04/02/2016 Reporting Scotland

The full re-opening of the Forth Road Bridge has been

Heavy lorries have been banned from the bridge since it was forced

to close in December, when a crack was found

Cars and lighter vehicles were allowed back after three weeks.

The Road Haulage Association says it's disappointed by the decision

For the HGV drivers forced to take the long way round,

progress of a sort but not what they would be hoping for.

The freedom of the Forth Road Bridge by mid February

Instead, the revised offer is limited night-time access

The HGV trial begins at 11 o'clock tonight.

What it means in practice is that lorries will be stacked up

at the south end of the bridge, and allowed to cross

They will be released at 30 second intervals,

no more than six at a time on the bridge, and only allowed

The recent bad weather is one reason for the delay,

but engineers also discovered the same faults which closed

the bridge in the first place, at two other locations,

The fact that we introduced the phase one splints mitigates

the situation, however, the links are still under stress

during full traffic loading, hence the plan to introduce

Less congestion since cars were reduced.

They say they want compensation from the Scottish Government.

It becomes increasingly problematic when you are trying to price

for tenders, particularly ones which are coming out at the end

of February, beginning of March, when we were told

I appreciate the disruption and economic impact it causes

to the HGV sector, but it is important that we make

the right decisions based on the safety of the bridge

MPs and engineers alike say that by mid-March the work will be done.

Drivers are being asked for their cooperation and patience.

An Edinburgh lawyer has been cleared of causing the deaths of three

people, including his wife and seven-year-old daughter,

Andrew Houston was at the wheel of his car on the A9 near Newtonmore

when it crossed the road into the path of another car.

Craig Anderson reports from Inverness Sheriff Court.

The horrific accident happened on a July evening in 2013,

when Andrew Houston was driving his family south

Witnesses said his car suddenly veered onto the wrong side

of the road, smashing into a Jeep driven by a German tourist.

Her husband was killed, so too was Mr Houston's wife Abigail

Mr Houston had faced a charge of causing death by careless

driving, but a jury found him not guilty of that charge,

instead convicting him of the lesser charge of careless driving.

We are shocked at this verdict and believe justice has not been

We do not bear any hatred for Mr Houston.

I did not want him to go to prison, but we expected him to be found

guilty and we are convinced this tragedy could have been avoided.

The crash seriously injured Mr Houston's other daughter Lily.

She spent considerable time in intensive care.

During the trial, the solicitor advocate was visibly upset

Mr Hewson made no comment as he left court.

He has been fined ?1,000 and banned from driving for a year.

But as the trial continued, the QC told the court

that he would forever carry the burden of guilt and distress.

Two people have been injured in an accident at the SSE

It happened earlier this evening at the Nitro Motocross arena show.

It's thought they were audience members who'd volunteered to take

The Scottish Secretary David Mundell is suggesting the Scottish

government are "chancing their arm" in budget negotiations

Talks under way are aiming to ensure that the cut in the money Scotland

receives as its share of UK taxes is matched by the cash raised

by new tax powers being offered to Holyrood.

Scottish Ministers are dismissing his comments,

warning the current offer would cut billions from the amount of money

the Scottish government has to spend.

This from our political editor Brian Taylor.

The trade is a cut in the block grant from Westminster.

The First Minister says she wants an agreement,

but Scottish Government sources say the current offer would add up

to ?3 billion of Scotland's budget over a decade.

That means, she told the Scottish Conservative

I will stand up for Scotland in these talks.

I will not accept the deal that would give Scotland more powers

but only at a big cost for our budget.

If Ruth Davidson wants the deal as well, can I suggest she gets

onto the phone to her colleagues today and tell them to stop arguing

for a deal that would strip billions of pounds out of Scotland's budget?

Treasury officials spent the day at St Andrews House trying

John Swinney has led the talks with the Treasury.

UK ministers say he should now back down.

I don't blame John Swinney for pushing his luck and saying

I want to keep the Barnett Formula and any extra money we generate

in Scotland, I did want to take on any extra risks

and if there is any extra money generated

in England I will have a share of that as well.

Perfectly reasonable to chance his arm.

The next round of talks is on Monday.

Business rates will be cut for the Tata steel plants

at Clydebridge and Dalzell in Lanarkshire, in order to make

them more appealing to potential buyers.

The Scottish government will legislate to give the rates

relief to the plants for the next financial year.

A bill to improve the lives of carers was been passed

Young carers met the minister in charge of the bill

It's designed to make local authorities give more support

Some of the young people explained how their duties impact

I sometimes will be late for school just to get to my brothers ready.

I sometimes will be late for school And sometimes my mum would help, but

she has not been keeping well. I And sometimes my mum would help, but

repeating a year at school because of it and I can't concentrate when

I'm there or do any work. So it is affecting things.

Around a dozen GPs have been appointed to long-term vacant posts

in the Highlands and Islands as a result of a high-profile

NHS Highland has struggled to recruit and retain doctors.

Faced with the costs of hiring locums, the health board used

a marketing company to help attract applicants.

MSPs have rejected a bill to ban alcohol advertising within 200

Labour's Dr Richard Simpson also proposed marking cans and bottles

But Ministers argued the issues raised would be better dealt

with by the government's own strategy to tackle alcohol

misuse and the legislation was thrown out.

Scotland's latest tennis champion has arrived back home and says he's

overwhelmed by the response he's had to his win at the Australian Open

Helensburgh's Gordon Reid won the singles wheelchair title

Even a grand slam winner has to help their brother

with the dishes, especially the morning after

A lot of my friends and family came round and surprised me when I got

It was great to share that with everyone else.

Ladies and gentlemen, our champion, Gordon Reed!

We are used to seeing Gordon and his wheelchair on court,

I can walk around a lot of places back home.

I don't have the strength in my legs to run and play sport in my feet,

that is why I need the wheelchair for wheelchair tennis.

I go to interviews and schools and people expect the wheelchair

I've walked in, it takes them a few minutes to understand what is going

on. Gordon was sports mad

from a very young age, winning cups for his tennis,

that is his sister, This photo was taken weeks

before he contracted It was hard for him

to be lying in a bed because he was so into sport

and we were quite an active family. Once he got the opportunity

to play wheelchair tennis, he absolutely loved it

from playing tennis before. It has been hard work and for Gordon

there is more gym training We have to do more gym training

for upper body strength to have the strength to push

the wheelchair around on court. In an arm wrestling competition,

could you take on Andy Murray? I will not say anything on camera

in case I get challenged, Wimbledon and the Paralympics in Rio

are all to come for him and he has plans to compete in

Rotterdam next week. I did not even know that wheelchair

tennis existed at the grand slams, so to come here 11 years later

and be sitting here as the champion with that trophy,

it is quite incredible. It has been a brilliant

journey so far. Now the weather outlook

for tonight and tomorrow. Some wet and windy but weather to

come across the UK. The issues with frost honoured. Across the south,

the rain might be light and patchy but something more persistent across

Shetland and the rain turning heavier and persistent over the

West, Highlands and Argyll. There's winds becoming strong along the

coast, but it'll be my alter. Tomorrow, it is a mild start but a

grey one. The rain goes eastwards, always heaviest in the West, and in

particular the south-west where we have a yellow be aware warning from

the Met Office. Difficult road conditions, perhaps localised

flooding. A little bit of brightness in the east, but it'll be fairly

short lived with the cloud filling in as the rain continues south and

eastwards across the country. So brighter but colder conditions in

the West. Some heavy rain for Cumbria with 40 millimetres of rain.

In the south, light and patchy but the winds will be a feature,

touching go force around the West Coast. Through the evening the front

continues at progress southwards bringing heavy rain for Wales.

Across Scotland, some snow on the back edge of that weather front as

cooler feeds in across the back edge of that weather front as

with snow confined to the high ground and wintry showers for the

north-west Highlands with a risk of ice into Saturday. On Saturday,

there is wet and windy weather. Very poor conditions for the South of

England. Gale force winds, heavy rain, and for Scotland, another

blustery day with rain tracking northwards. The best of the

brightness over the Northern Isles. Temperatures inching down. Cooler on

Sunday, too, staying unsettled with strong winds. That is the forecast.

Our next update is during Breakfast at 6:25am tomorrow morning.

But, from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around