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Calls for an inquiry into the closure of the Forth Road Bridge.

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As commuters struggle to work, emergency vehicles are amongst the

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few using the vital crossing, but it's a slower gruelling journey for

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I can hear commuters saying tough, but I am not a commuter, I do this

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as a necessity. As the bridge's closure is raised

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in Holyrood, the Scottish Government rejects

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claims of maintenance cutbacks. The First Minister says the bridge

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should open again in the new year. Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University

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says Donald Trump could be stripped of his honorary degree,

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as the Presidential candidate says Muslims should be banned

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from entering the US. At the centre of this political

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battle ground, this school the proposed seat of the Scottish

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assembly. Almost the home of the

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Scottish Assembly in the 70s, now the SNP reject Labour plans for

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an upper Scottish Parliament chamber And as the League Cup gets a revamp

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- some football clubs aren't happy. The First Minister says she hopes

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repairs to the Forth Road Bridge But it's been another very

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challenging day for the communities It's now a week

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since traffic restrictions were put in place on the bridge,

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after engineers discovered In an emergency is passable, but

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what about people from Fife? Those ill and in need of specialist

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treatment across the water? Two weeks ago Brad Oliver's wife was

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diagnosed with cancer, she has applied for one of seven seats on

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board a patient transport ambulance, granted access to the bridge,

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otherwise they face a long detour for chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

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Here and back, it was just under 98 miles. Doing that six days a

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week... It takes a toll on yourself, on my wife, on my car. I can hear

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commuters saying, tough, but I'm not a community. I didn't choose to do

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this, this is a necessity. Conscious of the widespread disruption,

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Scotland's First Minister paid an early visit to those working to keep

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a lid on it. She also met the engineer who discovered the cracked

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steelwork. It's just one of those things I saw out of the corner of my

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eye. Having been briefed on the repair, Nicola Sturgeon offered this

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on the world discussed timetable. We are absolutely determined to do

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everything possible to get the bridge open again at the start of

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the year. Whether aside, from everything the engineers have told

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me this morning, based on the further inspections they have been

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able to do on the bridge they remain optimistic the repair can be done on

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that timescale. Daylight brought recent working conditions but

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contrast this train trip with the morning rush hour. Once again busy

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trains, stations and car parks, and additional early service having been

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added to meet demand. With roads still jammed, however, the aim is to

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get more people on the buses. It will reduce the time and it will

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reduce the congestion. The more people we get off the road to better

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for everyone. For those in the freight business the closure is

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starting to bite, to the tune of ?600,000 a day estimate the road

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hauliers Association. Today's redaction of driving hours came as

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more consolation. It is a disaster for Scottish business, because even

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coming down from the north, over the bridge and heading south, they are

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having to come down into the congested area, Stirling area, so it

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is affecting everybody. They need to sort it out. A week on from

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discovering the sliver of cracked steelwork communities at both ends

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of the Forth Road Bridge bridge and beyond are coming to terms with its

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far-reaching consequences. Well, at Holyrood this afternoon,

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opposition leaders demanded a Parliamentary inquiry

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into the closure of the Bridge. They queried

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whether cuts to the repair programme And they insist the focus now should

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be on helping struggling commuters, From Holyrood, here's

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our political editor Brian Taylor. Congestion. Stress. Repairs.

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Closure. This is an unprecedented challenge of the operation of the

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Forth Road Bridge. That brought a succession of SMEs to their feet

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today urging further improvements. And then the longer term concerns.

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Businesses which are losing large sums of money as a result of the

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closure are understandably calling for compensation. And where bridge

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-- were bridge repairs neglected because of spending cuts pitch mark

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ministers say not. The immediate problem is with the trust at the

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north-east tower. Work was cancelled by officials and then reconfigured.

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They say that plan may have included the present trouble spot but the

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ministers say any critical repairs had been fully funded and stressed

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the current problem was entirely new and completely unrelated to earlier

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plans. Routine inspection has only occurred in the past few weeks.

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Based on the advice and evidence we received from specialist engineers

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and for the avoidance of doubt, we believe the current fold is entirely

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unrelated to the above project and there is no indication that the

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ongoing repair project has caused the defect. Opposition leaders say

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that issue must be cleared up eventually. There are some big,

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colossal questions which need to be answered, about how such a major

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artery could fail in this way and it has been catastrophic. People have

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questions and people need answers and that is why I am calling for a

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Parliamentary inquiry into the circumstances leading up to this

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crisis. But the minister said the concerns thoroughly justified the

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construction of the new crossing for the existing bridge no mystery, it

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was ageing and under huge traffic pressure. Lessons would be learned,

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but right now... The key thing has to be to get this bridge open as

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quickly as possible. From the outset the bridge will quiet hard work and

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skilled engineering. The same today. On the 4th of September 1964, Her

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Majesty The Queen arrives to open the bridge to traffic. From the day

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open the bridge has been crucial to Scotland's economy, same today.

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The Principal of Robert Gordon University says he's

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considering a request to strip the American Presidential hopeful Donald

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A petition calling for the tycoon to lose the honour has

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Mr Trump has received widespread criticism after saying Muslims

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should be banned from entering the US.

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Let's get more on this now from our reporter John McManus,

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What has the principal had to say? Well, this afternoon at Robert

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Gordon University issued a statement, saying Mr Trump had been

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awarded his degree because of his business skills, entrepreneurship

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and because of the investment he has brought to this part of the world,

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north-east Scotland. He is famously the owner of the golf links and add

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in the China, but the current principal, wasn't in place when Mr

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Trump received his honorary degree, said he is going to look again at

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the issue but was not prepared to say any more at this moment until a

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decision had been made. Universities do like to be associated with famous

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figures from the world of business or the arts and in return figures

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like Mr Trump benefit from the esteem and respectability that an

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honorary degree can bring to them. The problem arises when those famous

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figures start to become to -- too controversial and he is defined by

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controversy. What are the chances of Mr Trump's opponents getting their

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way? Well, when I last looked at the

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petition the signatures were fast approaching 8000. You may feel that

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is a bit of a drop in the ocean, nothing to concern them, the problem

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for them may arise if Mr Trump says something even more controversial

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next week and then people will ask why they didn't act sooner to

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preserve their own reputation. Many thanks for that, John.

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The SNP's Culture Spokesman is calling for Britain's new

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heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury, to be dropped from

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the short-list for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

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John Nicolson has written to the corporation's Director General over

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concerns about comments that Fury made about women and gay people.

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Mr Nicolson says that by nominating him, the BBC endorses

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But the BBC says his inclusion is based on sporting achievement,

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and is not an endorsement of his personal beliefs.

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I'm not objecting to his rights to free speech, he is entitled to any

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lunatic view that he wants. This is something quite different. The issue

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is not just that he is homophobic, the issue is he is being lauded as a

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sports role model. Now that cannot be right.

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The Election Court will announce the result of a legal action taken

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against former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael tomorrow.

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A group of four of his constituents lodged the action against the Orkney

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and Shetland MP under the Representation of the People Act.

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They say he misled voters over a memo about Nicola Sturgeon which

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Nationalists and unionists have been on a collision course today,

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with the SNP calling the progress of the Scotland Bill through

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Peers began their line-by-line scrutiny of the proposals to give

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Scotland more powers, in the wake of the referendum.

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One plan to be considered, is the establishment of a

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"senate" in Scotland, to review Holyrood's decisions.

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From Westminster, here's our political correspondent,

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The Royal high in Edinburgh fitted out to be a parliament, but

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devolution did not happen in 1979. Now one Labour Ward wants the Senate

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here to review Holyrood decisions. It would be a check, a balance on

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the power of a 1-party state, which we currently have in Scotland. Just

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as the House of Lords here is the check and balance on the

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government. The call came as the Lords debated the Scotland Bill. The

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idea was dismissed by the SNP and the UK Government. I don't think

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there is a mood in Scotland for more politicians. What we need to ensure

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is the Scottish Parliament itself is as effective as possible as it is

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scrutinising legislation, particularly these new financial

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powers that are coming. The Scotland Bill will transfer a whole new set

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of powers north. It is meant to fulfil the vow made by the prounion

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parties. The UK Government is promising the Scottish Parliament it

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will be permanent, to the annoyance of some. We create the impression of

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a sovereign, independent parliament and play straight into the hands of

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those nationalists who do not accept the result of the referendum and are

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still seeking to break up the United Kingdom. And there are warnings from

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others. When Parliament and when a London centred body talks about

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Scotland the Scots perceive it as patronising, perceive it as not

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taking it seriously. I think that was the underlying dynamic which

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read to such a close shave in the referendum. I speak as a Unionist.

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Peer and priest, the whole tradition here angered the SNP, who choose not

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to be represented. Nobody voted for these people and nobody really cares

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at all much about what they have to say about some of these issues. I

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think we will observe this as the pantomime it is. I am in the peers

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will be. The House of Lords has been debating this for some time. There

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will be more debate and discussion in this place in the New Year. The

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Scottish Parliament also has to agree to the principles in the

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Scotland Bill by March, in time for the Holyrood election, a tight

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timetable. Well, our Correspondent David Porter

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is at Westminster now. David, this talk of a second chamber

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hasn't done much to improve the mood ahead of this debate, has it?

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No it hasn't and it has raised the hackles of some MPs. As we saw

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there, who feel it reaches the principles and the spirit of the

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Smith commission, on which the new Scotland Bill is based. Also, the UK

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Government has made it pretty plain that they are pouring cold water on

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the idea, so when it is debated in the House of Lords later on this

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evening it will not be passed. But what it does show is the inherent

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tensions that there always are in Scottish politics. When you add to

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the House of Lords on devolution to that is perhaps not tempers get a

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little frayed. We heard in that report that they regarded it as an

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outrage that the unelected House of Lords was wanting to change

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legislation and some members wanted to create this Senate perhaps with a

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nod towards the time of year he said it would be a pantomime. Others say

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it is merely the House of Lords doing what they're doing, being a

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revising chamber. At the one thing that we can say in this debate, as

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in so much of Scottish politics, a bit more heat than light has been

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generated today. Many thanks for that.

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MSPs are due to vote any time now on the

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But, at Holyrood this afternoon, Alex Salmond intervened to express

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concern that the bill could hamper efforts to tackle knife crime.

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The bill would end the controversial policy of police

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stopping and searching people without statutory powers to do so.

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Well our Home Affairs Correspondent Reevel Alderson joins us now.

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Why did Alex Salmond Jews to speak about this -- choose to speak about

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this question mark since he stepped down as First Minister and more

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especially since he became a Westminster MP he has rarely spoken

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at Holyrood. Today was only the seventh time he has spoken since

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June. But I think what is even more rare is a former First Minister, on

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the final day of debating a bill which his government introduced in

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2013, his concern today was that the controversial practice of stop and

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search, voluntary stop and search, where police carry out searches of

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people without having a statutory basis to do so, is to be bound by

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this bill. Yet he said it had contributed significantly to a

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considerable reduction in the amount of knife crime and homicide in

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Scotland since it was introduced. What has been the response? Stop and

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search powers have been effective in reducing knife crime and therefore

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the deaths of young people in this country. I want the Minister to

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address in his closing whether he is absolutely satisfied that nothing in

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this change of powers is going to change the downward trajectory of

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knife crime in Scotland. What has been the response from the Justice

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Secretary? The Justice Secretary winding up the debate sought to

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allay those fears. He said in the last couple of years the number of

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stop and search, voluntary stop and searches, which peaked at over

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600,000, had been reduced significantly. But the reduction in

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the amount of knife crime in Scotland had continued. He said the

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new statutory powers for police and a code of practice would unable them

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to continue that work. Many thanks. The Scottish Government says it will

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look into changing the rules for organ donation, if a new system

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in Wales proves to be a success. There,

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adults are seen as having consented to donate their organs after they

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die, unless they have opted out. Ministers here are not opposed

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in principle to the change, but A look now at other stories

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from across the country. The Flooding Minister has been

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visiting Hawick as the Borders continues to clean up

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after the flooding last weekend. Aileen Macleod was meeting with

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Scottish Borders Council as calls grow for a new flooding scheme

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for the town to be brought forward. We need to have one that is fit for

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purpose and it will actually deliver the real protection that people in

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the communities and the businesses here really want to see for Hawick.

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Campaigners, who pledged to camp outside the Holyrood Parliament

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until Scotland becomes independent, have been served with a notice to

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Members of the People's Voice group, who set up a caravan

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and several tents, say they'll stay put beyond Thursday's deadline.

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Plans by tennis coach Judy Murray to set up a sport-centred

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development near Dunblane have been rejected by Stirling Council's

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Judy Murray, along with golfer Colin Montgomerie, wanted to build

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a ?70 million residential and holiday resort on green-belt land.

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A ferry service between Ayrshire and Kintyre is to become permanent.

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The service linking Ardrossan and Campbeltown has been running

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as an experiment over the past three summers.

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The sailings are likely to start again for the summer, around the

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Trains are running again on the West Coast mainline between Glasgow

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Trains stopped running on Saturday as Storm Desmond left

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the track submerged by as much as eight feet of floodwater.

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Network Rail says engineers have been working around the clock to

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Let's get the latest sport now with Rhona.

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Thank you very much, David. Good evening to you.

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A row has broken out tonight over plans to revamp the League Cup.

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Two of Scotland's elite clubs say there wasn't enough consultation.

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But the football authorities have hit back, with a statement this

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evening, claiming "all clubs received full details in advance."

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There's a new format and the winter break is back too, but has it all

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Here's our senior football reporter, Chris McLaughlin.

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COMMENTATOR: It is won by Celtic. An old he compel sthags is getting a

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new makeover. Those at the nation stadium have been busy, it seems.

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What exactly is changing? First of all, a nod perhaps to summer

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football. The competition is starting it mid-July. A new League

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format to replace the straight knockouts. There will be bow nows

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points available to sides who progress through penalties. All

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happy? Not quite. Motherwell and Hearts say it's all news to them. My

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reaction as Chairman, Chief Executive, owner of the football I

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would liked to have known more about them before they were announced. I

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didn't have long to study them before you had. They were muted

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before. In terms of a total package put together it is not something

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that most of us were aware of. The League say all clubs did agree to

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the proposals. What about the fans? There was a mixed response on social

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media although it certainly got people talking. Including those who

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will be in the thick of the action. I think it would help with crowds. I

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think it would help the quality of the football because we know what

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the pitches can be like and the wind and various other things. Through

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the winter. I think it would help. Obviously this is a step in the

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right direction. The competition also has a new broadcast partner, BT

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Sport have exclusive rights and will show 13 games in a deal worth around

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?8 million. As the winds

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of change blow through Scottish football, suggestions of how to

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increase success here, from the Heimir Hallgrimsson says that good

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practise begins with youngsters and, in his homeland of Iceland,

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professional coaching There's also

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the question that young Scots may be Iceland is a country not unlike

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Scotland in terms of weather and geography. But, in terms of

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football, Icelanders have a great deal more toll celebrate than

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Scottish fans. So how do Scotland and Iceland compare? Scotland has a

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population of 5.3 million. Iceland much smaller with under 339,000.

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Scotland have around 137,000 registered players. In Iceland there

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are 20,000. In Fifa world rankings Scotland are No 52. Iceland higher,

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36. The biggest difference - Scotland has not qualified for Euro

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2016 and Iceland has. Here in Scotland many youngsters are coached

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by parent volunteers and facilities are not always as good as this. In

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Iceland qualified coaches and good facilities are key. The kids do

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training with qualified coaches in a really, really good environment and

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facility. That's a Leith alcombination if you want to become

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a better football player sdmrchlt are we in Scotland too focused on

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the other hand playing only the national game? Could our young

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footballers benefit from a wider sporting experience? Kids who do

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sports at 10-year-old in Iceland, 90% do two sports. We have to learn

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swimming and Physical Education in school two times per week. It's a

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lot of activity for kids in Iceland. The past 10 years have been massive

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in terms of progress for the Icelandic national team. A very

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small nation enjoying very big success.

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One of Edinburgh rugby's top players says stability at the top will help

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them push for a place in next year's European Champions Cup.

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Despite last week's loss in Ulster, flanker Hamish Watson feels

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the Gunners have had a solid start to the season, and he's delighted

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head coach Alan Solomons has signed a new deal to keep him in

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You need to have a coach who is there for a few years. That will be

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his fourth season I think next year. It's God for the players much you

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need a familiar face, familiar coach around. You can't be swapping

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coaches every year or two, which we were doing a bit of when I first

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came. So, yeah, it's good to keep him and keep the game plans and

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systems in place so everyone know what is they're doing.

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In athletics, the Glasgow Grand Prix has been named as the final event of

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a newly created Iaaf World Indoor Tour. Four events have been selected

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for inclusion. The Glasgow event, at the Emirates

:24:13.:24:13.

the 20th of February, will be the finale after tour dates in Germany,

:24:14.:24:18.

Boston and Sweden. Mo Farah has already signed up for Glasgow. Like

:24:19.:24:21.

the outdoor Diamond League, a points system and prize money will be

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Not to be missed. That is all the sport, David. Thank you very much,

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Rhona. Now, just before the weather,

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a quick word on the winners of the Turner Prize, which was

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presented in Glasgow last night The victors - filling the stage

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there - are an 18-strong collective of designers and architects who call

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themselves, Assemble. Their work is part of a regeneration

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scheme for derelict houses I mean, it's extraordinary surprise.

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We barely believed that we could ever be nominated, let alone win

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this prize. It's wonderful to be able to share the award with all the

:25:09.:25:12.

people we worked with on this project and all the other projects

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we worked on, including the project here in Glasgow. That's been really

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wonderful. Let's get

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the weather now with Christopher. Sunshine around today, a number of

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showers and a few of these, rainbows. Plenty of those coming in

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via our Weather Watchers. This evening the rain will clear away and

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clear skies. It will be rather chilly. The showers clearing out

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into the North Sea. The skies have cleared and the temperatures falling

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away. Some showers holding on, in the countryside down to minus

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figures with a touch of frost. As we head through the early hours cloud

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pushes in from the west with a further spell of rain. Temperatures

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will be on their way up as we head into Wednesday. Tomorrow is about

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the wind and rain. We do have Met Office yellow warnings for those

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conditions. Wet across central and western parts to start the day. The

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yellow warning in force from the Inverness down towards the western

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borders. The rain falling on saturated ground and the rivers

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responded. Gusts of 7.0mph. There could be disruption on the ferries

:26:22.:26:26.

as a result of that this you can see the black areas indicating wind

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gusts. Towards East Lothian and eastern borders towards

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Aberdeenshire reasonably dry. The rain will come your way later on. A

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mild day, pretty wet for most, certainly for heart of Scotland and

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further west. So, as we head through the rest of the afternoon into the

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evening that wet weather will extend across the country and the winds

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will blow. Gusts of 60mph into the borders. If you are travelling south

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of the border on road routes difficult conditions on the roads.

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That is tomorrow, wet and windy, unsettled as we head towards

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Thursday. It will get that bit colder. Some sunshine around on

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Thursday, a number of showers, those wintry. Snow down to 300, 400

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meters. There will be sleet or wet snow to low levels. Temperatures

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taking a real tumble. That is the forecast for now. Thank you,

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Christopher. Now,

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a reminder of tonight's main news. There are forecasts that it'll take

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at least six months for some properties engulfed

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by floods to be habitable again. The First Minister says she hopes

:27:36.:27:37.

repairs to the Forth Road Bridge I'll be back with the headlines

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at 8.00pm, and the late bulletin Until then, from everyone

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on the team - right across the

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