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Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: Engineers explain their plan | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
to repair the Forth Road Bridge, as ministers defend | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Calls for pedestrians to be protected from lorries in town | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
centres, in the wake of the Glasgow bin lorry crash. | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
You get no they are there. They are just reversing willy-nilly. | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
Also on the programme: Six incidents of knives being brought to school | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
in Aberdeenshire and Moray, since the stabbing of a boy | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
We'll have the latest from Istanbul as Celtic face Fenerbahce. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
And, the rather messy north-east tradition of "blackening" a bride | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Engineers at the Forth Road Bridge have given details of how they plan | :00:50. | :01:13. | |
to fix the section that cracked, leading to its closure. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
They say they're hopeful it will open again by | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Meanwhile, the First Minister has been defending the handling | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
of the closure, saying the fault couldn't have | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
Opposition parties accused the government of being more | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
interested in cost cutting than maintenance. | :01:29. | :01:29. | |
On a blustery December morning, a quick chat with the Transport | :01:30. | :01:44. | |
Minister be for another shift on the Forth Road Bridge. While others | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
demand to know why and when, engineers have been asking each | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
other how, how do they make this massive structure safe to carry | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
traffic once again. The solution is to strengthen the area using huge | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
splints, Jack up the cracked beam and use steel plates to secure the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
repair, a process repeated in seven other problem areas. The actual | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
engineering solution you could argue is not that complicated, but | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
sometimes that is the best way, not to overcomplicate things. The | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
biggest challenge is gaining access to it, and obviously the prevailing | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
weather conditions. It is really difficult to gain access to this | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
area. So they have had to be resourceful. A floating barge | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
carrying an inspection platform was on the water this afternoon. A 50 | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
metre scaffold is taking shape. All the while, a camera keeps a constant | :02:41. | :02:52. | |
eye on the problem from above. The Transport Minister insists the New | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
Year deadline still stands. He is also being bullish after being | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
accused of misleading Parliament about past maintenance of the | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
bridge. No one has been misled by me. I am working incredibly hard to | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
ensure we mobilise every effort to get the bridge reopened. I have made | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
myself accountable and transparent and I will continue to do that. But | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
the row rumbled on at Holyrood, Labour accusing ministers of | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
sanctioning a big cut in spending on repairs. Short-term decisions made | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
at the expense of the long-term future of an important national | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
asset. We have budgets cuts, privatisation of services and | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
cancelled repairs. The opposition criticism of the Scottish government | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
appears to be that five years ago, a body which took decisions | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
independent of the Scottish government, decided not to fix a | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
part of the bridge that was not broken. We might not have had a | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
crystal ball to tell us five years ago that something would become | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
broken five years in the future, but we did have the foresight to know | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
that an ageing structure did need replaced. More than 100 engineers | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
and tradesmen are now working on this project. Their success -- its | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
success is in their hands but they will need some help from mother | :04:07. | :04:07. | |
nature. More needs to be done to protect | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
pedestrians from large vehicles That's according to the Living | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Streets Scotland charity, who're calling for lower speed | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
limits and restrictions on lorries entering shopping areas | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
at busy times. They say lessons still need to be | :04:18. | :04:18. | |
learned, after last year's bin lorry crash in Glasgow in | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
which six people died. Glasgow's city centre today, busy | :04:22. | :04:36. | |
with shoppers and the vans and lorries needed to keep the shelves | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
stocked. Understandably, after last December's tragic crash in the city, | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
safety is a big concern for people. Especially in the present, there are | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
a lot of fans come up and down them. You don't know they are there. You | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
hear beep, beep, beep, and nobody is You don't know they are there. You | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
showing them where to go, it is just willy-nilly. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
I have not seen a lot of heavy lorries in this kind of area but I | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
don't think it should be in this kind of area when there are so many | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
people trying to cross roads and things like that. I think they have | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
to address the issue about how the beer calls get into empty the bins | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
and do the deliveries. Bin lorries still use the same city | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
centre route that it did on the day that a lorry ran out of control and | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
killed pedestrians. Glasgow city councillors say that on the day of | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
the anniversary later this month, that large refuse lorries do avoid | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
the rate. They understand that people may wish to return to the | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
scene of the crash to pay their respects. The city council say they | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
will implement recommendations from the recent enquiry to take into | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
account the number of pedestrians on these routes. But the issue of | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
lorries in our city centres according to the Living Streets | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
campaign should be addressed in all city centres. You have lanes with a | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
lot of delivery vehicles coming through, with some restrictions in | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
place which are not always adhered to, that is an obvious one to | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
review. Hauliers say they are happy to discuss best practice but they | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
have to be able to deliver. We have to go into the town centres and | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
not allowed to go in when it gets not allowed to go in when it gets | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
busy, maybe from ten o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
afternoon, but at the end of the morning until four o'clock in the | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
day, we have a job to do and we have to do it. Living Streets say a | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
review will now be discussed. Six incidents involving knives have | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
been reported at different secondary schools in Aberdeenshire | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
and Moray in the past month. Education officials have written | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
to reassure parents about safety. It follows the death of 16-year-old | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
Bailey Gwynne in a stabbing incident at Cults Academy in | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Aberdeen in October. Our reporter John McManus is outside | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
one of the schools involved. Yes, I think it is there to say that | :07:03. | :07:15. | |
many parents may be worried when these letters land on their | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
doormats. They have been issued because Police Scotland say that | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
have been six incidents over the past month where knives were | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
recovered from pupils in secondary schools. The police say that nobody | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
was injured, but they are keen to reiterate that carrying knives or | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
any other potential weapons into schools is an offence, and they will | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
act. This evening, Maria Walker who is director of education for | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
Aberdeen Council said safety is her first priority. It is real important | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
that we don't blame each other, we did try and victimise or make things | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
more difficult, that we all work together. There are reasons for | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
these things happening. Sometimes we don't understand them too well but | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
there are reasons. If we work together, that is the best way to | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
address issues. This comes after the tragic events at Cults Academy in | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
October? That is right. 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne was stab at Cults | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
Academy. A boy has been charged with his murder. Aberdeen Council say | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
that is nothing to do with incidents over the past month but they do say | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
bullying might be involved in all of this and they will start going into | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Aberdeenshire schools to talk to pupils about that, and about the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
dangers of carrying knives and the dangers that can get pupils and two. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
There are 30,000 pupils in Aberdeenshire, so it is a fairly big | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
undertaking, but the council are determined to nip this problem in | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
the bud before it grows any bigger. Thank you. | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :09:03. | :09:03. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: A deadly fascination - | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
the story of how contagious diseases affected our ancestors. | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
In sport, we'll have the latest on Celtic's last European match | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
They've already kicked off in Istanbul against Fenerbahce | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
And the Rangers manager tells us why he's not a fan of the plans | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is in Glasgow tonight to speak | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
at a STUC rally against the UK government's plans to reform | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
The First Minister is also speaking and our reporter | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Well, in a few short months, Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn will be | :09:34. | :09:50. | |
going head-to-head in the Scottish Parliament elections. Not tonight | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
though. They are both attending this STUC rally in Glasgow, both united | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
in their opposition to the UK government's trade union Bill. | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
Westminster ministers say these trade union reform laws are needed, | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
to four example, introduce extra requirements when workers and unions | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
want to ballot for strike action. Jeremy Corbyn, as you would expect, | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
has described those reforms as Draconian and counter-productive. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Nicola Sturgeon has said these reforms are so universally unpopular | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
in Scotland that they are not wanted here at all. I think given tonight's | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
audience, I think both those messages will go down pretty well. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
The Scottish government has attempted to stop the bill being | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
enacted in Scotland? That is right. Earlier this week, the Scottish | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
government made a request for what is known as a legislative consent | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
memorandum. What they wanted to do was to get Holyrood to have a vote | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
to block the implementation of the trade union Bill in Scotland, if and | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
when it is passed by the Westminster government. Today, the presiding | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
officer of the Scottish Parliament came back and told SNP ministers | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
that would not happen. Even so, the Scottish government say there are | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
still a few more avenues they can go down, even if that line of attack | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
does not work for them. At the very least it has allowed them to get | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
their grievances of the trade union Bill another airing. Thank you. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
A new helpline is about to go live, after a spate of suicide deaths | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Mikey's Line is a text service run by young volunteers for youngsters | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
It's been established in Inverness after the sudden deaths | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
You can see Michael there and Martin. They have known each other | :11:40. | :11:54. | |
since school. Happy memories of school pals, Michael Williamson and | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Martin Shaw, who died within days of each other in October. While | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
outgoing in public, their friend Jamie Lynn knows only too well how | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
they suffered in private. She has battled depression herself since the | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
age of 12. There has not been enough support in the North of Scotland for | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
young people who want to take their life or don't know how to cope with | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
how they are feeling. The sudden deaths of the pair who worked | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
locally sparked a huge outpouring of grief among family and their large | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
group of friends. It has led to the launch of a text helpline which will | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
be run by young people for young people who are too distressed to | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
talk. It is very important because there is nothing in Inverness for | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
young men to turn to. Young men do not want to talk about issues so | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
having the text line I think would be a lot better for them. The | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the UK, | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
particularly among young men. The Read relatives have joined forces | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
with the boys' friends, to promote the text messaging service, which | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
they believe young mobile phone users will feel more comfortable | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
using. I am hoping that the people who think they are alone, don't know | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
that the girl on the corner desk, or the guy in the pub cracking jokes, | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
they do not know that they are also suffering. I think we are getting it | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
out that there are other people their age who can talk to them and | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
give them advice. If you don't try, you don't know. If it can help just | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
one person then it has been a success. It is hoped that Mikey's | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Line will complement the work of charities like the Samaritans, as | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
well as becoming a fitting tribute to the popular Inverness youngsters | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
whose lives were cut tragically short. | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
From next month police are updating a scheme that will enable them | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
to deal with some low level crimes with an on-the-spot | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
This means that police officers will use their discretion to assess | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
whether a recorded warning should be issued on the spot, | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
or if a report should be made to the procurator fiscal. | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
It won't apply serious crime, such as violence. | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
A look at other stories from across the country. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
Passengers using the Caledonian sleeper from Fort William will be | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
forced to eat take a bus to and from Oban first for three weekends from | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
February. It is because of planned engineering works. The operator said | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
it would test customer appetite as they consider the potential | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
expansion of the sleeper route in the future. | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
A huge new floating production vessel has started its journey from | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
a shipyard in South Korea towards the west of Shetland. The Glen lion | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
will become part of the redevelopment of oilfields. It is a | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
joint-venture among BP, Shell and OMC. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
The SNP is calling on the UK government to guarantee a slots from | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Scotland to London, as part of the review for airport capacity in the | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
south-east of England. A UK ministerial committee meets tonight | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
to discuss plans to build a third runway at Heathrow. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Holyrood could be heading for another vote on Edinburgh's trams. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Compulsory purchase rights for the grant and spur expire within less | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
than six months, but the council is preparing to abandon its right to | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
requisition land in order to complete the troubled transport | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
scheme. It will require an act of Parliament or ministers to reinstate | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
it if the land is not bought by May. The final section of the new Royal | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Navy aircraft carriers have started its journey from Glasgow to Rosyth. | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
BAE Systems said the delivery was ten weeks ahead of schedule. HMS | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are claimed to be the largest | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
and most advanced warships ever bought by the UK. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
The plague, Black Death, smallpox, just a few of the diseases our | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Now an exhibition at the National Library of Scotland | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
is set to tell the story of how contagious diseases wiped out | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
families, provoked calls for a national fast, | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
and led to state-sanctioned executions. | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
It's not a site you would want at your door back in the 17th century. | :16:25. | :16:40. | |
The plague doctor would only ever be greeted with fear. Ravens warded off | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
evil, but inside are stuffed with herbs and spices and things like | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
that so you can't smell the victims. This new exhibition documents the | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
history of contagious diseases over the last 700 years. The biggest | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
killer and of the most feared was of course the plague. They went around | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
in grey cloaks with a white cross on the front and back and stick with a | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
white cross and they were policing households to see if anybody | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
harboured plague victims and it could be a child, a spouse, your | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
mother. If they found any victims that had not been reported, the rest | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
of the people in the house would be taken away, the women were drowned | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
and the men were hung. Nasty stuff. Then there was syphilis or leprosy | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
and the deadly smallpox. This was the sort of place where disease | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
would spread rapidly, the closest of Edinburgh's old town. The men, raw | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
sewage, overcrowding, but it was not here that the last case of the | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
plague was recorded in Scotland. In 1900, infected rats on boats brought | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
the plague to the Clyde, killing 16 people. The exhibition shows how we | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
coped with deadly diseases. I hope you are enjoying your T! | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
Now the latest from Istanbul where Celtic are playing Fenerbahce | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Even if the Scottish champions win, they can't go through to the next | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
round, but it's half time so let's find out how they're getting | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Fortune has eluded Celtic in Europe this season. Bottom of the group, | :18:31. | :18:43. | |
belief has been shaken. Fenerbahce come in need of victory to guarantee | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
qualification, Craig Gordon at full stretch to keep out men at top | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
welcome with a little help from the post. Only pride at stake for Celtic | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
in the hostile atmosphere of the stadium in Istanbul. The Turks | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
dominated the early stages, stretching Celtic, but the Scottish | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
champions held firm. Leigh Griffiths was left out and there was a chance | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
for Nadir Ciftci but he failed to take it. Diego Godin most took his | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
chance from long range for Fenerbahce, aching Craig Gordon | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
scramble but Celtic survive -- making. But things were about to get | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
worse for Celtic as Fenerbahce took the lead, Lazar Markovic putting | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
them in front after a mistake from Gordon. | :19:34. | :19:34. | |
Sports Direct have failed in a bid to have Rangers chairman Dave King | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
jailed for breaching a gagging order. | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
Sports Direct, which is owned by Rangers shareholder Mike Ashley, | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
argued that Mr King, on the right here, had breached | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
an injunction banning anyone at Rangers from revealing details | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
But a judge at London's Royal Courts of Justice ruled no | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
The Rangers manager, Mark Warburton, is criticising the SPFL's shake up | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
He says it doesn't suit clubs like his. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Meanwhile, Aberdeen's Derek McInnes welcomed the competition's | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
new format but wants an even longer winter break. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
The Rangers assistant manager David Weir at training today. His club | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
have won the Scottish League Cup more than any other. He lifted it as | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
captain in 2010. The SPFL are reformatting the competition to make | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
it more exciting. The changes include... Starting in July when the | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
group matches will be played although teams in Uefa qualifiers | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
will be exempt. The Rangers manager is not a fan. He would rather be | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
playing pre-season friendlies against English or continental | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
opposition at that time. I'm not sure it suits the bigger clubs. To | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
have a pre-season programme when your last two games could be against | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
lower league opposition, I don't think that ideal, not for that | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
level. This elite level manager was a cup winner with Aberdeen a couple | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
of seasons ago and he welcomed the changes but, although the earlier | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
start to the season makes space for a two weekend winter break in | :21:21. | :21:21. | |
start to the season makes space for January, he said it's not long | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
enough. If you're going to do it, it has to be three or four weeks. Maybe | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
that is something to work towards. In terms of the League Cup we try | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
something different and hopefully we get a bit from it. Ranges tried | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
something a bit different today, they trained indoors to avoid the | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
wintry weather. Scottish Rugby's chief executive, | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Mark Dodson, says he's delighted Gregor Townsend has extended his | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
contract as Glasgow Warriors head coach, claiming he's created | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
"a winning culture". has been with Glasgow since 2012, | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
and has agreed to stay Hen and stag parties | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
are as popular as ever, but how many of us know | :22:02. | :22:23. | |
about "blackenings"? The pre-wedding tradition, | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
which sees the bride and groom covered in food, flour and feathers, | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
is the focus of a research project It is a bizarre and rather messy | :22:28. | :22:40. | |
tradition. The blackening sees the bride or groom captured by friends | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
and family, covered in it concoction of smelly substances and paraded | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
through the streets. If you had no knowledge whatsoever of a blackening | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
and you chanced upon one on the village green, you would honestly | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
think it was some form of medieval punishment. It is a regional | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
tradition still seen in the north-east of Scotland and in the | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
Highlands and Islands but it is also a family one. My mum and dad had | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
coal dust, you could see in the photograph they were completely | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
black with coal. Mine was cocoa powder and water. They came armed | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
with buckets of this, mixed up into a slurry and they took me into the | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
back garden and started a slurry and they took me into the | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
one of three generations of women to be blackened in her family. I think | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
I would have been a bit miffed if I hadn't been blackened. The way it | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
was sold to me by my mum was that it was almost like a ritual which | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
showed you were part of your community. So it is perhaps not as | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
harsh as it appears, and some B but actually enjoy the experience. But | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
We have seen does it have a future in modern 's | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
We have seen the popularity of the hen party and | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
it made me wonder if the blackening would die out because of this will | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
stop actually, I have found that it hasn't. People are embracing both | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
rituals. It's safe to say that stag and hen dos are becoming bigger and | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
more extravagant than ever before at this research suggests that in some | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
communities, the this research suggests that in some | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
seen as a rite of passage. Now here's Andrew Kerr | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
with details of Scotland 2015. The First Minister and Jeremy Corbyn | :24:34. | :24:43. | |
are sharing a platform to protest against controversial Conservative | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
are sharing a platform to protest trade union reforms. But | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
are sharing a platform to protest protect people who use public | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
services? That is Scotland 2015 tonight at 1030 B on BBC Two. | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
Let's see what's happening with the weather tonight. | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
Some had some sunshine but there have also been some wintry showers. | :25:01. | :25:16. | |
This beautiful scene in Perthshire, some snow over the roofs. And some | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
hail in these showers, across that they get closer look. | :25:19. | :26:04. | |
Themselves off as the winds are like that but still. Six of the | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
filthiest. Tomorrow evening, these showers. | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
Wait. There are some warnings out in | :26:18. | :26:38. | |
northern England. For us, we're not in warning territory, but there is | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
some uncertainty how far north this will likely go. | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
We may see some showery rain or snow perhaps, even perhaps some sleet | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
conditions in lower levels. Elsewhere, dry, but a cold one of | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
three or 4 degrees. It is a cold day in store. There will be some | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
sunshine, so quite unsettled for the weekend. | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
Now a reminder of tonight's main news. | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
Engineers at the Forth Road Bridge have given details of how they plan | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
to fix the section that cracked, leading to its closure. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
They say they're hopeful it will open again by the end | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
Meanwhile the First Minister has been defending the handling | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
of the closure, saying the fault couldn't have | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
David Cameron has been in Poland to discuss his plans to change | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
benefit rules for migrants coming to work in the UK. | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
After the talks, the Polish Prime Minister said she didn't "see eye | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
to eye" with Mr Cameron over the proposals. | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm and the late bulletin just | :27:45. | :27:48. |