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Staff on the Caledonian Sleeper service linking Scotland and London | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
will go on strike for two nights next week in a dispute about claims | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
As you can imagine, the festive period is a very busy and lucrative | :00:14. | :00:29. | |
time for operators of the cross-border sleeper services that | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
link London Euston with Glasgow Garden Edinburgh, Aberdeen. Any | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
disruption will cause a major headache for passengers and | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
operators. But now we hear that passengers who already have | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
reservations for juicy and Wednesday of next week have been told services | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
cancelled and they will get a full refund. -- reservations for Tuesday. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
It goes back to concerns by trade unions about the effects on the | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
trains, and despite lots of discussions with the operators, | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
these have not been rectified. The company says it has tried to improve | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
the service centre to the route in March this year and says it is | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
disappointed with the fact that the union has now called a strike. The | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
fact remains tonight that as of next week, Monday will be the final | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
sleeper service before Christmas, and they will not resume until the | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
following Sunday, December 27. Scotland's main teaching union says | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
it's optimistic there will be a deal on the return of national | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
testing in schools. The head of the EIS says it | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
and the Government are close to resolving their | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
differences over the plans. Here's our Education | :01:39. | :01:39. | |
Correspondent Jamie McIvor. It has been the biggest shake-up in | :01:40. | :01:52. | |
Scottish schools for decades, and it still is not over. The government | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
wants to build on curriculum for excellence. You assessments about of | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
the plan, even though the suggestion has been controversial. Now a major | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
report from international experts is adding to the debate. It has | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
sometimes been difficult to get the sense of the impact of the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
curriculum for excellence across Scotland, so the government | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
commissioned the most detailed study so far. When the First Minister | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
visits a school that is likely to be good news. Today is a significant | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
day. The report praises many of the changes. We were very impressed with | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
so much that is going on here. We think the pieces are there. It is | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
then a question of having the will and the energy. But the report also | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
points to possible improvements. Performance in maths sleeping. -- is | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
slipping. And could be new assessments to measure performance. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
The government is working on one, the same tests in every school, | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
three times and every school. We want assessment to drive | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
improvement, to inform teacher judgment and first and foremost to | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
be about improving the experience of education for young people at all | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
levels of the system the information to know that the system is | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
improving. The biggest union seems optimistic of an agreement with the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
government. We have had a very constructive dialogue with the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Scottish Government. We're confident we have a situation where we can all | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
move forward with confidence. We have had real concerns over some of | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
the unintended consequences such as teaching to the test or narrowing | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
the curriculum, and hopefully these will not appear in the final | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
version. More details of a government's plans are expected in | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
January. The authors of this report says Scottish education has the | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
potential to be a world leader. Getting there will not be easy. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
In Labour MSP has been thrown out of the Holyrood chamber following an | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
angry protest over a bill to restrict union rights. | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
James Kelly was ejected after objecting to a ruling | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
that the issue was reserved to Westminster. | :04:14. | :04:14. | |
Here's our political editor Brian Taylor. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
The presiding officer has ruled that Holyrood cannot block the union bill | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
or prevented from applying to Scotland goes industrial relations | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
are controlled by Westminster for the whole of the UK. Labour MSPs | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
were spoiling for a fight, and after a preamble James Kelly confronted | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
the chair. Do not think the ruling was correct in terms of executive... | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
B and your point of order is? I am coming to. If you let me speak I | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
will make my point of order. If you please let me make my point of order | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
I will get on with it. I want to know what the point of order is. If | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
you give interrupting me... About Mr Kelly, please sit down. I will not | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
sit down, I want to make a point of order. Queue was reminded to respect | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
the chair. I ask you to desist and apologise, Mr Kelly. Finally... Can | :05:22. | :05:31. | |
you please exclude Mr Kelly from the chamber. He refuses to apologise, | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
and Labour backs his stand. Conservatives back the bill, SNP | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
ministers say they will fight on to thwart it. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
The Forth Road Bridge has been in the headlines for a fortnight now | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
but today we got an update on its successor. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
The Queensferry Crossing is due to relieve much of the traffic | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
from the old bridge when it opens in around a year's time. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Another day of work on the broken bridge continues. On the scaffolding | :05:56. | :06:08. | |
men work around the clock to fix the fault. Just metres away another | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
workforce have a job to do. The new Forth crossing stretches out across | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
the water. Heading up in the left as the coastline becomes distant there | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
is a real sense from the workforce of a new phase in this construction. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Now we see the decks coming together, being a local person it | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
means a lot to me. I will be will to use it, or my grandchildren to | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
death. From 200 metres up you cannot help but marvel at the scale of this | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
project as it comes together inch by inch and piece by piece. As you look | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
down on its ageing sister, depleted of traffic, any hint of any delay in | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
the completion of this project would mean troubled waters on the Firth of | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Forth. Still the Government remains confident. There is pressure and the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Government understands that. We have had pressure to finish projects | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
on-time and on budget we have met that. We have met the pressure in | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
the past, and it is our intention to meet our obligations this time. Bad | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
weather has hampered progress in the autumn, but engineers say they are | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
back on track. 36 of 120 two deck segments are moved into place. Next | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
major phase of work will start in Fife in the New Year. The resilience | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
of bridge ready to be launched out in January, and at that point that | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
will narrow the gap between the north end of the bridge and the fan | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
we are building out from the north Tower, so that will start to look as | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
of the bridges coming together. Towering above its little sister, | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
the Queensferry Crossing is most expensive infrastructure project in | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Scotland, and the government will want to make sure its delivery does | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
not cost its credibility. It's over to Christopher now | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
with the weather forecast The weather this week is all about | :08:01. | :08:13. | |
how unseasonably mild it is. This war may wash across the UK, chasing | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
away the cold air. We will see temperatures into the teens. Should | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
be closer to seven or eight Celsius, so we are way up on where we should | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
be. Some clear skies here, but in Markey night with some rain around. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
--. It will be a murky night. Breezy on the coast, temperatures ten or 11 | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
Celsius in the morning. Inland the winter light, a little breeze around | :08:49. | :08:49. | |
the coast. Some patchy winter light, a little breeze around | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
rain and the hill fog is extensive and of note especially if you're | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
travelling over and of note especially if you're | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
ground. Towards the west coast, some patchy outbreaks of rain, as there | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
will be for me Sheridan. Through Wednesday morning the wet weather is | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
holding on in the West but elsewhere we are starting to see something | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
more cheerful, especially if you're to the north of any high ground. | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
Across the UK it is cloudy and grey, but temperatures perhaps into the | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
mid-teens in London. 11 or 12 for us. Into Wednesday evening patchy | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
outbreaks of light rain and extensive murky whether. | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
outbreaks of light rain and heavy rain, but again it | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
outbreaks of light rain and mild. The rain across western parts, | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
stretching across Wales and south-west. Temperatures in the | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
teens, and we could see 15 as well. Our next update is during Breakfast | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
at 6:25 tomorrow morning. | :09:54. | :10:00. |