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MP Natalie McGarry withdraws from the SNP over a police investigation

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Could Scotland deal with a terrorist attack like the one in Paris?

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The Police Federation say we're under-equipped,

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The SNP lead a Commons debate calling for Trident to be scrapped.

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A woman dies after an aerosol exploded as she made

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And the writer whose bestsellers inspired the TV Series Outlander

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spills the beans on how she came up with her leading man.

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An SNP MP at the centre of a police investigation into missing

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campaign donations has stepped down from the parliamentary party.

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It follows questions over apparent funding discrepancies

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at the campaign group she helped found, Women For Independence.

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Earlier the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said she wouldn't

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Ms McGarry, who stresses her innocence,

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is the second SNP MP to become involved in an ongoing inquiry

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Our Political Editor Brian Taylor reports.

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Natalie McGarry takes the Westminster seat of Glasgow there,

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cheering her on Central to the controversy is Women For

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Independence, they decided to keep going after the referendum but then

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found gaps in their cash with more apparently raised than Miss McGarry,

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a founder member, had control of growth funding. Her lawyer maintains

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her innocence. Natalie McGarry is aware of the fact to report has been

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made about Women For Independence, which raises questions of financial

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discrepancies. As of yesterday, on Natalie's request, we and advised

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them that she would speak to them if they wished to. Natalie maintains

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she has not Natalie McGarry heading to London to join a large SNP group

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in May. It is said the questions that developed late in summer.

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Labour wants to know if any hints developed earlier before it would be

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most concerning if she went into an election knowing this was high over

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her and the SNP allowed that to happen. There are parallels with

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Alistair Carmichael that many commentators would draw, and for me

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it would cast genuine doubt on the results Michelle Thompson, Edinburgh

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West... It is not the first party problem for Nicola Sturgeon's

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property deals are under investigation, she stresses her

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innocence but has surrendered the party whip at Westminster. Today

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Nicola Sturgeon said she needed to study the details before taking any

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action. I will consider this carefully, I'm not going to be

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rushed into a decision by the opposition, I will consider this but

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tonight after a day of pressure Jones to withdraw from the she

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stressed she was determined let's get more on this developing story

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from Brian at Holyrood. Two new MPs are the subjects of

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police inquiries, how damaging is this for it is scarcely a cloud

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computing mourning for the SNP. Political parties preferred to

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scrutinise the police rather than the have stressed that Miss McGarry

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has temporarily withdrawn from the whip and stressed her determination

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to clear her name, and that is where matters rest. One tiny point to bear

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in mind, Natalie McGarry defeated Margaret Curran in the Glasgow East

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constituency in May, this is Margaret

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The union representing police officers says more

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of them should carry firearms while on routine patrol.

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The Scottish Police Federation believes the country is woefully

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under-equipped, under-resourced and under prepared

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to deal with the sort of terrorist incident recently faced in Paris.

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Well let's get more on this now with our

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Home Affairs Correspondent Reevel Alderson, and Reevel, does this mark

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a real change in the attitude of the police towards carrying weapons?

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's it does of course because over the past 200 years or so, police in

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Britain have not been armed but the tragic events in Paris have changed

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the there, all officers are always armed, and everyone who responded we

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can see here and other bombs carried a weapon. In Scotland we have 270

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armed response officers who carry weapons all the time. The Police

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Federation says in the event of a Paris style attack here, the first

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officers on the scene would be powerless to take on the attackers

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and the armed response vehicles which were coming to be able to

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contain the incident. What the Federation wants is for more

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officers to carry arms routinely so they can deal with incidents like

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this. The general secretary says when we look at the tactical

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capabilities of the French police and the speed at which they were

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deployed, it is clear in his words that Scotland equipped, under

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resourced and underprepared. The events in Paris have caused police

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forces across the world to assess their own response to terrorism and

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its clear that if Scotland were to kind of attack, not only do we not

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have the capability to respond to it effectively, we don't even have the

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ability to contain it, and so we believe more police officers should

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be armed. What has been the reaction from the Government of this

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suggestion? Comments about in Inverness, well the Government says

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it still doesn't patrolling the streets, but ministers concede that

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in life situations it's absolutely right that our police should have

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the... The operational ability to respond adequately. Police Scotland

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for their part are saying they are reviewing their capability to deal

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with incidents since the Paris attacks and they.

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Still to come on tonight's programme:

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She'd never even visited Scotland when she set her books here -

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we speak to the author of the hit Outlander novels.

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Coming up in sport, league games in the USA would bring Scottish

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football to a global stage, says one Celtic star, and how golf...

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..plans to hit the curse of slow play into the long grass.

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MPs have overwhelmingly rejected a call from the Scottish National

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party for the Trident nuclear missile system to be scrapped.

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A debate was called by the SNP who say Trident is a waste of money.

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This from our Westminster Correspondent David Porter.

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Thank for some it's the ultimate part of the defence armoury, for

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others it is morally indefensible. Trident divides opinion like few

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other issues. Based at Faslane on the Clyde, the submarines and

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weapons system that go to make up Trident cannot continue forever. Now

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the UK Government wants to renew and replace them, but the costs are

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rising. Over the last decade, the estimates for building the four new

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Trident capable submarines have escalated. In 2006 it was put at ?20

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billion, by this is just the cost of the submarines. None of this

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includes the cost of warheads personnel insists this is not good

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we a fur coat... Not normal Parliamentary language but it

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underlines this is an issue which raises, political or economic or

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case for Trident, and let's be clear there is no moral case for any state

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possessing weapons of mass destruction. UK ministers say that

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our allies and our adversaries will be paying attention, this is not a

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time, this is not a time to gamble with our security.

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It is a time, on the contrary, to safeguard this generation and

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generations to come. Labour have accused the SNP of staging this

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debate is a stunt, aimed partly at exposing divisions within their

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party. We all know that the reason the SNP have scheduled this half day

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debate, not to influence government policy, in fact there wasn't one

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single question to the Government there are some members of the Labour

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Party who support his view, may I assure him, and I am one of those, I

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intend to vote and then show of support the eyes to the right... 64,

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the nose to the left... 330. In the end a clear defeat for

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the SNP, but this is not the crucial vote. That will come next year when

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MPs will be asked for money to back the renewal of Trident.

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Well, while MPs in the House of Commons were debating Trident,

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Peers next door in the House of Lords are considering the Scotland

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Let's go back to David at Westminster - what's going on there?

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Calls for some sort of delay? Indeed, peers are giving to the bill

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in the House of Lords this afternoon, that's where they look at

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the broad principles of the legislation, but at least two House

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of Lords committees have said they want the legislation halted because

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they don't feel they particularly the so-called fiscal framework, the

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agreement that the UK and Scottish governments are trying to stitch

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together which. We don't know the exact details of that. The Lords say

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that they shouldn't The son of a woman who died

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following an explosion in her Roseanne Armstrong had been making

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a wreath for her daughter's grave when one of the aerosols she was

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using exploded. She re-entered

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the burning house twice to rescue until this is my mum, this is

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woman's oldest son remembers his mother, always smiling, devastated

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at the loss of her daughter. She was decorating a wreath from her

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daughter's funeral with aerosol paint when the fire broke out. When

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you make a small wreath, you use a little bit of paint. When you are

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making a use a lot of paint. I do believe she lit a cigarette, there

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was an explosion in the room. Witnesses said that the back window

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of my mum's room exploded at around two o'clock on Sunday morning.

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Roseanne was a carer for her elderly parents who were in the house at the

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time. Neighbours have told the family of how she went back into the

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burning house to rescue her parents. She opened the front door,

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went in and brought my granny out and laid her down on the driveway.

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After getting my granny out, she was badly burned and the house was --

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rescuing her parents from what was tonight the family are still taking

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in the tragic death, who died making a tribute to her daughter who died

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just Scotland's NHS has again missed

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a range of waiting time targets. A guarantee everyone will be treated

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within 12 weeks has been missed. It's a promise which has never been

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met since it was made in 2011. The NHS also missed

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a target to treat nine out of ten young people with mental

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health problems within 18 weeks, However, the NHS did exceed

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a target for fertility treatment. A look at other stories from

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across the country... NHS Grampian says more than

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8,000 paper medical records have They were being stored in a basement

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at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary NHS Grampian has apologised to those

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affected, but says the damage to the records will have no adverse

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impact on patients' future care. All Highland Council offices

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and schools could be closed Views have been sought

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from the public on the plan and other ideas to help the council

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tackle a potential funding gap Oil giant Shell has been fined

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?22,500 after a significant leak More than 200 tonnes

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of oil was released from a pipeline near the Gannet Alpha more than

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a hundred miles off Aberdeen. A conservation charity described

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the fine as "paltry". over this was the biggest leak in

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the north sea for a decade and Shell are multi-billion pound company,

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this is a drop in the ocean when it comes to the

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A new fire training centre for the Western isles has been

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Based at the airport it will mean fire fighters will no longer have to

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leave the Western isles for training.

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It's part of a ?3.5 million investment by the Scottish Fire

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and Rescue Service which will also see a major refurbishment

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size training closer to our communities, it makes it so much

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easier and in the long term it will benefit the Fire Service as well.

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A major donation from the owner of Tunnocks bakery will resurrect the

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lifeboat service at St Abbs after the RNLI closed it in September.

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Boyd Tunnock has agreed to give ?250,000 to the appeal

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Campaigners said the funding would allow the resumption

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The majority of Scottish Premiership clubs have told BBC Scotland they

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are open to the idea of a fixture taking place overseas.

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It follows news that Dundee and Celtic are keen to play a match

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Here's our senior football reporter, Chris McLaughlin.

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The story that broke last night dominated the back pages today.

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Dundee against Celtic in America. Really? If so, why? I don't imagine

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there will be any major additional revenues from a one-off game.

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However, clearly if it's successful and it can be done next year,

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perhaps the season after that, then the overseas TV rights start to go

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up in value, I imagine. It was Dundee's idea to take a game from

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here to somewhere like this, the Lincoln Financial Field in

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Philadelphia. One stadium under consideration. A little too far for

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a supporters bus maybe. Would fans buy into it? I think it must be

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coming from the owner. Unless he will fly the fans in a private jet.

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There is quite a few American-based fans. I know that from the Dundee

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point of view as well. And Celtic as well. I doubt it very much. They

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can't win a game here. One man who plied his trade over there as well

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as here isn't convinced. If it is an avenue they are looking into it, why

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not do it for pre-season games. We go on about the weather here. A

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great opportunity to go abroad in the summertime and play games and

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build up a fan space. The majority of clubs say they would be in favour

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of exploring the deal further. It would come down to a vote at the

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National Stadium. There will be other hurdles to overcome. Fifa

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insist they would have a say. The European governing body, Uefa, went

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one further saying: But the lure of a lucrative matchup

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in America remains. A formal proposal could be on the table

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within weeks. Andy Murray says

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Great Britain's Davis Cup team are satisfied with security arrangements

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in Ghent for this weekend's The World Number Two insists that

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Team GB are fully focused despite the Belgian capital,

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Brussels, remaining on a high state of alert amid

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the threat of Paris-style attacks. Things have changed a little bit. We

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arrived a day later than planned. That is a slight change. We wouldn't

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have been able to practice on the Centre Court here until Monday

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anyway. So it hasn't affect our practices or anything at all. Yeah,

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I think we are all ready to go. Now,

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as golf's rule makers look at ways to speed the game up to make it more

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attractive, one Scottish golfer says a four-hour time limit on completing

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a round could be the answer. The Royal Ancient are currently

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hosting a two-day conference on how best to improve the game and shorten

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the time it takes to play a round. It should take between three and

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three-and-a-half hours to go around an 18-hole golf course. At the

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professional level these day it is's taking five-hours or more. How can

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the game's ruling body speed things up? This golfer has spent 15 years

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on the European Tour. He feels extreme measures are required to

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punish or rectify slow play. For me to make a big difference something

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radical like you have four-hours. If you are not round the course in

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four-hours you don't finish the round. Harsh. Is it going to take

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something like that? Will that make people speed up? People are doing

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other things as well. We can't spend all day playing golf. We are trying

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to get more kids into the game. Do they want to come and stand on a

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golf course waiting to play every shot, taking four-and-a-half hours

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to get round? I don't think they do. The issues of the day involving golf

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are regularly debated. Where else the 19th hole. When I started

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playing they were marking the ball as many times as three times on one

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green. You shouldn't have to mark your When you are ball. Playing for

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that kind of money, maybe there is some justification for the pace

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slowing. There should be punishment, particularly professionals, who take

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long times to play. Whether it is a shot penalty or something like that.

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Yeah, why not. If they are going to make golf quicker, they will have to

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hit a few ideas around before arriving in a solution. John Barnes

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was out all day on the golf course. I bet it was cold. Thank you very

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much. She penned the bestsellers

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which inspired the TV series Outlander and gave millions

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of fans around the world their first But Diana Gabaldone has admitted

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she'd never been to Scotland when she started writing and her leading

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man was based on a character she Our arts correspondent, Pauline

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McLean, has been to meet her. Sterling Castle a sell-out event for

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Book Week Scotland with two authors passionate about Scottish history.

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Neil drew up immersed in it. American author, Diana Gabaldone

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hadn't even been to Scotland when she wrote her first novel. I was

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looking for a time and place. In this frame of mind I happened to see

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a really old Doctor who rerun. At the had picked up a young scatsman.

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That Scotsman inspired her hero Jamie and Hercegovina Owen, Claire,

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a time-travelling nurse from the 1940s. Disappearances have

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explanations... Nine books later they are an international TV series,

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made here in Scotland. Fans, it seems, can't get enough of them.

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Adventure, excitement. One of the best things is the scenery in

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Scotland, it just - I'm so proud. Is I have Scottish ancestry. It was

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like opening up the book and reading my history. I've been

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like opening up the book and reading books fork the last 19 years. I got

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a set of three when I was married. I adore them I get completely lost.

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She is telling the story weaved in with history you get the sense of

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Scotland then. When you come and you are here you see how that exactly

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was. Readers may have to be strong. The latest books may be the last. We

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are getting close to the end. I couldn't tell you that the ninth

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book is the last. I rather think that it's not. The tenth book might

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be. We are getting closer to the end because the characters are getting

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older. Not on screen where they are only on the second season where many

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hope much more to come. You will not be scared while I'm with you.

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They won't be taking things off, they will be putting things on with

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the weather won't they. Chilly tonight. A mix of weather today,

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sunshine and showers around. A lot of these rainbows. Thank you to our

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weather watcher for this shot today. The showers easing off tonight. It

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will be chilly under clear skies. Here is the chart. Still a few

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showers to the south-west and the north and north-east. For most of

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the mainland a dry and chilly night. Colder than last night. Down to

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freezing. In towns and cities around four Celsius. Milder towards the

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West Coast, colder than last night. Tomorrow, and likely the best day of

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the week, a lot of dry weather around. Certainly morning sunshine.

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Through the course of the day cloud in the west will stream eastwards.

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There will be light patchy outbreaks of rain for the West Coast which

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will reach the of rain for the West Coast which

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by mid afternoon. 3.00pm in the west, cloudy, damp at times. Up to

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10 Celsius. Further east dry, sunshine holding on towards

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Aberdeenshire. It will be cooler here. With the cloud and showers

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temperatures around seven to nine Celsius. The sun hanging on to

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Shetland. Lighter winds too. Towards Celsius. The sun hanging on to

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the evening, cloudy with spells of light patchy rain. That takes us

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into Thursday. The winds from the south-west much milder, cloudy for

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all, wet in the west. Heavy in the north-west. That rain up to 13

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Celsius around the Inverness area. On Friday a spell of heavy rain for

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all thanks to this cold front working in. Windy, follow them back,

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the source region of the air Greenland. A cold feel to the day.

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It's cloudy, wet and windy. The rain will clear through. The you can see

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the temperature falling through the course of the day. The threat of

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some snow to low levels by Friday night. That is the forecast for now.

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Thank you, Christopher. Now,

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a reminder of tonight's main news. Nicola McGarry,

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the SNP MP at the centre of a police investigation into missing

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campaign donations, has stepped It follows questions over apparent

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funding discrepancies at the Ms McGarry,

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has stressed her innocence. More on that developing story on

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Scotland 2015. Russia has reacted with fury

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after one of its fighter jets was shot down by the Turkish military

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near Turkey's border with Syria. Turkey insisted the aircraft had

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violated its airspace and had But President Putin said

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the jet was over Syria and called the incident a stab in the back

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by accomplices of terrorists. Our next main bulletin is just

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after the Ten O'Clock News. Until then, from everyone on

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the team, have a very good evening. it was all concentrated down

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into the moment.

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