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So it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

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Labour calls for an immediate 1p rise in Scottish income tax to avoid

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The SNP want a June date for the EU referendum to be ruled out

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because they say it's too close to the Scotttish Parliament elections.

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The Scots holidaymaker who was trampled to death by this

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Holding back the flood - the defences that worked even

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If it wouldn't have been for that, we'd have been up the creek. Yeah,

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we would have been. Not the best thing to look at. At least the water

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will stay there. The water will be behind, that's right.

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North Sea oil fell to its lowest level for more than six years.

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Can we learn from what happened 30 years ago?

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Labour is calling for Scots to pay extra income tax.

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It says a 1p-in-the-pound rise could be spent

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Holyrood will have additional powers over income tax rates from April

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and even more powers due to come to Holyrood under the Scotland Bill.

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The Scottish Government says it won't alter tax rates until these

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Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell.

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In Aberdeen where the oil price crash is hitting hard, a taxing

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question for locals - would you pay a little more income tax to preserve

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local services? Yes or no? No. I think we pay enough tax as it is. I

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mean, I work virtually full-time. I do have a pension, but I'm taxed on

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that and I'm also taxed on my Yes, I would earnings. Because what is 1p

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in today's terms? If it helps other people, other organisations, yes,

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I'd pay. Ed bad news is this is a speech about tax. In Edinburgh the

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Labour leader thinks putting 1p on all income tax rates in Scotland

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will prove popular as an alternative going to cost countless numbers of

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jobs across the country. What's that got to do with the price of fish?

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Well, Labour says someone earning around ?30,000 a year would only pay

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an extra ?4 a week under their tax plan. Far less than the cost of this

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super. Those on low earnings would actually receive a ?100 year rebate,

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but the SNP isn't buying it. It seems unworkable. It's unfair

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because it's not progressive. It will hammer many people on low

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incomes and contrast to what the SNP Government is doing and they haven't

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worked out how it will actually work. The SNP wants to match UK

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income tax rates in the year ahead. Like the Scottish Greens they think

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the extended income tax powers, coming in 2017, offer more scope for

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reform. Really we should be looking in the round at how the national and

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local tax powers are going to work together. Council tax has to go as

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well. We need to make sure that across the balance we're being

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progressive. Labour's 1p for local services is similar to the Liberal

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Democrats 1p for education. Our priority is for education for two

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simple reasons - to give everybody the opportunity to get up and get

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on, no matter what their background, but also to feed the skills that the

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economy needs. The Conservatives want to cut income tax when finances

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allow. The first thing the Labour Party has done is said it will whack

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workers for tax. The Scottish Conservatives are clear. We don't

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think you should pay more tax in Scotland and that you would do if

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you #4ri6d in other parts of the UK. Not since the SNP's 1p for Scotland

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plan in 1989 has income tax Not since the SNP's 1p for Scotland

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such a big Holyrood election issue. Voters rejected paying more then. In

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such a big Holyrood election issue. these tougher financial times,

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Labour hopes attitudes have changed. Glenn Campbell, Reporting Scotland.

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Meanwhile, the Scottish Government says it is "strongly opposed"

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to a European referendum being held in June because it would be too

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close to the Scottish Parliament elections in May.

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Our political correspondent, David Porter, is outside

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the European Commission headquarters in London for us tonight.

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A busy day. The SNP group at Westminster and other parties are

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not too keen on the prospect of a June referendum? No, they're not at

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all, Jackie. Politicians throughout the UK where ever they come from in

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the UK are crystal clear - they are aware of how important the EU

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referendum will be and how it could overshadow other political issues

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and indeed block those political issues out. It is for that reason

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they say there ought to be a decent time span between the elections for

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Holyrood in Cardiff and in Northern Ireland in May and an EU referendum.

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They say that there shouldn't be an EU referendum before September at

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the earliest. Today, they put that case to Ministers in the Commons. It

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simply cannot be right to have these elections and a referendum campaign

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clash with a June polling day on remaining in the EU. Will the

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Government now take the opportunity to confirm it will respect the

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electorates in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and London by not

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announcing a June referendum date? No decision has been take.

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Take.about a referendum date. Not least because we don't yet have a

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deal. We won't know until at the earliest the February European

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Council whether we do. At the end of the day it's a he d countries for

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the House the referendum date is set by statutory instrument subject to

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affirmative resolution here. Ministers have been careful about

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the language they use. They say that no deal has been struck. There is a

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feeling that if David Cameron goes to Brussels later this month and

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does manage to get an agreement he will want an EU referendum sooner

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rather than later. Unofficially, one date has been ringed in the

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calendar, that is June 23rd. It means potentially if that date was

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the date for the EU refer ref voters in Scotland could be asked to go to

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the polls in successive months in May and June to decide two very big

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political issues. One thing we can be certain of though Jackie is,

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there will be no shortage of politics in the weeks and months

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ahead. Thank you very much, David. New figures suggest

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Emergency Departments in Scottish hospitals recorded their best

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December performance 95% of people were dealt with within

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the Scottish Government's target It is the best performance

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in Scotland since 2009. Figures for the rest of the UK

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are released at different times, but overall Scottish Emergency

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Departments are treating people more quickly than England,

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Wales or Northern Ireland. A Scottish holidaymaker,

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who died after being attacked by an elephant in Thailand,

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has been named locally He's said to have been thrown

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by the animal after it turned on its handler during an outing

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on the island of Koh Samui. It's understood Mr Crowe's

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teenage daughter escaped Our correspondent,

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Daniela Relph, reports. Behind the trees is Golf the

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elephant, still with the seat on its back. It's the one Gareth Crowe and

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his daughter were riding, the one who attacked them. It's thought

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Gareth Crowe was thrown off as the elephant handler tried to take a

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photo. So the reports said the handler had struck the elephant a

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number of times. A local vet who examined the animal said the

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elephant's behaviour could have stemmed from the hot weather and it

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being stressed. It may have been startled by something, he said.

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Elephant trekking remains a popular activity for tourist in Thailand.

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It's an increasingly controversial choice. Animal welfare groups say

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elephants are subjected to brutal treatment to make them submissive

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and able to train. But they remain unpredictable. If you saw an

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elephant in the wild you would literally run a mile. You would

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never go anywhere near it because it's so dangerous. It is one of the

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most dangerous animals in the world. For it to have been forced into this

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type of submission is because of this repeated beating and cruelty.

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At the camp where Gareth Crowe died vets found elephants chained to

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trees, others looked poorly cared for. Some of the world's biggest

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travel companies now refuse to promote elephant treks, knowing the

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dangers tourists face. You're watching Reporting Scotland,

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still to come on tonight's Is it time to get smart

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with our electricity meters? In sport, it's the start

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of the Six Nations campaign. We find out more about the Scotland

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coach, Vern Cotter. Aberdeen boss, Derek McInness,

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wants an investigation into the collapse of their transfer

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bid for Inverness midfielder, The heavy rain of the last few weeks

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has brought flooding misery to many communities and has focussed

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attention on what needs to be done More than 40 new flood defences

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are planned for Scotland over the next five years,

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costing more than ?200 million. Andrew Anderson's been to see one

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which, even before it's complete, The River flowing quickly but

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gently, compared to a few weeks ago. The river skirts around the southern

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end of Brechin it's not always so benign. It burst its bank many times

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in recent years, flooding nearby homes, bringing misery to residents.

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We had several events of flooding which has affected over 250-300

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houses. We decided that we needed to look at how we would prevent that

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for those people. Some ?14 million is being spent on new flood

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protection. 9 scheme you can yous a wall running along the banks of the

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river for nearly a mile. It's due to be completed in the coming months

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but has already been tested. This is the aftermath of Storm Frank. It

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looks bad. The flood defences did their job, protecting most of the

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homes near the river. The scheme is under construction. It diddle

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protect a lot of the properties from flooding. Unfortunately, four

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properties which did get flooded, but in general terms the scheme

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worked well. Those four houses flooded because this older wall

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collapsed, the force of the water had sent a fallen tree crashing

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through it. We will be taking lessons from that. The wall itself,

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where the multi-million-pound residents are hopeful when the river

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level next rises they can rest easier. If it hadn't been for that

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we would have been you up the creek. We would have been. Not the best to

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look at it. The water will stay behind. That's right. It's due to be

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completed in the next few months. We are being warned to expect more

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extreme weather like we've seen in the last few weeks as a result of

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climate change and doubtless other communities across Scotland will be

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looking to have similar defence schemes to protect them against

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flooding. BP says its shedding up to 3,000

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more jobs from its operations across the world, blaming falling

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oil prices for a big drop Its Chief Executive has said

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the current situation is as bad as what happened back in 1986,

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when a crash in the oil price So can we learn anything,

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from what happened then? Our business correspondent,

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David Henderson, has been These are tough times for BP

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and those who rely on it. Three weeks ago, the company

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announced plans to lay-off about 600 Today, they've said even more

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of their global workforce will have to go, in another

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round of cost-cutting. The collapse in the price of oil has

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also hammered the company's profits. Today, BP posted their largest

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annual loss for over 20 years. The whole industry is feeling

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the pain in a way it Three decades ago a booming industry

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was hit hard. The Chief Executive Day individual Walker refused to be

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interviewed on television. At a briefing wo journalists he said a

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decision to make 750 employees redundant had not been taking

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rashly. It got worse. The price of oil throughout the world is

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plummeting. North Sea oil fell to its lowest level for more than six

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years. Some will be sold for less than $20 a barrel. That is half what

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it was costing in the early 80s. And worse. The cost of a barrel

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it was costing in the early 80s. And fell to less than

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it was costing in the early 80s. And lost. My pass was handed in. Cut in

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two. Just escorted out 9 building. Disused rigs littered Scotland's

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coastline. These echoes from the past are frightening investors and

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producers today. Will it be quick or take decades to recover like last

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time. China's demand for oil is take decades to recover like last

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still growing, but not so fast. A boom in shale oil leaves America

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less reliant on imports. Saudi Arabia's refusing to cut back oil

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production. Arabia's refusing to cut back oil

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recovery to anything like $100 a barrel that is if ever

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recovery to anything like $100 a into the future. One the other key

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parallels with the situation that we've got at the moment is that

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technology in the form of US shale has once again proved able to

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commercialise a lot of hydro-carbon that was otherwise uncommercial.

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That genie is not that was otherwise uncommercial.

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bottle. The cost of extracting oil from the North Sea doesn't get

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cheaper. To make it happen, producers like BP have to invest.

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That's hard if they are barely making a profit.

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So oil companies operating in the North Sea and their workforces

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are watching the price of oil like a hawk.

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Well, the boss of BP, Bob Dudley, thinks a barrel of oil will increase

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in price from around $30 now to about $50 by the end of the year.

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Some say that's wrong and that price will keep going down and down

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because of massive over-supply around the world.

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We've seen Scotland's oil industry falter then bounce back before.

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But we don't yet know if that's any guide to the future.

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A look at other stories from across the country.

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Police investigating a rape in Aberdeen city centre are trying

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to trace a group of people, thought to be students.

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A woman was attacked around 3.00am last Thursday in Union Terrace

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The five men and one woman were seen leaving a takeaway on Belmont Street

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before heading towards the area where the attack took place.

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The Tay Road Bridge will close for a short time tonight for repairs

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Wind speeds on the crossing reached 100 miles an hour during its height,

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causing damage to the tops of some lighting columns.

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The southbound carriageway will close for approximately half

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Moray Council has abandoned plans to breach the Council tax freeze

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The authority has calculated that any financial gains would be wiped

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out by penalties imposed by the Scottish Government.

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The Council leader says they'll do their utmost to avoid cuts

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Detectives have been carrying out door-to-door enquiries in Glasgow

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after a man died in the early hours of this morning.

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He was found in Elizabeth Street in the Govan area at around 2.00am

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and pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

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His death is being treated as suspicious.

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Scottish Power is cutting its standard domestic gas prices

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by an average of 5.4% from the middle of March.

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It is the third supplier to announce such a drop

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Scottish Power says the reduction will benefit over a million

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consumers and will take an average ?32 from the annual

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It follows announcements of roughly similar reductions by SSE and E.ON.

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It's the time of year when many of us are receiving hefty gas and

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electricity bills. Smart metres were designed to help us reduce the

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amount of energy we use. But their introduction hasn't gone entirely

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smoothly. Is it time to switch? Our environment correspondent reports.

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You are going to be seeing a lot of these on television and cinema

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screens this year. A major drive is under way to convince Scots of the

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merits of smart metres. Yvonne has already made the switch here at her

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West Lothian home. She's now able to see exactly how much energy she's

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using and what it's costing. I don't use my tumble dryer as much now. I

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bought a clothes horse and put it in the spare room. If it's a good day I

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hang the clothes out. Before I was putting it until the tumble dryer

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and it was the easy Everything will be accurate. No

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itemised bills. The customer can see the readings on that and doesn't

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need to see the metres or look at the metres. Metre readings are sent

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direct to your energy company. For some customers that's already led to

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problems when they've switched supplier. Energy saving smart metres

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in every UK home and business by 2020... And MPs have warned the UK

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could fail to meet the deadline of installing smart metres in every

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home by the end of the decade. Despite the project's ?11 billion

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budget. Once you have a smart metre, you use that data. It's an uphill

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task, but we are still being told smart metres will bring important

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benefits. Especially for those who use prepayment metres or struggle to

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pay their bills. Bills are real time, no more estimated. You are

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paying what you are actually using. For a lot of consumers that's really

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important especially those in fuel poverty. They only want to pay what

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they're using. From the cost of tea to the cost of a Bath smart metres

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are set to give us lots to think about in the years ahead.

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Now the sport. Good evening.

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Vern Cotter will demand his players are clinical at this year's

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The Scotland campaign kicks off against England on Saturday.

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The former Scotland captain Jason White played under Cotter

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for three years in France and says he can see similarities with the way

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he's going about his business at Murrayfield.

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It's a stare we have come to can't from a no-nonsense coach. From the

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kiwi tasked with leading Scotland back to rugby respectability. He may

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have been in charge here for 18 months but there is still a sense

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that not many people get to sroe the real Vern Cotter the man behind that

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steely glare. One man who does is former Scotland

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captain Jason White who played for Cotter at French side Clermont. He

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is definitely more of an intro vert. He is a relatively simple man. You

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work hard for him, you are honest, you give it all for the jersey then

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he is great to work for. That approach has yielded success in

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France and his native New Zealand. But he is very much old school.

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Obviously if things don't go right, and he is really hard on us, but

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that's what we need to happen. Making a mistake and not learning

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from him annoys him, if that happens we see a different side to Vern. The

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Six Nations ended without a victory. What can we now expect from Cotter's

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team? We will see the hallmark of his style of play, reminiscent of

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how Clermont played. Attack, be adventurous but you must be clinical

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and ruthless in what you do and that's the hallmark of Cotter's

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rugby for me. A smiling Cotter means that's the hallmark of Cotter's

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a winning Cotter. It's a sight Scottish rugby wants to see. Let's

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hope so! Derek McInness says he'd welcome

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an investigation into the collapse here's our senior football

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reporter Chris McLaughlin. The Inverness man is a wanted man.

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Last night Aberdeen bid The Inverness man is a wanted man.

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agreeing Tansey. They thought that would make him theirs.

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agreeing Tansey. They thought that unclear why he isn't here. We feel

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he should be. New faces at training sessions around the country today,

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evidence that other deals did go through. This Turkish striker born

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and raised in England, one of two new faces who arrived at Celtic. If

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I tell you the truth I didn't really want to come back to Britain.

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Honestly. But but when this opportunity came it was like obvious

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decision. So, one success story and another of frustration.

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But in total, 15 players come into the Scottish Premiership yesterday

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alone, those deals involving seven of the 12 top sides. A sign perhaps

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that clubs are feeling better about their finances. We know they've gone

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through a period of real prudence and real belt-tightening. But

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Aberdeen didn't get Greg Tansey but they put in a ?200,000 bid. Hearts

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have paid a they put in a ?200,000 bid. Hearts

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Subjecter. Rangers buying again at a reasonable level, half a million.

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Celtic are always reasonable level, half a million.

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spend a bit of money. Tansey stays reasonable level, half a million.

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will open again for business in the summer.

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The newest non-executive director of the SPFL says society needs

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Karyn McCluskey has been brought in from the Scottish Violence Reduction

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She says she's taken the job in the hope of keeping young fans

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at games free from exposure to racism, sexism and violence.

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I think everybody needs to challenge it. There can be no by-standers. If

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you are standing by, people need to say, don't do that. There needs to

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be a change. That needs to be everybody does it because you can't

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police your way out of this. You can't police bad behaviour out of

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society. It needs to be society itself that starts to change. A big

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job in hand there. That's tonight's sport. Thank you very much. Now here

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is the weather. Now details of Scotland 2016. We ask

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if the penny for Scotland plan could really deliver a radical alternative

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to austerity. And fresh from the jungle at Calais, a French aid

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workers tells us of his shock at the conditions for refugees in his own

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country. Join me at 10. 30pm on BBC Two.

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We are all set to amaze you now with details of spectacular clouds but

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that George beat us to it! He has stolen my thunder as it were.

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Yes weather watchers have outdone themselves sending in pictures of

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these clouds. Most of our clouds form about ten

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miles up. These form higher than that, in the super cold statosphere.

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The sun light refracts. It gives them a glorious appearance. Unusual

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to see here but something we are more familiar with these days,

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winter weather warnings from The Met Office. One tonight is yellow,

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meaning be aware, it's for ice and affecting most of of the country.

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Tonight we have showers in play and as they track south and meet the

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cold air there will be a wintry flavour to some of those showers.

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Snow above about 200 metres. For southern Scotland, difficult

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conditions over some higher level roads. Snow even to low levels in

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the showers across the north. Once those showers go and most of them

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will do, that's when we see things icing over, slippery surfaces to

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contend with as tech tures dip to freezing, if not slightly below. A

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cold and wintry start to tomorrow. There will be ice in places but

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actually a cracking day across much of the country. Winds much lighter

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and mainly dry, bright and good spells of crisp winter sunshine.

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Taking a closer look around 3.00pm, there will be a few showers flirting

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with the stran rash coast. Further inland fine, dry, good spells of

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sunshine. The same for Fife and much of Aberdeenshire. Still showers to

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northern Aberdeenshire. The north-west coast, as well as the

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northern and Western Isles. They'll be wintry even to low levels but no

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more than a dusting of snow at most. Tomorrow evening we see a weather

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front moving in, that will be rain and sleet at low levels, it will

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bring snow to higher ground. Potentially tricky conditions for a

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time. Thursday, there is a change. We introduce much milder air from

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the Atlantic but with that a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain.

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Brightness to start the day in the north-east. But generally it's a

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includedy prospect. Most of that rain will be light and patchy and

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you will notice a much milder feel. Temperatures getting up into double

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figures for the first time in a while. Friday, it's still cloudy. We

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will see outbreaks of rain and this stuff will be heavier. This weather

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front could come to a halt across the south and we could see issues

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with flooding. We will keep you posted.

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A bit of respite and then it all starts again! Thank you very much.

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Our next update is just after the 10.00pm news.

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Until then, from everyone on the team - right

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across the country - have a very good evening.

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