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BBC One we join the Tonight, on Reporting Scotland. The | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
former NATO Secretary General says a Yes vote in the referendum would | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
threaten the stability of the West. For the second military power in the | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
West to shatter that would be cataclysmic in geopolitical terms. | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
The Scottish Government says Lord Robertson's comments are insulting, | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
crass and offensive. Also on the programme, the cost of | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
the Commonwealth Games opening and closing ceremonies rises to almost | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
?21 million. One of Scotland's leading | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
gamekeepers calls for access to the countryside to be restricted to | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
protect animals and plant life. On the road again. Sir Chris Hoy | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
switches to four wheels as he takes up motorsport. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
And how an elite World War II commando force was trained in the | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Highlands. Good evening. The former NATO | :00:55. | :01:09. | |
Secretary General, Lord Robertson, has told an audience in Washington | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
that Scottish independence would be cataclysmic for Western security. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
The Scottish Government said his comments were insulting and | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
ridiculous and insisted that an independent Scotland would not turn | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
its back on its defence obligations to other countries. Here's our | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Political Correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :01:28. | :01:40. | |
We live in an unstable world. Russian forces overwhelmed the | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Ukrainians in Crimea, ignoring international condemnation. In this | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
world, a former NATO top gun believes that unity between Western | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
military powers is essential. He told a Washington think tank that | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Scottish independence would embolden our enemies. The loudest cheering | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
would be from our adversaries and enemies. For the second military | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
power in the West to shatter this year would be cataclysmic in | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
geopolitical terms. With independence, SNP ministers | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
want to permanently remove nuclear weapons from Scottish waters. Lord | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Robertson thinks that will make it too expensive for the rest of the UK | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
to relocate and renew Trident. In short, disarming Scotland would, in | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
his view, disarm the UK. Lord Robertson thinks that the UK | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
government would then lose considerable influence in the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
European Union, United Nations, and the NATO military alliance. | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
Those in favour, 426. Those against, 332. The resolution passes. It is 18 | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
months since the SNP voted for an independent Scotland to seek | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
non-nuclear membership of NATO. By committing Scottish Armed Forces to | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
collect of defence and security the Scottish government believe that | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
independence need not alter the world order. It is about taking | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
responsibility for your own decisions. Not about turning your | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
back on anybody will stop we would remain partners with our friends and | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
family across the UK, Europe, the wider world. That is the reality, it | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
could not be farther removed from the ridiculous contribution of | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
George Robertson. As a Labour politician George Robertson has long | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
opposed independence. He previously predicted that devolution would kill | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
the SNP. Nationalists insist that these views are no more credible. He | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
is well connected however and is telling world powers to weigh in. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
Washington is officially neutral on independence, content to let | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Scotland decide. The cost of the opening and closing | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
ceremonies at this year's Commonwealth Games has risen | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
dramatically. Organisers say the combined tally for both events now | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
stands at almost ?21 million, up from the original estimate of ?14 | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
million. Our Games reporter Lisa Summers is here now. This is a | :04:31. | :04:42. | |
staggering hike and cost. It is. There has been controversy | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
since we learned of the details. The idea of demolishing the red Road | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
flats live. A petition has since been signed by 10,000 people calling | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
for that controversial idea to be abolished. Now we discover that the | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
cost is rising. The budget set for the opening and closing ceremonies | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
was ?14 million. It is now at ?21 million. An increase of 50%. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Organisers say that the demolition plan has nothing to do with the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
spike in costs. They say it will add to the spectacle. Especially with | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the eyes of the world on Glasgow. They say the budget for that has | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
come from an existing fund and is not the -- and insurmountable | :05:34. | :05:46. | |
amount. They have always said this would be | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
a public transport games. Games tickets also get you free bus and | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
underground travel. And details today from ScotRail about what they | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
will do in order to get people about during the course of the games. We | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
will double our services. We want customers to have a walk up and go | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
service. So that they can plan to come from further out. But once | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
you're in the city centre, you can reach venues very easily. These | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
plans are subject to negotiations with unions who want to secure | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
remuneration for the extra hours worked, similar to the Olympics. We | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
will also get more details for plans on the underground and buses. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
A jury has heard that a man came into Greenock police station saying | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
he wanted to confess to the murder of 16-year-old Elaine Doyle. Retired | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
custody officer James Gamble said in a police statement, that he was on | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
duty in February 2011 when an agitated man - called Alexander | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Cannon - told him he wanted to make the confession. 49-year-old John | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Docherty denies murdering Elaine in June 1986 in a lane in Greenock. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
He's submitted a list of 41 names of people he says could have killed the | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
teenager, including Mr Cannon's. The murder of a 17-year-old is being | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
investigated by police officers in Fife. The young man died following a | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
disturbance in Methil early this morning. The police have increased | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
their presence in the area, but say it is an isolated attack, and there | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
is no wider risk to the public. A 22-year-old man is in custody in | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
connection with the incident. The UK is currently going through | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
some of the biggest welfare changes we've seen in decades. The | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Westminster Government believes they're vital, to cut the ever | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
growing welfare bill. But disability organisations and campaigners claim | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
disabled people are being disproportionately affected, with | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
some driven into poverty. In the first of a series of films on the | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
changes, our reporter Ian Hamilton looks at the impact the bedroom | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
subsidy is having on disabled people in rural Scotland. | :07:57. | :08:10. | |
Graham is in his 20s. But as a child, his family built this | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
accessible extension to the family home, where everything is designed | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
around his needs. His mother, Julia, provides 24-hour care. | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Because of housing benefit rules their extra room now costs them. In | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
the past year, they have had help, but that period is now coming to an | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
end. They find the whole situation very unsettling. There are not many | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
options, housing wise, for people with disabilities. What we have is | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
perfect already, we're not taking up a new build for someone else. There | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
is a housing shortage for disabled across Scotland. According to | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
critics of the bedroom tax, it is only making matters even worse. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Housing organisations claim that of the 85,000 households affected by | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
the bedroom tax, two thirds contain somebody with a disability. They | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
claim the policy is wasting more public money than it is saving. It | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
makes no sense when you have converted a property to meet the | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
needs of a disabled person, to ask them to uproot themselves, before | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
you must then spend even more money to converted back to mainstream use, | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
whilst the family spent even more money to convert the smaller new | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
nemesis. -- premises. ?3.5 million has been made available for those | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
living in all areas. Julia and Graham are not against moving, they | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
simply ask, where to? You're watching Reporting Scotland | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on tonight's programme. Digging deep to | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
uncover the brutal, exacting training given to fledgling | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
Commandos in the West Highlands seven decades ago. | :10:05. | :10:14. | |
And in sport, Chris Holley is dreaming of chlorine again. Faster | :10:15. | :10:27. | |
than ever. -- Chris Hoy is dreaming of glory again. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Scotland's mountains attract walkers and climbers from all over the | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
world. But some naturalists believe their popularity could actually be | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
damaging the habitat of animals and plant life. Now one of the country's | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
leading gamekeepers has suggested that restricting access to the hills | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
could help protect endangered species. Aileen Clarke reports. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Scotland's hills and mountains. Open for all to enjoy. But a recent | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
gamekeepers Association article seemed to suggest restrictions at | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
certain times of year five be worth considering. -- might be. If there | :11:02. | :11:11. | |
are problem areas, it is responsible and sensible to look at those. But | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
others argue that it is not walkers who are to blame. The biggest | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
impact, on, for example, the capercaillie, is the loss of | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
woodland habitat. That is far more to damage the capercaillie than | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
people who might be walking with in the area. But some concern to claim | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
that clearer guidance would be useful. | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
We need much clearer signals. This particular area is so special for | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
capercaillie and is not an appropriate place to go dog walking. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
There are thousands of acres elsewhere. It is not large scale, | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
just identifying certain things. With these walkers agree? | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
Gamekeepers, identical problem with that, if they believe it would help | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
them, so long as it is not carte blanche. I do not want areas closed | :12:21. | :12:30. | |
off to walkers like myself. The debate is as important to those who | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
walk the hills as those who work them. | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
Police say they're increasingly concerned for a man who's | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
disappeared from his Falkirk home. Officers say there have been several | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
potential sightings of David Paterson, who went missing yesterday | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
morning. Search teams have been working throughout the day, and | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
people are being urged to check gardens, sheds and outhouses for any | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
sign of the 52-year-old, who also has a house in North-east Fife. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
David has worked for 15 years in the same job. He is a nurse, a man of | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
routine, the fact that we have not heard from him since the back of 8am | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
yesterday morning, with no contact, naturally we are concerned for his | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
welfare. We have had the police helicopter out, a search specialist, | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the sniffer dog, and we are dedicated to carrying out searches | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
in the locality. That indicates the level of concern. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Now a look at other stories from across Scotland today. A man who | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
died after the taxi he was driving plunged into the water at Peterhead | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
harbour has been named. 42-year-old Graeme Reid died when the vehicle | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
overturned after it landed in the water on Monday morning. It was | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
later winched ashore. An army helicopter which made an | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
emergency landing in a field near Marycooter, after suffering engine | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
trouble is expected to remain there for several days. The Apache was | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
taking part in a training exercise. The Ministry of Defence says an | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
engine change will be carried out by military engineers, before the | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
aircraft is removed. 18 birds of prey have now been found | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
dead in Ross-shire. RSPB Scotland say 13 red kites and five buzzards | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
have been discovered in the Conon Bridge area in what is Scotland's | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
worst case of wildlife poisoning. Highland Council has been granted | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
full planning permission for its Inverness-West Link road, and | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
permission in principle for associated projects. The West Link | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
has been proposed as a way of easing travel across the city - but | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
campaigners say it will lead to the loss of green space. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
The world's largest glass manufacturer, Owens-Illinois, is to | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
invest ?25 million in its plant at Alloa. The company says the move | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
will safeguard 600 skilled jobs. A bronze statue of a Black Watch | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
soldier will be erected in Belgium as part of events to mark the | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
centenary of World War One. The statue was made to commemorate the | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
nine thousand Black Watch officers and soldiers who died and more than | :14:54. | :15:07. | |
20,000 who were wounded. It is the most beautiful statue and will be a | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
powerful symbol of the fighting spirit of these soldiers. | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
He was an Oscar winning film-maker and a pioneer of animation. But | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
while Norman McLaren is celebrated in Canada, where he worked with the | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
National Film Board, he's less well known in his native Scotland. A new | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
festival is aiming to put that right, starting with an exhibition, | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
just across the road from Norman McLaren's former family home. Our | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
arts correspondent Pauline McLean reports. | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
Norman McLaren was more than a film-maker, he was an innovator, | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
revolutionised the world of film with his animation techniques. He | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
won awards including an Oscar and taught a whole new generation at the | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
National Film Board of Canada. This is the footage that he shot in the | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
back garden of his house in Stirling. But his story begins | :16:00. | :16:09. | |
closer to home in sterling. This archive includes personal artefacts, | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
drawings and the letters he wrote home from his new life in Canada. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Even though he is sitting on a rooftop in New York, with the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Manhattan skyline, he feels like he's at home, sitting watching the | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
footage of the back garden. Scotland is about to celebrate Norman McLaren | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
with a countrywide festival. They are keen to encourage a new | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
generation to find inspiration in his work. This primary School, one | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
of hundreds taking part in animation workshops. I have done five etchings | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
so far. At the end, it transforms it into something else. Because you | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
don't have two film something properly, you can let your | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
imagination go wild. Festival begins on Friday with exhibition just yards | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
from Norman McLaren's childhood home were on the centenary of his birth | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
and plaque will be unveiled. -- AIPAC. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
And you can see more on that story in Norman McLaren: Boogie Doodler on | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
BBC Two Scotland, tonight at 10pm. Let's get tonight's sport now. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
David, what have you got for us? He's Great Britain's most successful | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Olympian, but Sir Chris Hoy is refusing to go gently into that | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
goodnight of retirement. Instead, he's pursuing a new sporting dream | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
and as Chris McLaughlin reports he's going faster than ever. | :17:44. | :17:57. | |
In 2012, he became a national icon, but after six Olympic medals, a | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
knighthood and a bucket full of tears, Sir Chris Hoy was ready to | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
call it a day. There was to be no clogs or slippers or fishing. He is | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
swapping the pedal Power on two wheels to the piston power of four. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
In next year, you'll be driving for Nissan in the British GT | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
championship. He was on hand to show off his new toy. It has been a | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
dream. Having some competitive outfit now I have retired from | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
racing bikes, but never thought I would be driving a car like this in | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
the British GT Championship. He will now be put through a driver | :18:42. | :18:50. | |
development programme. If you told me when I was a child | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
that I could race bikes for a living and then take up motor racing and | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
potentially go on races, I would have laughed at you. It is crazy to | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
be saying it, but just amazing. He won countless medals on this, what | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
Kenny achieved in this? It seems we are about to find out. -- what can | :19:14. | :19:26. | |
he. One former Hibernian captain says | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
the Premiership club has the right man in charge even if they're | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
relegated to the Championship on his watch. The team have won one of | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
their last 14 matches. As we report, it was a familiar story last night | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
against Aberdeen. In their recent tale of woe, a | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
recent chapter was written by Aberdeen. His double meaning as | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Easter approaches, Hibernian have only won twice this year. | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
I think they have the perfect manager in Terry. He has been there | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
and done it. He has been good with Inverness. If they do find | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
themselves struggling, they have a man who knows the league inside out. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Since the New Year derby one over Arts, Hibs have struggled. They have | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
won only once, collecting seven points along the way. They are now | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
in the bottom six and they have only scored one goal in their last five | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
matches. It is only a few weeks since they were targeting a top six | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
finish, now they are involved in a five way fight to avoid relegation. | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
Dog days indeed for the fans. You are walking the dog, but it has not | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
been a stroll foreheads? -- for Hibs. It'll be a bit embarrassing. | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
The problem is they have no money. The need to build up the team from | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
scratch. Can they turn the page? The story continues away against Saint | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
Mirren. Rangers say Lee Wallace is likely to | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
miss the Scottish Cup semifinal against Dundee United on Sunday. He | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
has a hip problem. Andy Little and David Templeton could also miss out | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
with injury. Three Edinburgh rugby players have | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
signed new contracts. Dougie Fife, Jack Cuthbert and Tom Brown, who we | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
see scoring here, are agreeing new two-year deals. | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
Scotland's Rhythmic gymnastics team for the Commonwealth Games was | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
announced today. Meet Victoria Cloe, 15-year-old | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Lauren Brash and Rebecca Bee of Team Scotland. It is very challenging. | :21:37. | :21:46. | |
You have to do multiple things at once. | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
It's not a human sculpture, it's the three-man squash team for Glasgow | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
2014 - Stuart Crawford, Greg Lobban, and Kevin Moran. You can move now, | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
guys. It is probably the biggest thing that any of us will ever do, | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
to be honest. Having it in our home, it'll be fantastic. | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Scotland's women remain fourth in the new world curling rankings, | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
helped by bronze at the Winter Olympics for Eve Muirhead's rink. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
The men are down to third despite David Murdoch's rink's silver. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
And there are more sports stories, plus all the latest news, 24 hours a | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
day, on BBC Sport Scotland's website. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
When World War Two commandos landed on the beaches of Normandy, many | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
described the conditions as 'nearly' as bad as Achnacarry, the military | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
academy they trained at in the Highlands. It's never been disclosed | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
how many of the recruits were killed there. And now, an archaeological | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
dig has started on the estate, to find out more about the tough and | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
exacting regime they had to endure. Jackie O'Brien reports from | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
Lochaber. Le Mans Cassel was transferred into a military academy | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
in 1942. -- Achnacarry Cassel. They came to end drew the world's most | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
difficult endurance course. It must be remembered that we are | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
training for war. The chances of accidents occurring cannot be | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
eliminated. The ground still bears the scars today and the past is | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
being dug up to help us better understand what happened. It gives | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
us an idea of what's different weapons they used for training. They | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
used quite a lot of German weapons, as well as British. US arranges | :23:43. | :23:56. | |
trained here. -- Ranges. It looks like a 303 shell. | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
Some significant finds have been found here by the riverside wearing | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
number of commandos died in training while crossing the water on rope | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
swings. A lot of things you don't here. You | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
have to get yourself out and nobody would help you. In certain ways, it | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
was harder than what we met in the real battle. The dig itself is not | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
without its dangers. A bomb disposal teams will be on hand to help with | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
many unexploded devices left behind at one of World War II's toughest | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
training camps. Just before the weather, a reminder | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
that the next in our series of referendum debates with James Cook. | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
It takes place on Tuesday the 15th April in Kirkwall. If you'd like to | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
apply to be in the audience, go to the BBC Scotland news website and | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
click "Join In". Let's get the forecast now. It's | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
been bright and breezy for much of the country today. Christopher, what | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
does the rest of the week hold for us? | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
It was a day of sunshine and showers and the showers are tending to fade | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
away. Rain under way later. We are always seeing the precursor to that | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
with coming from the West. Further outbreaks of rain in the West into | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
central and southern Scotland, too. Wind blew back in south-westerly, | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
not a cold night. Most will see six or eight Celsius. To tomorrow, and | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
it will be cloudy in comparison. It should improve. Always dry up | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
towards the North East and as we head into the afternoon it dries up | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
through the central belt. A legacy of cloud here. Perhaps brighter | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
spells coming through. Temperatures by around about 12 Celsius. Coming | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
to Argyll and the Hebrides, the rain in play for most of the day, | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
stretching up towards Orkney and later Shetland. Further South, | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
around the Moray Firth and into Aberdeenshire, largely dry, best of | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
the sunshine here. Drying parts of Angus, Perthshire, Fife, | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
temperatures here down around ten or 11 sources. Not far of where we were | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
to date. For the rest of the afternoon, rain still falls across | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
the north-west, but the whole band starts to sink southwards as we had | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
overnight. On the pressure chart, you can see that is associated with | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
the cold front. It will be going across the South of the country | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
overnight, so by Thursday morning it will be pulling away. Bind it it is | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
dry, one to light passing showers -- behind it. Good conditions a few are | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
out. Friday, not too bad. Generally dry | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
with one or two bright spells. 11 or 12 Celsius, about average. All in | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
all, not too bad. Thanks. Now, a reminder of tonight's | :27:10. | :27:19. | |
main news. The former NATO Secretary General, | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
Lord Robertson, has told an audience in Washington that Scottish | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
independence would be "cataclysmic" for Western security. The Scottish | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
Government said his comments were "insulting" and "ridiculous", and | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
insisted that an independent Scotland would not turn its back on | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
its defence obligations The South African athlete, Oscar Pistorius, | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
broke down in court as he described the moment he realised he had shot | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The 29-year-old, who denies murder, | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
said he picked up his gun because he believed there was an intruder in | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
his house. And that's all from Reporting | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
Scotland for now. Alasdair Fraser will be here with the headlines at | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
8pm. And the late bulletin just after the ten o'clock news. From | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
everyone on the team here in Glasgow, and around the country, | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
have a very good evening. | :27:58. | :28:01. |