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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so you it's goodbye from me, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Money given to councils to pay for free childcare has not been | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
spent on funding the programme, according to a Government report. | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
The trial of Ronnie Coulter - accused of the murder of waiter | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Surjit Singh Chhokar - draws to a close. | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
Home at last - a sea cadet who was stranded on a boast | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
off Singapore for a month returns home to the Highlands. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Any romantic vision of going to sea has been well and truly done away | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
with. But as for putting me off, no I'm determined to complete my | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
Also on the programme: training. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
The mystery of 1945 plans for another rail bridge | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
And, a six-goal thriller, as Celtic draw with English league | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
leaders Manchester City in the Champions League. | :00:50. | :01:07. | |
More than ?100 million given to councils to pay for free | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
childcare has not been spent on funding the programme. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
That's according to a new Government report. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
But the local authority umbrella body, Cosla, says the report | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
is a "crude assessment that doesn't reflect the reality". | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Our political correspondent Lucy Adams reports. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Increasing free child care is one of SNP's most high profile promises. | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
The policy should offer all three and four-year-old ands vulnerable | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
two-year-olds #6 00 three hours a year. But the first analysis of its | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
kind shows while the Scottish Government has given local | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
authorities ?329 million to spend on the policy, just ?189 million has | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
been spent on child care. So what has happened to the remaining money | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
and what impact has it had on families. You might have a place | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
between 9 o'clock and 12. You can't pay to have your child before or | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
after. For most working parents that is unusable. So it is frustrating to | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
hear there is funds available that haven't been spent and if we spent | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
those could we have made the system more accessible? The BBC has learned | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
that ministers will publish a child care blue print to propose new | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
models, including child accounts, under which funding follows the | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
child and not the institutions. They will use this report to help cost | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
the models. It has shown we have fully funded councils to deliver the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
expansion and now it is for councils themselves to account for what they | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
have done in relation to additional spending. But it makes it clear | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
where additional spending was requested, we have provided that. | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
where additional spending was But COSLA said it is a crude | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
assessment which shouldn't detract from the success of them providing | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
600 free hours to children and said that the government's own report | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
said the gap will be an overestimate. The Scottish | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
Government has promised to almost double free child care hours. The | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
same amount of child children spend in school is expected to cost half a | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
billion pounds. The hope is by then all the authorities will have got | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
their sums right. Closing speeches have begun | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
in the trial of a man accused of the 1998 murder of Indian | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
restaurant worker Surjit Singh The prosecution has asked the jury | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
to convict Ronnie Coulter, Ronny Coulter, the man accused of | :03:53. | :04:08. | |
murdering Surjit Singh Chhokar arrives at court in Glasgow. The | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
prosecution said Surjit Singh Chhokar's death was a tragic tale | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
which happened after the theft of a giro cheque. The prosecution said in | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
1998 Surjit Singh Chhokar was on his way home from work, looking forward | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
to pleasant evening and he was confronted in the dark by three men, | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
he was attacked, stabbed, killed, murdered and left in the street. He | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
said the person responsible for that is Ronny Coulter. I ask you to | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
convict him of murder. The jury heard Mr Coulter was tried and | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
acquitted of murder in 1999. Mr Prentice said the outcome of that | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
trial in relation to this case was irrelevant. The defend QC started | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
his closing speech and said it was Mr Coulter position that he did not | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
stab Surjit Singh Chhokar and he told the jury that the trial had | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
heard from atrocious witnesses who told lies. And And he said race had | :05:21. | :05:34. | |
no place in the case. 48-year-old Mr Coulter denies murdering Surjit | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
Singh Chhokar and the trial continues. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
The Scottish Government has apologised after it emerged that | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
payments to farmers have been hit by another error. | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
The snag relates to loan payments - which were only introduced | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
because IT problems undermined the main funding system. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Farmers leaders said it was deeply disappointing. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
Our political editor Brian Taylor is at Holyrood tonight. | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
An embarrassing development in this long running saga Brian? | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
Embarrassing is right. Opposition leaders are furious and demanding a | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
full Parliamentary statement by ministers at the earliest possible | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
opportunities. But this is about the farmers. Bearing in mind what | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
happened, they were due payments and they had to be processed by the | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
Scottish Government and there were endless problems with the IT system, | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
the money wasn't getting through. In comes a new minister who says we | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
will sort this out and in the meantime bring in a loan system to | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
provide support to farmers and guess what, the loan system has gone wrong | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
and there have been miscalculations in railroad to payments due -- in | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
regard to payments due to be paid and hundreds are said to be | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
affected. This fall s into the department of you couldn't make it | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
up. The NFU said there have been move o's to ensure the payments. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Farmers will watch out and I have got to say I think given earlier | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
vents they will be sceptical. Oil prices rose across the world | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
today after plans for a cut in production was outlined | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
by the organisation of oil Our business and economy editor | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
Douglas Fraser is here now. What's going on internationally | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
to explain this Douglas? This is big international politics | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
behind this, OPEC can turn the taps on and off and if it reduces supply, | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
the price can give up. But it has been unwilling to give up the market | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
to the American drillers who have been using shale fracking. Some OPEC | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
members are desperate for a deal. Saudi Arabia has blocked that and | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
has not wanted to see a deal that gives up ground to Iran or the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Americans. Last night we got a statement from OPEC's president that | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
it intends to get to a deal that would cutback a bit on production, | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
the first such deal we have seen for eight years. So that sent prices up. | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
More caution today. There is more talking to do. And should they hope | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
get to a deal then. Yes and what does this mean for the industry | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
here? It has suffered because of the drop in the price of oil, as it has | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
around the world. The price comes down from $115 two years ago, to | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
below 50 now. That explains why we have seen a collapse to investment | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
in the North Sea and job losses. A higher price would be welcomed by | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
the industry. As long as it is sustained and comes with confidence | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
that it will be sustained. This is not a game-changer. Not yet any way. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
It firms up prices to roughly the average price since May and remember | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
while the offshore industry would welcome a rise, most of us are | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
consumers of oil for transport and fuel. So drivers and hauliers won't | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
consumers of oil for transport and thank you for a rise in the price. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Even if it would help a large, important, but troubled parts of | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
Scottish economy. An SNP MP has been detained | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
and questioned by police in relation Chris Law won the Dundee West seat | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
for the Nationalists Police Scotland say | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
they detained a 46-year-old man, who was released pending | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
further enquiry. A source close to the MP says Mr Law | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
has agreed to provide the police with further information | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
and is confident the matter A search has been launched | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
for an RAF serviceman from Dunfermline who has been | :10:05. | :10:14. | |
missing since the early hours Corrie McKeague, who is based at RAF | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Honington in Suffolk, was last seen in the town of Bury St | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
Edmunds following a night out. CCTV footage suggests | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
the 23-year-old briefly slept in a doorway in the early hours | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
of Saturday morning. He then got up and moved on, | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
possibly intending to walk A merchant navy cadet | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
who was stranded for weeks on a container ship in the waters | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
off Singapore has vowed to return to sea to complete | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
his officer training. Ruaridh Hanna and three fellow | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
students arrived back in Scotland today having been stuck | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
on the vessel whose His family was there to meet him | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
in an emotional homecoming. A warning that Craig Anderson's | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
reports contain's flashing images. He needed a hair cut. Well, you | :10:52. | :11:06. | |
can't please everyone. Back on home soil after a few weeks, Ruaridh | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Hanna is greeted by family and friends. He said it was the | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
uncertainty of their situation rather than conditions that caused | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
them most concern. But he was taken aback by the welcome at Inverness | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
airport. I have to say I'm blown away by it. I can't believe so many | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
people took on board our story and felt a connection to it. It is quite | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
flattering and also a bit am bar razzing. He has another few months | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
training to go qualify as a deck I is iffer. -- officer. It made me | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
take a hard look at the industry and any romantic vision of going to sea | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
has been done away with. But as for putting me off, no I'm still | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
determined to complete my training and to become an officer. His mum, | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
who first highlighted the plight of cadets salutes his determine nation. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
That is his choice and I would hope he would complete his training, | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
because otherwise it would have been you would say a waste of time. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Putting up with what he has put up with and coming through it. So I'm | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
proud that he has wanted to go back. You're watching BBC | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Reporting Scotland. Money given to councils to pay | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
for free childcare has not been spent on funding the programme, | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
according to a Government report. And still to come - | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
the long and winding road in the life and career of football's | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
Steve Paterson. The public's being urged to help | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
solve the mystery of plans for a second rail | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
bridge over the Forth. The drawings date back to 1945 | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
but were only discovered recently. Historians are investigating a few | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
theories about why the plans were These are two drawings we found... | :13:05. | :13:19. | |
Plans from 1945 were found in a box under a December income Glasgow. -- | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
under a December income Glasgow. We don't know what the plan is... They | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
want to know why the designs were made and then dropped. We have a lot | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
of drawings, but concentrating on the original construction of the | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
bridge we see today. So this is a real mystery and why they were | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
created, we just don't know. The second rail bridge would have been | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
built down stream of the existing bridge and close by. There are some | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
theories as to why. That is the time the V bomb were landing in London. | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
My theory is they were thinking of more rail travel. The existing | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
bridge was being heavily used and they were thinking ahead. Network | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
trail stress the original bridge remains in good health and there has | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
not been a need to put the plans for a bridge coming over here into | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
action. But it is keen to find out more about these alternative | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
designs. What do people make of the plans? It looks ugly from what I | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
have seen. I think it would be detrimental. It would be a great | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
idea. Because the forth estuary does split shadow and they need a lot of | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
joining. From all those years ago, 71 years ago. They knew what they | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
were doing. Sometimes more then than they do now. Historians are asking | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
for public help to solve the mystery of the plans. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Work has started to move the oil rig which ran aground | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
on the Western Isles on to a massive vessel for transport to Turkey | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
The Transocean Winner became stranded last month | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
but was refloated and is now in Broad Bay on the Isle of Lewis. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Today it started having its eight anchors raised in preparation. | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
It will take about 24 hours to get it on board the transport ship | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
and an exclusion zone will be put in place | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
The decision earlier on just after 8am, I gave approval for the | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
operation to start. It is looking favourable over the next few days. | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
This might be the best opportunity we are going to have for a while. | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
I'm hopeful, I think this is the best it has been for a long time. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
There were some small windows last week, but not sufficient time to do | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
the entire operation. So this is certainly the fact that we are | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
having two and a half days that are favourable should give us enough | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
time to do it. Other stories from around the | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
country now: A GP from Aberdeenshire who punched | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
a patient he was treating has Martin Thom was called to deal | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
with an intoxicated man who'd collapsed in the street | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
in Fraserburgh in May last year, because the town's | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
ambulance was not available. A tribunal heard that the assault | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
was out of character. Dr Thom was said to be "under | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
significant pressure He was suspended from practice | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
for two months. Western Isles Councillors have | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
expressed concern that the islands will suffer due to uncertainty | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
surrounding European Union's leader development scheme, | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
through which millions of pound The UK Government has pledged | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
to continue some European subsidy funds up to 2020 following Brexit, | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
but the leader scheme is not Now we are not sure, we have to | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
advise, we have to consult. There is sun certainty. We are seeking | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
clarification from the Scottish Government and obviously they're | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
seeking clarification from the Government in Westminster. So, at | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
the moment, there is more uncertainty on the previous level of | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
uncertainty with the Brexit vote. The EU paid nearly ?3 million | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
pounds in farm grants to an Aberdeenshire farmer last | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
year, according to BBC research. Frank Smart, who farms | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
near Banchory, tops the UK list of those who got the most from the | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
Common Agricultural Policy in 2015. Concern's been expressed at ongoing | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
recruitment difficulties facing the Fire and Rescue Service | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
in parts of Sutherland. The village of Lochinver | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
and surrounding area's been without any volunteer fire fighters | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
for more than a year The fire station at Bettyhill | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
is also struggling to recruit. Leaders of the main political | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
parties got together to show their commitment | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
to tackling climate change. The event coincided a gathering | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition, | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
which brought nearly 100 people to Holyrood to meet their MSPs | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
and call for action to protect Councillors in the Borders have | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
delayed a final decision on a possible site to house | :18:01. | :18:14. | |
the Great Tapestry of Two possible locations, | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
at Tweedbank and in Galashiels town A report to today's meeting | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
of Scottish Borders Council had recommended that Galashiels should | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
be the preferred option, But councillors decided they needed | :18:25. | :18:25. | |
further information on funding Less than 24 hours after drawing | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
with Manchester City in the Champions League, | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
Brendan Rodgers says his Celtic side may well have English | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
clubs running scared. The former Liverpool boss | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
was responding to a question about how his side would fare | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
if they ever made the switch Here's our Senior Football reporter | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
Chris McLaughlin. For the fist time in three years, | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
Celtic fans raised the roof in Glasgow, Champions' League-style. | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
Believe it or not, it would get even louder. And here's why. Three | :19:06. | :19:20. | |
minutes in, Mousa Dembele. 1-0. It was a Glasgow Celtic night. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Attacking football. And a noise in the stadium which was remarkable. | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
But City's multi-million pound stars were likely to shine always. Delight | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
on the face of Fernandinho. But instead of the tide turning, Celtic | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
struck ones more. Teenager, Kieran terny with the shot. Oh how they | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
celebrated, geb. But step forward, Sterling. Another leveller just | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
before the break. After it, Dembele combined acrobatics and accuracy to | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
give the home side a tleed number three. Hands up who enjoyed that | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
one. The equaliser was less enjoyable but | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
it failed it take the shine off the achievement and here is one of the | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
reasons Y prize money forked winning the top league in Scotland less than | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
?3 million. In England, just short of ?160 million If Celtic were in | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
England, Celtic are one of the four-six clubs there. So, can you | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
imagine then the resources, playing at that level, what that would | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
produce T would be a frightening prospect, and an exciting prospect, | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
if it ever happened but I think for others, looking through, I think it | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
would be very, very difficult to accept. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
In a night that rocked and rolled, Champions' League football was back | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
in Glasgow and back with a bang. European football's governing body, | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
UEFA, has fined Celtic 10,000 Palestine flags were flown | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
in the crowd at a Champions League qualifier against Israeli team | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
Hapoel Beer-Sheva. The UEFA rule forbids the display | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
of anything that is of a political, ideological, religious, | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
offensive or provocative nature. Exactly 40 years ago a talented | :21:18. | :21:18. | |
18-year old footballer from Moray made his debut | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
for Manchester United. Later, as a manager, | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
Steve Paterson led Inverness Celtic when 'Super Caley went | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
ballistic' before he went But along the way, he lost | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
more than ?1 million on gambling and had a drink | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
problem that saw his life, and career in football, | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
spiral out of control. Now he's emerged to become a social | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
worker and manager of From signing to Manchester United as | :21:43. | :21:56. | |
a youngster, to managing Inverness to this famous win over Celtic 16 | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
years ago, Steve Paterson has seen many highs T all crumbled publicly | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
when Aberdeen manager in 200013. I was ill because I was consuming too | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
much alcohol at an inappropriate time. I he set a terrible example. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
He missed a match after drinking too much the previous night. I ruined T | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
it finished my career. I really didn't care about anything. I was | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
very much into gambling. Very much into drinking and I pulled off the | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
football, you can function inside your own turmoil. Paterson admit he | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
has blown over ?1 million on gambling along. The issue began when | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
he signed for Manchester United and was unexpectedly handed ?10,000 in | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
cash. The club would have, should have really put it into a trust, to | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
get at the end of your contract and all of that. It is a long time ago, | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
you know. And it would have been I will Lille. I was obviously - | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
illegal. Obviously, even back then it was going on, the top, talented | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
schoolboys were getting, you know, bunged. The money thing doesn't | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
really bother me. I think it is more what it does to you as a person and | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
how it affects the people around you. You damage them. He has emerged | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
from darker areas of his life and shares his experience as a social | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
worker, but remains in football as manager of Duffton FC. People think | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
they know Steve the man but they don't. What he enjoys is he has had | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
lots of bitter sweet experiences in football as well as good | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
experiences, so coming here, for Steve, the guys are here playing for | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
the enjoyment. He has learned many lessons through this journey. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
Seeking help being perhaps the most important. I was too wrapped up in | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
my own little world, bubble. I wouldn't really have engaged. But I | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
have engaged the last while and, you know, I can just say, for me, the | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
world of good and there is help for everybody that needs it. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
And you can hear the full interview with Steve Paterson | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
on Sportsound tonight at 7.00pm on BBC Radio Scotland 810MW. | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
The Glasgow-based artist who designed the Partick Thistle | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
mascot, Kingsley, has had another work chosen to stand on the plinth | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
David Shrigley's giant thumbs up is a seven metre sculpture | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
After it was unveiled this morning, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
said he hoped the gesture it portrayed would convey a positive | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
Now here's Laura Maciver with details of Scotland 2016. | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
The UK trade minute ste, Liam Fox says Brexit could represent a | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
goldenp opportunity for new trade links. We'll hear from the Scottish | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
Whiskey Association and the institute of directors on whether | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
that could be the case and childcare has been the subject of a Holyrood | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
debate. We'll if the ambitions for early years care can be achieved. | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
Scotland 2016, BBC Two. 10.30. early years care can be achieved. | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
In the meantime let's get the weather from Christopher. | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Good evening. Well, no escaping the fact we are well and truly into | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
autumn. Some really windy conditions overnight. You can see there, | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
approaching storm force across the far north and Northern Isles, | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
creating big seas, as captured by one of our weather watchers. Tonight | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
the winds easing down. The showers remain. Most clamping around west | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
central Scotland. For the north and south on the mainland generally dry | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
but a number of showers across the Northern Isles where the winds | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
remain strong. Temperatures overnight around 7-9 in town. A | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
touch cooler in the countryside across north-east with clear skies | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
and, you could well see the northern lights, this picture taken last | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
night by one of our weather watchers. Look to the north, you | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
never know your look. Tomorrow we start with the cloudy weather across | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
the central lowlands. North and south, dry, sunny morning and by the | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
afternoon, bright with a few showers almost anywhere, really. But fairly | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
light and well-scattered. Nothing like the blustery showers we had | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
today with the winds that bitted lighter. Temperatures, 13, 14 for | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
many. A touch mild ever across the north-east through Aberdeenshire, | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
Moray answer Angus. Elsewhere, showers, sunshine and winds easing | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
down. The rest of the afternoon and into the evening and we hold on thoo | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
showery regime but for the weekend we are watching this approaching | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
weather sweeping through Ireland and Wales come Saturday. It'll miss us | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
but a few showers and cloud through southern Scotland. Further west and | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
north-west you are, drier driest and brightest. Light winds from the | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
north-east. Sprounld the pick of the two day, dry and bright and sunny | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
for most. - Sundayy probably the pick of the two days. | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
For those of you taking part, in the great Scottish run, Sunday is the | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
best day. A quick reminder of the main news: | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
More than a ?100 million given to councils to pay for free | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
childcare has not been spent on funding the programme. | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
That's according to a Government report. | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
But the local authority umbrella body, COSLA, says the report | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
is a "crude assessment that doesn't reflect the reality". | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8. | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - right | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
across the country - have a very good evening. | :27:40. | :27:43. |