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Good evening. Tonight: the unexpected text. 30,000 school | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
pupils are send their exam results at the early by mistake. Some | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
people are quite upset by it the exam results because they got bad | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
results that they were expecting to get tomorrow. Quite a lot of them | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
are upset by that. The exam a polity lot is an enquiry but says | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
no one will benefit from the error. Also on the programme: �20,000 to | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
donate your kidney? A controversial proposal. In Scotland, it is summer, | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
so it must be raining. Our presenter has been finding out why. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
The Batman live stage show comes to Glasgow. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
An enquiry is under way as to why thousands of school pupils received | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
their exam results at the early. Almost 30,000 pupils receive their | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
grades by text around 30 Arrows -- 24 hours before they were due to be | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
sent. The Scottish qualifications Authority insists the results are | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
correct and that no one will benefit from getting them early, | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
but teachers say this has caused distress for some pupils. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
The exam board has been found wanting. One in five Scottish | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
candidates has received results one day early, out of the blue. Some | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
people are quite upset by the exam results because they got a bad | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
results, they were expecting to get them tomorrow, and a lot of people | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
found out they have not got the university. At lunchtime, up texts | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
suddenly appeared on mobile phones. Some candidates to give in their | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
stride, others were unprepared, upset. Quite clearly it should not | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
have happened. They should have made sure that the contractor was | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
doing this at the right moment. That being said, I fully recognise | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
the issue now is making sure those young people get the support that | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
would have been in place at a and that tomorrow morning. -- A A M | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
tomorrow morning. This is the number of the helpline recommended | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
by the Scottish Government. To add to the confusion, the Scottish | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
qualifications Authority is running a helpline of its own. Today's | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
events have echoes of the year 2000, when thousands received results | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
that were incomplete, late or wrong. Today, calls from schools and | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
ministers for the Scottish qualifications Authority to provide | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
answers. The texts were sent out early, and we are working with the | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
contractor to find out why it happened. We take this issue very | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
seriously. Because this is a time of great stress for the students | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
and parents, and something we deeply regret. Since the fiasco 11 | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
years ago, and a small episode seven years ago, the organisation | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
has tried to establish a reputation for reliability. This generates | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
uncertainty and stressed that candidates do not need. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Anyone looking for help or advice about their exam results can | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
contact the Skills Development Scotland helpline. | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
How much is a human kidney worth? Around �28,000 according to a | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Dundee academic. Sue Rabbitt Roff has suggested allowing people to | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
sell their kidneys. Students might choose to donate one and receive | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
the money to pay off debt. She says it would increase the number of | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
donor organs available, but is it a good idea? Today, three people will | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
die because they cannot get a kidney transplant. One academic | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
says it is time to rethink organ donation, and people to donate | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
kidneys. We need ask the British public, not the doctors or the | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
charities, but the British public, about whether they would entertain | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the possibility of doing it for a reasonable sum. We decided to ask | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
the public, in particular students, who, at Sue Rabbitt Roff suggests, | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
might pay off their debts. �28,000 is the amount suggested. Not really, | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
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I do not think so. �28,000, it is a difficult decision. I would | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
consider it, but such major implications on your own health. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
telling a kidney? It sounds a bit ridiculous. Why would you want to | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
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do that? You would make a lot of money. Even that is not worth it. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
This restaurant owner is desperate for a kidney. As someone of Asian | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
origin. -- of Asian origin, it is difficult to find a match. He | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
thinks an opt-out solution would be a better and cheaper solution. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
think it is the wrong idea, they should look at other countries like | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Spain, where you are automatically a donor unless you're out. That | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
makes sense in my opinion. As soon as you make money for organs, -- or | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
for money, you tend to people to lie about their state of health. | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
For that reason it is unlikely it will ever be allowed. A 21-year-old | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
man from Glasgow has drowned while on holiday in Ibiza. Harry Besford | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
is believed to have been pulled unconscious from a hotel swimming | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
pool in the resorts of San Antonio. The still to come on the programme | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
before 7pm: we look to the 15-year- old on the brink of being snapped | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
up by a Formula One team. In other sport, the latest on Rangers's | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
attempt to qualify for the Champions League. What does the new | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Hearts manager make of the fury over the sacking of his | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
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predecessor? Find out later. Drugs with a street value of �33 | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
million have been seized in the past year by that Holidays 4 UK -- | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
by the Scottish Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency. They have also | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
recovered a record amount of hard cash, Our Home Affairs | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
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Correspondent is here to explain. - we are used to huge figures from | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
the Scottish Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency. The estimated | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
street value of the drugs from last street value of the drugs from last | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
year was �33 million, and the agency has taken war over �1 | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
million in hard cash from criminals. They say this is the most important | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
figure. 59 crime groups have been figure. 59 crime groups have been | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
disrupted. This is how the police have traditionally illustrated | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
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their success against drug dealers. This is the high profile face of | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
police attempts to drive dealers off the streets and out of the | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
communities they are blighting. Things are changing, with Scottish | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency targeting the wider activities of | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
drug gangs. This man was jailed for 12 years last March, he had been | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
organising the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia. Members of his gang | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
were arrested in the Dominican Republic and received terms | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
totalling 20 years. Two suppliers were also arrested. The director- | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
general says this is the new pattern of operations, disrupting | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
the activities of the gangs that caused these crimes. It is | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
intelligence that is leading it, and the lesson we have learned is | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
follow the money. In organised crime terms, if you follow the | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
money, you will have more success than kicking on doors. While the | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
seizures remain important, the agency is stepping up opportunities. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
The agency says it is having some success in preventing drugs from | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
reaching Scotland's streets. Purity levels of heroin or around 67 -- | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
levels of heroin or around 67 -- around seven %, compared to 13 % | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
years ago. Cocaine purity is also down. The Scottish Crime and Drugs | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Enforcement Agency says this is because supplies are being | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
interrupted by the police, but also because they are preventing | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
criminal gangs from retaining the criminal gangs from retaining the | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
cash they need to reinvest in new suppliers. Have you ever got a poor | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
deal from door-to-door salesman? To prevent this, cold-calling control | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
zones are being set up around the country. How effective are they? | :10:16. | :10:25. | |
Our correspondent has visited the latest sown. -- the latest area. An | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
unexpected house call from strangers, but they are not trying | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
to sell anything. They are highlighting Scotland's latest | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
cold-calling control zone. It is a move to tackle a problem residents | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
are all too aware of. Of late it has not has been electric companies, | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
charities, they want direct debit, that puts you under pressure, | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
because you feel guilty about saying no, we do not really have | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
problems with people selling wares, it is more companies offering | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
contract, wanting you to sign. Ultimately, it is for the people | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
who live here to make the most of this zone. The overall aim is | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
consumer empowerment. Residents get an information pack, spelling out | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
their right. Signs and stickers that say that cold-calling is not | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
welcome, and patrols that keep an eye out. It is important that | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
consumers know someone is keeping an eye out that will support them | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
if they feel they are in a position to be ripped off. It is | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
particularly for elderly people who stay on their own. Do these areas | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
of work? Energy companies say they will observe them. What about other | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
unwanted salesman? We have done consultations on the previous | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
owners and householders definitely receive a significant decrease. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
These areas can certainly offer consumers reassurance, but one test | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
is whether they be the crackdown on conmen or send an somewhere else. | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
Some of the other stories across Scotland: a travel firm which flies | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
from Glasgow and Edinburgh airport has collapsed. Arrangements have | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
been made to try to repatriate 12,000 holidaymakers in Turkey who | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
used Holidays 4 UK. Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne says whoever | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
threatened his daughter on the internet is a coward. He offered | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
�30,000 for information following threats sent by e-mail. They | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
demanded �35,000 in return for his safety. A Second World War mine | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
found this year only eight feet from the 40s oil pipeline 25 miles | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
east of Peter Head has been moved to safety. BP says it is awaiting | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
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It's Scotland, it's summer, so the likelihood is it's raining, though | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
perhaps not today. Recently it has felt like our summers only feature | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
a few days of sun and are increasingly wet, cold and cloudy. | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
If that is the case, why? Our weather presenter Stav Danaos has | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
been looking for some answers ahead of the Great British Weather | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
programme, which tonight comes from Stirling. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
I am here in sterling. Behind the you can see the preparations for | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
the Great British Weather show going on. It is a lovely, sunny day | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
today, but over the last few months, has it been that great? | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
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Edinburgh. Perth. Inverness. Glasgow. Let's face it, the summer | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
of 2011 has not been a great one. And, we may have felt cheated out | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
of a summer for some time. In fact, the last time we had what would be | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
described as a good summer with a long, hot spells, was back in 2006. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
How do you think this summer has been so far this year? This summer | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
has been absolutely dreadful, apart from the last three or four days. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
This summer I don't think we have had a summer so far. It is | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
debatable. It has been quite sunny Sundays and other days have been | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
really bad. You want to go out every day and enjoy summer, but you | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
can't always. Apart from the last few days it has been rubbish. | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Looking at the statistics, June and July this year have been pretty | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
disappointing. Rain has been above average, and sunshine and | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
temperatures have been below average across the country. But | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
mostly fits the pattern of the previous few years, although | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
temperatures have gone up slightly. If you look at summers over a | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
longer period of time, it is actually an improvement. Rainfall | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
has dramatically decreased. Sunshine is around the same, and | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
temperatures are up slightly. So, what is the explanation for this | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
year been so wet? In an ideal summer, this is what happens. We | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
would have regular high pressure over Scandinavia, bringing in walk, | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
-- bringing in warm, dry air from the Continent. Instead, we have | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
seen more high pressure in the North Atlantic, which has produced | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
cooler, wetter air across Scotland. Weather forecasters call it natural | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
climatic variation. Others may call it simply disappointing. The answer | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
is, some as in Scotland are not always warm, dry and sunny. | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
Sometimes we get good ones, sometimes we don't. But, when the | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
sunshine does come out, let's just go out there and enjoy it. | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
Well, it has been a glorious day here today. I will be back later | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
with a full forecast to tell you if this sunshine is going to continue. | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
At 7:30pm you can see the Great British Weather show on BBC One | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
Scotland, live here at Stirling Castle. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
It's not often a fisherman is happy about the one that got away, but an | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
angler who caught an osprey on his fishing line has been praised for | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
saving its life. Alistair Scott managed to cut the osprey free, | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
wrap it in a woolly jacket and keep it in the porch of his tent by the | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
fire until it had recovered. The RSPB manager at Loch Insh Marshes | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
at Kincraig said Mr Scott had done exactly the right thing in saving | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
what's believed to be the male of the reserve's only breeding pair. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
He can handle a car at more than a 16mph, but he's too young to | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
legally drive, at a very much slower speed, on public roads. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Now 15-year-old Gregor Ramsay from East Kilbride is on the brink of | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
being snapped up by one of the world's most prestigious Formula | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
One teams. Suzanne Allan went to meet him. | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
A scale, speed, determination -- skill. Attributes needed to make it | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
to the top. Gregor Ramsay is only 15. In two months' time, he could | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
be a Ferrari driver and on the road to Formula One. You're only 30 mm | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
of the ground, going at speeds of 80 mph, so it is very exciting. | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Racing karts since the age of 10, last week Gregor was on trial at | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
the Ferrari Academy in Italy. It is a rare thing to be an Academy | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
driver - there are only five others in the world. But it comes at a | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
cost. Gregor dry-ice nearly daily, so weekends for the family are | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
spent trackside. Blood, sweat and tears. A lot of travelling. A lot | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
of time, and a lot of pressure on the family. But, if he is in the | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
top five and he does well, you have got to keep going. David Coltart | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
and Colin McRae have all trained at this track. How does he compare to | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
the greats? Recently it is only Lewis Hamilton who has been picked | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
up by a Formula One team at a young age. Athletes have a shelf-life, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
and ultimately will retire. You have got to be looking through the | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
ranks to see where your next star player will come from. He is too | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
young to even hold a licence, but no space he is driving at over 165 | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
mph. If the Ferrari deal comes off, and it looks likely that it will, | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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he could be Scotland's answer took Lewis Hamilton. | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
Rangers are playing Malmo in the third round of the qualifying Lee. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
They are 1-0 down in the first leg, so Ally McCoist's team must win | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
today to have any chance of reaching the final qualifying round. | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
So far it looks good, even though Rangers are down to 10 men. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Whitaker was shown the red card. Five minutes after that, it got a | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
whole lot better for the Scottish champions. This O'Rourke -- this | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
glorious goal means that at half- time Rangers are one up on the | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
night and now the tide is delicately poised at one apiece on | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
aggregate. You can listen to the rest of the match alive on BBC | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
Radio Scotland. Afterwards there is a chance to express your views on | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
that match. No doubt Hearts fans will have | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
plenty to say about the appointment of Paulo Sergio as the club's new | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
manager. He has had his say today, promising gradual change. He | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
praised his sacked predecessor Jim Jefferies as a great man. He says | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
his only ambition at the moment is beating the Hungarian side in the | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
Europa League qualifier tomorrow. Another day and another new manager | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
steps into the time Castle hot seat. Paulo Sergio, the latest recruit, | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
and he says he can understand why the fans and players were unhappy | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
about a change of management. glad that they aren't satisfied | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
with the change. That is a sign of their character. They expect a lot | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
from the team, as I do. The Hearts manager was not in the media | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
conference today, but he did release a statement on website, | :21:16. | :21:26. | |
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And, Sergio says that if he is shown the door then he would have | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
no problems in moving on. The board, the guys who have the power to make | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
those kind of decisions, if they aren't satisfied with my job, I | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
will be cut my bag and go. first task for the new manager is | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
to get parts through the play-off round of the Europa League tomorrow | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
night. The man chosen to captain Scotland | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
in their first rugby warm-up match has been talking up his credentials | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
to lead the side. Rory Lawson brief is the skipper the Scots to a win | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
over the world champions South Africa, and then as a "talking up", | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
it is actually his careful choice of words that sets him apart. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
would like to think that I am relatively concise in what I say, | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
and just try to get my point across. I don't speak for the sake of | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
speaking. I don't love the sound of my old boys. In fact, I don't like | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
it at all. Certainly, I feel that my knowledge of the game and the | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
way that we want to play, the way that we want to defend our game | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
plan is good enough to get our points of. I have got a few more | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
words myself, it is still half-time in Malmo. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
He is a man with few words but lots of action. He may be one of the | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
oldest comic book heroes, but it seems that Batman still has what it | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
takes. The 72-year-old hero is the focus of a new �12 million state | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
show which arrived in Glasgow today. -- stage show. Hollywood's | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
fascination with comic-book heroes is an ongoing one. This summer we | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
have seen blockbusters for Captain America and the next man. There is | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
one comic-book hero who endures more than any other. That man has | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
been captured many times on film and in books and television, but | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
brought to life on stage for the first time ever at this new show. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
One of the biggest and most spectacular ever staged in the UK, | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
the show also revives the caped crusaders most memorable enemies. | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
At its heart of the comic-book stories which have won over a | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
generation after generation. We can spend millions on lighting, sound | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
and special effects, but if you don't have a story that the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
audience can invest in, then you are missing the point. We take the | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
audience and a fantastic journey, a real adventure. Many actors have | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
taken up the challenge of playing that man over the years, but it is | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
sound here in behind the mark -- mask here, and he admits you need | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
stamina. I was trying to recreate what I had seen on television and | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
realised we have to go back to the original comics. We're very close | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
to them I think. Warner Brothers has been heavily involved in this. | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
All the designs are based on Jim the lead's pictures, who draws for | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
those comics. We are very due to the original's. It is basically, as | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
you can see behind me, a comic book on stage. That comic book would not | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
be complete without the special Batman car. Guaranteed to win over | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
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every fan. Now back to Stirling Castle for a | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
full weather forecast. What a glorious day it has been | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
right up and down the country. We have seen highs of 23 Celsius | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
across the borders. A lovely end to the day. This evening is going to | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
be fine with light winds, quite madly but with some lovely, | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
pleasant sunshine to end the day. - - quite muddy. Do the rest of this | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
evening and tonight, some holes appearing in that cloud, so we will | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
see some mist and fog across the North, but dry until we see the | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
change later in the night with rain and showers pushing in. As we go | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
into tomorrow morning, some early brightness for the north-east, but | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
that rain in the south will start to push up across most of the | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
country. Turning heavy in places. It will continue his progress | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
northwards, making for a very wet day. Very different today. In the | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
south, some clear parts around the middle of the afternoon, some | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
sunshine with highs of 18 or 19. A wet day for me to North were -- Mid | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
two Nov Scotland. That rain will also get into the very north of the | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
country. Heavy rain in the east, and also some hill fog. Light winds. | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
The pressure chart for Friday is showing that tomorrow's reign will | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
be sticking around Shetland, but there is a ridge of high pressure | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
living in. Friday is not looking too bad, apart from the rain and | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
cloud across northern parts and holding in Shetland, the bulk of | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
the country looks dry and bright with decent spells of sunshine. | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
Maybe 20 Celsius for Edinburgh. Into the weekend, it is also not | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
looking bad. Saturday will see some sunshine. One of two showers, but | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
feeling fresher than it has done today. Showers across the West with | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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The top stories tonight: the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
has pleaded not guilty to charges that he ordered the killing of | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
hundreds of protesters. He lay on a hospital stretcher behind the bars | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
of a specially constructed metal cage in a courtroom. | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
An inquiry is under way into by thousands of school pupils received | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
their exam results a day early. Almost 30,000 got their graves by | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
text message before they were due. The Scottish Qualifications | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
Authority says the results are correct and that no people will | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
benefit from getting their graves early. | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
And, people should get paid �28,000 in return for one of their kidneys, | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
according to a Dundee academic. Sue Rabbitt Roff said students might | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
decide to donate a kidney to pay off their debts, and that it would | :28:01. | :28:03. |