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A row at Holyrood tonight, as Labour claim the Government | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
was saved from defeat because Kezia Dugdale's | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
A financial watchdog says Scotland's social work system | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
is "unsustainable" and needs hundreds of millions of pounds | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
Calls for the UK Government to intervene after four merchant | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
navy cadets from Scotland are stranded on a cargo | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
It obviously adds to the worry, the area they are in is a piracy risk | :00:23. | :00:40. | |
area. The row over the way crofters | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
in the Western Isles were stripped of the right to run | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
their own affairs. And, how the songs of Robbie Burns | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
were intended to be performed. Labour are calling for | :00:49. | :01:07. | |
a full investigation to demand why their leader's vote | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
wasn't counted in a Holyrood vote which resulted in saving | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
the Scottish Government from defeat. In a bizarre turn of events, | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
a vote after a debate on council tax reforms was tied at 63-63, | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
and the presiding officer had There were no abstentions. As the | :01:24. | :01:36. | |
vote is tied, and the parliament is unable to reach a view on the | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
motion, I have two exercise my casting vote. In line with the | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
approach taken by my predecessors outlined by members in a recent | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
letter, I will cast against the motion. The motion is therefore not | :01:49. | :01:49. | |
agreed. Our Political Correspondent Andrew | :01:50. | :01:50. | |
Kerr is at Holyrood for us now. Andrew, bit of a stushie | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
at Parliament tonight? What's it all about? Yes, indeed a | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
day of high drama after a pedestrian start to afternoon. MSPs were | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
debating council tax reform. Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems were | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
very critical of the SNP because they had previously promised to | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
abolish council tax. MSPs were debating that. The Conservatives | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
critical, too, of the Scottish Government, saying they are taking | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
money away from local authorities to pay for an attainment fun. So a | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Conservative amendment was backed 64-63, defeating the Government. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Then it came to the final vote. As you saw, the Presiding Officer | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
reading out 63-63. Where was the missing MSP? Some of the pictures | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
you can hopefully see the Labour leader Kezia Dugdale was quite | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
clearly in the Scottish Parliament and voting. She had voted on the | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
previous votes beside the former Labour leader in green. So it came | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
to the final result, the Poseidon officer had to use as casting vote. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
It meant the Government was saved from defeat, but Labour were furious | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
and are demanding a full investigation. Here is the leader, | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Kezia Dugdale. I categorically voted in the Parliament alike. I know | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
that, my colleague Iain Gray was by my side and saw the vote registered | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
on the parliamentary computer. We have to know from the Parliament why | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
my vote was not registered. This is serious because the SNP made a | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
promise to the people of Scotland, they said they would scrap the | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
council tax. What are the other party saying? I think there is a bit | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
of anger and frustration in a way that the other opposition parties | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
were not able to defeat the Government tonight. A sigh of relief | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
from the Scottish Government, I expect. The SNP put out a press | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
release, a statement like saying Kezia Dugdale was the lone ranger | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
taking autonomy to a Lovell -- a statement tonight. A date at the | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
changes the party making. In terms of Labour calling for the full | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
investigation into what happened, the Presiding Officer and some | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
senior officials were pretty quick back into the chamber to check the | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
voting system. They released a statement like to say, we have | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
checked the voting consoles in the chamber, we are satisfied the system | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
is working properly. So, it gets curiouser and curiouser. The wider | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
point is that with the numbers in Parliament now this is the sort of | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
thing we are likely to see more and more of. Yes, taking away the drama | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
on the oddity of what happened here this afternoon. This is the kind of | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
thing we can expect much more. The Scottish Government really walking | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the tightrope, returned back in May after not winning a majority once | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
again. As I say, a sigh of relief from the Government. The opposition | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
will have to regroup and come back and try to defeat the Government at | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
another opportunity. Andrew Taylor in Holyrood, thank you. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Now, the way some of our most vulnerable people are cared | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
for needs to change to stop costs getting out of control. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
That's according to the public spending watchdog. | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
Otherwise, nearly ?700 million will need to be found to pay | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
for social work and social care by 2020. | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
The report begs important questions over just what sort of services | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
should be provided - and who should be providing them. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
Our Local Government Correspondent Jamie McIvor is here. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Social work is one of the biggest council services, and according | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
to the spending watchdog, it's at a watershed. | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
If things don't change, a huge amount of extra money | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
Our 32 councils spend more than ?3 billion | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
That money helps about 300,000 people a year - | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
The bill's set to go up for several reasons. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
And the fact people are living longer. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
But the watchdog makes the point that this debate should be | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
What sort of services do we actually need? | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
How did you find going on holiday? Much better this time. Karen is one | :05:59. | :06:13. | |
of Scotland's's army of unpaid carers. She gets a lot of help from | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
charity worker Susan. Karen's partner is diagnosed with a form of | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
dementia. It made huge changes to his life. He went into the doctors | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
office as a working man, and left as a man who is no longer able to work. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
The practical help Karen is receiving makes a huge difference. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Even a advice on household goods that are suitable for people with | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
dementia. It is for everybody. It all means social services do not | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
need to get involved, at a cost of the taxpayer. People support them, | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
to maintain their own confidence as to how they can live. We can support | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
families, friends and individuals. This all highlights a very big | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
debate - just what sort of social services can the taxpayer ruler | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
sickly afford. Are elderly people are consuming more of the social | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
work budget, the demand in the system, demographic change, | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
highlighted the fact there is not enough money, it is making things | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
very difficult. But it is hard to divorce this debate about what is | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
best to those who need help from simple questions of saving cash. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
This led to fierce exchanges at Holyrood. And the truth is, the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
accounts commission report tells us that overall spending is falling, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
First Minister. In fact, it says that these cuts or unsustainable. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
And the truth is, they do not have to happen. I'm only asking because | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
And the truth is, they do not have Sturgeon to do what she has wanted | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
to do her retire political life, make different choices from the | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Tories -- her entire. I would ask her to reflect on the position she | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
and her party are in. She stands up regularly and says that the future | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
looks to be a Tory future in terms of the Westminster government, and | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
yet she has got the nerve to come here and lecture me about the | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
implications of Tory cuts that her party are powerless to do anything | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
about. One important thing the Scottish Government has been doing | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
is integrating health and social care. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
The Government says it;s committed over half-a-billion pounds to make | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
The hope is that could lead to better services and better value. | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
But critics point to that pressure on council budgets. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
One thing is certain from the report - the status quo isn't an option. | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
The Foreign Office has been urged to intervene to rescue four Scots | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
merchant navy cadets stranded on a cargo ship in an area | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
of South-East Asia known for pirate attacks. | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
The owners of the shipping line have gone bust, and are refusing | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
to allow their vessels into port to prevent them being impounded. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
But the families of the trainees have called for the UK Government | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
This is 22-year-old Rory Hamilton from Inverness, training for a | :08:56. | :09:11. | |
career as a merchant Navy officer. But after months of seeing the world | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
and living the dream, he and three pals from Scotland have been plunged | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
into a nightmare. With the giant South Korean hand in shipping | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
company now in receivership, the cadet's vessel has been anchored 40 | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
miles of Singapore with no clue as to when the crew might get off. They | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
have been told there was a possibility they would get off the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
boat on Tuesday. There was a supply boat going into supply them. So the | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
boys at that point were very upbeat and very excited that they thought | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
they would be getting home. But that never happened. We don't know why. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
But it never happened. The shipping firm will not let the ship dock for | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
fear it will be impounded. But the area that the boat is now anchored | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
in has been targeted by pirates in the past. And that has only deepened | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
the families' fears. It obviously adds to the worry. The area they are | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
in is a piracy risk area. So that brings a whole different outlook on | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
it, I guess. All four cadets on all Tudors at city of Glasgow College. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
And they had been sent on placement with one of the world's largest | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
container shipping operations through a recruitment and training | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
firm. Today they said they were in close contact with the families and | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
the cadets, whose well-being was of the most priority. They said they | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
would offer any assistance to assure their return home as soon as | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
possible. The issue has also been raised that Westminster. What I | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
would like the UK Government to do is to intervene to get some kind of | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
deal to get first of all those cadets of the ship, and anybody else | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
who wants to get off the ship. It has emerged today that the shipping | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
company has had a new injection of cash to help stave off bankruptcy. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
But the families here don't know how quickly that will resolve the | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
situation. And they just want their sons home. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Scotland's Independent Police Watchdog is to carry out a review | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
of undercover policing, after the UK Government refused | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
to extend an investigation currently underway in England and Wales. | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
The Scottish Government has asked the Inspector | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
of Constabulary to investigate, claiming there's evidence | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
that units from south of the border operated here. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
There've been claims that some English officers worked undercover | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
with activists planning to disrupt the G8 meeting at Gleneagles | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
in 2005, and entered into sexual relations with some of them. | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
A man who was jailed for life for murdering a Glasgow shopkeeper | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
who he claimed had "disrespected" Islam has been given leave by judges | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
to appeal against his minimum 27-year jail term. | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
32-year-old Tanveer Ahmed, from Bradford in Yorkshire, | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
stabbed 40-year-old Asad Shah outside his store in | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
And in a separate development, messages from him, recorded | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
from Barlinnie Prison, have appeared on social media. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
I'm joined by Reevel Alderson, our Home affairs Correspondent, | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Take that second bit first, there are a number of postings on social | :12:14. | :12:25. | |
media of phone calls apparently made by Tanvir Ahmed from Barlinnie | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
prison. He was convicted last July of murdering Asad Shah. And these | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
messages appear to have been recorded on a landline phone, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
possibly in his home in Bradford. In one of them you can hear children | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
playing in the background. The messages aren't Urdu, they appear in | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
social media with a still photograph of Tanvir Ahmed, and include phrases | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
such as, we should all try to make the world a better place, and I will | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
sacrifice myself. Police Scotland said in a statement it is aware of | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
these communications and will investigate. The Scottish Prison | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Service has not commented, but it is known they would dog might do | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
routinely -- they routinely monitor phone calls. There is a recorded | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
message on the phone calls saying this is a message from within a | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Scottish prison, and if you do not want to accept the message you can | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
put the phone down. You were talking about the appeal process. Tanvir | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Ahmed is appealing against his sentence. He was sentenced to a | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
minimum of 27 years, he is saying that is too long. 27 years was | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
reduced from 30 because he pled guilty at the earliest possible | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
stage. He is saying apart from the length of the sentence being too | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
long, he wants a greater discount for making the guilty plea at the | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
early stage. We expect the appeal will probably be heard early next | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
early stage. We expect the appeal year. Thank you. | :13:55. | :13:55. | |
As part of our coverage of the political conference season, | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
we have another party leader interview for you. | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
Today it's new Ukip leader Diane James, who says that Brexit | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
inside the UK offers Scotland more powers than independence | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
She says the decision to leave the EU is a "win-win" | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
She's also come out firmly against a second Scottish | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
She's been speaking to our Westminster Correspondent, | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
Three months to the days since Britain, but not Scotland, voted for | :14:18. | :14:31. | |
Brexit, and the repercussions are still being felt. The game of | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
political musical chairs continues. She is now in charge. And he has | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Leaving the Ukip crown to this woman Leaving the Ukip crown to this woman | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
- just over a week into her new post, Diane James is very clear | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
about what Brexit could mean for Scotland. What I am saying is that | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
by freeing itself from EU control, Scotland has a much, much more | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
positive future. Because then, in terms of how it manages its | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
finances, how it manages is economy, how it decides how it makes those | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
very, very important decisions in Scotland, it will do under | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
devolution powers granted out of Westminster, it will not be dictated | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
to and directed by legislation or directives coming out of Brussels | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
and Strasbourg. And on the key issue for many Scots, a second | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
independence referendum, what is her view? I would not supported. I | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
really would like to see Scotland B still part, and for the physio ball | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
future, for decades to come, be in the union with England. -- for the | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
foreseeable future. Nigel Farage did not always see eye to why with many | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
Scots. On one occasion being forced to seek sanctuary in an Edinburgh | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
pub to avoid protesters. His successor says she is keen to visit | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Scotland soon, although a pub on the Royal mile is not necessarily on the | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
agenda. David Porter, Reporting Scotland, Westminster. | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
And we will bring you more party leader interviews | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
Including one with the new Labour leader, once they've | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has failed to register | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
a vote at Holyrood - allowing the Scottish Government | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
to avoid a defeat on council tax reform. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Concrete modernism - the work of one of Scotland's most | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
respected - but least known - architects. | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
Scotland's rural affairs secretary Fergus Ewing has ordered | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
the government agency which regulates crofting | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
to apologise to crofters in the Western Isles, | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
after a row which saw them stripped of the right | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
The Crofters' Commission suspended two grazings | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
committees in Lewis, after complaints about | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
But many experts branded the moves as heavy handed and illegal. | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
It's often joked that they crofter is best described as the piece of | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
land surrounded by legislation. That is best described as the piece of | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
legislation has become the source of a bitter dispute after the public | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
body in charge of the sector sacked two committees made up of crofters | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
who managed shared land in the Western Isles. But the crofting | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
commission has incurred the Rath of the rural affairs Secretary Fergus | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Ewing. He has board members to rescind their decisions and | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
apologise, an apology so far proven difficult to deliver. It was a | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
positive meeting, the first time we have met since he took up his post | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
on a number of matters. Clearly the issue of common grazing is a matter | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
we spoke about as well. We are both looking for a resolution to matters | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
outstanding. The commission argued that crofters running common grazing | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
land here and Lewis breached crofting law because of the way they | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
managed committee finances. But that was disputed by legal experts whose | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
views were backed by the Scottish Government. It's late in the day as | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
far as we're concerned. But still welcome. The government are taking a | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
proactive stance now and they need now to do much more as well. They | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
need to, in some way or other, regain the confidence and to | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
establish a regulator that we can trust. But with one crofting group | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
now reinstated and a review under way the crofting commission has | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
pledged to change the way it resolves such rows in future. There | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
are issues which the commission must learn from and where there are | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
debates within individual communities when one set of crofters | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
is unhappy with another set of crofters, then is there a way in | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
which a resolution can be found to that? There have been fresh course | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
today for the crofting commission's convenor Colin Kennedy to resign | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
over his handling of the dispute with a warning that peace cannot be | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
restored in Scotland's normally tranquil crofting communities until | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
there is a change at the top. Jackie O'Brien, Reporting Scotland, | :19:18. | :19:17. | |
Inverness. A Celtic fan is to stand trial, | :19:18. | :19:18. | |
charged with displaying an offensive banner and blow-up figures | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
at an Old Firm match. 27-year-old Ross Brady entered | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
a plea of not guilty at an appearance at Glasgow Sheriff | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
Court. Prosecutors claim he acted | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
with others in behaviour that might be likely | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
to "incite public disorder". Brady faces a single | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
charge under the Offensive The songs of Robert Burns are often | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
performed these days in a way that focuses on the words rather | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
than complex musical arrangements. But researchers at Glasgow | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
University have recorded some of his works as they would have been | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
performed in the 18th century. The result has more in common | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
with middle class Edinburgh drawing rooms than Dumfries drinking howffs, | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
as Aileen Clarke reports. It's Burns, but not as you know it. | :19:59. | :20:13. | |
This song doesn't sound half as bawdy in this very refined | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
18th-century arrangement. Burns, of course, wrote the lyrics using | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
traditional ears as the music. But when he submitted the songs to his | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
Edinburgh publishers well, those tunes were given a very classical | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
makeover. What we've never really appreciated is that most of those | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
songs, the vast majority of Burns's songs were collected or written for | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
two rather posh, published collections of songs. And because | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
they were part of an 18th-century musical culture they sound a bit | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
classical, they sound a bit fancy in comparison to the more, kind of, | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
songs on guitar or songs with fiddle or the more folk settings that a lot | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
of people appreciate. Burns, the 18th-century remix, has | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
been recorded and has been published in book form. The culmination of a | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
five year research project funded to the tune of ?1 million by the UK | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
arts fund. This would have sounded quite fancy | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
played on a drawing-room harpsichord and it has given this classical | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
musician involved in the recording is a new appreciation of the Bard. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
I was quite surprised at the beginning of the project to learn of | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
composers such as Beethoven who have written musical settings for Burns's | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
poetry, burns's international reach is expanding all the time and able | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
to influence these men classical composers. | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
His appreciation of Burns came from her father in the musical Bill. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
For him I think Burns worked better unaccompanied, or with a nice | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
setting that kind of, you know, brought out the nuances of the text. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
But I'm sure he would have had a go. Burns for these collections were so | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
important that he gave his songs for free. Burns, of course, is warmly | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
regarded as the people's poet. But it's clear that he himself was also | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
keen to be celebrated in the smart drawing rooms of Edinburgh in a | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
style that echoed that of his artistic peers. But as he would have | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
said himself a man's Dame Ann for all that. Aileen Clarke, Reporting | :22:37. | :22:37. | |
Scotland, Glasgow. The English Football League has | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
closed the door on the possibility of Scottish teams being part | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
of their expansion plans. Clubs have been in discussions | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
for some time about the possibility of creating more leagues | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
in England in a bid to ease Talks were seen as a possible way | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
into the lucrative market for Scottish clubs | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
like Celtic and Rangers. But members decided today that no | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
clubs outside the English system should be allowed | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
into any new set-up. He may not be as well known | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, or his great influence, | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
Frank Lloyd Wright. But the architect Peter Womersley | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
has a passionate following - not least in Scotland, | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
where he worked for a number of years and where many of his | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
buildings still stand. Now there's to be a celebration | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
of his work - part of the festival of architecture and design - | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
to bring his work Our arts correspondent | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Pauline McLean reports. Across the spotted borders and | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
beyond you'll find a distinctive style of Peter Womersley. Strongly | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
influenced by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright his modernist | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
concrete buildings are instantly recognisable. But it was this family | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
home near Selkirk, one of his first commissions for the designer Bernard | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
Klein which brought him to Scotland and his friendship with the client's | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
which kept him here. I was rather annoyed that I didn't live in a sort | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
of Victorian house like all my friends did. They seemed far more | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
interesting to me when I was little. It's only now I appreciate how | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
beautiful this building is. And she's not alone. Peter Womersley's | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
work is admired the world over. A symposium next week, part of the | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
Festival of architecture and design, will also include a tour of his | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
buildings in Scotland. But it's not just students of | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
architecture who admire Peter Womersley's work. One of his most | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
iconic structures is right here in the middle of Galashiels and every | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
weekend it is filled with fans. Some people think it is something | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
resembling the Soviet Union in the 1960s. But then again we get visits | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
from architects just spontaneously turning up at the ground and from | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
football supporters the length and breadth of the country just wanting | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
to see, to be realistic what is an iconic football grandstand. And it's | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
that everyday appeal fans of his work hope to harness with a touring | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
exhibition. Peter Womersley is more of an acquired taste and it may take | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
some time. I don't think he will ever quite, unfortunately, reached | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
the heights of Mackintosh devotion, but actually getting people to | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
understand a bit more. I think you will get so much more out of it. | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Pauline McLean, Reporting Scotland, Galashiels. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
And its time for the weather now with Kirsteen. | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Today marks the autumn equinox and we've had fine conditions across the | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
country, really lovely weather with plenty of brightness and sunshine. | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
The next couple of days, however, some distinctly unsettled conditions | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
on the way. Even this evening we will continue to see heavy and | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
thundery showers piling in across the Western Isles, western coastal | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
areas and the showers will gradually track eastwards before clearing | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
during the second half of the night to leave much drier and clearer | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
conditions behind them, and quite a chilly night to come once again for | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
sheltered, rural areas especially, with perhaps a touch of frost. For | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
the most part in the towns and cities temperatures hold up around | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
7-9dC. A fine if chilly start tomorrow across much of the country, | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
plenty of sunshine around. That will be fairly short lived, cloud | :26:21. | :26:21. | |
continuing to spill in from the west during the | :26:22. | :26:45. | |
course of the day and we will have some rain and strengthening winds | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
especially across the Northwest. Tomorrow afternoon across much of | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
southern, central and eastern Scotland we hold onto largely dry | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
conditions, perhaps some brightness at times. Some persistent at times | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
heavy rain affecting the likes of Argyll and much of the north-west | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
Highlands, the Western Isles and Sutherland too, the rain accompanied | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
by strengthening winds, and we hold onto dry weather in the north-east | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
tomorrow afternoon. In these areas the Northern Isles will feel best in | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
terms of any brightness and sunshine. Tomorrow evening cloud | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
will continue to increase. That rain will spill across the country, most | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
heavy and persistent in the north and west and the winds will increase | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
further reaching gale force on coastal areas and the Northern | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
Isles. As we head into Saturday we hold onto wet and windy weather | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
across much of the country. Early yellow warning in force from the Met | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Office, and risk of localised flooding and hazardous driving | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
conditions. The winds will only gradually ease through the data. | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
Sunday will bring some sunshine and a lot of showers. That the forecast. | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm - and the late bulletin just | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - right | :27:43. | :27:44. |