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The full re-opening of the Forth Road Bridge has been | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Heavy lorries have been banned from the bridge since it was forced | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
to close in December, when a crack was found | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Cars and lighter vehicles were allowed back after three weeks. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
The Road Haulage Association says it's disappointed by the decision | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
For the HGV drivers forced to take the long way round, | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
progress of a sort but not what they would be hoping for. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
The freedom of the Forth Road Bridge by mid February | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
Instead, the revised offer is limited night-time access | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
The HGV trial begins at 11 o'clock tonight. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
What it means in practice is that lorries will be stacked up | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
at the south end of the bridge, and allowed to cross | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
They will be released at 30 second intervals, | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
no more than six at a time on the bridge, and only allowed | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
The recent bad weather is one reason for the delay, | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
but engineers also discovered the same faults which closed | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
the bridge in the first place, at two other locations, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
The fact that we introduced the phase one splints mitigates | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
the situation, however, the links are still under stress | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
during full traffic loading, hence the plan to introduce | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Less congestion since cars were reduced. | :01:37. | :01:51. | |
They say they want compensation from the Scottish Government. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
It becomes increasingly problematic when you are trying to price | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
for tenders, particularly ones which are coming out at the end | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
of February, beginning of March, when we were told | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
I appreciate the disruption and economic impact it causes | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
to the HGV sector, but it is important that we make | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
the right decisions based on the safety of the bridge | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
MPs and engineers alike say that by mid-March the work will be done. | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
Drivers are being asked for their cooperation and patience. | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
An Edinburgh lawyer has been cleared of causing the deaths of three | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
people, including his wife and seven-year-old daughter, | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
Andrew Houston was at the wheel of his car on the A9 near Newtonmore | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
when it crossed the road into the path of another car. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Craig Anderson reports from Inverness Sheriff Court. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
The horrific accident happened on a July evening in 2013, | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
when Andrew Houston was driving his family south | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Witnesses said his car suddenly veered onto the wrong side | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
of the road, smashing into a Jeep driven by a German tourist. | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
Her husband was killed, so too was Mr Houston's wife Abigail | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
Mr Houston had faced a charge of causing death by careless | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
driving, but a jury found him not guilty of that charge, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
instead convicting him of the lesser charge of careless driving. | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
We are shocked at this verdict and believe justice has not been | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
We do not bear any hatred for Mr Houston. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
I did not want him to go to prison, but we expected him to be found | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
guilty and we are convinced this tragedy could have been avoided. | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
The crash seriously injured Mr Houston's other daughter Lily. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
She spent considerable time in intensive care. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
During the trial, the solicitor advocate was visibly upset | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Mr Hewson made no comment as he left court. | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
He has been fined ?1,000 and banned from driving for a year. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
But as the trial continued, the QC told the court | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
that he would forever carry the burden of guilt and distress. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Two people have been injured in an accident at the SSE | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
It happened earlier this evening at the Nitro Motocross arena show. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
It's thought they were audience members who'd volunteered to take | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
The Scottish Secretary David Mundell is suggesting the Scottish | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
government are "chancing their arm" in budget negotiations | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
Talks under way are aiming to ensure that the cut in the money Scotland | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
receives as its share of UK taxes is matched by the cash raised | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
by new tax powers being offered to Holyrood. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Scottish Ministers are dismissing his comments, | :05:10. | :05:10. | |
warning the current offer would cut billions from the amount of money | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
the Scottish government has to spend. | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
This from our political editor Brian Taylor. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
The trade is a cut in the block grant from Westminster. | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
The First Minister says she wants an agreement, | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
but Scottish Government sources say the current offer would add up | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
to ?3 billion of Scotland's budget over a decade. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
That means, she told the Scottish Conservative | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
I will stand up for Scotland in these talks. | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
I will not accept the deal that would give Scotland more powers | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
but only at a big cost for our budget. | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
If Ruth Davidson wants the deal as well, can I suggest she gets | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
onto the phone to her colleagues today and tell them to stop arguing | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
for a deal that would strip billions of pounds out of Scotland's budget? | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
Treasury officials spent the day at St Andrews House trying | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
John Swinney has led the talks with the Treasury. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
UK ministers say he should now back down. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
I don't blame John Swinney for pushing his luck and saying | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
I want to keep the Barnett Formula and any extra money we generate | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
in Scotland, I did want to take on any extra risks | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
and if there is any extra money generated | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
in England I will have a share of that as well. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Perfectly reasonable to chance his arm. | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
The next round of talks is on Monday. | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
Business rates will be cut for the Tata steel plants | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
at Clydebridge and Dalzell in Lanarkshire, in order to make | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
them more appealing to potential buyers. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
The Scottish government will legislate to give the rates | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
relief to the plants for the next financial year. | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
A bill to improve the lives of carers was been passed | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Young carers met the minister in charge of the bill | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
It's designed to make local authorities give more support | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
Some of the young people explained how their duties impact | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
I sometimes will be late for school just to get to my brothers ready. | :07:22. | :07:34. | |
I sometimes will be late for school And sometimes my mum would help, but | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
she has not been keeping well. I And sometimes my mum would help, but | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
repeating a year at school because of it and I can't concentrate when | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
I'm there or do any work. So it is affecting things. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Around a dozen GPs have been appointed to long-term vacant posts | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
in the Highlands and Islands as a result of a high-profile | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
NHS Highland has struggled to recruit and retain doctors. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Faced with the costs of hiring locums, the health board used | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
a marketing company to help attract applicants. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
MSPs have rejected a bill to ban alcohol advertising within 200 | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Labour's Dr Richard Simpson also proposed marking cans and bottles | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
But Ministers argued the issues raised would be better dealt | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
with by the government's own strategy to tackle alcohol | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
misuse and the legislation was thrown out. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
Scotland's latest tennis champion has arrived back home and says he's | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
overwhelmed by the response he's had to his win at the Australian Open | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Helensburgh's Gordon Reid won the singles wheelchair title | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Even a grand slam winner has to help their brother | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
with the dishes, especially the morning after | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
A lot of my friends and family came round and surprised me when I got | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
It was great to share that with everyone else. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, our champion, Gordon Reed! | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
We are used to seeing Gordon and his wheelchair on court, | :09:13. | :09:22. | |
I can walk around a lot of places back home. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
I don't have the strength in my legs to run and play sport in my feet, | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
that is why I need the wheelchair for wheelchair tennis. | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
I go to interviews and schools and people expect the wheelchair | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
I've walked in, it takes them a few minutes to understand what is going | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
on. Gordon was sports mad | :09:53. | :09:53. | |
from a very young age, winning cups for his tennis, | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
that is his sister, This photo was taken weeks | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
before he contracted It was hard for him | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
to be lying in a bed because he was so into sport | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
and we were quite an active family. Once he got the opportunity | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
to play wheelchair tennis, he absolutely loved it | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
from playing tennis before. It has been hard work and for Gordon | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
there is more gym training We have to do more gym training | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
for upper body strength to have the strength to push | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
the wheelchair around on court. In an arm wrestling competition, | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
could you take on Andy Murray? I will not say anything on camera | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
in case I get challenged, Wimbledon and the Paralympics in Rio | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
are all to come for him and he has plans to compete in | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
Rotterdam next week. I did not even know that wheelchair | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
tennis existed at the grand slams, so to come here 11 years later | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
and be sitting here as the champion with that trophy, | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
it is quite incredible. It has been a brilliant | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
journey so far. Now the weather outlook | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
for tonight and tomorrow. Some wet and windy but weather to | :11:10. | :11:23. | |
come across the UK. The issues with frost honoured. Across the south, | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
the rain might be light and patchy but something more persistent across | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
Shetland and the rain turning heavier and persistent over the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
West, Highlands and Argyll. There's winds becoming strong along the | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
coast, but it'll be my alter. Tomorrow, it is a mild start but a | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
grey one. The rain goes eastwards, always heaviest in the West, and in | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
particular the south-west where we have a yellow be aware warning from | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
the Met Office. Difficult road conditions, perhaps localised | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
flooding. A little bit of brightness in the east, but it'll be fairly | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
short lived with the cloud filling in as the rain continues south and | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
eastwards across the country. So brighter but colder conditions in | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
the West. Some heavy rain for Cumbria with 40 millimetres of rain. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
In the south, light and patchy but the winds will be a feature, | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
touching go force around the West Coast. Through the evening the front | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
continues at progress southwards bringing heavy rain for Wales. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Across Scotland, some snow on the back edge of that weather front as | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
cooler feeds in across the back edge of that weather front as | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
with snow confined to the high ground and wintry showers for the | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
north-west Highlands with a risk of ice into Saturday. On Saturday, | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
there is wet and windy weather. Very poor conditions for the South of | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
England. Gale force winds, heavy rain, and for Scotland, another | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
blustery day with rain tracking northwards. The best of the | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
brightness over the Northern Isles. Temperatures inching down. Cooler on | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Sunday, too, staying unsettled with strong winds. That is the forecast. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Our next update is during Breakfast at 6:25am tomorrow morning. | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
But, from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around | :13:24. | :13:27. |