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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight, Nicola Sturgeon is put in | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
charge of the independence referendum, as Alex Salmond | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
reshuffles his ministerial pack. The Scottish families who say they | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
are going without a meal to make sure they can feed their children. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
They see me going without food and to question it. Sometimes, I will | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
be sickly light to them and saying I am not feeling very well. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Also on the programme... Is Irn-Bru about to be Tango-ed? | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The makers of Scotland's other national drink start merger talks | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
with Britvic. And to bee or not to bee. Why hives | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
are being located in unusual places in Scotland's biggest city. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
It is the largest reshuffle of the Scottish government since Alex | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Salmond became First Minister in 2007. The headline move is Deputy | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon leading the independence referendum | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
campaign. Our political correspondent Raymond Buchanan | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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joins me now from Holyrood. Who were the movers and who was shaken? | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
Nicola Sturgeon is getting all the attention, not just because she has | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
left the important role of health, but also because she is known as | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
the problem solver. She has taken part in important legislation such | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
as same-sex marriage and the reduction of a minimum a local | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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price. -- alcohol price. She began with a joke, that the serious work | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
begin soon. This will be the biggest job of our political career. | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
I look forward with my colleagues to making that positive and upbeat | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
case over the next two years and I look forward to winning that | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
independence referendum in 2014. as well as the constitution, she | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
takes over the Alex Neil's all job of Infrastructure and Capital | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
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Spending. There were other changes. Retiring from cabinet is brisker | :02:56. | :03:05. | |
offered, Stewart Stevenson and Bryan Adams. For Alex Salmond | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
arrived at Parliament to answer why he had moved his trusted deputy. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
She has served with me for many years and it is only right that she | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
should get the opportunity to demonstrate her fabulous skills and | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
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this important independence debate. It is very unfortunate that this | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
part-time job has been given to her and she has been taken away from | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
the important job of health. would seem she will have been very | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
busy few days? Yes, starting tomorrow, she will starts by | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
meeting with the United Kingdom Government. They are hoping to get | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
some sort of deal in the next few weeks. She also has the | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
Infrastructure and Capital Spending job and a sign of the economy will | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
be a key argument and the independence debate. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Some Scots parents are having to make a choice between feeding | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
themselves or feeding their children. That is the surprising | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
claim made in a report today by the Save The Children charity. They say | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
that many of our youngest are bearing the brunt of the recession. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Sarah Martin, a mother of three, describes her situation as the | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
catch 22. She said she would love to work but cannot afford the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
childcare cost. To keep her children well-fed, she says she | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
often goes without food. He the seamy missing a meal at ask | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
sometimes why I am not eating. I have to sometimes lied to them and | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
the I am not feeling very well or not feeling hungry. She spends less | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
than �30 on food. She has that in common with 40 % of all income | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
families, according to a new report. The report by Save The Children | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
says that almost half of all children living in poverty are the | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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least one parent in employment. They are facing a rising battle | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
against food and energy costs. is clear that the money from many | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
jobs is not adequate to provide the likes of food and new shoes and | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
other basics. It is time we introduced a basic living wage for | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
all employees in Scotland. Scottish bum and says they are | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
doing everything in their power to support families, but say | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
Westminster based welfare reforms still leave the most vulnerable at | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
risk of poverty. At the sharp end, it means there are important | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
decisions to be made. You are watching Reporting Scotland | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme... | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
More support is announced for military personnel, past and | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
present. And the science festival that is | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
worrying about animals, sex and sewage. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
And in sport, as Scotland prepare for the World Cup qualifiers, the | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
last man to lead the national team to a major tournament says.. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
Actually, I will tell you later about that. We will take you on a | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
guided tour of Glasgow Warriors' new home, with a celebrity tour | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
guide. It is known as "Scotland's other | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
national drink". Irn-Bru has been made here for almost 150 years. But | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
now the company behind Irn-Bru is in merger talks with English rival | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Britvic. So what now for this iconic brand and the people who | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
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make it? It is known throughout the world and four years we have been | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
told we're it comes from. The bottles may have altered over the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
years, but the recipe has stayed the same. Now, big changes could be | :07:31. | :07:40. | |
on the way, as the makers edgy Barr seems set to become merged with the | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
rival, Britvic. From the point of view of edgy Barr, it is an | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
ambitious expansion campaign. They will be able to use the profile of | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
Britvic to expand into Europe. Edgy Barr first made the drink 150 years | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
ago and until recently, their family was still running the firm - | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
- the company. This is one of five production site they operate in | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
Scotland. They are not read the are already the biggest soft drink | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
manufacturing company in the United Kingdom, but of the tie-up with | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
Britvic, they will become one of the biggest in Europe. There are | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
calls for clarity. It is an iconic Scottish company, well known across | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
the globe. We hope that the company can stay in Scotland and the | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
workforce can be protected. These are answers may not come until a | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
deal is done. But the makers of Irn-Bru are clearly looking to the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
future. Hundred of mourners have paid their | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
respects at the funeral of five- year-old Grace MacKay who died | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
after a canoe capsized in Loch Gairloch last week. It took place | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
at her home in Muir of Ord. The funerals of two young boys who also | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
died in the tragedy will take place on Friday. Their father is still | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
missing, presumed drowned. Measures to support military | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
personnel and veterans have been announced by the Scottish | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
government. The Armed Forces Commitments Paper aims to address | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
housing, education and medical issues for serving soldiers, | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
sailors and airmen, as well as those who fought in previous | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
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conflicts. Donald MacLeod's psychiatrist told and to get a dog. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
He sent can get some it out of the house and get him used to dealing | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
with people again. He is the Falklands war veteran who suffers | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
from post-traumatic stress disorder. It makes you feel a bit paranoid. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
You think that everyone is looking at you and wanting to have a go at | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
you. I would not go anywhere without patrolling everywhere and | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
scanning everywhere. I did not want to go on buses, or call into shops. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
British has been fighting in Afghanistan for more than a decade | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
and now there are more than 10,000 troops there every day. When they | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
come home, they find it difficult to access basic services. Today, | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
the Scottish, promise to cut through the red tape for those | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
serving in the armed forces and for those who previously served. We can | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
we have personnel there in Afghanistan for maybe the 4th time | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
and this has been tremendously stressful. They have also had to do | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
a lot of training before they went, so this has placed huge stress upon | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
their family life. Today's announcement is not just to do with | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
injured personnel, but also with the potentially tragic consequences | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
of post-traumatic stress disorder. It is about the basic services that | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
most of us take for granted. It was 16 years after the war when | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Donald's problems began. Heath thinks everything must be done so | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
that other veterans do not suffer the way he has done. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Its reputation as one of the most dangerous roads in the country is | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
well deserved, so you would think that when police announced a | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
clampdown on speeding, everyone who used the A9 between Inverness and | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Perth would have been extra careful. But that was not the case. Craig | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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Anderson joins us from the A9 to tell us more. I am at a recognised | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
speeding up blackspot on the A9 just south of Inverness. Three | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
weeks ago, I was at a police launch will be tracked down about speeding | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
launched by the police. Throughout that end the campaign, despite all | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
the publicity, something like 700 motorists were caught speeding at | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
the am 33 people on their mobile phones and there where a variety of | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
other offences involving private and commercial vehicles. But there | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
is notorious. The A9 between Inverness and Perth is subject to | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
more than 200 accidents a year, and many of these serious or fatal. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Because of increased traffic, August is the worst month of the | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
year, hence the publicity blitz by the police force. Some of these | :12:50. | :12:59. | |
offenders were caught going at 120 mph. The problems which can be | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
caused by driving in that manner other incredible. It is not the | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
road to blame for these. It is the driver and a speedy are driving at. | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
Akam a van records the speeds that passing vehicles goal at. It was | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
hoped the police launch would crack down on speeders, but to their | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
frustration, those whose speed are not getting the message. I get the | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
impression that those who drive past their observation skills are | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
very poor. This is the very conspicuous than. It has got black | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
cameras painted and the top. Campaign has complained that the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
road is frustratingly confusing, going from single to dual- | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
carriageway. Police say that regardless of the road, it is | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
If it is estimated that it will not be two lanes all the weight until | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
2025. Will this make a difference? Any boat safety expert will tell | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
you that Jill carriageways are safer than single carriageway roads. | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
As you say, they have made a commitment to make this a dual- | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
carriageway by 2025 full best --. Police insisted drivers must | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
approach the road as it is at the moment, and they will continue to | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
target speeding and other offences here on A9. The | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
A look now at what else has been happening across the country this | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Wednesday. A home for military veterans in | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Dundee is at the centre of two investigations. A police inquiry's | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
under way into the death of a former RAF man at the Rosendael | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Veterans' Residence. Meanwhile, the Care Inspectorate is investigating | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
a number of complaints it's received about the home. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
What we have got to do is convince our residents, which is not | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
difficult, because they know they are safe and sound, but let the | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
families know they are safe and sound. | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
A report into Aberdeen's energy industry says it will need to | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
recruit the equivalent of the city's entire current workforce in | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
the next ten years. Accountants PwC says Aberdeen must attract around | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
120,000 new recruits by 2022 if it's to realise its potential as a | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
global energy capital. The contractors who built Lerwick's | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
new �12 million arts centre have begun legal action over a contract | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
dispute with Shetland Arts. The firm - DITT - wants more than | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
�200,000. Shetland Arts has accepted it will have to pay. | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
Some of Scotland's oldest documents will become available online for | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
the first time later today when Glasgow University launches a new | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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website. In some cases the archives date back more than 900 years. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
If you really want to get hold of what history was about, it is about | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
people at large, then you have got to go to the documents that the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
people themselves were involved with one way or another. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
One of the most popular artifacts in London's British Museum will go | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
on display at the weekend in Shetland. This statue of the | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Egyptian cat goddess is 2,500 years old. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
And there are more stories from your area and all the latest news | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
24 hours a day on BBC Scotland's Our power supplies, mobile phones | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
and sat-navs are under threat from bad weather - in space. And our sex | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
lives could be disrupted by sewage. These are just two of the day's big | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
announcements at the British Science Festival, six days of | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
intense scientific activity, which is taking place this year in | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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Aberdeen. They are building a bridge to | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
tomorrow. This year, Aberdeen's own -- owner science festival has | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
become the school's programme for one of the biggest events in Europe, | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
the British Science Festival. The good news is that the festival has | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
kicked off here to a beautiful Indian summer. The bad news is that | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
the weather that growth forecast for space is very, very poor indeed. | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
That is because storms of charged particles from the sun there are | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
about to reach power supplies, and more could be brought down. | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Communications with spacecraft, lot of infrastructure, pipelines, the | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
railway network possibly could be affected. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
There is another warning -- warning, that reproduction is under threat | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
from man-made chemicals found in so rich. It could be a -- as big a | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
challenge as climate change. A they are in our Plastics, a fire | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
retardant electrical equipment. Pesticides, everything. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
It works on many different body systems, so it reduces the ability | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
and has the possibility to make you more apiece. | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
Meanwhile, organisers say the public events are going well. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
We are what -- we are expecting tens of thousands of people, so it | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
is literally for everyone, everyone from scientists, who will be | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
talking to their peers about research, and families who cannot | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
do random fun things. With so many things taking place | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
across the city, it is tempted to think of the festival as a | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
scientific Olympics, except in this one, everyone can take part. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
And from the future of science to an optimistic prediction on the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
sporting front, here's David. The start of Scotland's World Cup | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
qualifying campaign is just a few days away. It starts on Saturday at | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Hampden, when Craig Levein's team face Serbia. The last man to lead a | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
succesful qualifying campaign was Craig Brown in the late 1990s. He | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
reckons Levein's Scotland can make it to the finals in Brazil, and he | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
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has some advice for the current manager. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
He is the man who has the hopes of a nation on his shoulders. Pressure | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
that another man is all too familiar with. The man who knows | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
the emotions lying in wait for Craig Levein, win or lose. | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
When we got out of the grip, I felt so upset when we did not make it. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
But the feeling when you do qualify and the jaw country to a major | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
tournament is terrific, and it is worth all the agony and all the | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
pressure that you are accused of having to suffer. | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
The focus turns to Craig Levein and his team on Saturday, that is when | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
the quest begins. They will hope the campaign ends like it did in | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
1997, a 1-0 win over last year led Scotland were on their way. The | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
manager told their players -- told his players to take two laps of | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
honour, but he regrets not joining them. | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
When I look back, I would love to have been out on the pitch. But it | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
was a wonderfully satisfying moment. My advice would be to take your | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
time to enjoy it. I know there is pressure, but do not let it get to | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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you. It is a privilege to be in the job, and enjoy it. | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
Glasgow Warriors are having a housewarming party on Friday. The | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
city's pro rugby players are playing their first game at | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
Scotstoun Stadium. It's against the Welsh team Scarlets in the Pro12 | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
league. Ahead of the big day, our rugby reporter Jim Mason was given | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
his own private tour. Friday night will be our first game, | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
it feels like home to last and I am looking forward to seeing what it | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
will be like on game day. I will show you around inside. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
We have got everything we need, lifting platforms, dumb-bells, all | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
the big guys are into the power lifting and heavy weight. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Do you guys could in here? No, this is when we make-up slacks | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
and supplements after training. Lunch is provided every day | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
upstairs, so after we have finished our morning session we will go | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
upstairs and they were put on meals for us, so you get the right kind | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
of food. Everything has but -- come together in the last few days. This | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
is the dressing room, but the final touches being put in. We have got a | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
chance to create history here. We had a good record at our old | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
stadium, but we have to start from scratch and make this a tough place | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
to come, so getting off to a good start on Friday is important. The | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Scarlets will be our first opponents, we will make them wait | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
for a couple of minutes and then come out. We are heading for a full | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
house, which will be brilliant. 5300 people is the capacity, it we | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
could get that here that would be brilliant. It is all about | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
performing, or about the business, we have been training towards it | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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for the week, and for our whole lives as well. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Scotland defender Christophe Berrow will rejoin the squad tomorrow, his | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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partner has just had a baby. Now, you never know what's lurking | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
in the backyards or on the roofs of city centre businesses - but it's a | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
fair bet you wouldn't think of beehives. Well, several pubs and | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
restaurants in Glasgow are turning their premises into urban shelters | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
for honey bees. And as Laura Maxwell reports, the insects are | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
making themselves at home in some prime commercial locations. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
From today, these insects will call the roof of St Enoch Centre their | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
home. The biggest test today is | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
pesticides, in the city centre, we have parties, hanging baskets, | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
community gardens taking place all over the city, and it is making it | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
a safe haven. The two hives will hold 70,000 | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
insects. If that they settle in, it is hoped the colony will grow. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
We do see whether it will happen next year. It is not commercially | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
viable at the moment, but who knows in future. The staff enjoy it and | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
we are learning about things and it is good for the environment. | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
The city centre may seem like an unlikely haven for a bees, but with | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
all the parks and gardens, it provides rich pickings for | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
pollinators. The city centre is not their only | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
habitat. They are also on the rigs of several pubs and restaurants. | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
You do feel quite paternal towards them. You want them to get going | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
and get on, and when you see them coming in and out of the hive, and | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
some of them have got bits of pollen attached to their legs and | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
things like this, it is quite a thrilling. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
A beehives will be cared for by specialists. Their new landlords | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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will get a warm bars and a pot of honey if they are lucky. Now the | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
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It has been a bright today, but there will be rain arriving tonight. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
For cast your eyes to the north- west, there is the rain working its | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
way in, accompanied by a strengthening wind. The rain does | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
not get too far south, at many places will stay dry be clear skies. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Into tomorrow, there is high pressure to the south, which is the | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
central belt and southwards, it will start off OK. These weather | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
are fronts will work their way in, bringing persistent rain. Yesterday, | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
we were talking about the North West been tried, but it is very wet | :25:41. | :25:49. | |
tomorrow. It will continue to spread its way across the country, | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
the rain. Wind also picking up across the country. By mid- | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
afternoon, it will have worked its way to the central belt and baby | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
further south. Some brightness around, temperatures into the high | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
teens. You do not have to come a far inland to see the rain. It will | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
improve over Orkney and Shetland, by the afternoon at least. The rest | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
of the afternoon a stain rather cloudy, wet and windy. Looking to | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
Friday, here is the weather front that will bring rain tomorrow. It | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
is staying, so it will be rather cloudy and damp on Friday. | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
Temperatures into the high teens under the cloud. A some sunshine in | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
a few areas. Looking towards the weekend, Saturday will probably be | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
the best of the two days, generally fine and bright. Much lighter wind, | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
cloudy in the west and north-west. Thanks, Chris. Now, just before 7pm, | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
a summary of tonight's top stories: Alex Salmond has undertaken the | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
largest ministerial reshuffle since the SNP came to government in 2007. | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
His deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, leaves health for an economic post with | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
added responsibility for the planned independence referendum. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
The spiralling cost of petrol is to come under fresh scrutiny, with the | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
Office of Fair Trading launching a review into whether motorists are | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
getting a fair deal at the pumps. The watchdog says it will examine | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
whether falling costs of crude oil are reflected in the prices paid by | :27:24. | :27:33. |