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Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: The extent of organised crime - police | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
say it costs the economy ?2 billion a year and gangs are looking for new | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
ways to make their money. As the UK Government announces | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
additional support for offshore wind farms at the expense of onshore | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
turbines, what does it mean for the industry in Scotland? Preparing for | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
the worst as Scots and braces itself for gale force winds and travel | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
disruption. Gillian Smart will also have a | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
detailed weather forecast later in the programme. And in sport. And | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
football referees call for urgent talks with the SFA about protecting | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
match officials after this incident involving a Dundee United player. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Police have revealed what they believe to be the extent of | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
organised crime in Scotland - 227 groups involving 3,400 people. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Organised crime is estimated to cost the Scottish economy ?2 billion a | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
year and it's understood that gangs are now targeting public services | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
and events. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Reevel Alderson, has | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
more. In a Blackpool car park, drugs are transferred into a vehicle of a | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
member of a organised crime group. When police stopped the car, they | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
found suitcases containing five kilos of heroin. Shoplifting for | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
profit, and other serious crime, half of all shoplifting in Scotland | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
is by organised groups. Police say they know where the groups are | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
based, they say there are 227 groups organised as businesses and they | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
have 3400 employees. The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
contracts worth more than ?2.5 billion and police believe this is | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
regarded as potentially rich pickings by groups. It is estimated | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
that public contracts in Scotland are worth ?9 billion per year. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Police say they have all of the evidence that organised crime groups | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
are trying to get a slice of that action, bidding for contracts as | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
varied as childcare, security and waste management. They have urged | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
public bodies to tighten up on their tendering procedures. Police | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
quantify their fightback in this seizure of criminals' assets like | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
this luxury house on the outskirts of Oscar. For some time, cars taken | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
from crime groups have been used by police to patrol the very areas | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
where they operate. We have identified many assets this year | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
already and that is identified so that they can confiscate that not. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
That must make a huge difference. We will hit them where it hurts, their | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
pockets. We also locking them up and that is important. Police say | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
another success story is activities like this, ?74 million worth of | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
funding from crying proceeds. Cash support from the UK Government | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
for onshore wind farms is to be cut and the money redirected to offshore | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
wind farms. It will provide a boost for the renewables industry, but | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
campaigners claim it won't stop wind farms blighting communities across | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
Scotland. Our environment correspondent, David Miller, | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
reports. This announcement was unexpected and it's left the | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
renewable energy industry scrambling to assess what impact it would | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
have. Tonight, we are getting different messages about what that | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
impact will be. They are a common if controversial part of our landscape, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
but Scotland will need more than onshore wind farms if it is to meet | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
its renewable energy ambitions. In future, we can expect to see more of | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
these. Giant, offshore wind farms and power generators now know how | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
much they will be paid to operate them. You mac it is about getting | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
best value for money as well as making sure that offshore wind which | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
has a huge potential to contribute to the economy has the commitment | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
and support that it needs. In future, operators will receive ?90 | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
per every megawatt hour of electricity a get. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
That is ?5 less than expected. They will receive ?140 per megawatt | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
generated for offshore wind farms. That compares with today's price of | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
?52 paid for each megawatt hour of baseload electricity. There is | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
frustration tonight at a higher price was not agreed for generators | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
in Scotland's Islands. The UK Government have ignored their own | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
research which pointed to the need for each of the islands, Weston, | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
Orkney and Shetland to have their own specific person -- bespoke | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
measure. I think it is tokenistic. They are trying to show that they | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
are listening. Really, it will make no difference at all in Scotland. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Tonight, senior sources here in Scotland have told me that they | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
believe the UK Government's policy is being driven by the needs of | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
English Conservative MPs. They are worried about the backlash about | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
wind farm applications. That is something Danny Alexander denies. | :05:43. | :05:52. | |
Plenty of wind energy tonight. Amber weather warnings are in place | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
tonight across Scotland for gale force winds and snow. Gusts of up to | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
70mph are predicted for some mainland areas tomorrow, and | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
tonight, local authorities, businesses and emergency services | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
are making preparations for serious disruption. Craig Anderson is at the | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
Kessock Bridge in Inverness. Craig, what are we being told about what's | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
coming? What we are being told is that in the very early hours of | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
tomorrow morning, we will see these gales sweeping into the Hebrides and | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
then on the West Coast. As they hit mainland Scotland, the Gaels will | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
veer around and the high winds will cover most of the country as the | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
morning progresses. We could see wind speeds of 70 or possibly even | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
90 mph. There will be snow as well, only a few centimetres on | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
lower-level roads, but possibly up to 20 centimetres on higher ground. | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
The winds may affect the Kessock Bridge or the Forth Bridge, as | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
well, and Transport Scotland are warning that lashing rain and high | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
winds will make for difficult driving conditions and possible | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
disruption. With the gusts up to 80 mph, we expect that there could be | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
bridge closures, it could affect trees, we have already removed | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
branches. We are monitoring the network year from the control | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
centre, we have something like 380 cameras on the network. And what | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
plans are being made to deal with any disruption? Come back to us, | :07:29. | :07:41. | |
Craig! I'm just wondering what plans are being made to... Power companies | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
say they have deployed extra staff around the country. They are | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
preparing for possible disruption caused by power lines been down and | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
power cuts. The operating companies on the rails say they are | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
already... They say that services may be disrupted and they are also | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
reducing speeds on some services. One platform in the North Sea is | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
already -- has already had 85 people taken off it because of the | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
potential of high winds. On the ferries, a number of services have | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
already been cancelled for tomorrow. A number are also under review and | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
they may well be cancelled as the weather picture becomes clearer. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Local authorities from the islands down to the borders have been having | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
emergency planning meetings and they say that power cuts may close | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
schools and other facilities. I think it is fair to say that all of | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
these services and authorities up and down the country are hoping for | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
the best, but tonight they are preparing for the worst. Thank you. | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
You are watching Reporting Scotland. Still to come: Join us in Norway | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
where this plant is going to be the first in Europe to import shale gas | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
from the US. The company that runs Grangemouth say that if they do that | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
in Scotland, it was secure jobs there for the next 20 to 25 years. | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
And in sport, ref's rage, why match officials are angry with the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Scottish FA and what they intended to do about it. It is business as | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
usual according to Inverness Caledonian Thistle's new manager. We | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
will hear from him later. Air accident investigators are | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
beginning their detailed examination of the helicopter which crashed into | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
the Clutha bar in Glasgow last Friday. Nine people were killed and | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
many more injured. Further tributes have been paid to the pilot of the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
helicopter, who died along with two police officers on board. Aileen | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
Clarke reports. On the Clydeside, near the Clutha | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Vaults, the flowers keep coming. Yes, lots of flowers and lots of | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
questions, too. Investigators from various agencies are trying to find | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
the answers to what happened here, a specialist team is being put in | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
place to liaise those with who are the most pressing reason to know | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
more. We are acutely aware that the families of those who have died as | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
well as the public more generally will want to know why this incident | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
took place. It is important to make sure that the investigation is full | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
and as thorough as possible to make sure that lessons are learned for | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
future. Before a meeting of the Scottish police authority, a | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
minute's silence. All of the dead and injured were in their thoughts, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
but particular mention of the police officers and pilots. They will be | :10:52. | :11:07. | |
much missed and valued. They will all be sadly missed. I have met all | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
three families in the last three days. No one can know what they are | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
going through. But their grief is shared by a great many people. This | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
lady says she was very proud to know the pilot. He would never walk past | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
you. David Traill had a smile on his face when he was 18. He always had | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
that smile on his face. I will remember him with that. | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
The head of the Scottish Fire Service says he was "absolutely | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
shocked" when he discovered that the former chief of Grampian had | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
secretly recorded meetings with him. At a tribunal, 62-year-old David | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Dayell is claiming age discrimination after he failed to | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
secure a top job in the new service. Kevin Keane reports. He was in an | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
office in one of the buildings behind me when he had two meetings | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
with Alistair Hay in the period running up to the transition from | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
eight Fire services into one. During those meetings, he had a capable of | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
track tape recorder on a chair and recorded what was said. Asked for | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
his reaction, Mr Hayes said he was absolutely distressed and quite | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
shocked that a fellow senior officer would behave in such a way and he | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
said that if he had asked, he would have said yes. Asked about a | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
severance package, Mr Hayes said that would not be available to | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
uniformed officers without prior ministerial approval which he did | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
not have. Asked whether age played any part in the decision not to give | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
David one of the top jobs, he said absolutely not. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Mary Riggins, the popular Scottish actress who was best known for her | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
roles in Take the High Road and Balamory, has died. She played Effie | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
in the long running STV soap opera before playing Susie Sweet in the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
BBC children's programme. She'd had a long career in radio, film and | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
television until she suffered a stroke in April last year. Her | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
family say she died peacefully on Monday at the age of 78. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
The company that runs the petrochemical complex at Grangemouth | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
says jobs could be secure there for at least the next 20 years. Ineos is | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
putting in place plans for the site to be the first in the UK to import | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
American shale gas. Part of its plan includes building the biggest gas | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
tank in Europe, to store the gas for the plant. It's following a model | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
set up in Norway, from where Catriona Renton reports. Here in the | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
south of Norway, they are putting in place the infrastructure to buy in | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
shale gas from the United States. The reason? Even after shipping, it | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
is much cheaper. Less than half the price of the gas they are currently | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
buying from the North Sea. We import US shale gas to secure the future of | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
the site. This will make sure that the site has a long life. Once up | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
and running, this tank will store a 17,000 tonnes of liquefied gas which | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
will be used to make plastics, just like the petrochemical plant at | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Grangemouth does. Both sites are run by the same company, INEOS, but this | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
site is profitable and its owners believe it will become more so. This | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
is what Grangemouth can expect. I am right on top of the first tank in | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
Europe to bring in shale gas from the United States and it's an | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
impressive sight. We are 37 metres up in the air here and the one in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Grangemouth, it will have twice the capacity. For months, the heat has | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
been on here at Grangemouth. In October, the chemical plant nearly | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
closed following a bitter dispute between management and the Unite | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
union. 800 jobs were set to go. Staff accepted the terms and | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
conditions and the owners agreed to invest in its future. You lack the | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
first thing we have to do is get this investment. That maintains | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
jobs. Then, once we are a profitable company, we can look to see if we | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
can reinvest that cash, bring new plants, new products and as a result | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
of that new jobs. Managements do plan to close down three of | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
Grangemouth's less profitable assets. But tonight, the Unite union | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
says there will be job losses. jobs will disappear from here. You can | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
get away from that. If the investment goes ahead, INEOS says | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
the plant will be secure for at least 20 years. In Norway, the | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
future is bright, it could be in Grangemouth, too. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Other stories from across Scotland this Wednesday: Trams are to begin | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
running through the centre of Edinburgh early tomorrow morning - | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
but without passengers. Engineers will take one for a test | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
trip along Princes Street - at walking pace. | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
Perth's City Hall is once again facing the threat of demolition. A | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
report has found plans to turn it into a food market are not viable. | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Officials say the council should apply again to pull down the | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
building, which has lain empty since 2005. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Plans are being drawn up to sell off the former ferry terminal in | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Stranraer. The one-and-a-half acre site at the East Pier has lain empty | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
since Stena moved its Irish Sea operation to Cairnryan two years | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
ago. Work to improve visitor facilities | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
in the Galloway Forest Park is almost complete. The ?4.5 million | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
project has seen a new visitor centre built at Kirroughtree Forest | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
- which is the park's major mountain-biking hub. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
A fundraising campaign has been launched to keep a historic gun in | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Scotland. The 17th century blunderbuss was taken from the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden. It's been on loan to the visitors' | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
centre for several years, but now the owners have put it up for sale. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
The First Minister has unveiled the artwork which will feature on his | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
official Christmas card. It's a depiction of Artaban, the legendary | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
fourth wise man, who missed the birth of Jesus because he stopped to | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
help people on the way to Bethlehem. I don't doom too many happy people. | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
I decided to try to make Artaban look happy. He looks happy but also | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
slightly demented. That is probably because he has got this big | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
challenge, to find Jesus. He doesn't make it. | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
And there are more stories from your area - and all the latest news, 24 | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
hours a day - on BBC Scotland's website. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
The discovery of a message in a bottle on the banks of a Highland | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
sea loch has led to new links being formed between schools in Lochaber | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
and Wales. Six-year-old Samara McCormack and her family thought | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
that the letters were written in a foreign language when they first | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
found them near Fort William. But as Jackie O'Brien reports, they had | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
travelled hundreds of miles from the Welsh coast. | :18:23. | :18:35. | |
Samara McCormack and her cousin have been out on a family walk when they | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
made the discovery on the banks of Loch Lenny. We had been walking and | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
my uncle spotted the bottle. He went down to figure out where it came | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
from. The funny writing, as she puts it, turned out to be Welsh but the | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
letters inside the bottle could be quickly translated by their | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Lochyside RC Primary School teacher. Coincidentally, Andy Sturrock once | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
lived and worked near the Welsh school which sent it. It was fate. | :19:10. | :19:18. | |
As expected, there was huge excitement once the news reached | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
Wales. It is quite amazing. You would not believe it would have got | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
so far. When we looked at the map, the children were very shocked. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
Finding this was exciting enough for a six-year-old schoolgirl but the | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
discovery has led to so much more than just a message. Because it has | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
become a real-life context for the children's learning, they are | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
writing to children from another school and comparing their cultures. | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
It has brought the project alive for them and they have learned so much | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
more about another country in the British Isles. During the age of | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
high-speed communication and social media, these two very similar skills | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
have been brought together by an old-fashioned message in a bottle. | :20:06. | :20:19. | |
Let's get the sport now, from David. Scottish referees say they are | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
unhappy about the message the FA are sending out about the treatment of | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
referees. This follows a one match ban giving to a Dundee United player | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
for putting a hand on a linesman's throat. | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
It is this incident in the League Cup quarterfinal between Inverness | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
and Dundee United that has caused so much controversy. David Dayell, seen | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
here, among a number of players appearing to grab a linesman by the | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
throat. -- Nadir Ciftci. A SFA panel have handed player a two-game ban, | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
half of which is suspended, but senior football referees in Scotland | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
are unhappy with the punishment. They say that... | :21:05. | :21:19. | |
This former referee agrees with them. Is there any consistency here? | :21:20. | :21:29. | |
Under the umbrella of the SFA, is Scottish amateur football and I know | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
that the punishment dealt out for these types of incidents to the | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
amateur and junior player is much more severe to the extent that | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
people have been banned for life. FSA say they have not heard from the | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
body representing these referees. They are adamant that it would have | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
been befitting of a member 's organisation such as the seat and | :21:49. | :21:58. | |
expiration... Both parties will now be looking for reconciliation on the | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
matter and this season continues. -- such as SSFRA. | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
The new Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager John Hughes says he won't be | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
making big changes at the club - saying it'll be business as usual. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
The former Falkirk, Hibs and Hartlepool United boss succeeds | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
Terry Butcher. Here Hughes, nicknamed Yogi, gives an insight | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
into his management style. One thing I will say, I do not believe there | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
is a place for a big stake in football. I am here to guide the | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
boys, try to make them better, and as long as I know they have got a | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
standard at this club that they try to play too, the dressing room looks | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
after itself. Now, a look at what else is happening across Scottish | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
sport. Four goals from Nicky Clarke helped | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Rangers beat Forfar 6-1 in League One last night. It's Rangers 19th | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
successive win - a post-war record for the club. | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
Edinburgh rugby are in European Cup action this weekend. With one win | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
and one defeat so far in the group stage, they're targeting a win over | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
English club Gloucester. It is the home game. If you get beat at home, | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
it is a cup challenge to qualify for the next stage. | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
Meanwhile, Glasgow Warriors are aiming to beat Cardiff Blues on | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Friday. The Warriors are also with one win and one defeat in the | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
competition. We have been at Wales a couple of times this year and come | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
away with victory, so that is the aim, to go down to Wales and get a | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
victory and return to home ground. And Warriors join Glasgow City | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
football team and - seen here - the Scotland curling team, skipped by | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Eve Muirhead, on the short list for SportScotland's team of the year. | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
Scotland have been drawn with Nepal, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
and Canada in the qualifiers for cricket's 2015 World Cup. Three | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
teams from the group go forward to a play-off competition. | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
And there are more sports stories - plus all the latest news, 24 hours a | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
day - on BBC Sport Scotland's website. | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
That is all from me this evening. Let's find out more about what the | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
comings oh has in store for us. comings oh has | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Batten down the hatches. Good evening. We are less than one week | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
into winter but it is making its presence felt, some severe, Stormy | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
weather on the cards for all of us tonight and tomorrow. The main issue | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
is the strength of the wind. The Met Office have issued an amber weather | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
warning, which means be prepared, because westerly winds will | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
strengthening to severe gale force tonight. It is down to an area of | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
low pressure tracking across to the north of us, bringing heavy pulses | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
of rain. Look at the squeeze on those isobars. Through the early | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
hours we will see gusts of 90 mph over Orkney and exposed western | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
coasts. Tomorrow morning, the greatest impact transfers | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
southwards, to the central belt, and then to the south-east, with gusts | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
of 70 mph, we could see small-scale structural damage and travel | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
disruption and potentially some power outages. For the afternoon, | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
the rain clears, the strongest of the winds begin to ease and at our | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
attention shifts to the north and north-east and frequent heavy snow | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
showers. We have a separate yellow Met Office warning for those because | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
we could see a pew centimetres of snow. Ten to 20 centimetres as | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
possible over the high ground and it will be blowing a gale of Shetland | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
and the coast and over the high ground. Blizzard conditions of the | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
highest level roots tomorrow. Across most of the country in the afternoon | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
it will be dry, some sunshine, it will be cold once that rain clears. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
We will see a few wintry flurries into the West. It shouldn't it to | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
too much, though. It will stay when around the coasts and that is | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
something to bear in mind, because big waves combined with a spring | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
tide could lead to some flooding in coastal areas. It stays windy into | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
tomorrow evening, particularly over Shetland, still gusts of 70 mph. We | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
are pulling in arctic air, so this is no showers will continue in the | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
north and north-east and it will be a cold night. On Friday, things | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
start to settle down as high pressure builds to the south of us, | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
but we are still pulling in that very cold there. There will be still | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
some snow showers for the Northern Isles, otherwise it will be dry with | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
sunshine, temperatures for many of us will not get much above freezing. | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
It is mild in the weekend, on Saturday there will be rain in the | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
north-west, dry weather in the East. Thanks. Now, a reminder of tonight's | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
main news. Police have revealed what they believe to be the extent of | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
organised crime in Scotland - 227 groups involving 3400 people. | :26:43. | :26:43. | |
Thanks. Now, a reminder of tonight's main news. Organised crime is | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
estimated to cost the Scottish economy ?2 billion a year and it's | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
understood that gangs are now targeting public services and | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
events. Cash support from the UK Government for onshore wind farms is | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
to be cut and money redirected to offshore wind farms. It will provide | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
a boost for the renewables industry. Campaigners claim it will not stop | :27:05. | :27:06. | |
wind farms lighting communities in Scotland. Nigella Lawson had | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
admitted in court that she has taken cocaine but denied she was an | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
addict. Giving evidence at the fraud trial of two personal assistance, | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
she said it happened when she was being subjected to what she called | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
acts of intimate terrorism by her former husband Charles Saatchi. A | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
further ?3 billion in cuts to government department is to be | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
announced tomorrow when the Chancellor delivers his Autumn | :27:31. | :27:31. | |
statement. And that's Reporting Scotland. I'll | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
be back with the headlines at eight and the late bulletin just after the | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
ten o'clock news. Until then, from everyone on the team here in Glasgow | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
and around the country, have a very good evening. | :27:43. | :27:47. |