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Highland concerns are raised at Westminster over | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the future of Fort George as a working army barracks. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Donald Trump's polarised America in his bid to become President, | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
so how would Scots - who've met him - describe him? | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Stamina, determination, grit to overcome what ever the obstacles | :00:19. | :00:34. | |
are. The most obnoxious man I have ever met in my life. So big headed, | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
full of himself, and all he talks about is Trump and money. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
We look at the possible impact on Scotland of plans to reduce | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
After his win at the Shanghai Masters, Andy Murray's | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
within touching distance of becoming the world number one. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
And do not adjust your set - the pale imitation of a woodland | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
creature that's come as a surprise to residents in Edinburgh. | :00:56. | :01:12. | |
Political leaders from the Highlands have been meeting a UK defence | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
minister to discuss the future of Fort George. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
The 250-year-old barracks outside Inverness | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
is among a number of bases in Scotland at risk of closure | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
as part of an MoD review, which is expected to report | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Here's our Westminster Correspondent, David Porter. | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
Fort George, the army's most northerly barracks in mainland UK, | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
and home to the Black Watch. For two and a half centuries the base has | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
been an integral part of the Highlands' landscape. But for how | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
much longer? Supporters insist its strategic military and economic | :02:01. | :02:01. | |
much longer? Supporters insist its importance means it must be | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
maintained. Anything else would be short-sighted, they say. This is | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
proven to be one of the most efficient army bases in the MOD's | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
portfolio. It has a great record of doing the kind of things we need in | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
modern defence, and it makes no sense that after investing ?30 | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
million in Fort George, that they would look to close it on financial | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
grounds. Fort George's future will be decided here, at the Ministry of | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
Defence in London. Tonight, it had this to say. The MOD is one of the | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
biggest landowners in Scotland, with an estate more than eight times the | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
size of Glasgow. Every penny made from the sale of sites will be | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
invested back into defence on things like the new maritime harbour of | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
Lossiemouth. So many, that will not calm fears. We will be losing more | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
jobs there then we've lost in the downturn in the oil and gas industry | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
at the moment. So you put those two together, and you look at the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
uncertainty of exit, and it really would be a blow to Highlands that we | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
can do without. We would be more than unhappy if the barracks and the | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
people left us, but we were left with the bombing ranges and the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
nuclear submarines on our coast. This is part of a wider review of | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
MOD sites across the UK, and just one big defence decision that will | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
impact Scotland. The renewal of Trident, though controversial, would | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
mean more investment in Scotland. The manufacture of type 26 frigates | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
for the Navy would bring cash to the Clyde, but there are already | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
concerns that delays to that programme could put jobs at risk. | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
Proof that defence is important to Scotland, and also that Scotland is | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
important to defence as a whole. Police have said the family | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
of a missing mother are "desperate" 29-year-old Farrah Fadli - | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
who is also known as Farrah Gillespie - | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
has not been seen since Friday when she dropped her two children | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
off at a friend's house in Irvine. The family had initially gone | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
missing from their home The new chair of the troubled | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry says she'll carry out her duties | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
independently and thoroughly. Lady Smith took over in July | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
after her predecessor resigned, Her message to abuse survivors comes | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
as the Home Secretary faced an urgent question at Westminster | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
on the child sex abuse inquiry Well, our reporter Steven Godden | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
has been following the story, This was her first update since | :04:52. | :05:08. | |
taking over, and given the trouble that's gone before, this was about | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
offering steady reassurance. It is a progress report. She says that the | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
enquiry continues, they are carrying out interviews in private and | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
gathering documents ahead of the public hearings. Lady Smith says she | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
is determined to find out what happened to children who were abused | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
in care in Scotland, and urges anyone with information to come | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
forward. Did Lady Smith say anything about the trouble that's gone | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
before? Not directly, but she did make a point of saying she would | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
carry out her duties independently and thoroughly, heading off a charge | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
made by her predecessor, Susan O'Brien QC, who resigned citing | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Scottish Government interference, something ministers denied. They | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
said they accepted her resignation because of comments she'd made in a | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
training exercise, though she said she'd not said anything | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
unacceptable. And the Scottish enquiry isn't the only one having | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
problems. What about the parallel enquiry in England and Wales? This | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
is the independent enquiry into child sexual abuse, now onto its | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
fourth chairperson after the previous three resigned. Amber Rudd | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
faced an urgent question in the House of Commons today. She stressed | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
the independence of the new chair, Professor Alexis Jay, who has said | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
she will not look to reduce or restrict the scope of the enquiry, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
and that she expects progress by the end of 2020. Thanks very much. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Representatives of Donald Trump claim there's been a surge | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
in investment at his Trump Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire. | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
They say it's now up to around ?150 million. | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
That compares with accounts filed with Companies House which showed | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
the Trump organisation had spent just ?18 million | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
As well as Turnberry, Donald Trump owns a golf | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Our reporter Steven Duff has been to meet two people who have very | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
different opinions of the man who aims to be America's next | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
It's where my mother was born and raised, and it's a great place. Tell | :07:16. | :07:33. | |
me when. The presidential nominee no stranger to Scotland, the | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
acquisition of Turnberry golf courses. Trump International Golf | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Links in Aberdeenshire, his love of the Western Isles, from where his | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
mother hails. Donald Trump is a real Marmite man and politician. Stamina, | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
determination, grit to overcome what ever the obstacles are. The most | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
obnoxious man I've ever met in my life. So big headed, full of self, | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
and all he talks about is Trump and money. As the owner of a successful | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
hotel chain, Charles Steen is an admirer of Donald Trump's business | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
acumen. He believes the American's golf course in Aberdeenshire has | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
been a masterstroke. We accommodate a lot of golfers coming to the | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
north-east of Scotland, and they all say the same thing, the course is | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
absolutely outstanding. This farmer is not a big fan. He defied Mr | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Trump, who wanted to buy up his land. He cut off our water. We had | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
no water for five years. They built the road on top of it, they dug the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
pipe away, and we were drinking water off the road for five years. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
The Trump Organisation says that claim is untrue. The water supply | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
was restored within hours. Both men have had their brushes with Donald | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
Trump. Charles Steen bumped into him in New York. We had a chat for about | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
five minutes. He was very friendly. I went back, finished the mill, | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
called for the bill, and the waiter said, Donald has paid for it. I | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
said, if I'd known that, I would have ordered everything on the menu! | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
Have you met him? I have, yes. I nearly knocked him out. We will find | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
out soon whether Donald Trump will have more time for golf! | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Scotland's Westminster constituencies could be re-drawn. | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
The Boundary Commission will soon announce its proposals. | :09:44. | :09:44. | |
The UK Government wants to cut the cost of politics | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
by reducing the number of MPs from 650 to 600. | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
The total reduction could save ?12 million, | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
and aims to evenly distribute the number of voters | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
There's been a critical reaction from the opposition, | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
as some MPs could face a fight for survival. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Our political correspondent Andrew Kerr reports now | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
from Gretna Green, one of the southern-most boundaries. | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
In the olden days, the border between England and Scotland in this | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
part of the world was pretty fluid. It moved around a bit, but for the | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
past few centuries it's been set very firmly in stone. But there | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
could be changes to the political boundaries in this area and across | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
the rest of Scotland, as the number of MPs are being cut as Westminster | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
in a bid to save money. Beside the bridge, time for a late breakfast at | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
the nearby cafe. It is possible folk here could end up living in a | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
different constituency. Scotland's only Conservative MP represents the | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
people of Gretna, but if there are six fewer MPs, it affects the | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
biggest party. One expert Dick 's musical chairs for the SNP. We know | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
the SNP won 56 out of 59 seats, so we know that the lions share of | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
losses will be out of the SNP. The interest lies in the three MPs who | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
didn't come from the SNP. Those three were Alastair Carmichael, the | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Lib Dem in Orkney and Shetland. We also have Labour's Iain Murray in | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
labour south, and Devon Mundell in the Clydesdale. It doesn't look | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
good, based on previous proposals. Both David Mundell and Iain Murray's | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
seats could be carved up into constituencies which are no longer | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
ones we would assume that Mr Mandel or Mr Murray would have won in 2015. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
MPs don't like to comment on what would happen in their patch. The UK | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Government says they are committed to ensuring fair and equal | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
representation for the voting public, as well as cutting the cost | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
of politics. I do regret that the Conservatives are pushing this | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
through on a register that is missing so many people. We should be | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
using the register of the right number of people. And they are | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
plugging all their cronies into the number of people. And they are | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
house of Lords. As for musical chairs in the SNP... we don't know | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
what the proposals will be as we have not seen the proposals yet. We | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
don't know what constituencies are at risk. I think we will have issues | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
with geography, and that will be our key concern, making sure everyone is | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
adequately represented. So back to where we started. It's not all water | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
under the bridge. MPs in the House of Commons will have the final say | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
on the proposals. It looks like Labour and the SNP will go against, | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
but it is possible that conservative rebels whose seats might be at risk | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
could end up thinking the entire plan. | :13:15. | :13:15. | |
You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland. | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
Concerns are raised at Westminster over the future of Fort George | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
And still to come - after his win at the Shanghai Masters, | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
Andy Murray could be within touching distance of becoming | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Although suicide rates have dropped in Scotland | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
over the last decade, hundreds of people still end | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
their own lives every year - leaving their family | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
At particular risk are men - and now in an effort | :13:45. | :13:54. | |
to reach out to them, Motherwell Football Club | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
is spearheading a new drive to encourage people | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
This is how we are used to sing Motherwell in action. Today the | :13:59. | :14:13. | |
first team took on a challenge in a different arena, highlighting | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Scotland's suicide problem. At a special workshop players were | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
encouraged to talk about a subject many shy away from. The training | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
particularly emphasised nobody should be nervous about asking | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
friends if they might be feeling suicidal. That struck a chord. I | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
have friends and family who have a lot of different experiences. One | :14:37. | :14:46. | |
recently was very public and it's torn the family apart. The person | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
who did it wishes they could have come to speak to them, to talk and | :14:51. | :14:51. | |
get the help he didn't know was come to speak to them, to talk and | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
there. The workshop today wasn't just about those who are feeling | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
suicidal, it was also about helping those around them to spot potential | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
fines. This subject is very personal for Motherwell FC. One of their own | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
players took his own life in 2009. The reasons why people like Paul | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
kill themselves are so varied and ultimately only known to themselves. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
There were 632 suicides in Scotland last year, and the rate for men is | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
two and a half times the rate of women. -- 672. That is why this | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
expert is using football to try to reach them. It is fantastic we had a | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
of young football players today, so they can be role models, so the fans | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
will feel it's located talk about suicide, if the players are. First | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
the footballers, then the fans, so hopes the local council. After this | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
we have an event in November were all the fans are welcome to come | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
along and learn more about suicide prevention and the things you can do | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
in the community, to help your friends or family, or yourself. It | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
is that kind of support that can make all the difference. | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
A look now at other stories from across the country. | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
An NHS health board has been fined ?8,000 for failing to ensure the | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
health and safety of a dementia patient who died after escaping from | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
a hospital ward. 69-year-old Alexander Gerard left Bonnybridge | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Hospital in May 2011 and was found a week later in a canal. The NHS board | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
apologised to his family and pleaded guilty to failing to assess the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
risks to the pensioner after he made an earlier escape attempt. | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
213-year-old boys have been charged an earlier escape attempt. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
after a huge fire at Banchory's hospital. The grade a listed | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
building which had been a marked for demolition to make way for flats was | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
almost completely destroyed. Lyc e almost completely destroyed. Lycee | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
the two teenagers will be reported to the youth justice management | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
unit. Four people have been rescued after getting into difficulties in | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
the Grampians. They were walked to safety by members of the Braemar | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
Mountain rescue team in the early hours of this morning. A helicopter | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
sent to the scene was unable to lift the group because of poor weather | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
conditions. Staff working for Orkney's council could be taking | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
industrial action over cost proposals. Members have been | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
balloted on the plans which include some pay rates. No decisions have | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
yet been made. A ferry summit has been held on | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
Isla after disruption in July. Members of the local community met | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
with ferry bosses to discuss the need for fallback plan when ferries | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
to the island go out of service. A 77-year-old man died in a crash on | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
Moray Road. He was the driver of one of two cars that crashed on the road | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
on Sunday. A woman and the driver of the other car remain in hospital | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
with non-life-threatening injuries. Andy Murray is catching up on Novak | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
Djokovic in the world tennis rankings. He is now less than 2500 | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
points behind the Serbian as he aims to gain the hot spot for the first | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
time in his career. He claimed his sixth title of the year after | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
beating Roberto Baptie tug at in the Shanghai Masters. A victory in | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
Shanghai for Andy Murray. Valuable ranking points in the battle to be | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
the world's number one. How can he reach the world's top spot by the | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
end of the year? He will play three events, here, Paris and the season | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
ending ATP world tour finals in London. Djokovic will only play two. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Andy Murray could win the 500 points in Vienna while Djokovic rests. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Djokovic one Paris and the world finals last year so he has 2300 | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
points to defend or lose if he doesn't win the titles this year. | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
Murray only won 800 in the last year so he has many to gain. Andy Murray | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
is in the better form. In fact, he admits when there was a turning | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
point that led to his current career's best form. Winning | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Wimbledon was a big boost my confidence after I'd had quite a few | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
tough losses in a Slam in the last few years. Since the French Open, | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
it's been the best three months of tennis in my career. It's a huge | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
achievement to be world number one in any sport, not a feat achieved by | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
many Scots. Takes a lot of hard work and determination and love for the | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
sport you play. I don't think Andy will have any problems if he | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
continues playing like he is now. Scotland's football team is 44th in | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the world. The rugby team fares better at eight. Russell Knox is the | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
highest ranked golfer at 20th. In boxing, historically, we have | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
punched above our weight with Ricky Burns the latest to be crowned | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
number one. So we'll Andy Murray add to that list? He's certainly burning | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
a path in his mission to succeed. Grey squirrels are one of the most | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
common woodland animals. Their cousins, the red squirrel | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
are much rarer. But have you ever seen a squirrel | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
that's completely white? Well a family of them | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
has moved into a garden in a suburb of Edinburgh, | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
and our reporter Cameron Buttle has There are thought to be more than | :21:41. | :21:55. | |
2.5 million scribbles in the UK. Cute, cuddly, fun to watch and | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
mostly grey. It's incredibly rare to see one like this. So the chances of | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
seeing this, too white squirrels are even rarer. This is a family of at | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
least four that have made a corner of Edinburgh their home. The guys | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
working here said that there were white squirrels but we were | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
reluctant to believe them until we saw them. My friends wouldn't | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
believe it either until they saw them. This is one of the white | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
squirrels. There are three. Around the corner for nature lover Ronnie | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Stevenson, it's a dream come true. Really happy. We've become so used | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
to them that we take it for granted. At the end of the day, about 8:30am | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
in the morning they come. Then they flipped back and forward. Ronnie had | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
travelled around the North Scotland in search of a white squirrel but | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
never saw one. I'm a nature lover. Suddenly to see a white screw, -- | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
squirrel. But we never saw them and now we see them every day. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Conservationists say it is very rare to see even one white squirrel. One | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
reason is, they don't blend in. That makes them easy targets for | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
predators. But the Edinburgh white squirrels seem to be surviving fine. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
With neighbours looking out for them, hopefully, there's more to | :23:42. | :23:42. | |
come. Amazing. Now here's Graham Stewart, | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
with details of Scotland 2016. Nicola Sturgeon fought back tears at | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
the SNP conference when she spoke about the experience of children in | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
care. As the First Minister launches a root and branch review of the | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
system, we ask why it is failing so many children. | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
Time now for the weather forecast - with Kawser. | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
It's already dark out there but a reminder of the weather we have been | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
seeing. Some heavy showers in the West. Those drifting towards the | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
East but by the end of the day, the cloud thinning and breaking to allow | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
some hours of sunshine. We had a lovely picture setting. This in | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
parts of Aberdeenshire. Some beautiful rainbow spotted as well. | :24:44. | :24:52. | |
This in Argyll and Bute. As we had through the night, we will see a | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
band of organised rain spreading from West to East and it will turn | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
cold and breezy, especially for western areas. Then, gradually | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
spreading eastwards. Some strengthening westerly winds falling | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
as wet snow over the highest hills and mountains. Behind it, clear | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
spells and turning quite cold. In the countryside, some sheltered | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
glens could go down to freezing. On the highest roads, there may be some | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
patches of ice around. Tomorrow morning, a cold start. Showers | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
mainly in the West. The wind is more of a north-easterly, gusting along | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
the West Coast and for the aisles. Tomorrow afternoon, some sunshine | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
for Shetland, some scattered showers elsewhere. Still quite breezy for | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
coastal areas in the West, temperatures 11-12d, around average | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
for the time of year. The showers will still be with us. More in the | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
way of clear and dry weather because high pressure is starting to build | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
from midweek onwards. For a few days, some decent sunny spells, | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
settled conditions and lighter winds. Wednesday looks as though | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
there will be a few showers. For the bulk of the country, sunny spells, | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
temperatures 12-13 sorties. Feeling less cold. Thursday, the showers | :26:33. | :26:42. | |
more likely in the East this time but temperatures not too bad. | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news. | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
Political leaders from the Highlands have been meeting a UK defence | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
minister, to discuss the future of Fort George. | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
The 250-year-old barracks, outside Inverness | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
is among a number of bases in Scotland at risk of closure | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
as part of an MOD review - which is expected to report | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
I'll be back with the late bulletin, just after the ten o'clock news. | :27:18. | :27:29. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - | :27:30. | :27:31. | |
right across the country - have a very good evening. | :27:32. | :27:35. |