the programme: Getting rid of waste - a warning to | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
public bodies they could be overwhelmed by demand if urgent | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
action is not taken. Also tonight, we look at how the | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
island of Eigg cracked the problem of people leaving. | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Her physical record of a proud military history, the military of | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Scotland prepares to receive its new colours. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Students coming to Scotland from the rest of the UK face paying up | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
to �36,000 for their degrees. The Scottish government is planning to | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
allow universities to charge up to �9,000 a year for fees - that's the | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
same level as in England and Wales. Since degrees are generally a year | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
longer here, it means some students may end up paying more than if they | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
stayed in their home countries. Here's our education correspondent | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
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All smiles, graduation at Edinburgh University. But the gap between | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Scottish students and those from the rest of the UK has just got | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
wider. Slightly unfair because I think Scottish students get away | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
with quite a lot. We have Scottish students in our flat so it is a | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
source of tension at times. I guess that is the difference between | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
having a parliament up here and a parliament down there. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
education secretary has a black hole to fill in funding because got | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
stoned pay. Scotland made it clear decision at the election that we | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
would not charge students fees. Regrettably we have to charge fees | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
for students from elsewhere and I am allowing universities to set the | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
level themselves because they want to make sure they're competing | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
effectively. The breakdown across borders. England, over �3,000. | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
About to go up to �9,000. Scotland, no fees for Scots, but �1,800 for | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
those from the rest of the UK, soon to rise to �9,000. For Scottish | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
universities, it is welcome news. The Scottish government is doing | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
exactly the right thing. We have been saying urgent action is needed | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
to make sure Scotland doesn't become... We are still able to | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
welcome people from across the UK, but that we protect the number of | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
places available for Scottish students. But from student leaders, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
a different response. It is something of a double standard, | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
with real increases possibly up to a level of �36,000 for students | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
coming from the rest of the UK. We are particularly worried about the | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
introduction of a market for students coming from the rest of | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
the UK. That will price some students out of coming to Scotland. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
Many will be seeking assurances that getting a Scottish degree will | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
not deter applications from talented youngsters from less well- | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
off homes south of the border. There is also a risk of increasing | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
resentment that Scots continued to pay no charges while others face | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
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higher charges whichever way they Nat Fraser's lawyer's has told | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
judges he could not get a fair trial because of remarks made by | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
Alex Salmond. He is to be retried for the murder of his wife Eileen | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
after the UK Supreme Court in London has said his original | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
conviction should be overturned, but his legal team says comments | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
made by Mr Salmond made it look like he was guilty. BBC Scotland | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
has been able to report this matter until now because of reporting | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
restrictions. Tonight a spokesman said Mr Salmond had made no, what's | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
the weather on the merits of Nat Fraser's case. -- whatsoever. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Public bodies in Scotland need to work together and eliminate waste, | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
according to a report for the Scottish government. Otherwise, it | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
says, rising demand will "overwhelm" the system. The | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Christie Commission says the focus should be on earlier prevention of | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
problems to avoid huge costs further down the line. Our | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
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political editor Brian Taylor has This is the report. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Anyone seeking a basic blueprint for public services will be | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
disappointed. Today's report has little to say on structures and | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
nothing to say on job numbers. Those weren't part of its remit. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Instead, they ask HOW services might be delivered more effectively. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
They want public bodies to end overlap. So they want to transfer | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
the Jobcentre Plus network to Holyrood control. They'd make | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
public funding dependent on public funding dependent on | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
integrating services. And their big idea? A new emphasis on early | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
prevention. That means early help for people so that big problems | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
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don't develop later, landing the At play, youngsters being helped by | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
the Glasgow regeneration agency. They are all deadly serious about | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
the problems faced in finding jobs. I have been looking online for a | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
lot of different jobs. So far I have filled out a lot of | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
applications, but nobody has got back to me yet. I did a painting | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
and decorating course and I have tried to get a job. Today's report | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
says money spent giving youngsters a decent start saves much more | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
later in social care and prison. Unfortunately a few of the clients | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
we deal with have already been on the wrong side of the law. There | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
should be some kind of structure for them to come to us directly | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
from school and that would make a difference. Integrated services can | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
help keep old folk out of hospital, the most costly option. But can we | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
afford the start-up costs? We can't afford not to. We need to do it | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
because if we don't, the demand in public services, with the | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
increasing number of elderly, and not addressing problems we know | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
exist in young people, we will overwhelm public services. It has | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
to be done. But will it be done? There's widespread, if tentative, | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
backing for today's report, but there's exasperation too that | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
Scotland is still engaged in analysis rather than action. It is | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
essential that these cuts are looked at seriously and immediately. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
There was a real problem during the election campaign in May when | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
nobody talked about what cuts they would bring in. That was hit in the | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Sound Stuff. We have to undertake this programme right now. -- head | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
in the sand stuff. Now it's over to ministers. With the Christie Report | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
delivered, the Scottish government has set up a working group to | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
implement change. And it held its first meeting today. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Around 30,000 public sector workers in Scotland are expected to go on | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
strike tomorrow over planned changes to their pensions. They're | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
angry at proposals which they say would mean working longer and | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
paying more. Travellers have been warned that they may face some | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
delays at airports as immigration and customs officers walk out. Our | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
reporter Gavin Walker is at Edinburgh airport. What impact will | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
the walkout have? The strike itself hasn't started, but the good news | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
for passengers hoping to travel out of Scotland internationally | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
tomorrow is that the two main international airport, Edinburgh | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
and Glasgow, say they are already under way in their efforts to | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
offset the impact. Customs and immigration agency staff have been | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
replaced by temporary staff and it is hoped that while there may be a | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
delay in processing people arriving and therefore people going out, | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
British airports Authority, which operates Edinburgh and Glasgow | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
airports, say they expect minor disruption and no cancellations. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Who else will be on strike tomorrow and what kind of effect might we | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
expect from that? There are 30,000 members of the Public and | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Commercial Services Union in Scotland that work in a whole range | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
of things, airports, courts, ports, government buildings, visitor | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
attractions and so on. Tomorrow morning there will be pickets at | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
many of these from Edinburgh Castle to the Scottish Parliament. The | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
government there has mixed its messages about whether it is in | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
favour or not. Generally it says it understands and sympathises, as | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
does the Labour Party in Scotland, but the Scottish Labour Party today | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
said that while it understands and respects the right to do so, it | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
expects its own members to cross the picket line to be in parliament | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
tomorrow. Thank you. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
from the BBC. Still to come before 7pm: | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
The Inverclyde by-election enters the last few hours of campaigning | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
by the competing parties. And picture this - marking the 80th | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
birthday of one of the country's In sport, we'll be live at | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Wimbledon where Andy Murray is playing for a place in the last | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
four of the men's singles. We'll have the very latest from his match | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
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against Feliciano Lopez on Centre We've already reported this week on | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
the struggle to keep people on our small isles, but in sharp contrast | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
to its neighbouring islands, population levels on Eigg are on | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
the up. Ownership is a key factor and since life on the island was | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
transformed by a community buy-out, Eigg is welcoming a steady influx | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
of young folk. Jackie O'Brien Since it was bought by the | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
community 14 years ago, Eigg's self-sufficiency has become a | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
tourist attraction in itself. Scores of visitors come and go each | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
day, but more people are also choosing to live here as life on | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
the island becomes more viable. Cycle hire and crofting were not | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
part of Sussex graduate Jamie's original life plan. But they are | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
now after falling in love with an islander and her homeland. It suits | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
me so well, I absolutely love it. The way of life -- way of life, | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
slower than mainland time. Eigg powers itself and its green | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
electricity scheme is seen as a main source of the community's new | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
vibrancy. I was burning a barrel of diesel a month, which cost me �150, | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
along with the handling, and that was for five hours electricity | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
today. Now I have 24 hours electricity a day and it is �30 a | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
month. Since the community buy-out there has been a 25% increase in | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the population here, with around 20 of the 90 residents on Eigg under | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
the age of 30. Housing is a big issue. If they are going to invest | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
in a place and stay a long time, they need security. That is | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
something we have started addressing, we have been releasing | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
house plots which have been taken up by several young folk who have | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
bought houses here. What most of these young inhabitants will leave | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
for further education, another generation of children is returning | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
home to Eigg. Joanne was born here and has been lured back by the New | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Age range of residents. -- Joe. is like a catalyst of more and more | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
young people being here. You make a connection with a few people and | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
then, yeah, it is a domino effect and more and more people will come | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
back. They will realise it is OK to live in the middle of nowhere! | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
the day trippers leave, they will pass neighbour will -- neighbouring | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
islands struggling to stem the depopulation, but for now Eigg's | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
young folk are staying put. Voters in Inverclyde head to the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
polls tomorrow to elect a successor to the Labour MP David Cairns, who | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
died in May. The four main parties - Labour, the SNP, the Lib Dems and | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Tories - are each contesting the seat, and UKIP has also fielded a | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
candidate. Our political correspondent Raymond Buchanan | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
reports on the final hours of campaigning. | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
The you are watching a little piece of history being made. This ferry | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
service ends today. It is a sign of changing times, but other things | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
are becoming familiar. Alex Salmond has now been the constituency five | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
times, he says the party are getting a good reception from | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
locals, ever confident he is betting on winning another seat | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
from Labour. I think this is earthquake proportions if we win | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
this seat. This is one of the very few seats we did not win from the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Labour Party in last month's elections, albeit by only 500 votes. | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
The political impact of SNP victory here would be sued. Labour have | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
sought to reinforce their vote by bringing in Lord Prescott. I came | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
here on the Queen Elizabeth. former Deputy Prime Minister was | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
once a ship's steward. Today he was in Ferguson's shipyard hoping to | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
sink Alex Salmond's hopes. He did not win the last by-election we had | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
here. He went prancing around saying we're going to win. He is | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
doing it again, he is a street fighter, but the people give the | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
answer. Do they want the national government to be Labour or Tory? | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
The last time this seed was concerted -- contested the Tories | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
came fourth, but they hope they because on jobs and staying in the | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
UK will lead to a different outcome. That is a positive message we have | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
been delivering and I think people like getting a bit weary of a | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
constant bicker between the SNP and Labour. That is negative and | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
distracting. The Lib Dems have had a low-key campaign, little wonder. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
They were humiliated a month ago. am confident we will do well and we | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
will get up a good vote from the people we have spoken to over the | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
last three weeks. Does well mean win? I would be very, very pleased | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
if we won. What Inverclyde tells us politically we will find out after | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
polls closed tomorrow, but there has already been a clear message | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
from people here and that is they expect their politicians to start | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
delivering and in communities like this, that means creating jobs and | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
quickly. And here is a full list of all of | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
those standing in the Inverclyde by-election. You can also see the | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
result live in a specially extended edition of Newsnight Scotland | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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Some of the other stories. Services on the Glasgow subway were | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
disrupted after a man was killed at Gubden station. The incident | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
happened just after 9am. British Transport Police are not treating | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
it as suspicious. Services are now back to normal. | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
A schoolboy and a man have played guilty to killing Nattalie Muir | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
during a gang attack in West Lothian. The 15-year-old and George | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
Stewart admitted culpable homicide. Emma Merrilees has already admitted | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
stabbing a Nattalie Muir to death. They will be sentenced later. | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
Representatives of the six big power companies have said they want | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
to work with the Scottish government to eradicate fuel | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
poverty in Scotland. Companies have been giving evidence to the Economy | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
Committee. Scottish Power announced steep rises in the cost of gas and | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
electricity, which they claim is the result of a hike in wholesale | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
prices. This weekend, thousands of serving | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
and former soldiers will gather in Edinburgh for a unique event. The | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Queen will present the Royal Regiment of Scotland with newcomers. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Regimental flags carried on parade in special at -- on special | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
occasions. Two sets of tassels at the front. | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
In every stitch, hundreds of years of proud and passionate military | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
history. Even today, every detail means so much to every soldier on | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
parade. The regimental colours are the rallying point for each | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
battalion. They encapsulate the history of the regiment in terms of | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
what has been achieved down the centuries by those who came before | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
us. They may just look like rags on poles, but to soldiers who served | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
behind them, they are a rallying point. They are treated with due | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
deference. We take them whenever we are the poet. -- deployed. To there | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
is only one in Vinci Regiment in Scotland now. The colours have | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
encapsulated colours from them all. We carry more than 2500 years of | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
accumulated history, tradition and reputation, and I am sure that we | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
have got a good embodiment of that extraordinary history. You cannot | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
rehearse this kind of thing too much. The Queen will present the | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
regiment with their newcomers here at Holyrood Park on Saturday. One | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
battalion will be missing, they are serving in Afghanistan, but this | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
will be raised huge day for the Army in Scotland. For the first | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
time ever, soldiers from six battalions will be on parade. That | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
is unlikely to happen for many years. | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
Big news at Wimbledon. Yes, our timing is perfect. It is | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
better to be lucky than good! Andy Murray has been playing for a place | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
in the quarter-finals, sorry, the semi-finals. He was playing | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
Feliciano Lopez. It is a fine evening here in | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Wimbledon. Another fine performance from Andy Murray on Centre Court. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
He is celebrating an excellent victory over Feliciano Lopez in | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
straight sets, a really impressive performance, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. He did | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
not put a foot wrong at all. When you think of what was at stake, a | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
very good performance indeed. No wonder he is milking the applause | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
on Centre Court, because we already had a surprise, Roger Federer went | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
out of the tournament, having been two sets up. Rafael Nadal is still | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
plagued, he is winning. Andy Murray has done superbly well to get | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
through in straight sets. The way things look, with Rafael Nadal | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
leading, it will be Andy Murray against Rafael Nadal, and in the | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
other semi-final, Novak Djokovic against Joe will Fritz longer. | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
Rangers are preparing an offer of �1 million for Lee Wallace. Last | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
week Rangers had a bid at �300,000 turned down. Rangers have been in | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
fresh contact with Hearts. Wallace is in the final year of his | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
contract. Breaking news. Dundee United have | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
rejected a bid by Rangers for David Goodwillie. | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
We have more transfer news. Aberdeen have signed Chris Clark | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
for the second time. He left for the English club Plymouth three | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
years ago, but he is back, and he is modelling the new home strip. He | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
had offers from other clubs but he is thrilled to return to Aberdeen, | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
where his career began. When I sat down and considered | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
everything, I am from this area, I have always supported Aberdeen, I | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
had a fantastic time before, it all adds up. I am really looking | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
forward to what is ahead. The moment we have all been waiting | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
for, what is the First Minister about to reveal? Place your bets. I | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
will keep you waiting for a few more seconds. It is the new | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Scottish Open golf trophy. Some of the world's best golfers, including | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Lee Westwood and Luke Donald, will compete for it next week. The | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
course is also new. The event is being held at Castle Stuart for the | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
first time. He I have not been there yet, but | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
everybody says it is magnificent. A wonderful setting up. We are being | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
rewarded, because advance ticket sales are excellent, much higher | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
than expected. We have got a good field. It is an exciting new | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
development. One of our best-known and most | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
prolific artists has been celebrated in the exhibition to | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
mark the 80th birthday. Six decades of work by Elizabeth Blackadder | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
will go on show from Saturday at the National Galleries of Scotland. | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
Despite several awards, 18 Hurd and an appointment with the Queen, she | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
remains modest about her achievements. | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
We have been compiling a report about her, but we do not have it | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
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just yet. Is it there? I fear it is not. But Christopher is getting | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
himself ready for the weather. He has warned us that we are not to | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
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get too excited, but there is good Today, a fairly cloudy day across | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
many parts of the country, and showers around. A dappled seen. As | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
we go up to what this evening, the cloud will thin and break. The | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
showers will ease. From 7pm, we can see what is going on more precisely. | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Late sunshine for many of us. The showers melt away, leaving a dry | :23:56. | :24:06. | |
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night for most of us. One or two Tomorrow, a day of sunshine and | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
showers. Towards lunchtime and the afternoon, the temperatures rise, | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
triggering more showers. By mid- afternoon, across the south-west, | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
parts of Dumfries and Galloway, Strathclyde, some sunshine. A lot | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
of the showers are concentrated along the east coast. Some of them | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
will be heavy. The rest of the afternoon tomorrow and into the | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
evening, the showers melt away. Late sunshine for some of us. This | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
is the good news, high pressure is back. This will bring a settled and | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
bright conditions for Friday. The high pressure has squeezed out the | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
showers, and there will be sunshine on the cards. It will feel quite | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
pleasant indeed. Towards the weekend, for Saturday, more of the | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
same. Good spells of sunshine. It will feel quite pleasant. The | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
Sunday, the same again. Can you believe it?! A pleasant weekend on | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
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the cards. Tomorrow, sunshine and We can now bring you the report on | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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the exhibition to mark the 80th A rare moment in the limelight for | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
an artist two prefers to let her pictures do the talking. Today she | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
returned to the galleries where her career began in the 1950s, from | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
personal portraits to landscapes and drawings. Much of the | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
exhibition has not been seen in public for decades. It is amazing. | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Some of them I have not seen for a very long time. Gathering of this | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
diverse work has been a huge challenge. Work has been snapped up | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
and tracking it down has not been easy. Some of the paintings have | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
not been exhibited for 20, 30, 40 years. One painting in particular | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
that I was looking for, it was in a house, I did not know it was there, | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
I went to see another painting that I knew the owner had, and I saw one | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
of the paintings that I had not been able to find. Her eye for | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
detail, especially in her flowers, is famous, but fame has so far | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
eluded her. Maybe it is because she is a woman, maybe it is because she | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
is Scottish, maybe it is because of the apparently easy charm of a lot | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
of her work, plants, flowers, cats, interiors. But it would be a | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
mistake to write off her work as purely decorative or purely about | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
pleasure, because she has tackled some of the key issues of modern | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
art. She has won a string of awards, a royal appointment included. She | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
was the first woman in that job. The first woman to be elected to | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
the Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy. But I do not | :27:26. | :27:35. | |
think about that. No. I am just thinking of the next painting. | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
now, in her 80th year, painting remains her passion, and something | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
she does every day. Just before 7pm, a summary of the | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
top stories. Students coming to Scotland from | :27:50. | :28:00. | |
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the rest of the UK face paint up to �6,000 for their degrees. -- paying | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
up to �6,000. Travellers have been warned to | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
expect delays at UK ports and airports tomorrow as thousands of | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
immigration and customs officers prepare to join the public sector | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
strike. Some staff are already on strike this evening. Already around | :28:20. | :28:23. |