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the News of the World. That's all from the News at Six. | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Tonight on Reporting Scotland: Personal protests. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
The Unite union defends its demonstration outside the home of a | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Grangemouth executive, as the Prime Minister describes it as | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
threatening. Nobody has a right to intimidate, nobody has a right to | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
league, nobody has a right to threaten people's families, nobody | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
has a right to threaten people in their homes. Tonight, the union says | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
their actions are legal and legitimate. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Also on the programme: The former Rangers captain Fernando Ricksen | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
reveals he's been diagnosed with motor neurone disease. | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
From swimming pools to social care - Scottish councils are asked to | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
explain why they're all charging different amounts for their | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
services. Classes cancelled at universities | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
across Scotland as lecturers strike over pay. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
And Hearts win the Edinburgh derby - next they'll face Caley Thistle in | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
the League Cup semifinal. The Prime Minister has described as | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
shocking allegations that union members made a threatening visit to | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
the home of one of the executives involved in the Grangemouth dispute. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
David Cameron said the claims needed a full investigation. But Unite has | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
defended its targeting of managers at the plant as legal and | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
legitimate. Here's our business and economy editor Douglas Fraser. | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
Its industrial action but not as we know it. These pictures, put online | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
by campaigners, RA message to employers that employees won't just | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
withdraw their labour but set out to embarrass, pressurise and deploy the | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
inflatable rat. We won't take our members but to work until you stop | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
the blacklist. We will be here when you try to celebrate. We will be | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
outside your clients' offices and your suppliers' offices. While | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
protesting at Grangemouth, the Unite union used these tactics not at the | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
plant but targeting directors at their homes. That has stoked | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
controversy. Mariella of course people have a right to protest, of | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
course trade unions have a right to represent their members and take | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
industrial action. Those rights, important rights. But nobody has a | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
right to intimidate, to bully, to threaten people's families, to | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
threaten people in their homes. Since the picketing of the 1970s was | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
limited by legal constraints in the 1980s, unions have learnt | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
alternative tactics. The legislation so tightly restricts what is | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
possible for them to do that very often the only way they can get a | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
reaction from the company is too, if you like, provoke and cajole | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
shareholders or people further down the supply chain. Responding to the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Prime Minister, the union's general secretary insists the tactics are | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
legal. We'll use everything in our power to use every weapon in our | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
disposal, within the law, to make certain that our members are | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
listened to and that directors, these faceless individuals who | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
dominate our life, are made to understand that they've got to | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
account for their actions to everybody. The Grangemouth dispute | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
is not over yet. Any size been claiming it has been defamed. The | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
case continues and so does the fallout. -- the company that owns | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
the plant has been claiming it has been defamed. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
This is uncomfortable territory for labour and that's why the Tories are | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
making as much political capital out of this as possible. The latest | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
allegations simply add fuel to the firestorms surrounding Grangemouth | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
and the Falkirk selection battle, which are both inextricably linked. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Unite provides ?9 million in funding and is Labour's biggest backer. It | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
stands accused by some of using tactics which may have cost 800 | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
workers at Grangemouth their jobs. It's also accused of perhaps | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
undermining the Falkirk selection battle inquiry which Ed Miliband has | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
launched and which he is now under immense pressure to reopen. For that | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
reason, it's perhaps understandable that Ed Miliband's office has said | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
very little. We have had not an interview but a statement from his | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
office in the last hour, in which he condemns the prime minister's | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
comments as inflammatory. He says they are irresponsible. It also says | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
Labour would condemn any intimidatory tactics on any side in | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
an industrial dispute. What the statement does not do, however, is | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
address the core issues of what went wrong both in Grangemouth on the | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
union's side and also in the Falkirk selection battle. I think on that | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
there will be many difficult questions to come for Labour and the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
union, but also the Tories will continue to accuse Mr Miliband of | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
having his strings pulled by Len McCluskey. | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
And Newsnight Scotland tonight will be looking at role of the unions, | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
and asking how effective they've been in recent times. That's 11 | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
o'clock on BBC Two. The former Rangers captain Fernando | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Ricksen has revealed that he's been diagnosed with motor neurone | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
disease. The 37-year old made the announcement on a Dutch television | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
show last night. Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
reports. It began like any other interview. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Fernando Ricksen was on a Dutch TV programme to talk about his new | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
autobiography. Then he was asked why he was having difficulty speaking. | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
What a goal from Fernando Ricksen! He made more than 180 appearances | :06:02. | :06:45. | |
for ranges between 2000 and 2006. At just 37 he is relatively young to be | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
diagnosed with motor neurone disease, a terminal illness. The | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
average survival is just 14 months. But some live far longer. Jamie | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Lynch is nearly the same age as Fernando Ricksen and was diagnosed | :07:00. | :07:00. | |
five years ago. Today a former team-mate said | :07:01. | :07:22. | |
Fernando Ricksen was a fighter. I think he will do exactly the same | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
and fight until he's got the one tier of strength in his body. We're | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
going to try to support him as much as we can, as ex-players, but I'm | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
sure the Rangers supporters will do exactly the same. And even a former | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
rival, himself battling leukaemia, tweeted words of support. A | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
difficult path lies ahead at Fernando Ricksen can reflect on a | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
life lived to the full. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme: How a team of students | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
are using genetically modified E.coli to mop up poisons in lochs | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
and reservoirs before the toxins reach our bodies. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
In sport: The lowdown on the league cup semi final draw. | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
Andy Murray on his chances of playing on the Australian Open. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
And news of another world cup win for Scotland's women. Well worth | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
watching. Scotland's spending watchdog says | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
councils need to get better at explaining how they charge for | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
services like social care and car parking. The Accounts Commission has | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
highlighted significant variations in costs between different local | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
authorities - which it says need to be clearly laid out for the public. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Catriona Renton is here with the details. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Charges for council services like car parking and sports and leisure | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
raise ?1.3 billion a year - that's equivalent to over 50% of the amount | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
raised through council tax last year. According to the Accounts | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Commission's report, how much you pay for services can vary | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
significantly from one council to another. For example, an adult swim | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
can range from ?2.40 to ?4.80 depending on where you live. Extra | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
music tuition for children and young people can range from costing | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
nothing up to ?340 a year. And home care costs ?8.56 an hour in West | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Lothian, but in Angus you would pay ?23.70 an hour. Now, of course, | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
what's included in home care can vary from council to council - so we | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
are not comparing apples with apples. And the Accounts Commission | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
says that's the issue - councils need to better explain what you get | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
for your money. I became disabled when I was 41. A tumour damaged by | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
spinal cord and left me paralysed. Jeff lives in Midlothian. He needs | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
round-the-clock support. His wife cares for him but he also pays for | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
an extra 80 hours of care a week. This costs ?627 a month. But he | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
lives -- if he lived in another council area, he says he wouldn't | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
have to pay at all. Fife just this year have scrapped all community | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
care charges and in Midlothian, I have to pay the excess income that | :10:21. | :10:32. | |
the council would say I would have, I have to pay 70% towards my care. | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
Of course Midlothian is not the only council to charge for this and Jeff | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
is involved in a national campaign to abolish charging for care like | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
his altogether. But this is not the only area where there are | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
discrepancies. For example, Western Isles Council reduced prices by more | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
than half for sports facilities like swimming pools across the islands. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
As a result, more people used to facilities and more income was | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
generated for the council. The Accounts cut micro commission says | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
councils need to explain why there are differences. It's fair to say | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
that a lot of people are quite content to pay charges as long as | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
they understand why they are there in the first place. It is two | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
points, really. One, how is the charge made up, and how does it | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
compare with other council areas? And if it is significant be | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
different why is that the case? -- significantly. The umbrella body | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
that represents councils, COSLA, says local authorities are doing an | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
excellent job within very different local circumstances. And councils | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
are not complacent about the need to continually improve. | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
The ex-husband of a woman who died after a fire at a hair salon in | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
Stirling has appeared in court charged with her murder. 46-year old | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Ahdie Khayatzadeh died in hospital, after the fire in the town's Maxwell | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Place earlier this month. Today 61-year-old Ahmad Yazdanparast | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
appeared at Stirling Sheriff court. He made no plea or declaration and | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
was remanded in custody. There's been serious disruption at | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
some Scottish universities today, because of a 24-hour strike. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Lecturers and support staff from three separate unions took part in | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the action over pay. Our education correspondent Jamie McIvor reports. | :12:17. | :12:28. | |
It was the most widespread strike at universities for several years. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Lecturers, technicians and administrative staff joined picket | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
lines across Scotland and beyond. Please come back to the negotiating | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
table. It's the first time the three Unions have gone on strike together. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Stafford been offered a pay rise of one present. Bid value of pay in the | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
sector has not why 13% in real terms. -- staff have been offered a | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
pay rise of 1%. It's vital that we value the people who work in our | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
universities. Universities said they tried to give the disruption to a | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
minimum though some lectures were cancelled. Very disappointing. I | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
came here this morning and can't get to the library. I think it was quite | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
childish. I compared it to the strike at Grangemouth where | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
workers' rights were being diminished, pay was being | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
diminished, they were asked to sign a new contract under less | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
preferential terms. Yet university staff have good, well-paid jobs, | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
pension schemes, and talking about their pay not going up in real terms | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
but still going up. But some other strikers argue they are trying to | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
help colleagues in other roles besides lecturing. We are trying to | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
use our position to help those people on the lowest paid jobs. This | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
is a UK wide dispute over a national pay officer. The dispute is not with | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
the individual universities. And employers Association said that the | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
pay would seem generous to some in other jobs. | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
Police have named the teenage girl who died after being knocked down by | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
a car on the canine road as Holly Mackay, the 15-year-old was from the | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
village of kill Dari. A new eco-ferry is being prepared | :14:26. | :14:35. | |
for service in the inner Hebrides. It can use both battery and diesel | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
power, meaning reduce CO2 emissions and fuel bills. What we are able to | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
do with the system, the hybrid system is then optimise the ship's | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
running plant so there will be a maximising of the energy efficiency | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
of the vessel. Business owners have six weeks to save the support | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
setting up of this did -- improvement districts. The aim is to | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
deliver key marketing and infrastructure projects. Opponents | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
say it is not focused enough. This is a great opportunity for us to | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
say, look at what is going on, be afraid, we are a destination to | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
drive with. This goddess -- Scottish book trust has put us a list of | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
Scotland's best book. The public are being asked to vote online for their | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
favourites with the top ten announced in November. | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
And there are more stories from your area and all the latest news 24 | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
hours a day on BBC Scotland's website. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
A team of students from Dundee University has come up with a new | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
idea to clean up the toxins caused by algae in lochs and reservoir. | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
ToxiMop uses E. Coli to mop up the poisons before they reach our | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
bodies. The team are taking the idea to America. | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
This reservoir just north of Dundee, a great place for recreation | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
but not if the water gets too warm. As it heats up, the algal bloom... | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
Some of them are harmless but the blue green algae can produce harmful | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
toxins. Step forward a group of students. We got involved in this | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
competition and the idea is want to take old problems and find new | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
solutions. The toxins bonds to proteins in our bodies. The idea is | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
to find something else to bind to that toxin before it gets to us. | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
What we have done is make E. Coli, make the protein and then when we | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
put it into water with this toxin, it binds the toxin in the same way | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
so you can take the sells out. And the problem is not just confined to | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
this reservoir. Lake Erie in the USA, this is a massive thing for the | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
tourist industry, and industry worth $11.5 billion. These floating robots | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
are part of the solution. They collect data from the lake and this | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
builds up a model of what is going on in the lake and we can predict | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
how algae blooms form and they can then analyse toxicity. Genetic | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
engineering and E. Coli... Even though the strain of the bacteria is | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
harmless. The public of scepticism towards these terms but we having | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
gauged them throughout our project and we have tailored our project to | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
the needs of the public. It has passed the idea stage but it will | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
take a lot more work before the solution is found. | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Lets get all the sport now from David. Good evening. The Aberdeen | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
manager Derek McInnes as if his side cannot win the league cup, he once | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
St Johnstone to do it. His Dons team have been drawn against former | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
employers in the semifinals. Hearts will play Inverness after a win over | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
Hebburn in. Number three is Aberdeen. In the | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
draw thanks to last night's win at Motherwell, it came after the goals | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
by Johnny Hayes setting up a semifinal with one of the managers' | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
former teams. St Johnstone. If we will not win it, I would like to see | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
St Johnstone win it. We will both be doing our best to get there and I | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
have a lot of good memories here and connections and good people working | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
at Saint Johnstone but when it comes round, we are doing all we can to | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
get Aberdeen in that final. St Johnstone needed a controversial | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
late winner to see of Morton but are now dreaming of making history. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Would like to win the competition because St Johnstone have never won | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
the Scottish cup all the League Cup and it would be great if we could do | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
that. If Hearts can produce more goals like this, their fans will | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
fancy their chances as well. After the derby defeat of Hibs, they want | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
to be out of Administration before they play Inverness in the other | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
semifinal. It will be important so we can get out of Administration but | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
that is all, it is down to the administrators side to try to get | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
the thing approved and hopefully we can just do the work in the park. | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
For Hibs, some fans were calling for change. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
Have made it four wins from their first four matches in the World Cup | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
qualifying campaign, they won 4-0 I way to Poland with striker Jane Ross | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
scoring three of the goals with the Scots ending the year at the top of | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
group four. This is fantastic, I do not know how many goals we scored | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
now but with two goals that we conceded against opponents, it | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
is... We could not have asked for more. We are delighted. Andy Murray | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
says he is desperate to play in the first major event of the New Year, | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
the Wimbledon champion is recovering from back injuries but holding a | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
tennis racket again. Only at conferences though. He will only | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
take part in the Australian Open if he is fit enough to win it. My back | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
is good, the rehab has gone well but I have not been back on the tennis | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
court yet or hit any balls and I will not know how long it will be | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
until I am back until I start doing that. And now I look at today's | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
sports news elsewhere. Rangers have placed newspaper ads for a new chief | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
executive. They are looking for candidates of exceptional quality | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
according to the advert. UEFA are unlikely to agree to any plans for | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
an away day for Celtic, Celtic Park will be unavailable because it is | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
being used at the couple while games. | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
Dundee United's player faces two charges of excessive misconduct | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
during their match at Inverness, one for grabbing an opponent and the | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
other which you cannot see here for seizing hold of an assistant referee | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
by the throat. Nico has been cleared by biting an opponent during a match | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
against Munster, that is after a 3.5 hour disciplinary hearing. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Double Commonwealth gold medallist Jen McIntosh is one of eight | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
shooters named as the Scotland team for Glasgow 2014, giving up her | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
studies to prepare. People say you have sacrificed going to get a job | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
or university, that is not the case, I am putting it on hold, that is | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
all. Glasgow is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I might as well do | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
it right. Scotland will play England in a one-day international next | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
year, the match scheduled for the 9th of May will be played in | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
Aberdeen. And there are more stories on our | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
website. And that is all the sport to light, | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
no tricks for me, just treats! On this Halloween night, how would | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
you fancy venturing onto the most haunted highway in Scotland's the | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
A75 in Dumfriesshire is said to have more reports of supernatural | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
activity than any other road in the country. This report from Willie | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
Johnston is not for the faint-hearted, he assures us. | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
Busy daytime traffic on the A75, much of it consists of lorries bound | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
for Ireland. But it is a bit more fright at night. Especially on this, | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
the notorious straight, the hotspot. A quick search of the | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
internet would bring up the A75 as the most haunted road in Scotland | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
and some say Britain. There are so many things happening on this road | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
that had been seen by so many people as well. All manner of strange | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
things here, screaming hags, phantoms and this menagerie of | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
creatures. It began with a large group of lines towards the | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
windscreen of a car, they then witness cats and then witnessed a | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
phantom furniture van which is unusual. That is the place where all | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
the apparitions were seen in people get frightened. Bob Sturgeon ran a | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
snack bar at the side of the road, a frequent early-morning refuge for | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
drivers who had parked overnight in lay-by is. A common sight in those | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
groups of June rejected, bedraggled people pulling handcarts or carrying | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
bundles like some kind of medieval camp followers. It was very rare | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
without somebody telling me they had some experience. One person was so | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
affected, he gave up driving altogether. He was in a state, his | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
hands were shaking. So the chap was badly affected. Documented reports | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
of ghosts on this road go back at least 50 years. As well as seeing | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
assorted animals, horsemen and carriages, some drivers have even | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
been convinced they have run over people. Phantom figures of men, | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
women and children. But can any of it be true? I have been using this | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
road all of my life and I've never seen anything remotely... Spooky! | :25:01. | :25:15. | |
Now to look at the weather. We'll would be getting any guisers? -- | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
will we be getting. Some torrential downpours and high | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
winds as well, this is the rainfall wader, you can seen the bulk of the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
showers but still a rash of them behind so if you are out , we hope | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
the showers will fade. Still windy as well with gusting winds up to 50 | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
mph and elsewhere, dry, clear and cold. Temperatures in towns or | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
cities around five or six Celsius. Under clear skies you could see the | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
aurora borealis. Tomorrow morning it will be a cold start, wet and | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
windy. Plenty of sunshine for central, southern and eastern parts | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
of the country, they rush rush hours in the north and breezy here as | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
well. By mid-afternoon tomorrow, plenty of sunshine across the south | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
of the country, between nine and 10 Celsius. Winds far lighter than | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
today but Argyll Northwoods, plenty of showers. Further east, some | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
sunshine. Showers continuing towards Orkney and Shetland. Into the | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
evening and overnight, we hold onto the showers across the north-west, | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
they could be wintry over the highest of the mountains and | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
elsewhere it is dry, clear and cold for central, southern and eastern | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Scotland. Towards the weekend, all eyes towards the Atlantic towards | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
this area of low pressure giving us some trouble with the forecast | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
because it's track is unknown at the moment. Rather chilly where the rain | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
is as well. Sunday is a better day, sunshine and showers and the winds | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
run from the Northwest so if you're exposed to that, it will feel cool. | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
If you are heading out tonight, stay safe and have fun. | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
A reminder of the main news, the Prime Minister has described a | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
shocking allegations that union members made a threatening visit to | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
the home of one of the executives involved in the Grangemouth dispute. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
Unite says it's legal and legitimate. | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
Davies accusing big energy companies of trying to make it difficult for | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
customers to switch suppliers. And the former Rangers captain | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
Fernando Ricksen has revealed he has been diagnosed with motor neurone | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
disease. That is B, I will be back with the | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
headlines at eight o'clock and the late bulletin -- that is Reporting | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
Scotland. We will leave you with a closer look at the Hydro arena which | :28:05. | :28:06. | |
has taken on a Halloween theme. | :28:07. | :28:09. |