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revenues contributes to a ?15 billion hole | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
"Nothing will give us back what has been taken." | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
The mother of Bailey Gwynne has spoken after the outcome | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
The so-called police spying row: one of Scotland's most senior officers | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
is accused by a detective of making false claims about him. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
In the Premiership, it's even tighter at the top. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Aberdeen celebrate getting within a point of Celtic. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
And could Cumbernauld become Scotland's answer to Hollywood? | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
New plans for a purpose-built film studio are drawn up | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
The huge drop in oil revenues has contributed to Scotland's budget | :00:47. | :01:05. | |
deficit, reaching almost ?15 billion, according | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
The slump in the oil price means the country's overall tax take | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
per head lags marginally behind the UK, for the first time | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Ministers insist Scotland's economy remains fundamentally strong. | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
But the opposition says there would have been big | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
spending cuts if Scots had opted for independence. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Our Political Editor Brian Taylor reports. | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
The slump in oil prices means lower tax revenues, and has now worked | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
through to Scotland's balance sheet. We are talking here about 2014-15. | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
In that financial year, it is reckoned that Scotland's share of | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
North Sea all revenues was ?1.8 billion, down from nearly ?4 billion | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
the previous year, a reduction of 55%. Scottish ministers visit a | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
high-tech site in Edinburgh, and stressed that Scotland's wider | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
economy is growing on the compensating for the problems in the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
North Sea. But they admit the figures are challenging. There is no | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
getting away from the fact that this is a difficult time for the North | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Sea oil and gas sector. But Scotland's economy is strong, and if | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
you look over the medium term, that strength is obvious. If you look at | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
our higher employment and higher productivity growth, that strength | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
is obvious as well. Scotland's deficit is ?15 billion, twice the UK | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
level as a share of the economy. Total Scottish spending remains | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
?1400 per person higher than for the UK as a whole. But Scotland's | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
overall tax take per head, including oil, is now fractionally lower than | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
overall tax take per head, including the UK for the first time in 36 | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
years. According to the Prime Minister, it didn't add up. I dread | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
to think what taxation will have to be levied not just on whiskey, but | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
on petrol, on work, on incomes and homes. That is the prospect of life | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
outside the United Kingdom and that is why I am glad we voted to stay | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
together. The oil revenue figures may be worse in the current | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
financial year. Nicola Sturgeon's economic credibility has been | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
smashed to smithereens. It is not that she got the projection is | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
wrong. Lots of people got it wrong. It's the fact that she recklessly | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
recommended that Scotland should vote yes to independence. These are | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
devastating figures, which showed the impact that leaving the UK would | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
have had on Scotland. It means cuts five times as deep as what the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Tories are already imposing. But Scottish ministers say North Sea oil | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
has sent a total of ?300 billion to the Treasury without any oil fund | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
being established in Scotland. They have urged the Chancellor to insist | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
the industry in his forthcoming Budget. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
And Brian Taylor joins me now from Hollywood. News tonight that the | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
government got one of its key figures wrong? This is the document | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
here, government spending and revenue for Scotland. It is a | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
fetching shade of blue, but has caused some red faces in the | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Scottish Government tonight. They got one of the table is wrong. It is | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Aten if you want to look it up. The figures are generally expressed | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
through a financial year, 2013 - 14 and so on, but the IMF and other | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
organisations like them in calendar years, so they translated them over | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
to the calendar years for that table. They got their sums wrong and | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
the read-through didn't work and they have had to correct them in the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
online version. It doesn't change the headline figures and it doesn't | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
change the headline story or the impact upon the figures. To use the | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
First Minister's phrase, they are difficult. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Ministers have granted legal aid to the families of victims | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
of the Glasgow bin lorry crash who are trying to bring a private | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Six people died when the lorry ran out of control in the city centre | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Among them were Jack and Lorraine Sweeney | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
and their granddaughter Erin McQuade. | :05:06. | :05:06. | |
Their families want the driver Harry Clarke to be prosecuted, | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
after an inquiry found the crash could have been avoided if he hadn't | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Mr Clarke will also to receive legal aid. | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
Judges at the High Court in Edinburgh are still to decide | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
whether the prosecution can go ahead. | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
A murder squad detective has accused one of Police Scotland's most senior | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
officers of making "outrageous and completely false" claims | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
Detective Inspector David Moran says the deputy chief constable, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Neil Richardson, is guilty of "misconduct" | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
for wrongly identifying him as the source of a newspaper leak. | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
The force says it's reviewing the allegations. | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
The unsolved murder of a Coldwell in South Lanarkshire is being | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
re-examined by detectives. When the Sunday mail revealed details of the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
investigation on the 10th anniversary of the case, Police | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Scotland suspected a leak. They tried to identify the source by | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
monitoring the communications of four serving and retired officers | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
without a judge's consent. The force breached guidelines. MSPs asked one | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
of Police Scotland's most senior officers to explain their leaking | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
quarry. There was a breach from a murder inquiry involving a police | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
officer to a retired police officer. And the focus was on the serving | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
officer within the murder squad. Detective Inspector David Moran | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
thinks that comment points the finger at him, because he believes | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
he is the only officer on the murder squad to have been targeted by | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Police Scotland's leak inquiry. So, in a letter to the Justice | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
committee, DI Moran says he has been falsely exposed, his reputation | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
severely scarred and that the Deputy Chief Constable may be give tea of | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
misconduct as a result. Mr Moran's lawyer is pursuing his complaint. He | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
has a 32 year reputation as an outstanding officer which is at | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
stake. And if there is a basis for suspicion, which there isn't, he is | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
asking for that to be declared. Tonight, Police Scotland said the | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
matter has been referred to the Scottish police authority, which it | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
said is normal when a complaint is received about a senior officer. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
The family of 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne, who was stabbed | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
to death at Cults Academy in Aberdeen last October, | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
have released a statement about their son. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
Bailey died after a fight with another 16-year-old boy, | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
who was found guilty of his culpable homicide at the High Court | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Our reporter Steven Duff is at Cults Academy tonight. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
What are Bailey's family saying, Steven? | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
The this statement comes 48 hours after the culpable homicide verdict | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
at the High Court in Aberdeen, quite a lengthy statement, paid tribute to | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Bailey. It ends, we will always be proud that Bailey is our son. We now | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
need time and space to come to terms with what has happened. It has | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
always been a blessing and privileged to have Bailey and to | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
share the honour of knowing, raising and loving him. That is not | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
something that time or our parting will ever change. It ends, Bailey, a | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
true gent, we love and hold you in our hearts. Walk tall, Bailey boy. | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
And that is from Bailey's mum. Have we heard anything from Aberdeen | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
Council about the circumstances surrounding the stabbing? They | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
haven't and cert questions or being giving any interviews about the | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
circumstances of what happened here giving any interviews about the | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
last October. They did put a statement on their website last | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
night with questions they say they have been asked and some cancers. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
But they say they don't want to go further because it could infringe | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
upon an independent review that is to be carried out. No one questioned | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the statement did not answer is why the headteacher at Cults Academy had | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
the statement did not answer is why to warn the killer of Bailey | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
-- Bailey Gwynne about the danger of having knives at school when he was | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
in the first and second year. We have still not had an answer to that | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
or the importance of what the answer to that is. | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :09:44. | :09:44. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme. | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
We look at the work of the Scottish soldiers who protect military | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
Do Aberdeen have the mental toughness | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
And the bleached blonde Scotland rugby player of 10 years ago, | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
With the 20th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
approaching, a BBC documentary team has been talking to some | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
of the people affected by the atrocity. | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
As Reevel Alderson reports, for some, it's the first time | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
they've ever spoken about what happened that day. | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
In Dunblane, the morning of Wednesday March the 13th, 1996, was | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
cold and crisp. At the school, snowdrops poked through a scattering | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
of snow on the ground. Reports are coming in that one person is dead | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
and several people have been injured after a shooting incident at | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Dunblane primary School in Scotland. Around 9.30, Thomas Hamilton, | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
carrying four handguns and more than 700 ammunition cartridges, had | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
entered the school gym hall. He killed 16 primary one children and | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
entered the school gym hall. He their teacher before turning the gun | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
on himself. Few survivors of that terrible day have spoken publicly | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
about it, but tonight a BBC Scotland documentary hears from some who were | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
in the PE class. I just remember my legs turned to jelly and falling to | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
the floor. And then dragging myself to the gym cupboard. There were | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
other people there. Three adults in the gym were shot. The class teacher | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
was killed. Her daughter Debbie spoke to the programme. She had | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
defensive wounds through her wrists. She would have been the first person | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
killed, so she would not have seen anything else. The emergency | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
services were called at 9.41. Hamilton had just killed himself. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
The air was thick with smoke, the smell of cordite. And there was a | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
group of children standing. The smell of cordite. And there was a | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
first thing we were able to do was get them out of there. One of the | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
injured survivors was Matthew Burnley, who was taken to style and | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Royal Infirmary, where a surgeon gave his parents the news they were | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
praying for all stop the first thing he said to us was, you are bad and | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
you are Steve. Matthew has a little sister and his favourite food is | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
baked beans. And to be honest, that is the first thing he could have | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
said to us, because we knew he hadn't been shot so seriously that | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
he couldn't talk. There was a national outpouring of grief over | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
the disaster, but just over a week later, Dunblane primary school | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
the disaster, but just over a week reopened to help the community and | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
the pupils return to a form of normality. This has been a long, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
the pupils return to a form of dark week, full of tears. Dunblane | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
is still in mourning. However, the evil that came last week is gone. | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Within two years following a nationwide campaign, laws had | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
changed give Britain some of the toughest anti-gun legislation in the | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
world, the legacy of Dunblane. And you can see that documentary, | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Dunblane: Our Story, tonight on BBC One | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
Scotland at 9 o'clock. The UK Government has been defeated | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
in the House of Commons over its plans to extend Sunday | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
opening hours in England and Wales. The SNP has joined Tory rebels | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
to vote against the proposals, which would have allowed local | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
authorities to decide whether larger Our correspondent David Porter | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
is at Westminster for us tonight. Why did the SNP vote the way they | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
did? On the face of it, it does seem Why did the SNP vote the way they | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
a little strange that the SNP is intervening in | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
legislation which technically just applies to England and Wales. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
Scotland, of course, has Sunday trading laws which are far more | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
relaxed. Stores can open for longer than they can in England and Wales. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
Also, workers in Scotland, many of them get so-called enhanced payments | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
for that. The SNP say they were worried that if the laws were | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
relaxed throughout the UK, that those premium payments may no longer | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
continue for Scottish workers, so they argued that they were looking | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
after the rights of Scottish workers. Also politically important | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
in the decision that the SNP made with the upcoming Holyrood | :14:29. | :14:29. | |
in the decision that the SNP made elections. They were worried that if | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
they voted for these proposals or abstained, that the Labour Party | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
would say the SNP was propping up unpopular measures by a Conservative | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
government. That could have played very badly in | :14:42. | :14:42. | |
the upcoming Holyrood elections. In the end, the SNP voted with | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
Labour. The government were defeated by 31 votes. There is a block of | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
more than 50 SNP MPs in Westminster. If they had abstained, ministers | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
would be celebrating tonight with a very small victory. Instead, UK | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
investors are licking their wounds. The friend of a man who died | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
following an incident while they were both | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
camping in Renfrewshire has appeared in court | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
charged with his murder. William Cameron, | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
who is 37, is charged with killing 43-year-old | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
Darryl Fitch at Locher Water near Bridge of Weir | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
in July last year. Prosecutors allege he hit | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
Mr Fitch on the head, At Paisley Sheriff Court, | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
Mr Cameron made no plea or declaration, and was | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
remanded in custody. They're called Guardian Angels, | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
soldiers who stand guard over military trainers | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
working in Afghanistan. In the second | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
of our reports has been with the Scots troops | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
deployed at a training centre British soldiers first looked at | :15:40. | :15:56. | |
over Kabul from the Hindu area in the 1800 's, now they look down on | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
the new officer training academy for the Afghan army, nicknamed Sandhurst | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
in the sand. How are you? I'm fine, how are you. The Academy is three | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
years old and still heavily reliant on international aid. See if you can | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
tell me what the parts are on the computer. At the back, the so-called | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
Guardian Angels, their main role to prevent what the military call green | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
and blue attacks on Afghan soldiers turn on Nato soldiers. The Academy | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
is seen as Britain's legacy from a campaign that lasted 13 years and | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
cost more than 450 British lives. I'm optimistic that over time we | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
will produce a high-quality armed force, particularly the Army side | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
will produce a high-quality armed it yet it will take time. The | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
commanding officer says a long-term commitment to the Academy is vital | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
for its success. TRANSLATION: We need some mentors to be in this | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
academy with us so we can use the experience and they can share their | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
experience with us so we can take this Academy and also the training | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
academy for what. The battalion last served in Afghanistan in November 20 | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
13. For some this is their first tour, for others a chance to see if | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
anything has changed. Is the fourth to offer the unit, the dust is | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
settling so it's just maintaining the security that we are doing. In | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
seven years I've seen it changed radically. It's changed to the | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
batter so I'm quite happy with that. From what the guys who have been | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
before have said the country has improved massively from the role | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
they played before two and they are doing now. A massive change. It's | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
good to be a part of that. The tour comes to an end in a few weeks' | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
time. An extradition unit is already getting ready to take over and | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
another after that. The Americans have extended their operations in | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
Afghanistan, no decision has been made yet on when Britain will end | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
its operations here. Cameron Buttle, in Kabul. | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
Let's get tonight's sport now, from David. | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
Tension mounting at the top of the Premiership, David. | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
The Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes says it's ridiculous to question | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
whether his team have the character to last the pace in the Premiership | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
They've narrowed Celtic's lead at the top to one point, | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
after coming from a goal down to win at Partick Thistle last night. | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
Does the team in black and white have the mental toughness to win the | :18:33. | :18:44. | |
premiership? To speak bluntly, do Aberdeen have the bottle? Consider | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
this, won goal down a way to Partick Thistle, then this happens. , Ted | :18:51. | :19:02. | |
Mack it big boost, Considine scoring, and Church has found the | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
net one minutes later, Aberdeen have gone from potentially suffering a | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
damaging blow to their hopes of taking the title from Celtic to | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
leading this game. It is ridiculous to question the bottle of my team | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
because for almost three seasons we've had enough big games that we | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
because for almost three seasons have won when the pressure has been | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
on. Has a great attitude. It is not always down to bottle, sometimes | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
that word is used when a team fails. I think its character, a winning | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
mentality. Clearly the pressure has switched to Celtic because in the | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
eyes of their fans and also for Celtic themselves, the job should | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
almost have been done by now. Aberdeen may have the spirit and | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
character for the title run-in, Celtic have a 1-point lead and a | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
game in hand. The question is perhaps how they will stand up to | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
the challenge from the dons. And there is more premiership action | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
tonight. Sixth versus ninth Fort Saint Johnstone busting Inverness. | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
-- hosting Inverness. One of Scotland's most capped-ever | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
rugby players says it's up to others to call time on his international | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
rugby career Sean Lamont could make his 104th | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
appearance for the national side this weekend against France | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
in a fixture that stands out for him He has altered his appearance in his | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
career, yet his dedication to the national team remains constant. | :20:29. | :20:29. | |
2006, the last time Scotland beat France helped by two tries from | :20:30. | :20:41. | |
striking individual. COMMENTATOR: Sean Lamont has two score! It's not | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
bad to bag a brace, one was poached, if I remember, the head got me | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
noticed. It's worse for some people! He has been an almost permanent | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
fixture in the Scotland squad since he made his debut 12 years ago. Only | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
Chris Paterson boasts more caps. And his influence has helped both on and | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
off the park. Over 100 caps speaks for itself, Sean has probably been | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
written off in the past and has always come back stronger and he's a | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
great professional and a great role model within the squad. At the age | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
of 35 Sean Lamont says self that time is ticking on his international | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
career so if involved on Sunday, could be the last time we see him in | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
a Scotland shirt at Murrayfield? Just having that conversation with | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
my Mrs yesterday, could be the last time at Murrayfield, I said, I'll | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
keep going. I've said that all the time, I stand by it. I will become | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
surplus to requirements rather than retire! If this is to be his last | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
hurrah at Murrayfield and a repeat of his performance one decade ago it | :21:56. | :21:56. | |
hurrah at Murrayfield and a repeat would be a fitting finale. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Meanwhile, there's been disappointing injury news | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
for Scotland centre Matt Scott. | :22:03. | :22:02. | |
He damaged elbow ligaments playing for Edinburgh at the weekend and has | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
been ruled out of the rest of Scotland's Six Nations campaign. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
And Leon Smith says it's a huge honour to have his contract | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
as British Davis Cup captain extended until 2018. | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
The Scot's been in the job since 2010 and unsurprisingly, | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
his highlight was leading Great Britain | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
to their first Davis Cup title in 79 years by beating Belgium | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
Congratulations to him, that's Sally? | :22:22. | :22:35. | |
Scotland could have a new permanent film and TV studio, based | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
The Culture Secretary confirmed details of the project this morning. | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
It would build on existing studio space used by the TV | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Our arts correspondent Pauline McLean reports. | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
Scotland has always offered good locations for film makers. This was | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
Sunset Song in Aberdeen but studio has taken longer. This latest plan | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
would build on an existing complex in Cumbernauld created for the | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
American TV series Outlander. We bought the facility in 2013 with a | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
view to manufacturing parts for trucks and buses but within two | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
weeks we had an approach from Creative Scotland, would we talk to | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
Sony pictures? We did and the rest is history. Two seasons of the show | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
have been made, a decision on a third has yet to be taken yet | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
whether they stay or go the plan is to expand and the facilities, adding | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
two more sound stages and a back lot. What is exciting about the | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
proposal is that we would add some fantastic infrastructure, 30,000 | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
square feet, high which would house just about any global production in | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
Scotland. For those who have argued that Scotland needs to offer studio | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
facilities as well as locations, a welcome start but more is needed. | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
The project will support Outlander and will probably be used for the | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
next ten years by Sony and by Left Back and other film productions | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
coming in one see that. We need other studio space that will serve | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
high end television getting made, and serve the big budgets. Plans | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
like this private development which the government insists is still | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
under consideration. It hopes the Ward Plans due to be submitted this | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
week are just part of a wider studio deferment. Pauline McLean, | :24:39. | :24:39. | |
programmer. -- programme macro. Now, here's Shelley Joffre, | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
to tell us about tonight's edition Public spending was ?15 billion | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
higher than tax last year so what if we'd been gearing up for | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
independence? And good in new TV studio boost Scotland's economy? | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
Join me at 10:30pm. And after another beautiful day, | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
let's get the lowdown on tomorrow's Thank you, yes, we've had fine | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
weather across much of Scotland today, plenty of sunshine around as | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
illustrated by one of our weather watchers here, and another in Argyll | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
and Bute. However we have had cloud lingering along eastern coastal | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
areas with a few showers and that is how it will stay for these areas | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
tonight. These conditions will prevent temperatures from falling | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
away to file. Elsewhere it is looking dry, long clear spells and | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
light winds giving a fairly widespread frost, temperatures in | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
the towns and cities fallen to around freezing and that bit lower | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
for some sheltered rural areas. As we head into tomorrow, high pressure | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
will dominate proceedings, keeping weather settled and keeping us | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
will dominate proceedings, keeping largely dry. Again lovely spells of | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
sunshine developing as we go through the day after a fairly cold and | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
frosty start with some mist and fog patches. A couple of flies in the | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
ointment again, in the form of thick cloud across the borders tomorrow | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
afternoon with a few showers and cloud beginning to thicken along | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
West or coastal areas across the Western Isles to perhaps some drops | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
of rain. Elsewhere, though, it's looking dry, bright, plenty of | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
sunshine around again, highs of potentially 10 Celsius along the | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
coast with light winds in the sunshine here, it will feel quite | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
pleasant. As we head into tomorrow evening, cloud thickening and | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
gradually moving further inland, light and patchy rain moving into | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
the north-west. Drier and clearer for southern and eastern areas, | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
perhaps with a touch of Frost. For Friday it will be cloudier overall, | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
perhaps some bright spells, especially in the east with highs of | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
ten or 11 Celsius, cloudy and wet conditions for Western and northern | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
areas, similar on Saturday with rain in the north-west, highs of 12 or 13 | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
Celsius. That is the forecast. Thank you. | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news... | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
The huge drop in oil revenues has contributed to Scotland's budget | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
deficit reaching almost ?15 billion, according | :27:23. | :27:23. | |
And Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have led tributes | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
to Sir George Martin, the man known | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
And that's all from Reporting Scotland for now. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at eight and the late bulletin just | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
From everyone on the team around the country, have | :27:40. | :27:44. |