06/12/2015 Reporting Scotland

Flooding is affecting many parts of Scotland after

the country was battered overnight by strong winds and heavy rain.

While some people have been starting to clear up after the worst effects

of Storm Desmond, there are still dozens of flood warnings in place.

A severe flood warning is still active in Hawick, and there are

flood alerts along large sections of rivers in Tayside.

Storm Desmond left behind 's deans of stunning beauty, but also mess in

damage. -- scenes. 600 people had to leave their homes in Hawick when the

river overflowed and the town experienced its worst floods for a

decade. The local leisure centre took a lot of people in. They were

fantastic, the Salvation Army were out helping. It's been a great

community effort. And the river here in Dumfries broke the bank. It

unedited properties, sandbags and in Dumfries broke the bank. It

floodgates were no real barrier to the water. People arrived here this

morning to an all-too-familiar sight. They are well used to

cleaning up here, but it doesn't get any easier. You know what's going to

happen. You can have the barriers you you want, but it will come up

anyway. It has to stop. The storm disrupted travel. No trains ran

today on the west coast rail line. Services also cancelled between

Perth and Inverness and Glasgow to Largs. Scores of roads were closed

all across the country. This is a road between countries in Lockerbie.

Simply no go areas for drivers. But the floods look spectacular from the

air. This drone footage was shot this morning. The continuous rain

stopped overnight after 36 hours. And today has been an improving

picture. But more rain is forecast for tomorrow and Wednesday and will

fault on saturated ground. In vulnerable areas like this home it

might yet soon to put away the mops. The Scottish Government has put

in place a travel plan aimed at easing the impact of the

Forth Road Bridge closure. It includes additional train and bus

services and a dedicated corridor All the details are on the

Traffic Scotland website. But the Transport Minister warned

there'll still be delays We will have extra stuff out there,

extra response and enhanced public transport, but it will be

unpredictable what people will choose to do. We will enhance

capacity as much as possible to support as much as possible of the

travelling public as we can. BBC Scotland will have all the traffic

information tomorrow morning. A cyclist has died

after being involved in a collision with a car

in Midlothian this morning. The crash happened on the A68

near Pathhead. The 50-year-old man was

pronounced dead at the scene. The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

has said she'll use her visit to the UN Climate Change Conference

in Paris this week to call for the "most ambitious deal possible" on

cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. Campaigners have said it's time for

the Scottish Government to ensure Our environment correspondent

David Miller reports from Paris. The First Minister arrives here in

Paris at a time when she is facing increased criticism from her

political opponents at home. Over Scotland's failure to hit its own

annual greenhouse gas targets. But Nicola Sturgeon believes she still

has a positive story to tell here. Ministers are increasingly confident

Scotland can and will achieve its goal of reducing greenhouse gas

emissions by 42% by the end of the decade. With its record under

intense scrutiny, climate campaigners here argued the Scottish

Government must now raise its game. We really do need to be making more

progress. With four Mr annual targets now, there is clearly much

more that needs to be done. When you do have the same type of revelation

that we have seen in renewable energies. The First Minister is also

expected to call on action for climate justice, the aim on... For

protecting the world's poor. I would like to see other countries

following Scotland's leadership on climate justice and is something the

Scottish Government has really championed and I am proud of that.

Let's get the weather prospects for this evening and the start of

It certainly is. A lot of settled weather for this evening and

overnight. A fairly widespread frost forming, then the next change taking

place as we see this band of patchy rain pushing in the southwest with a

southeasterly wind also picking up as the rain moves in. Freezing if

not below in the north, two or three in the South, rising by tomorrow

morning. Let's look at the pressure chart. We can see the warm front

approaching tomorrow, introducing patchy rain, also milder air. His

cold front bringing outbreaks of rain tomorrow night, windy

conditions as well, but not the rain was all over the weekend. Tuesday,

but the westerly winds, starting off with some brightness in the

Northeast, but then the band of rain pushes and across a lot of Scotland.

Why patchy nature, becoming combined to the Northern Ireland's. It

becomes dull and damp. Something brighter for the 70s, the winds

continue to strengthen. Look at the temperature, 12 or 13 Celsius

tomorrow, that's your forecast.