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Through Sunday and inch or two inches of rain, gales are possible | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Independence campaigners say no UK Prime Minister with any sense | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
would ever oppose a currency union with an independent | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Scotland - but Ed Miliband says that if HE became Prime Minister, Labour | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
We'll be looking at the options for the pound in your pocket. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Also on the programme, childcare demands - | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
more than 12,000 children are on waiting lists for nursery places. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
And the controversial Rangers chief executive, | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Charles Green, is close to involving himself with the club once again. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
a place in the Champions League - because of an administrative error. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
And the Boring tale of why this US town is planning a Dull celebration | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
We will start with bagpipes and do some traditional American folk | :00:45. | :00:58. | |
singing, and then we will have a band, to finish the evening. Nothing | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
too exciting, though? No. No UK Prime Minister with any sense | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
would ever oppose a currency union with an independent Scotland - | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
that's the view of the Finance Minister John Swinney, as the debate | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
over currency in the event But on a visit to Scotland today, | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
the Labour leader Ed Miliband repeated that if he became | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
Prime Minister next year, his government would not agree to | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
formally sharing the pound. This grand Glasgow bank is now a | :01:35. | :01:54. | |
pub. The currency issue has dominated the referendum debate this | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
week. Both in the pub and in a speech today to Glasgow's business | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
leaders. The British people did not want to join the euro zone -- ? for | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
clear reasons. That is why the rest of the UK will oppose a currency | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
union within independent Scotland. It is why as Prime Minister, I could | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
not agree to a currency union within independent Scotland. The yes side | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
believe pragmatism will prevail. It is our pounds, and we will keep it. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Common sense says that no UK Prime Minister will turn around to the | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
rest of the UK and say we will make it more difficult and expensive for | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
you to do business with Scotland, a huge and spot market for the rest of | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
the UK. We will absolve the people of Scotland with billions of pounds | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
of debt by hanging onto pound. No UK Prime Minister will sign up to such | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
a deal. The currency question is still divisive. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
It is not up to the Prime Minister to decide. I will vote no. Hopefully | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
things will go my way and we will keep the pound. If Scotland went | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
independent, it should not be allowed the pound. Is the working | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
week gross to a close, the referendum story is no further | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
forward. The currency debate is at an impasse a. For those still | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
undecided, this is one of those key economic arguments which they will | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
continue to discuss. Our economics correspondent | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
Colletta Smith is here with us now. Colletta, five weeks | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
until everyone has to vote on this. The politicians are still | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
at this currency impasse. It makes it tough for voters to know | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
what might happen, doesn't it? Yes, on one of the most crucial | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
issues of the referendum, the two sides are still completely | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
contradicting each other. What we do know is that although | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
the SNP want to keep the pound, and that may well turn out to be | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
possible, but if not, they have laid out a handful of other options in | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
the White Paper - their guide to how The first one is the idea | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
of joining the Euro, but Alex Salmond has been pretty | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
clear that's low down the list. It would be difficult to convince | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
the public to join a currency still trying to get over | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
such huge economic problems. Then there's the idea of Scotland's | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
own pound - a brand-new currency. Some key voices, even from within | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
the Yes campaign, have been suggesting that this should be top | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
of the plan B list - or even plan A. It would give Scotland a lot more | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
economic freedom, but would cost us more every time we wanted to buy | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
anything from the rest of the UK. The final option, if formal currency | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
union is denied, seems to be the preferred one by Alex Salmond - | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
just using the pound anyway. The UK couldn't stop Scotland using | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
the pound anyway - and the upside to this is | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
the relative ease of its operation. But the downsides were suggested | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
in an economic report today showing you'd lose the Bank of England as | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
the lender of last resort, and that means the financial services sector | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
in Scotland could be vulnerable without someone | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
on standby to bail it out. No, and that's why the Yes campaign are | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
so keen to keep the pound. They're hoping - indeed they're | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
certain - plan B won't be needed, not because there are no ideas - | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
there are plenty - but because the New figures obtained | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
by the BBC show more than 12,000 children are on waiting lists | :05:13. | :05:27. | |
for local authority nursery places. There's significant variation across | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
the country's 32 local authorities for parents seeking state help | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
in looking after their children. Our political correspondent, | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Lucy Adams, reports. Jenny's 3-year-old daughter | :05:35. | :05:35. | |
loves her nursery, but in June, the local authority withdrew its | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
partnership funding and she was told to get an alternative, only to find | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
there were none that fit her hours. I started looking to | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
the council provision, and there are seven within the extended area that | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
offer all-day places, I would fill out an application, | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
it would be considered in September, with waiting lists, | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
and there would be no guarantee. New figures show that thousands | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
of children across Scotland are on waiting lists | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
for local authority nurseries. Hundreds of children were | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
not offered a place. In total, there were 12,165 babies | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
and toddlers on waiting lists. Local authorities have | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
a duty to provide 475 hours Glasgow have cut their overall | :06:16. | :06:44. | |
childcare funding, so some figures are double counted. Parents were | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
encouraged to place to bring on a waiting list early to get the place | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
of their choice aged three. Local authorities have | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
a duty to provide 475 hours Starting this month, the Scottish | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
government has pledged to increase provision to 600 hours, and extend | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
it to 2-year-olds. We can help by providing | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
more hours of childcare. The provisions we have set out | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
in the Bill will save families up That will help women get back | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
into the workplace. It is not always women that will | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
have the primary caring role. With the revelation there are | :07:16. | :07:31. | |
already long waiting lists, parents are questioning what this means. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
How an administrative error is keeping Celtic's champions | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
And a hard act to follow - but can the new football season | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
The controversial former chief executive of Rangers, Charles Green, | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
is close to involving him self with the club once again. | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
He was sacked last year but is lining up an investment | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Kheredine Idessane is at Ibrox for us now. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
What are the details of this investment? | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
Charles Green is a name that has been out of the headlines in the | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
past few years. He was the man who led a consortium to buy Rangers | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
assets. He became chief executive but was sacked last year after | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
allegations about his dealings. The outspoken Yorkshireman has told BBC | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
sport he wants in at the Rangers again. He is close to raising up to | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
?10 million to invest in Rangers. He says he has investors ready to write | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
cheques, one of whom is the American -based investment fund who have | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
already held talks with a senior official. One supporter group has | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
already made its opposition to Charles Green clear. He says he's | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
not welcome, and if he does return, there will be huge numbers of | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
Rangers fans boycotting the club. The Commonwealth Games gave Glasgow | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
a unique opportunity to showcase But now the event has come to | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
an end, what's the legacy? Well, some firms report an upsurge | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
in business, and marketing bosses say Glasgow itself can become one | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
of the world's leading venues Our correspondent David Henderson | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
is here and can tell us more. Sally, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
the Games only lasted for two weeks, and already the athletes and most | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
of the fans have headed for home. The Games' organisers see this event | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
as one long advert for what Glasgow And while some Scottish products are | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
selling well, it's Glasgow itself which is now being sold - | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
as a venue for big events. The MTV Music Video Awards, | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
the World Gymnastics championships, and the BBC Sports Personality | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
of the Year. But how about these - | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
huge conferences for bible students, on sports injuries, | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
and on the latest soil science. All of them will attract | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
thousands of people. And all of them will bring millions | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
of pounds of business to Scotland. It takes years of effort to present | :10:20. | :10:43. | |
an event of this scale. The cost is high. Is this an investment for the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
future? The Games may be over, but the work does not stop will | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
At this Glasgow warehouse, handbags, purses and wallets made from Harris | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
As official merchandise, they have been selling fast. | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
To be involved in the 2014 Games, especially as they have been | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
a success, has given us a huge amount of credibility. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
We have entered into quite a few retail stores that | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
we previously had not, and it is also pushing our brand overseas. | :11:14. | :11:25. | |
Glasgow and Scotland were on display to thousands | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
of visitors and a global TV audience of hundreds of millions. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
The Commonwealth Games lasted for just two weeks, | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
and already the athletes and most of the fans have gone home. | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
But the venues remain and the focus is now on using them to host | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
the first positive is being able to be for big events. The second | :11:41. | :11:56. | |
opportunity is business tourism. This is now an opportunity for | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Glasgow to show the world it is open for business. | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
At the Hydro arena, they are preparing to | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
host other big events and conferences which Glasgow has won. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
This city has overcome competition from Toronto and Melbourne, London, | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
We are more than capable of competing on a world stage. | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
So what will be the value to Scotland of all this business? | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Well, Glasgow's marketing bureau says big events are guaranteed to | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
bring about ?300 million to the city over the next decade, | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
thanks to its new venues - the Hydro by the River Clyde, and the Emirates | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
But with Glasgow's confidence and its credibility now higher than | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
ever, they expect that total to rise. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
A man with a samurai sword has threatened to kill the leader | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
of Glasgow City Council, Gordon Matheson, in his office. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
29-year-old David Wardrop has pleaded guilty to breaching | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
A court heard how Wardrop turned up at council headquarters in | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
When police appeared, he told them he was there to assassinate | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
The Edinburgh Fringe is well-known for unusual venues. | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
This weekend, there's a show on Portobello Beach which takes | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
And there's no shortage of local volunteers willing to take the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
plunge, as our arts correspondent Pauline McLean reports. | :13:25. | :13:39. | |
A new beach in Portobello brings new challenges to this show. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
It is raining a little bit as we speak, | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
Of course, there is going into the sea as part of the piece. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
The weather that we have to contend with because there is both radio | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
transmitted sirens, the beautiful singing by Laura, and the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Wind is a factor in terms of making sure that we have | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
sufficient volume for the audience to hear well enough. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
The play requires 40 volunteers to sink or swim, and there is no | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
The swimmers particularly, we have a group locally who go swimming every | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
Sunday morning, so I believe quite a few of them were interested in it. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
The people of Portobello have no qualms about doing all of those | :14:29. | :14:48. | |
things with gusto. We are lucky to have 13 people joining us on this | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
beautiful 100 metre long piece of rope on the edge of the sea. The | :14:53. | :15:05. | |
show 's run at sunrise and sunset until Sunday. | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Now a look at other stories from the across the country. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
Shell UK is to cut 250 jobs from its North Sea oil | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
Onshore staff and contractors will be affected by the move. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
The reduction in staffing will be implemented over the next year. | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
Shell says it's determined to ensure safe and competitive operations | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
An estimated 70 people watched as the Palestinian flag was flown | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
above Glasgow City Chambers in George Square this morning. | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Councillors decided to fly the flag in solidarity with those | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
Some members of the Jewish community have described | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Thousands of revellers are arriving at the Highlands' main summer music | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
festival near Inverness, which is getting under way today. | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
The Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival is being headlined tonight by | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Tom Jones, and tomorrow by the indie rock band Razorlight. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Belladrum's organisers say tickets for | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
The Bella John has grown organically out of the Highlands community. It | :16:09. | :16:26. | |
is a word-of-mouth thing that has grown very slowly. Most of our | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
audience come from the Highlands, and people feel some ownership, in | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
that it is really a meeting point for our community in the summer. | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
Conservationists are building up a photographic database of rare | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
and endangered natterjack toads in an effort to safeguard | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
There are only around 200 breeding adults in Scotland, | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
What do you want to say about these toads? I can't get enough of them. | :16:49. | :17:06. | |
To its own frogs. -- toads and frogs. | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
Celtic are back in contention for a place in the Champions League - | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Legia Warsaw, who beat them in the qualifiers, have been kicked | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
The Scottish champions have been reinstated, | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
and will play Maribor of Slovenia in the final qualifying round. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Celtic's manager, Ronny Deila, described the situation | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
Celtic have been thrown a checking cheap lifeline. These goals put | :17:28. | :17:46. | |
Walsall 2-1 up. But this player should have been serving a | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
suspension. His cameo role cost its team a place in the qualifying | :17:52. | :17:52. | |
final. It is very strange, | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
I have to say that. First of all, I feel very sorry for | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
the other team and my friends there. We have not been involved | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
in anything, and that is how it is. Instead of being in the Europa | :18:03. | :18:17. | |
League draw, Celtic found themselves in the championship league play-off. | :18:18. | :18:30. | |
There may be new faces in the Celtic squad before they face the Slovenian | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
champions later this month. We worked hard to get players for the | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
next stage. They will lift the team and the performance. The bizarre | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
tale of this player may not be over yet. Warsaw are considering an | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
appeal against the decision. A summer packed full of fantastic | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
sport may be drawing to a close, but the Scottish football season is upon | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
us. Tomorrow, clubs across the country begin their league | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
campaigns. Our senior football reporter books ahead. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Scottish football has a lot to live up to. The sporty bar has been set | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
high this summer. As recently as the past few weeks, the Scottish public | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
have seen the top-class sport. How does the Scottish football league | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
followed that? A genuine title race in the top of it would be a good | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
start. Aberdeen were perhaps the most improved last season. Can they | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
give Celtic a real challenge this time around? Celtic will always be a | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
multiple of what Aberdeen is. The important thing in our perspective | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
is we have a squad of players and a management team that want to believe | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
and win games. We want to finish as high up the league as we possibly | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
can. One area of genuine excitement last season was the battle to avoid | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
the drop from the premiership. Dundee will be seeking to avoid that | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
particular brand of excitement in the season ahead. We want to stay in | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
the league and consolidate, but I think we want to aim higher. The | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
group of slowly as we have, the expectations will be higher or so, | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
and myself as a manager. We want to finish as high as we can. It is not | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
all about the premiership will stop this you's championship includes | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
arts, Rangers and Hibs. Maybe this title race is where the real | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
excitement will be found. -- hearts. It will be more interesting, because | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
there are three big teams in their challenging the top of the table. It | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
could be tight, and there will be a lot of interest there. Of course the | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
top three will have more quality. Set the stage is set, let the Games | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
commence. Eddie Murray is in quarterfinal action at the tennis in | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Toronto. He is up against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Here is Murray | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
holding serve, and in the last few moments, he levelled the first set | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
at 5-5. It is the first tournament of the hard court season as the | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
Scots gears up for the US open later this month. That is the sport, but I | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
will be back tomorrow. If you are not watching the toads, watch that. | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
I promise you it will be riveting. They you very much. -- thank you. | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
Residents in the American town of Boring are preparing for a party | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
It's the annual celebration of their partnership with | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
the Perthshire village of Dull - the first since August the 9th was | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
formally declared Boring and Dull day across the state of Oregon. | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
Our correspondent, Glenn Campbell, has been to Boring to see | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
Boring is not the most exciting place in the world. It is farming | :21:50. | :22:02. | |
country near the city of Portland. Small-town America, named after a | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
bighearted settler. Which one is the original Mr boring? Hole the one | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
with the whiskers. He was the original? Boring's found a gifted | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
land to the local school. His great-grandson lives in the town. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Boring by name, boring by nature to? Not really. Dad used to say it was a | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
name, not a condition. There is also something going on. You could try | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
the not so boring bar. Hunt for a Boring bargain. Or sit back and | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
watch the Boring grass grow. Interestingly enough, Boring now has | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
its sign up making its partnership with Dull official, and the Governor | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
of the state of Oregon has signed a proclamation declaring August the | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
9th Boring and Dull day across the entire state. In this town, that is | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
a cause for celebration. We are planning our second ice cream social | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
tonight. It will be a time for our community to get together. We will | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
start off with bagpipes, then we will also do some traditional | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
American folk singing, and then we will have a band to finish at the | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
evening. But nothing too exciting? No. It seems Dull has made Boring a | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
bit more interesting, but there are limits. Lawns. | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
A number of boundary downpours pushing their way through the | :23:44. | :24:00. | |
country. A Met Office warning is in force. Here they are pushing their | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
way up through five and the Grampians. Expect difficult | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
conditions on the roads. They do clear away, and most of the mainland | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
is dry overnight. A bit damp across the north-east and the Isles. And | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
cities holding up in double digits. Tomorrow is looking good. We have | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
been talking about this blood pressure out in the North Sea. We | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
think it will stay there, meaning a generally dry and bright day for | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
most. There will be one or two showers, but on the whole, Saturday | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
is looking good. Bright and sunny weather. Light passing showers. That | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
rain is moving up towards the Northern Isles, so quite sunny and | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
dry for you. For most of the mainland and Hebrides, by | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
mid-afternoon, pleasantly warm. Temperatures in the high teens. | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
Always that the cooler around the coast. A breeze from the south-west. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
Perhaps just staying a bit cloudy across the north-east of | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Aberdeenshire, and pretty wet for Orkney and Shetland. For hill | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
walkers and climbing, it is not too bad. There will be bright and sunny | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
skies around. One or two passing showers, and winds from the | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
south-west across southern -- southern ranges. The risk of one or | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
two light showers, but decent bright sunny weather. In the south-west, we | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
are looking at a suddenly falls three Northwest by the afternoon. -- | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Force three. Around the east, we will have a Force five, but during | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
the day, it is a south-westerly. That rain is still with this for the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Northern Isles. Elsewhere dry, but showers feeding in by the end of the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
day. Still with this come Sunday. It is a cloudy day with a number of | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
heavy showers. Ten bridges in the high teens. That is half the story, | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
because we are talking about the remnants of hurricane Bertha. -- | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
temperatures. It is pushing in towards the North Sea. Wet and windy | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
weather around come Monday, but it is not concrete. It could come | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
further west, and if it does, a very wet into the weekend across many | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
parts of the country. For Saturday, it doesn't look too bad. Make the | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
most of the sunshine if you have it. A reminder of tonight's | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
headlines: No UK Prime Minister would oppose | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
the use of the pound in an independent Scotland. Ed Miliband | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
says his government would not agree to showing the pound if he was | :26:39. | :26:39. | |
elected. -- sharing the pound. The United States has carried out | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
its first air strikes on Islamist President Obama had warned that | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
the US would target the group if they threatened American forces | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
in the area. He also said he wanted to prevent | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
acts of genocide against Iraq's I'll be back with the headlines | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
at 8.00, and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
on the team - right across the | :27:03. | :27:07. |