:00:14. > :00:16.blow, with the announcement that BP is to cut a fifth of its
:00:17. > :00:21.The company says it's having to lose 600 posts because of the impact
:00:22. > :00:23.of the recent plunge in the oil price.
:00:24. > :00:39.In the past 50 years we have grown from an office of
:00:40. > :00:45.In the past 50 years we have grown 4000 false up BP is still a big
:00:46. > :00:49.player in the North Sea. --. BP is still a big player in the North Sea.
:00:50. > :00:54.They insist it will be there for the future. But today workers in
:00:55. > :00:59.Aberdeen are briefed on a new round of job cuts in all operations, staff
:01:00. > :01:02.and contractors will lose their jobs by the end of next year. BP would
:01:03. > :01:09.not speak publicly. The industry body said companies, like
:01:10. > :01:13.not speak publicly. The industry are cutting back cloth to market
:01:14. > :01:18.conditions. It is clearly a personal shock for all those involved. What
:01:19. > :01:21.is does is reflect the choices many are making across the sector in
:01:22. > :01:26.response to a dramatic fall in prices in the last year. The fall in
:01:27. > :01:31.oil prices is great news for filling up but not for a company like BP
:01:32. > :01:36.trying to make a profit or break even on a barrel of oil. The
:01:37. > :01:42.business of oil is political and economic. It is also important to
:01:43. > :01:50.note and welcome the BP continued commitment to the North Sea. They
:01:51. > :01:52.have reiterated today the investment plans in capital investment and
:01:53. > :01:57.operational investment in the North Sea this year and they have said
:01:58. > :02:01.they see a long-term future for its business in the North Sea. We need
:02:02. > :02:04.to continue to work with the industry as the Chancellor has done
:02:05. > :02:12.to make the North Sea as attractive a prospect as Rosenborg to carry on
:02:13. > :02:16.investment. BP will invest 4 billion dollars in this year in the North
:02:17. > :02:19.Sea and insist it is still very much part of its long-term future plans.
:02:20. > :02:22.The Scottish serial killer Robert Black, who was serving a life
:02:23. > :02:24.sentence for the murders of four children from across the UK
:02:25. > :02:27.in the 1980s, has died of natural causes in prison in Northern
:02:28. > :02:41.Robert Black was born in Grangemouth and as was serving 12 live sentences
:02:42. > :02:47.for murdering a four schoolgirls between 1981 and 1986. He uses job
:02:48. > :02:52.as a delivery driver to abduct and kill them. The victims were
:02:53. > :02:58.nine-year-old Jennifer khadi from Northern Ireland, killed in 1981. In
:02:59. > :03:02.1982 he killed seven Maxwell from Northumberland after snatching her
:03:03. > :03:08.in the Scottish Borders. -- seven-year-old. Caroline Hogg
:03:09. > :03:12.disappeared from her home in Portobello near Edinburgh and was
:03:13. > :03:18.later found dead in Leicestershire. He adopted Sarah Harper from Leeds
:03:19. > :03:23.in 1986. He was eventually arrested in 1990 when police stopped his van
:03:24. > :03:27.and found another victim, a six-year-old girl bound and gagged
:03:28. > :03:31.in the back of his vehicle. The child had been kidnapped at a
:03:32. > :03:38.village show in the Borders. He was convicted for the murders of Susan,
:03:39. > :03:43.Caroline and Sarah in 1994. He was convicted of Jennifer's murder in
:03:44. > :03:47.2011. The Department of Justice have confirmed a 68-year-old prisoner has
:03:48. > :03:51.died at the prison. The death is not being treated as suspicious. He was
:03:52. > :03:56.also considered a suspect by police in the unsolved murders and
:03:57. > :04:02.disappearances of at least two others, including Jeanette Tait from
:04:03. > :04:05.Devon, who died in 1978. In 2005 he was arrested in connection with that
:04:06. > :04:09.but there was not enough evidence to prosecute.
:04:10. > :04:11.Travellers at one of Scotland's railway busiest stations are facing
:04:12. > :04:14.The main tunnel serving Glasgow's Queen Street station
:04:15. > :04:17.is to close for 20 weeks from March until August while the
:04:18. > :04:35.A view things can get the travellers more annoyed than disruption on the
:04:36. > :04:38.trains. -- a few things. It is one of the busiest stations. Tens of
:04:39. > :04:44.thousands of people use it daily. Today was the news the tunnel would
:04:45. > :04:48.be closing for 20 weeks between March the 20th and the 8th of
:04:49. > :04:54.August. All the trains here on the high level will be diverted to the
:04:55. > :05:00.low-level and all services, some others, they will be diverted to
:05:01. > :05:04.Glasgow Central. That'll mean changes to timetables and longer
:05:05. > :05:07.journey time. For an example, customers travelling from Edinburgh
:05:08. > :05:13.to Glasgow face journeys of 70 minutes. This is about improving
:05:14. > :05:17.services and working on the tunnel to make them better. I have spoken
:05:18. > :05:24.to the boss of ScotRail. He said it would all be worth it in the end. We
:05:25. > :05:30.are equipping it with capacity to take electric trains. It has a real
:05:31. > :05:34.benefit for customers. When we have electric trains on the central belt,
:05:35. > :05:39.journey times will be about ten minutes faster. About 45% faster
:05:40. > :05:44.between Edinburgh and Glasgow and 30% more capacity. I spoke to some
:05:45. > :05:50.commuters earlier and they are not thrilled with what lies ahead. The
:05:51. > :05:54.rail company have started a big public information campaign handing
:05:55. > :05:58.out leaflets here today and posting the information on the changes
:05:59. > :06:04.online. The main message from ScotRail is that it is open for
:06:05. > :06:07.business as usual in this period of disruption but it might take a
:06:08. > :06:11.little bit longer to get where you are going.
:06:12. > :06:14.The transport minister is urging all local authorities to carry out
:06:15. > :06:16.roadside emissions testing to try to reduce air pollution
:06:17. > :06:19.It follows a BBC Scotland investigation which showed that less
:06:20. > :06:22.than half of the country's councils are using their powers designed
:06:23. > :06:27.to take the dirtiest vehicles off the roads.
:06:28. > :06:30.The Director General of the BBC, Tony Hall, has promised "more power"
:06:31. > :06:32.for BBC Scotland to control its future.
:06:33. > :06:35.Giving evidence to MSPs, he stressed he was keen to see
:06:36. > :06:37.a vibrant BBC Scotland contributing to wider output.
:06:38. > :06:39.But he faced sceptical questions over funding and accountability.
:06:40. > :06:53.This from our Political Editor, Brian Taylor.
:06:54. > :07:02.Programmes for Scotland, like River city, means Scottish investment and
:07:03. > :07:08.jobs. But how about this? Waterloo Road, transferred from Rochdale. It
:07:09. > :07:14.became a Scottish show and critics called it left and ship. Programmes
:07:15. > :07:19.with little authentic basis in Scotland. -- lift and shift.
:07:20. > :07:25.Evidence was given as part of a review of the BBC charter here. In
:07:26. > :07:31.2014-15 the licence fee raised 323 million in Scotland. TV, radio and
:07:32. > :07:39.other output in Scotland cost 108.2 million. Programme for the network
:07:40. > :07:44.made in Scotland cost 82.3 million. Leaving ?132.5 million contributing
:07:45. > :07:50.to other UK programmes and services available to Scotland. The BBC
:07:51. > :07:53.managers were questioned closely on the notion of new Scottish
:07:54. > :07:57.television and radio channels. MS peas were told they were only
:07:58. > :08:03.early-stage options later overtaken. -- members. One of the options we
:08:04. > :08:09.looked at were whether we should have a second service on Radio
:08:10. > :08:12.Scotland, what was the balance of advantage of a radio service against
:08:13. > :08:16.a television service and how you got to the various audiences. The
:08:17. > :08:19.director-general said a review of commissioning could help Scottish
:08:20. > :08:26.shows make the network and a review of news would reflect the change in
:08:27. > :08:31.UK and maybe involve a Scottish six, a television programme with
:08:32. > :08:35.Scottish, UK and global news. I want the director for Scotland to have
:08:36. > :08:40.more power to decide the services the people of Scotland want for
:08:41. > :08:42.Scotland. I also want the director to have a powerful voice in
:08:43. > :08:47.determining what the BBC does as a whole. The culture Secretary welcome
:08:48. > :08:52.these reviews but wanted to go further. I think it is time for BBC
:08:53. > :08:58.Scotland to be empowered and resource to be bold and creative for
:08:59. > :09:01.Scotland. The government is proposing a federalised BBC allowing
:09:02. > :09:09.BBC Scotland is to control decision-making in Scotland and I
:09:10. > :09:12.stress, independent of government. There was close questioning but also
:09:13. > :09:20.potential consensus. I think the committee on to Mutley wanted a
:09:21. > :09:23.positive note, urging the BBC -- the committee wanted a positive note,
:09:24. > :09:26.urging the BBC to transfer powers to Scotland. The BBC are being urged to
:09:27. > :09:30.act. Now, of all the tributes made
:09:31. > :09:33.after the news of David Bowie's death, one made in Glasgow seems
:09:34. > :09:36.to have captured the imagination. It came from the organist
:09:37. > :09:38.at Kelvingrove Art Gallery, who broke away from his usual
:09:39. > :09:41.repertoire and played Life on Mars. It was filmed on a mobile phone
:09:42. > :09:57.and so far it's been viewed by more I was not having a great day. When
:09:58. > :10:00.that happens I usually take myself off here. I wandered around and that
:10:01. > :10:14.is when the organ music started. MUSIC: Life On Mars... I knew I was
:10:15. > :10:25.listening to something very special. Then I brought my phone out and I
:10:26. > :10:27.filmed it. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I immediately
:10:28. > :10:48.loaded it up onto my Facebook. MUSIC: Life On Mars... The reaction
:10:49. > :10:53.I have had from people all over the world on private messages were
:10:54. > :11:06.saying how touched they were. I feel so pleased and proud to be part of
:11:07. > :11:10.it. The crescendo at the end... Just brilliant. I think David Bowie would
:11:11. > :11:23.be very pleased with that. Fitting indeed. Now the weather. It
:11:24. > :11:27.is a cold and frosty night with clearing skies. Captured nicely
:11:28. > :11:32.earlier on looking across the river by one weather watcher. As they
:11:33. > :11:38.continue clearing the temperature will plummet. Still a view shell is
:11:39. > :11:43.holding on. The Met office has issued a be aware warning. Anywhere
:11:44. > :11:48.across the mainland. It will be cold across the UK. Towns and cities in
:11:49. > :11:55.low single digits. In the countryside, colder. Central
:11:56. > :11:58.Highlands, -5, minus six. A cold start tomorrow. Frosty with some
:11:59. > :12:03.showers, largely dry but actually really quite sunny. The clearance of
:12:04. > :12:08.the skies will take a while. At six o'clock you might not clear the
:12:09. > :12:14.windscreen but buys nine o'clock, more than likely. -- by nine
:12:15. > :12:18.o'clock. A windy start in Orkney and Shetland. Pretty wet in Shetland and
:12:19. > :12:23.staying that way for most of Wednesday. For most of the mainland,
:12:24. > :12:26.plenty of sunshine, just a little fly in the ointment in the
:12:27. > :12:29.south-west, clouding over with outbreaks of rain. Connected with
:12:30. > :12:34.this weather system just across these coastal paths, particularly
:12:35. > :12:38.through Wales, down Devon and Cornwall and Northern Ireland. A
:12:39. > :12:42.cold day in Scotland but interesting heading into Wednesday evening. This
:12:43. > :12:46.system sweeping its way and bringing outbreaks of rain and potentially
:12:47. > :12:53.snow not only to the hills but low levels as well. The northern extent,
:12:54. > :12:56.open to sundown. We are watching it closely. Maybe some centimetres.
:12:57. > :13:02.Southern parts, yes. You will see snow. Low-pressure clearing away.
:13:03. > :13:06.High-pressure edging in. Dry and finance sunshine and fairly cold
:13:07. > :13:11.northerly winds writhing in showers and once again, wintry and low
:13:12. > :13:15.levels and quite fast across the mainland. End of the week, Friday,
:13:16. > :13:19.Saturday, finally clearing, high-pressure building and a lot of
:13:20. > :13:21.dry conditions, sunshine, but it will be cold. That is the forecast
:13:22. > :13:23.for now. Our next update is during Breakfast
:13:24. > :13:28.at 6:25 tomorrow morning. But from everyone on the late team
:13:29. > :13:31.here in Glasgow, good night.