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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. A Judy heels of the day that a | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
suspect package was sent to for Mark MSP, Trish Godman. Detectives | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
hunting a killer say this pensioner cut short a phone call after | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
hearing a car pull into her driveway the day before she died. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
We report on the new brand being offered in the constitutional | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
debate. And the unseasonally warm weather that has them stripping off | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
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a nap have been. -- stepping off and Aberdeen. | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
A court has heard that Neil Lennon and MS P Trish Godman were sent | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
suspicious packages containing more than 40 meals. But the jury was | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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told by a specialist police of so that the devices were not viable. - | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
- 40 nails. This post man says that he was sorting his meal for his | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
round when he noticed the Neil pointing out of a packet. He | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
thought it was suspicious and to get outside where the police were | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
called. This constable was one of the faster on the scene. She got a | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
good look at what wasn't the one below. She told the court but the | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
package contained a small bottle containing a milky colour liquid | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
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with a petrol smell. Inside was a quantity of males, -- nails and a | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
face from a sports watch. A similar package arrived two days later at | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
the constituency office of Trish Godman. Evelyn Campbell was her | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
assistant. She explained that the package arrived after the MS P, who | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
was stepping down, had warned a Celtic strip to Parliament as a | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
charity bet. Specially trained police attended and reported that | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
the devices were none of viable. There was no initiator of power | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
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source to to rid of the explosion. Late this afternoon the court heard | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
from chief petty officer Lisa Yates, a bomb disposal experts. He tested | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
the liquid from the bottle found in Trish Godman's package and said it | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
tested positive for peroxide, which could be used as an explosive. He | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
said the amount of liquid could have been enough to cause serious | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
injury or death where the device viable. After it was a hoax, he | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
claimed, it was a serious hoax. The accused to deny the charges against | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
them. The Justice Secretary will make a | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
statement in a wholly due to more on the Lockerbie case. It falls | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
claims that the Government encouraged the bomb were to drop | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
his appeal against conviction in exchange for compassionate release. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
The allegation is strongly denied by the Government and contained in | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
a new biography about Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Police have revealed that the day end 80-year-old pensioner was | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
murdered she cut short a phone call to a friend after hearing a vehicle | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
and her drive. It is the last time anybody can be certain Jenny | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
Methven was alive. Her body was found seven Arabs later. | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
-- seven hours. She said to the core, I must go, | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
there is a vehicle in my drive. We cannot be sure how she her bit of | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
anything other than the fact that it was from 10:28pm according to | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
her phone records. Did anybody see a vehicle? This is an excellent | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
opportunity for me to get that crucial piece of information. | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
What other lines of inquiry are police following? | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Detectives are very anxious to trace the occupants of two vehicles | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
seen parked in the driveway of Jenny Methven's home last Monday | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
afternoon, several hours after the phone call. They were parked nose | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
to tail and seen by at least two people at 1:45pm in the afternoon. | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
This is one of the biggest mark or investigations in Perth Show in | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
recent years. 70 officers on the case. -- Perthshire. Hundreds of | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
drivers have been stopped in the area in recent days for police to | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
interview people in the hope of finding the crucial clue that will | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
help find the killer. Jenny Methven was regarded very much as a pillar | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
of this small community. You are watching Reporting Scotland. | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
Still to come: Scottish Power announces 300 jobs but warns of a | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
skills shortage. And 300 years of the world's oldest post office. And | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
sport, Scotland go to Slovenia with one eye and World Cup qualification. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Craig Levein told us why the game is so potent just before the squad | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
left. And a combination of illness and a lack of match sharpness meant | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
that Andy Murray is through but the job was anything but easy. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
A campaign has been launched to secure more power for the Scottish | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Parliament short of independence. The Devo Plus route would hold a | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
route to raise the bulk of the money it spends whilst remaining | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
part of the United Kingdom. We compared it to the other brands on | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
the market. Milk. Full-fat or semi- skimmed? Decaffeinated coffee or | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
double strength? Creamed rice or custard? OK, choosing shopping is | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
not much like choosing the future of the country but an increasing | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
number of constitutional options are now available. Politicians are | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
trying to sell us everything from ending the union with England to | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
transferring a little more power from Westminster to Holyrood. | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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Independence is the SNP brand. The current formula is sometimes called | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Independence white because it retains the Queen as head of state | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
and the pound as the currency. Other bands? Maximum pay volition. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Tax powers for Holyrood and the main ingredients of independence | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
except defence and foreign affairs. Now, and even a lighter alternative. | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
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Devo Plus would leave key taxes like VAT and National Insurance out. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Supporters include the Liberal Democrats for Scottish Labour and | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
Conservative who used to be the presiding officer in Holyrood. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
The general principle is raising the tax we propose to spend as a | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
government. I have signed up to that personally embodied we always | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
lacked that as an accountable parliament. Until we have that a | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
similar we are not accountable to the electorate. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
This Labour MSP has joined the group but did not make the launch. | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
However an adviser or listened and. People will know what the options | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
are. They will certainly know what independence means but they should | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
certainly you the positions of the other parties and of this campaign | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
is a contribution to that explanation, I welcome it. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Is there a concern that it will prove so popular that voters to | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
claim independence when the time comes? Reporting Scotland, | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
Edinburgh. A court has heard that the man | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
accused of killing Suzanne Pilley told his boss she was blackmailing | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
him. The boss of the company, IML, said he was not told how she was | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
blackmailing him. He said it was part of an emotional meeting days | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
after she disappeared. The trial continues. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Scotland rugby Staff Max Evans has gone on trial accused of assaulting | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
a man in a nightclub in 2010. He had been drinking in the nightclub | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
when his sister and friend when a man struck him in the face with a | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
glass. He says he acted in self defence. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Scottish Power is creating 300 jobs to help upgrade the electricity | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
network. One fog of the jobs of bad -- earmarked for graduates and | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
apprentices. But there are fears of a skills shortage and two few young | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
people -- too few young people wanting to become engineers. | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
Scottish Power says that engineers can claim to the top of the career | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
ladder. There is tough competition to win a coveted apprenticeship | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
with the company. Sean Nick Bourne way and Stephen McMillan are sure | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
that it is for them. It is a hands-on Kinnear. A | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
different job of the year. And by will be working with my hands. | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
My father is an electrician and that is why I am in this background. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
Encouragement today from the First Minister and company chairmen. Many | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
worry that too few teenagers are keen on a career like this. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
It is important to learn about the economy, any kind of industry. To | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
start working for a company like Scottish Power is a real | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
opportunity. There are too few engineers and | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
that is a challenge for the whole industry. Scottish Power was | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
casting the net wide but there is a genuine skills gap looming. Across | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
the industry for at five workers will have time over the next 15 | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
years. Where will their replacements come from? We have | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
more than a per in addition has been trained at the moment. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
Something like 30,000, and a large proportion are in engineering. They | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
will come through the system and make a significant contribution but | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
we do need more. Graduates, design, electrical. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
You might not think it here but one problem is that not enough young | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
people want to become engineers to begin with. That is a challenge for | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
employers as well as schools, colleges, and universities. | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
Rupert Murdoch has arrived in Scotland to talk to staff at his | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
newspapers. He was challenged by the mother of Tommy Sheridan, who | :12:24. | :12:33. | |
claims her phone was hacked. He A look now at what else has been | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
happening across the country this Tuesday. The oil and gas industry | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
says that there was a record fall in production last year. It won't | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
help for the industry to be included in next week's UK budget. | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
A doctor who spent four days travelling from our home to cover a | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
3.5 hour shift on Jura. NHS Highlands said the scheduled locum | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
was not available. We are attempting to work with local | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
communities to try to attack to GPs to come and work in these | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
communities. But as you can see from this situation, when things go | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
wrong at short notice, we have to try to pull out the stops, and | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
sometimes pay a premium for doing If a financial watchdog has warned | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
there could be long-term risks to Aberdeen due to the way a | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
redevelopment of Union Terrace Gardens will be funded. The | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
council's leader insists any risks are low. | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
A plan is expected to be announced to protect the status of the old | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
and new towns of Edinburgh's World Heritage Site, reducing the impact | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
of traffic, restoring historic monuments and renewing the sign age. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
The transport minister has been in the Borders today meeting | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
campaigners who are calling for a reopening of the old railway | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
station at Preston. The group says that by opening the station here | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
and at least Limington, it will boost tourism and business. | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
The UK's first bungee jump on a bike took place in Perthshire. Adam | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
Flint dropped 40 metres down a gorge. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
And what's claimed to be the world's oldest sheep has died after | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
falling off a cliff in Louis. She was almost 26, double the age she'd | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
usually reach. I actually have her photo as a screensaver on my | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
computer. Happy memories. there's more on those and other | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
On the face of it, the former Dumfriesshire mining town of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Sanquhar doesn't have much in common with either the Swedish | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
capital Stockholm or Santiago in Chile. But they're the locations of | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
the three oldest post offices in the world - with Sanquhar, | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
remarkably, the daddy of them all. Willie Johnston reports. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
300 this year. Sanquhar Post Office wasn't the country's first, but is | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
the longest surviving. Originally a staging post for runners moving | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
mail about on foot or horseback, these were stables to rest for | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
horses, and back then, no post office shop. There was no counter | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
as we know them today. Mail was delivered to the window of the Post | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
Office, and she tapped on the window, handed in your mail, and | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
that was the way it was done. is my father, and this is my | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
brother Jimmy. Sandy Hogarth was born at the Post Office 90 years | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
ago. His father and brother were both Post Masters, whose service | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
spanned seven decades. He records opportunities -- recalls | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
opportunities to earn extra pocket money. If the telegraph messenger | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
was away for his lunch, we got the job of delivering Telegraphs. A | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
penny halfpenny for a local one, sixpence within a three-mile | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
boundary, and a shilling for a five mile boundary. Penny is the current | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
owner and post mistress, and she says a historian. We have the | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
national treasure here, which should be an international treasure. | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
We are the oldest in the world, and that is something to be proud of. | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Some years ago, ambitious plans to make the Post Office here a tourist | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
attraction fell through, and more recently hope that a special stamp | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
may be issued to mark the centenary were dashed by Royal Mail. Despite | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
these setbacks, there remains a desire here that more could and | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
should be made of the town was -- town's unique mark on postal | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
Some more history now. It was one of hundreds of small boats that | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
took part in the most remarkable rescue operations of the Second | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
World War. Skylark Nine saved the lives of hundreds of allied | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
soldiers lives after they were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
Now she's up for sale for just a pound. But there is a catch. Huw | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
Williams reports. Here in pictures as the tramp that | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
made a military disaster... Skylark Nine was one of the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
hundreds of little ships that rescue thousands of members of the | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
After the war, she had a quieter life, cruising Loch Lomond for | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
three decades. This was her in her prime. And this is her now after | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
she sank at her mooring 18 months ago. Now the only way to see her | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
properly is under the water. But Skylark Nine is part of the local | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
story as well as the history of World War Two. She took 600 people | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
off the beaches of Dunkirk, and for 30 years has played a n important | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
part of the local history. She deserves a better fate than she has | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
at the moment. Now she is up for sale on an internet auction site. | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
Asking price, just �1. It is really to raise the profile and generate | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
some interest. It is a short window where we need somebody with a | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
viable option to come along and the equipment and the willpower and | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
perhaps the funding in place to get hat out of the water and get her | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
somewhere safe so she does have a future. �1 for such an important | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
piece of maritime history might seem like the bargain of the | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
century, but what Skylark Nine really need is somebody with the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
money, skills and expertise to draw up a plan which will preserve her | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
and can suffer for the future. What a sad story. The pandas at | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Edinburgh zoo have had a royal visitor. Princess Anne spent ten | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
minutes viewing Sweetie, the female panda. She also had a private | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
viewing with the male panda, Sunshine, and helped feed him | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
bamboo. The Princess is patron of the Royal Zoological Society of | :19:02. | :19:11. | |
Scotland, which runs the zoo. He looks like he is enjoying that | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
there. Too much carry on in this programme! Now for the sport. The | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Brighton striker Craig Mackail Smith will start up front for | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
Scotland tomorrow in a side captained by Gary Caldwell. Manager | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Craig Levein has opted not to start Kenny Miller against Slovenia after | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
his gruelling Carling Cup final match with Cardiff. The squad flew | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
out today hoping to pick up some tips on qualification. Our senior | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
football reporter Chris McLaughlin reports. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
It was a squad of mostly familiar faces that headed for Slovenia this | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
afternoon. The manager will be forced to make some changes due to | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
injury. Celtic's Charlie Mulgrew will start in defence. James | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
MacArthur will take his place in midfield. And Brighton striker | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
Craig Mackail Smith will be the lone striker. Gary Caldwell also | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
starts as captain for the first time. It is a great opportunity for | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
myself and some of the other lads that don't really play for Scotland | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
in the starting 11 to do well. it is a friendly match, but the | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
World Cup campaign starts here, according to the manager. And he | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
thinks they could learn a thing or two from their hosts. For too long, | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
Scotland have not been at the top table in major finals. I look at | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Slovenia and look at their recent history and how her they have done | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
and the size of the country, and you could almost say it is a model | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
for us. We would like to see if we can do as well as them. And with | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
new faces looking to impress, the scene is set for a feisty friendly. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Daniel Majstorovic is out for the rest of the season. The 34-year-old | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Celtic defender was injured in a training pitch clash while on duty | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
with Sweden. Majstorovic has ruptured his left cruciate ligament, | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
and is also likely miss this To rugby, and the former Scotland | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
stand-off Dan Parks will move to Connacht at the end of this season. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Parks, who retired from international rugby after this | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
year's opening Six Nations match, will leave Cardiff Blues and head | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
to the Irish side on a two-year Andy Murray is through to the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
second round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, but he had to | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
work pretty hard to get there. The world number 4 admitted he'd felt | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
ill before the encounter against Michael Berrer. Despite this, | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
Murray eventually won the match in three sets. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
In his first outing since losing the final of the Australian Open, | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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Andy Murray started slowly, losing The world No. 4 broke back | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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immediately, and then began to ease After just 38 minutes, the first | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
set was his, and all was looking fine. In the second set, having | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
already been broken, the opponent up his game considerably. The 31- | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
year-old from Stuttgart frustrated Andy Murray, and having taken the | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
second set, the biggest win of his career was looking a distinct | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
possibility. The No. 3 seed looked a little off the pace, but | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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eventually managed to get his game And after a bigger workout than he | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
had perhaps expected, Murray closed out the match 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
Another qualifier is the next hurdle to overcome in round two. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
And he will be on first on Centre Court around 10 o'clock tomorrow | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
morning. Thank you very much. Crete, Corfu, | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Tunisia, Majorca. Take your pick, the Granite City was warmer than | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
them all today. The temperature might not have reached record- | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
breaking, but today Aberdeen enjoyed one of the warmest February | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
days in the UK. Colin Wight can tell us more. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Aberdeen Beach, and if not a scorcher, it is at least warm, | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
especially for February, with temperatures in the City over 16 | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
degrees as most people headed off for work. It is wonderful. This is | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
more like the Continent than Aberdeen. This time last year, we | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
were knee-deep in snow. They say that this is the hottest February | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
for 100 years. We are just lapping this up. I think it is wonderful to | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
be sitting outside in Aberdeen in February. It is unbelievable. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
today's higher than normal temperatures have been caused by | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
warm air from around the Azores being brought north by strong winds. | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
It will get cooler later in the week. Scientists have been watching | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
the temperature for a decade and have noticed a steady rise. That | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
could mean big changes for farmers. Farm management will be | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
significantly different, because if you suddenly get large amounts of | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
rain in short periods followed by a blistering heat, the soil will be | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
under massive pressure. Smarter ways of managing the crops will | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
have to be developed. Meanwhile, the first signs of spring have been | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
here for weeks. Last year in January we were willing the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
snowdrops to come out of the ground, and in early February we had hardly | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
a snowdrop to show. Rose this year, in January, they were leaping | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
through the ground, and we were willing them to stay in the ground! | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
Back in ice-cream -- back in Aberdeen, ice-cream sales are up. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
These are the same sales we had last March. We are all looking for | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
the weather. They say never cast a clout until May is out. But with | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
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weather like this, you have to let Now let's find out what is | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
happening across the country with There has been a spell of very mild | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
weather this week, with this warm air coming up to the west coast of | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
Scotland, and it has turned pretty misty and murky. We have seen | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
temperatures to 12 or 13 Celsius, but not as nice as it is in the | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
east. It was 17 at the highest in Aberdeen today. It will continue to | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
be largely dry tonight, a little patchy rain in the West, but try | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
elsewhere. Although it will be a cooler night than last night, still | :25:50. | :25:59. | |
very mild for the time of year. Mainly light winds, turning fresher | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
and westerly, and cooler. Tomorrow will be fairly cloudy again, with | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
outbreaks of drizzle. However, by the time we reach around 3 o'clock | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
tomorrow afternoon, we will see a lot more in the way of brightness | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
developing across southern and central parts. And although it will | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
be cooler than today, temperatures will still reach 11 Celsius. Always | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
a little more in the way of cloud up the west coast, especially with | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
the the drizzle pushing into the western and northern isles. But the | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
best of those temperatures, like yesterday, in the north-east. As we | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
head towards tomorrow evening, it will stay largely dried. But as we | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
head into the overnight period, we begin to see a little changed as | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
the weather front putsches in from the north-west. This is going to | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
mean a fairly wet day on Thursday, but the rain will be largely patchy | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
and light. It will then push across the country, still in the milder | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
air, said temperatures up to 12 Celsius. And cooler conditions for | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
Now, just before seven o'clock, a summary of tonight's top stories: A | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
court has heard that the Celtic manager Neil Lennon and the former | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
MSP Trish Godman were sent suspicious packages containing a | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
bottle of liquid, wire and a more than forty nails. But the jury was | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
told by a specialist police officer that the devices were not viable. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
A British photographer wounded in Syria has been smuggled out of the | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
country to neighbouring Lebanon. Paul Conroy was injured last week | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
in the same attack that killed his colleague Marie Colvin in the city | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
of Homs. It is understood that Syrian | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
activists were killed in the operation to get him across the | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
border. Police have revealed that on the | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
day an 80-year-old woman was murdered in her remote Perthshire | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
cottage she'd cut short a phone call to a friend after hearing a | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
vehicle pull into her drive. It's the last time detectives can be | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
certain Jenny Methven from Forteviot was still alive. And that | :27:59. | :28:03. |