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Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: One person is dead and several

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are injured following a major bus crash in North Ayrshire Lawyers

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acting for people infected by contaminated NHS blood products

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say not enough's been done to trace other potential victims.

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Commuters brave the first weekday rush hour since the closure

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of the tunnel at Glasgow's Queen Street station.

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So far this is the first day. Not too many problems.

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intensifies are there echoes from the Scottish independence vote?

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And our military wives step into the spotlight -

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as they go on tour with a singing legend.

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One person has died and 11 others have been injured two of them

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critically, after a bus collided with another vehicle

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Emergency services are currently at the scene and a major incident

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Our correspondent Jamie McIvor is in Ardrossan for us this evening.

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This was a major incident for the emergency services and the full

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details of just what happened are still emerging. I will talk you

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through the facts as we know them. The bus involved was a Stagecoach

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bus and the accident happened at 2:15pm this afternoon, the bus was

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in collision with a four by four vehicle. One person was pronounced

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dead at the scene, two people are said to be in a critical condition

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and were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in

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Glasgow by air and road ambulance and nine other people were either

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treated at the scene, or taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock

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for observations. The name of the person who died has not been

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released but the police have confirmed to me it wasn't the driver

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of the four by four. A substantial police inquiry is under way, I would

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imagine? Indeed, the police are still trying to piece together what

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the sequence of events here this afternoon was. The likelihood is

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that the rope behind me will remain closed for some time this evening.

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The bus has still to be removed from the scene. Stagecoach has given us a

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statement, they say the safety of their staff and passengers is their

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top rarity and they will cooperate fully with the police investigation.

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Thank you very much, Jamie, in Ardrossan.

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A body has been found in the West Dunbartonshire

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at a location off Great Western Road.

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Police said the death is currently being treated

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as "unexplained", and the body is yet to be identified.

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It was a blood contamination scandal that affected thousands of people,

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and an inquiry made just one recommendation -

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yet lawyers say that recommendation still hasn't been carried out.

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In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, thousands of people got deadly

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One year on from an inquiry into the disaster, nothing has been

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done to trace those who still don't know they were infected.

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Our Health Correspondent Eleanor Bradford spoke to one man who found

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out just weeks ago that he's one of them.

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Paul met me in his lawyer's office, he wants his identity hidden. He has

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just been diagnosed with hepatitis C. He now knows it's been in his

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system since May 1991 when he had a blood transfusion just before

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screening came in. Hepatitis C comes with a stigma. I'm out of work at

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the moment because of it because I can't work, I physically can't work,

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I've not got the energy and the sickness every day is just another

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thing to try and deal with. A year ago the ?12 million Penrose inquiry

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into contaminated blood came to just one conclusion, that they look back

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exercise should take place to trace people at risk. That could be anyone

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who had a blood transfusion before September 1991. One firm of lawyers

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says people like Paul are still coming forward. We've got several

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coming forward. All from accidents and being blood transfusions. So it

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seems kind of crazy, doesn't it, and being blood transfusions. So it

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that you as a firm of solicitors have found three cases, and yet as

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far as you know the NHS hasn't proactively done anything? Not to my

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knowledge, they have not done anything proactively. The feedback

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from the clients is they feel out on a limb. Last week the Scottish

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Government announced increased support payments for the victims of

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the disaster. The Health Secretary says an expert group is working on

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the disaster. The Health Secretary tracing other victims and will

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produce a plan in the summer. There have been attempts in the past to

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try and trace people and get people to come forward. But Professor

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Goldberg is looking at what more we can do to meet the recommendation

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from Penrose. Virus has been on pole's body so long he has cirrhosis

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of the liver. I was a fit and healthy guy up until 15, 16 months

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ago. I had everything in life and now I've got to rely on the

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government. How many other Pauls are out there is still unclear, they are

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yet to find out they are the last victims of the worst disaster the

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NHS has ever known. Eleanor Bradford, Reporting Scotland.

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Glasgow's Queen Street Station has been quiet on the first weekday

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It is used by Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Stirlingshire services and will

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be shut until August. This morning's rush-hour went smoothly but this

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evening it was a different story with queues and confusion. Suzanne

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Allan reports. Is just after 5pm and the rush-hour

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at Queen Street looks a bit different tonight. Major engineering

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works have shut a tunnel so trains have been diverted. There were a few

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ruffled feathers but most of the date seems to have gone smoothly. I

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came a bit earlier to try and get a train. Unfortunately due to there

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being so many queues and confusion we can't see which trained to get

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on. It is not ideal but the trains are busy anyway because we are on

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the Edinburgh line so it means more of a delay getting home. I don't

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think I will take the train anymore if it is like this. So far this is

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the first day, not much problem. You have two minutes to catch the train.

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The works at one of the maintenance, track is being renewed, platforms

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lengthened and preparations made for the electrification of the line. If

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you are travelling to Inverness or Aberdeen you'll have to go to

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Glasgow Central Station. For all other trains use the low level

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platforms at Queen Street. It's only the second day in and we are very

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pleased. Our customers flow through the stationery well. And our

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customers seem to have understood our message that Queen Street is not

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closed, it's only the high level that's

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unavailable and we are running many, many services through the low-level

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and all destinations asked all served. The concourse is a really

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quiet today, normally thronged with the sound of busy commuters. This is

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one of Scotland's's busiest railway stations

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with around 80,000 people coming through here every day.

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So far people are being good-natured and understanding about the

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engineering works but today is only day two and there is five months to

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go. Suzanne Allan, Reporting Scotland, Queen Street Station,

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Glasgow. A woman who was jailed after trying

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to extort money from a mother and daughter, who died

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in an apparent suicide pact, Linsey Cotton was sentenced to three

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years last October. Margaret McDona and her daughter

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Nicola died in hospital after being found critically injured

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in a Greenock hotel in May 2013. Police Scotland said they're

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investigating the death of a 33-year-old woman

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in Saughton prison. Still to come on tonight's

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programme: Scottish military wives step into the spotlight with singing

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legend Lulu on her UK tour. In sport, who has been the best

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player of the Gordon Strachan The Scotland assistant

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Mark McGhee tells us. And thoughts on the Scotland

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campaign at the end of the Six Nations, according

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to Richie Gray. Warnings over economic

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consequences of leaving, claims of scaremongering

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and even speculation over The debate over the European Union

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might remind some Scots of a referendum we had

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ourselves not that long ago. So are both sides drawing

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inspiration from the independence Our Westminster correspondent

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Nick Eardley has been having a look. 18 months after the climax of

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Scotland's fiercely fought independence campaign there is

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another referendum fast approaching. This time on the UK's membership of

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the European Union. It's also provoking feisty debate, some of

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which might be a bit familiar to Scots. Warnings of economic negative

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consequences if UK votes to leave but also warnings about what could

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happen if we decide to stay. That fear used in the independence

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referendum has also re-emerged. So are the European campaigns are

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rolling from the Scottish tactic book? Campaigners who want the UK to

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leave the EU say they have studied the independence referendum example.

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I think the lessons are you have to have a positive vision, you have to

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engage people on the ground, you have to be prepared for last-minute

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government interventions and not necessarily playing by the rules,

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but also the institutions will be politicised in this debate. Both

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sides will be trying to build on what happened in Scotland, or what

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didn't happen in Scotland. There is no doubt about it that there was

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this fear factor up their, again being pushed by the Prime Minister

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and the Chancellor. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to run a

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positive pro-EU campaign in Scotland. Her predecessor, the

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figurehead of the Yes movement in 2014 thinks both sides UK wide have

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been too negative so far. The way 2014 thinks both sides UK wide have

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you motivate people is to have a positive, inspirational message. So

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instead of getting either side of the European referendum claiming the

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high ground of the positive upbeat inspirational message, we are both

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engaged in a couple of project fears. Its masters of project fear

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from the Scottish referendum divided itself in half and battling out this

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desultory campaign in the European referendum which will frankly

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inspire and convince nobody. The UK Government, however, insists its

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arguments for staying in our positive and the underlying issues

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that will decide how people vote are different this time. The European

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referendum is slightly different. Where are we safest, where are we

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strongest, what is best for our future in terms of trading

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relationships was Mac it will be based more, I hope, on the facts.

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With more than three months until the EU vote it remains to see how

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the vote will play at. Nick Eardley, Reporting Scotland.

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The Scottish government is seeking views on a new code of practice

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for police powers of stop and search.

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It follows controversy about the number of people searched

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So-called 'consensual searches' are being phased out,

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and the government is consulting on a new code of practice

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Ministers are also considering new powers to allow police to search

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people under the age of 18 for alcohol.

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A 57-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death

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of another man in Coatbridge 17 years ago.

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Owen Brannigan died in a house in the North Lanarkshire town

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The man in custody is expected to appear later at

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With the closure of Longannet power station due later this month,

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a local campaign has been mounted to have the freight line that runs

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through the power station re-open as a passenger service.

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It's one in a growing number of cases being made to have routes

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of the success of the Borders Railway.

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Longannet's huge chimney towers as the railway hugs the Fife coast,

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well maintained but rarely used, only for freight and coal which by

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the end of the month will be done. Locals say the power station's

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closure is an opportunity to upgrade the line for passengers. Travelling

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east, it could be the link through Dunfermline to Inverkeithing and

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onto Edinburgh. I think that could be of real benefit both for people

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who might come and live here, if more development takes place along

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the coastal strip. Further east of a local campaign underway, the Lever

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spur closed in 1969, the community here wants five miles of track

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reconnected at a cost of ?50 million. It will provide jobs and

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business opportunities in an area that badly needs investment. We know

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that the fourth crossing has come in at ?1 billion under budget. We only

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need 5% of that and that would allow this railway line to be reopened.

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The Borders railway has well exceeded its projections for

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passenger numbers. It has acted as something of a catalyst for those

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who want to see investment in local routes. The calls come as Network

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Rail is undertaking a huge study to work out its priorities for

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investment over the next 30 years. Can you establish there will be a

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passenger base? Can you fit services into existing timetables and make a

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case for that kind of investment? It's something we will look at and

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will do in the future, however the main focus at the moment is creating

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additional capacity on existing network. Campaigners in Fife say now

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is the time to build on the success story of the Borders railway and to

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rebuild this short stretch of line. They say it's got public support,

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they have costed it and they say They say it's got public support,

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build it and people will use it. Lisa Summers, Reporting Scotland,

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East Fife. Teachers in West Dunbartonshire

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are to go on strike again after they rejected a plan

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to settle the dispute. Members of the EIS at local

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secondary schools will go on strike They're also planning strikes

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at the end of April. The dispute is over a plan to shake

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up the way local secondary schools are run which would reduce

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the number of principal teachers. A look at other stories

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from across the country. Police investigating the murder

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of a man in Aberdeenshire have given more details about two

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people they want to trace. Brian McKandie was found dead

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at his home near Rothienorman, Two men were seen speaking to him

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the day before. One is said to be in his 20s

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and the other in his 30s or 40s. An ice axe has been found in an area

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of Ben Nevis where mountain rescuers have been looking for Rachel Slater

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and Tim Newton from Bradford. The couple, who are both

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in their 20s, were reported missing five weeks ago when they failed

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to return from a trip A year-long campaign has begun

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to monitor the experiences of women The Justice Watch initiative aims

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to cut the number of women jailed - it wants volunteers to attend courts

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throughout the country to report The Scottish and UK governments have

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reached an agreement to look at how to reduce the time of train journeys

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between central Scotland and London It's not an empirical study, we have

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the data about sentencing, this is more about a massive ovation

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approach looking at the narrative of women and finding out what they are

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going through, how they are treated and how they feel about being in

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prison from what we can judge. Is going to be an important on to win

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over people's Hearts and minds for the idea that women should not be in

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prison, not to the level they are at the idea that women should not be in

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any rate. The Scottish and UK governments have

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reached an agreement to look at how to reduce the time of train journeys

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between central Scotland and London A report on the HS2 project examines

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how Scotland could benefit Just a year after the Borders

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Railway opened, councillors have drawn up a wish-list of more

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services for the area. It includes an East Coast main line

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stop in Berwickshire - new track built to connect

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Edinburgh and Peebles - and the current railway's extension

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to Hawick and Carlisle. A time capsule containing letters

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from children and other documents was locked away in

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Aberdeen's Town House today. The idea was inspired

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by the discovery - during renovations -

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of a letter written Let's get tonight's

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sports news from Rhona. Scott Brown has been the best player

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of the Gordon Strachan era so far. That's the view of Scotland

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assistant manager Mark McGhee. coming up, as the Scots begin

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preparations for the 2018 Some experienced campaigners

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training, some very experienced campaigners training, but no Scott

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brown, rested for the Czech Republic match on Thursday he is barred for

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the friendly with Denmark next week -- back. Today he was the subject of

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fulsome praise. I would argue he has been our best player since we have

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been here. A lot of people have done very well but consistently Scott has

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been there. The challenge of getting at is different from that his club

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and he rises to it and he really enjoys it and with the England game

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coming up he will want to be part of that. After missing out on Europe

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2016 the two friendly start school and getting ready for the euro 2018

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qualifiers. We have tried to look at what happened previously and try to

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understand the good stuff. And bring that to what is the start of

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preparation for the next campaign which started this morning. We also

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have to look for some new stuff to start to implement and integrate

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into the way we are doing things and finally the reason for picking the

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two script was to get to know more players and get to see more players.

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There have been two Carlos, Steven Whittaker and Steven Naismith. Ross

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McCormack has been drafted in as cover.

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At the end of this Six Nations Championship,

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Richie Gray says he's proud of the character of the squad

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and revealed hopes of a Scotland winning habit in the future.

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After a two-game losing start, the Scots won two, beating Italy

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and France and ending up in fourth position.

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Gray has considered the highs and the lows of the campaign

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There has been progress. Last year we did not manage to win a game and

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this year won two, came very close in two. I do not then be performed

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as we could have done against England. Gives it to the big men and

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launch is there. Against Wales I thought we put in a good

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performance. We shut off for 510 minutes and that cost us. -- five of

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ten. I am particularly proud of the character of the squad. We are all

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proud. The game against Italy was a huge amount of pressure. We know

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they are good side. A lot of pressure to perform. I felt we did

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that. " as Seymour. Very proud of France. What skill. What a finish.

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Disappointed in the first half but I thought we finished well. We will

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take a lot of positives from the championship. Space that Richie Gray

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will exploit. What we can achieve, that winning habit, it is a talented

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group that can do things and we are building towards something so

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hopefully we can keep progressing. That was the view of Richie Gray,

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we have the full, extensive, campaign analysis from our online

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rugby experts John Beattie, That's Six Nations Extra on the BBC

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Sport Scotland website. The Coatbridge boxer Ricky Burns

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says he's 100% convinced he'll win his upcoming world

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title fight in Glasgow. After mixed fortunes in the ring

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over the last couple of years, Burns fights the Italian,

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Miceilidh Di Rocco for the WBA Super Lightweight belt

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at the The Hydro in May. The Scot is aiming to become world

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champion at a third different Getting a few people saying I am

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finished and all of this but I know I am not. I have come through most

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of it. It is about moving forward. I cannot wait to work out in front of

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all of the fans. It is going to be unbelievable. That is the sport.

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They began as a social outlet for the partners

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But TV fame and hit singles have propelled military wives choirs

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throughout the country into the limelight.

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Now, choirs from Scottish bases are enjoying their fifteen minutes

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of fame on stage too - as part of a UK-wide tour

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In a church hall with an army barracks these women are rehearsing.

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The Kinloss military wives are preparing for their biggest gig yet.

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There are 70 military wives choirs around the UK offering support to

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the partners of soldiers and airmen whose duties often take them away

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from home. It is the best thing I ever done in my life. I have made so

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many friends. I have gained so much confidence. Singer Lulu has recorded

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a charity single and at every show on her 35 date tour a local choir

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will join her own stage. The excitement and anticipation is

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mounting. It is really exciting. We are nervous because Lulu has been 50

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years in show business and knows what she is doing and we are just a

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military wives choirs so it is quite daunting but we are excited. I did

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not think I would get the opportunity to join a military wives

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choirs when I saw it happening on television. I thought I would have

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to be really good at singing. I did not realise how friendly and open it

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would be. I thought it was amazing. With some nerves jangling it is time

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to take the stage with the star. Very excited. Even if it is just

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that it is great. They have their trials and tribulations. If they get

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a bit of a rush from being on stage that is great. Lulu's tour continues

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this month than throughout April while the popularity of the military

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wives choirs shows no sign of abating.

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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.

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After a lovely weekend for many of us,

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Gillian has details of what's in store.

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It is going downhill later in the week. We did not have quite as much

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sunshine today as over the weekend. This picture was fairly typical

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across the country. We had some breaks in the cloud and were

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predominantly dry but the area of high pressure that has kept us dry

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and settled is pulling away and we will see a gradual breakdown in the

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set of conditions particularly during the second half of the week.

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Some rain for the Northern Isles and hill fog and most of the mainland

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will be dry with a few bits of rain in the north-west. Temperatures

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4-6dC. Chilly under clear skies, Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, the

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Borders. Essentially frost free. Tomorrow a lot of dry weather. The

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best of the sunshine across eastern Scotland from Angus, Fife and the

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Borders. More cloud across the west although it will send to allow some

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brightness to get going. It is a good dry day for most of us and

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where we do get sunshine temperatures are up to 13 and with

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light winds it will feel pretty proud -- pleasant. A bit of a breeze

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around the coast. Some light and patchy rain. Amounts will be very

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trivial. Tomorrow evening it is predominantly dry again across the

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mainland. Still bits and pieces of rain swirling around Northern costs

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as well as the northern and western isles. Overnight into Wednesday we

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see more of a change weather front works in from the west. It is

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weakening, not much rain, but that will work across western Scotland

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through the day. Eastern parts they predominantly dry. Hanging onto

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brightness. Thursday is looking unsettled. Much cloudier with

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outbreaks of rain heaviest in the north-west and strong winds into the

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bargain. Now, a reminder of

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tonight's main news. One person has died and 11

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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

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at 8pm, and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone

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on the team, right across the country,

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have a very good evening.

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