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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight: | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Inflation-busting price increases for rail commuters as fares are set | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
to rise by more than four percent. The wife of the man accused of | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
murdering the Perthshire pensioner Jenny Methven breaks down as she | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
tells of the day he was arrested. Our Olympic female sporting | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
champions or WAGS and reality TV stars. Where should our young women | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
get their role models from? don't really have sportswomen who | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
are held up to us as role models. Calls for more investment in | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
women's sport. Also tonight: | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And is the future looking less than Dandy for the UK's oldest comic? | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
Fears it's facing closure because of falling sales. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Many rail passengers are facing above-inflation increases in ticket | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
prices in the new year. Fares on those routes where prices are | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
regulated by the Scottish Government could rise by as much as | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
4.2 percent. It's significantly less than the increases facing | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
passengers in England, but it still doesn't mean rail users here are | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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happy, as our transport correspondent David Miller reports. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Most ticket prices are on their way up again and hard pressed | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
travellers could be kept forgiven for thinking the sky is the limit. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Huge amounts of money are being invested in Britain's railways. How | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
much of the cash should come from Government and how much should come | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
from consumers? It is a question which politicians on both sides of | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
the border have been wrestling with. For UK services, it is RPI plus 3%. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
We have said we will not let them in pre-set by more than 1%. We have | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
said that we will look at certain cases where we think reducing fares | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
will be an advantage on a rail services. Today's announcement | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
could mean rises of up to 4.2% on all first, season tickets and all | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
off peak returns. They have still to make a decision on increasing | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
and regulated tickets including be a Caledonian sleeper services | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
between Scottish stations and London. It is the UK Government's | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
6.2% increase which will apply on a cross-border services on the east | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
and west coast lines. There is between Scotland's biggest cities | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
at the busiest times will not be affected by the nurse, but | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
passengers are unimpressed. value for money. I do not think it | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
is... I think it is appalling. we should do really is nationalise | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
it. Instead of all the private companies. And campaigners are | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
critical of the Scottish Government's role. I think it is a | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
bad news story for Scotland. Those last going up 1% above inflation. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
On some journeys they are going up 3% above inflation. How does that | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
fit with any Government target to encourage more people to use public | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
transport? The message is clear. Improved services come at a cost | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
and it is the travelling public which will have -- have to dig deep. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
And, David, elsewhere, the industry's going to find out very | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
soon who's going to win the new West Coast rail franchise. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
That is right. But is hugely prestigious. Very profitable. At | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
the moment it is operated by Virgin Rail in partnership with Stagecoach | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
which is based in Perth. It is facing very fierce competition from | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
first group based in Aberdeen. We expect an announcement from the | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
authorities in London on who has won the right to operate the | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
franchise as early as tomorrow. The story matters because the West | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Coast Main Line is crucially important to rare passengers | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
travelling between the West Coast of Scotland and London. But now we | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
know for sure, it is also vitally important for corporate Scotland. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
We are seeing two of our biggest, most successful transport companies | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
battling for the right to operate this line. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
The wife of a man accused of murdering an 80-year-old woman in | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
her Perthshire home said he was behaving normally a the time of her | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
death. Mary Kean wept as she gave evidence at the High Court in | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Glasgow. Jenny Methven's body was found at her cottage in Forteviot | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
in February. William Kean denies murder. Aileen Clarke was in court. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
Mary Kean told the court that the des Jenny Methven died had been a | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
typical day in her household. She said her husband returned home | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
around 5:00pm and was normal, neither up nor down. Cross examined | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
for the defence, the QC said to her, so, there was nothing immature | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
absurd to suggest that earlier that day, your husband was involved in | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
the brutal murder of Jenny Methven? No, nothing at all, Mary Kean | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
replied. And there was nothing said it done by Hemp to suggest he had | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
seen her earlier that day? Nothing, Mary Kean said. Later, Alex | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Prentice QC returned to that point. He said, there was nothing in your | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
husband's demeanour to indicate he had discovered a brutal murder? No, | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
it said Mary Kean. Well, he said, it is a matter of agreement in this | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
case that William Kean touch the arm of Jenny Methven won the day | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
that she died. Did he tell you that? No, Mary Kean said. Mary Kean | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
cried. Later this afternoon, the court should have from a detective | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
from the CID. She recalled how when she saw Jenny Methven body lying on | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
the kitchen floor of the cottage, the back of the pensioners head was | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
covered in blood and blood had run down her face. She was wearing | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
glasses, she said, and they were perfect. I thought it odd that they | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
were not damaged. William Kean delights lurching Jenny Methven in | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
February this year. He has lodged a special defence blaming Jenny | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Methven's son. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme: | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
The Kirkcaldy-born woman and her husband who have scooped �149 | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
million. The Euromillions winner says the money won't change her. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
I'm Scottish. We are known for being tight. By will still be going | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
to the sales. In Sport: | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Levein defends his decision to include a third division player in | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
his squad to face Australia. And straight down the middle. The | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
boys in blue looking for success on the green. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
The success of Team GB's female athletes at the Olympics has led to | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
them being dubbed the Girly Games. Jessica Ennis and Katherine | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Grainger were just two of the women winning gold in London. But will | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
young women like them become the new role models for girls and other | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
young women? Lisa Summers has being looking at that and how we build on | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
their sporting legacy. It all began with the first medal | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
of the Games. And then the first gold. Have a stunning and her | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
partner in the women's pairs. They said it would be the women's | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Olympics and it surely was. 22 medals for Team GB women, 10 of | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
them gold. And for the next generation of female athletes, | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
London 2012 has done the trick. played in the Commonwealth Games | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
and that was in 2010. By came back and I was really up for the next | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
one. This has been the biggest kick up the backside I have ever had. I | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
really can't think of anything but I want more than to go to Rio in | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
2016. Back in the real world, there rudder things to do and will this | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Olympics relay make a difference? We don't really have sportswomen | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
who or what are held up to us as role models. Not enough. They have | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
only just started to do that having had home games. I think it should | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
be done much more. The reality is that any 5% of the sport we see on | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
television is women's sport. And any 0.5% of the commercial | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
sponsorship ghost women. Is it any wonder that goes on not inspired? | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
At the other end of the spectrum, coaches are working harder than | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
have vowed to get cuts involved. -- harder than ever. It is getting | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
them to the right place at the right time and parents being able | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
to afford it and equipment being available. There is a lot to think | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
about. These gymnasts are inspired. I like the diving. When they went | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
on many is so they could go in the right direction. Jessica Ennis. She | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
was very good at running and jumping. I want to be in the | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
Olympics. Why? Because I want to win a medal. The will is there, but | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
will there be the infrastructure to support it if the only way is up, | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
for women at the next Games. Tributes are being paid to the | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
former MEP for mid-Scotland and Fife, Alex Falconer, who died on | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
Sunday. He represented the area from 1984 to 1999. He had been | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
suffering from cancer. The former prime minister, Gordon Brown, who | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
was a close friend, said Alex Falconer had spent his life working | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
for the Labour and trade union movement. | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Police investigating the murder 14 years ago of the Asian waiter | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Surjit Singh Chhokar last night put an elderly Ford Orion car in the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
street where he was stabbed to death. But officers have refused to | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
explain the significance of the vehicle to their investigation. Our | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
home affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson reports. | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
Acar, its number plate that Stewart, sits in their street. It is a Ford | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Orion and was brought here by police investigating a murder of 14 | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
years ago. They have stepped up their inquiry into the killing of | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Indian restaurant waiter Surjit Singh Chhokar who was stabbed to | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
death in the street. Police were not explaining the significance of | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
the car, whether it was to help them picture the scheme at all to | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
jog the memory of witnesses. The family of the murdered waiter say | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
they have every confidence that police and prosecutors will gather | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
evidence to bring his killer to justice. A do not want to comment | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
on what the police are doing. I do not want to prejudice a life | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
inquiry. Reconstructions take place in any murder and clearly, 14 years | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
after the murder, people on Mark might well have seen what happened. | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
And it may jog the memory. Three men, this man, whose nephew and | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
friends have already been tried and acquitted of the murder after two | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
separate murders in which they blamed each other. The handling of | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
the original case led to a series of inquiries. Earlier this year, | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
the Crown Office announced it would be the first to be reinvestigated | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
following the ending of double jeopardy rules. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
A look now at what else has been happening across the country this | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Tuesday. Ten hydrogen-powered buses could be | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
on the streets of Aberdeen within two years, making it the biggest | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
fleet of its kind in Europe. First Minister Alex Salmond today | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
announced �3.3 million of new funding for the project. When | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
things go up, it is not just a matter of Aberdeen having more of | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
these buses, but it is about all the partners being relevant to | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
something that might sweep right across the world. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
There's been an unexpected bid from STV to run the UK Government's | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
planned local TV stations in Glasgow and Edinburgh. STV has | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
submitted bids for the licences in conjunction with Glasgow Caledonian | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
and Napier Universities. 14 hill walkers have been led to | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
safety after getting into difficulties in worsening weather | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
in the Cairngorms. The group reported problems on Ben Macdui | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
around 7:00pm yesterday evening. Members of Grampian Police, Braemar | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
and Aberdeen mountain rescue teams and a helicopter from HMS Gannet | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
helped in the search. A Portree man who's set up camp | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
outside the town's former swimming pool in protest at plans for its | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
demolition is vowing to stay there despite bulldozers being due to | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
move in next week. Stewart MacPherson has been sleeping | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
outside the derelict building for almost two months and around 600 | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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people have signed his petition. The plan is quite simple. Myself | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
and a few friends will probably be able to stand under the blades of | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
the digger when they start to pull down the building. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Council leaders in the Western Isles have postponed plans to start | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
charging some pupils for school buses after a political row and | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
protests from parents. The council's leader Angus Campbell has | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
now accepted that parents should have had more notice of the changes. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
And there are more stories from your area and all the latest news | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
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24 hours a day on BBC Scotland's Things are getting desperate at the | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
Dandy, facing closure. Sales, wants to million per week, have slipped | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
to 8,000 per issue. The publisher, Dundee-based DC Thomson, set | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
decision has not been made just yet about the future of the comic. It's | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
immortalised in bronze, the most famous character of the Dandy | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
looking over the people of Dundee. 75 years after he first appeared in | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
print, it seems that Desperate Dan is powerless in the face of falling | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
circulation. Publishers DC Thomson say they are carrying out a review | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
of their titles and no decision has been made yet about the future of | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
the Dandy. But they have met these are challenging times. They say | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
they are confident future generations will enjoy it their | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
characters but will offer no guarantees about the future of | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Britain's longest-running comic. It became the most popular comic in | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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the world were a circulation of 2 It established a far older and | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
achieved a degree of dominance in the 1950s and 60s. -- from a hold. | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
The style of British comics is so dominated by what emerged in the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Dandy. It defined the British comic style. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
But the golden age could not last. The target audience have been | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
increasingly distracted by television, that your games, and | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
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the Internet. Her -- video games. | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
The younger generation to decor for magazines with a television angle. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
-- tend to court for. That is much more appealing to children these | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
days. Online comics could offer a new | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
direction but for a man with the colossal cowpat appetite, there are | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
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And disport news. Craig Levein admits he would not have selected | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
any The Rangers FC players of everybody else was fit and | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
available. He selected Ian black but only after saying that thing in | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
the perturbation would make it difficult for selection. -- playing | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
in their data division. A minute gone will today pledge to support | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
for the team that will take on Australia. Today, backing for one | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
player in particular. Ian Black has gone from their murrain of their | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
SPL to the light blue of the bottom league. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
When I announced at the squad I said it would be more difficult for | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
The Rangers FC players to get into the national teams because of the | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
standard and the lowest division. It is not akin to international | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
future. -- football. What about the future if everybody | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
is fit and ready to go? Should those who opted to join The Rangers | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
FC in their lowest League expect to miss out? | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
We Wallace has never been the first-choice full-back and no | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
disrespect to Ian black, and either. Good that is probably a fair | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
statement. To say that they are bottom | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
division players as disrespectful. There could players here on their | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
own merit. They show on training they have the quality to play for | :18:07. | :18:16. | |
Scotland. The Hearts player David Templeton | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
has accepted at two match ban for violent conduct. He kicked out at | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
James McPake during the Edinburgh derby at Easter Road. He will miss | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
the next two matches. Pittodrie Stadium will be full | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
tonight as Manchester United arrive for the testimonial of a Neil | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
Simpson. He played under Alex Ferguson when he led the team to | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
European glory in 1983. He is now a coach and says that the game is a | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
dream come true. I enjoyed eight years with Alex | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Ferguson as manager. He gave me my first team opportunity as he did | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
with a number of other young players. He brought the club to new | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
heights. It was a pleasure to be part of it. I am delighted that he | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
has decided to take Manchester United up here and give me a great | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
evening. Golfing stars of the future will be | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
on show in Ayrshire for the home internationals team event. Gailes | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
Links is the venue for the tournament. Scotland, Wales, and | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
Ireland all hope to upstage the defending English champions. After | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
the Great British ethic of the Olympics it is back to individual | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
nations. Ireland and boast the Amateur Championship winner, Alan | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
Dunbar. England are seeking a 4th straight success. The happy | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
youngest-ever English amateur champion. -- they have. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
There is a strong bond. We are looking for a very good week and | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
number four. Jack McDonald as the top spot in | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
the world amateur rankings - can he help his team to victory for a | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
first time since 2006? The course is in great condition | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
and we have played it plenty of times. I am really looking for what | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
to it and so are the full team. We will see what happens. | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
Many top professional performers perform done this event whilst | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
amateurs. To join some great names is very | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
special. Hopefully will -- I will one day achieve what the | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
professionals have but I am only 16 and there is a lot of work to put | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
Tomorrow morning, the Welsh art for a start against England. Scotland | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
face Ireland. An unprecedented success for | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Scottish athletes at the Olympics and tonight we will celebrate that | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
success on BBC Two. The greatest show on air if has finally finished. | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Scottish success has been at the heart of an incredible Olympic | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
experience. Some disappointment, plenty of glory, some tears. You | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
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can see it all a Scottish Olympic What was your favourite moment from | :21:48. | :21:57. | |
It is a strange one. Rebecca Adlington passionate be trying to | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
justify why she did not win gold. We all knew she tried her best. | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
At Katherine Grainger finally winning gold. Her look when she | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
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Here is a question Tilstock and Olympic gold medal or �148 million? | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
One-fifth of women and her husband were presented with that massive | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
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cheque today. -- A Fife woman. Champagne flutes in hand, Chilean | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
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and Andrew have 148 million reasons to be happy. -- Chilean. -- Gillian. | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
She plans to share her good fortune. We cannot give the money to people | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
we want to and also asked them to be quiet about it. It is not fair, | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
it is stressful. Generosity is one thing but a | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
couple are keen not to waste their fortune. | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
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I will still be hitting the sales Are rigidly from Kirkcaldy, Gill | :23:32. | :23:42. | |
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wants to be sensible. -- or original. -- originally. | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
I would not know what to do with that money! | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
It is a good thing to do. We hope that this is not the last | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
Scottish success, but do not bank Money cannot buy you love - or good | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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Yes, plenty of heavy downpours. But some bright skies and over the next | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
hour the showers will fade away. Shetland will stay wet. Eastern | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
Scotland, the more cloud and mist rolling in off the North Sea. But | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
not a cold night with temperatures no worse than 13 Celsius. Tomorrow, | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
a breezy day, but overall, not too bad. Further inland, the low cloud | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
is a little bit stubborn. Later on, rain will knock on the door. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
Shetland will have a lovely day, Orkney is not too bad either. | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
Temperatures could be around 25 Celsius, very warm. Elsewhere, the | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
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low twenties. Humoured. Overall, fairly good. -- - unit. All part of | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
a weather front working its way from England. Pushing into the | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
central belt by this time tomorrow, just in time for rush hour. Further | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
north, Aberdeenshire, it moves through quite quickly. In behind it | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
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we have to thirsty's weather. Not too bad. -- Thursday's. Not to that | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
in the sunshine. But you will obviously get wet in those showers! | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
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Friday, wet, yes, cold, no. Better The main stories: many rail | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
passengers face above-inflation increases in the New Year. Fares on | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
routes where prices are regulated by the Scottish Government could | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
rise by 4.2 %, significantly less than those increases faced by | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
English passengers. Unions claim that the higher prices only mean | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
higher profits for the train companies. And the wife of the man | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
accused of murdering Jenny Methven became tearful at points in court | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
today. She said her husband was behaving normally at the time of | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
the deaf and she noticed nothing to suggest he either committed more or | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
had discovered one. If -- the time The total economic output of the | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
single European currency shrank by 0.2 % in the three months leading | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
up to June. Germany saw some small growth but other economies remain | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
Dozens of people have been killed in a series of suicide attacks in | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
Afghanistan, the worst of the country has seen the sea here. | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
Three bombs went off in a busy market, a short time later, 12 | :27:24. | :27:32. |