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on the BBC News Channel. I'll be back with the late news at 10pm. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Good evening. A seven-year-old boy is in hospital | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
in Aberdeen with serious burns, after being found on fire in a | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
street in the city. Police say petrol was involved in the incident | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
and they're following a positive line of inquiry. Our reporter Steven | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Duff is at the scene tonight. What do we know about what happened, | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Steven? Really horrible events here just | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
after lunchtime on Bedford Avenue in Aberdeen. A lot of children were out | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
enjoying the sunshine in the school holidays. Emergency services | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
received a call just before 2pm saying that a boy was on fire. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Eyewitnesses saw him come down from these flats on fire from his neck to | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
his legs. He was running and screaming, trying to douse himself | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
will stop tonight, he is in a serious condition at Aberdeen Royal | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Infirmary. We spoke to two neighbours who saw what happened. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
We heard him screaming. He had been lying on the floor, trying to get | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
himself calm, but nothing was working. He was screaming and | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
crying. He was on fire from the neck | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
downwards. His clothes were sticking to him. Was horrid. | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
The flames weren't really big but enough to do damage. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
We saw his clothes and shoes lying on the ground. By the time we got | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
there, it was sticking to his skin. It looked like it had melted onto | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
his skin. It was horrible. There were lots of people around. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
You couldn't really see anything, and then somebody handed him a | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
bucket of water. A lot of police activity here | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
tonight on Bedford Avenue. Police Scotland say enquiries are at an | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
early stage. They are following a positive line of enquiry. They don't | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
know if there is any criminal elements, whether this was a tragic | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
accident. Thank you. Two Scottish companies, led by | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
supporters of the Yes campaign in the independence debate, say they're | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
leaving the CBI over its support for a 'no' vote. Aquamarine Power, which | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
develops wave turbines, made the move after the CBI registered with | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
the Electoral Commission as a campaign group in favour of keeping | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
the union. Balhousie care home group is also pulling out of the business | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
organisation. A Highland farmer, whose properties | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
have been raided by police investigating the birds of prey | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
poisonings, has called for more resources for the investigation. A | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
number of the dead birds were found close to Ewan Macdonald's land at | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Conon Bridge. He says neither he nor the local farming community has | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
anything to hide, but fear their reputation is being tarnished. | :02:55. | :03:06. | |
We are worried that our industry again get its name blackened. I am | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
almost certain it has nothing to do with the farming industry. I would | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
find it very shocking if it was. As an industry, we are desperate to get | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
to the bottom of this. Police in Fife have released a CCTV | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
image of a man they want to contact in connection with two sexual | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
assaults in St Andrews. A 27-yar-old woman was attacked in | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
the early hours of Wednesday, the 9th of April. An 18-year-old was | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
indecently assaulted the following day at about one in the morning, | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
while she was walking in the grounds of the University. | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
Fire crews from Inverness have been fighting a major heath fire, which | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
broke out this afternoon south of the city. A total of eight | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
appliances and dozens of firefighters were brought in to | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
tackle the blaze, and at one point there were fears for nearby houses. | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Police urged sightseers to stay away and advised local people to stay | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
indoors because of the thick smoke. Sporting history has been made in | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Musselburgh, after the town hosted horse racing on Good Friday for the | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
very first time. One of the most significant days on the Christian | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
calendar, Good Friday was traditionally considered a day of | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
rest for jockeys. Not everyone has welcomed the change, but the course | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
management say they're moving with the times and hope they'll | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
eventually be able to stage a three day Easter Festival of racing. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
It's a question that has been put to racing for many years. Just as | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
society moves on and things change, we have got to the point where we | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
are now racing. It is demand driven. Yesterday we were being promised a | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
gorgeous Easter Weekend. Let's see how it's shaping up. | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
There can't have been many complaints today. It should be | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
fairer for most of the weekend. Blue skies across much of the country. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
This is a satellite picture from this afternoon. There has been a | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
figure out of cloud in the far north-west. Through this evening, | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
that will bring some outbreaks of rain. Elsewhere, it will stay dry | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
with clear spells. It will become quite chilly, though not as cold | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
last night. -- not as cold as last night. Into tomorrow, still cloudy | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
with outbreaks of rain for the aisles, and the foreign north-west. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
But those are the exceptions. Elsewhere, it dry and bright. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Temperature is widely into the maid or high teens. Always cooler around | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
coastal areas. That is due to onshore breezes. On Easter Sunday, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
still plenty of dry and bright weather. A bit more clouds towards | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
the east coast, so it will be cooler here. The best of the temperature is | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
in the West. And that's Reporting Scotland. Our | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
next update is tomorrow lunchtime during Sunday Politics Scotland. | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
Until then, from everyone here, Today we have seen temperatures | :06:02. | :06:13. | |
rising if Scotland but again tonight, with the clear skies and | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
light wind temperatures will fall sharply, and for many of us, we are | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
looking at a touch of frost. sharply, and for many of us, we are | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
satellite picture tells a story nicely. This belt of cloud is | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
sitting in the far north-west of | :06:26. | :06:26. |