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the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye way. That is all from the BBC News | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight on Reporting Scotland... A fundamental change to the way | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
emergency calls are dealt with. Big cuts to the number of police and | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
fire control rooms - unions warn it could put lives at risk. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
SNP anger as a former Scottish Secretary suggests independence may | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
dishonour those who fought and died for their country. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
A major cash boost for Scotland's cricketers as they qualify for the | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. And Scotland's snow sports | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
centres are hoping for a bumper year. | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
There has been so much snowfall in recent weeks that I am actually | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
standing on several metres of snow. Just pick a route and ski down it. | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
Good evening. Control rooms handling 999 calls to police and fire | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
services are to be cut across Scotland. Despite protests, fire and | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
police chiefs say it will allow them to respond to calls more | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
effectively. The fire service currently has eight control rooms. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
It will go down to three. The police, with 11 control rooms, will | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
see that reduced to five. Here is our home affairs correspondent, | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
Reevel Alderson. In an emergency, dial 999. | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Emergency calls to the fire and police services have always been | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
handed locally. The recent amalgamation of forces has offered | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
the opportunity for efficiencies. But senior officers say they are | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
confident public safety will not be affected. I would not put forward | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
any proposals that could compromise the safety of people in Scotland. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
The challenge of course is making sure that as we move to this new | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
model of three, rather than eight, we do the change properly. This fire | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
station in Dundee will house the most northerly control room in | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Scotland. Unions say it is a devastating blow. The north is left | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
exposed with no cover, which is a great fear that we have in the | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
decision that has been made. In the past hour the Scottish Police | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Authority has accepted the proposals to cut control centres, which they | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
say will help the new single force be fully integrated across the | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
country. We need to move forward in a strategic direction so the police | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
service of Scotland is a strategic force in name and action. The new | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
101 number means that fewer calls come in but both services insist | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
that local knowledge remains, with the men and people on the ground. | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
Explain for us where the control rooms are. The fire service has | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
eight control rooms fill in visit -- Inverness down to Dumfries. In the | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
future it will operate with just three, Johnston in Renfrewshire, | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
which already handles half of Scotland's calls, Edinburgh and | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Dundee. The police are closing six control rooms. They will leave Govan | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
and Motherwell in the West, Bilston Glen in the east and done the | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
covering the North. Inverness will be a police data handling area and a | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
control room for special events. In areas like Aberdeen or the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
south-west, neither of these will have any police or fire control | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
facilities and my colleague Willie Johnston has been looking at what | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
the situation is likely to be in Dumfries. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
The area covered I the Dumfries divisional control room has nearly | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
150,000 people and a landmass of 6500 square kilometres. 34 civilian | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
operators handle about the -- 3000 nonemergency calls every week and | :04:25. | :04:36. | |
209 99s. It will be a loss of a lot of local knowledge which will delay | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
response times to an emergency. There is anger that Dumfries is | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
earmarked to close in three weeks. The consultation was dismissed as | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
meaningless. Talk of potential redeployment was dismissed as | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
impractical. A Facebook campaign in control -- support of the control | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
room has attracted massive support. I think there is a great deal of | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
anger in the local community, first of -- the way that the decision has | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
been handled and also the decision itself. There has been no | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
consultation with the local authority on which is supposed to be | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
a partner of Police Scotland. Tonight, no sign of a rip -- a | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
reprieve, known for the control room in dumb Freese. -- nor for. | :05:31. | :05:43. | |
The police control room is scheduled to close in April. The whole process | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
will take a couple of years. It requires new technology to be | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
brought in and in the fire service's case in Dundee, a new | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
control. The Scottish Parliament Justice committee has sent out a | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
note, saying, if you do not think the fire service or police service | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
is working, let us know. It will be interesting to see how people react | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
to these latest cuts. Thank you very much. | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
A former Scottish Secretary has suggested that Scottish independence | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
may dishonour those who fought and died for their country. Ian Lang's | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
comments came in a House of Lords debate. Our political correspondent | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
joins us now from Westminster. Tim Reid, what has the reaction been? | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
This was the first major debate on Scotland's future in the House of | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Lords. Politicians are engaged in appealing to hearts and heads and | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
some of the language has been strong, some of the views as well. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
It was a Who's Who of former political heavyweights, handful of | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
previous Scottish Secretary 's -- secretaries. | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
Both countries are woven into the fabric of the UK. Must they both now | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
disavow that shared history? Would that not dishonour the sacrifices | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
made in common cause of those who died for the UK? | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
Those remarks led to angry exchanges, Alex Salmond raising the | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
subject himself. I hope Ruth Davidson will take the | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
opportunity to do so since those -- this associate herself to the | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
remarks, circulated by the Conservative Party, arguing a vote | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
for independent would somehow dishonour the sacrifice. I suggest | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
we all take a step back. Ruth Davidson chose not to answer further | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
questions but her office issued a statement saying Lord Lang spoke for | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
himself. Back at Westminster, his remarks were being defended by one | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
of his successors. It is a sign of the contempt with which those of us | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
who believe in the United Kingdom as a family that such attacks are made | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
on Lord Lang. There are no SNP members in the Lords so this was a | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
one-sided debate. There were fears about the economy and defence. This | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
maiden speech seemed to capture the mood of this unelected house. I and | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
my fellow unionists in Scotland need the support of our fellow lords in | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is time to stand | :08:47. | :08:59. | |
together. At Holyrood -- meanwhile, at Holyrood, Labour leader Johann | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Lamont has owned up to a "slip of the tongue", after describing the | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
powers available to Scotland under independence as "wee things". | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
She was responding to the First Minister, who said independence | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
would allow Scotland to control taxation and welfare, scrap nuclear | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
weapons and avoid what he called "illegal wars". | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
This is ludicrous. This is a ludicrous defence by a man who used | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
to cry Freedom and now gives us a list of things that we can do, which | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
we could do... Order! Our political editor, Brian Taylor, | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
joins me now from Holyrood. Brian, it is not often a politician "owns | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
up". No, Labour's response to this is basically, what's, -- the | :09:37. | :09:51. | |
Scottish Government backed this up with this leaflet being handed | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
round. They complained this was effectively party for the gander | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
being put out by the Scottish Government. -- party propaganda. I | :10:00. | :10:14. | |
think on balance both sides think the referendum is fairly big. | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
A man has admitted possessing almost half a million indecent images of | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
children on some at the worst levels depravity. The man was arrested in | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
front of colleagues at the Maritime Museum in Irving after police raided | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
his home. Heroin with an estimated street | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
value of ?1 million has been seized at a house in the East End of | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Glasgow. Police also found firearms, ammunition and a quantity | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
of tablets. 33-year-old man has been. | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
Funding has been approved to transform Oban into a hub for | :10:57. | :11:06. | |
tourism and renewables. Lothian buses carried more than 150 | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
million characters last year, the highest number for 25 years. Buses | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
in the capital will be integrated with the capital's tram service due | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
to start in May. Cycling Scotland is welcoming the | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
decision to lift the ban on this bike advert. The advertising | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Standards Authority had banned the advert because some of the cyclists | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
were not wearing a helmet. The Army is to help police and | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
private contractors provide security for this summer's Commonwealth | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Games. Meanwhile, MSPs have debated the event's "legacy", as it is | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
known, with a focus on how to get more people to take part in sport. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Our Commonwealth Games reporter, Lisa Summers, reports. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
This table tennis is 25 years old but it has just become part of the | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
community's press hub, part of the Commonwealth Games Legacy | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
programme, where clubs get together to share resources. The best thing | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
has been getting on the table, hitting the ball. Another hub is | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
based here at this school, where people get the chance to be sports | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
leaders. It is rewarding because the same people progress, they don't | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
stay at the same level. The Olympics was criticised for not achieving its | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
goal of getting us more active but really, is watching sport on TV the | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
thing to get us off the sofa? Can Glasgow succeed where others have | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
failed? There is no evidence to suggest that watching major events | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
on TV leads particularly adults to go out and participate. It may lead | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
children to get excited and ask their parents to let them | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
participate. MSPs debated the Commonwealth Games in Parliament | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
today but the hardest challenge will to be to get us to participate. It | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
is a challenge but we have been doing this through this -- grass | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
roots, so sports Scotland are helping clubs so that young people | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
who want to try a sport have the opportunity to do this. We have been | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
tackling PE in schools some more young people can be active more | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
often. The Games will be the capitalist -- maybe the capitalist | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
to get people interested in sport but whether it can help us change | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
our life style is another matter. Here's David now with all the | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
sporting news. Scottish cricket is in for an injection of cash because | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
the national team's qualified for next year's World Cup in Australia | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
and New Zealand. They came through a tough qualifying campaign, | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
confirming their place with a thrilling win over Kenya. Here's | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Brian McLauchlin. As we approach the end of January, | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
the football transfer window is about to close and Robbie's Six | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Nations is about to get under way, but today Scotland's cricket team | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
Paula fied for the World Cup. A dramatic game with Scotland | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
confirming their place in next year's finals with just three balls | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
remaining. Good to give something back to Cricket Scotland. The lads | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
have worked so hard. They just saw us through. And the chief executive | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
says qualification for the finals was crucial in more ways than one. | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
We get increased money from the ICC which will be significant. It gives | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
us a chance to plan longer term to build player contracts and put in | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
place good support networks and give not only the current players at the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
next crop of international players as good a preparation as we can to | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
play at the highest level. So a World Cup to look forward to and a | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
good reason to burst into song. And sent them home words... St Johnstone | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
are preparing for one of their biggest ever matches. If they beat | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Aberdeen on Saturday, they'll be in the League Cup final. As if that's | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
not enough to cope with, our reporter Rhona Mcleod has been | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
putting them under even more pressure. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
With such a huge match in the club's history just two days away, | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
the fans are getting nervous and excited, so they have been tweeting | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
the questions they want to asked directly to manager Tony Wright, so | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
let's hope he is in the mood to talk. Can you ask if new signings | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
James Dunn and Chris I will know are likely to start? They will be in | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
that squad of 16. The contract situations of hassle bank and the | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
Manaus, he would like them to stay. They are at least two players I want | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
to stay. Would you bring it a new keeper or stick with Stevie Banks? | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
Know we are happy to go with Steven and Mark Hurst. Any new bids for | :16:13. | :16:21. | |
Stevie me? Know, and that is fine. I want them here for next season. That | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
was painless enough, wasn't it? Let's see if we can find one of the | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
hottest properties because a fan has a question for him. He wants to know | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
which shampoo and conditioner users? I do keep it washed and | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
conditions but I can't talk brand names. A magician never reveals his | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
tracks. His hair is lovely and glossy though, isn't it? Time for me | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
to reveal some more stories from across Scottish sport. Scotland | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
rugby captain Kelly Brown isn't saying the Scots can win this | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
year's Six Nations tournament but he thinks they can do that than last | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
year. We finished third last year, which was our highest finish in a | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
number of years, but we need to keep working hard and improving. If | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
eating Saint Mirren last night isn't enough to cheer hearts up, they | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
signed a striker, Paul McCallum, on loan. Saint Mirren manager signed | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
Josh Magennis on loan until the summer. | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Scottish Badminton Championships start tomorrow in Perth. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Commonwealth Games prospects Robert Blair and Kirsty banking our ones to | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
keep an eye on. Andy Murray is in America repairing for the Davis cup | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
match with the USA and not planning a summer wedding despite reports on | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
social media. Maybe in the next couple of years | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
but one thing I hope people would know about me by now is that I | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
wouldn't be announcing whether I am engaged over Twitter or on TV. And | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
there are more sports stories 24 hours a day on the Scotland website. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
And that is tonight's sport, or is it? | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Not exactly, because we are staying with sport. Scotland's ski slopes | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
have seen heavy snowfall in recent days, and are hoping it could be the | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
start of a bumper season. All five outdoor resorts are reporting good | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
cover. Let's cross to Glencoe and our reporter Craig Anderson. There | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
he is. Hello, Craig. Here at Glencoe it has been a good | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
day and that is not just because they have a massive amount of snow | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
and there have even been sunny spells. There have also been good | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
custom here, something like 700 people who have taken to the slopes | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
and that is good for the midweek, all of them benefiting from some of | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
the best snow sport conditions anywhere. Everywhere you look there | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
is the white stuff, while other parts of the country have been | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
dredged by almost incessant rain in recent weeks, appear it has fallen | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
as snow and more than they have seen here for 20 years. Since | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
mid-December it has snowed and snowed, six weeks constant snow. A | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
little rain but nothing too bad and it has built up snow levels. We now | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
have top levels on the bottom runs. There has been so much snowfall here | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
that I am now standing on several metres of snow. The mountainside | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
behind me is usually where rock but now regardless of the dedicated ski | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
runs, you can just pick a root and ski down at. Eat your heart out, | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Saatchi. What do you think of the conditions and the amount of snow | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
that is here? It is fabulous. Every now and then there is a rock, but | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
tonnes of snow. When you are skiing in Scotland you can't complain with | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
a day like this. Granted the high winds that helped build the gullies | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
with snow have also been closing down operations and places in the | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
East have not had the same snowfall, but all Scotland's ski areas now | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
have good clover and are hoping this is a good omen for the busiest part | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
of their season. The real litmus test, the one that helps to ski | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
areas fill the coffers, is the school half term holidays in about a | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
fortnight from now, so they will hope this go -- the snow stays and | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
they don't get high winds. This weekend, here is the forecast. | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
Pretty chilly here today and it was cold across the sun -- across the | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
country. Tonight stays largely dry although it will be cold. Still a | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
number of showers across parts of Grampian, potentially some isolated | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
sleet flurries. Elsewhere cloudy and dry but clearer skies in the North | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
West so a patchy frost. Temperatures in towns and cities close to | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
freezing, and in the countryside or skies are clear it will be below | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
freezing. Tomorrow we have an area of low pressure from the Atlantic | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
and that means wet and windy conditions for all. Because of that | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
the rear is a risk of snow and the Met Office has issued a yellow | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
warning. After a dry start, that rain band works its way in from the | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
West Coast and that will be heavy and persistent rain accompanying it, | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
pretty song -- strong southerly winds and as the rain comes in it | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
turns to snow on high grounds so some road routes like the A9 and | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
A74 could be affected. Temperatures will feel the cold and wet and | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
windy, but because of their action of the wind, places like Laszlo and | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
Edinburgh have a lot of shelter so not too much rain or snow. It will | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
be windy across the board and those shelter effects in place, with the | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
rain tracking eastwards through the day. This evening the rain continues | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
to work its way is that some heavy snowfall on high road like the A9 | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
and windy as well, a separate morning in force for Shetland on | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Friday with gusts up to 70 mph. At the weekend it is still windy but it | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
should be dry, still a number of heavy showers in the south-west and | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
they could be wintry on high ground. Sunday is a little better, less rain | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
and showers but still a little breezy. So from a rather cold Len | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
Coe, it is back to your lovely warm studio. A quick reminder of | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
tonight's main news. Control rooms monitoring police and Fire Services | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
are to be cut across Scotland. I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm, | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
and the late bulletin just after the 10pm news. Until then, from everyone | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
on the team, have | :23:31. | :23:31. |