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devices. Do two men who were intent on carrying out an act predicated | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
by hatred. Two extremely dangerous individuals. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
We'll be looking at who their targets were and the police | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
operation that snared McKenzie and Muirhead. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Also tonight... Total say they knew a month ago | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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that there were problems on the abandoned Elgin platform. What is | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
killing Scotland's Keys? Scientists believe they may have identified | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
the culprit. And the Arbroath male voice choir | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
that's celebrating a sell-out success, with a little help from | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
Two men have been convicted of plotting to send parcel bombs to | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
the Celtic manager Neil Lennon. Neil McKenzie and Trevor Muirhead | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
were also found guilty of sending similar devices to the late QC Paul | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
McBride and Trish Godman, a former Labour MSP. In a moment, we'll have | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
the full background to this story. But first, to our reporter Catriona | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Renton, who's at the High Court in Glasgow. Catriona, what happened in | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
court? The trial lasted more than a month, | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
but it took the jury just two and a half hours to come to their | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
decision. When they returned their verdict, it was guilty of | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
conspiracy to assault the Celtic Manager, the late Paul McBride and | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Trish Godman. Originally, they'd been charged with conspiring to | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
murder the three. Lord Turnbull told they pair they committed | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
unusual but serious offences. As they were led, away Trevor | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Muirhead shrugged his shoulders and waved to his family, some of whom | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
were in tears. Neil McKenzie blew a kiss to his family. One of them | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
shouted, "You'll walk out of here." I spoke to Trevor Muirhead's wife | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
shortly after the verdict. She said this had not been what she expected. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Tonight, Trevor Muirhead and Neil McKenzie are back behind bars, | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
where they've been since 13 May last year. They are due to return | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
here to the High Court in Glasgow on the 27th of April, when they | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
will be sentenced. One thing united Neil Lennon, Paul | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
McBride and Trish Godman - their association with or support for | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Celtic Football Club. The manager, Neil Lennon, had become a figure of | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
hate for many. The lawyer, the late Paul McBride QC, had represented | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
the club and had been outspoken on its behalf. And the politician | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Trish Godman? Well, her crime had been to wear a Celtic shirt for a | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
bet on her last day as an MSP. Our home affairs correspondent looks | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
now at the background to the case and how the police tracked the | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
bombers. It was a time of heightened | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
tensions in Scottish football. For Arsene Old Firm Cup game, a very | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
public altercation between senior club figures provoke the Scottish | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
Government somewhat. Paul McBride, a close friend of Neil Lennon, made | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
it clear what ethos of the football authorities. I just wish the | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
Scottish Football Association that grow up and behave responsibly. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Even veteran MSP Trish Godman made the news, choosing to wear a Celtic | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
strip for last day in Parliament. All three became targets of | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
packages sent to the work addresses. For the police, it became a | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
desperate man hunt to find he was sending envelopes containing nails, | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
wires and timing devices. In total, 5% and although none had reached | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
its target saw exploded, police fears of a bombing campaign were | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
heightened, because each was more sophisticated than the last. But | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
where had the device has come from? This retail park in Ayrshire became | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
the focus of the investigation after experts analyse the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
components and their packages. Police doing routine inquiries | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
realised that many of the components used in the bonds could | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
be bought in this store. It check of receipts and of CCTV footage | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
revealed that a five envelopes, plastic travel bottles and a rubber | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
watch had all been bought here at the same time. The CCTV footage | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
proved crucial, as it showed Neil McKenzie buying the materials | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
recovered from the devices. Buying the material all at once and from | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
shops close to their homes was one of many mistakes made by a Trevor | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Muirhead and Neil McKenzie, who were described in court as | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Hillbillies. A police listening device was planted in Neil | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
McKenzie's car as he drove around North Ayrshire. The pair were | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
recorded talking. Were she planned one outside the police station. I | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
think they will get the message. -- we should plant one outside the | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
police station. We should put the evidence in the bin. Neil McKenzie | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
claimed the packages were hoaxes and he had learnt to make fake | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
bombs by watching the 18th. But experts say the chemical they were | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
using is very unstable, particularly for amateurs. Hydrogen | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
peroxide is a ferry me, material. The other is nail varnish remover. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Once you start mixing them, you create a highly volatile mix that | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
will cause ignition. It may have been amateurish, but for police, | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
there was a clear intention to cause harm. Two men who were intent | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
on carrying out a determined Act, predicated by hatred. Two extremely | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
dangerous individuals who involved themselves in the manufacture of | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
explosives substances and, for me, that identified a certain level of | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
intellect was put them in the bracket of extremely dangerous | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
people. During the trial, or one of the | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
targets, Paul McBride, died. Neil Lennon was one of his pallbearers. | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
The judge said SVRs Neil McKenzie had been convicted of serious but | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
unusual offences and will be sentenced next month. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
The oil company Total says it knew a month ago that there were | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
problems with a well on the now- abandoned Elgin oil platform. The | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
installation was evacuated last Sunday when gas started leaking | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
from a pipe 4,000 metres below the surface. Total have also been | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
giving details of options to plug the leak. Steven Duff reports. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
This picture released by Total clearly shows gas escaping from | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
Elgin platforms. It was taking just a hours after workers started to be | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
evacuated on Sunday. It has been a long, difficult week for the French | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
owned oil company. Firstly, I would like to stress the very deep regret | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
that I personally and everyone in Total is feeling. Total revealed it | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
was 25th February when the Troubles will mile -- troublesome well first | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
became a problem. Control experts were in the process of putting it | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
when the rupture on Sunday happened. Early indications are there was a | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
mechanical failure some were in the wealth. There was a sudden no | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
pressure increase followed by an escape of mud and gas. There was no | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
evidence of any burning. I can see none on the picture. It is escaping | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
towards the sea. The focus now is first of all dealing with the flair | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
and actions to be taken on matter if it does not by itself burn-out. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Secondly, it is so stopping the release of gas. Thirdly, the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
situation with regard to the other rebels on the platform. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
That flair above the platform, which was left on when the last | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
workers left in the early hours of Monday morning, appears to be | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
slowly burning itself out. But plans are in place to extinguish it, | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
to remove any risk it could ignite the gas cloud. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
We are looking at whether it would be safety take aircraft in there | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
and dice the flame itself. That is one that is being looked at. We | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
have got fire fighting vessels on seen her looking at the capability, | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
or where it has been saved to bring them closer to the platform. We're | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
also looking at putting personnel back on board. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Tonight, to drilling rigs are heading towards the Elgin platform | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
to start work on two relief wells that will eventually stop the un | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
controlled gas leak. That is likely to take months. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
programme... George Galloway triumphs in a shock | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
by-election victory over Labour in Bradford West. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
And the opera star hitting the high notes in Arbroath. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
In sport... Rangers administrators set a | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
deadline for final bids to buy the club to be made. We'll have the | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
details. And the future of the Scottish Open | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
golf tournament has been secured for three years. | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
All the details and a bit more There's been a remarkable decline | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
in bee colonies across the globe in recent years. And that should be a | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
worry for all of us because it's bees which help pollinate our fruit | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
and vegetables. But researchers at Stirling University think they can | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
shed light on the mystery of the bees' decline. Our environment | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
correspondent, David Miller, is in Midlothian this evening. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Sally, take a look at the fields behind the. You can see they are | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
still fairly bare. But they will soon be bursting into life. We | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
depend on bees to pollinate many of the crops we like to eat, even the | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
cost and the like to wear. That is why this research is so important, | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
research which is focusing on the use of a new generation of | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
insecticides. But the humble Bumblebee - still a familiar sight | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
in our parks and gardens, but these insects are under threat. | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
Scientists want to know why. There are white tails, red tails... | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
here shows exposure to a widely used insecticide lead to an 85% | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
drop in the number of Bumblebee queens. Research in France has been | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
studying the impact on honey bees. It seems that it interferes with | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
their ability to navigate and find their way back to the nest. It does | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
not kill them directly, but ever be gets lost and can find its nest, it | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
is as good as dead anyway. Scotland's farmers say they rely on | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
insecticides, but insist they are doing all they can to protect | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
bumblebees and honey bees, too. bees are an essential part of | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
everything we do in farming. We're not wanting to see them disappear. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
We want to see these pollinators continue. There are very useful in | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
what they do. They create the seeds that we are this. We are as | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
dependent on the bees as we offer on the sprays. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
But beekeepers want to see urgent action and say the UK should follow | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
the example of our European neighbours. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
These studies can be added to all the evidence that points towards | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
the urgent need to fall into line with those continental European | :11:29. | :11:38. | |
countries which have taken these synthetic neonicotinoids pesticides, | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
insecticides, be toxic products off the market. | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Whether it is in the city were the countryside, bees matter to all of | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
us. The question is, how can we keep them buzzing? | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
It is a difficult question with no easy answers. Habitat loss and | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
climate change to a possibly two major factors here. This evening, | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
this research means it is the use of neonicotinoids which has once | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
A 46-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murdering a | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
pensioner at her cottage. 80-year- old Jenny Methven was found at her | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
home in Forteviot. William Kean made a brief appearance in private | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
at Perth Sheriff Court. It is alleged he murdered her by a | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
hitting her with a blunt instrument. He was remanded in custody. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
The former Celtic midfielder and Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
has been diagnosed with acute leukaemia. The West Midlands club | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
has announced that this afternoon. He joined the Birmingham side from | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Celtic for �6.5 million in 2006 after seven years in Glasgow. The | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
Celtic manager Neil Lennon said the club was devastated by news of his | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
illness. A look now at what else has been | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
happy across the country. Public hearings for the official | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
inquiry into patients given contaminated blood in the 19 some | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
diplomats and 1980s have closed. The inquiry has heard from some of | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the hundreds of people who were infected with hepatitis C and HIV | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
following NHS blood transfusions. Edinburgh City Council says it will | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
pursue a local protest group fought �75,000 to cover costs incurred in | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
their recent legal case against the operative. The action group had | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
taken the council to court to try to halt plans to build a new high | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
school. Shetland has the best quality of | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
life of any rural area in the country. That is according to a | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
report by the Bank of Scotland that looked into education, health and | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
cost of living. Fortunately, they did not take into account levels of | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
sunshine. They blaze which broke out on more | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
land is now under control. They helicopter was brought into water | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
bomb the area. Firefighters have been called out to dozens of fires | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
in recent days. Fire chiefs have reiterated their warnings to people | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
venturing into the countryside. They need to be very careful with | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
regards to campfires, cigarettes. We would be very grateful for their | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
assistance. Art is work for these apprentices | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
from a college. They have been helping an artist build a large- | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
scale installation for an exhibition. 6000 bricks will be the | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
centrepiece of a show opening next week. | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
This 14-year-old from calendar has been named the most multilingual | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
child in the UK. He has learnt Russian, Mandarin and Arabic as | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
well as taking French, German and Spanish at school. | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
They are more stories from your area on BBC Scotland website. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
He is one of the most colourful politicians of the age. He has | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
bounced back from scandal, embarrassment and defeat and last | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
like George Galloway, born in Edinburgh, brought up in Dundee, | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
engineered one of the greatest political shocks of all time, | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
humiliating labour in a by-election in one of their own English | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
heartlands. It was a result that even George | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
Galloway was not expecting. The new respect MP for Bradford West ending | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
Laver's 30 a year hold on the seat. -- 38 year hold. Business sensation | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
a result in British by-election history barman -- this most | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
sensational result. It represents the Bradford spring. What a | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
difference a year makes. His career appeared to be on the wane. He had | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
lost his Commons seat and failed to get connected to the Scottish | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Parliament. But the man who brought the word indefatigable to a wider | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
audience has proved to be indefatigable. He is one of the | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
finest wordsmiths of his generation. When he makes a speak on form in | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
the House of Commons, he is well worth listening to. He has rarely | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
been out of the limelight. salute your courage, your strength, | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
your indefatigable nature. From the notorious meeting with Saddam | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Hussein and sharing cigars with Castro and but -- pretended to be a | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
cap on the television. Expelled from the Labour Party in 2003, he | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
has always been controversial, it never conventional. But his friends | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
say he has the common touch. seems to have a tie with people up | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
and down the country, working-class people, of whatever ethnic origin, | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
identify with him. More importantly, he can identify with them. That is | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
something the larger parties should take note of and try to learn his | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
tricks. The result has been called a one off but he did it before in | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
Bethnal Green in 2005. Who knows what will happen next. | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
The UK's oldest breeding osprey has return to Perth Show for the 22nd | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
year. Staff at the Loch of the Lowes Reserve near Dunkeld have | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
positively identified Lady. Ospreys live far an average of 10 to 15 | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
years in the wild. Lady who is thought to be in her mid- 20s has | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
raised 48 tricks. Now the sport. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Rangers administrators have set a deigned line of Wednesday for best | :17:37. | :17:46. | |
and final -- deadline for best and final offers. The Rangers manager | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Ally McCoist admitted he could understand why potential new owners | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
would want to wind the clock back and start again debt free. | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
-- wine to the club up debt free. Tonight's match against AC Milan is | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
a virtual sell-out but still Rangers's future remains very much | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
in the hands of others. One option is that of winding up the 140-year- | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
old Club and reforming it as a new company. If I was sat here as a | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
businessman, it might be different. But sat here as a supporter with a | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
love of the club, it would not be the preferred options. But I can | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
totally understand the business angle of it and it probably would | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
support a lot of business-minded people, that option. What are the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
pros and cons of this so called Rick? The debts would remain with | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
the old company but they would have to reapply with membership of the | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
SDLP with the FSA also having a say. They would have to wait a minimum | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
of three years before being eligible to play in Europe. What do | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the fans make of it? We have responsibilities to take care of at | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
most Rangers fans want to pay off the debts. We do not want to do | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
that. It is too easy a way out. This is Rangers. I would love for | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
someone to come in and keep the club the same. If we can get more | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
money to back it up, I would be quite happy. These fans should soon | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
find their. The administrators have asked three parties to submit best | :19:26. | :19:36. | |
and final offers by Wednesday. They include a Far Eastern consortium. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Neil Lennon has written to the Scottish FA why you score described | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
a refereeing decision in the FA Cup final defeat as criminal. The wrath | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
but Anthony Stokes for diving went Neil Lennon thought they should | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
have been awarded a pen ton of -- penalty. The Scottish FA gave hint | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
dull today to explain the comments. His club captain defended him today | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
saying that the FSA was over- sensitive. You cannot say anything | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
about anybody. It is tough. If decisions go your way, you are | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
upset. You have got to try and close off from that and not talk | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
rubbish. The future of the Scottish Open golf tournament has been | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
secured for the next three years. Aberdeen Asset Management have | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
taken on the stump as -- taken on the sponsorship. The announcement | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
was made today at Edinburgh Castle with Paul lorry in attendance along | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
with the Scottish First Minister. Good shot! It is a great day for | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Scottish golf, securing the Scottish Open at in the vital piece | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
of scheduling, the week before the Open champion. They could not be | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
better fog Scottish golf. It is good for tourism. It is a great day | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
for golf in Scotland. It is a huge event. Look how happy we were last | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
year and the tournaments he has won. He was but a but it is a massive | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
event. I have always said that if I was allowed to win one more, I | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
would want it to be the Scottish Open. | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
A Paul Lawrie is after the Masters next week. The first of this year's | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
major tournaments. Good luck to him. She has sung on the QE 2, in | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
London's West End and at the FA Cup final. Tonight Lesley Garrett, one | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
of Britain's best loved sopranos, will make her debut at the Webster | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Theatre in Arbroath. She will be singing with the town's male voice | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
:21:51. | :21:51. | ||
choir. # Lesley, we will sing for you too. | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
The male voice choir prepare to welcome a very special guest star. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
It is the final rehearsal for the town's Webster Theatre. Lesley | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
Garrett walks on stage to a very warm welcome. Then she is joining | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
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them in song. Lesley Garrett listen to them rehearsing area. They do | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
not know it but I have been so eagerly listening backstage and I | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
think they are fantastic. We are going to be doing lots of songs | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
together and I will do some on my own. It is the first time I have | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
been to Arbroath and I would certainly come back if I was asked | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
for -- if I was asked. The first of the concerts was last night. She | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
has fitted in the dates while finishing off her latest album. She | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
agreed to appear in Arbroath went - - went one of the choir approached | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
tap at the Scottish Proms. She said, see my agent. I did and the rest is | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
history. The second concert is tonight. It has been a sell-out for | :23:12. | :23:22. | |
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weeks. It sounds like it will be a That is going to be a great night! | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
We have been warned, the party is Do not be disheartened, it will be | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
dry. A cracking week of weather. Plenty of blue skies and warm | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
sunshine. It is all coming to an end. Cold air coming down from the | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
north. The temperatures can only go one way and that is down. We will | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
be closer to average through the weekend, around ten degrees. Next | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
week, perhaps a bit lower than average. Tonight, eight cloudy and | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
dry. The cloud across the north- west Highlands could be fit enough | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
for a little light rain. Generally dry and cloudy across the mainland. | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
Keeping temperatures mild. For Shetland, just into the colder air, | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
lows of around two and wintry showers by dawn. Saturday and | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
Sunday, it will be dry and bright. Ordinarily, we would be saying the | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
weekend is not too bad. But compared to the week we have had, | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
you may be disappointed by the temperatures. There should be some | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
sunshine here and there. Down the east coast, cooler. Shetland sits | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
at just six degrees. Wintry showers could be continuing there. If you | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
are out and about, walking and climbing, it will be dry but | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
generally cloudy. Temperatures on the summits close to freezing. For | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
the best of the sunshine will be on the southern up slopes. The | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
temperatures in the Cairngorms will go down to around minus one. There | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
could be some wind chill where the winds are stronger. A touch of | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
frost. For Sunday, not too bad. They will be some rain across the | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
north-west. Further south and east, dry and bright. Temperatures up a | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
touch on Saturday. All in all, not too bad. Next week, it all changes. | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
A cold front is sinking south on Monday. That will bring rain, | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
widespread rain. Also, much coal their air in behind it. For the | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
start of next week, it will be a wet story -- much colder air. | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Temperatures around 10 to 12 degrees at best. By Tuesday, we | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
could be talking about seven degrees at best for Glasgow and | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
Edinburgh. What a difference a week makes. | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
But while it lasted. A summary of tonight's pop stories: | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
two men had been convicted of plotting to send parcel bombs to | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
the Celtic manager Neil Lennon. Neil McKenzie and Trevor Muirhead | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
were also found guilty of sending similar devices to the late QC Paul | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
McBride and Trish Godman, a former Labour MSP. | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
The Fire Brigades Union has called for the government to make an | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
urgent public safety announcement about the danger of storing fuel | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
after this one and Diane Hill from York accidentally set herself | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
alight. Earlier this week, the government advised people to fill | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
up jerry cans. The controversial ex-Labour MP George Galloway has | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
snapped a safe seat from his former party with a landslide victory. He | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
told -- he polled more than 18,000 votes. That was 10,000 ahead of the | :27:00. | :27:03. |