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all from us. Now we join our news teams where you | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Tonight, on Reporting Scotland. A hostile reception for the Rangers | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
Board at the club's Annual General Meeting - but tonight the board | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
remain in place after a failed bid to remove them from power. | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
After wind and rain batters much of the country households and | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
businesses assess the damage, tonight a warning that more is on | :00:34. | :00:45. | |
the way. Snow, ice, high winds and heavy rain | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
all in the forecast for the next 24 hours. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
Also on the programme, it's all smiles as the favourite baby names | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
of the year are revealed, with some surprising additions. | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Still a minx at heart - Minnie Minx is 60 years young and gets her very | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
own treat in the Christmas Beano. And the duel in the pool makes its | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
way to Glasgow with some world famous names set to compete in this | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
unique event. After two years of turmoil, | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
protests, and mud-slinging, the Rangers board has formally survived | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
re-election. At today's annual general meeting, the board's | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
opponents, the so-called requisitioners, failed in their bid | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
for power. With a loss of ?14 million in this year's accounts, | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
many supporters are opposed to the club's financial management and fear | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
for its future governance. Our senior football reporter Alasdair | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
Lamont has more. These supporters have waited some | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
time to let their feelings be known so when they finally got the chance, | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
they did not hold back. Despite this, they comfortably survived. All | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
five directors were voted backed by institutional directors with Graham | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
Wallace getting greatest batting. The man with the least support was | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
the man who was the target of the most vocal supporters today. It was | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
always a day when passions would run the hide and supporters had the | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
chance to put their views to the board and find out how the board | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
would respond. Unless there is change and transparency, you would | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
not want to put money into the club without knowing. We did not get the | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
answers we need. I hope we can get through this rather than bickering | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
over money. There's a lot of frustration and we did not get | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
anywhere today. Some of these fans wanted Paul Murray and his grip on | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
board but although they achieved 30% backing, they do not view to as a | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
failure. Whatever happens, we have brought all the issues to the fore. | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
We have brought transparency to the club and have raised the issues. We | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
know from the fan reaction they can see what is happening to the club. | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
Optimists might regard today as a watershed and the moment for peace | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
to break out but realists may view it differently. | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
For more on Rangers and the business of football, I'm joined by our | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
business and economy editor Douglas Fraser. First, Douglas, is this | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
dispute now over? The challengers have failed to gain enough support | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
to get on the broadband it is not clear where they can go but the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
directors who where re-elected are pretty clear there is a large | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
minority shareholders who are not happy about things. It is affecting | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
their customer base and that should worry any business. This has partly | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
been about clashing personalities and a dysfunctional board, and | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
investors are still clearly very unhappy at the pace at which Rangers | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
has been burning through its capital. A year ago today, shares in | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
the Rangers started trading at 75p but today they are trading at 34p, | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
less than half the value. What happens now? The new chairman and | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
chief executive have promised to produce a robust business planning | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
process, which effectively concedes there has been none in place. That | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
includes youth team development and could see some players leaving | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
because of the cost problems, and also the new chief executive has | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
said it is reasonable to assume the funding will be needed before too | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
long. He failed to get the legal powers he needs to go back to | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
investors for the new tranche of investment. The club will probably | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
try to go back there but they know they will have to provide a | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
convincing case that they have a grip on the finances and the way in | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
which the club is run as a business, as much as the football | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
club. Scotland's facing more winter storms | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
with snow, gale-force winds and heavy rain set to cause disruption | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
in the run-up to Christmas. Tonight, there's warnings of snow and ice, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
particularly in the Highland and Grampian areas. We'll speak to our | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
reporter Craig Anderson for more on that in a moment, but first, Aileen | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Clarke reports on the problems brought about by last night's wind | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
and rain. Dumbarton at high tide. The other | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
burst its banks in the early hours of this morning but even as it | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
subsided, Scotland was still being blasted by fierce gales. In | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Kilbirnie, this scaffolding was ripped off the house wall. Winds | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
lifted off part of a sheep pen and adopted through a car windscreen. | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
The worst was then South Uist where it reached 90 mph. It reached 66 in | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
Aberdeen and still gale force in the central belt. At the height of the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
storm around 10,000 homes were without power. This village shop was | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
trading by candlelight. It has been pretty good this time because they | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
have come back to it quickly and within a couple of hours it was back | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
on again. In previous experience we have had to wait a long time. Other | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
areas have been coming back on throughout the day and no snow and | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
ice is the next challenge. That is how we've been bearing up, | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
but how's it looking in the run-up to Christmas? You only have to look | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
to see what is happening in Invernessshire tonight. I am about | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
15 miles south of Inverness and as you can see, a bit of a winter | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
wonderland, not so fine if you want to travel anywhere. The police and | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
the local authority have issued a warning saying beard as heavy snow | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
on the roots here so driving can be treacherous. Temperatures are going | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
to drop and we could see icy roads just about anywhere, and where there | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
is snow falling that could make driving conditions very difficult | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
indeed. People should watch out for those kinds of conditions. What | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
about the prospects for the weekend and the start of the Christmas week? | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
The good news is that tomorrow the weather is going to get milder but | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
with that mildness, there's a in because we will we will see heavy | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
rain in many areas and with the snowmelt, that could lead to | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
localised flooding. As well as that, we could see winds picking up | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
again towards gale force and that may cause some damage. As for the | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
rest of the weekend, forecasters say the weather will continue to be | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
unsettled, pretty bad news for anybody who may be looking forward | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
to the Christmas break. People may be heading off for the Christmas | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
holidays and the advices, if you are heading out, check the forecast and | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
the road conditions before you go. If the weather forecast later on. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
programme. Scottish and German universities | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
team up to push the boundaries of quantum physics. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
In sport, one of the world's best swimmers will fulfil one of her | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
ambitions in Glasgow this week. We'll hear all about it, and | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
mistakes and how to learn from them with the Glasgow Warriors head | :09:18. | :09:18. | |
coach. Jack and Sophie were once again the | :09:19. | :09:34. | |
most popular Scottish baby names in 2014. James has moved into second | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
place. Olivia is the second most popular general's name. | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
Sounds familiar? For the sex of the year in a row, Jack is the most | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
popular boys name in Scotland. -- sixth year. It kind of appealed to | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
us but his big sister has a teddy bear called Jack so that is what she | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
wanted to call him. While Lewis is slipping, names like Lucas and Harry | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
are heading into the top ten. Olivia is number two. It is really the | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
traditional names that are coming back end, that you would expect your | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
grandparents to have. It is really nice. Let's take a look back in | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
time, in the 1990s, Ryan was the most popular name. Back in the olden | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
days it was John and Mary that were the number one baby names. | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
Jack and Sophie might be the most popular names but the is only one in | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
this entire nastily and there has never been a bigger range of names. | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
It seems we are becoming more American in our taste with Cody and | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
Cooper. Looking back it was a different story. In 1900, John and | :11:24. | :11:33. | |
Mary topped the list. Four people have been taken to | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
hospital after a serious road accident in Aberdeenshire. Two cars | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
and a lorry were involved in the collision on the A96 Huntly bypass. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Two men were taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary - one by an RAF helicopter | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
from Lossiemouth. Two women have been taken to Dr Gray's hospital in | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
Elgin. The main Aberdeen to Inverness road was closed for most | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
of the afternoon. The newly developed Haymarket | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
railway station has opened to passengers in Edinburgh. It's one of | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
the busiest stations in the UK, and, as Rob Flett reports, it's been | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
completely transformed. The outside of the historic | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Haymarket station building is grade a listed but passengers have never | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
enjoyed appropriate facilities. It looks fantastic, what a difference | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
to what it was before, unexpected. I did not realise it would be ready in | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
time like that. Hopefully the machines work! The new concourse is | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
ten times larger than the old station. It is the second oldest | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
station in the UK going back to 1840. It is extremely busy and if | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
you have 4.1 million passengers coming through, they except that | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
might expect a better service. Haymarket is the fourth busiest | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
railway station in Scotland than has been kept running throughout the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
development. We built this off-site in the old car park and lifted it in | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
using a 1000 tonne crane, we built it up over the macro levels during | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
the night when the station was closed so passengers could come in | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
in the morning. Until today, that footbridge was the only way to | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
access the platforms year. It could get very cramped and it is now being | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
deconstructed and will be removed on Christmas Day. Work at the station | :13:33. | :13:47. | |
will continue until April. A former Scottish rugby international has | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
been found guilty of sexually abusing two young girls in the 1980s | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
and 1990s. Norman Pender began the abuse when one girl was just eight | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
years old. He has been placed on the sex offences register. Marine | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
accident investigators have made a series of safety recommendations | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
after the sinking of a trawler in the North Sea last year. | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
Investigators say the sinking was likely caused by a failure of the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
cooling system. An alarm was activated but went unnoticed. Three | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
prisoners have lost their attempt to vote on the independence | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
referendum. The three were seeking to overturn the blanket ban on the | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
referendum franchise bill on prisoners voting. Lord Delaney ruled | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
that the ban was not illegal in relation to a referendum. As | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Christmas revellers take to the streets, it is of special buses will | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
keep them safe. The vehicles will be out in Edinburgh and Dundee tomorrow | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
with alcohol advice teams on board. Minor injuries will be treated by | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
the Red Cross. We can refer people to other partners if there are drink | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
problems. We can try to help people in the long-term as well as short. | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
The first Minister has announced that the inaugural winners of the | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Hex cries for physics. -- Higgs Prize. 18-year-old Lucy White from | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
Edinburgh and 17-year-old Peter Rhodes will take part in a summer | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
school at the research facility in Switzerland. | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
More stories from your area, 24 hours a day, on our website. | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
It is the first collaboration of its kind in the world. Backers say it | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
confirms Scotland's Place is a world leader in fundamental science. It | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
has been set up in conjunction with a prestigious German organisation, | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
to push the boundaries of physics. When you buy a new camera or new | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
mobile phone, you are generally concerned about excellence. With | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
this one, the magic number is the excellence. Not megapixels, -- | :16:20. | :16:35. | |
pixels. They are sensitive to infrared light or deep ultraviolet | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
light. It is not possible in a normal camera. But this one still | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
can. In the same laboratory, another | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
camera using just one pixel. It display possible by quantum physics. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
A quantum is the smallest lump of energy you can measure. Like | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
electrons running down wires. Trouble is, they are particles, but | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
behave like waves. You can measure where they are where they are going, | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
but not both at the same time. The quantum world is nothing like the | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
world we know. Strathclyde is another of the Scottish universities | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
in the new partnership. It is taken into years to build this intricate | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
machine to investigate the quantum world. -- taken them to years. It is | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
an apparatus that can be used to trap on hold atoms and laser fields. | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
Atoms can be held in the laser beams, similar to a marble in an egg | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
carton. If you ask a supercomputer to work this out it would take | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
longer than the life of the universe. The new partnership is | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
designed to take things even further. Physics is a very | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
collaborative subject. Experiments tend to be expensive. People have to | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
work together. Collaboration is essential. This institute teams up | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
the best international researchers in specific fields. It is a | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
privilege to work with them. It is hoped this will establish a Scotland | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
is a world leader in the quantum universe. | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
She has been a badly behaved eight-year-old two generations of | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
schoolchildren, but today Minnie the Minx turns 60 years old. She has | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
more than lived up to her reputation. | :18:52. | :19:05. | |
Girl power? Minnie the minx had far before the Spice Girls. This is the | :19:06. | :19:15. | |
very first comicstrip. Very different to how it looks now. It is | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
in black-and-white. Only a quarter of a page. Lisa Griffin looks after | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
the archive at DC Thomson. You go from this black and white, small | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
strip, quite quickly, into colour. Bright red. Half a page. Then very | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
quickly, a full page. It is really obvious that the character has | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
captured the audience imagination. Along with Dennis the Menace and the | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Bash Street kids, she became a legend. Created during the golden | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
age of British comics. Now the responsibility of editor, Mike | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
Sterling. What mayhem lies ahead? The safest thing we can say is that | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
she is growing old disgracefully. But as far as we're concerned, she | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
will always be nine years old. There is a Peter Pan failing to Beanotown. | :20:22. | :20:33. | |
Feeling. -- in honour of her birthday she has been given the | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
coveted front cover. Dennis the Menace is unavailable for comment. | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
But Minnie the Minx herself looks chuffed! | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
And now the sport. One of world swimming's biggest stars will fulfil | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
an in Glasgow this week. Olympic and world champion, Katie Ladecki is | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
competing for the USA in the Duel In The Pool. | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
Tollcross is preparing for Europe to do battle with America in the water. | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
But how does the competition work? The teams will compete in 15 events. | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
13 individual, during which both teams can enter up to four swimmers. | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
They will be two realise each for the men and women. -- relays. Points | :21:34. | :21:45. | |
are awarded for placings. Some of the biggest names in the sport are | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
here. The format is a real attraction. I am very excited about | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
it. I watched the event growing up. It means a lot to me. The European | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
all-stars have four from Scotland in their ranks, including Michael | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Jamieson. Friendships may be on hold, but still plenty of respect I | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
am friends with Robbie and Michael. They are always in the finals. I | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
think Michael will come over to the United States this year. I know that | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
they train and work hard, perform and the extension. -- perform on the | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
big stage. In rugby, Glasgow Warriors head coach, Gregor | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
Townsend, admits he has made mistakes. He says he intends to | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
learn from them. Glasgow Warriors are back in league business tomorrow | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
after their interest in the European cup was ended. We are approaching | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
the season to be jolly. But here at Scotstoun, you would be forgiven if | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
you did not know it. Glasgow adding a slump. Sparkling early-season form | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
is being by defeats. -- overshadowed by. We have learned how to better | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
prepare, you are always going to get bums on the road. -- bumps. The | :23:19. | :23:31. | |
recent run of results is alarming. For recent matches ending defeat. | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
They currently position is built on winning their first five games of | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
the season. I have made mistakes throughout the last two years of | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
coaching. The important thing is learning from them. The Warriors | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
need to start learning tomorrow night, at home against Treviso. | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
Here's what else is happening across Scottish sport: Scotland forward | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
David Denton has agreed a new three-year contract with Edinburgh | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
rugby. He turned down offers from other teams. I had some decisions to | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
make and spoke to other teams but at the end of the day, Edinburgh has | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
been an awesome club for me. And in 19 international Cammie Smith has | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
signed a new deal with Aberdeen. -- Under-19. When the manager took me | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
aside, it was a straight yes. Myself and my family are delighted to sign | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
up. Scotland women lost their final group match in the international | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
tournament in Brazil, a 4-3 defeat to Chile. Eve Muirhead and Scotland | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
have moved up to third in the latest world curling rankings. More on our | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
website. That is all from me. And now the | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
weather. It is just a wintry weather, but an | :25:14. | :25:30. | |
awful lot of it. It has been lively of light. More on the way. Yellow | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
warnings tonight. Snow showers continue to the north of the central | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
belt, and the north-west. But a couple will make their way to the | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
east. An ice risk right across the country, especially on untreated | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
roads and surfaces. Breezy, but not the storm force gales of last night. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
Tomorrow, all eyes on the Atlantic. Wind and rain on the way. There will | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
be a legacy of showers from the overnight period, then a brief | :26:09. | :26:17. | |
window of campus. -- calmness. Then, a return of strong to gale force | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
winds. Another Met Office warning, yellow, be aware. The north-east, | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
towards Caithness and Aberdeen, the Northern Isles, dry here for the | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
longest, but the rain is on its way. Evening and overnight, it will be | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
unpleasant. Especially if you are out in time for Christmas | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
celebrations. Sorry about that. The weekend, not as bad. Blustery | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
showers. Wintery over high ground. For most of us, just plain rain. | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
Outwith the showers, some bright skies at times, but the wind is | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
pretty keen from the south-west. The all-important Christmas week | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
weather? Unsettled, windy, rain at times. Snow? Potentially. It is too | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
early for anything concrete. We will keep you up-to-date. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
A reminder of the top stories: two men have been found guilty of the | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
murder of Lee Rigby in south London. They have both denied the charges, a | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
jury just took 90 minutes to convert them. The Rangers board remain in | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
place after a failed bid to remain -- failed bid from the requisition | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
is to wrest control. -- requisitioners. I will be back at | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
8pm and then just after the ten o'clock news. Good night. | :28:02. | :28:04. |