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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight, torrential rain causes | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
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severe flooding. Roads have been closed and businesses affected. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
has risen all night. When I got up at first like it, it looked as big | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
a flood as I have ever seen here. Also on tonight's programme... | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
The Chancellor offers �50 million to safeguard the cross-Border | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
sleeper service. We will have full analysis of what George Osborne's | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Autumn Statement means for Scotland. As Celtic's Europa League opponents | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
arrive in rain-drenched Glasgow, captain Scott Brown is touch and go | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
to face Spanish side Athletico Madrid. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
And police investiage a fresh attempt to topple this | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
controversial Highland statue. Flooding has caused widespread | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
disruption across much of Central, West and Southern Scotland. A night | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
of torrential rain swamped homes and businesses and blocked some | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
roads. In Glasgow, more than two weeks worth of rain fell in just 24 | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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hours. Sometimes assign it can see it all. This was the scene in | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Stirling Show today, after a wall gave way after the massive pressure | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
of water. I looked out a few times during the night and it was | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
rattling down against the roof. It has just risen all night. When I | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
get up first light this morning, it looked as if it was the as bigger | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
flood as I have ever seen here. the Bridge of Allan, you would have | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
needed waders if you were waiting for a bus. Heading south down the | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
coast to Greenock, VII had to be closed for hours at Langbank. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
have lived here for years and I am used to the weather been bad, but I | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
have never seen it as bad as this. And there was no point going for a | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
train, as this was the train station at Bishopton. At Greenock, | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
the water did so high that sitting in the car was no longer an option. | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
It even try at 60 people in a seafront hotel in Greenock. I saw a | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
car and it was trying to get out, but ended up just floating | :02:56. | :03:05. | |
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sideways.. In Ayrshire, this video shows that some streets were turned | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
into reverse. In Dumfries, by lunchtime, the flood waters had | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
arrived. Our reporter Steven Duff is near | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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Greenock for us tonight. How are things there? This part of | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Inverclyde was effectively an island for most of the day, such | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
was the flooding. You can see the main road behind me to Glasgow is | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
still closed and the efforts going on to try and clear the carriageway. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
The water is gone, but there is still a lot of debris. This was | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
this the not too long ago, car strapped in the water and some | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
people having to be rescued from their cars. It really was the | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
perfect storm in this part of the country. The rain has stopped now, | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
but the wind has now got up. It is a very difficult situation for the | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
people in Greenock, who were cut off for a large part of the day. | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
as the flooding actually caused any damage? A around the country, yet | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
it has seen the likes of fields flooded, walls knock-down, but here | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
you can see the economic effect of this. The 60 guests who in the | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
hotel behind me have had to be there all night. Behind me, the | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
call centre had to be closed today. Just imagine the economic effect of | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
that. And there is issues Royal Bank of Scotland building nearby | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
which was flooded and had to be closed today. Seoul, a big economic | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
impact, as well as the flooding for people to have to cope with. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Scotland is to get an extra �433 million for new roads, schools and | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
other capital spending. The increase was announced as part of | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement, which he delivered to | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
the House of Commons today. But Scottish Finance Secretary John | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Swinney said the move fell far short of what was needed to boost | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
the economy. Our Business and Economy Editor Douglas Fraser is | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
here to tell us what Westminster's plans mean for Scotland. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
It is not the Autumn Statement George Osborne would have wished, | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
with the independent budget adviser saying UK growth will be slower | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
than previously thought, the recovery will drag on, we will have | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
to borrow more and the cuts will continue longer. The best the | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Chancellor could say was that if interest rates were higher, things | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
could be a lot worse. And while some budgets were further | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
squeezed today, he released savings for transport, and an average of | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
�150 milllion more will be coming to Holyrood's block grant in each | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
of the next three years. Scottish ministers will decide how that is | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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spent. The plans may be of track, but he does have a plan for rolling | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
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stock. A we are working to improve the links between our countries. | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
The Chancellor has made Edinburgh as one of 10 "Super connected" | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
cities. It has also given the Scottish government more money to | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
spend on capital projects. If you look at the report, they say the | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
overall spending is neutral and, as a consequence, the announcement by | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
the Chancellor today will have no impact on the forecasts they are | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
making. He may have shuffled around the numbers, but he has given us no | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
real mule new economic stimulus. He should have delivered that, because | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
only that can stimulate economic recovery. It took the Chancellor 40 | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
minutes before the word unemployment was mentioned. It is a | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
serious problem in Scotland. It is important that the Scottish | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
National Party does more to stimulate the economy and its | :07:23. | :07:32. | |
courts working again. government says it is planning to | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
upgrade the a name that to Perth, but that will be a few years down | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
the line. It is good the government is looking at it and trying to help | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
small businesses. The amount of bureaucracy and red tape it really | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
is a lot of a turn-off as an employer. It is about getting | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
people appear and then, once they are here, giving them a low-cost | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
method of getting around the islands. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Scotland also faces the impact of further pay restraint for public | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
sector workers, who are already unhappy about their lot, with a | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
widespread strike tomorrow. Our Westminster correspondent David | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Porter joins us now. And the strike is just one of the political | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
challenges behind today's economic numbers? Yes, tomorrow possibly | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in Scotland or call | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
on strike and that underlines why there are such challenges facing | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
the economy. According to the government, everyone is having to | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
take a share of the pain. Public sectors work workers say they're | :08:47. | :08:57. | |
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going to have to work longer and get worse pensions. What we will | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
seek with the squeezing public- sector pay and the Chancellor deal | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
that did delivering a very definite hint that there could be regional | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
differences between public sector pay increases, there could be | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Loggerheads between the Scottish and Westminster government for many | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
months to come. I think that many people, after today's statement, | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
will realise that things may be very tough for a long time to come. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
There is more on that Autumn Statement on Newsnight Scotland | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
tonight. You are watching Reporting Scotland | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme... | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
The number of Scots with a serious drug problem has risen, but there | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
are fewer young addicts. And in sport, news of Scott Brown, | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
who could be fit enough to face the Atletico Madrid. The Spanish giants | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
arrived in Glasgow today ahead of the Europa League clash with Celtic. | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
We will also have the latest from their camp. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
A former male nurse who pretended to be a lesbian and bisexual | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
teenager, in order to prey on young girls on the internet, has been | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
jailed and is to be monitored for life. Barry McLuskey from Glasgow | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
admitted targeting 49 girls, some as young as 10. He also blackmailed | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
some of his victims, contacting them on Bebo and an instant | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
messaging service. Judge Rita Rae QC imposed a lifelong restriction | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
order and jailed McCluksey for six years and eight months. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Scotland is bracing itself for the biggest day of industrial action | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
for more than a generation. Around 250,000 public sector workers are | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
going on strike tomorrow against proposed changes to their pensions, | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
which they say will leave many worse off. So just how will the | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
strike affect the country? Here is our local government correspondent | :10:47. | :10:57. | |
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Jamie McIvor. In it is not a public service worker and is not on strike | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
tomorrow, but she will feel the impact. The schools that her | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
children go to are closed, so she will have to be looking after them | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
instead of studying for a qualification. So, there will be no | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
school, known nursery and their formal studying time for me. | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
vast bulk of schools will be closed tomorrow, just one of the effects | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
of this co-ordinated action. Some hospital operations may be delayed, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
council officials, job centres and libraries will be shut and the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Glasgow subway will be closed. There could also be delays at | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
airports. Even some police support staff will be on strike. The is no | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
doubt that it impact on us as an organisation. We have planned for a | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
number of weeks for this. But what is important is the we re assure us | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
people that we will of police officers when they are required. | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
The impact of the strike could be �500m. The say the figures are been | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
overstated by the government. Others say there is a need for or | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
reality check. Tomorrow may be the biggest the of industrial action | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
since the 1970s. But everyone knows the impact then was very different. | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
The strikes there lasted for weeks and led to national emergencies. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
For many people, the worst impact will be inconvenienced or | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
disappointment. Our website is being constantly | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
updated with the latest information about what local and national | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
services are being disrupted. The address is bbc.co.uk/scotlandnews. | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Former X Factor contestant Gamu Nhengu and her family have won | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
their immigration fight to stay in the UK. The Home Office failed to | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
win its appeal to overturn a decision granting the 19-year-old, | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
her two brothers and their mother leave to remain in the UK. The | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
family have lived in Tillicoultry for several years after they left | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
The number of Scots with serious drugs problems has risen, according | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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to official figures just published. The raw figures are these, around | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
60,000 people in Scotland have serious drugs misuse problems. 4000 | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
up on the last time the figures were collated. Is a problem getting | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
worse? We don't know because of the statistical inexactitude. What we | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
can say is that things are not getting better. The government | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
introduced a new strategy a few years ago. They say that it is too | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
early to say whether the new policy is bearing fruit. What are the | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
hopeful signs in these figures? proportion of young people, under | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
35, has dropped. That means the drug-taking population in Scotland | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
is getting older. Probably because these figures include those on the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
method and a maintenance programmes. I have to say there is another way | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
of looking at this, particularly here in Glasgow where the number of | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
people with serious drugs problems is falling. But, the number who are | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
older, is rising. Drugs workers were telling me today that a large | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
number of young people are apparently abandoning drugs like | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
heroin, and turning to legal highs and alcohol. These don't appear in | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
the findings today but are a continuing problem for the | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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government. Some of the other stories across | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Scotland this Tuesday: A 46-year- old woman who died following a fire | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
in a block of flats in Aberdeen has been named as Selina Corrigan, a | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
teacher at Woodside Primary School. She was taken to hospital after the | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
blaze at Alexander Terrace in the Tillydrone area on Monday night, | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
but died later. Grampian Police said the fire did not appear to be | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
suspicious. A discount scheme for ferries is to | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
be extended. A government report says the Road Equivalent Tarrif has | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
increased journeys by almost a third, since it was introduced on | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
routes to the Western Isles. Now, routes including the Sounds of | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Barra and Harris will also be included, with ferries to Colonsay, | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
Islay and Gigha added next year. A pilot scheme for Arran will start | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
in 2014. As many as 50 students have | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
occupied Aberdeen University's main office building to protest against | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
cuts. They've demanded the university's management protect the | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
jobs of lecturers and staff, turn down any bonuses and speak out | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
against the Government's economic policies. The university says it | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
will respond to the points they've Scotland's largest college is to | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
move into a new 200 million pound super campus. The City of Glasgow | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
College formed through the merger of the Central, Metropolitan and | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Nautical College is the first of an expected wave of mergers, in a | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
shake-up of further education across Scotland. Our Education | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
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Correspondent Seonag MacKinnon reports. Graduation day. A dream | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
come true for students, and for college bosses to. Ladies and | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
gentlemen, that is the green light for a new city campus in Glasgow. | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
Forster to and of the future, a shiny new campus. One of the | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
biggest in the UK. People without the greatest of backgrounds can | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
attend a campus with great facilities, and participate in | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
staff they never could before. much to celebrate, but under | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
government plans this will be the first of many super colleges from | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
mergers. Many have their own management teams, and ministers are | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
looking at rationalisation of students, giving them fewer but | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
better facilities. Some are wary. In principle, mergers can be a good | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
thing if driven for educational reasons, not to reduce courses or | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
numbers available for courses or reducing staff. The future of many | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
of the students is mapped out, but the future of Scotland's colleges | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
is in limbo. Now, is this sport or not? An | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
American man has set a new record on the shores of Loch Ness. Ashrita | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Furman skipped 255 times on a skipping rope in five minutes, | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
while wearing flippers. He's already in the Guiness Book of | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Records for holding more records than anyone else, with more than | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
one hundred. Dougie's here with the real sport. | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
Follow that. The Celtic manager Neil Lennon believes captain Scott | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
Brown is close to agreeing a new contract with the club. But it may | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
be touch and go whether the midfielder will have recovered | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
sufficiently from an ankle injury to face Atletico Madrid tomorrow | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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night in the Europa League. John Barnes reports. Neil Lennon was in | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
the stand last night as Charlton faced Huddersfield, but he would | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
not be drawn on whether he was looking at Jordan roads. More | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
pressing is the future of Captain Scott Brown. Out of contract next | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
summer, he can talk to clubs in a few days' time. It is just a | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
question of talking to his representatives of soon as possible. | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
I think he wants to stay, he knows the key terms and I don't think we | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
are far away. Neil Lennon's men are looking to maintain their good form | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
at Celtic Park in an attempt to reach the next stage of the Roper | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
League. It is nearly two year since they last lost a European home | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
match. We might still have a chance of qualifying with a draw but they | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
were in its is what we need really. Probably our best performance of | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
the season at the weekend. Atletico Madrid looked relaxed as they | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
arrived at Glasgow airport. They are confident of a repeat | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
performance from their winner in a Madrid. We have a team with a lot | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
of qualities. As the Atletico Madrid players rushed to avoid the | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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Scottish rain, at least stay had an element of a Spanish welcome. | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
is turning into a bumper year for Scottish Sport after today's | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
announcement that the Ryder Cup will be coming back to Gleneagles. | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
The Perthshire course will host the event between 26th and 28th of | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
September. Europe are the current holders of the Trophy, having won | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
it at Celtic Manor in October of last year. The whole world coming | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
back to Scotland to visit the old country, then the Games, one of the | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
greatest, the Commonwealth, then the Ryder Cup. One of the absolute | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
pinnacles for a TV audience coming home in every sense. The Ryder Cup | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
back to Gleneagles where the original idea began so many years | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
ago. Tickets for the London 2012 | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
football tournament went back on sale today with 1.5 million | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
available across the six venues. Hampden will host eight matches in | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
total including one women's quarter final plus some early rounds of the | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
men's competition. It is quite easy to fill removed from what is going | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
on in London when you are far away from it, but the chance to be part | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
of it on your doorstep is amazing. The only tickets I got our for ham | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
done, I am not going to London. An investigation's been launched | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
into a new attempt to pull down the statue of the Duke of Sutherland in | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
the Highlands. The huge statue is controversial because of the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
notorious role the Duke played in the Highland Clearances. Serious | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
damage has been caused to the memorial in recent weeks, and | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
police suspect it's deliberate. Jackie O'Brien reports. Love it or | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
loathe it, this statue, the first Duke of Sutherland, has been part | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
of the local landscape since the 1830s. The prominent landmark, even | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
used as a marker by fishermen, can be seen from miles around. The 100 | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
ft structure has survived demolition the Thames in the past, | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
but reports of a fresh attack took me to the top. A chance encounter | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
with local walkers revealed an even more recent assault on the statue.? | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Damage occurred about three or four weeks ago, and since then we think | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
there has been more. Police believe malicious intent occurred, because | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
the stones removed from the plinth were left strewn in the heather. It | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
is now feared a concerted campaign is underway to topple the Duke. | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
This is not the first time it has happened. We have had it in | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
previous years. It is assumed steam motive for the latest attack is | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
political, because of his role in the Highland clearances, where he | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
forced many local tenants to make way. The vandalism is not welcome | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
for villagers at the foot of the hill. It is part of history, if you | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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take it away, people won't ask. If he goes people will ask though. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Duke's descendants, who still own the local Sutherland estate say | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
they are disappointed by the damage. Time now for the latest weather | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
forecast. Christopher Blanchett is with us. How are things looking, | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
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A lot of rain around today, the good news is the heaviest has | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
pushed away towards the North Sea. We will see some heavy showers, but | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
breezy for most parts. The westerly breeze, pushing some of the showers | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
towards the east. If you are in the east, a dry night. Some showers are | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
wintery over the hills. It will be cold, temperatures around two or | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
three degrees. There is a risk of vice between those showers as the | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
ground freezes. Into tomorrow, we start with showers. Later run, a | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
risk of hail and thunder. Elsewhere across the country be picked is | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
improving towards lunchtime, although showers fade away. Lots of | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
dry weather around. South-westerly winds are strong at times. So, mid- | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
afternoon, temperatures around eight or nine degrees. Mostly dry | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
across the mainland. On the West Coast, gale-force winds that time. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
Rain waiting in the wings, into the northern isles pushing in later on. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
The second half of the afternoon, it all goes downhill. Rain pushing | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
and from the West. We have another warning from the met Office, a | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
yellow warning. Not as severe as last night. That rain will be | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
falling on already saturated ground. We will have wins to contend with | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
on Thursday, notice the tight isobars. We will see some severe | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
gales across the northern parts of the country. We do have an early | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
warning for the wind and gales, particularly affecting supplement, | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
Orkney, among star other areas. The rush hour, it will be pretty | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
noticeably Severe, with three wins. It will also feel quite cool on | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
Thursday, on Friday, some sunshine to start with. It will be feeling | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
cold, temperatures at around six or seven degrees. Keep up-to-date with | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
all of that on the website. Thanks. Now, just before 7 o'clock, a | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
summary of tonight's top stories: The Chancellor George Osborne has | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
said public sector pay rises will be capped at 1% for two years, as | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
he lowered growth forecasts for the UK economy in his autumn statement. | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
The number of public sector jobs set to be lost has also risen and | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
set to be lost has also risen and borrowing will have to increase. | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
Labour's Ed Balls said the figures showed the government's economic | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
and fiscal plans were "in tatters". Flooding has caused widespread | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
disruption across much of central, west and southern Scotland. A night | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
of torrential rain swamped homes and businesses, and blocked some | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
roads. In Glasgow, more than two weeks worth of rain fell in just 24 | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
hours. Scotland is bracing itself for the | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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biggest day of industrial action for more than a generation. Around | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
a quarter of a million public sector workers will go on strike | :27:24. | :27:28. |