27/03/2016 Reporting Scotland


27/03/2016

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Now on BBC One, its time for the news where you are.

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Police investigating the murder of Aberdeenshire handyman

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Brian McKandie say they're following new lines of inquiry.

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The 67-year-old was found beaten to death in his home

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Brian McKandie was violently attacked with a heavy weapon. His

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body was discovered on the 12th of March in his home. In the past few

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days, please have been asking people for more information and officers

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stopped car is and asked drivers to fill in questionnaires. As a result,

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they have new information, but they are still keen to trace two men seen

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with Mr McKandie before he died. They are asking residents in homes

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if they have seen anything suspicious with leaflets.

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Police have released CCTV images of three men they believe may

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be able to help with inquiries into a serious assault in Glasgow

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A 26-year-old man was seriously injured in an attack

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near the Cathouse nightclub on Union Street on Wednesday

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Police said a zimmer or support frame was also thrown

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Officers urged anyone who recognised the three men to contact them.

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Demolition teams have been brought in to pull down the remains of two

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units on an industrial estate in Port Glasgow,

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which were destroyed by a serious fire.

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Around 25 firefighters battled flames and thick smoke

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in the workshops, which housed buses and other vehicles.

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The blaze broke out on Saturday afternoon

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Crews worked through the night to dampen down the area.

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Conservationists say they're confident no black rats have

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survived a winter-long cull on the Shiants,

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an uninhabited group of islands in the Minch.

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The animals, who are not native to there, preyed on sea birds

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The RSPB now hopes more birds will nest there now that

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About an hour in a fast boat south of Stornoway live the Shiant Isles,

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in the middle of the mensch between isle and Harris. During the winter

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months, hundreds of thousands of sea birds return here to breed. But they

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are also home to thousands of black rats and experts say it's not big

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enough for all of them. It start that the rats fled a sinking ship

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and made it to the Shiant Isles 100 years ago. They flourished and

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experts estimate a population of thousands. You have all these birds

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nesting with Derry all in the same place. The Kyle began in October and

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has one week to go. -- cull. Bait was placed around the shoreline and

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expert confident that no rats have survived. We'd not had rats now for

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over three months so we are British we have got rid of them, but under

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international protocol we wait two years and then come back and do a

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full island assessment and then confirm whether the rats are gone,

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so watch this space and in two years we'll be able to have a shout from

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the rooftops. With their predators gone, is now hoped that sea birds

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like the storm petrol can be encouraged to breed once again on

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the Shiant Isles. Sound recordings of their calls will be used to

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entice them home. In tennis, Andy Murray will face

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Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov He goes through after beating

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Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin in the second round last night

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in straight sets. Rugby, and Edinburgh have

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kept their Pro12 playoff hopes alive, beating Newport Gwent Dragons

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by 16 points to 15. Edinburgh had a 9-3 lead at half

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time, but Wales international Hallam Amos crossed just

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after the restart to put Edinburgh replied quickly,

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flanker Hamish Watson driving over Amos touched down for his second

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try ten minutes later, but fly-half Dorian Jones

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missed the conversion. Edinburgh held on for another 25

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minutes for the win. Time for the weather forecast

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for this evening and the start A very happy Easter to you. It's

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been a showery one. Here's a picture from one of our watchers. Here's a

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lovely chocolate bunny just to remind us its Easter. If you my

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showers to come through the evening and if you have the ones to come.

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But overnight those will be combines to the north-west. A lot of dry

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weather to come with long and clear spells and there will be a touch of

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frost tomorrow morning in some rural parts, but generally territories of

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around two or four Celsius. Storm Katie is missing us mostly. Monday

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is looking very promising. Dry weather to come, if you showers in

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the western parts and the night. Lighter winds inland with highs of

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nine or 10 Celsius. Tuesday looks like a fairly showery day, with

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brighter

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