:00:21. > :00:22.Tonight on Reporting Scotland: The former First Minister Alex
:00:23. > :00:24.Salmond has admitted the case for currency options
:00:25. > :00:26.in an independent Scotland needs to be refurbished.
:00:27. > :00:29.The murder of 15-year-old Paige Doherty - police appeal
:00:30. > :00:33.for the public's help as they try to piece
:00:34. > :00:41.A deal to save two steelworks could be within reach tonight -
:00:42. > :00:43.but will full production resume at the Dalzell
:00:44. > :00:48.The inquiry into historical child abuse calls for victims to come
:00:49. > :01:14.The former first minister Alex Salmond has admitted the case
:01:15. > :01:18.for currency options in an independent Scotland needs
:01:19. > :01:21.to be refurbished so it can't be gazumped by opponents
:01:22. > :01:35.Tonight would have been the eve of Scotland's Independence Day had the
:01:36. > :01:47.referendum voted to leave. In the referendum debate, currency
:01:48. > :01:51.questions were crucial. You can't tell us what currency we will have.
:01:52. > :01:55.What is best for Scotland is keeping the pound sterling. Alex Salmond
:01:56. > :01:59.said Scotland could keep the pound in a currency union with the rest of
:02:00. > :02:05.the UK, but the UK Chancellor said no. It is clear to me I could not as
:02:06. > :02:12.Chancellor recommend that we could share the pound with an independent
:02:13. > :02:14.Scotland. 18 months on, the figurehead of the Yes campaign
:02:15. > :02:16.wants his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, to revise the currency
:02:17. > :02:22.case he made. I think she is quite right to want
:02:23. > :02:27.to look at the essential case for independence, and do some
:02:28. > :02:31.refurbishing and presentation to make it appropriate for the New Age,
:02:32. > :02:36.and not just for a few years' time. Should that include leading again at
:02:37. > :02:39.currency options? Yes, the argument you have to put forward is one which
:02:40. > :02:44.can withstand any position adopted by your opponents, see you mustn't
:02:45. > :02:52.allow yourself to be gazumped by your opponent. This summer, the SNP
:02:53. > :02:55.will embark on a new initiative to build support for independence.
:02:56. > :03:03.Nicola Sturgeon promised a fresh push the independence. Those who
:03:04. > :03:07.lead the No campaign are not impressed. I think Alex Salmond has
:03:08. > :03:11.a bit of a cheek 18 months later acknowledging that his currency case
:03:12. > :03:17.was always flawed. People in Scotland have been well served by
:03:18. > :03:19.the pound and well served as part of the United Kingdom, particularly
:03:20. > :03:23.with the short-term instability we have seen in the last few years on
:03:24. > :03:25.the world economy. Competing claims over currency were never put to the
:03:26. > :03:31.the world economy. Competing claims test, because Scotland voted no to
:03:32. > :03:34.leaving the UK. But this debate over the pound still matters, because the
:03:35. > :03:39.argument over independence hasn't gone away, and many in the yes
:03:40. > :03:46.movement would put money on their being a referendum rerun sooner
:03:47. > :03:49.rather than later. Glenn joins us now from the
:03:50. > :03:53.parliament. What is your take on Alex Salmond's comments? I think
:03:54. > :04:00.they are interesting for two reasons. Alex Salmond like Nicola
:04:01. > :04:03.Sturgeon and others are talking about another referendum without
:04:04. > :04:07.setting a timetable for that, and secondly, because Alex Salmond, you
:04:08. > :04:13.will run member, refused to say what his currency plan B was during the
:04:14. > :04:17.last campaign, although it was implied that if the UK wouldn't let
:04:18. > :04:20.an independent Scotland share the pound in a currency union, that
:04:21. > :04:25.Scotland could use the pound anyway in an arrangement known as
:04:26. > :04:31.sterlingisation which would come with its own challenges. Alex
:04:32. > :04:35.Salmond is broadly in the same place, he is not saying we should
:04:36. > :04:39.adopt the euro or a separate Scottish currency if there was a Yes
:04:40. > :04:42.vote in the future, but clearly he thinks those on the yes side of the
:04:43. > :04:46.independence arguments need to develop better arguments to persuade
:04:47. > :04:50.people that an independent Scotland could keep the pound in any
:04:51. > :04:54.circumstances. Thank you very much, Glenn.
:04:55. > :04:59.Police investigating the murder of Paige Doherty near Glasgow say
:05:00. > :05:01.they're crucially looking for people who were in the area on Monday,
:05:02. > :05:05.The 15-year-old from Clydebank was last seen on Saturday
:05:06. > :05:15.Paige Doherty was last seen here at 20 past eight on Saturday morning
:05:16. > :05:18.buying a role on her way to work. The owner of the shop next door
:05:19. > :05:23.knows her family well. He is thought to be one of the last people to
:05:24. > :05:28.speak to her before she disappeared. About quarter past eight on Saturday
:05:29. > :05:36.morning, I said to her, all right, Paige, and she waved. And then I
:05:37. > :05:45.never saw her. When I heard the news I was devastated. I can't say much
:05:46. > :05:48.more. I hope they find the killer. She would then have walked along
:05:49. > :05:53.here to get her boss to work. Police want to know if anyone was seen
:05:54. > :05:57.acting suspiciously around here on Saturday. She was on her way to her
:05:58. > :06:00.part-time job as a junior at a hairdresser. Her mother reported her
:06:01. > :06:06.missing after she failed to arrive there. Her body was found here on
:06:07. > :06:11.Monday at about quarter to one in the afternoon. This is the A82 great
:06:12. > :06:15.Western road, a main dual carriageway into Glasgow. Police
:06:16. > :06:20.made this appeal for what they are describing is crucial information.
:06:21. > :06:25.This road is usually very busy, and the area is popular with joggers and
:06:26. > :06:29.dog walkers. People are asking people -- police are asking people
:06:30. > :06:33.to cast their minds back to see if they saw anyone behaving
:06:34. > :06:39.suspiciously in this area on Monday. Today, Paige 's mother release this
:06:40. > :06:50.appeal. Tonight, police say they are working
:06:51. > :06:52.around the clock to find her killer. They say they are encouraged by the
:06:53. > :06:57.response from the public so far. A deal which could save
:06:58. > :06:59.Lanarkshire's Clydebridge and Dalzell steel plants is close -
:07:00. > :07:02.but the likely buyer, Liberty House, says it may not
:07:03. > :07:04.be concluded tonight. Over now to David Henderson who's
:07:05. > :07:24.outside the Dalzell plant Large-scale steel production in
:07:25. > :07:27.Scotland used to provide more employment than any other industry,
:07:28. > :07:30.but now it looks to be sold for just a pound.
:07:31. > :07:36.Five months ago, the owners of Scotland's last big steelworks
:07:37. > :07:39.announced plans to close them. It dealt a hammer blow to the
:07:40. > :07:43.workforce, and marked the end of a chapter in Scotland's industrial
:07:44. > :07:50.history. But now, there could be a fresh start. All these signs look
:07:51. > :07:56.set to change. Tata steel wants to sell up to an international metals
:07:57. > :08:01.firm, Liberty House. But how can they succeed where Tata failed?
:08:02. > :08:05.firm, Liberty House. But how can steel industry is in crisis with the
:08:06. > :08:11.market swamped with cheaper Chinese steel. Liberty House's tactic is to
:08:12. > :08:14.undercut the opposition by recycling some of the millions of tonnes of
:08:15. > :08:21.scrap steel exported from the UK every year. We have a different
:08:22. > :08:27.business model, we have already proven that in Newport, so we are
:08:28. > :08:29.looking at offsetting the costs, using slabs which are more
:08:30. > :08:43.competitive than that I -- tartare competitive than that I -- tartare
:08:44. > :08:48.-- Tata can produce. It has been a harsh winter, with most workers laid
:08:49. > :08:52.off. Just 50 are left, among the union direct Ross Clark. We have to
:08:53. > :08:57.sit down and get the place operational, secure our customer
:08:58. > :09:02.base and make this place profitable, and have a sustainable steel
:09:03. > :09:04.industry. Steel-making was once Scotland's biggest industrial
:09:05. > :09:07.employer, and it has dominated Motherwell for decades. People here
:09:08. > :09:13.employer, and it has dominated want these plants saved. It was a
:09:14. > :09:17.big loss to the area, the whole of Lanarkshire suffered when that
:09:18. > :09:22.closed, so I imagine it would make a difference. Steel has been important
:09:23. > :09:28.for a long time, especially with Motherwell, and a lot of jobs have
:09:29. > :09:32.been lost. It needs to be kept. The town is dead and buried without the
:09:33. > :09:40.steel industry. Fan out, ADA is close, but only when it is done can
:09:41. > :09:46.the hard work really begins. A deal has apparently been very close for
:09:47. > :09:52.weeks, so what is holding things up? Three potential sticking points, the
:09:53. > :09:59.first of them is clean-up costs. This is an old site, quite a dirty
:10:00. > :10:03.site, inevitably, because of steel production on the site, and Liberty
:10:04. > :10:05.House don't want to be responsible for the clean-up cost of that was
:10:06. > :10:14.what Russell acquired in the future. They want Tata steel to have to deal
:10:15. > :10:19.with that. The second is carbon dioxide and the carbon tax. It
:10:20. > :10:23.produces carbon dioxide, and they do not want to be banned to the strict
:10:24. > :10:26.letter of the law, because ultimately, they say that if scrap
:10:27. > :10:30.steel is taken from here to China and brought back again, that
:10:31. > :10:36.produces more carbon dioxide than if it is produced here. And the final
:10:37. > :10:39.sticking point is they want a bulk deal on electricity, phone now and
:10:40. > :10:44.into the future, because inevitably it takes huge amounts of energy to
:10:45. > :10:48.melt that metal, to take it to a point where it is red-hot, and they
:10:49. > :10:53.need cheap electricity to make their business work. All of these
:10:54. > :10:57.potential deal breakers, all of these will have to be negotiated
:10:58. > :11:00.over the coming hours and days. Thank you very much, David.
:11:01. > :11:03.At Holyrood, MSPs gathered for the final time before heading
:11:04. > :11:06.Scotland goes to the polls on May 5th.
:11:07. > :11:10.Today was a day for emotion, for farewells - and for a bitter
:11:11. > :11:11.political dispute over tax and spending.
:11:12. > :11:18.This from our political editor Brian Taylor.
:11:19. > :11:26.A public book of condolence has now been made available. Hollywood
:11:27. > :11:31.history, Tricia Marwick presided for the last time this term, and Nicola
:11:32. > :11:35.Sturgeon facing her last questions before the election. And on the
:11:36. > :11:44.throne, King Robert the Bruce, proudly recreating Scotland's past
:11:45. > :11:48.of MPs. But in the chamber, they are concentrating on the future. The SNP
:11:49. > :11:51.have said they will not alter tax rate in Scotland fan out, and Labour
:11:52. > :11:55.said that was missing an opportunity. This First Minister who
:11:56. > :11:59.has campaigned for years on the mantra that more powers means fewer
:12:00. > :12:05.cuts now refuses to use the powers to stop the cuts. The SNP will
:12:06. > :12:08.reverse a planned tax cut far higher earners, but Nicola Sturgeon said
:12:09. > :12:14.increasing the very top rate could backfire, if folk moved to avoid the
:12:15. > :12:18.tax and cut Scotland's revenue. Doing it in the phase of analysis
:12:19. > :12:22.that says that right now it could reduce the amount of money we have
:12:23. > :12:25.to invest in our National Health Service and our public services
:12:26. > :12:33.would not be radical, it would be reckless. It would not be daring, it
:12:34. > :12:41.would be daft. The liberal Democrat said that Scottish education would
:12:42. > :12:45.suffer. The opportunity to transform education is missed. Nursery
:12:46. > :12:48.education targets will be missed. The attainment gap in schools will
:12:49. > :12:52.keep being missed. The First Minister said the fiscal framework
:12:53. > :12:57.meant Scotland would be recompensed for UK tax plans. That would
:12:58. > :13:01.generate investment for services. Patrick Harvie of the Greens
:13:02. > :13:04.championed land reform. We still have hugely concentrated patterns of
:13:05. > :13:10.land ownership in Scotland, and that needs to change. MSP Stewart
:13:11. > :13:17.McMillan plays Burns great-aunt of a common humanity watching from the
:13:18. > :13:25.gallery, Sheila Wellington, who sang that very song on Parliament's
:13:26. > :13:30.opening day in 1999. -- great anthem of a common humanity. They followed
:13:31. > :13:35.the Piper down the chamber towards the garden lobby. There they gather,
:13:36. > :13:42.those who are departing and those who hope to return, shaking hands,
:13:43. > :13:48.hugging, even the occasional selfie. And from this happy scene, straight
:13:49. > :13:52.onto the streets. Willie Rennie joins a student protest. Ruth
:13:53. > :13:58.Davidson takes the Conservative election message out and about. The
:13:59. > :14:02.Scottish Conservatives don't believe that we should put a sign of the
:14:03. > :14:06.board of says, higher taxes here. We also don't think that people in
:14:07. > :14:10.Scotland should have to pay more tax. Labour prepares its election
:14:11. > :14:17.pitch, that offer on tax and spending. And the SNP must do their
:14:18. > :14:21.election candidates, but who will win? That's your choice.
:14:22. > :14:31.As the starting gun sounds, how are they all faring in the polls? It is
:14:32. > :14:35.intriguing in the chamber this afternoon, one MSP challenge the
:14:36. > :14:39.First Minister to pursue and act on a particular policy question after
:14:40. > :14:44.the election, it appeared like, sounded like a concession that the
:14:45. > :14:48.SNP was set to return to power with wicked irony and a cheeky grin,
:14:49. > :14:52.Nicola Sturgeon thanked her rival for the vote of confidence.
:14:53. > :14:55.Certainly the SNP do appear from the polls to be substantially ahead of
:14:56. > :14:58.their labour rivals, the Conservatives, and a bit further
:14:59. > :15:03.behind the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. But elections can be chancy
:15:04. > :15:09.thing is, they rest perhaps on one word, one action, one comment, one
:15:10. > :15:12.promise. Certainly that is the case of individuals. And bear in mind
:15:13. > :15:16.that in this place behind me here, it already makes much of our laws,
:15:17. > :15:22.it will soon be in charge of our income tax. These elections are a
:15:23. > :15:24.big deal. Thank you, Brian. And as the campaign gets under way, so do
:15:25. > :15:29.our televised election debates. Join Glenn Campbell
:15:30. > :15:31.for the Scottish Leaders Debate tomorrow evening on BBC One
:15:32. > :15:34.Scotland at nine o'clock. On that final day of debate MSPs
:15:35. > :15:37.sent their condolences to those affected by the Brussels
:15:38. > :15:40.terrorist attacks. The politicians took part
:15:41. > :15:43.in a minute's silence as a mark of respect for those
:15:44. > :15:45.killed in the bombings A book of condolence was opened
:15:46. > :15:52.in the Parliament's main hall for messages of sympathy
:15:53. > :15:54.and support, as flags flew The public inquiry into allegations
:15:55. > :16:00.of child abuse in Scotland has The inquiry, under Susan O'Brien QC,
:16:01. > :16:05.will take four years to investigate the extent of abuse of children
:16:06. > :16:08.in care and identify Our Social Affairs Correspondent
:16:09. > :16:22.Reevel Alderson reports. Educational institutions such as the
:16:23. > :16:26.former Fort Augustus Abbey School will come under the scrutiny of the
:16:27. > :16:31.inquiry if there are allegations of abuse there. So will residential
:16:32. > :16:36.care settings like these homes where children were looked after. It will
:16:37. > :16:40.be a lengthy process. QC Susan O'Brien has set out how the inquiry
:16:41. > :16:44.into highly sensitive allegations and events will be conducted.
:16:45. > :16:51.If you were in the care of the state in any sense, then we would like to
:16:52. > :16:57.hear from you. In addition, we would like to hear from people who attend
:16:58. > :17:02.or attended private boarding schools. One of the problems facing
:17:03. > :17:06.the inquiry is they don't know how many people may come forward to give
:17:07. > :17:11.evidence, and they don't know the scale of the documentation which may
:17:12. > :17:16.be involved. A similar inquiry in Northern Ireland received 30,000
:17:17. > :17:20.pages of documentation from one charity involved in just four cases.
:17:21. > :17:25.The inquiry has been welcomed by this man, regularly beaten and
:17:26. > :17:30.locked in dark rooms when he was in care almost 50 years ago. All we
:17:31. > :17:35.wanted was to be loved and feel secure, and they took that away from
:17:36. > :17:39.us, and our trust. Hopefully if the public inquiry goes well, people
:17:40. > :17:42.will start to move on to try to put the past behind them and get back to
:17:43. > :17:45.will start to move on to try to put a normal family life. I have
:17:46. > :17:49.grandchildren now and I don't want to miss them growing up.
:17:50. > :17:55.Outside the hotel where the inquiry launch was staged, some survivors
:17:56. > :17:59.protested that the inquiry is not wide enough. Allegations of abuse at
:18:00. > :18:06.day schools, children's organisations and Church Paris is --
:18:07. > :18:10.church parishes will not be conducted. I was abused at the age
:18:11. > :18:15.of five in a catholic Remy school. That does not factor, but my private
:18:16. > :18:21.also abused. All by Catholic Church also abused. All by Catholic Church
:18:22. > :18:24.-- Catholic clergy. The Catholic Church is not in inquiry, per se.
:18:25. > :18:29.She never mentioned justice. Survivors are being urged come
:18:30. > :18:35.forward, the chair of the inquiry says it is vital. The inquiry is not
:18:36. > :18:38.just for survivors of abuse in the past, it is also, for some Scottish
:18:39. > :18:43.children yet to be born. More than 50 doctors in Aberdeen
:18:44. > :18:45.have condemned plans which they say would see people with the most
:18:46. > :18:48.serious injuries transferred Our health correspondent
:18:49. > :18:51.Eleanor Bradford joins me now. Eleanor, what exactly
:18:52. > :18:59.are these doctors saying? All these doctors walk in trauma
:19:00. > :19:04.care, meaning they see the mysteriously injured, people who
:19:05. > :19:08.have been in car crashes, for example. Those kinds of patients are
:19:09. > :19:13.seen in four hospitals across Scotland, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow
:19:14. > :19:18.and Edinburgh. But there is a review of trauma care and away and the
:19:19. > :19:22.doctors say the plan at the moment is to reduce these four centres to
:19:23. > :19:26.two in Glasgow and Edinburgh. They say that is fine for the 75% of
:19:27. > :19:33.people living in the central belt, not so much for the 25% living
:19:34. > :19:36.elsewhere. The idea of placing two in the central belt and leaving the
:19:37. > :19:40.North with nothing does not seem fair or equitable to my colleagues,
:19:41. > :19:43.and I think people in the North Scotland need to know this is on the
:19:44. > :19:48.table and make decisions about what they think before it becomes a fatal
:19:49. > :19:53.company. Does the comparative difficulty of rural roads play a
:19:54. > :19:58.part? There is a difficult balance to strike. Doctors who work in big
:19:59. > :20:03.specialised centres have better outcomes, patients get better
:20:04. > :20:08.results. On the other hand, transport plays a part. In Scotland
:20:09. > :20:12.we only have five or 600 series trauma cases a year, which is not
:20:13. > :20:17.that many, so we had to balance these competing demands. But we know
:20:18. > :20:21.it is a real hot potato in the run-up to the election and local
:20:22. > :20:26.hospital services are an issue close to voters' hearts. The Scottish
:20:27. > :20:30.Government says all options are on the table, including retaining all
:20:31. > :20:34.four trauma centres. The Lib Dems say the SNP must come clear if it
:20:35. > :20:38.has secret plans so the electorate knows what it is voting for.
:20:39. > :20:40.Scottish Labour says meetings were held last week in which it was made
:20:41. > :20:48.clear that only Glasgow and Edinburgh were being proposed,
:20:49. > :20:50.despite the fact that Aberdeen Royal Infirmary has some better
:20:51. > :20:52.facilities. Thank you. Enterprise Areas, which were
:20:53. > :20:54.announced five years ago as a key part of the Scottish
:20:55. > :20:56.government's economic strategy, have been found to have
:20:57. > :20:58.had barely any effect. Firms were to be attracted
:20:59. > :21:01.with business rate deals, tax breaks and support
:21:02. > :21:03.with recruitment and training. But Highlands and Islands Enterprise
:21:04. > :21:05.has reviewed the policy across Scotland and found
:21:06. > :21:07.minimal impact on jobs, no evidence of inward
:21:08. > :21:09.investment or of any training A plan to transform one
:21:10. > :21:19.of Scotland's most famous modernist ruins into an arts venue has been
:21:20. > :21:22.given more than 4 million St Peter's Seminary in Cardross
:21:23. > :21:25.was built in the 1960s as a training college for priests
:21:26. > :21:31.and closed in the 1980s. The A-listed building,
:21:32. > :21:34.near Helensburgh in Argyll, is derelict but considered by some
:21:35. > :21:39.to be a modernist masterpiece. It is currently hosting
:21:40. > :21:40.the Hinterland sound Someone who always puts on a show,
:21:41. > :22:00.David! The Scotland manager is once again
:22:01. > :22:05.stressing he does not have great players at his disposal. Gordon
:22:06. > :22:09.Strachan says the side could trust better because of attitude and
:22:10. > :22:11.commitment and wants to see those qualities in the friendly tomorrow
:22:12. > :22:14.against the Czech Republic in Prague, where this report comes
:22:15. > :22:21.from. Czech Republic squad are warming up
:22:22. > :22:28.behind me. While most of Scotland sits at home and mulls over perhaps
:22:29. > :22:32.once again what could have been, the Czechs and the supporters will be
:22:33. > :22:36.enjoying the big occasion in France, because they qualified, unlike
:22:37. > :22:39.Scotland. In the absence of Petr Cech, they are not filled with
:22:40. > :22:43.superstars, that they topped their qualifying group ahead of Turkey,
:22:44. > :22:47.Iceland and the Netherlands. So perhaps Gordon Strachan and his
:22:48. > :22:52.players can learn a thing or two from the Czech Republic?
:22:53. > :22:56.At the moment we do not have great players, but we have a great group
:22:57. > :23:00.of players who want to do well for their country and put themselves out
:23:01. > :23:06.for the country. And a group of players we have got here. We can
:23:07. > :23:09.make ourselves into a very good side. The friendly tomorrow night
:23:10. > :23:12.marks the beginning of preparations side. The friendly tomorrow night
:23:13. > :23:15.for World Cup qualifying for Strachan and his players. The squad
:23:16. > :23:22.he has brought to Prague is largely Strachan and his players. The squad
:23:23. > :23:25.recognisable, but it is a chance for players like Ross McCormack to
:23:26. > :23:29.perhaps take eight flame and cement their place in future squads. Steven
:23:30. > :23:35.Fletcher pulled out this morning through illness. Darren Fletcher and
:23:36. > :23:39.Alan Hutton are the only survivors from the last time they played in
:23:40. > :23:43.Prague, the infamous game when Craig Levine, the then manager, was
:23:44. > :23:57.criticised for playing without a recognised striker, in the infamous
:23:58. > :24:00.4-6-0 game. There have been two more wins for Scotland's women curlers.
:24:01. > :24:03.Eve Muirhead's rink are joint top with Switzerland and Canada
:24:04. > :24:08.with four matches of the group stage remaining.
:24:09. > :24:12.Now to a motor sport, and one that's fast,
:24:13. > :24:15.and doesn't involve brakes - speedway.
:24:16. > :24:18.The season gets under way this weekend, and for one of the three
:24:19. > :24:20.Scottish clubs in the British League, there's something extra
:24:21. > :24:31.special about the 2016 campaign.
:24:32. > :24:38.The engines are finely tuned and so, hopefully, other riders, for a
:24:39. > :24:45.season rich in significance to Glasgow Tigers. This is the 70th
:24:46. > :24:48.season, the club almost went under a couple of times, financial problems
:24:49. > :24:55.and suchlike, so to be standing here 70 years, it is good. Plenty of
:24:56. > :25:00.excitement today at the Ashfield Stadium, and it is just a practice
:25:01. > :25:06.session. The riders can't wait to get racing for real. And to achieve
:25:07. > :25:11.their targets. I think the main one as a team is to win trophies, we
:25:12. > :25:15.have the team on paper to do it, we have to follow it through, and on a
:25:16. > :25:20.personal note I want to go back to being number one in the league. New
:25:21. > :25:24.boy Ben is not the only cap acrid tiger hoping to be top dog. They are
:25:25. > :25:30.putting together a really good line-up, we should be able to get
:25:31. > :25:37.going. Ambitions? I would love to reach number one spot and for us to
:25:38. > :25:43.make the play-off finals and win. The ambition is to make their 70th
:25:44. > :25:45.season memorable. It will be up to the Glasgow Tigers' seven riders to
:25:46. > :25:53.make sure it is. Time for me to disappear into the
:25:54. > :26:05.sunset. The high pressure we have enjoyed
:26:06. > :26:10.for the last ten days is moving away. Flashback to yesterday, this
:26:11. > :26:15.comes from one of our Weather Watchers in Newport on Tay in Fife,
:26:16. > :26:19.but today it is very different. We have had a weak weather fronts
:26:20. > :26:24.bringing patchy a la breaks of light rain and drizzle, but not much
:26:25. > :26:28.rainfall. It has been largely dry for many. The week weather front
:26:29. > :26:31.will continue to create woods, clearer skies for the first part of
:26:32. > :26:36.the night, but the next weather front is edging in, bringing
:26:37. > :26:42.strengthening winds and wet weather. In the east, and a clearer skies,
:26:43. > :26:47.temperatures close to freezing. A few pockets of frost. For tomorrow
:26:48. > :26:53.morning, quite cloudy and wet, mainly across more western areas.
:26:54. > :26:58.The weather front is not making much progress further eastwards. Largely
:26:59. > :27:04.dry skies and sunshine install. It will be drier for most of us by the
:27:05. > :27:09.afternoon. Here is a snapshot of the afternoon, showery outbreaks across
:27:10. > :27:13.Dumfries Galloway with cloudy conditions. Sunny skies for a time
:27:14. > :27:23.across the central belt, temperatures of 8210 Celsius, baby
:27:24. > :27:25.11 degrees for Aberdeenshire. -- of eight to 10 Celsius. In time for
:27:26. > :27:32.Good Friday it should become drier with scattered showers. Good Friday
:27:33. > :27:35.does not look too bad, a good deal of sunshine, especially for more
:27:36. > :27:40.central, southern and eastern areas. By the afternoon, the next weather
:27:41. > :27:46.system approaches, bringing further wet and windy weather. Temperatures
:27:47. > :27:51.between nine and 11 degrees. Friday night will be quite windy, for
:27:52. > :27:56.Saturday it looks to be the wettest day of the long weekend, I'm afraid.
:27:57. > :27:59.There will be a good deal of rainfall for western areas and
:28:00. > :28:03.temperatures of eight or 9 degrees. That is your forecast.
:28:04. > :28:06.I'll be back with the late bulletin at 10:30pm.
:28:07. > :28:11.Don't forget the online service as well. From everyone here, good
:28:12. > :28:14.night.