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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Tonight on Reporting Scotland - tax takes centre stage in the coming | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
election campaign, as party leaders clash at Holyrood. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
College lecturers go on strike, in what could become the most | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
serious industrial dispute to hit Scottish education for a generation. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
We catch up with the little boy severely burned in a gas explosion | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
in Pakistan, as he pays a visit to the First Minister. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
We're live in Cardross, to see the new lease | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
to a neglected architectural masterpiece. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
And we find out how Glasgow paved the way for the cartoon characters | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
and superheroes we know today, with the world's first comic book. | :00:48. | :01:01. | |
The election campaign hasn't even formally started, | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
but already, tax is shaping up to be a key | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
battleground in the run-up to May 5th. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
In Holyrood today, Nicola Sturgeon said she wouldn't follow | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
the Chancellor's plan revealed in his Budget yesterday to provide | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
But opposition leaders pressed her to give more | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Here is our political editor, Brian Taylor. | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
New tax powers, due next year, mean Scotland's ministers are players, | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
not observers. They can change the UK plans. The Chancellor has | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
increased the income threshold at which people start paying the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
higher, 40p rate of tax. That adds up to a tax cut for higher earners | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
from next year. Labour says it would up to a tax cut for higher earners | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
reverse that for Scotland. It also plans a 1% income tax increase | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
across the board. And also plans to increase the top tax rate from 45p | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
to 50p. When thousands of people are increase the top tax rate from 45p | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
losing their jobs because of cuts to councils, a tax cut for the better | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
off simply cannot be a priority. This parliament should not be a | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
conveyor belt for Tory austerities. The First Minister said she would | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
spell out detailed plans next week. But when questioned repeatedly, she | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
made plain she does not like the Chancellor's tax cut for high | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
earners. I think the decision to give a large tax cut to 10% of the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
population at the highest end of the income spectrum, is the wrong | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
choice. Clearly if I think it is the wrong choice, Presiding Officer, it | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
is not a choice I am going to make myself. So what might she offer? She | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
has already said, noting craze in the standard weight, arguing that | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
would penalise the poor. She is sceptical about increasing the top | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
rate for Scotland alone, fearing that high earners could declare | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
income elsewhere and dodge the tax. But it looks like she will reverse | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
the Chancellor's increase in the 40p tax threshold. From April 40p higher | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
rate of tax comes in when you own more than ?43,000. The Chancellor | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
April next year to ?45,000, a has increased that from | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
April next year to ?45,000, a cut for higher earners. Limiting the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
increase to the CPI inflation rate would mean only a tiny increase in | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
the threshold, sharply reducing that tax cut. | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
It is about cross-border calculation is. The Tories said Scotland must | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
not display the wrong message. I do not want to see a sign which | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
says, higher taxes here, because I think that is | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
the wrong choice for Scotland, and I am not the only one. And the Liberal | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Democrats, who also back a penny on tax, queried how services would be | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
protected otherwise. Having rejected our penny for education proposal, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
how will the First Minister prevent damaging cuts to education budgets | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
and colleges...? Today's exchanges confirmed, the Scottish Parliament | :04:08. | :04:08. | |
elections in May will focus on tax. The driver of the bin lorry that | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
crashed in Glasgow in December 2014 killing six people has appeared | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
in court charged with dangerous 59-year-old Harry Clarke allegedly | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
drove a car dangerously on 20th September 2015 knowing he had had | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
two previous medical incidents. He appeared in private | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
in Glasgow Sheriff Court this afternoon and made no plea | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
or declaration and has been released Tens of thousands of college | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
students had lectures cancelled today, after teaching staff went | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
on strike in a dispute over pay. Unions say the action has | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
been a long time coming, with its members also unhappy | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
with college budgets Colleges had appealed | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
for the strike to be called off. Here's our education | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
correspondent Jamie McIvor. All we want is equal pay! All across | :04:56. | :05:13. | |
Scotland, it has been a day of massive disruption for college | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
students. Some 4000 lecturers at 19 colleges were out on strike. What do | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
we want? Equal pay! The issue is pay as leader discrepancies between | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
different colleges. The legacy of the days when there was no national | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
budgeting in college page of out on picket UG was Susan. She is a | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
budgeting in college page of out on business studies lecturer and she | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
wants these disparities to be dealt with quickly. Every student who | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
achieves a HND has to achieve the same standard of performance. And | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
every lecturer who is involved in the delivery for those students is | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
also having to meet the same standards of performance. She earns | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
about ?3500 more than Katrina, who has a very similar job, at a | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
different college. And there are other examples. In fact, the union | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
claims the gap is sometimes more than ?10,000. If you are a nurse, | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
you will get paid the same regardless of where you work. If you | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
are a policeman, the same. If you are in the further education sector, | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
lecturing, that does not happen. The organisation representing colleges | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
is disappointed the strike went ahead. It says an agreement could be | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
closed off over the last 20 years, those differences have built up in | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
local management and unions negotiating. And now we are in the | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
first period of national budgeting and we need to | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
get to a point where we talk about those differences and look to | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
harmonise them so that there is fair pay for doing the same job. Right | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
now we do not have. That we do not have people doing the same. Job they | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
do different things, with different working hours. This strike is. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Overpaid it will be resolved if there is a deal on. Page but many of | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
those taking part are keen to highlight other concerns as well. We | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
are seeing the number of students reduced, and at the same | :07:09. | :07:09. | |
time, anomalies in terms of pay rewards for principal macros which | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
is fuelling the anger that there is one rule for one set of workers, and | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
a different one for others. cash from the Scottish Government. | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
Lecturers to their concerns to Hollywood. Talks are due tomorrow, | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
but many more strikes are planned. You're watching Reporting | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
tonight's programme. the end of ancient fishing | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
traditions. In sport, we're with the Scotland | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
rugby team in Dublin, as head coach Vern Cotter | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
makes three changes And it's another date | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
at Hampden for Hibs, as Anthony Stokes helps them secure | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
a Scottish Cup semifinal spot. The President of Ghana has arrived | :07:55. | :08:06. | |
in Scotland on a trade visit amid controversy over his country's | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
human rights record. John Dramani Mahama received polite | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
applause at Holyrood Question Time, President Mahama has come to | :08:12. | :08:37. | |
Scotland to strengthen ties with Scotland. It is more prosperous than | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
many African countries, but it still has an unenviable human rights | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
record. We really want to press on some of the specifics around use of | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
torture, around tear gas, around how LGBT people, women accused of | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
witchcraft, are being treated in these countries as well, to make | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
sure that the world is watching when these issues are happening in other | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
countries. Members will wish to join me in welcoming to the gallery the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
president of the Republic of Ghana. Polite applause in Hollywood but | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
some MSPs, including the Labour leader, sat on their hands. The | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
preserving officer resisted calls for her to raise human rights | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
abuses, leaving that to the First Minister. What specific human rights | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
concerns with you raise with the president of Ghana? I will make | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
clear to the president of Ghana the importance of equality and | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
tolerance. These are in my view universal values. The government | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
later said there was also a specific discussion on the rights of gay | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
Ghanaians, who can be jailed because of their sexuality. What do you say | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
to those who criticise Ghana's human rights record? As a Ghanaian Heavey | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
checked my credentials, the president addressed a meeting of | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
MSPs, boycotted by the greens. Human rights transparency and the rule of | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
law is strong... President Mahama was treated to lunch of smoked | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
salmon. Now, he and the Ghanaian delegation are heading to Aberdeen | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
to strike new business with the oil and gas industry. The president is | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
coming here because he recognises the skills and expertise and | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
technical knowledge which the businesses which operate in the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
North Sea can bring to that market. President Mahama is to be honoured | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
by Aberdeen university. And as he heads north, he will be hoping to | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
leave human rights controversy behind him at Hollywood. | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
Edinburgh council has been forced to close three more schools after | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
structural problems were discovered. The decision follows the second | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
closure of another primary school yesterday. Safety inspections were | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
ordered after a wall collapsed during a storm in January. All four | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
schools were built ten years ago by the same contractors. | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
The death has been announced of the Very Reverend Dr Sandy McDonald, | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
a former Moderator of the General Assembly | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
Dr McDonald served as Moderator for a year from 1997. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Mohammed Sudais' life began in the most traumatic | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
Aged just two months, he was seriously injured | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
in a gas explosion which wiped out the rest of his family. | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
His uncle - who lives here - brought him from Pakistan | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
to Glasgow, where he could receive the care | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
he needed, with the Scottish Government sponsoring his treatment. | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Now, almost three years and a dozen operations later, | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
Mohammed and his relatives have met the First Minister. | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
The report contains images of Muhammad before his treatment which | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
some people might find distressing. This two-year-old | :11:55. | :11:55. | |
has already travelled a long road in his | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
short life. And today, the next step - he and his family meet the | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
First Minister. It was a chance to thank the Scottish Government and | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
the Scottish people for saving his life. We hope that he will have a | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
normal future. The surgeon had some plans for him so he will definitely | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
have more operations. But as you see here is a normal boy. He is a very | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
happy boy. And all this happened due to the compassion and kindness of | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
the Scottish people and the Scottish Government. He was less than two | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
months old when a gas explosion in his hometown of Peshawar killed his | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
mother, father and brother. His uncle managed to bring him here from | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Pakistan with the support of the Scottish Government. Suffering 80% | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
burns to his face, the doctors in Pakistan said they could do no more | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
for him. In Scotland he underwent life-saving surgery at Yorkhill | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Children's Hospital. His family cannot believe the transformation. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
He is like a little devil. Whatever he can destroy, he is going to go | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
there and throw everything. But he is a very happy kid. As soon is he | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
stepped in the house he brought all the happiness to our house. He is a | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
beautiful baby brother and I cannot ask for a better brother to myself | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
and to the family. It has been a big day for Sudais and his family. But | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
while they are ready to relax with a cuppa, the typical toddler is ready | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
to go. We get tired and he doesn't. A centuries-old salmon fishing | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
tradition is set to end as a Government ban on killing wild | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
salmon in inshore waters On the Solway Firth, nets | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
near the mouth of the River Annan are being dismantled ahead | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
of the change and those who work Kevin has tended the nets here for | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
35 years. Now he is taking them down. Salmon | :13:53. | :14:15. | |
fishing will be a structured across Scotland from the 1st of April. In | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
places like Annan, the ban will last for a year, will be longer. He can | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
still catch and release, if fishing with rods, but that is not possible | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
with the nets. It is the end of an era. In 1538, King James V conferred | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
on the people of Annan the right to fish by means of nets like this, | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
so-called poker nets, further out in the US jury, as well. It is a right | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
they have exercised for nearly 500 years. This is really part of the | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
heritage of the town. And it should really be kept on. I am very | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
disappointed with the way it has been dealt with. Nets April are | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
blamed by many river owners for exacerbating the salmon shortages by | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
stopping fish getting back to their valuable angling areas. They seem to | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
be able to take take what the rest of us do. These have been here four | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
years, they should not be lost. And then there is half netting, dating | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
from Viking times, and unique to the Solway Firth. Because these nets are | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
carried not fixed, catch and release will remain an option for them. But | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
not, says this veteran, a very attractive one. I don't think you | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
will get very many going out there at two o'clock in the morning when | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
it is windy and rainy, just to catch salmon and let it go. He expects the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
skills involved to diminish and maybe die. Kevin knows that | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
commercial net fishing here is finished. But he hopes that | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
eventually, when stocks recover, a symbolic heritage net fishery can be | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
established to keep alive ancient ways. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
It has been described as a modernist masterpiece, | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
of accolades for its innovative design. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
But St Peter's College in Cardross was used as a training college | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
for priests for just over a decade before it was abandoned. | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
Now, 50 years after it first opened, it has a new lease of life, | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
Our arts correspondent Pauline McLean is there. | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
It is pretty much 50 years to the day that this place opened in | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
Cardross. Upright modern building designed to wrap around the original | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
old house that was on this country estate and create a Catholic campus | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
not just for training priests but for the whole Catholic community. At | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
its height it was meant to accommodate 100 priests but it never | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
quite reached that capacity and eventually the college closed down. | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
And for the last 30 odd years it has lain empty. This is pretty much all | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
that remained of it, the shell of the building, there was little left | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
to restore. The charity decided the best way to approach it was to open | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
the country's first modernist ruin for people to come and look at much | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
as they would a cathedral or a castle. It is quite a piece of work. | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
It is a good reflection of what can be done. You let any artist worth | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
their salt, a musician, a visual artist, theatre or Opera, it doesn't | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
matter, if you respond to this place and space, great work will come from | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
it. The first people to come through will be in the next half an hour and | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
they are trying out some of the lighting. It looks absolutely | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
brilliant. 7500 people have tickets to come and see the building over | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
the next ten days and experienced this performance and, long-term, the | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
hope is that this will allow them to reopen the building permanently so | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
everybody can come and visit. Thank you. | :18:09. | :18:09. | |
Let's get the latest sports news now from David. | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
Vern Cotter says his focus is solely on winning Saturday's match | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
in Ireland and not about Scotland's final Six Nations standing. | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
Scotland are already in Dublin for the match on Saturday and so is our | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
reporter. Where else to be on St Patrick's Day but Dublin? But for | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
the Scottish players arriving today, the focus is less on revelry and | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
more on the Irish rugby hosts. It will be tough. They have just come | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
off a buoyant victory against Italy. They will have been preparing for | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
this game so it is exciting to be able to have another crack at good | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
opposition and see how we go. Vern Cotter makes three changes with Tim | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
Swinson and Ryan Wilson coming into the pack and with Finn Russell ruled | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
out, Duncan Weir comes in at ten for his first start of the tournament. I | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
feel excited about the opportunity. Going to Dublin, the champions of | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
last year, it is a big challenge but I'm looking forward to it. Scotland | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
can finish second in the championship if results go their way | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
and rise to seventh in the world but the head coach is not keen to dwell | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
on such thoughts. Not thinking about it, just about the game. With less | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
than 48 hours until kick-off, it is unlikely the Scottish players will | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
be partying for St Patrick's Day but a victory in Dublin on Saturday and | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
there would be much to celebrate. Leigh Griffiths says the Celtic | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
players are affected by constant speculation about the future | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
of their manager. The Parkhead striker responded | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
to suggestions that out of work managers such as David Moyes, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Malkay Mackay or even Neil Lennon It is frustrating for us because it | :20:02. | :20:14. | |
is disrespectful. We are still top of the league so for other managers | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
to say they are interested when there is someone still in charge, it | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
is poor from them. I think the gaffer will ignore it, but we are | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
frustrated with it. Motherwell manager Mark McGhee says | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
he may need to ask or a postponement of Saturday's Premiership match | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
with Aberdeen because of a virus So many have reported flu-like | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
symptoms that Fir Park stadium was shut down yesterday with McGhee | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
saying he may struggling to put His opposite number | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
is sympathetic to a degree. If we turn up and there are more | :20:42. | :20:53. | |
missing, we would be concerned as to whether the game could go ahead. But | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
if I get nine or ten, the ones that have been playing every week, I | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
would be quite happy. It is very unusual for the league to postpone a | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
game. I'm confident that it will go ahead. It would be very unusual for | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
it to be cancelled. The Hibs manager Alan Stubbs | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
says his players showed "great character" to respond | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
to their League Cup final defeat by booking a return | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
to the national stadium. They can now look forward | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
to a Scottish Cup semifinal after two goals from | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
the on-loan Celtic striker Anthony Stokes helped | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
knock out the holders, After questions over his form, Hibs | :21:34. | :21:46. | |
on loan striker finally came good. It is Anthony Stokes with the | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
opening goal! And he was not finished. After a defensive mistake, | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
they made it to Noh with Stokes showing his poaches instinct to get | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
his second overnight and set them on course for the win. Inverness would | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
not give up without a fight and Ian figures got the goal. John Hughes | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
was hoping for a revival but it would not come and the only poke in | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
the eye was for the goalkeeper's apparent loss of a contact lens. He | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
was booked for time wasting and will miss the semifinal. The focus was on | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Anthony Stokes who almost got a hand trick -- hat-trick. I am fully | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
supportive of him, that is why he has been in the team. He has | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
undoubted ability. We are out, simple as that, they were poor goals | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
to lose. The second half, a real up and add them performance, we got the | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
goal and they were on the back foot but it was too late. Hibs back to | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
winning ways after five games without victory. The semifinal with | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Dundee United is on the 16th of April. | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
Glasgow's well known for its banter, but it's being claimed the city | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
is the first place to translate that bawdy and often satirical wit | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
First published in the early 19th century, "The Glasgow Looking Glass" | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
is described as the world's oldest comic. | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
It's the centrepiece of a new exhibition hoping | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
to establish Scotland as the recognised birthplace | :23:20. | :23:20. | |
The Glasgow Looking Glass, published in 1825 and claiming to be the | :23:21. | :23:34. | |
worlds first comic book. Its pages poked fun at all of society. Some of | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
the jokes even 150 years later are still funny, there is a great one | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
advertising lodging in a well aired room and the picture is a prison. It | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
was 16 years before Punch and any of the ones in Paris that we know | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
about. They were poking fun at people happily here in Glasgow. The | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
founder, William he is, was a showman who switched to satire on | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
the page as the prefix work -- printing Works could produces,. This | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
exhibition also highlight the modern graphic art still thriving here | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
almost two centuries later. This is one of the local -- local artists. | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
From judge read -- Judge Dredd, his work is much in demand. The Scots | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
are renowned for their storytelling, I think we punch above our weight in | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
a lot of different areas. It seems that Glasgow in particular has a | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
wealth of talent both in the independent press and mainstream | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
comics. I'm not sure why it is but it certainly seems to be the case. | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
So from soppy romances to Scooby Doo, this exhibition pulls together | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
all kinds of art but there are calls for a more permanent hub to properly | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
showcase the impressive comic artists of Scotland. | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
Now here's Shelley with details of Scotland 2016. | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
Tonight, no tax cut for high earners in Scotland say all but the Tories | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
so are we set to become the highest taxed part of the UK? And counselled | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
on the verge of crisis, how can they balance their budgets? Join me on | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
BBC Two at 10:30pm. Braemar was the hottest spot in Britain today with | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
temperatures how high? 19 degrees. There was beautiful sunshine around | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
and 19 degrees but just 50 miles east, what a difference, 7 degrees | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
for Dundee and Aberdeen. You can see that cloud burning back as it did | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
for most of the mainland but around the coast it was somewhat stubborn. | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
If you had the sunshine, beautiful scenes like these. But if you had | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
the mist and cloud, it was a bit like that. Heading through the | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
evening and overnight, it stays dry but the low cloud reforms and moves | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
back inland. Still some clear conditions in the north-west and | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
south-west, a touch of frost but for many, four or five Celsius. | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
Tomorrow, high pressure firmly in charge again which means a lot of | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
dry, settled weather but also cloud, probably more than today. Still some | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
brightness coming through, most likely in the north-west and | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
south-west but eastern parts of the Central Belt probably not improving | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
as well as today. If you had the sunshine, double-digit temperatures | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
but it will feel chilly in the cloud, particularly on that east | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
coast. Further north and the cloud is still with us in the far north | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
and Northern Isles and sick enough for the odd spot of rain. The rest | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
of the afternoon and evening, once again reforms -- thick enough. The | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
weekend will look a bit like this, dry but cloudy and really quite | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
great. Some drizzle in the far north pushing down the eastern side, some | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
brightness to the south of the hills because the breeze is from the north | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
but it is like. Sunday into Monday, the high-pressure slips further west | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
and south, introducing some wet weather in the north and the further | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
south you are, the dry it will Now, a reminder of | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
tonight's main news. Tax is shaping up to be a key | :27:46. | :27:46. | |
battleground in the run-up In Holyrood today, Nicola Sturgeon | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
said she wouldn't follow the Chancellor's plan to provide tax | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
cuts to higher earners. But opposition leaders | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
pressed her to give more detail I'll be back with the headlines | :27:57. | :27:58. | |
at 8pm and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
on the team right across the country, have | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
a very good evening. | :28:11. | :28:13. |