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A financial deal to underpin the new powers coming to Scotland | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
-- and Forth Road Bridge is scheduled to reopen on January four. | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
The target date for completion is weather dependent. Meanwhile the | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
political war of words over the maintenance of the Forth Road Bridge | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
continues. Through the morning mist and ongoing | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
political fallout, some things did become clear. It is day 11 and work | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
is finally getting under way to fix the fault that has led to the | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
bread's closure. This footage from the weekend shows how precarious the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
workers, suspended from the north tower the engineers must have a head | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
for heights. A painstaking job to build a scaffolding platform piece | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
eyepiece. Tonight welders will get to work repairing the trust. The | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
target to get the bridge reopened by the 4th of January. Gusting winds | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
get in excess of 70 80 mph, we monitor that 24/7 so that when | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
gusting winds are prevalent we stand the teams down so they get off the | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
scaffolding itself, which means that when the gusts stop the immobilised | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
within minutes to keep working. As they get on with the job the | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
political sparks begin to fly. Opposition parties want to know who | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
knew what and when. The new Queensbury Crossing is not due for | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
completion until the end of next year, but that is a long way off. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
How have we come to the point where this bridge is closed? In 2010 a | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
major programme of repairs was cancelled, the following year in | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
2011 the Scottish Government cut the budget. In the following years there | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
were a series of warnings by the bread's chief engineer that the | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
strength of some structures on the bridge and that led most recently in | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
February of 2015 to the banning of abnormal loads of over 150 tonnes. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Transport Scotland say funding should has -- should always be there | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
for critical repairs but Labour say that the government must be more | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
transparent. Is absolutely right that people are asking questions | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
about how this came about, couldn't have been avoided, why were works | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
not done in 2010 in the last year? Those are legitimate questions. That | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
will be debated in Parliament later in the week, been while the | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
transport minister defended the government response. The fact | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
remained that the fault that has occurred was not predicted and has | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
only been identified in the last few weeks and of course as soon as it | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
was identified we have embarked on repairing it and getting the bridge | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
reopened as quickly as possible. So tonight the positive side for those | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
putting up with disruption, the first whims of the steel beam being | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
lowered into place as the repair gets under way. Council tax only | :02:53. | :03:07. | |
races about 12p of every owns the local authority spent. Today a | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
cross-party report agreed there must be a change and have some ideas on | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
what might take its place. It helps pay for schools, roads and | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
a whole range of local services, but the council tax is only one small | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
part of every council's budget. It is now responsible for just 1p in | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
every eight, at the technical council spends. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
This group has spent ten months looking at other ways of raising the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
cash. They agree on many of the problems, finding an answer is not | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
so easy. The current system is broken, it does not work any more, | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
having had a devaluation since 25 years ago, it is unfair. We need to | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
design a system and it tells you in the report how we can design systems | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
that are much further, much better and give better outcomes. The report | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
still owed the main alternatives, a property tax, a local income tax or | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
a tax based on the Valley of the land the house is built on. Each has | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
pros and cons. The report set out the strengths and weaknesses of each | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
tax but no one tax on its own is capable of satisfying every test to | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
the satisfaction of every observer. But reforming local tax might be a | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
minefield, the shadow of the poll tax still leaves a legacy. The | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
council tax dealt with many of the poll tax's was controversial | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
features, but it still was not directly linked to someone's ability | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
to pay. A big question for voters will be about whether any changes | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
will leave them better or worse off with some gladly pay more if they | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
felt it was Federer. It is only right that we should contribute | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
according to our means. They cannot do income because they are already | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
doing income. The support was never meant to offer a simple way forward, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
he aims to help political parties come up with policies for the next | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Scottish election. Now it is over to them. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
A framework for devolution of more powers on tax and welfare to | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Scotland should be agreed by federally, that is according to the | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
First Minister after she had talks with David Cameron at Downing Street | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
this evening. Nicola Sturgeon said she was not seeking special | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
treatment for Scotland while the UK Government promised a deal that | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
would stand the test of time. A body has been found in the search | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
for a missing woman in five will stop 43-year-old Maureen Bannister | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
had not been seen since Sunday afternoon. Police Scotland have | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
confirmed that a body was found on a beach this evening. A computer | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
project for the NHS 24 telephone helpline which ran ?40 million over | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
budget has been praised in a government report for being a strong | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
example of good practice. The system for handling patient calls has been | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
beset with problems. Here is our health correspondent. | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
Computers are crucial at the medical help in NHS 24. Or you comment for | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
yourself? : Health problems are entered into them, the system checks | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
for danger signs and details can be sent directly to GPs and hospitals | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
but updating the old system to a new one has proved a very costly. The | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
new system had an original price tag of ?76 million. But it has already | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
cost 117 million, 41 million over budget. It is two years overdue and | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
every month it is not installed the NHS 24 runs up costs of nearly half | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
?1 million. MSP is the Scottish crowd's public audit committee | :06:52. | :06:51. | |
gasped when told that part of the crowd's public audit committee | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
contract were left out of the final version. It was a copying error. In | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
terms of uploading onto anxiety platform. Is there no record | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
checking system? There was no check done. The Scottish Government's top | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
adviser told the committee that NHS 24's boss should have read through | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
it. It is the responsibility of the accountable officer to assure | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
themselves that the document is fit for purpose, correct and appropriate | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
for the contract being sourced. It has emerged that the Scottish | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
governance Centre of expertise in project management describes the | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
project as a particularly strong exempt are of good practice. The | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Scottish Government said this was a detailed review carried out before | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
significant testing. We were told it was a complex contract that resulted | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
in substantial 600 page documents. It said there was a range of | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
government -- range of governance measures in place. The new computer | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
system is not expected to be tested again until next summer. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Let's get the weather. Fairly cloudy, the odd spot of light | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
rain or drizzle, quite chilly at times. And where there is snow on | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
the ground it is sub-zero. The few patches of freely folk, to start the | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
day tomorrow we have the odd spot of light green orders and getting in to | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
watch the central belt by around eight a.m.. Temperatures there at | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
six or seven or 8 degrees, breezy around the coast from an easterly | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
direction. Moderate and strength. Toward parts of picture and | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Aberdeenshire and further west a chilly start to the day but by the | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
afternoon milder than what we saw today. As we head to the course of | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
the morning, staying cloudy, but that wet weather fizzling away. Some | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
sunshine once again like today across the North and elsewhere. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Fairly cloudy and grey. For us in Scotland temperatures up a notch, | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
they come from the south across the UK and the get into double digits. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Some rain from Northern Ireland stretching through Wales and the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Home Counties into the south-west, into the teens. On Tuesday when | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
working its way north would across the country, extensive health and as | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
we head into Wednesday he will see it stays unsettled but all I weather | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
and air coming from the south saw a real milder injection as we head to | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
the Wednesday and Thursday. Much milder than it should be for the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
time of year. Still cloudy and down on Wednesday, breezy, the wind is | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
from the south-west but temperatures into the double digits and some | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
brightness, the best of which likely across the north-east. In 238 states | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
cloudy and down, temperatures this time into the teens, 13 or 14 | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
degrees and with some sunshine around the Moray Firth perhaps even | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
higher. And that is Reporting Scotland. | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
We're back tomorrow morning. Goodbye. | :09:58. | :10:01. |