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North Sea Oil workers strike over pay and conditions | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
for the first time in nearly 30 years. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
And a crisis meeting is under way for the hundreds of construction | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
workers being made redundant from the Dunne Group. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
It came so quick. No notice or any inclination whatsoever that it was | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
going to close. We'll be asking what | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
can be done to help? A record 4.5 million festival goers | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
visited Edinburgh last year. Celtic are in Kazakhstan ahead | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
of tomorrow's Champions' League And the Lewis Chessmen go | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
on display - back home. Hundreds of North Sea workers | :00:44. | :01:06. | |
downed tools at 6.30am. of an ongoing row over plans | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
to cut pay and allowances. It's the first stoppage of its kind | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
in the sector since the 1980s. Seven oil platforms are affected, | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
while onshore, workers have been picketing the Wood Group's | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
offices in Aberdeen. The platform operator, Shell, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
has described the action Half way through this 4-hour | :01:30. | :01:43. | |
stoppage now. Seven platforms off-shore affected. Solid and | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
determined, is how the RMT and Unite unions describe the action off-shore | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
today. 175 workers or so have been spending their shift in designated | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
rooms, away from those who are continuing to work. The dispute over | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
pay cuts and there is a big difference between what the workers | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
think and the management think. Shame on you, shame on you and your | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
pay cut, too. Support on-shore for the strike off-shore. Members of the | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
RMT and Unite unions demonstrated outside the Aberdeen head | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
quarterings of Wood Group and Shell. On the seven affected platforms, the | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
striking workers spent their 12-hour shift in designated rooms. It's | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
thought around half of the 350 workers involved in the dispute, are | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
currently off-shore and taking part. The majority of the protesters are | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
sitting in at the accommodation rig in Brent field. It is a far cry from | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
the deck sit-ins of the last industry strike almost 30 years ago. | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
They are being asked to do more for less. I think they have given quite | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
significantly thus far and they are prepared it talk about how they can | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
change but, simply because oil companies aren't making as much | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
money, why should the workforce have to pay for that? The unions and | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
management appear as far apart adds they ever have been during this | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
dispute but both sides, though, say they want to negotiate further to | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
find some sort of solution. The reason we have taken the action | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
we are taking, is because we are being responsible about sustaining | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
jobs and cost base into the future. That's a tough thing to do. What we | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
do want to do is minimise the affect to our employees and doing that by | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
engaging with them in that process and we'll continue to do that. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Shell says oil and gas production has not been affected by the strike. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
More industrial action is planned, if no agreement can be reached. | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
So, Steven, what happens now? Well, if there is no agreement, then | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
there'll be further industrial action. There is a continuing | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
overtime ban and there's also plans for three hour stoppages at the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
start of each shift and we are being told tonight by both sides they | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
haven't agreed to any further talks so far. They have already met 15 | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
times to try and find a solution. To going deeper into the disagreement. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Effectively Wood Group are trying to cut costs, so they are stripping | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
away allowances off the Sal riff workers and they are saying, here is | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
your new base salary and we'll pay you for overtime and night shifts | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
rather than including that in your salary. That was a deal that was | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
done with workers when there were the good times, the high oil price | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
and money was no real option off-shore. It is very different | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
times now. As I say, no sign of much agreement as yet. There is various | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
talks planned, hopefully in the future to try to get some sort of | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
solution, but as we have talked just now, the strike will finish at | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
6.30am tomorrow morning but, the industrial action will continue. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Thank you. A man has been charged with murder | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
following the death of a bodybuilder Michael O'Hanlon, who was 45, | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
was found with serious injuries at Moorpark Industrial Estate | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
in Stevenston on Monday. Emergency services were called, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
but he died at the scene. Steven Kirkwood, 43, | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
appeared from custody He made no plea or declaration | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
at the private hearing. Last week it was announced | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
that the construction and engineering firm, | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
the Dunne Group, was going into administration, | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
with the loss of around 200 jobs. The Bathgate-based business | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
was involved in major building projects such | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
as Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth This evening, workers who've been | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
made redundant are meeting with the union UCATT to assess | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
what can be done to help them. Our Business Economy | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Editor Douglas Fraser Douglas, remind us what happened | :06:03. | :06:03. | |
to the Dunne Group. Good evening, Sally. More than 500 | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
jobs lost in total from this West Lothian-based company. Jobs right | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
across Scotland, at least 200 of them in Scotland. Quite a few in | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
London as well where it has major projects. It was a fast-growing K 15 | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
years' old. They were hoping for nearly ?100 million of turnover this | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
year but ran into problems with losses on some of their projects and | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
cash flow difficulties and had to call in administrators only last | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
week who made almost all of the staff redundant straight away. It is | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
not just the staff with Dunne Group also. The supply chain and a | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
reminder today of how they can be affected with jobs lost and also | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
with bills that go unpaid as a result of the company collapsing. As | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
we are used to seeing with the large job loss, the Government's Skills | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Agency in Scotland has got involved offering advice in West Lothian and | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
in other parts of the country for people not based in West Lothian and | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
UCATT at its office here has convened people from the union and | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
beyond to see how it can get involved to help people through this | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
difficult period as we were hearing before the meeting started. Just a | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
bit shattered that it came so quick. There was no notice or any | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
inclination whatsoever that it was going to close. At my age, I'm 61 | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
one, it is kind of grim. It is all a big shock. There ain't much work | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
going about for somebody my age. The biggest concerns is about the | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
redudcy pay. Some of these workers have worked 10, 20 pays, they would | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
get redundancy pay, they have walked away and not paid it and they have | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
pensions as well. What about the wider industry. Do these workers | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
stand a good chance of getting other work in the construction industry? | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Well, this closure doesn't look all that typical for this industry at | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the moment. Of course there are worries aplenty about the economy, | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
particularly after the European Union referendum but construction | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
has had a busy period over the last couple of years, a lot fuelled by | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
the spending on the Scottish Government on roads and quens ferry | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
crossing and Aberdeen ring road. But that is tailing off, some of that | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
work, so we found from the output figures for the whole Scottish | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
economy, that construction contracted at the start of this | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
year. House building, well we heard from the registers of Scotland today | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
that the house market is still quite dull in terms of a slight increase | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
in the number of transactions but the average prices over the last | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
year are dropping On the plus, side, the Chambers of Commerce was asking | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
construction companies how things look and it was upbeat in its most | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
recent survey about its order book, about expectations of future orders | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
and about recruitment. There may well be places across Scotland where | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
people can pick up many of the rare skills that there are in the | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
construction industry. Thank you very much. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
A group of young Palestinian musicians are starting their first | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
In sport: we're in Khazakstan where Celtic have defensive problems ahead | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
of their Champions' League qualifier. | :09:22. | :09:22. | |
And we'll hear why Hearts' new striker is out to | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
The First Minister has set out five key areas | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
she believes must be protected - even when the UK leaves | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
But with so much unknown about what life will be | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
like after Brexit, how will Nicola Sturgeon be able | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
to keep the parts of the EU she likes | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
Here's our political correspondent Nick Eardley. | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
Nicola Sturegon wants Scotland to keep some of the best bits of EU | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
membership. But is that possible and if so, how? | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
At the heart of This Is Democracy, whether we respect the UK vote to | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
leave or the Scottish vote to remain and that, well it's up for | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
negotiation. The EU also brings social protection, things like | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
rights for workers and consumers. Can we keep those? They could be | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
safeguarded in a variety of different ways. The most obvious way | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
of protecting the current level of protection, guaranteed by EU law | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
would be to enact legislation post-Brexit, that sort of preserves | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the status quo. Much of that, though, will be down to the UK | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Government. Being part of the EU means cooperating on issues like | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
crime and climate change. Does Scotland lose access to that | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
cooperation? If we leave the EU, we have to ask ourselves - do we want | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
to continue as part of some of those arrangements? And if so, we will a | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
very to negotiate with the EU to do that, to ask - can we be part of | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
these arrangements? Or we will have to fall back on international | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
agreements to the extent that they exist and to the extent that we have | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
ratified or are willing to ratify them. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
One of the biggest questions is the extent to which we retain access to | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
the European single market and the free movement of goods and people. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
For the First Minister, those issues are key for the economy. But can | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
they be maintained? It is conceivable that the UK stays in the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
single market, after having left the EU. If the UK leaves the single | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
market, things get a lot trickier because it would require a special | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
status for Scotland if Scotland stayed in the UK. If Scotland became | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
independent, of course, it would be a completely different question. The | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
First Minister wants Scotland to not only access the single market but to | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
be able to influence the rules. Until now, that's something that | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
only members of the European Union can do. So is there a chance of a | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
deal which allows Scotland a say when the UK leaves? In theory that | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
is of course possible. Everything is possible in politics, in theory but | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
there is no precedent for this, so it is unlikely such a thing would be | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
negotiated. In particular for a country that would not, that is | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
still part of another country. That's of course unless Scotland is | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
in the EU as an independent country. On her wish list of five, well, it | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
seems on most of those aspects of EU life, there is room for negotiating | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
and testing the rules, and we'll of course keep you updated on the | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
progress. Two Canadian pilots charged | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
with being drunk as they prepared to fly a passenger jet from Glasgow | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
to Toronto have been given bail. Captain Jean-Francois Perreault | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
and Imran Zafar Syed Edinburgh's festivals are worth | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
more than ?300 million to the Scottish economy, | :12:49. | :13:05. | |
according to a study Attendance at the 12 festivals held | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
in the capital last year, topped ?4.5 million - | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
matching the FIFA World Cup, Our arts correspondent | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
Pauline McLean reports. A full-scale Military Tattoo | :13:14. | :13:30. | |
proclaims it is once again festival time in Edinburgh. Edinburgh first | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
branded itself as a festival city in 1947. Not one but several fest | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
values offering themselves as a platform for film, international | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
music and dance. Today that's grown into 12 distinct | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
fest values, staged across the year which between them, notched up 4.5 | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
million attendances in 2015, that's on a par with the Fifa World Cup and | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
second only Olympics -- only to the Olympics. We knew tickets sales had | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
gone up by 20% in 2010 to 2015, the parameters for the study. We hoped | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
gone up by 20% in 2010 to 2015, the the economic impact went up that | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
much so we were pleased to seat economic impact for Scotland has | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
gone up 25% over that time. The study found it wasn't just the | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
fringe which had seen an increase in attendance. All 12 festivals staged | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
across the year had grown, offering over 6,000 full-time jobs and | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
contributing over ?300 million to the Scottish economy. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
It is a timely reminder of the need for support and investment. We are | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
here to put on great events and it is the quality of shows we put on | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
that ensure we stay attractive to visitors and elecals but the | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
economic impact is a really important thing to remember that | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
happens in Edinburgh, particularly in uncertain economic times. | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
Festivals have carried on campaigning the economy right the | :15:04. | :15:04. | |
Festivals have carried on way through the recession and as we | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
move into what he think woe all know will be slight tricky times over the | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
next few years. Just reminder what we do here in Edinburgh does an | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
important job for Edinburgh and Scotland. Wheen tile, it is business | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
as usual as the jazz festival draws to a close and the fringe is about | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
to begin. Edinburgh's multi-million pound festival season is under way | :15:32. | :15:32. | |
all year around. Lews Castle Museum in Stornoway | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
is Scotland's newest museum, it opened its doors to visitors | :15:38. | :15:38. | |
for the first time It aims to explain life | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
in the Western Isles from pre-history to the present, | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
with exhibits from the Lewis Chessmen and publicity | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
pictures from the film It was a large restoration project - | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
transforming a former site that had lain derelict - | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
at a cost of ?19 million. There is a significant loan from the | :15:53. | :16:53. | |
British Museum. The Western Isles reserved a state-of-the-art museum | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
for quite sthiem is capable of holding objects like the Lewis | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Chessmen. I think this means an awful lot at a Scottish level and | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
also across the UK. . What I find wonderful about this museum, it | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
looks at the Western Isles very much through the experience of the people | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
that live here. It is all about bringing forward the stories that | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
people had to tell in order that we can best communicate their | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
experience of this culture. The council expect a substantial return | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
for their investment. We see the expansion of people | :17:25. | :17:41. | |
coming back from foreign countries looking at their roots which is why | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
we have that part of the museum here. The museum is already a big | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
hit. Over the first weekend. It attracted twice as many visitors as | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
expected. Celtic's manager, Brendan Rodgers, | :17:51. | :18:10. | |
says his team can cope with the defensive problems | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
threatening their Champions Erik Sviatchenko has been added | :18:13. | :18:13. | |
to an injury list that includes Even so, ahead of a potentially | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
awkward tie against FC Astana of Kazakhstan tomorrow, | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
the manager's feeling confident, It's a colourful place where mow | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
tern disits alongside the more traditional. Aspirations are high in | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
the new capital of this young country. Not least for the football | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
club. In their short certain year existence, Champions League football | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
has already been achieved. Their coach is playing down their chances | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
of of progress. An unbeaten home record in last season's Group stage | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
means they will be treated with respect. I think it will be very | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
difficult. This team obviously qualified for Champions League last | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
season. We had a look of video footage of them. They have players | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
that are very good. Can cause us problems on the counter-attack. They | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
have some good qualities that we will to watch out for. Celtic lost | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
in this stadium three years ago. In terms of tomorrow night's tie they | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
have to negotiate the tie without their Danish defender. They are | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
short of options at the back. I'm confident whatever team we put out | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
we will do the very, very best. Like we saw in Saturday's game, Erik | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
didn't play at the weekend, but I thought how the players shaped up | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
and how they worked in the game against Leicester, a very good | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
opponent, they dealt very well with. We have every confidence every | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
player I put in will give their best and do the best for the team. He is | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
calm so far. In the arena, it could be put to the test. Regardless of | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
the result this band of loyal fans will still back their man. | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
Hearts new striker wants to shake off his reputation | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
It's almost four years since Tony Watt burst | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
on to the scene as a teenager playing for Celtic - | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
he's played for six different clubs since then struggling to settle. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
He joins Hearts on a year-long loan from the English club Charlton. | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
She shot to fame in 2012 by scoring the winning goal for Celtic in the | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
Champions League against Barcelona. Now tone which Watt is back in | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
Scottish football. COMMENTATOR: Watt! YES! Tony Watt | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
has won this game. Magical moment for you. Has it been of a burden in | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
your career as well? If you asked me would I change it, no. I grew up a | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Celtic supporter obviously as a young boy. Nobody else is going to | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
be a Celtic supporter who can do that in their career. I wouldn't | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
change that for the world. Watt had exploded on to the scene. He | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
wrestled with the instant fame. He moved to K. Lierse on loan, he | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
scored goals but was called lazy an unfit. He was signed on a permanent | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
deal. He moved to Charlton athletic. Their followed loan moves to Cardiff | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
City, Blackburn Rovers and now Hearts. Do you think you have grown | :21:36. | :21:47. | |
up over the last four years? 100%. I'm not a different person, I'm more | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
mature I'm a man I was a little boy back then. I'm grown up now. That's | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
it. He is still just 22 years of age. Plenty of potential left. As | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
it. He is still just 22 years of fate would have it his Hearts debut | :22:04. | :22:13. | |
come against Celtic in the opening season. | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Six more Scots have been named today in the Great Britain team | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
Among them, London 2012 medallist, Libby Clegg. | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
The registered blind 200 metre runner won Gold at the Glasgow | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
She also broke the world record at the weekend, running | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
for the first time under a new classification. | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
That is all the sport tonight. . Thank you very much. | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
A group of young Palestinian musicians are starting their first | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
The Palestine Youth Orchestra have been rehearsing | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before putting | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
They played their first concert in Perth last night | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
and return tonight to Glasgow and the Royal Concert Hall. | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
Natalie Higgins has been to meet them. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Their music reflects the energy of these musicians. 85 of them, aged | :22:55. | :23:09. | |
from 14 to their mid 20s. Some live in the Palestinian territories, but | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
others have had to move to live in countries like Egypt and Jordan. | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
Through music you can actually reconnect with that lost part of | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
your identity. It's something I found was very possible. There was | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
no agenda in this orchestra. It was just a way for us to communicate for | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
the Palestinians living everywhere to see each other, talk and meet. | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
You know, explore other cultures we were sent to. During this trip there | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
is also been collaboration with young Scottish musicians. Just one | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
benefit of touring internationally. For this orchestra, travelling has | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
another purpose, the permits and checkpoints that are part of daily | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
life in the Palestinian territories mean it's too difficult for the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
orchestra to meet there. They want to change perceptions of young | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Palestinians through their music. What we try to do as an orchestra is | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
to prove that we don't politicalise us. We are here as humans, | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
musicians. We only want to play nice music. Well played music. That's | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
musicians. We only want to play nice being played by other orchestras. We | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
are just a normal orchestra. The thing that makes us special is that | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
we come from a complicated political zone. It reminds the world that all | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
these sterotypes of having Palestinians categorised are false. | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
We have amazing talents we will show during this tour. Their performances | :24:44. | :24:55. | |
will blend western and Arabic music. Works from Beethoven and from | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
Lebanon. Bringing together traditions just as they have been | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
brought together here in Scotland. Lovely. Another mixed day for the | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
weather. How's it looking for | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
the midweek forecast, Kawser? A cloudy wet end to the day to | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
southern and western parts of the country. You can see where we did | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
have the brighter spells, replaced by thicker cloud. Here are the | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
outbreaks of rain pushing in across the west and we will continue to see | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
showery outbreaks of rain for a time. This Weatherwatcher picture | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
from The Kelpies from Stephen, a cloudy picture. The rain will clear | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
away through the night. Dryer with clear spells and temperatures | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
holding on to double figures for towns and cities, 10-13 degrees. | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
Down to six to eight Celsius for rural areas. The northern isles | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
holding on to the cloud and you showery breaks of rain. Tomorrow | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
holding on to the cloud and you morning a lovely start to the day. | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Plenty sunny spells. Cloud around into the afternoon. If we look at | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
4.00pm, it will be cloudy and grey across the northern isles with | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
showers. The Western Isles, heavy bursts here. Cooler and fresher | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
conditions with the winds from the west, 14-15 degrees. 18 or 19 ray | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
gross Aberdeenshire for the central belt. Sunny spells in store for the | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
afternoon and the evening. Here is the picture for the evening. Cloudy | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
to the Northern Isles. It will be dry with clear spells and cool night | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
to come for tomorrow night as well. Thursday, this area of low pressure | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
coming in from the Atlantic is coming through towards us. | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
Uncertainty about the track and position of this weather front. | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
Northern Ireland and northern England will bear the brunt of this | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
rain. It will brush through southern parts of the country. The for | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
Thursday here is what it looks like at the moment. The rain across the | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
south coming through by the afternoon. Dryer in the north. | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
That's your forecast. Thank you. Now, a reminder of | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
tonight's main news. An elderly priest has been killed | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
in northern France after two armed men stormed into a Catholic church | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
service in Normandy The two hostage-takers were shot | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
dead by police. French President, Francois Hollande, | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
says the attackers claimed to be Hundreds of North Sea workers have | :27:30. | :27:31. | |
downed tools in a 24-hour walk-out, part of an ongoing row over plans | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
to cut pay and allowances. Alasdair Fraser will be | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
here with a brief update at 8.00pm and the late bulletin just | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
after the Ten O'Clock News. Until then, from everyone | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
on the team - right around the country - | :27:49. | :27:50. | |
have a very good evening. | :27:51. | :27:55. |