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One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
of more flooding for the North East as a new Amber warning is issued. | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
it is pretty grim, and I think it will come back again. We need help | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
from the agencies to get the place back because we do depend on | :00:30. | :00:30. | |
tourism. Rock and roll - | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
a boulder dislodged by the storm Also on the programme, | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Donald Trump threatens to withdraw hundreds of millions of pounds | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
of investment in Scotland if he's Plans for national testing | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
in schools are unveiled but the Government says it | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
won't lead to crude league tables. and the new kids on the block | :00:49. | :01:00. | |
who are reviving Govan's proud Good evening - an amber warning | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
of more flooding in Tayside, Angus and South Aberdeenshire has | :01:05. | :01:18. | |
been issued by the Met Office and the Scottish Environmental | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Protection Agency. More heavy rain will fall overnight | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
on already sodden ground. Our reporter John McManus | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
is in Ballater on Deeside. The water has gone, the electricity | :01:28. | :01:44. | |
is back on and many businesses in Ballater are open for business again | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
but some are not and many people who were flooded out of their homes last | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
week won't be able to go back to them for sometime to come. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Ballater, one week ago, submerged by the River Dee, now the river water | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
has gone and the town is getting back on its feet, but the evidence | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
of the power of Storm Frank is everywhere. Scores of caravans at | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
this holiday Park were destroyed. Today, the owners were back picking | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
through the debris. For those still standing not much can be done. What | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
about all of your furnishings, your sofa and table and chairs? It is all | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
ruined. We have the loss adjuster here yesterday and he took one look | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
and said sorry. Nearby work to get the fire station operational, though | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
they still played a major part in the rescue effort. But its tourism | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
this town relies on for its lifeblood and business owners want | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
to see Aberdeenshire Council dig deep to help them. The future in the | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
short term is pretty grim but I'm sure Ballater will come back again. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
We do need funding from the agencies to get the place back, because we | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
are so dependent on tourists. As you heard a few minutes ago we got a | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
booking from a holiday-maker for Hogmanay next year, so it is | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
positive. Away from the towns farmers are also assessing the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
damage. David Wynter lost some of his livestock. As you can see around | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
us the devastation, that has caused the fences to be taken away, we lost | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
livestock, we have most of the sheep on the high ground who were OK. Most | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
of them were inside for the winter. The sheep was a big problem. It will | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
take some time to make good damage to this road. Is a start was made on | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
a temporary road service Delhi surface today. This bridge will be | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
open again in a fortnight. But there is no quick fix for historic | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Abergeldie castle. Its owner is desperately trying to shore it up. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
The water is calmer now but its future is uncertain. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
There is some good news for Ballater this evening, Aberdeenshire Council | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
says it is considering whether to temporarily drop council and some | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
business rates to help people here get back on their feet. But of | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
course, or eyes are on the Amber rain warning for tomorrow, which | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
will affect South Aberdeenshire, Angus and Murray. Newton Stewart was | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
another place affected by the flooding last week. My colleague | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Willie Johnston went back there to assess what is happening on the | :04:36. | :04:36. | |
ground. You can from just about see the mark | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
here. Everybody you meet here says the same, we've seen floods before | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
but nothing like this. the same, we've seen floods before | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
do? Just got to keep my chin up and the same, we've seen floods before | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
get on, I can't let it beat me. The river | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
get on, I can't let it beat me. The Riverside business premises and | :05:00. | :05:00. | |
homes and much of the main Riverside business premises and | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
street. One week on and some folk are a pack up and running and many | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
more are not. I'm really suffering financially, obviously not trading. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
I have got staff relying on me for wages. The best I can do is just get | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
on. Along the street they are ripping out the ruined floorboards | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
from the Riverside Day Centre, a social hub for hundreds of | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
pensioners from Newton Stewart and all of the surrounding the latest. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
They have a meal here but they socialise and meet old school | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
friends and make new friends here. It's a very important part, the day | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
centre. The impact on them will be loneliness. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
This whole building has been submerged in about two and a half, | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
three feet of water, and everything is submerged and is ruined. Chris | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
and Joanna Rowsell world wide business supplying hard to get | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
spares and components for obsolete computer systems. Much of their | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
stock is simply irreplaceable. We have been buying some lorry | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
container is to try and decamped some of the warehouses and identify | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
what is ruined and what is perhaps still going to be functional. At | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
what sort of cost? ?2500 each and we bought a couple yesterday but it | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
looks like we will need several more. What I would like to see is | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
the same help offered to the unfortunate people in Cumbria across | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
the board, Dumfries and Galloway, Newton Stewart has been wiped out, | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
the whole Main Street has been wiped out and yet nothing has been | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
forthcoming a week later and I'd like to know why. Talk is now | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
turning to what kind of flood defences may be required for the | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
future here. Rebuilding the Riverside wall which collapsed and | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
caused the current devastation is one thing. Rebuilding a community's | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
confidence is something else again. Willie Johnston, Reporting Scotland, | :06:53. | :06:53. | |
Newton Stewart. The giant boulder that led | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
to the closure of the A83, the main route to Argyll, | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
went out with a bang today - It was feared the rock could fall | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
onto the road at the Rest and Be Thankful - but even though | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
it's been broken up the route It's been a very long and difficult | :07:08. | :07:19. | |
day for people here. The explosion was scheduled for ten o'clock this | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
morning and then it was put off until early afternoon and then we | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
were told it would not happen at all because visibility was so poor, then | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
it was happening, and so finally around 4:30pm with a flash of light | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
and a crack and a boom it happened. Yet we had time yesterday to assess | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
it and the drilling continued today. We got the explosives ready but the | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
visibility, we experienced low-lying cloud, and the visibility wasn't | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
near to have the blast any earlier than we did. We've been here for the | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
last couple of days and what we have heard is the sound of constant | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
drilling. The geotechnical engineers who have been making small holes | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
every half a metre along the bolder, and it's been bolder, four metres by | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
four metres. They then covered it in netting so that any larger bits of | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
debris would not go down the hillside. They then inserted a small | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
explicit device and detonated it. Those running the operation are | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
hoping to get the A83 running as soon as possible but they need to | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
make it safe first. The old military road is still being used, but they | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
are stressing they will try and open the Rest And Be Thankful as soon as | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
possible. Suzanne Allan. | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
Still to come on tonight's reporting Scotland: | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
who are reviving Govan's proud tradition of bagpiping. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Why the Dundee United chairman says the club should have been put | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
And two defeats in a day down under for Andy Murray. | :08:53. | :09:04. | |
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
?700 million of planned business | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
investment in Scotland over calls to ban him from entering the UK. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Our reporter Andrew Black joins me - Andrew remind us of what sparked | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
as everyone knows Donald Trump wants to be the next Republican President | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
of the US. But during campaigning he called for Muslims to be banned from | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
entering the US, citing terrorism concerns which has led to a huge | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
backlash, especially in the UK and in Scotland in particular. He has | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
been stripped of his honorary degree from Aberdeen's Robert Gordon | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
University and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has dropped him as a | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Scottish business ambassador. Later this month MPs are going to be | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
debating whether or not to ban Donald Trump himself from entering | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
the UK in response to a public petition which has been backed by | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
more than 500,000 people. Donald Trump, surprise, surprise, is not | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
happy about that, and today threatened to withdraw plans for | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
what he said was ?700 million of investment | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
what he said was ?700 million of South Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
If, as he puts it, there is any action to restrict travel. Is there | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
any chance Donald Trump will be banned from coming to the UK? | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Absolutely not, but it does show you the strength of feeling involved | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
when dealing with issues like terrorism, when he wishes to become | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
the next US President. Thank you. | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
In a short time the internet has become a necessity for businesses | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
but a number of firms on Skye have been forced to go back | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
to using the post because their internet service is so poor. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Suppliers BT say they're working to improve broadband speeds - | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
but a campaign group on the island is now almost 1,000 strong. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
For many of us a reliable Internet connection is as much a part of life | :10:49. | :11:01. | |
as a lecture city and running water. In remote rural areas like Skye | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
broadband communications have made a real difference, allowing businesses | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
to flourish. And it's a service that many have come to rely on. But | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
growing dissatisfaction with broadband speeds generally has | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
deepened over the past few weeks with a series of total breakdowns in | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
the service is prompting some users to resort to snail mail. It's | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
imperative I get information to the client quickly and efficiently via | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
the Internet but I had to resort to putting them onto disk and sending | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
them through normal Royal Mail, which takes a couple of days, but it | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
is invariably faster than trying to do it by broadband. But campaigners | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
also claimed there is a wider problem in North Skye. While | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
customers in most areas of the country and even other parts of Skye | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
are being offered fast fibre broadband, they are being left with | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
a second-class service. There isn't another industry in the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
world where it is the same cost to everybody but what you actually get | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
us completely different. It's like paying for a Rolls-Royce and | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
discovering you get a, that is just wrong. In a statement BT access that | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
rainwater caused a recurring equipment fault at a relay station | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
on Skye, and the company says engineers are planning to upgrade | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
one of the main broadband routes between the north of the island and | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
the mainland. Campaigners say any improvement cannot come 8 megabits | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
to soon. Craig Anderson, Reporting Scotland. | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
More details have been revealed of the Government's plans | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
From next year, pupils across Scotland will sit the tests | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
The idea's controversial - unions were worried the raw test | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
But the Government say they won't publish that data. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Those assessments will firstly give teachers and objective way of, | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
amongst other things, making judgments about how a child is | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
progressing against the required levels of the curriculum. And what | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
we will publish from 2017 onwards are the percentage of children | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
across the country who are meeting those required levels of the | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
curriculum, and that will be broken down by local authority and by | :13:17. | :13:17. | |
schools. Our education correspondent | :13:18. | :13:18. | |
Jamie McIvor's is here. Jamie, what does the Government say | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
is the aim these tests? It is to try to get better | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
information to help show what schemes to raise attainment in | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
schools are working. One of the policy aims of the Government is to | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
close the gap between how well children from politically rich and | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
poor backgrounds do at school, and it thinks better data might help. To | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
remind you of the details of the proposed tests, children would go | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
through the tests three times at primary school then again in the | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
third year of secondary school, and in primary schools the tests might | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
not actually be so radically different to the tests they replace, | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
they vary from council area to council area but in secondary | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
schools anecdotally at least there is concern among teachers. | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
So why won't they be published? The unions were worried about | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
publishing the raw data, they were not just worried about unofficial | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
league tables, but the risk that the raw data being so readily available | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
would lead to teachers simply putting their effort into teaching | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
children to pass the test, undermining the changes in schools | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
in receipt years that were designed to give teachers much more freedom. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
That is not such a concern with simply publishing the figures and | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
how many students are at the expected standards in literacy and | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
numeracy. We are pleased the First Minister confirm that teachers' | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
professional judgment will be the yardstick used to measure young | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
people's progress. The concern was that standardised assessments might | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
replace teachers' professional judgment and that would have been a | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
narrowing of the experience so that is welcome, the focus on teachers' | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
judgment. There are still worries about the details of the tests and | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
whether they will help children and teachers, or will they become some | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
kind of bureaucratic burden. The idea of any serious confrontation | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
between the teaching profession and the Government over the very risk of | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
having them, over the very principle here, I think that risk has receded. | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
Janey, thank you. Former Scottish First Minister Alex | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
Salmond is to host a live weekly radio phone-in show | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
on a London-based station. Broadcaster LBC said "no topic | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
will be off limits" as listeners call, text, tweet or email | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
the SNP MP directly. A look at other stories | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
from across the country. An Aberdeen man who admitted putting | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
offensive messages on social media, including one about a disabled young | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Celtic fan, has been banned 20-year-old Ross Gibson was charged | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
following a match between Celtic Gibson previously admitted | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
causing fear or alarm. He was also ordered to carry out 200 | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
hours of unpaid work. Detectives are appealing | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
for help tracing vandals who have desecrated | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
graves in a Fife cemetery. 60 headstones were pushed down | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
at Bennochy Cemetery in Kirkcaldy It's extremely distressing, | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
particularly at this time of year, Christmas and New Year, when people | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
come to visit their loved ones and finding damage like this is | :16:29. | :16:29. | |
extremely upsetting. Members of the University | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
and College Union at the University of Aberdeen have | :16:34. | :16:34. | |
voted in favour of strike action. The ballot was called over fears | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
of forthcoming redundancies. The union said 74% of those | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
who voted backed strike action. The university said | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
it was disappointed, and aimed to continue talks | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
with union officials. The recent storms have blown | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
dozens of Arctic birds It's very unusual to see auks | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
in this part of the world, but high winds have | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
blown them off course. Many have been found weak | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
and thin and are being cared Obviously we are picking up and | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
getting what we can and volunteers have been kind in picking them up on | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
our behalf. The fact of the matter is this is only a fraction of the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
birds and if we get one in 50 or one in a hundred we are doing well. | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
Sport now and not a great start to the year for Andy Murray. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
Andy Murray has tasted defeat down under as he continues his | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
He lost twice this afternoon in the Hopman Cup, as he and British | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
partner Heather Watson went down to the hosts, | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
Murray was up against their number one player, Nick Kyrgios. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Kheredine Idessane watched the action. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
The colourful curtain raiser to the New Year. The Hopman Cup is a useful | :17:46. | :17:55. | |
way to untangle preseason knots was up against one of the top talent in | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Nick Kyrgios, Andy Murray had a solid enough start. But as his coach | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
salutes all, the Canberra kid was playing well and forced an early | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
break of the Andy Murray serve. It was an advantage that the big | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
serving of the would not relinquish, securing the first set in style. How | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
would Andy Murray react as much badly. He lost five points on the | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
road to be broken again at the start of the second set. The world number | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
two hit back straightaway to prevent someone consolidating, much to his | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
annoyance. Some vintage Andy Murray after that. Even Nick Kyrgios seemed | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
to enjoy this. As he did the second set tie-break, securing his first | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
ever win against Andy Murray who needed his team-mate to keep great | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
Britain in the tie. After an epic encounter with Daria Gavrilova, a | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
trademark Heather Watson smile meant mission accomplished. That meant | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
Andy Murray and Heather Watson could still win the tie but would have to | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
beat Nick Kyrgios and Daria Gavrilova in mixed doubles. The | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
first set went to the home team while the second went to a tie-break | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
in which Murray and Watson came up on top. The outcome was decided by | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
attention match tie-break which the home team eventually snatched 11-9. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
A couple of defeats in a day for Andy Murray. More to come against | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
Germany on Friday. Dundee United's chairman | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
Stephen Thompson has told the BBC the club should've been put | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
into administration when his family He's also warning they won't prop | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
the club up financially in the event But he says there will be money | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
to spend this month as United Anguish is an ever more familiar | :19:42. | :19:56. | |
feeling for Dundee United supporters. The spectre of | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
relegation means they may have to brace themselves for even worse. But | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
the chairman says he and his family cannot do more. The family cannot | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
fund the club long term, no chance. It is impossible to do that. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
Historically I think we should have put the club in administration the | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
day we took over, it was spiralling out of control back then. We had a | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
record profit last year and will probably make a big loss this year | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
purely because of where we are in the league. They have not yet shown | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
in the towel but to escape relegation United must do what no | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
club has done. No one has had a greater deficit to make up. But | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Thompson says it will not before the lack of financial backing. We are | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
discussing taking on two or three players, looking to bring players | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
in. We will do as much as we can to support it and the team, to stay in | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
the league. That is the ultimate aim, to stay in the premiership this | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
season. We will not have up until it is impossible to stay in the league. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
We will bring in players and hopefully the right one. The players | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
find in the summer by the previous manager or not the right ones | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
according to Thompson. The reason he believes they find themselves in | :21:23. | :21:23. | |
their current predicament. The national football team's first | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
match since failing to qualify for the Euro 2016 finals will be | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
against the Czech Republic. Gordon Strachan will take Scotland | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
to Prague for the international The Scottish FA are also keen | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
to secure another friendly in early There's a Scottish Cup weekend ahead | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
- at the first match between St Mirren and | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Partick Thistle in Paisley, rival supporters will be able to sit | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
together in non-segregated areas. Something that hasn't happened | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
in Scottish football for decades The Thistle manager hopes | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
the experiment encourages more fans I think we have got to try these | :22:00. | :22:11. | |
things. Partick Thistle are always trying things different to get fans | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
in. We have changed it to Friday night and we are allowing fans to | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
make. You have got to try these things. | :22:23. | :22:23. | |
Glasgow's Govan is famous for its shipbuilding but not so long | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
The award winning Police Pipe Band which won | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
the World championships 13 times began there. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Now a documentary follows the fortunes of the area's | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
Our arts correspondent Pauline McLean reports. | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
Introducing Scotland's newest pipe band. | :22:44. | :22:56. | |
At only ten and 11 years old, an international mix | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
I did not think people would take it and there is a better chance | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
There is a bit of a challenge sometimes but they are fun, | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
Govan is famous for its shipbuilding and also its pipe bands, | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
not least the award winning Greater Glasgow Police Band. | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
Retired policeman Ian Watson plays with them, but now wants to create | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
With so many different nationalities, religions, | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
and they are all here and all learning the Scottish | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
and for us for the future I think it is great. | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
The programme follows their progress as well as giving them the chance | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
to meet pipers making a career out of playing. | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
If I had not practised so much back in school then I would not be | :23:49. | :23:58. | |
You can learn all sorts of instruments in school | :23:59. | :24:14. | |
to the side, there are some great juvenile pipe bands but most of them | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
I think it is a great chance if everyone gets the same | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
As for Govern's pipe band you will have to watch | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
the programme to see if they have what it takes to win a title | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
but for Ian they are winners already. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
They really amaze me and if you do not want | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
And you can see that documentary on The Wee Govan Pipers | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
The Scottish Parliament is set to take on more tax powers. Tonight we | :24:50. | :25:07. | |
hear from the boss of the cost. Budget responsibility. -- the Office | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
for Budget Responsibility. Join me for that later. | :25:16. | :25:16. | |
And Christopher has your latest weather. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
A better day for many, we had some sunshine in places. But tonight and | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
tomorrow the attention returns to the rain once again. An amber | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
warning in force across the north-east from the Met office. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
Still some wet weather this evening across the north-east. And in the | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
west and south-west, is wet weather moves in overnight and has most | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
impact. In the South a yellow warning and it is windy around North | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Sea coast in particular. Tomorrow morning and windy and wet morning | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
with the rain continuing to move north and becoming stuck across the | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
North and North East. By mid-afternoon something a bit dry | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
towards the south and south-west but cold, single figures and quite | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
chilly fuel on the wind. In the south and West wind varying but | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
further east coming in from the south-east. And up towards the Perth | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
area, the amber warning in force with rain falling on saturated | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
ground. Wet weather continues further north, really cold forged | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Shetland and visually so at times. In the evening the wet weather is | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
still with us, some issues with flooding across the north-east. | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Drying up elsewhere but a bit of a risk of ice at times. Looking ahead | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
the weather front bringing the rain tomorrow is still with us heading | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
towards Friday. But elsewhere quite dry. A cold start to Friday with icy | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
patches around and rain continuing. Snow on the hills and high ground. | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
Elsewhere reasonably dry with some brightness at times but cold. But | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
the wind much lighter. It's the weekend, staying unsettled, shall at | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
times. We pull in really cold air from the Arctic next week signalling | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
a change in the weather to something much colder. But also thankfully | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
much drier. Now, a reminder of | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
tonight's main news. An amber warning of more | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
flooding in Tayside, Angus and South Aberdeenshire has | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
been issued by the Met Office and the Scottish Environmental | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Protection Agency. More heavy rain will fall overnight | :27:26. | :27:26. | |
on already sodden ground. Three Labour shadow ministers | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
resigned today after the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn carried | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
out his 1st reshuffle. Mr Corbyn sacked two | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
of his ministers and replaced his | :27:34. | :27:36. |