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of wind. Back to you, Huw. Many thanks come about is all from

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BBC News at Westminster. Now we will join our news teams where you are.

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We look at the impact here of the Chancellor's spending review

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Police Scotland is accused of spying on a journalist's sources

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Also on the programme, the murderer who played the concerned son.

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She went to the doctor, she didn't want to be here any more.

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Ross Taggart told police his mother Carol had gone missing

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Today he was jailed for life for killing her and hiding her body.

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Shrinking the size of a glass of wine glass in our pubs

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and bars, the scheme to encourage people to think

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And we have the latest from Belgium as Andy Murray and Britain's Davis

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The Chancellor's U-turn over cuts to tax credits has been welcomed

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The spending review has also set the amount of money the

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Scottish Government will have to spend in the next financial year.

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Our political correspondent Andrew Kerr has been watching

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We are the builders, the Chancellor said. As workers attended to the

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crumbling palace at Westminster, George Osborne had to attend to his

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reputation following the tax credit fiasco. Lord blocked plans for ?4

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billion worth of cuts and Conservative backbenchers were in

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revolt. I have had representations that these changes should be phased

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in. I've listened to the concerns, I hear and understand them and because

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I have been able to announce an improvement in the public finances,

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the simplest thing to do is not to phase in the changes but to avoid

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them altogether. 12 billion of welfare cuts will be delivered by

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2020. This helps the Chancellor to balance the books. Scotland will

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reap benefits from more health spending and we won't take a hit as

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police spending stays static. The Chancellor was keen to knock down

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the SNP argument for independence with this swipe. With world oil

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prices falling and revenues from the North the forecast by the OBR to be

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down 94%, we would have seen catastrophic cuts in Scottish public

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services. But the SNP returned to the big story of the day. I was

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intrigued that the Conservative backbenchers cheered the humiliating

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U-turn on tax credits. It seems that three or four X ago they were

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cheering on and voting for the implementation. Width the Chancellor

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said that they should not complain because the capital budget was going

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up. Mr Hosie said that benefits were being cut. There was a more moderate

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comment from his colleague. The devil is in the details, this

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Chancellor produces budgets that unravel within days. The caravan

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tax, those sorts of things which have unravelled. We will wait for

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the detail but we are pleased about the reversal. For five years the Lib

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Dems were at the heart of government, but now on days like

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this they are very much outside in the cold. Liberal Democrat votes in

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parliament, the vote I cast against the tax credit cut in the Lords was

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effective. That vote alone has forced the U-turn that has benefited

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thousands of people across Scotland. The Chancellor is keen to

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build his political career. Taking on his opponents he says that the

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SNP should talk about the powers they have. Now Scotland's's Finance

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Secretary has the numbers he can deliver his budget next month.

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I'm joined from Westminster by our correspondent David Porter

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and from Holyrood by our political editor Brian Taylor.

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Firstly, David, that was a pretty spectacular u-turn

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It was, you could almost hear the tyres screeching in the House of

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Commons when he made the announcement. To mix my metaphors,

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you have a situation where George Osborne realised he was in a

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political hole and he should stop digging and get himself out of it.

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He is able to do it because the public finances are better than he

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thought a few months ago. So he can actually not go ahead with these

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cuts he was planning. Let's not underestimate the size of the

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U-turn, it will affect the lives of families in the UK and hundreds of

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thousands in Scotland. His opponents have welcomed it but they say they

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believe there is more pain to come. The UK Government says its

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priorities for Scotland and the rest of the UK are national security and

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economic security but the Chancellor's opponents say that by

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2020, the UK and Scotland could have gone through a decade of austerity.

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The Chancellor has had his say. His political opponents have had their

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initial say and now people will go through the documents with a fine

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tooth comb. One prediction, the arguments will continue. Brian,

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relax and from Holyrood? The SNP will be happy with the U-turn, but

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for more than just the obvious reasons. They are, this changes the

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dynamic of Scottish politics. The SNP were frankly punching the air,

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firstly because they believe that tax credits are iniquitous and

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secondly it gets them off a very sharp and pointed hook that Labour

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was preparing because Labour were preparing for Scotland alone to

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reverse any tax in tax credits using Scottish tax money. The Chancellor

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isn't going ahead with it, the Fox has been shot, the issue has gone

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and thereby the challenge to the SNP to match that Labour offer is no

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longer valid. The settlement will allow negotiations to start in

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earnest on the implementation of new tax powers for Holyrood. Yes, good

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cop, bad cop. In the same breath as the Chancellor was talking about the

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cuts in the value of oil and teasing and tormenting the SNP about that he

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was making an offer, let's talk about the fiscal framework, the

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general spending pattern that will accompany the new tax powers that

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are due to come here. The Chancellor is offering a new deal, John Swinney

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says he is ready to talk but it has to be a fair deal. He now says he

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knows the basic figures, the baseline and below that he says that

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Scotland shouldn't slip below it as a consequence of those negotiations.

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If it comes from government decisions that is one thing but he

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says the negotiations must not weaken Scotland's financial

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position. I think there is a deal on the horizon. Thank you for joining

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us. A watchdog has ruled that Police Scotland misused legislation five

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times to obtain the details of a journalist's sources. An

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investigation found police didn't have proper grounds to intercept

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emails and phone calls, and it slammed their actions as "reckless."

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Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Reevel Alderson, has the story...

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How far can police go in this into communications the law is quite

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clear, if they are intercepting e-mails or phone calls it must be

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reasonable to do so and appropriate, and there must be

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permission from a senior police officer and a judge, or sheriff.

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Earlier this year during a cold case reinvestigation of the murder of

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Glasgow prostitute in a cold world police intercepted the

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communications of four people they believed were feeding information to

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a BBC radio producer. He says that the action was reprehensible. Now we

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know it has been concerned that sources I relied on had their

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personal coming occasions put under surveillance, I can only conclude

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that this was done to try and protect the reputation and image

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either of Police Scotland, or the officers concerned. The breaches of

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legislation were only discovered when Police Scotland was inspected

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by an independent body, the Interception of Communications

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Commissioner, which says the proper approval had not been sought for the

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surveillance, adding... Police Scotland say that the

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breaches were not intentional. We are looking at individuals who

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released information from our databases and that's what our

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investigation was about. We were looking at what we believed to be a

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serious breach of that and we carried out investigations into that

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and subsequently we found we were in breach of the codes of practice. The

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Liberal Democrats are consistent critics of Police Scotland, saying

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it is outrageous that officers thought they were above the law.

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This has been an atrocious cover-up, Police Scotland have known about

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this for months and said nothing and done nothing about it. They must be

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held to account. White the government says that Police Scotland

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have been working on an action plan to ensure there is no repeat but

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this evening it is understood that at least one individual whose

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communications were intercepted is considering legal action.

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Still to come on tonight's Reporting Scotland:

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The scheme to shrink wine glasses in our pubs and bars

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In sport, we're in Belgium with Andy Murray in the run-up to

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He is calling it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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And you'll find out why Celtic will be without their captain

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for tomorrow's match against Ajax, and a while after that too.

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Ross Taggart reported his mother missing and sparked a police search.

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But the 31 year old from Fife had murdered her and disposed

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What is your mum's name? Carol. Carol Taggart was reported missing

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before Christmas last year. Her son said that she left their home after

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a row. Has there been any argument? We had an argument, she has been

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depressed. She had the doctor in last week and she said she didn't

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want to be here any more. As the search for Carol grew, Ross Taggart

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was seen on CCTV at an Edinburgh pawnshop. He sold a piece of his

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mother's jewellery, claiming he was given it by her, and he drew money

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from her account. He thanked those helping to look for his mum but in

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fact he had murdered her and hours after he went out for casual sex,

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cocktails and a trip to the cinema. His family were relieved by the

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unanimous guilty verdicts. She was a mum and she was a grand to five. She

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was loved by us all -- a grandmother. She is missed every day

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by us and we are devastated how cruelly she was taken from us. Carol

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Taggart had been battered and strangled, her body taken to a

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caravan. She had been tied and bound, her body was found hidden in

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the void believe a vacant neighbouring caravan. There are

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holiday snaps that look so happy but in the months before, Taggart had

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lied and cheated his mother, pretending to go to work when he had

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actually been stealing money from her. He had hard times and was

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struggling financially, that is the impression we got, but to do that to

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your mother and two showed total disregard even after he killed her,

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placing her under a caravan, behind convention -- beyond. The judge said

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that Taggart had committed a total crime and embarked on a course of

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deceit. He showed no remorse and continued to lie ludicrously in the

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face of overwhelming evidence. She had called him her blue-eyed boy but

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Carol Taggart was murdered in her own home by her own son. The rest of

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the family still grieving after such cruel and casual indifference.

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The government is axing its ?1 billion competition to

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develop "carbon capture and storage" technology.

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Peterhead power station was in the running for the funding along

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Our reporter John McManus is at Peterhead power station for us

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John, does this mean that the plant won't go ahead now?

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It certainly looks that way this evening. The technology that was

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being developed here was touted as a way of dealing with climate change,

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by capturing the carbon that is emitted when we burn fossil fuels

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like oil, gas and coal and then storing it on the ground --

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underground so it cannot contribute to rising temperatures.

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Environmentalists working and until the afternoon the government seemed

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keen as well. There has been some reaction including from the Scottish

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energy secretary, Fergus Ewing. The UK Government has wielded the

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axe again and scrapped one of the most promising, one of the best and

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one of the most significant energy projects there has ever been in this

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country. Well, the two backers here, Shell and SSP have given their

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reaction and Shall say they believe in the technology but without

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government funding it is not viable to develop it here so it's going to

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look elsewhere around the world, which will be a blow for Scotland.

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-- Shell. Thank you for joining us. The Education Secretary has called

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on a former college principal to Holyrood's public audit committee is

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investigating the severance package awarded to

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John Doyle when he left Coatbridge Here's our political correspondent,

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Glenn Campbell. This is the man who pocketed

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?304,000 when he left Coatbridge College. I welcome John Doyle, the

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former principal and Chief Executive. At Holyrood he has been

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recalled to explain how he got 30 months of salary when official

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guidelines recommend a 13 month cap. This is one of the reasons you

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are back before the committee, creating a smoke screen. I take

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exception that I am in some way laying a smoke screen. Let me answer

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the question. He denies withholding information from those who

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supervised his severance. You failed to alert the funding council, you

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have failed to alert the internal auditor and you failed to ensure

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that there is a business case. Is that three clear failings? I'm

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sorry, I disagree. He insists his package was deserved. I lost my job

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through no fault of my own, I lost a source of income, I have no other

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source of income. I feel in the context of an employee, let down.

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You won't pay the money back? There is no reason for me to do that. The

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Education Secretary doesn't want him to keep the cash. It is clear to me

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that there has been a lack of stewardship of public funding, and

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of course, I would want Mr Doyle to pay back money that he has received

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at the expense of the public purse. The minister

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at the expense of the public purse. how cash might be clawed back from a

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former college principal who seems determined to hang onto every of his

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payoff. If you're a wine drinker,

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do you always know how much is New research shows that 70%

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of us don't know how much wine is From today bars

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and restaurants across a Scottish council area will be the first to

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trial the smallest glass. College It's a welcome sound for a

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lot of us, a glass of wine can be relaxing and enjoyable. But do we

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know how much is in it? When we go to the bar many of us will order

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this, the 250 millilitres glass because we assume it will be

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cheaper, but that contains as much as three, 3.5 units but today in

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East Dunbartonshire this will be offered, the 125 millilitre glass

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because that one .5 units. The council leader thinks bigger glasses

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have become a habit. We think people get offered a certain size and they

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just go with it, they don't think it through. If you are offered a

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smaller size it makes you think about how much you are drinking. New

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research by YouGov reveals 70% of adults don't know how much wine is

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in a small, medium or large glass. Customers in one restaurant agreed

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with that this lunchtime. They agreed with smaller measures. You

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tend to empty the bottle into your glass at home. If you are topping up

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you don't realise how much you are drinking, this way you are

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controlled. I wouldn't normally take a large one, I would normally go

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with the medium-size, I'm happy with that. Most people would be the same

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now, they are not quite sure how many units they are having in a

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glass of wine. Industry are behind this but for pub owners, aren't

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smaller classes and less wind like turkeys voting for Christmas? I

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don't think so. At certain times of the day it is important to offer a

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small glass of wine, for instance at lunchtime people don't always want

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175 or 250 and if you offer 125 and make it known you can attract more

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customers forced up the Christmas party season is just around the

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corner, the message today is be aware of how much you are drinking

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and size does matter. Suzanne Allan, Reporting Scotland, East Dumbarton

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share. -- East and Barton Loneliness among older people is

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a growing problem, but a new scheme to provide them

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with company could also help younger Home Share Scotland matches up older

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people who've got a spare room with Ian Hamilton's been to see it

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in operation. hello, Ian, welcome. Nice to meet

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you too. I went to see Michael at his home in Fife and before retiring

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Michael was a professor of geography at the University of St Andrews.

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Let's go into the dining room, another big room in this big house.

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Michael is still very active but another big room in this big house.

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feels he could do with some company. At the same time, providing some

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accommodation for someone who needs somewhere to stay. I know what

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happens to older people. They start neglecting their diet, they don't

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have meals regularly, and you really need the social occasion of sitting

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down together and eating breakfast and lunch and dinner when you can

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have conversations. We call this the front hall. Michael's situation is

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not unique, currently 250,000 people in Scotland over the age of 65 live

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alone and over the next 25 years that is going to double to close to

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500,000. Which is the same publishing as Edinburgh. With a

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shortage of affordable accommodation for younger people it seemed like a

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simple solution to pair them up. As part of the agreement the younger

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person will be expected to provide ten hours of support are weak.

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Kirsty is not keen to live on her own so she would seriously consider

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home sharing. Moving in by yourself is quite intimidating so I would

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enjoy the company as much as the other person. Home share Scotland

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only set up this scheme so it is still DVD is -- early days but it

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could be a solution for housing needs of different generations. Ian

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Hamilton, Reporting Scotland, Fife. Sport now

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and David has your round-up. Their captain Scott Brown has

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a knee injury that could keep him And he's not the only midfielder

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who'll be missing tomorrow. More from our senior football

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reporter Chris McLaughlin. Celtic captain and star of the

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club's recent Christmas advert, these days Scott Brown is the face

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and the footballer at Parkhead. But this was him hobbling off the pitch

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after the weekend draw at Kilmarnock. His manager thought he

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was fine, but he could be out for months. It's almost, as I said,

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tough to lose your captain and -- always. It gives the other players

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even more responsibility. So, who will get the responsibility? The

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manager admitted he will have to build a new midfield. The 4-2-3 -1

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formation is unlikely to change but regulars will all miss out. He could

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call on the likes of Charlie Mulgrew, Scott Fallon, Stuart

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Armstrong and Tom Rogic. -- Scott Allan. It is a blow for the team, he

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was devastated. We have players that can fill in in that position, number

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of players that can play in that position. The players looking to

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take advantage arrived in Glasgow earlier. So how does the manager's

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brother rate Ajax's chances? 50-50. Celtic at home is difficult to

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beat. In Europa League group a basic just one point above Ronny Deila's

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side. Celtic could draw tomorrow and still hope to progress it results in

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the final fixtures go their way. The Celtic Christmas campaign and the

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club captaincy, fans must believe. But for the next few months at least

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they will have to believe without him.

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The Inverness Caledonian Thistle player Danny Lopez has apologised

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publicly for spitting on an opponent.

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It happened during a development league match against St Johnstone.

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Lopez has been fined by Cally Thistle who will donate

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Andy Murray is preparing for what he calls a "once in a

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lifetime opportunity," the chance to lead Great Britain to their first

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Andy's big brother Jamie is also in the team to play Belgium

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It starts on Friday in Ghent, from where Kheredine Idessane reports.

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Right now the whole place seems more of a warehouse, kind of an empty

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aircraft hangar at getting refurbished and refitted and ready

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for the big occasion. refurbished and refitted and ready

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plenty still to do and there will be extra security measures in place as

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well. Fans arriving here will not be able to bring bags into the arena,

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but special lockers have been set aside for that very purpose. Over

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and above the security and locations are of course the sporting ones.

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Andy Murray believes this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity he is

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determined to take. We haven't been in a final for over 30 years. Who

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knows if we will get there again in the next 30? It is a great but unity

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obviously for the fans to come and watch this. We will need as much a

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port as we can get. We may not do it on Sunday, but I know I have been

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very proud to be part on Sunday, but I know I have been

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Over the weekend we will go out there and give it our best effort

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and hopefully get the outcome that we want. There is little doubt how

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much this means to Andy Murray, who is back on court now having another

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much this means to Andy Murray, who practice session with big brother

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Jamie. Of course, it's been a family affair for the Murrays, the backbone

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of the British Davis Cup team. Can they go on and create what would be

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their crowning glory and win tennis's equivalent of the World Cup

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final? We will find out in due course.

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Scotland's women are through to the semi-finals of the

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Eve Muirhead's rink sealing their place

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in the last four with a 7-5 win over world champions Switzerland.

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Well done to them. That is all from me.

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Now here's David Henderson with details of Scotland 2015.

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On the programme tonight, tax credits and public services. What

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impact will the government's spending review have here in

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Scotland. We will ask the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. And,

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Police Scotland are embroiled in yet another scandal, this time for an

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illegally targeting of a journalist. We will have the full story over on

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BBC Two at 10:30pm. It was fairly sunny today,

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particularly in the east, weather watchers sent in blue sky photos,

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thank you to Sean for this one. As we head into this evening it is

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mostly dry, some clear spells, some light rain to get out of the way

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first. On the chart you can see most of it is to the north and north-east

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and clearing away, behind the sky is clear across the north-east and

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south-east and in rural parts of Aberdeenshire and in the Borders the

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coldest spots but further west cloud building with further spells of

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light rain. Temperatures in town around 6 degrees. Tomorrow it is a

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fairly cloudy start, big rate in the west with low cloud and spots of

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rain. Further east largely dry and quite bright, some sunshine across

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the Northeast. As we head towards the afternoon the wet weather in the

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west turns more persistent and we end up with an East-West split by

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mid-afternoon. So, come the 3pm across the South, fairly cloudy and

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wet in the west, around the Kintyre Coast up towards argyle, further

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east dry and a few spots of rain but temperatures, a much milder day.

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14, maybe 15 degrees, not bad for the end of November. Further west

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the rain will be heavy and persistent and windy around northern

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coasts from the west or Southwest. As we head through the rest of the

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afternoon into the evening the cloudy and wet weather continues,

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particularly across the north-west and the wind holds on as well.

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Talking of rain, as we had on to Friday we will all get a dose of

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heavy rain at times, a squally will buy the front coming in and some

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windy weather with it too. As it clears Caldaire makes a return.

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Looking at the detail on Friday it self, a wet and windy day, a warning

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from the Met office because of the persistent nature of the rain. It

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will clear through but watch out for the temperatures falling away as the

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cold air rises and we will see a risk of wintry showers. Over the

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weekend it will stay unsettled, wet at times and windy too, particularly

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come Sunday night. That's the forecast for now.

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Not very nice. Thank you for now, Christopher.

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I'll be back with the this evening's main round-up at 10:25.

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