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Tonight on Reporting Scotland, storms batter much of the country. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Gale force winds and heavy rain disrupt rail and ferry services. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Flooding and fallen trees block roads. The north east and the | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
Borders are worst affected. There are flood warnings across the | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Borders. There is widespread flooding. Also tonight, the boss of | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
the new single police force is unveiled-- he's Strathclyde Chief | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Constable Stephen House. A dram good idea? Could the waste from our | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
whisky industry be used to fuel our cars in the not too distant future? | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
And this incident puts Steven Naismith in doubt for the next | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
three World Cup qualifiers as FIFA Good evening. Much of Scotland has | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
been battered by wind and rain over the past 24 hours, causing flooding | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
and bringing down trees. It's caused travel problems on the roads, | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
trains and ferries. The Scottish Borders were the worst hit - and | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
Cameron Buttle is in Stow for us tonight. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
There has been an incredible amount of rainfall here. The river burst | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
its banks this afternoon. That is actually the village football pitch. | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
You'll see the effects the flood water has had on the playground. | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
The bowling club is also flooded. We do not think any homes have been | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
affected. If you look down here, you can see the water is still | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
screaming through the wall. Incredibly, that is not the River | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
either. That is a field. The river is beyond that victory over there. | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
That is the effect of a month's rain in 24 hours. It has started | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
raining again. An extraordinary scene. Our | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
conditions improving? Be has got a little bit better sense we have | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
been here. There has been a huge amount of effort from the emergency | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
services to keep things moving. More rain expected tonight. It | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
could cause more damage when it is already flooded like this. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
So that's the picture in the Borders - but in the north-east the | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
storms also brought a remarkable change to the landscape, as Steven | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
Duff reports. The wind and the rain we have | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
become used to. But this? Very strange indeed. A quite amazing | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
phenomenon. Residents have lived here all their lives and had never | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
seen anything like this. I thought, OK, that is a lot of snow! It was | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
not quite cold enough for that. former was whipped up by the stormy | :03:07. | :03:17. | |
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North Sea. -- form. What did you think when you saw it? At fired my | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
house was under former. -- I thought my house was under from. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
This was a serious storm. Windows were rattling. I looked out the | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
window at dawn and the North Sea what the -- was advancing. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Elsewhere in the north-east, trees were blown down. Hundreds of homes | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
and businesses were left without power for a time. Little damage was | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
On the railways, the East Coast Mainline has suffered delays and | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
cancellations - with a limited service now operating. The capital | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
and the Lothians were hit, as gale force winds battered the coast | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
around the Firth of Forth. Morag Kinniburgh reports. | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
Thrown out of the sea, many tons of metal hurled ashore. Damage year | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
has been significant. Boats around the corner written off. A few more | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
on the beach. The moorings are still drifting. Spare a thought for | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
the professionals and volunteers to have to go out in this. It has been | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
a busy day for the emergency services here. Life boats and | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
helicopters have been called out. A windsurfer was spotted in the sea. | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
Earlier, he person was reported to be clinging to the upturned side of | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
a boat. It was a well-intentioned false alarm. Buildings took a | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
bashing. Many attractions were closed. Almost 2000 pupils had a | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
day off. The weather has tested And we'll have the weather forecast | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
later in the programme. A teenager has appeared in court | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
charged with sexually assaulting a four-year-old boy at a supermarket | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
in West Dunbartonshire. 19-year-old Christopher Morrison from Elderslie, | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
is alleged to have attacked the child at the ASDA store in | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Clydebank last Tuesday. He made no plea or declaration at Dumbarton | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody. The man who'll run | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Scotland's new national police force has been announced. Stephen | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
House is currently the Chief Constable of Strathclyde. Reevel | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
Alderson, joins us from the newsroom. | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Stephen House says he is delighted to get the job which has a salary | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
of two -- of... He is a Glaswegian but his family moved to England | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
when he was still at school. His policing experience before | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Strathclyde was in England. What sort of chief constable would he | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
be? Pretty much the same as he has been in Strathclyde. His motto is | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
to keep people safe. He has been particularly keen on tackling | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
domestic violence and gang culture. These initiatives are likely to | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
continue. He believes in local policing, too. The new force will | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
have 32 divisions, each based on a local authority area. It will be up | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
to councils and local divisional commanders to work out the local | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
priorities. I think it'll be interesting to see how Stephen | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
House interacts with the Scottish Government. Can he keep their | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
distance between politics and policing? | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Former Olympic athlete Liz McColgan has questioned whether there is any | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
sporting legacy following the London Olympics. Ms McColgan, who | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
won Silver at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, was giving evidence to | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
MSPs who are looking into community sport facilities. She suggested | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
recent successes were achieved despite the system in Scotland. | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
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Raymond Buchanan reports. What condition is community sport | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
in? At pressing question for MSPs after the Olympics. Take this | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
weightlifting club. It has a strong record of success but is struggling | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
for money. That is why he is about to let two coaches go. Down the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
road, millions are being spent ahead of the Commonwealth Games. At | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
the gym they are angry. We had been targeted the murder capital of | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Western Europe, the lowest life- expectancy rate, the highest child | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
obesity. There is not one facility that has been built in the Easter | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
has. -- Easter house. Poor provision in poorer areas is | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
something Liz McColgan knows well. She came from a Dundee housing | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
estate to win Commonwealth gold and I Olympic silver. More than 20 | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
years on she says sporting facilities are underfunded, | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
overpriced and all too often closed. We have these facilities in | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
deprived areas yet we're charging local councils to get kids to use | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
it. Where is the next Andy Murray? I do not see them. Where is the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
next Liz McColgan? I haven't seen a run a conference Scotland for 20 | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
odd years. Changing that is the challenge. MSPs have their work cut | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
out. You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
come on the programme: Why graduates are finding it hard to | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
get long-term jobs. In sport, another headache for Craig Levein | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
as one of his strikers is investigated for violent conduct. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Having a Christ says No Matter What, he is hanging on to his medals. And | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Scotland's most successful team in Europe prepare for another crack at | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
the Champions League. A new study of air pollution suggests Glasgow | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
has the highest level in the UK for a key traffic-related emission, and | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
is fifth worst in Europe. Aileen Clarke has been looking into this | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
for us. This comparison comes from the | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
European Environment Agency. It suggests that Milan as the top spot | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
for the worst traffic related air pollution, followed by Modena or. | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Glasgow is 5th worst in Europe. The figures suggest Glasgow has | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
exceeded the agreed EU Lynette by 15% for nitrogen dioxide. -- limit. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
We do better in relation to other pollutants. I have been finding out | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
why have campaigners are so concerned. Plenty of cigarette | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
smoke in Glasgow today. It is a different air pollutant to the one | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
coming from the traffic. More than half of the air pollution is | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
actually caused by traffic. In towns and cities that rate is | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
considerably higher. We are particularly concerned about | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
nitrogen dioxide. For those people with a long condition, it can | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
exacerbate their condition. Looking to the future, it can hinder the | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
development of young people's lungs. Levels of pollution permits it by | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
monitoring stations like this one. There are calls for a serious look | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
at cutting the night of traffic and emissions. The World Wildlife Fund | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
have called for the congestion charge in Glasgow. I would like to | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
see if that is a viable and if it is the best way to achieve results. | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
There may be other measures as well. Having car free hours on some busy | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
bus route. There are only three areas of the city where build up of | :11:30. | :11:38. | |
policing... Glasgow City Council is clearly balking at the most | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
polluted city in the UK tag. They have been backed by the Duke -- | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Scottish Government. There are a number of plans to drive down | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
pollution levels in the coming years. The Scottish Labour leader | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
is calling for an honest debate on the affordability of Scottish | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Government policies like free prescriptions, tuition fees and the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Council tax freeze. Johann Lamont is accusing the SNP of dodging | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
difficult questions. Labour's Scottish leader knows she | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
has got a steep climb ahead of her. Has she made it harder? Johann | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
Lamont asked today if SNP policies were affordable. We have free | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
prescriptions and so on. In our communities minnow that schools and | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
hospitals are under pressure. Families are under pressure. I | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
think that is unsustainable. Scottish Labour leader presented | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
herself as honest in contrast to her SNP a pollens, Tartan Tories. | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Back in parliament, the SNP could hardly believe their luck. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Considering putting up Council tax, charging students to go to | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
university, reducing the numbers of police on the beat, taking away | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
free bus travel for pensioners. These are Tory policies. Johann | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Lamont believes these choices have to be faced sooner rather than | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
later. Add deal on a one question independence referendum is closer | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
than ever, according to the Scottish Secretary, Michael Moore. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
Even before that has been settled, the Liberal Democrats are | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
suggesting another vote I year later on further powers for the | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
Scottish parliament. Parties of all stripes when the two to work | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
together to gain more powers, more decisions and more responsibilities. | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
If we're able to build that a consensus, we can move promptly to | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
deliver home rule for Scotland in the United Kingdom. Tim Reid is | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
that the Lib Dem conference. Willie Rennie has been talking of building | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
a consensus involving who? Initially, the other pro-union | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
parties. The Lib Dems already have a commission looking at what | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
further powers could or should be transferred to the Scottish | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
parliament. Lib Dems want the Tories and Labour to start that | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
process as well. They believe that there is something to offer the | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
Scottish people in the referendum campaign. Also in 2015, in a vote, | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
should the Scots reject independence itself. They will not | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
get a vote on further powers in the referendum. Certainly if the | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Government gets its way. Michael Moore is confident of a single | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
question referendum. The Lib Dems say there would be a place for the | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
SNP in this cosy consensus after the referendum. If independence was | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
off the table after a referendum, who knows what they might signed up | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
Just over half of the graduates from Scotland's universities are | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
finding long-term work, and many of them are taking positions for which | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
no degree is required. Stacking shelves was not the job | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Nikitta and dock after graduating with a degree in sociology and | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
business. She would like employers to consider offering internships | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
and voluntary work. Hopefully even minimum wage internships would be | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
fantastic. Just to get us in the field we want to be end rather than | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
in bars and and the service industry. This graduate in politics | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
is another working indefinitely in a job for which no degree is | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
required. I am working in a call centre, which is a job I had | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
previous to graduation. Being back in that position he is demeaning. | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
It feels like they have wasted a lot of time. That said, the | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
headline figure is positive. A D 8% are in jobs refer the studies. -- | :16:12. | :16:22. | |
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The Government says the job situation for students was never | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
awful, and is improving. To number of employed -- unemployed students | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
is the lowest in these islands and it is lower than the rate of | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
unemployment. Tough times for students, like everyone else, | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
trying to find jobs, but in the long one, those with a degree are | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
far more likely to find work. Other stories from across Scotland this | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
Tuesday: Efforts to build a fuel efficient homes are getting backing | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
from a �10 million Scottish government fund. Councils and | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
housing associations will be able to bid for money for flat-pack | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
houses. Scottish canoeing is getting a performance coach and a | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
canoeing excellence hub, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire. It is | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
receiving �60,000 of funding falling the Olympic success of | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
David Florence and tenderly. The first steps in designing the new | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
dual-carriageway on the Anine between Perth and Inverness have | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
been a nice. The Government has a war that two major contracts for | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
engineering and environmental work. Scientists at Aberdeen University | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
will test whether substance from mistletoe can be used to improve | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
the lives of some cancer patient plumber. At the present time there | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
was not any good-quality evidence that it has anti-cancer qualities | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
but that could have an effect on improving quality of life in | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
patients. At a whopping woman was shop to open properly drawer and | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
find the milk snake. She was making a cup of tea when she found the | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
unexpected discovery and called police, in terrified state. There | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
is more from you might career when the BBC Scotland aside. -- from | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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your area. On the BBC Scotland website. A distillery in Perthshire | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
is starting to turn its whisky leftovers into fuel. Napier | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
University scientists are using bacteria to transform the waste | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
into stuff fit for your petrol tank. Our science correspondent Kenneth | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Macdonald reports on what's being called a world first. The | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
distillery in black brood is part of the multi-billion-pound Scottish | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
whisky industry and it produces a lot more than just whisky. Some of | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
this spirit will be was gay but that is only 7% of what comes out | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
of the distillery. What about the other 92%, and how about putting it | :18:59. | :19:08. | |
in a petrol tank? This is Bali waste, the Lisa which is produced | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
by this distillery, along with millions of gallons of hot ale. | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
Napier University scientists are feeding it to bacteria. We have a | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
solid raw material that is rich in sugars, that has already been | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
fermented to take glucose out of it, but the bacteria should take out | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
the other sugars and should convert them into literal. That can go | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
straight into the petrol tank of your car. A from an environmental | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
point of view, we can reduce the by-product onside, and so much the | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
better. Napier University biofuels research as are other ways of | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
making fuel from waste. At this recycling plant in Fife, they might | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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have been looking at putting the paper from plasterboard into a tank. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
But it is the potential of whisky by-products which has brought | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
Scottish government backing to the project at the back foot. | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
potential is huge using all the by- products from all of the | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Distilleries up and down the country into fuel that we can used | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
here in Scotland. The company won a try and scale up what works in the | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
laboratory to an industrial level. We have won just to get this right | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
and I hope the idea and I hope that I can bring it to the market in my | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
Scotland. Score link's distilleries come out billions of litres of | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
cordial every year. And this source of energy could be right under our | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
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noses. -- of hot ale. Let's get the latest sport now from Dougie. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Scotland could be without Steven Naismith for their next three world | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
cup qualifying matches. Football's world governing body, FIFA, have | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
confirmed they are investigating a clash between the Everton striker | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
and a Serbian player during a match at Hampden earlier this month. This | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
is the incident in question when Stephen this myth seemed to catch | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
the Serb player with a flying elbow. It did not feature in the report | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
from the match referee but the world football governing body has | :21:27. | :21:37. | |
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taken a close interest and the old Having only taken two poised on the | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
last qualifiers, losing Stephen Naysmith for an extended period is | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
something that Craig Levine and his coaching staff could will do with | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
it. They can strip our titles but they'll never take my medals. The | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
message today from the Rangers manager Ally McCoist. The SPL | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
investigation into possible dual contracts at the club continues. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
But McCoist, who won ten league titles and ten cup medals at Ibrox, | :22:27. | :22:36. | |
isn't for giving up his gongs. I look at all my medals and they of | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
the what to take the trophies they are more than welcome but they will | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
never take the medals from the players who have earned them. | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
Scottish side is already through to the knockout stages of the | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Champions League. Glasgow City are up against the Danish team Fortuna | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Hjorring in the final 32 of the competition, with the first leg in | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Glasgow tomorrow night. And having won their group, the City girls are | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
hoping to make up for what was a rather painful end to their | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
Champions League adventure last season. Jonathan Sutherland reports. | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
Forget Celtic Park or Ibrox Stadium, if it is Champions League knockout | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
football you're after on Scottish soil, this exposed pitch at | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
Petershill is the place to be. They endured a 17-0 aggregate thrashing | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
from the German side, Potsdam, last year. This time, we will be more | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
focused on the job in hand. Nothing attracts crowds like success. If | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
Glasgow City could improve their Champions League record it could do | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
wonders for the women's game up in Scotland as a whole. Jean Ross was | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
with Team GB as a reserve at the Olympics. It was a great experience. | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
The women's game is progressing and growing as a sport in Britain, and | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
the more we get attention and the crowds coming to watch, that will | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
push forward the progression all the time. What chance a Glasgow | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
City victory against the Danish side Fortuna Hjorring? Everything | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
depends on the drawer. But we managed to get through this tie, | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
but it gives us a chance. With memories of poor standstill people, | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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it is never going to be easy, but, then, this is the Champions' League. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
That is all the sport for this evening. Thanks very much Dougie. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Let's get the latest weather forecast now. Christopher - are | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
conditions going to settle down soon? The good news is they are | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
starting to settle don't. There are still some world weather conditions | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
to come, but it will settle down eventually. Peking a look at the | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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This evening, like this afternoon, those winds transferring to western | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
parts of the country. We have that wet weather warning for the borders. | :25:19. | :25:28. | |
We have some heavy rain for the likes of Glasgow. The range should | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
ease by the end of the night with many places becoming dry. Tomorrow | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
* Stamp but rain quickly clears, then it is generally try and break. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Then dos will be strong, particularly across the West Coast, | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
before they eased down. Across the far north and north-west, generally | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
try and cloudy with some light showers. Temperatures in the north, | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
around 12 Celsius. Border south, starting to increase the | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
temperatures to around 15 for the likes of Dumfries and Galloway and | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
Lanarkshire. Further east, a little bit cloudier. Into the evening and | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
overnight, staying dry and bright to finish the day. Then we have | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
this area of high pressure coming in and giving us a brief ridge of | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
high pressure to settle things down got Thursday. It will be dry and | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
bright, mainly, with one or two showers across the north-west, down | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
through as the Isle of Skye and eyelids. That rain will perk up | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
overnight as that front the crosses from West to East, with all of us | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
seeing some rain at some point, then Friday is a day of sunshine | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
and showers, with greater, dry conditions the further east you are. | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
Tonight, we have that rain in below the in and borders region. -- in | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
the Lothian and borders region. Thanks Christopher. Now, just | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
before 7pm, a summary of tonight's top stories. Prepare for another | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
huge round of spending cuts. That's the message from the deputy Prime | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
Minister. Nick Clegg said the government will have to agree where | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
another �16 billion of savings can be made - on top of austerity | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
measures already announced. The Chief Constable of Strathclyde | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Police has been appointed to lead the new police service of Scotland. | :27:29. | :27:36. |