21/07/2016 Reporting Scotland


21/07/2016

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BBC Scotland has learned that the cost of the inquiry

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into the Edinburgh trams fiasco is already more than ?3.7 million.

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The Scottish government set it up two years ago to look into why

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the project came in late and at more than double its original budget.

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The Edinburgh trams have been running for about two years now and

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they seem to be proving popular. Passenger numbers are higher than

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expected. The line runs from Edinburgh airport to the city

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centre. The cost, ?776 million. It was five years overdue, and the line

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did not go as far as it was meant to. Swift and Fera was the aim when

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the tram enquiry was launched back in June 20 14. It is said to be

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making good progress, already collating more than 6 million

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documents. A Freedom of information request from the BBC to the Scottish

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Government shows that the costs have already exceeded ?3.7 million. That

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includes ?1.8 million on staffing costs. And ?716,000 on legal fees.

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On the streets of the city, another multi-million pound headline

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involving the trams does not seem to be going down well. The enquiries

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cost the earth. I am not be going down well. The enquiries

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with that. I think it is wrong that they should have to pay so much for

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an enquiry that should have been paid for by the people that cost us

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this much money. Why? It is like school, is somebody going to get the

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cane? I don't think so, they just get moved on. Some transport experts

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say there has to be an enquiry into such an expensive and controversial

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project and it will be worth it. We need to understand the reasons why

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that happened so that we can then inform the design and planning of

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other major transport infrastructure schemes in the future and hopefully

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save ourselves money in the future. That is why we should not

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necessarily be too concerned about the cost of the enquiry, because

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when we compare it to the potential savings from implying its findings,

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we could save ourselves a lot of money. -- applying its findings. A

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spokesman said that Scottish ministers have been clear from the

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start that it should be timely and cost effective. The government said

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that the enquiry team is committed to delivering a fair and balanced

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report with their recommendations. A holiday park operator has been

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fined nearly a quarter of a million pounds,

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after a schoolboy died Six year old Aidan Sands

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died from brain injuries following the accident

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at the Red Lion Caravan Park Loch Earn Caravan Parks admitted

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a number of health and safety A woman's body has been

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recovered after a car plunged into the River Clyde

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at Renfrew this afternoon. It happened next to the Braehead

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shopping centre just Witnesses said they saw

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the car speeding along It hit two cars before

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crashing through a metal A big search and rescue

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operation was organised, involving the coastguard helicopter

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and police divers. Meanwhile, four children and a 56

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year old man escaped injury, when their car fell

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into the water in Burntisland. A 14 year-old girl managed to climb

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out before the car hit the water, while three others, aged 10,

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13 and 14, made it ashore before The UK government's senior law

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officer has ruled out a veto for Scotland over when the Brexit

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process is started. The Attorney General, Jeremy Wright,

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said there would be consultations with the Scottish Government

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but that it would not be able Here's our Westminster

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correspondent, David Porter. A month ago today, we were voting on

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whether to stay in the EU. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain, but

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the UK as a whole decided to leave. That set about quite a train of

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events. A Prime Minister has resigned. A new occupant has moved

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into Downing Street. And the Labour leader is fighting for his survival.

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The First Minister has indicated a second independence referendum is

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now in her words highly likely. Four weeks on and minds are turning to

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how Brexit will work and what role Scotland will have. The Prime

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Minister has stated that Brexit means Brexit and the First Minister

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of Scotland has stated that for us, remain means remain. Do you agree

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that the will of Scotland should be respected? By Minister has indicated

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that she will not trigger Article 50 until there is a UK approach to

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Brexit. Does the learner gentleman agree that there should be

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researched on to see... All Parliament of the UK, including the

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devolved administrations, should be able to participate in the process

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of developing the United Kingdom's approach to these negotiations but

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that does not mean that any of the parts of the United Kingdom have a

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veto over this process. And so consultations most certainly, but

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veto, I am afraid not. From an English Eurosceptic Conservative,

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this. I am quite happy with the government consulting with the

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devolved administrations, but what concerns me is that we do not finish

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up being held to ransom by Scottish Nationalists. I think the Prime

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Minister has been very clear that the United Kingdom will leave the

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European Union and that means all of the United Kingdom. As MPs packed

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their bags and head for their summer break, they know one thing is almost

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certain, whatever else may happen, when they get back, the Brexit

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question is likely to dominate all other issues.

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Yesterday economic data revealed that the Scottish

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economy is stagnating - and growing at less than half

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Much of that is down to the impact of the downturn in the oil industry,

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but what sort of effect could Brexit have on Scottish business?

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Our correspondent, David Henderson reports.

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My name is Paul Duncan and I am the business development manager here.

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The company has been around for 30 years and was established by my

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grandmother, Elizabeth Duncan. We produce and baked shortbread and

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oatcakes, all made to a traditional family recipe. Our most famous one,

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we are most known for our old butter shortbread. We can produce anywhere

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up to 50,000 of those in our thanks to this production facility that we

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have and the expansion of our warehouse. Small beginnings but this

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is a big, productive output. Definitely. We have grown quick and

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rapidly. It is an exciting time for the business. How important our

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European countries, particularly countries in the EU, for you and

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your business? We export to Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and further

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afield. Australia, America. We do a lot of private labels as well as

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leading with the -- dealing with the likes of Morrisons and Tesco's. Just

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now, it is uncertain. No-one seems to know the answers to the

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questions. Butter, sugar, margarine, everything that is an important

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ingredient in the products we use, sadly they are all in price. Whether

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or not we are in the European Union, you will want to the single market

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to continue. Without a shadow of a doubt. We needed to continue as a

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business. We would have to adapt and change as we have done in the past,

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but for us to maintain growth at such a healthy way, we need the

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market to remain open. The Royal Navy is investigating how

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a Faslane-based nuclear-powered submarine collided with a civilian

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boat off the coast of Gibraltar. HMS Ambush has now been taken

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into port to be checked. Here's our correspondent,

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Andrew Kerr. Limping back into port, HMS ambush

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with significant damage. The boat is being assessed for repairs. It

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struck a merchant vessel off the coast of Gibraltar. One defence

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analyst says it may have been trying to hide as part of an exercise. One

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suspects that perhaps she was using a relatively noisy tanker as cover

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and got too close. Perhaps she misjudged the draft of the tanker.

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It was apparently a bunkering tanker and they go up and down. If she did,

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she made an error. A retired sub Mariner has some sympathy with the

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crew. If you listen to all that noise of vehicles underneath

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crew. If you listen to all that Forth Road Bridge, that noise, that

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is what you hear in the Gibraltar Strait. A stop start, with fishing

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vessels and draft tankers, lots of them. You never get a minute to just

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stop. It is the latest incident involving an astute class submarine.

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One ran aground off sky in 2010. This kind do not carry nuclear

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weapons but they do have nuclear reactors. The Royal Navy say that

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there was no threat to the reactor but the SNP have expressed concerns.

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The MoD have explained to do as to how this happened. It calls into

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question the overall safety aspect. The MOD do not yet know if the

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submarine will be repaired here at its home base on the Clyde or

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elsewhere. What we do know is that this has been an embarrassing

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incident for the Royal Navy, a service which normally prides itself

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on stealth and seamanship. Three people who died after a

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disturbance in Aberdeen on Tuesday night have been named. Police

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believe the 40-year-old Tracy Gabriel and 40-year-old Keith Taylor

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were murdered by Stuart Gallacher, 57. He plunged to his death from a

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12th floor balcony after police arrived. The Scottish Police

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Federation has claimed that senior officers were sent to charity shops

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to buy equipment. Officers escorting a child in a police car went to the

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shops to buy sunblinds to screen the child from public view. Police

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Scotland acknowledged budget challenges.

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Football, and Hearts and Hibs have been knocked out

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Hibs defeated Brondby 1-0 tonight, to level

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the score on aggregate, but the Danish side progressed

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Hearts lost 2-1 at home to Malta's Birkirkara.

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But it was good news for Aberdeen, with a 1-0

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win over Ventspils in Latvia, bokking them a place

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Let's get the weather outlook for tonight and tomorrow

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Most of us have had a fairly pleasant day of weather with bright

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or sunny spells. Tonight, it becomes cloudy for most of us with some

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outbreaks of rain. Especially across West of Scotland. Some fairly heavy

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pulses at times. It will be a muggy night foremost temperatures around

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13 Celsius. Tomorrow, cloudy note, with outbreaks of rain tracking West

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to east. Eight o'clock tomorrow morning, some Brighton is holding an

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across the far north-east. And something of a clearance already

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beginning to show its hand across the Western Isles, and for some

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West, coastal areas. Otherwise, looking cloudy with outbreaks of

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rain. As we go through the course of the day, that rain will continue

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rain. As we go through the course of track east towards, becoming lighter

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and patchy, eventually clearing into the North Sea. Something of a legacy

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of cloud for some eastern areas. One or two shark showers in the

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afternoon, otherwise some sunshine. Taking a look into tomorrow

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afternoon, some spells of sunshine and heavy, thundery downpours

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developing throughout the London area and East Anglia. The odd rumble

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of thunder, and hail in the mix. Temperatures peaking around 25 or 26

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Celsius, feeling warm in the sunshine. Into the evening, and

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Scotland will hold onto showers across Aberdeenshire, perhaps for

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Easter and coastal areas too. Otherwise looking dry and bright

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with sunshine. Saturday, we have a weather front making inroads during

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the morning, gradually tracking across eastern areas during the

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course of the day. The driest, across eastern areas during the

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brightest weather will hold on across the far south and east

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although showers developing here, too, and a fairly muggy, quite warm

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feel, especially across the south-east. And it is a fresher feel

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elsewhere. From everyone on the late team

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here in Glasgow and around

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