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from the BBC News at Six. So it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
can Tonight on your national news... | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
No deal - management and unions at the Grangemouth refinery fail to | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
agree on a plan that would see the plant restart. Staff have 72 hours | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
to either back or reject the proposals. I am just heartbroken. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Also tonight... As anger over rising energy prices | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
continues, the SNP say they will deliver cheaper fuel bills if Scots | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
vote for independence. Labour say it is a desperate bribe. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Danger ahead - the campaign to warn metal thieves that it could cost | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
them their lives. And if you have always fancied clothing your own | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
file, we have just got the thing for you. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
And you are never tutu old! The key to a longer, healthier life is | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
ballet, as more pensioners than ever pirroutte to their heart's content. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Good evening. Management and union leaders at the Grangemouth oil | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
refinery have failed to reach a deal to restart the plant. Operators | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Ineos had asked Unite to make a commitment to no further industrial | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
action this year, but the union said it would only do that if Ineos | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
agreed not to impose its planned cuts on the workforce. Catriona | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
Renton is at Grangemouth tonight. Despite the lights you can see at | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
the plant, Grangemouth is shut and remains shut tonight. Grangemouth | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
has been being powered down over the past week, since the union | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
threatened industrial action for this weekend. We understand it is | :01:51. | :02:00. | |
now operating at less than 50% and oil is still flowing in from the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
North Sea. There was a strike land for this weekend. The strike was | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
called off, but the company says it will not fire it up, for safety | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
reasons, if there is any risk of action to shut it down again. There | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
were hopes today that it might be up and running again by tonight but, | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
once again, talks failed. Workers here are holding daily vigils | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
outside the management officers, protesting against proposed changes | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
to the pensions and terms and conditions. The company say they | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
will fire lit up again only if the union agrees not to strike over the | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
60 day consultation period and there were hopes of a breakthrough. We are | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
hopeful that the unions will be able to accept the offer we make today. | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
We are looking for a very simple insurance, that there will be no | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
strike action between now and the end of the year. The unions say they | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
have already agreed not to strike over that period. They cannot impose | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
a negotiator at the same time. This set that they are making right now | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
is blackmail. Now, the company has appealed directly to the workforce. | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
The plan process is barrels of oil each day. Employees have until | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
Monday until forward. If they do not agree, the plant is threatened with | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
closure. This man, who did not want to be identified, showed me his | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
letter. I do not agree with what the company is doing. I have been here | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
30 years. I came here after I left school. I am just heartbroken. I | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
have got two boys it is hard on them. The kids have stopped asking | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
about Christmas because they are so frightened. At the moment, it looks | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
as if neither side is going to be backing down. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Now the company here have taken this so seriously that their chief | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
executive Jim Ratcliffe, who is in charge of Ineos' 51 sites around the | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
world, has flown in to try and solve the situation, but for now, it looks | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
like stalemate and the next planned phase in this dispute is for | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
workers' responses on Monday. From there, it is down to the | :05:07. | :05:19. | |
shareholders. People in Scotland will pay less for energy, that was | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
the assurance made by Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP party | :05:28. | :05:39. | |
conference. Rena rent a 2-room flat in peer. Because she only uses one | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
of them, her housing benefit has been cut by ?40 a month. She says it | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
is very hard to make ends meet. Sometimes, I only have one radiator | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
on and just have to put on a blanket to keep warm. These changes to | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
housing benefit are part of the focus of the SNP. As the government | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
in Scotland, they help you for ?20 million to help the hardest hit. But | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Labour are challenging them to find even more money for next year. I can | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
announce today that we will allocate ?20 million again next year so that | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
we can continue to give vital helped to those hit by this despicable | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
bedroom tax. They have already said they would abolish the so-called | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
bedroom tax if people fought US in the independence referendum. They | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
said they would also be able to find energy-saving measures to help | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
households hit by increasing electricity and gas bills. We think | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
this will cut bills by up to 5%, up to ?70 a year, not a short-term | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
measure, but the real cut in the cost of energy bills in Scotland. | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
This is the cancer to the Labour party 's proposals to impose a price | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
freeze on energy should they get elected in a national election. | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
Nicola Sturgeon barged activists. Resolve to do everything you can to | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
ensure that our country says a resounding yes for an independent | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
Scotland. Thank you. It went down well in the hall and leaves the | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
first minister with a hard act to follow. Our political editor Brian | :07:47. | :08:01. | |
Taylor joins us now. On one level, it is an offer on the too hot topics | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
of the day. The bedroom tax and fuel bills. Of course, it is more subtle | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
than that, it is meant to fit into the narrative of the SNP putting | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
forward a choice of two futures. Nicola Sturgeon is offering what she | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
knows will be popular with photos in Scotland, translating that with the | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
situation as she regards in the UK Government. It is also trying to | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
counter the Labour Party, trying to counter the offer made by Ed | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Miliband to freeze UK energy prices should the Labour Party when the | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
next election. Also, the initiative is about the bedroom tax, that was | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
put forward by the Labour Party for one year and the today have extended | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
by another year. Air accident investigators say a | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
reduction in air speed that caused the fatal crash of a Super Puma | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
helicopter off Shetland went unobserved by the pilots. A special | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
bulletin by the AAIB says there is still no evidence of any technical | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
fault. Its investigation will now focus on the effectiveness of pilot | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
monitoring of instruments and the training of flight crews. Four | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
people died when the CHC-operated helicopter crashed near Sumburgh in | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
August. You are watching Reporting Scotland | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme... | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
The Silver Swans - more and pensioners are taking up ballet and | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
feeling the health benefits. In sport, why it is back to work | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
after their Champions League heroics for Glasgow city. | :09:44. | :10:05. | |
And why it is standing room only for fans of rugby's Warriors. All the | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
details later. One of Scotland's biggest | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
electricity supply companies is launching a new offensive against | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
metal thieves. ScottishPower Energy Networks will place radio and | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
newspaper adverts to highlight the dangers the thieves face and the | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
consequences of their actions. This is a look at a target for thieves, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
but the risks associated with stealing it are huge. These may have | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
been disconnected, but the substation was still live in the | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
network. The poster campaign unveiled by Scottish Power pools no | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
plans answers. -- pools no punches. We have already had a couple of | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
fatalities involved with metal fest and multiple injuries, considering | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
such a small amount of money is at stake. The danger extends to the | :11:13. | :11:29. | |
public. Cable charges could disable domestic appliances, but in the | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
worst-case scenario you could have this. The isolator switch from the | :11:33. | :11:42. | |
shower caught alight and it ended up with the house burning down. And | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
Abraham Lincoln on the outdoor saved their lives. You do not realise it | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
when you are asleep. It could have been a lot worse, a hell of a lot | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
worse. Other stories from across Scotland | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
this Friday... A new ?200 million concert and | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
conference venue could be on the cards for Aberdeen. Council leaders | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
want to invest in a replacement for the current Aberdeen Exhibition and | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
Conference Centre. BBC Scotland understands that it could be built | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
close to Aberdeen International Airport. | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
Edinburgh's West End is to re-open to traffic tomorrow, following the | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
completion of tram works in area. It will be the first time in six years | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
that the entire city centre will be free of roadworks related to the | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
controversial tram project. The UK government has asked the EC | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
for permission to extend a scheme which allows island motorists | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
cheaper petrol and diesel. People living on Scotland's islands | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
currently qualify for the 5p a litre fuel duty discount, but the Treasury | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
also wants some rural mainland areas to benefit. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
The Royal National Mod will be held in Inverness next year and at venues | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
in Lochaber in 2017. This year's celebration of Gaelic music, dance, | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
drama, arts and literature is taking place in Paisley. The Mod was last | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
held in Inverness 17 years ago. We are into the more detailed planning | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
now. We are doing the organisation for the competitions, stewarding. We | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
need hundreds of volunteers supporters and there is still money | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
to be gathered and collected. All of this helps us deal of a successful | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
festival as possible. And there are more stories from your | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
area and all the latest news, 24 hours a day, on BBC Scotland's | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
website. The agricultural revolution | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
transformed farming, but now it seems in the search for | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
sustainability and to save money more smallholders and crofters are | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
turning back the clock. Tomorrow near Crieff the British Horse | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Society is showing how things used to be done - Aileen Clarke watched | :13:56. | :14:08. | |
the preparations. Those who still plough in the traditional way will | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
tell you, as trade school, it is a very skilled one. Man has much to | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
learn from horses. Once you get them going and they get used to you, you | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
speak to them all the time. They listen to you all the time. Better | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
than a tractor? Far better any time. It was just a few decades ago that | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
most agricultural work was done this way. ETU wrote Jim Wallace still | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
remembers the thrill of getting a horse and cart. You enjoyed that, | :14:45. | :14:57. | |
you are better than everybody else. It seems there is a bit of an | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
upsurge in interest in the ways of working and it is not just | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
nostalgia. It is also financial. If you have a small holding, using your | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
own horse makes sense. It is sustainable and affordable and fun. | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
You can also diversify into carriage driving and funerals. The more | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
different things you do, the more interesting it is for the ponies. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
The other thing is, not everyone gets married, but everyone makes | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
that final journey, C can catch them all. But as well as your wellies, | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
you'll need to pack quite a bit of patience. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
From the big beasts of farming - to some fleet-footed footballers, | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
here's David. Glasgow City will face one of the | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
best teams in Europe in the last 16 of the women's Champions League. | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
Their 5-3 aggregate win over Standard Liege earning them a tie | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
against the English club Arsenal. A big test for the part time players | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
of City - as Heather Dewar reports. For many footballers, the day after | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
a champions league victory would mean well and stay off. But for a | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
Glasgow city, less than 24 hours after making it through is the last | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
16, is back to work as usual. It's just such a good feeling in the | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
changing room afterwards. Everyone was totally buzzing. Trying to get | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
to sleep last night was a task in itself. I was still at work at | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
2:30am -- I was still awake at 2:30am, so trying to get to work was | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
difficult. Earning a living while competing at the highest levels is | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
difficult. But the task ahead is tantalising. Emma Mitchell is | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
probably the one we know most about. We have seen how come through as a | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
young player and now she's doing really well at Arsenal, but | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
similarly, they know a lot about us, so it is level pegging. One thing | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
that isn't level pegging is the amount of money invested in the | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
women's game here, something she hopes will change. I took the gig | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
gets the same financial backing and it will lead it to take it into the | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
next level. Until then, London is calling. | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
Glasgow Warriors are proving so popular with rugby fans in the city | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
and beyond they've increased the spectator capacity of their | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
Scotstoun stadium to 6,500. So when they play Exeter Chiefs in their | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
first home match of the Heineken European Cup - it'll be standing | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
room only. We have sold out the last couple of games, we have added more | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
seats and terracing this weekend. We're hoping it will be cracking | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
game. Now, a look at what else is | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
happening across Scottish sport. Cyclist Katie Archibald is part of | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
the new team celebrating a world record, set at the European track | :18:22. | :18:31. | |
championships in the Netherlands. Edinburgh Rugby have not been going | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
well in the pro 12 league. But a win against Perpignan on Sunday would | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
take them forward. We just try improve each week. | :18:45. | :18:57. | |
It is the biggest event in prison for judo this year. Hopefully it is | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
a good precursor for the games next year. More sports stories on the BBC | :19:04. | :19:18. | |
sports Scotland website. More news about Katie Archibald. Her and her | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
team-mates have taken gold in the European Championships. A happy | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
ending from me for once. More and more pensioners are heading | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
to the barre to take up ballet that is. According to the Royal Academy | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
of Dance, it's the result of the popularity of TV programmes like | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
Strictly Come Dancing - and it could be the key to a longer, healthier | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
life. Emma Ailes reports. All bingo for these ladies. For | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
them, Thursdays mean ballet. Today, it is Swan Lake. Alysia dance | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
when she was young. Now nearly 80, she is back. Why do you come to | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
ballet lessons? I tried to keep fit classes, but I find them boring. It | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
makes you feel young. It doesn't make you look young, but it makes | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
you feel young inside. The Royal Academy of dance has seen a 70% rise | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
in adult dancers in recent years. Their oldest ballerina is 102. Many | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
had never danced before. The amazing thing about these ladies is they | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
have grown. They have stopped slouching and it is fantastic to see | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
the difference in them. The lessons have proved so popular they have | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
added extra classes. More people are joining all the time they still have | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
a waiting list. But it is not just the physical challenge the ladies | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
are after. A number of us have lost husbands this year and the support | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
of the other ladies is fantastic. For others, there are more gentle | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
options. In some of the care homes, there are people who have to be | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
seated, the entire class, but they have a great dance class. There are | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
lots of movements that can be adapted to people 's needs. | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
They hope to get even more people to spend their twilight years doing | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
ballet. Let's see how our weekend weather is | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
shaping up from Gillian. It is a fairly unsettled spell of | :21:33. | :21:42. | |
weather over the next couple of days and certainly a very wet spell | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
tonight. Low pressure to the west of us. This weather front bringing | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
rain. Tonight, it will continue its march northwards. It will be heavy | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
at times. A yellow warning for heavy rainfall. Difficult conditions on | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
roads, potentially localised flooding. Strong winds, potentially | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
gale force. Unsurprisingly, with all that going on, a fairly mild night. | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
Tomorrow, up nearly wet and windy start. In the afternoon, the | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
heaviest rain and strongest winds become confined to the far North. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Elsewhere, things will dry up a little. Still some rain for Lewis | :22:39. | :22:50. | |
and the North West and rain hanging on over Courtney and Shetland. Poor | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
conditions throughout the afternoon. Some sunshine coming through for | :22:58. | :23:07. | |
Aberdeen shower. If you are hill walking, the clueless conditions | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
will be over the hills of Caithness and Sutherland. Lighter, patchy rain | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
for the Angus hills and the Cairngorms, still blowing gales | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
across the tops. Winds are lighter at the further south you go. Fairly | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
mild. For savers and fishermen in Scottish inshore waters, there will | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
be heavy and possibly thundery showers. Visibility otherwise good. | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
See is rough in the North at first. Through the rest of the day towards | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
evening, those showers banding together. Another wet spell of | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
weather across the country tomorrow night. Into Sunday, the wet weather | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
hanging around in the north. Elsewhere across the country, | :24:06. | :24:06. | |
sunshine with heavy showers. Now, a reminder of tonight's main | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
news. Management and union leaders at the Grangemouth oil refinery have | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
failed to reach a deal to restart the plant. Operators Ineos had asked | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Unite to make a commitment to NO further industrial action this year. | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
But the union said it would only do that if Ineos agreed not to impose | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
its planned cuts on the workforce. A coroner has ruled that neglect | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
contributed to the deaths of five elderly people at a residential home | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
in Sussex. She said there was institutionalised abuse throughout | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Orchid View Care Home and nobody did anything about it. The coroner said | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
those involved in the neglect should be ashamed. | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
People in Scotland will pay less for energy if they vote for | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
independence. That was the claim made by the Deputy First Minister, | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP conference in Perth. And that's | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
Reporting Scotland. I'll be back with the headlines at eight - and | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
the late bulletin just after the ten o'clock news. Until then, from | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
everyone on the team around the country, have a good evening. | :25:00. | :25:01. |