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Tonight on Reporting Scotland. Falkirk's MP hurled insults at | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
airport workers and racist abuse at police | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
after drinking on a plane. Eric Joyce says he's now considering his | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
position as a politician after being convicted for his behaviour. My | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
instinct is to stay, but I don't know how I will feel in a few days. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The best thing is to wait and see how I feel. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Also on the programme: Scottish Labour unanimously backs plans for | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
further devolution as Ed Miliband tells his party he'll keep the UK | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
together. One year on from the extreme snow | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
and ice-storms, we're back with the islanders on Arran. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Andy Murray says he's "gutted" at losing his coach Ivan Lendal, and is | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
hunting for a replacement. And they lifted the League Cup, now | :00:48. | :01:02. | |
the power of The Dons is set to lift an 80s classic to the top of the | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
music charts. The Falkirk MP Eric Joyce is | :01:05. | :01:22. | |
considering his position as a politician after he was convicted of | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
abusive behaviour. He repeatedly hurled insults at baggage handlers | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
at Edinburgh Airport and also admitted racially abusing a police | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
officer after drinking on a flight last year. Today he was fined ?1,500 | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
at the city's sheriff court and apologised for his behaviour. Steven | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
Godden reports. It is a journey he has made before, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Eric Joyce enters a court building to admit his guilt and emerges | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
afterwards to say sorry. The MP accepts a breach of the peace charge | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
for what the sheriff described as a prolonged, threatening, a and | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
fuelled rant. -- drink. I should apologise. To everyone affected. I'm | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
very embarrassed, I am very sorry it happened and I have been fined and | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
will pay compensation accordingly. I track the abuse began at Edinburgh | :02:22. | :02:22. | |
airport. He had been drinking and had left | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
his phone on the plane. In the baggage terminal, he began shouting | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
and swearing at members of staff who were visibly shaken when police | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
arrived. His behaviour continued after his arrest. En route to the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
station, the former harm a major called one of the officers fat and | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
black. On top of a ?1500 fine, he was ordered to pay the office of ?50 | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
and the baggage handler ?100 in compensation. His predecessor in the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
constituency said that it should be the final straw. The people of | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
Falkirk must be fed up. He is really an unfit person to be a | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
parliamentary representative. I think the sooner he goes, the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
better. In 2012, following an assault conviction, Eric Joyce said | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
he would remain independent MP for Falkirk until the next election. A | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
position he is now reconsidering. My instinct is to stay. The best thing | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
is to wait and see how I feel in a few days. The decision is in his own | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
hands. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
told the BBC that giving Holyood more power is "the right thing to | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
do". He's promised to deliver further devolution if his party wins | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
the next UK general election. Mr Miliband was speaking at Labour's | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Scottish Conference in Perth which has backed plans for additional tax | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
and welfare powers to be transferred to the Scottish Parliament. From | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Perth, here's our political correspondent Glenn Campbell. | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
No one spoke against more power for Holyrood, even this one-time critic | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
was onside. I believe that we have a set of proposals which will not only | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
enhance the settlement, it will improve people's lives. Only one | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
speaker argued that the devolution commission was not old enough. We | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
deny ourselves to shape a tax system in our own image. All those in | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
favour question mark The vote was unanimous. The conference endorsed | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
giving control of the first 15p of income tax. It was a package that | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
the leader said Labour was committed to delivering. I believe this is an | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
act of good faith. Of course, it would not be free Johann Lamont or | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
for the next UK governments to revisit the powers if there is a no | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
vote in the independence referendum. The man who hopes to lead the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Government came to conference to argue that the UK allows Scotland to | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
share risk and resources. He criticised the First Minister for | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
promising corporation tax cut in the event of independence. Alex Salmond | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
used to claim he was a great social democrat. He cannot any more. When | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
he is advocating the race to the bottom that he used to condemn when | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
it came for a Tory Government. He has been exposed. Afterwards, he was | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
asked if you implement Labour's devolution commission plan. Yes, it | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
is the right thing to do and it is the right way to combine fairness | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
and redistribution across the United Kingdom with bringing power closer | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
to people in Scotland. This is the conference where Labour committed to | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
further devolution. In response to the Labour leader's | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
speech, the head of the Yes Campaign, Blair Jenkins, said the UK | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
was incapable of delivering social justice. Describing Mr Miliband's | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
speech as "brief", Mr Jenkins said it would be a disappointment to many | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Labour members. He is talking about the need for greater social justice, | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
greater quality and fairness. That is something that we have seen that | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
the UK is incapable of delivering. We have had decades, Labour and | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Conservative governments, and at the same time the UK has become one of | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
the most unfair societies in the developed world. There is nothing | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
that was said today that would suggest there was any means to | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
correct at huge imbalance. Let's go to our political editor | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Brian Taylor, who's at the Labour conference in Perth. That was the | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Yes campaign's response there to Ed Miliband, but how did the speech go | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
down with his own side? It's gone down well, Sally. Labour are | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
contented with the outcome. If you recall, one year ago they were in | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
turmoil about more tax powers for the Scottish parliament. Now by a | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
combination of lessening the powers and giving concessions, if you're | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
like, to those who advocate, they have arrived at a situation where | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
they were able to vote unanimously for the outcome. That is the | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
internal. The external verdict, Labour argue strongly that this is a | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
balance of more powers for the Scottish parliament with the clout | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
of the UK, the clout of the UK's wider tax base to enable social | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
justice to be facilitated for the people of Scotland and the remainder | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
of the islands. We heard it from Ed Miliband, we heard it from Anas | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
Sarwar. The record indicates that UK governance has not produced social | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
cohesion, quite the opposite. Also, some remarks made at a Fringe | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
meeting causing a few ripples. Yes, comments by | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
MSP, she was talking about the business of the Armed Forces and | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
offered the view that perhaps the military provision may be better | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
done on a Europe-wide basis. I think the European Union looking towards | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
the future and perhaps a single defence Force is certainly an idea | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
that appeals to me, having been a Labour Party member who marched | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
outside my own party's conference back in 2003 in Glasgow against the | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
invasion of Iraq. It is certainly an idea that appeals to me to take | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
defence out of the hands of nation-states and I know that that | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
is not a view that is commonly shared. Tomorrow, we will hear from | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
Johann Lamont with her keynote speech, more about social justice | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
offer. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on tonight's programme: # Don't you | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
want me, baby... Why Aberdeen fans are reviving the | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
80s to celebrate their recent cup success. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Andy Murray opens his heart on the split with his coach and we hear | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
from the coach who says that Scotland players could be stronger | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
after a poor Six Nations. Police investigating the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
disappearance of a young woman from Dunfermline have been searching a | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
house in Kilmarnock. Hazel North was reported missing more than two weeks | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
ago by her sister. From Kilmarnock, Catriona Renton reports. | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
I am in the long Park area of Kilmarnock. You will see a police | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
presence outside the flat. I understand that the flat and the | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
garden have been searched in connection with a missing teenager. | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
She is called Hazel North, she is 19 years old and I understand she was | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
last seen by her sister on the 4th of March when she said she was | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
coming to kill my neck to see a friend. Hazel is five tall, she has | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
a pale complexion and she is slim. You can see behind me police | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
activity. I understand there has been a heavy police presence here | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
since early morning. I have seen friends at officers coming in and | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
out of the flat and police enquiries are ongoing. Police would like to | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
hear from anyone who has seen Hazel since the 4th of March or knows | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
anything about her whereabouts. The former Dunfermline MSP Bill | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
Walker has been freed from jail after serving half of his term. The | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
offences were against his three former wives and his stepdaughter. | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
He left prison this morning. Mr Walker, who denies the charges, | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
plans to appeal against his conviction. He has a court hearing | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
for next month. Remember these scenes? A year ago | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
today, the lights went out on Arran and the Kintyre peninsula. It was | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
the start of a very cold week for many householders, as engineers | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
battled through extreme conditions to restore power. Aileen Clarke has | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
been looking back on a remarkable week of weather and community | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
spirit. Pylons mangled, poles snapped, power | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
cut to 15,000 homes on Kintyre and Arran, many of the homes in the | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
first days after the storm also cut off from roads and even neighbours. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Livestock not the only ones huddling together for warmth. This area was | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
without power for the whole week, locals using the hotel which had a | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
generator to escape their freezing homes. Among them, this new dad and | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
his six-week-old baby. Everyone has been great, especially with the | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
baby. Everyone has been checking if we need anything. Riley is a toddler | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
now. His parents are very helpful for the -- grateful for the help | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
they got. Mountain rescue came with mountains of formula and everything | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
we could ever need, nappies and everything. It helped out so much. | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
Just tried to keep him warm. Bottles and things needed to be sterilised, | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
having no electricity made that difficult. We had a lot of things on | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
the open fire. Yet we only moved in about a week before, so we did not | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
know anyone. To be honest, it's kind of worked out well as we got to know | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
everyone in the village. Further down the coast, there had been so | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
much snow that the Coastguard were doing supply trips. We have a | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
95-year-old woman at the track that is needing hot water bottles. Back | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
to more familiar duties, but the efforts of the Coastguard and the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
other emergency services on the island were recognised by winning | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
the UK resilience team of the year. A feather in a cap meaning that we | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
beat the Metropolitan Police. Day after day, polled by poll, hundreds | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
of electricity engineers rebuilt. Never had they seen such destruction | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
by snow and ice. When the lights went out here, nobody predicted that | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
it would be a week before some of the people on this island would have | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
their power back. What was demonstrated on that long and very | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
cold week was how a small island community could come together to | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
cope with the largest and most severe storms. | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
Now for a look at other stories from around the country: Drugs with an | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
estimated street value of more than ?1.5 million have been seized by | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
police in two unconnected operations. | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
The drug commonly known as speed was recovered from a car on the M74 near | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
Larkhall, while 1100 cannabis plants were seized at this industrial unit | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
in Glasgow. A man has appeared in court, charged | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
with murdering a fellow prisoner at Glasgow's Barlinnie jail. John Clark | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
is alleged to have killed a 22-year-old sex offender in his | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
cell. The prisoner's body was found in his cell early on Thursday | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
morning. Two major oil and gas companies say | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
tax changes made in the budget could lead to billions of pounds of new | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
investment in the North Sea, and the creation of more than 700 jobs. | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Maersk Oil says it will help its Culzean gas project. And BG Group | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
says it will improve the prospects of its Jackdaw gas field discovery. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Aberdeen's involvement in The Great War is being explored in a major new | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
exhibition in the city. The Art Gallery has drawn on some of its own | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
collections, with sketches and photographs from internationally | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
renowned war artist James McBey, who grew up in Aberdeenshire. He | :15:19. | :15:31. | |
produced so many iconic pieces, both of destruction in France, entire | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
forests reduced to splinters, as well as some very unusual pieces. | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Del Amitri have joined the line up for this year's Wickerman Festival. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Organisers say it's the group's first festival appearance in over a | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
decade. The band, whose best known songs include Nothing Ever Happens | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
and Kiss This Thing Goodbye, will headline on the Saturday night. | :15:54. | :16:06. | |
Good evening. Andy Murray says he's "gutted" to | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
have parted company with coach Ivan Lendl and hopes to have a new man in | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
place before May's French Open. The Wimbledon champion has revealed the | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
split came over dinner on Saturday night in Miami. Murray's there to | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
defend his Sony Ericsson title and plays his first match in the small | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
hours of tomorrow morning against Australia's Matthew Ebden. Kheredine | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
Idessane reports. For his mum Judy, a trip to BBC | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
Scotland where she met Olympic hurdler Amy Child and kept a close | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
eye on the Sport Relief treadmill. Much of the talk of course was about | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
her younger son's surprise split from his coach of two years, Ivan | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
Lendl. He wanted to do other things. The time required to make a | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
difference, you know, is more than what he could offer. Right now. Yes, | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
it is a shame. It seems the end of the affair was tough for his mother | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
as well. It is very sad. I am still in mourning. I think we will miss | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
Ivan Lendl. We used to call him Mr Lendl. He is great fun to have | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
around. And they learned a lot from him. Lots and lots. So, who will be | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
the next Andy Murray meant for? His hero growing up, Andre Agassi, and | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
three-time Wimbledon champion John McEnroe could be considered. Mats | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
Wilander is another contender. Murray is also a fan of veteran | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
coach Bob Brett. Often with ex-players, the relationships don't | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
tend to last for a long period. More than three or four years. So I need | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
to decide exactly what I want now, if I want to go down that route | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
again or do something different. Andy Murray has not won a tournament | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
since Wimbledon. He has yet to beat a top 20 player this year. His best | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
win of 2014 game against the world number 123 in Acapulco. He will hope | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
to turn things around a next week in Miami, his home from home where he | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
is defending champion. The Glasgow Warriors head-coach | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
Gregor Townsend says his returning Scotland players will be | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
strengthened rather than damaged by the recent Six Nations campaign. | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
Scotland had several heavy defeats and only one win in the tournament. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
Internationals like Duncan Weir, Chris Cusiter and Alex Dunbar are | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
back for the Warriors, who Townsend believes are still good enough to | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
make the end of season PRO12 play offs. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Eight games back-to-back, most games have sex with rakes. Six of those | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
eight games are at home so we know it is going to be an exciting run. | :18:54. | :19:05. | |
Some big aims home and away. -- most games have six or eight. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Now, a look at what else is happening across Scottish sport. | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
The Celtic manager Neil Lennon says he expects to lose a few players | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
from his squad this summer. But he's hoping to bring in plenty of new | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
faces too. We have an extensive list of players we are looking to bring | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
in this summer. After their stoppage time win | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
against St Mirren last week, Dundee United are away to the Premiership's | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
bottom club Hearts tonight. If Hearts lose, they'll be one defeat | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
away from relegation. This is the last time you'll see | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Aberdeen lifting the League Cup this week on Reporting Scotland. We're | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
showing it again because they'll be given a guard of honour by | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
Kilmarnock before their Premiership match at Pittodrie tomorrow. I think | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
they deserve that. It is a fantastic result for them. They have had a | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
really good season. We must go and make sure we frustrate them. | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
St Johnstone manger Tommy Wright won't be in the technical area | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
tomorrow when his team play Hibs. He's recovering from gall bladder | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
surgery. He'll still pick the team, though. | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
Fancy a chunk of Murrayfield turf before it's ripped up? Think again. | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Edinburgh rugby are inviting fans on to the pitch after tonight's match | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
against Ulster, but are warning them not to take bits home. It's hoaching | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
with microscopic worms! There's commentary of Edinburgh v | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
Ulster and tonight's football in Sportsound on air now. BBC Radio | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
Scotland 810 medium wave. And for all the breaking sports stories, go | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
to our BBC Sports Scotland website. Where else? Always nice to see | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
Aberdeen with that League Cup. You are going to see it again. It | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
may have been the mid '90s when Aberdeen last won the Scottish | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
League Cup but their victory last weekend is actually reviving part of | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
the 1980s. Fans have adopted the Human League's hit "Don't You Want | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Me Baby" by changing the words to "Peter Pawlett Baby" after one of | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
their star players. And the man who co-wrote the song says Dons' fans | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
have made one of his dreams come true. Kevin Keane reports. FANS | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
SING. It was a celebratory atmosphere and | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
that the Scottish League Cup final, 40,000 Aberdeen fans helped revive | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
this 1980s classic. Peter Pawlett Baby. For the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Edinburgh-based former human league band hook or all the original, a | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
particularly proud moment as thousands of people download the | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
song. It is quite a surprise. Fantastic. Unbelievable. It has been | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
a minor ambition for me to have a song that someone takes and uses as | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
a football chant. A little bit of a dream come true. It was 1995 when | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
Aberdeen fans last had something to sing about. A proud city turned out | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
in force then to welcome the winning team. On Sunday, those scenes will | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
be repeated as the Scottish League Cup is again paraded through the | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
city centre. It is heading to a civic reception for the players and | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
no doubt had it makes its way along Union Street, Aberdeen fans will be | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
in full voice with that song. # Don't. Don't you want me? # You | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me. | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
Back then, artist had to sell many singles to make it to the top ten | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
but the power of the fans is impressive. It is something we | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
should be pleased about. It brings a smile to people's faces. Only one | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
person in the dressing room knew who the Human League where, which is a | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
bit worrying. The whole team has got behind the song to reach the top | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
ten. But the whole city needs to get behind it as well. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Let's go to Christopher to find out what we can expect from the weekend | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
weather. what we can expect from the weekend | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
We have got the wet globe up tonight. It is wet and miserable | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
outside at the moment but hopefully the weekend, it is not too bad, | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
pretty chilly. Good evening. We are watching a band of rain across the | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
country at the moment, it is persistent, once a clear is behind | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
it we will continue to see a number of wintry showers and rice of ice as | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
well. -- a risk of ice as well. It is cold and icy and further wintry | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
showers across the Northwest again, further snowfall across the hills | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
and the mountains. A cold night to come, temperatures down close to | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
freezing in the countryside. To start the day tomorrow, it is a | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
cold, icy start in places, still those showers in the Northwest being | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
brought in on that fresh, south-westerly breeze but through | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
the central belt, the south and east, it is largely dry and bright | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
to start the weekend but the winds move more westerly and we will see | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
showers come further south and east. By mid-afternoon tomorrow, expect | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
some showers, in parts of Lanarkshire by mid-afternoon over | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
towards the capital, through Fife and Angus as well. Further west, the | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
showers are frequent through the day and I think nothing too heavy, some | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
hail and under mixed in, across the hills and high ground we will see | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
wintry showers at times as well. -- hail and thunder. Showers freak and | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
for the Northern Isles. If you are hill walking are climbing, across | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
the western ranges the showers will be of a wintry nature, the winds are | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
strong enough for a chill and the temperatures are not good. Fantastic | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
visibility. Across the eastern ranges, it stars of dry, bright and | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
cold but later on we see that shower risk increase. If you are thinking | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
about heading off skiing, it will be windy, but plenty of fantastic | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
visibility around. Later on, we see wintry showers making their way | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
further eastward. The rest of the afternoon, into the evening and | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
overnight, we hold onto that Northwest wind and those showers are | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
fairly frequent and widespread across the country. Looking ahead to | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
want the second half of the weekend on Sunday, we have got this ridge of | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
high pressure pushing its way in and that will settle things down, | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
certainly across western and southwestern parts of the country. | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
However, during the morning on Sunday some fairly heavy showers in | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
the North around Inverness area, we could see snow briefly in lower | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
levels and improving by the afternoon in the west and | :25:26. | :25:26. | |
south-west, still quite chilly although winds will be lighter. A | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
cold night as we head through towards Monday, but to start the new | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
week plenty of sunshine around. It will be crisp, cold and clouding | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
over with rain in the west by mid-afternoon and that worked its | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
way in across all parts by Tuesday. Thank you. Now a reminder of | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
tonight's main news. On the day President Putin signed a declaration | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
formally absorbing Crimea into Russia, Europe has agreed closer | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
relations with Ukraine. In a show of support for the country, the EU also | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
issued more sanctions against individuals in Russia, aimed at | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
President Putin's inner circle. Eric Joyce, the Falkirk MP, is | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
considering his position as a politician, after being convicted of | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
abusive behaviour. He repeatedly hurled insults at baggage handlers | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
and racially abused a police officer at Edinburgh Airport last year. | :26:12. | :26:21. | |
Today he was fined ?1,500. Police investigating the disappearance of | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
young women have been searching a property in Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
The 19-year-old Hazel North has been missing for more than two weeks. She | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
is described as five foot eight tall, slim and with blonde hair. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Police are appealing for anyone who has seen her to get in touch. I will | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
be back just after the Ten O'Clock News. Goodbye. | :26:42. | :26:47. |