:00:09. > :00:12.And good evening. The first minister has said in his new year
:00:12. > :00:17.message that he is confident Scots will vote for independence in the
:00:17. > :00:20.referendum to be held later in the parliamentary session. But the
:00:20. > :00:27.Secretary of State Michael Mueller says he is confident that Scots
:00:27. > :00:32.will make what he described as the right choice.
:00:32. > :00:37.This has been a remarkable year for the SNP. At the Scottish elections
:00:37. > :00:45.in May, it became the first party ever to win an outright majority at
:00:45. > :00:51.Holyrood. A looking forward, the first minister delivered his New
:00:51. > :00:55.Year message from the National Museum of Scotland. You can find
:00:55. > :01:01.the James Watt steam engine, the Alexander Fleming Nobel Prize for
:01:01. > :01:05.discovering penicillin. You can find John Logie Baird's colour
:01:05. > :01:08.television from the 1930s. These great Scots scientists and
:01:08. > :01:12.inventors made the breakthrough is that shaped the modern world.
:01:12. > :01:17.of those great men, James Watt and John Logie Baird, had very close
:01:17. > :01:22.links here with Glasgow University. The first minister says there is a
:01:22. > :01:27.generation of people now working in Scotland's universities, colleges
:01:27. > :01:33.and scientific institutions in areas like medicine, renewables and
:01:33. > :01:37.environmental initiatives, who can once again makes on the land of
:01:37. > :01:42.invention. Alex Salmon says 2012 will herald a shift in the debate
:01:42. > :01:45.over Scotland's future. As we move closer to a referendum on
:01:45. > :01:49.independence in the second half of the parliament, I am confident that
:01:49. > :01:53.Scotland will decide to take full control of its own destiny. In his
:01:53. > :01:57.new year message, the Scottish Secretary Michael Moore says he
:01:57. > :02:02.will fight hard for Scotland's continuing place in the UK. The
:02:02. > :02:07.Scottish Labour leader has challenged Alex Salmond to make
:02:07. > :02:12.2012 be a year of the referendum. She says waiting to name a day for
:02:12. > :02:16.a vote on independence is holding Scotland back.
:02:16. > :02:21.The funeral of a teenager murdered last month has taken place on South
:02:21. > :02:25.Uist. Hundreds of mourners crammed into St Peter's Catholic Church in
:02:25. > :02:29.Daliburgh to pay their respects to 16-year-old Liam Aitchison, whose
:02:29. > :02:33.body was found in a derelict building on Lewis. He was the first
:02:33. > :02:36.person to be murdered in the Western Isles for more than 40
:02:36. > :02:40.years. Two men have been charged. A man has been arrested in
:02:41. > :02:44.connection with the death of 21- year-old Stephen Pollock, he will
:02:44. > :02:51.strut and a house in Paisley last week. A firearm was later
:02:51. > :02:55.discovered on a railway embankment. -- who was shot in a house.
:02:55. > :02:58.Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations are about to get under way. The
:02:58. > :03:03.celebrations will culminate in the traditional street party and
:03:03. > :03:09.fireworks tomorrow night. Our correspondent is there now. What is
:03:09. > :03:12.the atmosphere like? A great sense of anticipation here.
:03:12. > :03:17.But parade should be getting under way in about 10 minutes. You can't
:03:17. > :03:22.quite see anything yet but 6,500 people are set to march through the
:03:22. > :03:28.streets of the capital city bearing flaming torches. Tonight is just
:03:28. > :03:33.the curtain-raiser to tomorrow, the magnificent spectacle when 80,000
:03:33. > :03:39.people will be bringing in the New Year. Not an austerity Hogmanay in
:03:39. > :03:44.Edinburgh but what about elsewhere? One big change this year is that
:03:44. > :03:48.there is no big event in George Square in Glasgow tomorrow night to
:03:48. > :03:53.bring in the media. That was a financial decision by Glasgow City
:03:53. > :03:58.Council which, like every authority in Scotland, is looking carefully
:03:58. > :04:02.at all aspects of its spending. They have been questions about just
:04:02. > :04:06.how good the party in George Square really was but it is important to
:04:06. > :04:11.stress there will be plenty of other events taking place in George
:04:11. > :04:17.Square to welcome in the new year, but has no big event in Midnight --
:04:17. > :04:21.at midnight. When it opened 172 years ago, it
:04:21. > :04:25.was known as the Crichton Institution for Lunatics. But after
:04:25. > :04:29.a long and distinguished history, the last patients of the Crichton
:04:29. > :04:35.Hospital, as it is now known, were transferred to a new facility in
:04:35. > :04:40.Dumfries. Here we have a portrait of Mrs
:04:41. > :04:46.Elizabeth Crichton, the greatest benefactor to psychiatry that this
:04:46. > :04:52.country has ever known. Elizabeth Crichton had both wealth and vision.
:04:52. > :04:59.Her late husband's fortune, are worth about �50 million into day's
:04:59. > :05:04.country, was used by her to build a Centre for Mental Health. She
:05:04. > :05:08.appointed a visionary, Dr William Brown. He pioneered specialist
:05:08. > :05:15.training, six years before Florence Nightingale. Patients were
:05:15. > :05:21.prescribed fresh air and exercise. The vast landscape grounds were for
:05:21. > :05:28.work and play. At its height, there were 1,300 patients, many from top
:05:28. > :05:33.families, who paid handsomely to be here. The upper crust of society,
:05:33. > :05:39.coming from all corners of the United Kingdom - and even from
:05:39. > :05:43.abroad - because this was an attractive place. They were away
:05:43. > :05:48.from where they were known and they were given peace to help them get
:05:48. > :05:51.back to proper health. Over the past 15 years, the Crichton
:05:51. > :05:55.Hospital has largely been reinvented as a university campus
:05:55. > :05:58.and business park. The only a handful of psychiatric patients
:05:58. > :06:05.remain and they are about to relocate to this new hospital near
:06:05. > :06:10.by. Hospital care of the asylum type is very historical. The
:06:10. > :06:14.Crichton was built to be an asylum. It did a great job and a relatively
:06:14. > :06:19.good job of providing modern care but it kills not fit for purpose
:06:19. > :06:22.like this new building is. contrast between the brightly
:06:22. > :06:28.painted a new hospital and the traditional Crichton could not be
:06:28. > :06:36.greater. But a basic ethos prevails. Elizabeth Crichton's all lunatic
:06:36. > :06:40.asylum may have had its day but her legacy survives.
:06:40. > :06:43.A 17-year-old youth football has been arrested over sectarian
:06:43. > :06:48.comments he allegedly made about Rangers fans after Wednesday's Old
:06:48. > :06:58.Firm clash at Celtic Park. Michael puts Levin, who plays for
:06:58. > :07:03.Cowdenbeath, posted the Commons on twitter. -- Michael Fleming.
:07:03. > :07:06.The Swedish defender Mikael Lustig has been signed on a three-year
:07:06. > :07:09.contract from Norwegian side Rosenborg. He says he will need to
:07:09. > :07:17.recover from the figures of the Swedish season which finished last
:07:17. > :07:22.The weather has been miserable. Well it carry on?
:07:22. > :07:27.It was miserable today and we even had some hailstones. There were
:07:27. > :07:32.even snow reports at low levels. As we go through the night, that rain
:07:32. > :07:38.will continue its journey northwards. The snow will turn to
:07:38. > :07:46.rain and any snow will quickly thought. The milder air starts to
:07:46. > :07:50.push him with bits of rain around. The temperatures are improving from
:07:50. > :07:53.the South West as we go through the night. Tomorrow morning, rather
:07:53. > :07:59.cloudy and damp. The best of any brightness will be across the east
:07:59. > :08:02.of the country. The rain clouds will get across the West End get
:08:02. > :08:10.heavier throughout the day. The notable feature is the temperatures.
:08:10. > :08:16.Very mild for the time of year. Temperatures rising across the far
:08:16. > :08:21.north and the North East. If you fancy a Hogmanay hike, it looks
:08:21. > :08:26.like Western Rangers will have a lot of rain around. 50 mph average
:08:26. > :08:31.wind speed across the north-west. We could see gusts of 70 mph at
:08:31. > :08:38.times. Across the East, more in the way of brightness. And a touch
:08:38. > :08:43.milder as well. For the rest of Hogmanay evening, the rain will
:08:43. > :08:47.move its way eastwards, leaving a scattering of showers behind. As we
:08:47. > :08:54.go into Hogmanay evening, close to the Belles, expect a few blustery
:08:54. > :08:59.showers. Don't be fooled by the mild day. It will turn cooler in
:08:59. > :09:03.the night-time so don't go out without your coat and umbrella. A
:09:03. > :09:12.chilly made for New Year's Day. We will start to see showers which
:09:12. > :09:16.will increasingly turn wintry. -- should be note. The best of the