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Shopping centres across Scotland are busy with last minute shoppers | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
out in force looking for that final Christmas present. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Retailers are hoping last minute discounting will keep the tills | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
It's the biggest shopping centre in the city here, and like many across | :00:17. | :00:35. | |
Scotland, busy today with shoppers looking for that last-minute | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
present. What kind of season have they had? Malcolm is the centre | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
manager. A good few weeks? Definitely, the last four with -- | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
weeks have been very busy. Yesterday we had 62,000 people through the | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
doors. The retainers so far have had a successful Christmas, and said -- | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
fingers crossed. -- retailers. I guess post will be people trying | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
to get that last-minute present. -- there will be. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Yes, shall we say the male population running about? | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
But you are determined to get the doors shut at five o'clock? | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Yes, there is one retailer open until 6pm, which is Debenhams, most | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
others will be closing at 5pm. Thank you, Merry Christmas to you | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
and your staff. But worry, you can start shopping | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
all over again on Boxing Day. -- don't worry. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
The Church of Scotland and the Church of England are making | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
It recognises the two churches' constitutional responsibilities | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
in the UK and will be debated by the Kirk's ruling body next year, | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
They may have their differences, but the Church of Scotland and Church of | :01:51. | :02:02. | |
England also have much in common. So now they have decided on a joint | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
approach, setting out for the first time an historic agreement to work | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
together. The declaration commits the churches | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
to grow together, while addressing more immediate issues like falling | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
congregations. And in the post-independence | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
referendum world, both churches are also aware of the impact brought by | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
constitutional change. It is important that the churches in | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Scotland and in England are sharing with each other, are communicating | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
across the border, and affirming what we hold in common, which is our | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
common faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, which especially at this | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
Christmas time is where our focus is. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Although this historic agreement has now been published, it is still only | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
at the start of its journey. It still needs to be discussed by the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
ruling bodies of both churches, and that will not happen again -- until | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
next year. But the most in group -- important agreement to work together | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
as already been reached. -- has already been reached. | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
Police are investigating a report of gunfire in an Aberdeen street | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
Officers were called to the city's Northfield area around half | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
The road was closed off for six hours, and an area remains cordoned | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Police say no-one was injured and enquiries are at an early stage. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
A homeless charity in Aberdeen has seen the number of people it's | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
supporting more than double in the last year. | :03:28. | :03:28. | |
Up to 50 people per day are seeking help from The Cyrenians | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
after finding themselves sleeping rough, having trouble paying bills | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
Oil workers who've lost their jobs are among those | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
We are seeing now people who perhaps had redundancies, exhausted those, | :03:38. | :03:50. | |
unable to find any comparable work, and are now really, really | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
struggling. Justin Bieber and the NHS Choir | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
are battling for the Christmas But back in 1985 it was Shakin' | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
Stevens with Merry Christmas It was composed by Bob | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Heatlie from Edinburgh - and he's been speaking | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
to our reporter, Catriona Renton. Title-macro hit the top spot in | :04:06. | :04:21. | |
1985. 30 years later it is still making money. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
# Merry Christmas Everyone. 30 years later, it is still making money for | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
Bob Heatlie. It is a nice little pension. Not an | :04:30. | :04:43. | |
awful lot of money now, because it must have been sold many times on | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
many compilation albums, so gradually it will go downhill, and | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
people like bootlegging these days! Last year Bob made around ?6,000 | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
from the hip, but it is not just about the money. From the -- from | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
the single. I have always thought it would be | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
nice to have a big Christmas hit that becomes an evergreen, but I | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
never thought it would happen. So how do you write the perfect | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Christmas some? The lyrics, you have no choice with | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
a Christmas song. It was basically meant to be a Christmas party song. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Whenever I have seen it played in clubs and things, people get up and | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
start dancing. Just a good time Christmas song. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Now let's get the Christmas weather outlook from Anne Lundon. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Good afternoon. The worst of the winds now have passed, as Storm Eva | :05:37. | :05:46. | |
made her presence known particularly for the far north and North West, | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
but still some blustery conditions to contend with. Here is the early | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
hour radar picture, some blame to contend with this morning, some of | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
it heavily, pulling away into the North Sea during the course of the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
morning. The hide it, some dry spells and blustery showers. That is | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
set to continue for the rest of this afternoon. -- hide it. Some wintry | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
showers on higher ground for parts of this -- Highlands and the South | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
East. The butchers reaching six or seven Celsius. | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
For the rest of the afternoon and evening we are hanging onto these | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
blustery showers, falling as snow on high-level routes in parts of the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Highlands, and on Christmas Day itself we are seeing this weather | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
front making inroads, which will be affecting us later on Christmas Day | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
into the South West. But for a large part of the day plenty of dry | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
weather to be had, some showers around for parts of the North before | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
the rain eventually begins to make written -- inroads into the South | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
West. We have a Met Office "Be aware" warning to accommodate that | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
rain. Maybe not a white Christmas then. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
The next programme is at 6:30pm. | :07:00. | :07:03. |