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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news... | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Rangers on the brink. The administrators say they have failed | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
to agree cost-cutting measures with the players and are now looking for | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
a quick sale of the club. Tonight, they have warned that Rangers may | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
not see out the end of the season. Also in the programme... | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Better than the UK as a whole, but still �10.7 billion in the red - | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
the latest figures for Scotland's economy fuel the independence | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
debate. How Scotland's smoking ban has led | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
to a reduction in the number of premature and underweight babies. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
And later in the programme, the Aberdeenshire swimmer Hannah Miley | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
secures a place in a second Olympic event, becoming Scotland's best | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
Rangers will not be able to see out the football season without a huge | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
injection of cash. That is the stunning admission from the | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
administrators running the club. Duff & Phelps described Rangers' | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
finances as "perilous" and said they have failed to agree cost- | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
cutting measures with the players. They are now speeding up the sale | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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of the club. In the morning, all the focus was on the goings-on at | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Murray Park. Would there be a resolution between administration | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
and players? The answer was No all, but there are more pressing matters | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
that court. What followed in the afternoon was the statement from | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
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the administrators which showed the The it in effect, they were calling | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
all potential investors to put up cash or the club could go under. As | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
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the club fought for its life, three major figures stepped into the fray. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
Director Dave King said that liquidation would forelock, | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
attacking white. Then Craig Whyte said he was going to sue Sir David | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
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Murray. David Murray fired back, saying he was going to vigorously | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
defend any action and that Dave King was well aware of the | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
situation. A the administrators are now getting desperate. Tonight, the | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
club is on the edge of oblivion. Chris is at Ibrox for us now. Chris, | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
just how worried should Rangers fans be toniight? The scissor grave | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
situation. Rangers are due to play their next home game on the 25th of | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
this month against Celtic. Administrators are saying tonight, | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
after been very ghoulish till now, they are now seeing if there is not | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
a severe injection of cash, they could then not even be able to | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
fulfil their fixtures. That game against Celtic may not even happen. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
They are saying that there is a perilous financial situation and | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the serious injection of cash is required. Basically, if you have | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
cash and are interested in buying Rangers, today is the day you have | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
to come for work. And more bad football news, which | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
could have bad business consequences, even if Rangers do | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
get bought. The yes, the administrators said that there was | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
be selling no chance of them playing football in Europe next | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
season, because they would have to be out job and administration by | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
March 31st. It looks very unlikely that they will fulfil that deadline | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
and that would be bad news for any potential investor because of the | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
loss of revenue. Tonight, they are also seeing that as far as they're | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
concerned, they have to find money. Be under no illusion, Rangers are | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
fighting for their very existence. So why have the administrators not | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
been able to cut the costs that would secure the club's future? | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
They said early on in the process that they need to make savings of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
�1 million per month, but more than three weeks on, only two executives | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
and two squad players have left Ibrox. Our business correspondent | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
David Henderson has been looking at the difficult job facing the | :05:09. | :05:19. | |
administrators and the options now open to them. It is now 10 months | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
since Craig Whyte walked into a vibrant as the new owner of Rangers. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Now the club is mired in debt with no easy way out. The administrators | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
are in day-to-day control but are now warning of the financial crisis | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
and very little time to sort it. Even now, the are still struggling | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
to get a full picture of the finances of the club. Will take | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
quite get first claim on millions of pounds of assets? Will Rangers | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
lose its �45 million tax case? And we'll meet Again agency get a key | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
�24 million worth of season-ticket money? What Rangers actually ought | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
and what they actually owned is proving to be a bit of a task for | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
the administrators to find out. After in the wall money chain is | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
very complicated. The administrators have to try and work | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
out exactly why I much cash the order has. But at the moment, if | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
you cut too many players too early, the value of the squad is depleted, | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
so therefore it is not such an attractive buying proposition. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
explains why just two players have left so far, but the massive wage | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
bill for those who remain has to be paid. So what lies ahead? Unless a | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
deal can be met with creditors to pay some or all of the debts, the | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
administrators have one choice - liquidation. Rangers football club | :06:51. | :07:00. | |
would cease to exist and its assets would be sold off. Given the | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
uncertainty over the debts and the uncertainty over it, from a | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
business point of view, it becomes the more attractive possibility | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
than trying to rescue the club in its present state. The threat of | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
liquidation hat hangs heavy and if that happens, Rangers football club, | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
with the story coming back to the 1870s, will come to an end and a | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
new club will have to rise up in its place. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
How would Scotland's public finances look if it were | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
independent? Can it afford to leave the UK? It is a big question at the | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
heart of the debate now underway on Scotland's future. Today, we got | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
the best-guess figures and they show �10 billion more was spent | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
here than was raised in taxes. But the gap in the UK's finances was | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
even bigger. Our business and economy editor Douglas Fraser has | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
been looking at the numbers and is here now. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
We are talking GERS again, though it is nothing to do with the Ibrox | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
club. This is the annual reckoning of | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
Government Expenditure & Revenue Scotland. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
It shows what was raised last year in tax. More than �10 billion in | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
income tax and �8.5 billion in VAT. We pay, on average, less than the | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
rest of the UK in inheritance tax and stamp duty, but a bigger share | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
per head more for tobacco, alcohol and gambling. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
The figures also estimate what has been spent - �21 billion in state | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
pensions and welfare and nearly �11 billion on health. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
And when you tot all that up, we have spent a lot more than we have | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
raised - a gap of �10.7 billion. So is this proof that Scotland | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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cannot go it alone? These big numbers depend on oil and gas. | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
Without it, Scotland would have more than double that number as | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
regards debt. It is not as bad as the United Kingdom as a whole. You | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
can take different lessons from these numbers. A audit is a lot | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
less than the United Kingdom as a whole or the G7 average. He have to | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
look up what we contribute to the United Kingdom and that is 9.6 % of | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
United Kingdom revenues, and with only half a percentage of the | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
population. You have to remember the volatility in the likes of all | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
oil revenues. The bottom line is that Scotland has struggled within | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
part of the United Kingdom. We have been able to spend on things like | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
social welfare without the risks attached which would be part of | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
being independent. As you can see, these numbers | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
matter a lot to the referendum debate on Scottish independence. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
The deficits for Scotland and for the UK are both sobering. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
And while oil revenue would put Scotland in a better position than | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the UK as a whole, one academic assessment of these figures today | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
suggests that gap is closing. You are watching Reporting Scotland | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme... | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Fewer babies are being born prematurely since the ban on | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
smoking in public places was introduced. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
And parents of disabled children in Inverness say they are faced with | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
having to send them to homes for the elderly for respite. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
And in sport, we will bring you any breaking news from Rangers, if and | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
when that happens. And she is the Scots swimmer some | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
say is most likely to succeed at the London Olympics. So what is so | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
special about Hannah Miley? Find out later. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Scotland's ban on smoking in public places has led to a fall in the | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
number of premature and small babies, according to new research. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
It found that even mothers who have never smoked had fewer early births | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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after the smoking ban. Little palaces just five days old. New | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
evidence suggests you bet babies are being born prematurely since | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
the smoking ban came in. I knew about the link between smoking and | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
premature birth, but not where passive smoking was concerned. | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
Scotland has more smokers per head of population than anywhere else in | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
the United Kingdom. Here at one of the biggest maternity hospitals, | :11:34. | :11:43. | |
nearly half of the women are smoker's at the time of pregnancy. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
About one in three of the women here will be smoking during | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
pregnancy. But that is a lot less than we were seen before the | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
smoking ban. When researchers looked at every single berth in | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Scotland between 1996 and 2009, the notice the change around the time | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
of the smoking ban. Premature bus dropped by eleven % and the number | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
of unusually small babies also fell, by five %. Even mothers should | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
never smoke are having healthier babies. His an ugly there are two | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
different things going on - people who do not smoke are not being | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
exposed to passive smoking so much had those who do smoke a smoking | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
either less and not smoking at all now. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
A man accused of murdering his wife, then smashing his car into a lorry, | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
is to stand trial in June. Neil Cumming is currently being held in | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
the State Hospital at Carstairs. His wife Barbara died in their home | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
in Longforgan in Tayside last July. He is alleged to have repeatedly | :13:01. | :13:10. | |
struck her with a knife or similar instrument. The Cezanne Pilley | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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murder trial has heard that he had injuries consistent with an | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
attacker. It was two days after she went missing that her former lover | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
was photographed by police. David Gilroy had cuts and his hands and | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
arms. He had cuts on his face and bruises on his chest. The jury | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
heard that some of these could have been caused by fingernails during a | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
struggle. They were told the injuries could also have happened | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
just about the time she went missing. The forensic pathologist | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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Under questioning their doctor admitted that it was impossible to | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
be certain about how and when the injuries were inflicted. The jury | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
then held evidence about the silver Vauxhall Vectra parked by David | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
Gilroy here in the basement garage the day that Susan went missing. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
The following day he drove it to a day off. A police expert said that | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
three of the car suspension springs were broken, which was highly | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
unusual. He said that he was certain the car had been driven | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
off-road. The body has never been found. He denies murder and the | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
trial continues. A pensioner who shot a bird of prey | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
has been ordered to pay for its replacement and training. Thus | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
Peregrine Falcon was killed with an air rifle last April at the home of | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
Michael Hutchison in Fife. He was ordered to pay �1,800 in fines and | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
compensation to its owners. A look at what else has been | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
happening across the country: Shetland teenager, Jake Davies, | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
faces two fresh American charges of computer hacking conspiracy on top | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
of five UK charges. He was arrested in May for alleged involvement with | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
a hacking group. A food company has denied buying a | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
factory at longer needs just to stop the community using it. The | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
farm say that they cannot simply go our way the plant. | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
How can they make a business viable that we could not? And why would we | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
give away the very thing that we have worked all these years towards, | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
just for the sake of it? Almost one quarter of children in | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Dumfries and Galloway are officially overweight - the highest | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
of any region in Scotland. Health bosses here are now planning new | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
ways to tackle obesity. Work has started on a revamp of | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
Dougherty Park in Aberdeen. More than �5 million will be spent to | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
restore the gardens to the original Victorian design. | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
The facilities will be far better and aims to get more people and. | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
MSPs say they want to take evidence from billionaire property developer | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Donald Trump on wind turbines full stops your pose as a development | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
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near his Aberdeen Golf Course. -- he or poses. | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
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-- opposes. More on those and other stories on the BBC Scotland website. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Parents of disabled children in in a messy it is a disgrace that they | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
are faced with sending him to homes of their elderly for respite. The | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
nudist respite centre for young adults is miles away in Keith nest. | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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Can -- the neediest. -- nearest. She may be an adult at the age of | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
18 but develop mentally ill people are still a young girl. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
She has cerebral palsy and autism. But she is making more progress | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
than we ever expected. That progress is made possible by | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
highly specialised support at a state of the art school in | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Inverness, but that will come to an end when she leaves school this | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
year and her day care will be provided at adult centres used | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
historically by their elderly. The staff are fantastic but because | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
there has been no for planning the building is inadequate and training | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
has not been put in place. All they can do is troubleshooter. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
After leaving this special schoolchildren also lose their | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
right to regular residential respite at this centre in Inverness. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
That is a serious force for many families, some of whom have gone | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
without respite for years. It is a disgrace. They are well | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
catered for in the residential centres. They're built up to become | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
the best a can be in then when they get to 19, it basically stops. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Parents want a dedicated centre and say the use of unsuitable care | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
homes must stop but the Highland Council say that they must cater | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
for all needs. We need to provide the diversity | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
most families want. Now we can keep that under review and I do | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
appreciate many families one presidential model. We can provide | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
and purchase that in some places but it is not what all families | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
want. That does not bring any comfort to | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
this family who feel that this year's holiday may be their last. | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
K they say you cannot strike gold twice but the company setting up | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
the only gold mine in Scotland said they are also finding other | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
precious metals on their hillside mind. Scotgold Resources has struck | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
platinum near Stirling Show. They have also come across copper and | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
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And now the sports news. A quick recap of the main story - a Rangers | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
will not be able to see out the football season without a | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
substantial cash injection. That is from the administrators. Duff and | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Phelps described the club's finances as perilous. They say they | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
have failed to agree cost-cutting measures with the players. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Administrators are now speeding up the sale of the club and have ruled | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
out the possibility of European football next season, whether there | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
is a buyout or not. She is one of Scotland's best hopes | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
of a London Olympics medal. Aberdeen swimmer, Hannah Miley. She | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
has qualified for two events in the Games. Not only that but the last | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
Scot to win a gold and the pull says that she has a real chance to | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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become an Olympic champion. -- in the pool. Hanna and Islay had | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
plenty to talk about, like winning the 200 metres medley. -- Hannah | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
Miley. She also recorded the fastest time of the year. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Every time I am in the pool I want to raise hard and fast. I leave | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
nothing behind. Nothing on the block. | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
There is something special about Hannah Miley. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
What separates her from most competitors as her 247 approach to | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
the sport. She is meticulous and looks at every detail. -- 24/7. She | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
has the strongest of their epic I have at a scene in a swimmer. -- | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
the strongest work ethic. What does the man who swam to glory | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
in Montreal make of her chances? She has one heart and is extremely | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
fit. She will be competing in what may be her last Olympics. Although | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
she would probably kill me if she heard me say that! She has an ideal | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
opportunity and probably the best when she will have to win Olympic | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
gold. Regardless of my times and my | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
expectations I am looking for to it. All I can do is get my preparation | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
right. Sports minister, Shona Robison, | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
says plans for the Commonwealth Games are on track. She was at the | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
new Commonwealth Arena Vella from which is due to open later this | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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year. -- Velda wrong. -- velodrome. The new facilities are nearly ready | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
and the focus is on how they will benefit the local and the local | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
people. The regeneration behind the scenes | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
is what is important. The athletes village will become social housing. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Many of the locals will be that people are moving into these | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
fantastic new houses. There is a catalytic effect which will help | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
regenerate the area. These new facilities will host top- | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
class international sport and two to years time but what about the | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
effect there have been right now when it comes to regenerating the | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
East End? We are seeing sports facilities, | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
new housing, new transport infrastructure, really a whole new | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
community in the East End of the city. The number of people who | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
passed this facility and say, how wonderful, the work the council is | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
doing in this part of the city. It is just amazing, an amazing level | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
of enthusiasm in the City for what we're trying to achieve here. | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
When this have been open so that towbar it will immediately be put | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
to the test by high profile events. -- opens in October. But if asked | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
people to benefit will be locals, well before any athletes. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
With no wins in the Six Nations the pressure is building on Andy | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
Robinson and his players according to the team captain. Ross thought | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
will be detained to Dublin, the scene of the last gap still victory | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
two years ago. He says that despite poor results the players have faith | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
in themselves and their coaches. Andy is coaching us in a way that | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
tries to move forward. Obviously there is pressure to get results, | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
he says that himself. Results are what matters. But for me personally | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
I think the team is going in the correct direction. It is about | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
making the chances on the patch. Any breaking news on the situation | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
at the Rangers you will get on line, or on our radio bulletins. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
If you are thinking about buying your first home you might have a | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
question for hour money man. He will be back on lunchtime Reporting | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Scotland one week today. He will look at impending changes to stamp | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
duty and how they are likely to impact on the first time buyers. | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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A wintry next to come this evening but it will be short lived. -- next. | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
We have seen the show was coming and going all day. The Met Office | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
have a yellow warning for the Western and Central Park of the | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
country. That should affect how I are area is mainly north of the | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
central belt. Places like the A nine have already seen quite | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
significant snowfall already. Now they will die away but in their | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
wake they will leave a legacy of ice running up a central swath of | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
the country. Be aware of that. Temperatures above freezing further | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
west where there is still at brisk wind. Tomorrow morning will be | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
predominantly dry and bright for southern Scotland, sunshine in the | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
east, however cloud will start to increase in the south. A dull | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
picture by afternoon. Some drizzle here and there, especially across | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
the southern uplands. The main focus of the aim will be North | :26:57. | :27:07. | |
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Argyll, will cover. -- Lochaber. But it looks like staying dry for | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Aberdeen, holding on to brightness in the north-east corner. Across | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
eastern Scotland, try, a bit of brightness towards eastern coastal | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
areas. During the rest of the day at the rain will stay put. Largely | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
dry elsewhere. A fresh, strong south-westerly wind which will | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
reach gale force by evening. This weather front will push south on | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
Thursday. Dryer in the east. Ben and area of high pressure will | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
produce dry and settled weather for the weekend, so not looking too bad | :27:45. | :27:55. | |
:27:55. | :27:58. | ||
A reminder of the top stories: administrators at Rangers have said | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
that they have failed to agree cost-cutting measures with players | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
and will now seek an immediate sale. They have warned that the club may | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
not see out the end of the season. Six British soldiers were killed | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
when their armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
Afghanistan. It is the single biggest British loss of life in the | :28:21. | :28:31. | |
:28:31. | :28:35. | ||
Afghan invasion for 60 years. -- 6. With public finances in crisis | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
Scotland has reported a smaller deficit than the UK as a whole. A | :28:41. | :28:44. |