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Tonight on Reporting Scotland: A Bradford man appears in court | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
charged with the murder of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah, | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
in what police described as a religiously prejudiced attack. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
Inspections are being carried out at schools across Scotland built | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
by one contractor after the collapse of a wall at an Edinburgh primary | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
North Sea oil rig hadn't been checked for over thirty years. | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
Also on the programme: Training's over, now it's time for action | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
as Scotland get set to take on Denmark at Hampden. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
And Andy Murray gets beaten, and so does his racket, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
And, a band of amateur actors are joining the Royal Shakespeare | :00:48. | :00:59. | |
Company to play a band of amateur actors in a Midsummer's Night Dream. | :01:00. | :01:18. | |
A man has appeared in court charged with last week's murder of Glasgow | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
32-year-old Tanveer Ahmed from Bradford is accused | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
of the killing, which police describe | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
as a "religiously prejudiced attack". | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
These pictures show Asad Shah working in his shop last August. A | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
business he had run for many years. On Thursday night, just after nine | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
o'clock, police were called. They found Asad Shah lying in the street | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
not far from his shop. He had been stabbed. He was taken to hospital, | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
where he was pronounced dead. Just hours before he was stabbed, he had | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
posted a message on Facebook wishing a Good Friday and a very happy | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Easter, especially, he said, to my beloved Christian nation. He was a | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
Muslim. A very small group within Scotland's Muslim community, making | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
up less than 1% of Scots Muslims. This is where he worshipped. Police | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
said during the investigation, they were treating his death is | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
religiously prejudiced, and that the man who had been arrested was | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
Muslim. Today that man was named as 32-year-old Tanveer Ahmed from | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Bradford. He appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court where he was charged | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
with Mr Shah's murder. He made no plea and was remanded in custody, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
and he is expected to appear in court again next week. A car inside | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
the police cordon was registered to the taxi at Uber and registered with | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
Glasgow City Council. A sea the taxi at Uber and registered with | :02:56. | :03:08. | |
tributes has been left to Mr Shah from his customers. Almost ?100,000 | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
has been raised to him and his family. | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
BBC Scotland has learned that inspections are being carried out | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
at schools across the country following the collapse of a wall | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
at an Edinburgh primary earlier this year. | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
Described as "a precautionary measure", the fresh surveys - | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
in Glasgow, Fife and Inverclyde - centre on construction work done | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
by one company as part of controversial private finance deals. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
With pupils enjoying their used a fortnight, work continues to rebuild | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
the outer wall of Oxton is primary. It collapsed in January, storm | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
Gertrude exploding flaws in the wall's original construction. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Completed a decade ago, the school was one of 17 in Edinburgh built or | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
refurbished following a deal between the council and a private finance | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
consortium. When the wall collapsed, inspections revealed similar | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
problems at three others, built around the same time by Miller | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
Construction. These issues are related to the construction | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
techniques. I don't think it is a contractual issue. Four schools were | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
temporarily closed, leaving families like the he needs to make the best | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
of temporary new arrangements. It is something of which we were quite | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
shocked, because as you can see from looking at the place, it looks like | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
a new school, and it should be a safe environment for the children to | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
learn in. Edinburgh's PPP digit one deal so I private consortium build | :04:39. | :04:53. | |
and manage schools as part of a deal, and manage schools elsewhere | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
and manage schools as part of a in Scotland. Glasgow's private | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
finance deal first managing and building schools was worth three | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
times as much as Edinburgh's, involving 29 secondaries and one | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
primary. Once again, this construction group played a part, so | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Glasgow City Council say their PPP contract will carry out surveys at | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
all of the schools built by the company, described in number as a | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
handful. Miller construction used a standard technique throughout the | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
country, we were told. Two years ago they were bought over by another | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
building firm. When asked, the new owners reveal they have also | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
contacted the clients of PPP schools built by Miller construction in | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Inverclyde and in Fife, where the council say building inspections are | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
being carried out during the Easter holidays. In a statement, the | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
company stressed they are not aware of any defects, describing the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
actions as a precautionary measure. Back in Edinburgh, Brian Heaney has | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
been assured his daughter's School will be ready to be open in time for | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
the new term. In the meantime, the questions he and other parents have | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
had about school safety are now echoing more widely. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
The Greens have set out the most radical income tax plans of any | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
Holyrood party, including a new 60p top rate of tax. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
That's higher than Labour's 50p proposal, which has been rejected | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
by the SNP, who fear it could reduce the overall tax take. | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :06:24. | :06:35. | |
One, two, three, go! As we count down to election day, the Greens are | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
aiming to win more votes, with plans to tax the rich more and the poor | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
less. They want new income rate and bands that reduces the tax paid by | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
those earning below ?26,500. They want to hire 43p rate above ?43,000, | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
and a new 60p top rate on earnings above 150,000. Is it OK to make lots | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
of money? It is important that as a successful ascites we sure that the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
wealth of -- as a successful society, we ensure that the wealth | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
of society benefits all of us rather than being hoarded by a tiny number | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
of high-income people. In her first election as Labour leader, Kezia | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Dugdale favours higher taxes for the better off. Together we stand with | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
the simple message, it doesn't have to be this way. Faced with the | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
choice of using the powers of the parliament passing on Tory cuts, we | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
choice of using the powers of the stand to use the powers, the SNP | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
stand to pass on the cuts. Labour want to put a penny on all rates, | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
bringing a new 50p top rate on earnings over ?150,000. The Liberal | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Democrats also want an extra penny on all existing rates. That is bound | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
to be popular, they think, as long as the revenue raised is wisely | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
spent. We want to guarantee investment in our children's future | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
in education, it is a guaranteed way to guarantee our future. The SNP | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
wants to freeze existing rates and to cancel the UK increase in the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
threshold for paying higher rate tax to protect revenue. The SNP leader | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
has rejected a 50p top rate for now, arguing that unless we are careful, | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
the highest earners will move elsewhere. I won't put forward | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
proposals for tax increases that independent analysis says might risk | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
a revenue, so we will continue to take balanced decisions in the | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
interests of our economy, public services and households across the | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
country. The Conservatives want tax in Scotland no higher than in the | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
rest of the UK, with lower rates when finances allow. For now, the | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
Tory story is to dine out on leaving tax alone. We need to encourage | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
investment, growth, encourage people to come here and build here, we | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
don't want high taxes putting off. Five parties, five leaders, five | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
different tax takes, five more to go. -- five more weeks to go. | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
And Glenn joins us now from Edinburgh. | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
Glenn, the party leaders go head-to-head again in another | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Yes, the stage is set for the second of three TVM counters, this one | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
hosted by STV. I don't know what the audience here in Edinburgh will | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
choose to ask, but I would be surprised if tax didn't come up when | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
the party leaders cross-examine one another, that will be the | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
centrepiece for tonight's two-hour debate. Why so much focus on tax | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
credit because for next year, for the first time, Hollywood will be in | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
charge of setting all income tax rate and bands in Scotland, and MSP | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Rumack will also have new scare -- powers worth more than ?2.5 billion | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
over welfare, in addition to the existing powers. At this election, | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
the parties have competing plans for reform or replacement of the council | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
tax as well, so plenty for the five leaders to talk about tonight. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
And Scotland 2016's also hosting a series of Election debates. | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
On Tuesday, our first debate will be on the hot topic of tax. It is your | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
chance to grill the politicians, if you would like to be part of the | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
studio audience, please e-mail us: You're watching Reporting | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
tonight's programme: The amateur actors who are taking | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
to the stage with the Shakespeare And in sport, two players | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
are handed their Scotland debuts We'll bring you the starting line-up | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
plus the thoughts of a former And the mystery surrounding Mauresmo | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
- why was Andy Murray's coach not sitting with the rest | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
of Team Murray in Miami? A gas leak on a North Sea platform | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
was caused by a "catastrophic" failure of pipework which had not | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
been properly inspected for more That's the conclusion of a Health | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
and Safety investigation into what happened on Marathon Oil's | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
Brae Alpha platform last Boxing Day. Workers described the aftermath | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
as looking "like a bombsite". Our reporter Steven Duff | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
is in Aberdeen tonight. The Health and Safety Executive not | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
mincing its words in its report into what happened on the Brae Alpha, but | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
155 miles east of where we are in Aberdeen. A catastrophic failure of | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
pipe works cause significant damage, and according to the HSC, this posed | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
a real, unacceptable, risk of serious injury through fire or | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
explosion to those on board. And perhaps just as seriously, the HSC | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
also found that the pipe involved had not been inspected for more than | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
30 years, in fact since 1983, when the Brae Alpha was commissioned, and | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
that goes against the guidelines of the operator, Marathon Oil, who says | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
that these pipes should have been checked at least every 12 years. The | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
union representative in Aberdeen has been speaking to some of those who | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
were on board at the time. It was described to me as a bomb site, a | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
seven inch heavy wallpaper which had failed and caused considerable | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
damage. The line one guy used was that anybody close would have been | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
killed. But if it ignited, the whole platform was at risk. Marathon Oil | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
says it is complying with the HSC report, and says remedial work is | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
under way, but significantly, the Brae Alpha has not operated since | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Boxing Day, since the incident, so that gives an idea of how serious | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
the incident was. No one was injured, but it does seem it was | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
another lucky escape on a north sea platform. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
Thank you Ray much. The Scotland-wide Free Bus Travel | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Scheme for Older and Disabled People It currently costs around | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
?200 million a year. So, what impact has it had | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
on people's transport needs? These older passengers don't require | :13:40. | :13:52. | |
any cash to use the bus because they have their national entitlement | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
card. This allows them to travel free on local registered or | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
scheduled long-distance bus services. It is nice to go out, take | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
the bus, get the bus back home, and if I was a bit younger and fitter! I | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
sometimes get the bus to Glasgow and do some shopping, and if I want to | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
venture further afield, I like to go to Oban and get on the ferry over to | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
mull, and you can do all this because of his bus pass. A lot of my | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
generation never learned to drive, and we couldn't afford to go very | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
far on a bus. Now we can go anywhere we want, and the world is opened up | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
to us, Scotland is opened up to us. The free bus travel scheme for older | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
and disabled people was introduced in 2006, and has been very popular. | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
When the first figures became available in 2008, there were 1.1 | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
million cardholders, and last year that went up to 1.3 million | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
cardholders. The bus companies agree that it has been a big success and | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
they have been wider benefits. Every pound invested concessionary travel, | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
about ?2 67 of benefits come to the passengers or supporting transport | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
infrastructure. Won all the person's charity believes that the scheme is | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
helping to keep people fitter for longer. Research has shown the more | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
people can be engaged physically, socially, mentally, it helps their | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
health, will reduce illness, disease, ultimately reducing the | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
health and is a bill. There have been concerns about fraud, and the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
cost of the scheme. Currently the annual budget is around ?200 | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
million. But with cardholders making 150 million journeys a year, the | :15:46. | :15:46. | |
scheme is very popular. A look at other stories | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
from across the country... Hundreds of jobs have been | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
safeguarded at Rolls Royce in Renfrewshire, after it won | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
a major contract from the UK Engineering staff at the Inchinnan | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
site will make parts Fish farming company Marine Harvest | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
say Kyleakin on Skye is their preferred location | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
for a new fish feed plant. They say the development on the site | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
of an old quarry will create 55 This is very important and we are | :16:14. | :16:27. | |
delighted that they have chosen this location here on Skye, and it will | :16:28. | :16:41. | |
bring much industry to all of the island. | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
Work has begun on two hydro schemes in Glen Affric. | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
The developer Green Highland Renewables says they will produce | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
enough electricity to power more than two and a half thousand homes. | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
We don't want to tell anybody they won't notice the construction site, | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
but the idea is that the measures we are employing throughout that | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
construction phase will ensure that the long-term residual effects are | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
minimal. Plans have been approved | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
to transform the shipyard where the QE2 and Queen Mary | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
were built into a housing John Brown's in Clydebank closed 30 | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
years ago and the majority of the site, known as Queens Quay, | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
has been derelict for decades. A hundred years ago today a public | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
meeting was held in Glasgow to establish a hospital in the west | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
of Scotland for amputees returning What became the Erskine Hospital has | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
since treated 85,000 ex Our arts correspondent | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
Pauline McLean reports. It was originally known as the | :17:31. | :17:43. | |
Princess Louise Hospital for limbless sailors and soldiers, named | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
for its patron and set up in 1916, but to most people it is Erskine. | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
This newly discovered archive details its beginnings and its first | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
patients and it is apt it has come here to Glasgow University. The | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
first connection it has is through the man who founded Erskine, and was | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
also a professor at Glasgow University. The hospital system in | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
the UK and Scotland couldn't cope with all of the casualties returning | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
so he felt strongly Hospital should be setup to deal with these cases. | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
David's father was of the first 13 patients admitted to the hospital, | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
he had been seriously injured at Gallipoli and not expected to | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
survive. I said to him, what did you do to your arm, dad? They put it in | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
boiling tar. He said they put me on the side of the boat, this is where | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
they are going to put you if you are going to die. But he didn't die and | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
was one of thousands of men to receive new limbs at Erskine | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Hospital. He went on to build several businesses and raised eight | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
children including David, who was born in 1926. They built huts and | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
bonkers, everything like that, they built all of these things with one | :19:14. | :19:14. | |
arm, and he would dig the garden, built all of these things with one | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
everything like that. His story is one of many told in the Erskine | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
archive, which is hoped will be digitised as well as featured at an | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
exhibition at the university later this | :19:32. | :19:32. | |
Let's hand you over to sport and Jane has the round-up. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Celtic's Kieran Tierney and John McGinn of Hibernian | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
are expected to become the latest players to win Scotland | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
The pair are in line to start for Scotland, | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
who face Denmark in a friendly at Hampden. | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
Our reporter Alasdair Lamont is at the national stadium and can | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
As Gordon Strachan continues to cast his eye over players he feels might | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
be able to help Scotland get to the next World Cup, it seems likely his | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
team tonight will include two new caps from the start. Kieran Tierney, | :20:13. | :20:28. | |
and John McGinn. Brown captains the side, winning his 50th cap, and | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Griffiths being given his chance up front. Plenty of experienced players | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
in that team but I have been gauging fans' thoughts about the inclusion | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
of John McGinn and Kieran Tierney. He is a young guy, I think he could | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
be a revolution. I'm joined now by the former Scotland defender Willie | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Miller, alongside me. Kieran Tierney, and John McGinn being given | :20:58. | :21:09. | |
their start tonight, is it exciting for you? Yes, I think it is really | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
important to give young players an opportunity. To see these two Young | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
Scottish developed players getting the chance at this level I think | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
it's fantastic. We know also that Lee Griffiths will be given a chance | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
upfront but Steven Fletcher also playing, it sounds more attacking | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
than perhaps Gordon Strachan would normally go but it is a chance for | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
Griffiths to stake a claim for the striker's point, doesn't it? He | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
deserves it, obviously he has waited for it. Fletcher is a very good | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
player, I would be interested to see how they link up. I think he has | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
waited for this chance and I hope he takes it. A good performance tonight | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
from Scotland would go down nicely, and another good result following | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
the win in the Czech Republic last week would go down perfectly for | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Gordon Strachan here at Hampden this evening. | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
And there's coverage of tonight's friendly | :22:07. | :22:24. | |
Meanwhile Scotland's under 21 side have already been in action this | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
After trailing Northern Ireland 1-0, this goal by Hibernian's Jason | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Cummings made up for his earlier penalty miss and sealed a 3-1 | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
They're fourth in their group with four games remaining, | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
Andy Murray admits he's just not been able to take advantage | :22:39. | :22:49. | |
of being in winning positions lately and he knows he's got | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
But he insists his third round exit from the Miami Open was not down | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
to any fallout with his coach Amelie Mauresmo. | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
Murray lost to Andy Murray admits he's just not been able to take | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
advantage of being in winning positions lately and he knows he's | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
Murray lost to Grigor Dimitrov in three sets in Miami in a much | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Andy Murray says there has not been a fall out, he simply trying to a | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
way to curb on court tantrums. Back to the drawing board on that front | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
may be. It all started reasonably well enough for Andy Murray, the | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
first set went to a tie-break which he won comfortably. But then the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
mistakes started to show as Grigor Dimitrov took charge of the second | :23:23. | :23:34. | |
set. And, as the match progressed, the mistakes from Andy Murray | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
continued. Andy Murray just wasn't on top form here and it was little | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
surprise that another error came at match point. I made many more | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
mistakes than usual, especially in the third set so that was surprising | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
for me but it is not like I came out and played all. The whole match. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
It's just when you get in winning positions you need to put your foot | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
down and in the last two tournaments I certainly haven't done that. | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
Plenty to mull over for player and coach and perhaps a rethink on | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
seating positions. And that's your sport. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
For months the hunt has been on to find Scotland's best Bottom. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
And the actor who won the role is one of a group of amateurs | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
on stage at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow tonight with the prestigious | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
The plot is too complicated to up in one minute 45 seconds but | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
there are mismatched lovers, a fairy King and queen, and a group of | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
amateur actors played by a group of amateur actors. I recognise a lot of | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
what is happening in our scene within the play that you would see | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
pretty well in any amateur company up and down the land. The production | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
is part of celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
death. It means a lot to me as a director and to a lot of my | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
professional cast to be here because I think it has an amazing history. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Many have visited many times before but haven't worked here so to be | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
here is a privilege, and to be here with this particular group of | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
here is a privilege, and to be here amateur actors who are so skilled, | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
it is lovely to see them on the stage so at home. And the chance to | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
appear on stage with the RSC is a Midsummer nights dream come true for | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
the group who play Shakespeare's rude mechanicals. I am a big | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Shakespeare geek. I think English people have adopted him as a sort of | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
Robert Burns type figure but he's not, he transcends all of that. He's | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
just a figure for literature and drama rather than a figure for | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
England. The Bard himself will be keeping a beady eye on the | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
production which runs from tonight until Saturday. | :26:09. | :26:09. | |
Today was a case of sunshine and showers and some of those showers | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
really quite sharp at times. Some hail leading some difficult | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
conditions on the M74, and for some it was a carpet of white with hail | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
covering the grass there in East Kilbride. As we had through this | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
evening, the showers becoming confined to the north and north-west | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
really, many areas drier. Particularly in the south-east there | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
will be long clear spells, temperatures freezing in the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
countryside. A cold start of the day tomorrow, then once again a case of | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
bright spells and showers but the showers far less frequent compared | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
with today. By mid afternoon, around four o'clock, if you get the bright | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
spells and light winds, highs of 10 degrees feeling pleasant but still | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
the risk of showers is there. Not as heavy or frequent, but if you catch | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
one you will still get wet. Notice these showers clubbing together | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
across the Western Isles, more on that in a second. Further north | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
towards Shetland the wind is a bit stronger, feeling cooler. Snow on | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
the hills and high ground, rain in low levels, elsewhere reasonably | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
dry, and as we had overnight Wednesday to Thursday we have a | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
ridge of high pressure starting to build which means Thursday itself is | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
probably the best day of the week. Largely fine, dry and bright. You | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
will notice waiting in the wind is some rather heavy rain, that is | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
Friday's weather. Thursday, largely dry and bright. To the north and | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
south of here, decent spells of sunshine, highs of ten and light | :28:01. | :28:09. | |
winds but the showers with us for most of the day. On Friday, the rain | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
arrives. The winds strengthening all the while from the south too. That | :28:13. | :28:13. | |
is the forecast. Until then, from everyone | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
on the team, have a good evening. | :28:21. | :28:25. |