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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight: The owners of the | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
abandoned Elgin North Sea platform save the flare burning on board may | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
take days to go out. A warning from bus companies over | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
the cost of concessionary travel for the over-sixties. The elderly | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
say they depend on it to get about. Sterling, Falkirk, Glasgow. I have | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
been to Aberdeen and I am going to Inverness next week. Bus operators | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
say they may have to increase costs for the passengers that to play. | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
Also tonight: Gone fishing. The hot weather keeps on coming, especially | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
in the South East. From Rochdale to Greenock. We | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
report from the new set of the BBC soap Waterloo Road as it moves | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
North. And flare burning on the abandoned | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Elgin oil platform in the North Sea is not reducing in intensity and | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
may continue to burn for days. However the club macro formed by | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
leaking glass is blowing away from the open frame. -- cloud formed by | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
a leaking gas. Total say that the flare is reducing in intensity. The | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
company's handling of this situation is coming under | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
examination. That is right. After last night, having to forcibly | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
admit that the flare was still burning brightly days after the | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
platform was abandoned because of a serious gas leak, today Total were | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
basically clarify in. Originally they said it would take a couple of | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
hours to burn itself out and their latest estimate is a couple of days. | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
They also said that the flare had been deliberately left on to vent | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
some gas. They later said it had been left on because such was the | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
urgency to get workers off that there was no chance to turn it off. | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
This has called for Total to be much more open. These pictures, | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
taken some time ago, show the flare burning brightly above the Elgin | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
platform. Tonight it is still burning. Despite the serious gas | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
leak forcing the abandonment of the installation at the weekend, | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
despite an air exclusion zone to reduce the risk of an explosion, | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
operated Total only last night was forced into admitting that the | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
flare was still alight. On Monday a spokesman said this. There is no | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
danger of explosion. The platform, when people left it, the power | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
generation was isolated so there is no source of ignition. I cannot | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
promise that it will not ignite but we have done everything possible to | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
minimise the risk. Total says that flare is much higher up than the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
gas cloud and the wind is in the other direction. They maintain the | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
risk of explosion is low. Total are trying to expend their efforts on | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
fixing the problem. They also have to put all the information that | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
they have available into the public domain. They need a principle of | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
openness and transparency. believe that we have been opened. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
We have been discussing issues and releasing information to the media. | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
In Aberdeen today around 100 senior oil and gas safety experts met. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
There was praise for the way Total was handling things. The operator | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
has conducted itself in an exemplary fashion as far as safety | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
is concerned. 230 people evacuated from a pretty dangerous situation. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
Total believes the flare will burn itself out but nobody knows when. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Put aside the row over the flare, the basic fact is that tonight, for | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
for flight, there is an and controlled gas leak on the Elgin | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
platform. Total said that as well as the gas cloud being visible, you | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
can now hear from a distance the gas escaping. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Thank you. Detectives investigating the murder | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
of Perthshire pensioner Jenny Methven have detained a man. The 80 | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
year old was found dead by her son David five weeks ago at the home | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
they shared near the village of Forteviot. Tayside Police say a 46 | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
year old from the Perthshire area is currently assisting with their | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
enquiries. Nearly 60% of secondary pupils in | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Scottish schools are struggling with basic arithmetic. The finding | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
was revealed in their late survey of numeracy across the school | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
system. -- the latest survey. But primary four pupils were mostly | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
doing well and very well. So what happens between primary and | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
secondary? It used to be called arithmetic. | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
Now it is numeracy. Scottish kids have a problem with it. Look at | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
this simple task. In a survey, more than 40% of second years could not | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
fill in the box correctly. In fact, overall, only 42% of second years | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
were classed as doing well innumeracy. Compare that to 76% of | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
primary fours doing well. Hopes are pinned on the new curriculum of | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
excellence. It puts the focus on teaching subjects like maths in a | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
way that applies to the real world instead of just being in a textbook. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Going into the real world for timing, counting and measuring are | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
meant to see that numeracy Matters. Going up tenfold in the loosest | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
sense. The Scottish Government says that the lessons are making a | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
difference. The results no longer dip as children move up from | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
primary. It shows us that excellence is working well within | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
our primary sector and beginning to work well in the secondary sector. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
But is it the curriculum that counts? Let's ask the experts. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
have got a good teacher, Miss Smith. She collaborates and does not make | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
you feel left alone in the class. She gets too involved in everything. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
I feel it is down to a good teacher a lot of the time, making maths fun | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
but making you realise the real life elements of it. It is also the | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
influence of the family as well. Difficult to say for sure what the | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
reason is and if results are being turned around. Lessons and this | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
format have changed since the last report two years ago. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
We will have some news from the fictitious school Waterloo Road | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
later in the programme. Plus: Another scorcher as temperatures | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
soar once more. This time the South East is a hot spot. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
And in sport, there could be more trouble than Neil Lennon from the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Scottish Football Association. We will have the details later and we | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
also catch up with one of the all- time greats of world athletics. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Find out what he is doing in Scotland. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Bus companies are warning that the concessionary travel scheme for the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
over-sixties is not sustainable. They argue that the money they | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
receive from Government is not keeping pace with actual costs. The | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
company says they may have to increase fares for paying | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
passengers and cut services to cover the shortfall. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
It was not just the children making the most of a ride on a bus today. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Benton has poured off the buses arriving at the seafront, set for | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
sunshine and ice-cream. -- pensioners. For many this was just | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
the latest of their regular outings around Scotland for free on their | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
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travel pass. On Friday we went into Glasgow. On Monday I went into town | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
on my own. I would not get out as often if I did not have free travel. | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
And where have you been? We go to sterling, Falkirk, Glasgow. I have | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
been to Aberdeen and I am going to Inverness next week. The pensioners | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
here might be enjoying free bus travel to lovely days out like this | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
in the sunshine, but the bus operators cannot share their | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
enthusiasm. Bus companies say that the money they receive from the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Scottish Government is just not keeping pace with the real costs of | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
free passage for pensioners all over Scotland. We think the scheme | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
cannot be sustained in its current format. This year we are expecting | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
�7 million-�9 million overshoot in the Budget. That means that | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
operators in Scotland will be carrying people for a totally free | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
in the last few weeks of the financial year. The Scottish | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Government does not seem to be climbing aboard with more money. | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
The concessionary travel scheme, the biggest part of the Budget, | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
goes directly to support passengers and not to subsidise the bus | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
industry. We do have a subsidy to make sure we can cover as many | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
routes as possible, but beyond that, the operators have to set the fares | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
and decide the roads. The bus companies say they may have to rise | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
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fares for the people that do play and cut some routes. -- that do pay. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
As the debate rages on, concessionary travellers will | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
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continue on their free buses. A Fife property developer has been | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
jailed for life at the High Court in Edinburgh for ordering the | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
killing of his millionaire brother over a business dispute. Mo | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Siddique will have to serve a minimum of 25 years before he can | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
be considered for parole. Businessman Toby Siddique, who was | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
38, was shot dead in Glenrothes two years ago. The man who carried out | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
the killing, Tencho Andonov, and another man, Deyan Nikolov, were | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
also given life sentences and were ordered to serve at least 29 and 18 | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
years respectively. The cost of Government plans to | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
upgrade the central Scotland motorway network has risen by �95 | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
million to 415 million. The A8 between Baillieston and Newhouse | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
will become a motorway, the Raith Interchange in Lanarkshire is to be | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
improved, and sections of the M8, M73 and M74 are to be widened. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Transport Scotland says the scheme is more ambitious than originally | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
planned. Well, it has been another cracker | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
of a day. They did not quite match yesterday's record-breaking | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
temperatures but most of us were basking in beautiful sunshine. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
Temperatures were well into the 70s. Today it was the turn of the South | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
East to get the best of it. Christopher will join me in a | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
moment to explain why it is happening. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
They say that even a bad day's fishing beats a good day at the | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
office and this was a very, very nice day to go fishing. No weather | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
records were beaten in the Borders today but nobody really care. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Across Scotland, millions of pounds were spent to get ready for winter. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
This time last year the gritting depot was nearly empty. This time | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
last year you were down to your last reserves. Yes, 500 tons of | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
salt was one day's spreading from this depot. We were very short. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
unusual is this weather? Well, think back to last year. This time | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
last year the temperatures were about half what they are today, | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
about 10 degrees. Go back to 2010, they were down to three degrees. In | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
fact there were snowdrifts in the Highlands and blizzards. Do you | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
feel happier in a good weather? Absolutely. It is perfect for | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
getting a tan. It makes you happy when it is sunny. It makes you feel | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
great. It makes me feel happier to be able to get out of the house and | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
to get up when it is not dark and dreary. Does a few days in the sun | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
really put a spring in our step? Unfortunately, if you look at the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
population as a whole, it does not. It may do for one individual at any | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
one time but overall there is no correlation between weather and | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
mood, if you define it as something that lasts for 15 minutes and | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
longer. Regrettably, it does not. Next week, spare a thought for | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
others. Not everybody has been enjoying warm temperatures today. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
It is already decidedly cooler in Shetland and that weather is | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
heading South soon. They had to go and spoil it! Now | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the science. What has happened to give us the wonderful weather in | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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March? Christopher joins us now. We have had an area of high | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
pressure sitting overhead. It has been dreamt up the from the | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
Mediterranean or Africa, delivering dry, warm air to us in Scotland. It | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
has also been generating its own heat because it is a very strong | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
area of high pressure and within areas of high pressure, it | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
naturally decent within antique cyclones. As it descends, it warms | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
up. It does it add about three Celsius per 1000 feet. Let me put | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
it into context. At 5,000 ft, if it was ten Celsius, by the time it | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
reached sea level, it could be up to 25 Celsius and that is what has | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
been happening in the last few days. The record holder yesterday was | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
23.6 Celsius, beating the Scottish record for the third day in a row. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
But it does take all these factors combined for us to break these | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
records. Until yesterday, the temperature record had not been | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
broken for about 50 years. where is it going? Yes, the weather | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
is already changing. Much cooler conditions are coming down from the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Arctic. If you follow the isobars down, introducing cloud and | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
moisture laden air as well. So about average for March. The falls | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
forecast is at the end of the programme. -- the grit forecast. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
What else has been happening across the country? | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
A public inquiry will be held this summer into controversial plans for | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
a �43 million waste incinerator in Invergordon. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
There will be four extra police officers at the Cairnryan ferry | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
port. The Scottish Government will fund the jobs after budget cuts by | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
the UK Border Agency. And MSP wants a ban on | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
irresponsible parking. He is consulting on proposals to stop | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
vehicles being left beside curbs which have been lowered for | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
wheelchair users. We are trying to tackle double parking which can be | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
a real danger when it comes to it for emergency vehicles needing | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
access. Fire engines are much bigger vehicles and cars or vans. | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
It can be a problem. The Russian skipper of a cargo | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
vessel that ran aground last week of the Western Isles has been fined | :15:39. | :15:48. | |
�3.5000. The captain pleaded guilty to failing to alter course, causing | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
the boat to crash on rocks. Campaigners against the Aberdeen | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
bypass say they have to reduce pledges of �100,000 within days -- | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
raise pledges to bring a new legal challenge. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Workers at Dundee airport are to be balloted next week on strike action. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Staff including air traffic controllers and firefighters are | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
involved in apron -- long-running pay dispute. | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
The mountains animal sanctuary in four FA had its first baby donkey | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
delivery this morning. Her mother is a rescued derby from Ireland. | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
More on those and other stories on the BBC Scotland website. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
Filming of the BBC TV series Waterloo Road begins in Scotland | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
next week. The show, previously based in a school in Rochdale, is | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
relocating to Greenock. The set is being constructed in the old | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
Greenock Academy. The entire assembly hall, where | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
later on we will have the cast and crew from the first two episodes | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
participating. Their first glimpse of the sect for Waterloo Road. | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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Props have been brought in from the current set in Rochdale. | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
We had an ambition for a long- running drama for a Scotland. Once | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
you have the long running security of jobs for people, it changes the | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
landscape for protection. Rank lesson. I need that! | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
230 cast and crew will be here, including the Scots actor who plays | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
the headmaster. Arriving here there is stuffed to | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
mind in terms of the man's past and family and that will be exciting | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
but the reason that the score moved is not entirely to do with his | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
background. The big gamble is whether fans followed the show | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
north. Too many people it is still a quintessentially English drama. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
But the show is confident its fans can handle the change, and will | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
soon adapt to its Scottish setting, not to mention the impact of having | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
a show the scale made on your own doorstep. It will generate a full- | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
time jobs and a lot of investment and other employment opportunities | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
in terms of extras, and in terms of generating business opportunities | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
in the local community. While most Scottish schools are | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
closing up for the holidays, Waterloo Road is open for business, | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
with filming beginning on Monday. David, stand up straight at the | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
back! Neil Lennon could be in bother with | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
the football authorities again, this time over alleged pre-match | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
comments about referees. The Scottish Football Association has | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
written to the Celtic manager for the third time in over a week. It | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
comes as European football's governing body find Neil Lennon's | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
club. Some recent refereeing decisions | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
have not been to Celtic's liking, particularly this one. The manager | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
was later removed from the dug-out. He had an appearance before the | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
football authorities. He was already in trouble for his reaction | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
to this, and now he has been written to take their time in | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
little over a week. He was quoted looking ahead to the weekend game | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
with St Johnstone. The should be a positive time for Celtic, on the | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
verge of their first title for four years. But now European vines and | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
defeats are dampening the mood. The club has been fined �21,000 by UEFA | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
over an offensive banner at a Europa League match in December. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
On the track, they did not come much more successful than Ed Moses. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
The double Olympic champion is in Scotland to pass on his experience | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
in high performance to the Scottish Institute of Sport. Not only that | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
but we have been to meet him. Ed Moses was not just one of the | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
best. For a large part of the 1970s and 1980s, he was the best. I was | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
not interested in just beating everyone else. At one point I was | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
so far ahead that it would have been disastrous to my improvement, | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
to any concentrate on the other athletes. It is hard to believe we | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
will see his like again. A two-time European -- Olympic champion who | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
revolutionised the sport. He took 13 steps between hurdles when | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
others took 14. His nine nine-iron record is the most famous -- his | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
999 record, where he did not lose for nine months, nine days and nine | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
hours. We have a lot here to work with, more than most countries in | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
the world. Do we have the hunger Within athletes, they? I do not | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
know. That is up to the athletes. With the Olympics and Glasgow 2014 | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
to come, Moses plans to return to Scotland breaching his winning | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
mount threat to our medal chasing stars. -- preaching his winning | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
mantra. Those who stick with the sport for longer become better. | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
I wonder what he would make of this. Not quite an Olympic final but to | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
celebrate the Scottish Football League's extended deal with | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
sponsors Ramsdens, they decided to find out who is the fastest runner | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
in the lower leagues. The final was today and I had to be there. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
Welcome. You are about to witness something that comes as close as | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
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you're going to get to Scottish One of these flying machines will | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
hightail it with �500 in his pocket while his team will be �2,500 | :22:42. | :22:52. | |
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better off. Let's meet the men about to run for money. Grant | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Plenderleith from Stenhousemuir. I'm from Queens Park. What will you | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
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do if you win? John Robinson, A false start, there. And bear. | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
Third time lucky, then. There, it is the quiet man, Grant | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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I was in the Falkirk harriers in the under 15. By better let you go | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
because there is a man over there with a novelty check for you. Well | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
done, Craig. Grant, Surrey. -- sorry! | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
High quality stuff from bent. A few false starts from me and not just | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
from them. You do what they do in the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
athletics coverage, you spoke to them when they have just finished | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
and have no breath. We went for a fish supper straight | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
afterwards! Our financial adviser, Fergus | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Muirhead, will be joining us on lunch time Reporting Scotland a | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
fortnight today, talking about general financial problems, so if | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
Christopher broke up it to us earlier. The great weather will not | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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It was still respectably warmth We are back to a average | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
temperature in the northern areas. Dry and fine this evening. More | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
cloud in the North. Quite breezy there, too. A strong north-westerly | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
wind. But lighter wind. Another dry start to tomorrow morning. Plenty | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
of sunshine from the well at -- from the word go for many areas. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
But by the time we reach the afternoon, the cloudier, cooler | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
conditions will be across the Hebrides and further south. Inland | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
the temperatures should be better, Glasgow faring well. Potentially | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
some spits on spots of rain for Shetland. Back to some sunshine, | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
too, for the likes of Inverness, Moray, at Aberdeen. The further | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
South widow, Wiki the sunshine but we also see the high temperatures. | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Very little changes as far as the rest of the day is concerned. Still | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
quite a strong north-westerly wind across more northern areas and | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
lighter wind further south. The high pressure is starting to | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
move away in the outlook but it is still influencing our weather, | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
keeping dry conditions across the country. We are looking at | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
guerrilla air coming across Scotland and temperatures returning | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
to normal values by the weekend. Friday looks many dry. Some fine | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
sunshine in the East. Temperature still above average, with quite a | :26:33. | :26:42. | |
The headlines: There are warnings tonight that motorists are panic | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
buying fuel after David Cameron suggested topping up in case tanker | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
drivers went on strike. Another minister advised motorists | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
to keep a jury can in the garage. We are just getting the first | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
pictures in off a flair that is burning on the abandoned Elgin oil | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
platform in the North Sea. You can see the deserted platform there. | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
That was taken yesterday. It is difficult to get any footage | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
because the platform is 150 miles off the coast at Aberdeen. The | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
intensity of the frame does not seem to be dying down. The back | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
four was a back to readied on Sunday after the gas leak began. | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
Us companies are warning that the concessionary travel scheme for the | :27:28. | :27:31. |