27/02/2016 Reporting Scotland

The First Minister has told a mass protest in London that renewing

Meanwhile, Scottish Conservatives argued that the weapons -

based at Faslane - guarantee jobs and national security.

Thousands marched through central London. The First Minister told a

rally in filed a square that nuclear weapons are immoral, impractical and

unaffordable. It seems to me that using perhaps

?167 billion over the next number of years on nuclear weapons is the

wrong choice for scarce resources. Invest instead in good-quality

conventional defences as well as in health and education and future of

our young people. The leader of the Scottish

Conservatives was in Helensburgh. Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn

are standing arm in arm in London and I'm here in Scotland in

Helensburgh next to the Faslane base fighting for the jobs that exist

here. Thousands of jobs. Also for the defence of our nation, unlike

the SNP who put separation about defence.

MPs at Westminster are expected to vote on renewing the Trident

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have backed measures to increase

the number of female candidates in future parliamentary elections.

The party's conference in Edinburgh has voted to ensure women

are selected in the five most winnable constituencies for

The Liberal Democrat list of candidates for this Hollywood

election is male dominated and the patchy has been criticised for that.

But the Scottish patchy leader wants that to change and after a lively

debate in Privateer at cold fronts he persuaded a majority to back

reforms. That means for the next Westminster elections, the five most

winnable Scottish seats will be fought by women for the next

Hollywood election five of the ten most winnable positions will be

taken by women and the lead candidate for the next European

candidate elections will be female. These are changes backed by the

federal patchy leader and he said he was proud of them and praised Willie

Rennie's leadership because in his view that the Liberal Democrats have

to look and sound more like the people they stick to represent if

they are to wind back lost ground at Westminster and Holyrood.

Scotland ended their run of nine straight Six Nations defeats

with a hard-fought victory over Italy in Rome.

In what was widely billed as a battle for the wooden spoon,

It was billed as a must win match for Scotland and they dominated

early on. Barkley scored an early try, giving Scots a much-needed

boost. Scotland kept up the pressure, quickly spinning the ball

wide to John Hardy who dives over and gave the visitors their second

try. Garcia used his muscle to make inroads into the Scottish defence.

And this Hooper got his reward. The hosts rows, Italy looked more

threatening in the second half with thin Russell sent to the sin bin

Italy rumbled over the line. Scotland soon retaliated, a sublime

flick from the back of Stewart's pound centre Tommy Seymour three

down the line, touching down behind the posts. The first win of the

in ten 6-nation games. ten 6-nation games.

And our rugby reporter Phil Goodlad was in Rome,

This is a thoroughly deserved victory for the Scots with opening

20 minutes, the best they've played so far in this year's championships.

High paced off-load game that resulted in points on the board.

They survived a late Italian fightback before Scotland's last try

relax the nerves and allowed them to enjoy a feeling they had not done

for two years, and that this Labour win in six Nations Championships.

I've just been told that this is a platform for Scotland to build on,

not just in the remainder of the tournament, but going into the

future. He says that Scotland will enjoy tonight and celebrate their

win in two years in the six Nations. Nations.

Football, and in the Premiership, Aberdeen drew at home,

leaving them six points behind leaders Celtic.

In the Championship, leaders Rangers pulled further away

Well, it's over to Gillian Smart now with the weather outlook

What a gorgeous day it has been across much of the country captured

in stunning style by some of our weather watchers. A perfect crisp

wintry conditions across the hills as well even a little snowman. There

he is. Excellent visibility and you can see the snow cover quite clearly

on the satellite picture from earlier. Not much cloud that image

north of the border. Tonight it will be a cold one, a widespread frost,

predominantly dry just a few showers for the Northern Isles. Perhaps the

eastern borders. Even in the cities we will get down to -2 minus three

Celsius and in the Highlands for a have that snow cover, we could see

-10 or lower. A cold night and could start for tomorrow but another fine

day tomorrow. Driving back from most of us and spells of sunshine. A few

showers in the Northern Isles but not amounting to much. Elsewhere

across the UK does also fine, dry, bright, cloud bubbling up as the day

goes on but decent spells of sunshine. A brisk north-easterly

breeze around southern and eastern coast of England, just temporary

there's condition somewhat. I pressure starts to pull away and

into the west we introduce something different. Southerly winds, cloud

and a band of rain and four Monday itself as a trainee is the cold out,

we will see a smell of snow over the higher ground and a cloudy, breezy

dump a day though no real weight for that rain on Monday. It will be

Tuesday when it turns heavy especially the south west Scotland.

An early warning for the Met office. Before the rain clears to sunshine

and showers later in the day. Our next update is tomorrow

evening, at 6:10pm.