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News at Six, we will join our news teams where you are. Bye for now. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Right now in Westminster, MPs are debating whether to bomb | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
All but two Scots members are expected to vote against action. | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
Typhoons at RAF Lossiemouth could leave for the Middle East tonight, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
We'll also hear from Syrians living in Scotland about their hopes | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Scotland gets a new top cop - the former head of | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
And drivers are still stuck in jams on the Forth Bridge, as engineers | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
It's the most important decision we entrust to the people we elect - | :00:40. | :01:00. | |
whether or not to take military action. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
At Westminster, that decision-making is under way. | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
Should Britain take part in airstrikes against so-called | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Critics of airstrikes are cross-party but include | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
If the vote is carried, those jets would leave from Lossiemouth. | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
We'll hear from our reporter there in a moment. | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
Looking there now, it suggests that the jets are already being prepared. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
First, our political correspondent. In one parliament, calls for peace, | :01:37. | :01:51. | |
a staunch opposition at Holyrood to British air strikes in Syria against | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
so-called Islamic State. In another Parliament, hundreds of miles away, | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
a call to arms. The debate on air strikes was scheduled to ten hours, | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
not long enough for some. Every member of Parliament in this house | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
has the right to represent their constituents on an issue of such | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
importance, and our constituents have the right to listen to their | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
MPs. The Prime Minister pressed on, describing IS, or Daesh, as a | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
fundamental threat to Britain. Do we work with our allies to degrade and | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
destroy this threat and though we do -- do we go after these terrorists | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
from their heartlands, or do we sit back and wait for them to attack us? | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
A hard choice for MPs but taking action is necessary for many. We | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
have seen the events in Paris, in Beirut, in Sharm el-Sheikh in recent | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
weeks. We have seen the flow of refugees coming from that civil war | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
in Syria. This is one part of what needs to be done to bring security | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
to that region and end that threat to us. The Labour leader isn't | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
supporting the Prime Minister's 's position but some of his MPs are. As | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
the party splits, Scotland's only Labour MP is taking Jeremy Corbyn's | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
line. I won't be supporting the government. I appreciate we are | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
involved in air strikes in Iraq but one reason why that was successful | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
is because of the ground troops and I have significant doubts that these | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
70,003 Syrian army troops exist. This issue has been a serious | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
sticking point for the SNP. The case for action has not been made, they | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
sticking point for the SNP. The case say. We party's Westminster leader | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
also highlighted what he as another fundamental issue. The UK Government | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
is going to have a huge problem with legitimacy and mandate for this | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
operation in Scotland. It may well win the vote tonight, but it will do | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
so with the support of only two macro out of 59 Scottish MPs. Mr | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Robertson also pointed out that, if there is to be action, most of the | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
aircraft deployed to the region will be from here, Lossiemouth, in his | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
constituency. Despite the party's opposition, he sent a message to the | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Armed Forces saying that he wished for their safety. Back here, the | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
debate goes on. The arithmetic seems to stack up for the Prime Minister, | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
as MPs take difficult decisions about war and peace. | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
Craig, there are suggestions the jets are already being readied | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
Can you tell us any more? Clearly, there has been no confirmation of | :04:39. | :04:54. | |
that from the Ministry of Defence, but it is my understanding that, if | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the government wins the vote, as we expect, it will be Typhoon jets from | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
RAF Lossiemouth that will be winging their way to the Middle East, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
possibly within hours of that vote taking place in the early hours of | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
tomorrow morning. The Typhoon jet that is based here is one of the | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
most capable anywhere in the world. It is faster than the older Tornado | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
and it carries the Brimstone missile, capable of hitting a moving | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
target such as a vehicle from seven miles -- several miles away. As we | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
heard in Andrew's report, the MP for this area, ironically, is Angus | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
Robertson, and he is the leader of the SNP at Westminster, but he is | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
one of the main signatories to the Commons motion which has rejected | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
air strikes against Syria. Meanwhile, Scotland's only Liberal | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Democrat MP, Alistair Carmichael from the northern isles, Orkney and | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Shetland, says that he will vote in failure -- in favour. We have been | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
finding out what some constituents feel. We should not be bombing. Why | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
not? It is just causing more conflict, more trouble, definitely, | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
by fighting one against the other. It is bad what they are doing and | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
then we are making it worse. Something has to be done with Isis. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Sitting back and thinking they are not coming to your door is a | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
mistake. I have looked online and the money we could spend on other | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
things rather than air strikes would seek better results. We could spend | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
it on medical care. If they don't do anything, as Cameron said, when will | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
you take action against them? I firmly agree that now is the time to | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
do it. I don't know if it is the right thing to do but something has | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
to be done. I just don't know. Something has to be done about it | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
but what worries me is that there is no back-up plan for after. We have | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
seen that too often in the last few years. In a further twist of irony, | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
the Typhoon jets based here belong to the quick reaction alert force, | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
the RAF force that patrols the skies around the Scottish coast. Within | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
recent months, it has been responsible for shepherding away | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Russian warplanes from our skies. If they are sent to the Middle East, | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
they will probably be robbing wings with Russian planes, taking part in | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
the same sort of mission against state one targets as they are. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
The debate in the Commons has not surprisingly centred on the effect | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
of airstrikes on UK security, but it's also dealt with the effects | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Our reporter Catriona Renton's been speaking to one Syrian | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Looking at photos of happier times at home in Syria. This man was a | :08:00. | :08:13. | |
lawyer who came to Glasgow three years ago. His wife and four | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
children followed a year later. He told me he was not safe there. I | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
have to live where I was at the time because my life had become dangerous | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
and I had to live. His 18-year-old son is in the 60 at school but it | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
has not been easy for the family to leave family and friends behind. We | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
used to have a decent life with a house, jobs, my mum and dad had | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
jobs. You know, plus we have the fact that a boy of my age, to move | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
to a new country and for the language and all of that stuff is | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
difficult. My mother is 85 and my brother and sister, my cousins, my | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
friends are still there and I am worried about them. | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
They told me their views on what the UK Parliament is discussing. If they | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
target Isis area, but I am against air strikes if they bomb the | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
civilians by mistake or something. When you do the air strikes, you | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
cannot identify where exactly these terrorist groups are. The family | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
hope for peace in Syria and that one day they can go home. I would like | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
to be an engineer and rebuild my country. | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Our political correspondent David Porter is in Westminster. | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
David, can you give us a flavour of the Scottish involvement? | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
Without wishing to want to bamboozle you with facts and figures, it is | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
worth remembering that there are 59 Scottish MPs at Westminster. That | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
debate is still going on. It has got about three and a half hours to run. | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
When it comes to voting at 10pm, overwhelmingly, they will vote | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
against, taking and extending military action in Syria. Only two | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
macro MPs, the Scottish Secretary David Mundell and the former | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Scottish secretary, the Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael, will | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
vote with the government. That means that 57 of the 59 MPs at Westminster | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
for Scotland will vote against. It is one issue that, in Scottish | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
terms, links Labour and the SNP, that they will both be voting the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
same way. The vote will go in favour of the government tonight. There is | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
no doubt about that. But it is going to be very interesting in the days | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
and weeks that come ahead to see what the reaction will be in | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Scotland to the vote that will take place here. We will have a situation | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
where Scotland's elected representatives are at the odds cars | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
are at odds with the views of their English colleagues. We just saw a | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
scene from what is happening at the Commons. That will be one of the | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
main issues tonight on Scotland 2015. The vote takes place when they | :11:29. | :11:29. | |
are on air. Join the team for reaction | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
and analysis. That's with Shelley Jofre | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
at 10.30pm over on BBC Two. Phil Gormley first joined | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
the police in 1985, rising to become chief constable of Norfolk | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Constabulary and the deputy director He'll take over from Sir Stephen | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
House as Police Scotland's Chief Here's our home affairs | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
correspondent, Reevel Alderson. I would not have applied for any | :11:52. | :12:04. | |
other Chief Constable job. This is the best you can have. This was two | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
years ago, when Phil Gormley was leading Norfolk. Next month, he | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
takes over as Chief Constable of police Scotland. He has been a | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
police officer for 30 years and has wide experience in a number of | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
policing environments. He began his career in Thames Valley, a mixture | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
of rural and urban policing. He was Deputy Chief Constable of West | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Midlands and after three years in Norfolk became deputy | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
director-general of the National Crime Agency. It is that breadth of | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
experience in urban and rural policing, along with his experience | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
in the national strategic issues such as serious and organised crime, | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
terrorism and child sexual exploitation, which I understand | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
impress the interview panel at the Scottish police authority. Phil | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Gormley has never worked in Scotland but the head of the police authority | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
said that should not be a problem. We will give him support to get him | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
up to speed in terms of Scottish issues and the differences between | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Scotland and the rest of the UK. He is very capable. He has moved around | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
in his career, working in different parts of the UK, so he is used to | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
adapting to local circumstances. I think he will be very good. But the | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
men that Phil Gormley will lead say that he can expect to experience | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
some flak after a series of controversies around police Scotland | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
in recent months. The police service has continued to perform | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
particularly well, despite the challenges it has faced. That being | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
said, of course there is a recognition that bad headlines have | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
caused reputational problems and I am sure Phil Gormley will turn his | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
attention to them. Ministers have welcomed Phil Gormley's appointment | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
and say that they expect he will engage with local communities to | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
drive forward police reform. 24 hours on and the misery | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
for drivers on the One side is still closed, | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
as engineers inspect a defect. Our reporter Morag | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Kinniburgh joins us now. Any update on what's wrong and | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
when it might be fixed? Traffic has been pretty stop start | :14:05. | :14:17. | |
over the bridge. Big problems on approaches to the bridge during the | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
day. This evening, the bridge operator has said they have found | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
eight sites on the bridge which could have similar problems to the | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
defect found this time yesterday, which has caused so much disruption | :14:31. | :14:31. | |
on a key transport link. A weary journey to work before dawn, | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
traffic restricted to just half the bridge. 70,000 vehicles use this key | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
crossing every weekday. Delays and disruption were significant. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Terrible. I came down from Fife and I was stuck for about two hours. I | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
was coming from Edinburgh. I was sitting there for an hour and a | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
half. If you don't know the area, it is a nightmare. Engineers have found | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
a new defect in a steel joined under the roadway. A full inspection was | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
delayed for calm weather. It is a piece of steel that has failed an | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
important structural component, so we can't take chances with safety. | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
We took the precaution of removing the load. When one of Scotland's key | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
transport links partly closes, the impact is significant. There was | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
congestion at other bridges across the Forth, too. It has been very | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
challenging. All of the traffic went income from Flo, one lane in each | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
direction. That takes away more than half of the capacity of the bridge. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Engineers will work throughout the night on temporary repairs. | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
The bridge operators have apologised to drivers for the disruption and | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
they have thanked people who have planned their journeys carefully, | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
kept themselves abreast of a developing situation and made | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
alternative arrangements. 24 hours after the disruption began, | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
especially with concerns emerging the signalling that more problems | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
may yet come forward, people are asking how much longer this | :16:21. | :16:21. | |
disruption is going to last. Councils are to be banned | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
from cutting the length The Government is to change | :16:25. | :16:25. | |
the law to make sure primary schools are open for an average | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
of 25 hours a week. A few councils have discussed | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
cutting the time schools are open The move's been welcomed | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
by the largest teachers' union, the EIS, but the council organisation, | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
COSLA, is unhappy about the way A group of burger van owners have | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
won a legal action to overturn a ban on selling snacks to children | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
outside school gates. The business owners took North | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Lanarkshire Council to court after it set out an exclusion zone for the | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
fast-food vans near its schools. The sheriff ruled | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
the local authority does not have the power to impose this condition | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
on the licences of street traders. The Scottish Parliament is taking | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
legal advice on how to deal with independence supporters who have | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
set up camp at Holyrood. A group calling themselves | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
IndyCamp Live plan to keep vigil in the Parliament's grounds, | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
until the day Scotland declares A letter to MSPs from the | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Parliament's chief executive, Paul Grice, says the protestors do not | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
have permission to occupy the land. The Scottish winter provides | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
particular challenges to The Ambulance Service sees | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
a massive increase in emergency calls over the festive | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
period and has just brought in new winter plans that include specialist | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
teams geared to treat casualties Our reporter, Cameron Buttle, | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
is with them this evening. Well, this is one of the 450 | :17:49. | :18:04. | |
ambulances and emergency response vehicles that can be deployed across | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Scotland. That is the backbone of the Scottish ambulance response | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
winter plan for this winter, which is now operational. What about the | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
casualties in extreme conditions? That is when they will call on the | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
Special Operations Response Team. There are three of them in Scotland, | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
one in Aberdeen, one near Glasgow and one near Edinburgh. They have | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
vehicles like the Polaris Vehicle. This one can go anywhere. That is | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
what it is all about, delivering the specialist paramedic care to | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
wherever they are. They have a forward command vehicle amongst the | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
equipment here. This can be deployed to major incidents. Paramedics do | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
not use body cameras, but someone working with this vehicle can be | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
deployed inside a building and they can show a live picture straight | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
back to the Command Centre here. The cameraman Alan there. We will have a | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
quick glance inside. Robert is operational there, monitoring what | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
we are doing. As well as the live pictures, it can throw up maps or | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
aerial photographs and that can be used for briefing any of the | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
emergency services that attend a major incident. You also have an | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
incident response unit. This unit has been called out today. None of | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
the specialist equipment on board was required to be used. It's full | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
of kit like this, this is for treating multiple casualties in | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
events like a train crash or a coach crash. The SORT is one small part of | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
a large plan that is in place for this winter. Last year, we dealt | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
with 35,600 emergency calls over the festive period. What that has | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
allowed us to do is put in additional staff, put them in | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
specific areas which allows us to create capacity in the 999 emergency | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
system to deal with those calls. Ideally, nobody wants to see this | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
equipment being used so there is some advice this winter - if you | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
need medicine, make sure you have plenty of it. Look after yourself | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
and other people. If you want more advice, try the 111 phone line. | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
Thank you. A look at other stories from | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
across the country. A man swept overboard from a fishing | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
boat off Shetland in February died because the crew didn't know how to | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
rescue him, according to accident Joshua Aryeetey was wearing | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
a life jacket when he was carried The Marine Accident Investigation | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Branch says the crew had never completed a "man | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
overboard" drill and didn't know A retired couple from Gartcosh | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
in Lanarkshire had a narrow escape after a car crashed | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
into their garden this morning. before coming to | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
a halt just feet from their home. Quite a shock this morning when I | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
come out to see, especially the damage that's been done. We have | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
been very lucky. Katie Morag features | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
on this year's official Christmas Some Edinburgh schoolchildren were | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
at Bute House to re-enact the scene from the card, which also features | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
Nicola Sturgeon in a cameo role. I decided the door would be | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
half-open a bit, which would be welcoming and I found myself doing | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
this silhouette of Nicola through into the hallway of Bute House. I | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
thought I don't think she will like that. She loved it! | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
The Rangers manager Mark Warburton says he's in the "right place, | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
right now" in the face of serious interest from Fulham. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
The English Championship club are keen to make Warburton | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
their new boss, but he says such talk is "disrespectful". | :22:06. | :22:06. | |
All this as his side reopened a gap at the | :22:07. | :22:07. | |
No sooner had Mark Warburton congratulated his players on a job | :22:08. | :22:21. | |
well done, he was fending off questions about interest from | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Fulham. I think it is disrespectful to me, to Rangers, and to a club of | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
Fulham's standards, who I'm sure conduct their business in the right | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
manner. They will be disappointed to hear these rumours, as I am. . I'll | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
answer it one more time. I'm the manager of Rangers Football Club. We | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
are in a good place. I'm in the right place right now. The man on | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
the right decided the Fulham manager was no longer in the right place. He | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
needs a manager to improve on their 13th place in the Championship. A | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
run of four games without a win has left them six points outside the | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
play-off spot. No official approach has been made for Warburton, but | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
results, like last night, is why he is attracting interest. The second | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
half was more to the liking of the Rangers' support. Jason Holt's third | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
goal got them off and running. Martyn Waghorn has 19 for the | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
season, but this might have been his best. There was a third goal for | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Nathan Oduwa, but Andy Halliday completed the scoring putting | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
Rangers three points clear at the top. | :23:41. | :23:41. | |
Celtic have suspended Anthony Stokes for two weeks after he complained | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
on social media about being left out of the team. | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
The striker watched his team's win over Inverness | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
from the stand on Sunday after tweeting his frustration about being | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
forced to travel to the Highlands despite not being in the squad. | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager John Hughes says he's delighted to | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
have extended his contract by two and a half years and believes | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
Hughes did admit though that he was frustrated | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
at being denied permission to speak with Dundee United | :24:04. | :24:04. | |
when they sought a replacement for Jackie McNamara earlier this | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
Inverness Caley Thistle have retained their man. The challenge | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
for John Hughes is to try to replicate the success they enjoyed | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
last season. Hughes has committed until the summer of 2018. The | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
manager admits he thought the approach from Dundee United could | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
have been handled better. I don't know what we have done over the last | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
few years, if you could get any better. My question is, I'm saying | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
to myself, can we keep moving it forward? 1100%. One former player | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
believes with that deal agreed, the club should be aiming for top six | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
each season and that Hughes requires more funding to boost his squad. | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
They have had long-term injuries, so that is when the club have to back | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
their manager. They have given him a two-year contract. It is time for | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
them to give him the funds that he needs to improve the players that | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
they have got. There is scope to bring one or two in at Christmas | :25:17. | :25:31. | |
time. There is scope to bring Ryan Christie back. With Hughes' future | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
resolved, it seems there is plenty of other business still to be done. | :25:37. | :25:37. | |
That is tonight's sport. Thank you. Our Weather Watcher | :25:38. | :25:56. | |
captured the clear skies down in the Borders. There are a few showers | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
around at the moment. Those clear, however we hold on to a feed of | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
showers across the extreme north and north-west. Elsewhere, the winds are | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
light, the skies are clear, a widespread frost. Towns and cities, | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
temperatures around 0 to 2 Celsius, in the countryside as low as -3 or | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
-4. As you would expect, a chilly start to the day tomorrow, but | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
largely dry. We do have a line of showers drifting inland. Elsewhere, | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
dry with some early sunshine. Cloud increasing through the day. Look to | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
dry with some early sunshine. Cloud the south, we have cloud and rain | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
pushing up from England. And the exact northern extent of that rain | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
is open to some doubt so we could see the rain into the central belt | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
by mid-afternoon. It is causing a few headaches for the forecast. It | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
is one to watch. Further north, it should stay dry, but the cloud will | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
have increased compared to the morning. In the north-west, still a | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
feed of showers here. And the breeze from the west or south-west, but not | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
as strong as tonight. A chilly day for all. That rain just pivots up | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
towards Fife. Then, Friday, and all eyes on this area of deep low | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
pressure up towards Iceland, bringing us a spell of wet and windy | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
weather to end the week. We do have a Met Office yellow be aware early | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
warning in force for the strength of the wind. A milder day on Friday. | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
The wind is coming from the south-west. Rain in the north-west | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
will extend over the country by the evening. It is the wind that is of | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
note. And by evening, gusts of around 60mph for the central belt. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
If you would like to be a Weather Watcher, all the details are online. | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news: | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
In a ten-hour Commons debate on Britain bombing Syria, David Cameron | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
has told MPs that the action will keep the British people safe. The | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
Labour Leader said it would increase the short-term risk of terrorist | :27:58. | :28:08. | |
attacks on Britain. The SNP MP John Nichol son is on his feet now. | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8.00pm and the late bulletin | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - right across the | :28:14. | :28:17. |