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Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
crisis continue. Tonight on Reporting Scotland: How | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
independence may force two of the largest banks to move south. EU | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
regulations could mean that RBS and Lloyds would have to relocate | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
offices from Scotland to London. After days of confusion and | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
recrimination, Aberdeen councillors throw out plans to ban Scottish | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
ministers from council buildings. How to make a whole city look like a | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
bunch of numpties. It is really puerile. Aberdeen City Council are | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
acting like a bunch of two-year-olds. | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
Also on the programme: Cycling legend Graeme Obree and Uganda's | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
anti-gay laws - he says the politicians who passed them should | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
be banned from the Commonwealth Games. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
And Scotland are put to the test in Poland and so are the Tartan Army. | :00:51. | :01:02. | |
And his colleagues may be less than impressed, but tonight this amateur | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
comedian is attempting to break the world joke-telling record. | :01:06. | :01:20. | |
If Scotland votes for independence in September's referendum, both The | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds banking groups may be forced, under | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
law, to move their registered offices from Edinburgh to London. | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
It's part of a European Union directive that says banks must have | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
their head office in the same member state as its registered office. Our | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
business and economy editor, Douglas Fraser, is here to explain what this | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
all means for the Yes and No campaigns. Douglas. | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
Thank you. Edinburgh has headquarters for two banking giants, | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
but for how long? The BBC's learned Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Banking Group are taking advice on a European law, from 19 years ago, | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
that may require them to have their registered office and head office in | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
the same state where most of their customers are. If Scotland becomes | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
independent, that would put them south of the border. Would that make | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
much difference? Well, Lloyds is technically registered in Edinburgh. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
But the corporate power and top jobs are in London. The Royal Bank has | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
more of a headquarters operation here, but the power is also down | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
south. Some jobs could move. This could be a blow to the prestige of | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Edinburgh's finance sector. But the European law is unclear and | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
untested. And this could mean an independent Scottish government | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
carries far less risk if these banks have to bailed out again. No | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
surprise, then, that this fuels the debate on independence. | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
The financial services sector in the banking sector are of enormous | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
significance to Scotland's economy. If there is a Yes vote and you see | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
these people walking away, that will be bad for the economies and | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
business and it will be bad for jobs. They cannot argue on one hand | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
that they cannot be -- that we cannot be independent with a formal | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
currency union because the size of the banking industry is too big but | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
at the same time scaremonger that large parts of that industry are | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
down south and headquartered here. They cannot have it both ways. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
This follows last week's statement from Standard Life, also in | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Edinburgh, that it's preparing a move out of Scotland, to be nearer | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
most of its customers, if that's felt necessary. And also continuing | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
today, the hottest topic of dispute over independence is control of the | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
pound. While the Chancellor, George Osborne, plus Labour and Lib Dems | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
say 'no deal' on sharing sterling, the chief of the economic advisers | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
to the Scottish Government was at Holyrood today, backing up what Alex | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
Salmond's been saying. We would not want to even talk about a plan B at | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
this stage of the game, we would say there is lots of options. At this | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
moment, are strong advice would be, let's go down the path of | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
recommending to the government that they stick with the monetary union | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
and we will spend some time on the Fiscal Commission working group over | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
the next few months trying to help the rest of the Duke understand the | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
very strong advantage is there are two that and the strong | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
disadvantages if they decided to go against it. -- the rest of the UK. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
And that may be what they're discussing when these economic | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
advisers meet tomorrow and Friday, where they're at the heart of this | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
independence debate. Jackie. Thank you very much, Douglas. And | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Newsnight Scotland will be debating the economics of the independence | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
referendum, later - that's from 11pm over on BBC Two. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
After three days of confusion, it's emerged that Scottish government | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
ministers will not now be banned from visiting Aberdeen City Council | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
buildings. The council leader today rejected the proposal amid bitter | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
recriminations. Here's how it played out. On Monday, Labour's Finance | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Convener said they'd ban the First Minister from council premises - | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
accusing him of bullying on a previous visit. Yesterday, the | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Deputy Leader of the Council said the word ban had been a "slip of the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
tongue" - although not everyone agreed. And today, the council's | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
leader said there would be no blanket ban on visiting ministers. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Steven Duff joins us from council's headquarters. Steven, what happened | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
today? Monday seems a long way away, | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
certainly as far as Aberdeen City Council politics are concerned. The | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Labour finance convener was then talking about an outright ban on | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
visiting Scottish government ministers, today his boss, the | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
leader, said he never used the word ban, he got that was inappropriate | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
and there would be no blanket ban. They will instead be a review of the | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
protocol for visiting ministers. Dignity and respect at the start of | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
a full meeting of Aberdeen City Council, since Monday the local | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
authority envelope in what some describe as a media squall, others | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
called a sorry, sordid little affair. On Monday, Labour councillor | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Willie Young wanted all Scottish government ministers banned from | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
council premises. We are proposing this because the relationships with | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Aberdeen City Council and the Scottish Government have reached a | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
new low and we are dealing with a bully. Today, his boss had this to | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
say. I have never used the word ban and that would not be appropriate. | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Acrimony between Labour and SNP goes back to last summer's Donside | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
by-election. What has rankled Labour councillor since is the First | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Minister's unannounced visit to a closure threatened primary school | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
during the campaign. So now ban but a review of protocol form and is -- | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
for visiting ministers. We don't want the office 's prostituted for | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
political purposes. Whoever it is. We will take that as our standard | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
going forward. We have got on with the job, delivering public services | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
and projects for the people of Aberdeen. I would encourage Labour | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
and Aberdeen City Council to do the same. On the streets of Aberdeen, a | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
sense of civic pride tarnished. I have got no time for the SNP but | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Aberdeen City Council are acting like two-year-olds. Should attend to | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
what is going on in Aberdeen, never mind all of this infighting between | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
them all. It is really puerile. I think I would rather live in Ukraine | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
at the moment! Citizens of Aberdeen can only hope that the relationships | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
between their City Council and the government do not think any lower. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
SNP will, in April, hold their spring conference in Aberdeen at the | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
council owned exhibition and conference Centre. Councillor Young | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
said that is fine, in fact he would personally be willing to welcome Mr | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
Salmond and his team there. And still to come on Reporting | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Scotland: Latest figures show the National Museum of Scotland was the | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
most popular visitor attraction outside London. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
In sport, we're in Poland with the Scotland football team ahead of | :08:23. | :08:23. | |
tonight's international. And he's smiling now, but you'll | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
find out what upset the national rugby team's captain. That and more | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
later. One of Scotland's greatest athletes | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
is calling for Ugandan politicians who backed the country's | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
controversial anti-gay bill to be banned from attending the Glasgow | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Commonwealth Games. Graeme Obree, a former cycling world record holder, | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
has launched an online petition, called "No Hate at the Games". Laura | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
Maxwell has more. Last month, the people in -- it got | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
much tougher in Uganda. Anti-gay sentiment is widespread on the | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
streets. A new law means life imprisonment now awaits anyone found | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
guilty of gay sex or same-sex marriage. The President even | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
received a round of applause as he approved the bill. Make some noise! | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
For Graeme Obree! As Glasgow prepares to welcome the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Commonwealth, it is an issue which this sportsman feels cannot be | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
tolerated. I would like the Commonwealth Games to send the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
message that we take home a phobia as seriously as racial | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
dissemination. This would not be allowed if it was South Africa and | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
apartheid was all happening. There is no way even athletes were banned. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
, but games are often referred to as the friendly games and that is | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
certainly the way the organisers would like them to be portrayed | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
here. In a statement, they told us, Glasgow 2014 wants to engage with | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
all individuals regardless of their sexual orientation. But the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
statement goes on, the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee is not | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
responsible for issuing invitations to foreign dignitaries. Neither is | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
the Scottish Government. But it has described the new Ugandan Lord's as | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
dismal and Draconian. What we are hearing from the ground in Uganda | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
through equality organisations in Scotland is that a boycott would | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
actually be counter-productive. We have to think about what will be in | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
the best interest of Ugandans who will suffer under this legislation. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Graeme Obree's petition went online two days ago. It has already | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
attracted hundreds of signatures. It is not yet known which Ugandan | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
dignitaries will attend the Commonwealth Games. | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Apologies for some technical problems involving sound. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
A teenager who racially abused an East Stirlingshire player at | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
Peterhead's Balmoor Stadium has been given a one-year football banning | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
order. Donnie Fraser, who's 19, admitted targeting 17-year-old | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
Jordan Tapping on Saturday. The player was so distressed, he had to | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
be substituted. Fraser was also ordered to pay ?300 in compensation | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
at Peterhead Sheriff Court. Now, let's take a look at stories | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
around Scotland this evening. The crisis facing the local | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
government umbrella body COSLA has intensified after another council | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
warned it could leave. West Lothian Council is the seventh to say it may | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
quit. It says the move to give notice is precautionary given the | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
continuing uncertainty over the organisation. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Orkney's Neolithic village of Skara Brae has joined locations such as | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Pompeii and the Statue of Liberty as sites most likely to be affected by | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
rising sea levels. A report in an environmental journal estimates a | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
fifth of the 720 world heritage sites would be affected by sea-level | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
rises caused by melting of the polar ice caps. And have been unveiled for | :11:46. | :11:57. | |
a Scottish centre of textiles and Selkirk. The idea is to convert this | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
misused store into a museum and a centre for skills and technology | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
transfer. Akers believe it could attract ?15 million worth of | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
investment into the area and help secure the future of the industry in | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
Scotland. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
looking to improve the way it deals with wildfires. Last year | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
firefighters in the Highlands and Islands had to tackle more than 200 | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
outbreaks. Now the organisation says it's introduced measures to ensure | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
better co-ordination, with improved training so wildfires are tackled | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
more effectively and safely. The Scottish Parliament is to | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
install beehives in its grounds. Honey bees are responsible for the | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
pollination of more than 60% of all of Scotland's crops, fruit and | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
flowers. It's hoped the new additions will highlight the recent | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
decline in the honeybee population. Royal Navy divers have been called | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
to Wick Bay to deal with unexploded ammunition from a World War Two | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
wreck. The Isleford went down in a storm in 1942 with the loss of all | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
hands. The Navy team say there is no danger to the public and no need to | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
explode the shell. Could James Bond be responsible for | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
a surge of visitors to Glencoe? Well, tourism bosses think the | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
latest Bond film Skyfall that featured the Highland landscape and | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
last summer's great weather have boosted numbers at many of the | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
country's most famous tourist attractions. Catriona Renton has | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
more. Taking photographs as the moment of the day. Today, we met | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
visitors from all over the world. we come from Thailand. I have been here | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
four times now. We come from Germany. We like it. We have been | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
hit twice. I am anxious to see the castle. I came from Holland. Last | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
year, Edinburgh Castle had 1.4 million visitors, the most ever in | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
the castle's history, making it the most popular paid for to arrest | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
attraction in the UK outside London. It is like a must see attraction. | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
The Eiffel Tower but, you must come to any burka so if you come to | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
Scotland. -- you must come to Edinburgh Castle. | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
The week winner, Glencoe, up by around 42% on the previous year. But | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
was down to the good weather here was their another effect? It might | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
be down to the fact that it was the location for the last James Bond | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
movie, Skyfall. Movie to reason is quite big business for us. Is | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
equally demonstrated at Glen Fitton as well that the Harry Potter | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
affect. Edinburgh zoo sort drop in its numbers. In doors, overall, | :15:07. | :15:19. | |
fewer of us visited museums and galleries but although the numbers | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
were down, the National Museum for Scotland had over 1,716,000 | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
visitors, making it the top free attraction outside of London. That | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
Everex! -- that Iran is Doris Rex. If you don't know which way to vote | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
in September's independence referendum, you can expect a letter | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
over the next few days urging you to vote no. The Better Together | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
campaign says it has software telling them exactly who to target | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
and how. Yesterday, we looked at how the Yes Scotland campaign goes about | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
its business. Tonight, our referendum correspondent Laura | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
Bicker's been meeting the people of Better Together. They know who you | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
are, where you live and you are about to get mail. The Better | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Together campaign is all about research and thanks to their | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
so-called patriot system, borrowed from President Obama's campaign, | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
they are targeting those who do not know which way to vote. we have | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
dealt into who the voters -- voters are, what type of work they do, we | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
have used that information to put into our photo ID system in order to | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
find exactly where those people are. They are sending out personalised | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
letters, this system knows -- means they know which household to target. | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
How are you likely to vote? I will be voting no to independence. This | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
one is led by a local politician, the differences has been put aside. | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
Which party are you from? Liberal Democrats. Scottish Labour. But | :17:05. | :17:17. | |
tonight you are Better Together. That household was strongly against | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
independence. I congratulated them. More information to track down those | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
who are undecided. Better Together has been criticised by some for | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
being very negative, it has even been dubbed Project fear. We are not | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
negative, I don't know who you are talking to. We need to convince | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
people. The mad Mac can think brisk, businesslike. we want to cause a | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
desert if message about staying in the UK. -- cause a positive message. | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
David's here with tonight's sports news. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Scotland's footballers are in Poland hoping to extend their unbeaten run | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
to five matches. The teams will meet again later in the year in the Euro | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
2016 qualifiers but tonight's match is a friendly. Our senior football | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
reporter Alasdair Lamont is in Poland where it seems the pre-match | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
mood is one of quiet contemplation. Warsaw, the home of show pan and for | :18:24. | :18:49. | |
a day to, the Scotland team and its avid followers. These fans have | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
witnessed their improvement in Scotland over the past year so what | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
is the key difference between then and now? Going forward with more | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
freedom to express ourselves, try more forward passes, make the other | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
team defend, basically. A lot of times, we have thought more about | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
defence and stopping the other team whereas now, we are going at teams, | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
we are putting them under pressure. Two nights match took on an even | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
more interesting dynamic. What will we learn from tonight's encounter? | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
It is difficult. We will have no big stars in the first 11 because of | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
injuries. But in my opinion, it is quite good because the other player | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
had an opportunity to give a chance to this player. We will realise how | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
really good the Polish team is. Gordon Strachan has been at pains to | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
express that Matt will have no bearing on future confrontation. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
That said, a victory here could only be further cause for positivity over | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
the qualifying hopes. And there's live coverage of | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
tonight's match on BBC Radio Scotland 810 medium wave on line and | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
on digital. Our national rugby team's captain | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
has been reflecting on head Coach Scott Johnson's decision to drop him | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
for two Six Nations matches. Kelly Brown is back in the team for the | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
game against France on Saturday but says he was "upset and very | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
disappointed" at missing the previous couple of games. Here's our | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
rugby reporter Phil Goodlad. He is back and sporting a new rugged look | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
but it has been a bruising period for Kelly Brown. I was naturally | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
disappointed but there is no point in the sitting there feeling sorry | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
for myself. I have gone away and worked as hard as I can and I feel | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
that I have improved certain aspects of my game and I can't wait for the | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
weekend. He was dropped by the coach after just a plain 55 minutes of the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
opening game in Dublin. Were you angry? I was disappointed and upset. | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
But that is the same as any player would be. Scott was very open and | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
honest with me. As a player, that is all that you can ask for. Others | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
aren't so polite about the way Scott and's captain has been treated. I | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
feel sorry for Kelly Brown and sorry for the Scotland fans who can relate | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
to him. He is home, unlike many of the players who come from abroad. | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
The fans like him, she should not be treated like this. After recently | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
watching from a sofa, Captain Kelly Brown leads once again from the | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
front this weekend. Come with me, I'll lead you round | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
what else is happening across Scottish sport. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Rangers are considering a ?1 million loan from businessman George Letham. | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
It would allow them to cancel a ?1.5 million loan at a higher interest | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
break from shareholder Laxey partners. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Footballers in a betting shop - surely not. Don't worry, these St | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Johnstone players are promoting the Scottish Cup quarterfinals and | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
they've got the trophy to prove it. Saints play Raith Rovers on | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
Saturday. We have to go there like we did before. We have to give 100%. | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
I am sure that we can get a result. Aberdeen fans keen to see their team | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
do to Inverness in the League cup final what they did to St Johnstone | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
in the semis have snapped up their allocation of 30,000 tickets. No | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
wonder the club wants more. Scotland International centre Matt | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Scott has signed a new contract with Edinburgh Rugby. The 23-year-old | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
committing himself to the pro-team till 2016. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
The Commonwealth Games may not be on his to-do list but Mo Farah is | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
coming to Glasgow this summer. He'll take part in the cash-rich Diamond | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
League meeting at Hampden Park in July. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
And there's more on Scotland captain Kelly Brown and loads more sport 24 | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
hours a day on the BBC Sport Scotland website. That if it from | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
me. It's fair to say the world of the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
financial actuary, with its statistics and spreadsheets, isn't a | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
barrel of laughs. But Donald MacLeod isn't playing to type by mounting a | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
world record attempt this evening at joke telling. He's done the maths - | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
he has to hit more than 550 punch lines in an hour to succeed. Julie | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
Peacock went to meet him. Donald Macleod has to be analytical, | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
dedicated and serious. But no one can be serious all the time. Guys, I | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
bought a new racehorse. What is the best way to break up with a tractor? | :24:05. | :24:14. | |
With the John Deere letter. He is a comedian by night. She hopes to add | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
record-breaker to his list of achievements. 550 jokes in an hour. | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
You are not telling me every single one of them is funny. I don't think | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
any are funny. They are awful jokes but they don't have to be awful, | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
they just have to be -- they don't have to be good, they just have to | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
be quick. His long-suffering colleagues have heard it all before. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
It is OK, you get used to the jokes after a while. Every dog has his | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
day. The majority of the jokes are not funny. It is all for a good | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
cause so I will tolerate them. If all goes well, Donnie will be able | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
to call himself a record-breaker. Even if he doesn't succeed, he is | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
still hoping to raise thousands for charity as well as a few laughs. Did | :25:06. | :25:15. | |
you hear about the magic tractor? it turned into a field. Did you hear | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
about the scarecrow who won an Oscar? Do you know all of my jokes? | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
Is the weather going to give us anything to smile about, Gillian? | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
Things settling down next week but a fair bit of whether first. Tonight | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
we'll keep heavy rain going across western Scotland, in particular the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
South West, some pretty poor conditions tonight and towards | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
morning the rain becomes lighter and patchy and across the North, skies | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
will clear and that will allow a few pockets of frost in the central | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
highlands and Inland Aberdeenshire. South of here, cabbages holding up | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
at six Celsius. Across the oils, dash across the aisles, frost free. | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
It with very short lived, the cloud will spelling and so will the rain | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
and it will turn increasingly persistent and heavy. By 4pm | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
tomorrow, it is released just Shetlands in the clear with a couple | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
of showers. Elsewhere, it looks like a wall of water. Heavy, persistent | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
rain. We have yellow warnings from The Met Office. Perthshire, | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
Stirlingshire, West Fife, the Glasgow area, west Lothian, Dumfries | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
and Galloway is and the western borders, dangerous conditions. Some | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
localised flooding. The winds will be fairly light but as we head into | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
tomorrow evening, the winds will strengthen, especially the South | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
West, and we will keep the heavy rain piling in across central and | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
southern Scotland. In the early hours of Friday, the rain pours away | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
into the North Sea. Friday it self, clearer conditions but it will be | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
colder, you can see the weather front that has been bringing all the | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
rain finally pulls away but this next feature pushes into the | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
north-west and that will bring some fairly beefy showers into the | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
north-west on Friday. There will be some sunshine in the mix, | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
temperatures around seven or eight Celsius. And into Saturday, more wet | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
and windy weather. The north-west bearing the brunt of it. Improving | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
through the day, size of high pressure building into next week. | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
That is it from all of us here. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:47. |