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:00:21. > :00:24.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news...

:00:24. > :00:32.Three serious fires in Edinburgh in two days, causing two deaths and

:00:32. > :00:38.leaving three people injured. could see their residents of the

:00:38. > :00:42.other flats looking a bit worried, as they suddenly thought that they

:00:42. > :00:45.may not be able to get out. Also in the programme...

:00:45. > :00:47.A warning from farmers that the sixth wettest summer on record

:00:47. > :00:49.could mean the worst cereal harvest for 30 years.

:00:49. > :00:53.After the success of Stirling's orchestra for children from

:00:53. > :00:56.deprived areas, the Big Noise scheme is heading for Glasgow.

:00:56. > :01:03.And Rangers' victory over Motherwell - Ally McCoist says it

:01:03. > :01:07.proves his side can still compete with Scotland's best.

:01:07. > :01:09.Good evening. Three serious fires in Edinburgh in less than 24 hours

:01:10. > :01:14.have left two people dead and injured three others, including a

:01:14. > :01:24.baby girl. One woman is fighting for her life

:01:24. > :01:27.

:01:27. > :01:33.in hospital and another has serious burns. Within the last five minutes,

:01:33. > :01:37.the windows of this flat in Dundee tennis have been boarded up.

:01:37. > :01:44.Investigators had been me here all day trying to work out what

:01:44. > :01:53.happened. This was the second of two fatal fires in the capital, in

:01:53. > :01:56.which has been a very difficult period for the local firefighters.

:01:56. > :02:01.Shortly after 10 o'clock last night, the fire broke out and residents

:02:01. > :02:05.said that it all happened very quickly. You could suddenly see all

:02:05. > :02:09.the fire and smoke coming out of the building and you could see the

:02:09. > :02:19.residents of the other flats starting to get a bit worried that

:02:19. > :02:19.

:02:19. > :02:27.they may not be able to get out. the height of the blaze, there were

:02:27. > :02:33.45 firefighters and attendance, wearing special equipment. Am our

:02:33. > :02:41.men in her fifties was found dead. Serious fire in the capital in the

:02:41. > :02:44.space of 24 hours. We got here very quickly, but the fire was so well

:02:44. > :02:49.developed, my thoughts are that members of the community may have

:02:49. > :02:54.heard something a smell something but maybe not called it in straight

:02:54. > :03:00.away. Some people do not want to dial the emergency services in case

:03:00. > :03:04.it is the false alarm. The message I want to send out is, I would much

:03:04. > :03:14.rather that you fawned - I do not mind if it turns out to be a false

:03:14. > :03:16.

:03:16. > :03:21.alarm. -- that you tell phoned. Yesterday, the first fatality. So

:03:21. > :03:24.far, none of the fires are being treated as suspicious.

:03:24. > :03:27.We have also heard today that the family of a firefighter who was

:03:28. > :03:36.killed on duty three years ago in Edinburgh has begun a legal action

:03:36. > :03:43.for damages? That is correct. The crew were called out to a fire not

:03:43. > :03:49.far from here in Dalry Road and the family say they have no choice but

:03:49. > :03:54.to take out a civil action against the local fire bought for

:03:54. > :03:59.compensation. They claimed that Mr Williamson went into the pub to

:03:59. > :04:03.carry out an initial assessment and then the say when he came outside,

:04:03. > :04:08.he was ordered to go back in and became trapped in the building a

:04:08. > :04:13.lost his life in the line of duty. He Lothian And Borders Police have

:04:13. > :04:17.carried out a report with the Health and Safety Executive and

:04:17. > :04:21.that its with the properly to fiscal at the moment. If the

:04:21. > :04:24.contest the allegations and say that the sum of money being sought

:04:24. > :04:27.is excessive. River levels are dropping back

:04:27. > :04:30.following the torrential rain that brought flooding to parts of the

:04:31. > :04:34.country earlier this week. And while Scotland escaped the worst of

:04:34. > :04:36.the storm that hit the UK, farmers say this year's weather means their

:04:36. > :04:38.cereal harvests are both "disastrous and depressing", with

:04:38. > :04:48.one grower in the Borders describing their harvest as the

:04:48. > :04:52.

:04:52. > :04:59.worst in 30 years. Taking advantage of the rear tried day. Despite the

:04:59. > :05:06.wet summer, the spring crop of partly is ready. However,

:05:06. > :05:12.harvesting it is proving tricky. Once they get so really wet like

:05:12. > :05:19.that, it takes days to dry it. It sometimes can take a week at least.

:05:19. > :05:24.And there is almost some rain every day. We have Ali had a dry 24 at

:05:24. > :05:30.hours for weeks now. The afield than the Borders sitting under

:05:30. > :05:35.inches of water. The problem here is a long summer of continuous rain.

:05:35. > :05:42.It means there are crops and thus far that the farmers and we will

:05:42. > :05:45.not be able to harvest because of the months. The site has been the

:05:45. > :05:52.6th weight is some are on record. Some places have seen twice their

:05:52. > :05:57.average rainfall. We have seen a lot of rainfall over a very small

:05:57. > :06:03.time-frame. Over a couple of days, we have maybe seen the likes of one

:06:03. > :06:10.month's worth of rain. There are conditions are not better for other

:06:10. > :06:18.growers. Whether you are going crops, growing fruit or vegetables

:06:18. > :06:22.or even looking after livestock, it will have had an effect on everyone.

:06:22. > :06:26.At tension is now turning to the year ahead. As harvest farmers

:06:26. > :06:31.struggle to harvest the crop that they do have, they now need to

:06:31. > :06:34.plant seeds for next year. There could be repercussions for months

:06:34. > :06:36.to come. Meanwhile, as autumn gets underway,

:06:36. > :06:39.transport officials are already looking ahead to the winter, They

:06:39. > :06:42.have been unveiling two new ice- breakers, designed to tackle the

:06:42. > :06:52.kind of Arctic conditions which left hundreds of motorists stranded

:06:52. > :07:01.

:07:01. > :07:06.in 2010. This snow chaos goes on. Airports are close, school shut

:07:06. > :07:10.early and people are stuck on the motor way for hours. These images

:07:10. > :07:17.are the stuff of nightmares for those charged with keeping the

:07:17. > :07:23.country moving, so on a crisp September morning, the gathered

:07:23. > :07:27.together. He in Scotland, you are going to have some disruption from

:07:27. > :07:34.bad weather and we want to minimise that as much as possible and make

:07:34. > :07:40.it as safe as possible for people to travel around the country. Him

:07:40. > :07:46.learning the lessons of two years ago, Transport officials went to

:07:46. > :07:51.Scandinavia where this eye-catching piece of hard we wear is a tried

:07:51. > :07:57.and tested. It is meant to break up the hard days which closed the

:07:57. > :08:02.likes of the mortar ways two years ago. I am confident that we have

:08:02. > :08:07.learned lessons from where we were two years ago. We are giving

:08:07. > :08:12.advance notice to the public to prepare. We are putting together

:08:12. > :08:20.leaflets and information packs for the public from police website so

:08:20. > :08:26.that nobody is caught unawares as some of us where two years ago. The

:08:26. > :08:29.message is reinforced by this huge and video.

:08:29. > :08:31.The Spanish company that owns Scottish Power is planning to sell

:08:31. > :08:35.a stake in its distribution and grid network.The BBC understands

:08:35. > :08:37.that Iberdrola wants to share the cost of as much as �8 billion of

:08:37. > :08:44.planned investments to upgrade the electricity system in the south of

:08:44. > :08:47.Scotland, North West England and Wales. It is understood there are

:08:47. > :08:50.no plans to change the way the division of Scottish Power is

:08:50. > :08:55.managed and no plans to sell any part of the company's retail or

:08:55. > :09:05.renewable energy divisions. You are watching Reporting Scotland

:09:05. > :09:07.

:09:07. > :09:10.from the BBC. Still to come... The Queen takes a look at a cairn

:09:10. > :09:12.at Ballater, near Balmoral, built by residents for her Diamond

:09:12. > :09:14.Jubilee. And in sportm, we will hear from

:09:15. > :09:17.the only Scot involved in this year's Ryder Cup match between

:09:17. > :09:19.Europe and the USA on the eve of the event.

:09:20. > :09:27.And Celtic offer half a dozen first-team players new contracts.

:09:27. > :09:32.Stay tuned for the details. Good joined Neal later for the fool

:09:32. > :09:34.weather forecast for the end of the week and the weekend.

:09:35. > :09:37.The difference between the NHS north and south of the Border will

:09:37. > :09:42.become even more stark in six months time, when radical changes

:09:42. > :09:44.to the NHS in England come into effect. The changes in England have

:09:44. > :09:50.attracted a lot of opposition, but some think Scotland's reluctance to

:09:51. > :09:53.change is bad news for patients. As part of a day of special reports on

:09:53. > :10:03.the changing NHS, our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford has

:10:03. > :10:12.

:10:12. > :10:22.been investigating. She asked her GP to centre somewhere else, but

:10:22. > :10:23.

:10:23. > :10:33.that was not as easy as first thought. The treatment is

:10:33. > :10:39.

:10:39. > :10:45.marvellous. If she had lived in England, she would dub been able to

:10:45. > :10:52.go where she wanted. Now, GPs in England will have even more power.

:10:52. > :10:59.The likes of this practice in West Leicestershire will be able to run

:10:59. > :11:04.services. No will get a feel of what is working well and what does

:11:04. > :11:10.not work well. We want to do a lot more. We want a greater health

:11:10. > :11:15.service and the idea of putting GPs in charge is a very good one.

:11:15. > :11:21.it radical reform has attracted a lot of opposition in England, but

:11:21. > :11:24.there are some in Scotland feels services here are being left behind.

:11:24. > :11:31.The stock to build in Dalkeith would love to have some of the

:11:32. > :11:35.options available to doctors and England. Often, my only option is

:11:35. > :11:44.to admit some went to hospital, and that should really be the last

:11:44. > :11:50.thing that I would want to do. I would rather have influence and the

:11:50. > :11:54.wish social care is provided. is an even more radical plan. The

:11:55. > :11:59.money for death's care is paid directly into her bank account, so

:11:59. > :12:09.she can organise a plan which will suit her. I went for three hours a

:12:09. > :12:13.day from one form, with one carer, which the other firms were doing

:12:13. > :12:20.with two or more. Their attitude was, how can we help you, how can

:12:20. > :12:25.we help you get better? Despite that, she is planning to leave

:12:25. > :12:29.Dumfries and moved to England. She thinks the service there will be

:12:29. > :12:32.far better care. A trial has heard how an epileptic

:12:32. > :12:34.man suffered a fit shortly after being hit by a police officer.

:12:34. > :12:37.Constable Josephine Skilling told Kilmarnock Sheriff Court how she

:12:37. > :12:41.had grabbed her colleague's leg in an effort to prevent PC Peter

:12:41. > :12:44.Cullen making contact with prisoner William Cree's body. Mr Cree was

:12:44. > :12:48.later found collapsed in a cell at Saltcoats police station with blood

:12:48. > :12:50.over his head. Constable Cullen denies assaulting Mr Cree to his

:12:50. > :12:59.severe injury and permanent disfigurement in November last year,

:12:59. > :13:02.claiming self-defence. A Lewis garage has stunned and

:13:02. > :13:06.delighted island motorists by slashing the cost of petrol and

:13:06. > :13:09.diesel by nine pence a litre. Fuel prices in the Western Isles are

:13:09. > :13:12.among the highest in the country and have prompted a number of

:13:12. > :13:22.official enquiries. The forecourt owner says he has managed the price

:13:22. > :13:26.

:13:26. > :13:36.Scotland's second orkest tra has been given the go-ahead in Glasgow

:13:36. > :13:45.

:13:45. > :13:54.This was the moment when musical history was made. Children from an

:13:54. > :14:01.estate in Stirling playing alongside the Venezualan musicians

:14:01. > :14:05.who inspired them. Today came news of a new orchestra

:14:05. > :14:10.in a new neighbourhood, the Governhill area of glass has always

:14:10. > :14:15.been a focus for immigrants, Irish Pakistani and Roma recently. If all

:14:15. > :14:22.goes to plan, big noise Governhill will be set up here with lots of

:14:22. > :14:26.local children involved. There are over 50lapbgs wadges spoken in the

:14:26. > :14:30.area -- 50 languages spoken in the area. That's incredible. This will

:14:30. > :14:36.bring the children together and then it will spill over to the

:14:36. > :14:38.parents. It's bound to. And it's giving these children an

:14:38. > :14:43.opportunity that they wouldn't otherwise have.

:14:43. > :14:48.Funding the scheme is Complex and there's still money to be raised.

:14:48. > :14:55.The council agreed this morning to endorse the orchestra for the long-

:14:55. > :14:58.term. We have a lot of people working on this. We are not looking

:14:58. > :15:01.to spend anything extra at the start of this at this time. We are

:15:01. > :15:05.also looking at the schools which are already open in the area and

:15:05. > :15:10.hundreds of youngsters in the primary schools and nursery having

:15:10. > :15:14.this open to the area. There's still some money to be raised

:15:14. > :15:17.publicly and privately, but they've already started recruiting staff.

:15:17. > :15:20.By next spring, they hope to be targeting children in the local

:15:20. > :15:27.primary schools to form the orchestra. By that point, this

:15:27. > :15:31.community will be ready to make a big noise.

:15:31. > :15:35.Also in the news across the country this Thursday:

:15:35. > :15:38.Glasgow City Council is expecting to make almost �50 million worth of

:15:38. > :15:42.cuts over the next two years. Councillors are set to decide in

:15:42. > :15:48.the coming months what this will mean for jobs and services.

:15:48. > :15:52.A man whose wife and two children died in a car crash near Montrose

:15:52. > :15:58.says he's frustrated at delays in making mobile cranes subject to

:15:58. > :16:02.MoTs. Barry Copeland says he's been told suggestion could be years away.

:16:02. > :16:07.The crash was caused by oil leaking from a crane. Final plans for a new

:16:07. > :16:13.town in the North East have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council.

:16:13. > :16:19.It would be situated to the south of abouter doon. Initial plans

:16:20. > :16:23.propose conducting 4,000 houses. Conservative MSPs and the Japanese

:16:23. > :16:30.Consul-General have been promoting cricket at Holyrood. It's sending

:16:30. > :16:36.cricket equipment to areas in Japan devastated by the recent tsunami.

:16:36. > :16:40.Logan air's chairman is leaving his post after 36 years. He'll still be

:16:40. > :16:43.involved with the airline and will become its first President. The

:16:43. > :16:50.sculpture planned to mark the Scotland England border at Gretna

:16:50. > :16:53.has been awarded �50,000 of funding from Scotland. It will cost �4

:16:53. > :16:59.million and should be completed in two years' time. There's more from

:16:59. > :17:07.your area and the latest News 24 hours a day on BBC Scotland's

:17:07. > :17:12.website. The Queen in the region this

:17:12. > :17:17.evening viewing a special cairn marking her Diamond Jubilee. The

:17:17. > :17:24.memorial's taken months of work. Colin is there for us now.

:17:24. > :17:30.Thank you very much indeed. Behind me here is the Queen Elizabeth II

:17:30. > :17:36.Jubilee cairn bang in the centre of Ballater. The Queen left earlier,

:17:36. > :17:42.but people are still taking pictures of it. It's made up of

:17:42. > :17:45.some 60 stones marking her Golden Jubilee years. Within the last ten

:17:45. > :17:48.minutes, the Queen has been here greeted by hundreds of well hch

:17:48. > :17:55.wishers and she's been taking the opportunity to have a lack at this

:17:55. > :17:59.cairn which was the idea of two local businessmen, Gordon Bruce and

:17:59. > :18:03.Alastair Cassie to mark her Diamond Jubilee in spectacular fashion.

:18:03. > :18:08.They've been out on the hills with a lot of help from people locally

:18:08. > :18:11.getting the stones here and putting them on the Jubilee cairn.

:18:11. > :18:16.Certainly the Queen seemed very impressed by their work and what

:18:16. > :18:20.they'd been doing. It really is quite an impressive monument,

:18:20. > :18:26.memorial to mark her Diamond Jubilee year and as she left somen

:18:26. > :18:32.the minutes or so ago, she went through a cordon of fire torchs

:18:32. > :18:37.very much as Queen Victoria did way back in her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

:18:37. > :18:43.So this has been rather an informal occasion here really in Ballater

:18:43. > :18:49.and it's the last public event for the Queen in what has really been a

:18:49. > :18:56.spectacular Diamond Jubilee year. The Harry Potter author has

:18:56. > :19:01.released her first novel for adults. It's the Edinburgh-based writer's

:19:01. > :19:05.first book in five years. It was kept under wraps until this moring.

:19:05. > :19:09.So far it's had a mixed response from critics. No mixed response for

:19:10. > :19:14.David, it's all good. Here he is. I get reviews all the time, good

:19:14. > :19:19.and bad ones. The build-up is almost over for this year's Ryder

:19:19. > :19:22.Cup match between Europe and the US. The only Scot taking part, Paul

:19:22. > :19:26.Lawrie and his team-mates are hoping to make Chicago their kind

:19:26. > :19:32.of town over the next three days. 40,000 fans mostly cheering on the

:19:32. > :19:42.home team expected each day to witness one of sport's greatest

:19:42. > :19:44.

:19:44. > :19:51.shows. Our reporter has a front row seat.

:19:51. > :19:55.Show time is almost upon us here in Chicago.

:19:55. > :20:01.Ready the shine. And the audience - well, you be the judge.

:20:01. > :20:05.Of course one of our own is traeding the Ryder Cup boards again.

:20:05. > :20:09.13 years after his opening performance. Great to get here and

:20:09. > :20:13.get on the plane, get into the room and get your kit up on the rail and

:20:13. > :20:19.try it all on and go and get some bits and pieces because I'm fatter

:20:19. > :20:22.than I used to be, but it's all good. Those sharing the stage with

:20:22. > :20:26.Lawrie say it's good to get him back. It's been a great effort.

:20:27. > :20:31.He's played very, very well the last couple of years. His goal this

:20:31. > :20:34.year was to make the Ryder Cup team and he has. You know, it would be

:20:34. > :20:41.great to see him play well here and obviously get a few points for the

:20:41. > :20:44.team. The fans make this event like no other in golf. Galleries like

:20:44. > :20:49.old-fashioned football terraces. Handling will pressure will be key

:20:49. > :20:54.to European chances. Quiet, tranquil, almost serene. Yet if any

:20:54. > :20:58.of the games this week go the distance and come up 18, it will be

:20:58. > :21:04.anything but. Imagine you have a put to win the

:21:04. > :21:08.Ryder Cup - what would that feel like? Every player would dream

:21:08. > :21:12.about that. It would be pretty nerve-racking but pretty cool to be

:21:12. > :21:18.in that situation. The curtain is about to go up on the biggest show

:21:18. > :21:24.in town. Prepare to be dazzled by the best in the business.

:21:24. > :21:32.Celtic are in talks with six first team players about extending their

:21:32. > :21:36.contracts there. The manager says they are speaking to the players as

:21:36. > :21:40.he feels they need to be rewarded for their efforts over recent

:21:40. > :21:48.seasons. It's always a great incentive for the players to keep

:21:48. > :21:53.improving and it's no different from many other clubs. The likes of

:21:53. > :21:59.Mulgrew and Matthews and Forrest and Hooper, they've played brill

:21:59. > :22:03.wrantly for me over the years and I want to reward them -- brilliantly.

:22:03. > :22:10.Ally McCoist says the win is a small step in the long road back to

:22:10. > :22:14.where he wass Motherwell to be. It was their first game since Rangers

:22:14. > :22:17.joined the Third Division and was their biggest test. The club was

:22:17. > :22:22.leading the Scottish Premier League this time last year. Now they are

:22:22. > :22:29.not even top of the Third Division. Last night, they'd find out perhaps

:22:29. > :22:35.just how far their team had truly fallen. The answer - maybe not that

:22:35. > :22:43.far. Rangers swept the SPL leaders mors Well aside in the League Cup.

:22:43. > :22:53.-- Motherwell. COMMENTATOR: Rangers have the

:22:53. > :23:01.

:23:01. > :23:06.Incredible. No doubting how much the win means to the Rangers player.

:23:06. > :23:11.It means a lot to their manager too. He says don't read too much

:23:11. > :23:16.significance into it. It's the same group of boys that

:23:16. > :23:21.are getting stick, rightly so, for not performing well away from home

:23:21. > :23:26.in the SPL, but we've got miles to go in terms of where we want to be

:23:26. > :23:31.and return to. Tonight is a small step in what will be a long road.

:23:31. > :23:35.Rangers will soon have the Hans to take another small step on that

:23:35. > :23:39.journey. Seven other team goes into the quarter-final draw are all from

:23:39. > :23:44.the Premier League. Aberdeen are one of the clubs joining Rangers in

:23:44. > :23:47.the quarter-final draw which will be made a week today. They beat

:23:47. > :23:52.Dunfermline last night. The only goal of the match coming three

:23:52. > :23:56.minutes into added time from Vernon, his first of the season. If anyone

:23:56. > :24:01.deserved the goal it's Vernon. He's worked tirelessly throughout the

:24:01. > :24:08.season without any luck. The big transformation in our team was when

:24:08. > :24:12.Anderson came on. He's a brilliant Captain. His attitude was

:24:12. > :24:15.infectious. When Russell came on to the pitch, the team was transformed

:24:15. > :24:18.and I didn't think there was a chance of us losing when he was in

:24:18. > :24:21.the team. Back to you, Sally.

:24:21. > :24:27.Christopher is here now with the weather forecast.

:24:27. > :24:37.We've got the sixth wettest summer on record, ice-breakers lining up

:24:37. > :24:40.for the winter. Anything you can for the winter. Anything you can

:24:40. > :24:44.possibly tell us to cheer us up? Average autumnal weather I'm afraid.

:24:44. > :24:47.We've been watching the weather front cross the country bringing us

:24:47. > :24:51.cloud and rain. We can see it clearly there. The cloud works its

:24:51. > :24:56.way in and the rain comes out of it. Over the next few hours, the rain

:24:56. > :25:00.band will continue to work its way eastwards crossing the country from

:25:00. > :25:03.west-to-east, reaching out into the North Sea in the early hours. A

:25:04. > :25:07.rash of showers in the western parts of the country with clear

:25:07. > :25:11.skies for the likes of rural Aberdeenshire where we could be

:25:11. > :25:14.down to four or five. It will be windy, particularly on the West

:25:14. > :25:18.Coast with the strong west to south-westerly breeze. The showers

:25:18. > :25:21.still with us tomorrow. Some fairly blustery. The further east you are,

:25:21. > :25:25.generally drier and brighter, but one or two showers will work their

:25:25. > :25:30.way over in that breeze which will still be strong at times. By the

:25:30. > :25:34.middle of the afternoon across the far north, it's a showery story in

:25:34. > :25:39.the Western Isles and across much of the mainland a mixture of

:25:39. > :25:42.sunshine and showers. The further east that you are, a little warmer,

:25:42. > :25:45.but if you are out and about in the wind, it will be feeling rather

:25:45. > :25:48.cool. Sunshine and showers also the story for the southern half of the

:25:48. > :25:52.country. The rest of the afternoon and into the evening, the wind

:25:52. > :25:57.start to pick up and touch gale force in the north-west. The

:25:57. > :26:01.showers continue, merging at times to form longer periods of rain.

:26:01. > :26:05.It's part of this area of low pressure which continues to move

:26:05. > :26:09.across stand knave ya. The low pushing across Shetland.

:26:09. > :26:15.Saturday, the showers still with us, particularly in the west and north.

:26:15. > :26:21.At times with the north-westerly, they'll work into the north coast

:26:21. > :26:25.of Aberdeenshire. Then it turns wet overnight as we head towards Sunday.

:26:25. > :26:30.It will be a wet and windy start to Sunday morning.

:26:30. > :26:34.Not particularly pleasant, but the good news is that it moves through

:26:34. > :26:38.quickly. By the afternoon, we are back to sunshine and showers.

:26:38. > :26:42.Temperatures up to mid teens with the south-westerly flow. Tomorrow,

:26:42. > :26:46.sunshine and showers for all. Thank you very much. Now a summary

:26:46. > :26:49.of the top stories: Three seer yos fires in Edinburgh

:26:49. > :26:53.in less than 24 hours have left two people dead and injured three

:26:53. > :26:56.others including a baby girl. One woman is fighting for her life in

:26:56. > :27:01.hospital and another has serious burns.

:27:01. > :27:04.The young couple have been swept to their deaths in a swollen river in

:27:04. > :27:08.North Wales. Police in Wrexham believe they may have been trying

:27:08. > :27:11.to rescue a dog. Flooding continues to cause problems in Yorkshire and

:27:11. > :27:16.the North East of England. Scotland escaped the worst of the

:27:16. > :27:20.storm that hit the UK, but farmers say this year's weather means their

:27:20. > :27:24.cereal harvests are disastrous and depressing. It's been the sixth

:27:24. > :27:27.wettest Scottish summer on record. Social workers, police and

:27:27. > :27:32.prosecutors have been heavily criticised for missing