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North Sea Oil workers strike over pay and conditions

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for the first time in nearly 30 years.

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And a crisis meeting is under way for the hundreds of construction

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workers being made redundant from the Dunne Group.

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It came so quick. No notice or any inclination whatsoever that it was

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going to close. We'll be asking what

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can be done to help? A record 4.5 million festival goers

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visited Edinburgh last year. Celtic are in Kazakhstan ahead

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of tomorrow's Champions' League And the Lewis Chessmen go

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on display - back home. Hundreds of North Sea workers

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downed tools at 6.30am. of an ongoing row over plans

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to cut pay and allowances. It's the first stoppage of its kind

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in the sector since the 1980s. Seven oil platforms are affected,

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while onshore, workers have been picketing the Wood Group's

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offices in Aberdeen. The platform operator, Shell,

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has described the action Half way through this 4-hour

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stoppage now. Seven platforms off-shore affected. Solid and

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determined, is how the RMT and Unite unions describe the action off-shore

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today. 175 workers or so have been spending their shift in designated

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rooms, away from those who are continuing to work. The dispute over

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pay cuts and there is a big difference between what the workers

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think and the management think. Shame on you, shame on you and your

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pay cut, too. Support on-shore for the strike off-shore. Members of the

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RMT and Unite unions demonstrated outside the Aberdeen head

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quarterings of Wood Group and Shell. On the seven affected platforms, the

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striking workers spent their 12-hour shift in designated rooms. It's

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thought around half of the 350 workers involved in the dispute, are

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currently off-shore and taking part. The majority of the protesters are

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sitting in at the accommodation rig in Brent field. It is a far cry from

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the deck sit-ins of the last industry strike almost 30 years ago.

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They are being asked to do more for less. I think they have given quite

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significantly thus far and they are prepared it talk about how they can

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change but, simply because oil companies aren't making as much

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money, why should the workforce have to pay for that? The unions and

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management appear as far apart adds they ever have been during this

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dispute but both sides, though, say they want to negotiate further to

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find some sort of solution. The reason we have taken the action

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we are taking, is because we are being responsible about sustaining

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jobs and cost base into the future. That's a tough thing to do. What we

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do want to do is minimise the affect to our employees and doing that by

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engaging with them in that process and we'll continue to do that.

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Shell says oil and gas production has not been affected by the strike.

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More industrial action is planned, if no agreement can be reached.

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So, Steven, what happens now? Well, if there is no agreement, then

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there'll be further industrial action. There is a continuing

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overtime ban and there's also plans for three hour stoppages at the

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start of each shift and we are being told tonight by both sides they

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haven't agreed to any further talks so far. They have already met 15

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times to try and find a solution. To going deeper into the disagreement.

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Effectively Wood Group are trying to cut costs, so they are stripping

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away allowances off the Sal riff workers and they are saying, here is

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your new base salary and we'll pay you for overtime and night shifts

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rather than including that in your salary. That was a deal that was

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done with workers when there were the good times, the high oil price

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and money was no real option off-shore. It is very different

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times now. As I say, no sign of much agreement as yet. There is various

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talks planned, hopefully in the future to try to get some sort of

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solution, but as we have talked just now, the strike will finish at

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6.30am tomorrow morning but, the industrial action will continue.

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Thank you. A man has been charged with murder

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following the death of a bodybuilder Michael O'Hanlon, who was 45,

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was found with serious injuries at Moorpark Industrial Estate

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in Stevenston on Monday. Emergency services were called,

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but he died at the scene. Steven Kirkwood, 43,

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appeared from custody He made no plea or declaration

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at the private hearing. Last week it was announced

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that the construction and engineering firm,

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the Dunne Group, was going into administration,

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with the loss of around 200 jobs. The Bathgate-based business

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was involved in major building projects such

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as Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth This evening, workers who've been

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made redundant are meeting with the union UCATT to assess

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what can be done to help them. Our Business Economy

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Editor Douglas Fraser Douglas, remind us what happened

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to the Dunne Group. Good evening, Sally. More than 500

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jobs lost in total from this West Lothian-based company. Jobs right

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across Scotland, at least 200 of them in Scotland. Quite a few in

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London as well where it has major projects. It was a fast-growing K 15

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years' old. They were hoping for nearly ?100 million of turnover this

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year but ran into problems with losses on some of their projects and

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cash flow difficulties and had to call in administrators only last

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week who made almost all of the staff redundant straight away. It is

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not just the staff with Dunne Group also. The supply chain and a

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reminder today of how they can be affected with jobs lost and also

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with bills that go unpaid as a result of the company collapsing. As

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we are used to seeing with the large job loss, the Government's Skills

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Agency in Scotland has got involved offering advice in West Lothian and

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in other parts of the country for people not based in West Lothian and

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UCATT at its office here has convened people from the union and

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beyond to see how it can get involved to help people through this

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difficult period as we were hearing before the meeting started. Just a

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bit shattered that it came so quick. There was no notice or any

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inclination whatsoever that it was going to close. At my age, I'm 61

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one, it is kind of grim. It is all a big shock. There ain't much work

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going about for somebody my age. The biggest concerns is about the

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redudcy pay. Some of these workers have worked 10, 20 pays, they would

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get redundancy pay, they have walked away and not paid it and they have

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pensions as well. What about the wider industry. Do these workers

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stand a good chance of getting other work in the construction industry?

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Well, this closure doesn't look all that typical for this industry at

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the moment. Of course there are worries aplenty about the economy,

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particularly after the European Union referendum but construction

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has had a busy period over the last couple of years, a lot fuelled by

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the spending on the Scottish Government on roads and quens ferry

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crossing and Aberdeen ring road. But that is tailing off, some of that

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work, so we found from the output figures for the whole Scottish

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economy, that construction contracted at the start of this

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year. House building, well we heard from the registers of Scotland today

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that the house market is still quite dull in terms of a slight increase

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in the number of transactions but the average prices over the last

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year are dropping On the plus, side, the Chambers of Commerce was asking

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construction companies how things look and it was upbeat in its most

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recent survey about its order book, about expectations of future orders

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and about recruitment. There may well be places across Scotland where

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people can pick up many of the rare skills that there are in the

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construction industry. Thank you very much.

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You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC.

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Still to come on tonight's programme:

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A group of young Palestinian musicians are starting their first

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In sport: we're in Khazakstan where Celtic have defensive problems ahead

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of their Champions' League qualifier.

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And we'll hear why Hearts' new striker is out to

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The First Minister has set out five key areas

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she believes must be protected - even when the UK leaves

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But with so much unknown about what life will be

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like after Brexit, how will Nicola Sturgeon be able

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to keep the parts of the EU she likes

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Here's our political correspondent Nick Eardley.

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Nicola Sturegon wants Scotland to keep some of the best bits of EU

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membership. But is that possible and if so, how?

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At the heart of This Is Democracy, whether we respect the UK vote to

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leave or the Scottish vote to remain and that, well it's up for

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negotiation. The EU also brings social protection, things like

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rights for workers and consumers. Can we keep those? They could be

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safeguarded in a variety of different ways. The most obvious way

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of protecting the current level of protection, guaranteed by EU law

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would be to enact legislation post-Brexit, that sort of preserves

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the status quo. Much of that, though, will be down to the UK

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Government. Being part of the EU means cooperating on issues like

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crime and climate change. Does Scotland lose access to that

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cooperation? If we leave the EU, we have to ask ourselves - do we want

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to continue as part of some of those arrangements? And if so, we will a

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very to negotiate with the EU to do that, to ask - can we be part of

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these arrangements? Or we will have to fall back on international

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agreements to the extent that they exist and to the extent that we have

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ratified or are willing to ratify them.

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One of the biggest questions is the extent to which we retain access to

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the European single market and the free movement of goods and people.

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For the First Minister, those issues are key for the economy. But can

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they be maintained? It is conceivable that the UK stays in the

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single market, after having left the EU. If the UK leaves the single

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market, things get a lot trickier because it would require a special

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status for Scotland if Scotland stayed in the UK. If Scotland became

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independent, of course, it would be a completely different question. The

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First Minister wants Scotland to not only access the single market but to

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be able to influence the rules. Until now, that's something that

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only members of the European Union can do. So is there a chance of a

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deal which allows Scotland a say when the UK leaves? In theory that

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is of course possible. Everything is possible in politics, in theory but

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there is no precedent for this, so it is unlikely such a thing would be

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negotiated. In particular for a country that would not, that is

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still part of another country. That's of course unless Scotland is

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in the EU as an independent country. On her wish list of five, well, it

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seems on most of those aspects of EU life, there is room for negotiating

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and testing the rules, and we'll of course keep you updated on the

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progress. Two Canadian pilots charged

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with being drunk as they prepared to fly a passenger jet from Glasgow

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to Toronto have been given bail. Captain Jean-Francois Perreault

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and Imran Zafar Syed Edinburgh's festivals are worth

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more than ?300 million to the Scottish economy,

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according to a study Attendance at the 12 festivals held

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in the capital last year, topped ?4.5 million -

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matching the FIFA World Cup, Our arts correspondent

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Pauline McLean reports. A full-scale Military Tattoo

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proclaims it is once again festival time in Edinburgh. Edinburgh first

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branded itself as a festival city in 1947. Not one but several fest

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values offering themselves as a platform for film, international

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music and dance. Today that's grown into 12 distinct

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fest values, staged across the year which between them, notched up 4.5

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million attendances in 2015, that's on a par with the Fifa World Cup and

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second only Olympics -- only to the Olympics. We knew tickets sales had

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gone up by 20% in 2010 to 2015, the parameters for the study. We hoped

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gone up by 20% in 2010 to 2015, the the economic impact went up that

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much so we were pleased to seat economic impact for Scotland has

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gone up 25% over that time. The study found it wasn't just the

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fringe which had seen an increase in attendance. All 12 festivals staged

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across the year had grown, offering over 6,000 full-time jobs and

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contributing over ?300 million to the Scottish economy.

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It is a timely reminder of the need for support and investment. We are

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here to put on great events and it is the quality of shows we put on

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that ensure we stay attractive to visitors and elecals but the

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economic impact is a really important thing to remember that

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happens in Edinburgh, particularly in uncertain economic times.

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Festivals have carried on campaigning the economy right the

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Festivals have carried on way through the recession and as we

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move into what he think woe all know will be slight tricky times over the

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next few years. Just reminder what we do here in Edinburgh does an

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important job for Edinburgh and Scotland. Wheen tile, it is business

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as usual as the jazz festival draws to a close and the fringe is about

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to begin. Edinburgh's multi-million pound festival season is under way

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all year around. Lews Castle Museum in Stornoway

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is Scotland's newest museum, it opened its doors to visitors

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for the first time It aims to explain life

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in the Western Isles from pre-history to the present,

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with exhibits from the Lewis Chessmen and publicity

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pictures from the film It was a large restoration project -

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transforming a former site that had lain derelict -

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at a cost of ?19 million. There is a significant loan from the

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British Museum. The Western Isles reserved a state-of-the-art museum

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for quite sthiem is capable of holding objects like the Lewis

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Chessmen. I think this means an awful lot at a Scottish level and

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also across the UK. . What I find wonderful about this museum, it

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looks at the Western Isles very much through the experience of the people

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that live here. It is all about bringing forward the stories that

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people had to tell in order that we can best communicate their

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experience of this culture. The council expect a substantial return

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for their investment. We see the expansion of people

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coming back from foreign countries looking at their roots which is why

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we have that part of the museum here. The museum is already a big

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hit. Over the first weekend. It attracted twice as many visitors as

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expected. Celtic's manager, Brendan Rodgers,

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says his team can cope with the defensive problems

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threatening their Champions Erik Sviatchenko has been added

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to an injury list that includes Even so, ahead of a potentially

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awkward tie against FC Astana of Kazakhstan tomorrow,

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the manager's feeling confident, It's a colourful place where mow

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tern disits alongside the more traditional. Aspirations are high in

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the new capital of this young country. Not least for the football

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club. In their short certain year existence, Champions League football

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has already been achieved. Their coach is playing down their chances

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of of progress. An unbeaten home record in last season's Group stage

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means they will be treated with respect. I think it will be very

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difficult. This team obviously qualified for Champions League last

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season. We had a look of video footage of them. They have players

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that are very good. Can cause us problems on the counter-attack. They

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have some good qualities that we will to watch out for. Celtic lost

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in this stadium three years ago. In terms of tomorrow night's tie they

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have to negotiate the tie without their Danish defender. They are

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short of options at the back. I'm confident whatever team we put out

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we will do the very, very best. Like we saw in Saturday's game, Erik

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didn't play at the weekend, but I thought how the players shaped up

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and how they worked in the game against Leicester, a very good

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opponent, they dealt very well with. We have every confidence every

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player I put in will give their best and do the best for the team. He is

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calm so far. In the arena, it could be put to the test. Regardless of

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the result this band of loyal fans will still back their man.

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Hearts new striker wants to shake off his reputation

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It's almost four years since Tony Watt burst

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on to the scene as a teenager playing for Celtic -

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he's played for six different clubs since then struggling to settle.

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He joins Hearts on a year-long loan from the English club Charlton.

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She shot to fame in 2012 by scoring the winning goal for Celtic in the

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Champions League against Barcelona. Now tone which Watt is back in

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Scottish football. COMMENTATOR: Watt! YES! Tony Watt

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has won this game. Magical moment for you. Has it been of a burden in

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your career as well? If you asked me would I change it, no. I grew up a

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Celtic supporter obviously as a young boy. Nobody else is going to

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be a Celtic supporter who can do that in their career. I wouldn't

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change that for the world. Watt had exploded on to the scene. He

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wrestled with the instant fame. He moved to K. Lierse on loan, he

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scored goals but was called lazy an unfit. He was signed on a permanent

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deal. He moved to Charlton athletic. Their followed loan moves to Cardiff

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City, Blackburn Rovers and now Hearts. Do you think you have grown

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up over the last four years? 100%. I'm not a different person, I'm more

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mature I'm a man I was a little boy back then. I'm grown up now. That's

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it. He is still just 22 years of age. Plenty of potential left. As

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it. He is still just 22 years of fate would have it his Hearts debut

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come against Celtic in the opening season.

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Six more Scots have been named today in the Great Britain team

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Among them, London 2012 medallist, Libby Clegg.

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The registered blind 200 metre runner won Gold at the Glasgow

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She also broke the world record at the weekend, running

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for the first time under a new classification.

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That is all the sport tonight. . Thank you very much.

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A group of young Palestinian musicians are starting their first

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The Palestine Youth Orchestra have been rehearsing

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at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before putting

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They played their first concert in Perth last night

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and return tonight to Glasgow and the Royal Concert Hall.

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Natalie Higgins has been to meet them.

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Their music reflects the energy of these musicians. 85 of them, aged

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from 14 to their mid 20s. Some live in the Palestinian territories, but

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others have had to move to live in countries like Egypt and Jordan.

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Through music you can actually reconnect with that lost part of

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your identity. It's something I found was very possible. There was

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no agenda in this orchestra. It was just a way for us to communicate for

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the Palestinians living everywhere to see each other, talk and meet.

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You know, explore other cultures we were sent to. During this trip there

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is also been collaboration with young Scottish musicians. Just one

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benefit of touring internationally. For this orchestra, travelling has

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another purpose, the permits and checkpoints that are part of daily

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life in the Palestinian territories mean it's too difficult for the

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orchestra to meet there. They want to change perceptions of young

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Palestinians through their music. What we try to do as an orchestra is

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to prove that we don't politicalise us. We are here as humans,

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musicians. We only want to play nice music. Well played music. That's

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musicians. We only want to play nice being played by other orchestras. We

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are just a normal orchestra. The thing that makes us special is that

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we come from a complicated political zone. It reminds the world that all

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these sterotypes of having Palestinians categorised are false.

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We have amazing talents we will show during this tour. Their performances

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will blend western and Arabic music. Works from Beethoven and from

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Lebanon. Bringing together traditions just as they have been

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brought together here in Scotland. Lovely. Another mixed day for the

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weather. How's it looking for

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the midweek forecast, Kawser? A cloudy wet end to the day to

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southern and western parts of the country. You can see where we did

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have the brighter spells, replaced by thicker cloud. Here are the

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outbreaks of rain pushing in across the west and we will continue to see

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showery outbreaks of rain for a time. This Weatherwatcher picture

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from The Kelpies from Stephen, a cloudy picture. The rain will clear

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away through the night. Dryer with clear spells and temperatures

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holding on to double figures for towns and cities, 10-13 degrees.

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Down to six to eight Celsius for rural areas. The northern isles

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holding on to the cloud and you showery breaks of rain. Tomorrow

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holding on to the cloud and you morning a lovely start to the day.

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Plenty sunny spells. Cloud around into the afternoon. If we look at

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4.00pm, it will be cloudy and grey across the northern isles with

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showers. The Western Isles, heavy bursts here. Cooler and fresher

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conditions with the winds from the west, 14-15 degrees. 18 or 19 ray

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gross Aberdeenshire for the central belt. Sunny spells in store for the

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afternoon and the evening. Here is the picture for the evening. Cloudy

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to the Northern Isles. It will be dry with clear spells and cool night

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to come for tomorrow night as well. Thursday, this area of low pressure

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coming in from the Atlantic is coming through towards us.

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Uncertainty about the track and position of this weather front.

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Northern Ireland and northern England will bear the brunt of this

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rain. It will brush through southern parts of the country. The for

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Thursday here is what it looks like at the moment. The rain across the

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south coming through by the afternoon. Dryer in the north.

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That's your forecast. Thank you. Now, a reminder of

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tonight's main news. An elderly priest has been killed

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in northern France after two armed men stormed into a Catholic church

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service in Normandy The two hostage-takers were shot

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dead by police. French President, Francois Hollande,

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says the attackers claimed to be Hundreds of North Sea workers have

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downed tools in a 24-hour walk-out, part of an ongoing row over plans

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to cut pay and allowances. Alasdair Fraser will be

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here with a brief update at 8.00pm and the late bulletin just

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after the Ten O'Clock News. Until then, from everyone

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on the team - right around the country -

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have a very good evening.

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