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Welcome to Friday is Reporting Scotland. Tonight, a record number | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
of drug-related deaths. Nearly 600 Scots died last year and methadone, | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
the heroin substitute prescribed by doctors, was involved in half of | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
them. After millions of pounds and decades of trying, we ask where | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
these figures leave the country's drugs strategy. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
A jury is urged to find this man guilty of the murder of Jenny | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Methven but William Kean's defence says there is no evidence. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Run, rabbit, run - we are on Canna, where the residents are working out | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
how to rid their island of an infestation Bostock thank God they | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
are not carnivorous because we would be in serious trouble. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
The Dundee derby is back. And after an absence of seven years there is | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
not a ticket to be had for Sunday's clash at Tannadice. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
584 people died in Scotland last year as a direct result of drugs or | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
alcohol, a big increase on the previous year. Methadone, the | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
heroin substitute prescribed by GPs, was implicated in nearly half the | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
deaths. Our social affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson is | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
here with the details. Each year we report the depressing | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
toll of Scottish drugs death. In the past two years there was hope | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
as the number fell but now we are back to the familiar story. Figures | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
for 2011 show that there were 584 deaths attributable to drink and | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
drug causes. That is a record high and a rise of 20 % over the | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
previous 12 months. It is up 76 % on the figure to 10 years ago. | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
Number two deaths soar be prescribed heroin substitute | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
methadone implicated. It has been the treatment of choice | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
for Scotland's drug at -- addicts for three decades. Methadone allows | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
users to maintain a stable life and ensures that they are in touch with | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
medical services. GPs remain confident it is an effective | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
treatment. They are better supervised and there is a low risk | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
of overdose. And they require more skills and supervision and a better | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
level of care. This man came off his programme because he said that | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the drug made him feel worse than heroin. He died four years ago and | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
his father says he is concerned are public sector spending cuts mean | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
that users are not being supported as they should be. | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
Once they go on methadone, people are kept on it. It is as if they go | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
out the door and there is nothing about getting them off drugs. | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
BBC Three documentary last night, comedian Russell Brand argued with | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
the President of the Royal College of GPs that methadone simply does | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
not work. I would be using the methadone on | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
top, like most of the drug addicts sino are. To say that methadone | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
destroys their soul... It does not give them the solution they require. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
The Communities Minister toured a drug Recovery Centre in Edinburgh | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
curiously free of recovering addicts. Sue said that methadone | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
would continue to be an important part of the Government's strategy. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
-- she said. People need to be given options and choices for the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
best possible scenario for them. That will not always be methadone. | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
We need to be able to ensure that a range of options is available and | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
perhaps in the past that has not been the case. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
What other government doing to improve the situation? | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
A couple of years ago they introduced a new strategy aimed at | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
recovery of addicts, getting them drug-free, rather than the previous | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
policy of maintenance on methadone, which sometimes went on for year | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
after year. The community -- the minister was asked if she thought | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
it was working. She said, number- one, the number of young people who | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
appear to be taking hard drugs seems to be dropping and the number | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
of young people dying seems to be dropping. The increase in the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
number of people dying overall from drug misuse appears to be | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
attributable to older people in the Thirties and Forties and even | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
Fifties and Sixties who have long histories of drug-taking and are | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
finally succumbing. The prosecution in the trial of a | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
man accused of beating an 80-year- old woman to death has urged the | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
jury to find him guilty of the "savage and brutal murder". William | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Kean denies murdering Jenny Methven in February of this year in her | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
cottage in Perth Show. -- Perth shire. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
William Kean is accused of murdering Jenny Methven by hitting | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
her over the head at least 11 times with a blunt instrument at her | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
college -- her cottage. Today the jury help -- heard closing speeches. | :05:53. | :06:01. | |
The prosecution opened with the words of Jenny Methven's son. | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
He was quoted as saying, she was my only living relative. 01 never be | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
able to return to my house. When this is done and dusted everybody | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
will move on but I will have to live with this for ever. He said | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
that there were only two questions for the jury to consider, was Jenny | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Methven murdered? I suggest the answer to that would be unanimously | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
yes. The second question is who did murder her? I will be in big -- | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
inviting you to convict Mr Kean. He said this was a savage and brutal | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
murder and we may never know the motive. Mr Kean said he did not | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
murder Jenny Methven but found her badly injured in the cottage and | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
went away. The defence QC said the fact that he did not make an 999 | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Cork after finding her is unacceptable, disgraceful, immoral | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
and horrific but it doesn't make him a murderer. 46-year-old William | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Kean denies murdering Jenny Methven in her cottage in February this | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
year. He has lodged a special defence of incrimination, blaming | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
her son, David. The judge will do for her directions to the jury on | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Monday morning and they will retire to consider their verdicts. | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
You are watching Reporting Scotland. Still to come, a -- paradise for | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
stargazers - the Isle of Coll is bidding to become Scotland's second | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
official Dark Sky Park. In sport, the waiting is over. | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
After almost seven years Dundee is waiting for a Premier League derby, | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
but how important is the City -- is the match to the city? | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
And Neil Lennon admits huge injury concerns. Details to follow. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
It has emerged that an RAF rescue helicopter tried to fly at the UN | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
World you could Adam broke to hospital but was this -- but was | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
prevented by bad for the. -- bad weather. He was taken to Aberdeen | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
Royal Infirmary on Wednesday. Yes, this attempt to airlift the | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
Duke of Edinburgh to Balmoral to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary was | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
revealed when the decision was taken on Wednesday afternoon to get | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
him to hospital and the RAF was tasked with getting a helicopter to | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Balmoral but the weather conditions on Wednesday afternoon were | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
described as horrendous. It was really quite foggy. The helicopter | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
landed at three different points, trying to meet the ambulance | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
between Balmoral and here but it was never close to the road for the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
transfer of the patient to happen so the decision was taken to | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
discontinue -- to just continued the journey by road. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
What is the latest word on his condition? | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
He is responding well to be triggered he is getting for a | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
bladder infection. The treatment is involving a lot of antibiotics and | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
the side-effects of that are to make be patient very tired, so the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Duke has been ordered by doctors to rest. Other members of the royal | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
family have been continuing their commitments as normal, the Queen | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
leaving Balmoral around lunchtime, returning a couple of hours later. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Because the Duke has been ordered to rest, no members of the royal | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
family have been a visiting today but they have been keeping in touch | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
by telephone. It looks as if the Duke will be here over the weekend. | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
A former news editor of the Scottish news of the world has been | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
charged with committing perjury at the trial of the former MSP Tommy | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Sheridan. Douglas Wight has also been charged with conspiracy to | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
hack telephones and conspiracy to obtain personal data. Mr Wight, 39, | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
was interviewed at Govan police station in such -- in Glasgow | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
yesterday. Sheridan was jailed last year after being found guilty of | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
perjury during a defamation case against the News of the World in | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
2006. The trial of a man charged -- | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
accused of murdering a pensioner with his own car has begun. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Christopher Grenfell denies killing James Simpson last year. It is | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
claimed he tried to -- he stole the man's cover for repeatedly driving | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
:10:36. | :10:40. | ||
it over him. Water is being pumped from | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Aberdeen's historic Rubislaw Quarry for the first time in 40 years. The | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
famous site is one of the biggest man-made holes in Europe. Local | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
residents have been worried by rising water levels. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
We don't intend to take it too far down at the moment, we are taking | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
it down by four or five feet at the moment. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
The largest secondary school on the Western Isles had to close early | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
today after a chemical spill inside the new �55 million building. The | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
Nicolson Institute in Stornoway on Lewis opened to pupils for the | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
first time yesterday. Shellfish producers in the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Highlands and Islands are fighting to persuade local consumers and UK | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
supermarkets to buy their product, as the multi-million-pound eurozone | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
shellfish market threatens to collapse. Until now, France and | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Spain have been the main consumers of Scottish langoustine and other | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
shellfish. A team of tidal energy experts from | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Orkney are taking their expertise overseas. A team from the European | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Marine Energy Centre is to help South Korea develop its own tidal | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
energy testing facility. Galloway Mountain Rescue team has | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
taken delivery of a brand-new purpose-designed Land Rover | :11:41. | :11:50. | |
ambulance and mobile incident unit. The team has raised �45,000 needed | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
to replace the old vehicle and trailer they have used for 17 years. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
A free-form football match has taken place in the centre of | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Edinburgh as part of the Art Festival. It is one of a series of | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
tours where members of the public are invited to see art and their | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
surroundings in a new way. I am quite a big fan of not | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
necessarily calling things art because people get pushed away from | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
it, but if they can jump in and realise this is just a different | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
perspective, they might see the city slightly differently. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
And there are more stories from your area, and all the latest news, | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
24 hours a day on BBC Scotland's website. | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
The Hebridean island of Coll is bidding to join Galloway as | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Scotland's second official Dark Sky Park. It is thought the island's | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
almost total lack of light pollution may make it a stargazer's | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
paradise. Galloway's experience suggests that this kind of tourism | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
has huge putt at -- potential that other parts of Scotland could tap | :12:59. | :13:09. | |
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The views of Coll, a delight. But Ireland's believes it can be a big | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
attraction for stargazers, which is why they are applying for her | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
official dark sky status. We are so lucky here, we have minimal light | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
pollution, our skies in the winter are stunning. You do not actually | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
belies what is up there and tell you get to a place like this, where | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
there is no interference, and you see it in all its glory. Scotland's | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
first and so far only Dark Sky Park is established in Galloway, for | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
environmental and economic reasons. A key aim was to boost winter | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
tourism, something that has been achieved and more. Also getting | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
people coming in the summertime, it is the natural time to go on | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
holiday, coming to see meteors, as we have just had, the bed-and- | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
breakfast people are finding they are getting questions that they | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
never thought they would be answering, like, when do the stars | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
come out? There is lots of little spin-offs coming out. On a clear | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
night, the naked eye can make out the Milky Way and about 7,000 stars. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
But the telescope, pretty much to infinity and beyond. That is not | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
just true in Delhi or the Isle of Coll, but in much of rural Scotland. | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
When it comes to astronomy based tourism, the sky really is the | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
limit. The dark sky family is growing by the world, but it would | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
be great to see Scotland really becoming, Daks their country. -- | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
dark sky country. Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
has a busy festival season. As well as appearing in her own show at the | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Edinburgh International Book Festival, the opera's books have | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
been adapted for a number of stage adaptations, including a show which | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
is helping soldiers read their children bedtime stories. Polly | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
MacLean reports. This is the tale of the humpback | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
whale. It is a popular bedtime story, now turned stage play. This | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
male underwear has a heartfelt message, even when your loved ones | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
are travelling the world, they are still thinking about you. There are | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
moments of sadness, but in general, it is about is fantastic and should | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
that the father and daughter have together. -- the fantastic French | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
have. Servicemen and women, who often have to leave their children | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
for long periods of time. That inspired two army wives to set up a | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
new charity. Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan for six months at a | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
time, which is a long chunk of time for a child to be away from a | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
parent. And what we do is to enable the soldiers to record a story for | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
the children to listen to. scheme's profile has been raised | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
with a show which, like the sale and there will, is to win the world. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
For the author of the story, June Leaute Olsen, it sends out an | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
important message about the power of Reading. -- Julia Donaldson. | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
is a wonderful way of just crossing Continents. Mike is about a snail | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
and a will that travel the world, so the idea that the soldiers away | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
in Afghanistan can communicate with people back home is great. Julia | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Donaldson's books are already known around the world, but thanks to | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
this scheme, mums and dads wherever they are in the world can still | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
read them at bedtime story. Now with the sports news, it's | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
David Currie. There has not been Mansiz 2005, but | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
the football fans in Dundee, the waiting is almost over. It is the | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
city's first Premier League derby in seven years and there is not a | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
ticket to be had. What exactly does the match mean to the clubs, the | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
fans and the city? Chris McLoughlin reports. | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Here in the city of Discovery, there is something in the air, | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
something that has been missing, avoid that is about to be filled. | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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Yes, a city divided for years by rivalry and clubs divided by a... A | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
road. Yes, as you can see behind here, Dens Park, if you walk this | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
way, you will see Tannadice. Very close neighbours, and these days, | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
they have a pretty close working relationship. Dundee game SPL entry | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
after Rangers were told to start again in Division Three. It seems | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
Glasgow's loss is Dundee's gain. is good for the city and the clubs, | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
and for the fans. We are looking forward to it. Hopefully it will | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
show Scottish football in the right light. For the city, it is a major | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
boost. There is another to at least to come after this. -- two. I hope | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
it's the first of a series of games. As you would expect, it is all the | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
city is talking about. 2-0, 2 United. If confident? Yes. Are you | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
happy that the derby is back? Definitely, it is good for the city. | :18:52. | :19:01. | |
3-2. And so, after a summer of negative headlines, you will not | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
hear talk of a football crisis in the city. Even the local heroes are | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
bursting with pride. Off the independent commission set | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
up by the Premier League to examine Rangers' alleged use of dual | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
contracts will be chaired by Lord numbers that. He chaired the | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Scottish FA's inquiry into Craig Whyte's takeover and running of the | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
club. A McCoist is fighting an SF a charge of bringing the game into | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
disrepute, it was brought because he demanded to be told coup was on | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
a panel that imposed a transfer embargo on the club. The price | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
paintings he did the right thing. Absolutely, I think it is very | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
important, there was nobody standing up for the clock at all at | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
the time. So, I just felt in the position I was in, I had no other | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
option. I stand by it, to be honest with you. Celtic are facing | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
something of an injury crisis for tomorrow's Premier League game | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
against Ross country and Tuesday's Champions League play-off against | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Helsingborg. Up to 11 of the first- team squad to be unavailable for | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
the Ross County match, among them Anthony Stokes, Gary Hooper and Mo | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
Bangura. It is a huge concern, be on Tuesday as well. A game tomorrow, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
not looking too far ahead of ourselves. It is a game I want to | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
win. Ross country -- Ross County have an impressive record. We | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
started the season very well. I have three of my main strikers out | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
and that is a concern. Andy Murray says he will play any | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
more matters before the US Open starts in ten days'. He was knocked | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
out of the Cincinnati Masters by Jeremy Shardy of France in straight | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
sets. Murray will have played only three matches since the Olympics in | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
the run-up to the last Grand Slam of the season at Flushing Meadow. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
That's all my offerings this evening. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
A plague of rats has been followed by a plague of rabbits on the | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Hebridean island of Canna. It is not quite all Testament proportions, | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
but the National Trust have seen off the vermin and are now turning | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
their attention to controlling the rabbit population. As Jackie | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
O'Brien reports, some enterprising islanders have come up with an | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
appetising solution to the problem. Sort's law, it was siesta time for | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
rabbits when I made a quick island hop to Canna this week. Not one of | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
the estimated 15,000 animals living here made an appearance, despite | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
plenty of evidence and reports of their presence. In the evening, is | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
it here is covered with them. It is like a moving carpet of rabbits. | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
you are just surrounded by rabbits. Thank God they are not carnivorous! | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
It is not the first time that Canna has had to cope with a plague of | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
pests. In 2005, experts from New Zealand were brought here to help | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
eradicate and menacing population of rats. And some think that Hull | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
could have led to this current boom in rabbits. With few natural | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
predators let, rabbits are wreaking havoc in local gardens and on | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
grazing, but the National Trust has got them, which owns the island, | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
says it is on the case. We have had a control process in place, we take | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
about 1,700 rabbits a year, there is a lot of work going on behind | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
the scenes. We are pleased with progress. One local business is | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
doing its bit to curb the rabbit population, by putting them in | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
Pisces and Patti. And this is as close as I got to seeing one. -- | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
highs and pate. We have discovered it is a versatile product. We have | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
branched out into burgers. I think we are looking at possibly going | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
down the rabbit chorizo route. that's not all, folks. Here on | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
Canna, you can be dull about it as well. -- you can read all about it. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
well. -- you can read all about it. And now for a look at the weather. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
It has not been bad weather this week. We have seen some rain, but | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
some warm temperatures and sunshine as well. This evening, a lot of dry | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
weather, some brightness again. We will start to see an area of rain | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
pushing into the far south during this evening. But it will not come | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
to much and will die away. Showers in North Argyll. The of heavy one, | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
but mainly dry. Some mist and fog patches forming, particularly | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
across the Northern Isles. And it will be another very mild night, 13 | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
or 14 Celsius. A light south- westerly wind. Fairly cloudy start | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
of the day tomorrow, some bits of rain or drizzle in the south which | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
will clear. Come the afternoon, we are looking at a lovely tried day, | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
extending right across to the Berwickshire area force of the best | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
of the sunshine across the more eastern areas up warm temperatures, | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
20 or 21 Celsius. More in the way of showers further north, | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
particularly across the North West Highlands. 22 Celsius For | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
Aberdeenshire, a lot higher than today. Were in the way of cloud | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
across western areas, but it should stay dry. -- more in the way. If | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
you are thinking of heading to the hills, we will see some mist and | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
fog initially but that will break, sunshine coming through with south- | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
westerly winds. Really quite pleasant conditions. For more | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
Northern Rangers, more in the way our shores, any mist or fog | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
clearing, the of heavy shower across the Cairngorms. And four the | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
waters forecast, forced three or force for, south-westerly, | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
conditions could, visibility good on the whole. Very similar | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
conditions across Moore northern Back on dry land, as far as the | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
rest of the day is concerned, losing any showers in the North on | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
Friday evening. Staying put on the dry overnight, some mist and fog | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
patches forming. Sunday, the settled weather cools a way, this | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
weather front starts to come our way, bringing some rain. Starting | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
off try, mist and fog patches clearing. Sunshine, holding onto | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
the dry weather in the North. Those the dry weather in the North. Those | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
temperatures staying on the warm side. | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
Now, just before 7 o'clock, a summary of tonight's top stories. | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
The chief of the South African police force has defended the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
actions of her officers after 34 people were killed in a stand-off | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
with miners. She said the police were forced to open fire after | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
striking workers armed with clubs and machetes charged their lines, | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
firing shots. More than 580 people died in | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Scotland last year as a direct result of drugs or alcohol. That | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
was a big increase on the previous year, and heroin substitute | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
methadone was implicated in nearly half the debt. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Police believe the Moors murderer Ian Brady may have revealed where | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
he buried 12-year-old Keith Bennett, the only one of his victims whose | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
body has not been discovered. Detectives are investigating claims | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
by his mental health advocate that Brady wrote a letter, to be opened | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
only after his death. The prosecution in the trial of 46- | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
year-old William Kean, accused of beating an 80-year-old woman to | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
death, has urged the jury to find him guilty. He denies murdering | :26:53. | :26:57. |