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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news... | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
�135 million. The astonishing amount of money owed by Rangers. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Among the creditors are other clubs, the police, even the local news | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
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agents. And the bill to the tax man alone could be �93 million. Holy | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
smoke! 135 million?! They are going down the tubes, then! Is going to | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
pay that for the club?! Tonight, we'll be asking where this | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
leaves the club and whether they can avoid liquidation. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Also ahead... A specialist team has landed on | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
this abandoned North Sea platform, where gas has been leaking for 11 | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
days now. We'll have latest on what they found on the Elgin oil | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
installation. Inching towards the long weekend. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Airports get ready for a busy Easter, but motoring organisations | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
say the nation's roads could actually be quieter than normal. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
And it's been called synchronised swimming without the nose clips. So | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
could synchronised skating be the next Olympic sport? | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Rangers administrators have revealed that the club's total debt | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
could exceed �134 million. Duff and Phelps published the details in | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
their report to creditors, which appeared on the Rangers website | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
this afternoon. It includes an estimate of more than �90 million | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
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owed to the taxman. It is the scene of one of the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
biggest football stories in the history of the Scottish game. Since | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Rangers entered administration in February, the big question has been, | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
can they survive? Today, the club's administrators revealed the extent | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
of the debt that has landed the club in such trouble. The list of | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
those who owed cash is also there. Among them, Arsenal, Manchester | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
City, Chelsea, Rapid Vienna, Celtic, Hearts, Strathclyde Police, even | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
the local newsagent is owed over �500. But the big one is Her | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
Majesty's Revenue and Customs. All in all, the total bill could top | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
�134 million. I am absolutely astonished. Absolutely astonished. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
I had heard rumours on the internet going back to this time last year | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
that said it might be as much as �50 million. But that is 2.5 times | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
your worst nightmare. Holy smoke. 135 million? They're going down the | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
tubes, then. 135 million?! Who is going to pay that for the club? | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Let's take a look at the breakdown. The expense bill was around 5.5 | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
million. People who loaned cash to creep right for future season | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
tickets are due almost �27 million. Before the began so-called small | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Before the began so-called small tax bill, HMI C R O Dover �40 | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
million. The small tax cases around �4 million. The big one is possibly | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
a whopping �75 million. Other creditors, including football | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
creditors, are owed almost �9 The fans as celebrated their side's | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Old Firm success two weeks ago knew the situation was bad, but the cold | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
hard facts and figures highlight just how desperate the situation is. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
No one knows at this point whether we're talking about a sale of the | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
business and assets of the club or whether we're actually talking | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
about a sale of the club. There are still some issues surrounding the | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
security that is held by Craig Whyte's company. There is still | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
considerable uncertainties there. I do not think it is all good news. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
But they do not think it is all bad news, either. The administrators | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
say there is light at the end of the tunnel and believe that | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
liquidation is avoidable. But tonight, they are also suggesting | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
that some form of liquidation could safeguard the long-term stability | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
and viability of the business. For a club with 140 years of history, | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
tonight, there could be 134 million reasons to be fearful. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
What are the administrators saying about the bids for the club? | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
It is worthwhile pointing out that the administrators do not believe | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
these figures represent some kind of doomsday scenario. They still | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
believe they are working towards a scenario that avoids liquidation. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Those figures make that a lot Tricker -- trickier than previously | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
thought. 4 beds were put on the table for the club yesterday. Today, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
the administrators told me they have now cut that down to three. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
The consortium from Germany has been told there bid does not quite | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
make the grade. They are now looking for a prepared creditor. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
That is due to be announced next week. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Thank you. A specialist team from the oil | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
company Total has spent much of the day at the North Sea platform which | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
has been the site of a major gas leak. They flew out to the Elgin | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
platform this morning to assess what might have caused the problem. | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
The team returned to Aberdeen airport late this afternoon and our | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
reporter is there tonight. Has the oil company said anything since | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
they got back? Yes, they certainly have. What in | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
the past 30 minutes, Total have issued a statement. The helicopter | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
arrived back here at Aberdeen airport about 15 minutes ago. Just | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
about 6pm, Total issued a statement saying that the team had been out | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
there, three Total staff and five from the drilling company, to | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
assess the situation. They spent about four hours on the platform | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
and they say it is a key milestone in bringing the situation under | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
control. The team that looked at safe access to areas, they perform | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
actions that will help to Prevert - - prepare to bring in this | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
situation under control. Under her setting up equipment. It seems to | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
have been a successful trip. What happens next? | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
Total say they will be assessing this information over the next few | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
days. The drilling of two relief wells still remains an option for | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
them. This afternoon, the Scottish Government announced that they have | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
set up a special environment body, of which met for the first time | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
yesterday, to keep close monitoring on the situation. A vessel run by | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
the Government agency, Marine Scotland, will set off from | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
Aberdeen tomorrow for about four days, gathering and collecting | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
information from the area to try to keep the Government informed of | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
what is happening. We just have to wait and see what the debriefing is | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
from the people who went out there today and Total will no doubt make | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
a further statement in the days to come, depending on what they have | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
learned from what must have been a very risky exercise for the people | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
who flew out there today, the first time anybody has been on that | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
platform since the incident happened some 11 days ago. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Thank you. A court has heard that a gangland | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
figure, murdered in a supermarket car park in Glasgow, was shot | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
repeatedly while his two friends ran for safety. One of them told | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the High Court in Glasgow that Kevin Carroll was in the back of a | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
parked car when he was targeted by two masked gunmen. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
A Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll was shot dead in this black Audi, parked | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
here in ASDA in Glasgow. It happened on 13th January, 2010. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Stephen McClaggan had been in the car with him. He told the court | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
that he and driver John Bonner had picked Mr Karel up from his home at | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
mid-morning. They drove to ASDA, Claire Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll had | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
arranged to see another man for a meeting. They said there was no | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
possibility they had been followed because they took a roundabout | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
route, avoiding roadworks. After a meeting, the three men go back in | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
the car. Stephen McClaggan said just seconds | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
after they cut back into the car or, at a Volkswagen Golf slant to a | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
halt in front of them come up locking them in. He said he saw | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
masked men coming towards them. He said, I just on masks and ran. He | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
said how he ran across the retail park to is betting shop. He said he | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
did not look back, but he heard all the bangs. The jury heard 13 shots | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
were fired. When he stopped the car leaving, Stephen McClaggan said he | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
ran back to his car. The Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll was lying on the | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
back seat. He said, I just knew he was dead. The court heard Kevin | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
"Gerbil" Carroll had wanted to sit in the front of the car as he | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
usually did. But Stephen McClaggan told police he told him to sit in | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
the back. Defence QC bit it to Stephen McClaggan that if Kevin | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
"Gerbil" Carroll had been in the front passenger seat, he could have | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
done exactly what you did, of which was run away. The court had heard | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
that Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll had been shot in the past. Stephen | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
McClaggan said that around the time of his murder, he was paranoid he | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
would be shot again. Ross Martin denies murdering Kevin "Gerbil" | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Carroll. He has lodged a special events -- defence, incriminating | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
eight are the people. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme... | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
New efforts to boost the future of some of our most fragile habitats. | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
In sport... A Scot is at the Masters almost ten | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
years after his last crack at the tournament. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
And find out why Dundee United fans are calling this player the | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
Tannadice Messi. All that and a wee bit more later. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
It's the start of the Easter getaway today, as tens of thousands | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
of Scots make the most of the holiday break. The long weekend | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
will be among the busiest of the year for the main airports, | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
although motoring organisations are predicting that the roads may be | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
quieter than last year. Julie Peacock is at Glasgow airport now. | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
It is going to be a busy weekend ahead there? | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
Yes, it is. As you can see, things are quieter. The last of the | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
holidaymakers left for Malika just a while ago! But Glasgow airport is | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
reporting a large increase in passenger numbers. They say it is | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
up one third on this weekend. But even by Easter's standards, things | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
are looking good. They're expecting to see an extra 10,000 passengers | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
coming through the door this Easter as they saw last year. It just goes | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
to show that despite family budgets being squeezed, people are still | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
making the most of that Easter break. It is only Thursday, but the | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
big get away is already under way. This was Glasgow Airport this | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
morning. 90,000 people will have passed through here by the end of | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
the tenth. Everyone has a plan for Easter. I am looking forward to | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
gran and granddad coming back for Easter. Ardley? Lots of Presley's! | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
Visiting gardens, that's a good thing. A hopefully, if the weather | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
is good, people do a bit of walking. We're going to get married! | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
today is going to be busiest on the roads. More than half of Scots are | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
planning to drive off this Easter, as holidaying in the UK has become | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
more popular. This Easter, will be hoped to continue with the current | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
trend of people holidaying at home, or with much to see and do, whether | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
it is a visit to the pandas, the Stirling Castle, Edinburgh Science | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
building up or just the rural Scottish landscapes. Greenback | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
house are taking full advantage of the boom of people staying close to | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
home. They have stocked up on 1,300 eggs for this weekend's Easter egg | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
hunt. For Rachel and her grandmother, days out like this | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
offer more variety than a holiday. There is some were different to go | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
every day. -- somewhere different. We have been out lots of places | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
like gardens and everything, just trying to see but we can find. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
AA says the roads will be quieter this year than last. Many families | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
got away last week at the start of the school holidays. But the advice | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
is the saints. Plan your journey and leave plenty of time for those | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
unexpected delays. If you are lucky enough to be | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
jetting off this weekend, you may be wondering what Scotland's | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
unpredictable weather has in store for us. Will we have a heatwave? Or | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
the other the snowstorms? The answer is, neither. We can expect | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
to see lots of cloud, a little bit of rain and a little bit of | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
sunshine. Pretty much a typical Scottish Easter. There is a full | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
weather forecast late run the programme. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Edinburgh Zoo's pandas have run out of time to conceive a cub. Sunshine | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
and Sweetie had just 36 hours to mate after Sweetie came into season. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
The zoo says that although there was something in the air, the pair | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
didn't mate. Test results late last night showed a drop in the female | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
bear's hormone levels. Now they'll A look now at what else has been | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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happening across the country this Thursday. Angus MacNeil says he | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
concerned about the number incidents on flights to stone way. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
There have been five in the last few months. Campaigners for the | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
Aberdeen bypass are to take their fight to the High Court. They | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
recently lost their High Court challenge. Inspectors say excellent | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
progress has been made for the venues for the Commonwealth Games | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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in 2014. Trawler men who lost their livelihoods during the 1970s cod | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
wars with Iceland have won compensation. The compensation is | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
an insult. It is too little, too late. Successive governments let | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
all the fishermen down. 2011 was a record-breaking year for the poppy | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
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Scotland appeal. They raised to -- �2.6 million. This tower was given | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
a living room. A private collection of Eduarda much prints goes on | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
display in Edinburgh. collection is a single private | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
collection based in Norway. They are unique works, it is a real coup | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
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for the gallery. They were once a common sight | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
across Scotland, but grassland meadows have been disappearing at | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
an increasing rate over the past century. Now lottery funding has | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
given fresh hope for the future of these fragile habitats. As Steven | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Godden reports, an East Lothian reserve is set to play an important | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
role. A quiet corner of the countryside | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
perfect for a spot of exercise. This is a key battleground in a | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
fight to save it grasslands. The rich soil is botanically diverse, | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
buddy rich wildlife struggles to survive. Now, help is on the way. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
We need something to control the grass and its density. The easiest | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
way to do that is to have grazing. That would knock back the coarse | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
grasses. Funding from the Heritage Lottery will make that possible. | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
East a lady in is the only Scottish site in the UK wide project. -- | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
East Lothian. There has been allowed to last, of it is a very | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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scarce thing -- that the laughter that lost, it is a scarce thing. | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
Success depends on participation. If people don't know about these | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
areas they will not be engaged in conserving them. It is fundamental | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
that people learn that these resources are on their doorstep. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
East Lothian that means allowing natures are lawnmowers to do what | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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they do best. $$$NEWLINE Let's see how the sport is looking this | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
evening. Here's David. Almost a decade since his last | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
appearance at the US Masters, Paul Lawrie's back and ripping up the | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
famous Augusta course. He's one of three Scots in the field and after | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
what can best be described as a steady start, is making quite an | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
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impression. Quite a shock this turned out to be. | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
Paul Lawrie showing a glimpse of his recent good form. That maybe | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
the best shot of the day. The putt was a formality, putting him under | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
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par. Two holes later and he was at it again. A deft chip and he may | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
second Igor, and a temporary share second Igor, and a temporary share | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
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of the lead. This to move to four under. He had a bogey at the last. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
under. He had a bogey at the last. But he was a contented man. | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
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struggled over the first nine with a speed. I'm not making excuses. A | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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three under is a good start. fellow Scot ended up over par. -- | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
Scotsman. One of these gentleman in the | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
projector behind me is the world's best footballer - possibly the | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
greatest ever. The other is a Scot who was released by Liverpool as a | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
youngster, but is climbing his way to the top in this country with | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Dundee United after a spell at Airdrie. Churlish to compare the | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
two? Not if you're a Dundee United fan. | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
This man is world player beer, the best player in the world, he is the | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
MSc. He plays for Dundee United, hears Gary Mackay-Steven, winning | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
the SPL player of the month for the second month in the road. Dundee | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
United fans had been chanting this, are you Messi in the skies? -- in | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
disguise? Hears from a different planet. I'm taking it all a pinch | :20:17. | :20:26. | |
of salt. -- hears from a different planet. He is part of a united team | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
on the up. They have won their last six matches, and they are on course | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
to qualify for a place in European competition. He is great. He has a | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
lot to learn in terms of helping his defender. The young players | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
have made it a good time this season. Well done Lionel, but can | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
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you do this? May be the comparisons are not that far-fetched after all? | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
Scotland's men's curlers have made sure of their place in the play-off | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
at the World Championship in Switzerland. | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
The lone Scottish player in Team GB says they can beat Belgium this | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
weekend - despite the absence of Andy Murray. | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
They finished second in the round- robin phase. They can get to the | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
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final by beating the winner of the third-place play-off. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
The lone Scottish player in Team GB says they can beat Belgium this | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
weekend - despite the absence of Andy Murray. Colin Fleming, who | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
plays in the doubles, says although disappointing the world number four | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
is not with the team, they've shown already they can win without him. | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Victory over the Belgians - who include two top 100 players - would | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
hand Team GB a play-off place to reach the top tier of international | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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tennis. We can win if we play our best. That is all we have to do. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
can see you are trying to work out the curling. | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Thanks largely to TV's Dancing on Ice, skating has never been more | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
popular. It's viewed mainly as a solo or pairs activity but it can | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
also be for teams. Synchronised skating is the least well-known | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
form of the sport, but that's changing - as the scale of an | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
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international competition in Dumfries this weekend demonstrates. | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
It's like synchronised swimming without the nose clips. In | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
synchronised skating the aim is perfect harmony on the ice. It | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
started a over half-a-century ago, but it is slow to -- but it has | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
been slow to gain popularity. barrier was that it was only girls | :23:24. | :23:33. | |
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on ice. That is absolutely not the case any more. It was also | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
suggested that it was for the skaters that were less able. When | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
people see it today, that is clearly not the case. The ultimate | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
recognition is full Olympic status. They hope to achieve that by 2022. | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
There are teams from Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, Spain, and Germany. | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
The furthest afield is from Australia. It is fantastic to have | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
this competition before the World Championships in Sweden next week. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
It is a great opportunity for the girls to perform up in front of | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
another audience. We don't get too many competitions and Australia. -- | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
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in Australia. With that -- with 53 teams involved, it is also a money | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
spinner. Putting �500,000 into the local economy. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
A quick reminder that our money man, Fergus Muirhead will be back here | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
next Wednesday lunchtime. If you have a general question for him, do | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
get it to him as soon as possible on the usual email address, which | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
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is: [email protected]. is: [email protected]. | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
Now the weather with Christopher. A fairly cloudy weekend. Mild | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
compared to the last couple of nights, and frost-free as well. We | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
have low pressure sinking its way south. That's how it will stay | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
overnight. All that cloud will help to keep things mild, temperatures | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
no lower than four Celsius. Some rain in the north-west. Just one | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
degrees in the Shetlands. We have this rain pushing in, and overcast, | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
cloudy sort of day. As we head of the river day, it will be | :25:50. | :25:59. | |
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reasonably mild,, four o'clock, 10 -11 degrees. -- reasonably mild, | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
four o'clock by four o'clock. Some more rain pushing into the north- | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
west. Fairly light and patchy. Saturday and Sunday can be summed | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
up with it cloudy and damp. Unfortunately that is the case. We | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
have a weather front that is going skip through. A lot of cloud over | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
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the weekend. Generally drier apart from the north-west. Come Sunday, | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
the rain will be widespread. Temperatures around 11-12 degrees. | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
Saturday and Sunday fairly overcast. A good time to sit inside and eat | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
A good time to sit inside and eat lots of chocolate. | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Now, just before 7 o'clock, a summary of tonight's top stories: | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
Rangers administrators have revealed that the club's total debt | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
could be more than �134m. Duff and Phelps published the details in | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
their report to creditors, which appeared on the Rangers website | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
this afternoon. It includes an estimate of more than ninety | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
million pounds owed to the taxman. A specialist team from the oil | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
company Total has spent much of the day at the North Sea platform which | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
has been the site of a major gas leak. They flew out to the Elgin | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
platform this morning to assess how to stop the flow. The team returned | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
to Aberdeen airport late this afternoon. And that's Reporting | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Scotland. I'll be back with an update at 8 and a bulletin at 10:25. | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
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Until then, good evening. Sky News has admitted hacking into | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
the e-mail accounts of several people. They said they pass their | :28:01. | :28:05. |