:00:09. > :00:18.Tonight on reporting Scotland, MSP is reject a cross-party call for a
:00:19. > :00:21.1p increase to protect public services.
:00:22. > :00:23.The Scottish ambulance is forced to postpone plans to downgrade certain
:00:24. > :00:34.types of 999 calls. Claims that Police Scotland tries
:00:35. > :00:36.to avoid paying compensation for road accidents
:00:37. > :00:42.involving its officers. In my experience, they do everything
:00:43. > :00:43.that is in their power to do the right thing and avoid paying
:00:44. > :00:44.compensation. Celtic take on Aberdeen in the top
:00:45. > :01:12.of the table clash that MSPs have rejected an increase
:01:13. > :01:15.in Scottish income tax from April. Labour had called for a penny
:01:16. > :01:18.increase in tax at all levels, But in a vote at Holyrood a majority
:01:19. > :01:23.of MSPs said no to that - and backed the Scottish Government's
:01:24. > :01:26.budget plans for the year ahead. Sums and choices. Kezia Dugdale
:01:27. > :01:44.editor Brian Taylor. Sums and choices. Kezia Dugdale
:01:45. > :01:46.chooses a penny on income tax at all levels, mostly to fund education.
:01:47. > :01:50.The proposals levels, mostly to fund education.
:01:51. > :01:54.strip hundreds of millions of pounds out of vital public services from
:01:55. > :01:54.strip hundreds of millions of pounds schools, 50% of what our councils
:01:55. > :01:58.do. I'm not prepared for the next schools, 50% of what our councils
:01:59. > :02:00.generation of kids to pay the price for Tory austerity.
:02:01. > :02:03.generation of kids to pay the price outside Holyrood, trade union
:02:04. > :02:10.members, the other wing of outside Holyrood, trade union
:02:11. > :02:14.council job losses. In the middle of it all, the finance secretary. John
:02:15. > :02:19.Swinney says Labour's plan would punish public sector workers and
:02:20. > :02:23.pensioners while he wants to shelter them. I want to say to the teachers
:02:24. > :02:28.and to the public service workers at the length and breadth of this
:02:29. > :02:33.country, who have had to endure pay constraints because of the austerity
:02:34. > :02:36.programme of the United Kingdom Government, that I value the
:02:37. > :02:44.sacrifices they have made and the last thing I am going to do is put
:02:45. > :02:48.up their taxes. A helping hand from Nicola Sturgeon. Scottish ministers
:02:49. > :02:52.plan to extend the living wage to social care workers and others. Stab
:02:53. > :02:56.at this Midlothian Centre already received that higher rate of pay,
:02:57. > :02:59.at this Midlothian Centre already but no increase to standard rate
:03:00. > :03:03.income tax, not now, not next year, when Holyrood should have greater
:03:04. > :03:08.flexibility to vary tax. I don't think an increase in the basic rate
:03:09. > :03:13.of income tax is the right thing to do. Labour's Taxman this involves a
:03:14. > :03:22.rebate, with councils handing back ?100 the lowest paid, including
:03:23. > :03:24.low-income pensioners, but Scottish ministers have branded that plan
:03:25. > :03:26.unworkable, possibly illegal and say those payments should be taxed.
:03:27. > :03:33.Labour's Jackie Baillie insisted the plan had been thoroughly checked.
:03:34. > :03:35.The Liberal Democrats back 1p on tax by education and said new cuts
:03:36. > :03:39.should be blamed on Scottish ministers. He is imposing the kind
:03:40. > :03:43.of budget that he has previously condemned. The people of Scotland
:03:44. > :03:48.will know that his refusal to act means that every single cut to
:03:49. > :03:55.public services in Scotland is a John Swinney cut. But John Swinney
:03:56. > :03:58.received decidedly ironic support in resisting tax increases from the
:03:59. > :04:07.Conservatives. It Klatten is my Tory heart to hear
:04:08. > :04:10.the so-called political progressives arguing so vigorously and
:04:11. > :04:19.passionately against increases in taxation. We are happy to be better
:04:20. > :04:25.together with the SNP on this issue. To the votes tonight. Are we all
:04:26. > :04:30.agreed? Not by a long shot. Labour's increase was rejected.
:04:31. > :04:35.It's emerged that the deadline to try and strike a deal
:04:36. > :04:38.between the UK and Scottish governments on how new tax powers
:04:39. > :04:40.for Holyrood would work, could be breached.
:04:41. > :04:42.Our correspondent David Porter is at Westminster for us tonight.
:04:43. > :04:51.These talks on the so-called fiscal framework have been long, they have
:04:52. > :04:57.been very detailed, and too many they have been torturous. But
:04:58. > :04:59.tonight it appears at least the UK Government is taking
:05:00. > :05:01.tonight it appears at least the UK measures because it thinks that the
:05:02. > :05:07.deadline imposed by the Scottish Government for these talks to be
:05:08. > :05:10.concluded after the 12th of February might now slip. Coincidentally in
:05:11. > :05:15.the House of Commons MPs this evening have been debating public
:05:16. > :05:19.spending in Scotland. It gave the Scottish Secretary David Mundell a
:05:20. > :05:24.chance to lay out his position, and the way the UK Government seems to
:05:25. > :05:27.be moving towards thinking that deadline may not be met. He said
:05:28. > :05:34.that it was better to get a deal that was right than to rush it. Keen
:05:35. > :05:38.as though I am to have a warm and supportive relationship with the
:05:39. > :05:44.Scottish Government, I have never felt the same Valentine's Day date
:05:45. > :05:47.had much relevance to this process. I'm willing to keep continuing
:05:48. > :05:52.working towards a deal for as long as that takes and as long as we can.
:05:53. > :05:57.Fiscal agreement is vital, as Lord Smith himself said, it is
:05:58. > :06:01.fundamentally important in making Scotland's new powers work. It is
:06:02. > :06:03.fundamentally important in making the final piece in an interlocking
:06:04. > :06:08.jigsaw, and we could not agree more with that. So what seem to be the
:06:09. > :06:14.missing pieces in the negotiation jigsaw? This really goes down to the
:06:15. > :06:17.nitty-gritty, it goes down to money. In future when Scotland is able to
:06:18. > :06:21.raise its own taxes, what that will mean for the amount of money that
:06:22. > :06:24.Westminster provides through the rock grant, and whether Scotland
:06:25. > :06:27.would be disadvantaged or not compared to the rest of the UK. The
:06:28. > :06:31.Smith commission says there should be no detriment and it should be a
:06:32. > :06:36.deal that is fair to both Westminster and Holyrood. At the
:06:37. > :06:39.moment there are differences of opinion between the UK Government
:06:40. > :06:42.and the Scottish Government as to what that means and how it can be
:06:43. > :06:48.achieved. There will be more talks in Edinburgh next week. This one
:06:49. > :06:51.will go to the wire. But they're now does seem an acceptance, certainly
:06:52. > :06:55.from those in Whitehall, but actually the deadline may be
:06:56. > :06:59.breached. But they remain, they say, it is better to get it right than to
:07:00. > :07:03.rush something as important as this. Thank you.
:07:04. > :07:07.How much time does it take to potentially save a life?
:07:08. > :07:10.The Scottish Ambulance Service was planning to downgrade certain
:07:11. > :07:12.kinds of 999 calls, which meant crews were given longer to get
:07:13. > :07:15.there - but now those plans have been postponed
:07:16. > :07:19.following the intervention of the chief medical officer.
:07:20. > :07:22.Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford is here.
:07:23. > :07:23.Eleanor, what kind of calls were affected
:07:24. > :07:32.The Ambulance Service has hundreds of categories of calls, but they are
:07:33. > :07:37.classified either category A, B or C depending on how fast an ambulance
:07:38. > :07:43.is needed. Ambulance bosses wanted to change some types of call in
:07:44. > :07:46.category eight two category B. That affects how quickly you would need
:07:47. > :07:49.to respond to them. By making the changes it meant paramedics would
:07:50. > :07:58.have 90 minutes to respond to these new category B calls rather than the
:07:59. > :08:01.eight minutes they had previously. They included chest pains with
:08:02. > :08:06.abnormal breathing, chest pains with a history of heart attack or angina,
:08:07. > :08:11.being not alert after falling. So those plans are now on hold was the
:08:12. > :08:14.Chief Medical Officer satisfies herself that all this is safe.
:08:15. > :08:18.Different categories of patient need herself that all this is safe.
:08:19. > :08:22.a different kind of response, these codes are quite old, they are 30
:08:23. > :08:25.years old. In fact our treatments and our response times have of
:08:26. > :08:28.years old. In fact our treatments perhaps now time has
:08:29. > :08:32.years old. In fact our treatments actually look in more detail,
:08:33. > :08:34.years old. In fact our treatments because we want to sustain the best
:08:35. > :08:38.outcome with our current treatment. Why were those
:08:39. > :08:42.outcome with our current treatment. considered in the first place? It
:08:43. > :08:42.all depends on how you look at it. Opposition politicians and some
:08:43. > :08:54.paramedics have said Opposition politicians and some
:08:55. > :08:57.that it should get to 75% of category a calls within eight
:08:58. > :09:02.minutes. Last year it only reached 66% of the calls within that time
:09:03. > :09:06.frame. However the Ambulance Service itself says that it's doing it for
:09:07. > :09:10.medical reasons. It has looked at six months worth of data, and that
:09:11. > :09:14.this is not only clinically safe but the unions are in agreement that
:09:15. > :09:15.this should be done. As you heard the Chief Medical Officer say, the
:09:16. > :09:22.whole system is the Chief Medical Officer say, the
:09:23. > :09:25.data, quite an old system. In Wales they've gone even further, been more
:09:26. > :09:30.radical and done away with target times altogether. What they have
:09:31. > :09:31.started to look at is simply whether or not the ambulance get there
:09:32. > :09:36.quickly enough for the patient to You're watching Reporting Scotland,
:09:37. > :09:56.and still to come on tonight's In sport, it's the
:09:57. > :09:59.toe to toe. We are on the shop floor with the part-time football is
:10:00. > :10:03.hoping to pull off the greatest of cup upsets.
:10:04. > :10:05.Scotland's third biggest bank - the Clydesdale Bank -
:10:06. > :10:08.has become independent again, for the first time
:10:09. > :10:13.It's being sold off by its owners - the National Australia Bank.
:10:14. > :10:21.Here's our business correspondent David Henderson.
:10:22. > :10:30.It's had a place on Scotland's high streets since the 1830s.
:10:31. > :10:31.It's had a place on Scotland's high For years its owners, National
:10:32. > :10:36.Australia Bank, have wanted to sell it off, so they've taken off
:10:37. > :10:39.billions of pounds of clients tell's debts, leaving the Scottish bank
:10:40. > :10:45.largely free from the burdens of the past. We have independent and what
:10:46. > :10:48.that really means is that we will be able to make investments in our
:10:49. > :10:53.customers based on what they need as opposed to having a third party
:10:54. > :10:55.forming of you. We listen to our customers, decide what they want,
:10:56. > :11:01.and deliver. Having independence to customers, decide what they want,
:11:02. > :11:05.the dude that is a huge part of our strategy -- independence to do that.
:11:06. > :11:11.By the time these headquarters were built, it was already helping to
:11:12. > :11:16.fund the rapid growth of the Empire's second city. The bank broke
:11:17. > :11:24.down barriers by offering lending to women. These days Clydesdale bank is
:11:25. > :11:29.a big player with 121 branches in Scotland, and its partner, the
:11:30. > :11:30.Yorkshire bank, has 154 in England. Between them they'll serve almost 3
:11:31. > :11:35.million UK customers. So they are Between them they'll serve almost 3
:11:36. > :11:42.the biggest of the so-called challenger banks, ready to take on
:11:43. > :11:44.giants like RBS. Historically banks have benefited from inertia, people
:11:45. > :11:51.just haven't wanted to change current accounts. The rise of the
:11:52. > :11:56.Internet as well facilitates being able to look round and see better
:11:57. > :12:03.deals. We all have a place that means something to us. With that in
:12:04. > :12:06.mind Clydesdale is keen to boost its mortgage lending and grow its
:12:07. > :12:10.business that way. Competition for customers might be heating up.
:12:11. > :12:12.The police are there to help us when we're wronged -
:12:13. > :12:16.but what happens when police are at fault?
:12:17. > :12:18.One of the country's most experienced lawyers in personal
:12:19. > :12:22.injury claims has accused Police Scotland of doing anything
:12:23. > :12:24.to avoid paying compensation after incidents where its officers
:12:25. > :12:28.Suzanne Allan has this exclusive report.
:12:29. > :12:37.There's nothing left of Leona Rice's car which was a present from her
:12:38. > :12:41.grandad. Four years ago, with her family inside, she was involved in a
:12:42. > :12:47.collision with a police car. I was pulling out of the junction and I
:12:48. > :12:55.was turning right, and the police came along, no silent all lights on.
:12:56. > :13:02.I had internal bleeding in my leg, cracked wrist, and suffered panic
:13:03. > :13:05.attacks after the crash. The police charged her with driving without due
:13:06. > :13:10.consideration but it was found not proven in court. Her solicitor says
:13:11. > :13:14.Police Scotland will try anything to avoid paying compensation after
:13:15. > :13:19.accidents like this. When a police officer is involved in an accident,
:13:20. > :13:24.and it is their fault, they do not seem willing to do the right thing,
:13:25. > :13:28.to stand up and say that we need to make just recompense for what
:13:29. > :13:31.happened. They circle the wagons, and in my experience of these
:13:32. > :13:38.things, they do absolutely everything they can that is within
:13:39. > :13:42.their power to avoid doing the right thing. In the past three years
:13:43. > :13:48.Police Scotland have paid out over 61130 ?3000 in compensation. But
:13:49. > :13:51.that is dwarfed if you look at the London Metropolitan Police. In just
:13:52. > :13:57.one year they've paid out over ?1.8 million. Although they are a bigger
:13:58. > :14:01.force. Patrick McGuire says the police are slow at settling claims.
:14:02. > :14:07.Unlike organisations of a similar size. Looking at other bodies and
:14:08. > :14:14.how they react in terms of the Fire Service, NHS, even the post office.
:14:15. > :14:21.Other organisations are more akin to the attitude of insurers when
:14:22. > :14:25.involved with members of the public, the police force just stand apart.
:14:26. > :14:30.Leona is angry police haven't taken the blame. I'm disgusted in the way
:14:31. > :14:35.that the police have been about the whole thing. I just want them to
:14:36. > :14:40.admit liability because it's been proven in court that it wasn't my
:14:41. > :14:42.fault. And I would like my compensation. Police Scotland gave
:14:43. > :15:02.us this statement. A look at other stories
:15:03. > :15:08.from across the country. A fourth person has died following a
:15:09. > :15:11.crash on the M9 last Friday. 37-year-old Sajjad Ahmad
:15:12. > :15:14.was the driver of a Mercedes which was involved in
:15:15. > :15:17.the collision in West Lothian. His wife, Saadia, was
:15:18. > :15:20.pronounced dead at the scene and their nine-year-old
:15:21. > :15:23.daughter, Ayesha, died on Saturday. The driver of the other vehicle -
:15:24. > :15:26.42-year-old Mark Hansen - Two boys, aged ten and 14,
:15:27. > :15:30.remain in a serious condition. Seven members of the executive
:15:31. > :15:33.committee of Scotland's biggest
:15:34. > :15:36.mosque have resigned after they and their families
:15:37. > :15:40.were allegedly subjected to threats and abuse by opponents
:15:41. > :15:42.within the Muslim community. In a joint statement,
:15:43. > :15:45.they said that their efforts to improve
:15:46. > :15:47.the representation of women and financial transparency
:15:48. > :15:48.at the mosque No one from the mosque has been
:15:49. > :15:55.available for comment. Police Scotland have confirmed
:15:56. > :15:58.they are investigating the matter. Two women have been
:15:59. > :16:00.charged in connection with an assault at
:16:01. > :16:05.a care home in Fife. The women, aged 57 and 61,
:16:06. > :16:09.were arrested following allegations of an assault at the Chapel Level
:16:10. > :16:11.Care Home in Kirkcaldy. said it had suspended
:16:12. > :16:16.a number of staff. A man has been arrested
:16:17. > :16:19.and charged in connection with a fatal fire
:16:20. > :16:21.in Fraserburgh 18 years ago. Gordon Graham died in the blaze
:16:22. > :16:24.in the town's High Street The 42-year-old man is due to appear
:16:25. > :16:34.at Peterhead Sheriff Court tomorrow. Plans have been unveiled
:16:35. > :16:36.for a new section The stretch east of Inverness
:16:37. > :16:43.includes proposals to bypass the town of Nairn and contains
:16:44. > :16:45.a separate 18-mile pathway for walkers, cyclists
:16:46. > :16:47.and horse riders. It's the first part of the Scottish
:16:48. > :16:50.Government's commitment to dual the entire route
:16:51. > :16:56.between Inverness and Aberdeen. Work is about to start
:16:57. > :16:58.on a complete restoration and extension of one of Europe's
:16:59. > :17:04.most historic cinemas. Details of a ?2.5 million contract
:17:05. > :17:08.to re-open the Picture House and the cinema should
:17:09. > :17:14.reopen next spring. It's another giant leap
:17:15. > :17:20.for Scotland in space. A rocket from the Hebrides missile
:17:21. > :17:23.range in the Western Isles has become the first to be launched
:17:24. > :17:26.into space from UK soil. But the achievement -
:17:27. > :17:28.which happened last year - Our science correspondent
:17:29. > :17:48.Kenneth Macdonald has this report. It was the military exercise almost
:17:49. > :17:52.in passing. There was a large naval exercise run by Nato and as part of
:17:53. > :17:57.that they were doing some missile intercept operations. So for the
:17:58. > :18:02.first time they launched a missile from a kinetic operated range, it
:18:03. > :18:06.went up and into space. That's the first time any object has been into
:18:07. > :18:13.space from the UK. This is what it looked like. But there will be no
:18:14. > :18:15.place in a museum for the American-made rocket because the
:18:16. > :18:19.point of the exercise was to blow it to bits over the North Atlantic.
:18:20. > :18:22.Nonetheless, a first for the to bits over the North Atlantic.
:18:23. > :18:29.a first for the Hebrides Missile range. That's where my family is
:18:30. > :18:34.from, so great to see some real spacecraft going up into orbit from
:18:35. > :18:38.Scotland. That could happen soon. Prestwick and Campbeltown are among
:18:39. > :18:44.the six sites mind to be the first UK spaceport. It would handle
:18:45. > :18:47.horizontal take-offs like those by virgin collect it. So there could be
:18:48. > :18:51.space tourism up there and for the rest of us down on planet Earth.
:18:52. > :18:55.Police will come to see space launchers. People go to Cape
:18:56. > :19:01.Canaveral to see rockets launched. They even go to Ross well in New
:19:02. > :19:05.Mexico to look at a plastic alien because they are so interested in
:19:06. > :19:08.space. Half a million people just go to a bar to look at a plastic alien.
:19:09. > :19:14.Scotland to a bar to look at a plastic alien.
:19:15. > :19:19.sector. This cube to a bar to look at a plastic alien.
:19:20. > :19:24.from Kazakhstan, so a vertical launch site here could
:19:25. > :19:27.If it takes a couple of it to the launch site in South
:19:28. > :19:28.America, that is a long it to the launch site in South
:19:29. > :19:36.could build it in Glasgow and launch it to the launch site in South
:19:37. > :19:39.it here, put it in the vehicle, get it into space
:19:40. > :19:42.it here, put it in the vehicle, get you are really compressing that time
:19:43. > :19:46.period. The company that runs the Hebrides range for the MoD said they
:19:47. > :19:49.had no plans to use it for a commercial spaceport although they
:19:50. > :19:55.do say they have the commercial expertise to support a Spaceport
:19:56. > :19:58.anywhere in the UK. And the next port of call... Sorry!
:19:59. > :20:01.The Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes says his team face their toughest
:20:02. > :20:03.task of the season tonight when Premiership leaders
:20:04. > :20:06.As you can see, just six points separate the teams
:20:07. > :20:10.But after tonight's match, there will be 14 games left
:20:11. > :20:13.and the difference could jump to nine points
:20:14. > :20:32.This is the third meeting of the top two sides this meeting. It is
:20:33. > :20:34.This is the third meeting of the top with Aberdeen the winners last time
:20:35. > :20:38.Pittodrie was the venue. with Aberdeen the winners last time
:20:39. > :20:39.always a tough challenge for us, with Aberdeen the winners last time
:20:40. > :20:41.for any team in the league, with Aberdeen the winners last time
:20:42. > :20:44.always the toughest fixture but for with Aberdeen the winners last time
:20:45. > :20:50.us, it is also the fixture that gives us the most opportunity to
:20:51. > :20:55.us, it is also the fixture that against them and to inflict, you
:20:56. > :20:56.know, some damage on them as well. We have already beaten Celtic,
:20:57. > :21:00.know, some damage on them as well. would be nice to do it again and
:21:01. > :21:04.that is what we hope to do. Smiles from Ronny Deila yesterday after
:21:05. > :21:06.picking up manager of the month for January, which is slightly
:21:07. > :21:16.picking up manager of the month for to Sunday, after the league cup
:21:17. > :21:21.defeat from Ross County. Celtic's travel hopes potentially in
:21:22. > :21:22.smithereens again! Very disappointed at the weekend, all of the players
:21:23. > :21:27.and everybody, but it is three days at the weekend, all of the players
:21:28. > :21:31.later and a very important game again and we can put ourselves in a
:21:32. > :21:34.very good position, so we have everything to go for up there at
:21:35. > :21:39.Pittodrie and get three points, get nine points clear, that is very good
:21:40. > :21:42.if we can do that. Aberdeen are unbeaten in their last ten league
:21:43. > :21:47.games, while Celtic have lost only three domestic matches all season.
:21:48. > :21:49.The question is, whose impressive statistics will be enhanced tonight?
:21:50. > :21:52.And full coverage of the match is on BBC Radio Scotland,
:21:53. > :21:57.The radio programme is underway already.
:21:58. > :22:00.The Rangers manager Mark Warburton says he's not concerned
:22:01. > :22:04.about what his Championship rivals are doing, after watching his team
:22:05. > :22:06.retain their eight-point lead at the top.
:22:07. > :22:09.Andy Halliday was the goal hero for Rangers in a hard-fought win
:22:10. > :22:13.Nearest challengers Hibernian kept up the chase with the same scoreline
:22:14. > :22:16.at Morton - recent loan signing Anthony Stokes the man
:22:17. > :22:23.After Celtic's top of the table Premiership match against Aberdeen
:22:24. > :22:26.they face an altogether different challenge.
:22:27. > :22:29.The Lowland league side East Kilbride
:22:30. > :22:36.If the part timers from South Lanarkshire win,
:22:37. > :22:39.it would be the biggest upset in the world of football.
:22:40. > :22:47.It would also make them ?5,000 per man richer.
:22:48. > :22:59.While he is doing this... They are doing that. And when he is doing
:23:00. > :23:03.that... He is doing this. Such is the life of a part-time footballer.
:23:04. > :23:08.This is where I work during the week, from quarter past six until
:23:09. > :23:13.quarter past two on back of the road from Monday to Friday and there in
:23:14. > :23:21.the nights, and on a Saturday. Not this weekend. Anton and team-mate
:23:22. > :23:24.Jordan are playing on a Sunday, when East Kilbride face Celtic. We are
:23:25. > :23:29.trying to embrace it, really, because it is a once-in-a-lifetime
:23:30. > :23:33.opportunity. The kitchen company they work for is promising to pay
:23:34. > :23:39.every East Kilbride layer 5,000 pounds if they beat the Scottish
:23:40. > :23:43.champions. -- player. Money shouldn't be an incentive, you are
:23:44. > :23:46.champions. -- player. Money into football to enjoy it and get as
:23:47. > :23:49.high as you can. Football is a funny game, 11 against 11 at the end of
:23:50. > :23:53.the day, you never know what can happen. And East Kilbride win may be
:23:54. > :24:01.fanciful but in the town, there are some believers. We are playing
:24:02. > :24:08.Celtic, but we will see. It is a one off, but let's hope they win, Celtic
:24:09. > :24:13.playing rubbish. I think 2-0. Even if they pull off the biggest upset
:24:14. > :24:20.in the history of Scottish football, come Monday morning, Anton and
:24:21. > :24:22.George Jordan will be back making kitchen units.
:24:23. > :24:24.Some new sports pundits there, get them on!
:24:25. > :24:26.An unfinished documentary about the Highlands -
:24:27. > :24:29.begun in the '50s - is to be completed and and given a premiere.
:24:30. > :24:32.It was made by a group of film-makers who ran out of money,
:24:33. > :24:35.but 60 years on, it will, at last, be shown on the big screen.
:24:36. > :24:45.Our arts correspondent Pauline McLean reports.
:24:46. > :24:55.Lost Treasure examines the changing face of the Highlands in the 1950s.
:24:56. > :25:03.The most ambitious programme to date for a film collective based in
:25:04. > :25:08.Glasgow. Just a sheep farm, a bog... But the film was never finished, the
:25:09. > :25:13.project abandoned when the group ran out of money and forgotten until
:25:14. > :25:19.film Festival director Matt Lloyd contacted the Scottish film at grid
:25:20. > :25:24.archive. Not only did they have all of that footage sat there that as
:25:25. > :25:31.far as we know hadn't been used in any form, they also had the original
:25:32. > :25:37.script. So, really, I was really keen to bring this film and footage
:25:38. > :25:42.to the light of day. The script meant they could not only edited the
:25:43. > :25:48.film but create a new soundtrack. You can guess what mood they were
:25:49. > :25:51.after and although that mood might involve using different music now,
:25:52. > :25:56.it does give you a pointer towards the sort of tone that they would
:25:57. > :26:00.like to have had over that particular part of the script. It is
:26:01. > :26:04.like a sort of phantom director that is not in the room with you but is
:26:05. > :26:08.in the script to help you along and guide you. And while the original
:26:09. > :26:13.film-makers may not be around to see the premiere and live score, it is
:26:14. > :26:18.hoped some of their families will. Maybe there are children and
:26:19. > :26:21.grandchildren that we can contact or might hear about this and come out
:26:22. > :26:24.of the woodwork and maybe there was more footage that was shot. As far
:26:25. > :26:32.as we know, this is all the footage we have but there may be more reels
:26:33. > :26:36.in someone's garage somewhere. And maybe there is a sequel to this
:26:37. > :26:39.aptly named Lost Treasure. Now here's Andrew Kerr
:26:40. > :26:49.with details of Scotland 2016. We will have expert analysis on
:26:50. > :26:54.today's budget debate as the fight rages over proposed tax hikes.
:26:55. > :27:00.European arguments escalate in the House of Commons, we hear from those
:27:01. > :27:06.in favour of in and out. And up, up under way, more on the story of the
:27:07. > :27:07.space rocket. That is Scotland 2016 tonight.
:27:08. > :27:10.A nicer day for some of us weatherwise, here's Gillian
:27:11. > :27:17.Hopefully you made the most of the sunshine, that is all I will say.
:27:18. > :27:20.Good evening, it was a lovely day the most of us compared to what we
:27:21. > :27:25.have had, lots of scenes like this one sent in by one of our weather
:27:26. > :27:28.Watchers, but it is set to go downhill. Most of us are starting
:27:29. > :27:34.the night dry, temperatures falling away quite rapidly, a few wintry
:27:35. > :27:39.showers for the Northern Isles and into the wintry air, a weather
:27:40. > :27:42.front, so turning wintry. For central and southern Scotland, the
:27:43. > :27:47.snow mainly confined to the hills but for Perthshire Northwoods, we
:27:48. > :27:50.could see some wet snow is, and accumulations on higher level roads.
:27:51. > :27:54.It could be short lived because we are pulling in milder air and by the
:27:55. > :27:57.end of the night, up to five or six Celsius on the West Coast and it is
:27:58. > :28:02.an indication of what is to come because during tomorrow, the warm
:28:03. > :28:04.front works its way steadily eastwards, introducing milder air
:28:05. > :28:08.but also introducing a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain. Most of it
:28:09. > :28:13.will be light and patchy, but certainly amounting to a grey day
:28:14. > :28:24.compared to what we had today. So this is the picture
:28:25. > :28:27.around three o'clock, drizzle for the southern uplands, the central
:28:28. > :28:29.belt and up into the central highlands. Quite persistent at this
:28:30. > :28:31.stage for Aberdeenshire and the North Highlands, with Shetland
:28:32. > :28:34.bearing best in terms of weather, fine day here. Temperatures more
:28:35. > :28:39.like four or five Celsius. Into the evening, the rain does get up to
:28:40. > :28:42.Shetland and elsewhere across the country, it stays cloudy and damp
:28:43. > :28:44.and the rain is most persistent across western Scotland. Another
:28:45. > :28:47.relatively mild night but then we head into Friday and it is all
:28:48. > :28:52.change once again as this cold front works its way across the country, so
:28:53. > :28:56.eventually it will turn colder through the day and we will also see
:28:57. > :28:59.some heavy rain with this one, particularly for West and south-west
:29:00. > :29:04.Scotland and a yellow warning from the Met Office, meaning be aware,
:29:05. > :29:07.because it could lead to issues with localised flooding and hazardous
:29:08. > :29:11.driving conditions, becoming windy with the wind is touching Gale force
:29:12. > :29:14.around the coast. The rain clears the Saturday with a bright start,
:29:15. > :29:17.wet and windy for the south-west later on. That is the forecast.
:29:18. > :29:18.Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.
:29:19. > :29:21.MSPs have rejected an increase in Scottish income tax from April.
:29:22. > :29:24.Labour had called for a penny increase in tax at all levels,
:29:25. > :29:34.But in a vote at Holyrood a majority of MSPs said no to that -
:29:35. > :29:39.I'll be back with the headlines at 8-- and the late bulletin just