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of wind. Back to you, Huw. Many thanks come about is all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
BBC News at Westminster. Now we will join our news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
We look at the impact here of the Chancellor's spending review | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
Police Scotland is accused of spying on a journalist's sources | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
Also on the programme, the murderer who played the concerned son. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
She went to the doctor, she didn't want to be here any more. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Ross Taggart told police his mother Carol had gone missing | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Today he was jailed for life for killing her and hiding her body. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Shrinking the size of a glass of wine glass in our pubs | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
and bars, the scheme to encourage people to think | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
And we have the latest from Belgium as Andy Murray and Britain's Davis | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
The Chancellor's U-turn over cuts to tax credits has been welcomed | :00:53. | :01:12. | |
The spending review has also set the amount of money the | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
Scottish Government will have to spend in the next financial year. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Our political correspondent Andrew Kerr has been watching | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
We are the builders, the Chancellor said. As workers attended to the | :01:25. | :01:36. | |
crumbling palace at Westminster, George Osborne had to attend to his | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
reputation following the tax credit fiasco. Lord blocked plans for ?4 | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
billion worth of cuts and Conservative backbenchers were in | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
revolt. I have had representations that these changes should be phased | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
in. I've listened to the concerns, I hear and understand them and because | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
I have been able to announce an improvement in the public finances, | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
the simplest thing to do is not to phase in the changes but to avoid | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
them altogether. 12 billion of welfare cuts will be delivered by | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
2020. This helps the Chancellor to balance the books. Scotland will | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
reap benefits from more health spending and we won't take a hit as | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
police spending stays static. The Chancellor was keen to knock down | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
the SNP argument for independence with this swipe. With world oil | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
prices falling and revenues from the North the forecast by the OBR to be | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
down 94%, we would have seen catastrophic cuts in Scottish public | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
services. But the SNP returned to the big story of the day. I was | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
intrigued that the Conservative backbenchers cheered the humiliating | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
U-turn on tax credits. It seems that three or four X ago they were | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
cheering on and voting for the implementation. Width the Chancellor | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
said that they should not complain because the capital budget was going | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
up. Mr Hosie said that benefits were being cut. There was a more moderate | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
comment from his colleague. The devil is in the details, this | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
Chancellor produces budgets that unravel within days. The caravan | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
tax, those sorts of things which have unravelled. We will wait for | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
the detail but we are pleased about the reversal. For five years the Lib | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Dems were at the heart of government, but now on days like | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
this they are very much outside in the cold. Liberal Democrat votes in | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
parliament, the vote I cast against the tax credit cut in the Lords was | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
effective. That vote alone has forced the U-turn that has benefited | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
thousands of people across Scotland. The Chancellor is keen to | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
build his political career. Taking on his opponents he says that the | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
SNP should talk about the powers they have. Now Scotland's's Finance | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
Secretary has the numbers he can deliver his budget next month. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
I'm joined from Westminster by our correspondent David Porter | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
and from Holyrood by our political editor Brian Taylor. | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
Firstly, David, that was a pretty spectacular u-turn | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
It was, you could almost hear the tyres screeching in the House of | :04:20. | :04:29. | |
Commons when he made the announcement. To mix my metaphors, | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
you have a situation where George Osborne realised he was in a | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
political hole and he should stop digging and get himself out of it. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
He is able to do it because the public finances are better than he | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
thought a few months ago. So he can actually not go ahead with these | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
cuts he was planning. Let's not underestimate the size of the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
U-turn, it will affect the lives of families in the UK and hundreds of | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
thousands in Scotland. His opponents have welcomed it but they say they | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
believe there is more pain to come. The UK Government says its | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
priorities for Scotland and the rest of the UK are national security and | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
economic security but the Chancellor's opponents say that by | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
2020, the UK and Scotland could have gone through a decade of austerity. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
The Chancellor has had his say. His political opponents have had their | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
initial say and now people will go through the documents with a fine | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
tooth comb. One prediction, the arguments will continue. Brian, | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
relax and from Holyrood? The SNP will be happy with the U-turn, but | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
for more than just the obvious reasons. They are, this changes the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
dynamic of Scottish politics. The SNP were frankly punching the air, | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
firstly because they believe that tax credits are iniquitous and | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
secondly it gets them off a very sharp and pointed hook that Labour | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
was preparing because Labour were preparing for Scotland alone to | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
reverse any tax in tax credits using Scottish tax money. The Chancellor | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
isn't going ahead with it, the Fox has been shot, the issue has gone | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
and thereby the challenge to the SNP to match that Labour offer is no | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
longer valid. The settlement will allow negotiations to start in | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
earnest on the implementation of new tax powers for Holyrood. Yes, good | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
cop, bad cop. In the same breath as the Chancellor was talking about the | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
cuts in the value of oil and teasing and tormenting the SNP about that he | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
was making an offer, let's talk about the fiscal framework, the | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
general spending pattern that will accompany the new tax powers that | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
are due to come here. The Chancellor is offering a new deal, John Swinney | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
says he is ready to talk but it has to be a fair deal. He now says he | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
knows the basic figures, the baseline and below that he says that | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Scotland shouldn't slip below it as a consequence of those negotiations. | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
If it comes from government decisions that is one thing but he | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
says the negotiations must not weaken Scotland's financial | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
position. I think there is a deal on the horizon. Thank you for joining | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
us. A watchdog has ruled that Police Scotland misused legislation five | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
times to obtain the details of a journalist's sources. An | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
investigation found police didn't have proper grounds to intercept | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
emails and phone calls, and it slammed their actions as "reckless." | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Reevel Alderson, has the story... | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
How far can police go in this into communications the law is quite | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
clear, if they are intercepting e-mails or phone calls it must be | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
reasonable to do so and appropriate, and there must be | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
permission from a senior police officer and a judge, or sheriff. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Earlier this year during a cold case reinvestigation of the murder of | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Glasgow prostitute in a cold world police intercepted the | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
communications of four people they believed were feeding information to | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
a BBC radio producer. He says that the action was reprehensible. Now we | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
know it has been concerned that sources I relied on had their | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
personal coming occasions put under surveillance, I can only conclude | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
that this was done to try and protect the reputation and image | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
either of Police Scotland, or the officers concerned. The breaches of | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
legislation were only discovered when Police Scotland was inspected | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
by an independent body, the Interception of Communications | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Commissioner, which says the proper approval had not been sought for the | :08:35. | :08:35. | |
surveillance, adding... Police Scotland say that the | :08:36. | :08:50. | |
breaches were not intentional. We are looking at individuals who | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
released information from our databases and that's what our | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
investigation was about. We were looking at what we believed to be a | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
serious breach of that and we carried out investigations into that | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
and subsequently we found we were in breach of the codes of practice. The | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Liberal Democrats are consistent critics of Police Scotland, saying | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
it is outrageous that officers thought they were above the law. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
This has been an atrocious cover-up, Police Scotland have known about | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
this for months and said nothing and done nothing about it. They must be | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
held to account. White the government says that Police Scotland | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
have been working on an action plan to ensure there is no repeat but | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
this evening it is understood that at least one individual whose | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
communications were intercepted is considering legal action. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Still to come on tonight's Reporting Scotland: | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
The scheme to shrink wine glasses in our pubs and bars | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
In sport, we're in Belgium with Andy Murray in the run-up to | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
He is calling it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
And you'll find out why Celtic will be without their captain | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
for tomorrow's match against Ajax, and a while after that too. | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
Ross Taggart reported his mother missing and sparked a police search. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
But the 31 year old from Fife had murdered her and disposed | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
What is your mum's name? Carol. Carol Taggart was reported missing | :10:16. | :10:31. | |
before Christmas last year. Her son said that she left their home after | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
a row. Has there been any argument? We had an argument, she has been | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
depressed. She had the doctor in last week and she said she didn't | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
want to be here any more. As the search for Carol grew, Ross Taggart | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
was seen on CCTV at an Edinburgh pawnshop. He sold a piece of his | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
mother's jewellery, claiming he was given it by her, and he drew money | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
from her account. He thanked those helping to look for his mum but in | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
fact he had murdered her and hours after he went out for casual sex, | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
cocktails and a trip to the cinema. His family were relieved by the | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
unanimous guilty verdicts. She was a mum and she was a grand to five. She | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
was loved by us all -- a grandmother. She is missed every day | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
by us and we are devastated how cruelly she was taken from us. Carol | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Taggart had been battered and strangled, her body taken to a | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
caravan. She had been tied and bound, her body was found hidden in | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
the void believe a vacant neighbouring caravan. There are | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
holiday snaps that look so happy but in the months before, Taggart had | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
lied and cheated his mother, pretending to go to work when he had | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
actually been stealing money from her. He had hard times and was | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
struggling financially, that is the impression we got, but to do that to | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
your mother and two showed total disregard even after he killed her, | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
placing her under a caravan, behind convention -- beyond. The judge said | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
that Taggart had committed a total crime and embarked on a course of | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
deceit. He showed no remorse and continued to lie ludicrously in the | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
face of overwhelming evidence. She had called him her blue-eyed boy but | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
Carol Taggart was murdered in her own home by her own son. The rest of | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
the family still grieving after such cruel and casual indifference. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
The government is axing its ?1 billion competition to | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
develop "carbon capture and storage" technology. | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
Peterhead power station was in the running for the funding along | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Our reporter John McManus is at Peterhead power station for us | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
John, does this mean that the plant won't go ahead now? | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
It certainly looks that way this evening. The technology that was | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
being developed here was touted as a way of dealing with climate change, | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
by capturing the carbon that is emitted when we burn fossil fuels | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
like oil, gas and coal and then storing it on the ground -- | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
underground so it cannot contribute to rising temperatures. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Environmentalists working and until the afternoon the government seemed | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
keen as well. There has been some reaction including from the Scottish | :13:29. | :13:29. | |
energy secretary, Fergus Ewing. The UK Government has wielded the | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
axe again and scrapped one of the most promising, one of the best and | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
one of the most significant energy projects there has ever been in this | :13:45. | :13:54. | |
country. Well, the two backers here, Shell and SSP have given their | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
reaction and Shall say they believe in the technology but without | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
government funding it is not viable to develop it here so it's going to | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
look elsewhere around the world, which will be a blow for Scotland. | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
-- Shell. Thank you for joining us. The Education Secretary has called | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
on a former college principal to Holyrood's public audit committee is | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
investigating the severance package awarded to | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
John Doyle when he left Coatbridge Here's our political correspondent, | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Glenn Campbell. This is the man who pocketed | :14:21. | :14:32. | |
?304,000 when he left Coatbridge College. I welcome John Doyle, the | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
former principal and Chief Executive. At Holyrood he has been | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
recalled to explain how he got 30 months of salary when official | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
guidelines recommend a 13 month cap. This is one of the reasons you | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
are back before the committee, creating a smoke screen. I take | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
exception that I am in some way laying a smoke screen. Let me answer | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
the question. He denies withholding information from those who | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
supervised his severance. You failed to alert the funding council, you | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
have failed to alert the internal auditor and you failed to ensure | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
that there is a business case. Is that three clear failings? I'm | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
sorry, I disagree. He insists his package was deserved. I lost my job | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
through no fault of my own, I lost a source of income, I have no other | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
source of income. I feel in the context of an employee, let down. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
You won't pay the money back? There is no reason for me to do that. The | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
Education Secretary doesn't want him to keep the cash. It is clear to me | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
that there has been a lack of stewardship of public funding, and | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
of course, I would want Mr Doyle to pay back money that he has received | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
at the expense of the public purse. The minister | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
at the expense of the public purse. how cash might be clawed back from a | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
former college principal who seems determined to hang onto every of his | :16:11. | :16:11. | |
payoff. If you're a wine drinker, | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
do you always know how much is New research shows that 70% | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
of us don't know how much wine is From today bars | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
and restaurants across a Scottish council area will be the first to | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
trial the smallest glass. College It's a welcome sound for a | :16:29. | :16:44. | |
lot of us, a glass of wine can be relaxing and enjoyable. But do we | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
know how much is in it? When we go to the bar many of us will order | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
this, the 250 millilitres glass because we assume it will be | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
cheaper, but that contains as much as three, 3.5 units but today in | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
East Dunbartonshire this will be offered, the 125 millilitre glass | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
because that one .5 units. The council leader thinks bigger glasses | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
have become a habit. We think people get offered a certain size and they | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
just go with it, they don't think it through. If you are offered a | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
smaller size it makes you think about how much you are drinking. New | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
research by YouGov reveals 70% of adults don't know how much wine is | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
in a small, medium or large glass. Customers in one restaurant agreed | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
with that this lunchtime. They agreed with smaller measures. You | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
tend to empty the bottle into your glass at home. If you are topping up | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
you don't realise how much you are drinking, this way you are | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
controlled. I wouldn't normally take a large one, I would normally go | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
with the medium-size, I'm happy with that. Most people would be the same | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
now, they are not quite sure how many units they are having in a | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
glass of wine. Industry are behind this but for pub owners, aren't | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
smaller classes and less wind like turkeys voting for Christmas? I | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
don't think so. At certain times of the day it is important to offer a | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
small glass of wine, for instance at lunchtime people don't always want | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
175 or 250 and if you offer 125 and make it known you can attract more | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
customers forced up the Christmas party season is just around the | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
corner, the message today is be aware of how much you are drinking | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
and size does matter. Suzanne Allan, Reporting Scotland, East Dumbarton | :18:37. | :18:37. | |
share. -- East and Barton Loneliness among older people is | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
a growing problem, but a new scheme to provide them | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
with company could also help younger Home Share Scotland matches up older | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
people who've got a spare room with Ian Hamilton's been to see it | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
in operation. hello, Ian, welcome. Nice to meet | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
you too. I went to see Michael at his home in Fife and before retiring | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Michael was a professor of geography at the University of St Andrews. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Let's go into the dining room, another big room in this big house. | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Michael is still very active but another big room in this big house. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
feels he could do with some company. At the same time, providing some | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
accommodation for someone who needs somewhere to stay. I know what | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
happens to older people. They start neglecting their diet, they don't | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
have meals regularly, and you really need the social occasion of sitting | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
down together and eating breakfast and lunch and dinner when you can | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
have conversations. We call this the front hall. Michael's situation is | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
not unique, currently 250,000 people in Scotland over the age of 65 live | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
alone and over the next 25 years that is going to double to close to | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
500,000. Which is the same publishing as Edinburgh. With a | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
shortage of affordable accommodation for younger people it seemed like a | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
simple solution to pair them up. As part of the agreement the younger | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
person will be expected to provide ten hours of support are weak. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Kirsty is not keen to live on her own so she would seriously consider | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
home sharing. Moving in by yourself is quite intimidating so I would | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
enjoy the company as much as the other person. Home share Scotland | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
only set up this scheme so it is still DVD is -- early days but it | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
could be a solution for housing needs of different generations. Ian | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
Hamilton, Reporting Scotland, Fife. Sport now | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
and David has your round-up. Their captain Scott Brown has | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
a knee injury that could keep him And he's not the only midfielder | :20:47. | :20:56. | |
who'll be missing tomorrow. More from our senior football | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
reporter Chris McLaughlin. Celtic captain and star of the | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
club's recent Christmas advert, these days Scott Brown is the face | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
and the footballer at Parkhead. But this was him hobbling off the pitch | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
after the weekend draw at Kilmarnock. His manager thought he | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
was fine, but he could be out for months. It's almost, as I said, | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
tough to lose your captain and -- always. It gives the other players | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
even more responsibility. So, who will get the responsibility? The | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
manager admitted he will have to build a new midfield. The 4-2-3 -1 | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
formation is unlikely to change but regulars will all miss out. He could | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
call on the likes of Charlie Mulgrew, Scott Fallon, Stuart | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Armstrong and Tom Rogic. -- Scott Allan. It is a blow for the team, he | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
was devastated. We have players that can fill in in that position, number | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
of players that can play in that position. The players looking to | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
take advantage arrived in Glasgow earlier. So how does the manager's | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
brother rate Ajax's chances? 50-50. Celtic at home is difficult to | :22:23. | :22:35. | |
beat. In Europa League group a basic just one point above Ronny Deila's | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
side. Celtic could draw tomorrow and still hope to progress it results in | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
the final fixtures go their way. The Celtic Christmas campaign and the | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
club captaincy, fans must believe. But for the next few months at least | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
they will have to believe without him. | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
The Inverness Caledonian Thistle player Danny Lopez has apologised | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
publicly for spitting on an opponent. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
It happened during a development league match against St Johnstone. | :23:04. | :23:16. | |
Lopez has been fined by Cally Thistle who will donate | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
Andy Murray is preparing for what he calls a "once in a | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
lifetime opportunity," the chance to lead Great Britain to their first | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
Andy's big brother Jamie is also in the team to play Belgium | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
It starts on Friday in Ghent, from where Kheredine Idessane reports. | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
Right now the whole place seems more of a warehouse, kind of an empty | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
aircraft hangar at getting refurbished and refitted and ready | :23:49. | :23:49. | |
for the big occasion. refurbished and refitted and ready | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
plenty still to do and there will be extra security measures in place as | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
well. Fans arriving here will not be able to bring bags into the arena, | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
but special lockers have been set aside for that very purpose. Over | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
and above the security and locations are of course the sporting ones. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Andy Murray believes this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity he is | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
determined to take. We haven't been in a final for over 30 years. Who | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
knows if we will get there again in the next 30? It is a great but unity | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
obviously for the fans to come and watch this. We will need as much a | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
port as we can get. We may not do it on Sunday, but I know I have been | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
very proud to be part on Sunday, but I know I have been | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Over the weekend we will go out there and give it our best effort | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
and hopefully get the outcome that we want. There is little doubt how | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
much this means to Andy Murray, who is back on court now having another | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
much this means to Andy Murray, who practice session with big brother | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Jamie. Of course, it's been a family affair for the Murrays, the backbone | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
of the British Davis Cup team. Can they go on and create what would be | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
their crowning glory and win tennis's equivalent of the World Cup | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
final? We will find out in due course. | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
Scotland's women are through to the semi-finals of the | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
Eve Muirhead's rink sealing their place | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
in the last four with a 7-5 win over world champions Switzerland. | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
Well done to them. That is all from me. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
Now here's David Henderson with details of Scotland 2015. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
On the programme tonight, tax credits and public services. What | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
impact will the government's spending review have here in | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Scotland. We will ask the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. And, | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
Police Scotland are embroiled in yet another scandal, this time for an | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
illegally targeting of a journalist. We will have the full story over on | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
BBC Two at 10:30pm. It was fairly sunny today, | :25:45. | :26:01. | |
particularly in the east, weather watchers sent in blue sky photos, | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
thank you to Sean for this one. As we head into this evening it is | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
mostly dry, some clear spells, some light rain to get out of the way | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
first. On the chart you can see most of it is to the north and north-east | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
and clearing away, behind the sky is clear across the north-east and | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
south-east and in rural parts of Aberdeenshire and in the Borders the | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
coldest spots but further west cloud building with further spells of | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
light rain. Temperatures in town around 6 degrees. Tomorrow it is a | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
fairly cloudy start, big rate in the west with low cloud and spots of | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
rain. Further east largely dry and quite bright, some sunshine across | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
the Northeast. As we head towards the afternoon the wet weather in the | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
west turns more persistent and we end up with an East-West split by | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
mid-afternoon. So, come the 3pm across the South, fairly cloudy and | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
wet in the west, around the Kintyre Coast up towards argyle, further | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
east dry and a few spots of rain but temperatures, a much milder day. | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
14, maybe 15 degrees, not bad for the end of November. Further west | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
the rain will be heavy and persistent and windy around northern | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
coasts from the west or Southwest. As we head through the rest of the | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
afternoon into the evening the cloudy and wet weather continues, | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
particularly across the north-west and the wind holds on as well. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
Talking of rain, as we had on to Friday we will all get a dose of | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
heavy rain at times, a squally will buy the front coming in and some | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
windy weather with it too. As it clears Caldaire makes a return. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Looking at the detail on Friday it self, a wet and windy day, a warning | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
from the Met office because of the persistent nature of the rain. It | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
will clear through but watch out for the temperatures falling away as the | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
cold air rises and we will see a risk of wintry showers. Over the | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
weekend it will stay unsettled, wet at times and windy too, particularly | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
come Sunday night. That's the forecast for now. | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
Not very nice. Thank you for now, Christopher. | :27:53. | :28:03. | |
I'll be back with the this evening's main round-up at 10:25. | :28:04. | :28:05. |