Browse content similar to 18/02/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: "An absolute affront to democracy." The | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Deputy First Minister hits backs over claims an independent Scotland | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
would find it difficult to secure full membership of the EU. | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
I declare Edward Snowden the new rector for the University of | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Glasgow, 2014. Whistle-blower Edward Snowden gets | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
the backing of Glasgow University students, who vote him in as their | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
new rector. I am quite happy that he was elected because he is a big | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
campaign in terms of privacy and the rights of individuals. He is not | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
going to be here, in the country, and is not going to make any | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
difference to the University. Also on tonight's programme: A Scots | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
council asks for a share of UK money to help those affected by flooding - | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
we look at how prepared we are to deal with the kind of flooding seen | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
in the South of England. Residents of this Stirlingshire | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
village are being asked to pay tens of thousands of pounds out of their | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
own pockets to have their land decontaminated ?? WHITE And | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Britain's men's curlers make it through to the semifinals at the | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Winter Olympics in dramatic style. He has done it! | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
Good Evening.The Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has hit | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
back at the European Commission President's claim that it would be | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
"extremely difficult" for an independent Scotland to secure full | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
membership of the European Union. Speaking at Holyrood, she said it | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
would be an "absolute affront to democracy" for Scotland to be denied | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
membership. The Liberal Democrats said it was "Napoleonic" for the SNP | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
to think all 28 EU governments would bend to their will. Here's our | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
If there is a Yes vote in the referendum, the Scottish Government | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
says it will seek to negotiate full membership of the European Union | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
within 18 months, prior to its target date for independence. But at | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
the weekend, the president of the European Commission doubted this was | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
doable. It will be difficult if not impossible. A new member state | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
coming out of one of our countries. The Deputy First Minister feedback. | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
Not only is there no interest in that in the wider EU, or in anything | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
any member state has said, it would be an absolute affront to democracy. | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
Mr Barroso highlighted the Spanish prime minister's refusal to accept | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
Kosovo's membership to highlight the difficulties Scotland might face. | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
Nicola Sturgeon disregarded this comparison. If this place became an | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
independent parliament, what would the relationship with the EU be? | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
There was a time when the SNP said membership would be automatic, while | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
some of their opponents argued we might end up outside the EU. More | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
recently, though, the debate has tended to focus on the negotiations. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
How long they might take, and whether or not they would result in | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
as good a deal for Scotland as we have at the moment as part of the | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
UK. The SNP's critics are not convinced EU membership could be | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
obtained entirely on the Scottish Government's terms. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
The idea that the First Minister is pulling the strings in 28 capital | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
cities around Europe is Napoleonic in its bravado. But Nicola Sturgeon | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
thinks we could keep a share of the UK's rebate from EU budget | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
contributions and keep out the troubles of the Eurozone. We are not | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
arguing for changes in the terms between Scotland and the EU, on the | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
euro, on the rebate we are arguing for continuity. These arguments will | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
only be put to the test if Scottish voters opt for independence in | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
September. The former prime minister, Gordon | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Brown, says the Scottish Government has failed to provide the evidence | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
that it would be able to fund pensions if the country became | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
independent. Mr Brown says a Yes vote would mean the loss of the | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
pooling and sharing of resources, which help pay for state pensions. | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
But the SNP says an independent Scotland would be better placed to | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
fulfil pension obligations and could actually be more generous. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
And tonight there will be more on the independence referendum in the | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
second in our series of debates. Here's James Cook. | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
Tonight we are debating independence in Kelso, a stone's throw from the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
English border. The news has been full of talk about pensions, Europe | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
and currency, but it is up to our audience to decide what to ask the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
panel, including Patrick Harvie from the Green party and the Scottish | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson. That is tonight at 9pm on BBC Two | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Scotland. Students at Glasgow University have | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
voted for the whistle-blower Edward Snowden to be their new rector. Mr | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Snowden is wanted by the authorities in America after he leaked secret | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
documents revealing widespread surveillance of phone and internet | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
communications by the US. He's now in Russia, where he's been granted | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
temporary asylum. Our correspondent Jamie McIvor is at Glasgow | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
University tonight. I suspect they will not be welcoming their new | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
rector any time soon? Absolutely, but then again the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
students who have been campaigning for Mr Snowden knew he would not be | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
in a position to come to Glasgow University to thank them any time in | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
the foreseeable future. Still, it was an overwhelming result here this | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
afternoon. 6500 students took part in the election. Half of them voted | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
for Mr Snowden, with the rest of the votes split three ways, between the | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
other candidates. As you can imagine, those students who have | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
been campaigning for Mr Snowden are feeling absolutely euphoric. I think | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
we have shown that we oppose intrusion into our private lives and | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
we stand in solidarity, we believe whistle-blowers are humans rather | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
than traitors, and we hope that in the future of the people will be | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
whistle-blowers. There is no doubt that the role of rector is largely | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
symbolic but at the same time the rector can be a strong advocate of | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
the student course. The current rector is Charles Kennedy. There was | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
something of a mixed response to the results. I think it is ridiculous, | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
pretty much. Any particular reason? Because he is not even here. He can | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
never come in the country. He is not a working rector. It is a stupid | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
political statement. I am quite happy because he is a big campaigner | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
in terms of privacy and the rights of individuals. Most students are | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
delighted. Mr Snowden certainly is not the first absentee rector | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
elected on political grounds. In the 1980s, Winnie Mandela was elected to | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
the post. As for whether today is going to send out results beyond | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Scotland that Mr Snowden's supporters want to see, let's wait | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
and see. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on tonight's programme: Who cares for | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
the carers? As part of a special series, we focus on the challenges | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
facing those later in life. In sport, as Scotland make changes | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
ahead of their next Six Nations tie, we hear from head coach Scott | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
Johnson, who was on the defensive. And in Sochi, the drama of curling. | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
David Murdoch skips Team GB to the Olympic semifinals. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
A Scottish council is demanding a share of the cash earmarked by the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
UK Government to help those affected by this winter's floods. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Dumfries and Galloway was hit hard by flooding over the festive period. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Now the flood waters in England and Wales are beginning to subside, | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
attention is focusing on how communities can protect themselves. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Our environment correspondent, David Miller, is with us. David, how well | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
prepared are we here in Scotland? There's no room for complacency, but | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Scotland has been investing heavily in flood prevention schemes. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Communities the length and breadth of the country know just how | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
devastating flooding can be. Elgin, Stonehaven, Perth and Dumfries are | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
among the areas left counting the cost of floods in recent years. | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
After the flooding South of the border, the Prime Minister David | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Cameron said, "Money is no object in this relief effort. Whatever money | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
is needed, we will spend it." So who'll be footing the bill here? | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
Winter 2014 will be remembered across much of England for flooding | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
on an almost unimaginable scale. But communities here have also been | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
affected. Today a call for the UK Government to help meet the cost. It | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
is the clean-up costs, they have hit over ?1 million. We simply cannot | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
afford to keep picking up that bill without support from the Scottish | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Government. Expensive new flood prevention schemes should limit | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
damage in future but Whitehall insists no new money is being made | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
available in England, so it will fall to the Scottish Government to | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
paperwork with its existing budget. ?42 million is available each year | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
but this scheme alone here in Elgin is costing ?86 million. We are | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
producing a higher level of money for flooding protection, although it | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
does look like a small amount compared to England. When flooding | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
does hit Scotland, it is likely to be over in a few days if not hours. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
Experts say our landscape is able to cope with all but the most | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
persistent and torrential downpours. The landscape has been shaped over | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
thousands and thousands of years by the rainfall. The rivers act as a | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
conveyor belt to take the rental of the land and Scotland has a far | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
denser river network and England. Expect more extreme weather more | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
often. That is the bowling from scientists who say the change in | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
climate will mean strong flood defences are increasingly vital in | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the years ahead. -- that is the warning from scientists. | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Of course, there's no guarantee flood prevention schemes will | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
protect every home or business in areas at risk. But if the worst does | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
happen, the emergency services are trained and equipped to come to the | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
rescue. Cameron Buttle has been hearing from those who could find | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
themselves on the flooding front line. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
This is a standard front line appliance, the first emergency | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
response to any incident. Already on board, basic water rescue equipment. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
But if it is a serious flooding incident, this is the kind of thing | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
the fire and rescue service can now deploy. Here to tell us a little bit | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
more about it is David. What have we got here? This is the incident | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
support unit, one of many places we have strategically placed throughout | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Scotland. It is a multipurpose vehicle. It carries a lot of | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
flooding equipment. We have specialist trained personnel. They | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
can deal with flooding prudently. The guys spend a lot of time | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
training. Yes. It takes up a lot of our time, the main part of our time | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
as a modern service. We train in flood and swift water rescue. If it | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
becomes a really serious incident, they will deploy the high volume | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
pump here. This does exactly what it says on the tin. It shifts huge | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
volumes of water up to three kilometres away. All of this | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
equipment and these firefighters are available 24/7 to be deployed | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
anywhere across Scotland. The Scottish Environment Protection | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
Agency website provides much more information about flood prevention. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
A huge amount of work is being done to keep floodwaters at bay but, as | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
we all know, it's always a mistake to underestimate what the Scottish | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
weather could throw at us. A group of homeowners in the village | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
of playing fields in Stirlingshire have been left with girls of tens of | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
thousands of pounds to decontaminate their land. Their homes were built | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
on land polluted with dangerous chemicals and the law says it is | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
their responsibility to clean it up. They are asking the UK Treasury to | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
waive the landfill tax which makes up to two thirds of the bill. At the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
foot of the Campsie Fells lies this village. Fiona is one of 13 | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
homeowners who lives there who faces staggering bills to remove | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
contamination from her garden. It is no fault of the owners and the | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
owners are asked to pay ?633,000. I have, personally, a ?43,000 bill. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
Unknown to their owners when they bought them, 13 homes on this estate | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
were built on contaminated land. The reason why, the Calico print works | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
stood here in the 19th century, and now, over 100 years after it was | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
demolished, refuse from it still contaminates some of the land. This | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
only came to light a couple of years ago, when Stirling Council tested | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
this so, and they found potentially dangerous levels of arsenic and | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
lead, and they say that has got to be cleared up. The print works and | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
the housing developers who build the homes in the 1960s no longer exist. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
The law states that whoever owns the land must pay for the clean-up. In | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
this case, it is the home owners, ?633,000 between 13 of them. Two | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
thirds of the bill 's landfill tax from the UK Treasury. Martin has | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
taken the case to Westminster. The estimated bill for me is ?69,000. We | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
have got as much as we could into the deposit for this house and now | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
the house is worthless. In 2015 the Scottish Government will take | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
control blank attacks. They have made a commitment to look at | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
residents affected. The council has pledged ?125,000 towards the final | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
bill but that still leaves the residents facing costs of tens of | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
thousands of pounds. More on that story on the One Show straight after | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
this programme. Now a round-up of other stories from | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
across Scotland this Tuesday. There has been a furious reaction to plans | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
by a Highland council to act two thirds of its local customer service | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
points in a bid to save money. The authority says more people want to | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
deal with issues like council tax online but critics say closing 23 | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
offices will hit vulnerable people in rural areas hardest. 78-year-old | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
cyclist who died after being involved in a collision with a car | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
in Edinburgh has been named. He died after his silver mountain bike was | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
involved in the crash on a road to South Queensferry on Sunday morning. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
The Arches nightclub in Glasgow has raised its minimum age for admission | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
to 21 after the drug-related death of a teenage girl. The 17-year-old | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
hide in the city's Royal Infirmary after becoming sick at the club on | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Saturday the 1st of February. Police have linked her death to an ecstasy | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
like tablet. The NHS in Scotland has been given an extra ?1.5 million to | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
cope with a significant increase in the number of people who need | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
cataract and joint surgery. The cash will fund more doctors and nurses. | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
Patients from around Scotland will be referred to the hospital which as | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
a key role in reducing waiting times. Closure has been announced | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
that five animal Park. The visitor attraction which is home to a number | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
of exotic animals was put on the market last year. The charity | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
regulator blog the sale until it was made clear which assets were owned | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
by the if animal trust charity. -- owned by the Fife animal trust | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
charity. Super fast road and has been introduced in the town of | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Buckie. The figure will increase to more than five houses in the coming | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
week. -- super fast Rathband. A week-long series of concerts is to | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
be held to celebrate the works of Gerry Rafferty in his hometown of | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Paisley. The festival was named after a Rafferty is on and will | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
feature makes your stop it runs from the 11th to the 19th of if. -- it | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
will feature Midge Ure full of According to charities, there are | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
about 650,000 unpaid carers across Scotland and that figure is expected | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
to reach one million over the next 20 years. | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
This week we will be looking at how they cope and what challenges they | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
face caring for their loved ones. In the first of three films, Ian | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Hamilton has been meeting older carers. | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
Alec and his wife give for their daughter, is in her 40s, and has a | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
learning disability. Neither of them elected to fill the caring for their | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
daughter into retirement full of but that is exactly what they are | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
doing. Jennifer is then send them the sheet is 45, 46 this year full | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
of -- Jennifer is bound in them. The love hearing for Jennifer because | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
they are both and healthy. What the year is the church and what that | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
might bring the -- Down's Syndrome full who will look after Jennifer | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
when we are not here to mark? Or if we are physically unable to look | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
after our. Look after her full of it is the tactical about how you can | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
fit England place. There are 13 point five thousand older carers and | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
full of the art looking after family members with dementia and other | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
disabilities. According to disability organisations, it is | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
about heading of the crisis before it occurs. That requires a | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
partnership between families of health and social services full. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
Something that doesn't always happen. Social authorities will | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
probably love to shift to early intervention. However, I think in | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
the days of cuts and therapy measures, it is very difficult for | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
them to do so. They have a plan together to secure Jennifer's | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
future. They are also working with other theatres to do the same. -- | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
with other hearers. Thing for the sports news. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
Docklands have made three for this weekend's Six Nations match away to | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Italy. Scott Lawson and Richie Gray come in for Ross Ford and Tim | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Swinson respectively, whilst David Denton is replaced by Johnnie | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Beattie. There's been some stinging criticism of late aimed at | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
Murrayfield but is it getting to Scotland's interim head coach? | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
Here's our rugby reporter, Phil Goodlad. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
Scott Johnson dispensed with the usual interviews today and says a | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
press conference full of not be only unusual aspects to foresee things. | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
It seems surprising given that for 55 minutes he was one of the best | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
players. And you sat and watched it all? Probably not as many camera | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
angles as you have. I wondered if many people might be surprised he | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
has been dropped. We are just trying to get a balance to it, and | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
acknowledging what he needs to improve on, too. To get out | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
different balance in the team. Everyone is a bit edgy. They are | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
coming towards us. What was the pressure. The people that know you | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
the less judge you the most. I am happy with who I am. I am not | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
changing, and I don't really care. I am pretty comfortable in my own | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
skin. So it was a different Scott Johnson at Murrayfield today, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
reacted, perhaps, to the stinging criticism of late. He now needs his | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
players to do likewise in Rome this weekend. | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
The Winter Olympics and Great Britain's men's curlers have made it | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
through to the finals at scratchy. They beat Norway 6-5 in a thrilling | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
conclusion to their tie-breaker match. And it took a moment of | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
brilliance from the skip to win the day. A must- make shop. | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
Cannot afford to miss this... We had our chances of sealing the extra end | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
up we thought they would be pretty low. It was scary. We are not scared | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
of going for these shots to win games. It had to be absolutely | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
perfect. COMMENTATOR: He has done it! A brilliant shot! Great Britain | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
skipped with the very last stone, running from behind against Norway | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
to seal their place in the final. In terms of the shots of your career | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
how does that rank? It is one of those in shots. A really dramatic | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
end to that match and that incredible last owned by David | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Murdoch sets up a semifinal tomorrow against Sweden. If they win that | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
match, they are guaranteed a silver medal. But Sweden are the world | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
champions. We have a lot of confidence. If we play like that, it | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
is good enough to beat any team this week. If we come out playing like | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
that tomorrow, we have a really good chance. And another shot or two like | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
this wouldn't harm their chances either. Yes! Great scenes. Here is | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
more news from the Winter Olympics plus a look at what is happening in | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Scottish sport. Elise Christie admits she questioned whether she | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
could compete again in Sochi after the disappointment she suffered. But | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
she took to the ace in the short track 1000 metres and one her feet | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
with ease. I will try my best. Today everyone proud. -- she won her heat | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
with ease. I was a bit worried. But now I am across the line, I looked | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
down as I crossed the line. A player is to leave Glasgow Warriors after | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
five years with the club. He has signed a two-year contract with an | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
English side. Five Scots have been named in the GB and Northern Ireland | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
team for next year's -- next month's Championships in Poland. He is part | :24:57. | :25:06. | |
of the 35 strong squad. There is a Scottish Cup replay tonight at | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
Inverness Caley Thistle face League One club Stranraer. This a glider | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
for the premiership side setup tonight's replay. Dundee United | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
await the winners in the quarterfinals. Radio Scotland has | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
the cup tie covered. Tune in for all the build-up. There is online | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
coverage as well. Came for the weather. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Hello. Good evening. The weather is fairly bland. I wouldn't be too | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
disappointed if you switched off because there is not a lot going on. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
It is murky and misty, damp, low pressure in charge but it has not | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
got much strength to it. It is not going anywhere fast. It is hanging | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
around. Tonight, like last night, cloudy, damp, misty and murky at | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
times. The rain will come and go but there will be some clearer skies | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
like there were earlier today across Orkney and Shetland and drifting | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
into powers of Caithness. Somewhat cooler here, a touch of frost. The | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
cloud is acting like a blanket. Tomorrow morning will be reasonably | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
dry and cloudy, a bit misty and murky once again but on the whole | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
tomorrow a lot of dry weather around. There will be some light and | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
patchy outbreaks of rain, certainly across central parts of the country. | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
Maybe towards parts of the Borders as well. In places, the mist and fog | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
did linger in the afternoon. Temperatures are on the mild side, a | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
turning Celsius, but where the mist and fog lingers it will be cooler. | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
Some brighter sky to the north of any high ground, into the Moray | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
Firth and into the far north of the mainland. Orkney and Shetland is | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
seeing some sunshine, but rain is coming your way. Here is why. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
Tomorrow night, a weather front approaches from the West and that | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
will introduce some rain and strengthening wind and some thicker | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
cloud. That makes us way across the country as we had overnight | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Wednesday into Thursday. By Thursday morning, you will probably wake up | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
to a rather wet and indeed breezy start to the day. It does improve. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
As we head through the morning towards afternoon, the rain works as | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
we ever eastward, the winds being more westerly but the rain lingers | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
for the Northern Isles. Behind it is a showery story, some brighter skies | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
in between and some wintry showers on their health. Friday once again, | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
the showers with us in the West and further east is drier and brighter. | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
We could see some hail mixed in as well. | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
We could see some hail mixed I was just about to say it was worth | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
waiting for. Now, a reminder of tonight's main | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
news. The Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has hit back at the | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
European Commission President's claim that it would be "extremely | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
difficult" for an independent Scotland to secure full membership | :27:52. | :27:53. | |
of the European Union. Speaking at Holyrood, she said it would be an | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
"absolute affront to democracy" for Scotland to be denied membership. | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
For the first time in four years, the rate of inflation has dropped | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
below the Bank of England target of 2%. Latest figures show inflation | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
fell to 1.9% in January. Economists say it could ease the pressure on | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
family budgets. And that's Reporting Scotland. We'll | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
be back with the headlines at eight, and the late bulletin just after the | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
ten o'clock news. Until then, from everyone on the team, across the | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
country, have a very good evening. | :28:24. | :28:28. |