:00:17. > :00:21.Tonight on Reporting Scotland: The mother of a missing financial
:00:21. > :00:27.adviser breaks down as she tells a murder trial of the last time she
:00:27. > :00:31.saw her daughter. The UK Government reveals his plans
:00:31. > :00:36.for a high-speed rail in the North of England, but what will they need
:00:36. > :00:39.for us? I will be reporting from Edinburgh's Waverley Station.
:00:39. > :00:42.Claims that a firm charged with helping the unemployed back into
:00:42. > :00:47.work called its clients lying thieves.
:00:47. > :00:51.The sudden fear to closure that has led to a drama on the streets of St
:00:51. > :00:55.Andrews. And the gift of a lucky penny that
:00:55. > :01:05.one little St Mirren fan believes Hoult the Buddies' weekend win over
:01:05. > :01:15.Celtic. I thought I should give it to my teacher -- to them so that
:01:15. > :01:20.they could win. The mother of a missing financial adviser has
:01:20. > :01:26.broken down in court at the trial of four men accused of killing her.
:01:26. > :01:30.She said, I keep hoping she is going to come back.
:01:30. > :01:35.Financial adviser Lynda Spence has not been seen since April, 2011. It
:01:35. > :01:39.was claimed by prosecutors she had been murdered. In May of that Lear,
:01:39. > :01:45.she was reported missing at her mother and father made an emotional
:01:45. > :01:49.appeal at a police news conference. If you are listening, please call
:01:50. > :01:52.to let us know you are safe and well. Today in court, Lynda's
:01:52. > :01:58.mother said she had a close relationship with her daughter, she
:01:58. > :02:02.was more like a friend, she said. I was over-protected, I was a nutcase
:02:02. > :02:09.mum, she admitted, saying she was in constant touch by telephone and
:02:09. > :02:14.text message. Twice, she broke down in the witness box as she told the
:02:14. > :02:18.solicitor general, who was prosecuting, I helmet had the one
:02:18. > :02:22.Lassie, she was my life. I keep hoping she is going to come back.
:02:22. > :02:27.She said that Lynda had come to her house on her birthday, on April
:02:27. > :02:31.13th, but seemed tense. Normally, the family went for a meal, but
:02:31. > :02:38.Lynda said she was busy. Later, takes messages suggested she was in
:02:38. > :02:43.London. Mrs Spence will resume her evidence in the morning.
:02:43. > :02:45.The UK Government has claimed its decision to push ahead with a new
:02:45. > :02:50.high-speed rail murder can England will deliver a major benefits to
:02:50. > :02:53.Scotland. There are no firm plans for a high-speed lines to be dealt
:02:53. > :02:58.further north than Leeds or Manchester. David Mellor is at
:02:58. > :03:03.Waverley Station in Edinburgh. David, Harwell Scotland benefit if
:03:03. > :03:07.the lines will not cross the border? -- Harwell Scotland
:03:07. > :03:11.benefit? There will be some practical and economic benefits,
:03:11. > :03:15.but clearly these will be on a smaller scale than those delivered
:03:15. > :03:22.by a UK wide high speed rail network, which did include Glasgow
:03:22. > :03:26.and Edinburgh. HS2 will result in shorter journey times for Scots
:03:26. > :03:34.travellers heading south. That is because cross-border services will
:03:34. > :03:37.be able to pick up speed when they reached the. HS2 will connect with
:03:37. > :03:43.the West Coast Main Line. High- speed trains can then continue at
:03:43. > :03:48.regular speeds to places such as Preston, Carlisle, Glasgow and
:03:48. > :03:52.Edinburgh. I am working with counterparts in Scotland on their
:03:52. > :03:59.aspirations for a high-speed rail. I have already set out a long-term
:03:59. > :04:02.ambition to get journeys to Scotland below the three hours.
:04:02. > :04:08.Scottish Government and business organisations, what do they have to
:04:08. > :04:12.say? The Scottish Chambers of Commerce say it is vital that
:04:12. > :04:16.Glasgow and Edinburgh are included in this UK wide, high-speed rail
:04:16. > :04:21.network. The Scottish Government says it is doing everything it can
:04:21. > :04:25.to ensure that does indeed happen. For example, it is pushing ahead
:04:25. > :04:30.with proposals for a high-speed line linking Edinburgh and Glasgow
:04:30. > :04:37.on economic grounds. But ministers here say high-speed rail could
:04:37. > :04:41.deliver other important benefits as well. We also understand, as does
:04:41. > :04:48.the hall of the organisation behind us, the real benefits come when it
:04:48. > :04:51.comes all the way to Scotland. It is important that we have that. I
:04:51. > :04:54.think the Scottish Government is doing what it can to make sure we
:04:54. > :05:02.have the basis for a high-speed rail network joined up with the
:05:02. > :05:05.rest of the UK. High-speed rail will not reach the North of England
:05:05. > :05:10.for another 20 years, it will be even longer before passengers here
:05:10. > :05:14.at Waverley or indeed in Glasgow could bought a high-speed rail
:05:14. > :05:21.service and travel to London, so I am afraid to say, I suspect you and
:05:21. > :05:25.I will be using her senior citizens' railcards.
:05:25. > :05:29.Staying with transport, one of the two passenger airlines operating
:05:30. > :05:33.out of Prestwick Airport is pulling out. Wizz Air, which links Scotland
:05:33. > :05:37.to Warsaw and Gdansk in Poland, has announced it is shifting from its
:05:37. > :05:42.Ayrshire base to use Glasgow Airport instead. That leaves
:05:42. > :05:45.Ryanair as the on my schedule passenger airline using Prestwick.
:05:45. > :05:49.You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the
:05:49. > :05:54.programme: The prehistoric crocodile that has been discovered
:05:54. > :05:58.in Glasgow, even though it has been in a museum for a century.
:05:58. > :06:02.In sport, Kelly Brown is named as Scotland's captain for the Calcutta
:06:02. > :06:07.Cup clash at Twickenham but he is warned that performances must be
:06:07. > :06:12.good enough. And we will reveal the real reason some men and managed to
:06:12. > :06:16.hold their luck again Celtic. -- St Mirren managed.
:06:16. > :06:20.A BBC investigation has found that a Scottish company delivering the
:06:20. > :06:24.UK Government's flagship welfare- to-work programme has been accused
:06:24. > :06:31.of referring to clients as lying thieves. Triage Central admits the
:06:31. > :06:33.term was used in a training session, but says it was a one-off.
:06:33. > :06:37.True dicentra has paid to find jobs for people facing long-term
:06:37. > :06:41.unemployment. One of many private companies delivering the
:06:41. > :06:46.Government's Work programme. It claims to have achieved one of the
:06:46. > :06:54.highest employment success rates in the country. Lynda Smith worked as
:06:54. > :06:59.an employment adviser in Aberdeen. If some of the clients you were mad
:06:59. > :07:04.were too difficult to put into employment, what would happen?
:07:04. > :07:09.would be put on telephone interviews. So they did not have to
:07:09. > :07:13.come into the centre. Just to make sure that there was this contact
:07:13. > :07:17.made, so they could tick a box to say that they are still on the work
:07:17. > :07:23.programme. They would call it parking, that was the word that was
:07:23. > :07:31.used. Triage is Tony Wilson's work provider. After 11 months of the
:07:31. > :07:39.programme, Tony says he has only seen his adviser three times.
:07:39. > :07:44.adviser said, Harlow, just checking how you are doing. -- hello. We
:07:44. > :07:54.will see you next year. Was this an unusual phone call? Had you have
:07:54. > :07:58.
:07:58. > :08:08.one like this before? No, it was bizarre. Former employee it Lynda
:08:08. > :08:10.
:08:10. > :08:18.Smith also Tommy something more shocking. -- told me. LTVs. That is
:08:18. > :08:24.how they were referred to. Lying, feeding... T these were clients buy
:08:24. > :08:27.you had been employed to help. help back into employment. We have
:08:27. > :08:37.spoken to a number of former Triage Central employees who claim they
:08:37. > :08:53.
:08:53. > :08:59.also heard this term been used. In A Select Committee inquiry into how
:08:59. > :09:05.well the programme is going will report back in April.
:09:05. > :09:10.You can see more on that tonight on BBC One Scotland at 8:30pm.
:09:10. > :09:12.People who live or work along parts of the East Coast, including the
:09:12. > :09:17.firths of Forth and Tay, can get precise warnings of potential
:09:17. > :09:21.flooding in their area. There is concern that major industrial sites
:09:21. > :09:25.like the Grange Road oil refinery remain under threat of flood. Fiona
:09:25. > :09:28.Walker reports. Today, they have taken the sitting
:09:28. > :09:32.room to the water, by what the Government is really concerned
:09:32. > :09:36.about is when the water reaches the sitting room. Leaving destruction
:09:36. > :09:42.in its wake. They want everyone to know about the new tidal flood
:09:42. > :09:46.warnings which are now in place on the East Coast. Warnings help save
:09:47. > :09:51.lives and property. They are no barrier to the sea. An expert has
:09:51. > :09:58.said there are major concerns about the Forth estuary. The greatest
:09:58. > :10:02.being drained her. 40% of the UK's oil goes through the refinery.
:10:02. > :10:09.know the Grangemouth does need flood defences. Not just the
:10:09. > :10:14.flooding of Grangemouth, it is the contamination prospect from damage
:10:14. > :10:19.to tankers, which might resultant oil being spread over the river.
:10:19. > :10:24.a day like this, it may seem unthinkable that a storm could
:10:24. > :10:28.cause water to come right up the Firth of Forth and cause
:10:28. > :10:33.catastrophic flood damage. We have been warned, perhaps we should be
:10:33. > :10:37.thinking the unthinkable. 60 years ago, there was a three-metre surf
:10:37. > :10:43.which hit the Age UK, killing around 500 people. And even more on
:10:43. > :10:48.mainland Europe. In 1999, a five metre surge was also recorded in
:10:48. > :10:53.the North Sea. It hit Denmark. So, do we need to plan for this in
:10:53. > :10:59.Scotland? We need to understand that risk to a greater degree. So
:10:59. > :11:03.we will be running those scenarios, of a major coastal search, what
:11:03. > :11:06.would it look like, what areas would get flooded? We have seen the
:11:06. > :11:11.devastation that flooding causes. The Scottish Government is having
:11:11. > :11:20.to prioritise. We are not protecting strategically important
:11:20. > :11:23.sites and people's homes. The SNP has called for talks to
:11:23. > :11:26.start now on how defence and security would operate in Scotland
:11:26. > :11:31.was to become independent. The Deputy First Minister, Nicola
:11:31. > :11:36.Sturgeon, was giving evidence to the UK Government's Foreign Affairs
:11:36. > :11:40.Committee in Edinburgh. They are investigating the foreign policy in
:11:40. > :11:45.the -- implications of independence. Niall O'Gallagher was there for us.
:11:45. > :11:50.What questions to the committee have? They were in Edinburgh today
:11:50. > :11:54.to look at the implications of foreign policy and independence,
:11:54. > :11:58.not just the Scotland, but the UK as a whole. Nicola Sturgeon was
:11:58. > :12:00.quizzed on the practicalities and costs of setting up intelligence-
:12:01. > :12:04.gathering services for an independent Scotland. She said they
:12:04. > :12:08.would hope to work closely with London in the event of independence
:12:08. > :12:12.on those issues. They would also have to be talks on Trident, the
:12:12. > :12:18.Scottish Government is committed to getting rid of nuclear weapons on
:12:18. > :12:25.the Clyde. Nicola Sturgeon said that could be done within two years.
:12:25. > :12:28.Well, I have already cited the CND work as a strident could be safely
:12:28. > :12:32.decommissioned and moved over a three-year period. We will have
:12:32. > :12:38.sensible discussions about that time scale with the UK,. On the
:12:38. > :12:41.basis that it is about speedy and safe removal. There is no reason
:12:41. > :12:48.that we could not start at this stage having sensible discussions
:12:48. > :12:52.about what the options were. Whether on the issue of Trident or
:12:52. > :12:55.wider security issues, the Europe Minister in the UK Government told
:12:55. > :13:00.the committee today there were been all talks ahead of next year's
:13:00. > :13:03.referendum vote, that members of this committee come from parties
:13:03. > :13:06.that do not support independence possibly expect the report will be
:13:06. > :13:09.full of questions, the Scottish Government says they will published
:13:09. > :13:14.their answers to those questions in the run-up to the independence
:13:14. > :13:18.white paper. I am the independence referendum will be the summit of
:13:18. > :13:20.the discussion tonight in a special debate on Newsnight Scotland.
:13:20. > :13:25.Here is Glenn Campbell to tell us more.
:13:25. > :13:30.I will be here with politicians, pundits and the multicultural cross
:13:30. > :13:33.section of Scottish society, to debate Scotland's future on the
:13:33. > :13:38.road to the independence referendum. That is a special edition of
:13:38. > :13:41.Newsnight Scotland, over on BBC Two from 10:30pm.
:13:41. > :13:43.Now let's take a look at some other stories from across Scotland this
:13:43. > :13:45.Monday: The Fisheries Secretary, Richard
:13:45. > :13:53.Lochhead, has called for an independent mediator to be drafted
:13:53. > :13:58.in to help end the long-running dispute over mackerel quotas.
:13:58. > :14:02.couple of years, this stock will be in dangers. We have Europe putting
:14:02. > :14:06.in place sanctions, but we also have to look at the negotiations. I
:14:06. > :14:10.think by inviting an international, neutral, independent mediator, it
:14:10. > :14:13.might help move things forward. Two teenagers have been reported to
:14:13. > :14:16.the Procurator Fiscal after claims that boys on bicycles held onto a
:14:16. > :14:18.passenger train as it pulled out of a Highlands station. British
:14:18. > :14:23.Transport Police described the alleged behaviour in Kingussie as
:14:23. > :14:25."surfing". Restoring a rail link for towns in
:14:25. > :14:28.Aberdeenshire is to be investigated. Local councillors are keen to
:14:28. > :14:38.explore options for a rail line taking in Ellon, Peterhead and
:14:38. > :14:38.
:14:38. > :14:43.Fraserburgh. This is what remains of the old railway line which
:14:43. > :14:47.closed to passengers in the 1960s as part of the Dr Beeching cuts.
:14:47. > :14:49.But now councillors are asking the transport authority to look at the
:14:49. > :14:52.feasibility and costs of reopening the line.
:14:52. > :14:55.Tributes have been paid to a leading Scottish farmer who died
:14:55. > :14:58.after falling from a shed roof at the weekend. Willie Davidson from
:14:58. > :15:02.Poldean Farm, near Moffat, was a respected cattle breeder and show
:15:02. > :15:07.exhibitor. Mr Davidson rebuilt his herd after it was wiped out in the
:15:07. > :15:10.2001 foot and mouth outbreak. A six-week-old seal pup,
:15:10. > :15:15.disorientated during a a storm, is recovering after workers at
:15:15. > :15:18.Cairnryan ferry terminal found him in the harbour car park. He was put
:15:18. > :15:20.in the boot of a car while they waited for the SSPCA, but by the
:15:20. > :15:24.time animal welfare officers arrived, he'd somehow lodged
:15:24. > :15:27.himself on the dashboard. The seal pup is now being looked after in a
:15:27. > :15:32.special pen, and when he's strong enough, he'll be returned to the
:15:32. > :15:36.sea. And there are more stories from
:15:36. > :15:46.your area - and all the latest news, 24 hours a day on BBC Scotland's
:15:46. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:54.Tobermory lifeboat has towed a stricken fishing vessel to safety
:15:54. > :15:57.after a dramatic 11-hour rescue in gale force winds and heavy seas.
:15:57. > :16:01.During the operation, which started off the isle of Coll, the tow line
:16:01. > :16:04.snapped twice and the fishing boat ran onto rocks. The lifeboat crew
:16:04. > :16:12.re-established the tow and guided the fishing vessel back to
:16:12. > :16:15.Tobermory. The show must go on. Campaigners have taken to the
:16:15. > :16:18.streets of St Andrews to protest about the closure of the town's
:16:18. > :16:20.Byre Theatre. The theatre closed on Friday when its board decided
:16:20. > :16:27.voluntary liquidation was the only option to its financial woes. Our
:16:27. > :16:31.arts correspondent Pauline Mclean reports.
:16:31. > :16:34.It was the biggest lottery grant for theatre at the time and the
:16:34. > :16:38.Byre Theatre promised big things but a loss of revenue funding to
:16:38. > :16:43.make years ago let things strained despite a healthy box-office and
:16:43. > :16:47.cutbacks, it was struggling to cover costs. Today, its chairman
:16:47. > :16:52.said they had explored or the options. We did everything we could
:16:52. > :16:58.to restructure, more use of volunteers, franchising and the
:16:58. > :17:07.catering side and various things, but it hasn't been enough.
:17:07. > :17:11.public's estate -- subsidy is unsustainable? Mayor. -- no. It has
:17:11. > :17:16.left many organisations in the lurch, not least for the jazz
:17:16. > :17:21.festival which has had to relocate concerts. 7:30am on Saturday, I had
:17:21. > :17:25.an e-mail from the lady who runs the Poetry Festival, in the same
:17:25. > :17:30.predicament. Lots of people in the same predicament but we are in the
:17:30. > :17:34.shop and because our event is this weekend. The theatre was weeks away
:17:34. > :17:39.from becoming part of the trust run by Fife council and people took to
:17:39. > :17:43.the streets to show their support. It is impossible to imagine St
:17:43. > :17:49.Andrews without the theatre. The new building is such a fantastic
:17:49. > :17:52.place to go. We will have no venue to go into. There are so many shows
:17:52. > :17:57.bringing money in. What shocked people most is the speed with which
:17:57. > :18:05.this has happened. This than a week ago, it was host a major award
:18:05. > :18:09.ceremony for Creative Scotland. Now Let's get the latest sports news
:18:09. > :18:12.now and Dougie has our round-up. Kelly Brown has been retained as
:18:12. > :18:14.captain of the Scotland rugby team for their opening match of this
:18:14. > :18:18.year's Six Nations competition against England at Twickenham but
:18:18. > :18:21.maybe not for the full campaign. The interim head coach, Scott
:18:21. > :18:31.Johnson, says he wants his captain for the Six Nations to be picked on
:18:31. > :18:35.merit. It was monsoon conditions and a
:18:35. > :18:37.light hurricane thrown in for the good measure. The man tasked with
:18:37. > :18:47.leading Scotland through the impending stormy waters of
:18:47. > :18:48.
:18:48. > :18:52.Twickenham this Saturday it is Kelly Brown. There is no doubt that
:18:52. > :18:58.when I go out of that tunnel, it is going to be exciting but when the
:18:58. > :19:04.anthems are over, we will get down to business. He was captain of the
:19:04. > :19:07.autumn's series which ended in the departure of the coach. The code
:19:07. > :19:14.has warned that if performances are not up to scratch, somebody else
:19:14. > :19:24.will get the call. The captaincy, he is the captain at the time. I'm
:19:24. > :19:27.
:19:27. > :19:33.not going to be held so tightly to that. Going forward, we want
:19:33. > :19:36.captain see for merit. England are the holders of the Calcutta Cup and
:19:36. > :19:40.Scotland have and won at Twickenham for 30 years so Johnson has a big
:19:40. > :19:46.job on his hands. How would he measure of success at the end of
:19:46. > :19:51.the campaign? Let's stop talking about it. I can't sit there and
:19:51. > :19:55.tell you win, win, win. I just went! The question of who is strong
:19:55. > :19:58.enough to feature in the starting 15 to face England will be answered
:19:58. > :20:00.tomorrow. Sport Nation returns tomorrow
:20:00. > :20:04.evening. The programme is devoted entirely to Scotland's preparations
:20:04. > :20:07.for the Six Nations championship with exclusive behind the scenes
:20:07. > :20:09.access. Sport Nation - Six Nations Special, tomorrow at seven o'clock
:20:09. > :20:13.BBC Two Scotland. Scottish football clubs could have
:20:13. > :20:16.the all clear by Thursday to radically alter their league set up.
:20:16. > :20:19.The Premier League have finally, definitely, agreed on a new make-up
:20:19. > :20:24.of two divisions of 12 which would split into three leagues of eight
:20:24. > :20:27.during the season and one bottom tier of 18. If the plans are
:20:27. > :20:36.ratified by the Scottish Football League on Thursday, it could be in
:20:36. > :20:40.place next season. We are in a situation where the SPL
:20:40. > :20:43.clubs they are unanimous about the way forward. It is down to the
:20:43. > :20:45.Scottish Football League clubs to decide what they want.
:20:45. > :20:48.Dundee United hope to announce Peter Houston's replacement as
:20:48. > :20:51.manager within the next few days. Houston departed today despite the
:20:51. > :20:57.club previously saying he'd leave at the end of the season. Falkirk's
:20:57. > :21:03.Steven Pressley is favourite to follow in his footsteps.
:21:03. > :21:06.I know it works on a continent very well. When the coach says he is
:21:06. > :21:10.stepping down at the end of the season. It is may be different in
:21:10. > :21:17.the UK. We are not used to that kind of thing so we've decided to
:21:17. > :21:20.move on and that is what we will see, and we will see things
:21:20. > :21:22.progress. It'll be Hearts against St Mirren
:21:23. > :21:25.in the League Cup final. John McGlynn's men progressed on
:21:25. > :21:28.penalties against Inverness while the Paisley side put three past
:21:28. > :21:37.Celtic. A result which left one Lennon blaming his players and
:21:37. > :21:43.another Lennon thanking a six-year- old girl. Chris McLaughlin reports.
:21:43. > :21:53.Question - ever six year-olds lucky penny helps you into a final, what
:21:53. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :22:02.you do? Answer - go back to school the next day to say thank you.
:22:02. > :22:07.thought I should give my lucky penny to them so they could win.
:22:07. > :22:13.And when they did but even with his lucky penny in his pocket, Danny
:22:13. > :22:17.Lennon could not have dreamed up yesterday's Hampton drama. New boy
:22:17. > :22:21.Gonzalez got the opener. Most expected a Celtic comeback. It
:22:22. > :22:26.looked unlikely before the break. After Celtic fail to convert a
:22:26. > :22:36.penalty, the Saints seized their chance. Stephen Thompson was the
:22:36. > :22:40.
:22:40. > :22:48.To picture so many smiles and so happy, it is what they deserve. It
:22:48. > :22:52.is for them, they've been through so much. So much hardship of late.
:22:52. > :22:56.In terms of finances, and Investment, and it is great to give
:22:56. > :23:01.them something back. The bodies will be back next month for a final
:23:01. > :23:05.against Hearts. And match-up few would have predicted. The very few
:23:05. > :23:13.adults anyway. If the Jambos odyssey of the saints, they might
:23:13. > :23:17.need a lucky penny of Their Own. That has all the sport for this
:23:17. > :23:19.evening. First the bad news. It's a type of
:23:19. > :23:22.crododile that's been discovered in Glasgow and its Latin name
:23:22. > :23:25.translates as "blood-biting tyrant swimmer." But the good news is the
:23:25. > :23:28.beast is more than 100 million years old and even though it's been
:23:28. > :23:34.in a museum collection for a century, it's just been confirmed
:23:34. > :23:39.as a new species. Aileen Clarke has been along to find out more.
:23:39. > :23:45.Meet Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos. That is blood biting tyrant swimmer
:23:45. > :23:50.to you and me. It is a very strange kind of crocodile because it is one
:23:50. > :23:55.that lived in the sea. Most crocodiles today are kind of living
:23:55. > :24:00.on partly on land and partly on water. These ones had flippers.
:24:00. > :24:04.This is one of the flippers here. It also had some in the front and
:24:04. > :24:09.at her and her huge mouth and probably a very big bite as well.
:24:10. > :24:12.How old is this? This is from the Middle Jurassic. That is 163
:24:12. > :24:17.million years old. It has lived in the seas around Britain at that
:24:17. > :24:22.time. This animal was in the sea and the dinosaurs were roaming the
:24:22. > :24:25.earth. The dinosaurs were rolling around on the land, he has fought
:24:25. > :24:29.up the Edinburgh University researchers who have studied the
:24:29. > :24:36.specimen believe it is a missing link in the evolution of marine
:24:36. > :24:42.reptiles. This is not just a new species but it is an you Jenice. It
:24:42. > :24:46.is difficult to say how important that is but it is above a new
:24:46. > :24:51.species. It is like finding a whole new type of human being and calling
:24:51. > :24:56.them a different name. important, but this was not the
:24:56. > :25:03.fiercest thing in the sea back then. There were larger animals. I've got
:25:03. > :25:06.here a tooth of one animal for comparison. Probably one of the
:25:06. > :25:09.largest predators in the sea at the time.
:25:09. > :25:19.Weather now, and after a miserable day for most of us, Kirsteen, what
:25:19. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:24.It has been a miserable day. Good evening to you. We can expect some
:25:24. > :25:30.wet and windy weather across many parts of the country, accused for
:25:30. > :25:34.the first part of the week. Tonight, we hold on for some -- to some
:25:34. > :25:39.blustery showers for some time. During the overnight period, these
:25:39. > :25:42.tend to fizzle out. Further East, largely dry with clear spells
:25:42. > :25:47.particularly for North Eastern parts of the country so we could
:25:47. > :25:52.see just a touch of frost. Temperatures tonight, though,
:25:52. > :25:57.generally holding above freezing. We continue to see coastal gales
:25:57. > :26:02.for a time all those these should ease slightly by morning. Tomorrow
:26:02. > :26:06.morning, a largely dry stop the country with some good spells of
:26:06. > :26:10.brightness, particularly in the East. Short-lived, though, as once
:26:10. > :26:14.again, things begin to cloud over from the West Stand this band of
:26:14. > :26:22.rain shows its hand across much of the country. Winds will strengthen
:26:22. > :26:26.work -- once again and coming up to gale force across the West. Indeed
:26:26. > :26:31.tell, we continue to see light rain for parts of the South West
:26:31. > :26:35.tomorrow afternoon, perhaps some heavier pulses for the likes of
:26:35. > :26:45.Argyll and some of the North West Highlands. What, to come across the
:26:45. > :26:51.Northern Isles. Papa's of the Northern Isles, it remains trying.
:26:51. > :26:57.Some patchy rain in the North East. Hires tomorrow of around nine. It
:26:57. > :27:03.will feel very call in the wind and rain. Into the late afternoon and
:27:03. > :27:07.evening, this rain moves away into the North Sea and the wind becoming
:27:08. > :27:12.a feature of the weather tomorrow night. Gusting to around 80 miles
:27:12. > :27:17.per hour for parts of the North West, 60 miles per hour further
:27:17. > :27:23.South, and into the central belt, and that continues into Wednesday.
:27:23. > :27:26.Now, a reminder of tonight's main news in brief.
:27:26. > :27:29.The UK Government has claimed its decision to push ahead with a new
:27:29. > :27:32.high speed rail network in England will deliver major benefits for