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Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: One person is dead and several | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
are injured following a major bus crash in North Ayrshire Lawyers | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
acting for people infected by contaminated NHS blood products | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
say not enough's been done to trace other potential victims. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Commuters brave the first weekday rush hour since the closure | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
of the tunnel at Glasgow's Queen Street station. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
So far this is the first day. Not too many problems. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
intensifies are there echoes from the Scottish independence vote? | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
And our military wives step into the spotlight - | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
as they go on tour with a singing legend. | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
One person has died and 11 others have been injured two of them | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
critically, after a bus collided with another vehicle | :01:09. | :01:09. | |
Emergency services are currently at the scene and a major incident | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Our correspondent Jamie McIvor is in Ardrossan for us this evening. | :01:14. | :01:25. | |
This was a major incident for the emergency services and the full | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
details of just what happened are still emerging. I will talk you | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
through the facts as we know them. The bus involved was a Stagecoach | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
bus and the accident happened at 2:15pm this afternoon, the bus was | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
in collision with a four by four vehicle. One person was pronounced | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
dead at the scene, two people are said to be in a critical condition | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
and were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Glasgow by air and road ambulance and nine other people were either | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
treated at the scene, or taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
for observations. The name of the person who died has not been | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
released but the police have confirmed to me it wasn't the driver | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
of the four by four. A substantial police inquiry is under way, I would | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
imagine? Indeed, the police are still trying to piece together what | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
the sequence of events here this afternoon was. The likelihood is | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
that the rope behind me will remain closed for some time this evening. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
The bus has still to be removed from the scene. Stagecoach has given us a | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
statement, they say the safety of their staff and passengers is their | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
top rarity and they will cooperate fully with the police investigation. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Thank you very much, Jamie, in Ardrossan. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
A body has been found in the West Dunbartonshire | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
at a location off Great Western Road. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Police said the death is currently being treated | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
as "unexplained", and the body is yet to be identified. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
It was a blood contamination scandal that affected thousands of people, | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
and an inquiry made just one recommendation - | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
yet lawyers say that recommendation still hasn't been carried out. | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, thousands of people got deadly | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
One year on from an inquiry into the disaster, nothing has been | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
done to trace those who still don't know they were infected. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Our Health Correspondent Eleanor Bradford spoke to one man who found | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
out just weeks ago that he's one of them. | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
Paul met me in his lawyer's office, he wants his identity hidden. He has | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
just been diagnosed with hepatitis C. He now knows it's been in his | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
system since May 1991 when he had a blood transfusion just before | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
screening came in. Hepatitis C comes with a stigma. I'm out of work at | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
the moment because of it because I can't work, I physically can't work, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
I've not got the energy and the sickness every day is just another | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
thing to try and deal with. A year ago the ?12 million Penrose inquiry | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
into contaminated blood came to just one conclusion, that they look back | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
exercise should take place to trace people at risk. That could be anyone | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
who had a blood transfusion before September 1991. One firm of lawyers | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
says people like Paul are still coming forward. We've got several | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
coming forward. All from accidents and being blood transfusions. So it | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
seems kind of crazy, doesn't it, and being blood transfusions. So it | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
that you as a firm of solicitors have found three cases, and yet as | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
far as you know the NHS hasn't proactively done anything? Not to my | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
knowledge, they have not done anything proactively. The feedback | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
from the clients is they feel out on a limb. Last week the Scottish | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Government announced increased support payments for the victims of | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
the disaster. The Health Secretary says an expert group is working on | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
the disaster. The Health Secretary tracing other victims and will | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
produce a plan in the summer. There have been attempts in the past to | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
try and trace people and get people to come forward. But Professor | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Goldberg is looking at what more we can do to meet the recommendation | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
from Penrose. Virus has been on pole's body so long he has cirrhosis | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
of the liver. I was a fit and healthy guy up until 15, 16 months | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
ago. I had everything in life and now I've got to rely on the | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
government. How many other Pauls are out there is still unclear, they are | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
yet to find out they are the last victims of the worst disaster the | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
NHS has ever known. Eleanor Bradford, Reporting Scotland. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
Glasgow's Queen Street Station has been quiet on the first weekday | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
It is used by Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Stirlingshire services and will | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
be shut until August. This morning's rush-hour went smoothly but this | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
evening it was a different story with queues and confusion. Suzanne | :06:09. | :06:09. | |
Allan reports. Is just after 5pm and the rush-hour | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
at Queen Street looks a bit different tonight. Major engineering | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
works have shut a tunnel so trains have been diverted. There were a few | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
ruffled feathers but most of the date seems to have gone smoothly. I | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
came a bit earlier to try and get a train. Unfortunately due to there | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
being so many queues and confusion we can't see which trained to get | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
on. It is not ideal but the trains are busy anyway because we are on | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
the Edinburgh line so it means more of a delay getting home. I don't | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
think I will take the train anymore if it is like this. So far this is | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
the first day, not much problem. You have two minutes to catch the train. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
The works at one of the maintenance, track is being renewed, platforms | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
lengthened and preparations made for the electrification of the line. If | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
you are travelling to Inverness or Aberdeen you'll have to go to | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
Glasgow Central Station. For all other trains use the low level | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
platforms at Queen Street. It's only the second day in and we are very | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
pleased. Our customers flow through the stationery well. And our | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
customers seem to have understood our message that Queen Street is not | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
closed, it's only the high level that's | :07:23. | :07:23. | |
unavailable and we are running many, many services through the low-level | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
and all destinations asked all served. The concourse is a really | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
quiet today, normally thronged with the sound of busy commuters. This is | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
one of Scotland's's busiest railway stations | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
with around 80,000 people coming through here every day. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
So far people are being good-natured and understanding about the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
engineering works but today is only day two and there is five months to | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
go. Suzanne Allan, Reporting Scotland, Queen Street Station, | :07:53. | :07:53. | |
Glasgow. A woman who was jailed after trying | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
to extort money from a mother and daughter, who died | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
in an apparent suicide pact, Linsey Cotton was sentenced to three | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
years last October. Margaret McDona and her daughter | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Nicola died in hospital after being found critically injured | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
in a Greenock hotel in May 2013. Police Scotland said they're | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
investigating the death of a 33-year-old woman | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
in Saughton prison. Still to come on tonight's | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
programme: Scottish military wives step into the spotlight with singing | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
legend Lulu on her UK tour. In sport, who has been the best | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
player of the Gordon Strachan The Scotland assistant | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Mark McGhee tells us. And thoughts on the Scotland | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
campaign at the end of the Six Nations, according | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
to Richie Gray. Warnings over economic | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
consequences of leaving, claims of scaremongering | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
and even speculation over The debate over the European Union | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
might remind some Scots of a referendum we had | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
ourselves not that long ago. So are both sides drawing | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
inspiration from the independence Our Westminster correspondent | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
Nick Eardley has been having a look. 18 months after the climax of | :09:09. | :09:20. | |
Scotland's fiercely fought independence campaign there is | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
another referendum fast approaching. This time on the UK's membership of | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
the European Union. It's also provoking feisty debate, some of | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
which might be a bit familiar to Scots. Warnings of economic negative | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
consequences if UK votes to leave but also warnings about what could | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
happen if we decide to stay. That fear used in the independence | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
referendum has also re-emerged. So are the European campaigns are | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
rolling from the Scottish tactic book? Campaigners who want the UK to | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
leave the EU say they have studied the independence referendum example. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
I think the lessons are you have to have a positive vision, you have to | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
engage people on the ground, you have to be prepared for last-minute | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
government interventions and not necessarily playing by the rules, | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
but also the institutions will be politicised in this debate. Both | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
sides will be trying to build on what happened in Scotland, or what | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
didn't happen in Scotland. There is no doubt about it that there was | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
this fear factor up their, again being pushed by the Prime Minister | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
and the Chancellor. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to run a | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
positive pro-EU campaign in Scotland. Her predecessor, the | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
figurehead of the Yes movement in 2014 thinks both sides UK wide have | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
been too negative so far. The way 2014 thinks both sides UK wide have | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
you motivate people is to have a positive, inspirational message. So | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
instead of getting either side of the European referendum claiming the | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
high ground of the positive upbeat inspirational message, we are both | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
engaged in a couple of project fears. Its masters of project fear | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
from the Scottish referendum divided itself in half and battling out this | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
desultory campaign in the European referendum which will frankly | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
inspire and convince nobody. The UK Government, however, insists its | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
arguments for staying in our positive and the underlying issues | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
that will decide how people vote are different this time. The European | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
referendum is slightly different. Where are we safest, where are we | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
strongest, what is best for our future in terms of trading | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
relationships was Mac it will be based more, I hope, on the facts. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
With more than three months until the EU vote it remains to see how | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
the vote will play at. Nick Eardley, Reporting Scotland. | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
The Scottish government is seeking views on a new code of practice | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
for police powers of stop and search. | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
It follows controversy about the number of people searched | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
So-called 'consensual searches' are being phased out, | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
and the government is consulting on a new code of practice | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
Ministers are also considering new powers to allow police to search | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
people under the age of 18 for alcohol. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
A 57-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
of another man in Coatbridge 17 years ago. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Owen Brannigan died in a house in the North Lanarkshire town | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
The man in custody is expected to appear later at | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
With the closure of Longannet power station due later this month, | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
a local campaign has been mounted to have the freight line that runs | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
through the power station re-open as a passenger service. | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
It's one in a growing number of cases being made to have routes | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
of the success of the Borders Railway. | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
Longannet's huge chimney towers as the railway hugs the Fife coast, | :12:42. | :12:55. | |
well maintained but rarely used, only for freight and coal which by | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
the end of the month will be done. Locals say the power station's | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
closure is an opportunity to upgrade the line for passengers. Travelling | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
east, it could be the link through Dunfermline to Inverkeithing and | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
onto Edinburgh. I think that could be of real benefit both for people | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
who might come and live here, if more development takes place along | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
the coastal strip. Further east of a local campaign underway, the Lever | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
spur closed in 1969, the community here wants five miles of track | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
reconnected at a cost of ?50 million. It will provide jobs and | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
business opportunities in an area that badly needs investment. We know | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
that the fourth crossing has come in at ?1 billion under budget. We only | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
need 5% of that and that would allow this railway line to be reopened. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
The Borders railway has well exceeded its projections for | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
passenger numbers. It has acted as something of a catalyst for those | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
who want to see investment in local routes. The calls come as Network | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
Rail is undertaking a huge study to work out its priorities for | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
investment over the next 30 years. Can you establish there will be a | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
passenger base? Can you fit services into existing timetables and make a | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
case for that kind of investment? It's something we will look at and | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
will do in the future, however the main focus at the moment is creating | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
additional capacity on existing network. Campaigners in Fife say now | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
is the time to build on the success story of the Borders railway and to | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
rebuild this short stretch of line. They say it's got public support, | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
they have costed it and they say They say it's got public support, | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
build it and people will use it. Lisa Summers, Reporting Scotland, | :14:38. | :14:38. | |
East Fife. Teachers in West Dunbartonshire | :14:39. | :14:39. | |
are to go on strike again after they rejected a plan | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
to settle the dispute. Members of the EIS at local | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
secondary schools will go on strike They're also planning strikes | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
at the end of April. The dispute is over a plan to shake | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
up the way local secondary schools are run which would reduce | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
the number of principal teachers. A look at other stories | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
from across the country. Police investigating the murder | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
of a man in Aberdeenshire have given more details about two | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
people they want to trace. Brian McKandie was found dead | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
at his home near Rothienorman, Two men were seen speaking to him | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
the day before. One is said to be in his 20s | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
and the other in his 30s or 40s. An ice axe has been found in an area | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
of Ben Nevis where mountain rescuers have been looking for Rachel Slater | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
and Tim Newton from Bradford. The couple, who are both | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
in their 20s, were reported missing five weeks ago when they failed | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
to return from a trip A year-long campaign has begun | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
to monitor the experiences of women The Justice Watch initiative aims | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
to cut the number of women jailed - it wants volunteers to attend courts | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
throughout the country to report The Scottish and UK governments have | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
reached an agreement to look at how to reduce the time of train journeys | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
between central Scotland and London It's not an empirical study, we have | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
the data about sentencing, this is more about a massive ovation | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
approach looking at the narrative of women and finding out what they are | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
going through, how they are treated and how they feel about being in | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
prison from what we can judge. Is going to be an important on to win | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
over people's Hearts and minds for the idea that women should not be in | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
prison, not to the level they are at the idea that women should not be in | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
any rate. The Scottish and UK governments have | :16:20. | :16:20. | |
reached an agreement to look at how to reduce the time of train journeys | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
between central Scotland and London A report on the HS2 project examines | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
how Scotland could benefit Just a year after the Borders | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Railway opened, councillors have drawn up a wish-list of more | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
services for the area. It includes an East Coast main line | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
stop in Berwickshire - new track built to connect | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
Edinburgh and Peebles - and the current railway's extension | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
to Hawick and Carlisle. A time capsule containing letters | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
from children and other documents was locked away in | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
Aberdeen's Town House today. The idea was inspired | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
by the discovery - during renovations - | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
of a letter written Let's get tonight's | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
sports news from Rhona. Scott Brown has been the best player | :17:00. | :17:14. | |
of the Gordon Strachan era so far. That's the view of Scotland | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
assistant manager Mark McGhee. coming up, as the Scots begin | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
preparations for the 2018 Some experienced campaigners | :17:26. | :17:38. | |
training, some very experienced campaigners training, but no Scott | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
brown, rested for the Czech Republic match on Thursday he is barred for | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
the friendly with Denmark next week -- back. Today he was the subject of | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
fulsome praise. I would argue he has been our best player since we have | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
been here. A lot of people have done very well but consistently Scott has | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
been there. The challenge of getting at is different from that his club | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
and he rises to it and he really enjoys it and with the England game | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
coming up he will want to be part of that. After missing out on Europe | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
2016 the two friendly start school and getting ready for the euro 2018 | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
qualifiers. We have tried to look at what happened previously and try to | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
understand the good stuff. And bring that to what is the start of | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
preparation for the next campaign which started this morning. We also | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
have to look for some new stuff to start to implement and integrate | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
into the way we are doing things and finally the reason for picking the | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
two script was to get to know more players and get to see more players. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
There have been two Carlos, Steven Whittaker and Steven Naismith. Ross | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
McCormack has been drafted in as cover. | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
At the end of this Six Nations Championship, | :19:06. | :19:06. | |
Richie Gray says he's proud of the character of the squad | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
and revealed hopes of a Scotland winning habit in the future. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
After a two-game losing start, the Scots won two, beating Italy | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
and France and ending up in fourth position. | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
Gray has considered the highs and the lows of the campaign | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
There has been progress. Last year we did not manage to win a game and | :19:23. | :19:39. | |
this year won two, came very close in two. I do not then be performed | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
as we could have done against England. Gives it to the big men and | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
launch is there. Against Wales I thought we put in a good | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
performance. We shut off for 510 minutes and that cost us. -- five of | :20:01. | :20:12. | |
ten. I am particularly proud of the character of the squad. We are all | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
proud. The game against Italy was a huge amount of pressure. We know | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
they are good side. A lot of pressure to perform. I felt we did | :20:25. | :20:37. | |
that. " as Seymour. Very proud of France. What skill. What a finish. | :20:38. | :20:49. | |
Disappointed in the first half but I thought we finished well. We will | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
take a lot of positives from the championship. Space that Richie Gray | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
will exploit. What we can achieve, that winning habit, it is a talented | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
group that can do things and we are building towards something so | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
hopefully we can keep progressing. That was the view of Richie Gray, | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
we have the full, extensive, campaign analysis from our online | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
rugby experts John Beattie, That's Six Nations Extra on the BBC | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
Sport Scotland website. The Coatbridge boxer Ricky Burns | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
says he's 100% convinced he'll win his upcoming world | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
title fight in Glasgow. After mixed fortunes in the ring | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
over the last couple of years, Burns fights the Italian, | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Miceilidh Di Rocco for the WBA Super Lightweight belt | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
at the The Hydro in May. The Scot is aiming to become world | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
champion at a third different Getting a few people saying I am | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
finished and all of this but I know I am not. I have come through most | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
of it. It is about moving forward. I cannot wait to work out in front of | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
all of the fans. It is going to be unbelievable. That is the sport. | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
They began as a social outlet for the partners | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
But TV fame and hit singles have propelled military wives choirs | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
throughout the country into the limelight. | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
Now, choirs from Scottish bases are enjoying their fifteen minutes | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
of fame on stage too - as part of a UK-wide tour | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
In a church hall with an army barracks these women are rehearsing. | :22:31. | :22:46. | |
The Kinloss military wives are preparing for their biggest gig yet. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
There are 70 military wives choirs around the UK offering support to | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
the partners of soldiers and airmen whose duties often take them away | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
from home. It is the best thing I ever done in my life. I have made so | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
many friends. I have gained so much confidence. Singer Lulu has recorded | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
a charity single and at every show on her 35 date tour a local choir | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
will join her own stage. The excitement and anticipation is | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
mounting. It is really exciting. We are nervous because Lulu has been 50 | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
years in show business and knows what she is doing and we are just a | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
military wives choirs so it is quite daunting but we are excited. I did | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
not think I would get the opportunity to join a military wives | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
choirs when I saw it happening on television. I thought I would have | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
to be really good at singing. I did not realise how friendly and open it | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
would be. I thought it was amazing. With some nerves jangling it is time | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
to take the stage with the star. Very excited. Even if it is just | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
that it is great. They have their trials and tribulations. If they get | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
a bit of a rush from being on stage that is great. Lulu's tour continues | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
this month than throughout April while the popularity of the military | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
wives choirs shows no sign of abating. | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
Now here's Andrew Kerr with details of Scotland 2016. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
Modern compassionate Conservatives or targeting the disabled for tax | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
cuts? The Tories tear themselves apart but critics question if it is | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
Europe economics driving the issue. We will examine that plus a CBI | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
warning over Brexit at 10:30pm on BBC Two. | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
After a lovely weekend for many of us, | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
Gillian has details of what's in store. | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
It is going downhill later in the week. We did not have quite as much | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
sunshine today as over the weekend. This picture was fairly typical | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
across the country. We had some breaks in the cloud and were | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
predominantly dry but the area of high pressure that has kept us dry | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
and settled is pulling away and we will see a gradual breakdown in the | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
set of conditions particularly during the second half of the week. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Some rain for the Northern Isles and hill fog and most of the mainland | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
will be dry with a few bits of rain in the north-west. Temperatures | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
4-6dC. Chilly under clear skies, Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, the | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Borders. Essentially frost free. Tomorrow a lot of dry weather. The | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
best of the sunshine across eastern Scotland from Angus, Fife and the | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Borders. More cloud across the west although it will send to allow some | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
brightness to get going. It is a good dry day for most of us and | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
where we do get sunshine temperatures are up to 13 and with | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
light winds it will feel pretty proud -- pleasant. A bit of a breeze | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
around the coast. Some light and patchy rain. Amounts will be very | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
trivial. Tomorrow evening it is predominantly dry again across the | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
mainland. Still bits and pieces of rain swirling around Northern costs | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
as well as the northern and western isles. Overnight into Wednesday we | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
see more of a change weather front works in from the west. It is | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
weakening, not much rain, but that will work across western Scotland | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
through the day. Eastern parts they predominantly dry. Hanging onto | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
brightness. Thursday is looking unsettled. Much cloudier with | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
outbreaks of rain heaviest in the north-west and strong winds into the | :27:06. | :27:06. | |
bargain. Now, a reminder of | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
tonight's main news. One person has died and 11 | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
others have been injured, two of them | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
critically, after a bus collided with another vehicle in Ardrossan | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
in North Ayrshire. David Cameron has given a robust | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
defence of his government's record. It follows accusations | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
by Iain Duncan Smith, that the Conservative | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
party's policies, including its attitude | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
to disabled people, I'll be back with the headlines | :27:30. | :27:30. | |
at 8pm, and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
on the team, right across the country, | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
have a very good evening. | :27:40. | :27:43. |