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Calls for an inquiry into the closure of the Forth Road Bridge. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
As commuters struggle to work, emergency vehicles are amongst the | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
few using the vital crossing, but it's a slower gruelling journey for | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
I can hear commuters saying tough, but I am not a commuter, I do this | :00:22. | :00:34. | |
as a necessity. As the bridge's closure is raised | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
in Holyrood, the Scottish Government rejects | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
claims of maintenance cutbacks. The First Minister says the bridge | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
should open again in the new year. Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
says Donald Trump could be stripped of his honorary degree, | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
as the Presidential candidate says Muslims should be banned | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
from entering the US. At the centre of this political | :00:55. | :01:08. | |
battle ground, this school the proposed seat of the Scottish | :01:09. | :01:09. | |
assembly. Almost the home of the | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
Scottish Assembly in the 70s, now the SNP reject Labour plans for | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
an upper Scottish Parliament chamber And as the League Cup gets a revamp | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
- some football clubs aren't happy. The First Minister says she hopes | :01:17. | :01:37. | |
repairs to the Forth Road Bridge But it's been another very | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
challenging day for the communities It's now a week | :01:42. | :01:53. | |
since traffic restrictions were put in place on the bridge, | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
after engineers discovered In an emergency is passable, but | :01:58. | :02:09. | |
what about people from Fife? Those ill and in need of specialist | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
treatment across the water? Two weeks ago Brad Oliver's wife was | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
diagnosed with cancer, she has applied for one of seven seats on | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
board a patient transport ambulance, granted access to the bridge, | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
otherwise they face a long detour for chemotherapy and radiotherapy. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
Here and back, it was just under 98 miles. Doing that six days a | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
week... It takes a toll on yourself, on my wife, on my car. I can hear | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
commuters saying, tough, but I'm not a community. I didn't choose to do | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
this, this is a necessity. Conscious of the widespread disruption, | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Scotland's First Minister paid an early visit to those working to keep | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
a lid on it. She also met the engineer who discovered the cracked | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
steelwork. It's just one of those things I saw out of the corner of my | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
eye. Having been briefed on the repair, Nicola Sturgeon offered this | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
on the world discussed timetable. We are absolutely determined to do | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
everything possible to get the bridge open again at the start of | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the year. Whether aside, from everything the engineers have told | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
me this morning, based on the further inspections they have been | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
able to do on the bridge they remain optimistic the repair can be done on | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
that timescale. Daylight brought recent working conditions but | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
contrast this train trip with the morning rush hour. Once again busy | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
trains, stations and car parks, and additional early service having been | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
added to meet demand. With roads still jammed, however, the aim is to | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
get more people on the buses. It will reduce the time and it will | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
reduce the congestion. The more people we get off the road to better | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
for everyone. For those in the freight business the closure is | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
starting to bite, to the tune of ?600,000 a day estimate the road | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
hauliers Association. Today's redaction of driving hours came as | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
more consolation. It is a disaster for Scottish business, because even | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
coming down from the north, over the bridge and heading south, they are | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
having to come down into the congested area, Stirling area, so it | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
is affecting everybody. They need to sort it out. A week on from | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
discovering the sliver of cracked steelwork communities at both ends | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
of the Forth Road Bridge bridge and beyond are coming to terms with its | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
far-reaching consequences. Well, at Holyrood this afternoon, | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
opposition leaders demanded a Parliamentary inquiry | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
into the closure of the Bridge. They queried | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
whether cuts to the repair programme And they insist the focus now should | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
be on helping struggling commuters, From Holyrood, here's | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
our political editor Brian Taylor. Congestion. Stress. Repairs. | :05:03. | :05:25. | |
Closure. This is an unprecedented challenge of the operation of the | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Forth Road Bridge. That brought a succession of SMEs to their feet | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
today urging further improvements. And then the longer term concerns. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Businesses which are losing large sums of money as a result of the | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
closure are understandably calling for compensation. And where bridge | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
-- were bridge repairs neglected because of spending cuts pitch mark | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
ministers say not. The immediate problem is with the trust at the | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
north-east tower. Work was cancelled by officials and then reconfigured. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
They say that plan may have included the present trouble spot but the | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
ministers say any critical repairs had been fully funded and stressed | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
the current problem was entirely new and completely unrelated to earlier | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
plans. Routine inspection has only occurred in the past few weeks. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Based on the advice and evidence we received from specialist engineers | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
and for the avoidance of doubt, we believe the current fold is entirely | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
unrelated to the above project and there is no indication that the | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
ongoing repair project has caused the defect. Opposition leaders say | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
that issue must be cleared up eventually. There are some big, | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
colossal questions which need to be answered, about how such a major | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
artery could fail in this way and it has been catastrophic. People have | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
questions and people need answers and that is why I am calling for a | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Parliamentary inquiry into the circumstances leading up to this | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
crisis. But the minister said the concerns thoroughly justified the | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
construction of the new crossing for the existing bridge no mystery, it | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
was ageing and under huge traffic pressure. Lessons would be learned, | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
but right now... The key thing has to be to get this bridge open as | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
quickly as possible. From the outset the bridge will quiet hard work and | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
skilled engineering. The same today. On the 4th of September 1964, Her | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Majesty The Queen arrives to open the bridge to traffic. From the day | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
open the bridge has been crucial to Scotland's economy, same today. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
The Principal of Robert Gordon University says he's | :07:39. | :07:39. | |
considering a request to strip the American Presidential hopeful Donald | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
A petition calling for the tycoon to lose the honour has | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Mr Trump has received widespread criticism after saying Muslims | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
should be banned from entering the US. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Let's get more on this now from our reporter John McManus, | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
What has the principal had to say? Well, this afternoon at Robert | :08:02. | :08:14. | |
Gordon University issued a statement, saying Mr Trump had been | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
awarded his degree because of his business skills, entrepreneurship | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
and because of the investment he has brought to this part of the world, | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
north-east Scotland. He is famously the owner of the golf links and add | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
in the China, but the current principal, wasn't in place when Mr | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Trump received his honorary degree, said he is going to look again at | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
the issue but was not prepared to say any more at this moment until a | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
decision had been made. Universities do like to be associated with famous | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
figures from the world of business or the arts and in return figures | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
like Mr Trump benefit from the esteem and respectability that an | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
honorary degree can bring to them. The problem arises when those famous | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
figures start to become to -- too controversial and he is defined by | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
controversy. What are the chances of Mr Trump's opponents getting their | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
way? Well, when I last looked at the | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
petition the signatures were fast approaching 8000. You may feel that | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
is a bit of a drop in the ocean, nothing to concern them, the problem | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
for them may arise if Mr Trump says something even more controversial | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
next week and then people will ask why they didn't act sooner to | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
preserve their own reputation. Many thanks for that, John. | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
The SNP's Culture Spokesman is calling for Britain's new | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury, to be dropped from | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
the short-list for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
John Nicolson has written to the corporation's Director General over | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
concerns about comments that Fury made about women and gay people. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Mr Nicolson says that by nominating him, the BBC endorses | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
But the BBC says his inclusion is based on sporting achievement, | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
and is not an endorsement of his personal beliefs. | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
I'm not objecting to his rights to free speech, he is entitled to any | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
lunatic view that he wants. This is something quite different. The issue | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
is not just that he is homophobic, the issue is he is being lauded as a | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
sports role model. Now that cannot be right. | :10:27. | :10:27. | |
The Election Court will announce the result of a legal action taken | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
against former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael tomorrow. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
A group of four of his constituents lodged the action against the Orkney | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
and Shetland MP under the Representation of the People Act. | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
They say he misled voters over a memo about Nicola Sturgeon which | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Nationalists and unionists have been on a collision course today, | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
with the SNP calling the progress of the Scotland Bill through | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Peers began their line-by-line scrutiny of the proposals to give | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Scotland more powers, in the wake of the referendum. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
One plan to be considered, is the establishment of a | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
"senate" in Scotland, to review Holyrood's decisions. | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
From Westminster, here's our political correspondent, | :11:13. | :11:13. | |
The Royal high in Edinburgh fitted out to be a parliament, but | :11:14. | :11:25. | |
devolution did not happen in 1979. Now one Labour Ward wants the Senate | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
here to review Holyrood decisions. It would be a check, a balance on | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
the power of a 1-party state, which we currently have in Scotland. Just | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
as the House of Lords here is the check and balance on the | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
government. The call came as the Lords debated the Scotland Bill. The | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
idea was dismissed by the SNP and the UK Government. I don't think | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
there is a mood in Scotland for more politicians. What we need to ensure | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
is the Scottish Parliament itself is as effective as possible as it is | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
scrutinising legislation, particularly these new financial | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
powers that are coming. The Scotland Bill will transfer a whole new set | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
of powers north. It is meant to fulfil the vow made by the prounion | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
parties. The UK Government is promising the Scottish Parliament it | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
will be permanent, to the annoyance of some. We create the impression of | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
a sovereign, independent parliament and play straight into the hands of | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
those nationalists who do not accept the result of the referendum and are | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
still seeking to break up the United Kingdom. And there are warnings from | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
others. When Parliament and when a London centred body talks about | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Scotland the Scots perceive it as patronising, perceive it as not | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
taking it seriously. I think that was the underlying dynamic which | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
read to such a close shave in the referendum. I speak as a Unionist. | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
Peer and priest, the whole tradition here angered the SNP, who choose not | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
to be represented. Nobody voted for these people and nobody really cares | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
at all much about what they have to say about some of these issues. I | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
think we will observe this as the pantomime it is. I am in the peers | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
will be. The House of Lords has been debating this for some time. There | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
will be more debate and discussion in this place in the New Year. The | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
Scottish Parliament also has to agree to the principles in the | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
Scotland Bill by March, in time for the Holyrood election, a tight | :13:30. | :13:30. | |
timetable. Well, our Correspondent David Porter | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
is at Westminster now. David, this talk of a second chamber | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
hasn't done much to improve the mood ahead of this debate, has it? | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
No it hasn't and it has raised the hackles of some MPs. As we saw | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
there, who feel it reaches the principles and the spirit of the | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Smith commission, on which the new Scotland Bill is based. Also, the UK | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Government has made it pretty plain that they are pouring cold water on | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
the idea, so when it is debated in the House of Lords later on this | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
evening it will not be passed. But what it does show is the inherent | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
tensions that there always are in Scottish politics. When you add to | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
the House of Lords on devolution to that is perhaps not tempers get a | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
little frayed. We heard in that report that they regarded it as an | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
outrage that the unelected House of Lords was wanting to change | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
legislation and some members wanted to create this Senate perhaps with a | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
nod towards the time of year he said it would be a pantomime. Others say | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
it is merely the House of Lords doing what they're doing, being a | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
revising chamber. At the one thing that we can say in this debate, as | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
in so much of Scottish politics, a bit more heat than light has been | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
generated today. Many thanks for that. | :14:54. | :14:54. | |
MSPs are due to vote any time now on the | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
But, at Holyrood this afternoon, Alex Salmond intervened to express | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
concern that the bill could hamper efforts to tackle knife crime. | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
The bill would end the controversial policy of police | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
stopping and searching people without statutory powers to do so. | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Well our Home Affairs Correspondent Reevel Alderson joins us now. | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
Why did Alex Salmond Jews to speak about this -- choose to speak about | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
this question mark since he stepped down as First Minister and more | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
especially since he became a Westminster MP he has rarely spoken | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
at Holyrood. Today was only the seventh time he has spoken since | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
June. But I think what is even more rare is a former First Minister, on | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
the final day of debating a bill which his government introduced in | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
2013, his concern today was that the controversial practice of stop and | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
search, voluntary stop and search, where police carry out searches of | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
people without having a statutory basis to do so, is to be bound by | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
this bill. Yet he said it had contributed significantly to a | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
considerable reduction in the amount of knife crime and homicide in | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
Scotland since it was introduced. What has been the response? Stop and | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
search powers have been effective in reducing knife crime and therefore | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
the deaths of young people in this country. I want the Minister to | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
address in his closing whether he is absolutely satisfied that nothing in | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
this change of powers is going to change the downward trajectory of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
knife crime in Scotland. What has been the response from the Justice | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
Secretary? The Justice Secretary winding up the debate sought to | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
allay those fears. He said in the last couple of years the number of | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
stop and search, voluntary stop and searches, which peaked at over | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
600,000, had been reduced significantly. But the reduction in | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
the amount of knife crime in Scotland had continued. He said the | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
new statutory powers for police and a code of practice would unable them | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
to continue that work. Many thanks. The Scottish Government says it will | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
look into changing the rules for organ donation, if a new system | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
in Wales proves to be a success. There, | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
adults are seen as having consented to donate their organs after they | :17:20. | :17:20. | |
die, unless they have opted out. Ministers here are not opposed | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
in principle to the change, but A look now at other stories | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
from across the country. The Flooding Minister has been | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
visiting Hawick as the Borders continues to clean up | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
after the flooding last weekend. Aileen Macleod was meeting with | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Scottish Borders Council as calls grow for a new flooding scheme | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
for the town to be brought forward. We need to have one that is fit for | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
purpose and it will actually deliver the real protection that people in | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
the communities and the businesses here really want to see for Hawick. | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
Campaigners, who pledged to camp outside the Holyrood Parliament | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
until Scotland becomes independent, have been served with a notice to | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Members of the People's Voice group, who set up a caravan | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
and several tents, say they'll stay put beyond Thursday's deadline. | :18:13. | :18:36. | |
Plans by tennis coach Judy Murray to set up a sport-centred | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
development near Dunblane have been rejected by Stirling Council's | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
Judy Murray, along with golfer Colin Montgomerie, wanted to build | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
a ?70 million residential and holiday resort on green-belt land. | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
A ferry service between Ayrshire and Kintyre is to become permanent. | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
The service linking Ardrossan and Campbeltown has been running | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
as an experiment over the past three summers. | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
The sailings are likely to start again for the summer, around the | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Trains are running again on the West Coast mainline between Glasgow | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Trains stopped running on Saturday as Storm Desmond left | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
the track submerged by as much as eight feet of floodwater. | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
Network Rail says engineers have been working around the clock to | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
Let's get the latest sport now with Rhona. | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Thank you very much, David. Good evening to you. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
A row has broken out tonight over plans to revamp the League Cup. | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
Two of Scotland's elite clubs say there wasn't enough consultation. | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
But the football authorities have hit back, with a statement this | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
evening, claiming "all clubs received full details in advance." | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
There's a new format and the winter break is back too, but has it all | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Here's our senior football reporter, Chris McLaughlin. | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
COMMENTATOR: It is won by Celtic. An old he compel sthags is getting a | :19:39. | :19:48. | |
new makeover. Those at the nation stadium have been busy, it seems. | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
What exactly is changing? First of all, a nod perhaps to summer | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
football. The competition is starting it mid-July. A new League | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
format to replace the straight knockouts. There will be bow nows | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
points available to sides who progress through penalties. All | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
happy? Not quite. Motherwell and Hearts say it's all news to them. My | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
reaction as Chairman, Chief Executive, owner of the football I | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
would liked to have known more about them before they were announced. I | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
didn't have long to study them before you had. They were muted | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
before. In terms of a total package put together it is not something | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
that most of us were aware of. The League say all clubs did agree to | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
the proposals. What about the fans? There was a mixed response on social | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
media although it certainly got people talking. Including those who | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
will be in the thick of the action. I think it would help with crowds. I | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
think it would help the quality of the football because we know what | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
the pitches can be like and the wind and various other things. Through | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
the winter. I think it would help. Obviously this is a step in the | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
right direction. The competition also has a new broadcast partner, BT | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Sport have exclusive rights and will show 13 games in a deal worth around | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
?8 million. As the winds | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
of change blow through Scottish football, suggestions of how to | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
increase success here, from the Heimir Hallgrimsson says that good | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
practise begins with youngsters and, in his homeland of Iceland, | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
professional coaching There's also | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
the question that young Scots may be Iceland is a country not unlike | :21:29. | :21:43. | |
Scotland in terms of weather and geography. But, in terms of | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
football, Icelanders have a great deal more toll celebrate than | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Scottish fans. So how do Scotland and Iceland compare? Scotland has a | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
population of 5.3 million. Iceland much smaller with under 339,000. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Scotland have around 137,000 registered players. In Iceland there | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
are 20,000. In Fifa world rankings Scotland are No 52. Iceland higher, | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
36. The biggest difference - Scotland has not qualified for Euro | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
2016 and Iceland has. Here in Scotland many youngsters are coached | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
by parent volunteers and facilities are not always as good as this. In | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Iceland qualified coaches and good facilities are key. The kids do | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
training with qualified coaches in a really, really good environment and | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
facility. That's a Leith alcombination if you want to become | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
a better football player sdmrchlt are we in Scotland too focused on | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
the other hand playing only the national game? Could our young | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
footballers benefit from a wider sporting experience? Kids who do | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
sports at 10-year-old in Iceland, 90% do two sports. We have to learn | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
swimming and Physical Education in school two times per week. It's a | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
lot of activity for kids in Iceland. The past 10 years have been massive | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
in terms of progress for the Icelandic national team. A very | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
small nation enjoying very big success. | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
One of Edinburgh rugby's top players says stability at the top will help | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
them push for a place in next year's European Champions Cup. | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
Despite last week's loss in Ulster, flanker Hamish Watson feels | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
the Gunners have had a solid start to the season, and he's delighted | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
head coach Alan Solomons has signed a new deal to keep him in | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
You need to have a coach who is there for a few years. That will be | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
his fourth season I think next year. It's God for the players much you | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
need a familiar face, familiar coach around. You can't be swapping | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
coaches every year or two, which we were doing a bit of when I first | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
came. So, yeah, it's good to keep him and keep the game plans and | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
systems in place so everyone know what is they're doing. | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
In athletics, the Glasgow Grand Prix has been named as the final event of | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
a newly created Iaaf World Indoor Tour. Four events have been selected | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
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 | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Not to be missed. That is all the sport, David. Thank you very much, | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
Rhona. Now, just before the weather, | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
a quick word on the winners of the Turner Prize, which was | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
presented in Glasgow last night The victors - filling the stage | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
there - are an 18-strong collective of designers and architects who call | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
themselves, Assemble. Their work is part of a regeneration | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
scheme for derelict houses I mean, it's extraordinary surprise. | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
We barely believed that we could ever be nominated, let alone win | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
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 | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
we worked on, including the project here in Glasgow. That's been really | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
wonderful. Let's get | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
the weather now with Christopher. Sunshine around today, a number of | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
showers and a few of these, rainbows. Plenty of those coming in | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
via our Weather Watchers. This evening the rain will clear away and | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
clear skies. It will be rather chilly. The showers clearing out | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
into the North Sea. The skies have cleared and the temperatures falling | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
away. Some showers holding on, in the countryside down to minus | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
figures with a touch of frost. As we head through the early hours cloud | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
pushes in from the west with a further spell of rain. Temperatures | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
will be on their way up as we head into Wednesday. Tomorrow is about | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
the wind and rain. We do have Met Office yellow warnings for those | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
conditions. Wet across central and western parts to start the day. The | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
yellow warning in force from the Inverness down towards the western | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
borders. The rain falling on saturated ground and the rivers | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
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 | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
gusts. Towards East Lothian and eastern borders towards | :26:32. | :26:32. | |
Aberdeenshire reasonably dry. The rain will come your way later on. A | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
mild day, pretty wet for most, certainly for heart of Scotland and | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
further west. So, as we head through the rest of the afternoon into the | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
evening that wet weather will extend across the country and the winds | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
will blow. Gusts of 60mph into the borders. If you are travelling south | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
of the border on road routes difficult conditions on the roads. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
That is tomorrow, wet and windy, unsettled as we head towards | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
Thursday. It will get that bit colder. Some sunshine around on | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Thursday, a number of showers, those wintry. Snow down to 300, 400 | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
meters. There will be sleet or wet snow to low levels. Temperatures | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
taking a real tumble. That is the forecast for now. Thank you, | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
Christopher. Now, | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
a reminder of tonight's main news. There are forecasts that it'll take | :27:32. | :27:32. | |
at least six months for some properties engulfed | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
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 | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
at 8.00pm, and the late bulletin Until then, from everyone | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
on the team - right across the | :27:49. | :27:53. |