:00:20. > :00:23.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news: Help
:00:23. > :00:28.catch my father's killer. An emotional appeal over the pensioner
:00:28. > :00:36.murdered when he tried to stop someone stealing his car.
:00:36. > :00:40.One day ago, I saw my father lying on a cold table with blood on his
:00:40. > :00:46.face. I've never had to watch my mother suffer from flashbacks from
:00:46. > :00:49.what she witnessed that day. Later in the programme : Panda
:00:49. > :00:54.preparations are in full swing in China and Edinburgh as Scotland
:00:54. > :00:58.gets ready for its new guests. Scotch whisky exports are soaring,
:00:58. > :01:03.but would minimum alcohol pricing here hit sales abroad?
:01:03. > :01:11.And you might think it looks like vandalism, but they say it's art on
:01:11. > :01:16.wheels. The family of a man knocked down and killed by his own car as
:01:16. > :01:20.he tried to stop thieves stealing it have made an emotional appeal.
:01:20. > :01:24.76-year-old James Simpson died in the driveway of his home in
:01:24. > :01:28.Lanarkshire on Tuesday night. Today his son Jamie said his death's had
:01:28. > :01:32.a devastating effect on his family and urged anyone with information
:01:32. > :01:38.to come forward. This report contains flash photography.
:01:38. > :01:42.Tributes for a man who loved life. 76-year-old James Simpson was at
:01:42. > :01:48.home on Tuesday evening. He heard his Land Rover in the driveway
:01:48. > :01:54.being started up. He ran outside. The thieves ran him over. Today,
:01:54. > :01:58.his son told how deeply content his dad was with life. He and his wife
:01:58. > :02:07.were an active couple in their 706s, they walked up to ten miles a day.
:02:07. > :02:14.All of a sudden, that life has come to an end. One day ago, I saw my
:02:14. > :02:20.father lying on a cold table with blood on his face. I've never had
:02:20. > :02:25.to watch my mother suffer from flashbacks from what she witnessed
:02:25. > :02:31.that day. Breaking into uncontrollable fits and listen
:02:31. > :02:34.every day as mother tells me she no longer wants to live any more.
:02:34. > :02:41.These individuals thought it was their right to break into my
:02:41. > :02:46.parents' home, take the car keys, steal the car and when my father
:02:46. > :02:52.ran to defend his property he worked hard to get, these
:02:52. > :03:01.individuals also felt it was their right to run over my father,
:03:01. > :03:06.leaving my dad abandoned, dying on the kerbside. Three miles later,
:03:06. > :03:09.they decided to abandon the car they took his life for leaving my
:03:09. > :03:13.father dead and my family devastated.
:03:13. > :03:17.In Ashgill today, a heightened police presence. Police believe
:03:17. > :03:21.this was a theft that went badly wrong.
:03:21. > :03:26.This was in the first instance the theft of a motor vehicle. This has
:03:26. > :03:32.gone horribly wrong, resulting he one of the most horrendous murders
:03:32. > :03:37.possible whereby Mr Simpson lost his life. Due to this escalation
:03:37. > :03:43.that night, the person responsible will have confided in someone.
:03:43. > :03:52.a family is left devastated, gone a husband and dad that was loved so
:03:52. > :03:55.much. We are joined by our correspondent from outside the
:03:55. > :04:02.family home. The family struggling to come to terms with what's
:04:02. > :04:08.happened and no wonder? You saw James Simpson's widow there,
:04:08. > :04:13.72-year-old Minnie. She still works as a part-time teacher at her local
:04:13. > :04:15.primary school at Larkhall, but this week her world's fallen
:04:15. > :04:19.completely apart. She's been left devastated after witnessing what
:04:19. > :04:24.happened to her husband on Tuesday night. She's so traumatised that
:04:24. > :04:28.she's as yet not been able to give the police a statement to tell them
:04:28. > :04:32.exactly what she saw happen. We have two new pieces of information
:04:33. > :04:41.for you this evening. James Simpson's Land Rover Discovery was
:04:41. > :04:50.found abandoned a few miles up the road at Cross Ford the reg station
:04:50. > :04:54.is SG57, GVN. We also have the description of a man seen in the
:04:54. > :04:58.vehicle, described as white, in his 30s with short, dark hair and
:04:58. > :05:02.wearing dark clothes. Police don't know how many people were involved
:05:02. > :05:06.in this horrific crime. They've pointed out how close we are to the
:05:06. > :05:11.M74, the main route south, so potentially these criminals could
:05:11. > :05:15.have come from anywhere in the UK or indeed beyond. But tonight,
:05:15. > :05:20.James Simpson's family just hope that someone with some information
:05:20. > :05:26.will come forward. A court has heard how a ten-year-old girl
:05:26. > :05:32.suffered a broken jaw and was left permanently scarred after an attack
:05:32. > :05:38.by three Rottweiler dogs in Dundee. She needed plastic surgery after
:05:38. > :05:44.suffering the injuries in the incident in August last year. Derek
:05:44. > :05:49.Adam and Sarah Kerr deny charges they failed to control the animals.
:05:49. > :05:57.Final preparationss are under way at Edinburgh zoo for the arrival of
:05:57. > :06:03.two giant pandas in the zoo. There is a huge amount of interests the
:06:03. > :06:08.guests are expected to generate. The pandas may hardly have noticed,
:06:08. > :06:12.but today there was a ceremony. The panda sanctuary was marking the
:06:12. > :06:16.departure of the country's favourite cultural icon and
:06:16. > :06:21.diplomatic export. At the zoo, final preparations are
:06:21. > :06:26.all but complete. Banners were this morning put in place to welcome the
:06:26. > :06:28.bears and visitors. The final brush strokes were being made to the
:06:28. > :06:34.public walkway. The enclosures are ready and staff have been
:06:34. > :06:38.practising how to transfer the bears from their transport to what
:06:38. > :06:43.will be their new homes. It's about the logistics of
:06:43. > :06:46.reversing the lorries and getting the fork-lifts and getting the
:06:46. > :06:50.access from a transport crate into the internals and that the keepers
:06:50. > :06:54.can handle them and make sure that everything's done as safely as
:06:54. > :06:58.possible. At the airport this morning, staff met with members of
:06:58. > :07:03.the team responsible for transporting the bears between
:07:03. > :07:06.China and Scotland. Here, preparations have been more low-key.
:07:06. > :07:10.We are operational so we have to leave a lot of the building work,
:07:10. > :07:15.platforms and other parts of the jigsaw to the last minute, so from
:07:15. > :07:20.Sunday morning, this will be a hive of activity. At the moment, we are
:07:20. > :07:23.finalising the plans. With much of the detail of the animals' arrival
:07:23. > :07:29.still being kept secret, including the exact route they'll take from
:07:29. > :07:32.the airport to the zoo, that's been done to head off any potential
:07:32. > :07:37.protests by animal rights activists. They shouldn't be there, they
:07:37. > :07:41.should be in the wild, we should be protecting their habitat, not
:07:41. > :07:46.trying to use them to raise money for an ailing zoo. Footage has been
:07:46. > :07:52.releases of the plane in which the animals will be transported as it
:07:52. > :07:59.was transformed into the so-called panda Express.
:07:59. > :08:03.The sending of the pandas to Scotland has attracted a lot of
:08:03. > :08:07.attention. People in China are especially interested in any news
:08:07. > :08:12.about the pandas because they are regarded as the state treasures of
:08:12. > :08:16.the Chinese people. With just hours until the pandas arrived, their
:08:16. > :08:21.immediate neighbours at the zoo seemed rather indifferent. With
:08:21. > :08:28.bamboo growing all around the site, at least the bears oo first
:08:28. > :08:32.Scottish meal awaits. Interesting to note that ever since
:08:32. > :08:34.the 7th century, they've been used by the Chinese as a way of
:08:34. > :08:39.developing ties with other countries. We have been exploring
:08:39. > :08:44.our love affair with the bear and how the Chinese Government's
:08:44. > :08:48.capitalising on panda power. NEWSREEL: A giant panda brought
:08:48. > :08:54.from Tibet... This was the first giant panda shown to the western
:08:54. > :08:58.world in December 1936. He became a celebrity and a love
:08:58. > :09:03.affair was born. From the 1950s, the Chinese government started to
:09:03. > :09:08.use pandas as a diplomatic tool. President Richard Nixon received
:09:08. > :09:13.two in 1972. Then two years later, Prime Minister Edward Heath toured
:09:13. > :09:20.the country. He too was rewarded with two giant pandas.
:09:20. > :09:25.It could be back to the 7th century, the first pair of pandas. After
:09:25. > :09:31.that, over 20 pandas have been despatched to different countries.
:09:31. > :09:35.As Jonathan Jones said, pandas help mankind find common ground for
:09:35. > :09:39.improving international relations. When a deal was struck between the
:09:39. > :09:44.Japanese and Chinese, it provoked some of the largest pandemonium
:09:44. > :09:51.ever seen. Panda viewing had to be rationed to just one minute. They
:09:51. > :09:56.may bring in visitor, but what else do we get out of it? There is a
:09:56. > :10:01.sign of friendship and also there are scientific ties, educational
:10:01. > :10:06.and cultural links and, above all, there is the growing friendship
:10:06. > :10:09.between China and other countries. Sunday's delivery will be perfectly
:10:09. > :10:13.timed, just as the First Minister arrives in Beijing to encourage
:10:13. > :10:17.trade between the countries. There is only a handful of breeding pair
:10:17. > :10:22.in China. To have a breeding pair in Edinburgh is an ultimate
:10:22. > :10:27.accolade of friendship. When the pandas are making themselves at
:10:27. > :10:31.home in Edinburgh, I'll be signing an accord of cultural friendship in
:10:31. > :10:36.Beijing with the Chinese government. This gift remind us that China is a
:10:36. > :10:41.country on the up. The key for the UK and Scotland now is capitalising
:10:41. > :10:46.on this panda power and divoching links which will last at least
:10:46. > :10:52.their lifetimes. -- developing links.
:10:52. > :10:57.Still to come: Graffiti or street art? This project gets the official
:10:57. > :11:00.thumbs up and even motorists vol fear to help -- volunteer to help.
:11:00. > :11:06.Hibs new manager prepares to take charge of the team for the first
:11:06. > :11:14.time tonight. Wael hear from him. As Glasgow Warriors latest recruit
:11:14. > :11:18.gets the X fock for, the man who signed him tells us why -- X Factor.
:11:18. > :11:22.Scotch whisky exports are soared over the first nine months of this
:11:22. > :11:25.year with the valuation of shipments rising by 23%. Industry
:11:25. > :11:34.leaders say lans for minimum pricing of alcohol at home could
:11:34. > :11:42.damage the industry's overseas sales -- say plans.
:11:42. > :11:45.Spain and Greece's stuff they use to drown their economic problems.
:11:45. > :11:55.Whisky is on the up despite the downturn. In the first nine months
:11:55. > :11:59.of the year, exports rose 22% to reach �125 per second. The US
:11:59. > :12:04.spends more than any other country. France is importing the largest
:12:04. > :12:11.quantity. It's emerging markets growing fastest, exports to Brazil
:12:11. > :12:14.rose 50% to �75 million in the nine months to September. All that is
:12:14. > :12:20.before the festive season bonanza. We are on this wave whereby there
:12:20. > :12:25.are more consumers in such markets. They are becoming more economically
:12:25. > :12:29.empowered and they are turning to the brands that our industry can
:12:29. > :12:33.offer. The Scottish Government likes the success story and with �1
:12:34. > :12:37.billion invested in the past five years, it wants other industries to
:12:37. > :12:41.follow the lead. The compliments aren't being returned. The
:12:41. > :12:43.Government is reviving its plans with a mandate and support from the
:12:43. > :12:47.health lobby, but industry leaders handing over chairmanship this
:12:47. > :12:51.month think the plans are bad for the important Scottish ierkon and
:12:51. > :12:55.industry. We think the impact of it could be quite significant for our
:12:55. > :12:59.industry -- icon. We have been talking about the growth and
:12:59. > :13:04.opportunity and the international nature of the industry and we have
:13:04. > :13:09.a significant concern that any policies around minimum pricing
:13:09. > :13:13.within Scotland have the potential to have a negative impact on the
:13:13. > :13:17.overall dynamic for the industry. This is one industry set fair for
:13:17. > :13:21.robust growth in tough economic times. But here is a challenge.
:13:21. > :13:24.This takes at least five years from distillery to glass and with these
:13:24. > :13:32.rapid growth rates, there's a question of whether there's enough
:13:32. > :13:35.laid down in casks around Scotland to meet all that global demand.
:13:35. > :13:39.One of the countries where whisky exports are on the increase is
:13:39. > :13:44.Brazil. All this week, we have been following a trade mission promoting
:13:44. > :13:49.Scottish business there. In the last of his reports, Tim Reid has
:13:49. > :13:57.been looking at moves to improve cultural links between Scotland and
:13:57. > :14:00.Brazil. Doing the cocoa, young Brazilian
:14:00. > :14:05.students learning one of this country's many hundreds of dances.
:14:05. > :14:08.The Samba may be the most colourful and famous, but it's a cultural
:14:09. > :14:13.stereotype these youngsters are keen to shake off.
:14:13. > :14:17.As the economy here spirals upwards, so too the arts, something Scottish
:14:17. > :14:20.festival chiefs who're also in Brazil this week have to learn
:14:20. > :14:24.about. We are already living and breathing that legacy. The
:14:24. > :14:28.relationships we have established are already creating projects for
:14:28. > :14:34.next year. But what we believe is that this is just the first stage
:14:34. > :14:38.in a long-term relationship, one where individual artists performing
:14:38. > :14:42.companies and visual artists can start to build relationships in
:14:42. > :14:47.each direction with curators and producers and presenting houses.
:14:47. > :14:51.Why the tie up? Think sport and the possible cultural offshoots.
:14:51. > :14:59.Edinburgh's festival chief and her Brazilian counterpart have their
:14:59. > :15:04.sights set on the Commonwealth Games. We cannot improve as a
:15:04. > :15:09.country, economic or social, without the culture. The culture is
:15:09. > :15:14.really the refined transmitting the right message. This international
:15:14. > :15:17.work is really, really important for our culture. Two nations may
:15:17. > :15:27.not at first glance have many cultural connections, but after
:15:27. > :15:31.this week, new themes may begin to emerge. A traditional tipple,
:15:31. > :15:36.albeit 6,000 miles from home, an opportunity for the minister who's
:15:36. > :15:39.led the trade mission to promote Scotland, its products and services
:15:39. > :15:44.for a final time. Energy and construction opportunities seem
:15:44. > :15:47.endless, but the old favourite, whisky exports, are soaring.
:15:47. > :15:51.hope that by the end of the few days I'll spend here in Brazil,
:15:51. > :15:55.that we'll begin to do some small amount of business in the beginning,
:15:55. > :15:58.but hopefully that will lead to something bigger in the future.
:15:58. > :16:02.Exports here were worth just over �29 million a decade ago, that's
:16:02. > :16:05.more than doubled. There is no doubt that Brazil's economy is
:16:05. > :16:09.booming, that thousands of jobs are being created and that there's lots
:16:09. > :16:14.of money to be spent. But as ministers and trade officials go
:16:14. > :16:21.back home to Scotland, the question is, can Scotland really benefit?
:16:21. > :16:24.Only time will tell. Some of the other stories: Two men
:16:24. > :16:30.have been arrested in connection with the death of a man whose body
:16:30. > :16:34.was found on a forestry track near a reservoir on Sunday. Police say
:16:34. > :16:37.34-year-old Stewart Barrett from Kirkintilloch died after being
:16:37. > :16:46.subjected to a violent assault. His body was discovered half a mile
:16:46. > :16:51.along a track next to the Carron Valley reservoir near fin tree. �51
:16:51. > :16:55.million will be spent on a new university campus in Inverness. The
:16:55. > :16:59.cash will bring students and staff of Inverness college into the city.
:16:59. > :17:04.The project is to be delivered through the Government's non-profit
:17:04. > :17:09.distributing scheme rather than through PFI. The Press and Journal
:17:09. > :17:14.newspaper is to stop publishing as a broad sheet after 250 years. They
:17:14. > :17:19.began printing a Saturday tabloid eight years ago and recebtly
:17:19. > :17:24.introduced a smaller version on Mondays -- recently. There's been a
:17:24. > :17:30.leak of a corrosive chemical. Grampian fire and rescue workers
:17:30. > :17:34.were called to Dyce. Workers were asked to stay indoors.
:17:34. > :17:40.It's the stuff of urban nightmares. A gang of masked hoodies wielding
:17:40. > :17:44.spray cans in a gloom of a city centre multistorey. This raid has
:17:44. > :17:51.official blessings and motorists have volunteered their own car
:17:51. > :17:55.force a street art make-over. These graffiti artists do have the
:17:55. > :17:59.owners' consent. They don't have to leg it from the scene before their
:17:59. > :18:05.paint's dry. While this may be organised, one classic question
:18:05. > :18:08.remains - is it art? Probably 50% of the people we work
:18:08. > :18:12.with have been to art school and 50% haven't and often you wouldn't
:18:12. > :18:17.be able to tell. Just because they are use ago spray can, doesn't mean
:18:17. > :18:21.it's a bad thing. But why would anyone bring their car in for a
:18:21. > :18:26.respray when they have no idea what the new paint job will look like?
:18:26. > :18:29.What if they hate it? I'm not sure what happens then. I'm sure I will,
:18:29. > :18:35.but I'm not sure what will happen when I don't. It's got to be better
:18:35. > :18:40.than a white van. The artists are amazed they got far more offers of
:18:40. > :18:44.cars than they can handle. Quite excited. It's one thing painting
:18:44. > :18:48.somebody's car, it's another thing for them to drive it around town.
:18:48. > :18:51.Hopefully everybody will like them and we'll have a swop shop at the
:18:51. > :18:57.end. It should be interesting to see people's reactions. Several
:18:57. > :19:06.spray cans down, what about the owners' reactions? It's good. If
:19:06. > :19:11.you look at that, he will still be white van man, but I won't. We'll
:19:11. > :19:15.see the vehicles out and about, you know, across the mountains, you
:19:15. > :19:22.know, or down at the harbour or whatever. It will be easy to spot.
:19:22. > :19:32.So far the owners of these motors, it could be the ultimate in Pimp my
:19:32. > :19:34.
:19:34. > :19:41.Ride, or severe embarrassment on One of Scotland's best known boxing
:19:41. > :19:46.gyms has been severely damaged by fire. The premises in Dan mar knock
:19:46. > :19:49.are owned by Alex Morison who manages the world light weight
:19:49. > :19:52.champion Ricky Burns. Strathclyde fire and rescue say no-one was hurt
:19:52. > :20:00.and they are trying to find the cause.
:20:00. > :20:03.Now some sporting news now. The new Hibs manager, Pat Fenlon,
:20:03. > :20:08.is hoping to make an immediate and positive impact when he takes
:20:08. > :20:12.charge of the team for the first time tonight. They play Motherwell
:20:12. > :20:16.in the latest installment of the Premier League's Friday night
:20:16. > :20:21.football experiment. Irishman knows Hibs' results will have to improve
:20:21. > :20:26.quickly if he's to get the chance to implement his long-term vision.
:20:26. > :20:36.Pat Fenlon's had a week in his new surroundings. Collectively, he
:20:36. > :20:36.
:20:36. > :20:41.believes Hibs can rid themselves of their Achilles heel. Soft goals and
:20:41. > :20:45.generally bad defending have been a regular feature of their season. On
:20:45. > :20:49.Fenlon's watch, he'll strive to make that a thing of the past.
:20:49. > :20:53.People ask the question how you want to play and are you going to
:20:53. > :20:59.play this or that way. We are in a position where we need results and
:20:59. > :21:03.the team needs to be solid. We need to climb our way up the table. Then
:21:03. > :21:07.introduce things as it goes along. People see an improvement and see
:21:07. > :21:11.the whole thing progressing, then obviously they buy into that more
:21:11. > :21:15.and more. Fenlon badly needs the Hibs players to buy into his vision.
:21:15. > :21:19.They insist their attitude under Calderwood was not in question,
:21:19. > :21:25.equally though there's an acknowledgement things have to
:21:25. > :21:31.improve. We all need to step up aund be accounted for and be men in
:21:31. > :21:35.this difficult time that we are in -- up and be counted for. If we get
:21:35. > :21:38.a positive result, we can maybe change our fortune and win a few
:21:38. > :21:42.games. There's always someone looking to put a spanner in the
:21:42. > :21:47.works. Tonight, it's high will have flying Motherwell who'll be wary of
:21:47. > :21:52.the potential new manager effect. People who haven't been in the side
:21:52. > :21:56.might get a chance. A new manager normally gets more out of the team.
:21:56. > :22:04.We have got to concentrate and put in a good performance and we'll be
:22:04. > :22:14.striving to win the game. So who, will be smiling later tonight? You
:22:14. > :22:15.
:22:15. > :22:20.can find out by listening to the match live online. The young Celtic
:22:20. > :22:25.midfielder Dylan McGeoch says he turned down a personal plea by
:22:25. > :22:29.Walter Smith in order to join his boyhood heroes. He scored this
:22:29. > :22:33.memorable goal at the weekend and moved from Rangers to Celtic in the
:22:33. > :22:43.summer and revealed that even the former Rangers boss couldn't
:22:43. > :22:47.convince him to stay. It was more what he could do for me,
:22:47. > :22:51.Rangers-wise. We never really played each other off each other.
:22:51. > :22:59.It was really what Rangers could do for me. As a Celtic fan I thought,
:22:59. > :23:04.Celtic is the place for me. Glasgow Warriors have signed Rory
:23:04. > :23:09.Lament. He rejoins Warriors four years after leaving them for spells
:23:09. > :23:13.in England at Sale Sharks and in France with Toulon who released him
:23:13. > :23:20.last week. His new boss is waxing lyrical about his latest
:23:20. > :23:24.acquisition. She's a big lad, runs hard, very powerful. He's an X
:23:24. > :23:30.Factor player. That seems to be the thing you are looking for. Last
:23:30. > :23:35.time he was here, you said the latest player was having The X
:23:35. > :23:40.Factor. Are you catching Saturday night TV? I'm A Celebrity, Get Me
:23:40. > :23:45.Out Of Here! Is more my bag. My son watches that. You want players 20
:23:45. > :23:51.excite the crowd and scare the opposition -- to excite the crowd.
:23:51. > :23:54.Thank you very much. Before the weather. A reminder that our money
:23:55. > :23:59.expert Fergus Muirhead will be here at lunch time next Wednesday
:23:59. > :24:04.looking at the financial issues in looking at the financial issues in
:24:04. > :24:10.the run-up to Christmas. Now a look at the weather:
:24:10. > :24:15.Snow?! Looking wintry this weekend for some. Wet and wundy to start
:24:15. > :24:20.with this evening. Not as cold as last night, but we will see some
:24:20. > :24:25.showers merging to form longer periods of rain. Wet and windy.
:24:25. > :24:30.Strong winds in the north, severe gales at time for Lewis and Harris,
:24:30. > :24:33.Caithness and Sutherland and Orkney as well. Not as cold as last night.
:24:33. > :24:37.Temperatures for most five or six. Later on, towards the end of the
:24:37. > :24:40.night, we could see it down to two in Aberdeen. Looking ahead to
:24:40. > :24:43.tomorrow, we can see the low pressure to the north in Scotland.
:24:43. > :24:48.Follow the isobars back towards Greenland and Iceland. That's the
:24:48. > :24:51.source region for the air, so a cold blast coming our way to start
:24:51. > :24:55.the weekend, accompanied by strong to gale force winds. A bitterly
:24:55. > :25:00.cold day. Also showers fed into the west as well. The further east you
:25:00. > :25:05.are, the drier and brighter, sunshine along the coast. Around 3
:25:05. > :25:10.o'clock, some cloud, one or two showers around and the thermometer
:25:10. > :25:16.may read six, seven or even eight, but add in the wind and it will
:25:16. > :25:24.feel closer to freezing if you are out and about. Sunshine in the East
:25:24. > :25:32.Coast. Showers currenting wintry -- turning wintry. If you are walking
:25:32. > :25:35.or clueming, the wind will be the feature -- climbing. Snow showers
:25:36. > :25:40.with a blizzard risk early on. Temperatures below freezing for
:25:40. > :25:50.most and if further south and east you are, drier with some shien. A
:25:50. > :26:01.
:26:01. > :26:05.cold and very windy day -- some Later on Saturday into Saturday
:26:05. > :26:09.evening, showers continue in the west, falling as snow. The further
:26:09. > :26:13.east you are, drier and clear skies, so a cold night. Sunday, sunshine
:26:13. > :26:18.and showers. Showers in the west turning wintry. Snow down to all
:26:18. > :26:21.levels by the end of the afternoon. A cold day with five or six degrees.
:26:21. > :26:26.The snow in the west is a concern. We have an early warning from the
:26:26. > :26:30.Met Office because of that. It will be affected by Monday highlands,
:26:30. > :26:33.Argyle, Strathclyde and even into Glasgow as well. We could see
:26:33. > :26:36.cumulations of one to three centimetres. Keep tuned to the
:26:36. > :26:39.forecast because Monday morning if you are in the west, you could be
:26:39. > :26:44.dealing with snow. Thank you very much.
:26:44. > :26:48.Now just before 7, a summary of the top stories: The Prime Minister has
:26:48. > :26:52.promised to protect Britain's interests as the German Chancellor
:26:52. > :26:55.unveiled her plan to rewrite the EU treaty and impose greater central
:26:55. > :26:59.control over tax and spending across the eurozone. Ang ra Merkel
:26:59. > :27:01.said it was the best way to force countries that use the euro to
:27:01. > :27:06.still within their budgets -- Angela Merkel.
:27:06. > :27:10.The son of a pensioner murdered when a car thief ran him over
:27:10. > :27:14.outside his south Lanarkshire home has said his mother no longer wants
:27:14. > :27:20.to live. Jamie Simpson's father, 76-year-old James Simpson died
:27:20. > :27:23.after being hit by his own car on Tuesday night. Police in Essex are
:27:23. > :27:29.treating two incidents in which concrete blocks were dropped on to
:27:29. > :27:34.cars on the A12 as attempted murder. A woman passenger was badly injured