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:00:09. > :00:13.A tragic week in Scotland's mountains as three men die
:00:14. > :00:17.The search for two more missing climbers on Ben Nevis continues.
:00:18. > :00:20.Also on the programme, police are investigating the death
:00:21. > :00:23.of a five-month-old baby girl after an incident at a Fife flat.
:00:24. > :00:26.We're out on the streets of Edinburgh and Port Glasgow
:00:27. > :00:32.taking the temperature of our attitudes to Europe.
:00:33. > :00:34.And, five more Celtic fans are arrested for their behaviour
:00:35. > :00:39.at the Scottish Cup tie at Stranraer last month.
:00:40. > :00:42.The fossils from this Borders river that help us understand a missing
:00:43. > :01:00.Three people have died and two are missing, after being caught
:01:01. > :01:04.in severe winter weather on Scotland's hills in recent days.
:01:05. > :01:06.It's once again highlighted the dangers of climbing and walking
:01:07. > :01:13.Two men in their 70s are now known to have died
:01:14. > :01:21.after being stranded in freezing conditions on the Southern Uplands,
:01:22. > :01:24.and a climber died in an avalanche near Spean Bridge.
:01:25. > :01:27.Meanwhile the avalanche risk meant rescue teams were today unable
:01:28. > :01:29.to resume a ground search for a young couple from Yorkshire
:01:30. > :01:41.All this week's incidents have led some to question why people would
:01:42. > :01:45.venture into the hills in winter conditions. The authorities insist
:01:46. > :01:49.there's plenty of information to help keep them safe. I certainly
:01:50. > :01:55.feel there is sufficient information out there for the climbers and
:01:56. > :02:00.participants in outdoor sports in our hills. What I would say and urge
:02:01. > :02:04.anybody taking to the hills is to pay particular attention to the
:02:05. > :02:09.relevant weather forecast for that area and for the hills, where they
:02:10. > :02:14.are going to be working at altitude, and not the ground forecast. This
:02:15. > :02:22.afternoon a rescue helicopter made a further sweep of Ben Nevis looking
:02:23. > :02:28.for any trace of Rachel Slater and Stuart from Bradford. They called
:02:29. > :02:33.for anyone who may have seen the pair climbing over the weekend to
:02:34. > :02:36.get in touch. Scotland's mountains are increasingly popular with
:02:37. > :02:40.climbers and walkers but the same conditions, snow and ice which
:02:41. > :02:44.attract so many people, can lead to tragedy. It is really hard when
:02:45. > :02:48.people are on holiday and they've travelled a long way or made plans
:02:49. > :02:53.to do something and have got excited about going to a particular place.
:02:54. > :02:58.But most importantly you have not to stick to those plans in if you don't
:02:59. > :03:03.feel comfortable. You've got to have a flexible plan and have different
:03:04. > :03:06.options. Mountain experts will never try and dissuade people from
:03:07. > :03:10.venturing out into the hills but they do insist that anyone heading
:03:11. > :03:14.for the great outdoors, especially in winters, is experienced and
:03:15. > :03:18.trained in winter climbing techniques and that they fully
:03:19. > :03:25.inform themselves about the weather and avalanche forecasts.
:03:26. > :03:27.Police are investigating the death of a five-month-old baby
:03:28. > :03:31.Hayley Davidson was admitted to hospital on Sunday,
:03:32. > :03:33.after officers went to a property in Buckhaven in response to a call
:03:34. > :03:38.She died yesterday at Edinburgh's Royal Hospital
:03:39. > :03:43.Police are now awaiting the results of a postmortem.
:03:44. > :03:56.Outside her home in Buckhaven people arrived to lay flowers for Hayley
:03:57. > :04:00.Davidson. The get well soon messages replaced by messages of shock and
:04:01. > :04:04.sadness after locals in the Fife town discovered the critically ill
:04:05. > :04:08.five month old had died. Smiling for the camera she was described by her
:04:09. > :04:12.family as a beautiful baby girl loved by everyone who met her. It
:04:13. > :04:18.was Sundays lunch time that police first arrived, responding to a
:04:19. > :04:22.report of concern for a child. They discovered Hayley seriously injured.
:04:23. > :04:25.Hayley was taken by ambulance to the sick Children's Hospital in
:04:26. > :04:29.Edinburgh. She was critically ill and staff here cared for her for
:04:30. > :04:36.three days until yesterday afternoon, when she passed away. Her
:04:37. > :04:46.mother's flat remains cordoned off along with another property a few
:04:47. > :04:48.doors down as police activity continues. As they await the results
:04:49. > :04:51.of a post-mortem examination detectives are conducting a robust
:04:52. > :04:59.investigation, describing it as an extremely tragic and sensitive case.
:05:00. > :05:02.David Cameron is in Brussels, trying to agree a renegotiation
:05:03. > :05:04.package before the country votes on whether to leave or stay
:05:05. > :05:08.Is Scotland more likely to opt to remain than other parts
:05:09. > :05:14.Our political correspondent Nick Eardley has been out
:05:15. > :05:22.Hundreds of thousands of Europeans visit Scotland every year. They make
:05:23. > :05:27.a substantial contribution to the tourism sector. The ones we spoke to
:05:28. > :05:32.in Edinburgh seem happy to be here. Yeah, I like it. It's a nice place.
:05:33. > :05:38.Are you enjoying being in Scotland Yes, it's a bit cold. But you're
:05:39. > :05:41.having a good time? Yes. It is very good, the place. Only bad weather.
:05:42. > :05:47.Most of Scotland's main political parties support remaining in the EU.
:05:48. > :05:51.Only Ukip argue for an exit. Campaigners from other parties also
:05:52. > :05:55.back leaving. Beyond the political bubble that support appears to
:05:56. > :06:00.continue. Polls suggest most Scots are happy to raise a glass to
:06:01. > :06:03.continued membership. There is no doubt Scotland is markedly more
:06:04. > :06:10.pro-European, markedly more likely to say it is going to vote to remain
:06:11. > :06:16.than is the UK as a whole. It is of the order of 12-14 points or so to
:06:17. > :06:19.vote to remain than you will find in England or UK-wide opinion polls.
:06:20. > :06:24.What is it that Scots are apparently so enthusiastic about when it comes
:06:25. > :06:30.to the EU? We went to ask. I'm going to vote to remain in the EU. I think
:06:31. > :06:34.things like the equal rights Act, maternity pay are big issues for me
:06:35. > :06:38.at the moment. I don't like the administration for one but I do like
:06:39. > :06:42.the ability to work together. We've been ripped off for years, with the
:06:43. > :06:47.way they treat us, the money they took off us, the human rights bill.
:06:48. > :06:54.Are people as keen on the European journey across the country? The
:06:55. > :06:58.Ferguson shipyard on the Clyde lost contracts after being forced to
:06:59. > :07:04.tender under EU law. We put our questions here. I would rather we
:07:05. > :07:10.stayed in it. No, it will make us skint. Pardon? It will make us
:07:11. > :07:15.skint. To leave? To stay in. I think it will be better for us if we stay
:07:16. > :07:20.in the EU, become separate, if you know what I mean. Shetland was one
:07:21. > :07:25.of just two areas to vote against membership of the European Economic
:07:26. > :07:30.Community in 1975. Has the outlook here changed since the last
:07:31. > :07:35.referendum? It is a bureaucratic mess. I hope we vote to leave Europe
:07:36. > :07:38.and I will take my chances. It is not like everything will be
:07:39. > :07:44.wonderful the day we leave, I'm not naive. It could be worse for a time
:07:45. > :07:49.but I'm prepared the take that risk. My first thought is I would rather
:07:50. > :07:55.stay, but I don't feel strongly either way yet. I think integration
:07:56. > :07:59.is good, if we all work together, but on terms that every side is
:08:00. > :08:04.agreed on. How Scotland and the rest of the UK votes won't be known until
:08:05. > :08:07.the referendum itself. Only then will the country's future direction
:08:08. > :08:30.be clear. How fossils found in this Borders
:08:31. > :08:33.river could explain how life moved In sport: more Celtic fans
:08:34. > :08:37.are arrested after an investigation into sectarian chanting
:08:38. > :08:39.at a Scottish Cup match. Are Glasgow Warriors
:08:40. > :08:54.about to go synthetic? A steel company interested in buying
:08:55. > :08:57.Tata's mothballed works in Lanarkshire has told the BBC
:08:58. > :08:59.they could still have a future. Liberty is looking at
:09:00. > :09:01.using recycled steel Hundreds of people's jobs rely
:09:02. > :09:06.on a buyer being found Aileen Clarke is outside
:09:07. > :09:12.Dalzell for us tonight. Liberty threw their hat into the
:09:13. > :09:15.ring for these steel plants last month and since then we understand
:09:16. > :09:18.there've been several positive discussions with them about the
:09:19. > :09:22.possibility of them taking over the plant here and also the collide
:09:23. > :09:26.bridge plant. This is a company that's recently turned round a steel
:09:27. > :09:31.plant down in Wales. The Newport plant. They took over, and now that
:09:32. > :09:37.plant is rolling steel once more. They are clearly a company with an
:09:38. > :09:41.idea what they want to do in the steel industry in future. When the
:09:42. > :09:46.BBC spoke to them they weren't specific about their plans for these
:09:47. > :09:49.plants but they gave us an idea of how their vision is developing for
:09:50. > :09:53.the part they wish to play in the steel industry in Britain in the
:09:54. > :09:59.come years. We are talking about recycling steel from domestic scrap,
:10:00. > :10:07.selling products made, value-added projects made in the UK market. Cap
:10:08. > :10:16.has no price, it follows steel. If you can recycle that into steel with
:10:17. > :10:20.a sustainable energy source and add value and feed automobile or space
:10:21. > :10:26.or aeroindustries, it has nothing to do with the price movement of the
:10:27. > :10:31.commodity. Any deal that could be done for these plants can't come
:10:32. > :10:35.quick enough. There was 270 employed here between the two plants. I
:10:36. > :10:40.understand now there's only around 50 of our workforce being kept on.
:10:41. > :10:44.Money has been put in from the Scottish Government as a fund to
:10:45. > :10:48.keep people employed here, so it does retain that skill should they
:10:49. > :10:52.find a buyer for these plants. But any deal people here would be seen
:10:53. > :10:56.to see coming quickly. I understand from the union here they do believe
:10:57. > :11:01.that Liberty has the right credentials to make a go of it here.
:11:02. > :11:05.I think they like the cut of their jib very much, that's theism
:11:06. > :11:09.pressing I'm getting. There is another meeting of the steel task
:11:10. > :11:13.force scheduled for next Thursday. There are high hopes in Motherwell
:11:14. > :11:17.there might be positive news about the future of these plants even
:11:18. > :11:19.before people sit down for that meeting next Thursday. Aileen, thank
:11:20. > :11:29.you. It's been reported that
:11:30. > :11:31.a 15-year-old boy from Glasgow has been arrested for allegedly hacking
:11:32. > :11:34.into US government computers. It's understood the FBI had been
:11:35. > :11:36.involved in an investigation into hacking, and the boy
:11:37. > :11:38.was questioned earlier this week They've confirmed that a teenager
:11:39. > :11:43.was arrested, following the search of a property in Glasgow on Tuesday
:11:44. > :11:45.under the Computer Misuse Act. He has since been released and has
:11:46. > :11:47.been reported to the Secondary schools in
:11:48. > :11:52.West Dunbartonshire were closed today, because of a strike
:11:53. > :11:54.by some teachers over cuts. It's the second time in just over
:11:55. > :11:57.a month that members of the EIS union in the area have walked out
:11:58. > :12:00.over plans to cut the number The union has called council
:12:01. > :12:04.proposals to solve The council argues that the system
:12:05. > :12:08.it's proposing is similar to one Scottish prosecutors are attempting
:12:09. > :12:16.to extradite a Filipino man in connection with the death
:12:17. > :12:18.of a teenager blackmailed Daniel Perry from Dunfermline took
:12:19. > :12:24.his own life, after being targeted Now a warrant has been issued
:12:25. > :12:29.for the arrest of the gang leader. Our home affairs correspondent,
:12:30. > :12:31.Reevel Alderson, is here now. Remind us of the background
:12:32. > :12:46.to this story. The chain of events began in 2013
:12:47. > :12:52.when 17-year-old Daniel Perry fell to his death from the Forth Road
:12:53. > :12:57.Bridge. A year later Interpol raided premises in the Philippine capital
:12:58. > :13:00.Manila where they discovered blackmailers were operating an
:13:01. > :13:04.industrial-scale scam. Daniel thought he was in online
:13:05. > :13:09.conversation with an American girl. In fact he was in conversation with
:13:10. > :13:12.scammers posing as this woman. They say that they were recording his
:13:13. > :13:16.conversations and that they would release details of them to his
:13:17. > :13:21.family and friends unless he paid them money. He said he didn't have
:13:22. > :13:26.any money. In which case they said, you should kill yourself. The
:13:27. > :13:30.Interpol raid on the Filipino premises found operators in call
:13:31. > :13:34.centre-style booths with white boards on the walls showing exactly
:13:35. > :13:37.how much money each operator was making from the scams. It is a
:13:38. > :13:43.desperately sad case. What's happening now? Following that raid
:13:44. > :13:47.Scottish Police examined some of the computers seized and believe they've
:13:48. > :13:51.established a link with these premises and Daniel's death. The
:13:52. > :13:56.Crown Office has issued a warrant for the arrest of the man in charge
:13:57. > :14:01.of the premises, a gang leader. They want his extradition to Scotland.
:14:02. > :14:04.The problem is he and two others have been charged by the Filipino
:14:05. > :14:08.authorities, they are awaiting trial, they are on bail. Once that
:14:09. > :14:15.is over, the Scottish authorities may well be able to formalise the
:14:16. > :14:19.extradition proceedings but it may take some time. Thank you.
:14:20. > :14:21.A look at other stories from across the country.
:14:22. > :14:23.A fundraising campaign has been launched to help the family
:14:24. > :14:28.Jack Donaldson was born in April last year with a rare heart defect,
:14:29. > :14:35.Orkney Charitable Trust has set up a fund to support the family,
:14:36. > :14:38.who have to make the long journey back and forth
:14:39. > :14:44.Street lights on the Western Isles could be switched off for six months
:14:45. > :14:48.of the year to help the local authority save money.
:14:49. > :14:50.The council said it would be examining the impact of turning off
:14:51. > :14:54.The idea was suggested after councillors
:14:55. > :14:56.agreed where ?1.4 million of savings would be made
:14:57. > :15:05.Plans that would have seen people in Orkney's smaller isles have
:15:06. > :15:07.to travel to Kirkwall to register births, deaths and marriages
:15:08. > :15:12.Moves to phase out the home-based registrars service
:15:13. > :15:16.But a consultation found islanders to be overwhelmingly in favour
:15:17. > :15:23.A rare medieval Scottish manuscript that was missing for 300
:15:24. > :15:27.years has been bought by the National Library of Scotland.
:15:28. > :15:31.The prayer book was written in Scotland 700 years ago
:15:32. > :15:33.at the Sweetheart Abbey near Dumfries.
:15:34. > :15:36.Very few such religious manuscripts exist as so many were destroyed
:15:37. > :15:50.We think now that only 1% of all it will urge cal Catholic manuscripts
:15:51. > :15:54.survive to this day and many of these are in fragments only, so for
:15:55. > :16:03.this book to have come through all this as an entire volume is quite an
:16:04. > :16:03.achievement and will tell us a lot about Scottish ecclesiastical
:16:04. > :16:08.history. A record number of people visited
:16:09. > :16:10.Scotland's national The three Edinburgh attractions -
:16:11. > :16:15.the National, the Modern Art and the Portrait galleries -
:16:16. > :16:17.saw visitor numbers increase by just Organisers say the surge is down
:16:18. > :16:21.to two major exhibitions featuring and Pop Art pioneer,
:16:22. > :16:25.Roy Lichtenstein. Let's get the sports
:16:26. > :16:31.news now, from David. Five more Celtic fans have been
:16:32. > :16:33.arrested for their behaviour at the Scottish Cup tie
:16:34. > :16:35.at Stranraer last month. The investigation came into
:16:36. > :16:39.sectarian singing. The news comes as Celtic wait
:16:40. > :16:42.to find out if they face punishment for fans using flares at a match
:16:43. > :16:55.against the Turkish side Fenerbahce. Five more fans were arrested in
:16:56. > :17:00.relation to behaviour in Celtic's Scottish cup match against Armagh.
:17:01. > :17:03.Four fans were arrested during the game following reports of sectarian
:17:04. > :17:10.chanting and uses both bombs and players. After the game, Celtic and
:17:11. > :17:13.three fans. -- use of smoke bombs. We are trying to eliminate it and
:17:14. > :17:16.the individuals but I will stress again that the majority are
:17:17. > :17:21.fantastic. It is just that tiny minority we have to weed out. The
:17:22. > :17:25.fourth time any year, Celtic are facing a new way first action for
:17:26. > :17:29.fan misbehaviour, the use of Blairs in a match against Fenerbahce. That
:17:30. > :17:34.case was heard today but no verdict as yet. Recently, the club were
:17:35. > :17:41.fined ?7,300 for trouble away at Dinamo Zagreb and had to paid ?9,500
:17:42. > :17:45.for two charges of misconduct by supporters against Inter Milan. Of
:17:46. > :17:47.course, Celtic are not the only club afflicted by fan misbehaviour but
:17:48. > :17:49.how to deal with it is the burning issue.
:17:50. > :17:51.It's back to the future for the League Cup,
:17:52. > :17:53.the final of which will once again be played before Christmas
:17:54. > :17:57.Make a note of this in your tablet or mobile.
:17:58. > :18:00.The final will be on Sunday 27th November, the first time it's been
:18:01. > :18:08.Aberdeen have suffered another blow to their hopes of winning a first
:18:09. > :18:14.Winger Jonny Hayes will be out for about a month
:18:15. > :18:18.He picked it up in their 3-1 defeat by Inverness on Monday
:18:19. > :18:20.and was substituted during the first half.
:18:21. > :18:22.His manager, however, feels he has enough strength
:18:23. > :18:36.We have lost important players at different stages of the season. We
:18:37. > :18:39.have to cope with that. There's no point in getting too down about it.
:18:40. > :18:43.We know the importance of Jonny Hayes but it is important that
:18:44. > :18:46.somebody else as an opportunity, maybe one or two who have not had a
:18:47. > :18:48.run of games might get a chance in his absence.
:18:49. > :18:51.Rangers top-scorer Martyn Waghorn says he's "gutted" he could be out
:18:52. > :18:59.He has vowed to come back fitter and stronger after injuring his knee in
:19:00. > :19:02.a midweek Scottish cup replay win at Kilmarnock. Rangers say he won't
:19:03. > :19:04.need an operation. Glasgow Warriors head coach
:19:05. > :19:06.Gregor Townsend is confident an artificial pitch will be laid
:19:07. > :19:08.at their stadium in time Warriors have switched their Pro12
:19:09. > :19:13.match against Munster tomorrow to Kilmarnock Football Club's
:19:14. > :19:29.synthetic surface because their own Grass or artificial? At this time of
:19:30. > :19:33.year in some Scottish sports, it is a topical discussion. But the
:19:34. > :19:37.Glasgow Warriors, it seems, the argument is over. I'm very confident
:19:38. > :19:40.we will have a 3G pitch at Scots do at the beginning of next season. I
:19:41. > :19:44.know discussions are at an advanced stage and we hope to announce
:19:45. > :19:48.something very soon. The pro 12 champions have not played at
:19:49. > :19:53.Scotstoun so far in 2016, blaming, they say, bad weather. Now the
:19:54. > :19:57.players are behind the move to bin the grass. I think it suits the way
:19:58. > :20:02.we try to play the game down to the ground, to be honest. We try to play
:20:03. > :20:06.a pretty fast game even when the underfoot conditions are maybe not
:20:07. > :20:10.great. The grass against artificial debate is a current talking point in
:20:11. > :20:15.Scottish football but there was a call only last week for more
:20:16. > :20:19.research into how synthetic pitches affect players. But Gregor Townsend
:20:20. > :20:22.feels it does not apply to rugby. I was chatting to some football
:20:23. > :20:25.managers the other day and football want a wet pitch. They want the ball
:20:26. > :20:33.to move quickly along the ground so a grass pitch that has a bit of damp
:20:34. > :20:38.is OK. Obviously, the pitches are not as damaged by scrums and some
:20:39. > :20:43.heavy people on them. This is a big match for Glasgow Warriors tonight,
:20:44. > :20:48.with Gregor Townsend and his men sitting in the home end at Rugby
:20:49. > :20:49.Park. It won't be too long before we see the green, green, artificial
:20:50. > :20:52.grass of home at Scotstoun. I thought he was going to start
:20:53. > :20:57.singing but mercifully he didn't! A collection of Scottish fossils,
:20:58. > :21:02.that appear to solve the mystery of how vertebrate life came
:21:03. > :21:04.to move from water to land, are to go on display
:21:05. > :21:07.in an exhibition at the National The fossils were found
:21:08. > :21:12.in the Borders and date from a missing period
:21:13. > :21:29.in geological history, You might wonder what this river
:21:30. > :21:33.near the village of Chirnside in the Borders has today with one of the
:21:34. > :21:38.most fundamental questions of human evolution, how animals crawled out
:21:39. > :21:43.of the water and onto the land. Well, scientists believe that
:21:44. > :21:46.fossils discovered here, that date back 360 million years, provide the
:21:47. > :21:54.proof that they have been looking for. What we have is a series of
:21:55. > :21:58.raids, basically a rib cage. The fossils now form part of an
:21:59. > :22:01.exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. A very large animal as
:22:02. > :22:08.well, we think it might have been a top predator so it's pretty cool.
:22:09. > :22:12.May be but why so important? This animal's nickname comes from it
:22:13. > :22:15.reads -- its ribs which are really important because they are like the
:22:16. > :22:23.scaffolding that supports the bones. You need to have a good support to
:22:24. > :22:27.draw air into your longs online. To the uninitiated, they could be
:22:28. > :22:29.mistaken for just rocks but scientists use state-of-the-art
:22:30. > :22:34.technology to make a best guess as to what the creatures might like.
:22:35. > :22:38.This gap when backboned animals moved onto land, we had really no
:22:39. > :22:42.clue until very recently. There are one or two fossils in the world. We
:22:43. > :22:45.could not really interpret them to tell us what the environment was
:22:46. > :22:50.like at the time that the things moved onto land. This is, for the
:22:51. > :22:55.first time, something we can do. It may not look like much but this
:22:56. > :22:59.rock, and if you have a little look, there is a black smudge at the end
:23:00. > :23:05.of it, that is the oldest land animal ever to be discovered in the
:23:06. > :23:08.world. It was found in Stonehaven. Scotland's geology makes it one of
:23:09. > :23:14.the richest places to study ancient life. Back in the Borders, the
:23:15. > :23:18.tetrapod pods were crawling out of the water here, 100 million years
:23:19. > :23:22.before even a hint of a dinosaur. But the find has now sparked a major
:23:23. > :23:25.research project into the mystery of this pivotal moment in evolution.
:23:26. > :23:27.Lisa Summers, reporting Scotland, Chirnside.
:23:28. > :23:33.Now here's David with details of Scotland 2016.
:23:34. > :23:37.Tonight, David Cameron is in Brussels, trying to seal a deal to
:23:38. > :23:42.give Britain a new relationship with Europe. But we will ask why it
:23:43. > :23:48.appears Scottish voters are keener to remain in Europe than voters in
:23:49. > :23:53.England? And we will hear from the comic book writer from Coatbridge
:23:54. > :23:59.who is taking Hollywood by storm. So join me on BBC Two at 10:30pm.
:24:00. > :24:01.Let's see how the weather is shaping up.
:24:02. > :24:07.Good evening. Sunshine and showers today. Some of you probably had more
:24:08. > :24:14.sunshine than others. Tonight, clear skies so cold and
:24:15. > :24:17.frosty and once again a risk of ice across western parts of the country,
:24:18. > :24:22.a Met Office yellow warning in force anywhere from the Northern Isles
:24:23. > :24:25.down towards Galloway. The showers will push in, one or two over
:24:26. > :24:28.towards Edinburgh potentially but many central and eastern parts dry,
:24:29. > :24:32.clear and cold, frosty with temperatures close to freezing.
:24:33. > :24:37.Rural Aberdeenshire perhaps as low as minus six. Tomorrow, all change,
:24:38. > :24:39.after quite dry start, cloud increasing and the rain following,
:24:40. > :24:43.pushing its way from west to east through the course the day,
:24:44. > :24:47.accompanied by strong to gale force southerly winds, the gales in
:24:48. > :24:50.exposure around the coast. Snowfall across higher ground and latterly
:24:51. > :24:54.the mountains but for most, just a wet and windy day. By mid-afternoon,
:24:55. > :24:58.the rain tends to ease off and turns more patchy in nature. Temperatures
:24:59. > :25:01.up on today, seven or eight Celsius but with the cloud, the rain and
:25:02. > :25:05.wind, not feeling particularly present. The wind direction means
:25:06. > :25:09.some shelter towards the north of Aberdeenshire and Inverness so
:25:10. > :25:12.little if any rain here but certainly pretty wet across Orkney
:25:13. > :25:16.and Shetland and the rain taking a good while to clear Shetland. In the
:25:17. > :25:20.evening, wintry showers following behind again, snow down to fairly
:25:21. > :25:25.low levels for areas to the north of the central belt but elsewhere, just
:25:26. > :25:28.rain. In the weekend, we have a waving weather front, the dividing
:25:29. > :25:32.line between cold air to the north and mild air to the south. We are in
:25:33. > :25:35.the cold air so it will be a cold weekend but there will be a spell of
:25:36. > :25:39.rain across southern parts of the country, persistent at times. For
:25:40. > :25:42.many, breezy, a strong westerly winds and fairly frequent showers,
:25:43. > :25:47.wintry at times. The driest weather in the East, five or six Celsius,
:25:48. > :25:51.feeling rather cool. Into Sunday, the weather front continues to stay
:25:52. > :25:55.with us but taking most of the rain further south in towards Wales and
:25:56. > :25:58.the North of England. We are in the cold air once again, fairly showery
:25:59. > :26:02.but the wind is a bit lighter than Saturday. However, it will still be
:26:03. > :26:06.rather cool at times. That is the forecast for now.
:26:07. > :26:07.Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.
:26:08. > :26:11.David Cameron says he is "battling for Britain" at a crucial EU summit.
:26:12. > :26:13.European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he's
:26:14. > :26:15."quite confident" European leaders can reach a deal with Britain
:26:16. > :26:18.over its future membership of the EU.
:26:19. > :26:20.Mr Cameron aims to return with a reform package he can put
:26:21. > :26:24.to the British people in a referendum in June.
:26:25. > :26:28.Three people have died and two are missing,
:26:29. > :26:31.after being caught in severe weather on Scotland's hills in recent days.
:26:32. > :26:34.Two men in their 70s are now known to have died,
:26:35. > :26:37.after being stranded on the Southern Uplands,
:26:38. > :26:40.and a climber died in an avalanche near Spean Bridge.
:26:41. > :26:43.Avalanche risk meant rescue teams were unable to resume a search
:26:44. > :26:48.for a young couple from Yorkshire missing on Ben Nevis.
:26:49. > :26:53.I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm, and the late bulletin just
:26:54. > :26:58.Until then, from everyone on the team - right
:26:59. > :27:01.across the country - have a very good evening.