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Tonight on Reporting Scotland, storms batter much of the country.

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Gale force winds and heavy rain disrupt rail and ferry services.

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Flooding and fallen trees block roads. The north east and the

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Borders are worst affected. There are flood warnings across the

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Borders. There is widespread flooding. Also tonight, the boss of

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the new single police force is unveiled-- he's Strathclyde Chief

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Constable Stephen House. A dram good idea? Could the waste from our

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whisky industry be used to fuel our cars in the not too distant future?

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And this incident puts Steven Naismith in doubt for the next

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three World Cup qualifiers as FIFA Good evening. Much of Scotland has

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been battered by wind and rain over the past 24 hours, causing flooding

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and bringing down trees. It's caused travel problems on the roads,

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trains and ferries. The Scottish Borders were the worst hit - and

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Cameron Buttle is in Stow for us tonight.

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There has been an incredible amount of rainfall here. The river burst

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its banks this afternoon. That is actually the village football pitch.

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You'll see the effects the flood water has had on the playground.

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The bowling club is also flooded. We do not think any homes have been

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affected. If you look down here, you can see the water is still

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screaming through the wall. Incredibly, that is not the River

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either. That is a field. The river is beyond that victory over there.

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That is the effect of a month's rain in 24 hours. It has started

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raining again. An extraordinary scene. Our

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conditions improving? Be has got a little bit better sense we have

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been here. There has been a huge amount of effort from the emergency

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services to keep things moving. More rain expected tonight. It

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could cause more damage when it is already flooded like this.

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So that's the picture in the Borders - but in the north-east the

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storms also brought a remarkable change to the landscape, as Steven

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Duff reports. The wind and the rain we have

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become used to. But this? Very strange indeed. A quite amazing

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phenomenon. Residents have lived here all their lives and had never

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seen anything like this. I thought, OK, that is a lot of snow! It was

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not quite cold enough for that. former was whipped up by the stormy

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North Sea. -- form. What did you think when you saw it? At fired my

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house was under former. -- I thought my house was under from.

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This was a serious storm. Windows were rattling. I looked out the

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window at dawn and the North Sea what the -- was advancing.

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Elsewhere in the north-east, trees were blown down. Hundreds of homes

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and businesses were left without power for a time. Little damage was

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On the railways, the East Coast Mainline has suffered delays and

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cancellations - with a limited service now operating. The capital

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and the Lothians were hit, as gale force winds battered the coast

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around the Firth of Forth. Morag Kinniburgh reports.

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Thrown out of the sea, many tons of metal hurled ashore. Damage year

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has been significant. Boats around the corner written off. A few more

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on the beach. The moorings are still drifting. Spare a thought for

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the professionals and volunteers to have to go out in this. It has been

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a busy day for the emergency services here. Life boats and

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helicopters have been called out. A windsurfer was spotted in the sea.

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Earlier, he person was reported to be clinging to the upturned side of

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a boat. It was a well-intentioned false alarm. Buildings took a

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bashing. Many attractions were closed. Almost 2000 pupils had a

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day off. The weather has tested And we'll have the weather forecast

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later in the programme. A teenager has appeared in court

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charged with sexually assaulting a four-year-old boy at a supermarket

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in West Dunbartonshire. 19-year-old Christopher Morrison from Elderslie,

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is alleged to have attacked the child at the ASDA store in

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Clydebank last Tuesday. He made no plea or declaration at Dumbarton

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Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody. The man who'll run

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Scotland's new national police force has been announced. Stephen

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House is currently the Chief Constable of Strathclyde. Reevel

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Alderson, joins us from the newsroom.

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Stephen House says he is delighted to get the job which has a salary

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of two -- of... He is a Glaswegian but his family moved to England

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when he was still at school. His policing experience before

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Strathclyde was in England. What sort of chief constable would he

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be? Pretty much the same as he has been in Strathclyde. His motto is

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to keep people safe. He has been particularly keen on tackling

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domestic violence and gang culture. These initiatives are likely to

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continue. He believes in local policing, too. The new force will

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have 32 divisions, each based on a local authority area. It will be up

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to councils and local divisional commanders to work out the local

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priorities. I think it'll be interesting to see how Stephen

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House interacts with the Scottish Government. Can he keep their

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distance between politics and policing?

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Former Olympic athlete Liz McColgan has questioned whether there is any

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sporting legacy following the London Olympics. Ms McColgan, who

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won Silver at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, was giving evidence to

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MSPs who are looking into community sport facilities. She suggested

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recent successes were achieved despite the system in Scotland.

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Raymond Buchanan reports. What condition is community sport

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in? At pressing question for MSPs after the Olympics. Take this

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weightlifting club. It has a strong record of success but is struggling

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for money. That is why he is about to let two coaches go. Down the

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road, millions are being spent ahead of the Commonwealth Games. At

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the gym they are angry. We had been targeted the murder capital of

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Western Europe, the lowest life- expectancy rate, the highest child

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obesity. There is not one facility that has been built in the Easter

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has. -- Easter house. Poor provision in poorer areas is

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something Liz McColgan knows well. She came from a Dundee housing

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estate to win Commonwealth gold and I Olympic silver. More than 20

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years on she says sporting facilities are underfunded,

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overpriced and all too often closed. We have these facilities in

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deprived areas yet we're charging local councils to get kids to use

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it. Where is the next Andy Murray? I do not see them. Where is the

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next Liz McColgan? I haven't seen a run a conference Scotland for 20

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odd years. Changing that is the challenge. MSPs have their work cut

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out. You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to

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come on the programme: Why graduates are finding it hard to

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get long-term jobs. In sport, another headache for Craig Levein

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as one of his strikers is investigated for violent conduct.

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Having a Christ says No Matter What, he is hanging on to his medals. And

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Scotland's most successful team in Europe prepare for another crack at

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the Champions League. A new study of air pollution suggests Glasgow

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has the highest level in the UK for a key traffic-related emission, and

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is fifth worst in Europe. Aileen Clarke has been looking into this

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for us. This comparison comes from the

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European Environment Agency. It suggests that Milan as the top spot

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for the worst traffic related air pollution, followed by Modena or.

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Glasgow is 5th worst in Europe. The figures suggest Glasgow has

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exceeded the agreed EU Lynette by 15% for nitrogen dioxide. -- limit.

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We do better in relation to other pollutants. I have been finding out

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why have campaigners are so concerned. Plenty of cigarette

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smoke in Glasgow today. It is a different air pollutant to the one

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coming from the traffic. More than half of the air pollution is

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actually caused by traffic. In towns and cities that rate is

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considerably higher. We are particularly concerned about

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nitrogen dioxide. For those people with a long condition, it can

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exacerbate their condition. Looking to the future, it can hinder the

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development of young people's lungs. Levels of pollution permits it by

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monitoring stations like this one. There are calls for a serious look

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at cutting the night of traffic and emissions. The World Wildlife Fund

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have called for the congestion charge in Glasgow. I would like to

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see if that is a viable and if it is the best way to achieve results.

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There may be other measures as well. Having car free hours on some busy

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bus route. There are only three areas of the city where build up of

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policing... Glasgow City Council is clearly balking at the most

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polluted city in the UK tag. They have been backed by the Duke --

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Scottish Government. There are a number of plans to drive down

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pollution levels in the coming years. The Scottish Labour leader

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is calling for an honest debate on the affordability of Scottish

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Government policies like free prescriptions, tuition fees and the

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Council tax freeze. Johann Lamont is accusing the SNP of dodging

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difficult questions. Labour's Scottish leader knows she

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has got a steep climb ahead of her. Has she made it harder? Johann

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Lamont asked today if SNP policies were affordable. We have free

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prescriptions and so on. In our communities minnow that schools and

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hospitals are under pressure. Families are under pressure. I

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think that is unsustainable. Scottish Labour leader presented

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herself as honest in contrast to her SNP a pollens, Tartan Tories.

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Back in parliament, the SNP could hardly believe their luck.

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Considering putting up Council tax, charging students to go to

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university, reducing the numbers of police on the beat, taking away

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free bus travel for pensioners. These are Tory policies. Johann

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Lamont believes these choices have to be faced sooner rather than

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later. Add deal on a one question independence referendum is closer

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than ever, according to the Scottish Secretary, Michael Moore.

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Even before that has been settled, the Liberal Democrats are

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suggesting another vote I year later on further powers for the

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Scottish parliament. Parties of all stripes when the two to work

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together to gain more powers, more decisions and more responsibilities.

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If we're able to build that a consensus, we can move promptly to

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deliver home rule for Scotland in the United Kingdom. Tim Reid is

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that the Lib Dem conference. Willie Rennie has been talking of building

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a consensus involving who? Initially, the other pro-union

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parties. The Lib Dems already have a commission looking at what

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further powers could or should be transferred to the Scottish

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parliament. Lib Dems want the Tories and Labour to start that

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process as well. They believe that there is something to offer the

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Scottish people in the referendum campaign. Also in 2015, in a vote,

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should the Scots reject independence itself. They will not

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get a vote on further powers in the referendum. Certainly if the

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Government gets its way. Michael Moore is confident of a single

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question referendum. The Lib Dems say there would be a place for the

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SNP in this cosy consensus after the referendum. If independence was

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off the table after a referendum, who knows what they might signed up

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Just over half of the graduates from Scotland's universities are

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finding long-term work, and many of them are taking positions for which

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no degree is required. Stacking shelves was not the job

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Nikitta and dock after graduating with a degree in sociology and

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business. She would like employers to consider offering internships

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and voluntary work. Hopefully even minimum wage internships would be

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fantastic. Just to get us in the field we want to be end rather than

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in bars and and the service industry. This graduate in politics

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is another working indefinitely in a job for which no degree is

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required. I am working in a call centre, which is a job I had

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previous to graduation. Being back in that position he is demeaning.

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It feels like they have wasted a lot of time. That said, the

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headline figure is positive. A D 8% are in jobs refer the studies. --

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The Government says the job situation for students was never

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awful, and is improving. To number of employed -- unemployed students

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is the lowest in these islands and it is lower than the rate of

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unemployment. Tough times for students, like everyone else,

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trying to find jobs, but in the long one, those with a degree are

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far more likely to find work. Other stories from across Scotland this

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Tuesday: Efforts to build a fuel efficient homes are getting backing

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from a �10 million Scottish government fund. Councils and

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housing associations will be able to bid for money for flat-pack

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houses. Scottish canoeing is getting a performance coach and a

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canoeing excellence hub, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire. It is

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receiving �60,000 of funding falling the Olympic success of

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David Florence and tenderly. The first steps in designing the new

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dual-carriageway on the Anine between Perth and Inverness have

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been a nice. The Government has a war that two major contracts for

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engineering and environmental work. Scientists at Aberdeen University

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will test whether substance from mistletoe can be used to improve

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the lives of some cancer patient plumber. At the present time there

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was not any good-quality evidence that it has anti-cancer qualities

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but that could have an effect on improving quality of life in

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patients. At a whopping woman was shop to open properly drawer and

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find the milk snake. She was making a cup of tea when she found the

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unexpected discovery and called police, in terrified state. There

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is more from you might career when the BBC Scotland aside. -- from

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your area. On the BBC Scotland website. A distillery in Perthshire

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is starting to turn its whisky leftovers into fuel. Napier

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University scientists are using bacteria to transform the waste

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into stuff fit for your petrol tank. Our science correspondent Kenneth

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Macdonald reports on what's being called a world first. The

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distillery in black brood is part of the multi-billion-pound Scottish

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whisky industry and it produces a lot more than just whisky. Some of

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this spirit will be was gay but that is only 7% of what comes out

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of the distillery. What about the other 92%, and how about putting it

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in a petrol tank? This is Bali waste, the Lisa which is produced

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by this distillery, along with millions of gallons of hot ale.

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Napier University scientists are feeding it to bacteria. We have a

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solid raw material that is rich in sugars, that has already been

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fermented to take glucose out of it, but the bacteria should take out

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the other sugars and should convert them into literal. That can go

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straight into the petrol tank of your car. A from an environmental

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point of view, we can reduce the by-product onside, and so much the

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better. Napier University biofuels research as are other ways of

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making fuel from waste. At this recycling plant in Fife, they might

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have been looking at putting the paper from plasterboard into a tank.

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But it is the potential of whisky by-products which has brought

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Scottish government backing to the project at the back foot.

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potential is huge using all the by- products from all of the

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Distilleries up and down the country into fuel that we can used

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here in Scotland. The company won a try and scale up what works in the

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laboratory to an industrial level. We have won just to get this right

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and I hope the idea and I hope that I can bring it to the market in my

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Scotland. Score link's distilleries come out billions of litres of

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cordial every year. And this source of energy could be right under our

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noses. -- of hot ale. Let's get the latest sport now from Dougie.

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Scotland could be without Steven Naismith for their next three world

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cup qualifying matches. Football's world governing body, FIFA, have

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confirmed they are investigating a clash between the Everton striker

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and a Serbian player during a match at Hampden earlier this month. This

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is the incident in question when Stephen this myth seemed to catch

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the Serb player with a flying elbow. It did not feature in the report

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from the match referee but the world football governing body has

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taken a close interest and the old Having only taken two poised on the

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last qualifiers, losing Stephen Naysmith for an extended period is

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something that Craig Levine and his coaching staff could will do with

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it. They can strip our titles but they'll never take my medals. The

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message today from the Rangers manager Ally McCoist. The SPL

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investigation into possible dual contracts at the club continues.

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But McCoist, who won ten league titles and ten cup medals at Ibrox,

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isn't for giving up his gongs. I look at all my medals and they of

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the what to take the trophies they are more than welcome but they will

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never take the medals from the players who have earned them.

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Scottish side is already through to the knockout stages of the

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Champions League. Glasgow City are up against the Danish team Fortuna

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Hjorring in the final 32 of the competition, with the first leg in

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Glasgow tomorrow night. And having won their group, the City girls are

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hoping to make up for what was a rather painful end to their

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Champions League adventure last season. Jonathan Sutherland reports.

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Forget Celtic Park or Ibrox Stadium, if it is Champions League knockout

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football you're after on Scottish soil, this exposed pitch at

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Petershill is the place to be. They endured a 17-0 aggregate thrashing

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from the German side, Potsdam, last year. This time, we will be more

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focused on the job in hand. Nothing attracts crowds like success. If

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Glasgow City could improve their Champions League record it could do

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wonders for the women's game up in Scotland as a whole. Jean Ross was

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with Team GB as a reserve at the Olympics. It was a great experience.

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The women's game is progressing and growing as a sport in Britain, and

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the more we get attention and the crowds coming to watch, that will

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push forward the progression all the time. What chance a Glasgow

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City victory against the Danish side Fortuna Hjorring? Everything

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depends on the drawer. But we managed to get through this tie,

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but it gives us a chance. With memories of poor standstill people,

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it is never going to be easy, but, then, this is the Champions' League.

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That is all the sport for this evening. Thanks very much Dougie.

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Let's get the latest weather forecast now. Christopher - are

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conditions going to settle down soon? The good news is they are

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starting to settle don't. There are still some world weather conditions

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to come, but it will settle down eventually. Peking a look at the

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This evening, like this afternoon, those winds transferring to western

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parts of the country. We have that wet weather warning for the borders.

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We have some heavy rain for the likes of Glasgow. The range should

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ease by the end of the night with many places becoming dry. Tomorrow

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* Stamp but rain quickly clears, then it is generally try and break.

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Then dos will be strong, particularly across the West Coast,

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before they eased down. Across the far north and north-west, generally

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try and cloudy with some light showers. Temperatures in the north,

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around 12 Celsius. Border south, starting to increase the

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temperatures to around 15 for the likes of Dumfries and Galloway and

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Lanarkshire. Further east, a little bit cloudier. Into the evening and

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overnight, staying dry and bright to finish the day. Then we have

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this area of high pressure coming in and giving us a brief ridge of

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high pressure to settle things down got Thursday. It will be dry and

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bright, mainly, with one or two showers across the north-west, down

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through as the Isle of Skye and eyelids. That rain will perk up

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overnight as that front the crosses from West to East, with all of us

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seeing some rain at some point, then Friday is a day of sunshine

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and showers, with greater, dry conditions the further east you are.

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Tonight, we have that rain in below the in and borders region. -- in

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the Lothian and borders region. Thanks Christopher. Now, just

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before 7pm, a summary of tonight's top stories. Prepare for another

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huge round of spending cuts. That's the message from the deputy Prime

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Minister. Nick Clegg said the government will have to agree where

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another �16 billion of savings can be made - on top of austerity

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measures already announced. The Chief Constable of Strathclyde

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Police has been appointed to lead the new police service of Scotland.

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