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Welcome to Thursday's Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
news: Strathclyde Fire and Rescue under | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
the spotlight again. The first minister orders another inquiry | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
into their failure to rescue Alison Hume from an Ayrshire mineshaft. | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
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Her family welcome the move. It is not going to bring Alison back, but | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
at the same time, but we will feel as if we do our best for her. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
And late this evening the service apologised to the family for the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
outcome of that rescue effort. Also tonight - guilty of attempting | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
to murder one of Scotland most senior legal officials. But police | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
still don't know who paid Robert Graham to kill Lesley Cumming six | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
years ago. And 50 years after they went up | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
they are about to come down. We are live in Motherwell - the latest | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
town to see the demolition of those dream homes in the sky. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Good evening. Tonight, Strathclyde Fire and Rescue have apologised to | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
the family of Alison Hume. She died after fire crews left her in a | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
disused mineshaft for more than six hours. Yesterday, a sheriff | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
criticised senior fire officers for refusing to allow a rescue attempt. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
They decided that safety rules stopped them using their own | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
equipment. At Holyrood today the First Minister ordered a new | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
inquiry into the botched operation. Our reporter Steven Godden is | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
outside the Strathclyde Fire and Rescue headquarters now. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
It has been a difficult 24 hours for the senior officers in the | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
building behind me. Yesterday, they were heavily criticised after the | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
inquiry into Alison Hume's death. There will be a fresh inquiry into | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
the circumstances of what happened. Tonight, or we have had a fair | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
response from them. It is a short statement from the chief officer. | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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He says the report is 890 page document and it will take time to | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
respond. It does contain something that was missing yesterday - and | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
apology. At the top of a disused mineshaft, anxious firefighters can | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
only watch and wait, prevented by senior officers from rescuing | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
Alison Hume. She was lying 50 ft below, but could have survived if | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
it were not for a delay of six hours to bring her to the surface. | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
Following a fatal accident investigation, the the sheriff | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
condemned the operation. This afternoon Alison's family welcomed | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
the First Minister's demand for another inquiry. It will not bring | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
her back, but we will feel as if we have done the best for Alison and | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
for her daughters and the rest of the family. 18 firefighters were | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
trained to use rescue equipment at the scene, but two senior | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
commanders decided help and surf -- decided health and safety | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
regulations had to be at hear it too. We selected will weep for was | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
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the best option at the time. -- had to be stuck to. We give away | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
sheriffs in Scotland substantial powers in a fatal accident | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
inquiries. That is the right thing to do. The Institution of sheriffs | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
is well respected and recognised. The determination is that they make | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
have to be accepted by all parties. I don't think they should be | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
second-guessed. I think what people will be looking for is an | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
indication of the action that now must follow. This new inquiry will | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
begin almost immediately, but will take a number of months. For | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
Alison's family all that matters is that lessons are learned. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
What more had Alison's family been saying? | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
They have not received the apology from Strathclyde Fire and rescue in | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
person or on the phone, but in general terms they are upbeat and | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
are pleased to be part of the process. They do it received the | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
phone call for -- they did receive a phone call from the minister | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
responsible for kick-starting the inquiry this afternoon. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
A senior judge says the need for more than one source of evidence, | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
known as corroboration, in Scottish criminal cases is medieval and | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
should be abolished. Lord Carloway wants a complete overhaul of | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
criminal procedure to help ensure it complies with human rights law. | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
Our Political Correspondent Glenn Campbell has the details. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
There are a lot of reasons why police officers tend to patrol in | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
pairs. One advantage is they can back up one another's evidence in | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
court. Without corroboration, you cannot secured a criminal | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
conviction in Scotland. It has been a cornerstone of our system for | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
centuries. But today a High Court judge said it was a medieval | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
concept that Moscow. It is an archaic raw based upon medieval | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
thinking and should have no place in a modern legal system. This | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
recommendation draws on research by prosecutors. The review considered | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
almost 500 criminal cases that did not make it to the court because | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
there wasn't enough evidence. But prosecutors said that almost 80 % | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
of those cases could have gone to court if they have not been a | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
requirement for corroboration. Without it, campaigners say more | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
rapists will face justice. We hope this recommendation, if implemented, | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
will mean that women will have their day in court and get justice. | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
Some lawyers feel abolishing corroboration could cause more | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
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injustices. The queues could be sent to prison with less evidence. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Lord Carloway wants the government to make 76 changes to criminal | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
procedure, including bringing suspects to court within 36 hours | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
of arrest. These are changes that we do not wish to bring in, but the | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
decision of the Supreme Court in London means we have to. But I | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
welcome Lord Carloway's recommendations and we will | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
continue to work with him in order to take them forward. The UK | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Supreme Court said suspects must not be questioned by police without | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
access to a lawyer. This led to emergency legislation to end the | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
practice and Lord Carloway believes his reforms will guard Scottish | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
justice against fresh challenges under human rights law in the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
future. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
from the BBC. Still to come before seven: | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Airline bosses want taxes on airline passengers reduced, | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
claiming it would help tourism take off in Scotland. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
And the search for new multi- billion pound oil markets across | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
the globe. In sport - Neil Lennon's message to | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Celtic, accused of singing offensive songs during matches. And | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
the man in temporary charge of Hibs tells us why he wants the job on a | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
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A hired hitman has been found guilty of trying to murder one of | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
the country's top law officials in Edinburgh. 46-year-old Robert | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Graham attacked Leslie Cumming, who was the deputy chief of the Law | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
Society of Scotland in January 2006. But who paid him? It is still a | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
mystery. He was slashed in the face and the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
body. A vicious attack that left Leslie Cumming with permanent scars. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
Today, this man was convicted of his attempted murder. Robert Graham | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
boasted he was given �10,000 to do in the Law Society accountant. | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
Leslie Cumming went to park his car behind his home. During the trial | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
he described a figure coming out of the darkness. It did not make sense. | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
There was no attempt to rob him. It was a silent and professional | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
assault. To date, he spoke of his relief at the verdict. Now that the | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
trial is complete and the result is known, I hope that this nightmare | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
has ended for us. Leslie Cumming was the number two at the loss | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Society of Scotland. He order to be books of solicitors. There were | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
times when he uncovered unscrupulous practice. It emerged | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
during the trial that Robert Graham was living in the UK under a false | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
passport. He said that his real name was Paul Francis Michie and he | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
was born in Ireland. Today the Solicitor General said there was an | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
outstanding warrant for his arrest under that name in New Zealand. And | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
police say that may lead to further inquiries. He mentioned in court | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
that his family didn't even know his true identity. There is a | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
possibility that this will lead to further investigations and it will | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
primarily be around the possibility of someone paying him to carry out | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
the attack. Robert Graham was arrested for drink-driving and | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
caught because thos DNA samples. However he was brought back to base | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
prosecution. He says he was paid to carry out the attack, but what | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
remains a mystery is by whom. He will be sentenced next month. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
A trial of a woman accused of murdering her toddler son has heard | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
claims that she used his clothes and toys to buy heroin. 40-year-old | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Greig Irving told the trial of Kimberley Hainey at the High Court | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
in Glasgow that the accused, from Paisley, took the action while her | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
son Declan was allegedly lying dead in his cot. Miss Hainey denies | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
murdering her son, concealing his body and pretending he was alive to | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
avoid a police investigation. Scottish airports and passengers | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
have joined the most powerful executives in the British airline | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
industry to try to put the brakes on air passenger duty. They want | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
the Chancellor not to put up the tax, saying it will damage the | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
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industry and tourism. Cleared for take-off - the most | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
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unlikely alliance in. There could be a lot of jobs lost as a result | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
of an increase in air passenger duty. In first class the tax is up | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
to �170. The tax was introduced to cut back on the growth of aviation, | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
but it is having a harmful effect in Scotland, hitting the number of | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
people flight out and the number of people visiting Scotland. If you | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
fly on British Airways from Aberdeen to Heathrow and | :12:24. | :12:33. | |
transferred to somewhere in Europe, then you only paid one lot of air | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
passenger duty. But if you have to change planes at Stansted of | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
Heathrow, you will have to pay twice. Airport operators say it is | :12:49. | :12:58. | |
making life harder. Airport bosses, travel agents and the Scottish | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
government won the power over air passenger duty to be passed to | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
Holyrood. When these decisions are devolved, they will see the sense | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
of this and they will scrap it. campaign steps up a head of the -- | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
ahead of the Chancellor's statement at the end of the month. | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
Some of the other stories across Scotland this Thursday: | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
The proposed merger between Abertay and neighbouring Dundee University | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
is off. The Scottish Government asked the institutions to consider | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
joining together for both educational and financial reasons. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
But both universities and the Scottish Funding Council say | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
they've agreed to work more closely together, but remain as independent | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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A 16 month-old boy who was killed in a car crash near Aberdeen | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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yesterday has been made -- named by police as Kahlon broods. -- Calum | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
Bruce. He was killed in a two car collision and his mother this still | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
critically ill in hospital. A second child has been admitted to | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
the Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow with suspected botulism. The | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
suspected core -- source of the infection is still a jar of Loyd | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
Grossman korma sauce. Think of the oil industry in | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
Aberdeen and you are likely to think of the North Sea. But one of | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
the fastest growing sectors is export of skills and equipment to a | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
growing number of countries. The market is valued at �6 billion. The | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
latest country to be targeted is Iraq. | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
A lasting image of an industry being destroyed by war. Times have | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
changed since then. Iraq has spent millions on reconstruction and | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Scottish firms are starting to benefit from the work. | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
It requires a massive, massive capital investment. They have hit | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
every target they have set themselves up to date so the | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
opportunity for these companies is difficult to estimate but it is | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
significant. Much of the infrastructure and | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
skills come from overseas. In 18 months, while production from Iraq | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
has doubled to 2 billion barrels per day as a result. This firm in | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
dice began quality and quantity testing in the country in 2008. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
We encountered a lot of problems in terms would have -- in terms of how | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
to communicate with people based in Iraq. They rather than -- other | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
uncertainties that we had in terms of security and how we would be | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
paid. The export market is growing and more countries are being | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
targeted. This firm moved into Iraq less than a year ago and now has | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
five drilling rigs with training facilities identical to this. | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
We have been working in Brazil, Nigeria, Iraq, and used beat -- you | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
meet Scottish company is in all of these countries frequently. These | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
markets can be difficult and unpredictable but activity in the | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
North Sea is declining and they are seen as increasingly vital to | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
Aberdeen's goal future. Once they were cities in this guide | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
but this weekend another large tower block is being raised to the | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
ground. Glencairn Tower in Motherwell is the latest building | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
from the 60s to be demolished. Why have so many of them failed to | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
stand the test of time? It is a very windy evening here | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
then Motherwell and tower blocks were designed to withstand the wind | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
and sway a little on the evenings like this. A lot of be people who | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
used to live over there will remember evenings like this all too | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
well. You will see the image is being projected on to the building | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
and that is a tribute to the role this building has paid -- has | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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played. Yet again we have a building that was once seen as | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
ground-breaking being demolished far sooner than its designers would | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
have ever I imagined. The symbol of a brave new world. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Motherwell's town centre was changed forever in the 60s - or at | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
least it seemed that way at the time. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
I was at number 60 about in the middle of the building there. | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Glencairn Tower offered a good home for hundreds of people including | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
this man and his family. Getting a house in Glencairn Tower | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
was a real prize because it was a world away from anything we had | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
been brought up in. When we walked into the tower, it was brand new. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
Fresh paint, new bathrooms, kitchens, and under floor kept -- | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
underfloor heating. There is no question it is a big | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
improvement... At first, Scotland's higher rises | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
were good places to live. But they were really the promised Utopia. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
They were seen as an expedient way of housing a lot majority of people. | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
At first, they were wonderful but over time, technical problems with | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
some and social problems with others have changed the landscape. | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
There is nothing inherent in -- nothing inherently wrong with high- | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
rise dwellings. Many have been modernised but | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
demolitions have become a regular event. Some other big buildings | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
from that era have not stood the test of time either. This one in | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
Aberdeen is now facing demolition. And the unloved St James Centre in | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
Edinburgh could be brought down as well. Soon Glencairn Tower in | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
Motherwell will be just a memory. The latest in a long line of once | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
futuristic visions which now have no future. | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
It is hard to make generalisations about just wide buildings of all | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
sorts from the 50s, 60s and 70s have not lasted. In some cases it | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
is fair to say the buildings will always unpopular. Another case is, | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
there was asbestos in the building which makes refurbishment costs | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
very high. In other cases, the buildings have simply out let their | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
purpose. There is a bit of that in this building, there housing needs | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
have changed a lot in the area. Time for the sport. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
Neil Lennon says Celtic fans who sang the offence of songs need to | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
stop tarnishing the reputation of the club. There are investigations | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
over allegations of illicit chanting during Celtic's matters. | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Sanctions could be on the way so the manager is saying, enough is | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
enough. The void between the fan base and a | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
manager at a club has rarely been stronger. But now, the manager is | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
pleading with those who sing his name to stop damaging the | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
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These individuals claim to love Neil Lennon and I believe they do. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
They might not listen to me or the Celtic board but the hope is that | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
by Neil Lennon repeating the message he made last time, they | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
will listen to him well this time. It is a statement welcomed by | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
police who are trying to engage in discussions with supporters' groups. | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
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They also released a statement At the club's training ground, the | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
media were told that players would not answer questions on the manner | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
-- on the matter. Now it is over to the fans. | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
Hibernian have drawn up a short list for the job of team manager. | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
Their caretaker boss Billy Brown is on it and has had an interview for | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
the post. Other candidates have yet to be given their chance to shine. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
The heads players getting on with life at Easter Road without Colin | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Calderwood. This man was his assistant. Now he says he wants the | :22:39. | :22:48. | |
manager pop -- manager's job. have waited long and hard to be in | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
the frame for a big job. I never wanted to take a job less than the | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
one I had but this is bigger than the ones I have had and that is why | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
I want it. Who are the contenders for the job? | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Brown will be in charge for Saturday's home match against | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
Kilmarnock so why good result might be good for him. Michael O'Neill is | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
the current boss of Shamrock Rovers and a former player at Easter Road. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
Or will there be a surprise candidate? Whoever that may be, | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
they will need the full backing of the players. | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
There had been certain players that let us down, but I would like to | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
play our games differently and I am sure we all would. The players do | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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not think it was our fault. The board says that significant | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
progress has been made in the search for a new manager but they | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
are sitting one from the bottom of the table so whoever gets the job | :24:04. | :24:14. | |
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will need to do the hard work. The Hearts boss has been suspended | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
after being sent to the stand for this outburst. He has the right of | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
appeal. We have all had days like that. | :24:26. | :24:35. | |
Thank you very much. Time for the We did see a bit of a change in the | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
weather during this afternoon. Cloud building from the South West | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
with this band of rain pushing him. Tonight will be largely wet and | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
also quite windy. We saw the wind picking up through this afternoon | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
and touching gale force in the West. That will continue this evening but | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
eventually dying down. There will be heavy bursts especially around | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
Argyll. A mild night ahead with temperatures dipping down to 89 | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
degrees. The reason for the rain is this area of low pressure. That | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
France will linger for the next couple of days so tomorrow will see | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
a more cloudy picture with outbreaks of rain in the West. | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Drier and brighter in parts of the East. Looking at the details, it is | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
actually going to be a mild day, above-average for this time of year. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
Eyes reaching 13 or 14 Celcius across the board. The best | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
brightness will be in the far north-east around Caithness and | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
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Sutherland, and the muddy for -- Moray coast. Around Ed Miliband the | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
eastern borders, we could also see some sunshine and temperatures | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
reaching up to 15 Celsius. Tomorrow evening and overnight, we keep the | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
cloud and rain. It could turn a little chilli overnight. On | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
Saturday, cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Trial and and brighter | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
towards the East. Staying mild with highs up to do that -- 13 degrees. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Sunday will be the better day, largely dry with some good sunny | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
spells especially towards the North Tonight's top stories: northern | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Rock, the collapsed bank that was nationalised by the government | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
nearly four years ago, has been sold to Richard Branson's Virgin | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Money. The taxpayer could lose �400 million on the deal but to shut -- | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
George Osborne says it was the best one available. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Strathclyde Fire Service have apologised after they were men died | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
when she was left in a mineshaft for six hours. Safety rules stopped | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
them from using their own equipment. A senior judge says the need for | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
more than one source of evidence, known as corroboration in Scottish | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
criminal cases, is medieval and should be abolished. Lord | :27:25. | :27:30. |