15/12/2015 Reporting Scotland


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Staff on the Caledonian Sleeper service linking Scotland and London

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will go on strike for two nights next week in a dispute about claims

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As you can imagine, the festive period is a very busy and lucrative

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time for operators of the cross-border sleeper services that

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link London Euston with Glasgow Garden Edinburgh, Aberdeen. Any

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disruption will cause a major headache for passengers and

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operators. But now we hear that passengers who already have

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reservations for juicy and Wednesday of next week have been told services

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cancelled and they will get a full refund. -- reservations for Tuesday.

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It goes back to concerns by trade unions about the effects on the

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trains, and despite lots of discussions with the operators,

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these have not been rectified. The company says it has tried to improve

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the service centre to the route in March this year and says it is

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disappointed with the fact that the union has now called a strike. The

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fact remains tonight that as of next week, Monday will be the final

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sleeper service before Christmas, and they will not resume until the

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following Sunday, December 27. Scotland's main teaching union says

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it's optimistic there will be a deal on the return of national

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testing in schools. The head of the EIS says it

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and the Government are close to resolving their

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differences over the plans. Here's our Education

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Correspondent Jamie McIvor. It has been the biggest shake-up in

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Scottish schools for decades, and it still is not over. The government

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wants to build on curriculum for excellence. You assessments about of

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the plan, even though the suggestion has been controversial. Now a major

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report from international experts is adding to the debate. It has

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sometimes been difficult to get the sense of the impact of the

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curriculum for excellence across Scotland, so the government

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commissioned the most detailed study so far. When the First Minister

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visits a school that is likely to be good news. Today is a significant

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day. The report praises many of the changes. We were very impressed with

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so much that is going on here. We think the pieces are there. It is

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then a question of having the will and the energy. But the report also

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points to possible improvements. Performance in maths sleeping. -- is

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slipping. And could be new assessments to measure performance.

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The government is working on one, the same tests in every school,

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three times and every school. We want assessment to drive

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improvement, to inform teacher judgment and first and foremost to

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be about improving the experience of education for young people at all

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levels of the system the information to know that the system is

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improving. The biggest union seems optimistic of an agreement with the

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government. We have had a very constructive dialogue with the

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Scottish Government. We're confident we have a situation where we can all

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move forward with confidence. We have had real concerns over some of

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the unintended consequences such as teaching to the test or narrowing

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the curriculum, and hopefully these will not appear in the final

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version. More details of a government's plans are expected in

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January. The authors of this report says Scottish education has the

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potential to be a world leader. Getting there will not be easy.

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In Labour MSP has been thrown out of the Holyrood chamber following an

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angry protest over a bill to restrict union rights.

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James Kelly was ejected after objecting to a ruling

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that the issue was reserved to Westminster.

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Here's our political editor Brian Taylor.

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The presiding officer has ruled that Holyrood cannot block the union bill

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or prevented from applying to Scotland goes industrial relations

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are controlled by Westminster for the whole of the UK. Labour MSPs

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were spoiling for a fight, and after a preamble James Kelly confronted

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the chair. Do not think the ruling was correct in terms of executive...

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B and your point of order is? I am coming to. If you let me speak I

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will make my point of order. If you please let me make my point of order

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I will get on with it. I want to know what the point of order is. If

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you give interrupting me... About Mr Kelly, please sit down. I will not

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sit down, I want to make a point of order. Queue was reminded to respect

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the chair. I ask you to desist and apologise, Mr Kelly. Finally... Can

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you please exclude Mr Kelly from the chamber. He refuses to apologise,

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and Labour backs his stand. Conservatives back the bill, SNP

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ministers say they will fight on to thwart it.

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The Forth Road Bridge has been in the headlines for a fortnight now

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but today we got an update on its successor.

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The Queensferry Crossing is due to relieve much of the traffic

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from the old bridge when it opens in around a year's time.

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Another day of work on the broken bridge continues. On the scaffolding

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men work around the clock to fix the fault. Just metres away another

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workforce have a job to do. The new Forth crossing stretches out across

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the water. Heading up in the left as the coastline becomes distant there

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is a real sense from the workforce of a new phase in this construction.

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Now we see the decks coming together, being a local person it

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means a lot to me. I will be will to use it, or my grandchildren to

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death. From 200 metres up you cannot help but marvel at the scale of this

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project as it comes together inch by inch and piece by piece. As you look

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down on its ageing sister, depleted of traffic, any hint of any delay in

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the completion of this project would mean troubled waters on the Firth of

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Forth. Still the Government remains confident. There is pressure and the

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Government understands that. We have had pressure to finish projects

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on-time and on budget we have met that. We have met the pressure in

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the past, and it is our intention to meet our obligations this time. Bad

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weather has hampered progress in the autumn, but engineers say they are

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back on track. 36 of 120 two deck segments are moved into place. Next

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major phase of work will start in Fife in the New Year. The resilience

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of bridge ready to be launched out in January, and at that point that

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will narrow the gap between the north end of the bridge and the fan

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we are building out from the north Tower, so that will start to look as

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of the bridges coming together. Towering above its little sister,

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the Queensferry Crossing is most expensive infrastructure project in

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Scotland, and the government will want to make sure its delivery does

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not cost its credibility. It's over to Christopher now

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with the weather forecast The weather this week is all about

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how unseasonably mild it is. This war may wash across the UK, chasing

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away the cold air. We will see temperatures into the teens. Should

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be closer to seven or eight Celsius, so we are way up on where we should

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be. Some clear skies here, but in Markey night with some rain around.

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--. It will be a murky night. Breezy on the coast, temperatures ten or 11

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Celsius in the morning. Inland the winter light, a little breeze around

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the coast. Some patchy winter light, a little breeze around

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rain and the hill fog is extensive and of note especially if you're

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travelling over and of note especially if you're

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ground. Towards the west coast, some patchy outbreaks of rain, as there

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will be for me Sheridan. Through Wednesday morning the wet weather is

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holding on in the West but elsewhere we are starting to see something

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more cheerful, especially if you're to the north of any high ground.

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Across the UK it is cloudy and grey, but temperatures perhaps into the

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mid-teens in London. 11 or 12 for us. Into Wednesday evening patchy

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outbreaks of light rain and extensive murky whether.

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outbreaks of light rain and heavy rain, but again it

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outbreaks of light rain and mild. The rain across western parts,

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stretching across Wales and south-west. Temperatures in the

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teens, and we could see 15 as well. Our next update is during Breakfast

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at 6:25 tomorrow morning.

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