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As the First Minister says she is up for talks with the Prime Minister | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
over another independence referendum, a warning | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
of a constitutional crisis if no agreement can be reached. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
How a row over haddock stocks in the North Sea could be | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
threatening your traditional Scottish fish supper. | :00:20. | :00:31. | |
Has Scotland prepared to face Italy, can they manage their best ever six | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Nations finish? A farewell fly-past from the Tornado | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
squadron at RAF Lossiemouth. And saved for the nation after a ?4 | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
million fundraising campaign - the iconic Monarch of the Glen | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
painting. Scottish National Party leaders | :00:46. | :01:01. | |
are delivering a defiant warning to the Prime Minister, | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
telling the party's conference they won't allow her to thwart plans | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
for an independence referendum. The First Minister is also | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
urging Theresa May to take We'll bring you the Prime Minister's | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
response in a moment. But first our political editor | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Brian Taylor reports A sense of history. The SNP's deputy | :01:20. | :01:36. | |
leader brandishes a slogan devised by Willie Ewing. Delegates also | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
reckon historic changes underway now. It has been a pretty momentous | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
week in Scottish politics. Derek Mackay maintained the momentum. The | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. The SNP want a referendum | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
before, or shortly after, Brexit is concluded. The Prime Minister won't | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
countenance that. Scotland will have its referendum and the people of | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
this country will have their choice. They will not be denied their say. | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
And for the avoidance of doubt, he identified the obstacle. Scotland's | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
referendum is going to happen, and no UK Prime Minister, no UK Prime | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Minister should dare to stand in the way of Scotland's democracy. So what | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
to do? Who knows? Another election I be around the corner. A throwaway | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
line but is it possible, and early Hollywood election to force the | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Prime Minister to the negotiating table. Senior strategist discovered | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
the idea for three reasons. One, people tend to hate unnecessary | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
elections. Two, it might not go into the wealth of the SNP. Under PR, you | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
can never be sure. And three, the SNP incest they already have a | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
mandate for a further referendum and arguably to call another election | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
would weaken that case. The SNP has sampled opinion in focus groups and | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
elsewhere, and there is a degree of resistance to an early referendum. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
But the party insists people are open to the idea of Scotland having | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
a choice in time to impact upon Brexit when the option is explained. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
So what about a non-statutory, advisory referendum? Nicola Sturgeon | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
rules mapping out but is far from keen on that idea, viewing it as | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
gesture politics. She once the Prime Minister to talk now about possible | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
dates for a future referendum. Let her set out when she pings it would | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
be right and let's have a discussion about it. We might only be weeks or | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
months apart. I am up for continued discussion. There is devolved policy | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
here, too. John Swinney defended the Scottish Government's education | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
record and offered advice on the constitutional battle. I share the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
outrage every Democrat feels at the actions of the Westminster Tory | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
government. I say to you this is a time for local heads, cool, clear | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
head that must now stand up for Scotland's sovereignty. Outside the | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
hall, prounion campaign is made their point bluntly. Inside, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
delegates are intent on independence and their leader appears undeterred | :04:37. | :04:37. | |
by the obstacles in her path. And we'll hear more from Brian | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
in a moment, but first the Scottish Government's Brexit | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
minister claims the UK is heading for a "constitutional crisis" | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
if the UK Government continues Mike Russell was speaking | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
after the Prime Minister, Theresa May, renewed her opposition | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
to another vote on Scotland's future while the UK | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
is in the process of leaving the EU. Here's our political | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
correspondent, Glenn Campbell. There is no meeting of minds between | :04:56. | :05:12. | |
these two leaders on Scotland's future. In Cardiff today, the Prime | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Minister accused the SNP of exploiting Brexit to pursue | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
independence. It is now clear that using Brexit as a pretext to | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
engineer a second independence referendum has been the SNP's sole | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
objective ever since last June. But it would be bad for Scotland, bad | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
for the United Kingdom and bad for us all. At the SNP conference, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Scottish ministers say their attempts to broker a Brexit | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Scottish ministers say their compromise were re-Bath, and that | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
another independence referendum must be allowed when the terms of Brexit | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
become clear. If the Scottish Parliament votes for a referendum it | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
would be extremely undemocratic to try and stop that. What if she still | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
says no? The reality is we are then try and stop that. What if she still | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
in a constitutional crisis because the Scottish Parliament has | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
expressed its opinion. We have to have a way of discussing that. Could | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
expressed its opinion. We have to you have a referendum anyway? We are | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
nowhere near that stage but the view is there must be a referendum if the | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Scottish Parliament votes for it. What do SNP supporters think? I'm | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
sure Nicola Sturgeon will have her way. If she is unwilling to | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
compromise, yes, we should go for one without their consent. It is an | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
option but I don't think anyone would want that. We would want to | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
have the agreement. This expert thinks it could be a lengthy | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
dispute. This could go on for a long time, several years, with neither | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
side doing well. Meanwhile, Brexit has to be negotiated and things have | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
to be done on a practical level. There is no obvious end to the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
stand-off insight, unless there is a big shift in public opinion, either | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
for or against another independence referendum. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Our political editor Brian Taylor joins me now. | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
Quite a week indeed. A pre-emptive strike by the First Minister, a | :07:10. | :07:22. | |
retaliatory strike by the Prime Minister, and now a contest of | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
wills, predicated by each side claiming to be acting in tune with | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
public opinion. What might lie ahead? We have the important vote at | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Holyrood next week. Yes. We have the remainder of conference, and a | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
two-day debate in Hollywood next week, concluding with a vote on | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Wednesday evening, that vote, presumably with the SNP getting the | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
backing of the Greens, will be a demand for powers to be transferred | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
to Holyrood, in order to enable an independence referendum to be held | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
within the timescale set out by the First Minister. So that will be a | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
formal demand to the UK Government for those powers to be transferred. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
You will then get a formal response from the Prime Minister, and that | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
formal was France will be no dice. Then you have a contest of Wills, | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
each side trying to claim public opinion. You will have parliamentary | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
manoeuvres from the Scottish Government, both here at Holyrood | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
and also at Westminster. You will have political campaigning as well. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
I stress again, this is about both sides trying to win and to | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
demonstrate palpable support from the people of Scotland and the wider | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
UK. A man who admitted rape after having | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
sex with a 12 year-old girl Daniel Cieslak, who was 19 | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
at the time, had believed the girl who he met in a taxi queue | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
in Edinburgh was 16. The judge, Lady Scott, | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
said she was taking the "wholly exceptional decision" not | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
to sentence him as there Instead, she gave him | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
an absolute discharge Our Home affairs correspondent, | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Reevel Alderson, is here. Reevel, this is an extremely unusual | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
ruling from a judge. What were the exceptional | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
circumstances in this case? Be exceptional circumstances were | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
that Daniel Cieslak had met this girl sometime after midnight a | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
couple of years ago in Edinburgh city centre. They had gone back to | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
his flat where there was an impromptu party. They had sex. She | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
left the next morning and had not appeared in any way distressed by | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
the experience. Later, he was charged with rape. Why? Because she | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
was under 13, and legally any child under 13 is incapable, in law, of | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
giving consent to sexual intercourse. So he was charged. But | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
the judge said there were exceptional circumstances. These | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
were effectively that she looked a lot older than 16 and he had every | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
reasonable opportunity to say, well, she was over 16. We know that | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
because police officers who had been called to see her friend, and to | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
whom she talked at length, thought she was over 16 and had not bothered | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
with talking to her. The taxi driver taking them to Daniel's flat thought | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
she was 20, and the judge herself, having viewed CCTV footage, thought | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
she appeared to be over 16. This absolute discharge, what is that? It | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
is not a conviction, not a punishment. It is the lowest form of | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
disposal a court can make. The effect of this is that he has no | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
criminal record as a result and has not been placed on the sex offenders | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
register. However, if he goes back before the court for any other | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
offence, this could be taken into consideration. But it is a very | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
controversial ruling, as you might imagine, and certainly it is | :10:57. | :10:57. | |
unprecedented as far as I can find. Now, should you be tucking | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
into a haddock supper tonight? haddock off its list | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
of sustainable fish to eat. OK, come on. Haddock was on the menu | :11:04. | :11:26. | |
today for these twins. It is their favourite fish but according to the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Marine conservation Society, stocks are lower than they should be. They | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
have taken it off their sustainability list and suggest | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
people try hake or whiting instead. This fish merchant disagrees. I | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
could not believe it. There have been some of the biggest landings in | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Peterhead. In December last year there was a record landing for 20 | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
years. Much of it was Haddock. I hope the consumer will see it. I | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
hope they will keep eating Haddock, because most of them love it. The | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
Marine conservation Society say it downgraded the fish on its good food | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
guide after stocks fell last year. The scientific assessment of this | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
fishery is that the fishing pressure and the biomass is above and below | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
the levels recommended for maintaining a sustainable fishery in | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
the longer term. The Scottish fishermen's Federation has demanded | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
the Society retract its claims, which they say are false. They are | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
not fishermen, not scientists. They are not embedded, as we are, in the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
day-to-day stewardship of stocks. We know when they are sustainable and | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
we get proper accreditation for them, and they come out with this | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
lightweight stuff that is potentially damaging. We are not | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
happy. Several hundred boxes of Haddock have been landed in | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Peterhead in the last week alone, much of it headed for fish and chip | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
shops. Mixed messages over sustainability will undoubtedly | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
confuse consumers, who will be left wondering whether or not they can | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
order their Friday fish supper with a clear conscience. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Police searching for Moira Anderson, the schoolgirl who disappeared 60 | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
years ago, say they've identified five areas of interest on the | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
Radar and sonar equipment has been used to pinpoint the areas | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
The 11-year-old left her grandmother's house in Coatbridge | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Police believe that the bus driver, Alexander Gartshore, | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
murdered her, before disposing of her body. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
The UK Supreme Court has refused an application by the owners | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
of the defunct News of the World newspaper, to be allowed to appeal | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
against a court ruling which found they had defamed Tommy Sheridan, | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
the former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party. | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
The judgement finally brings to an end a lengthy legal process | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
which began when the newspaper published articles about | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
BP has confirmed it's in talks with the chemicals group Ineos over | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
the sale of the North Sea's largest oil pipeline. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
The Forties Pipeline System was the first to transport | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
oil from the North Sea to the Scottish mainland. | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
It now carries about 450,000 barrels of oil every day | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
We saw the oil from the Forties field begin to flow through the pipe | :14:17. | :14:38. | |
at Grangemouth. The Queen pressed the on switch and the first oil was | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
pumped to the mainland from the Forties field. It was in 1975, when | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
BP started operating the pipeline. At its peak, 1 million barrels of | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
oil each day came through. It is believed to be the oldest and | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
largest pipeline in the North Sea. It starts 100 miles offshore, | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
carrying oil to the terminal at crude and brave. From there, it is | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
carried to the processing facility near the Grangemouth refinery. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
Today, on average it transports around 450,000 barrels of oil each | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
day, 40% of UK production, and employs around 300 people. Now, its | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
owner, BP, is in talks with global petrochemical giant in the arts | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
about selling it. The Unite union was involved in a bitter industrial | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
dispute at the Grangemouth refinery in 2013. The plant nearly closed. | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
The union says it was not told about the potential sale of the pipeline | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
system. When it comes out of the blue of this nature and people have | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
not spoken to us beforehand, very often in situations like this we are | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
involved in discussions where guarantees are given and fears are | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
allayed. It hasn't happened this time. So of course there will be | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
concerns. My members in BP will be concerned. Any such negotiations, if | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
there was a deal, would be between the companies, but clearly we would | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
want to understand what the union's concerns were, and we having gauge | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
meant with BP, as major employers. We can try to help broker a dialogue | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
between the parties. BP say they are committed to engaging openly with | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
staff and stakeholders as soon as they are able. At the moment, the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
details are confidential and they cannot say any more at this stage. | :16:35. | :16:44. | |
Tonight's top story: as the First Minister says she is up for talks | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
with the Prime Minister over another independence referendum, a warning | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
of a constitutional crisis if no agreement can be reached. Still to | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
come, a farewell fly-past from the Tornado squadron at RAF Lossiemouth. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Now it's the final weekend of the Six Nations championship. | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Some Italian fans are already enjoying the delights of Edinburgh. | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Scotland can't win it but there's still plenty to play | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
To tell us why, David Currie is at Murrayfield tonight. | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
Hi, yes, England may have obliterated Scotland's chances of | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
winning the Six Nations Championship for the first time last weekend at | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Twickenham, but do not despair, the Scots can still achieve their | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
highest ever finish in the tournament. Not a bad way to end one | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
particular chapter in the national team's history. Putting the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
finishing touches to the Murrayfield pitch, but tomorrow a line will be | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
drawn under the Vern Cotter era. The match, his last as head coach. There | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
is no escaping the fact that there will be changes after this game. But | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
that is not a consideration for the team. Scotland have some amends to | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
make for trauma, the thrashing at Twickenham. England, with a | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
conversion to come, will surely hit 60. Last week was unacceptable in a | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
Scotland shirt. We are excited to right the wrongs, go out and put a | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
good performance on. Scotland can't catch England at the top of the Six | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Nations table. Level on points with Wales, one behind Ireland and | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
France, the Scots could finish second. Simply beating Italy | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
probably won't be enough. What do you need to do, in your mind, to get | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
second? A bonus point win, and then Wales beat France in Paris without a | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
bonus. Then England to beat Ireland. Those results could happen. All we | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
can control is what happens out here at Murrayfield. I would love | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Scotland to finish what had been such a promising Six Nations on a | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
high. Italy have lost all four of their matches and will finish | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
bottom. However, they won here two years ago. We have two perhaps | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
expect the unexpected. Doesn't that mean it is expected? It is a funny | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
expect the unexpected. Doesn't that phrase. We are preparing for | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
everything. We will make sure that we go through the scenarios that | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
might happen, being as best prepared as we can be. A metaphorical new | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
broom will sweep through the national team when Greg Townsend | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
takes over in the summer. He will be hoping to build on groundwork laid | :19:53. | :19:53. | |
by Vern Cotter. Police have released images of 56 | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
more fans they want to trace over disorder at last May's Scottish Cup | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
final at Hampden Stadium in Glasgow. Officers are investigating | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
the violence and vandalism that took place during the pitch invasion | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
at end of the match Thousands of Hibs fans ran | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
on to the pitch after the Edinburgh club won the cup for the first time | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
in 114 years. A number of Rangers fans also | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
came on to the pitch 252 people have suffered | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
tram-related injuries in Edinburgh over the seven years since the tram | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
tracks were laid. Figures collated by a consultant | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, show 191 of those who were | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
injured were cyclists. The last squadron of Tornado | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
aircraft based at RAF Lossiemouth have staged an a farewell flypast - | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
marking their withdrawal The supersonic RAF jets, | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
which have been in military service for almost 40 years, | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
are being replaced at the Moray base Many RAF staff and local people say | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
it's the end of an era. It is a sound which has become part | :20:48. | :21:03. | |
of the landscape over Moray four quarters of a century, since were | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
first stationed here. The jets are capable of attacking targets on the | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
ground and sea, as well as providing aerial reconnaissance and defence. | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
At the ageing planes are being phased out and a final fly-past at | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
Lossiemouth was an emotional affair. I have flown a plane like this since | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
I left school, nearly 38 years ago. For me, flying these things is just | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
normal. It's like going shopping, just normal. I have flown it in the | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Middle East, Afghanistan, and also over Kosovo. The last tornadoes may | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
be leaving Scotland's last operational RAF station. But after | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
fears it might be closed down several years ago, there is now | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
optimism over the long-term future of Lossiemouth, which now boasts | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
four squadrons of high-tech typhoon aircraft and is soon to be the home | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
of a new maritime patrol plane. We have such an exciting future here. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Another typhoon squadron coming, four front line squadrons will be | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
here, in 2019 will see the first Poseidon control plane, a really | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
exciting capability. It has been the key strike attack aircraft for | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
decades. It has seen service in combat in places like Afghanistan, | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
Iraq and Syria. These individual planes are going to be moved to RAF | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
Marham, to see the rest of their operational lives, and will be | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
decommissioned in 2019, almost 50 years after the Tornado first took | :22:37. | :22:37. | |
to the air. The Monarch of the Glen - | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
it's iconic for some, The National Galleries of Scotland | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
have raised ?4 million to buy the painting from drinks giant | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
Diageo. Here's our arts correspondent | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
Pauline Mclean. The challenge was huge. When the | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
National Galleries of Scotland announced a campaign to capture the | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
Monarch of the Glen for the nation, they were under no illusions. Four | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
months and many donations later, they met the deadline set by the | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
owners, the drinks company Secret Sofas. They promised half of the ?8 | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
million expected to raised -- be raised at auction if they could find | :23:21. | :23:21. | |
the rest. -- drinks company Diagio. I am delighted to announce that the | :23:22. | :23:33. | |
funds have been raised. The response has been amazing. We had donations | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
from all over the world, all over Scotland. People clearly care deeply | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
about the culture will stop the picture strikes a chord. Here is | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Victoria... He certainly struck a chord with the | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
audience, he was Queen Victoria's favourite artist and popular with | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
non-royals as well. His work may seem sentimental and romantic now, | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
but to those who campaigned to buy it, it is an important painting. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
It's a very fine painting, a work of considerable merit. In Scottish | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
terms, it has... I hate the word iconic, but let me use it, a kind of | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
iconic status in popularity. That makes it just the kind of painting | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
that people are drawn to. That irrespective of whether they are | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
into art or not. It crosses those boundaries of being both the art, | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
great art, and incredibly popular, and familiar to people. You are not | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
having that, it's mine! What painting can claim to have the | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
backing of the Goodies as well as gamekeepers? It has been used to | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
sell soap, soup and whiskey. Once settled into its new home, it is | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
sell soap, soup and whiskey. Once hoped it will to Scotland as a thank | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
you to those who made sure it stayed. | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
The weather forecast now - and it's a wet one, Kawser. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
It has been grey and wet for the day and we will see outbreaks of | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
rain on and off at times. That is thanks to this quite extensive area | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
of low pressure to the north and the weather system expanding all the way | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
back to the Atlantic. Some fresh westerly wind, especially for | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
western coastal areas. A familiar sight for many, this weather watcher | :25:29. | :25:29. | |
western coastal areas. A familiar picture sent from the Western Isles. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Wireless will be cloudy and wet for much of the evening, it will improve | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
by becoming drier. This evening it is quite wet, rain falling snow over | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
the highest hills in the north. By the end of the night, it will clear | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
away and we are left with fairly cloudy skies. Temperatures dipping | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
close to freezing, perhaps the risk of icy stretches on untreated roads | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
and services, and a touch of Frost. For the Central Belt, fairly cloudy | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
and mild air, minimum temperatures of seven or 8 degrees. For tomorrow, | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
largely dry. Some showers for Orkney and the Northeast. If you are | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
heading to Edinburgh for the rugby, it looks like it will be largely dry | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
with some sunny spells to start. As we head through the day at | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Murrayfield, we will see more in the way of cloud increasing. It looks | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
like it'll stay largely dry the match. For the rest of the afternoon | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
you can see cloud thickening across the West, with it outbreaks of rain | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
arriving. If you are heading out to rout 5pm, for Dumfries and Galloway, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
the western borders, showery outbreaks of rain starting to occur. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Mild conditions, reaching nine or 10 Celsius. Holding on to the best of | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
the sunshine across parts of Angus, Perthshire and Aberdeenshire. Those | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
showers continuing mainly across Orkney. Some of them could be quite | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
heavy. If you are heading outdoors to the hills and mountains, quite a | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
chilly start for the Northwestern ranges. There might be patchy and | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
showery rain arriving later, with gusts of up to 45 mph coming from | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
the West. Further south, mild air, cloudy conditions for the Galloway | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
Hills. To the east, some showery rain at times. It will be drier for | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
the Cairngorms in the afternoon and a bit milder for the border hills. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
For tomorrow evening, dry to start in the east. We will start to see | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
rain pushing in. With it, heavy and persistent rain across the | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
south-west and the north-west. By the time we reach Sunday, we are | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
going to see some rain around. Some uncertainty about this, how far | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
north it will go. It looks like by the afternoon things will improve | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
and we will see some sunny spells. That is your forecast. | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
I'll be back with the late bulletin at 10:30. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Have a very good evening and a great weekend. | :27:45. | :27:46. |