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It's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
In an unguarded moment, the Prime Minister David Cameron | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
claims the Queen purred down the line, when he told her | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
It comes as Alex Salmond addressed the Scottish Parliament | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
for the first time since the referendum and his resignation. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
The port operator on the Clyde admits breaching health | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
and safety laws over the deaths of three crewmen seven years ago. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
The golfing world descends on Perthshire, ahead of the Ryder | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
And ever wondered why some snow manages to survive | :00:34. | :00:47. | |
Join me for an insight into the world of Scotland's snow hunters. | :00:48. | :01:08. | |
The First Minister, Alex Salmond, has described the referendum | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
as "the greatest democratic experience in Scotland's history." | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
However, opposition parties called for him to respect the result. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
In a moment, we'll have a full report on that, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
but first to our political editor, Brian Taylor, who's at Holyrood | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
tonight with news of an unguarded comment from the Prime Minister. | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
The Prime Minister was in New York, he was catting with the former mayor | :01:24. | :01:39. | |
Michael Bloomberg, he was caught on camera talking about his delight at | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
the referendum outcome but also sharing with former mayor Bloomberg | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
the moment that he, David Cameron, alerted the Queen to the fact that | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
the vote had gone for the Ewing I don't know. Here is what he had to | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
say. It is not every day in truth you | :01:56. | :02:17. | |
hear a description of the Queen purring. It is unlikely we will be | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
able to say whether the Queen did offer feline felicitation, the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Palace is declining to comment. David Cameron said it was close, he | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
says he is considering, think he was joking suing the opinion polling | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
companies for giving him ulcers. Let us turn to the Scottish Parliament, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
turn to Holyrood Parliament, not Palace. There was a debate here at | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
the Scottish Parliament on the aftermath of the referendum, of | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
course there was talk about the independence offer, there was talk | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
about the causes of the defeat for that independence offer, but the big | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
focus here at Holyrood today, was on gaining more powers for the Scottish | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
Parliament. Alex Salmond had hoped to be coming | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
to Holyrood to announce independence but the presiding officer reminded | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
MSPs that Scotland would change. It cannot and it must not be business | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
as usual. The First Minister opened by extolling the huge turn out in | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
the referendum. This has been the greatest democratic experience in | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Scotland's history and brought it great credit, nationally and | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
internationally. Now the talk is of more devolved power, in the gallery | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Lord submit of Kelvin tasked with that challenge. The SNP will join | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
that search and Alex Salmond laid down his aims. The jobs test in | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
particular, genuine job creating powers are important. They should | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
allow us to build a fairer society, we need to address the deep lying | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
causing of unequality in Scottish society. And it should enable | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Scotland to have a stronger and clearer articulated voice, on the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
international stage. Johann Lamont offered to work with Scottish | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
ministers on every day issue, arguing that support for the union | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
was now settled I don't speak for the 45%. I don't speak for the 55%. | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
I speak for the 100% of the people in this country, who want politics | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
to be about their lives, their concern, their families, and their | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
future. On social media, there have been | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
complaints of vote-rigging, dismissed by the authority, for the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Tory, Ruth Davidson said such talk was futile. We need acknowledgement | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
that the process was not flawed. Not just the mechanics of the process, | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
but the process itself. Friday was clear, legal and decisive. I am sure | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
no-one in this chamber will dispute that. Two million people decided we | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
were Better Together. Patrick Harvie said the people must be consulted | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
over any new powers If this is a deal done inside the political | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
bubble it will fail to give effect to that groundswell appetite and | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
enthusiasm. For genuine democratic reform. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
A challenge for our MSPs. All our MSPs. | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
One more thing tonight, John Wilson has resigned from the SNP whip. He | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
was very unhappy about the party's policy switch when they endorsed | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
NATO membership in the vent of independence. He was pre-Prince of | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Waled upon to stay. He has now gone. It cuts the SNP's majority behind me | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
to just one. -- prevailed. Despite that the SNP are wishing him well in | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
his future and are taking wit a degree of sang froid. They are | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
saying that is one MSP, 20,000 new members in the past few days. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
how to channel the political energy the referendum campaign unleashed. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
Nay queued to vote. The turn out was record-breaking and many of those | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
drawn into politics by the referendum want to stay involved. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
The political parties behind the Yes campaign have reported a membership | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
surge, last Thursday, the Scottish greens had 1800 member, by lunchtime | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
today that trebled to 54 hundred. The SNP fought the referendum with | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
more nan 25,000 members. By three this afternoon that had more than | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
doubled to 51 50 making the nationalists the third largest | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
political party in the UK. The aspirations that were embodied in | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
the Yes campaign are still there. They are not been extinguished by a | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
No vote. So they are looking for an avenue, a home. At Holyrood the | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
First Minister's aspiration for 16 and 17-year-olds to be allowed to | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
vote in future election, having given them a say on independence. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
There is not a shred of evidence for arguing now that 16 and 17-year-olds | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
should not be allowed to vote. The Labour leader Ed Miliband supports | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
lowering the voting age but young people in Edinburgh have mixed | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
feelings I just voted in the referendum, so I don't think, don't | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
see a problem in like, why we shouldn't be allowed to vote. I | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
don't think they should. Why? There is a lot of people who don't have | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
enough knowledge. The current Westminster Government doesn't | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
support votes for 16-year-olds, what the UK Government, the Scottish | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Government, all the political parties agree on is that the No vote | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
was not a vote for no change. There now needs to be further devolution | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
of power from Westminster, to Holyrood. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
The man trying to get all sides to agree a specific package of extra | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
devolution met Scottish party leaders today. My message to the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
political parties today, is that Scotland is expecting us to arrive | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
at consensus, so we would ask them to enter into this in the spirit of | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
good will. Persuading those who voted yes and those who voted no to | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
agree on the way forward for Scotland, is no mean feat. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
The Labour leader has accused the Prime Minister of learning | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
the wrong lessons from the outcome of the Scottish referendum. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
In his speech to the party's conference, Ed Miliband | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
said David Cameron was seeking to divide, not unite the UK. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Our Westminster correspondent David Porter reports from Manchester. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
Five days on from that referendum result, and still the politicians | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
are coming to terms with how things have changed forever. For the Labour | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
leader a mixture of relief and satisfaction. Our country nearly | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
broke up. A country that nearly splits apart is not a country in | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
good health. I want to start by thanking all of Labour's Team | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Scotland, for the part they played in keeping our country together. | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
APPLAUSE Using the theme together for his | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
speech, he recalled a woman he met in the referendum campaign, her | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
concerns should provide a less for all politicians. -- lesson Her maim | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
was Josephine, she worked as a cleaner in the building. She didn't | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
want to leave, but she thought it might be the best thing to do. That | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
wasn't just the referendum question. That is the General Election | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
question. A promise of extra money for the NHS | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
but it is plain the referendum, political truce is now over. If | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
David Cameron cares so much about the union, why is he seeking to | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
divide us? He is learning the wrong lessons from Scotland. And from | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
delegates a warm welcome for those promised extra powers. We have got | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
to deliver what has been promised to Scotland. He recognised the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
importance of England and the other nations within the union. We have to | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
put the referendum behind us and fight to get Labour into the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Government. Scotland is the first promise to keep and the rest have to | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
follow. Ed Miliband knows he will be held accountable for those | :10:32. | :10:32. | |
devolution promises. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
from the BBC. Still to come | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
on tonight's programme. The new technology that's helping | :10:39. | :10:39. | |
snow hunters work out how the In sport, we are live at Gleneagles | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
with the very latest news from day And the insane decision | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
of chasing her fifth Olympic Games. Katherine Grainger says | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
she's getting ready for Rio. The port authority Clydeport has | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
admitted breaching health and safety laws, following the deaths | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
of three crewmen when their tug sank Lawyers acting for | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
the men's union have again called for a Fatal Accident Inquiry into | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
the sinking of the Flying Phantom. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Reevel Alderson reports. The aftermath of a tragedy. In dense | :11:14. | :11:29. | |
fog, the Clyde tug Flying Phantom capsized while towing a larger | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
vessel. The rescue effort went on through the night but three of the | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
crew drowned. Skipper Steven Humphreys, engineer Bob Cameron, and | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Eric blackly all died. A fourth crew member swam to safety. A black was | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
erected on the river bank near where the tug foundered. It struck the | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
concrete slipway, before it could release its cable, the vessel it was | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
towing, it had overtaken it. Pulling it over. Collide port admitted | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
breaching health and safety laws. Among the charges were failing to | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
have an adequate contingency plan for bringing a large vessel up this | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
relatively narrow stretch of river in thick fog. Initially collide port | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
denied all of the charges that it faced today there is anger that by | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
doing so, they have delayed the possibility of holding a fatal | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
accident inquiry into the tragedy. Families of the crew members were in | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
court to hear the guilty plea which came almost seven years after that | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
they lost their loved one. The union said it has been an unacceptable | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
delay. That is important because it means that not only have lesson not | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
been learned, but it also means there may well be some crucial | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
health and safety matters that are still affecting those going about | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
their daily business, working on the river Clyde. But Clyde port said it | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
has restructured its working practises and systems. It is | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
important it statement said, to underline that the Crown accepts | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
these issues were not the cause of the fragilic event of 2007 -- | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
tragic. Coastguards agree things have improved I think lessons have | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
been learned by everybody involved. Particularly, I think, that the way | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Clyde port has operated now, I understand is considerably different | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
and much better. It is expected the judge will pass sentence on Monday. | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
A 16-year-old has been taken into custody, after a suspected firearms | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
The teenager, thought to be carrying a gun, had been seen earlier leaving | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
a rigid inflatable boat in nearby Scalloway. | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
Residents in parts of Lerwick were warned to stay indoors. | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
Firearms officers from the mainland were flown to the islands. | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Police Scotland later said a man was in custody. | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
A look at other stories from the across the country. | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
A ban on new admissions has been placed on a Dumfries care home | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
branded unsatisfactory. Alan bank got the lowest possibly grading from | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
the care inspectorate. Owners say they are working to address the | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
issues raised. The beds are block booked by the NHS and social worker | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
authorities. We as the health port have stopped any transfers of our | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
patients into the home, either on mental health side or on the older | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
adult side and we won't be reinstating those until we are | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
assured of improvements. By contrast a council run activity and resource | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
centre in Newton Stewart has been awarded excellent status. The centre | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
which provides support for adults with learning disabilities has the | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
highest ratings for care, staffing, management and leadership. They | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
found examples of excellent practise. | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
An inspection report carried out a Greenock prance has praised the way | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
staff deal with prisoners with drug or alcohol problems. It is a good | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
report but the inspection, the first for five years highlights problems | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
with the building, and dampness in one accommodation hall. Plans for a | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
new clubhouse at an Aberdeenshire golf course have been approved | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
subject to conditions. Mr Trump says he won't commit to building a hotel | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
or a second course until proposals to build and offshore windfarm | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
within sight of the resort are thrown out. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
Andy Murray says he has no regrets over the comments he made, | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
supporting independence on the eve of last week's poll. | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
But he says he wasn't happy about the wording | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
of the tweet he sent, which he described as uncharacteristic. | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
I don't regret giving an opinion, I think everyone should be, should be | :15:46. | :16:07. | |
allowed that, the way I did it, yes, wasn't, wasn't something I would do | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
again. I think, you know, there is very, it was an emotional day for a | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
lot of Scottish, Scottish people, and the whole country, and that the | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
whole of the UK, it was a big day, yes, the way it was worded, the way | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
I sent it, that is not really my character, I don't formally do stuff | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
like that, so, Yes, I was a bit disappointed so it is time to move | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
on. Some of Europe and America's top | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
golfers have been playing practice rounds at Gleneagles, where the | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
Ryder Cup begins later this week. It's one | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
of the world's top sporting events, Our reporter Lisa Summers | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
has been finding out. The sentry course, a little sunshine | :16:47. | :16:59. | |
will no doubt please the keepers with the greens ready or play. And | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
from early doors buses filed in spectators and cordon mean park and | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
rides are a 25 minute journey away. With trains fully booked a major | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
operation is June way. Unlike any sport where kick off is at three or | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
racing where it is later, our first tee-off is round 7.30. You have a | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
small window to move a huge amount of people safely and as quickly as | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
possible. The police gather in number there is no specific threat | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
to the Ryder Cup but they are ever present. There is no secret here. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
Rhys events, and of course, the UK threat level has raised to severe. | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
What I want to say, very very specifically, as, is there is no | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
specific threat against the Ryder Cup or any person participating or | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
attending it. The story goes that the Ryder Cup originated here, at | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Gleneaglesle, that was back in 1992 where the Americans assembled for | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
the first time to taken to Brits. It has been a long time come back home | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
but the staphylococcus have been working for years to make sure | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
everything is perfect. . With regards to course maintenance we | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
have the systems in the green, which is is a great management tomb to | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
ensure we have pristine putting. We have the bunker method, a surface | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
liner, that ensures we don't get any sand wash out should there be any | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
inclement weather. Practise days are informal. Team yusmt yusmt A looked | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
relaxed. Can't see the stage about the flamboyant fans. -- USA. Nice to | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
see you. Perfect timing as the rain starts | :18:47. | :19:09. | |
here at Gleneagles. We have had enough brightness on ruined the | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
court to whet our appetites for what is about the unfold. That the thing | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
about the first practise day. It gives players and fans a chance, to | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
get into the swing of things. Ahead of the action. | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
Europe's class of 2014 obliged for a photo. Not once, not twice, but | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
three times. It is all a new expense for some The | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
most important thing is saving energy, and not, you know, overdoing | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
anything. And not playing too much table tennis! You know, so, Yes, it | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
is just a case of enjoying all the surroundings, getting used to the | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
environment and getting ready for Friday. Stephen Gallacher is | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
experiencing something new. Already the home rookie looks the part. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Americans posed for history book, before honing their skills round the | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
PGA sentry course. The sight proving almost too much for some. Go USA! It | :20:12. | :20:21. | |
is fun to have a home crowd, have 37,000 fans be cheering for the USA, | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
but an away game never hurt. The Galleries here are of a particular | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
persuasion. Come on Europe! Par tan Tuesday, encouraging fans to revel | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
in their heritage. To very mixed results. Are Are you her mum? Yes. | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Do you allow her to go out dressed like that? It is a cosy outfit, yes. | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
The Ryder Cup experience is up and running here amid the colour and | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
wardrobe malfunctions of the the world's best golfers go about their | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
business. More fashion from Phil tomorrow. | :21:04. | :21:04. | |
The Celtic manager Ronny Deila says Arsene Wenger and Jurgen Klopp | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
The Norwegian says the ability of the Arsenal manager and | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Borussia Dortmund coach to develop their players makes them ideal role | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
Deila's been speaking to our senior football reporter | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
Alasdair Lamont about life around, and away from football. | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
Ronny Deila's introduction to Scottish football has in his own | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
words had a few ups and downs, the Norwegian was brought to Celtic | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
partly because of a track record of developing young talent. And that is | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
a trait of those holds in highest regard Of course I have big respect | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
for Arsene Wenger, the way he has brought up good football player, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
young player, world class players is unbelievable. And Knights of | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Columbus -- Jurgen Klopp has done fantastic well, people come into his | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
squad, they develop and I think those two, they are good role | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
models. Ronny Deila is keen to nurture and says he will don't blood | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
home-grown players like column McGregor when he can. In almost four | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
months of the new job, has he been able to relax? I think it is | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
important to have a life outside football, and that is hard, because | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
there is a lot of passion here, they love, in Glasgow, they love | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
football. I think now started to adapt that more and so I am more | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
settled and can start to do other things on the, after work. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
But for the most part, Ronny Deila's day is spent at the coal face, as he | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
tries to mould a new Celtic team in his own image, very much a work in | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
progress. And there's more of that exclusive | :22:50. | :22:50. | |
interview with Ronny Deila That's Celtic against Hearts live | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
in the League Cup. The rest of the Cup action is | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
on Sportsound, Radio Scotland 810 One of Scotland's heroes from London | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
2012 has decided to go Katherine Grainger won rowing gold | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
at the fourth attempt, before taking Now, at the age of 38, | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
she says she says she's hungry for Of course I think I am insane. Of | :23:13. | :23:24. | |
course I do. I do think that. I do wonder. All the logical rational | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
things would be don't come back. Yet here I am. Well done to Catherine. | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
You have said only 40. Thank you. After such a lovely summer, | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
it's hard to believe some people Heavy snowfalls on high ground last | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
winter helped ensure a record season for so-called summer | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
"snow hunters", who're now employing From the Cairngorms here's | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
our environment correspondent, Prv flying high the spectacular | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
images of snow caps were capture by a drone. For one enthusiast the | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
latest technology has proved invaluable, allowing him to film the | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
patches of snowy survive, even at the height of summer but when the | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
mist comes down and the wind picks up it is time for him to pack Wray | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
the drone and beautiful his boots. The conditions are not favourable | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
for drone flying. Visibility is no more than 25 yards. This is citizen | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
science in action. It makes it well worth The researches are | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
enthusiastic amateurs who regard details of where snow patches | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
survive and for how long. You might You might wonder why anyone would | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
want to spend their time studying patches of snow. But, when you get | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
up close to these extraordinary formations, it is easy to see why | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
they become a source of fascination. I moved o port Glasgow when I was | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
nine. I could see Ben Lomond in the distance, every year the same patch | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
of snow held on in the same place. This used to fascinate me. I thought | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
why does it hole on there? Every year, I help to write a piper which | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
appears in the royal meteorological society, where we chronicle how many | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
patches of snow last from one winter to the next. That date is important | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
because know patches have a vital role to play in the ecology of our | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
mountain landscapes There are a group of plants that are associated | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
with areas of is not just snow but long snow lie, like here. They have | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
an ecological importance. Scientists will study the areas to see how the | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
snow lie changes with climate change, and subsequently how those | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
plant communities will be affected. Will this winter provide another | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
record year for our summer snow hunters? We will find out soon | :25:46. | :25:58. | |
enough. So snow on the mountains. There is no snow in the forecast for | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
today. Some rain I am afraid. We have seen the cloud thickening in | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
the north-west and we have seen rain there too. That will continue to | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
spread eastwards across us as when he had through the night. Moving | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
through swiftly, behind it clearer skies and under the clearer skies | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
things turn chilly, so heavy rain in the north-west high land, the | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
Northern Isles too, but clearing through at three o'clock in the | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
morning we are looking at drier, clearer skies and showers in the far | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
north and down to Galloway too. Temperatures and towns and cities, | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
nine or ten degrees but in sheltered glens maybe a few degrees cooler. It | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
means for tomorrow morning a few showers round but it is improving. | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
We are looking at things drying up. More in the way of sunshine, | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
especially in seven central and southern area a bit of cloud round. | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
So for tomorrow afternoon, if we take a closer look, drier condition, | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
sunshine in store, temperatures generally round the mid teens for | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
all, round average for the time of year, some sunshine too in the | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
north-west, one or two showers still round for the Northern Isles, but | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
like today, for tomorrow, the best of the sunshine across the eastern | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
half of the country and here we will see the best of the warmth, maybe | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
reaching up to 16 degrees in the south and south-east. | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
Temperatures again 15 degrees at best. So, then for tomorrow clear | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
skies and sunshine, but the cloud continues to thicken. As a weak | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
weather front approaches, bringing some rain. It will be light and | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
patchy and as we head through into Thursday, the weather fronts will | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
clear through overnight. But the tightening of the isobars show the | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
strengthening wind, so for Thursday we are looking at a cloud cancer | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
day. The winds could even touch up to gale force across the Hebrides | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
and temperatures round the mid teen, but further to the east we will see | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
the best of any brightness and warmth. Temperatures generally round | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
19 or 20 degrees, and for Friday, well, a drier brighter day, more in | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
the which of sunshine, but the winds still strong and temperatures round | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
15 or 16 degrees. Thank you. One headline for you. | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
Alex Salmond has described the referendum as the greatest | :28:09. | :28:10. | |
democratic experience in Scotland's history. However, opposition parties | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
called for him to respect the result. In an unguarded moment, | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
David Cameron claims the Queen purred down the line, when he told | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
her Scotland has rejected independence. | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
From us, good night. | :28:26. | :28:27. |