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Tonight, on your national news: are you going to jail? | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
Behind bars tonight - disgraced former MSP Bill Walker gets a year | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
in prison for domestic abuse - mixed emotions for his former wife. I | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
don't really have any feeling or anything like that. In fact, I feel | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
quite sad it has had to come to this. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
WHITE Also tonight: After the death of this Fife | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
teenager, a warning that hundreds of children are being blackmailed | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
online. Catching up with Jack Vettriano as | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
the biggest exhibition ever devoted to his work opens in Glasgow. What's | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
going to happen is that they're going to look into my mouth and see | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
what my tongue is up to? -- up to. The former MSP for Dunfermline, Bill | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Walker, has been jailed for 12 months after | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
-- and Glasgow was the -- rugby's wonders if they have voted take to | :01:08. | :01:24. | |
beat Leinster this evening. The former MSP for Dunfermline has | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
been jailed for 12 months after being convicted of domestic abuse. | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
He was found guilty of 23 charges against three wives and his | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
stepdaughter. The share of -- Imposing the maximum sentence, the | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Sheriff said she had been unable to detect any evidence of remorse in | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
the 71-year-old. From Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Catriona Renton | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
reports. Bill Walker arriving at court, his | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
last moments as a free man. Last month, he was found guilty of 23 | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
counts of domestic abuse against three of his former wives and | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
stepdaughter over 28 years. This morning, he learned his fate. The | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Sheriff told Walker that however incredible is he may be at the | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
verdict, it was her duty to sentence him. She said that she had been | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
unable to detect any evidence, either during the trial or from | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
background ports, of any remorse for anyone or anything other than | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
himself. She said with regard to the gravity of offences, his extreme | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
denial and complete absence of remorse, her only option was the | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
custodial sentence. She sentenced him to the maximum of 12 months in | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
prison. His second wife is the mother of his three children and | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
stepdaughter. Walker beat her, punched her, frightened her during | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
their marriage in the 70s and 80s. I don't really have any feeling or | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
anything like that. -- feeling of elation. In fact, I feel quite sad | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
it has had to come to this. The first time he really battered me, | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
when Douglas was in a pram, and I said he was not worthy of the | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
labelled father. Were you frightened? Years. Still? I am | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
frightened that when he gets out, yes. Diana was Bill Walker's third | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
wife, he punished and beat her also. I think it is true what the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Sheriff said. Things that happen to you, especially where violence is | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
involved, they don't go away. They are in here, they don't go away. It | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
doesn't matter the time span or time lapse, they are always there. Bill | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
Walker was elected to the Scottish Parliament for Dunfermline in 2011. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
He was expelled from the SNP with the charges were brought but carried | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
on as an independent until almost two weeks ago, when he resigned, | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
blaming the media. His lawyer said this had cost him his reputation and | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
financially. He still protests his innocence. Clearly he is | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
disappointed at outcome. He is still maintaining his innocence. Has he no | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
more subtle? He is mentioning his innocence. You cannot fill rewards | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
that something you say you did not do. He has been sentenced to 12 | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
months but could be out earlier. Tonight, he spends his first night | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
in prison. There's a warning that hundreds of | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
children are being blackmailed into performing sexual acts online by | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
paedophiles, who threaten to send obscene images of the victims to | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
their families. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Centre says children as young as eight are being targeted. In recent | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
months, the death of a teenager from Fife has been linked to this issue. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Well, our reporter Laura Maxwell is here now. What more can you tell us, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Laura? Sally, as with many internet crimes, | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
no-one really knows the full extent of this problem, but what CEOP has | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
revealed today is that it's definitely on the increase. They've | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
identified at least 184 victims in the UK over the last two years. The | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
most serious case - that of 17-year-old Daniel Perry from | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Dunfermline, who died in July. He killed himself. He befriended an | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
American girl his own age and sent her explicit images. -- he thought | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
she was his own age. When the blackmailers threatened to send | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
those to his family unless he gave them money, he killed himself. What | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
the problem is with this sort of crime is that a lot of parents feel | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
particularly helpless because they're teenagers are more | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
technically aware than they are. The police as saying the easiest way to | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
protect children is by talking to them. As children get older, they | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
want their own study time and privacy and you cannot be present in | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
the same way. It is the earliest that you can get the message across | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
that if you are speaking to somebody online, don't reveal anything to him | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
that you wouldn't be happy for your other friends to see. -- to them. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Don't go into any private environment on the Internet with | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
someone that you don't know. It is an extension of the old-fashioned | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
don't go with streamers but online. -- strangers. For any young people | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
who have shared sexual images or are being threatened, the advice is to | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
who have shared sexual images or are tell someone. But the police say | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
that criminals in these iterations rely on fear - fear of getting into | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
trouble, fear of being laughed at. The the only way to stop this is to | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
speak out. Thank you very much. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
programme: Mark King Dumfries's maritime heritage, how ports will be | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
in the town centre for the first time in 150 years. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Tonight's sport features a night at the rugby and a day at the races. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
I'm at Scotstoun Stadium, home of the Glasgow Warriors Rugby team, to | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
preview tonight's big match against league champions Lenster. And we're | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
going racing on the eve of the Ayr Gold Cup. I'll see you soon. | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
In the past hour, the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has said that if his | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
party wins the next election it will abolish the so-called "bedroom tax". | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Speaking ahead of the Labour conference, which begins on Sunday, | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
Mr Miliband said he believed it was the right thing to do. | :07:27. | :07:37. | |
We are abolishing the unfair tax which is hitting tens of thousands | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
of families across Scotland, causing misery to disabled people and is | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
frankly wrong. We are going to pay for it by scrapping hedge fund tax | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
breaks for companies in the city that George Osborne introduced. | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
There could be nothing fairer or more right than that. It is all part | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
of what the conference is going to be about, tackling the cost of | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
living which is facing so many families. | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
Well, our correspondent Tim Reid joins me now from Westminster. How | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
significant is this? It is certainly a significant policy commitment from | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
a party that does not have any at the moment. Labour has been under | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
pressure to be whether it would scrap one of the coalition's most | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
unpopular policies. Ed Miliband said he would pay for it through cracking | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
down on tax loopholes in boardrooms. It is clearly unpopular. Remember | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
there was a protest outside the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow last | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
weekend. Even then, we were told that the welfare spokesman, Jackie | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Baillie, when she said that they would scrap it had gone too far. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
There was no change in policy. Clearly, Ed Miliband wants to | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
announce what he thinks will be popular policy on the eve of the | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
conference. We have already been told by the Government that they | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
believe that how he is going to pay for it is not thought through and | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
that most taxpayers believe that welfare reforms are right. This will | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
be a recurring theme at Labour's conference in Brighton where they | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
will talk a lot about the living standards of people having dropped | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
under the current coalition. Esther Miliband is speaking on a day when | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
claims abound about old divisions in the party, involving senior figures | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
in Scotland. Particularly unsavoury accounts in the paper, particularly | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
from David Wright, one of Gordon Brown's former spin doctors. -- | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
David McBride. We knew that he had been removed from his position in | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
terms of smearing people. What we did not know is that he had, by his | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
own omission, said that -- planted some stories about the former Home | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
Secretary. Lord Reid has not been available today but something that | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
maybe that had some impact on his leadership ambitions and also on | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
Douglas Alexander, the former Foreign Secretary, who we are told | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
in the papers that he wanted his sister, windy, removed as a Scottish | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Labour leader. He said today that he sister, windy, removed as a Scottish | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
always supported his sister and not sister, windy, removed as a Scottish | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
David Wright. -- David McBride. A cruise liner is being cleaned and | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
fumigated in Fife after 130 passengers took ill while on | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
holiday. The Fred Olsen liner The Black Prince was carrying almost 800 | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
people on a 12-night Scandinavian tour. -- the Black Watch. By the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
time the ship returned to dock in Rosyth earlier today, 29 guests were | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
still suffering symptoms of gastroenteritis. Health inspectors | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
are monitoring the cleaning process, with the ship expected to leave port | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
on a Mediterranean cruise this evening. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
Network Rail has apologised to passengers on the East Coast | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
mainline between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh for being responsible | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
for seven out of every ten delays. Punctuality fell to below 84% | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
between mid-August and mid-September, after problems with | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
overhead power lines. If the infrastructure company fails to meet | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
its 92% target by next spring, it could be heavily fined by the rail | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
regulator. The biggest exhibition devoted to | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
the work of Scots artist Jack Vettriano opens in Glasgow this | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
weekend. More than 100 paintings - many from private collections - have | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
been gathered together for the show in Kelvingrove Art Gallery. And | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
while his art continues to divide the critics, the show is expected to | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
be one of the gallery's most popular. Our arts correspondent | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Pauline McLean joined the artist for a first look at his show. | :11:23. | :11:36. | |
101 works painted across two decades, some sold for break prices, | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
others more modestly. Many an theme by the public or artist since he | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
left his studio. This has always been a very important painting | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
because I have always been drawn to drifting. For a self-taught artist | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
who once wandered these galleries, it is a site he never thought he | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
would see. I was overwhelmed. I have looked at these images over the | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
years but never dreamt that I would see them brought together as a | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
collection and have a retrospective dedicated to me. This is an artist | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
whose most iconic work has sold more than 10 million prints worldwide. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
His paintings are owned from everyone -- by everyone from Robbie | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
Coltrane to Sir Alex Ferguson. Many dismisses work and although this is | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
one in the eye for them, it turns out that Jack Vettriano is his own | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
biggest critic. I was genuinely concerned by some of the earlier | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
work because I thought that people will look and think, "he can't | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
paint." And they were right. All I was doing with the best I could and | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
this is what I found so charming about the retrospective. I can look | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
at some of the early stuff and I can pick holes in it and other artists | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
will pick holes in it, the public will pick holes in it. But what this | :13:01. | :13:10. | |
is is my journey. At 61, it is a journey he hopes has some way to go. | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
His next collaboration with a veteran composer is taking him into | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
a whole new territory. Other stories from across Scotland | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
this Friday. Raasay residents who want to buy 300 | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
hectares of Forestry Commission land on the island say the asking price | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
of £400,000 is too high. European state aid regulations mean they'll | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
receive only around 20% of public funds because timber production is | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
seen as a tradeable commodity between member states. The Raasay | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
development group is asking the Government to review the way | :13:40. | :13:53. | |
community bids are assessed. If we buy it and unable to use it to | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
create jobs and affordable housing, this will lower costs for other | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
departments. It would save money. Highland Council is going ahead with | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
price rises on Lochaber's Corran Ferry in November to help cover | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
higher fuel costs. Those who depend on the service are angry at the | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
increases. The Council says it's commissioning a study to investigate | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
how the new fares will affect local communities. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Thieves have stolen a special bronze plaque from the Queen Mother | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
Memorial Garden at Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen. The theft is believed to | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
have happened last weekend. The plaque commemorates the Queen | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Mother's 80th birthday in 1980. St Andrews University is to be named | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Scottish University of the Year in latest Times and Sunday Times | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
University Guide, to be published on Sunday. The Guide will also reveal | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
that St Andrews has been ranked fourth in the United Kingdom. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Around 1,000 onlookers saw the world's oldest clipper ship leave | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
Scotland for the last time. A pontoon barge supporting The City of | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
Adelaide - also known as the Carrick - was towed from the Scottish | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Maritime Museum at Irvine harbour. Its new Australian owners are taking | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
it to London before loading it onto a cargo ship bound for Adelaide. | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
And there are more stories from your area - and all the latest news, 24 | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
hours a day on BBC Scotland's website. | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
Researchers from five Scottish universities have produced a unique | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
visualisation of how our tongues make speech happen. The Seeing | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Speech project has combined two different types of scanning | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
technology - to put the results online for the first time. Here's | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
our Science Correspondent Kenneth MacDonald. | :15:38. | :15:52. | |
When we talk, this is what's going on inside our heads. The seeing | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
speech project is free and online and shows how our tongues make | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
words. When we talk, we can see lips moving but we cannot see what is | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
going on inside. We can hear people talking but can often not quite tell | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
what they are doing and if we are learning new speech sounds, it can | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
be helpful for people to know how the tongue is moving. This has not | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
been available before. It is bringing together MRI scanning with | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
ultrasound tongue damaging. -- imaging. This piece of equipment has | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
a benign intent and make sure the ultrasonic probe is properly aligned | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
because what happens next is they will see what my tongue is up to. | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
The unit of the tongue is down here. The cap is up here and this is a | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
shadow from the mandible. Could you say Weddle waggle? Carly Wali? | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
Purple burglar alarm. Did you find these difficult to see? Scottish | :17:10. | :17:21. | |
people produce that sound at the end of the syllable. It is not just | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
speech therapists who will find this useful. It could be used by actors | :17:27. | :17:36. | |
trying to master a new accent. That headpieces bound to set a new | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
trend. My tongue is always firmly lodged in | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
my cheek. Talking about Glasgow Rugby tonight. They are at home to | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
Leinster. Glasgow have two wins from two matches in the competition. The | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
question is, can they make it three out of three by beating the Irish | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
province? Let's ask our guest Glasgow Warriors stand off Duncan | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
Weir. You are suited and booted because you are not playing. Can | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
Glasgow win and why? We have started the campaign with two wins out of | :18:20. | :18:31. | |
two. Leinster have a new coaching staff so you could say they are not | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
firing on all cylinders for the standard but the guys are confident | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
and we have a very strong team. I am confident we can get a result. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Glasgow had a narrow win over Ulster in Belfast last week with a late try | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
and conversion. But Gregor Townsend has made five changes to the team. | :18:48. | :18:57. | |
What's his thinking? That may come as a surprise to many but the | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
strength of squad we have here in Glasgow is remarkable. The guys we | :19:02. | :19:11. | |
have, the competition is great and I am hoping we can make changes and | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
looked comfortable. We do not have too forced to many things and can | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
see a good performance tonight. Here's a true professional. I am | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
sure he will not look out of place tonight. What would it mean to | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Glasgow if they could defeat the mighty Leinster? We have not won | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
against them out of the last four occasions and it is about time we | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
were in the right frame of mind. I am sure we can do it and it is about | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
time we stick our claim for the title. Make sure we are not clear. | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
There's live coverage of tonight's match between Glasgow and Lenster on | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
BBC Radio Scotland 810 medium wave - and you can watch the match on BBC | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Alba. The Scottish FA has nominated | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Hampden Park to host group stage matches in the European Nations | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
finals in 2020. For the first time they'll be held across the continent | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
at 13 venues. There's a concern Hampden might not have enough | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
hospitality boxes to be considered. But the SFA hopes that won't scupper | :20:19. | :20:29. | |
its chances. A bit of horse racing next. Because the richest sprint | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
handicap in Europe takes place tomorrow. It's the Ayr Gold Cup, the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
highlight of the biggest festival in Scottish flat racing but there | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
hasn't been a home-trained winner since 1975. Kheredine Idessane | :20:38. | :20:57. | |
reports. Ladies day at the ER races so what | :20:57. | :21:07. | |
is the attraction? -- Ayr races. It is an anniversary celebration and we | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
came last year as well. With over 20,000 attending, it is a serious | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
business. It makes a great economic contribution to the whole area and | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
people come for three base and spend lots on surrounding restaurants. Who | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
will be first past the winning post? There has not been a Scottish | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
trains weather in 38 years but one man is hoping to change that. It is | :21:37. | :21:50. | |
a family business. We bred the horse ourselves and he was born six miles | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
from the racecourse. The other prize up for grabs is the best dressed | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
lady. Neil Lennon is one of the most underrated managers and football. | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Will the Beatles things Scottish success? | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
I could not see that the report but I just hope he was not dancing at | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
the start of that. It's hard to believe now, but | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Dumfries used to be one of the country's leading shipping ports. To | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
highlight its maritime past a yacht race will tomorrow bring boats into | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
the centre of Dumfries for the first time in perhaps 150 years. Willie | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
Johnston reports. Catamaran sailor snore may get some | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
practice in. It is one of the biggest boats entered in the race. | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
The aim is to recreate a glorious period of Dumfries's past when the | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
tone and its neighbouring villages comprised the fifth wealthiest port | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
in the UK. You had grain and livestock and ironmongery then the | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
African coast and across to America and then brought back tobacco. The | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
prosperity of Dumfries was built on these things. Commerce from America. | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
The race starts here and at one time you could get a passage to America | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
from here. John Paul Jones, a founding father of the American | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
Navy, was born along this coast. It is to the furthest navigable point | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
of the river in Dumfries. It is a real obstacle course. Not one but | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
three bridges which at high tide offered very little clearance. The | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
smallest boats should be able to drop their boats but this man plans | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
a much more appealing approach. I am planning to capsize it. I will float | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
underneath the bridge and, again for the finish. The event's curator says | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
it should be a great spectacle. The prospect of Dumfries being full of | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
sailing boats will be a wonderful site. The race celebrates the | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
maritime history. Robert Burns patrolled here as an excise officer. | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
Let's hope the race itself does not prove to be a bridge too far. | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
You promised us better weather today and we have got it. | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
The cloud bend and broke and we saw some sunshine coming through with | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
some bright spells before dusk but the Highlands and Islands are still | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
having patchy rain. The weather front continues to pull away and it | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
will be fairly breezy. Elsewhere are generally dry with temperatures and | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
although than around 10 Celsius. A bit of a battle on at the weekend. | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
Squeezed between the two with isobars tightly packed. This will | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
convert to a free amount of clouds for Saturday sought the cloudy start | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
and across the North West, some outbreaks of rain and drizzle. | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
Elsewhere, bricks in the cloud and sunshine in the southwestern parts. | :25:46. | :25:55. | |
Through the central spine, fairly cloudy but my old are temperatures | :25:55. | :26:06. | |
increasing. Rain and towards Orkney and extending towards Shetland and | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
you should have a reasonable day. If you are claiming across West on | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Rangers, pretty wet and when from the south-west will be pretty | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
strong. It should improve by the afternoon with sunny spells coming | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
through. Wind is strong from the south-west. Good visibility but | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
further north, we could see force sex. -- force six. On Saturday and | :26:35. | :26:48. | |
overnight, rain continues to move northward and feel equality and on | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
Sunday, the battle is still on what high temperatures in the south-east. | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
Mild and warm beer coming up from the south-west and we will lose the | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
lien on the front but still fairly cloudy across the North West, | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
producing spots of rain. We are in the sun comes out, look at the | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
temperatures, we could see 22 Celsius in Aberdeen. | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
Thanks. Now, a reminder of tonight's main news in brief. The former MSP | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
for Dunfermline and Bill Walker has been jailed for 12 months after | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
being convicted of domestic abuse. He was found guilty of 23 charges. | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
Ed Miliband has said that if his party winds the next election it | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
will abolish the bedroom tax. Speaking ahead of the Labour | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
conference beginning on Sunday, he said he believed it was the right | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
thing to do. There is a warning hundreds of | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
children are being blackmailed into performing sexual acts online by | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
paedophiles who is elected to send images to their families. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
And that's Reporting Scotland. I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
and the late bulletin just after the ten o'clock news. Until then, from | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
everyone on the team here in Glasgow and around the country, have a very | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
good evening. | :28:13. | :28:14. |