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Tonight on Reporting Scotland: The mother of a missing financial | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
adviser breaks down as she tells a murder trial of the last time she | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
saw her daughter. The UK Government reveals his plans | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
for a high-speed rail in the North of England, but what will they need | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
for us? I will be reporting from Edinburgh's Waverley Station. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Claims that a firm charged with helping the unemployed back into | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
work called its clients lying thieves. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
The sudden fear to closure that has led to a drama on the streets of St | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Andrews. And the gift of a lucky penny that | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
one little St Mirren fan believes Hoult the Buddies' weekend win over | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
Celtic. I thought I should give it to my teacher -- to them so that | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
they could win. The mother of a missing financial adviser has | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
broken down in court at the trial of four men accused of killing her. | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
She said, I keep hoping she is going to come back. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Financial adviser Lynda Spence has not been seen since April, 2011. It | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
was claimed by prosecutors she had been murdered. In May of that Lear, | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
she was reported missing at her mother and father made an emotional | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
appeal at a police news conference. If you are listening, please call | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
to let us know you are safe and well. Today in court, Lynda's | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
mother said she had a close relationship with her daughter, she | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
was more like a friend, she said. I was over-protected, I was a nutcase | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
mum, she admitted, saying she was in constant touch by telephone and | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
text message. Twice, she broke down in the witness box as she told the | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
solicitor general, who was prosecuting, I helmet had the one | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Lassie, she was my life. I keep hoping she is going to come back. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
She said that Lynda had come to her house on her birthday, on April | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
13th, but seemed tense. Normally, the family went for a meal, but | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Lynda said she was busy. Later, takes messages suggested she was in | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
London. Mrs Spence will resume her evidence in the morning. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
The UK Government has claimed its decision to push ahead with a new | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
high-speed rail murder can England will deliver a major benefits to | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Scotland. There are no firm plans for a high-speed lines to be dealt | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
further north than Leeds or Manchester. David Mellor is at | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
Waverley Station in Edinburgh. David, Harwell Scotland benefit if | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
the lines will not cross the border? -- Harwell Scotland | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
benefit? There will be some practical and economic benefits, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
but clearly these will be on a smaller scale than those delivered | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
by a UK wide high speed rail network, which did include Glasgow | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
and Edinburgh. HS2 will result in shorter journey times for Scots | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
travellers heading south. That is because cross-border services will | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
be able to pick up speed when they reached the. HS2 will connect with | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
the West Coast Main Line. High- speed trains can then continue at | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
regular speeds to places such as Preston, Carlisle, Glasgow and | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Edinburgh. I am working with counterparts in Scotland on their | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
aspirations for a high-speed rail. I have already set out a long-term | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
ambition to get journeys to Scotland below the three hours. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Scottish Government and business organisations, what do they have to | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
say? The Scottish Chambers of Commerce say it is vital that | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Glasgow and Edinburgh are included in this UK wide, high-speed rail | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
network. The Scottish Government says it is doing everything it can | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
to ensure that does indeed happen. For example, it is pushing ahead | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
with proposals for a high-speed line linking Edinburgh and Glasgow | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
on economic grounds. But ministers here say high-speed rail could | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
deliver other important benefits as well. We also understand, as does | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
the hall of the organisation behind us, the real benefits come when it | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
comes all the way to Scotland. It is important that we have that. I | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
think the Scottish Government is doing what it can to make sure we | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
have the basis for a high-speed rail network joined up with the | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
rest of the UK. High-speed rail will not reach the North of England | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
for another 20 years, it will be even longer before passengers here | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
at Waverley or indeed in Glasgow could bought a high-speed rail | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
service and travel to London, so I am afraid to say, I suspect you and | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
I will be using her senior citizens' railcards. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Staying with transport, one of the two passenger airlines operating | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
out of Prestwick Airport is pulling out. Wizz Air, which links Scotland | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
to Warsaw and Gdansk in Poland, has announced it is shifting from its | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Ayrshire base to use Glasgow Airport instead. That leaves | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
Ryanair as the on my schedule passenger airline using Prestwick. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
programme: The prehistoric crocodile that has been discovered | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
in Glasgow, even though it has been in a museum for a century. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
In sport, Kelly Brown is named as Scotland's captain for the Calcutta | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Cup clash at Twickenham but he is warned that performances must be | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
good enough. And we will reveal the real reason some men and managed to | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
hold their luck again Celtic. -- St Mirren managed. | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
A BBC investigation has found that a Scottish company delivering the | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
UK Government's flagship welfare- to-work programme has been accused | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
of referring to clients as lying thieves. Triage Central admits the | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
term was used in a training session, but says it was a one-off. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
True dicentra has paid to find jobs for people facing long-term | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
unemployment. One of many private companies delivering the | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Government's Work programme. It claims to have achieved one of the | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
highest employment success rates in the country. Lynda Smith worked as | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
an employment adviser in Aberdeen. If some of the clients you were mad | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
were too difficult to put into employment, what would happen? | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
would be put on telephone interviews. So they did not have to | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
come into the centre. Just to make sure that there was this contact | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
made, so they could tick a box to say that they are still on the work | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
programme. They would call it parking, that was the word that was | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
used. Triage is Tony Wilson's work provider. After 11 months of the | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
programme, Tony says he has only seen his adviser three times. | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
adviser said, Harlow, just checking how you are doing. -- hello. We | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
will see you next year. Was this an unusual phone call? Had you have | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
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one like this before? No, it was bizarre. Former employee it Lynda | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
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Smith also Tommy something more shocking. -- told me. LTVs. That is | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
how they were referred to. Lying, feeding... T these were clients buy | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
you had been employed to help. help back into employment. We have | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
spoken to a number of former Triage Central employees who claim they | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
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also heard this term been used. In A Select Committee inquiry into how | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
well the programme is going will report back in April. | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
You can see more on that tonight on BBC One Scotland at 8:30pm. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
People who live or work along parts of the East Coast, including the | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
firths of Forth and Tay, can get precise warnings of potential | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
flooding in their area. There is concern that major industrial sites | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
like the Grange Road oil refinery remain under threat of flood. Fiona | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Walker reports. Today, they have taken the sitting | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
room to the water, by what the Government is really concerned | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
about is when the water reaches the sitting room. Leaving destruction | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
in its wake. They want everyone to know about the new tidal flood | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
warnings which are now in place on the East Coast. Warnings help save | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
lives and property. They are no barrier to the sea. An expert has | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
said there are major concerns about the Forth estuary. The greatest | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
being drained her. 40% of the UK's oil goes through the refinery. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
know the Grangemouth does need flood defences. Not just the | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
flooding of Grangemouth, it is the contamination prospect from damage | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
to tankers, which might resultant oil being spread over the river. | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
a day like this, it may seem unthinkable that a storm could | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
cause water to come right up the Firth of Forth and cause | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
catastrophic flood damage. We have been warned, perhaps we should be | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
thinking the unthinkable. 60 years ago, there was a three-metre surf | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
which hit the Age UK, killing around 500 people. And even more on | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
mainland Europe. In 1999, a five metre surge was also recorded in | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
the North Sea. It hit Denmark. So, do we need to plan for this in | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Scotland? We need to understand that risk to a greater degree. So | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
we will be running those scenarios, of a major coastal search, what | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
would it look like, what areas would get flooded? We have seen the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
devastation that flooding causes. The Scottish Government is having | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
to prioritise. We are not protecting strategically important | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
sites and people's homes. The SNP has called for talks to | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
start now on how defence and security would operate in Scotland | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
was to become independent. The Deputy First Minister, Nicola | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Sturgeon, was giving evidence to the UK Government's Foreign Affairs | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Committee in Edinburgh. They are investigating the foreign policy in | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
the -- implications of independence. Niall O'Gallagher was there for us. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
What questions to the committee have? They were in Edinburgh today | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
to look at the implications of foreign policy and independence, | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
not just the Scotland, but the UK as a whole. Nicola Sturgeon was | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
quizzed on the practicalities and costs of setting up intelligence- | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
gathering services for an independent Scotland. She said they | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
would hope to work closely with London in the event of independence | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
on those issues. They would also have to be talks on Trident, the | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
Scottish Government is committed to getting rid of nuclear weapons on | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
the Clyde. Nicola Sturgeon said that could be done within two years. | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
Well, I have already cited the CND work as a strident could be safely | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
decommissioned and moved over a three-year period. We will have | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
sensible discussions about that time scale with the UK,. On the | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
basis that it is about speedy and safe removal. There is no reason | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
that we could not start at this stage having sensible discussions | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
about what the options were. Whether on the issue of Trident or | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
wider security issues, the Europe Minister in the UK Government told | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
the committee today there were been all talks ahead of next year's | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
referendum vote, that members of this committee come from parties | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
that do not support independence possibly expect the report will be | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
full of questions, the Scottish Government says they will published | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
their answers to those questions in the run-up to the independence | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
white paper. I am the independence referendum will be the summit of | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
the discussion tonight in a special debate on Newsnight Scotland. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Here is Glenn Campbell to tell us more. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
I will be here with politicians, pundits and the multicultural cross | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
section of Scottish society, to debate Scotland's future on the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
road to the independence referendum. That is a special edition of | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Newsnight Scotland, over on BBC Two from 10:30pm. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Now let's take a look at some other stories from across Scotland this | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
Monday: The Fisheries Secretary, Richard | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Lochhead, has called for an independent mediator to be drafted | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
in to help end the long-running dispute over mackerel quotas. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
couple of years, this stock will be in dangers. We have Europe putting | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
in place sanctions, but we also have to look at the negotiations. I | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
think by inviting an international, neutral, independent mediator, it | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
might help move things forward. Two teenagers have been reported to | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
the Procurator Fiscal after claims that boys on bicycles held onto a | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
passenger train as it pulled out of a Highlands station. British | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
Transport Police described the alleged behaviour in Kingussie as | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
"surfing". Restoring a rail link for towns in | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Aberdeenshire is to be investigated. Local councillors are keen to | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
explore options for a rail line taking in Ellon, Peterhead and | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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Fraserburgh. This is what remains of the old railway line which | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
closed to passengers in the 1960s as part of the Dr Beeching cuts. | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
But now councillors are asking the transport authority to look at the | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
feasibility and costs of reopening the line. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Tributes have been paid to a leading Scottish farmer who died | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
after falling from a shed roof at the weekend. Willie Davidson from | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Poldean Farm, near Moffat, was a respected cattle breeder and show | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
exhibitor. Mr Davidson rebuilt his herd after it was wiped out in the | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
2001 foot and mouth outbreak. A six-week-old seal pup, | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
disorientated during a a storm, is recovering after workers at | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Cairnryan ferry terminal found him in the harbour car park. He was put | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
in the boot of a car while they waited for the SSPCA, but by the | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
time animal welfare officers arrived, he'd somehow lodged | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
himself on the dashboard. The seal pup is now being looked after in a | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
special pen, and when he's strong enough, he'll be returned to the | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
sea. And there are more stories from | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
your area - and all the latest news, 24 hours a day on BBC Scotland's | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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Tobermory lifeboat has towed a stricken fishing vessel to safety | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
after a dramatic 11-hour rescue in gale force winds and heavy seas. | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
During the operation, which started off the isle of Coll, the tow line | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
snapped twice and the fishing boat ran onto rocks. The lifeboat crew | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
re-established the tow and guided the fishing vessel back to | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
Tobermory. The show must go on. Campaigners have taken to the | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
streets of St Andrews to protest about the closure of the town's | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Byre Theatre. The theatre closed on Friday when its board decided | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
voluntary liquidation was the only option to its financial woes. Our | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
arts correspondent Pauline Mclean reports. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
It was the biggest lottery grant for theatre at the time and the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Byre Theatre promised big things but a loss of revenue funding to | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
make years ago let things strained despite a healthy box-office and | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
cutbacks, it was struggling to cover costs. Today, its chairman | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
said they had explored or the options. We did everything we could | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
to restructure, more use of volunteers, franchising and the | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
catering side and various things, but it hasn't been enough. | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
public's estate -- subsidy is unsustainable? Mayor. -- no. It has | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
left many organisations in the lurch, not least for the jazz | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
festival which has had to relocate concerts. 7:30am on Saturday, I had | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
an e-mail from the lady who runs the Poetry Festival, in the same | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
predicament. Lots of people in the same predicament but we are in the | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
shop and because our event is this weekend. The theatre was weeks away | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
from becoming part of the trust run by Fife council and people took to | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
the streets to show their support. It is impossible to imagine St | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Andrews without the theatre. The new building is such a fantastic | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
place to go. We will have no venue to go into. There are so many shows | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
bringing money in. What shocked people most is the speed with which | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
this has happened. This than a week ago, it was host a major award | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
ceremony for Creative Scotland. Now Let's get the latest sports news | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
now and Dougie has our round-up. Kelly Brown has been retained as | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
captain of the Scotland rugby team for their opening match of this | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
year's Six Nations competition against England at Twickenham but | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
maybe not for the full campaign. The interim head coach, Scott | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Johnson, says he wants his captain for the Six Nations to be picked on | :18:21. | :18:31. | |
merit. It was monsoon conditions and a | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
light hurricane thrown in for the good measure. The man tasked with | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
leading Scotland through the impending stormy waters of | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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Twickenham this Saturday it is Kelly Brown. There is no doubt that | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
when I go out of that tunnel, it is going to be exciting but when the | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
anthems are over, we will get down to business. He was captain of the | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
autumn's series which ended in the departure of the coach. The code | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
has warned that if performances are not up to scratch, somebody else | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
will get the call. The captaincy, he is the captain at the time. I'm | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
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not going to be held so tightly to that. Going forward, we want | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
captain see for merit. England are the holders of the Calcutta Cup and | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Scotland have and won at Twickenham for 30 years so Johnson has a big | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
job on his hands. How would he measure of success at the end of | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
the campaign? Let's stop talking about it. I can't sit there and | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
tell you win, win, win. I just went! The question of who is strong | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
enough to feature in the starting 15 to face England will be answered | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
tomorrow. Sport Nation returns tomorrow | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
evening. The programme is devoted entirely to Scotland's preparations | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
for the Six Nations championship with exclusive behind the scenes | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
access. Sport Nation - Six Nations Special, tomorrow at seven o'clock | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
BBC Two Scotland. Scottish football clubs could have | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
the all clear by Thursday to radically alter their league set up. | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
The Premier League have finally, definitely, agreed on a new make-up | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
of two divisions of 12 which would split into three leagues of eight | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
during the season and one bottom tier of 18. If the plans are | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
ratified by the Scottish Football League on Thursday, it could be in | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
place next season. We are in a situation where the SPL | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
clubs they are unanimous about the way forward. It is down to the | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Scottish Football League clubs to decide what they want. | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Dundee United hope to announce Peter Houston's replacement as | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
manager within the next few days. Houston departed today despite the | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
club previously saying he'd leave at the end of the season. Falkirk's | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
Steven Pressley is favourite to follow in his footsteps. | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
I know it works on a continent very well. When the coach says he is | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
stepping down at the end of the season. It is may be different in | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
the UK. We are not used to that kind of thing so we've decided to | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
move on and that is what we will see, and we will see things | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
progress. It'll be Hearts against St Mirren | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
in the League Cup final. John McGlynn's men progressed on | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
penalties against Inverness while the Paisley side put three past | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Celtic. A result which left one Lennon blaming his players and | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
another Lennon thanking a six-year- old girl. Chris McLaughlin reports. | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
Question - ever six year-olds lucky penny helps you into a final, what | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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you do? Answer - go back to school the next day to say thank you. | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
thought I should give my lucky penny to them so they could win. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
And when they did but even with his lucky penny in his pocket, Danny | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
Lennon could not have dreamed up yesterday's Hampton drama. New boy | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Gonzalez got the opener. Most expected a Celtic comeback. It | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
looked unlikely before the break. After Celtic fail to convert a | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
penalty, the Saints seized their chance. Stephen Thompson was the | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
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To picture so many smiles and so happy, it is what they deserve. It | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
is for them, they've been through so much. So much hardship of late. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
In terms of finances, and Investment, and it is great to give | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
them something back. The bodies will be back next month for a final | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
against Hearts. And match-up few would have predicted. The very few | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
adults anyway. If the Jambos odyssey of the saints, they might | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
need a lucky penny of Their Own. That has all the sport for this | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
evening. First the bad news. It's a type of | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
crododile that's been discovered in Glasgow and its Latin name | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
translates as "blood-biting tyrant swimmer." But the good news is the | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
beast is more than 100 million years old and even though it's been | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
in a museum collection for a century, it's just been confirmed | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
as a new species. Aileen Clarke has been along to find out more. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Meet Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos. That is blood biting tyrant swimmer | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
to you and me. It is a very strange kind of crocodile because it is one | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
that lived in the sea. Most crocodiles today are kind of living | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
on partly on land and partly on water. These ones had flippers. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
This is one of the flippers here. It also had some in the front and | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
at her and her huge mouth and probably a very big bite as well. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
How old is this? This is from the Middle Jurassic. That is 163 | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
million years old. It has lived in the seas around Britain at that | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
time. This animal was in the sea and the dinosaurs were roaming the | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
earth. The dinosaurs were rolling around on the land, he has fought | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
up the Edinburgh University researchers who have studied the | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
specimen believe it is a missing link in the evolution of marine | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
reptiles. This is not just a new species but it is an you Jenice. It | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
is difficult to say how important that is but it is above a new | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
species. It is like finding a whole new type of human being and calling | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
them a different name. important, but this was not the | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
fiercest thing in the sea back then. There were larger animals. I've got | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
here a tooth of one animal for comparison. Probably one of the | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
largest predators in the sea at the time. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Weather now, and after a miserable day for most of us, Kirsteen, what | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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It has been a miserable day. Good evening to you. We can expect some | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
wet and windy weather across many parts of the country, accused for | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
the first part of the week. Tonight, we hold on for some -- to some | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
blustery showers for some time. During the overnight period, these | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
tend to fizzle out. Further East, largely dry with clear spells | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
particularly for North Eastern parts of the country so we could | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
see just a touch of frost. Temperatures tonight, though, | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
generally holding above freezing. We continue to see coastal gales | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
for a time all those these should ease slightly by morning. Tomorrow | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
morning, a largely dry stop the country with some good spells of | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
brightness, particularly in the East. Short-lived, though, as once | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
again, things begin to cloud over from the West Stand this band of | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
rain shows its hand across much of the country. Winds will strengthen | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
work -- once again and coming up to gale force across the West. Indeed | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
tell, we continue to see light rain for parts of the South West | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
tomorrow afternoon, perhaps some heavier pulses for the likes of | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
Argyll and some of the North West Highlands. What, to come across the | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
Northern Isles. Papa's of the Northern Isles, it remains trying. | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
Some patchy rain in the North East. Hires tomorrow of around nine. It | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
will feel very call in the wind and rain. Into the late afternoon and | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
evening, this rain moves away into the North Sea and the wind becoming | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
a feature of the weather tomorrow night. Gusting to around 80 miles | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
per hour for parts of the North West, 60 miles per hour further | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
South, and into the central belt, and that continues into Wednesday. | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news in brief. | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
The UK Government has claimed its decision to push ahead with a new | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
high speed rail network in England will deliver major benefits for | :27:29. | :27:32. |