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It's one of 16 bills. Among the others are reintroduction of the | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
pricing for alcohol and the promise to find re-employment for | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
unemployed teenagers. Straining at the leash. Ministers | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
say spending cuts mean it is right to round up Scotland's police into | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
a single force. Also the fire service. That is because Alex | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
Salmond's top priority is to boost the economy. With growth comes work, | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
with work come security and confidence. With confidence comes | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
prosperity and a deeper sense of well-being, not just for | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
individuals and families but for the wider community. Other measures | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
include minimum pricing to counter alcohol abuse, a Bill to tackle | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
sectarianism in football, and the reform of social care to include | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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Where are the dog whistle policies? The measures that caught out? The | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
broad strategy remains unchanged - to govern sensibly, while urging | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Scots to take more power. And so, Alex Salmond promised learned or | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
training opportunities for every 16 - 19-year-old who has not already | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
got something in place. Controversy there will be, but the Democrats | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
strongly oppose a single police force. The Government's plans will | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
have an immediate increased cost in already challenging times, risking | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
a frontline policing. organisations never say the money | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
that they promised. But how about the dog that didn't bark? No place | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
in this programme for an early referendum on independence. Bring | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
it on, say opposition leaders. first minister has a mandate for | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
this now. He has a majority in this Parliament. He has had a draft bill, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
or so he said. He has no credible excuse for not bringing VAT bill | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
forward. They are always quick to complain about the powers they | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
don't have, but struck dumb when it comes to answer about what they | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
would do and how they would pay for it. The referendum is still on hold. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
Ministers plan to tread that path later. The focus now, more powers | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
to tackle the economy. Brian Taylor joins me now from | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Parliament. So we got confirmation of a single police force. Where | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
does this go next? A ministerial statement of tomorrow which will | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
set out more details, a case for change - he will rely heavily on | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
the costs that he believes can be saved. Millions of pounds on buying | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
things like uniforms for police officers across the eight forces. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
There will be a consultation on the detail, but there is a deadline on | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
this, and he is adamant this will happen. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
I would suggest that what we want to do, and they remind this | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
restructure has not taken place in theory, it is in the context of | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
real policing. I would think as professional police forces that we | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
would want to be restructured and ready for the challenges of the | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Commonwealth Games. When will we get more details about | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
those measures and the jobs and training? The full details become | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
the next week on that package of support for teenagers. Beyond that, | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
towards the close of the month, an updated economic strategy. Eight | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
dual strategy from the SNP Scottish government, doing what they can for | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
the economy with the existing powers, while inviting Scots to | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
agree and infer how much better things could be with more powers | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
moving towards independence. Thank you for that update. There will be | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
more analysis of the Government's that fitted programme on a | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
specially extended Newsnight Scotland this evening on BBC Two at | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
11pm. Hope for the best but prepare for | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the worst this winter - that is the message from the man in charge of | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
getting us ready for the snow, ice and freezing temperatures of the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
months ahead. The transport minister Keith Brown was launching | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
exercise polar storm in response to last winter's chaos when motorways | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
were closed, drivers stranded, and a government minister resigned. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
This is key route on Scotland's road network was completely closed | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
to traffic during the worst of last year's winter, as were many other | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
roads right across Scotland. In fact, just about every kind of | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
transport you can think of was seriously disrupted at one time or | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
another. There were huge knock-on problems to those trying to provide | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
sometimes basic or even lifeline services. | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
It was the worst winter for 40 years. Last December, much of | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Scotland ground to a halt, many services and supplies were | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
disrupted across the country. should stress that these are fresh | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
warnings from the metaphors. hours Madam Deputy Speaker travel | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
chaos hit the central belt. Hundreds of drivers had to sleep in | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
their vehicles in sub-zero temperatures. Accusations flew and | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
the Transport Minister was forced to resign. I am sorry we have | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
caused these difficulties by not having the quality of response | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
needed. We had a uniquely bad winter last year and we had to | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
respond to that. It is clear that in terms of getting traffic of | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
motorways, there is more we can do. We have now got a situation where | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
we can get the central reservation open, or put HGVs onto the hard | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
shoulders when it is very bad. Haulage firms increase -- insist | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
they have increased their resistance. Drivers are more | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
educated as to how to drive, and they can have snow tyres fitted to | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
get through deep snow. It is the investment we are making. From | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
specialist ambulances, many agencies have already invested | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
millions in improvements. Better facilities and communication with | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
the public are considered vital if severe winter weather strikes again. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
We have visited Scandinavian airports and change our plans in | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
order to learn from the Scandinavian airports. We have | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
invested �1.8 million in new equipment, which will enable us to | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
reopen the runway twice as quickly as last year. It is too early for | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
forecasters to predict whether we will have to struggle through more | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
prisons, or be able to relax and admire the stunning scenery. But | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
everyone is being urged to be better prepared. Improvements | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
include better weather forecasting. The Met Office is promising better | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
warnings across many more different formats, such as social media | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
networks. But there is also an emphasis that it is | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
responsibilities of all of us to take heed of those warnings when | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
they come, and also to be prepared, whether at home, in the car, or at | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
work, should this severe winter weather strike Scotland for a third | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
year running. You're watching Reporting Scotland. | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
Still to come: 100 years of life on the "broo". We look back at a way | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
of life for generations of Scots that looks set to end. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
In sport, Scotland's Euro 2012 dream is still alive, but did they | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
get some help from the ref? We hear from the man who says yes. And how | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
about this for a culture clash? Scotland's rugby players arrive in | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
New Zealand for the World Cup. All this to come. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
The leaders of an international drugs gang are facing lengthy jail | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
sentences after being found guilty of smuggling up to �40 million | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
worth of cocaine into the UK. Keith Blenkinsop, Lindsay Harkins were | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
convicted at the High Court in Glasgow, along three of their | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
couriers, Andrew Burns, Robert Dalrymple and James Elvin. It was a | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
handful of rogue �20 notes which led to police tracking down began. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Keith Blenkinsop is no stranger to large-scale drug-trafficking. Court | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
seven years ago with �12 million worth of cannabis on a yacht near | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
Barcelona, he did time in Spain. Later, he returned to his hometown | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
of Annan and his old ways. He teamed up with Lindsay Harkins, a | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Helen's Birdman with a base near Barcelona. There, he sourced | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
cocaine took sourced to Keith Blenkinsop for distribution here. | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
For three years, a team of carriers flew repeatedly to Barcelona from | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Glasgow, Prestwick and Newcastle. The gang used sheet of hard plastic | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
wrapped in parcel tape like this, and then sandwiched for drugs in | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
between. These were then concealed in a variety of suitcases and | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
rucksacks. They were adopted by one of the men as -- by his skills as | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
an upholsterer. Two of the couriers were Andrew Burns and Robert | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Dalrymple. They were each found in possession of two kilos of cocaine | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
worth �200,000 on the street. If that amount was smuggled on every | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
trip, the vast scale of the operation can start to be | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
understood. Certainly, for the flies be analysed there was | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
potential for them to have brought cocaine into the UK and Scotland | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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with a street value of between �9 million wholesale and �60 million. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
That figure could obviously be far higher. The gang changed huge sums | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
of sterling into Euros to buy the drugs in Spain, a jury -- using a | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
vast network of exchange shops, post offices and travel agents. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Then one Korea tried to buy currency at this store in Carlisle. | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
An employee realised some 20 than its work can to fate. The career | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
spilled the beans. He became a key witness. The trial was complex and | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
lasted five weeks. It did the jury today is to reach the guilty | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
verdicts. The men will be sentenced on 4th October. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Some of the other stories across Scotland this Wednesday: a teenager | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
has pleaded guilty to murdering a young mother of two in a knife | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
attack about a row over garlic bread. Jamie Ellis stabbed her more | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
than 30 times at her home in Livingston. The High Court in | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
Edinburgh heard that her two young children were asleep at Russian -- | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
upstairs. Ellis, 18, faces a life sentence. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
The Scottish Court Service says it could be 2013 before an appeal | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
hearing into plans to build an Aberdeen bypass takes place. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Campaign group Roadsense has launched a fresh legal bid to block | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
the construction. The bypass was originally given the go-ahead by | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Scottish ministers in 2009, but campaigners may be forced to drop | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
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the action if they cannot have Edinburgh Castle welcomed over | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
205,000 visitors this month, making it a highest number of visitors | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
since records began. A series of odd incidents have been | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
happening in the East End of Glasgow. Police are reporting Arab | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
-- investigating a report of two men in a silver car approaching | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
young children without a pocket and striding off. The same surface -- | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Dora -- story has ever done Aberdeen and the West End of | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
Glasgow. It has been widely talked about on social networking sites. | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
He is clearly strange behaviour for any adult to indulge in. But I have | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
to be quite clear, there has been no attempt to interfere with any of | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
his children. So I am not entirely sure what is going on at the | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
present time. Julie Peacock has been looking into the story. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
It is bizarre. And it has been fuelled by the Internet. It has | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
turned into something of an abduction scare story. We are | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
hearing that there are hundreds of postings on social media websites. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
All presenting the same story of a man approaching children with a | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
puppet. We have heard of this happening in Aberdeen, Fife and | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
also rumours of three cases in Blantyre. That police do stress | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
that none of these stories are true. They are just rumours that have got | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
out of hand from that initial incident in the East End of Glasgow. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
We had even had a headmaster in Aberdeen and he had to hold an | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
assembly to reassure pupils that this was just a rumour that had got | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
out of hand, and the police are trying to say that people need to | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
get perspective here, and realise Veronique three cases in the East | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
End of Glasgow. They are saying that parents do not need to be | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
unduly alarmed, but a asking them to tell children not to talk to | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
strangers. There are 29,000 households in | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Scotland where no one has ever worked and which are dependent on | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
welfare benefits. But in the next few weeks, the UK Government is | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
expected to announce a major overhaul of the system, replacing | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
the numerous benefits with one, the Universal Credit. That will also | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
mark the end of 100 years of "the broo". | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
In Scotland was not economic blackspots, generations have now | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
become dependent on benefits. But finding a job in the current | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
climate is not easy. Four I had been handing out curriculum vitae, | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
and nobody has got back to me. unemployment benefit was introduced | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
in 1911, it had real impact north of the border, because at first, it | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
only applied to certain jobs like shipbuilding. But it was a stop gap, | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
not a solution. By the 1930s, the economy was stagnating. The | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
government stumped up the cash to finish building the world's biggest | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
ocean-going liner. It was a boost for jobs and pride on Clydeside. In | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
the post-war years, the welfare state extended benefits to protect | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
people from cradle to grave. The economy was doing well. | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
Unemployment levels remained low. Then in 1979, Margaret thatcher | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
came to power. I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
did not riot, he got on his bike and look for work. And he kept | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
looking until he found it. economic landscape. And change for | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
ever. If the whole community was affected. Shops had to be closed, | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
public houses were closing. There was nobody there was money to spend | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
in the community. Gradually, more and more people were moved off | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
unemployment benefits and on to sickness benefits, where they were | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
not included in the jobless figures. Four when you had been on | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
incapacity benefit for two years or more, your are more likely to | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
retire or die and get a job. It is not unemployment benefit. It is not | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
a transition between jobs. It becomes a benefit for life. Trying | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
to end benefits for life is one of the biggest challenges facing the | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
government. 100 years after it was introduced, are we about to come | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
full circle, and see the multitude of benefits replaced by just one? | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
And you can see more up on that story tonight, when Sunni mayor | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
resents '100 Years On The Broo'. That is on BBC One Scotland at | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
10:45pm. The government's planning to merge | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Scotland's police forces into a single national force. It is nearly | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
40 years since the last big reorganisation took place, and | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Reevell Alderson has been speaking to some of the offices to remember | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
it. -- officers who remember it. Keeping pace with technological | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
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developments has always been vital We have stopped the car and | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
apprehended the driver. Until 1975, there were 20 Scottish police | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
forces are based on the old counties and cities. But then as | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
now, reorganisation was in the air. Harry Morris, now an author or | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
humorous books about the police, was a city of Glasgow policeman, | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
who overnight became a Strathclyde officers. He noticed a change in | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
the style of policing. All this sudden, there was the disappearance | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
of men in the street. I do not know what the exact reasons for all this | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
work, but they did seem to be, you would maybe have four big men, and | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
then all this sudden you're getting someone who would do Mady U13s | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
beats. The last reorganisation occurred when his ashes were ins | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
fashion for or detectives. Scotland's longest service officer | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
remembers the time of when amalgamation has brought together | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
all rivalries. There was always talk of nicknames. But what we | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
found at that time, you could always tell the people from Glasgow, | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
they could not do joined-up writing was the impression. But they gave | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
as good as they got. There was no issue with them. A lesson in how to | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
put handcuffs on a suspect. Today's recruits still need to learn the | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
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basics of policing, of whatever the They do not make them like that any | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
more! We can still dream of Scotland | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
qualifying for next year's European Championships feisty our win over | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Lithuania. Well Craig Levein blamed that the referee for his team's | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
defeat on Saturday, one Lithuanian players as last night's match | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
official help to the Scots. The 1-0 win means Scotland can still | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
qualify for the finals of Euro 2012. The goal that gave Scotland victory | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
over Lithuania. But according to one of the Lithuanian players, last | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
night, the referee was on Scotland's side. It is my opinion, | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
my personal opinion, they were crying all week after the Czech | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
Republic, and today, he help them. Do you think the referee in | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
tonight's game was on Scotland's side? Definitely. There was | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
certainly nothing contentious about Scotland's first tap penalty award. | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
But the captain could not convert. And overall, it was owner of the | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
night was up and, as chances came and went. But once his hero is how | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
it finished. It means Scott and still have a chance of finishing | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
second and claiming the play-off place. But that depends on getting | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
results in the two remaining qualifiers against Spain and | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
Liechtenstein. We also need to hope that the Czech Republic slip up | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
against their final opponents. Others got an squad remains upbeat. | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
To housing and some of the football we have played has been really good. | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
We have a good result against Denmark, the last two games have | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
been good. Very nearly six points. And I think that shows a | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
progression. Scotland's Euro 2012 hopes might be slim, but it is not | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
over get. Celtic's Emilio Izaguirre says he | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
is aiming to return to action before Christmas. That is a bit of | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
a hopeful prognosis. Last season's player of the Year programme and an | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
ankle at the start of the season, and is still wearing her cast. He | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
is fit enough to do some public relations work for the club. He | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
says it has been a trying time for him. I was very sad for him and for | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
his family, especially in the last month. That sort of thing happens | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
in football, so he hopes to recover soon, because he loves playing | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
football. Frustration for him and were Andy Murray at the US Open. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
His match against Donald Young was rained off yesterday. So far today, | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
they have only managed three games because of the weather. They have | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
all gone with Sara's. The American was leading in the first set. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Scotland's rugby players have arrived in New Zealand. That is | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
where they will play their opening group match against Romania. They | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
were given quite a welcome. There were plenty of locals with Scottish | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
raids by the looks of things. There was a pipe band, and even an man | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
with a big novelty... Best of all, there was a traditional Maori hakka. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
I do not know if that was a welcome more a warning, but one kilted Kiwi | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
expects the Scots to get off to a winning start. Has what are very | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
fit and very motivated. New Zealand is a great place to hold the World | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
Cup if you are Scottish. There is a lot of support for Scotland. And | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
the Games ahead against Georgia, Argentina. That is the sport. I'm | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
sure we will see plenty more hakkas as the World Cup continues. | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
Just before we go to the weather, a reminder that Fergus Muirhead is | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
back with us in two weeks, and he will be taking another look at how | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
to protect your income if you fall ill. Income protection and critical | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
ill. Income protection and critical illness - what options are | :24:03. | :24:12. | |
available and which is best? Send available and which is best? Send | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
Let's take a look at the weather. We had some bright spells today, | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
but there were also plenty of showers. If we look at the radar | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
from earlier we can see those shares are centred on the west, and | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
some were quite heavy. Three this evening and overnight we will keep | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
the shares in many places, but the wind will gradually ease it. We | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
keep showers in the West, but they will gradually ease off a fraction | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
as we head overnight. Drier towards the east, there will see some clear | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
spells developing here. Overnight, the wind will ease, lows dipping | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
down to about nine degrees Celsius. There will be some clear spots | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
where they go as low as five degrees Celsius. A bright start in | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the ease tomorrow, the West keeping the showers. But they will be less | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
frequent and light at are the ones we saw today. Similar temperatures | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
to today, highs of 15 or 16 degrees Celsius across the country, but the | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
winds will be light so it will feel warmer. In the North East is very | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
well see the best of the brightness. Temperatures of around 17 or 18 | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
degrees Celsius, it cooler in the final at. Into tomorrow evening, we | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
will see a bit of that change. This band of rain pushes into the | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
country and will cover all parts overnight. Low-pressure is pushing | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
in across the country. That really set us up for Friday, of which is | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
looking like a fairly wet days. Certainly a wet start across the | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
whole country. That rain will continue moving northwards as we go | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
through that day. There will also be some warmer weather coming in, | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
it will be a little cloudy but highs of around 20 degrees Celsius. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
I am already thinking about the weekend. We will have low-pressure | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
swelling around, so it is looking like it will be quite unsettled - | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
wet and windy, with longer spells of rain. It is generally looking a | :26:18. | :26:27. | |
bit miserable! Scotland's police forces are | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
speeders and it had merged into their national force. Alex Salmond | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
confirmed the move as he outlined the SNP government's programme for | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
this session. It is one of 16 bills. Among the others either re | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
introduction of minimum pricing for Argos. | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
Some of Britain's most influential economists have called for the 50 p | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
tax rate to be scrapped. They say it is doing lasting damage to the | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
economy and putting off people thinking of investing in Britain. | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
The Chancellor says that tax is only temporary. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
The Scottish Government is urging organisations and individuals do | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
hope for the best but prepare for the worse this winter. The key | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
agencies involved in keeping transport and public services | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
operating in severe weather were involved in exercise poorer storm | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
today, to make sure lessons were learnt from the chaos of last | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
winter. Paying for childcare has left | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
thousands of families struggling with debt. A new survey by Save the | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Children found that four out of 10 families said the cost of childcare | :27:26. | :27:30. |