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Some sunny spells elsewhere. Mild, potentially the start of next week | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
very mild. And that's all from the BBC News at | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
six. We join the Business rates rebellion, | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
as an Aberdeen hotelier calls Three Labour-run councils | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
are to freeze the basic rate of council tax, | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
as four more local I'm at the National Galleries in | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Edinburgh where they are putting on a light show to save one of | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Scotland's's most iconic artworks. The Motherwell manager, Mark McGhee, | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
was banished to the stand after an angry clash with match | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
officials and then Further touchline bans could be | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
imposed on him as a penalty. Also on the programme, | :00:42. | :00:58. | |
the launch of Europe's biggest science festival celebrates | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
all things Scottish. An Aberdeen hotelier is calling | :01:01. | :01:18. | |
for a nationwide boycott of new business rates, | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
and says he'll refuse New rates come into force in April, | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
after a national revaluation. Stewart Spence, who owns | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
the Marcliffe hotel, argues that a complete rethink | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
is needed on how However the Scottish government | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
point out that an extra ?100,000 businesses will now pay | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
nothing at all. A busy lunchtime at | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
the Marcliffe Hotel in Aberdeen. But owner Stewart Spence | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
isn't celebrating. His business rates are set to rise | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
by 25%, an extra ?1000 a week. At the same time, turnover | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
has plunged by 40%. Mr Spence is refusing to pay | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
the increased ratee, and is calling I'm going to continue to pay my | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
old rates which is ?252,000 a year, I'm going to continue to pay my | :02:02. | :02:16. | |
old rates which is ?253,000 a year, in which I ask for nothing, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
until I have a satisfactory Are you concerned about | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
legal ramifications? I would love to go to | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
court to challenge it. Rates rises aren't confined | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
to the hospitality sector. The managing director of this | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
nursery, and four others in the west of Scotland, | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
will see her bill increase It's hugely concerning because a lot | :02:42. | :02:55. | |
of people initially say, that's OK, you can charge it back to the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
parents. But there's obviously a ceiling to what we can do there and | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
there's a saturation point, and we will come to a point where parents | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
will say, we can't afford to go out and work. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
And every business in Scotland will be affected. | :03:10. | :03:10. | |
This Glasgow laundrette will see rates more than double. | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
The bill for a restaurant a few doors down, almost | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
The Scottish Conservatives are calling for an "immediate | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
The Scottish government say its up to local authorities | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
The Scottish Government say thousands will play nothing at all. | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
We have increased the threshold for the small business bonus to ?15,000, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
lived in about 100,000 businesses out of rates altogether. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Businesses like this one can appeal their revaluation | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
if they think the assessors have got it wrong. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
One thing's for sure - this rates row looks set to rumple on. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
So why are some businesses facing big increases while others are not? | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Our Business and Economy Editor Douglas Fraser explains. | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
I have travelled all the way to my place of work, the BBC headquarters | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
in Glasgow, which is liable for nondomestic rates, as our other | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
offices, factories, warehouses, schools and hospitals, a bothy, a | :04:15. | :04:28. | |
satellite mast and salmon. It can go up and down at different rates. It | :04:29. | :04:29. | |
satellite mast and salmon. It can go depends on the business sector and | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
on the location. Seven years ago the value placed on renting this was | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
?3.75 million. Along with office rental in this area, it's going up | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
15%. That's not the actual bill, the bill is based on the poundage, the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
rate levied on each pound of the valuation. That's roughly half the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
annual rental cost. In the case of the BBC, ?2.1 million from April. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
That's quite a hike, but in the tourism sector, there are much | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
bigger rises. That hotel across the Clyde, its rateable value is going | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
up around 50%, the bill will be around ?570,000 per year. There are | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
catches around this, big properties pay a supplement, and 100,000 | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
smaller properties are exempt. So what does all this add up to? In | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
total, ?2.8 billion this year, that is to pay the government bills, to | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
pay for public services. Business isn't going to pay more in total, it | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
will just pay different shares depending on properties that have | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
risen or fallen relative to others. Some will pay more and some will | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
play bass. Those who pay less tend to make less of a fuss. That's | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
explaining why the government has been afraid to revalue homes for | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
council tax purposes. They have been stuck for more than a quarter of a | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
century without a re-evaluation. More than half of us are reckoned to | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
be in homes are in the wrong band. We might be furious if the council | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
tax bill was to go up a band or two, but probably half of us are paying | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
far more than we should. Four people have been | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
arrested in Slovakia as part of an investigation into human | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
trafficking, which also saw the arrest of five people | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
in Glasgow last week. The operation has so far | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
uncovered sixteen possible victims of trafficking, | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
with officers from Police Scotland, Slovakian Police and Europol | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
involved in the raids Police Scotland said it was "very | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
much a live and ongoing inquiry". Four men have appeared | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
in court in Slovakia. Glasgow University has been granted | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
planning permission by the city council for a ?1 billion | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
redevelopment project. It will see the university expand | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
into the old Western Infirmary site The plans include new research | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
and teaching buildings. Its 19th century tower may be one of | :06:47. | :07:05. | |
the city's famous landmarks, but Glasgow University has a whole | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
variety of buildings, old and modern, spread around University | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Avenue, all the way down to Byres Road. Now the Western Infirmary next | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
door has closed and the university wants to transform that site from | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
one where patients of the past were treated, to a centre pioneering cure | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
is for patients of the future. That vision, though, spreads far beyond | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
just medicine or indeed Glasgow. Mixing it up, they say, could bring | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
the rewards. Here we would produce a campus that is innovative and | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Glasgow University will be at the centre of that translation of | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
research for economic activity in Scotland, driving care industries | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
like quantum technology and precise medicines. As well as prestigious | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
research, universities are competing to attract students from around the | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
world. They have doubled the number of international students here | :08:00. | :08:00. | |
world. They have doubled the number recent years, so there will be new | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
lecture theatres and study areas to encourage more. West end shops saw a | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
dip in trade with the closure of the hospital and there have been some | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
objections to the proposal with concerns new on-campus shops and | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
cafes will take trade, rather than spread spend. Concerns the | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
University is keen to calm. We think it will actually create an extra | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
buzz that will attract more people to the West End. We really wanted to | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
be part of this community. Where we are standing now will be a new | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Square. It will be a square similar to many of the other large squares | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
we have in Glasgow. We want that to be used by the university, but also | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
by the people of Glasgow. Outside of graduation, you will not see many | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
members of the public wandering round this part of the University. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
This is the preserve of students and professors. But the development plan | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
will last ten years. But five years from now, that square down the hill | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
should be in place and handier for everyone, whether your degree is | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
from here or from the University of life. | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
We were talking of business rates earlier. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Three Labour-run councils are to voluntarily freeze the basic | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
rate of council tax, even though this adds | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Inverclyde councils all decided | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
against increasing bills for the majority of local residents. | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
But the move leaves them open to criticism | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
Our local government correspondent Jamie McIvor | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
Jamie - the council elections are two and a half months away. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
I'm sure that's a factor in Council decision making up and down the | :09:41. | :09:58. | |
country. Here in Glasgow, the decision today was to increase the | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
basic rate of council tax by 3%, but I think it's very interesting that | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
we have seen three Labour councils now confirm that they intend to go | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
ahead with a voluntary freeze, so the majority of bill payers in those | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
areas will not see any increase at all. There's definitely an element | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
of risk to that strategy. For a start, they leave themselves open to | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
accusations by anti-austerities campaign is that by not raising | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
council tax, they are not doing all within their power to at least | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
mitigate local cuts and savings. But the Scottish Government might say | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
that a council that decides against raising council tax can hardly | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
complain about how much government funding it's getting. Certainly an | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
element of risk. Tonight there is speculation a fourth Labour Council, | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
in Aberdeen, where labour is in the driving seat with support from | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
others, might also decide to go for a council tax freeze. No | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
confirmation yet, but we should get solid news and early next week. It's | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
a freeze for the majority of people in some areas, but everywhere in | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Scotland, the bills any higher property bands will increase because | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
of national changes to how those bills are calculated. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
It's one of the country's best known paintings, | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
and now the National Galleries of Scotland is making a final | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
fundraising push to buy The Monarch of the Glen. | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
The current owner, the giant drinks company, Diageo, | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
is selling the 19th century masterpiece, and has offered it | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
to the National Galleries for what's described as a knock-down price | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Our reporter John McManus is in Edinburgh for us tonight. | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
As you can see, the National Gallery is really making the point about the | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
Monarch of the Glen this evening. This iconic painting has meant so | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
much to so many people throughout the years, carried so many meanings | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
about Scotland. Painted in 1851, but the current owners, Diageo, say they | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
will sell it. They say it's worth ?8 million, but will offer it to the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
National Galleries if the galleries can offer ?4 million. Half price, | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
but can they do that? I'm joined by the gallery 's Director-General, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
John Leighton. It's a fantastic offer, but can you raise the money | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
because time is running out? We had four months to raise ?4 million, a | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
very generous offer. We had tremendous support from the arts | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
fund, among others, and we have reached ?3.5 million. We have three | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
quarters of ?1 million to go and we are reaching out to anyone who has | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
an interest in Scottish art, culture and heritage to help. Every penny | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
counts. What happens if you can't secure the ?4 million? That's a | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
question for the owners, Diageo. I think there's every chance it will | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
be sold and probably end up going abroad and we will have missed a | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
unique opportunity to bring a abroad and we will have missed a | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
fantastic, resonant, powerful image back to Scotland where it can be the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
subject of debate and delight for future generations. Thank you very | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
much. The deadline is March 17 for the deal to be done between the | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
National Galleries and Diageo. The clock is ticking. Here's hoping it | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
can stay in Scotland in the hands of this public gallery. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland. | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
Business rates rebellion, as an Aberdeen hotelier | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
And still to come - we meet the farming brothers aiming | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
for sporting glory in the winter Olympics. | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
The Motherwell boss and Scotland assistant manager, Mark McGhee, | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
could be in trouble again with his part-time employers at | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
During angry scenes at Pittodrie last night, McGhee was sent | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
to the stands during his side's heavy defeat to Aberdeen. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
Afterwards, he said a match official had an "agenda" | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
It was enough to make a manager's blood boil. With his team already | :13:58. | :14:14. | |
4-0 down and on their way to an even bigger defeat, a clearly furious | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Mark McGeeney is set to the stands by the referee. The dismissal came | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
about on the advice of the fourth official, John McKendrick. -- | :14:23. | :14:34. | |
clearly furious Mark Mcghee. It was disgusting. I was astounded by the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
attitude the fourth official took. I wasn't getting excited about the | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
fact we were losing the game. I wasn't losing my patience or | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
tempter. I was actually having a laugh. But from the first minute the | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
fourth official seemed to me to have made his mind up on the attitude he | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
was taking and to be honest, he spoiled the game for me as much as | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the seven goals we conceded. His attitude was diabolical. If the | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
attention of a police officer was unwanted, Mark McGhee's evening got | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
worse when he got up to the stands to find a Havana filming his | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
arrival. -- to find a fan filming. It's not just that outburst that | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
could land the assistant manager of Scotland in trouble. | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
McGhee has already served a two match ban this season for insulting | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
or abusive language towards a match official in November. It was a | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
miserable night all round for Motherwell who shipped seven goals | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
to Aberdeen, the pick of which came from on loan midfielder Ryan | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Christie. But it's his words post match that might yet her to the | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
manager more. Following McGhee's comments we contacted Motherwell, | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
the Scottish Football Association at the National Stadium, and senior | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
figures from the refereeing world, none of whom wanted to comment for | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Vera prejudicing a possible disciplinary case. But it's clear | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
the SFA who employs Mark McGhee as assistant manager to the national | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
team, will want a full explanation. A look at other stories | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
from across the country. A man has died after a fire | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
broke out at a house The emergency services were called | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
to the property at shortly before Meanwhile, a man who died in a house | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
fire in Lossiemouth in Moray yesterday afternoon has been named | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
as 88 year old Kenneth Hall. He was in the property | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
on Elgin Road, when fire crews arrived at the scene shortly | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
after four o'clock. St Mirren Football Club is one of 15 | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
companies named by the UK Department of Business as guilty of failing | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
to pay employees the national The biggest offender | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
here was Crossroads Caring Scotland, which failed to pay more | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
than ?17,000 to 40 Members of Muirfield Golf Club have | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
begun voting in a fresh ballot The postal ballot will be | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
independently scrutinised, and the outcome is expected next | :17:10. | :17:26. | |
month. A similar vote last year | :17:27. | :17:27. | |
narrowly failed to achieve the two-thirds majority required | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
to change club rules. Commuters crossing the Forth and Tay | :17:31. | :17:31. | |
bridges have saved about ?2000 each, since tolls were abolished | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
by the Scottish Government Councillors in Aberdeenshire have | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
agreed to promote the historic Doric Teaching of the language | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
won't be compulsory, but the authority says all pupils | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
should develop an understanding of it, as an integral | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
part of their education. Doric is the north-east dialect | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
of the Scots language. Jumpers are being knitted for | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
so-called "discriminated-against" dogs that an animal welfare charity | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
finds among the hardest to rehome. Dogs with dark-coloured coats | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
are being overlooked at Scottish SPCA centres | :18:08. | :18:08. | |
in Inverness and Caithness. It's thought the dogs' features | :18:09. | :18:18. | |
don't show as well in photographs. Scottish Women's Institute groups | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
have been knitting the jumpers as part of celebrations marking 100 | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
years of the institute. The Scottish curling | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
championships start this weekend. The winners will represent | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
Great Britain at the World Championships, where they can | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
qualify for the Winter Olympics And that's the aim of two curling | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
brothers who share another passion, but also a keen rivalry, | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
as David Currie's been finding out. Thomas Bjorn head is eyeing up the | :18:40. | :18:52. | |
Scottish title and a place at the Winter Olympics -- so is elder | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
brother Glenn Muirhead. That is why they are spending as much time as | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
they can on the ice. Away from the they are spending as much time as | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
ice the Muirhead brothers are busy boys. That's why I've come to the | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
heart of the Perthshire countryside to see them going about their day | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
job. Curling and farming have both been in the family from the very | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
onset. The two are working well and we are passionate for both. They | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
work well together which is the most important thing, really. We've both | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
got our things we specialise in. We pulled together when we need to. | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
We'd be stuck without each other, really. At this time of year Thomas | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
and Glenn have their hands full pretty much all the time. The | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
lambing always comes about the same time as the Scottish Championships. | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
We've just learned to really work around it, reschedule things. So you | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
work on the farm during the day, then you are back on the ice? | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Straight from the ice rink into the lambing shed and then catch up on a | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
few hours sleep then do it all again the next day. It's all about team | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Muirhead down on the farm. Not so on the rink. Thomas is all about team | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Smith, Glenn is team Brewster. We are best friends off the ice but | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
when it comes to the crunch there's no friends in business really. One | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
of your teams gets to the Winter Olympics, the other brother will be | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
minding the farm? Yeah, hopefully one of us is therefore a start, and | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
that's exactly the case. We will be pulling out all the stops for each | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
other if one of us is at the Olympics. And the Winter Olympics | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
might just coincide with the lambing season. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
It was the world's first science festival, and it's | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
The Edinburgh International Science Festival has | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
unveiled its programme for this year, featuring hundreds | :21:07. | :21:07. | |
of events in dozens of venues over two weeks in April. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
The launch included a police box, a toaster - | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
Our science correspondent Kenneth Macdonald was watching. | :21:16. | :21:25. | |
OK, what's going on here? Certainly some of the onlookers seem a little | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
confused. The presence of the press gives it away. It's the programme | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
launch for this year 's Edinburgh science Festival. The phone is just | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
one of the long list of great Scottish inventions. We were the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
worlds first and we are still one of the largest science festivals in the | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
world, we've got a two-week programme that takes over 30 venues | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
around the city, hundreds of events for families, teens, adults, ranging | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
from a brand-new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland called | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
plate onto our city arts Centre activities, five floors of hands-on | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
fun, and a big programme for as well. One of the things the festival | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
is doing is drawing up a list of Scottish inventions. For example, | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
the telephone. Sherlock Holmes, he's one of ours. Paraffin lamp. The | :22:20. | :22:34. | |
toaster. And Irn Bru, other spellings are available. | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
Unfortunately I can't cram everything into just four police | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
boxes. I'm focusing on the lady of Enlightenment, the Scottish | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
Industrial Revolution, and 101 Scottish inventions. Looking to the | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
modern-day and celebrating the information age. We are going to | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
make a cloud. Our connected world is just one of the big themes. If | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
previous years have anything to go by, the serious stuff for grown-ups | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
will be almost as fun as for everyone. Does it have a lasting | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
effect? We genuinely believe science is integral to so many lives that it | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
is relevant to everybody and we just need to find the right ways of | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
reaching them. We do a bit of science by stealth programming, | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
programme around food and reading in the knowledge that all we have to do | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
is ignite a spark of interest. The festival runs to two weeks over the | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
Easter holidays which gives us plenty of time to work out what the | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
birds heads were all about. Aurier Here are Shereen and Glenn | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
with the details. Tonight, new figures show Scots | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
spend more on booze than people in the rest of the UK. Would | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
restricting sales tackle that? Poking fun at the politicians, Ian | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
Hislop on how satire is engaging a whole new audience. West Wing actor | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
Richard Schiff talks to us about making a Scottish anti-Trump hashtag | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
go global. I don't try to live my life insulting people but I think in | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
this case it adds a little bit of fun to the fury. And Amy MacDonald | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
is live in the studio. In the meantime let's see how the | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
weather is shaping up. Good evening. After all the rain many had this | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
morning it did improve in the end. Lovely picture there. Tonight | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
largely dry, quite cold compared to last night thanks to this ridge of | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
high pressure sitting overhead, keeping things try and settled. Warm | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
front in the South West meaning outbreaks of rain at times. For many | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
a dry night and where those skies clear it will be cold. There will | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
also be missed and fog particularly for central and southern Scotland. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
Towns and cities with overnight temperatures two to four Celsius, in | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
the countryside freezing or just under. Thick cloud in the south-west | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
and across western parts cloudy skies tomorrow, some spots of rain. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
Central and southern largely dry but murky at times. Best sunshine in | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
towards Murray and Aberdeenshire but even here the cloud will increase | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
through the day. By mid-afternoon largely dry but very cloudy. Mild, | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
910 Celsius, generally light winds inland. The hotspot or two of rain. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
Still holding onto the sunshine across the north-east where we will | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
see temperatures into double digits. Orkney and Shetland not too bad | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
either. The rest of the afternoon and overnight, fairly cloudy, winds | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
picking up around the west Coast and a change afoot as we head overnight | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
in towards Saturday. This weather front sweeps in from the Atlantic | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
bringing outbreaks of rain. A wet start to the weekend. Here are the | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
details for Saturday, outbreaks of rain across the West, edging | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
eastwards but by afternoon a lot of them will have cleared away. A dry | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
afternoon with spells of brightness coming through. Easy from the | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
south-west. The mild theme continues towards Sunday, some outbreaks of | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
rain across the West and north-west, in the north-east potential highs of | :26:31. | :26:31. | |
40 degrees. Thank you. Now, a reminder of | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
tonight's main news. An Aberdeen hotelier is calling | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
for a nationwide boycott of new business rates, | :26:38. | :26:39. | |
and says he'll refuse New rates come into force in April, | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
after a national revaluation. However the Scottish government | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
point out that an extra 100,000 businesses will now | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
pay nothing at all. Three Labour run councils are to | :26:51. | :27:03. | |
freeze the basic rate of council tax. But other local authorities | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
including Scotland's biggest council, Glasgow, have put them up. | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
The new US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has held his first | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
face to face meeting with his Russian counterpart. | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
It comes in the wake of turmoil in the White House over alleged | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
links between the Trump administration and the | :27:18. | :27:18. | |
Rex Tillerson also held talks with the foreign secretary, | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
Boris Johnson as part of a G20 summit in Germany. | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8. | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
And the late bulletin just after the ten o'clock news. | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - right | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
across the country - have a very good evening. | :27:36. | :27:50. | |
Two challenges await you today, and our genre is Landscape. | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
The conditions are a wee bit challenging. | :27:55. | :27:55. | |
I've really got to convince the judges | :27:56. | :27:56. | |
The conditions are a wee bit challenging. | :27:57. | :27:56. | |
I've really got to convince the judges | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
It's colourful - but it was meant to be muted. | :28:03. | :28:05. |