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still the potential. Quite nasty weather. To keep an eye on the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Yes campaign say independence won't stop Scotland keeping | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
the pound, but opponents continue to press for answers should | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
The Jewish community says it?s hurt and angry over plans to fly | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
the flag of Palestine over council headquarters. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
It's official - Scots are using smartphones at a greater | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
I could live without it, but it makes things easier. | :00:32. | :00:45. | |
I don't think I could do without it. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
This is my replacement for a newspaper. | :00:49. | :00:48. | |
the Commonwealth Games legacy Glasgow didn't want. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
This statue of Clyde the mascot has been stolen, and the | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
other 25 are having to be removed from locations around the city. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
And the dogs of war - the story of how those trained | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
on a beach in Dundee helped the First World War effort. | :01:01. | :01:15. | |
The first minister, Alex Salmond, has faced fresh calls to spell out | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
his plan B for the currency of an independent Scotland | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
if the UK government won't agree a formal currency union. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
All three opposition leaders pressed him on the issue at Holyrood | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
And the former SNP deputy leader, Jim Sillars, has urged him to opt | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
But Mr Salmond insists we'll continue to share | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
Yes Scotland say independence would offer people the opportunity to grow | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
the economy. But a cloud, controversy over the currency. | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
Labour again urged Alex Salmond to name his alternative in | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
independence. Alex Salmond knew what to expect, as the issue had | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
dominated the televised debate. Labour said he could not force rest | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
of the UK into a currency union against their will. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Is it not clear that while he may have a plan to break up the United | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Kingdom, he does not have a plan for Scotland or the future of families | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
across this country. Alex Salmond said options included | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
the euro, a Scottish currency or using sterling without agreement. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
That would mean the rest of the UK kept the Bank of England, but also | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
all the debts, missing out on five billion pounds every year from | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Scotland. Tempting, he said, but wrong. It would be extremely | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
attractive for Scotland. But it is not a reasonable position | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
to put forward. That is why as part of a formal currency union, it is | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
our apparent, and we intend to keep it. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
The Chancellor and his counterpart in Labour and the Liberal Democrats | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
have all ruled out a currency union, which the Scottish Government | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
regards as a bluff. By this leading independence | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
campaigner thinks it is time to choose another currency option. | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
We have a viable alternative, and that is a Scottish currency with our | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
own central bank printing Scottish notes which we will peg completely | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
disturbing so there is no difference whatsoever, and for the life of me, | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
I cannot understand why Alex Salmond cannot say that the Scottish | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
people. The First Minister says he remains | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
convinced the UK will withdraw opposition to a formal union if | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
there is a Yes vote in September. And Glenn joins us now | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
from Holyrood. So, Glenn - is Alex Salmond | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
sticking with his Plan A? It seems so. He used the phrase, "it | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
is Scotland's pound and we're keeping it." And the more resolute | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
he sounds on this, the more difficult it becomes for him to | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
change tack down the line. There is the recipe of opinion within the Yes | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
campaign. It is not just Jim Sellers, but also the Scottish Green | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
party leader, and the chairman of Yes Scotland, Dennis Canavan, who | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
would prefer a separate Scottish currency. The Yes campaign say this | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
diversity is sign of strength. You can bet the opponents will try to | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
exploit it as a sign of weakness and division, perhaps tomorrow when Ed | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Miliband joined the campaign in Scotland. | :04:48. | :04:48. | |
And there have been further interventions into the independence | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
Yes, 27 US Congressmen and Congresswoman have reflected the | :04:51. | :05:05. | |
view that the United Kingdom should remain united. They say that is in | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
the United States' national security interests. We have also had an | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
intervention from the broadcaster Dan Snow who has collected | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
signatures from 200 prominent figures, including Sir Mick Jagger | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
and Dean Judi Dench, and they hope the celebrity currency will | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
encourage Scots to vote no on September the 18th. Scotland say | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
that all of those who Scotland's interest at heart will welcome | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
Scotland becoming an independent country that is what the people of | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Scotland decides. The Palestinian flag is to be raised | :05:47. | :05:47. | |
at Glasgow City Chambers tomorrow in support of people affected | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
by the conflict in Gaza. But, the city's Jewish | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
Representative Council says the move does "nothing to alleviate suffering | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
on either side of the conflict". Today there was a lobby of | :05:55. | :06:10. | |
Parliament at Holyrood for victims of the conflict in Gaza. Around 40 | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
MSPs keen to show support. Last month, the Scottish Government | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
announced it is providing half ?1 million to help people affected. In | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
recent weeks, the conflict has seen the deaths of almost 1900 | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
Palestinians and 67 Israelis. Glasgow is twinned with Bethlehem, | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
part of Palestine, although not in the Gaza Strip. The two cities have | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
had a long-standing relationship. The Palestinian flag is set to fly | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
here tomorrow between it caught in the morning and five o'clock in the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
afternoon. In a letter to the Mayor of Bethlehem, the Lord Provost of | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Glasgow says that this is in solidarity with the people of | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Bethlehem and Palestine, and she offers her condolences to those in | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Palestine affected by this conflict. Some members of the Jewish | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
community feel angered and hurt by the move. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
I think it is appallingly divisive, and I think it is a pity after such | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
a successful Commonwealth Games which brought people together, | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Glasgow City Council are setting one side against another side. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Glasgow Council says this is not about taking sides. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
We have no connection whatsoever with high Mass, and we have sympathy | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
with victims on all sides of this conflict wouldn't be people from | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Israel, Palestine, Bethlehem, wherever. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Glasgow is not the first local authority with a history of | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
supporting the cause. Dundee's support cost protest in the nineteen | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
eighties. Last week and is really show at the Edinburgh fringe was | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
cancelled after just one performance following a protest by April Hamas | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
group. Glasgow council says it is because of these images of | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
devastation it will raise the Palestinian flag. Fife Council has | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
similar plans. The nuclear power station | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
at Hunterston in Ayrshire is receiving a multi-million pound | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
overhaul, after the decision to The plant's operators say | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
the project is delivering But anti-nuclear campaigners say | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
it's time for Hunterston to close. Our environment correspondent, | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
David Miller, reports. Hunterston B on the Ayrshire coast. | :08:22. | :08:35. | |
It began operating in 1876 and has been helping to keep the lights on | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
across Scotland ever since. This power station has already had its | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
working life extended until 2023. Huge sums of money are being | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
invested here to ensure it continues to operate safely and efficiently. | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
The project is the result of two years of meticulous planning. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Workforce here has more than doubled in size. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Obviously as the plant ages we have to look at what is ageing and | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
replace some components, and more importantly test and inspect | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
components as you would with a vintage car. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
The replacement of this massive transformer unit is one of the | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
biggest tasks. The overall cost is more than ?20 million. Businesses | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
across the West of Scotland are benefiting. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
Our nuclear business is very important to sustaining jobs locally | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
and investing in facilities like what you see here in Renfrew. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
For opponents of nuclear energy insist that Hunterston should be | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
decommissioned. This thing is limping along, the | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
spending a lot of money to keep it limping along when it could break | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
down at any point, and we do not need it, in Scotland we are | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
exporting electricity to England most days because we create so much | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
electricity here. Hunterston and its sister station | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
will require major investment in the coming years. Expect the sparks to | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
keep flying in the debate on nuclear energy. | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :10:15. | :10:15. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
We visit Little Sparta - a sculpture garden in the Pentland Hills and one | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
no champions league for Celtic this year. | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
Has a lack of investment in players cost Celtic dear? | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
And the Scots swimmer who says gold at Glasgow's put her | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Could you live without your smartphone? | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
Would you get withdrawal symptoms if you couldn't go online | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
Research out today suggests that Scots are taking up smartphones | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
at a faster rate than people in the rest of the UK. | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Our correspondent Jamie McIvor has been looking at the research. | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
In a relatively short time phones with an internet connection have | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
More than 6 out of 10 of us now have one. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
The number of us with one has gone up 17% in just a year. | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
And it seems we've been starting to use | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
our mobiles to go online wherever we are, at a faster rate than people | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Relaxing over coffee and the web. For many of us, tracking the | :11:20. | :11:35. | |
Internet when we're out about has become an addiction. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
You get used to it, it just makes life easier. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
34-mac hours a day, probably. It is part of life. It is what we do. | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
It is an addiction, yes, but I don't think I could do without it. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
This has been my replacement for a newspaper, and that is it. | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
The typical Scott spends two and a half hours a day on the Internet. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
That is a little less than the UK average, but more are getting the | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
habit. The more people go online, the more | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
there will be buzz about the benefits and more people will want | :12:22. | :12:22. | |
that experience. And more of us now have | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
the internet at home too. More than three quarters of us - | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
have broadband. There'd been some concern Scotland | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
had been lagging behind when it came These fears now seem | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
to be being allayed. Last month and upper tier tax | :12:35. | :12:47. | |
tribunal dismissed in HMRC appeal against a first-year decision made | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
on players and other employees of Rangers football club. Tax authority | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
argued unsuccessfully that the payment should be taxable. The group | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
which formerly owned Rangers argued that the money was loans. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
A statue of Clyde, Glasgow's Commonwealth Games mascot, | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
has been stolen from a street in the Govan area of the city. | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
Our reporter Aileen Clarke joins us now from Victoria Park where there | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
This Clyde is still here, but not for long. If you look over there you | :13:13. | :13:27. | |
will see a council team poised and ready to take this one to a place of | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
safety, as soon as I am finished speaking. This is a very sad tale of | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
modern life. The Clyde in Govan was happily standing on his plans last | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
night, but when people turned up to work this morning we noticed that | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
there Clyde, with the Finnieston Crane on his chest, was missing. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
When he was reported stolen, the City Council for the best thing was | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
to gather in all the others that were out in the city just in case. | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
It happened been their intention to gather the statues in when the | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
children went back to school, so they are doing it a little earlier. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
That have been a few instances of the plaques being vandalised, so | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
they thought they would give them a brush up. They are hoping to get | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
them back out to public view once that has been done, but it seems | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
that will not be in open spaces in parks like this, it will be inside | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
buildings like sports centres. So if anybody comes up to you in a pub | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
this weekend and asks if you want to buy a second-hand Clyde, the answer | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
is just see no. Always good advice! | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
For the last few weeks the media spotlight has been on Scotland for | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
But that gaze will now refocus on the referendum. | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Our Referendum Correspondent Laura Bicker has been taking a look | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
As the lone piper bead athletes farewell, it was time for the | :14:53. | :15:08. | |
world's media to prepare for Scotland's next big contest. What | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
have our visitors made of the independence referendum? | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
Yes, yes, yes from the younger ones, and no from the oldies. | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
I only found out about it when I got to the UK a few weeks ago. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
The only thing I know is it is a one-way decision, so it is a big | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
decision. I think a lot of people want | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
independence, I think so. Amongst the journalists we found | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Scott Russell from Canada. Qu?bec has twice asked its people if they | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
want to become an independent state, and twice the answer has been no. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Although, the last time, it was close. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
This is all about culture, it is all about self-determination. People | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
tend to recall the history when the need to and when they want to, and I | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
think this is what is going to happen in Scotland. If the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
referendum does not succeed this time, it will come back. | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
ABC in Australia has made documentaries on the referendum. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
This correspondent was born in Uddingston but left in the nineteen | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
nineties. I think Australians like the idea | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
that Scotland might reject the English. There is such a rivalry | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
between Australia and England in sport, the Australians love to call | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
the English the palms. There is nothing more exciting for the | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
Israeli and Zanon England - Australia sporting match. -- nothing | :16:40. | :16:54. | |
more exciting for the Australians. The world's gaze has not left | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Scotland. We are still watching and waiting to see how we will vote. | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
It was once voted Scotland's most important work of art. | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
Yet Little Sparta, a sculpture garden in the Pentland Hills, is one | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
It is in the middle of the countryside and you have to walk | :17:10. | :17:25. | |
along path to get their. It feels like a pilgrimage, which is apt for | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
one of the most special gardens in Scotland. Little Sparta is a six and | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
a half acre garden containing almost 300 artworks. It was created by Ian | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Hamilton Finlay lived here until his death in 2006. | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
One of the things important to Scottish art is the sense of culture | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
in place. The landscape here is incredible in terms of how he | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
interpreted and took universal themes, classical themes, themes of | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
war, and put it in a specific place. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Until recently Little Sparta has been run by a trust with limited | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
access to preserve the artworks and the solitude. But now there has been | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
a partnership to boost its profile and visitor numbers. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
I think more people to come and enjoy. It is perhaps too little | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
known in Scotland. But you are right, it is a fragile place, and we | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
could not have thousands and thousands of visitors, and we need | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
to protect it. They are convinced little Sparta | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
could be an international attraction without visiting in person. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
There are other ways in the world we live in today promoting the garden | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
and its history. Through the web, through publication, and through | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
very carefully managed visits. The new partnership hoped to draw up | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
plans for the site shortly, and begin fundraising to share this | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
garden of the lights with a worldwide audience. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
The former Celtic favourite Murdo Macleod believes a lack | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
of investment in the team has cost the Parkhead club a place | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
Celtic lost 2-nil to Polish side Legia Warsaw | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
at Murrayfield last night to bow out of the tournament 6-1 on aggregate. | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
That means they will now need to negotiate a play-off to get | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Trailing from the first leg it would oldies be tough for Celtic, but | :19:21. | :19:32. | |
their opponents killed the tie before half-time. One former Celtic | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
star believes no big-name signings prior to the qualifiers was a gamble | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
too far. No Champions League, they have lost | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
their ?10 million they have had for the last few years, so they will be | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
really disappointed. They will be looking at themselves and saying, | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
perhaps they should have moved quicker. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
In the last two seasons Celtic reap the benefits of progress in the | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Champions League. Celtic and eight ?18.8 million in season 2012. Even | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
if they qualify for the Europa League, they will be lucky to earn | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
?2 million from the competition. It is devastating, but we have to | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
pick ourselves up quickly. Questions will be asked of the new | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
manager after Celtic bowed out without a fight. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
We have a big job to do to improve as a team. We can win the league, | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
and get into the Europa League, that is a good achievement for us. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
He said he wanted to rebuild the Celtic team. I don't think it needed | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
rebuilding, it needed one or two quality players added to the squad. | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
One way they could recoup some of that lost revenue is selling top | :20:55. | :20:55. | |
stars like goalkeeper. St Johnstone are in Slovakia for the | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
second leg of their Europa league The Saints trailing two one | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
from the first leg. The latest score early | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
in the first half of tonight's match Now, a look at what else is | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
happening across Scottish sport. Use for their manager says they need | :21:13. | :21:34. | |
to do to save the Thai. We need to try to get on the front | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
foot and cause them problems. And there is coverage of the | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
Aberdeen and St Johnstone matches on radio Scotland. | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
The Finland international has re-signed for kill manic. He has | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
committed himself for the coming season. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Inverness say they have had no contact from an English club about | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
selling the striker Mackay, who they do not want to sell anyway. | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
Billy Mackay will be in the starting 11 come Saturday. | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
Andy Murray plays in the third round tonight. You can keep up-to-date | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
with that and all the stories on the website. | :22:34. | :22:33. | |
Scotland's gold medallist swimmer Hannah Miley says the Glasgow Games | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
have given her "a massive confidence booster" ahead of the Rio Olympics, | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
but the 24-year-old won?t commit to defending her title at the Gold | :22:39. | :22:50. | |
It wasn't just winning the gold medal, it was the manner of the | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
victory that has given Hannah Miley all the desire she needs to continue | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
with her international career. The other big is in my side. This | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
has given me a huge confidence booster. This has given me a | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
breakthrough swim. I take my career in two year blocks, so I have to | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
wait and see what happens after the Olympics. But who doesn't love | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
Australia? At the next Commonwealth Games team | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Scotland has a hard act to follow. How does Scottish sport Bild the | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
future? It is an opportunity, and the | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
governing bodies will try to use it to their advantage. You have to | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
grasp the iron while it is hard and make the most of it, because it will | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
fade away and then the legacy will not be created. Coming back again, | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
on the 20th of September for a Scottish gas swim. Hopefully it will | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
be decked up for that event and encourage the public to come and | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
swim in the same what are these champions swam in. | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
So the message is clear from at least one gold medallist - the | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
legacy will be lost if action is not taken. | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
This week we've been remembering the men and women who fought | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
But they weren't the only ones who served. | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
For the first time, the British Army used dogs on the battlefield | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
100 years ago as workloads gathered, dogs like these were being trained | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
on this beach for a much more serious purpose. The soldier was | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
living in Carnoustie in the years before World War I. He believed your | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
deals have the right character for military service. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
They are very determined and single-minded. The go for what they | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
want and there is no stopping them. That is the characteristic that is | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
attractive to some people and not so attractive to others. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
The military and other countries such as France and Germany were | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
already using dogs in a variety of roles. Eventually British high | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
command were convinced that dogs had a role to play as messengers, | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
carrying vital communications along the front line. | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
Richardson also trained dogs as ambulance dogs to go into the field | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
and find a wounded. In training here, each of the dogs carried a | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
small bottle of spirits around their necks, and it is said those little | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
bottles needed constant refilling. Some of the dogs even had their own | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
gas masks, and it was dangerous work on the front line. | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
There was one year deal who was shot in the job and his leg, went through | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
the trenches, past the message over, and then drop dead. That is the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
determination of these dogs. Dogs have continued to play a role | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
ever since. Their services also been remembered on this anniversary. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
As the weekend approaches, let's see how the weather is shaping up. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
Some sunshine around this afternoon. And some late evening | :26:12. | :26:25. | |
sunshine across most parts of the country. | :26:26. | :26:38. | |
A further feed of showers to come in the early hours. Things a touch | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
cooler in the countryside. Perhaps a rumble of thunder or two in the | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
West. And things will cloud over as we head into the afternoon. By | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
mid-afternoon, in Lanarkshire and the Borders, the Lothian 's and | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
five, expect a few showers. In the West those showers will be with us | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
for a large part of the day. We might not reach Glasgow, Phil. As we | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
head into the rest of the evening, those showers make their way for the | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
eastwards. Some pretty torrential downpours to be had. Things look OK | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
on Saturday, pleasant temperatures, light winds. And here I should issue | :27:30. | :27:39. | |
a warning. We have a deep area of low pressure out to the east. It is | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
pushing north between us and Scandinavia. It is offshore, so its | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
position is questionable, and its position will mean the difference | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
between a dry day and a wet day for the east. This area of low pressure | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
pushing into the South of England is the remains of a hurricane, no | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
longer a hurricane, but still wet and windy. | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm and the late bulletin just | :28:14. | :28:19. |