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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news: | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
A legal first as police reopen their investigation into the | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
unsolved murder of this Asian waiter in 1998. His family hoped to | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
get justice. Today is the second chance for the Crown Office to do | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
the right thing and also to show there has been a positive change 13 | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
years later. Also in the programme: | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
The campaign for the new high-speed link to be extended to Scotland. | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
Politicians north and south of the border join forces. You don't need | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
to use this word. French lessons with a footballing | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
kick. We meet the Inverness players who've swapped the training ground | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
for the classroom. And he doesn't look like he's built | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
for speed, but scientists say Shetland ponies and racehorses have | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
Surjit Singh Chhokar was murdered in North Lanarkshire 13 years ago | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
but despite three arrests and two trials no-one has ever been found | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
guilty. But now Strathclyde Police are being instructed to carry out a | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
fresh investigation into the waiter's killing. It's the first | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
investigation to be reopened since changes to the law which mean the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
men orginally accused of the murder could face trial again, as Stephen | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
Godden reports. 13 years after Surjit Singh | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Chhokar's brutal murder, his family's quest for justice took | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
them through the doors of the Crown Office. It has been a monument to | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
their anger per so long, and frustration, but they emerged | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
satisfied today, convinced -- having convinced law officers to | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
reopen the investigation. Today is the second chance for them to do | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
the right thing and to show that has been a positive change 13 years | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
later. Surjit's family will be at peace when there is just as. It is | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
up to the lord advocate and Strathclyde Police to do everything | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
possible. The Asian waiter was stabbed to death in a street in | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
1998. Three men were charged with his murder. After a two separate | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
trials in which they blamed each other, all three were acquitted. In | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
the controversy that followed, the then Lord Advocate said the legal | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
system had failed but family. Reform has brought hope. Changes to | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the double jeopardy law have opened doors into a fresh investigation | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
encouraging Surjit's sister to speak out. People that have | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
forgotten Surjit's name will remember it. All we have asked for | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
is just as old but this is the first case to be reinvestigated | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
since the new law came into effect and the Crown Office are | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
considering others warning that the passage of time should be no | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
protection for those when there is compelling evidence of guilt. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Plenty of obstacles lie ahead but for the family, this is a step in | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
the right direction. The First Minister Alex Salmond has | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
invited his political opponents at Holyrood to join cross-party talks | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
on the planned independence referendum. Mr Salmond said he | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
believed such talks would make "a positive contribution" to the | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
process of settling the rules for the referendum. Our Political | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Editor, Brian Taylor, is in the parliament for us this evening. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
First Minister's Questions might indicate how the campaigning could | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
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take shape? I think that is right. This is the letter that has gone | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
out to the opposition party leaders and also to the independent MSP, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Margo MacDonald. It is offering talks to pave the way to settle the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
rules and regulations of the referendum and the sub-standard | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
argument will be the core of that referendum will be there for | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
everybody to see. Alex Salmond made a forecast that Scotland will have | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
independence. On the other side, the Labour Party, they didn't say | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
that Scotland could be independent, but Johann moment was casting doubt | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
about the outcome, an advocate and caught trying to sow doubt in the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
minds of the jury. Why is he prepared to take unnecessary risks | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
with people's mortgage, savings, pensions, in the midst of the worst | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
economic global crisis since the 1930s for no good reasons? Scotland | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
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will emerge as an independent country would be six -- 6th highest | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
head by a head count of wealth in the UK. MSPs also debated | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Scotland's right to self- determination as well. This is | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
about Scotland's future but there was a history lesson on display and | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
those are the you with longer memories, look at these. 1989, the | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
signing of the claim of right, part of the constitutional Convention, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
leading to a detailed scheme of devolution and that in itself | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
became the plan for this Parliament. The SNP acknowledge the sovereign | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
right of the Scottish people to decide the best government suited | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
to their needs, and they advocated that as a form of self | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
determination. Add the second question on maximum devolution. The | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
double Democrats and Labour, Corps were there in 1989, pointed out the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
SNP had not been part of the Convention and did not sign the | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
document and were not in a position to lecture. I think it was a score | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
draw this afternoon, but many such skirmishes to come. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
The teenager who killed his classmate has been explaining to a | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
High Court jury why he took a knife to meet him. Craig Roy has begun | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
giving evidence in his own defence on the seventh day of the trial in | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
which he denies murdering 16-year- old Jack Frew. From the High Court, | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
our Home Affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson reports. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Arriving at the High Court, Craig Roy was to begin to tell his story | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
to the jury, particularly why he took a knife to meet a classmate. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
That classmate was Jack Frew who Craig Roy said had been | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
blackmailing him. 19-year-old Craig Roy moved from the dock to the | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
witness box to give his evidence. He did so without wearing his | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
glasses explaining he didn't like speaking in public and felt more | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
comfortable when he could not see people. He told the jury that Jack | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Frew, a chemistry class made of his in the High School, had been | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
blackmailing him. He had threatened to tell his boyfriend of a sexual | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
encounter they had had at school. He said that on the night on a 6th | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
2010, he had reluctantly agreed to meet Jack and he had taken a knife. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
He said, I wanted to scare him and protect myself because I didn't | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
know what he was capable of. On two occasions, here at this high-school, | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
Craig Roy said he had performed sex acts on Jack Frew, and before he | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
killed him, he's at -- he received a text message which made him angry. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
He was in a relationship with another boy but admitted he was | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
jealous and paranoid. He felt angry after the arguments. He told the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
jury, I was hurting us of, scratching myself and sometimes I | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
would spit on the wall. He had hit his head on the ball might he was | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
having an epileptic fit. I would scratch myself with my nails. I | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
would not be satisfied until I drew blood. Craig Roy, who denies | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
murdering Jack Frew, continues giving evidence tomorrow. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
programme: How starling aerobatics like this | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
over Scotland could soon be a thing of the past. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
In sport, trial by television. That's what some SPL managers are | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
calling it. Find out why they're angry at the Scottish FA's new | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
system for tightening up on field discipline. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
And we're in Melbourne as Andy Murray prepares to face the best | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
tennis player in the world in the semi-finals of the Australian Open. | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
The Scottish Government is planning to form an alliance with | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
politicians in the north of England to try to shorten train journeys to | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
London. It wants to work with them to make sure the planned high-speed | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
rail link between London and Birmingham is extended as far as | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
Edinburgh and Glasgow. Our correspondent reports. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
After years of expensive improvements, the train journey | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
from London to Glasgow are still typically takes about 4.5 hours. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
The UK Government's plans for high- speed lines could cut this time but | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
the new lines will not come all the way to Scotland, to the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
disappointment of some. You need to did the whole way, why do you need | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
to stop Mid country? I have got to get the journey into a morning, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
afternoon or evening, but I would prefer to do it by train. The UK | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Government wants to build a high- speed line between London and the | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Midlands, extending it to Leeds and Manchester which could have knock- | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
on benefits for Scotland. The stage of the Investment reduces crane | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
times to Glasgow and Edinburgh, too, because the trains will run as | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
through services so it is a benefit to Scotland. But the Scottish | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Government wants a firm commitment to far more. High-speed lines | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
further North and an -- and on our side of the border. One of my tasks | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
today is to start the process of forming an alliance with our | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
friends in a North of England to join forces to force the issue on | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the UK Government that they will recognise the needs of the North of | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
England and Scotland and bring the high-speed line North. Announcing a | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
decision to give the go-ahead to High Speed Two. Some are fighting | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
the existing proposals. It is about the monumental outlay of money, | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
when the country is in dire straits. The UK Government says it is a | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
vision for a truly national high- speed network but there is no | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
definite move to extend theTo reach Edinburgh or Glasgow. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the death of the toddler | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Declan Hainey, who was murdered by his mother, Kimberley. She was | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
found guilty last month of killing him at her flat in Paisley, then | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
failing to report his death and concealing his body. It was | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
discovered in March 2010 when Declan would have been 23 months | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
old. Experts said he'd been dead for several months. | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
The starling is one of Scotland's most common birds but there's been | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
a dramatic drop in numbers in recent years, leading to fears that | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the remarkable displays which the birds perform in our winter skies | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
could become a thing of the past. Our Environment Correspondent, | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
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It is one of Scotland's greatest natural spectacles. Huge clouds of | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
starlings Twister and Spain, turning the sky is dark as the | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
birds prepared to roost near Gretna Green. But numbers are falling | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
sharply and it is thought changing weather patterns could be to blame. | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Numbers have declined quite dramatically in the last decade or | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
so, with three-quarters of starlings -- having disappeared. | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
The birds you see in Gretna, with the spectacular displays, are birds | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
that have come in from Scandinavia, Russia, and they spend the winter | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
here. Their numbers have gone down as well, so we have got a decline | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
in starlings across the whole of the Europe. The RSPB's Great Bird | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Watch takes place this weekend and the public are being urged to count | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
not just starlings but all the birds they see. We are asking | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
people to count their garden birds, house sparrows, bruited to the etc, | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
all of those that he would see every day. We want them to spend | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
one hour counting these birds and submitting their results to us. | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
can people do that? You can do it on the internet or post. Regardless | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
of what you see, is submit everything to Ed -- everything to | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
us. Trying to count starlings is not a good idea. If you get the | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
chance to witness scenes like these, it is probably best just to stand | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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Astonishing sight. A look at what else has been happening: a photo of | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
a man with a tattoo of a spider and the words, a hard core forever on | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
his arm. He is wanted for in connection with | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
the murder of a Polish man in late. The regulator of, has confirmed | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
that the Royal Mail's service obligation will now be limited to | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
second class only. There are fears that rule Scotland will be severely | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
affected. During a visit to be valid from | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
today, it has been announced that athletes resident outside the UK | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
will not pay any income tax. there was a hurdle, that could put | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
them off so we want this to be the best games. | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
Possible options to prevent a repeat of Stonehaven's floods in | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
2009 were unveiled today. Protesters greeted councillors | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
considering plans for an offshore wind farm. Donald Trump claims that | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
the turbines will spoil the view from his golf course in | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire council does not have | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
the final say on this wind farm. That rests with Murray in Scotland | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
and Scottish ministers. The Scottish Government is | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
confirmed more money to help build the Victoria and Albert Museum in | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
Dundee. It will form part of Dundee's rejuvenated waterfront. | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
The rock press music festival will be had lined this year by Pc Clive | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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It is a stirring tale of wartime survival. Four Norwegians escaped | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
the Nazis and sailed for Scotland, landing in Aberdeenshire. 70 years | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
later, the boat they used just about to return home. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
She might be showing her age but this is a boat with a remarkable | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
history. She has languished here for many years but is now being | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
prepared for her return home to Norway. | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
Her story begins in 1940 without a's occupation of Norway. Thousands | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
of Norwegians sought escape, many by sea. A year later, four of them | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
stole a boat from a Nazi collaborator and set off from the | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
tip of Norway. Four days later, after a hazardous journey, they | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
made it to Scotland. A lot of them got into small, open boat, this | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
size, and crossed the open sea. About 10% of them just simply | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
perished. There were either lost at sea or cot by the Germans who | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
executed a them instantly. One of the men, seen here on the | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
right, returned to Scotland in 1982 to see the boat. She was being used | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
in the Scottish fishing industry. But in recent years she has been | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
deteriorating. Then last year, some visitors arrived. | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
On the exact day, 70 years from the moment their father are arrived in | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
Scotland, the two sons turned up here there we are standing and | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
looked at the spot. This was the bought that brought their father on | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
this extraordinary voyage across the North Sea. | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
The boat is now being prepared for her return to Norway and a place in | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
a museum where she was built. There will be a proper send-off | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
with pipe band and local schoolchildren before this amazing | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
little vessel finally returns home. And Inverness secondary school has | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
signed up two Premier League footballers to help boost its | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
people's performance in French. Two of Caledonian Thistle's players | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
have become regular visitors to Millburn Academy where they coach | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
in their native language. School just got super-cool for | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
pupils studying French at Millburn Academy in Inverness. Courting them | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
in French, it can help them. -- coaching. | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
I used to be taught by the gaffer at the football club and now I am | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
back in school teaching kids French. It is very difficult but it is a | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
good thing to do. The two French men, back at | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
training this morning, have proved to be a lethal combination on the | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
Pitfield. -- on the pitch. I am a Caledonian Thistle fan so | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
why go to every game every week, so it is good. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
They can help us understand the words better and with how to | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
pronounce the words, because sometimes if we kept, how do we say | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
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that, and they are good as helping You do not need to use this word... | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
Teachers are the consigned to the bench for the weekly sessions. | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
To have people in the class as role models, and to help the pupils | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
practise for exams and day-to-day conversation, it helps them just | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
gain so much more confidence. The coaching will not just be | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
confined to the classroom. Some people's will be able to play | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
football with their idols, but only in French. | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
And now we have the sport outside the classroom. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
Andy Murray will play Spain's Rafael Nadal in the final of the | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
Australian Open if and only if he can get the better of the best | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
player in the world, Novak Djokovic. Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer in | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
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the first semi-final today. Andy Murray and Djokovic play tomorrow. | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
Australia Day. At time for locals young and old to celebrate all | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
things Australian. Most of Australia has downed tools for | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
their national holiday but there is no let up for Andy Murray. A double | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
session on the practice courts for him. | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Novak Djokovic crashed Murray in straight sets in last year's final. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
How much will that play on his smile when he steps into the arena | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
tomorrow? It will not be on my mind. I do not | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
think about the past much. I learned a lot from that match last | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
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year. That will help me in the match on the day. I will just be | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
thinking about the tactics for the day and tried to do the best I can | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
to win the match. The defending champion has again | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
looked formidable this fortnight but he is expecting a different | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Murray from ten months ago. -- from 12 months ago. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
He has made some changes and he looks fit, he has been playing well, | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
and he is definitely very motivated to win his first Grand Slam. I hope | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
I can repeat the same thing as I did last year but it is definitely | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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going to take a lot of effort to be It has been called trial by | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
television and some Premier League clubs are unhappy with it to say | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
the least. Motherwell and Ted's have criticised the Scottish FA's | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
new procedure on tightening up on players' behaviour during matches. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Heading home from Hampden disappointed, this man will miss | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
his side's next match due to a gesture. This is the incident in | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
question. The referee missed it. The celebration and then the | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
gesture but to who and why? Given the fact it was not picked up at | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
the time, are we heading towards trial by television? | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
There was a two game ban. His boss thinks that poring over pictures | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
after they came to spot what the referee missed his not the way | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
forward. Let them referee the game, they | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
will not get everything right, but that is the way Scotland -- | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
football has always been. Stuart McCall is also no fan but he | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
is now more concerned about the process. | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
What is offensive and what is not? The panel said it was low-end, and | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
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certainly could it -- not Tonight on a social networking site, | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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an SFA spokesman described the Scientists have discovered that the | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
gene associated with speed in racehorses is commonly found in | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
Shetland ponies. They are tiny but tough. Shetland | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
ponies are known for their stamina but could these little legs | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
galloped to victory in a Grand National? Not as ridiculous as you | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
think. The gene that makes these resources winner's is most commonly | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
found in Shetland ponies. I have always thought she was a pure | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
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thoroughbred! She is very lazy, does very little and eats every day. | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
We have got the help of a prize- winning horse breeder. | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
You want someone who is well balanced and who walks well and | :24:32. | :24:41. | |
looks the part. A big backside, and looking strong. So really, arise | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
can judge at that level. We will pit the scientist to the | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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test. We have this shell and Bonnie verses at former racehorse. She is | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
a little bit on the slow side so let us see if the genes come to the | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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Not exactly a photo-finish but at least the trainer is pleased. With | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
legs like these, that is no mean feat. | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
Some snow flurries for some of us but not surprising for the end of | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
January. It will be cold and icy tonight. There will be continuing | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
showers working north across the country, turning wintry of our | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
higher ground with sleet to lower levels. For most of us, down to | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
freezing or just under. As low as- four or in some places in the | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Highlands. There will be cloud in the South West tomorrow morning but | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
does well clear quickly. Elsewhere, relatively dry and bright and | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
improving as we go through the afternoon, thanks to this small | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
ridge of high pressure. By mid- afternoon, 3pm, probably the best | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
afternoon of the week. Plenty of sunshine a in the forecast. But it | :26:36. | :26:46. | |
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will be called. -- it will be cold. For the rest of the afternoon and | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
into the evening, staying dry for much of the country. There will be | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
as hard frost. Into the weekend, the battle-lines are drawn. High | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
pressure centred over Scandinavia is working its way to Scotland. | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
Some milder air in the Atlantic. The weather fronts will bring the | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
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brain and that will meet with us here on Saturday. -- the rain. By | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
Sunday, the rain really gets its act together and turned to snow | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
over the hills as well. Cloudy day for everyone with highs of four or | :27:33. | :27:38. |