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Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: New hope for steelworkers

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in Lanarkshire, as a potential buyer emerges for the two mothballed

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We have a special report from Aberdeen on how job cuts

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in the oil industry are having a major impact on the mental

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I was bursting into tears, crying, I actually thought of topping myself.

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Also on the programme: A fond farewell as the helicopters and crew

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of the Royal Navy's last search and rescue unit say goodbye

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In sport - no definite news yet on the future of the out of favour

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Celtic striker Anthony Stokes, despite interest from

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And thousands of musicians descend on Glasgow for the start

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There's new hope tonight for the future of the

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The international metals firm, Liberty House, has confirmed to BBC

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Scotland that it's interested in buying Tata's mothballed

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But the Scottish government says a deal is not guaranteed.

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Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell.

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The steel mills of Lanarkshire need a new owner, if they're to forge a

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future. Interest from liberty house is welcome. I'm hopeful we will make

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progress, but I do not wish to raise expectations and then see them

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dashed. But we're working optimistically, and this is a very

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positive development today. For all the workforce who are affected in

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particular. In recent months, many steelworkers have been laid off. The

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nearby Clyde bridge are being mothballed. In fact, a process known

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as quenching came to an end at Clyde bridge this afternoon, but key

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workers have been kept on, to make these plants is attractive as

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possible to a potential buyer. In Motherwell locals say they cannot

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afford to lose steel. It's pretty bad, because it is pulling the place

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apart. You can see the state of Motherwell, it is pretty bad right

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now. A lot of jobs are lost. UK steel is struggling to compete with

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cheap Chinese imports and the consequences are harsh. In October

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Tata announced 270 job losses at Clyde bridge and DL and more in

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Scunthorpe. By Christmas Tata was in talks with Grable capital to sell

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all three site and some others. Today International metals firm

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Liberty House confirmed its interest implying that two Scottishness.

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Given the condition of the steel market globally, it is probably in

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the best interests of the Scottish plants to go it alone. We believe

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the business model would sustain that. That means cutting costs by

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buying steel from the international rather than the UK market. 25,000

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men work for the Scottish division of the steel Corporation.

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Never again will steel be Scotland's largest industrial employer, but it

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may still have a profitable future. Having recently saved this steel

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works in south Wales and another in the West Midlands, there is now a

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chance the liberty group could do the same for Scottish steel.

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The growing number of job cuts in the oil industry is having

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a "massive and dangerous" impact on the mental health of workers,

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according to a leading support group.

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More than 700 job losses in the sector have been announced

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Some 65,000 people are facing an uncertain future

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The suicide-prevention group "Choose Life" says it's vital those

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affected seek help, as Fiona Stalker reports.

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I was bursting into tears, crying. Me and my wife were arguing, at each

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other's throats. This oil worker Buzz Matte world fell apart when he

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lost his job. It took him to the darkest places. I came out of the

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job that day and burst into tears. I actually thought of topping myself,

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until I saw my little boy's picture on my phone. There are some very

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visible signs of the downturn in Aberdeen, but experts say this

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problem is often hidden. There are indications that what is happening

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in the oil and gas industries is impacting on our society does. This

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is a worrying trend. As part of the choose life group and choose life

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community, we target the north-east of Scotland, to try and get the

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choose life message out there. It's OK to talk about suicide, and

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especially OK to go and seek help when you need it. Many may not need

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that help but there are calls to live a more concerted support for

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those who do. They are broken, a lot of the most touristy hurt by it.

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Husbands and wives, sitting crying in cars. Lives completely ruin. It

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is very difficult. I know a few of them are struggling and are seeking

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support with the problems they are facing, financial problems,

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relationship problems, just break down of the family. It was fear of a

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family breakdown that led this oil worker to finally seek help. My

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little boy is worth more than that, so I ended up going for counselling.

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I found the counselling quite helped. I felt a bit more

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worthwhile. And support staff hope the story of one oil worker will

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help with the darkness facing many more in the weeks ahead.

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If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in that report,

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you can call the BBC Action Line to hear recorded information

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about organisations that offer advice and support.

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You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC.

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Still to come on tonight's programme:

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Helicopters and crew of the Royal Navy's last search

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and rescue unit at HMS Gannet take part in a final

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In sports, the Celtic striker who's in demand...

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Glasgow Warriors want an artificial surface at the Scotstoun Stadium.

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One of the first people in Scotland to benefit from a new surgical

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treatment for emphysema has been speaking about the huge improvement

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Patricia McCall had tiny valves inserted in her lungs as part

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of a trial of the devices at the Golden Jubilee

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Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford reports.

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Nine months ago, just cleaning her windows would have left Patricia

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gasping for breath. It mentioned had to give up her job as a cleaner,

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after a life of smoking, she told me how her emphysema had left her

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virtually housebound. It's like someone has that aren't around you

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and crushing you and someone else has their hands over your mouth. Not

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enough air. Although Patricia couldn't breathe, her lungs were

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actually huge because they were trying to compensate the damaged

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tissue. Normally the lungs should be approximately that size, and you can

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see the diaphragms have been pushed right down and the lungs are much

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bigger than they should be. Lung surgeon Alan Clark was testing out

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this new valve and Patricia was the first person on his trial. Going

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down through the throat, the titanium and silicon valves were

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placed inside her lung. They allow air to come out of damaged areas,

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but not to go in, diverted yet just a healthy parts. If the valves are

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put in place so that no air can get in, ultimately that air will seep

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out through the one-way valve, shrinking it right down, so that as

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the patient breathes normally, under normal conditions, air cannot get

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into that damaged part. It replaces the need for major surgery and costs

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the same. Patricia now feels so much better she is planning her first

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holiday in a decade. Everybody I see, they cannot get over how good

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I'm looking. At 1.I said to my sister, everybody's telling me, what

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did I look like before it? She said, I wouldn't want to say. Because the

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procedure conducted here is part of the trial it is not available to

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most people yet. But doctors hope it could be suitable for up to a third

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of emphysema patients, a condition particular, in Scotland.

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A Glasgow man who murdered his neighbour in a row over dog fouling,

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will serve at least 14 years in jail.

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28 year Martin Carroll repeatedly stabbed Stephen Gannon

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in their tenement close in Springburn last August.

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Carroll later told his grandmother, "I've done something stupid."

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Today sees the launch of Sport Relief .

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It was set up fourteen years ago to bring together the worlds

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of sport and entertainment to raise money to help vulnerable people.

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Suzanne Allan went to meet one of the sporting ambassadors,

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Judy Murray, who has seen first hand how it's helping communities

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It is a windy Wednesday in Easterhouse and the lady behind the

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store is about to get a big surprise. Very nice. Delivering the

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winter food package for older people, run by community project

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Fair is one of sport relief's ambassadors, Judy Murray. It was set

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up 26 years ago by volunteers who wanted something positive for a part

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of Glasgow renowned for gang violence and social problems. It now

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runs everything from clubs for the elderly to sports and youth

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programmes and is partly funded by sport relief. Giving them an

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activity to do, particularly on weekends and in school holidays,

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when those are the key times young people with no school to go to could

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get into trouble, and they create all sorts of opportunities, not just

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within the area but taking it off site to do things like mountain

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biking. Things they might not have been able to do. To give them a

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sense of belonging and that somebody believes in them. The wind winter

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food drop reaches the elderly, and in it are essentials of porridge,

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sugar and eggs. Many residents in this part of Easterhouse cannot

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leave the house or are a freighter. When this boy was young, some of the

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streets around him a no go areas. Not any more. I can walk area to

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area and I don't have to worry about any gangs or any violence or any

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fighting. Stephen Walker is in sixth year and wants to be a youth worker,

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so gives talks in schools. I go to primary schools and talk to them.

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They will see it through your prospective. You have witnessed all

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this stuff, gang violence, drugs and alcohol. Easterhouse has changed a

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lot in the last ten years. Part of it can be explained by projects like

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this and others in this area, working together to change attitudes

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and bring people together. Over the years anti-social behaviour has

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dropped. People are feeling a bit more safer and looking at younger

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people in a different light now. These projects mean they can work

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together, speak together and realise they have a lot of common interests.

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Today is the launch for sport relief. The event itself is on the

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13th of March. A look at other stories

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from across the country: A 20-year-old driver has been jailed

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for four and a half years for causing the deaths of two people

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in a crash in Ayrshire nearly Gary Nicholson from Stewarton

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was said to have been driving at speeds approaching 100 miles

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an hour, when he lost control of his car killing one

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of his passengers, AND 52 year old Patricia Brown who had been

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travelling in another car. Police have named a worker killed

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on a major bridge construction site in Aberdeen as 58 year

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old Ian Walker from Dundee. The incident happened late yesterday

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afternoon at the so-called It's alleged to have taken place

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outside Chancers Nightclub around The writer and artist Alasdair Gray

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has been discharged from hospital. The 81 year-old was treated

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for serious injuries, after falling outside his home

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in June last year. Despite his injuries,

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he's continued to work over the last few months - on a translation

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of work by the poet Dante. A 30 year old from Aberdeenshire has

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become the first Scot to complete a solo, unassisted trek

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to the South Pole. Luke Robertson, who's

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originally from Stonehaven, completed his 41-day journey

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in the early hours of this morning. He took on the challenge

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for charity, after recovering It's really just starting to come

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on, the enormity of what we've actually managed to achieve. And I

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think right back from his illness, to come through that and then have

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that drive and ambition to do what he's done, we are all in awe. Very

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proud of what he's done. Robert Plant, Kris Kristofferson,

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the Chieftains and Aly Bain are among the two and a half

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thousand artists who'll appear The winter music festival,

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which begins in Glasgow tonight, brings together all sorts

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of traditions from across the world. Our arts correspondent

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Pauline McLean reports. Rehearsals for the opening concert,

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this one celebrating the 50th anniversary of the traditional music

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of Scotland. Many songs are still passed from family to family, but

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festivals like this are now reaching a wider audience. I performed first

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at Keltic Connections when I was 13 and it has been an amazing journey,

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for me to watch the festival develop as it has, what a wonderful place.

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To start off the festival, celebrating traditional song here in

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Glasgow in the Royal concert Hall with some of the finest musicians

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and singers we have here in Scotland. And indeed the world. The

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festival has artists from around the world from the Outer Hebrides to

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inner Mongolia, the Western Isles to West Africa. Who would have thought

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that someone playing a traditional instrument from Africa would be

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playing in a concert Hall with the Scottish National Orchestra? That is

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the extent of the connections we've reached, where anything goes. And

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that spills over into the city's streets and the pubs and clubs,

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where traditional music can be heard all year round. We are centres for

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the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, and in fact it is said the

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father of protest music, when he spent a few days in Glasgow in the

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1940s, played a gig in the Victoria bar and spent a lot of time enjoying

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the hospitality. With 26 pages and 2500 performers it is the place to

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be for the next two and a half weeks. And it all kicks off this

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evening. This is the place to be right now, with David!

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He may be out of favour at Celtic but Anthony Stokes is in demand

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elsewhere. Dundee United have agreed a deal

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with Celtic to take Anthony Stokes on loan, but the striker won't be

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heading to Tannadice. He is likely to move somewhere

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before the end of the month, but for now the Irishman

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is keeping his options open. Here's our senior football

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reporter Chris McLaughlin. He's scored almost 60 goals in 135

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appearances for Celtic. It seems for now he's on his way. Where? A host

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of clubs are interested including Hibs, Inverness and Dundee United.

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But it seems he's decided against Tannadice. We do realise how these

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things go. Like I said, we put an offer on the table. Some players are

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more willing to join us than others. You need to be a strong character to

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join us at the moment. It leaves Hibs and Inverness, could he be

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heading north? It doesn't sound like it. You must be really fit at this

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moment in time, really fit, because last time I got a text four days

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ago, telling me, he phoned me after training. It was four days ago, he

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must have been training for the last four days. It's understood Easter

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Road is still an option and talks are ongoing. Decisions, decisions.

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He has exactly 17 days to make up his mind.

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The twenty five year old scored against the Championship leaders

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at Ibrox last September in the League Cup, one of his four

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Promotion chasing Championship club Falkirk have given their manager

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Peter Houston signing up till the summer of 2018.

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I don't know if this is how he feels right now ...but it's him at last

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He says he's delighted to continue the challenge of getting back

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Glasgow Warriors say there may be an end in sight to the problems

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They've had a spate of matches postponed or moved because it's

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unplayable. unplayable.

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Their solution: replacing it with an artificial surface.

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They say they're hopeful a deal with Glasgow City Council

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who own their Scotstoun stadium is close.

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Warriors players seem to be enjoying life, training today outdoors and on

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a firm surface. A bit of a treat because this isn't their pitch. This

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is waterlogged again and unfit for the purposes of training or playing.

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Warriors have switched their next home game to Kilmarnock football

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club's artificial surface. In terms of competitive matches we've played

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Cardiff Blues in the league, I enjoyed playing on a surface you

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know, that'll be consistent every time you play on it, it could really

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benefit the team. Along high kick. Scotland played Tonga at

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Kilmarnock's Rugby Park a couple of years ago and the Warriors head

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coach wants a similar service installed at his team's Stadium. I'm

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a big fan of this type of service. Given replay in the northern

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hemisphere and the wet weather that comes to the west of Scotland. We

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haven't had this surface all season round to play the rugby we want to

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play. To have a change in that would be great, to be able to play and not

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have games postponed would be a huge bonus. They are confident their

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coach's wish will be granted and positive about discussions they've

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had with Glasgow City Council. Funding will have to be secured

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before Scotstoun goes synthetic. Some of the world's best women

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curlers are in Glasgow over 24 rinks from 11 countries

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are gathering at Braehead ice rink for the ninth Glynhill Ladies

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International. Among the teams taking part

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are the European champions from Russia, led by Anna Sidorova,

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and the Olympic silver medallists from Sweden, skipped

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by Margaretha Sigfridsson. It's very nice to be in Scotland,

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it's the home land of curling, of course. So we don't go there very

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often. They have worked with ice conditions a lot, it's improved.

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Those are the things we want to hear when we go somewhere.

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The helicopters and crew of the Royal Navy's last search

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and rescue unit at HMS Gannet at Prestwick have been taking part

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The service has been taken over by the Maritime and

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Cameron Buttle joined them as they made their lap of honour

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Callsign 177 ticks of the air for the final time. -- takes to the air

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for the final time. Flying in formation the two Sea Kings that

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made up the Royal Navy search and rescue team based at Prestwick.

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Their route would take them over their old patch, the huge swathe of

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the country that stretched 98,000 square miles. They rescued thousands

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of people from all over it. This is the last flight of the HMS Gannett

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search and rescue unit were the last chance to see much loved helicopters

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in the Royal Navy. People have been standing out across the route to

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wish them well. They followed the Clyde through Glasgow, past the

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hospitals they've delivered patients to. Then a graceful turn north into

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the Highlands and mountains. The scene of some of their most daring

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rescues. On the ground, rescue teams from all over fired flares, waved

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and called in. It's all understood, once again, thank you very much for

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all your support and help over the many years. A genuine show of

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affection for what we've done. You see how many people are around, the

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different types of people supporting us, whether it's fire brigade, and

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villains service, just ordinary individuals. These teams have seen

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these hills and mountains at their deadly worst, in blizzards and

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gales, but today, appropriately, it was simply breathtaking. Final

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stages. Flight circled around Stirlingshire over the Forth Road

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Bridge and a special moment, down through the capital, past the

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castle, down Princes Street, over Arthur 's seat. And finally the last

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touchdown back at base. A lot more emotional than I thought it would

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be, a couple of the group mentioned that as we were taxiing out, being

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the people who turned out to say goodbye. It was an emotional moment.

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Really fabulous trip, quite emotional for all of us, great to

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see everybody out there waving and sorry it's over, but it's been

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fabulous. HMS Gannett was the last ever military search and rescue

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unit. The Coast Guard has now taken over, but after four decades in the

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air over Scotland, today was, quite simply, the end of an era.

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What a gorgeous country we live in. Shelley has details of Scotland

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2016. How do we protect children from explicit images on the

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Internet? I'll be speaking to the woman who teaches five-year-olds how

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to beat pawn aware. And Britain's first Muslim MP tells me how he

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thinks goodish labour just wasn't ready a black MP. Join me on BBC Two

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at 10:30pm. -- Scottish Labour. The helicopters were lucky with their

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weather. Weather watchers have been out in force, let me show you a few,

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Sally. Beautiful skies and snow on the ground here in Perthshire

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earlier on. And snowy scenes in Midlothian as well, this was earlier

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this morning. Even if you wanted snow and didn't have it, hopefully

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blue skies will have put a spring in your step. The number of showers on

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the radar this evening... A win to reach mix of them, they will

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continue overnight. We have Met Office be aware warning for snow and

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ice. The northern and western parts of the country. The further east you

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are it should stay dry. Showers continue to feed their way in on a

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fresh north-westerly and the wins for Shetland gusting to gale force

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overnight. To the east of the spine of the country largely dry, it'll be

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cold wherever you are with risk of ice. Temperatures in towns and

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cities the role-minus two. In the countryside anything to minus six.

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We could see issues on the roads around Glasgow towards Ayrshire,

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Dumfries and Galloway and Lanarkshire. Through the day,

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showers clear. Plenty of sunshine around, largely dry but with wins in

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the north we start to see showers affecting more northern and

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north-eastern parts. By mid-afternoon its triad bright for

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the Central Belt and southwards. On the West Coast 5-6dC, but for many a

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chilly 2-3. Wintry showers coming in on the northerly especially towards

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Western Aberdeenshire, the Inverness area and the far north. One or two

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showers, too, for Orkney and Shetland. The winds easing down.

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Towards evening wintry showers peppering the east coast for a

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while. In many areas, dry, clear and cold. Temperatures approaching minus

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double digits, especially where there is snow cover. Into the

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weekend, dry, fine weather around. A cold start but plenty of sunshine. I

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cloud pushing in from the west during the day turning things milky,

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but dry. Severe frost wherever you are, really very cold weather

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indeed, that's the forecast. A reminder of tonight's main news.

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New hope for the future of the Scottish steel industry. Liberty

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house has confirmed it interested in buying mothballed sites in

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Lanarkshire. Five people involved in the Hatton Garden robbery. The men,

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Bill Lincoln, huge oil and Carl Wood there were led by a group of

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experienced chemicals, they still jewellery and valuables worth an

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estimated ?40 million over Easter weekend last year. I'll be back with

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a headline that it PM and the late bulletin just after the ten o'clock

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News. Until then, good

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