:00:18. > :00:23.The women's prison at Cornton Vale is to close, with prisoners moved
:00:24. > :00:31.It's the first stage of what ministers say will be
:00:32. > :00:34.a transformation in the way Scotland deals with women in custody.
:00:35. > :00:42.Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Reevel Alderson.
:00:43. > :00:51.The government plans to close Scotland's only women's prison in a
:00:52. > :00:57.radical overhaul for female offenders. A typical story, Sarah is
:00:58. > :01:01.receiving help at a centre in Glasgow to help with her drug and
:01:02. > :01:07.alcohol addictions which led her to commit crime after crime. I am
:01:08. > :01:14.different. Your feelings and emotions come back. I am really
:01:15. > :01:18.confident in myself. I have a lot of respect for myself now as well. I
:01:19. > :01:24.didn't have any of that before. Could you see yourself going back to
:01:25. > :01:30.prison? No. That is the past, definitely in my past. Currently,
:01:31. > :01:41.there are 412 women visitors in Scotland in four jails. 222 are held
:01:42. > :01:45.at Cornton Vale comment and now government plans will see just 80 in
:01:46. > :01:55.a new unit here, with a further hundred in community units around
:01:56. > :01:59.Scotland. This sits alongside... More women committing offences will
:02:00. > :02:03.be put into community programmes which are much more effective in
:02:04. > :02:04.tackling offending behaviour and reducing the risk of these
:02:05. > :02:10.individuals committing offences again in the future. This jail
:02:11. > :02:15.represents the old style the punishment. Today's announcement of
:02:16. > :02:19.the eventual closure of Cornton Vale marks a shift in the way that the
:02:20. > :02:23.particularly women offenders will be treated in the future. I'll make the
:02:24. > :02:27.most serious offenders will go to jail. More reminder to shock or
:02:28. > :02:31.minor offenders will be offered help and assistance to make sure that
:02:32. > :02:40.they don't commit any more offences and stay out of jail for good. One
:02:41. > :02:44.centre in Glasgow gives women help to break the cycle of reoffending so
:02:45. > :02:50.many find themselves in. We only have 12 beds here. This helps the
:02:51. > :02:55.women feel safe and secure and helps them actively in gauge in the
:02:56. > :03:01.programme and make better choices for their life and to move on with
:03:02. > :03:05.their recovery. Building on a new centre for serious women offenders
:03:06. > :03:08.is going to start soon, and it is going to be given a new name, a
:03:09. > :03:12.symbol of the new prison policy. MSPs have set the Scottish rate
:03:13. > :03:15.of income tax for the first time. They voted by 74 votes to 35
:03:16. > :03:19.to maintain it at the same level Labour and the liberal democrats
:03:20. > :03:23.argued for a penny increase to invest in education,
:03:24. > :03:25.but the Scottish Government proposed the rate for 2016-17
:03:26. > :03:27.should remain 10%. Here's our political
:03:28. > :03:40.editor Brian Taylor. Tonight's proceedings were genuinely
:03:41. > :03:43.historic. MSPs were voting to set a rate of income tax for Scotland, and
:03:44. > :03:49.the historic outcome, leave well alone. Aber and the Liberal
:03:50. > :03:53.Democrats argued for a 1% increase in income tax across the Banff, but
:03:54. > :03:58.the Conservatives agreed with the Scottish finance secretary who said
:03:59. > :04:02.it was the wrong approach to take and that it could damage those on
:04:03. > :04:07.relatively low incomes and would cause problems for the economy and
:04:08. > :04:11.problems for those who were struggling, and by majority,
:04:12. > :04:15.Parliament back to that approach, so your income tax will stay the same
:04:16. > :04:20.throughout the rest of the UK, but that is on the end of the matter.
:04:21. > :04:28.From next year, it is intended that... There will have to be a
:04:29. > :04:31.matching cut in the block that comes from Westminster and the
:04:32. > :04:35.negotiations of the level of that cut and how it is indexed for the
:04:36. > :04:45.future is causing an almighty row. Clarification published today refers
:04:46. > :04:50.to indexation. It is only mitigating the ?7 billion cut which is
:04:51. > :04:57.considered intrinsic to the Treasury. Tomorrow a revised
:04:58. > :05:02.proposal will be published, and meanwhile, the deadline that was
:05:03. > :05:05.meant to be sorted by tomorrow, it has slipped until next week,
:05:06. > :05:12.possibly the beginning of the week after. Much more negotiations come.
:05:13. > :05:15.-- much more negotiation to come. Scientists have discovered that
:05:16. > :05:18.a pod of whales stranded on the Fife coast had high concentrations
:05:19. > :05:21.of toxic chemicals that may have 31 pilot whales were beached
:05:22. > :05:34.between Anstruther and Pittenweem This is a very tricky question
:05:35. > :05:39.because there are loads of possibilities why they are stranded,
:05:40. > :05:44.but it could be with rising metals in the ocean, toxic elements in the
:05:45. > :05:51.ocean, this might be an additional toxic stress on these animals.
:05:52. > :05:54.Two thirds of children in Primary 1 are now learning a second language -
:05:55. > :05:56.The Scottish government wants every five-yea-
:05:57. > :06:04.old to have the chance within just four years.
:06:05. > :06:06.The Scottish government wants every five-year-
:06:07. > :06:08.old to have the chance within just four years.
:06:09. > :06:11.Our education correspondent Jamie McIvor has been to one primary
:06:12. > :06:13.school, where three extra languages are now taught.
:06:14. > :06:19.At this school, Spanish is part of everyday life for these children.
:06:20. > :06:22.The five-year-old in this class have been learning Spanish for a few
:06:23. > :06:34.months, and some of them really enjoyed the subject. At this age, it
:06:35. > :06:40.is easier for children to simply absorb any language. We come into
:06:41. > :06:44.school and greet each other in Spanish and the children in order
:06:45. > :06:49.their lunch in Spanish. They speak Spanish to different staff members
:06:50. > :06:53.and are you here that parents sometimes using the language of the
:06:54. > :06:59.playgrounds as well, which is lovely. By 2020, every primary one
:07:00. > :07:06.people should have this type of chance.
:07:07. > :07:13.Older children at this school also do French and Gaelic. Nationally,
:07:14. > :07:17.the government wants all primary children to experience two extra
:07:18. > :07:22.languages. It says there is good progress but there is more to do.
:07:23. > :07:26.Not every teacher will have had the opportunity or the occasion to teach
:07:27. > :07:31.a language in the class in primary, although more and more it is
:07:32. > :07:35.happening. It is about making sure that teachers have the confidence
:07:36. > :07:38.and the schools have enthusiasm and that there are the resources
:07:39. > :07:45.available that are needed. There is a fear that pressure on budgets cut
:07:46. > :07:50.hit education facilities across the country. There have been questions
:07:51. > :07:55.about some of the training that has been on offer and that it might not
:07:56. > :07:59.be adequate enough to deliver the quality. If this policy succeeds,
:08:00. > :08:14.what happens at this school might seem the norm in four years.
:08:15. > :08:19.Scientists have detected gravitational waves. It is the
:08:20. > :08:25.result of a huge international project with crucial development
:08:26. > :08:32.technology -- technology developed in Glasgow. This report contains
:08:33. > :08:37.some flash photography. It was the breakthrough 1.3 billion years in
:08:38. > :08:44.the making. We have detected gravitational waves, we did it. The
:08:45. > :08:48.announcement came from Washington but there were celebrations in
:08:49. > :08:52.Glasgow as well and here is why. More than 1 billion years ago, and a
:08:53. > :08:57.galaxy far away, something cataclysmic happened, to a massive
:08:58. > :09:03.black holes spiralled and collated, releasing the energy of 100 billion
:09:04. > :09:06.trillion suns. A Bert Einstein predicted something that big would
:09:07. > :09:13.create ripples in the fabric of space and time, gravitational waves,
:09:14. > :09:17.but getting from theory to prove has taken a century and a massive
:09:18. > :09:22.international effort. The ripples are so small that they squeeze space
:09:23. > :09:26.and time by less than the width of an Adam and to look for them a laser
:09:27. > :09:32.beam was sent at right angles. The beams were then beamed back
:09:33. > :09:35.together. Normally they cancel each other out, but when the ripple
:09:36. > :09:39.passed through planet Earth, one beam was stretched and the other
:09:40. > :09:43.squeeze, producing an interference pattern, the first direct detection
:09:44. > :09:53.of gravitational waves. Eventually, there were two detectors built. They
:09:54. > :09:58.are called advanced Lego. Key parts of the technology were built right
:09:59. > :10:05.here in Scotland. The sensitivity we need is phenomenal. The kind of
:10:06. > :10:10.precision has alluded us until now but we have achieved that greater
:10:11. > :10:17.precision because of various upgrades. Glasgow University was
:10:18. > :10:22.part of a UK consortium that has had a key role in making this upgrades
:10:23. > :10:26.happen. Here in the laboratory at Glasgow University were the first
:10:27. > :10:33.working gravity wave receivers in the country. They have been building
:10:34. > :10:36.wave detectors at the gravity of -- Glasgow University for half a
:10:37. > :10:41.century and now it is no longer ageing. We have seen the first
:10:42. > :10:46.observation of gravitational waves. We are at the same stage Galileo
:10:47. > :10:52.was. It means a completely new branch of science has just been
:10:53. > :11:02.born. Kenneth Scotland, the universe.
:11:03. > :11:05.Rugby and Scotland coach Vern Cotter has been forced into one change
:11:06. > :11:06.for Saturday's 6 nations clash with Wales.
:11:07. > :11:08.Saracens centre Duncan Taylor replaces Edinburgh's Matt Scott
:11:09. > :11:12.The team are hoping to avoid an eighth straight defeat
:11:13. > :11:14.in the tournament - but they haven't won
:11:15. > :11:28.Now for the weather. It is a cold one out there. A good deal of cloud
:11:29. > :11:31.and a scattering of showers, and across Scotland, temperatures are
:11:32. > :11:36.tumbling. Temperatures widely getting down below freezing and as
:11:37. > :11:41.low as minus seven in parts of the Highlands, where we have snow cover.
:11:42. > :11:45.A more organised band of showers pushing into the far north that will
:11:46. > :11:52.turn wintry evening to low levels by morning. There will be an ice risk
:11:53. > :11:56.across the country to start the day, so some tricky conditions. A yellow
:11:57. > :12:06.the eyewear warning for that band of the sale and sleet across the North.
:12:07. > :12:09.A risk of eyes for Northern Ireland's. Further south across
:12:10. > :12:13.England and Wales, bit more in the way of cloud, and a scattering of
:12:14. > :12:17.showers that will keep coming as we go through the day. Dry and bright
:12:18. > :12:20.weather for Southern and western Scotland as the day goes on
:12:21. > :12:25.tomorrow, but this wintry showers in the East, and a few centimetres of
:12:26. > :12:29.snowfall at low levels, ten cm or more, over the hills of stops in
:12:30. > :12:35.tricky conditions on the roads. Feeling cool. Feeling quite wrought
:12:36. > :12:40.with a strong easterly wind across the North. Tomorrow evening it turns
:12:41. > :12:46.cold again and the band of wintry weather sinks suffers across
:12:47. > :12:50.Scotland, getting into the borders. A deep area of low pressure tracking
:12:51. > :12:54.to the south of us which will bring so light and windy weather into
:12:55. > :12:58.England and Wales as we head into Saturday, but north of the border,
:12:59. > :13:01.these easterly winds will be introduced which will bring fairly
:13:02. > :13:07.frequent showers to South East Scotland in particular. These are
:13:08. > :13:10.showers will be wintry and there will be some significant
:13:11. > :13:16.accumulations of snow. Further north, lots of bright weather, and
:13:17. > :13:19.it will be chilly. The best of the sunshine on Sunday will be on the
:13:20. > :13:23.Southwest. That is the forecast. Thank you.
:13:24. > :13:28.Our next update is during Breakfast at 6:25 tomorrow morning.
:13:29. > :13:32.But, from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around