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A 26 mother has been convicted as being a member of Islamic State. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Gale force winds and torrential rain cause travel disruption, | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
damage buildings and bring down power lines. | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
Shetland takes a battering, as 100mph winds whip | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
I am at Scotland's traffic control centre, where they are keeping a | :00:17. | :00:31. | |
close eye on the roads as more bad weather approaches. | :00:32. | :00:31. | |
The family of a Fife woman who died in Israel | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
in suspicious circumstances demand answers from authorities | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
Andy Murray is through to his fifth Australian Open tennis final. | :00:37. | :00:49. | |
And Scottish skiers are heading to the Alps- | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
and dominating Team GB's line-up at the Special Olympics. | :00:52. | :01:08. | |
Storm Gertrude has battered much of the country. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
From Shetland to Saltcoats, storm-force winds and heavy rain | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
have caused transport disruption and damage to property. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Dozens of schools were closed and thousands of homes | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
The country woke up to a battering as Storm Gertrude made her presence | :01:23. | :01:38. | |
felt. But the force of the winds didn't put some of. Cyclists and | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
joggers were undeterred in Glasgow. How is your cycle to work? I am | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
coping really well, despite the strong winds. You are committed! Not | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
really, mad! But others found the walk to work a struggle. And | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
diversions made the commute even more miserable. Across the country, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
there was travel disruption. The Forth Road Bridge was travelled all | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
more -- shuttle morning. In Orkney, it was to story for these ferries to | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
break the journey and then overturn lorry caused delays on the M nine | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
motorway and it was a big operation to raise this lorry on the a 96. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Throughout the day, people have a working to get train services back | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
to normal but when I was there at rush hour, it was a different | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
picture. At this time of the morning, you would expect the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
station to be far busier than it is and that is because trains are | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
cancelled on the West Highland line, so you can't get to open or Fort | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
William. If you are trying to go to Inverness, you can get as far as | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Perth before the services are cancelled, and the usual 15 minute | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Glasgow to Edinburgh train is running every half an hour. Outside | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Central Station, taxes picked up people who were running late. Only | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
from Paisley but it has taken me almost twice as long as it normally | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
would, so not ideal. We are in a taxi this morning, normally there is | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
a queue, but nobody is about this morning. Are you laid? Yes. At the | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
height of the storm, 12,000 people were without power. On the Black | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Isle, workers repaired damaged lines. Our forecasters have been | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
monitoring Storm Gertrude throughout the course of the weekend we have | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
moved resources, engineers, support staff, mobile generators, into | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
position across the Highlands and Islands to be ready to respond as | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
quickly as possible. On Shetland, where winds reached over 100 mph, as | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
well as Orkney in the Western Isles, schools were closed. Damage to | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
buildings and pupils in other schools, like this one in Edinburgh, | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
got a day off as well. And the scaffolding at this building site in | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Lenzi toppled over. The worst may have passed most of us now, but it | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
will take time to repair the damage that Gertrude has caused. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Ferries serving the islands on the west coast have experienced | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
disruption for days now, thanks | :04:08. | :04:08. | |
Storm Gertrude has only made that situation worse, | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
with many services now cancelled until Monday at the earliest. | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
Aileen Clarke spent the day on the west coast. | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
It was wild at Ed Robinson harbour this morning, with huge winds | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
whipping angry spray over the sea wall. The noise of the Gaels | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
battering the ferry office and giving the tropical palms a big | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
shake. There have been reports of 70 mph gales over on Arran today and it | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
is pretty rough here in Ardrossan and that is why there are no ferries | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
running. No there is a ripe for Arran at all, and others were | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
disrupted. -- there were no ferries from Arran at all. And it is getting | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
worse before it is getting better. The weather looks like it will | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
worsen today, it will be particularly bad tomorrow and will | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
not improve until Sunday, so at the moment, most services are subject to | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
cancellation and the late and that will extend into tomorrow and | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
hopefully when the weather improves, we will look to make additional | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
sailings on Sunday. But it may be the case that if you were not able | :05:30. | :05:30. | |
sailings on Sunday. But it may be to get the ferry this morning, you | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
may not get it until Sunday? That is right. Further down the Clyde coast, | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
people were trying to get on with their work, but Storm Gertrude | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
wasn't making it easy in Saltcoats. It is horrendous, very hard to work. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
It is terrible, the wind and the rain here was really bad, your car | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
kind of fears of the road. You are not frightened to go out in the wind | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
with your hair nicely done? I won't do that, it will be spoiled. If it | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
is windy, I use this. In Largs, you had to hang onto whatever you had on | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
your head today and Western ferries managed to resume their crossing to | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
Dunoon later in the morning, and there were very relieved visitors | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
and residents in the Isle of Bute who managed to get a ferry across to | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
Rochus E. They say they will try and make use of any window tomorrow to | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
get ferries running -- across to Rothsea. | :06:36. | :06:36. | |
Shetland has borne the brunt of the gale-force winds, | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
with a red "danger to life" weather warning in place | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
The gusts have been among the highest ever seen | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
It has been an exceptional day of wind here in Shetland. We have had | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
hurricane force winds wind here in Shetland. We have had | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
islands most of the day and wind here in Shetland. We have had | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
strongest wind was up around 105 mph. The Met Office says that even | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
though Shetland is well used the strong winds, this has been | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
exceptional. We get a hurricane force 12 once a year, usually around | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
January, so force 12 once a year, usually around | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
but these costs are pretty unusual, close to the highest we have ever | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
but these costs are pretty unusual, recorded. Given the strength of the | :07:19. | :07:19. | |
but these costs are pretty unusual, wind, it has been surprising there | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
has been relatively little damage in Shetland. There was Navan blown off | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
the road earlier today, a few roof slates have come off, but according | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
to the police, it is because the people of Shetland have been | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
prepared. We made the decision to close all of the schools on The | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
Island to ensure no children were in danger. We have put safety measures | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
in place and the public seem to be sitting indoors and setting the | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
event out, no reports of any significant | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
event out, no reports of any anybody, which is the main thing. | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
Shetland seems to have been relatively unscathed by these | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
exceptionally strong winds. Around 400 properties were left without | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
power for a short while. There have been no interisland ferries or | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
power for a short while. There have down to the mainland were called | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
from 1pm and have not run. The worst of it is past, but we understand it | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
will be another blustery weekend and Monday, we are warned there could be | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
strong winds again. Hopes are high in Shetland that it won't be quite a | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
strong, not those 100 mph winds again. | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
And, as if that wasn't enough, I'm afraid there's more bad weather | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
An amber warning for snow and more wind is now in place for most | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
of mainland Scotland till 11am tomorrow. | :08:31. | :08:31. | |
That's expected to cause more problems on the roads. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Steven Godden is at the Traffic Scotland control centre | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
You can see that huge bank of screens over my shoulder and it is | :08:37. | :08:51. | |
made up of images taken from CCTV cameras that between them cover most | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
of Scotland's major road network. Today, as they do every other day, | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
the staff are keeping their eye on the screens, keeping their eye out | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
for any problems and in truth, tonight's rush-hour has been a lot | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
easier than this morning where, among the any other problems, was | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
the closure of the Forth Road Bridge, which people here could see | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
out of the window in South Queensferry, but there is still a | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
need for vigilance. As you mentioned, there is an amber weather | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
warning, it came into effect around half an hour ago. It is the more | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
winds but it is also the snow, which presents a very different challenge | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
for those responsible for keeping Scotland moving. | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
We can deploy the critters and the ploughs accept for the areas that | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
will get it as it comes in, so we monitor the weather and we react to | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
it, and with temperatures dropping, we do precautionary treatment on the | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
road so it won't freeze, we will keep on top of that right through | :09:50. | :09:50. | |
the night. Well, the challenges that the amber | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
warning covers much of the country so it means they can't predict | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
precisely where the bad weather is going to come. Also, the slow, if it | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
is to fall overnight, even if you use gritters, it needs cars to break | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
up the snow so it becomes challenging. All transport Scotland | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
are able to do is react and offer advice to motorists, which is as it | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
usually is, to be prepared and if you are travelling, to take care. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
And Christopher will be here with an extended weekend | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
weather forecast later in the programme. | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
Also, coming up on tonight's Reporting Scotland... | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
The visionary behind the car that was built by a woman for women. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
He's through to another Australian Open final. | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
We'll also hear from the managers of tomorrow's League Cup semifinalists. | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
And you'll find out why Scotland's refs are on a downer. | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
The family of a Fife woman who died in Israel in suspicious | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
circumstances last year are demanding answers | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
from the authorities investigating her death. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
38-year-old Julie Pearson collapsed and died, after she was allegedly | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
raped and beaten at a hostel in the town of Eilat. | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Lisa Summers has been to meet Julie's aunt, | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
who's started a campaign for justice. | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
It is two months since Julie Pearson died. Her aunt still can't quite | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
believe she will never come home. I treated her like my daughter, she | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
was really close. Julie hoped to move to Israel but had let her Visa | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
expired. She was living in the popular tourist resort of Eilat. Her | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
aunt believes a former boyfriend was responsible for her murder. Good | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
friends have said the day before she died, her ex-boyfriend had beaten | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
her and she was covered in bruises and she had been to this girl's | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
house and try to get her to go to the hospital and Julie wouldn't go | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
because she had no Visa, she was scared. The family say they are | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
struggling to get satisfactory answers from the Israeli | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
authorities. I spoke to police in Eilat, who said they could not | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
provide any information and directed us to Interpol. However, they did | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
release a report at the end of December which acknowledged duly | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
appeared to have been beaten but they go on to say her death was not | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
linked to the attacks. They say an investigation is still ongoing. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
Earlier this week, the Prime Minister said he would step in. We | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
have good relations with Israel and we should use those good relations | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
to make sure that when people need answers, they get them. It was | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Deborah's MP who raised the matter in Parliament. It seems from what we | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
have been told, interviews with appropriate people and the gathering | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
of evidence was not done in an appropriate manner and so the other | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
questions we need to ask the authorities, we need to get the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
autopsy report, get all of the facts and a proper investigation into | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Julie Pearson's death so the family can have answers. The phone offers | :12:55. | :13:05. | |
say... -- the Foreign Office. Now, Julie's family can do nothing wait. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
The bitter row over council funding goes on, with every council NOT run | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
by the SNP branding the Scottish Government's offer unacceptable. | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Some are even looking into a legal challenge. | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
Our local government correspondent, Jamie McIvor, is with us. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
And no doubts over just how the majority of councils | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
Indeed, two important meetings took place today, one was at the local | :13:23. | :13:35. | |
Government organisation which represents the vast bulk of Scottish | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
councils. 21 of backed a a strongly worded motion rejecting the budget. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
The immediate problem is the councils will have to make up | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
accounts and savings than they had expected in the coming year and this | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
week, they found out the terms of the deal on offer made it far harder | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
than before to contemplate raising council tax. Cosla describes the | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
deal on offer as an attack on the democratic mandate of councils. Only | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
the SNP councils didn't back the motion. Meanwhile, the four councils | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
that are not in Cosla did hold a meeting and are equally angry and | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
even contemplating the possibility of a legal challenge over one of the | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
details of the offer. That will the Government in the end get its way? | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
Certainly even Cosla accepts that is the likely outcome. Councils are | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
heavily dependent on the Scottish Government for cash. The Government | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
accepts the offer is a challenge but also says it is fair. It argues it | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
has protected councils from the worst of what it calls the | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Westminster cuts. It says the money on offer helps maintain the council | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
tax freeze, provides cash amongst others for maintaining the ratio of | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
teachers to students. The deadline is a week on Tuesday for councils to | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
accept the offer. If they do, the issue becomes how do they balance | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
their budgets locally. We will hear from you then, thank you very much. | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
A car built by a woman for women. Dorothy Pullinger ran the factory | :15:10. | :15:21. | |
and 20 years after her death, her death is still unknown. | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
When engineer Dorothy Pullinger was refused entry into the organisation | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
of automobiles in 1930, she was told it was for men, not women, but she | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
never gave up and in the First World War, ended up in charge of munitions | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
workers. She moved to Dumfries and Galloway and became manager of | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Galloway motors, which had a female workforce. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
The seat was too low. They were looking through the steering wheel | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
so she dropped the steering wheel down. She made the gear levers and | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
the brake levers to the middle of the car. She made it so it fitted | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
the size of a typical woman of the period. In Guernsey, his son | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
inspects the creation. She is finally getting the recognition she | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
deserves. Her legacy was the fact she has helped to change the | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
attitude of societies today to respect women and their abilities as | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
much as men's abilities. I think respect women and their abilities as | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
is nice that the Scottish engineers and rolled her in the roll of | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
honour. It is nice to know they and rolled her in the roll of | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
appreciated her with far more respect than at the time of her | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
engineering, or whatever she was being told by people, you are doing | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
a man's. The only places can be seen as a Glasgow's beside Museum. 30 | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
years after the death of Dorothy Pullinger, only one in ten | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
years after the death of Dorothy in the UK are women. The | :17:06. | :17:05. | |
achievement still stand the test of time. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Andy Murray is through to the final of the Australian Open tennis. | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
It's his fifth final in the grand slam event | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
To do that, he'll need to beat the world number one, | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
Novak Djokovic, who's beaten him three times | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
But, as Kheredine Idessane reports, Andy is just one of three Scots | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
They have never known a grand slam quite like it. They came | :17:32. | :17:45. | |
They have never known a grand slam Andy Murray, who arrived on court | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
knowing two other Scots had already reached Melbourne finals. Could he | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
make it a tartan travel? The big serving Canadian given -- did his | :17:54. | :18:07. | |
best. First set Raonic, 6-4. Andy married picked a fine time to break | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
his opponent's and level the match up. -- Andy Murray. Raonic was | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
revelling in the rollerblader arena. Could Andy Murray make it to the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
deciding fifth? There were two types of pain for Raonic, the physical | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
one, and the mental one when Andy married broke again right at the | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
start of the deciding set. Not the only thing that got broken. Having | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
sapped his spirit, the Scot soon served for the match. A place in his | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
fifth Melbourne final assured. With his brother Jamie, they are the | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
first mothers to make finals in the same slam. It will be something that | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
is extremely rare. You will not see it very often. We should enjoy and | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
be proud of it. It is a tough thing to do. The Murray brothers are not | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
the only Scots in finals. It is a tartan trio, thanks to Gordon Reid | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
who is in the finals of the wheelchair singles and doubles. Two | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
days by three Scots going for four Australian open titles. -- two days | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
and three Scots. The head of Scotland's football | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
referees is angry at what he calls over the top criticism | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
of match officials. And John Fleming says | :19:34. | :19:34. | |
it can get refs down - at a time when the challenges they | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
are facing are tougher than ever. Jonathan Sutherland has been | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
speaking to him at the referees Hands up who would be a referee. A | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
gathering in Spain for an intensive few days honing skills, an upbeat | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
atmosphere and, according to the boss, it is not always the case. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
There are many occasions where referees have been really down. They | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
have been down because they feel as if the criticism they are getting is | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
way over the top and I would agree with that. The Scottish cup | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
semifinal last season and a handball decision not given under mistake | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
which could lead to a huge amount of criticism. Was it a handball? Celtic | :20:17. | :20:30. | |
screaming for a penalty. Fleming feels sometimes goes too far. I | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
would never be destructive in working with the media but there is | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
a line that can be crossed, and it has been crossed several times. It | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
is very frustrating. Sometimes you get angry about it, especially if | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
the comments made not technically sound, especially if they are | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
personalised, which they have been. That becomes very frustrating. As | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
well as the practical sessions, video analysis of recent incidents | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
form part of the winter training camp. The aim, to make sure referees | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
get more of the big decisions right. When you go back it does not mean if | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
you go to a winter training camp, all decisions will be correct. What | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
they will do is practice a situation, be ready for it. They | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
will be aware of the situations and, on the practical sessions over the | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
last few days, we should be ready and prepare for them. That should | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
enhance the decision-making. To that is human and mistakes will happen. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Scottish referees believe they are doing all they can to get things | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
right. -- to Earth. I'm sure there won't be any | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
criticism of referees after this That might depend on what these | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
gentlemen have to say. They're the managers | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
of the semi finalists. Celtic, Ross County, | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
Hibernian and St Johnstone. Tommy wright's Saints meet | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
Alan Stubbs' Hibs tomorrow I do not look upon it as a team | :21:45. | :21:54. | |
that, all right they are from a lower league, but the strength of | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
the squad creates an atmosphere of a premiership club and team and it | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
will be a difficult game. St Johnstone have seen on a number of | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
occasions they are very well organised in their experience. They | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
have quality in the right areas will stop anything is possible. We are | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
very aware of that. We won't be underestimating St Johnstone | :22:19. | :22:18. | |
whatsoever. You can listen to St Johnstone | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
versus Hibernian live Then on Sunday there's live coverage | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
of Ross County versus Celtic in the other semi on | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
BBC One and on radio. Now this group of skiers | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
is preparing to exchange Aberdeen's dry ski slope for the real | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
stuff in the French Alps. They're competing in | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
the Special Olympics for Team GB. And nearly all the Scots members | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
of the team train in Aberdeen Are you ready? Let's pop in behind. | :22:39. | :22:58. | |
Coach Bob taking his team through their paces. Soon they will be | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
swapping this dry ski slope to the powdered peaks of the French Alps. | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
One of the biggest winter event in the Special Olympics calendar. | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Christian is no stranger to competition. I have been skiing for | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
31 years and I have been skiing since I was three. What do you like | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
most about skiing? I enjoyed being with my friends on the mountain and | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
being on the -- in the fresh air. 11 of the 12 Scottish skiers train here | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
at the snow sports Centre in Aberdeen. They are part of the | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
Special Olympics ski group which provides training and competition | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
for people with intellectual disabilities. As well as the | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
sporting side, it also gives them a social side. They are getting to | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
know each other. When we are awake, they are learning to be amongst | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
others and how to cope with people with different needs. Over the next | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
few weeks, the group will be perfecting their moves and improving | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
their speed before the big event. I like to speed and go fast. I like | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
the slope and I like being with friends and that. The competition | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
runs over seven days in March and some of these skiers are hoping to | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
runs over seven days in March and make it all away to the top. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
Do we need to go to France for snow this weekend? | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
What heyday it has been weather-wise with Gertrude sweeping | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
What heyday it has been weather-wise country. A day. | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
have seen since the year 2000. Our Weather watcher picture showing | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
waves crashing on to the runway at Farnborough. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
waves crashing on to the runway at done with the high winds just yet. | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
waves crashing on to the runway at This evening and overnight yellow | :24:58. | :24:58. | |
warning covering This evening and overnight yellow | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
for gales and snow and a higher amber, be prepared, warning for the | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
North and South and high parts of the Central Belt. Very wintry | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
conditions overnight. We have this band of rain pushing its way | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
southwards. Behind it the cold air digs in and you can see the showers | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
turning red lead to snow with thunder in the mix as well. The | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
winds will remain strong to gale force. It will be cold. Temperatures | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
for most down to force. It will be cold. Temperatures | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
conditions on the higher road routes with blizzard conditions at times. | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
conditions on the higher road routes Tomorrow is windy and wintry. The | :25:35. | :25:35. | |
showers will be of snow away Tomorrow is windy and wintry. The | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
the coast, even to low levels. Very cold indeed as well. In the middle | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
part of the afternoon it is still windy. Let's take a closer look at | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
around three o'clock. You can see their wind gusts. The snow showers | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
will continue. There will be drier and brighter slots in between. It | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
will be cold. Add on the wind and it will feel bitter. Across the | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
Northeast and up to the far north it will be drier. The showers for | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
Orkney and Shetland likely to be of rain. Not as windy as we have seen | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
today. In the hills and mountains some extreme conditions. Wind gusts | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
around 80, 90 miles an hour. Frequent snow showers and | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
temperatures well below freezing. Extreme buffeting and civic | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
conditions with white outs and blizzards, potentially gusts of 100 | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
bars and I through the Cairngorms. The showers will continue this | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
evening, slowly easing off and the winds easing down. Very cold | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
overnight with icy patches. Sunday we are trying to | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
overnight with icy patches. Sunday from the south. With this weather | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
front, it will from the south. With this weather | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
across the west and south. But the North and is reasonably dry. The | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
through the course of the day in a through the course of the day in a | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
higher ground. The rain will reach the North Coast by the end of the | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
afternoon. Temperatures starting to come up and the winds are much | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
lighter. On the charts, it looks like we will do it all again. The | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
deep area of low pressure in the far north of Scotland. The tension for | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
further damaging and disruptive winds. That is the forecast. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news... | :27:18. | :27:18. | |
Storm Gertrude has battered much of the country today. | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
From Shetland to Saltcoats storm-force winds and heavy rain | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
have caused transport disruption and damage to property. | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm and the late bulletin just | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - right | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
across the country - have a very good evening. | :27:36. | :27:38. |