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rain from the east. That's all from the BBC News At Six. | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
On BBC Tonight on Reporting Scotland: Power | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
company chiefs are fiercely criticised by MPs for failing to | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
respond swiftly enough to blackouts from the December storms. An inquiry | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
hears of confusion over the condition of this helicopter's | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
gearbox the week before it crashed, killing 16 men. Intelligence | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
whistle-blower Edward Snowden is to stand for the post of student rector | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
at Glasgow University. Putting the fit in fitba - how these men slimmed | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
down with the help of their favourite teams. It was a bit of a | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
shock, actually, when my weight was measured and they told me I was | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
verging on obese. And also tonight: His first big test. We'll preview | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Andy Murray's quarterfinal showdown against Roger Federer at the | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Australian Open. Power company bosses have been fiercely criticised | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
for failing to respond quickly enough to the blackouts which | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
followed December's storms. A committee of MPs accused them of | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
utter complacency and of showing no real concern for their customers. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Hundreds of thousands of UK homes lost power last month with more than | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
26,000 in Scotland, as our Environment Correspondent, David | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
Miller, reports. It came crashing down and struck that part of the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
building. Retired police officer Roland MacGowan book in December to | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
discover the storms have got an electricity pole crashing down, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
punching his home into darkness. You could just see the race of it. | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
750,000 homes lost electricity across the UK and one, like most | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Scottish customers, had his supply restored within 24 hours. Elsewhere, | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
many families had no power for five days over Christmas. Today, MPs had | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
harsh words for the power companies. The reason you are here is simply | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
that too many of your customers lost power for too long at a very | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
important time of the year. And the compensation they have received is, | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
in my judgement, too small. But the power companies say they are already | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
raising their game with helicopter crews playing their part. Using the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
latest thermal imaging, they will identify faults in power lines in | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
remote areas. Wide you need a helicopter? Being in the chopper is | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
really helpful to get a better view of the pylons. And the thermal | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
imaging is very useful. The power companies are investing heavily to | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
ensure their transmission lines can cope with almost anything the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Scottish Winter throws at them but from the air it is clear to see that | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
the challenges are huge and there can be no guarantees. Bosses say | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
that power cuts. Happen but response times are improving sharply. In the | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
past, 15 years ago, those weights would have been longer and that is | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
down to the investment we have blood on the network. Went is not over and | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
there might be more cuts ahead but the industry insists it is working | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
hard to avoid them. Scotland would have to take radical measures if it | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
is going to tackle income inequality. That's the finding of | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
research showing that only raising taxes or benefits would have a very | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
limited impact - even if Scotland votes for independence and has new | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
powers. Our Economy Editor, Douglas Fraser, can tell us more. Douglas? | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Thank you. Partly because many are on lower pay and because London has | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
so many high earners, the UK is seventh out of 34 on this table of | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
major nations. Scotland is near the mid-point. The most unequal is Chile | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
then Mexico. The United States is not far behind. In the bottom six | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
you'll find our northern neighbours. Finland, Denmark, Norway and | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Iceland, fairest of them all. So if it's a priority to close the gap | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
between high earners and low income, how do you go about it? Scotland | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
already has power to raise income tax. If you raise it by only one | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
pence per pound, the Stirling economists behind today's report say | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
some people could be expected to work fewer hours. Big earners might | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
leave to pay lower tax bills elsewhere. The impact of that is it | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
would close only around 4% of the gap with those Scandinavians. What | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
if Scotland had new powers with independence and used them to pay | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
more Jobseeker's Allowance? With a 10% increase, we're told it would | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
close only 10% of the gap and it might reduce the incentive to work. | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
Simply raising taxes and increasing spending on benefits in Scotland | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
will not be enough for us to reduce the level of inequality to levels in | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Nordic countries. The issue is the level of income inequality before | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
tax and benefits is also much higher in Scotland than in Nordic countries | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
and that is the real issue we need to address. No surprise, then, that | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
this is a hot topic for the campaign on independence: it is a very | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
interesting report but the ultimate conclusion is that we juicing taxes | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
or simply taking fiscal measures is not the way to deal with any | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
quality. We are much better staying within the UK. We must remember that | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
the massive gap between rich and poor that exists and right now one | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
of the biggest in the developed world has been created by the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
current Westminster system so this is not a reason to keep that system, | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
it is a reason to do things differently in the future. What | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
could an independent Scotland do instead of tax and welfare? It may | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
require more radical government intervention in the jobs market - | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
raising the minimum wage or raising the skill levels at which we compete | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
internationally for jobs. That, of course, is already being tried, | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
here, and everywhere else. Thank you. And with details of the first | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
in a new series of BBC Scotland referendum debates, here's James | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
Cook. Tonight, we will discuss the future of Scotland with a panel of | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
politicians from both sides of the debate, a journalist and a comedian. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Join me at 9pm tonight on BBC Two Scotland for the referendum debate. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come: Less | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
wine, please. How our bars and pubs are being urged to adopt smaller | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
measures. In sport, the highs and lows of Andy Murray v Roger Federer. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
They meet again tomorrow morning in the quarter finals of the Australian | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Open. It's been tears of defeat and then more tears for the Scot. But | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
then Olympic victory. Will it be tears of joy again tomorrow? A fatal | :07:12. | :07:21. | |
accident inquiry has heard of confusion over the condition of a | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
helicopter gearbox the week before 16 men died when the aircraft | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
crashed into the sea. Our reporter, Steven Duff, joins us now from | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Aberdeen Townhouse, where the inquiry into the 2009 tragedy off | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
Peterhead is being held. Tell us more about this apparent confusion. | :07:37. | :07:48. | |
Confusion over where in the gearbox of the helicopter, metal particles | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
were found and these particles are important because accident | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
investigators later said they were fundamental to the cause of the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
catastrophic gearbox failure. Dunnock Boer was a specialist with | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
the Super Puma manufacturer in France and he told of a discussion | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
he and colleagues had with helicopter engineers about the | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
particles and he said they were on the understanding that they were in | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
a completely different part of the gearbox and had he known that, he | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
said he would have given completely different advice on maintenance | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
which would have involved a more extensive examination of that | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
gearbox. And news of a separate enquiry into the same subject of | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
helicopter safety? That is right and next Monday in Aberdeen, MPs from | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
the Select Committee will question helicopter operators, manufacturers, | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
trade unions and gas officials in an enquiry set up in the wake of last | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
August's disaster. The remit will also look at the tragedy in Alaska | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
or in November when a police helicopter crashed into a pub. Since | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
2009, the team people in Scotland have died in crashes and incidents | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
involving Eurocopter aircraft. Thank you very much. Police investigating | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
claims of an email plot to rig votes in the selection of Labour's general | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
election candidate in Falkirk say they have found no evidence of | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
criminality. Officers examined the computer of former Unite union | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
official Stevie Dean after a newspaper claimed emails proved | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
influence had been exerted. Unite says it proves a witch-hunt has been | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
exposed to be without foundation. The Burrell art collection is to be | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
loaned abroad, overturning the wishes of the shipping merchant, Sir | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
William Burrell. Members of the Scottish Parliament passed the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
legislation earlier this evening. Sir William donated the collection | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
to the city of Glasgow under the condition it wouldn't travel | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
overseas. MSPs hope touring the works will raise funds. We've all | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
been there. You go into a bar, ask for a glass of wine and more often | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
than not the response is, a large one? That's if you're asked at all | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
before a large glass is served. Well, now Scotland's bars and pubs | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
are being urged to promote smaller measures of wine to encourage more | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
responsible drinking. But health campaigners say but others say that | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
simply encouraging isn't enough, as Morag Kinniburgh reports. This | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
Edinburgh wine bar already offers an hundred and 25 millilitres glasses | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
and the thinking is enjoying good quality wine without getting drunk. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
That is smaller measures going to make a difference? Sometimes it is | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
nice to have a smaller glass. If you want a drink, you still will. It is | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
a good idea but whether or not it will make any long-term difference, | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
I doubt that. Any opportunity to have less alcohol will be good. One | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
large glass can contain over three units of alcohol, more than the | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
recommended daily intake for women and campaigners argue that people | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
can drink more than they realise. Scotland is renowned for its | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
unhealthy drink culture and making smaller measures of wine were | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
available is designed to help people control their drinking better. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
People end up going into a pub for a glass of wine only offered medium or | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
large number introducing smaller sizes, it lets people make a more | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
informed choice about their alcohol consumption. Offering smaller | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
measures will not necessarily mean lower income for republicans so they | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
support this. It will make for a much nicer environment with people | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
enjoying their drink so instead of having one or two large glasses, | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
they can have three smaller glasses. Health campaigners welcomed the move | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
but argue it should be compulsory and not optional and more needs to | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
be done. This is a step forward but if you do not tackle cheap alcohol | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
and widespread than ability, it will be ineffective. All sides except | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
this is a small move toward solving Scotland's alcohol problems and the | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
issue of pricing remains tied up in the courts. To some he's a | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
whistle-blower and a hero. To others, especially the American | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
government, he's a traitor, a fugitive guilty of espionage. But | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
the US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden could be the next rector of | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Glasgow University. From his temporary asylum in Moscow, he's | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
agreed to run in next month's elections. Our reporter, Julie | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
Peacock, is at the university now. Julie, how did his name come to be | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
in the frame? Well, Ed Snowden was at the centre of the international | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
manhunt last year after he licked details of the United States | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
security documents and they showed that the US had effectively been | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
spying not just on its own citizens and also listening to the phone | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
calls of the leaders of countries it considers allies, like Germany. As a | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
result, Edward Snowden went on the run and he is one of America's most | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
wanted but Russia has granted him temporary asylum. But a group of | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
university students here at Glasgow say they want to see him standing as | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
the rector in the forthcoming elections so over the past few weeks | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
there have been speaking to his lawyers and last night they got the | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
word that he would agree to stand in these elections and already the | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
students are telling me that there is a lot of support for his | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
campaign. Anyone who has ever used any kind of computer or telephone, | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
we have a responsibility to show Edward Snowden that not only do we | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
appreciate what he has done for us by informing us to the extent of US | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
surveillance but also that we were standing behind him in solidarity | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
with him and his situation. Surely just a publicity stunt? How can he | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
be of use to students thousands of miles away? It is fair to say that | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
Edward Snowden is not likely to pay many visits to Glasgow University if | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
he is elected by the students say that this is all about making a | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
political point and a say that Glasgow University has a long | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
tradition of doing this. Previous rectors have included people like | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
Winnie Mandela and also the Israeli whistle-blower. They say it is | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
important to make a stand and show that the UK and US government that | :14:13. | :14:26. | |
they value privacy. Thank you. Other stories from across Scotland | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
this Tuesday evening. Strike action looks likely to put a | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
stop to building work on Total's new multi-million pound gas terminal at | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Sullom Voe. Friday's proposed stoppage is the first in a series of | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
planned walk-outs. It follows the Unite Union's rejection of a | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
proposed deal by construction firm Petrofac for workers who have to | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
share accommodation. More than 30 firefighters tackled a | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
fierce blaze at a garage in the Moray town of Keith. The alarm was | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
raised just before nine o'clock this morning. No-one was injured. The | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
main A96 had to be closed during the incident. | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
Health inspectors have called for improved standards of cleanliness at | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
the State Hospital at Carstairs. The health care Environment Inspectorate | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
found that despite some progress since the last inspection there were | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
still concerns over cleanliness of patient equipment and the | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
availability of hand washing facilities. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
Entrants for this year's Monte Carlo rally are getting ready for the | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
British leg of the race, which leaves from Paisley on Thursday. Up | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
to 100 classic cars will assemble at Paisley Abbey, then drive to the | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
French Riviera. Since I was a child, my father was very keen on the rally | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
in the 1960s and used to follow it on television and radio. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
And there are more stories from your area and all the latest news, 24 | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
hours a day, on BBC Scotland's website. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
How do you get overweight middle-aged Scottish men to get fit? | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Well, forget counting calories, it seems you put a football at their | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
feet and recruit the services of their favourite team. A scheme which | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
did that has been nine times more effective than dietary advice alone, | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
according to research in the medical journal The Lancet. There is a group | :16:07. | :16:21. | |
of people who are more likely to be overweight and unlikely to tackle it | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
-middle-aged men. But many of them like football and that gave expects | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
the idea. Universities study showed we had to be very keen to tackle | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
obesity in middle-aged men. William was one of those who signed up. It | :16:46. | :16:58. | |
was a bit of a shock when I wait had me officially verging on obese. This | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
was no ordinary gym. As good a chance to train with professional | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
coaches. They also get a chance to see behind the scenes of their | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
favourite club. It is a club that they love, a sport that they love | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
and I think that helps their involvement. For 12 months, the | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
tract the progress of the fans. The average loss was five kilograms. | :17:37. | :17:48. | |
They also lost blood pressure, as well as losing inches across the | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
waste. Will you not only lost weight, but kept it off. I have | :17:55. | :18:04. | |
managed to keep off the weight and at the 12 month recall, that had | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
dinner in one stone and a half. It has delivered remarkable results. | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
One day, the hope every club will help their fans ditch the bones. -- | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
the poems. Let us stay with sport and get the | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
latest from Rhona. Andy Murray plays one of the | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
all-time greats of tennis Roger Federer tomorrow for a place in the | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
last four of the Australian Open. Both men are coached by former | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
winners of the tournament. Federer by Stefan Edberg and Murray by Ivan | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
Lendl. And Lendl is confident his man will come out on top. He signed | :18:44. | :18:56. | |
up for his first quarterfinal here. It is the third time he has faced | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
Roger Federer in the Australia open. The man who has helped Andy Murray | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
become a grand slam champion is confident his charge can go all the | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
way. You never know what is going to happen. He could lose the match. | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
Andy has had a very good warm up now in Miami and has played enough | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
matches to get back in. I can try like Roger, it is just a shame I | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
cannot play like him. There was a time when most of the tiers where | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
Andes. All that changed when he beat Roger Federer to win the Olympic | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
gold medal in London. If you are after more encouragement, he has a | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
better head-to-head record against Roger Federer. He has an 11-9 record | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
against him. When multiple grand slam winner thinks that Andy Murray | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
could win. It will be a physical match and I think he knows he could | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
win. I think in many ways, it is better for him to play Roger | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Federer. It is Ivan Lendl against Stefan Edberg. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Golf returns to the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 for the first time since | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
the Paris Games of 1904, but one young golfer from Blairgowrie can | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
already claim to have won gold in an Olympic event. As one of Scotland's | :20:45. | :21:00. | |
best young golfers, practice is key for Bradley. There are guys in | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
America who are just as good at the same age who are practising all day. | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
Bradley is backed of the Scottish golf union squad heading for one | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
weather training. What is like the Ryder Cup course? It is great to | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
think that soon, the professionals will be hitting the same shots that | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
you are doing. He has already actually won a gold at Olympic golf. | :21:39. | :21:52. | |
The fact I was a part of the team representing golf at an Olympic | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
event for the best part of 100 years was picked tackle. It was amazing to | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
do that. And it was certainly better than pre-and it was certainly better | :22:05. | :22:05. | |
than prayer we are, weather-wise. Now, a look at what else is | :22:06. | :22:20. | |
happening across Scottish sport. In life after F1, Paul Di Resta will | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
return to the German Touring Car Championship. The Scot had a | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
disappointing season in Formula One and lost his Force India seat at the | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
end of last year. An exclusive sneak peak at the | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
competitive kit of Team GB for the Sochi Olympic Games. Modelled by | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
pre-selected Scot Elise Christie, the official team selection | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
announcement comes tomorrow. Rangers stretched their lead at the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
top of League One to 20 points last night, with a 2-0 win at Forfar. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Mosni headed the first, before Templeton added an unstoppable | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
second. Partick Thistle are the only side in | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Scotland without a league win at home this season. New loan signing | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
Chris Erskine will try to help them put that right against St Johnstone | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
tonight. I do not know what it is. They are still playing good food | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
all. Maybe it is just a sign of inexperience and the top flight. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Hopefully, that will change tonight. And for the whole match live | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
tonight, you can tune into Sportsound on Radio Scotland 810 | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
medium wave and there is live text commentary on BBC Sport Scotland's | :23:25. | :23:37. | |
website. No, another tale of achievement. | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
An RAF sergeant who became the first double amputee to walk to the South | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Pole has been speaking about the experience. Duncan Slater, from Muir | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
of Ord, lost both his legs in an explosion in Afghanistan four years | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
ago, but last month, with a little bit of help from team mate Prince | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
Harry, he confounded the medics, raising funds for wounded soldiers | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
in the process. Sally McNair's report includes some flash | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
photography. Temperatures of -35 degrees. According to Duncan Slater, | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
it was a privilege to be on the coldest place on here. Last month, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
he was part of a team of wounded personnel who beat the odds to make | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
the 200 meal trick to the South Pole. His mother was thrilled, but | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
not surprised. To be the first to reach the South Pole with no legs, I | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
think it is up there. Duncan followed his father into the Royal | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
Air Force. His vehicle in hell man province was blown up. His legs were | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
amputated and he was told he would never walk again. I wanted to still | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
physically do something to show that I had made it back. The charity | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
challenge was finally went up in London today. He described the | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
achievement as an inspiration, according to since Harry. -- Prince | :25:10. | :25:22. | |
Harry. There was no way I was not going to complete it. I would have | :25:23. | :25:32. | |
gone on my own. I would not have got off the without getting to the South | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
Pole. He has no training for the London Marathon in April. | :25:37. | :25:46. | |
Astonishing. Letters get the weather and I hope there are no similarities | :25:47. | :25:47. | |
to the South Paul! This is the rainfall radar. A band | :25:48. | :25:59. | |
of rain has come to the rescue in the last few hours. Rain for some, | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
but the wind easing. A Met office yell warning for some localised | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
flooding tomorrow morning. Across the high ground, the rain may follow | :26:19. | :26:28. | |
snow. Largely dry but mailed this evening and two tomorrow in the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
West. A largely cloudy and dry start for the West tomorrow. As we head | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
through the afternoon, the rain in the East cleaving away. I made after | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
the, reasonably dry for many, with sunny intervals, but this band of | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
rain, we cannot take the exact position of it for granted, but | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
somewhere around the Central Belt will be affected. Across Orkney and | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Shetland, the showery rain continues. This time tomorrow night, | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
that band of showers begin to fragment and push away to the East. | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
It will be a cold night. We do it all again, with this band of rain | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
pushing in on Thursday. The good news about this one is a bold move | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
quicker. It will be across the East caused by mid-morning and cleared | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
away before the morning is out. Still one of two light showers on | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
Thursday, but much more pleasant. On Friday, a lot of rain, heavy and | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
persistent at times, but especially across the West. Thank you. | :27:44. | :27:54. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news. | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
As international diplomats gather in Switzerland for a conference aimed | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
at ending the conflict in Syria, a report by three former war crimes | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
prosecutors claims that Syrian government forces are guilty of | :28:05. | :28:06. | |
torturing and executing prisoners. Power company bosses have been | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
fiercely criticised for failing to respond quickly enough to the | :28:10. | :28:11. | |
blackouts which followed December's storms. A committee of MPs accused | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
them of utter complacency and of showing no real concern for their | :28:17. | :28:18. | |
customers. Scotland would have to take radical | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
measures if it is going to tackle income inequality. That is the | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
finding of research showing that only raising taxes or benefits would | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
have a very limited impact, even if Scotland votes for independence and | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
has new powers. . And that is Reporting Scotland. | :28:36. | :28:44. |