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That is all from the BBC News at Six. It's goodbye from me. On BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
One we join the BBC's news teams where you are. Goodbye. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
After months of negotiation an agreement is finally reached | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
between the Scottish and UK governments over future | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
More than a year after contracting ebola, | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
the Lanarkshire nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, is again | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
airlifted to hospital in London for treatment. | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
I live in Aberdeen. The offshore industry warns that the falling | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
price of oil leaves it on the edge of a chasm. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
The murder of this teenager at an Aberdeen school - | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
a 16 year old boy is to go on trial next week. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Rescuing migrants from the Mediterrainean. | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
We hear the harrowing experiences of a volunteer from Ayr. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
And time to hop to it - after two years without a win | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
in the six nations an appeal for Scotland fans to stick | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
A last-minute deal has been done which secures new tax | :00:57. | :01:13. | |
The agreement between the Treasury and the Scottish Government followed | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
a day of drama and behind the scenes talks. | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
The First Minister says it means not a penny will be cut from Scotland's | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Budget. The Chancellor says Holyrood will now be answerable to voters | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
over tax and spending. From Holyrood, here's our political | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
editor Brian Taylor. After a day of intense negotiation, | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs a deal had been done with the Treasury. My | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
camera port of Parliament that there is now an agreement in principle | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
that I believe we can recommend to Parliament. The plan to give | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Scotland control of all income tax rates and bands will now go ahead | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
from next year. The deal sets out how and by how much the Westminster | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
block grant is cut in future. The Treasury had wanted a system which | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
might have meant cuts in Scotland's Budget if the Scottish population | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
decline and the tax take was lower, but Scottish ministers resisted that | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
fiercely. The agreement now is that there will be no automatic cut in | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
the Budget for six years and that after that there would be a review | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
but without prejudice or defaulting to the Treasury plan. They said the | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
initial Treasury plan would have cut the Budget by ?7 billion over a | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
decade. There will not be 7 billion, or ?3 billion of detriment. This | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
deal will not allow a single pound or even a penny to be taken from the | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Scottish Government's Budget. It delivers on the vow we made | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
to the people of Scotland. It is fair to the taxpayers | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
of all of the UK. And it gives Scotland | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
one of the most powerful, devolved | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
parliament in the world. I think the debate will now shift | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
from whether Scotland has these tax and spending powers to how they are | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
used to the benefit of the Scottish people. Tonight's agreement sets out | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
a packet and opens the door to a new phase in Scotland's political story. | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
Brian joins us now. This was a key part of the deal following the | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
independence referendum, but it has taken some time. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
It has taken some time because, Jackie, it is a key part of a very | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
big deal. There have been concessions on both sides. The | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Scottish Government has got all it wanted in terms of paying for the | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
costs of transition. They have had to agree that there would be | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
independent scrutiny of the Scottish economy, not just because generated | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
from within the Scottish Government. On the other hand, however, the | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Treasury have had to make big concessions, as well. They have had | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
to concede, basically, that the proposal they made for their model | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
to be used when to be happening in that way. It will be a model which | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
is typically used. But over the next six years it will be tweaked to make | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
sure a penny -- make sure not a penny in cut as a consequence of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
devolution. They will then be an open discussion between the two | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
governments to take place after the next round of elections. The big | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
prize for both sides, for Scotland and Holyrood, securing the tax | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
powers, securing control of welfare, securing borrowing powers. It will | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
transform the Scottish election into a debate over the use of those | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
powers. The big gains in the UK Government, they are able to argue | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
that Scotland is now fiscally responsible. The Holyrood parliament | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
behind me is responsible for spending, it is responsible for tax, | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
and that builds a narrative whereby they say Scotland is determining its | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
own affairs and not, as they would argue, reliant upon the remainder of | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
the UK. Thanks very much. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
The Lanarkshire nurse Pauline Cafferkey is on her way | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
to hospital in London for the third time, after routine monitoring | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
picked up another complication of the ebola virus. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
She was originally infected whilst treating victims in Sierra Leone, | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
and survived a second infection last October | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
She is being treated again by experts at the Royal Free | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford reports. | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
The nightmare continues for Lanarkshire nurse Pauline Cafferkey. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
Today she was, for the third time, on her way to specialist care in | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
London. She appeared to be walking unaided but was still surrounded by | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
the highest infection control measures as she was transferred to | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
the Hercules aircraft at Glasgow airport. It marks yet another twist | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
in her extraordinary story. Pauline was admitted to hospital with the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
bowler at the end of 2014 following her return from Sierra Leone. -- | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
with Ebola virus. Doctors said she had made a full recovery in a month. | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
Speaking in autumn she hoped the worst was behind her. Started with a | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
few problems. My hair fell out. It has taken me a good few months to | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
recover from it. That is the thing, you just don't know in the | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
long-term, either. Hopefully this is it, this is the end of it, but we | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
don't know. But nothing could have it, this is the end of it, but we | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
prepared her for the turn of events. The virus re-emerged, having lived | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
on in her brain and spinal fluid and cause meningitis. She survived being | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
critically ill a second time but was monitored more closely. The | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
monitoring team picked up something more unusual, which has led to | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
today's admission to hospital. Probably more has been learnt about | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Ebola virus from Pauline than any other person on this planet. She is | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
probably the most investigated case on Ebola on planet Earth at the | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
moment. That investigation will help her. It will help the medical and | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
nursing team look after her, which is their primary thing. It will help | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
the rest of us gathered knowledge about this infection. Specialist at | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
the Royal free have said only that Pauline Cafferkey is suffering from | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
the Royal free have said only that another late complication of the | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Ebola virus. The outbreak may have been declared over, but Pauline's | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
case shows us how much we have to learn. -- Royal Free. | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
Exploration is at an all-time low in the North Sea - | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Tonight we are taking an in-depth look at the crisis and its | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
consequences. Over the last 18 months the price of | :07:38. | :07:50. | |
oil has fallen a very long way. And as a result the offshore industry, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
based in Aberdeen, has shed tens of thousands of jobs. But difficult | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
days still lie ahead with investment levels falling very fast. The | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
industry is having to scramble to save money. They are now calling on | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
the Chancellor to step in, to safeguard North Sea production. This | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
is how when oil firm saves $15 million. The boss of Chevron talks | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
to the team on one of his offshore platforms to maximise production. | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
How are things going today? The drilling operations impact... The | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
company has also cut more than 300 jobs in the face of plummeting oil | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
prices. The challenges are numerous. They are hitting us from a number of | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
angles. It is important to continue working collaboratively, with more | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
innovation, and even increased collaboration to get our costs down, | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
improve efficiency, and further reduce the tax burden over time. The | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
industry, here and across the UK, has had to work hard to adapt to | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
lower oil prices. Last year it cost nearly $30 to produce a barrel of | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
oil. Now, thanks to a efficiency is and tens of thousands of job losses, | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
that cost has been driven down to around $20 a barrel, but it still | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
isn't enough. Around half the oil fields are still running at a loss. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
And if that is worrying, considered huge investment plans. Over the last | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
five years the industry has spent around ?8 billion a year on new | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
projects. That is the level of investment. This year they only plan | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
to invest around ?1 billion. With everything that means for jobs and | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
production. And that has prompted a clear warning. The industry is | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
really trying to fight for its survival in the years ahead. What we | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
have seen is investment falling so survival in the years ahead. What we | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
that new investment has come to an all-time low. And indeed, | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
exploration. In a more positive view, production is up and getting | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
better but unless we keep investing we have a very stark future in the | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
North Sea. So what helped as the industry need to help with the low | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
price of oil? -- help. There are calls for a cut in tax paid for by | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
oil producers. We are paying 30% corporation tax. 10% more than the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
normal rate. On top of that, there is a supplementary tax, which was | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
introduced taking into account higher oil prices and what they | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
called excess profits. Doesn't make sense to have both of these. With | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
less than a month until the Chancellor unveiling his Budget, it | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
is clear now where oil firms want George Osborne to go. Further tax | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
breaks might be on their agenda, but it is unclear if they are on his. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
That is how the industry is seeing things tonight but it isn't just | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
people working offshore, or working in the oil industry who are feeling | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the pain. There is a knock-on impact for people right across the | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
north-east of Scotland working in allsorts of businesses, who are also | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
losing their jobs, losing a livelihood, because of the downturn | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
in the North Sea industry. A Cachopa the copy for these friends | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
in an Aberdeen cafe. They are not here for gossip, they are trying to | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
help each other find jobs. -- catch-up for Coffey. Each of these | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
people have been made redundant in the last year, victims of the North | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Sea downturn. -- coffee. I have a couple of kids. They are so used to | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
seeing me and their dad going out for work, they are now asking about | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
how much things cost, should we be spending this amount of money, when | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
will you get a job? And there is a knock on effect, particularly when | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
middle income jobs are lost. I had a chap doing some gardening for me. I | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
had somebody earning for me on a weekly basis. I haven't seen my | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
butcher since the turn of the year. All of these ancillary people that | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
you own salary supports also need to be considered. Aberdeen has been | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
reliant on the oil industry for decades and it has prospered. That | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
steady flow of income is drying up, though, at least for now. But it | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
isn't just workers within the oil industry who are affected. Across | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
isn't just workers within the oil the region thousands of jobs are at | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
risk. Hotel room revenues continue to slide with employers cutting back | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
on staff. Restaurants say their to slide with employers cutting back | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
earnings are also down with people spending less when they dine out. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Many who have lost jobs are wary about speaking out, they are worried | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
they might damage their future prospects. That isn't a problem for | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Bill Bruce who runs his own chauffeuring business, ferrying | :13:05. | :13:05. | |
well-heeled executives around Aberdeen. We have to look at cutting | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
back because of the lack of work that is going on in Aberdeen at the | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
moment. Obviously it isn't just our company, it is other companies. We | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
have had to lay off two people in the last three months. Big oil | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
companies can sustain a certain percentage of their staff, but for | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
smaller companies it has a knock on effect. Disappearing jobs and in | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
many cases reduced hours it is a scenario for the north-east that | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
doesn't seem likely to change any time soon. | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
I am now joined by James Brame, many thanks for joining us tonight. We | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
heard in that report from people who thanks for joining us tonight. We | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
are having to cut back on spending, having to lay off staff, who are | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
losing jobs themselves, how widespread is that feeling now? It | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
is without doubt challenging times in the North East. It is not just | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
the North Sea operators feeling a difficult environment. We are seeing | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
supply chain companies feeling it, but also people like hoteliers, | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
restaurant owners, and retailers as we start to see the reduced impact | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
from households take hold. The oil and gas industry completely | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
dominates this economy. We can see it here. The Vista here at Aberdeen | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
harbour. Is there a plan B? Are there other ways here for people to | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
earn a living? This is a resilient region. We have a long-term economic | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
plan here. That is the good news. The oil and gas sector will | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
diversify. It will be a success and continue to be a success | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
internationally and in the North Sea with research and innovate. But we | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
will also look at other sectors were just wrong already. The food and | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
drink sector is one. -- which are strong already. There is a long-term | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
regeneration here. We need to secure those plans and if we do there is a | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
bright future for the north-east. Thanks very much. All eyes are now | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
on the Chancellor ahead of his Budget next month with many voices | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
here calling for him to step in to cut tax, to safeguard the offshore | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
industry. Thanks very much. | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
A sixteen year-old boy is to go on trial at the High Court | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
in Aberdeen next week, charged with the murder of a pupil | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
The youth, whose identity is protected by law, | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
appeared during a preliminary hearing in Glasgow this morning. | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
Here's our Home Affairs correspondent, Reevel Alderson. | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
16-year-old Bailey Gwynne was a pupil at Cults Academy in Aberdeen | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
when he was fatally stabbed at the school in October of last year. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Today another 16-year-old, whose name is protected by law, appeared | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
before the High Court in Glasgow charged with his murder. In an eight | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
minute hearing at the High Court in Glasgow the judge was told that the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
teenager who appeared in the dock wearing a grey sweater and black | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
trousers, admitted killing Bailey but denied murdering him. Alec | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
Prentis QC told the court the Crown declines stack set the offer of | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
guilty to the culpable homicide charge it will proceed to trial on | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
the murder charge. The accused use is alleged to have carried knives | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
and knuckle-dusters into the school on various occasions over a two-year | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
period. He denies these charges and also fighting with Bailey and | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
murdering him with a knife. His trial, expected to last five days, | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
will begin in Aberdeen next Tuesday. More than 8,000 people across the UK | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
are being asked to get They've all been treated by a former | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
surgeon at NHS Lanarkshire who's Our reporter Catriona | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
Renton joins me. The employee who was a surgeon | :17:10. | :17:21. | |
tested positive in 2008. He stopped doing surgical work at that point. | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
It wasn't thought necessary to contact patients at that time. Last | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
year though it was discovered that one patient had contracted the virus | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
and a second was identified. Both were thought to have caught it | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
during surgery. The doctor had worked in Lanarkshire. Letters have | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
been sent to 8,000 people in Scotland and the UK who may have | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
been treated by the doctor between 1982 and 2008. 000 of those people | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
are in Lanarkshire. The Heath board said there Salou risk. They are | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
advising people to take the I understand people test. Will be | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
naturally concerned about this. The reason is that the treatment | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
available is very effective. Of course we will do the testing as | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
quickly as possible, turn that around, so patients can be reassured | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
very quickly. Now, 115 clinics have been set up over the next four weeks | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
so people can get that blood test. There is a helpline set up by the | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
health board. Experts say they think less than one in every 1,000 of | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
those contacted will likely to have caught the virus. Quite possibly | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
no-one at all. 5% of those treated for help tie Tulse C are treated | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
successfully according to health officials. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
An emergency tug boat covering the north of Scotland will stay | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
The contract for the existing emergency towing vessel, | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
based in Orkney, was due to run out at the end of March causing concern | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
From Shetland, John Johnston reports. | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
It's a day Jim Dixon will never forget. The 5th January 1993. This | :19:04. | :19:15. | |
oil tanker loses power off Shetland. He was winched aboard to get a tow | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
line attached to save her. The ship heaved up and came down a long way. | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
She touched the rock. The vessel started to vibrate. A shudder. Then | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
we quickly realised there was little we could do. The official report saw | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
the introduction of a network of four publicly funded salvage tugs | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
around the UK coastline. Today just one remains. It's based in Orkney | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
covering the waters around the northern isles. It was due to go at | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
the end of March much now the Government has given it a six month | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
reprieve. I've instructed the MCA to make immediate arrangements to | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
extend the provision of a Government-funded emergency toe to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
youing vessel. 700 miles north in Shetland Jim Dixon argues ale rage | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
tug is vital. This area, the worst weather in the United Kingdom. We | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
need an emergency response vessel. A final division on whether the UK | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Government will pay for the to youing vessel will be made in the | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
autumn. The battle to keep it continues here in the northern | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
isles. The Scotland rugby captain, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Greig Laidlaw, is pleading with fans It's been two years since | :20:33. | :20:45. | |
Scotland recorded a victory They head to Rome this weekend | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
aiming to avoid losing their tenth From Murrayfield, | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
here's Phil Goodlad. These are strange times at | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Murrayfield, the national team in it is worst run in defeats in the Six | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Nations for over 60 years. You would think the clock would be well | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
ticking on head coach and his players. Yet in the stadium on the | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
face of it, there remains calm amongst the squad. Take the. Cap | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
town seeing the positives amid the current losing streak. We are right | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
in these games, we just need to find that little bit extra to win these | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
games and tip nem our favour. -- them. When do you think they need to | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
question the coach and players? I don't think we do. We are playing | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
good rugby. We are performing better than what the results have been so | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
far. This weekend will be the one. That's a big statement from the | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
players. There is also a plea tonight to the fans. You know, stick | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
by us. I know they will. That's Scottish mentality. There will be | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
by us. I know they will. That's travelling support to Rome. We are | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
going over there to win that game as much as for them as for ourselves. | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
Scotland must turn good performances into victories or the clock may | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
start ticking for those involved. Andy Murray's first match | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
since becoming a Dad will be in next week's Davis Cup tie in Birmingham, | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
alongside his big brother Jamie. The Murrays helped Britain win | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
the competition for the first time in nearly 80 years by beating | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Belgium in November. They start the defence | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
of their trophy against Japan. The Japanese have the former US Open | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
finalist Kay Nishikori Celtic have been fined 13,000 euros, | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
just over ?10,000, by the European That's after supporters set off | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
flares during a game It happened during their Europa | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
League match against Fenerbatchey. Part of the fine is for the conduct | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
of the team, receiving five or more Celtic's womens' team have | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
signed a Danish winger - nothing so unusual about that | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
you could say, but stick with me - the story gets a lot | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
more interesting. For a start, her partner | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
also plays for Celtic. This isn't just a football story. | :23:11. | :23:24. | |
It's a love story. It was my twin sister's best friend. That's why I | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
met her. We have always known each other since we were 12 years and | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
been together since Wes were 14. We are 25 and 24. We know each other | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
well. Her football has been parallel with mine. They share a life and | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
passion for football and now a joining. She is joining a few weeks | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
after Erik. I played for one of the top three teams. That is almost the | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
same for Celtic. I will do my very best to keep them in the top and do | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
even better. Her debut will have to wait for an obvious reason. In seven | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
weeks I will give birth. Yeah. It's very soon. We are excited. Are you | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
prepared for fatherhood and the sleepinessisation and all that? | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Sleepiness night I will take. We made a good agreement I can take the | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
couch sometimes. We will be ready, for sure. Anna and Erik's baby boy | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
is expected in April. Expect his first photo shot shortly afterwards. | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Indeed. That's your sport for tonight. Thank you. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
Yesterday, Iain Brown was rescuing men, women and children | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
from treacherous seas around Turkey and Greece. | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
Today, he was back at his home in Ayr. | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
Over the past three weeks this man has saved the lives of over 250 | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
people. Iain Browne who volunteers with Air Coastguard was so moved by | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
the pictures of children who drowned at sea that he flew out to Greece | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
and worked for a charity for free. The rescues were dangerous and | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Harrowing. I opened the back hatch of the lifeboat. The first thing | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
that hit me was the fumes and the carbon monoxide. I looked down it | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
was a sea of faces, kids, women and just wimpering and crying and | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
screaming. Iain was filmed rescuing families by the BBC last month. They | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
were happy. The children got to me the most. I was lifting children up | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
and I probably bruised everybody that I touched because my grip was | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
so intense because you don't want to let that child go. You don't want | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
that child in the water. An estimated two children a day are | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
drowning in the eastern Mediterranean. It's reminiscent of a | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
war. There are bodies everywhere. There is a complete disaster. | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
Despite the horrors, Iain says he'll probably go back. | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
here's Christopher with the forecast. | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
Thank you there. Were showers around, as captured by one of our | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
weather watchers. A snow shower, dramatic scenes. The snow showers | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
continuing to northern parts of the country this evening. Fairly dry and | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
Prosty elsewhere. We do have a yellow be aware morning to northern | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
parts of the mainland, northern isles and western isles because of | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
the snow showers to low levels and icy patches. For many, dry, clear | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
and cold. Temperatures as low as minus five or more in the | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
countryside. Tomorrow morning, rain showers to the south-west. More | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
cloud here compared to today. For most of central, southern and | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
south-eastern Scotland a dry sparkling day. Wintry showers | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
pushing into northern parts of the mainland and northern isles. By mid | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
afternoon a cloudier prospect across the south-west compared with today. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
One or two showers. Further east, dry and bright. Similar too through | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
the central belt, some cloud here and there. Further north, the | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
north-west cloud. Bright spells but frequent wintry showers. Quite a | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
cold feel, two or three Celsius. Winds lighter than today but will | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
feel raw at times. Into the evening wintry showers to northern parts of | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
the mainland, icy patches, elsewhere largely dry, clear and cold once | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
again with a widespread frost. Thursday, very few if any icer bars | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
on the chart. Dry and bright for many. Sparkling sunshine for central | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
southern parts. Further north the wintry showers continuing, confined | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
to the north-west. Dryer to the north-east. The temperatures three | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
to four Celsius. A cool feel despite the sun. Friday and the weekend, low | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
pressure near by. Another largely dry settled picture. A few showers | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
by Saturday to eastern parts of the country. That's the forecast for | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
country. That's theforecast for forecast for now. Thank you | :28:21. | :28:21. | |
Christopher. I'll be back with the headlines | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
at 8.00pm and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
on the team - right across the country - | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
have a very good evening. | :28:35. | :28:36. |