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south and a cooler wind picking up by Bank Holiday Monday. Thank you. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Shell announces it's cutting almost 500 North Sea jobs, | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
as it continues to be hit by lower oil prices. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
The First Minister plans a summit on school reform, | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
as education's made the top priority for the government. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
The lawyer for one of the women accused of murdering Liam Fee says | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
there was no evidence she harmed the child. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
New figures show the amount of alcohol we consume is up | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Cocktails at home. We tend to just drink in the house, save money. We | :00:34. | :00:51. | |
do not buy drinks when we go out. Andy Murray struggles again - | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
but wins in five sets to progress to the third | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
round at the French Open. Shell has announced it's to cut 475 | :01:03. | :01:20. | |
North Sea jobs, most of them Some posts offshore | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
and at its plants at Mossmorran in Fife and St Fergus | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
in Aberdeenshire will Our reporter Steven Duff | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
is at Aberdeen Harbour for us Unfortunately announcements on job | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
losses in the oil and gas industry Unfortunately announcements on job | :01:40. | :01:53. | |
are happening every two or three days at the moment. When a blue-chip | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
companies like Shell makes an announcement most people set up and | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
listen. This morning they told staff at the headquarters in Aberdeen that | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
475 jobs would go. Most of them in that building but also around 40 | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
jobs going offshore and redundancy also at plants at Mossmorran in five | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
and St Fergus in the Aberdeenshire coast. The reason, recent mergers | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
with BG Group led to restructuring and also the continuing global world | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
oil price low. The man in charge of Shell UK and Ireland described it as | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
being part of an improvement journey. The engagement we had has | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
been outstanding from employees, the support in terms of driving | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
efficiency in the North Sea over the past 12 months. Do you think the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
people who are being made redundant will be thinking that. Clearly there | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
is uncertainty for people and we will try to minimise that period | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
until we make the selection of who will stay with the organisation. The | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
UK and Scottish Government offered help to those who will be made | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
redundant as well as reiterating help for the long term of the | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
industry. The unions, the offshore unions are calling for a summit to | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
be held because there is appealing that in spite of the task forces | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
that had been set up, the funding being put in place, it is not doing | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
anything really to help jobs cut. Many thanks for that. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is to convene | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
She told the Scottish Parliament improving education would be | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
the "defining mission" of her government. | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
From Holyrood, here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
Nicola Sturgeon arrived to set out the priorities of the new SNP third | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
term in power with the new Education Secretary by her side. The defining | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
mission of this government will be education, we want every child to | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
have a fair chance in life and we know a good education is the | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
foundation of that. She is promising standardised assessment of pupils to | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
measure performance. A new funding model for schools, and a summit on | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
school for and improving attainment with invitations to all party | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
leaders. I want our work to close the attainment gap to be the mission | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
not just of this government but the country as a whole. The | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Conservatives backed plans to give schools more local control. But they | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
oppose the assembly commitment to keeping university tuition free. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Education should be the best way to change lives for the better the SNP | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
as well as giveaways means those who have most to gain from life changing | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
chances are those that have been most harmed by this policy. Labour | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
wants the government to raise more cash for schools, using new tax | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
powers. SNP members sit on government benches in this | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
Parliament with the power to act. The power to stop these cuts and | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
invest in education and they refused to do so. Plans to bring back | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
testing in primary and early years of secondary worry the Green Party. | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
Educational attainment, I think all parties recognise what can be | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
achieved. The case for standardised testing I do not think has been | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
fully made and we will continue to question that choice of priority. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
The Education Secretary John Swinney is to publish a draft delivery plan | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
before the summer. Consultations, summits, anything, but action to | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
make a change for the future of our country. Other government priorities | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
include building 50,000 affordable homes for the recruiting 500 extra | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
health visitors. And doubling free childcare for three and | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
four-year-olds. Nicola Sturgeon has also drawn inspiration from the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
labourer, green and liberal Democrat manifesto because having fallen | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
short of an overall majority in parliament, she knows that she needs | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
a little help from her political rivals to get things done. | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
Brian Turner is at Holyrood now. This is a parliament with no | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
majority. What is the strategy for delivering change? Well we had | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
Nicola Sturgeon name checking labourer, the Lib Dems and the Green | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Party in terms of foreign policy is from that manifesto. One big | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
absentee in that, the Conservatives. Nicola Sturgeon is hoping to build | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
what she has called a progressive consensus, freezing out the | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
Conservatives, squeezing out the Conservatives and working with those | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
other parties where necessary. The snag is on her income tax policy, | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
which was condemned as being timid by those very rivals she is name | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
checking, not policy the SNP edition is closer to the Conservatives and | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
she might need support from that direction on earth she comprise one | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
of those other parties away from the standpoint on tax. The First | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Minister said improving education is the defining mission of government, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
what does she mean by that? I think she means quite a lot. She says it | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
is not picking a fight with local authorities who mostly run schools | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
now. She speaks about the possibility of schools coming | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
together in a cluster and being able to run their affairs. Money going | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
direct to schools and headteachers, empowering parents and teachers in | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
that regard. She says she wants consensus but not inertia. She is | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
quite keen to drive this forward and that means working with all | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
stakeholders in education and also means a change in the law. It save | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
the duty to provide education is no longer solely upon councils but also | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
extends beyond that to individual schools. Many thanks. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
The lawyer for one of the women accused of murdering two-year-old | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
Liam Fee has told a jury Nyomi Fee was guilty | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
of a catastrophic failure of care towards the toddler | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
In his closing speech to the jury, Mark Stewart QC, Nyomi Fee's lawyer, | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
told the court that it was another child who was responsible | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
From the high court in Livingston - Lisa Summers reports. | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
Nyomi Fee can be seen on the right. Laura said she had accepted she made | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
some terrible mistakes in her of Liam and she and her partner Rachel | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
had neglected the two rope. He said this was a terrible case and had | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
been distressing and harrowing. Mark Stewart said Nyomi Fee admitted | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
failing to get help for Lee in when she's suspected he had a broken leg. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
He said it was dreadful and unforgivable, a catastrophic failure | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
of care but he said that Liam did not die of a broken leg and was no | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
evidence suggesting Nyomi Fee had inflicted the fatal injury on the | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
toddler. Mark Stewart talked at length about another boy who they | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
are accused of falsely claiming for the death. He said the unpalatable | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
truth but this boy had keen -- this boy had killed the. He suggested the | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
boy had sexually assaulted him and had a knitted violent conduct | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
towards photographer but Mr Stewart said it was trying to deal with the | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
behaviour of this crowd -- child that the couple took a wrong turn | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
and neglected Liam. The court heard again the emergency call made by | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Nyomi Fee. Both accused cried in the dock as the operator was heard | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
talking Nyomi Fee through on how to perform CPR on the child. The jury | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
were told, you do not have to sympathise with Nyomi Fee but he | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
said you must acquit because the case had not been proven by Crown. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
The lawyer for Rachel C will testify tomorrow. | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
A woman has appeared in court charged with murdering | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
Sadia Ahmed is accused of killing Inayah Ahmed at her home | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
in Glasgow's Drumchapel area on the 17th of April. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
The 26-year-old is accused of "restricting her breathing". | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
The child died three days later in hospital. | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Miss Ahmed appeared in private at Glasgow Sheriff Court, where | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
she made no plea or declaration, and was remanded in custody. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme... | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
Calls for a new spirit of co-operation between landowners | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
In sport: Another epic for Andy Murray at the French Open - | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
against another player way down the world rankings. | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
And warming up to be the warm up act. | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
But one Scotland player's not pleased about that. | :10:58. | :10:58. | |
Sales of alcohol in Scotland have increased for the second year | :10:59. | :11:08. | |
On average, enough alcohol is sold, for every adult to drink 41 | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
bottles of vodka a year, or almost 500 pints of beer. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
The news has re-ignited the debate about whether a minimum price | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
That legislation is still held up by a court dispute. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford reports. | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
The best measure of how much we really drink is the amount of | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
alcohol which is sold. And it is on the rise after almost a decade of | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
decline. Last year the equivalent of 11 litres of pure alcohol was sold | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
per adult in Scotland. That is the 11 litres of pure alcohol was sold | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
same as 41 bottles of vodka each walk 116 bottles of wine. Or 476 | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
pints of beer. Enough for everyone of us to exceed safe drinking limits | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
every week. What we found today is more alcohol is being sold through | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
supermarkets and off-licences and levels have reached the highest | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
since 1994 when records began. This coincides with a flattening of the | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
price of alcohol sold through these retailers. We know prices key driver | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
of consumption and we think both these trends are related. As prices | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
in bars and restaurants keep on rising, more of us are drinking at | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
home. Cocktails at home. That is it. If you are going on a night out we | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
tend to drink in the house and go out, save a bit of money. I think we | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
spend more money drinking at home and then going out with the my wife | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
is teetotal, that is the irony. I had a couple of glasses but normally | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
no more. It is the cheapest drinks which are drunk to harmful levels | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
and the Scottish Government says imposing a minimum price on alcohol | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
would calm the party. At the whiskey industry are still opposed to that. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
The underlying trend for alcohol consumption in Scotland is done, we | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
drink less today than in 2000. Whether a year or two of data | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
constitutes a trend we will wait and see for further data. Drinking | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
habits are closely linked to the economy, we drink more when we have | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
more money in our pockets. Whether minimum pricing would break that | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
cycle is still hotly debated. A man who ran towards the Rangers | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
goalkeeper after the Scottish Cup final against Hibernian at the | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
weekend pleaded guilty to a charge under the offensive behaviour | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
affable act. Also at Glasgow Sheriff Court, a teenager appeared on | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
charges of attempting to punch to other Rangers players during the | :13:53. | :13:53. | |
pitch invasion. The court heard your deeply ashamed, | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
is that the case? Leaving Glasgow Sheriff Court today Greg Brinee made | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
no comment. But on Saturday after the final | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
whistle at the Scottish Cup final he was much more animated. Today he | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
pled guilty to climbing over anything onto the pitch, running | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
towards the Rangers goalkeeper and gesticulating in an offensive manner | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
towards him. The court was told that he was deeply ashamed and the | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
threats had been made to himself and his family. The sheriff told Binney | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
he was being convicted under the offensive behaviour at football act. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
He said he would consider the request from the ground for a | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
football banning order. Meanwhile in another court room at the sheriff | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
scored another 19-year-old appeared on charges also related to the pitch | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
invasion on Saturday. 19-year-old Dale pried from Edinburgh is accused | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
of running towards and attempting to punch the Rangers players, Lee | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Wallace and Jason Holt and money onto the pitch towards Rangers | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
supporters, brandishing a chair. He was released on bail and will appear | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
back here at a later date. Binney will be sentenced in June. | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
A number of survivors of the helicopter crash off Shetland | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
in August 2013 have had their claims for compensation settled. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
Lawyers representing nine oil workers have confirmed that | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
Four people died when the Super Puma helicopter crashed during its | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
The Church of England and Church of Scotland have agreed | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
to form a stronger relationship, after centuries of division. | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
An historic visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury was designed | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
to improve links between the two churches. | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
But there have been concerns about the impact this could have | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
on the Episcopal Church - which is the Anglican | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
For hundreds of years the Church of Scotland was not formally recognised | :15:59. | :16:10. | |
by the Church of England. Centuries of division have ended with promise | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
to improve this morning. We are recognising each other as partners, | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
good neighbours, and we are going to set up a working group, to think | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
about how that might actually look, in terms of buildings and | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
administering. A warm welcome for the Church of England's leader. What | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
unites this is more than divides us. The first time an archbishop of | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Canterbury could take part in the debate at the assembly. Once you | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
recognise each other as a church, there is a massive impulse to | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
develop that into a deeper and deeper relationship. This has been a | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
symbolic building of bridges between the two churches, but there are | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
sensitivities about this agreement as well, especially among those in | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
the Scottish Episcopal Church. It was a bit difficult when our sister | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
begins to take an interest in our best friend. Differences between the | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
Church of England remain over best friend. Differences between the | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
same-sex marriage, but this paves the way for better interchurch | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
relations in future. A call's been made for a new spirit | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
of co-operation to be forged between Scotland's landowners, | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
communities and government. At their first gathering since land | :17:29. | :17:29. | |
reform legislation was passed in March, lairds were | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
told they have to show they have listened to - | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
and understand - Willie Johnston reports | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
from an estate in Ayrshire which is being held up as a model | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
for others to follow. Unlike many stayed on as Mark Gibson | :17:42. | :17:56. | |
was not the manner born. He bought this place in 1989, acquiring a | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
rundown mansion house on 300 acres of land in which people in the | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
adjacent mining villages have very definitely not been welcomed. They | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
were horrible rusty, spiked Gates saying no entry. I knew I couldn't | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
live like that so one of the first things I did was to take down those | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
signs and gates. What's followed really has been a fantastic | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
adventure. Mark Gibson has embraced the community, planted woodland, | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Lake trails, built in Observatory. His estate, a classroom extension | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
for local schoolchildren. It is an experience to come if you have never | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
done any of that stuff before. How different is it when you come up | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
here, from what it's like down in the village? You would think it is a | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
completely different country, it's amazing. Retired prison officer Jim | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
Buchanan made it his job to report the Flora and fauna and encourage | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
back the native squirrels. We weren't allowed on the estate, there | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
was no way you could come out of the houses and down into the woods. You | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
use to get chased from the gamekeeper in case you are doing | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
damage. The leader of Scottish landowners as it is a model for | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
others to follow. It gets reinforced when you don't communicate, and that | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
is about making a new start, a fresh start. Looking to work with the | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
government, communities and ourselves to drive forward what is | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
in all of our interests. It is a prosperous, fibro and rural | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
Scotland. Today they were told they will have to go the extra mile to | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
show they are part of the fabric of rural communities and local | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
economies and demonstrating their working for the interest of others, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
not just their own. No more then and asked. -- them and asked. | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
It took another five set epic to do it - | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
but Andy Murray is through to the third round of | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
At one stage he trailed the player ranked 164th | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
But as Kheredine Idessane reports from Paris, Murray battled back | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
to beat Frenchman Mathius Bourg by three sets to two. | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
This was supposed to be the calm after the storms Andy Murray, after | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
he finished his five set epic with Stepanek yesterday a good start was | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
required. An early break was duly achieved when the first set was won | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
for the loss of two gains it seemed normal service had been resumed. But | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Benny was left bamboozled as Mathius Bourg battled back. Could Mathius | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Bourg believe it himself? A second set was swiftly has. Inspired by his | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
compatriots, eight games in a row were won as he claimed a decisive | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
lead in the third. A question now was, did the world number to have | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
another five set match in him? The answer was yes. After breaking | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Mathius Bourg's serve, they showed Murray meant business and refuse to | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
go down without a fight. It is mainly in the mind sometimes, this | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
game. More magic was required at the start of the next set, with the | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
French Open on the line, he seemed up for it again. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
He wouldn't have wanted back-to-back five set matches just a bit of the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
third round but Murray's mantra is live to fight another day. So | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
another five set struggle for Andy Murray here at the French Open and | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
he admits that can't keep happening if he is to win this tournament. In | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
his match against Friday, he has never lost to the giant Croat, who | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
may be is a little tired, also with a five set match an hour longer than | :22:12. | :22:12. | |
Andy Murray. Scotland player Steven Naismith | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
says it is hard for them to accept their role as the "warm-up | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
act" for nations competing in the The Scots are on their travels next | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
week to play Italy and France But unlike their opponents that's | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
where Scotland's season ends. The national team's preparations | :22:24. | :22:36. | |
here on the banks of the Clyde for these two friendlies are as thorough | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
as if Scotland had qualified for the Euro finals. In the end Easton | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
matches against Italy and France are nothing more than a support act to | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
the main event. That is the worst part of it. It's good to meet up and | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
see the boys and get some good training in and test ourselves | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
against two world-class countries, but we are the preparation. That is | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
a massive disappointment, and you don't want to be doing it again. | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
It's not a great feeling to be the warm up act. It has been a long, | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
hard season for some of these players and while a number of their | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
club team-mates are already on holiday, the Scottish coaching staff | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
hope their thoughts don't stray from the challenge they face. The quality | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
of the opposition is the thing to be focusing on. They know they cannot | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
come into this half baked. They know these two games are against teams | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
that if you're not absolutely at your best concentration wise, you | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
can get embarrassed. I think that alone, playing against the sort of | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
calibre players, will be the thing they focus on. Two positive | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
performances against Italy and France may be the ideal boost for | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
the Scots before their World Cup campaign gets up and running in the | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
autumn. Celtic's new manager Brendan Rodgers | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
has appointed his long term number two Chris Davies | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
as assistant manager. The two worked together | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
at Swansea and Liverpool. The most successful Scottish boxer | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
of recent years returns to the ring It's being marketed | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
as History in the making. And if Ricky Burns beats | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Italy's Michele Di Rocco it will be. He'll then have won world titles | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
at three different weights. But the Coatbridge fighter's not | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
distracted by the hype. When the fight was announced, I knew | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
the size of the fight. Especially as I've been away for plant -- from | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Glasgow so long. Like I said, everybody that knows me, they know I | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
will always fight. That is it from me. | :24:40. | :24:40. | |
Thank you for that. Now, just before the weather | :24:41. | :24:41. | |
forecast, here's Andrew Kerr - We will have all the political | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
reaction to the First Minister's priorities over the next five years, | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
including an extended interview with her. Nicola Sturgeon is seeking | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
political consensus as she aims to improve education, but is that a | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
realistic prospect, and is she willing to take on the educational | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
establishment? That is at 10.30 BBC Two. | :25:08. | :25:08. | |
Now let's hear about the forecast from Kirsteen. | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
This picture taken in South Ayrshire today sums up the weather many of us | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
have seen today. Fairly cloudy skies, although some hint of | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
brightness here and there. If you have been in much of western and | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
north-western Scotland today it has been an entirely different prospect, | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
plenty of quite warm sunshine on offer. As we head into this evening | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
and tonight, something of a change afoot in southern and central | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Scotland with the arrival of this batch of rain. It will continue to | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
feed into the Borders, Dumfries Galloway, East Lothian and Pat | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
skirting the Glasgow area by the end of the night. Most of it fairly | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
light and patchy in nature but the odd heavier burst in the eastern | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
light and patchy in nature but the border. Further north we hold the | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
drier conditions overnight and under clearer skies across some sheltered | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
parts of the north-west temperatures may dip to 3-4dC, but for most us | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
holding up to 6-9. We head into tomorrow on a fairly cloudy note | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
away from the Northwest. We will have some light and patchy rain | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
continuing to come and go as we go through the course of the day in | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
central and southern Scotland. For the north-east is a brighter map | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
process. As we take a close look to tomorrow afternoon, across southern | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
and central Scotland, fairly cloudy skies with some bits and pieces of | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
rain. Across much of the North of Scotland is fine day to come, plenty | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
of sunshine to be had. Quite warm in the Northwest again with | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
temperatures peaking around 19-20dC. In stark contrast to northern | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
coastal areas, where we still have that breeze coming in from the North | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
Sea. A in the evening sun patchy rain continuing for central and | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
southern parts, but some fine weather in the north of Scotland. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Inter Friday that rain will continue to die out. That leaves a dry day | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
across-the-board with some brightness of sunshine. The best of | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
that in the Northwest again, with highs of 18-19. Cooler towards | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
eastern and southern coastal areas. Over the weekend high pressure will | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
be in charge, mostly dry, a few showers, and most of us seeing some | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
sunny spells. Thank you. | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news. | :27:33. | :27:33. | |
Shell has announced it's to cut 475 North Sea jobs - most of them | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
A leading economic research group says the UK could face an extra two | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
years if Britain votes to leave the European Union. | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says any financial gains | :27:48. | :27:49. | |
from quitting would be wiped out by slower economic growth. | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
But Leave campaigners say the IFS is biased because it is | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8 - and the late bulletin just | :27:57. | :28:09. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - right | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
across the country - have a very good evening. | :28:13. | :28:14. |