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Scotland's been hit by floods, heavy rain and strong winds as Storm | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Dozens of flood alerts and weather warnings are in place. | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
We've two reports from the south of Scotland where | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
You can see behind me how angry it is and how fast it is moving. | :00:20. | :00:39. | |
Further down than we are allowed to go this evening, it has burst its | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
banks. Around 100 local properties have been evacuated. We are also | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
hearing that people in nearby Newcastleton are being moved out of | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
their homes this evening, too. The river here has not yet peaked. It | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
may not peek until the next few hours so people are being advised to | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
take precautions in advance of that. We have been talking to Police | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Scotland to have told us that people are advised here not to drive. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Inspector John Reid spoke to us earlier today. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
We have been moving people all day in numbers around 100. We will | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
continue to do so. I would ask that if people are advised to leave their | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
homes, we don't take these decisions lightly and I would ask them to heat | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
that information. -- he did that information. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
You can see that the weather here is deteriorating rapidly. There are now | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
severe weather warnings in south-west Scotland and also in | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Lothian and Borders. The advice is if you do not have to travel this | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
evening, then please don't. Let's cross to the south-west. This | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
report from Dumfries. Storm Desmond turned roads into | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
rivers and rivers into lakes. This was the river and in between | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Lockerbie and Dumfries. At least half a mile wide and still | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
spreading. This raging torrent was in line which started to cause | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
concern around lunchtime. Dumfries and Galloway Council sent | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
sand bags and other flood defences. A few hours later, Riverside | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
householders were advised to move what they could from ground floor | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
rooms as the threat intensified. A Dumfries -- they are old hands at | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
this year. The flooding has been worse. Some relief for the Council | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
staff and emergency services, who have declared a local emergency. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
It is coordinated from a bunker. We have been following a trail all | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
the way down the river and also the catchment for the border. A number | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
of communities have been affected. Resources have been stretched. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
It has been raining constantly for more than 24 hours and it is | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
forecast to continue well into tomorrow. Somewhere between 100 and | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
150 millimetres, 46 inches, and when is getting up now as well. At the | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
moment, lying remains the biggest concern for the authorities here in | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Dumfries and Galloway, but with so much more rain to come its sometime | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
before the danger will be over. Tributes have been paid to the | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
celebrated Scottish writer, William McIlvanney, who's died at the age | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
of 79 after a short illness. He was best known for his trilogy of | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
gritty crime novels, featuring the The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
has described McIlvanney Dubbed the Godfather of Tartan Noir, | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
he influenced A whole new generation of writers. | :03:42. | :03:58. | |
Gore Vidal said once, it's a genre a lot of people read but we don't need | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
to be snooty and say I wouldn't write that. Go where your readers | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
are. The Scottish Government says more | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
trains and buses will part of an integrated travel plan to | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
minimise disruption after the The First Minister chaired | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
a resilience committee meeting today, and it was announced that | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
a special website for commuters It is reallocating extra carriages | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
and trains to enhance the number of trains that will service an area. We | :04:19. | :04:39. | |
will be trains that will service an area. We | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
as congestion as a consequence of the closure. | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
Only a few Premiership football matches survived today's weather. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
Aberdeen comfortably beat Dundee 2-0 at Dens Park. | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
The result sees the Dons close the gap on league leaders Celtic to | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Two other top flight matches survived the weather. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Kilmarnock and Dundee United drew, and Ross County lost | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Well, it's over to Judith now with the weather outlook for tonight | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
Good evening. Storm Desmond has had huge impact across Scotland and the | :05:06. | :05:21. | |
northern part of the UK. It has come from icelands but its impact is | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
still felt here. That's what has brought all this with done rain. | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
Here's an earlier radar picture. Read warnings out for rain across | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
northern England. That means take action. That warning has been | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
extended into parts of southern Scotland, mainly around | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Newcastleton, weak. An amber warning in the central lowlands as part of | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Perthshire. Factor in those winds. Up to 60 or 70 mph gusts. For the | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
next couple of hours, it's a very wet and windy picture. Then we start | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
to see the winds easing as they go into the West. Something drier | :06:07. | :06:07. | |
to see the winds easing as they go coming in and colder as we had | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
through the overnight period. Tomorrow a much improved day. Things | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
do settle down. Across the North, brisk winds with showers initially. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
The winds staying strong across northern Scotland. Dry and sunny | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
weather of the South. Across the rest of the UK, acquired picture. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Spells of sunshine for Northern Ireland. Rain in the far south. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
Temperatures miles across southern part of the country. Feeling a lot | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
cooler in the North. Our next update is tomorrow | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
evening at 6:10pm. Until then, from everyone here, | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
enjoy the rest of your Saturday There once was a sprout | :06:44. | :06:57. | |
with love to give Looking for friends | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
to spend Christmas with | :07:02. | :07:04. |