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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:42. | |
Scotrail and the RMT agree on a deal to end the dispute over driver | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
The fight for the skies over the capital - | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Edinburgh airport receives thousands of responses to a consultation | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
Also on the programme, Willie Rennie tells the Lib Dem | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
conference that the SNP and the Conservatives | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
are the terrible twins of British politics. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Rangers suspend Joey Barton for three weeks following | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
And going the extra mile - the runner who's about to tackle his | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
ScotRail says its reached agreement in principle with the RMT union | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
to end a dispute over driver only operated trains. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
The company says it includes a guarantee that a conductor will be | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
kept as a second member of staff on new trains being | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Here's Huw Williams with the latest. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
This dispute has always been about who operates | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
The RMT said having a second member of staff working on a train is vital | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
But now Scotrail says the deal which has been agreed in principle | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
guarantees that that second person will be there. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
It should mean an end to the industrial action | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
which disrputed some trains earlier in the year. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
And in fact more strikes were planned, but they were suspended | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
earlier this month to allow talks to go ahead. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Scotrail has welcomed the development. | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
It says it'll make its services more efficient and effective. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
The union says its officials will be reporting to the RMT | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
National executive tomorrow, where the proposals will be | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
It'll make its position clear after that. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
But there'll need to be a ballot of union members to ratify the deal. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
I think we can confidently predict that both sides will be claiming | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
Edinburgh airport says it has received thousands of responses | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
to its public consultation on changing flight paths. | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
The first phase ends today, a week later than planned | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
after the airport was forced to apologise after losing | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
Scotland's busiest airport is getting even more popular. Passenger | :02:33. | :02:49. | |
numbers are up 12% on this time last year. And it plans to expand. Just | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
the sort of news, owners of this West Lothian golf club want to hear. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Certainly the airport expansion will hopefully raise the profile of the | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
area and raise the profile of West Lothian, the more people we can draw | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
to the area and the more awareness we can raise our golf club and clubs | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
in the area, it can only be good. Edinburgh airport wants to get more | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
flights in but it also wants to increase the frequency of outbound | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
flights to one a minute and to do that, it says it wants to expand the | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
flight path it uses. This consultation gave the public they | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
say on proposed envelopes of air space that could be utilised. They | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
change the flight path... In some parts of the countryside like | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
blackness, local residents say the tranquillity has already | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
disappeared. We are fighting against a giant and we are a small group of | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
people, because of their oral area, there are not that many people | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
living here. It is like David and Goliath. One every two minutes, a | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
few thousand feet above you, the rattle in the air, it is very | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
unpleasant. The air space here was designed in the 1970s. Back then, it | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
handles around 1 million passengers a year and now it handles over 11 | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
million. The modernisation programme has had a bumpy ride, a cancelled | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
flight path trial last week and an admission of lost data, but the | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
airport says it is listening. We have a chance to redesign the sky, | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
we could design routes that better balance our group with their | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
requirements as well and we can look to try and alleviate some of the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
problems that are there through a variety of things, either | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
modernising the flight routes or using different routes at different | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
times. The airport says the results of this phase will inform their | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
designs, but no changes to air space of this phase will inform their | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
will take place before December, 2017. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has accused the SNP | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
and the Conservatives of campaiging on "fear, not hope" in his speech | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
Willie Rennie said the Lib Dems needed to be "progressive, | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Our political correspondent David Porter is in Brighton. | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
They're not the party of government they were two years ago - | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
do the Lib Dems seem up for the fight? | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
No, they are not and I think that is part of the reason that the language | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
we are hearing from Willie Rennie. He is keen like other senior Liberal | :05:23. | :05:37. | |
Democrats to get a hearing for his views, over the last couple of | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
years, with the UK General Election and Holyrood elections, it is fair | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
to say that the Liberal Democrats are feeling pretty marginalised at | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
the moment. They only have one Scottish Liberal Democrat MP in | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
Westminster and five MS peas and to that end, Willie Rennie is saying | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
that his party will be progressive and outward looking and optimistic. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Willie Rennie is acutely aware that in political times, the only show in | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
town at the moment is Brexit and the reaction to that, hence the comments | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
he has been making today. He has accused both the SNP and the Tories | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
are trying to make party political advantage of that EU referendum, | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
almost three months ago now. It is a dismal scene that has been visited | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
upon us by the Conservatives and the SNP. Stalled investment, uncertain | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
future for EU citizens, divided families, split communities, | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
economic instability, tensions between the nations of the UK. This | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
is the work of the terrible twins of divisive politics. | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
And I believe the former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
Yes he has, three months on sense that EU referendum, he has been | :06:42. | :06:52. | |
thinking about what it will mean for the UK and also Scotland and whether | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
it remains part of the UK. In his words, he believes that three months | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
on, the prospects for the union are in his words less dire than they | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
were directly after that referendum and he says that he believes that | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
any moves for a second independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon will, in | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
his words, try to play things long, but he says that if Britain does not | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
stay part of the single market, he believes that that will strengthen | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
Nicola Sturgeon's hands in any call for a second referendum in Scotland. | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Looking at what will happen in Westminster, he says depending on | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
the way the Brexit negotiations go, he thinks the Prime Minister could | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
be tempted to call an early UK General Election, perhaps as early | :07:38. | :07:38. | |
as May next year. Thank you. And we will be bringing you further | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
reports with the other Scottish political leaders | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
as their conferences happen over A report has found that some | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
of Glasgow's iconic Red Road flats withstood a blast demolition last | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
year because they were built An inquiry was ordered after two | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
of the blocks remained partially standing following | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
the operation last October. It said the contractor, Safedem, | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
had identified discrepancies between the construction records | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
and the size of the steel The report concluded that Safedem | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
had followed good practice and had been "reasonable" | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
to "err on the safe side". A massive transport ship | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
is preparing to head for Lewis to move the stricken oil rig | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Transocean Winner. The heavy lifting vessel the Hawk | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
is due to transport the structure The rig ran aground on the island | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
last month after it broke It's been controversial from | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the start but Aberdeen City Council has announced what it hopes to do | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
with the 500 year old Campaigners had been fighting | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
to save the historic building as a controversial office and retail | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
development is built around it. Now there are plans to create | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
a museum about the people Kevin Keane has been | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
given a guided tour. Quietly hunkering down in the middle | :08:54. | :09:10. | |
of this building site, Provost Skene House holes half a millennium of | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
history. Inside, little has changed since the builders moved in next | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
door, but plans are being hatched to create a new museum here, to the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Aberdonians who made their mark on the world. What we want to do is try | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
and turn it into a Who's Who from Aberdeen, people who went out into | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
the big world and made a huge difference and that can be through | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
science or through food or music, sport... It is about connecting the | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
relevance of them to people who live in Aberdeen and visit today. The | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
city 's affections for this building span the decades and centuries, the | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
late Queen mother visited in 1953 to mark a previous refurbishment. This | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
time almost ?2 million will be used to make it attractive to a | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
21st-century visitor. But there have been protests about the effect | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Marshall Square will have on Provost Skene House as it nestles between | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
the tall structures. You use the word nestle and I would say the word | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
entombed. I think that this is not sympathetic. We have never had a | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
very good view of Provost Skene House since the 1960s, but it was | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
certainly not the density we are seen at the moment which really | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
distracts from the area. Plans are now being drawn up about which | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Aberdeen notables will feature in these historic rooms and how the | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
16th and 21st-century 's can sit comfortably together. It does not | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
look great in the middle of a building site but will it look | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
impressive when it is finished? At will. We will have baronial gardens | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
around, I historical arch, you will be able to see on the ground floor, | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
glass buildings and the thing that will catch your eye, the gardens. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
The aim is to have the refurbished museum finished and ready for when | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
the Square reopens in less than one year. | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
Accusations of homophobic language have been made after a satirical Rap | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
song was performed on Sunday at an Independence convention. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
The all-female group Whatshirface impersonated female | :11:13. | :11:13. | |
Scottish political leaders - and one of them the Tory leader | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
This was the sketch that was performed at the Scottish | :11:17. | :11:44. | |
independence convention on Sunday, singers representing the female | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
political leaders of Scotland struck the stage, making political jokes | :11:48. | :11:57. | |
and innuendo. What has caused controversy is that the Ruth | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Davidson character is introduced and was the term offensive? An MP was at | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
the event and call the hilarious social media but Annie Wells who is | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
also gay, disagreed and has written to her asking her to apologise. | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
There is no way, we are trying to educate and have inclusive | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
education, yet we have got a member of Parliament saying that that was | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
OK, it was hilarious and it was just satire. It certainly was not. Ruth | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
Davidson recently announced that she was engaged to her partner, Jennifer | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Wilson, but she has made jokes about lesbians as well. The Labour and | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Green Party also have gay leaders but Stonewall Scotland says | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
homophobic language can still be heard in the classrooms in Scotland | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
and workplaces. Not everyone thinks that language leads to | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
discrimination. There is a real problem that we have lost the | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
distinction between words and actions. There is a difference | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
between people saying things are cracking crude jokes and people | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
being violent and we should get back to | :13:10. | :13:22. | |
recognising there is a great difference and one does not directly | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
lead to the other. Joanna Cherry has issued a response to the criticism | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
saying, I thought the performance yesterday as a satirical comedy | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
sketch written by lesbian women and performed by lesbian women which | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
mark representatives of all political parties including the SNP. | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
In that context, I do not believe that was intended to be offensive, | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
but I do understand why some find it to be. She says she regrets the | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
offence that was caused and will continue to champion gay rights. | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
John McManus, reporting Scotland. You're watching BBC | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
Reporting Scotland. Scotrail and the RMT agree on a deal | :13:47. | :13:47. | |
to end the dispute over driver And still to come...Rangers suspend | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Joey Barton for three weeks following a training | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
ground argument. A small number of children | :13:59. | :14:10. | |
from the Angus area have been quarantined in hospital | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
as investigations continue NHS Tayside says they're | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
being treated within a dedicated area of Ninewells | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
hospital in Dundee. Some of the children are confirmed | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
to have the infection while others The health board says it can't | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
disclose the number of cases A vigil will be held | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
outside the central mosque in Edinburgh following an attack | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
on the building yesterday. Police are investigating a hate | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
crime in which an object was thrown The vigil has been called | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
by Edinburgh United Against Fascism, and will feature speeches from local | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
councillors and a minute's Scottish Paralympians | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
are on their way home from Rio after helping to ensure these | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Paralympics were a great success Paralympics GB surpassed their medal | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
tally from London 4 years ago and the Scots competing in the GB | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
team did likewise. Our reporter Jane | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
lewis joins us now. Thank you, the Paralympics came to | :15:09. | :15:21. | |
an end overnight with a closing ceremony at the Myra, stadium | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
marking the end of 11 days of action across 22 sports. Paralympics GB won | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
147 medals, including 64 goals -- The Paralympics in Rio came | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
to an end overnight, with the closing ceremony | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
at the Maracana Stadium, marking the end of 11 days | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
of action across 22 sports. Paralympics GB won 147 medals - | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
including 64 golds - making these Paralympics their most | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
successful since Seoul, 1988. And the Scots competing | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
for Paralympics GB played their part Scottish Para athletes won | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
17 medals - five Gold, eight Silver and fourBronze, | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
across five sports. Visually impaired sprinter | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
Libby Clegg had a great Games - she was crowned | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
a double-Paralympic Champion, while 16 year old Maria Lyle from | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
Dunbar won three medals and swimmer Andrew Mullen also bagged | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
a hat-trick of medals. While tennis player Gordon Reid won | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
Paralympic Gold in the singles Andy Murray has always been a big | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
inspiration of Reid's and that there is a photo of him from London, | :16:06. | :16:24. | |
from 2012, his gold medal, the last when you see just before you enter | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
the court. I glanced at that every day before I had a match. He | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
inspires me. He is an incredible athlete. A true professional. And | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
obviously comes from the same part of the world as me. It is amazing, | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
obviously comes from the same part what he did, a real honour for me to | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
be able to emulate his success on the court. | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
Scottish Paralympians are on their way home from Rio | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
after helping to ensure these Paralympics were a great success | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
Like Gordon Reid, the majority of the Scots on Paralymics GB | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
are on world class programmes run by UK Sport so were entitled | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
to a share of the funding from that body in the build up to Rio. | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Over the 4 years leading to Rio - UK Sport invested just | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
over ?70 million pounds in to Paralympic Sports - | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
a forty three per cent rise in funding from the previous 4 year | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Or as each of those athletes will receive a competition awards and | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Dickie you put that together, it allows each of them to be full-time | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
athletes. Our job in Scotland is to produce that pathway to allow the | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
next generation of talent is to get into those programmes and we have | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
invested ?60 million in the same cycle to add to the UK total and | :17:41. | :17:41. | |
take things forward. Unlike UK Sport, | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
Sportscotland integrate that ?60 million funding | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
you heard mentioned there across Olympic | :17:48. | :17:48. | |
and Paralympics sports. They say after the success of both | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
Games in Rio from a Scottish point of view, the next step is to carry | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
out a review as they look to setting their funding | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
for the next four years. Thank you. And now for a look at | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
other stories across the country. MSPs are to challenge the government | :17:59. | :18:15. | |
about the... It comes as Scotland prepares to set up its own social | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
security framework and are taking on extra welfare powers from | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
Westminster. Restorers working on the reconstruction of the | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
fire-damaged Glasgow School of art have been given access to Charles | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Rennie Mackintosh's original plans in their new home at the Kelvin | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Hall. This in a document is proving vital for rebuilding work. We are | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
seeing them thinking out loud on these drawings. There are pencil | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
marks, crossings out, and we are seeing things that he thought about, | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
and maybe thought were not a good idea. For us it is essential because | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
we have to get under the skin of that man to understand exactly what | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
was in his head when he was designing that building. The stars | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
of the musical five guys named Moe have helped launch plans for | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Edinburgh's Christmas celebrations. Attractions will be commented by new | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
additions in the West End and George Street. 10,000 free tickets will be | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
given to children for the ice rink, which is returning to St Andrews | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
Square. It is about what it says of the city at this time of year. We | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
are up there in terms of Christmas and Hogmanay, up there with London | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
and Rio de Janeiro. And we want to maintain that because we are proud | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
of it. The world's leading experts on canals are gathering in the east | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
this week. Delegates will discuss how canals can be used as a tool in | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
urban regeneration as well as the opportunities available for | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
sustainable tourism. The Countess of Wessex is cycling a 450 mile palace | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
to palace right, starting from Holyrood house to Buckingham Palace. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Prince Phillip and her husband, the Earl of Wessex, waved to the | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
Countess off as she began her bike ride in support of the 60th | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme. | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
Rangers have suspended their footballer Joey | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
It follows a training ground dispute with his teammates | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
and his manager last week, and a meeting this morning at Ibrox. | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
The 34 year old came to Glasgow this summer, | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
in one of Scottish football's most high profile transfers. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Here's our senior football reporter, Chris McLaughlin. | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
The usual procession of sports cars at the Rangers training ground this | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
morning, but one was missing. A few miles south, Joey Barton was in a | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
meeting here to discuss his future after being told to stay away | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
following a heated training ground argument last week. Minutes after he | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
emerged, a club statement reading: that could be interesting in itself. | :20:53. | :21:23. | |
The midfielder releases a book on Thursday. The title, no nonsense. He | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
has a number of TV and radio commitments in the next 48 hours to | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
promote it. Ferguson! It's brilliant! More than likely the end | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
of the road, according to one former captain. Rangers probably knew what | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
they were getting with joy when they signed him. In terms of him being | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
suspended for three weeks, I am surprised at that. I don't know what | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
is going to happen after it. It looks to me that maybe his Rangers | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
career is over now. Mark Warburton bought a Joey Barton in the summer | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
to add experience but also to send a message out to Scottish football | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
that after years of turmoil here, Rangers could still attract the big | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
names. Some said it was a bold move, others that it was a gamble. No | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
matter who is right and who is wrong, weeks after arriving here, | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Joey Barton's future at this club looks increasingly in doubt. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
One of Scotland's Olympic gold medallists has had his | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
stolen medical files made public by hackers. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
The cyclist Callum Skinner, who won gold and silver in Rio, | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
is among numerous athletes to have their records posted | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
It says he was granted an exemption to use the banned substance | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
There's no suggestion Skinner has been involved in any wrongdoing. | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
A man from Orkney is gearing up to tackle his 100th ultra marathon. | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
William Sishel, who's in his sixties, was inspired to take | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
up the sport after he found he had just too much left in the tank | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
If successful, he'll join a very small group of people worldwide | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
Meet the man who found a marathon simply too short. 20 years since his | :23:10. | :23:22. | |
first ultramarathon, this weekends William Sishel will be looking to | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
complete his hundredth. During that time he has tackled everything from | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
40 kilometres all the way up to the world's longest certified race, some | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
3100 miles. The oldest man ever to complete it, he put that down as his | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
biggest challenge to overcome. I went to areas where men had never | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
been before. The demands of the event, you have to start at 6am | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
every morning and finish at midnight. You can go home early if | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
you want but it leaves you less time to do the distance. It is on an open | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
street circuit in Queens in New York. It was noisy, and I was | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
homesick. This one here is from the world's hottest ultramarathon. 135 | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
miles. Taking up the sport at 40, William has amassed 18 wins and 183 | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
records. All from a space on the small -- a small island in Orkney. | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
This weekend, the fight is against the 24-hour road race in | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
Switzerland, a century insight. In total, William has run a staggering | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
20,000 miles in races. Add that to a further 57,000 in training and it is | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
the equivalent of going around the world three times. During that | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
period he has gone through 150 pairs of socks and 65 pairs of trainers. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Yet despite the fact he is approaching pensionable age, there | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
was no sign of retirement for the 62-year-old. Absolutely not. I don't | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
wake up every morning and look at my birth certificate. I am fighting fit | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
and loving every minute of it. Why would I want to retire I am doing | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
well at it. Now here's Graham Stewart | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
with details of Scotland 2016. The dream will never dies says Alex | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
Salmond but to years on from the referendum, are the prospects for | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Scottish independence any brighter? Will we be asked to vote a second | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
time and if so, how soon? The debate is over on BBC Two at 10:30pm. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Now, a new list of names has been published by the met office. | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
It includes Penelope, Malcolm, Wilbert and Fleur, | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
and not forgetting Dorothy and Angus too. | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
They're the names to be used for storms when they happen this winter. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
I notice my name is not there. They are all suggestions by members of | :25:43. | :25:54. | |
the public, actually. And they compiled these lists, and that is | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
what we have got for this winter. 11 named storms last winter. Thankfully | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
no signs of our first one yet. They are only named when the impact is | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
deemed severe enough. But you are right, now Christopher Aurora, but | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
there was a Jackie on there. It is pretty settled weather across the | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
country at the moment. Here is the satellite picture from earlier. The | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
cloud bubbling up through the course of the day. This was what we | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
cloud bubbling up through the course Ullapool, picture from a weather | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
watcher. Tonight it is dry and the cloud tends to melt away, to give | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
long, clear spells. The wind is generally light away from the West | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
Coast, with temperatures in towns or cities nine or 10 degrees. Tomorrow, | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
there is a weather front out in the Atlantic but it will stay there for | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
most. Another dry and bright day for many. Early mist patches will | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
quickly lift and cloud will bubble up during the course of the day. | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
Still bright or sunny spells to be had. By mid-afternoon, we are | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
looking at temperatures of 15 or 16 with light winds. For most, it is a | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
dry day with decent spells of sunshine on offer. The rest of the | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
afternoon, into the evening, and the showers in the North West will merge | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
to give a longer spell of rain. That is the start of the next system | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
arriving as we had overnight towards Wednesday. On the pressure charts, | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
we can see that rain edging its way in, giving us a spell of wet and | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
windy weather through the Hebrides come Wednesday. Elsewhere, dry and | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
British. Cloudier than today or tomorrow. -- dry and bright. Later, | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
that wet weather will dry inland, bringing a spell of rain for all. It | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
will be gone by Thursday to bring a dry and bright day. Breezy from the | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
south with a number of showers in the West. Looking ahead towards the | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
end of the week, weather systems arriving off the Atlantic. An | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
unsettled scene. Breezy and windy at times. Also, quite wet as we start | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
the weekend. That is the forecast. I'll be back with the headlines at 8 | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
and the late bulletin just | :28:17. | :28:20. |