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Welcome to Monday's Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
news: The families of thousands of elderly people seek assurances | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
about their care, as Southern Cross pulls out of the care home business. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
There is certainly people with Alzheimer's and dementia, that has | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
got to be a priority because you can't destabilise them. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
In other news: a new police unit is to be set up to tackle sectariansim | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
but football fans won't be given a list of the songs and chants that | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
might get them arrested. Also ahead: is it an open quarry or | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
the Scottish Open? As we're battered again by wind and rain, | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
how're you coping with another miserable summer? | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
And whatever the weather, one man's just overcome to be back in | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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Scotland. Getting a chance to get 3,000 elderly residents of the 7th | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
cross homes are facing an uncertain future as for debt it announced it | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
was closing down. The welfare of residence Basie would be maintained | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
with minimum disruption. Organisations representing older | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
people are calling for more concrete guarantees. | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
On the way to a visit, his mother in law is in a Southern Cross home. | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
She has Alzheimer's and is vulnerable. The concerns are that | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
the patient care continues. That has got to be the priority. People | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
with the type of illnesses that my mother has, Alzheimer's and | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
dementia, that has got to be a priority because you can't | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
destabilise them. Seven cross had been in financial difficulty for | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
some time. Today, landlords that own at the police say they don't | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
want to be part of the group any more. It has heaped worry on to | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
anxious relatives and the elderly. The Scottish Government has been | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
clear and we are working closely to ensure whatever scenario and false, | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
our priority is to ensure the continuity and quality of care. -- | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
Southern Cross has 3,000 residents in its care. Souness Southern Cross | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
will go and it landlords that own the home as well take over the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
running of them or find another care company to go into partnership | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
with. They are concerns that these changes will be traumatic. If | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
everyone is talking about residents being given continuity of care. | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
What does that mean? If the personnel change or the physical | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
setting changes, that can have a distressing effects on the older | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
person concerned. For residents living in care homes, it is an | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
anxious time. Who will take over? Will it be this dame a staff -- at | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
the same staff? What we do know is the Scottish Government say no one | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
would be made homeless. A new national police unit is to be | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
established to tackle sectarianism in football matches in Scotland. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
The move was an number of measures outlined by the Joint Action Group | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
which includes his -- includes politicians, police and fans. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
Signing up to stamp out sectarianism in football. First of | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
all Celtic, followed by Rangers. Putting pen to paper on a plan | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
along with the Government, the police and those who run the game. | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
For football at the end of last season was terrible. If that was to | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
continue, it would become an and marketable product. What are the | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
recommendations? There is to be a new football policing unit are to | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
gather information, they will have to edit to a code of conduct and | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
there will be tough licensing laws that could see pubs around the | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
stadiums close down. What about offensive songs? There will be no | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
list to determine what is acceptable and no mass arrests at | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
football grounds either. We are making arrests and we will continue | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
to do that. Anyone who says you should be arresting hundreds, they | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
need to get real. That news has not gone down well with some fans | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
online. Some remain sceptical and want clarification. They want to | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
know what they can and can't sing and another wants them to define | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
what songs are right or wrong. They demand actions. Having discussed | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
the matter at length and had input from the lord advocate, it is clear | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
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it comes down to the circumstance of fact and context. Certain songs, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
certain comments, certain actions, can be unacceptable depending on | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
when they are used. A list of action points but no list of songs. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
The fight against sectarianism continues. | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
Still to come: An inquiry into the New Zealand mine disaster in which | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
to Scots died. Financial pressures may have compromised safety. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
We are live in Greenock after a successful weekend as the tall | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
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ships set sail to go. We have some golf news and find out | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
what the Hearts owner is doing on Loch Ness. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
A court has heard how a mother killed her four year-old daughter | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
in of the grounds of Raigmore hospital in Inverness. She was | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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attending the birth of her lovers baby. Nicola Calicut the courts but | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
went off with their own son and killed them. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
They were in a relationship together as well as with a manner, | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Christopher Everett, who had fathered the children of both women. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
The three meet -- the women lived in Inverness-shire. The court heard | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
that a degree of jealousy and angry developed and things came to a head | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
when Miss Childs came to a hospital here for the birth of her baby son | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
in February of this year. It was after cutting the umbilical cord on | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
the new born at Rachel Cowley walked off with her four year old | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
daughter and drowned her by holding her head under the water at the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
back of the hospital. She tried to cover up the toddler with | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
vegetation. The first offender admitted a charge of homicide. She | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
was ordered to be detained at a psychiatric hospital ahead of | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
sentencing. An inquiry into the New Zealand | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
mine disaster in which to Scots died has been told financial | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
pressures may have led to increased safety risks. -- two has got. They | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
were among those killed in a series of explosions that ripped through | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
the mind. The head of another mime company criticised the operation. - | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
- MIND macro. Looking for answers, the families | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
of those that died. We want the truth of what has happened here. We | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
don't want this swept under the carpets. If this baby, born after | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
the disaster will never know her dad. It is going to be a tough time | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
for the families. The support they can get will be good. Three | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
commissioners are investigating what happened and why. This hearing | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
examining how the mind was developed. The mine had many | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
problems. Factors that could lead to safety compromises. The boss of | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
another company appeared as an expert witness. He was critical of | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
operations at the coal mine, claiming they had not done their | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
homework. It was, from early planning stages, over-optimistic. | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
It had insufficient call seen and insufficient investigation work and | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
had not enough information to pursue at a level of risk that | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
solid in just -- the solid industry would regard as complex. Incidents | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
like this with catastrophic consequences should be able to | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
occur in modern mining. Evidence which worries Malcolm Campbell's | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
family. He was one of those killed. Financially, they had been under | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
pressure. I don't know what the outcome was that they had pressure | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
on them when the Department of Conservation made them go through | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
the mountain. It cost them a lot of excess money. There is more | :09:50. | :09:58. | |
evidence to come. An inquiry into what went wrong could take up to | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
eight months. A man serving a life sentence for | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
murdering his wife and dumping her in the cell has told a jury he | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
acted alone. Harry Jarvis denied a woman living in his garden shed was | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
his secret lover or that she was involved in hiding the body. He | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
denies helping -- she denies helping Jarvis by concealing her | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
body under the floor. Passenger traffic rose at three | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
major airports last month. Edinburgh was busy at -- busiest | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
with one million people passing through, an increase of 7%. Glasgow | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
and Aberdeen also noted rises. But growing number of roe deer | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
moving into urban areas has prompted new guidance from Scottish | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Natural Heritage. The Deer Code is aimed at protecting the animals as | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
well as reducing car accidents involving deer and preventing | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
damage to gardens and property. A woman has gone on trial accused | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
of neglecting dozens of horses at a farm in Aberdeenshire. One witness | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
said they were underweight, infested with lice and standing up | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
to their knees in mud. Colin Wight was at Banff Sheriff Court. You may | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
find some of the pictures disturbing. | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
This is footage filmed by a charity. They were called to the farm after | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
a tip-off by a concerned member of the public. One witness said they | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
were in a poor condition. One was dead. Valerie Pritchard ran the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
farm with her partner. Charges have since been dropped against him. She | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
appeared at court to face five charges of neglect in horses and | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
causing them unnecessary suffering. She admitted one charge of failing | :11:49. | :11:58. | |
to dispose of horse carcasses. This is one of the witnesses. He said be | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
30 acre field was marshy and had very little grass. There were 25 | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
horses, most were underweight, mice infected and knee-deep in mud. He | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
saw a dead ball which he estimated had been lying for today's. -- dead | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
horse. He said a yearling was it Fynn and unable to get up. It was | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
later put down by a vet. Many of the surviving animals were signed | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
over to the horse welfare charity. The manager told the court some had | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
been up to their chests trying to get out of mud. This was a group of | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
animals that were not being looked after. The case has been adjourned | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
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It's not been a great start to the summer, what with flash floods in | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
Edinburgh, landslides at the Scottish Open and festival fans | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
ankle deep in mud at T in the Park. And the latest figures show the | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
coldest June in some parts of Scotland for more than a decade. | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
Aileen Clarke has been out trying to dodge the showers. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
This morning, this family buried with her granddaughter making the | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
most a couple of hours in Glasgow. Their motto: the catch the sunshine | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
will you can. The weather is changing everywhere just now I | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
think. It's not been that good and you need to take advantage. They | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
are needing the rain down south but we certainly don't need it up here. | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
Edinburgh won't be buying gold. Flash floods their last week meant | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
summer frocks were back in the wardrobe and winter waders were on. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
It was a bit overcast that this Inverness Golf Course today, but | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
that is nothing compared to the conditions at Castle Stuart for the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Scottish Open, when suddenly there were more water features on the | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
course than intended. The best dive of the day with this. He needed a | :14:01. | :14:10. | |
kid day-by-day. To my good days and one terrible day. Golfers are used | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
to bad weather, simple as that. the Banff area, they are claiming a | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
rather sunnier, drier spell. It has been pretty good, probably about | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
nine Celsius, pretty hot. Back in Glasgow, the changeable and rainy | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
weather has caused these keen gardeners problems. It's been | :14:33. | :14:42. | |
terrible. A complete non-event, a washout. It's been really terrible. | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
It's gone on and on in the summer will be finish soon. There are a | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
few challenges on these nearby allotments. It's been bad for is | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
this year because we have not had enough sun to heat their ground up | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
and bring a lot of plants on. It kept the bumblebees away and stop | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
them from getting pollinated. gardeners and probably everybody | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
else would like for the summer is plenty of sunshine during the day | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
and then a be a bit of rain at night. | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
A woman from Perthshire has completed the first ever recorded | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
swim across the Pentland Firth. Colleen Blair swam the treacherous | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
nine mile straight of water between the Orkney island of Hoy and | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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Caithness this morning, in four hours and 41 minutes. It's not the | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
first open what a challenge he has taken on. Three years ago, she swam | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
across the Irish Sea. It's something not be done before. It's | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
been tried a few times but nobody managed it. It was a short swim but | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
that half swim and the tides are very hard. Where it not for the | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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vote crew, I would not have managed it. What are everywhere in the | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
sport tonight, and John Major haggard cheeks to start with. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
We start with Andy Murray. Scotland's World Number four may | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
have led Great Britain to Davis Cup victory this weekend in Glasgow, | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
but it was all about the tears at the Braehead Arena. An emotional | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
homecoming for Andy Murray as he secured victory over Luxembourg. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
Jonathan Sutherland reports. It's not often you see a motion | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
like this from Andy Murray. Thank you very much. I don't often get a | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
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A rare moment of vulnerability leading to rapturous applause from | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
the home crowd at a packed Braehead arena. You just witnessed Andy | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Murray leading Britain to Davis Cup victory over Luxembourg. I stayed | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
for the fair as he beat the Gilles Muller in straight sets. Will | :17:14. | :17:24. | |
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Murray be there in September? if I am that I will definitely play. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
No guarantee however that Braehead will be the arena for the September | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Davis Cup tie. Given how much playing on home soil means to Andy | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Murray, it is surely now stands a decent chance. | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Despite his best efforts at the Scottish Open at the weekend, Colin | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Montgomerie won't be teeing off at The Open on Thursday. Monty's 10- | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
under par final score at Castle Stuart was not quite enough to | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
clinch a place at Royal St George's but he is not willing to let that | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
setback get him down. Though he's missing out for the first time in | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
20 years, he says he will be back next year. It gives me more | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
incentive to get back to it next time. That is the goal, and that is | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
the objective now, do not miss another one. I am disappointed to | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
miss this one, but I will try for the next one. | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
Now, he's one of the most controversial figures in Scottish | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
football. Regularly at odds with officials and the footballing | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
authorities. But there's no doubt there's more to the Hearts owner | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Vladimir Romanov than that. The Russian-born businessman has been | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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showing he has hidden depths, a bit There's a legend in these parts | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
that there is something in the water. Drawing the adventurous and | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
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the curious in search of truth. But, that is not why he is here. For | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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them. Or them. We came here to make a record. No one has one Loch Ness | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
in a grip. Vladimir Romanov and friends made a record attempt to | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
mark the 50th anniversary of an accident on board a Russian | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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submarine. An accident in which eight crewmen died. For some of | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
them it may be like going to countries where it is warm, because | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
at the time some of them were diving in freezing water. You'll be | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
wanting to know if they made it. Yes, the dead, and a man with a | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
beard was there to congratulate Vladimir Romanov. The achievement | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
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is and being recognised by the It's all tears and his appointment | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
tonight. Wasn't the Andy Murray stuff | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
lovely? Showing his vulnerability. The Tall Ship's visit to Greenock | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
on the Clyde is drawing to a close this evening. Over the weekend tens | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
of thousands of people visited the event which is expected to give a | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
substantial boost to the local economy. Our reporter Kevin Keane | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
is on one of the ships in Greenock tonight. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
For the last three days, all of those people have been steaming | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
here on to the James Watt dock and on to the ships, to see their | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
shirts on the inside for themselves. I'll take you on board this one. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
This is the Lord Nelson and this is the bridge where it is operated | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
from. It is specifically designed for people with disabilities, so | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
this chair moved out of the way so wheelchairs can be direct -- | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
position directly in front of the ship's wheel. You can see the sales | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
there, and their design so they can be operated almost remotely from | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
the law Becks. That avoids people having to climb the rigging in a | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
traditional style. Inside here, this is the charge room, where the | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
decisions are made, and the roots plotted. This has been a success | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
for Inverclyde. It was the wind which brought the | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
ships in, and this son which brought the people out. Out they | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
came, to see not just the dozens of vessels, but the regeneration which | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
has come with it. The whole area is being developed. There is a new | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
road here, and we are standing on what will be a new marina here, the | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
James Watt Mirena. We can bring in at yachts, motor cruisers and so on, | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
and there is an incentive to start your journey on the Clyde. | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
musicians kept the crowds Cleese -- pleased. It is estimated his bed �8 | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
million and the local economy. The regeneration has cost �180 million. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
It is hoped these visitors will leave with a better impression of | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
this area. Most of the people who come here are not from Inverclyde. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
There from elsewhere. Buses, trains and cars are busy coming from | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
Glasgow to have a look here. We hope they will go back with warm | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
feelings and will talk to others in all and say that things are | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
happening down there in Inverclyde. That is certainly the impression | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
many visitors had. It certainly looks a lot better, more appealing | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
to the eye where before it was just derelict buildings. I think it will | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
bring a lot more to his son. The Commonwealth Games in 2012 hours or | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
than the pub for Glasgow, but it is now open to the outer stretches of | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
Greenock is well. When the ship score, the regeneration work or | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
continue. 12 years after the Tall Ship's last visit, this time it is | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
hoped it will leave a legacy. Tomorrow lunchtime, all of the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
ships will leave the Dhokia and head down the Clyde. They will be | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
joined by the Red Arrows, and they will be on board one of them, | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
turning into a salty seadog myself. You can see how I got on later in | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
the week. Just a quick reminder that our | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
money expert Fergus Muirhead will be with us on Wednesday, when he'll | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
be talking about consumer queries and any problems you may be having | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
with poor service or goods that don't work. The address you need to | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
send your questions is [email protected]. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
I don't know what he can do about I don't know what he can do about | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
the weather will. We had a more their lair, so no pressure on you. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
There is some dire weather on the way. However, there is some heavy | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
showers to get past before that. This evening will see some fairly | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
heavy showers around the western part of the central belt. There is | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
a warning in place around 8pm, so be aware of surface flooding. A dry | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
night ahead for much of the country. We will see some clear spells | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
developing, perhaps the mist patches towards dawn. A chilly | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
night, chillier than the last unite, with temperatures dipping to around | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
eight Celsius. Some cooler spots in the central Highlands, down to | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
seven Celsius. Tomorrow will see a fine and dry Saturday with sunny | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
spells, so that is good news. Showers will develop through the | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
day, but these will be much lighter and patchier than we had today and | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
certainly of the weekend. The best of those highs in the south-west, | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
around 19 Celsius. A little bit cooler towards the east and the | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
north, but anywhere in the sunshine we may see highs around 19 Celsius. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Into tomorrow evening, a largely spine end to the day and those | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
showers will die out overnight. Another by night. Looking at the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
pressure chaffer Wednesday, we had high pressure building which will | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
bring in drier and more settled weather across the country. | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
Hopefully if they are made of sunshine to. Wednesday hope were | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
the best day of the week. Temperatures again around 17 | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
Celsius. Highs in the west of 19 Celsius. Into Thursday, high | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
pressure still in charge, with Di and settled weather. This front or | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
push into the country on the second part of Thursday bringing some rain. | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
For the most part, I died a particularly in the east. That's | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
particularly in the east. That's all for now. | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
Just time for a summary of tonight's top stories: | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
The News of the World phone-hacking scandal has widened with | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
allegations that the Royal family, and the former Prime Minister | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Gordon Brown, were targeted. The revelations added to the pressure | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
on the Government to intervene in Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
satellite broadcaster, BSkyB. This afternoon, ministers referred it to | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
the Competition Commission. More than 3,000 elderly residents | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
of the Southern Cross care homes in Scotland are facing an uncertain | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
future after the company announced it was closing down. The Health | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
Secretary Nicola Sturgeon says the welfare of residents will be | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
maintained with minimum disruption, but relatives and organisations | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
representing elderly people have called for more concrete guarantees. | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
The UK charity appeal to help people suffering from the severe | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
drought in East Africa has raised �9 million in the last 48 hours. | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
The UN says it's a 'humanitarian emergency' and is urging Kenya to | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
open up a refugee camp completed last year but never used. The | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
Kenyan government fears the facilities might discourage | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
refugees from returning home. A new national police unit is to be | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
established to tackle sectarianism at football matches in Scotland. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
The move was one of a number of measures outlined by the joint | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
action group which includes politicians, police and | :27:21. | :27:27. |