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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The controversial Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
It will be replaced with a new holding facility, | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Also on the programme, the implementation of | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
the government's Named Person scheme is delayed for a year. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
More than 900 children spoke to ChildLine last year saying | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Astronomers from St Andrews discover planets aren't born slowly, | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
but emerge relatively quickly and violently. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
And Andy Murray's hopes of a US Open title fade as he's knocked | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
The controversial Dungavel detention centre in south Lanarkshire | :00:41. | :01:01. | |
is to close and be replaced by a short term holding facility | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Dungavel has been criticised over the years by campaigners who raised | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
concerns about the treatment of detainees and the length | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
The Home office says it's being closed because | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
it's under-used, due to its remote location. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Our reporter Laura Maxwell is at | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
David, this is the only detention centre of its kind in Scotland. It's | :01:24. | :01:37. | |
where people who've already had their claim for asylum rejected are | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
held, essentially say they can't disappear before the Home Office | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
deports them. It's for that reason that for so many people over the | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
years, has become a byword for all that is wrong with that process. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Dungavel. The former prison became a detention centre in 2001. It was | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
this view from the inside which first brought it to the public's | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
attention. Being there wasn't child's play. This family were | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
detained for more than a year, unable to attend school. They were | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
the first of many children to be sent to Dungavel with their parents. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
This woman was just 14 when she was taken there with her family in 2007. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Not being able to do anything, that was the most difficult thing. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Because I was the oldest and I knew English, I had to do a lot of | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
translation with the lawyers and the officers. I felt really hopeless | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
when I was translating because I knew that unless the government did | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
something, unless there was a campaign, we were just going to be | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
stuck there. Over the years Dungavel has been the scene of many protests. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
At first against the detention of children, which only ended in 2010. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
There was more controversy recently when the BBC revealed some detailing | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
news were being held for more than a year. Torture victims have also been | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
kept at the facility in contravention of the Home Office's | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
guidelines. This long-term campaigner visits the centre to take | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
in supplies to those being held there. Campaigners will be welcoming | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the closure of Dungavel but they will still be worried about the | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
detention aspect which might still play a part in the asylum system. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
The detention centre did have a purpose, to stop failed asylum | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
seekers from disappearing before they could be removed. Its closure | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
won't stop that detention, instead it will be moved closer to Glasgow | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
airport. The new short-term holding facility | :03:44. | :04:09. | |
will have 51 beds. It will be built on this site, just minutes from | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Glasgow airport. If all goes to plan, Dungavel will be closed before | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
the end of next year, and it will be replaced by that holding facility at | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
the end of next year, and it will be Glasgow airport. The Home Office has | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
yet to gain planning permission for that. The Scottish Government has | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
welcomed the decision to close Dungavel although it says it will | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
seek clarification about the way asylum seekers in Scotland will be | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
treated. There is some concern any fast track process could affect | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
their appeals process and impact on fast track process could affect | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
their mental health. Similar questions are also being asked by | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
church leaders and human rights campaigners who say this process | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
could mean that asylum seekers end up locked up, hundreds of miles away | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
from their family, friends and support networks they have built up | :05:02. | :05:02. | |
in Scotland. The Education Secretary says | :05:03. | :05:02. | |
an amended Named Person for Every Child scheme should be | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
in place by August next year, The controversial scheme that sees | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
a single point of contact for all children under the age | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
of 18, was put on hold after the Supreme Court ruled | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
that its plans for sharing For the avoidance of any doubt the | :05:16. | :05:30. | |
government remains absolutely committed to the named person | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
service. As he updated MSPs, the Education Secretary was clear. The | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
Named Person scheme is going ahead but first the government would | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
listen. For that reason the Scottish Government will undertake a | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
three-month period of intense engagement in Scotland. We will take | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
input from practitioners as well as parents, charities and young people, | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
those who support the policy and those who have concerns about it. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Every child under the age of 18 was supposed to have a named person by | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
now, a health visitor or teacher, assigned to look after their | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
well-being. But the scheme is put on hold after the Supreme Court ruled | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
part of the controversial legislation that dealt with | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
information sharing breached human rights law. Three judges ruled that | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
the Named Person scheme was unquestionably legitimate and | :06:24. | :06:23. | |
benign... But they said that it was perfectly | :06:24. | :06:35. | |
possible that information could be shared with authorities without the | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
child being aware. The court stated that even after the information | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
sharing provisions are sorted out the Named Person scheme is still in | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
danger of constituting a disproportionate and therefore | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
unlawful interference with family life. Labour supported the principle | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
but again called for 16 and 17-year-olds to be removed. It seems | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
absurd given that a 16-year-old can vote, marry, pay tax, all as an | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
adult. To remove them would give a strong signal that while the | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
government is not surrendering an named person policy, it is | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
listening, and not only to the Supreme Court. That was a concession | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Mr Swinney said the government was willing to consider. The campaign | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
group that brought about the legal challenge described today's | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
announcement has laughable saying the government should be apologising | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
to parents. But they say they welcome the chance of dialogue with | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
the Deputy First Minister. Lisa Summers, Edinburgh. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Let's get more on this from Brian Taylor at Holyrood. This is about | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
complying with the law but it's about much more than that, isn't it? | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Much more indeed. It's about the law but it's about bringing people with | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
the Scottish Government. In terms of the law I would expect the UK | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
provisions of data protection may be adopted and written onto the face of | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
the Scottish act. To make it still clearer that those who practising | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
Named Person scheme are obliged to adhere to data protection. It's not | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
just about that legalistic or change. John Swinney quietly but | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
also quite frankly conceded that the Scottish Government hadn't got it | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
right in bringing people with them on this proposal. The proposal | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
perhaps seems to make sense to those who are experts in the field but | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
causes worries and anxieties for parents perhaps coming up against | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
this concept for the first time. I think that is what Mr Swinney will | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
spend the full year's delay in seeking to put right. He's quite | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
determined to go ahead with the scheme. It's about the law, yes but | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
it's also about tone. A former Belgian Prime Minister | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
who believes Scotland should be able to stay in the EU is to lead Brexit | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
talks for the European Parliament. Guy Verhofstadt said the day | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
after the EU referendum it would be "wrong" for Scotland to be taken out | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
of the bloc after most He met with the First Minister, | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Nicola Sturgeon in Brussels The European Parliament will have | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
to approve any eventual deal More than 900 children, | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
some as young as ten, contacted ChildLine in Scotland last | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
year, saying they were suicidal. That's almost double | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
the number five years ago. Labour has attacked the government, | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
saying waiting times for child mental health | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
treatments are lengthening. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Reevel Alderson reports. Hi, you're through to someone you | :09:40. | :09:52. | |
can talk to at Childline. ChildLine's call centres are | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
handling almost double the number of calls from young people with | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
handling almost double the number of suicidal thoughts than five years | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
ago. Including children as young as ten. The charity says it is positive | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
that children have confidence in talking although they often start | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
off with a more trivial matter. They may talk to us about exam pressures | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
and stress or bullying. When they feel relaxed they may then go on to | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
say that they feel there is no hope, no way out and suicide is the only | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
say that they feel there is no hope, answer. Talking is a fabulous first | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
step to getting children and young people the right help. This | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
eight-year-old was a mysterious boy who looked after his sister Ashley. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
One day aged just 12 he took his own life, leaving his family devastated. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Now, Ashley is training as a ChildLine counsellor, wanting to | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
raise awareness of the service to prevent other families from | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
suffering. I've seen the devastation it leaves behind, to the whole | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
family. And not just family, friends and everyone. If we can stop that | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
happening to even one child through ChildLine, then it's been worth it. | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
The figures were raised in Holyrood with Labour claiming increasing | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
numbers of young Scots are now waiting for mental health treatment. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
The First Minister admitted demand had increased. Actually I take the | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
view that that is a positive development. It doesn't sound like | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
it but it means the stigma associated with mental health is | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
decreasing, and more people, in particular more young people, are | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
feeling able to come forward. In the summer Labour revealed that 460 | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
young Scots had waited over a year for the treatment they desperately | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
need. This week 's figures see that rise to 608. That is utterly | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
shameful and nothing short of a national scandal. ChildLine is now | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
calling for better access to services for young people who feel | :11:59. | :11:59. | |
they have nowhere else to turn. A report on the care of a woman | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
with post-natal depression who killed her baby has concluded | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
that chances to refer her Erin Sutherland admitted | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
the culpable homicide of her daughter Chloe, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
who was nine months old, on the grounds of | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
diminished responsibility. The Mental Welfare Commission made | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
a series of recommendations to improve post-natal | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
mental health care. Community specialist Perry mental | :12:22. | :12:35. | |
health team had a cut-off limit for new referrals when the baby reached | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
six months of age. In this particular case, we think she | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
shouldn't have been treated as a new referral at that point. She'd had | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
previous contact and a known history. There should have been | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
enough flexibility in the referral criteria for her to be seen when the | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
baby was beyond six months. You're watching BBC | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
Reporting Scotland. The controversial Dungavel | :12:56. | :12:56. | |
Immigration Removal Centre, And still to come: It's curtain up | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
again at the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr, Astronomers at St Andrews university | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
have observed tantalising glimpses of how our own planet may | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
have been born. They did it by watching | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
the longest, deepest eclipse It suggests planets aren't born | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
slowly, but emerge relatively Here's our science correspondent | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Kenneth MacDonald. To get the best possible view of the | :13:33. | :13:47. | |
heavens, we've taken telescopes higher and higher, to the tops of | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
mountains high above atmospheric and light pollution, or better still | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
into space. But there are still things to be discovered closer to | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
home. At first glance this might not seem like the best site for a | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
telescope. Surrounded by streetlights. But they have observed | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
something remarkable here. This is the James Gregory telescope, the | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
largest operational optical telescope in Scotland at St Andrews | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
University Observatory. And this is the star they've been gazing at. | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
It's like our own sun but a lot younger. Our son is 4.5 billion | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
years old and this store is only one or 2 million years old. It's really | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
a baby star. The star is known for its variable brightness. Recently it | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
vanished for two years. If you just compared the brightness with these | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
two, that's roughly the same brightness. Over the past two years, | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
and this is an image taken by the telescope, now it has become much | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
fainter. The probable reason? A disc of stardust blocking our view which | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
means we are having to change our view of how planets are born. For | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
many years we have thought planets form very slowly and steadily. That | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
particles just stick together and grow and grow. But now looking at | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
this we find that these are actually very dynamic processes, very violent | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
things happening in the systems which we were not expecting to see. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
They are in motion, they are changing on timescales comparable to | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
human life spans. We can watch them evolving in time. We may be getting | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
a glimpse in real of how our own planet came into being. Who knows | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
what our solar system looks like when it was young. We can't actually | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
go back in time. The best thing we can do is look at other stars at | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
that age and try and figure out what is going on there. The James Gregory | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
telescope is more than 50 years old but it's proving it can still expand | :16:05. | :16:05. | |
our knowledge of the universe. A look now at other stories | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
from across the country. More than half 1 million acres of | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
land in Scotland are now owned by communities. Ministers say that | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
ventures like the community buyout of the park estate on the island of | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
Lewis have helped to reverse population decline and boost the | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
economy but the Conservatives say that recently introduced land reform | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
laws mean that there is too much government interference in land | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
ownership. The multi-million pound first phase of an overhaul of | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
schools provision in dumb freeze has officially begun. A ground-breaking | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
ceremony at Saint James 's -- Saint Josephs College started the scheme. | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
The school will be overhauled and a new campus will be built in the | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
north-west of the town. And a listed railway turntable close to Aberdeen | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
rail station has been removed for refurbishment. More than 100 years | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
old, the steel structure at the old Ferryhill Depot is one of only three | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
left in Scotland. A fully operating turntable would allow more steam | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
trains to visit Aberdeen. We are providing servicing facilities to | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
steam locomotives which come on steam charters. The Borders railway | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
has been extremely successful over the last year in operating steam | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
charters and we want to cash in on that and get some of the tourists | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
coming to Aberdeen by train and steam train. One of Glasgow's oldest | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
buildings is to undergo a revamp as part of plans to generate the | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Easterhouse area. Glasgow City Council is to spend half ?1 million | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
refurbishing problem for -- problem whole house, dating back to the 15th | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
century -- Provan Hall. It will be one of seven developments. | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
Now, you can't win them all - that was Andy Murray's reaction | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
to defeat in the quarter final of the US Open. | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
The Wimbledon and Olympic champion's hopes of adding another Grand Slam | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
to his collection were ended by Japan's Kei Nishikori. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
But as Kheredine Idessane reports from New York, the Scot is content | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
Andy Murray's dreams of a second US open title in New York are over and | :18:19. | :18:30. | |
the sun has finally set on a golden summer for the world number two. The | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
end when it came was dramatic, Kei Nishikori coming from 2-1 down to | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
win 7-5 in the fifth. The Scotsman was clear about one thing, for him | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
there is deep disappointment but not a let down. I haven't let anyone | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
down, certainly not myself, I've pushed as hard as I could over the | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
last be months and I'm very proud of what I've done. If someone had | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
offered me the summer that I've had before Wimbledon, I probably would | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
have signed up for that. A defeat for Andy Murray was the last thing | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
anyone predicted early on, a scintillating first set was secured | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
6-1 in just over half an hour but from a breakdown in the second set, | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
the Japanese world number seven levelled the match and it seemed | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
order had been restored when Murray reasserted his authority by taking | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
the third that. Then, the moment that momentum moved away. A noise | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
from the stadium PA system let the umpire to stop play halfway to the | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
point to Andy Murray's annoyance. He never recovered his composure, | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
losing the point, the game and his next service game. He could complain | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
all you like to the supervisor but that wouldn't stop Nishikori | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
levelling at 2-2. A roller-coaster fifth set comprised of five breaks | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
of serve and when Murray lost his, Nishikori punished him. Having | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
played so well in patches against Nishikori and especially against | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
Dimitrov in the previous round it is a shock that Andy Murray is out of | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
the US Open. He now needs to re-energise. A week tomorrow he'll | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
be on home soil in Scotland beginning a Davis Cup semifinal | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
against Argentina at Glasgow's Emirates arena. | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
One of the country's most famous footballers believes the national | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
team will come good again, because we're due a cycle | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
The former Scotland captain Graeme Souness was speaking | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
to the Scotland's Game series, which in episode three tonight | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
reflects on the national team's failure to reach a major | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
We are trying to get back! A touch from Jim Leighton and it is number | :20:34. | :20:48. | |
two. The 23rd of June, 1998, the last time Scotland played a major | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
tournament match. Defeat to Morocco but at least we were there which | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
cannot be said about nine international showpieces sense. | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
After every disappointment, we must sing the chorus about video games, | :21:06. | :21:06. | |
After every disappointment, we must not enough resources, the cold | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
weather, I think it is simply not enough kids playing not enough | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
football. Many would argue that other factors have played their | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
part. Some questionable appointments. Please call me. Some | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
part. Some questionable questionable decisions, with | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
devastating consequences. And too many questionable players. There are | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
a limited group, honest, solid, limited group. I have to believe it | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
is a cycle that we are in and one day, we will produce another Kenny | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Dalglish, three or four players who can get us qualified and make an | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
impression on the World Cup. Throughout the last 18 years, making | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
brief impressions in qualifying has been Scotland's limit and according | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
to one man tasked with reviewing the state of the game, the time for | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
excuses is over. If you look at Holland, France, Spain and other | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
countries, the kids are not playing on the streets either and if we want | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
to qualify we have to be quite inspirational in investing heavily, | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
where the government can help, and have much bigger ambition. I am the | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
eternal optimist, we can do it, but it requires a superhuman effort on | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
everyone's behalf. We have seen lenses of the superhuman before and | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
now it is about making it the norm. McFadden is going for gold! It | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
wasn't as spectacular as this against Malta last Sunday but at | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
least it is one win from one. And you can see a longer look back | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
on the last 30 years of Scottish international football in episode | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
three of Scotland's Game - Now, seven years ago | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
Ayr's Gaiety Theatre The historic theatre closed | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
after health and safety concerns, but thanks to the support | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
of the local community, the Gaiety is back in business | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
and due to reopen this weekend after the second stage | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
of a ?2.5 million makeover. Our arts correspondent | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
Pauline McLean reports. From Sir Harry Lauder to the stars | :23:14. | :23:30. | |
of many Simon Stevens, -- of many summits these -- summer seasons, the | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
Gaiety Theatre has seen them all but it has had two fires and health and | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
safety problems that caused it to close altogether. We've done a lot | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
of work to the auditorium. This theatre is a survivor and after the | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
?2.4 million makeover it is looking her best. I think people always | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
supported the Gaiety Theatre and even being closed for six months, | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
people were asking when it would be open, whether they can volunteer and | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
be part of the parade. There is a community community theatre. As the | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
Gaiety Theatre prepares to reopen this weekend, those who championed | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
it are keen to send their best wishes. Apparently I have played it | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
more than anybody else. I should get a medal! The people who had to watch | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
me and listen to me should get medals! The first to try out the new | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
stage, Ayr Players, one of many amateur companies in the area. | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
Robbie Coltrane has played here. But also going back to old Scottish | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
music hall greats, the Alexander Brothers and people like that. So it | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
is a fantastic privilege to feel that you are part of that community | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
and history. And this weekend, day and the hundreds of people who have | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
supported the theatre through good times and bad can take a bow as the | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
Gaiety reopens a second century of Scottish entertainment. | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
Time now for the latest weather forecast with Christopher. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Good evening, a mixture of conditions today, some torrential | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
rain but equally some sunshine as well. Tonight, fairly cloudy and | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
some rain, the heavy rain across the Northern Isles but clearing away and | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
then over the mainland, showers merging. Still windy, not as strong | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
as earlier. Temperatures holding in double digits but not as close as | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
as earlier. Temperatures holding in recent nights. Tomorrow we have a | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
fairly windy day, and also fairly unsettled with low pressure in the | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
Atlantic and it is coming in increasingly faster over the last | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
few runs of the weather model. After a dry start, things the downhill | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
with the cloud building and a few showers before the main band of rain | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
arrives with strengthening wind. This is mid-afternoon, you can see | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
how heavy the rain is likely to be and strong wind from the south, gale | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
force around the South. Temperatures 17, 18 but feeling cooler than that | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
under the rain. Still drive for the far north and northern isles but | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
rain is coming your way. Into the evening, rain pushing north and east | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
and actually going through at a fair pace, which is good news for the | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
weekend because overnight into Saturday, the rain band has cleared, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
something more settled coming in to start the weekend and Saturday looks | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
fine, dry and bright for most. Showers over the North West, still | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
breezy but elsewhere, not too bad, temperatures of 16 or 17. Sunday, | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
some dry and bright conditions, some showers in the West and north-west | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
but the fly in the ointment is the next system coming our way from the | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
Atlantic. Likely to come in on Sunday night into Monday but | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
uncertainty on the timing. It may come in during the day on Sunday, so | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
stay tuned. The controversial Dungavel detention | :27:20. | :27:33. | |
centre in south Lanarkshire is to close and be replaced | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
by a short term holding facility, Dungavel has been criticised | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
by campaigners over The Home office says it's | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
being closed because it's under-used, due | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
to its remote location. The Education Secretary says | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
an amended Named Person for Every Child scheme should be | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
in place by next August, The scheme that sees a single point | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
of contact for all children under 18, was put on hold | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
after the Supreme Court ruled that its plans for sharing | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
information were unlawful. I'll be back with the headlines | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
at 8pm, and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone on the | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
team right across the country, | :28:07. | :28:11. |