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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

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How adding folic acid to all flour could cut the number of children

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I know plenty of people that have had late pregnancies or not found

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out who don't know to take folic acid, so if it was in the bread, it

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would reduce the risk of it happening.

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Around 80 countries around the world already add it to their flour.

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Climate change experts say they're concerned about cuts

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to the Scottish Government's spending on measures designed

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The Dounreay nuclear site closed more than 20 years ago,

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but engineers are still decommissioning the plant's main

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The value of Scotland's farmed salmon exports drops,

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with some key markets down by almost a third.

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And the weather Down Under makes Andy Murray feel at home,

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ahead of his third round match at the Australian Open.

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Scotland could be the first part of the UK to add

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Concerns are mounting that there could be an increase

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in birth defects if the supplement isn't added.

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A decision has been delayed by the Westminster government.

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Folic acid plays a crucial role in preventing birth defects such

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as spina bifida, but most women don't eat enough to minimise

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Here's our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford.

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Are you putting the baby in the bed? Linen's mum was planning her wedding

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and did not know she was pregnant until a scan showed Sewell -- she

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was seven months gone and that her baby had spina bifida. Orange Micro

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trying to get over the shock of having a baby in a few weeks' time

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but also that she had spina bifida. We were terrified before she came

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along. But the doctors were very good, they talked us through

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everything that would happen, before she came. Lily is one of an

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estimated 2000 babies born in the last 16 years in the UK whose

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disability could have been prevented if folic acid had been added to the

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food chain. Folic acid is found in several foods but particularly

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green, leafy vegetables. It is vital in pregnancy to prevent brain and

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spine defects but 85% of women don't get enough. That means if they have

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an unplanned pregnancy or don't take supplements, their babies at risk.

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16 years ago, the US started adding folic acid to flour. The number of

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affected pregnancies fell and there were no adverse effects. In

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Scotland, it's a different story. Every week in Scotland, there's

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another new pregnancy affected. Are you frustrated by the lack of action

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so far? It's a bit frustrating because this has gone on for years

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now. The evidence is clear. Fortification absolutely works. That

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frustration is clearly shared by the Scottish Government, who told the

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BBC:. If Scotland does decide to go ahead

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and add folic acid to flour, it would have wide repercussions.

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Supply lines don't end at the border. UK manufacturers may just

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add it to all their bread. For Yvonne, it can't come soon enough. I

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know plenty of people who have hardly pregnancies or not found out

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or don't know to take folic acid. If it was in the flour, it would reduce

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the risk of it happening. Eleanor Bradford, Reporting Scotland.

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Scotland's record on tackling climate change and fuel poverty

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is under renewed scrutiny, amidst criticism of the Scottish

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government's plan to cut spending on measures designed

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Ministers have defended their record.

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Our environment correspondent, David Miller, reports.

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These are the experts who advise the UK and Scottish governments on

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climate change. They have been meeting in Edinburgh. High on the

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agenda, the Scottish Guzman's plan to cut climate spending by almost

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10%. What we will hold their feet to the fire about is, do they achieve

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the end? Do they cut the omissions? Do they help detect the world from

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climate change? Do they keep a Scotland which is worth living in

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for our children and grandchildren? Critics say the cuts will make it

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harder for Scotland to fight fuel poverty as well as climate change.

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This year, the number of people in fuel poverty is the same as last

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which is not a standard which should be acceptable. If we want to tackle

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climate change and improve the quality of Scottish homes and make

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sure no one lives very hard to heat home, we need to increase the budget

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for energy efficiency to at least what it was last year but ideally

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above that so we can begin to invest in improving housing stock. Last

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year, ministers pledged spending on climate change would be a priority.

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We will ensure that climate change is a top priority through a Cabinet

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agreement to embed climate change in the autumn budget process. But

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campaigners say there is no evidence that has happened. In response, Dr

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McLeod said:. Renewable energy is an area where

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the committee sees Scotland as an example to the rest of the UK. But

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members are warning more must be done on energy efficiency,

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especially in social housing. Scotland does have some of the

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world's most ambitious climate change policies. But interim targets

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have repeatedly been missed. Ministers are finding their pledges

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are coming under increasingly intense scrutiny. David Miller,

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reporting Scotland, at the Edinburgh Centre for carbon innovation.

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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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Gyspy travellers in South Ayrshire receive financial help,

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a month after Storm Frank flooded them out of their homes.

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In sport, Andy Murray's got a new adversary to contend

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with at the Australian Open: the Aussie rain.

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Despite four defeats on the spin, Glasgow Warriors

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are in high spirits, but can they end their losing streak?

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Scotland's biggest fish farm business -

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Marine Harvest - announced earlier this week that it was losing

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But now Reporting Scotland has seen new figures, which show just how

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The volume of fish sold to key markets round the world fell

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We know that up to 100 jobs are going from Marine Harvest.

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But now we also know just how tough the past year has been for the whole

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fish farming industry. The value of exports sold around the world was

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down by more than ?100 million last year, a fall of over 20% compared

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with the year before. 2015 was a challenging year. A number of things

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happen. The Russian trade embargo was announced in late 2014. And

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currency has changed dramatically. Our largest competitor is Norway and

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their currency has dropped against the pound over 25%. The two major

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things have compiled -- conspired against us. Looking in detail at key

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export markets, the amount of fish sold to Europe went up by a tiny

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amount but sales to the USA and Canada were down by more than 28%

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and the Far East was down by almost the same amount. -- volume going to

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the Far East. Almost 6000 jobs are directly relied on the Scottish

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salmon industry and in some fragile communities. But exports are

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volatile and there's a lot of factors out of our control which

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impact whether they go up or down. But generally, we are seeing big

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investment in the salmon industry. We need to buy the structure to

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allow it to grow because the demand is there. -- to find the structures.

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We should know where the Marine Harvest jobs are going within the

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next month but the rest of the industry might be looking to cut its

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costs, too. We have remained static about production for 15 years and

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costs have been rising during that time. We can sustain and withstand

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that when prices are good and when the market is good but when things

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go as they did in 2015, it makes it much more challenging. Of course,

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the problem is that fish farm jobs tend to be in summer Scotland's most

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rural communities, where other work may be hard to find. Huw Williams,

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Reporting Scotland. Family and friends of those who've

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been killed in terrorist attacks overseas are being asked

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what they would like to see as a memorial, and where

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it should be sited. Plans for a national memorial

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to remember Britons killed by terrorism abroad were announced

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by the Prime Minister last year. 44-year-old aid worker David Haines,

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a father of two from Perth, was murdered by Islamic State

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terrorists in Syria in 2014. I think, for myself, I have thought

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about this. I think maybe a garden of remembrance but with plaques

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depicting the faces of my brother and the other people who have been

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lost to terrorism. Engineers at the Dounreay nuclear

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site in Caithness are beginning a crucial phase in decommissioning

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the plant's main reactor. It was shut down in 1994,

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but the task of dismantling highly radioactive components continues,

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with robots and the memories of some long serving-staff

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called in to help. Back in the 1950s, it was the

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nuclear dream, the white heat of technology that would provide

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limitless cheap energy. But by the end of the century, the UK's atomic

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fast breeder project had been snuffed out. This test rig is

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designed to replicate the conditions engineer 's will have to face when

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they begin dismantling Dounreay's prototype fast reactor. They are

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testing robotic tools, is specially designed on-site to be remotely

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operated within the highly radioactive innards of the reactor

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vessel. What we are doing is dividing tools to go into cut nuts

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and separate components so we can physically lift them out through a

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small penetration at the top of the reactor. Various drills, cutters and

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grabs have been devised and tested. Although the reactor was shut down

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more than 20 years ago, sending in humans would be fatal. You can't

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build a tool and put it straight into the reactor. If you have any

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problems, the thing will be contaminated. And then there's no

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way of decontaminating it you can't modify it. We have two ensure that

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each tool works perfectly. It is fortunate that a few senior staff,

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who have worked on the site since the 1960s and 1970s, are still

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around to help. There's very few people left that are still working

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that have the knowledge, the intense knowledge, have crawled through

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every corner of the reactor vessel and this is where I come in with the

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help with Calder. When he is designing his tools, I can visualise

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where they are going. When they were building the plant at Dounreay, some

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of the best engineering brains in the country were imported for what

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was a pioneering experiment. Now the plant is being decommissioned, there

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is some irony but also symmetry in the fact that the same brains are

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being used to find solutions to help dismantle it. The site is aiming to

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be the European reference site for decommissioning. The NDA supports

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that. It has to be good for the UK and it is also having to be good for

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any contractors working on the project, to allow them to bid for

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work elsewhere in Europe. Engineers expect it will take another ten

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years to completely dismantle the reactor. Craig Anderson, Reporting

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Scotland, Dounreay. A look at other stories

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from across the country. Highland Council says more than 500

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staff have responded The authority is struggling

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to cut its wage bill in the face of cuts and a possible budget

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shortfall of ?38 million. The council is the largest

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employer in the area, We need to provide safe and

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effective services, albeit within a new set of financial constraints. We

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will be asking directors to review all of the applications that have

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come forward and to see which of those can be considered manageable.

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Fire crews were called to Edinburgh Airport this afternoon,

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after three cars caught fire in the multistorey car park.

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The airport terminal remained open while crews tackled the blaze

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A Dumfriesshire pet food production company has been

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fined ?80,000, following the death of a 36-year-old

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Renatas Timofejevas was operating a loading vehicle

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at the Alba Proteins plant, near Dumfries, when he was found

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Bosses at NHS Highland say they are at risk of ending

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the financial year more than ?2 million in the red.

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The health board has revealed it's still struggling

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to contain overspend problems at Raigmore hospital in Inverness

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and in the rural north-west Highland area.

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Amazon is increasing its presence in Scotland,

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as part of its expansion plans which will see it take on 2,500

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The company is increasing its workforce at its research

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and development and customer services centres in Edinburgh.

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Gypsy travellers in South Ayrshire say they were largely left to fend

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for themselves, after Storm Frank flooded them out of their homes

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South Ayrshire Council have confirmed that the travellers

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are now receiving flood payments of ?1500 each,

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but families living at the site in Girvan say they were left

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with nothing and still need extra assistance.

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A family home that became a family disaster. During last month's

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storms. We came back and it was devastation. Everyone was screaming.

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My brother was trying to get to the kids to the top of the hill.

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Everyone made it by half an hour and then we were up to our necks. The

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travelling community at this site in Girvan could do nothing but watch

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their caravans being washed away. The water was up to here in the

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caravans. As you can see, everything is destroyed. The outhouses,

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education block, children's playground, kitchen facilities and

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toilets were all submerged. This site has been flooded before by the

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River Gervin, just behind me, but for the last four years, this pump

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here has kept the waters at bay. But on the night of Storm Frank, nothing

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could keep the waters from coming in. Eight families, including nine

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children and an elderly couple, asked the council for help. They

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gave us generators and petrol for a week. They did not supply any water.

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I pay my taxes and my rent and that is the way they treat me. We have

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stayed in caravans all our lives. Travellers have been here for

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millions of years in Kent and caravans. Why do they expect us to

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go into a house which is not ours? It is not our culture. Despite the

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travellers feeling neglected, the council say they are doing their

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bit. We have provided them with temporary accommodation where

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requested. Where it was not requested, we have supported them in

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other ways. Do you think you've done enough? It's an awful situation the

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travellers have faced and we will continue to work with them. In terms

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of have we done enough, we continue to work with them and anything we

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can do to support, along with the community and other organisations,

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we will continue to provide them. For now, some of the travellers are

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camped at the entrance, in borrowed caravans. They refused to leave. Are

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you expecting special treatment? No, no, I just want our caravans and a

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piece of land and some activity. We don't want the world. Although they

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can't live here, they are watching over it and fiercely protecting it

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until the help they feel they need arrives.

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He's been around for millions of years!

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Andy Murray says he has nothing but respect for his third

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round opponent at the Australian Open.

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That's despite beating Joao Sousa in all six previous meetings.

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The pair meet tomorrow morning, and as Kheredine Idessane reports,

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Murray's preparation has had a decidedly Scottish feel to it.

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Well, Andy Murray must have felt particularly at home in Melbourne

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this afternoon because for large parts of the day it was raining and

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it meant large parts of the tennis schedule were completely wiped out,

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not good news for the players who had to practice in doors, and not

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good for the fans either who had to take shelter or cover up until the

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rain finally cleared away. Andy Murray is trying to clear away into

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the second week at the Australian open, next up tomorrow is Joao

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Sousa, from Portugal who handy Murray has beaten in each of their

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six matches. Something the Portuguese is determined to rectify

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tomorrow. I've tried to learn in every match that I play against him.

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I tried to learn what I have done and not done well. So this time I

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hope it is going to be a different thing. For sure, I will give my best

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and I'm playing well. He knows how to win matches and he understands

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the game well, and he gets the most out of his game. So if I play well I

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have got a good chance obviously, but he is the sort of player that if

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your level is not quite there he will make it tough. As he did when I

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played him at the French Open, I was in a bit of trouble against him

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there. It's another trip to the second show court, the Margaret

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Court Arena against Joao Sousa. They will start at 8pm for a place in the

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fourth round against an Aussie, either Bernard Tomic or John

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Millman. In football, there's

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a hugely significant match tomorrow, one midfielder John Rankin

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says they simply must win. United are bottom of

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the Premiership, 14 points behind Kilmarnock,

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who they play at Tannadice. Defeat would mean relegation

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is increasingly likely for United. This is probably the biggest game in

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my career. I have played in European ties. And cup finals, but this is

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bigger than any cup final. We have to win tomorrow. There is no shying

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away from it. Everybody knows that. It is pressure. To be honest it is

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probably a pressure now that we have got to the stage where it will be

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all right, it will be all right... It won't be. We need to win now.

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Before that Aberdeen have the chance to narrow Celtic's lead at the top

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The match is live on Radio Scotland with live text on the BBC

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They've lost four matches in a row, are heading out

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of Rugby's European Cup and will soon lose 16 players

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Despite that, Glasgow Warriors still have high expectations

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for the rest of the season, according to winger Tommy Seymour.

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And ahead of a home game with a difference, the Warriors

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believe they can triumph in adversity.

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The Warriors' temporary home for their final European tie against

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Racing is Rugby Park, the posts are up and the artificial surface makes

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a welcome change from the sodden turfs. Which problems haven't been

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the only challenge. The World Cup took away 20 players which was

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always going to be difficult and what has compounded that is the

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injuries they have picked up. They have had to go into their reserves

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which will challenge any club. The effects are plain for all to see, at

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this stage last term Glasgow had lost just twice in the league and

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this season's form has been patchy, raising questions about their

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ability to defend the title. This side is capable of getting back into

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the play-offs, we know how difficult it will be but we will concentrate

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on this and we want to do it, we are not the sort of side to lower our

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expectations just because things have got harder. If the pressure is

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building on Glasgow with this four game losing run it is well hidden

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and Berend flap about coach draws belief from past experience. --

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unflappable coach. We won against Northampton in the last minute and

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it was such a boost, we put everything into the game to win and

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it kept us going for the rest of the season so we will do everything

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tomorrow. They could do with a ray of light as they seek to reignite

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their season. We need to reignite Alex Marshall.

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is through to the semifinals of this years singles,

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comprehensively beating another Scot, Stewart Anderson.

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The man nicknamed Tatty, who's after his seventh world title,

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defeated the 2013 champion 10-2, 9-2.

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He'll play Englands Robert Paxman in tomorrow's semifinals.

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I felt so comfortable out there and I felt I could have beaten anybody

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today. Stewart is fantastic but he wasn't at his best. You know he will

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be back and he will win this tournament again. I am over the moon

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to get back to the semifinals. All the best to Tatty. That is a great

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nickname. Thanks very much. The copper stills used to make

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whisky are unique to each distillery - playing a part in making

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every whisky different. Because the stills have

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to be made individually, they're beaten by hand

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in the traditional way. Sarah Toom went to meet some

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of the coppersmiths. Putting the perfect curve on a

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copper pot still, craftsman at the Abercrombie works are busier than

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ever thanks to the high demand for Scotch whiskey. Traditional skills

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take ten years to master but well learned they say it is a career that

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will last a lifetime. We all like different whiskeys and everybody has

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their favourite so whiskey stills have to be unique. That is why they

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are made by hand. You cannot automate the process. The craft has

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been passed down through the generations for two centuries,

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sometimes literally as is the case with these two. My dad taught me a

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lot. There is a good future for the young lads here. There is not many

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people that can actually do what we do. The stewards are not the only

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family pair here. This man is proud to be passing on the legacy to his

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nephew. It's good to see you women coming through and learning skills

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with their hands. -- younger men. Instead of the computer. We have

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always been interested in finding out how they have been made so I

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heard about the job and I applied for it. I got it. This is one of the

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most traditional crafts in Scottish industry but thanks to the

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continuing interest in Scotch whiskey worldwide there will be many

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more of these workers for years to come.

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Let's see what we can expect from the weekend weather.

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Thank you. What a difference a day made and plenty of sunshine across

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the country with blue skies captured by the weather watchers at the

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Borders. A number of showers around but fairly mild compared with recent

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nights. Showers being pushed in on a fairly fresh wind. As we head

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through the night the showers fizzle out and the wind eases down. It will

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be milder than of late with temperatures around five or six

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Celsius, cooler across the north-east. A touch of frost in one

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or two glens. For most it will be dry with spells of sunshine through

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the morning although it will increase through the afternoon and

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the wet weather will hold out through the Highlands and Islands

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and Northern Isles where it will be windy. Probably cloudy in the

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morning but still very mild. The wind will be lighter inland. The

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best of the sunshine towards Murray and Aberdeenshire. To the west of

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Inverness there will be wet weather and holding on as it will do through

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Orkney and Shetland. If you are hill walking or climbing in the

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north-west it will be cloudy and wet. Further south it will be dry

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with fog to start the day across the Galloway Hills. The wind from the

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south-west, steady speeds through the morning. For all ranges the wind

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will be easing down. The best of the sunshine across the Eastern

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Cairngorms. We are looking at south-westerly Force five soberly.

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Good visibility. -- soberly. We are looking at a south-westerly

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going soberly. Pushing in a cross towards the

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central belt in the evening and further north staying largely dry

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with breezes across the west coast. Low pressure in charge on Sunday.

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Rather windy at times, cloudy and wet but much milder. A rather wet

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morning with the rain being confined to the north and north-west.

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Elsewhere cloudy with drizzle. Fairly murky across the Southern

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uplands with temperatures 12 or 13 Celsius. We could even reach 15

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degrees. That is the forecast for now. Thanks very much, Chris. I will

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be back with the headlines at eight and a late bulletin after the ten

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o'clock news. Until then, have a good evening. Goodbye.

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