:00:00. > :00:14.stories on the BBC News Channel. That's all from me, stay with
:00:15. > :00:19.Good afternoon. Campaigners are protesting this
:00:20. > :00:23.lunchtime against plans for a housing development near Culloden -
:00:24. > :00:26.the site of the last pitched battle fought on British soil. They're
:00:27. > :00:28.angry that developer, Inverness Properties Limited, has won planning
:00:29. > :00:32.permission to build 16 homes on a brownfield site just 400 metres away
:00:33. > :00:35.from the wider boundary of the 1746 battlefield. Highland Council threw
:00:36. > :00:38.the scheme out last year, but on appeal the Scottish Government ruled
:00:39. > :00:41.the plans would have no impact on the historic site. Opponents
:00:42. > :00:45.protesting in Culloden and later in Inverness say it's the thin end of a
:00:46. > :00:52.wedge that could see the battlefield increasingly hemmed in by urban
:00:53. > :00:56.development. A former chairman of Scottish Labour
:00:57. > :01:00.has announced he'll vote for independence. Bob Thomson, a Labour
:01:01. > :01:03.member for more than 51 years, declared his support for a yes vote
:01:04. > :01:11.as the campaign reaches the 200 days to go milestone.
:01:12. > :01:15.The campaign to save Perth City Halls moves up a gear today.
:01:16. > :01:18.Volunteers will be out in the city centre gathering signatures for a
:01:19. > :01:21.petition to save the building which is facing demolition after the
:01:22. > :01:24.latest bid to save it failed. In Tennis, despite winning the
:01:25. > :01:27.opening set, Andy Murray has been knocked out of the Mexican Open in
:01:28. > :01:34.Acapulco. He lost his semifinal to Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in three
:01:35. > :01:37.sets - 4-6, 7-6, 7-6. Fourth seed Dimeetrov, who hasn't won a set in
:01:38. > :01:50.his three previous encounters against Murray, faces South African,
:01:51. > :01:55.Kevin Anderson in the final. One game in the Scottish Premiership
:01:56. > :02:01.last night. Dundee United missed two penalties but came away with a 3-1
:02:02. > :02:05.win. Jordon Forster scored for Hibs on the stroke of half-time.
:02:06. > :02:09.In Rugby, Edinburgh beat Ospreys 31-25 in last night's PRO 12 match.
:02:10. > :02:16.Grayson Hart scored two tries for the home side. The result was
:02:17. > :02:19.revenge for eighth-placed Edinburgh, who had been thrashed 44-10 by
:02:20. > :02:24.Ospreys in September. And there's boxing tonight. Ricky
:02:25. > :02:27.Burns will make the fifth defence of his WBO lightweight title when he
:02:28. > :02:32.faces the American Terence Crawford at the SECC in Glasgow. The Scot
:02:33. > :02:34.goes into the fight as the underdog against the 26-year-old from
:02:35. > :02:39.Nebraska, who's unbeaten in 22 fights.
:02:40. > :02:54.Now the weather. Good afternoon. The first day of
:02:55. > :02:59.spring and it is not a bad day. Dry and bright weather across the
:03:00. > :03:02.country. Good spells in the east and the North East. A few showers here
:03:03. > :03:07.and there but not amounting to too much. Across western areas we will
:03:08. > :03:11.see cloud thickening up with the wind freshening up as well.
:03:12. > :03:17.Temperatures are about seven Celsius. It will feel a bit colder
:03:18. > :03:22.today but pleasant in the sunshine. This evening, this weather front
:03:23. > :03:26.approaches bringing rain and snow to higher ground tonight. Then the next
:03:27. > :03:31.moves in during the course of tomorrow bringing further out wrecks
:03:32. > :03:37.of rain jawing Sunday. It starts off dry, we will see clear spells but a
:03:38. > :03:47.cold start to the evening across the North. It does fragment and clear.
:03:48. > :03:55.Clearing skies mean an ice risk. A frost possibly and mist and fog
:03:56. > :03:58.patches forming. A cold start with the nice risk first thing tomorrow,
:03:59. > :04:08.but Bright initially. Cloud increases from the West. We
:04:09. > :04:15.Hello there. The first day of March, and quite a wintry chill to
:04:16. > :04:19.the first thing, but conditions have improved a lot, a lot of sunshine
:04:20. > :04:20.have there, so the daffodils you can