:00:00. > :00:07.A row at Holyrood tonight, as Labour claim the Government
:00:08. > :00:12.was saved from defeat because Kezia Dugdale's
:00:13. > :00:15.A financial watchdog says Scotland's social work system
:00:16. > :00:17.is "unsustainable" and needs hundreds of millions of pounds
:00:18. > :00:21.Calls for the UK Government to intervene after four merchant
:00:22. > :00:22.navy cadets from Scotland are stranded on a cargo
:00:23. > :00:40.It obviously adds to the worry, the area they are in is a piracy risk
:00:41. > :00:41.area. The row over the way crofters
:00:42. > :00:47.in the Western Isles were stripped of the right to run
:00:48. > :00:48.their own affairs. And, how the songs of Robbie Burns
:00:49. > :01:07.were intended to be performed. Labour are calling for
:01:08. > :01:09.a full investigation to demand why their leader's vote
:01:10. > :01:14.wasn't counted in a Holyrood vote which resulted in saving
:01:15. > :01:17.the Scottish Government from defeat. In a bizarre turn of events,
:01:18. > :01:23.a vote after a debate on council tax reforms was tied at 63-63,
:01:24. > :01:36.and the presiding officer had There were no abstentions. As the
:01:37. > :01:40.vote is tied, and the parliament is unable to reach a view on the
:01:41. > :01:44.motion, I have two exercise my casting vote. In line with the
:01:45. > :01:48.approach taken by my predecessors outlined by members in a recent
:01:49. > :01:49.letter, I will cast against the motion. The motion is therefore not
:01:50. > :01:50.agreed. Our Political Correspondent Andrew
:01:51. > :01:53.Kerr is at Holyrood for us now. Andrew, bit of a stushie
:01:54. > :02:04.at Parliament tonight? What's it all about? Yes, indeed a
:02:05. > :02:08.day of high drama after a pedestrian start to afternoon. MSPs were
:02:09. > :02:12.debating council tax reform. Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems were
:02:13. > :02:17.very critical of the SNP because they had previously promised to
:02:18. > :02:21.abolish council tax. MSPs were debating that. The Conservatives
:02:22. > :02:25.critical, too, of the Scottish Government, saying they are taking
:02:26. > :02:30.money away from local authorities to pay for an attainment fun. So a
:02:31. > :02:35.Conservative amendment was backed 64-63, defeating the Government.
:02:36. > :02:40.Then it came to the final vote. As you saw, the Presiding Officer
:02:41. > :02:45.reading out 63-63. Where was the missing MSP? Some of the pictures
:02:46. > :02:48.you can hopefully see the Labour leader Kezia Dugdale was quite
:02:49. > :02:52.clearly in the Scottish Parliament and voting. She had voted on the
:02:53. > :02:57.previous votes beside the former Labour leader in green. So it came
:02:58. > :03:02.to the final result, the Poseidon officer had to use as casting vote.
:03:03. > :03:05.It meant the Government was saved from defeat, but Labour were furious
:03:06. > :03:10.and are demanding a full investigation. Here is the leader,
:03:11. > :03:14.Kezia Dugdale. I categorically voted in the Parliament alike. I know
:03:15. > :03:18.that, my colleague Iain Gray was by my side and saw the vote registered
:03:19. > :03:22.on the parliamentary computer. We have to know from the Parliament why
:03:23. > :03:25.my vote was not registered. This is serious because the SNP made a
:03:26. > :03:33.promise to the people of Scotland, they said they would scrap the
:03:34. > :03:38.council tax. What are the other party saying? I think there is a bit
:03:39. > :03:40.of anger and frustration in a way that the other opposition parties
:03:41. > :03:46.were not able to defeat the Government tonight. A sigh of relief
:03:47. > :03:51.from the Scottish Government, I expect. The SNP put out a press
:03:52. > :03:56.release, a statement like saying Kezia Dugdale was the lone ranger
:03:57. > :04:00.taking autonomy to a Lovell -- a statement tonight. A date at the
:04:01. > :04:04.changes the party making. In terms of Labour calling for the full
:04:05. > :04:06.investigation into what happened, the Presiding Officer and some
:04:07. > :04:11.senior officials were pretty quick back into the chamber to check the
:04:12. > :04:15.voting system. They released a statement like to say, we have
:04:16. > :04:21.checked the voting consoles in the chamber, we are satisfied the system
:04:22. > :04:25.is working properly. So, it gets curiouser and curiouser. The wider
:04:26. > :04:28.point is that with the numbers in Parliament now this is the sort of
:04:29. > :04:33.thing we are likely to see more and more of. Yes, taking away the drama
:04:34. > :04:38.on the oddity of what happened here this afternoon. This is the kind of
:04:39. > :04:43.thing we can expect much more. The Scottish Government really walking
:04:44. > :04:47.the tightrope, returned back in May after not winning a majority once
:04:48. > :04:51.again. As I say, a sigh of relief from the Government. The opposition
:04:52. > :04:55.will have to regroup and come back and try to defeat the Government at
:04:56. > :04:58.another opportunity. Andrew Taylor in Holyrood, thank you.
:04:59. > :05:00.Now, the way some of our most vulnerable people are cared
:05:01. > :05:03.for needs to change to stop costs getting out of control.
:05:04. > :05:05.That's according to the public spending watchdog.
:05:06. > :05:07.Otherwise, nearly ?700 million will need to be found to pay
:05:08. > :05:10.for social work and social care by 2020.
:05:11. > :05:12.The report begs important questions over just what sort of services
:05:13. > :05:18.should be provided - and who should be providing them.
:05:19. > :05:21.Our Local Government Correspondent Jamie McIvor is here.
:05:22. > :05:25.Social work is one of the biggest council services, and according
:05:26. > :05:28.to the spending watchdog, it's at a watershed.
:05:29. > :05:30.If things don't change, a huge amount of extra money
:05:31. > :05:37.Our 32 councils spend more than ?3 billion
:05:38. > :05:41.That money helps about 300,000 people a year -
:05:42. > :05:47.The bill's set to go up for several reasons.
:05:48. > :05:52.And the fact people are living longer.
:05:53. > :05:55.But the watchdog makes the point that this debate should be
:05:56. > :05:58.What sort of services do we actually need?
:05:59. > :06:13.How did you find going on holiday? Much better this time. Karen is one
:06:14. > :06:17.of Scotland's's army of unpaid carers. She gets a lot of help from
:06:18. > :06:21.charity worker Susan. Karen's partner is diagnosed with a form of
:06:22. > :06:26.dementia. It made huge changes to his life. He went into the doctors
:06:27. > :06:30.office as a working man, and left as a man who is no longer able to work.
:06:31. > :06:34.The practical help Karen is receiving makes a huge difference.
:06:35. > :06:40.Even a advice on household goods that are suitable for people with
:06:41. > :06:44.dementia. It is for everybody. It all means social services do not
:06:45. > :06:50.need to get involved, at a cost of the taxpayer. People support them,
:06:51. > :06:56.to maintain their own confidence as to how they can live. We can support
:06:57. > :07:01.families, friends and individuals. This all highlights a very big
:07:02. > :07:05.debate - just what sort of social services can the taxpayer ruler
:07:06. > :07:10.sickly afford. Are elderly people are consuming more of the social
:07:11. > :07:12.work budget, the demand in the system, demographic change,
:07:13. > :07:16.highlighted the fact there is not enough money, it is making things
:07:17. > :07:20.very difficult. But it is hard to divorce this debate about what is
:07:21. > :07:24.best to those who need help from simple questions of saving cash.
:07:25. > :07:30.This led to fierce exchanges at Holyrood. And the truth is, the
:07:31. > :07:34.accounts commission report tells us that overall spending is falling,
:07:35. > :07:38.First Minister. In fact, it says that these cuts or unsustainable.
:07:39. > :07:43.And the truth is, they do not have to happen. I'm only asking because
:07:44. > :07:47.And the truth is, they do not have Sturgeon to do what she has wanted
:07:48. > :07:52.to do her retire political life, make different choices from the
:07:53. > :07:57.Tories -- her entire. I would ask her to reflect on the position she
:07:58. > :08:01.and her party are in. She stands up regularly and says that the future
:08:02. > :08:05.looks to be a Tory future in terms of the Westminster government, and
:08:06. > :08:08.yet she has got the nerve to come here and lecture me about the
:08:09. > :08:13.implications of Tory cuts that her party are powerless to do anything
:08:14. > :08:16.about. One important thing the Scottish Government has been doing
:08:17. > :08:20.is integrating health and social care.
:08:21. > :08:22.The Government says it;s committed over half-a-billion pounds to make
:08:23. > :08:26.The hope is that could lead to better services and better value.
:08:27. > :08:28.But critics point to that pressure on council budgets.
:08:29. > :08:31.One thing is certain from the report - the status quo isn't an option.
:08:32. > :08:41.The Foreign Office has been urged to intervene to rescue four Scots
:08:42. > :08:44.merchant navy cadets stranded on a cargo ship in an area
:08:45. > :08:46.of South-East Asia known for pirate attacks.
:08:47. > :08:49.The owners of the shipping line have gone bust, and are refusing
:08:50. > :08:52.to allow their vessels into port to prevent them being impounded.
:08:53. > :08:55.But the families of the trainees have called for the UK Government
:08:56. > :09:11.This is 22-year-old Rory Hamilton from Inverness, training for a
:09:12. > :09:15.career as a merchant Navy officer. But after months of seeing the world
:09:16. > :09:20.and living the dream, he and three pals from Scotland have been plunged
:09:21. > :09:23.into a nightmare. With the giant South Korean hand in shipping
:09:24. > :09:28.company now in receivership, the cadet's vessel has been anchored 40
:09:29. > :09:31.miles of Singapore with no clue as to when the crew might get off. They
:09:32. > :09:35.have been told there was a possibility they would get off the
:09:36. > :09:41.boat on Tuesday. There was a supply boat going into supply them. So the
:09:42. > :09:46.boys at that point were very upbeat and very excited that they thought
:09:47. > :09:50.they would be getting home. But that never happened. We don't know why.
:09:51. > :09:56.But it never happened. The shipping firm will not let the ship dock for
:09:57. > :10:00.fear it will be impounded. But the area that the boat is now anchored
:10:01. > :10:05.in has been targeted by pirates in the past. And that has only deepened
:10:06. > :10:12.the families' fears. It obviously adds to the worry. The area they are
:10:13. > :10:20.in is a piracy risk area. So that brings a whole different outlook on
:10:21. > :10:26.it, I guess. All four cadets on all Tudors at city of Glasgow College.
:10:27. > :10:30.And they had been sent on placement with one of the world's largest
:10:31. > :10:34.container shipping operations through a recruitment and training
:10:35. > :10:36.firm. Today they said they were in close contact with the families and
:10:37. > :10:41.the cadets, whose well-being was of the most priority. They said they
:10:42. > :10:45.would offer any assistance to assure their return home as soon as
:10:46. > :10:49.possible. The issue has also been raised that Westminster. What I
:10:50. > :10:52.would like the UK Government to do is to intervene to get some kind of
:10:53. > :10:59.deal to get first of all those cadets of the ship, and anybody else
:11:00. > :11:03.who wants to get off the ship. It has emerged today that the shipping
:11:04. > :11:07.company has had a new injection of cash to help stave off bankruptcy.
:11:08. > :11:10.But the families here don't know how quickly that will resolve the
:11:11. > :11:13.situation. And they just want their sons home.
:11:14. > :11:15.Scotland's Independent Police Watchdog is to carry out a review
:11:16. > :11:19.of undercover policing, after the UK Government refused
:11:20. > :11:23.to extend an investigation currently underway in England and Wales.
:11:24. > :11:25.The Scottish Government has asked the Inspector
:11:26. > :11:27.of Constabulary to investigate, claiming there's evidence
:11:28. > :11:31.that units from south of the border operated here.
:11:32. > :11:34.There've been claims that some English officers worked undercover
:11:35. > :11:40.with activists planning to disrupt the G8 meeting at Gleneagles
:11:41. > :11:48.in 2005, and entered into sexual relations with some of them.
:11:49. > :11:51.A man who was jailed for life for murdering a Glasgow shopkeeper
:11:52. > :11:54.who he claimed had "disrespected" Islam has been given leave by judges
:11:55. > :11:56.to appeal against his minimum 27-year jail term.
:11:57. > :11:58.32-year-old Tanveer Ahmed, from Bradford in Yorkshire,
:11:59. > :12:02.stabbed 40-year-old Asad Shah outside his store in
:12:03. > :12:07.And in a separate development, messages from him, recorded
:12:08. > :12:10.from Barlinnie Prison, have appeared on social media.
:12:11. > :12:13.I'm joined by Reevel Alderson, our Home affairs Correspondent,
:12:14. > :12:25.Take that second bit first, there are a number of postings on social
:12:26. > :12:31.media of phone calls apparently made by Tanvir Ahmed from Barlinnie
:12:32. > :12:36.prison. He was convicted last July of murdering Asad Shah. And these
:12:37. > :12:40.messages appear to have been recorded on a landline phone,
:12:41. > :12:45.possibly in his home in Bradford. In one of them you can hear children
:12:46. > :12:49.playing in the background. The messages aren't Urdu, they appear in
:12:50. > :12:53.social media with a still photograph of Tanvir Ahmed, and include phrases
:12:54. > :12:57.such as, we should all try to make the world a better place, and I will
:12:58. > :13:02.sacrifice myself. Police Scotland said in a statement it is aware of
:13:03. > :13:06.these communications and will investigate. The Scottish Prison
:13:07. > :13:15.Service has not commented, but it is known they would dog might do
:13:16. > :13:18.routinely -- they routinely monitor phone calls. There is a recorded
:13:19. > :13:22.message on the phone calls saying this is a message from within a
:13:23. > :13:27.Scottish prison, and if you do not want to accept the message you can
:13:28. > :13:30.put the phone down. You were talking about the appeal process. Tanvir
:13:31. > :13:34.Ahmed is appealing against his sentence. He was sentenced to a
:13:35. > :13:39.minimum of 27 years, he is saying that is too long. 27 years was
:13:40. > :13:43.reduced from 30 because he pled guilty at the earliest possible
:13:44. > :13:48.stage. He is saying apart from the length of the sentence being too
:13:49. > :13:52.long, he wants a greater discount for making the guilty plea at the
:13:53. > :13:54.early stage. We expect the appeal will probably be heard early next
:13:55. > :13:55.early stage. We expect the appeal year. Thank you.
:13:56. > :13:57.As part of our coverage of the political conference season,
:13:58. > :13:59.we have another party leader interview for you.
:14:00. > :14:01.Today it's new Ukip leader Diane James, who says that Brexit
:14:02. > :14:04.inside the UK offers Scotland more powers than independence
:14:05. > :14:10.She says the decision to leave the EU is a "win-win"
:14:11. > :14:14.She's also come out firmly against a second Scottish
:14:15. > :14:17.She's been speaking to our Westminster Correspondent,
:14:18. > :14:31.Three months to the days since Britain, but not Scotland, voted for
:14:32. > :14:37.Brexit, and the repercussions are still being felt. The game of
:14:38. > :14:43.political musical chairs continues. She is now in charge. And he has
:14:44. > :14:49.Leaving the Ukip crown to this woman Leaving the Ukip crown to this woman
:14:50. > :14:53.- just over a week into her new post, Diane James is very clear
:14:54. > :14:58.about what Brexit could mean for Scotland. What I am saying is that
:14:59. > :15:04.by freeing itself from EU control, Scotland has a much, much more
:15:05. > :15:08.positive future. Because then, in terms of how it manages its
:15:09. > :15:13.finances, how it manages is economy, how it decides how it makes those
:15:14. > :15:16.very, very important decisions in Scotland, it will do under
:15:17. > :15:23.devolution powers granted out of Westminster, it will not be dictated
:15:24. > :15:27.to and directed by legislation or directives coming out of Brussels
:15:28. > :15:32.and Strasbourg. And on the key issue for many Scots, a second
:15:33. > :15:39.independence referendum, what is her view? I would not supported. I
:15:40. > :15:42.really would like to see Scotland B still part, and for the physio ball
:15:43. > :15:48.future, for decades to come, be in the union with England. -- for the
:15:49. > :15:52.foreseeable future. Nigel Farage did not always see eye to why with many
:15:53. > :15:56.Scots. On one occasion being forced to seek sanctuary in an Edinburgh
:15:57. > :16:01.pub to avoid protesters. His successor says she is keen to visit
:16:02. > :16:05.Scotland soon, although a pub on the Royal mile is not necessarily on the
:16:06. > :16:07.agenda. David Porter, Reporting Scotland, Westminster.
:16:08. > :16:09.And we will bring you more party leader interviews
:16:10. > :16:12.Including one with the new Labour leader, once they've
:16:13. > :16:15.You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland.
:16:16. > :16:23.Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has failed to register
:16:24. > :16:25.a vote at Holyrood - allowing the Scottish Government
:16:26. > :16:29.to avoid a defeat on council tax reform.
:16:30. > :16:33.Concrete modernism - the work of one of Scotland's most
:16:34. > :16:40.respected - but least known - architects.
:16:41. > :16:44.Scotland's rural affairs secretary Fergus Ewing has ordered
:16:45. > :16:46.the government agency which regulates crofting
:16:47. > :16:48.to apologise to crofters in the Western Isles,
:16:49. > :16:51.after a row which saw them stripped of the right
:16:52. > :16:54.The Crofters' Commission suspended two grazings
:16:55. > :16:56.committees in Lewis, after complaints about
:16:57. > :17:03.But many experts branded the moves as heavy handed and illegal.
:17:04. > :17:14.It's often joked that they crofter is best described as the piece of
:17:15. > :17:18.land surrounded by legislation. That is best described as the piece of
:17:19. > :17:22.legislation has become the source of a bitter dispute after the public
:17:23. > :17:27.body in charge of the sector sacked two committees made up of crofters
:17:28. > :17:31.who managed shared land in the Western Isles. But the crofting
:17:32. > :17:36.commission has incurred the Rath of the rural affairs Secretary Fergus
:17:37. > :17:38.Ewing. He has board members to rescind their decisions and
:17:39. > :17:44.apologise, an apology so far proven difficult to deliver. It was a
:17:45. > :17:48.positive meeting, the first time we have met since he took up his post
:17:49. > :17:53.on a number of matters. Clearly the issue of common grazing is a matter
:17:54. > :17:57.we spoke about as well. We are both looking for a resolution to matters
:17:58. > :18:03.outstanding. The commission argued that crofters running common grazing
:18:04. > :18:07.land here and Lewis breached crofting law because of the way they
:18:08. > :18:11.managed committee finances. But that was disputed by legal experts whose
:18:12. > :18:17.views were backed by the Scottish Government. It's late in the day as
:18:18. > :18:21.far as we're concerned. But still welcome. The government are taking a
:18:22. > :18:26.proactive stance now and they need now to do much more as well. They
:18:27. > :18:31.need to, in some way or other, regain the confidence and to
:18:32. > :18:38.establish a regulator that we can trust. But with one crofting group
:18:39. > :18:41.now reinstated and a review under way the crofting commission has
:18:42. > :18:45.pledged to change the way it resolves such rows in future. There
:18:46. > :18:52.are issues which the commission must learn from and where there are
:18:53. > :18:56.debates within individual communities when one set of crofters
:18:57. > :19:00.is unhappy with another set of crofters, then is there a way in
:19:01. > :19:04.which a resolution can be found to that? There have been fresh course
:19:05. > :19:07.today for the crofting commission's convenor Colin Kennedy to resign
:19:08. > :19:12.over his handling of the dispute with a warning that peace cannot be
:19:13. > :19:17.restored in Scotland's normally tranquil crofting communities until
:19:18. > :19:17.there is a change at the top. Jackie O'Brien, Reporting Scotland,
:19:18. > :19:18.Inverness. A Celtic fan is to stand trial,
:19:19. > :19:21.charged with displaying an offensive banner and blow-up figures
:19:22. > :19:24.at an Old Firm match. 27-year-old Ross Brady entered
:19:25. > :19:26.a plea of not guilty at an appearance at Glasgow Sheriff
:19:27. > :19:30.Court. Prosecutors claim he acted
:19:31. > :19:34.with others in behaviour that might be likely
:19:35. > :19:36.to "incite public disorder". Brady faces a single
:19:37. > :19:38.charge under the Offensive The songs of Robert Burns are often
:19:39. > :19:46.performed these days in a way that focuses on the words rather
:19:47. > :19:49.than complex musical arrangements. But researchers at Glasgow
:19:50. > :19:52.University have recorded some of his works as they would have been
:19:53. > :19:55.performed in the 18th century. The result has more in common
:19:56. > :19:58.with middle class Edinburgh drawing rooms than Dumfries drinking howffs,
:19:59. > :20:13.as Aileen Clarke reports. It's Burns, but not as you know it.
:20:14. > :20:20.This song doesn't sound half as bawdy in this very refined
:20:21. > :20:25.18th-century arrangement. Burns, of course, wrote the lyrics using
:20:26. > :20:29.traditional ears as the music. But when he submitted the songs to his
:20:30. > :20:34.Edinburgh publishers well, those tunes were given a very classical
:20:35. > :20:38.makeover. What we've never really appreciated is that most of those
:20:39. > :20:43.songs, the vast majority of Burns's songs were collected or written for
:20:44. > :20:47.two rather posh, published collections of songs. And because
:20:48. > :20:52.they were part of an 18th-century musical culture they sound a bit
:20:53. > :20:58.classical, they sound a bit fancy in comparison to the more, kind of,
:20:59. > :21:05.songs on guitar or songs with fiddle or the more folk settings that a lot
:21:06. > :21:09.of people appreciate. Burns, the 18th-century remix, has
:21:10. > :21:13.been recorded and has been published in book form. The culmination of a
:21:14. > :21:21.five year research project funded to the tune of ?1 million by the UK
:21:22. > :21:24.arts fund. This would have sounded quite fancy
:21:25. > :21:27.played on a drawing-room harpsichord and it has given this classical
:21:28. > :21:32.musician involved in the recording is a new appreciation of the Bard.
:21:33. > :21:36.I was quite surprised at the beginning of the project to learn of
:21:37. > :21:43.composers such as Beethoven who have written musical settings for Burns's
:21:44. > :21:46.poetry, burns's international reach is expanding all the time and able
:21:47. > :21:53.to influence these men classical composers.
:21:54. > :21:59.His appreciation of Burns came from her father in the musical Bill.
:22:00. > :22:05.For him I think Burns worked better unaccompanied, or with a nice
:22:06. > :22:11.setting that kind of, you know, brought out the nuances of the text.
:22:12. > :22:16.But I'm sure he would have had a go. Burns for these collections were so
:22:17. > :22:20.important that he gave his songs for free. Burns, of course, is warmly
:22:21. > :22:25.regarded as the people's poet. But it's clear that he himself was also
:22:26. > :22:28.keen to be celebrated in the smart drawing rooms of Edinburgh in a
:22:29. > :22:36.style that echoed that of his artistic peers. But as he would have
:22:37. > :22:37.said himself a man's Dame Ann for all that. Aileen Clarke, Reporting
:22:38. > :22:39.Scotland, Glasgow. The English Football League has
:22:40. > :22:42.closed the door on the possibility of Scottish teams being part
:22:43. > :22:44.of their expansion plans. Clubs have been in discussions
:22:45. > :22:47.for some time about the possibility of creating more leagues
:22:48. > :22:49.in England in a bid to ease Talks were seen as a possible way
:22:50. > :22:54.into the lucrative market for Scottish clubs
:22:55. > :22:56.like Celtic and Rangers. But members decided today that no
:22:57. > :22:58.clubs outside the English system should be allowed
:22:59. > :23:06.into any new set-up. He may not be as well known
:23:07. > :23:08.as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, or his great influence,
:23:09. > :23:11.Frank Lloyd Wright. But the architect Peter Womersley
:23:12. > :23:13.has a passionate following - not least in Scotland,
:23:14. > :23:16.where he worked for a number of years and where many of his
:23:17. > :23:19.buildings still stand. Now there's to be a celebration
:23:20. > :23:22.of his work - part of the festival of architecture and design -
:23:23. > :23:25.to bring his work Our arts correspondent
:23:26. > :23:34.Pauline McLean reports. Across the spotted borders and
:23:35. > :23:37.beyond you'll find a distinctive style of Peter Womersley. Strongly
:23:38. > :23:40.influenced by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright his modernist
:23:41. > :23:48.concrete buildings are instantly recognisable. But it was this family
:23:49. > :23:50.home near Selkirk, one of his first commissions for the designer Bernard
:23:51. > :23:56.Klein which brought him to Scotland and his friendship with the client's
:23:57. > :24:01.which kept him here. I was rather annoyed that I didn't live in a sort
:24:02. > :24:08.of Victorian house like all my friends did. They seemed far more
:24:09. > :24:12.interesting to me when I was little. It's only now I appreciate how
:24:13. > :24:17.beautiful this building is. And she's not alone. Peter Womersley's
:24:18. > :24:19.work is admired the world over. A symposium next week, part of the
:24:20. > :24:23.Festival of architecture and design, will also include a tour of his
:24:24. > :24:27.buildings in Scotland. But it's not just students of
:24:28. > :24:30.architecture who admire Peter Womersley's work. One of his most
:24:31. > :24:37.iconic structures is right here in the middle of Galashiels and every
:24:38. > :24:41.weekend it is filled with fans. Some people think it is something
:24:42. > :24:45.resembling the Soviet Union in the 1960s. But then again we get visits
:24:46. > :24:49.from architects just spontaneously turning up at the ground and from
:24:50. > :24:55.football supporters the length and breadth of the country just wanting
:24:56. > :24:58.to see, to be realistic what is an iconic football grandstand. And it's
:24:59. > :25:03.that everyday appeal fans of his work hope to harness with a touring
:25:04. > :25:08.exhibition. Peter Womersley is more of an acquired taste and it may take
:25:09. > :25:12.some time. I don't think he will ever quite, unfortunately, reached
:25:13. > :25:17.the heights of Mackintosh devotion, but actually getting people to
:25:18. > :25:22.understand a bit more. I think you will get so much more out of it.
:25:23. > :25:27.Pauline McLean, Reporting Scotland, Galashiels.
:25:28. > :25:32.And its time for the weather now with Kirsteen.
:25:33. > :25:39.Today marks the autumn equinox and we've had fine conditions across the
:25:40. > :25:43.country, really lovely weather with plenty of brightness and sunshine.
:25:44. > :25:47.The next couple of days, however, some distinctly unsettled conditions
:25:48. > :25:51.on the way. Even this evening we will continue to see heavy and
:25:52. > :25:55.thundery showers piling in across the Western Isles, western coastal
:25:56. > :25:59.areas and the showers will gradually track eastwards before clearing
:26:00. > :26:02.during the second half of the night to leave much drier and clearer
:26:03. > :26:06.conditions behind them, and quite a chilly night to come once again for
:26:07. > :26:10.sheltered, rural areas especially, with perhaps a touch of frost. For
:26:11. > :26:15.the most part in the towns and cities temperatures hold up around
:26:16. > :26:20.7-9dC. A fine if chilly start tomorrow across much of the country,
:26:21. > :26:21.plenty of sunshine around. That will be fairly short lived, cloud
:26:22. > :26:45.continuing to spill in from the west during the
:26:46. > :26:47.course of the day and we will have some rain and strengthening winds
:26:48. > :26:49.especially across the Northwest. Tomorrow afternoon across much of
:26:50. > :26:51.southern, central and eastern Scotland we hold onto largely dry
:26:52. > :26:54.conditions, perhaps some brightness at times. Some persistent at times
:26:55. > :26:57.heavy rain affecting the likes of Argyll and much of the north-west
:26:58. > :27:00.Highlands, the Western Isles and Sutherland too, the rain accompanied
:27:01. > :27:03.by strengthening winds, and we hold onto dry weather in the north-east
:27:04. > :27:07.tomorrow afternoon. In these areas the Northern Isles will feel best in
:27:08. > :27:09.terms of any brightness and sunshine. Tomorrow evening cloud
:27:10. > :27:13.will continue to increase. That rain will spill across the country, most
:27:14. > :27:16.heavy and persistent in the north and west and the winds will increase
:27:17. > :27:19.further reaching gale force on coastal areas and the Northern
:27:20. > :27:22.Isles. As we head into Saturday we hold onto wet and windy weather
:27:23. > :27:26.across much of the country. Early yellow warning in force from the Met
:27:27. > :27:28.Office, and risk of localised flooding and hazardous driving
:27:29. > :27:32.conditions. The winds will only gradually ease through the data.
:27:33. > :27:37.Sunday will bring some sunshine and a lot of showers. That the forecast.
:27:38. > :27:42.I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm - and the late bulletin just
:27:43. > :27:44.Until then, from everyone on the team - right