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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news... | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
The date for the referendum has to be the autumn of 2014 because this | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
is the biggest decision of Scotland has made for 300 years. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
The UK Government still rain to -- maintains it is not the SNP's call. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Only they can authorise the vote. A new report highlights the extent | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
of child poverty in Scotland's council estates. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
The Scots are scientists who believe they may have found be | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
genetic key to longevity. In sport, can Scots golfer Martin | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Laird play catch-up with the big boys as he works on his selection | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
for the 2012 Ryder Cup team. We have a date. The Scottish | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
government says it wants to hold a referendum on independence in | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
autumn 2014. The UK government would like the question asked | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
sooner. But it has announced plans to give Holyrood explicit legal | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
authority to conduct the ballot, if certain conditions are met. But the | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
First Minister has said there should be no strings attached to | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
his referendum plans. Here is our political correspondent, Glenn | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
Campbell. The timing and wording of a | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
referendum has nothing to do with Margaret Thatcher but at the First | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Minister's official residence they suspect the current Conservative | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
government in Westminster is trying to dictate the terms of Scottish | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
democracy. The UK Government says Scottish ministers have no real | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
power to hold a referendum on independence but the First Minister | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
and his team in Edinburgh reckon they are entitled to consult the | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
public on anything they like. Do you have the power to hold a | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
referendum? Of course. Do you need a deal with the Westminster? It is | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
a deal with the Scottish people. ministers are Rive to finalise | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
their plans, at Westminster the government said any Holyrood -- | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Holyrood -- Holyrood blueprint would be illegal. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
This is not about the mandate of Scotland's to government, it is | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
about empowering the people of Scotland to participate in a legal | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
referendum. That means that the UK Government | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
is willing to give the Scottish Parliament the power to hold a | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
referendum which they otherwise cannot do legally. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
In exchange the coalition wants a single question on independence | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
supervised by the electoral commission with only over a teens | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
able to take part, an offer that the First Minister does not like. - | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
- over a 18s. They said yesterday Babel going to dictate the | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
timescale. These strings are not acceptable. The days of Scotland | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
having its strings pulled from Westminster our Rover. Tonight the | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Scottish cabinet rubber-stamped its own plans for a referendum in | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
autumn of 20 -- 2014. It comes at the same time as Westminster seeks | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
views on its own views. Referendum blueprints and buses - none in | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
sight and then two come along at once. | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
In the past few minutes Alex Salmond has -- spoken to our | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
political editor and said that the UK Government should not interfere | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
in the process. This has to be a referendum made in Scotland. The | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
mandate we have is unassailable. That is the political reality. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Perhaps we have done more thinking about this than the Westminster | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
government. We know, for example, and we have just passed a | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
consultation, that the date for the referendum must be the autumn of | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
2014, because this is the biggest decision Scotland has made for 300 | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
years. If you are going to do things properly, allow be proper | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
processes to take place and had -- have the debate in the way it must | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
be had, that is how we must move forward. They must resist the | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
temptation to try to interfere in Scottish democracy, let the good | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
judgment of the Scottish Parliament and above all be view of the | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
Scottish people prevail. Brian Taylor is outside the First | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
Minister's residence in Edinburgh and Brian Porter is at Westminster. | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
-- David Porter. Dare we ask what happens now? Essentially you have | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
two governments, the UK Government and the Scottish government, whose | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
First Minister's residence is behind me, setting out their plans | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
for the referendum. They differ on the question of timing and what | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
questions should be asked. They even do from the franchise, whether | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
it should be restricted to people above 18 or, as the SNP prefer, | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
extended to 16-year-olds or 17- year-olds. Why now you have a | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
political battle going on for the attention of the public. -- right | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
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now. Alex Salmond is stepping up a gear by setting out a target date | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
for the referendum, one which is decidedly later than the UK | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
Government would wish to see. go to David Porter at Westminster, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
where there was quite heated debate in the Commons over the issue. Has | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
there been any reaction to Alex Salmond's intended date? | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
official reaction so far. Which shows how quickly this story is | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
developing. There was a conversation between the Scottish | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Secretary and Alex Salmond. Michael Moore gave no indication that he | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
knew the news that Alex Salmond had revealed. Speaking privately to a | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
number of people, they say that this is just an aspirational date | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
by the SNP administration but, yet again, it shows how quickly this is | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
developing and how the two sides appear to be playing political | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
poker with each other. We have had a situation where Westminster has | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
said it is quite happy to give power, to hold a referendum in | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Scotland, to the Scottish Parliament, but also saying that | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
the Scottish Parliament Hastoe recognise that it does not have the | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
legal power on its own to do that, it has to be given its power, and | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
perhaps raising the prospect that this could end up in the courts. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
The Supreme Court is not too far away from me. Some people have been | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
saying in Westminster that if the SM be -- if the SNP want to go | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
ahead, it could be challenged in the court. You could have legal | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
action between two sovereign Parliaments. Thank you very much to | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
you both. You are watching Reporting Scotland | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
from the BBC. Still to come, can these birds told us how long these | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
humans -- Weise humans have to live? | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Scotland's top golfer tees off in style. The Premier League leaders | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
admit they will be without one of their best players for the rest of | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
the season and we meet the Scottish judo player hoping to win gold at | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
the London Olympics. The idea of large numbers of | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
children living below the poverty line sounds Dickensian, but it's a | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
problem that blights many areas of Scotland in the 21st century. Today | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
the true extent of child poverty has been revealed - and it doesn't | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
just exist in the inner cities. And campaigners are warning that rising | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
unemployment is making the situation worse. Aileen Clarke | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
reports. At this age, the hardest decision | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
can be toy car or book but for thousands of parents struggling to | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
get by it is a different story. The UK and Scottish governments | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
consider a child to be bought if the family income after a mortgage | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
is less than �346 a week for two parents and two children or 200 no | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
�56 a week for a single parent and two children. In Springburn in | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
Glasgow, where it is estimated that more than half the children can be | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
called Paul, these two mums are bringing up children on less than | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
that. So sometimes they are asking for things that I can't give them | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
and I feel bad. They do go to football and all that but it is | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
hard to do it. I do it for my kids. We have a situation where in just | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
about every local authority in Scotland more than one in five | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
children is growing up in poverty. Child poverty campaigners say they | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
are worried about the UK Government's proposed benefit cuts | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
but there are measures which can be taken in Scotland now. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Delivering on promises to in -- increased school grants, increasing | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
nursery places for children and giving more information so that | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
families get the benefits they are entitled to. This is far from just | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
an inner-city problem. The latest research estimates that any part of | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
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Fife 40 % of children are in poverty. -- in a part of Fife. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
messages for the wee boy, it is quite hard. The UK Government says | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
it is trying to tackle the problems but it has not paid any money to it. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
There is a determination to address poverty in Scotland among young | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
children. Campaigners believe the Child | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
poverty situation in Scotland is going to get worse and they want | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
action from the UK, Scottish and local governments now. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
23 people were taken to hospital following a chemical spill at a | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
factory in West Lothian. The workers are thought to be working | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
for a distribution company called Palletways. | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
There is growing concern for 700 jobs at an engineering firm in | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
Lanarkshire. Union officials say they believe WJ Harte is close to | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
administration. It works mainly for be housing industry. The house -- | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
the union UCATT has expressed concern about the future of the | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
firm. Hundreds of women working for | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Edinburgh City Council have won a multi-million-pound equal pay | :11:13. | :11:22. | |
dispute. They made their first claims in 2005 when an employment | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
tribunal ruled in their favour in 2008. The company agreed to settle. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
They had previously set aside �20 million for the payout. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
Can how long we live be written in our genes? Scientists at Glasgow | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
University say they have found a genetic indicator of that. They say | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
that lengths of DNA called telomeres indicate whether it | :11:46. | :11:55. | |
creature is a cheat -- likely to live to a ripe old age. | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
From no you and me to zebra finches, everything made up of cells contain | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
chromosomes. -- from you. Telomeres are complex chemical structures. It | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
helps to think of them like this. If your chromosomes are like a | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
shoelace, the telomeres are like the bits on the end of the shoelace | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
that stop everything unravelling. They get shorter every time a cell | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
divides. Once they get to a critically short length, everything | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
goes a bit haywire for the cell and it does not function properly any | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
more. If telomeres determine how long a cell operates, could longer | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
telomeres indicate a longer life? That is where the zebra finches | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
came through -- came in. We measured the average length of | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
the telomeres and followed the individuals for the rest of their | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
natural lives. At various points of we measured be telomere length. | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
Every individual we knew its lifespan so we looked to see when | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
the telomere length best indicates lifespan. | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
Could our telomeres Tel us how lot -- how long we are likely to live? | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
Well, zebra finches do not smoke, drink or drive too fast. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
They had a very nice life. They were protected from predators, they | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
had access to food and water, they were not subjected to disease, they | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
were living a very nice life. Glasgow's 99 zebra finches are no | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
longer with us. To find out how long they lived, the researchers | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
had to wait until they died. The last one get them waited almost | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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An oil tanker driver has died in a crash in Perth and Kinross. Three | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
men have been jailed after being caught with 242 kilos of cannabis | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
resin in North Lanarkshire. The deadline for contractors interested | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
in taking over Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter duties | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
expires today. A 20-year-old student has been jailed for 18 | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
months. He was convicted of causing at two car crash near Huntly. It | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
killed his friend. There will be a redesign of Oban harbour and a new | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
road layout. And plans for an newt telephone mast in Galashiels have | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
been approved despite local opposition. The telephone company | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
see it is essential but local residents say it will be a | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
ridiculous monstrosity. This convenience store chain in Fife and | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
Kinross is being sold to the co- operative group. Al legal challenge | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
is being launched against proposals for a new village in the Cairngorm | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
national park. There are objections to 1,500 new homes being built near | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Aviemore. And the World stone skimming championships has been | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
named as one of the most unmissable experiences in Europe this year. | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
There is more on those and other stories on BBC Scotland website. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
The government is being urged to improve access to information about | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
public services. Scotland's outgoing Information Commissioner | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
says legislation introduced eight years ago must now be extended to | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
ensure greater transparency. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Reevel | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
Alderson is here with the details. For the past eight years, Freedom | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
of Information has meant you've been able to find out how public | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
bodies spending our tax money have performed. The number of patients | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
who died under the care of individual surgeons has been | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
published. So has information about planning applications like Donald | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
Trump's golf course in Aberdeenshire; and what expenses | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
MSPs claimed, for serving us. But new bodies such as Glasgow Housing | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Association, one of Europe's largest social landlords, are | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
exempt. Private prisons don't need to publish staffing levels and | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
operating costs. And how privately- built council schools are operated | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
is also a closed book. Scotland's Information Commissioner says | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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people deserve more. This is one ordinary member of the public who | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
has successfully used freedom of information. His daughter had an | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
eye condition that was not picked up by the school nurses. The | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
information he got revealed that the local health board were not | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
checking for the condition. They had not received formal training, | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
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if they had had formal training it had not been updated. Now screening | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
for this condition takes place routinely for all young children. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Scotland's information commissioner is stepping down after eight years. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Kevin Dunion told MSPs Freedom of Information has been very | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
successful and now the law must be extended. We are now in the process | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
of abusing the rights in some instances, especially with local a | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
authority trusts which are constructed in such a way, often as | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
charities, so as to be outside the scope of this. The Scottish | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Government says it is committed to adjusting the freedom of | :18:30. | :18:39. | |
information regime and is consulting on a proposed Bill to | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
amend the existing legislation, although changes won't be made | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
until the current economic situation has improved. A woman | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
found guilty of neglecting more than 20 horses on her farm has been | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
banned for keeping horses for life. An animal charity described it as | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
the worst example of a horse cruelty for more than two decades. | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
Why were those animals so badly treated and neglected? They were | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
not, I was feeding them silage. Leaving court and still in denial | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
but this woman was responsible for neglecting more than 20 horses on | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
her farm. She had been breeding them for years but as her own | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
health failed, the horses began to suffer. They were taken away by | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
animal welfare inspectors in 2009 foot visited following a tip-off. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
defend these horses and then be turned around and get this to me. | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
If I had realised I would not have given them the horses. Of the 23 | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
horses, two had to be put down. Several carcasses were discovered | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
in a barn. She admitted to not disposing of the carcasses but | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
would not admit to neglect. Finding the dead horses was not a pleasant | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
sight, there were between 12 and 15 horses. We are satisfied that after | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
all this time the horses we did take in are now being reformed. | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
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claims she did nothing wrong, her lawyer told the court that she was | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
letting them live in freedom and even compare them to Dartmoor | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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ponies but it was a suggestion the court dismissed. Scottish golfer | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Martin Laird's push to make the 2012 European Ryder Cup team has | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
started - four months later than most of his rivals. While others | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
like Luke Donald and Lee Westwood have been racking up qualifying | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
points since September, the US based Scot has only just rejoined | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
the European tour. But a barnstorming finish to his first | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
event has improved his prospects. His golfing year started in Hawaii, | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
4,000 miles from Chicago where the Ryder Cup will be contested in the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
autumn. Between now and then he will Chris cross the Atlantic | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
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trying to win enough points to qualify. This was just one of eight | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
birdies in the final round of the PGA champion of Champions event. A | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
couple of bogies at the 8th and 10th holes resulted in him dropping | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
down dead leader hold -- leaderboard. But the 28-year-old | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
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Scot then went on its peak. -- on Asprey. He finished runner up and | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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pocketed �400,000. -- a spree. The Celtic manager Neil Lennon says he | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
isn't shopping around for a replacement for Beram Kayal. The | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Israel international will miss the rest of the season because of the | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
ankle injury he suffered in last month's match against Rangers. He | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
had surgery last night to repair cartilage and ligament damage. | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
Lennon reckons Celtic have enough strength in the midfield department | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
to cope with his absence. The Kilmarnock manager Kenny Shiels | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
says signing Derek Riordan may be some way off at the moment but the | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
former Hibs and Celtic striker would be a good fit for the club. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Riordan is training with Kilmarnock and played in a bounce game today. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
While there is also interest from a Turkish team, Riordan would be | :22:45. | :22:54. | |
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given a special role if he signed for the Rugby Park club. Without a | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
doubt he would have the freedom to play and go on and express himself. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
We would not expecting to do any defending but play him where he | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
could exploit any weaknesses. Scottish judo star Euan Burton says | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
he's hoping to bring a gold medal back from London 2012 in what will | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
be his final Olympic Games. He's tasted medal success at world | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
championships, but never at the Olympics. And as our correspondent | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Kheredine Idessane has been finding out, the national judo academy just | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
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outside Edinburgh has other medal In the rough and tumble of world | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
judo, one man has survived plenty of ups and downs. He will be 33 by | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
the time of the London Olympics and he is very clear it is his last | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
shot at glory. I am not going to London just for the T-shirt. I am | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
going for the medal. It is not about getting to the Games for me | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
but about getting into a position from where I feel I can get at the | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
medals. The question is, what colour of metal? All the training | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
is towards a gold medal. No one is aiming for silver or bronze or a | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
good performance, you go to the Olympic Games to become Olympic | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
champion. Another veteran of the sport to is also based here is this | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
woman. Do you think you could be Olympic champion? Yes I do. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
Everything I have worked towards and everything I have to do I think | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
I could be Olympic champion. It is bringing it together on D-Day that | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
makes the most of your chance. are two of the most professional | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
athletes I have never looked after. It will lobby because of lack of | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
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talent, it's be sure -- experience or exposure -- it will not be | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
because of lack of these things if they do not get a medal. That is | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
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what you will get if we have any more of those wins! -- wince. -- | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
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winds. What about that weather? This rain will come into the West | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
and will become fragmented by the time it reaches the central belt. | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
There will be a lot of cloud in the central belt. Further north there | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
will be clear spells with the chance of a light frost. Tomorrow | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
an area of low pressure is coming our way by lunchtime which will | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
bring rain and some stronger winds. There will be some sunshine to | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
start particularly in the north and east before the rain moves in from | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
the West. There will be gale-force winds in the far north. It will be | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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a cloudy afternoon, drizzly and damp. Across the north-east there | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
will be some brightness but across the north-west wet and windy. The | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
rest of the afternoon and into evening that rain will continue to | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
expend further south and east across the country. -- extend. That | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
rain and wind will move away as we go into Thursday but week open | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
floodgates to the north-west. Much colder beer floor will come towards | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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us on Thursday. Some wintry showers across the north-west. Still, lots | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
of sunshine around. Temperatures will continue to fall on Friday. | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
Tonight will be cloudy foremost but colder in the north and south. -- | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
cloudy for most. Now let's recap tonight's main stories. The | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
Government gives the green light for 200 mph trains on a specially | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
built railway. Eventually it will reach Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
But it could take another 14 years before the first passengers get on | :27:51. | :28:01. | |
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board. The Labour leader Ed Miliband says the party needs to | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
make a break with the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown era. In a | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
keynote speech, seen by many as an answer to critics inside and | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
outside the party, Mr Miliband said Labour would deliver fairness even | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
in tough economic times when there's less money to spend. That's | :28:12. | :28:15. |