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