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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Big changes to school qualifications - pupils will face tougher exams | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
BBC Scotland learns there's patchy support for newly diagnosed dementia | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
patients, and this sporadic approach to care doesn't help. | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
Consistency, which is really hard for my mum, because things have to | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
stay the same with dementia, routines, people's faces. My mum is | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
the one who has suffered the most. I think she has been let down. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
We'll hear from one family who're still waiting for support - | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Also on the programme, the brother of a Scottish | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
aid worker, murdered in Syria, tells us military action alone | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
won't defeat so-called Islamic State. | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
And Scotland's women's football team celebrated reaching Euro 2017 | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
with an impressive victory against group winners - Iceland. | :00:52. | :01:13. | |
Big changes are to be made to new secondary | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
school qualifications, barely three years after | :01:18. | :01:18. | |
Some assessments in National 5 and Higher courses are to be | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
scrapped and more emphasis will be put back onto the final exam. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
It follows industrial action by some teachers over their workloads but | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
tonight the largest teaching union says it will suspend a work-to-rule. | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Our education correspondent Jamie McIvor reports. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
The new qualification started to be introduced three years ago, but are | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
still a hard equation for many teachers to solve. The main worry, | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
workload and bureaucracy, and one issue is formal assessments marked | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
by teachers themselves. These youngsters are studying for their | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
National five maths. They have to complete several of the unit | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
assessments and also sit an exam. All of the new qualifications are | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
broken up into units and each unit carries its own mandatory assessment | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
which is marked by the teacher. In order to get an overall course | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
award, young people have to pass these units as they go along, and | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
then pass the final examination. But big changes are on the way in what | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
amounts to a dramatic change to a new system. The unit assessments are | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
being scrapped for National five and Hire students. The aim is to cut | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
down on the workload for teachers and students. The big significance | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
will be for students. This will assist young people in the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
concentration of their learning, rather than purely and simply be | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
progress. What will change? Instead of assessments marked by teachers, | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
the plan is to put more emphasis on the final exam. Some marks may come | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
from coursework but this will not be marked by class teachers. The | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
changes will be phased in over two years and do not affect this year's | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
courses. Less formal assessment for young people, and teaching with more | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
debt than learning and for teachers a reduction workload is and | :03:32. | :03:45. | |
bureaucracy. Will this be enough to see off the threat of escalating | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
industrial action and help restore goodwill? | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Dementia touches the lives of thousands of us and our families | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
but many people are still not receiving the help | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Three years after the launch of an NHS scheme to give vital | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
support, thousands of patients still haven't received any. | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
What's more, the prospects for getting it vary dramatically | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
In Shetland, everyone that needs it has got it, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
but if you live in Stornoway, the scheme stopped for over a year. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Suzanne Allan has this exclusive report. | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
She looks happy. She was but I think she probably had dementia then. | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
Margret was diagnosed a year after this photo was taken. She was put on | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
a waiting list for what the NHS called the one-year diagnostic | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
support guarantee. It gives everyone with dementia support from a link | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
worker for 12 months. They said there was a waiting list and it | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
would probably be six months that they did not have the staff. A year | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
later they are still waiting. The family had help from nurses but they | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
are on their third different person. Consistency, which is really hard | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
for my mum, because things have to stay the same with dementia. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Routine, people's faces. My mum has suffered the most because I think | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
she has been let down. The link worker gives advice on anything from | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
benefits to keeping an eye on the person's condition. A BBC report | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
found in the Western Isles fills no service for 18 months. But if you | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
live in Orkney or Shetland everyone has received it. It is afternoon tea | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
time here. This is a group where people with dementia come and meet | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
their friends. Many people here have not heard of the scheme. We have had | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
a forum before and out of a group of maybe 30 people, there were about | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
two in the group who received post diagnostic support. I think there is | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
still a lack of awareness about that support. Scotland is a world leader | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
with this guarantee, but not everyone who is offered it accepts. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
If patients are keen, what is going wrong? The variation in uptake could | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
be caused by whoever is offering it, not offering it in a way that | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
everyone wants it or in some places it is not being offered. Western | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Isles health board have told us new staff have been recruited and they | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
are supporting their patients in different ways. The Scottish health | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
board recognises there are challenges. | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
It also promised a new three-year strategy will be published later | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
this year. MSPs have tonight complained | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
that they are not being given enough time to scrutinise | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
Scottish Government spending plans. The protest comes from Holyrood's | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
finance committee - which is chaired by Bruce Crawford, | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
a former SNP Cabinet Minister. In response, the Scottish Government | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
said the problem was caused Our political editor Brian Taylor | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
is at Holyrood for us tonight. Remember what is at stake here, some | :06:58. | :07:15. | |
?30 billion or thereabouts of public spending for Scotland. The vote | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
should be taken here in Holyrood around February next year. Before | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
that, there ought to be detailed scrutiny, not by government, but by | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
parliamentarians, and that is being curtailed. Why? The Chancellor's | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
autumn spending statement for the whole of the UK is delayed because | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
of the Brexit uncertainties. The Scottish Secretary says we need to | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
see the colour of the Chancellor's money before we set out Scotland's | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
spending plans. The SNP are unhappy. They say they were given a promise | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
spending plans. The SNP are unhappy. that they would get work in progress | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
scenario planning, some details. Now they are not getting that. They will | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
get it cold in mid-December and other planning is up to them. They | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
are very unhappy with that. They plan to take it to the full chamber, | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
in essence, trying to get the government to overturn that. We have | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
a former SNP cabinet minister taking his own government to task. That is | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
quite unusual, isn't it? It is. He is the former member for | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Parliamentary affairs so he knows how this is run. What is going on | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
here? First of all, the committees in general, that has been a | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
prolonged attempt to toughen them and beef up their response. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Secondly, there is a reminder to the SNP that they are in a minority at | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
Secondly, there is a reminder to the Holyrood. Thank you. | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
Scottish Labour is set to get more power over policy and people, | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
making it more distinct from the UK party. | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
A series of reforms was confirmed by the party's executive last night | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
and will go to the party's conference for final approval. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Our political correspondent Nick Eardley has been looking | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
Few resignations in recent Scottish political history have been damning. | :08:59. | :09:16. | |
Joanne Lamb and's claim that the Scotland Labour Party was seen as a | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
branch office -- Johann Lamont. Now the new leader thinks she has found | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
a solution. I'm delighted that what will go before our members at | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
conference next week is a strong plan to make Scottish Labour and | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
autonomous party. What is changing? London currently has a say in who | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
the Scottish party puts forward for election to Westminster. The reforms | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
will mean that is a matter for Scottish Labour. The changes also | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
give the party north of the border power to set its own Lizzy Yarnold | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
issues. That includes those the parliament in Westminster controls. | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
The changes could be significant. If, as some fear, there is an | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
attempt to deselect MPs who don't support Jeremy Corbyn, Scotland | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
could make its own decisions. It could also mean the Scottish party | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
has different policies to the UK party. When it comes to the general | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
election manifesto, how will they bridge the gap? Every part of our | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
labour family will come together in one room and argue it all out. But | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
for the first time, and you cannot miss the significance of this, we | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
will determine all our own policy positions in Scotland. We as | :10:38. | :10:50. | |
Scottish Labour members should be an thin more. This person will not | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
be... The SNP had dominated for the last couple of years because they | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
have become the party for Scotland. I think with being a more | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Independent Labour Party in Scotland we could get that mantle back. Will | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
be is changes solved the puzzle of where the balance lies? This could | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
be the last piece of the reformed jigsaw. | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
The Scotch whisky industry is committing to new targets | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
for reduced energy use and less environmental impact. | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
Energy use from non-fossil fuels has already risen from 3% to 17%, | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
and the new target is to reach 40% by 2030. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Some 33% of whisky packaging, including bottles and boxes, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
is now made from recycled materials, and the latest target is to get that | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland. | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
Big changes to come on how National Fives and Highers | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
are marked, which means tougher exams and less assessed coursework. | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
Scotland's women's football team win an impressive | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
Police say they've arrested a 27-year-old man in connection | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
with offensive behaviour at the Old Firm match | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
The BBC understands the arrest is in connection with effigies | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
draped in Rangers scarves being hung from the roof of one of the stands. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Police say their investigation into other offensive incidents | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
and vandalism at the stadium that day is still going on. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
The arrest took place earlier today and is related to effigies, one | :12:30. | :12:45. | |
draped in a Rangers scarf, the other in an orange sash, being hung from | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
the upper tier of the stand containing Celtic supporters. Police | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
say the 27-year-old man had been arrested under the offensive | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
behaviour at football act. This match was the first time the two | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
teams had met in the league since Rangers return to the SPL earlier | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
this season. Police say following a number of disorder incidents, a team | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
of detectives have been trawling through CCTV footage and they are | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
now appealing for fans to send a mobile phone footage and they say | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
they are significantly interested in footage of the vandalism of the way | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
supporters toilets, that is the toilets used by the visiting Rangers | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
fans. They have become aware of footage circulating on social media | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
showing the vandalism of those toilets. After the match, Rangers | :13:35. | :13:46. | |
issued a statement saying they were aware of the disgust felt by fans | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
who were supposed to a sickening and shameful display of sectarian | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
hatred. Celtic said they would deal with all the issues which had arisen | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
and they thank their fans for the support they had given to the team. | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
The brother of a Scottish aid worker murdered in Syria says military | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
action alone will not defeat so-called Islamic State. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
Aid worker David Haines from Perth was killed two years ago. | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
Since then his brother Mike has been campaigning for religious tolerance. | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
He's addressing an event in Dundee tonight and has been speaking | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Mike Haines calls for peace despite having suffered at the hands of | :14:17. | :14:28. | |
those who preach violence. His brother David was murdered two years | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
ago in Syria by so-called Islamic State. He'd been held hostage for 18 | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
months. It was very difficult for the family but we supported each | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
other. When one of us was feeling down or week, then the other members | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
of the family, you know, we all came together in a very strong unit. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
David Haines had spent two decades working in humanitarian aid. Part of | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
that time was in Bosnia. On his first trip to Syria, IS militants | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
captured him. By the time of his memorial service, Mike Haines had | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
decided to dedicate his life to campaigning for tolerance between | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
religions. When he was killed, my gut reaction was, I wanted to go out | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
there and kill. I understand it -- I realised that their actions are all | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
about causing hatred so, if I committed a hate asked, first of all | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
in my brother's name, my brother would want me for the rest of my | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
days. In the two years since David's death, the conflict in Syria and | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Iraq has continued. US and American forces are engaged in the fight. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Does Mike Haines believe that military action will end the threat? | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
I don't think it is the only answer. Reaching out the hand of friendship | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
to a people, culture that you don't know, a neighbour from a different | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
country, over the fence and saying hello, how are you doing, and you | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
grow these bonds. They are stronger than anything against the hatred. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Tonight, he will bring his message of tolerance to a gathering in | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
support of refugees, convinced it will eventually make a difference. | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
Health boards across Scotland are being given an extra | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
?9 million for accident and emergency departments. | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
The Scottish government says the funding is designed to ease | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
the pressure on emergency wards in the winter. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Opposition MSPs have welcomed the extra money but say | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
there still aren't enough staff on the wards. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Santander has pulled out of talks to buy more | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
RBS, which is part-owned by the taxpayer, has until the end | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
The sale was a condition of the Government's bailout | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
A look at other stories from across the country. | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
The Rural Economy Secretary has ruled out any further inquiry | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
into the Common Agricultural Policy payments fiasco. | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
being delayed because of problems with an IT system. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Appearing before MSPs today, Fergus Ewing admitted ?9-10 million | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
I think the priority for us and for farmers is to resolve the remaining | :17:21. | :17:39. | |
difficulties with the IT systems and to restore the operation of the | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
system to a proper footing. Anything that detract from that process by | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
taking senior officials away from focusing on that would, I think, be | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
counter-productive and would be most unwelcome to the staff determined to | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
do the job to the best of their ability. | :17:58. | :17:58. | |
Police have still to identify a motorcyclist killed | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
in a crash with a van in Aberdeenshire yesterday. | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
The ship that will take the damaged oil rig Transocean Winner to Turkey | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
for decommissioning has arrived off the coast of Lewis. | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
The drilling rig is to be floated onto the deck | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
The rig ran aground during a storm more than a month ago. | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
A Scottish charity is urging people to swap their beds for sleeping bags | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
in its annual sleep out to raise awareness and funds | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
For 25 years, the Rock Trust has helped youngsters. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
It's now developing a strategy designed to end youth | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
homelessness in ten years through early intervention. | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
We need to look at wider families, why do relationships break down, and | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
supporting young people and families. When young people go | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
through adolescence, it can be a difficult time for all family | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
members. It's really about looking at these different issues as well, | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
and that's a real challenge because we still think of homelessness as a | :19:07. | :19:07. | |
housing issue. Police are appealing for information | :19:08. | :19:08. | |
after human remains were found in a tent in a secluded quarry area | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
on the outskirts of Inverness. Officers say the death | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
is being treated as unexplained and, while they don't know the identity, | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
age or sex of the person, it's likely the body has been | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
there for several months. A postmortem examination | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
is to be carried out. Scotland's women aim | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
to further improve ahead of featuring in next summer's | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
European Championship finals. Anna Signeul's national side had | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
already secured qualification for Euro 2017 before last night's | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
match in Iceland. As Brian McLauchlin reports, | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
the Scots finished This was the goal that sealed | :19:43. | :19:55. | |
victory for Scotland's women against Iceland in Reykjavik on Tuesday. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Jane Ross on target from the penalty spot. She says the clock is ticking | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
towards next summer's final -- finals. We already know we had | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
qualified. Preparations have already started. To come here and put in the | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
performance we did, we can only take confidence from that. The Scots had | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
lost 4-0 Iceland on home soil in June but, when Ross nodded in the | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
opener, they put the team back on track for victory. Although Iceland | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
vectorised -- equalised, these God showed immense character. -- the | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
squad. I am proud of them and they are proud of themselves. They | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
stepped up to the plate. With the finals just ten months away, taking | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
on world-class opposition between now and then is a priority. We need | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
these games to get high intensity, fast to play really physical and | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
play together as a team. It was a group hug at full-time as Scotland | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
play together as a team. It was a sign of qualification with a win and | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
a first major finals for the squad looming on the horizon. | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Andy Murray says he likes the idea of shortening the format of future | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
The International Tennis Federation has proposed a two-day contest | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
instead of three days, and best of three sets | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
Both Andy and Jamie Murray are playing at a charity | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
event in Glasgow tonight, where they caught up | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Yes, as if the Olympics, the Davis Cup, Wimbledon, the US open wasn't | :21:29. | :21:42. | |
enough, Andy Murray's only gone and created is only tennis event here at | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
the Hydro in Glasgow. A chance to play in front of home fans and to | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
raise some money for charity. Joining us are Andy and Jamie | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Murray. Andy, looking forward to a more light-hearted contest? Yeah, | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
obviously. The weekend was pretty stressful physically and mentally | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
but tonight should be a great fun evening. You were involved in some | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
coaching schools earlier on. The Glasgow warriors boss was part of | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
it. Impressed with his skills? Yeah, he put in some good work. It was | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
cool. A lot of them came out. Mum was there at the session, teaching | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
everyone how to use a racket. It's not easy to pick up a racket and | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
know how to handle it. It was good fun. There is some remarkable | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
footage from earlier on this week of the Bramley brothers, Ali helping | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
his brother Jonny over the line in the triathlon. -- the Bramley | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
brothers. It is obvious that you are brothers. Were you able to identify | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
that footage? As it being a support for you knowing your brother is in | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
tennis? I think I'd do the same. So, Andy, you might expect a hand | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
tonight? I needed it at the weekend after my match on Friday. In tennis, | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
we never push ourselves to the limits that the triathletes do. It | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
was amazing. 'S been a great year for you, becoming a dad just over | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
six months ago. Good, fun, enjoyable adventure? Yeah, it's been amazing. | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Challenging at times, but great. Every day, you learn something new. | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
Unfortunately, I don't get to spend every single day with her. When I am | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
away for a few days, and then I get to see her, something has changed, | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
doing something new. It's great. She's growing up quickly. I've | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
enjoyed it a lot so far and my wife is doing a great job to sort of, | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
yeah, hopefully it stays that way. Thank you both very much for joining | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
us. Hopefully, these guys after tonight would get a little bit of | :23:59. | :23:59. | |
rest. Now here's Shelly Joffre | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
with details of Scotland 2016. Tonight, we hear from Westminster's | :24:02. | :24:13. | |
youngest MP, married black, about the pensions problem affecting | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
millions of women approaching retirement. -- Marie black. And, as | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
new homes are being built to deal with the housing shortage, what | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
about the pressure on local health care question mark jointly at | :24:28. | :24:28. | |
10:30pm. And now the weather. This morning, we had plenty of | :24:29. | :24:42. | |
brightness. Plenty of sunshine around, as illustrated by a weather | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
watcher in the Borders. Through the day, the cloud has increased. This | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
evening, it looks cloudy for most of us with further outbreaks of rain. | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
That rain continues to track its way through much of western Scotland and | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
tonight it will eventually become confined to more eastern areas and | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
across the northern isles, too. Dreier, clearer conditions feeding | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
into the west behind that front. A view and fog patches and the winds | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
easing, too. A chilly night under clear skies in the north-west. For | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
the most part, temperatures holding up around 8-12. Tomorrow, a fairly | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
cloudy start across the east and the northern isles. Fairly quickly, that | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
rain pulls away to leave a fine day across much of the country tomorrow | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
afternoon. For central, southern and eastern Scotland tomorrow afternoon, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
it is looking dry with spells of sunshine. Light to moderate winds | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
and highs of around 17 Celsius. Across much of the north-west and | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
the Western Isles, clouding over through the afternoon with a few | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
showers through the Western Isles, especially accompanied by | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
strengthening southerly winds. Find across the north east with some | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
bright or sunny spells. Tomorrow evening, we will see showers in the | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
north-west becoming heavier or more frequent and gradually pushing their | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
way further east. By Friday morning, we have a window of fine weather | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
with some spells of brightness and sunshine before this area of low | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
pressure makes its presence felt as we go through the day. Some fine | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
conditions to start with with some brightness and sunshine, gradually | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
becoming cloudier. Eventually some rain feeding into the north-west and | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
northern isles fostered Saturday at this stage looks cloudy, wet and | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
windy. Now, a reminder of tonight's | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
main news: Big changes are to be made | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
to new secondary school qualifications barely three years | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
after reforms were introduced. It follows industrial action by some | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
teachers about their workload. Some assessments in National 5 | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
and Higher courses are to be scrapped and more emphasis will be | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
put back onto the final exam. The US and Russia have clashed | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
repeatedly and in the strongest terms at the UN about who was | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
responsible for the attack on an aid convoy in Syria | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
on Monday that destroyed The US Secretary of State said | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
he felt he was living in a parallel universe when Russia | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
denied any involvement. I'll be back with the headlines | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
at 8, and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
on the team - right across the country - | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
have a very good evening. | :27:23. | :27:25. |