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Tonight on Reporting Scotland: Dark times at Grangemouth oil refinery. A | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
planned strike is called off, but owners Inoes say the plant is shut | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
and will remain shut until at least Tuesday, as the dispute escalates. | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
The reason that the site is shutdown at the moment is a clear result of | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
the action taken by the Unite union. It is holding people hostage. It is | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
holding the Scottish economy hostage and that is outrageous. We'll be | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
live at Grangemouth and we'll be assessing the impact of the shutdown | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
on the economy. Also tonight: Calls for an inquiry | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
into food poverty as an increasing number of people turn to food banks. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Coming home - the works of pioneering wildlife photographer | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
Fredrick Walter Champion go on show. Out on a high - as Scotland ends its | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
World Cup campaign with a win, Gordon Strachan says he can cope | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
with a nation's raised expectations. The dispute at the Grangemouth | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
refinery took a dramatic turn today when unions called off a planned | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
strike, and its owners shut it down until Tuesday at least. Unions | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
described the move as economic vandalism, while Ineos said it | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
wanted guarantees the site - which supplies most of Scotland's fuel | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
supplies - wouldn't face further industrial action over the winter. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
Our reporter Catriona Renton has been following developments and | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
joins us now from Grangemouth. There are 1400 people employed | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
directly here by Ineos, the company that runs Grangemouth, as well as | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
2000 contract workers. Tonight, their futures are uncertain. Ineos | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
has been running down Grangemouth in anticipation of the strike that was | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
threatened for the weekend. Early this morning, the strike was called | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
off, but Ineos says they will not be firing the plant up again. Until at | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
least Tuesday. They said the Grangemouth is shutdown and will | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
remain shut down. Unions and management had been trying to | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
resolve their dispute since Monday, but even after their talks at the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
arbitration service Acas started, they were briefing against each | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
other. Yesterday they talked for 16 hours right through the night but at | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
six o'clock in the morning, they broke up. The strike was off but | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
relations between both sides were worse than ever. Then this. The | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
reason that the site is shutdown at the moment is a clear result of the | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
action taken by the Unite union. This site is a distressed site and | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
has been for some time. The action that has been taken this week has | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
further posted that read performance of the site. The dispute was over a | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
union convenor who works at the site but seems to have become more than | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
this. Ineos said the deal breaker came when the union would not agree | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
that there would be no further strikes this winter. The union said | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
that is ludicrous and it guaranteed no action for three months to work | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
on a survival plan for the plant. It is holding people to hostage, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
holding the Scottish economy to hostage and that is outrageous. This | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
is economic vandalism. The union is calling on the Scottish and | :03:39. | :03:39. | |
Westminster governments to intervene. We have indicated that we | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
will do everything we can to facilitate investment in the plant | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
but that depends on there being an investment plan to back because we | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
want to see a long-term future for Grangemouth and we want both the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Unite union and Ineos to back that future. Learn that the best people | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
to conduct negotiations are Acas. But if there is a role that the | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
government can play, then both the UK and the Scottish Government is | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
stand ready to do so. Tomorrow workers will hear the company's | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
proposals. Whether they buy into this will determine how quickly this | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
place is back up and running. The shareholders will hear their | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
feedback on Tuesday. Our Business and Economy editor | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
Douglas Fraser is with me now. This has been a turbulent 24 hours. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
What's going on? The owners of the plant want to get | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
their costs down. That is pay, pensions, perhaps jobs cuts. They | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
say they will permanently shutdown the petrochemical part of the plant | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
within three years if they do not get it. If they do get it, they will | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
invest long term. After shutting it down, until next Tuesday no one is | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
willing to promise that petrochemicals will start up again. | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
The refinery looks certain but not petrochemicals. This is an assertive | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
management tactic that appear to have put the Unite union on the back | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
foot. It has pulled out of the strike without getting what it set | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
out to achieve and they did not want to take the blame for the shutdown | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
and says it is not necessary. The pressure is on the workers. They | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
will get a proposal tomorrow which they have to think about over the | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
weekend. The management want a response by Monday. And then the | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
stakeholders, including a Chinese company, will take a decision on | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
when it opens up again. In the meantime, the impact of the shutdown | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
will be on the wider Scottish economy. Yes. People are concerned | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
about the forecourt petrochemical supplies. That looks secure. There | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
are arrangements for shipping in petrol and diesel but the | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
significant long-term concern is about roughly 1500 people who | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
operate in the petrochemical part of this plant and this is a vital plant | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
for supplying chemicals and fuels throughout the whole Scottish | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
economy. It does not look like a plant Scotland can afford to see | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
shutdown. There's been a significant rise in | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
the number of people in Scotland receiving emergency food aid. The | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
charity the Trussell Trust says 23,000 people used its food banks in | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
the first half of this year compared to just 4,000 in 2012. It's also | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
claimed that three-quarters of those in need of food were forced to | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
because of cuts to the benefits system. Jackie O'Brien reports. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Food banks like this one in Inverness have never been in such | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
demand. As modern day Scotland faces an unprecedented rise in the number | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
of people left humiliated by the fact that they cannot afford to feed | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
themselves. It makes you feel so small. You are grateful to | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
everything the food bank helps you with. Last week, when I came round | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
and went home, they took the stuff it, I stood there and cried. Janet | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Murray is one of the 23,000 Scottish people, a quarter of them children, | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
who need emergency food aid from the Trussell Trust's food banks in the | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
past year. A food parcel will contain enough supplies to last | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
someone three days, its contents will depend on what has been donated | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
but typically it will include you heat the milk, pasta, they are | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
coffee and of course tinned beans. The Trussell Trust charity found | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
that the majority of those using a food bank did so because of changes | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
to the benefit system. -- UHT milk. We are seeing a lot of people who | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
are being sanctioned for all sorts of reasons. People are being faced | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
with a lot of confusion about the benefit system and the changes that | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
are being made. The one man we met today, tracking down food was the | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
easy part. Cooking it while sleeping rough was his next challenge. I am | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
sleeping in different places, then she's -- benches. I cannot afford a | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
bed and breakfast. I am really desperate. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
Employment in Scotland has reached its highest level for five years, | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
according to the latest official figures. Employment rose by 37,000 | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
over the three months to August, and now stands at just over two and a | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
half million. The number of unemployed Scots fell by 3,000 to | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
201,000 over the summer period. Meanwhile, the latest retail figures | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
suggest growth was subdued during September, with sales up by only | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
1.8%. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme: The ground-breaking work | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
of the wildlife photographer who captured images like this goes on | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
display in Dumfries. In sport: Why the Scotland manger | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
says the win over Croatia was beyond a dream. And why a Dunfermline | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
Athletic legend says it's been a momentous day for the Fife club. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
That and more later. A murder trial has heard that the | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
victim left a medical lecture to go to the toilet, and never returned. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
The High Court in Glasgow was also told that Khanokporn Satjawat | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
complained to her friend that her conference badge had been checked on | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
many occasions the day before she was killed. Aileen Clark reports. | :09:19. | :09:37. | |
The T-shirt told the court that she had known their for ten years and | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
that Khanokporn Satjawat had been working as a product manager for the | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
same pharmaceutical company as her for 18 months. They travelled to | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Glasgow last of Emperor with ten doctors for an HIV conference at the | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
SEC C. After the first day of the conference, the group had dinner at | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
this restaurant. Khanokporn Satjawat told the court that Khanokporn | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Satjawat complained to her that she had had her conference ID badge | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
checked many occasions. The next day, the group returned to the | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
conference that the SEC C. Khanokporn Satjawat and her friend | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
went to the Clyde Auditorium for a top. Khanokporn Satjawat's friend | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
told the court that Khanokporn Satjawat went to the toilet but when | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
she did not return after 20 minutes, she became worried and went to look | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
for her and found out from the police later that Khanokporn | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
Satjawat was dead. Security guard Clive Carter admits killing | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Khanokporn Satjawat but denies murdering her by hitting her | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
repeatedly with a fire extinguisher. The SNP conference will open in | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Perth tomorrow - with a claim that the independence referendum is there | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
to be won. But party leaders will insist that the campaign is about | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
empowering the people of Scotland - and not the SNP. This from our | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
political editor Brian Taylor. Nightfall. As yes campaigners spread | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
the message in Musselburgh. Should Scotland be an independent country? | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
No I am not 100% sure. SMP is by far the prime mover in advocating | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
independence. But they insist it is not about them. Let's do it a few | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
sums. When FNP first gained power in 2007, this was the share of the | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
vote. 32.9%. Skip forward to 2011, and overall majority for the SNP, | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
their share of the vote, 45.4%. Even in that larger figure, not all of | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
those can be relied upon to vote yes in the referendum, to vote for | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
independence. The SNP cannot bank up on that. What they require for the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
referendum victory is 50% of the people in Scotland to boot yes. Plus | :11:54. | :12:03. | |
one person. As the Perth venue prepared for the | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
SNP conference, party leaders played down their personal pitch. Vote in | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
the referendum is not able for me or the SNP, it is able to principal to | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
make sure that Scotland is independent so that the people of | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Scotland, for every election thereafter, get to choose their own | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
government. On a scale of one to ten, where would you place yourself | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
on that scale? It would be five. So where do the waverers lie? Of the | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
party supporters, it seemed a Labour Party supporters are those who are | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
most one over and we know that people are... Who are less well off | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
are willing to vote for independence. The second group will | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
be the body of people who are not strongly committed to a political | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
party. Union supporters say people want concrete cancer is mainly on | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
the economy but are not getting them. Nationalists say they can and | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
will address those concerns. At party conferences, the message is | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
generally pretty straight forward, it is vote for us and we will do | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
good things. But I've SNP get ready for this conference, it is slightly | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
different. It is, but for independence and then you, the | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
people of Scotland, will be able to select your own list of policies. It | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
is less about political power and more about popular potency. And more | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
conference footage tomorrow morning when Deputy Leader Nicola Sturgeon | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
will be interviewed. Other stories from across Scotland | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
this Wednesday: private rents in Aberdeen are now averaging more than | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
?1000 a month, according to figures from letting website Citylets. | :13:56. | :14:09. | |
That's up 11.5% on last year. Average rents in Edinburgh are ?820 | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
a month, and Glasgow ?618. Police investigating the theft of a | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
Henry Moore sculpture from Dumfriesshire want to speak to the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
three occupants of a Ford Transit style van in what's described as an | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
"unusual shade of blue". The three men were seen looking at the statue | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
before it was stolen. The bronze sculpture is valued at ?3 million, | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
but would fetch only a few hundred pounds if, as suspected, it was | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
stolen for scrap. A further appeal is being made to | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
the company behind plans for a 31 turbine wind farm on the edge of the | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
Cairngorms National Park to withdraw its application. The firm RWE's | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
plans for the Allt Duine wind farm in the Monadhliath Mountains are | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
currently being considered by Scottish Ministers following a | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
public local inquiry. Scotland's Fisheries Secretary | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
Richard Lochhead has asked the UK government to allow him to lead | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
negotiations at EU quota talks. The UK Fishing Minister George Eustace | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
only took up his job last week. Mr Lochhead claims it would be unfair | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
to ask him to lead tomorrow's talks in Brussels just days into the post. | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
And there are more stories from your area, and all the latest news, 24 | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
hours a day on BBC Scotland's website. | :15:18. | :15:18. | |
The boardroom upheaval continues at Rangers football club. Chief | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
Executive Craig Mather left his position today amid a row over | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
proposed board members. So what does the continuous turmoil mean for the | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
team and its management? Heather Dewar reports. | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
He has been in the position less than six months and today, his | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
tenure at Rangers came to an abrupt end. A statement on the club 's | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
website insisted Craig Mather had agreed to step down to help calm | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
speculation over the governance and executive management of Rangers. So | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
with the latest upheaval at Ibrox, the question must be, what happens | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
now? They will but we were to appoint a new Chief Executive as | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
soon as possible, likely before the club 's annual general meeting next | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
month. The club has just one executive the and one nonexecutive | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
director. The resignation of Craig Mather comes two days after former | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
director Paul Murray won a court battle to postpone the annual | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
general meeting in a row over proposed new directors. But in any | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
other business, what would this turbulence and ward level mean? | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
It is unusual to see that level of movement at board level and | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
executive level in any sort of business and one thing I am sure the | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
club, fans, board and chair holders will be looking to see is some level | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
of continuity and consistency. And that is what fans want. We just | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
want it settled down and I do not know what the right expression is, | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
but we want to make on the field had lines and to see the club on a | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
stable financial footing -- headlines. | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Rangers will be hoping the focus soon is on the football. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Now to sporting matters on the field, here is David. We might not | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
be on the road to Rio, but it was pretty good! It will be true beach | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
for me! -- Troon. The Scotland manager | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Gordon Strachan says he is confident the team can cope with the nation's | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
raised expectations after beating Croatia. The 2-nil win at Hampden | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
means the failed 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign ended with a | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
bang and not a whimper. Robert Snodgrass! He has done it | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
again! Penshaw selves, this really did happen. | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
-- hinge yourselves. A chance for a second goal, it is saved. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
Scotland beating a team rated as the eighth best in the world. They were | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
in the manager describes as, be on and a dream. But how did he help | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
make it a reality? -- beyond a dream. No idea, I do what I do and | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
my staff do what they do. At the moment, we are happy with | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
what we are doing. The campaign as a whole was a failure, Scotland | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
finishing fourth behind Belgium, Croatia and Serbia in the qualifying | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
group. The damage done before Gordon | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Strachan took over from Craig of lead halfway through the process. | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Under Gordon Strachan, results and performances have improved. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
He has got us approaching the game the right way, we believed we could | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
beat Croatia and not many times she would have said that, so delighted. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
So perhaps the nation can look forward to the Euro 16 -- the Euro | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
2016 qualifiers, because things are getting better, aren't they? | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
I think there is an obvious and succumbing to your way. Yes! | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
A direct answer. Dunfermline Athletic Supporters | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Group Pars United have taken control of the club. They say it is a | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
"momentous occasion," but are warning the hard work has just | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
begun. A deal to buy the stadium and the club could lead the Pars out of | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
administration, as Steven Godden reports. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
After months of gloom, something for supporters to smile about, at client | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
-- at times, a club appeared destined for liquidation but a deal | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
was confirmed tonight but in the power in the hands of those wearing | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
the Scots. With a club of unbroken history, it is good to have another | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
chapter about to start because we are about to write another chapter | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
in the history of Dunfermline Athletic football club. It has been | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
difficult so it is great and the future is in our own hands. | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
They may like the spectacle of highlights like the 1961 Scottish | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Cup win. But the fans takeover is just a | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
significance, according to a legend. He is a member of the new | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
board task with making Dunfermline a sustainable business, plenty to be | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
done and he welcomes a shift in focus. The future is about the | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
players. We can start talking about sport back row and how well the boys | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
are doing. -- talking about the game. Getting us focused to win | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
points on a Saturday. With fans now in charge of the stage and the club, | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
they have set themselves the challenge of returning to the top | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
flight in Scotland again, a journey that continues here on Saturday | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
against East Fife. A quick look at what else is happening against -- in | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
Scottish sport. Glasgow city are confident of | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
reaching the last 16 of the Champions League tomorrow, their tie | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
is poised at 2-all in the first leg. We believe we are good enough and we | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
have built up our reputation and have a good ranking and the higher | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
ranked side. Scotland striker Steven Fletcher | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
could be back in action for Sunderland on Saturday after | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
recovering from a soldier -- shoulder injury earlier than | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
expected. As go worry is for their first win of the Heineken Cup | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
campaign this weekend when they play Exeter Chiefs. | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
They lost to a French side on Wednesday. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
We need to put in a good performance against Exeter, a good team with a | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
good women, so we need to be at our best. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
The best amateur boxers in the country are in Kazakhstan for the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
World Championships. Scotland have sent a nine man team. Everybody can | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
compete with Scotland but when you box the best nations in the world, | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
it is different altogether. More stories and the latest news 24 | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
hours a day on the website. We will be live with Glasgow | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
tomorrow for the Champions League match. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
Thank you very much. He was a pioneer of wildlife photography, | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
developing techniques such as trip-wire technology which are still | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
used today. The images produced by Frederick Walter Champion are held | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
by the Natural History Museum in London. But 50 are currently on loan | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
to Dumfries Museum, close to where the adopted Scot made his home. | :22:39. | :22:39. | |
Willie Johnston reports. Perched on the branches of a small | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
tree, tiger hunter Frederick Walter Champion shoots his prey. The big | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
cat looks up and snarls, he knows he is being watched. Champion is no | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
threat. Armed with only a camera, the trophy he desires is some of the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
earliest images of tigers in the wild ever captured. Champion 's job | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
as a chorister in the engine jungle in the early part of the 20th | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
century gave him the opportunity. He pay need the use of tripwires to | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
trigger the flash to make these pictures possible. -- Ukrainian. | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
-- he pioneered. He would find the part of a tiger and set up his | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
camera on a small tripod, focus the camera on the tiger 's face, and if | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
it was going in the direction he hoped, when it put its paw on the | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
wire. He used a box camera like this with a glass rate negative and the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
light was from a magnesium flash. He took one photograph each night. He | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
got endless images, that was nothing short of miraculous. The exhibition | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
includes this picture of a boy captured by a flash when he | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
triggered the wire meant for a tiger. 18 years later, the son of | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Frederick Walter Champion, Nigel, remembers the night. It went off | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
with a loud noise and I held still for hours! The exhibition is on show | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
until November the 9th. Having asked Julian what the weather | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
is like tomorrow and she said, rubbish, I think we are now getting | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
a longer assessment. We could just leave it there! | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
A miserable commute for many of us tonight and a miserable spell of | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
weather. Rain is spreading North, reaching all but the far North by | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
morning. Under the influence of low pressure, that is the weather front | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
responsible and you can see already well in across southern and central | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Scotland. We tonight, that rain continues North. Heavy at times. -- | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
throughout tonight. Heavy rain polls to the North Sea, lighter rain | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
behind it and heavy showers in the south-west later in the night. Not | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
as cold as last night, temperatures almost at eight, nine Celsius. A | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
cloudy start tomorrow, outbreaks of rain resident drew much of the | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
country and a gradual improvement in the afternoon. -- through much of | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
the country. At around three o'clock, decent sunshine for the | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
inner Hebrides, Dumfries and Galloway, temperatures up to 14 | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Celsius. More cloud in the East, rain still hanging on over five, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
Angus, Aberdeenshire and cooler North East. Shetland has a mainly | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
dry and bright today but cold air in the North, the temperature is | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
limited at seven Celsius. After a bright morning in the north-west, | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
clouding over in the afternoon. Outbreaks of rain. In the afternoon | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
and evening, brightness extends further North at the rain hangs on | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
in the North East and there is more rain waiting. Through the week, rain | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
is not far away. Those weather fronts are threatening. On Friday, | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
there will be a break for a time from the heavy rain, it is a damp | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
pitch across the country and the best weather in the North and North | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
East -- action. More rain will set us up for an unsettled weekend. | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
Thank you, I think! Now, a reminder of tonight's main news. Unions at | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
the Grangemouth refinery have cold off a planned strike, but its owners | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
have shut the plant down until Tuesday at least. Unions described | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
the move as economic vandalism, while Ineos said it wanted | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
guarantees the site would not face further industrial action over the | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
winter. There were angry exchanges in the | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
Commons today over Britain's economic prospects. But David | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
Cameron insisted that the latest jobs figures showed the Coalition's | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
economic policy is the right one. Employment in Scotland is now at its | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
highest level for five years. The charity the Trussell Trust says | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
23,000 people used its food banks in the first half of this year compared | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
to just 4,000 in 2012. The police watchdog the IPCC says it | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
has begun an investigation into a former officer on the West Yorkshire | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
force who is alleged to have acted on behalf of Jimmy Savile. The | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
officer is said to have contacted Surrey Police before they conducted | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
an interview with Savile in 2009. And that is Reporting Scotland. Our | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
next main round up is at 10:25, join me for that if you can. Until then, | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
from everyone on the team, have a good evening. | :27:44. | :27:46. |