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As the lights go up on the Scottish election campaign, the party leaders | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
prepare to go head-to-head in the first televised debate. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Detectives investigating the murder of 15-year-old Paige Doherty search | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
the shop where she was last seen - and a nearby flat. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Police confirm that bodies found on Ben Nevis are those of two | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
climbers missing for more than a month. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Longannet - Scotland's last coal-fired power station shuts down | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
And ahead of Scotland's friendly against the Czechs, | :00:35. | :00:53. | |
Darren Fletcher says the team are good enough to make it | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
Tax and spending have dominated discussion on the first full day | :00:55. | :01:13. | |
of campaigning for the Scottish Parliamentary elections. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
And these topics are certain to be on the agenda when the party leaders | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
confront each other in a BBC Scotland debate tonight on this | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Let's cross now to the debate studio and our political editor, | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Thanks very much. Six-party leaders will tackle each other here head-on | :01:27. | :01:38. | |
and also tackle the issues that matter to the voters. I'm sure the | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
debate will be vocal. They were out on the campaign trail trying to stir | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
up votes. We caught up with them. This is a royal borough since 1126. | :01:50. | :02:02. | |
It was the first Holyrood seat to declare five years ago. Labour won | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
here then, but the swing signalled the story of the night, an overall | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
SNP majority in the Scottish Parliament. Things are changing. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
This Parliament that we sit in is strong. Kezia Dugdale says | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
Holyrood's new power offers a chance to increase spending. Faced between | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
that choice, people will choose Labour's plan. Nicola Sturgeon meets | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
young fans. So much for the fairy, that there is no contest for the top | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
job -- theory that there is no contest for the top job. Sturgeon | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
job -- theory that there is no hopes her party's progress will be | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
iceberg free, provided they focus on the big issues like the Health | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Service. It is about how we raise attainment in our schools, we are | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
pledging to inquest ?750 million, it is about how we make our economy | :03:06. | :03:18. | |
strong. No Willie Rennie isn't worried you have forgotten his name. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
He's harmoniously highlighting his party's big pitch, a penny on income | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
He's harmoniously highlighting his tax to fund education. Scottish | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
He's harmoniously highlighting his education used to be the best but it | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
is now just average. We need to invest a penny on income tax for | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
schools and for colleges so we can be the best again. Climbing higher, | :03:38. | :03:52. | |
Ruth Davidson ascends a rather posh soapbox. She hopes to corral those | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Ruth Davidson ascends a rather posh votes behind the Tories. Scotland | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
can change and it can change for the better. If people aren't going to | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
change the Government, they should consider changing the opposition, to | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
one that really holds the Government to account, make them focus on | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
things that matter and won't drag us back to another independence | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
referendum. Patrick Harvie says Scotland can change tack. We need a | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
bolder Holyrood, a Holyrood that is willing to push Government beyond | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
its comfort zone. David Coburn emphasises the economy. Jobs, jobs, | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
jobs. That is what Ukip are for. We want to see the Scottish economy | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
grow. We don't want to see taxes higher in Scotland than they are in | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
the rest of the UK. That is not going to help Scottish business. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
- and much more. Your election, your choice. | :04:44. | :05:01. | |
I am sure the topic will come up in the debate tonight. You can have a | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
look at it in this programme later. It will | :05:07. | :05:07. | |
come up during the debate. The signs so far from the campaigning, from | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
the arguments put forward by the parties is that the campaign | :05:12. | :05:12. | |
focus is tax, and it is spending, particularly with those | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
new powers that are coming to Holyrood in the near future. I think | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
that the focus tonight in this debate among the six | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
leaders, I think the focus in that will be tax and spending. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Inquiries are continuing into the death of 15-year-old Paige Doherty. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Her body was found in wooded area in Clydebank on Monday. | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
The investigation has escalated in the part of the Dunbartonshire | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
It's three days since Paige Doherty's body was discovered. Last | :05:45. | :06:01. | |
night, the focus of the inquiry centred on this shop where Paige was | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
last seen before she disappeared. At 8.20am on Saturday morning Paige | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
went to buy a roll from the deli. She had walked there from her | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
friend's house where she had been staying over. She was on her way to | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
get her bus to her Saturday job, at a hairdressers. She never arrived. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Throughout the day, forensic officers have been continuing | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
investigations here at the shop. It's | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
owned and run by this man. His downstairs neighbour told me what | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
happened. They searched the house, the shed, the back garden and the | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
forensics are in the shop now, or they were last night. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
is still a strong police presence where Paige's body was found and | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
people continue to bring tributes of flowers and balloons for the | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
teenager. Police say enquiries are continuing to discover what happened | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
to Paige and Commodities trader Liberty House has | :07:00. | :06:59. | |
signed a deal to buy two mothballed The "back to back" agreement, | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
which was confirmed this morning, involves the Scottish Government | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
buying the Clydebridge and Dalzell plants from Tata Steel, | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
and immediately selling them The sale will not cost | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
the taxpayer anything. You're watching Reporting | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
tonight's programme: Today would have been | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Independence Day, if the Yes side had won the referendum - | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
we look at the day that might have In sport, we're in Prague | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
where the national football team hopes to Czech out | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
with a friendly win. And there'll be some thin ice | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
for at least one Scottish team when the pucks start flying this | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
weekend for places in the big Police have confirmed | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
that the bodies of a man and woman found on Ben Nevis are that | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
of a Bradford couple missing It's believed 24-year-old | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Rachel Slater and 27-year-old Tim Newton were struck | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
by an avalanche the day before they were due off Britain's | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
highest mountain. In a statement tonight, | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
their families thanked the rescue services and said they took some | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
comfort knowing that their children Tim Newton and Rachel Slater, | :08:15. | :08:28. | |
pictured on the summit of Ben Nevis, they had been missing on Britain's | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
highest mountain for more than five weeks. It's believed that the young | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
couple were climbing in the vicinity of Observatory Gully when they were | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
struck by an avalanche. It swept them back down the mountain where | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
they died. 23 team members went out on the rescue last night. When we | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
recovered the body of the female person, we carried on probing in the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
snow and managed to find the second person who was a male climber, who | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
we are assuming it is Rachel and Tim who we have been looking for for | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
some time. They were caught in an avalanche because they still had | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
their climbing ropes and gear on and we know that there was a very big | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
avalanche in the Observatory Gully area on the Saturday morning. The | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
experienced climbers from Bradford were reported missing on Valentine's | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Day after their tent was found abandoned. But initial attempts to | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
find them had to be called off because weather conditions on the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
mountain were too dangerous for rescuers. The plight of the couple | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
attracted widespread interest, but as time ran out, their families who | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
arrived in the Highlands this evening had to prepare for the | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
worst. He's with Rachel and he's in the mountains he loves. That is | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
where I will take him back eventually. I'm not sitting now | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
worried in a sense. Tributes have been paid to the young couple as | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
well as the Mountain Rescue team for its relentless efforts to find them | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
in extreme winter conditions. It's been a very emotional rollercoaster | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
for us. And it gives closure for the family. It gives closure for us. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
It's been tremendously stressful. As the weeks past, the outcome became | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
inevitable. But there is a deep sense of sadness here now that Ben | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
Nevis has finally given up its dead. It has been powering Scotland's | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
homes and businesses for almost But this afternoon, the giant | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
coal-fired power station Its closure represents the end | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
of an era in which coal was king. It also raises questions about how | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
we'll generate our electricity in the years ahead, and has sparked | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
fears about the future Our environment correspondent | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
David Miller reports. How you feeling? A bit sad and | :10:51. | :11:17. | |
emotional. I have been here 13 years. That is the end of an era. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Longannet no more, as they say. Somebody wrote a song about that, | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
didn't they? That's it. Done and dusted. It's the end of a story | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
which began in the 1960s. When Longannet was built, it was the | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
biggest power station in Europe, Longannet was built, it was the | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
providing cheap, reliable supplies of electricity thanks to the | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
country's abundant supplies of coal. But in recent years, the coal has | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
been imported from as far away as Colombia. There has been a massive | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
pile of coal right here for 50 years now. Hard to believe but back in | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
January, there was still a million tonnes of the stuff. Today, it's all | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
gone. Burning coal to produce electricity may be relatively cheap, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
but it comes at a big cost to the environment. Carbon taxes and grid | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
connection charges which give power stations in England a competitive | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
advantage have taken their toll. Longannet can no longer pay its way. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
This is the end of coal, the coal area and coal generation in | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Scotland. For over 100 years, Scotland's power has been dominated | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
by coal and the industry has been built off that. But unfortunately by | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
the end of today, that age finishes here. It's renewable energy which | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
will have to fill the gap. But our reliance on intermittent supplies | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
from wind farms means that although Scotland will remain a net exporter | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
of electricity, there will be an increased number of days when the | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
country relies on power generated in England. We are heading into very, | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
very dangerous waters here. Just suddenly taking out our ability not | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
only to supply power on demand, which is what Longannet does for | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Scotland, but also to control the quality of the power regionally in | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
the Grid in Scotland, so Scotland is becoming a very interesting, unique | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
first experiment within the UK as a whole, you know, it is not an | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
experiment we should be doing. For the workforce of more than 200, the | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
days leading up to the shutdown have been filled with pride and sadness. | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
Generations of the same families have worked here. Between myself and | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
my dad and my brother, we have got over 74 years service at Longannet | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
power station. A great loss to be leaving Team Longannet. When I | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
started in '68, it was good to start and be and grow with the building. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Alex, when you see that button being pushed? Sadness. Sadness. Genuinely. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Yeah. Today, March 24th, | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
is a date without much But it could have been Scotland's | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
independence day if there had been The Scottish Government thought it | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
provided a realistic time-scale from the referendum for powers to be | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
devolved ahead of an election. The majority of Scots voted no, | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
but of course, the debate continues. Our political correspondent | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
Andrew Kerr looks at day that Americans as one on 4th July. Today | :14:38. | :14:58. | |
could have been Scotland's Independence Day. But the nation | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
remains divided. Two veteran campaigners reflect. It brings us | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
security, stability, it brings us a long-term secure future and it's | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
always better working together with your neighbours. It's been a hugely | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
empowering experience. It is an example to the world. The Scots | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
started to think in great deal. If some of them felt frightened about | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
the prospects, then we have to address these. If there had been a | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Yes vote, Edinburgh Castle would have been symbolic for the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
celebrations. Independence campaigners are today left attacking | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
the pro-Union side for broken promises. HMRC tax jobs are not | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
the pro-Union side for broken being saved. Our position in the EU | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
the pro-Union side for broken isn't safe because of the referendum | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
and the claim a ?7 million cash grab was | :15:53. | :15:53. | |
attempted. Those who backed the Union said the | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
referendum was meant to be a once in a generation opportunity and | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
economic arguments have featured strongly with the oil price | :16:05. | :16:05. | |
collapse. An independent Scotland would be | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
starting out life with a severe fiscal problem, which could only | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
mean either big tax rises or much more likely, big spending cuts. But | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
those who favour yes, say it is where you are heading that counts. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
The call of the case for independence is, can we get policies | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
right which would get the economy to be growing more sustainably, or | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
can't we? It is not really about the starting point, where the public | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
finances are when you inherit, it is where you go next. Scotland's story | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
has many chapters, with more yet to come. Different powers have | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
controlled this great capital city. Who knows what will be written in | :16:54. | :16:54. | |
the history books of the future? A look at other stories | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
from across the country. Police investigating the murder | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
of an Aberdeenshire man are carrying out searches for what they say | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
is likely to be a heavy weapon used Officers have also issued | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
a description of two men seen with Brian McKandie at his home | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
near Rothienorman on the afternoon of Friday March 11th - | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
the day before his body One is in their 50s, heavy built, | :17:15. | :17:27. | |
the other is described as being younger. These individuals, jurors | :17:28. | :17:36. | |
at his home address, a maroon or burgundy coloured Volvo or Saab | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
estate car. The officer in charge of a ferry | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
when it collided with an Eyemouth fishing boat haS pled guilty | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
at the High Court in Glasgow to failing to change the ship's | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
course to avoid the collision 52-year-old Italian seaman | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
Pasquale Miccio was on the bridge of the ferry en route from Rosyth | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
to Zeebruge in August 2010 when it Sentence has been deferred till | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
April for background reports. An historic Perth department store | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
has gone into administration with more than half of the 110 staff | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
losing their jobs immediately. Their stores in Ballater | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
and Oban have also closed. McEwens say they did everything | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
they could to save the business. It is an iconic business for the | :18:20. | :18:31. | |
city of Perth, and it is really sad to see them in this position. The | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
council stands by to do everything it can to assist everyone in this | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
situation and we are particularly concerned for the staff. | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
Pictures showing the contents of a Viking vessel have been released. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
They were found by a metal detector in a field in Galloway | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
Images show a pot containing a rare silver brooch from Ireland, | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
silk from Istanbul, as well as gold and crystal from the 9th | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
Aberdeen's Kenny McLean makes his Scotland debut tonight against the | :18:56. | :19:14. | |
Czech Republic in Prague, in the friendly. Robert Snodgrass returns | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
to the international fold after injury. It is the start of the | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
build-up to the next World Cup, for which tonight's captain Darren | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Fletcher says Scotland can qualify. Alistair Love and has been finding | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
out if supporters share his optimism. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
and buy the latest qualifying failure, nearly 3000 Scots are in | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
Prague for an essentially meaningless friendly. The players, | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
like those fans, do not have a European Championship to prepare | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
for, and they share a burning desire finally to reach a major tournament. | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
It is something I have not achieved and I have been desperate to do | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
since I made my debut. We know we are in a tough group but I also | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
think it is a group we should not be scared of. I think it is a group, if | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
we perform to our level, and improve that extra little percentage, then I | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
think we would be in a real good position of qualifying. Such | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
optimism is almost always evident before a campaign begins. But are | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
these fans who travel far and wide to follow the team convinced that | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
the optimism is well placed? I agree with Darren, I think we can | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
definitely qualify, or give it a go. The recent campaign we did excellent | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
and we were just unfortunate choice I think the squad is at its peak. If | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
we are going to do it, it will be this campaign. I think Slovenia are | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
beatable. I think we will have a better chance than we have had | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
before. This quintet were a freshfaced boy band the last time a | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
qualifying campaign ended in success for Scotland. If they could finally | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
end that weight, that would be something to make a song and dance | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
about. We've live coverage | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
of the Czech Republic against Scotland | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
on BBC Radio Scotland. That's 810 medium wave, | :21:16. | :21:16. | |
on digital and online. The Dundee United manager | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
Mixu Paatelainen has been charged with misconduct by the Scottish | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Football Association. It follows his touchline | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
celebrations of United's late equaliser in last | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
weekend's Dundee derby. Scotland may not have won | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
the recent Six Nations, but we do have the | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
tournament's best player. The Glasgow Warriors full-back | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Stuart Hogg won the poll, beating off 11 other contenders, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
including three players from England's Grand | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Slam-winning side, His displays throughout | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
the tournament drew widespread praise, and ahead of tomorrow's club | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
game against Ulster, he says he is eyeing | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
up further prizes. I think the game plan suited our | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
back division. It is good to get a couple of wins on board. That is now | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
the minimum standard for us. We want to be winning game after game and | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
winning trophies. There was a heavy defeat | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
for Scotland's women curlers this afternoon at the World | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
Championships in Canada. Eve Muirhead's rink were beaten 10-4 | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
by Japan, so have now won seven and lost three of their | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
round robin matches. At least one Scottish ice hockey | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
team will make it to the grand finale of the British | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Elite league season - the play-offs weekend | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
in Nottingham next week. Dundee Stars play Cardiff Devils | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
in the quarterfinals this weekend. The other two Scots teams | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
in the last eight will face off against each other as they renew | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
their fierce rivalry. We need guys attacking the net... | :22:48. | :23:02. | |
talks tough, and trains them tougher. Perhaps that is why | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
Braehead, finishing third in the British Elite league, are the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
highest placed Scottish team. We finish on a high here, it is seven | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
in a row, and we are confident going into the play-offs. They are | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
Scotland's youngest club. Their archrivals, established in 1938, R | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Britain's oldest. The two meet in this weekend's two-legged | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
quarterfinals. Over the course of the regular season, we have matched | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
up well against Braehead. I think our record is six and two. Both | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
teams will be gunning for it, but we would like to think we have the | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
edge. And it is another one! It is a good matchup. We are excited about | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
it. I think both venues are sold out already. The guys are excited and it | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
should be a good game. Dundee Stars are the third Scots team, with a | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
should be a good game. Dundee Stars play-off dream. They face Cardiff | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Devils to me finish to second in the league for a place in the | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
semifinals. It is huge. We have been to Cardiff and we have played well | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
against them all year, I think we are two and two against them. Try to | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
keep that streak going here in the play-offs. At least one, maybe two, | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Scottish teams will continue their winning runs this weekend. And don't | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
worry, the big man will be back on his skates in time for the face-off. | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
I think! Now here's Shelley with | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
details of Scotland 2016. Tonight, as six party leaders go | :24:38. | :24:48. | |
head to head in the first televised debate of the Scottish election | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
campaign, we will bring you analysis and reaction. And we will consider | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
what if today was Independence Day. Join me over on BBC Two at half past | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
ten. Let's see how the weather's shaping | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
up ahead of the Easter We had a bright end to the day for | :25:02. | :25:14. | |
some of us at least today. This was taken from one of our weather | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
watchers. Those weather fronts have cleared through now. Heading through | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
the rest of the night, we will see more in the way of clear spells | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
developing. A few showers around, some of their wintry over the hills. | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Under the clear skies, temperatures dipping away to around freezing for | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
some spots in Aberdeenshire. Tomorrow morning, a good deal of | :25:42. | :25:52. | |
sunshine around. Some outbreaks of rain pushing through. Here is a | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
snapshot of three o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Good if you are planning | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
any long drives for the weekend. In the north-west corner, strengthening | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
winds, around gale force, as we head through tomorrow evening. | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
Strengthening winds also in the Northern Isles. Heading through Good | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
Friday night into Saturday morning, some of the rainfall quite heavy for | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
a time. Those winds becoming stronger across the east coast as we | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
head through Saturday. Quite wet and windy across the west. Dreyer across | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
the Lothians and the Borders. Temperature-wise, we are looking at | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
around eight-ten. Looking ahead to Easter day, there will be some | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
bright spells. But also some scattered, heavy and blustery | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
showers with the risk of some hail and thunder mixed in. Temp job wise, | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
eight-9 degrees. -- temperature-wise, eight-9 degrees. | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news. | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
Radovan Karadzic has been found guilty of genocide and other war | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
crimes for his role in the Bosnian civil war. | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
Karadzic, who was arrested in 2008 after more than a decade on the run, | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
Tax and spending have dominated discussion on the first | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
full day of campaigning for the Scottish | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
And these topics are certain to be on the agenda when the party leaders | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
confront each other in a BBC Scotland debate tonight on this | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at eight and the late bulletin just | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - right | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
across the country - have a very good evening. | :27:44. | :27:46. |