22/09/2016 Reporting Scotland


22/09/2016

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 22/09/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

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.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS