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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news.

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10 people have been injured in a crash near Stirling.

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One of the country's richest men declares his support for

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independence. Jim McColl says Scotland should be allowed to make

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its own decisions to kick-start the economy.

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One of Glasgow's most deprived areas is to get a multi-million

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pound facelift in a bid to win the youth Olympics, but not everyone is

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happy. Our homes are being taken from us. They made a public promise

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and a public commitment to 400 people and they are going back on

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their word. Also in the programme, she was the

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face of the sixties, now Twiggy is A number of fire and ambulance

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crews are dealing with a serious incident involving a good so fickle

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and the people carrier in Stirling. -- a goods vehicle.

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You can see behind me the extent of the damage from this crash. It has

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been quite horrific. At about 3:15pm this afternoon the red lorry

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that you can see behind me was travelling down this road when Da

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Silva people carrier was coming out of this local pub. The people in

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the pub heard a great bank and they came out to do what they could to

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help. First, I phoned the emergency services. I told them that we

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needed a fire brigade because we saw diesel and petrol. I told them

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that we needed at the fire brigade and more than one ambulance. I went

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round myself with a couple of my team members to assess who needed

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the most help. The people who were able to talk we tried to reassure.

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A few more of the people were just lying there with lots of blood and

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we went in to get howls and cloths and stop the blood flow through the

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cuts and in their heads. -- get towels.

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Any news on the injured? There were seven people in the people carrier.

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They were all taken to the local hospital and we have just heard

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from them in the last few minutes that Five are seriously injured,

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five at less so. They are still in hospital undergoing treatment. The

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road remains closed and will do so for some time.

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Thank you. One of Scotland's most successful

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businessman has given his backing to independence. Billionaire, Jim

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McColl, who founded the company Clyde Blowers voiced his support

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just after George Osborne had criticised the SNP for not

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providing enough detail on how independent Scotland would work.

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Jim McColl has built his substantial fortune in the

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engineering industry. He has also supported greater economic powers

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for the Scottish Parliament in the current economic union. Now he

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wants to go further. In an article The timing of that article is very

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handy indeed for the Yes campaign. Last night, the Chancellor George

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Osborne used his speech in Glasgow to accuse the Scottish government

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of failing to give details of how up an independent Scotland's

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economy would work. I know that the proponents of independence applying

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the most reassuring bedside manner say that an independent Scotland

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would retain everything from the pound, the Bank of England to UK

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financial services regulation. However, I simply do not think it

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is credible to suggest simultaneously that in an

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independent Scotland everything will change and do nothing will

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change. Those claims have been dismissed by the First Minister

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issued today, with Jim a call beside him, was at the Council of

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economic advisers. Jim McColl are normally lives in a low-tax

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Monaco's so what notice should voters take up his views? I would

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rather have somebody creating jobs in Scotland like Jim McColl rather

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than the Chancellor who is destroying jobs. Jim McColl's

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company pays lots of taxes into the Scottish economy and creates lots

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of jobs. We have got to choose and Scotland between the people who are

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prepared to invest here or a Tory chancellor who tells us that we

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cannot do what we want. Jim McColl declined to be interviewed today

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but expect to hear from him again as the economy plays a central role

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in the referendum campaign. Meanwhile the Chancellor has

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announced a tax break to encourage investment in the old up oil and

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gas fields in the North Sea. Our reporter is at Aberdeen harbour.

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What did the Chancellor announced? What he announced was a measure to

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appease an industry which he angered last year by announcing an

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increase in the supplementary tax that they pay on the revenue

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generated from the oil and gas sales from what they exploit from

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the North Sea here. The reason why that angered the industry was

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because that would squeeze the margins of some of the relatively

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smaller companies who themselves extract from difficult to get to

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places, use more advanced techniques and therefore have

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already squeezed margins. This announcement is directly targeted

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at those because it only affects the older fields and it ring fence

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is a quarter of a billion pounds of their revenue from VAT

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supplementary tax. That means that that of the revenue they generate

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that quarter of a billion pounds will be free of that tax.

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Thank you. You are watching Reporting Scotland

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from the BBC. Still to come. Tackling a tough condition head-on.

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The actress putting a MS centre stage.

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Tonight's sport comes alive from just outside the Scotland team

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hotel on eve of their World Cup qualifier against Serbia tomorrow.

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I will be joined later by the Scotland manager.

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An appalling betrayal, that his house some residents in north

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Glasgow have described plans to transform their area. Sighthill has

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been placed at the heart of the city's bid to host the 28 Tina used

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Olympic Games. But many homes will be demolished in the process. --

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Sighthill is a strong and at times notorious Community and it will be

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the site of the athletes village if Glasgow wins of the Youth Olympic

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Games. In a �250 million transformation it will include many

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improvements. But not everybody likes this new vision. Our homes

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will be taken from us. They made a promise to 400 people, a public

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promise, a public commitment and they are going back on their word.

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Regardless of the bid's outcome, the work will go ahead. This is the

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kind of investment that Sighthill needs. In the current environment

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we did not expect that we would be in a position to be making these

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announcements for at least 20 years. One-to-one meetings are now being

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arranged with all of those affected by the move. It is half a kilometre

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from the city centre and if they make it better, fair enough. This

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is the only place that we go, this is our club. We are going to lose

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that and I think it is a disgrace. Sighthill is crying out for

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regeneration, but what people questioned is how it is being done.

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Everything he will be demolished. The council says it is the legacy

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of the bid's process. Other people say if -- other people say they are

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ripping the heart out of the community.

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The funeral has taken place of the two boys who drowned in a canoeing

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tragedy it two weeks ago. Mourners packed Inverness crematorium to

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remember five-year-old Ewen Beaton and his brother Jamie, aged two,

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who died along with a two-year-old girl. At coastline search is

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continuing for the body of the boy's father.

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Emotion and drama today at the Paralympics involving Scottish

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cyclist, Karen Darke. She was hoping to add up to the Italian

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master so far by athletes. Our games correspondent can tell us

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more. I think this takes team spirit and

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it comradeship to a new level. Karen Darke, who has already won a

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silver left will -- silver medal, she was going in a bronze medal

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position but she came across the finishing line with her team-mate

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hand in hand. The official went for a photo finish and a Karen Darke

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was denied by a matter of millimetres. The Scottish team in

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the Paralympics stays at Number 11. Strong sports like cycling was

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where we picked up three medals. But there are other sports as well

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wait we have picked up medals. It has been a good spread across the

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sports and hopefully more to come. So a very good Paralympics for the

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Scottish athletes here as well as a few weak as a go at the Olympics. -

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- a few weeks ago. If you can get here, you will be able to see some

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of our top Olympians and Paris She has won a scholarship's best-

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known actresses, but when Alison Peebles was first diagnosed with MS

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she was determined to keep it a secret. A decade on, she is upfront

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about her condition and she has put it centre stage with a new show

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that she has created for the National Theatre of Scotland.

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The story is based on a true story... This story is about MS,

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something the actress and director has been dealing with for a decade.

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Her initial reaction was to keep it hidden, but now she is speaking out.

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I wanted to express something about this extremely complex and

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confusing condition. You do not know what the future will be, you

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cannot predict it, nobody knows, the medical professionals don't

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know. You cannot tell. She has already tackled the subject on film.

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I want to be myself, Alison Peebles, somebody cue Mac and directs and

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sometimes also! Of bringing profile to a condition which affects a

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disproportionate number of the Scots. I think the key thing is

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that Alison is showing that she can still work and she is a tremendous

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role model, particularly for women in Scotland. We have relatively

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high prevalence of MS and we also know that women are twice as likely

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to be affected as men. For Alison, the touring will be tough, she

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suffers from chronic fatigue. Her life may be shrinking, but she is

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Oh look now up what else has been happening across the country. The

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Government's given the go-ahead to a controversial 36-turbine windfarm

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near Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. Scottish Natural Heritage and the

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RSPB dropped their objections after the original scheme was scaled back.

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Doctors are warning that around a quarter of all in-patients in

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Scottish hospitals have some form of dementia - but many of them

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haven't had their condition properly diagnosed. The Royal

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College of Physicians is calling for more training to ensure staff

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can spot the symptoms of dementia - and provide appropriate treatment.

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Research shows that although you have to invest in staff to detect

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dementia, the early detection and good care is cheaper because it

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stops hospital admissions and stops people being institutionalised

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early. The airline FlyBe is to pull out of

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its Aberdeen-to-Gatwick service from next month. The last flight

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will be on October 28th. A BBC investigation has found

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almost half of Scotland's councils have cut back their community sport

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provision. 15 authorities have reduced opening hours at one or

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more venues, and seven have closed a facility to the public.

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And there are more stories from your area - and all the latest news,

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24 hours a day - on BBC Scotland's People whose diet is high in fat

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could be damaging the part of the brain that controls that appetite.

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Bat has been one of the Today's hot topics at the British Science

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Festival in Aberdeen. Scotland has a weight problem - you

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don't say! I am not the only person in Scotland fighting a long and

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lonely fight against stuffing my face, but what researchers have

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been telling the British Science Festival is that people like me

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lack important psychological skills called executive function. Here in

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Aberdeen, they have been working in -- on ways to not just in the right

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direction. People know what they should be eating. The issue is to

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get people to make the decision. We have been developing signs to

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display at food order point in the coffee bar when you are standing

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next to the cakes. Other research has been unveiled this suggests

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people with a high-fat diet are actually damaging the very part of

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the brain that is meant to control their appetite. We took mice that

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were susceptible to gaining weight and put half of them on a high-fat

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diet and half on a low-fat diet. We looked at the area of the brain and

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found that the proteins had changed and they were the same ones that

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would change if you had o lack of blood supply to this part of the

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brain or had an infection. Elsewhere, research suggesting

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these Vikings had the first criminal profiling. It is quite

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useful to have this kind of aggressive tendency but the problem

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is when they get back home. It is by King Crimewatch. -- Viking.

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David is at the Scotland team hotel. Scotland's World Cup campaign

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starts tomorrow and the national team manager's message is, Bring It

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On. It's a home game against Serbia at Hampden and Craig Levein says

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his team are ready and confident. This is the venue, and this is the

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opposition. Serbia - a team packed full of top players, no, but they

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do have real quality. You will see the likes of Manchester City and

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Chelsea players. Do you think they go in as favourites? He ice, but

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the unfortunate -- fortunate thing for me is that our players have

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improved enormously. Two years ago at the start of the previous

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qualifying game, it was different. A host of key players are missing

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through injury. Charlie Mulgrew, Scott Brown, Diane Fletcher and

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another player was at this out. The selection headache? Maybe not as

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others have been drafted in. The man who will win his 50th cap and

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lead the team that has belief that this time it can be different.

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have a lot of players that can step in and do the job and it's an

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opportunity for them and a big game to go and take it. They are ready

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for battle physically and psychologically, so what of

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suggestions that the Serbians think Scotland can't play with a ball at

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their feet? My father gave me a couple of really important bits of

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advice a long time ago. When in conflict, don't tell anybody what

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you are going to do. Tough talk ahead of a tough campaign. Craig

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Levein and Scotland - it's over to you.

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The national team could take their first step towards the World Cup

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finals in Brazil in 2014 tomorrow, but how confident are you? How

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confident and optimistic should we be? It would be the first World Cup

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finals we have been that since 1998. The road to Brazil. We can all

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dream! In a glass half-empty kind You might think the Brazilian bar

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in Glasgow is as close as we will get to Rio in 2014. Look at the

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qualifying group we are in - Serbia, Macedonia, Belgium Wales and

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Croatia. Maybe I should be more positive. What is in this?! It is

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not too difficult for Scotland and. With the home crowd behind you and

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the travelling Tartan Army, Scotland will be very happy.

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have a Brazilian national tartan for the World Cup. Can they qualify

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for Brazil 2014? After that, I feel more positive

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about our chances with my Brazil tartan waistcoat on. I even have a

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Brazilian tartan kilt, although it may be a bit short and probably

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That's more like it. Rio, here we You probably didn't enjoy watching

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that put you will enjoy watching highlights of the match tomorrow on

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BBC One Scotland. You can also listen to it on BBC Radio Scotland.

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I have saved the best for last tonight because I am joined by the

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Scotland manager at Craig Levein. The team are in their behind us -

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it's the night before a big match. What's going on? A I don't know.

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I'm out here with you! They are just preparing for their evening

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meal. We will have a team meeting after that and then they will go to

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bed. Is that when you tell them who is in the team? Can you give us any

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hints? No, I can't tell you. I will be telling the players later this

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evening. Some of the lads like to know if they are playing or not. I

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am not going to tell the media. shocks or surprises? I wouldn't

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think so. The hopes of a nation of resting on your shoulders. Do you

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feel nervous on occasions like this? No, I love it. This is why I

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took the job - to be involved in occasions like this. There are not

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enough occasions like this. I love it. Bring it on. Are you happy with

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the way things have gone? The preparations for the match - is

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there anything that hasn't gone according to plan? I have become

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immune to that, almost, because it happens every time we have a

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gathering. I have got the players I want and everything is settled and

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we are really happy. Thank you very much for joining us and all the

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best for tomorrow. From me and the national team

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manager, back to you in the studio. She is known as the world's first

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supermodel and continues to be a fashion icon in the 60s. Twiggy is

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in Aberdeen for the 10th anniversary of the city's festival

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for people over 50. Twiggy, with her trademark glamour.

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She caused as much of a stir today with all ages as she did in her

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1960s heyday. The doe-eyed model exploded on to the fashion scene at

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aged 17 and made it through to the other side. She relishes her more

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mature at role-model status. can change your career and do lots

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of different things. You don't have to live a complete his gambler's

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life. I happen to be happily married. -- a scandalous a life. I

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hope that I'm a bit of a role model. As well as getting advice and tips

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from an international fashion icon on how to stay stylish and greater,

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Aberdeen's over-fifties can go to a film festival, learn how to paint

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or take part in a tweed workshop. was pathetic and jury and then I

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tried stain glass - a complete failure. So I thought I would do

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this. I have never worked with tweed. I don't do any embroidery or

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seven, but it is my birthday so I decided to do something different.

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Although at 62, a cup of tea might be more to her taste, Twiggy has no

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plans to slow down and she says that is the secret. Join a cooking

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club, join the computer club, but I think to just retire and do nothing

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would be so bad for your head, apart from anything else!

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Hope for was all! Let's see what we We are holding on to the tune at

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temperatures this evening. A lot of dry were there to be found and some

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brightness across eastern and northern parts. Patchy rain or

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drizzle across western areas. These conditions extend across the far

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north with rain putting into the northern isles. Humid and on the

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mild side overnight. Tomorrow morning starts on a dry, cloudy

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night but we will see things brighten up across eastern areas,

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particularly the north-east. Come the afternoon, we should see some

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brightness breaking through towards the south-west corner. Temperatures

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up to 19 Celsius for the south-west and Lanarkshire. Holding on to more

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cloud towards North Argyll. Rain and drizzle in the Hebrides. On the

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north coast, some sunshine coming through. The rain stays put over

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Shetland. Maybe 23 for inland parts of Aberdeenshire. Towards the South

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East corner, temperatures looking very respectable. For tomorrow's

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football, it should be dry for the Hampden match. Good luck to the

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boys. If you are heading out to the hills, you will fare better with

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the sunshine coming through. Quite a dusty wind at the peaks,

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certainly across the Cairngorms. For the Western Rangers, quite a

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contrast with quite extensive hill fog. It will be fairly windy at the

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tops. The north-west Thailand rangers have a strong wind. For the

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inshore waters forecast, the As far as the rest of the afternoon

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is concerned, holding on to brightness in the east. Quite a

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fresh and strong south-westerly wind. For the rest of the weekend,

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the weather Front starts to approach bringing some rain and a

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stronger wind. Some sunshine on Sunday morning with cloud

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A summary of the top stories: 10 people have been injured in a crash

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between a lorry and a people carrier near Stirling.

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Five people are said to be seriously injured.

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French police have given their first details of the conversations

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with a four-year-old who survived the shooting of a British family.

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She was found hidden in a bullet- ridden car and is under police

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guard. Police are investigating a possible dispute with the brother

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