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bombing. The Co-Op Bank has said sorry | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight on Reporting Scotland: As the SNP gathers for what it calls | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the most important conference in its history, deputy leader Nicola | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Sturgeon calls on Labour supporters to vote yes. She is. The SNP, vote | :00:10. | :00:25. | |
yes to reclaim the Labour Party. -- the message is clear. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
We'll ask whether their plea could win them the referendum. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Also on the programme, Glasgow MSPs tell us they're concerned about the | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Commonwealth Games' plan to demolish the Red Road flats. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
50 years on from the typhoid outbreak that shut down Aberdeen, we | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
hear from the survivors. It's all about the hats and the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
heels and the horses at the Scottish National. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Four teams have a chance of lifting this trophy next month. After this | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
weekend we'll know who'll be in the final. Join me for a Scottish cup | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
semifinal preview. Good Evening. The Deputy First | :00:57. | :01:13. | |
Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has urged Labour voters to back independence | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
to reclaim their party and to protect the welfare state. In her | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
address to the last SNP conference before the referendum she said UK | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
government welfare changes threatened the fabric of Scottish | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
society and could be stopped by a yes vote. From Aberdeen, here's our | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
For Nicola Sturgeon, independence is a route to protect and sustain the | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
welfare state which she argues is under threat from the | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
Conservative-led coalition. Your morality is not our morality. And | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
with a yes vote in September, we will put that beyond any shadow of | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
doubt. She promised to create a fund to help the disabled live | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
independently and more cash for food banks, to address what she called | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
the utter scandal of want. I did not come into politics to mitigate | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
miserable Tory policies. Like you, I came into politics because I wanted | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
to help build a better country and with independence, that is exactly | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
what we will do. She taunted David Cameron for turning down | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
independence debates. The Prime Minister, who promised to fight for | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
the union with heart, head, body and soul, is still struggling to locate | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
that part of his anatomy that will allow him to agree to a debate with | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Alex Salmond. Instead of attacking Labour, Nicola Sturgeon are peeled | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
to Labour supporters to vote yes. Do not vote no to stop the SNP, vote | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
yes to reclaim the Labour Party. Nicola Sturgeon hopes underside of | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
Labour supporters who share SMP priorities like free university | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
tuition, no NHS privatisation and removing nuclear weapons from | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Scotland can be persuaded to vote yes and help them win the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
independence referendum. The vote comes 80 years after the SNP was | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
founded. Nearly 50 years after this by-election breakthrough. Decades | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
after oil fuelled the first SMP search. | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
CHEERING When Alex Salmond became leader for | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
the first time I generation ago, independence was a distant dream for | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
nationalists. Now, the SNP leadership are counting down to the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
vote that could turn that to reality. | :04:00. | :04:00. | |
Earlier, we also heard from those against Scottish independence. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Here's what the Better Together campaign had to say. | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
I think what is surprising is the outdated and negative message that | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
we have had from the Nationalist conference. I do not find that is | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
working with underside ofs. Voters are far more receptive to the more | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
positive message that we have, which is about having the best of both | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
worlds, a strong Scottish Parliament but the security of being part of | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
the UK. We are joined by Brian Taylor. A | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
strong pitch for Labour voters by Nicola Sturgeon. What is behind it? | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
Customarily, keynote speeches are about walloping your opponents with | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
searing rhetoric and satire but these are extraordinary times and so | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
it was an extraordinary speech from Nicola Sturgeon. She is looking at | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Labour not with anger but sympathy and Malcolm served. It is not the | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Labour leadership she is pitching two, Labour voters, or Labour | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
identifiers, arguing that they can lend their vote and reinforced, if | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
you like, those priorities that have customarily been attached to the | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Labour Party. She backs that up with two points. One by arguing that this | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
is not about the SMP, not about Alex Salmond, it is about a vote, as she | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
called it, for democracy. I expect Alex Salmond to underline that point | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
tomorrow in his own keynote address. Secondly, it is about a pitch to | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
those who are undecided, who will decide this referendum. It is | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
primarily Labour voters and sympathisers. That is about | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
pensions, welfare, benefits and childcare. In other words, arguing | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
that the sort of things that they are concerned about and customer Lee | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Labour has talked about can and would be delivered through | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
independence. It is a strong argument and one that Weaver will | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
set out to counter in the beauty head. Also coming up: | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Thank you very much to stop -- that Labour will set out to counter in | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
the weeks head. The funeral of Margo Macdonald has | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
taken place in Edinburgh, attended by close family and friends. Flags | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
outside the Scottish Parliament were flown at half-mast as a mark of | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
respect. At the SNP conference, the First Minister led one minute of | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
applause in tribute. Margo Macdonald represented the SNP at Westminster | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
and Holyrood before becoming an independent member of the Scottish | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Parliament. A celebration of her life will be held in Edinburgh on | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
the 25th of April. Almost half of Glasgow's MSPs have | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
told the BBC they have concerns about plans to demolish the Red Road | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
flats as part of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. I'm joined | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
in the studio by our reporter Julie Peacock, who's been looking into the | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
issue for us. Julie, what have they been saying to you? Well, all 316 | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
MSPs in Glasgow, I have managed to get the views 11. -- of the 16. That | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
assured us that half of them have concerns over the plans to demolish | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
the flats as part of the opening ceremony. They say that these | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
worries are shared by their constituents. An online petition has | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
already gathered more than 16,000 signatures opposing it. Some of the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
comments that I got was that this was a terrible idea that showed | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Glasgow in a bad light. That it was inappropriate and Bazaar. The only | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
two MSPs supporting it where Nicola Sturgeon, who said she thought it | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
was a good idea, and another Labour MSP. Of the MSPs and have concerns, | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
there are reasons vary greatly. I think there is a lot of people out | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
there, including people I have met today, thinking this is a weirdo | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
decision. It does not fit with the image we are trying to do. The | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
positive image that we want. There is a risk in it and so I think it | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
should be refused. My concern, on the of my constituents, is to make | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
sure that safety issues, like what they will be able to do on the day | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
of the demolition, with regard to the opening ceremony that they are | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
such an integral part of, have been thought about and considered. We | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
also heard safety arrangements being raised? People are usually not told | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
when demolitions like this take ways to make sure that people stay away. | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Glasgow Housing Association say they're going to make sure that | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
happens by asking people to stay away and as for the organising | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
committee, they are saying that they are going to address the concerns of | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
people who are worried about it and are having a meeting with people | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
opposing it on Tuesday. A teenager's been arrested after a | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
woman was stabbed to death in her home in Glasgow earlier this week. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Isabelle Sanders died in the early hours of Wednesday morning in the | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Crookston area of the city. Her 85-year-old partner, Norman Busby, | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
was also seriously injured. Police arrested a 19-year-old man in the | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
early hours of this morning. He's expected to appear at Glasgow | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Sheriff Court on Monday. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on tonight's programme: | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
The sad story of Cabrach, the Aberdeenshire town left unpopulated | :09:09. | :09:09. | |
by the effects of the World War One. by the effects of | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
In sport, a big weekend of Scottish sport ahead. We'll have all the news | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
ahead of the Scottish cup semifinals. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
And we're at Ayr Race Course with some of the runners, the riders and | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
of course the hats ahead of the Scottish Grand National. See you | :09:27. | :09:27. | |
soon. There's a warning from a former | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
director of Rangers that the football club is in danger of going | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
bust again. Dave King is accusing the board of acting in bad faith and | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
also says it's vital fans don't renew their season tickets but put | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
their money into a separate fund instead. Kheredine Idessane joins us | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
now from outside Ibrox Stadium. Kheredine, what's going on? | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
Sally, Ibrox will be packed with well over 30,000 Rangers fans for | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the biggest game of the season tomorrow, a semifinal against Dundee | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
United. Tonight, those fans face a stark choice, lose your seat or lose | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
your club. The warning comes from a man who once invested ?20 million in | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
Rangers, former director Dave king. He feels that he and the fans have | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
been deceived by the board. He claims assurances fans would be able | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
to see a full review of club business before they bought season | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
tickets have been ignored. Rangers had to get an emergency loans to get | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
to the end of this season after using ?40 million last year and 3 | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
million in the first half of this. King says the club could well go | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
bust again and he says it is not a growing concern without access to | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
new season ticket money. Uses it is vital that fans do not renew season | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
tickets or merchandise. Instead, he wants that cash drip-fed from a | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
separate fans' account, overseen by him and former club captain Richard | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Gough. 's thank you. It's 50 years since the Aberdeen | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Typhoid epidemic. More than 500 people were infected and during the | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
summer months of 1964, the city was effectively closed down as health | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
officials battled to contain the outbreak. The source was eventually | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
traced to an imported tin of Argentinean corned beef. Rachel | :11:26. | :11:26. | |
Massie reports. Made 1960s Aberdeen, before any oil | :11:27. | :11:40. | |
boom. Within weeks, the Granite city became a closed city, the seized by | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
a typhoid epidemic. -- besieged. At hospitals, this was the only way | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
parents could see and speak to the infected children. By the end of the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
outbreak, 507 typhoid cases confirmed. We were not allowed | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
through that door. Trina Blackhall, one of the many children get in | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
quarantine. The two will work terrified of getting it. People | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
would not come up to a parent's door because they were terrified they | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
would catch it. -- people where all terrified of getting. The source of | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
the outbreak, a tin of corned beef. The number of cases steadily | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
increased. Schools were closed, Aberdonians encouraged to stay at | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
home. Visitors to the city were discouraged. The mothers are taking | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
care of their children. They are keeping them in. There was nowhere | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
to go at night. I wash my hands after the toilet and all that. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Before meals and after. Street were disinfected. People became obsessive | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
about hygiene. The lessons from the outbreak still relevant today. The | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
supermarket was telling the court -- corned beef that was the source had | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
been saving it for longer than they should have. We would not do that | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
again. We would act sooner than later. Even if the suspicion was not | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
100%, we would still act. By July, the outbreak over, the Queen made a | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
high-profile visit. Remarkably, despite over 500 people infected, no | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
deaths were directly linked to the outbreak. The Queen declared | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Aberdeen and open city again. A look at other stories from the | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
across the country. Passenger numbers at Edinburgh | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
Airport for March are up nearly 5% on the same period last year. Last | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
month more than 730,000 passengers travelled through the airport. The | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
increase has been attributed to the introduction of six daily services | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
to London Heathrow. Glasgow City Council has been fined | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
?20,000 after a pensioner was killed by a bin lorry. The authority | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
admitted Health and Safety breaches because workers in charge of the | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
lorry hadn't received adequate training. 71-year-old Malcolm | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
McCulloch was hit by the reversing vehicle in the city centre in August | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
2012. The National Museum of Scotland | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
closed this lunchtime when staff walked out in a dispute over pay. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
The PCS union accuse management of creating a two-tier workforce by | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
refusing new recruits a weekend working allowance. National Museums | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Scotland says it's regrettable that they chose to strike during the busy | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
school holidays. This museum is world-class and it is due to the | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
services of staff that work in it. It is inconvenient and we apologise | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
for that but if the management talked to us, this would not be | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
happening. The owners of the Eastgate Shopping | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
Centre in Inverness have revealed plans for an eight-screen cinema and | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
restaurant complex. F Reit want to expand the centre into Falcon | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Square. The company claims the multi-million pound plan will create | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
more than 200 jobs - half of them at the construction stage. | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
A campaign to encourage more people to see dolphins off the country's | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
coast has been launched in Aberdeen. According to a wildlife charity, the | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
mammals were recorded in the mouth of the River Dee on an average nine | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
out of ten days last summer. You do not need to go abroad to see | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
dolphins. You have a fantastic ovulation visible from land and you | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
can come and join us and we can let you know what they are doing. | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
60 years ago, Scotland's largest charity for people with a learning | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
disability was founded. Then it was known as the Scottish Society for | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
the Parents of Mentally Handicapped Children. Today, they're better | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
known as Enable Scotland. Thanks to the work of those parents, the last | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
60 years has brought a huge transformation. Our reporter Ian | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
Hamilton looks back at the changes. For children and adults with | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
learning disabilities, 1950 Scotland was a very different place. They had | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
very few rates, back then these children would not even have been | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
entitled to an education. That was not law and tonic and so 1974. That | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
is why 20 years earlier in April of this week, 1954, 300 parents | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
gathered together in this building to fight for the rights of their | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
children with learning disabilities. The building behind me is now a | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
hotel but in the 1950s that was the headquarters of the Education | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Department and Glasgow and it was here that the Scottish Society for | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
the Parents of Mentally Handicapped Children was formed. It is better | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
known today as a Naples got on. This hospital was one of 22 institutions | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
across Scotland were over 7000 people what they learning disability | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
lift for some cases for decades. Bell's .org Westley has a learning | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
disability. He fought to ensure that she had every opportunity to do | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
well. We were told to take her home and full of heart and not to have | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
any expectations. We decided that was not good enough for our child | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
and we investigated to see if we could get some help. As part of | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
reforms, Lennox Castle and hospitals like this were closed, a grim | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
reminder of its past still remains. Back in the 1950s, very little | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
services were available for people with learning disabilities. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
People were isolated. They were left to cope on their own and that this | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
gene significantly. Today get what they learning disability have more | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
rates. BT -- they say that things are not perfect, they still are | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
bullied, but they recognise the progress that have been made thanks | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
to those parents 60 years ago this week. | :17:57. | :17:57. | |
Thousands of people once lived in the Aberdeenshire town of Cabrach, | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
which is now unpopulated. World War One brought a double blow to the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
community, when harsh winters drove many of the remaining families to | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
abandon their crofts and homes. It's a community which has never | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
recovered. Dougie Vipond has been hearing the story. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Before the war, Enable -- Cabrach had a population of 7000 people. I | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
am a journalist and author Norman who has chartered the impact of | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
winter and Mr Maude landscape. More than 800 men and boys went off to | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
war within the first four weeks. Julie chatted now and wonder if they | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
could barely muster 80, but 800, it is a tremendous thing for a small | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
team and wonder if they could barely muster 80, but 800, it is a | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
tremendous thing for a small committee about this. | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
For the men and boys who were so willingly, many never came back. | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Those that are left behind at their own battle with the elements. After | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
a year of trying to survive they had the winter of 1516, blizzards and | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
address, Dean blocked ten weeks on end with animals dying. They had to | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
make a decision that was forced upon them. It was the only decision they | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
could make. They went to work for accommodation and the surrounding | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
towns and villages. They abandoned the crafts. Weight 100 years on, | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
mail upon mile of this empty landscape, scattered with humbled | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
don't crafts and farms. He called him uniquely abandoned. The | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
buildings are poignant reminder of the price Celia Peachey for World | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
War One. And there's more on that in Landward | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
over on BBC Two Scotland at 7:30 tonight. | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
Here's David with the sport and more silverware. | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
I've got the Scottish Cup with me because it's semifinal weekend. And | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
Rangers will be without their first-choice goalkeeper Cammy Bell | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
for their tie against Dundee United. He suffered concussion at training. | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
United's manager Jackie McNamara is appealing against a touchline ban so | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
will be in the technical area. The other match is between St Johnstone | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
and Aberdeen... So let's consider both ties with someone with ties to | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
all four clubs. He played for them all. And he's scored for all of | :20:16. | :20:32. | |
them. And he has still got it. Well, some of it. But can the Queen of the | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
South coach become the king of the cup tipsters? Let us get some words | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
with Billy Dodds. I would have to say Aberdeen that will be | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
victorious. But I believe it will be much closer than people think. | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
Everyone else believes it is a foregone conclusion. They think | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
Aberdeen Harbour favourites. That suits us down to the ground. Saint | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
Johnstone are very good seed, I have worked with a lot of the players and | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
I know how motivated and that they are. They will see it as a great | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
chance for them to get to the final. Time for some more odds with Billy | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Dodds. I think Dundee United are favourites against Rangers. Rangers | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
players have a lot to prove this week. There is an advantage for | :21:36. | :21:45. | |
Rangers playing at home but I'm confident in my player is' ability | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
that every go there we can cause them problems. I just have the | :21:49. | :22:00. | |
feeling it will be an Aberdeen versus Dundee United final. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Find out if he's right by following BBC Scotland's comprehensive | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
coverage of the semis on BBC Radio Scotland, online and on TV, | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
including live coverage of St Johnstone versus Aberdeen on Sunday. | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
Both Scottish golfers at the Masters have finished their second rounds in | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
Augusta. Stephen Gallacher and Sandy Lyle both went round in 72 - level | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
par. So world number 38 Gallacher stays on one-under-par for the | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
tournament, while Lyle is on four over. The leaders are currently on | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
four-under-par. It's the Scottish Grand National | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
tomorrow afternoon at Ayr Racecourse. The Scottish-owned and | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
trained Green Flag is picking up plenty of support for the ?100,000 | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
prize, but he faces some stiff competition. Jonathan Sutherland's | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
been at the races. Here at Ayr Racecourse that is only | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
question that matters, who were one tomorrow's Scottish Grand National? | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
17,000 spectators are expected tomorrow to witness the spells and | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
thrills of the Scottish Grand National and dreams like as the | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
favourite. This horse has not run more than four males, so there is a? | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
Regarding that. Hopefully his jumping monkey and the race. If he | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
does do that, he has a very good chance. Title The fell last weekend | :23:22. | :23:31. | |
but could pose a problem for a green flight tomorrow. -- green flight. | :23:32. | :23:43. | |
That is not all about the wedding. It is about the collar, the | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
location, the outfits. But a Scottish winner, picking up the | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
?100,000 prize would be nice, not so for the bookies. At the Green Flag | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
wins, it would be the white flag for us, it is swings and roundabouts. | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
Give me a cap for tomorrow. Time to saddle up for a round-up of | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
what else is happening in Scottish sport: after getting the fastest | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
time in a world this year, Michael Jamieson reveals he has given his | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
medal to a young supporter. There was a few children from local | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
clubs asking for some photographs and they seemed really excited to be | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
easier to watch the swimming. You know, I thought it would just be a | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
nice gesture and they were all excited about it. Glasgow-born | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
errors are often arguments for their match against Munster tomorrow. | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Edinburgh play Cardiff Blues Thanet. Both go into fixtures on the back of | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
wins. No Scottish team has one this since 2008. We know how difficult it | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
will be. We would like to keep that momentum, of course, but we | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
appreciate that this is a very good team that we are playing. It is a | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
huge challenge for us and we must perform well. If that is not enough | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
rugby for you, tune in to BBC's Scotland annual tournament tomorrow | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
starting at... Keep up with all the sport news as | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
it breaks on our websites... And that's the sport, Sally, but | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
I'll let you get your pictures taken with the cup later... | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
You know me so well! Rain, sun - what's it to be this | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
weekend? Here's Gillian. Today we have been steadily losing | :25:36. | :25:48. | |
the sunshine to increasing cloud. You can see on the satellite picture | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
were it has been moving across from the West. That will bring outbreaks | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
of rain from the North West through tonight. Eddie and persistent father | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
North West Highlands and Tynedale. Like and patchy enforced and ensure | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
and the alia of Glasgow. Winds will pick up and become stronger along | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
the West coast. Touching gale force in the far North West. Not a cold | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
Thanet, temperatures around seven Celsius. And who to model and was | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
strong to gale forced winds touching severe gales for the islands. That | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
one will move South eastwards during the morning. It is a fast-moving | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
feature and all clear from the South Carolina afternoon. Then becomes an | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
improving picture what sunshine for central and Southern Scotland. Just | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
one or two showers creating and to the coast of Galloway. A lovely | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
afternoon for Dumfries and Galloway will stop through the central belt | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
interface, Angus and Aberdeenshire. From Northern and gale, through much | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
of the Highlands into the Western Isles and the Northern Isles, they | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
will be showers through the afternoon. The old one will be heavy | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
and it will be the rest of hail and snow to mountains as well. Across | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
Western ranges we could see blizzard conditions with storm like ones. The | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
bobby gusts of 90 mph across the Cairngorms and even 4%, severe gale | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
force winds and temperatures close to freezing. Both to the West, five | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
or six. CS2 be very rough at times. Out to the East from | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
Berwick-upon-Tweed, the ones South westerly bearing force five at | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
times. Visibility mainly good. For the rest of the afternoon to model | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
towards evening we keep that feed of showers going from the North to the | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
West. Very strong winds. Enter Sunday, stole that the risk of | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
breast westerly earful. Western Scotland, cloudy with outbreaks of | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
rain, heaviest and most frequent and the North West. It will be a cold | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
feeling the everywhere on Sunday. Enter Monday, things will improve, | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
high pressure builds, winds and sunshine. That is the forecast. | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news: The Deputy First Minister, | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, has urged Labour voters to back independence to | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
"reclaim their party." In her address to the last SNP | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
conference before the referendum, she said UK Government welfare | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
changes threatened the fabric of Scottish society. I'll be back with | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
the headlines at 8pm. Join me then, goodbye. | :28:31. | :28:41. |