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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A radical extension of the use of electronic tags for offenders | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Road accidents are the biggest killer of young | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
to warn teenagers to belt up and slow down. | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
Can we learn from how Swedish football clubs cut fan violence | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
and improved relations with the police? | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Former Scotland captain Barry Ferguson talks to us | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
about boozegate and the shame that kept him away from Hampden. | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
was a disgrace, I was embarrassing. Because it ended my career. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Also on the programme: Not seeing the wood for the trees - | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
the 100-foot specimens in the Queen's back garden | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The Scottish Government is planning a radical extension of the ways | :00:54. | :01:11. | |
electronic tags can be used on offenders. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Sobriety tags, GPS tracking and tagging will be used | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
as an alternative to remand for the first time north | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Our political correspondent Lucy Adams has this report. | :01:21. | :01:32. | |
Technology to replace iron bars. I volunteer to try it out. It means | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
offenders can stay at home rather than behind bars. Electronic | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
monitoring has been used in Scotland for almost 15 years, mainly as a | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
form of house arrest. Now it is fitted, that's when we would | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
normally walk around the premises. In future, these could be used as an | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
alternative to remand and for those who offend under the influence of | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
alcohol, and for the first time in Scotland it could be used to monitor | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
the movements of offenders using GPS technology. This is a typical screen | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
we would see for a person that has been GPS tracked. There is more than | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
1000 people currently tagged in Scotland. GPS says in future the | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
numbers could be limitless. They warned there are still blackspots in | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
reception for GPS and tracking but said overall it is effective. It is | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
not a soft option, it is a restriction placed not only on | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
offenders but also the families. Sobriety tags will be able to pick | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
up on tiny traces of drink in people's sweat for those who | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
reoffend when drunk. We spoke to one offender who has been monitored | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
three times by staff in this centre. He says it was life changing. When I | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
was in prison, I was embarrassed and ashamed, I didn't want my children | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
to visit me in a place like that because every dad is Superman to | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
their children so they don't want to be exposed as having any weaknesses. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
I was ashamed to be in prison and to have done that my family, so having | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the opportunity to be out meant the world to me. It's all part of a | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
wider government review on penal policy. The objective is to be about | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
thinking about the outcome we are trying to achieve. If it is an | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
individual where we want to monitor and restrict where they are at | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
particular given times, GPS tagging could be the most effective way to | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
do that alongside other measures. We are interested in looking at how we | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
can use electronic monitoring more but we also have to be very careful. | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
We have seen the SNP get soft on issues of justice, and whilst there | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
is a role to play we have got to make sure victims don't feel | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
forgotten. For the Scottish Government now, the job will be | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
persuading judges monitoring is more effective than prison. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Police in Suffolk searching for a missing airman from Fife say | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
they still haven't found his phone after checking the contents | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Detectives believed his handset may have been lost or discarded | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Corrie McKeague, who's from Dunfermline, went missing ten | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
days ago after a night out in Bury St Edmonds. | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
There has already been huge publicity about the disappearance of | :04:28. | :04:44. | |
Corrie, who went out ten days ago on a Friday night, a few beers, into | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
the early hours of Saturday, last seen on CCTV, after that nothing. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Police trapped his mobile phone from Bury St Edmunds to this area about | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
12 miles away. They tracked by using massed in the area. The theory is it | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
could have been lost or discarded, mixed in with rubbish, and got into | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
the back of the bin lorry. Police seized that vehicle and found there | :05:15. | :05:24. | |
is no phone. It is a Nokia Lumea 345. They say they are going through | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
hours of fresh CCTV footage. They are hoping for a fresh glimpse of | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
Corrie, and maybe a fresh clue. An MSP is calling for a fatal | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
accident inquiry to be held into the death of the Dundee boxer | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Mike Towell, who died on Friday, after being knocked out in a fight | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
the previous evening. The 25-year-old had been | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
in a bout with Dale Evans The Conservative MSP Brian Whittle | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
says it would be "silly" to ban boxing but there needs to be a full | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
investigation to establish if Mr Towell had a brain injury | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
before stepping into the ring. In this particular instance, my | :05:54. | :06:07. | |
concern would be around if the step has been missed because we | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
understand he was having headaches beforehand, and if that is the case, | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
why was that missed? The steps that should not be there. So it is | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
incumbent on this board to make sure every step has been taken, and | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
lessons have to be learned. BBC Scotland has obtained the first | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
exclusive pictures of an oil leak Around 95 tonnes of oil leaked | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
from the Clair field on Sunday, BP says three surveillance flights | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
flew over the slick today and it The company says it believes | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
the environmental impact of the spill is likely | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
to be minimal. A woman who suffered life-changing | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
injuries in a car crash when she was sixteen has been | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
warning teenagers about Laura Torrance has been a wheelchair | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
user since the accident in 1999. With traffic accidents the biggest | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
killer of young people in Scotland, she's hoping they'll learn | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
from her experience. friend passed his test on the | :07:02. | :07:17. | |
Monday, this was Thursday night, we went for a drive, had a laugh and | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
listened to music. We had a chance to show off. We came up to the | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
corner to quickly and rolled into the farmer's field and I don't | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
remember much after that. I was 16 and I didn't think this would happen | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
to me. Hopefully they will look at me and think this can happen to me, | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
it is real life, not the movies. One can have silly mistake and it can | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
lead to something devastating and life changing. Demonstrating safety | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
to those about to drive on our roads. Young drivers up to 25 make | :07:55. | :08:08. | |
up for 10% of drivers in Scotland and 20% of crashes, it is a | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
disproportionate amount so we need to do engagement with them to make | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
sure they are where they are vulnerable and need to work on their | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
experience. This has been designed to show what a crash might feel | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
like. That was a really nasty jolt and it was only six miles per hour. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
I'm learning to drive so this makes me more aware of my situation and | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
make sure I'm safe. I don't think it will put off anyone from driving, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
but I think it will make everyone more cautious about it. If you're | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
going faster, what would it be like? Because that was scary. One person | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
is killed every week on our roads, campaigners want people to belt up, | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
slow down, and not use mobile phones at the wheel. | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
Senior Tories have tonight turned their fire on the SNP, | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
accusing the First Minister and her party of using Brexit | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
as a lever to try and bring about independence. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
The prospect of a second referendum has been described as a Sword | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
of Damocles hanging over the Scottish economy. | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
Here's our political correspondent, David Porter. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Separate but inextricably linked, since that vote in June Brexit and | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
Scottish independence, issues both vying for attention and causing | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
confusion. We will make breakfast... Brexit a success. From Scotland, no | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
such verbal pitfalls but strong rhetoric nevertheless on how Brexit | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
is being portrayed. Using it as an excuse to threaten a second | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
independence referendum, that's not what the people of Scotland want, it | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
is a sort of Damocles, the single biggest threat to Scotland's | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
economy. And a very direct message to the Government. We will negotiate | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
as United Kingdom, leave as the United Kingdom, and face the future | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
together as the United Kingdom. Elsewhere at the conference, time | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
for the Conservative leader to meet the party faithful. Most of the | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
stuff I got was, you are from who? They liked that, but again the issue | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
of Brexit, and criticism of the First Minister. It becomes the post | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
of First Minister, the way she has tried to exploit the vote to get | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
independence back on the table, I think even she has realised she went | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
too far. The First Minister will take issue with that and probably | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
this as well. Who would we like to see Ruth in Theresa May's cabinet? | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Look at that, will you be disappointing these people? I have a | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
job to do in Holyrood. So she doesn't want to be in Theresa May's | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
cabinet but tomorrow Ruth Davidson will share a platform with the Prime | :11:21. | :11:21. | |
Minister. You're watching BBC | :11:22. | :11:22. | |
Reporting Scotland. The Scottish Government is planning | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
a radical extension of the ways electronic tags can be | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
used on offenders. Not seeing the wood for the trees - | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
the 100-foot specimens in the Queen's back garden | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
which were thought to be extinct. Could a Swedish football | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
project help ease tensions between supporters and | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
the authorities in Scotland? the Scottish Cup final, | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
have led to calls for clubs to be There's also an ongoing debate over | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
the effectiveness of recent legislation covering | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
behaviour at matches. Alasdair Lamont's been | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
to Malmo to find out Malmo, one of the biggest and most | :12:15. | :12:32. | |
successful clubs in Sweden, but they have had issues with violence from | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
fans. The football authorities always had a view that you could | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
fans. The football authorities punish, and the same when you were | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
talking to the police for example, so there was a growing conflict | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
between big fan groups and the authorities. Four years ago, the | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
stand-up for football project began in Sweden, since then attendances | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
are up and football related crime and violence is down, so what | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
changes have been made to make the football experience better for the | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
Swedish supporters? Employing this month and others like him is partly | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
responsible for the change. My duty is to be a bridge for the supporters | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
to the club and the club to the supporters. If there is an issue | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
with the police and they want to talk to the supporters, the police | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
can talk to me and I can explain to them. We can understand each other | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
and maybe that lowers the risk for conflict. They deal with designated | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
full-time support the police, such direct lines of communication appear | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
to benefit the authorities too. Recently we have the problem is that | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
supporters from the stands are throwing bottles onto the pitch, and | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
for this game the supporters themselves had said that nobody can | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
do that. If somebody does this, we will take them out from the crowd so | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
do that. If somebody does this, we it is perfect. That is what we call | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
self policing and we hope for more and more. The issues at Swedish | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
football may be different from those in Scotland, and no one here | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
believes the approach is perfect, but the spirit of collaboration | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
appears to be having a positive effect. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Two Scottish-born scientists have won the 2016 | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Professor David Thouless - who was born in Bearsden - | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
shares it with another Scottish-American, | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University. | :14:40. | :14:40. | |
Together with the third recipient, Duncan Haldane, they've been | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
recognised for their work in condensed matter physics. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
At the announcement in Stockholm, a member of the Nobel Prize | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
organisation attempted to explain the phenomenon by tearing a hole | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
The jury in the trial of a man accused of the murder of a waiter | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
in Lanarkshire nearly 18 years ago has been sent home | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
after considering its verdict for a second day. | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
48-year-old Ronnie Coulter denies killing Surjit Singh Chhokar | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
The jury will resume its deliberations tomorrow. | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
Scotland's Finance Secretary has been accused by the opposition of | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
Derek Mackay is involved in a row about how much information MSPs can | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
receive ahead of the Scottish Government's draft budget. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
Well, our political correspondent, Andrew Kerr, has been | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
following the story and joins me now from Holyrood. | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Andrew, opposition MSPs feel they're being kept in the dark about | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
Yes, they feel they are not allowed to scrutinise the | :15:40. | :15:52. | |
Government's plans adequately. This issue may not be the talk over the | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
dinner table in many homes tonight but they want to keep track of where | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
every pound and Penny is going. All the opposition MSPs backed a motion | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
from Patrick Harvie, calling for more information saying it was | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
unacceptable the level of information they had. It's not just | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
the opposition, the finance committee convener also wrote to the | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
finance secretary, saying the information they had was | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
unacceptable. The Chancellor has his Autumn Statement on the 23rd of | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
November, the finance secretary will publish his budget on the 15th of | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
December. Crucial statement with lots of Brexit economic information | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
there so the finance secretary does not want to give bad information I | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
suppose. But Derek Mackay came to Parliament today with a con session. | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
What Parliament asked for was high-level scenario planning. I will | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
provide that within the time scale. I'm happen where you to write to the | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
Finance Committee and he will take a great interest in that. I've | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
repeatedly said I won't publish a draft budget. He could offer | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
concessions, offer to meet parliament and the Finance Committee | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
halfway or try to brazen it out. I regret very much he decided to take | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
the latter part. The opposition Jackie not hugely impressed with | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
what he was offering. They say he's being coy about what might, what | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
information he might be offering. They will keep an eye on him. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Looking at this problem in the future a budget review group has | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
been set up to try to ensure there is perhaps a new timetable to see | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
that MSPs have adequate time to look at the budget. Jackie. Thank you | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
very much, Andrew. A look at other stories | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
from across the country... An ECG examination couldn't | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
be done on an inmate suffering chest pains, | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
in Dumfries prison because there wasn't any paper | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
in the machine to send a fax A Fatal Accident Inquiry found that | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
spare paper was locked in a cupboard The prisoner, Andrew Hamilton, | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
died later that day although he had an appeal for information | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
after a nineteen year old woman was attacked | :18:20. | :18:32. | |
in the city early on Sunday. She fought off her attacker | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
after the indecent assault Six foot told, haefy build, wearing | :18:36. | :18:49. | |
a dark coloured kilt and wearing brown dark coloured thigh length | :18:50. | :18:50. | |
boots. More than 200 young people, | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
many from Oban High School, registered as stem cell donors | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
through the Anthony Nolan The action followed an awareness | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
campaign at Oban fire station arranged by teenager, | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Lauren Campbell. She was diagnosed with leukaemia | :19:06. | :19:06. | |
for the third time since childhood. The age perimeters are between the | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
ages of 16-30 that's because people The age perimeters are between the | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
in the younger age band have more stem cells that can be release into | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
their bloodstream that allows better stem cells that can be release into | :19:26. | :19:26. | |
opportunity to fight infection. A protest meeting's to be held | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
in Inverness tonight over fears that a road link between the A9 and A96 | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
will result in 17 mature oak Community leaders and politicians | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
have joined the fight Transport Scotland insists there's | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
no final decision on the new route. We go from a small nice, rural road, | :19:44. | :19:55. | |
to an enlarged road with the trees gone, basically. They have been here | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
for 150 years. The Scotland assistant manager, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Mark McGhee, says he'd back Fifa proposals aimed at expanding | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
the World Cup from 32 teams to 48. As the squad prepares to face | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Lithuania this weekend in the latest World Cup qualifier, | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
he says the success of nations like Wales and Iceland at this | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
year's European Championships proves Not just the players, the supporters | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
of these teams made it a spectacle. Really fantastic. I know the Tartan | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
Army would anyway. I think there is a place for countries like that. I | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
think if there is a route to make it more manageable to get there, then, | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
yeah, I'm all for it. The former Scotland captain, | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
Barry Ferguson, says he believes Scotland can qualify | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
from this current campaign. His international career ended | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
after the notorious Boozegate He has told BBC Scotland, | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
that since then, he has been too embarrassed to return to Hampden | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
to watch the national team in action, saying his | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
behaviour was a disgrace. The now infamous pictures in the | :20:57. | :21:11. | |
aftermath of Boozegate. Rangers team-mates were dropped to the bench | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
for Scotland v Iceland. Just three days before they had been drinking | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
until the early hours after Scotland's loss in the World Cup | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
qualifier against Holland. Already in disgrace they made matters worse | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
with V signs in deviance. I was a disgrace. That was embarrassing what | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
I'd done. It was embarrassing because it ended my career. To do | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
what I did and not think about the consequence it is would have on | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
family and even my team-mates at Scotland. You know what I mean? It | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
was a sir suss. -- circus. Ferguson was banned from the Scotland team. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
It's only now, seven years later, he thinks he is face and support the | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
team he once captained. I was sceptical in the past to watch | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Scotland. I think that is now put to bed and I'd like to go back as a | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
fan. I was pan, at the end of the day. To be honest with you, it does | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
hurt me when people say that I didn't care. Ferguson says he cares | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
for the fate of the current crop and believes in Strachan and this World | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
Cup campaign. Do you know what, I believe we have the players to do | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
Cup campaign. Do you know what, I it. The first three games are | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
critical. We need to get seven points out of the first three games. | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
We haven't got world-class players. But we have got good players. We've | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
got good players that I think can do a job and get us to a major | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
championship. The man who once rebelled now looking for | :22:49. | :22:49. | |
redemptions. In the grounds of the Palace | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
of Holyrood, they stand 100 feet tall and are passed by hundreds | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
of thousands of visitors each year. So how did two trees turn out to be | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
a variety thought to be The Wentworth Elms were only | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
discovered when scientists at the Royal Botanical Gardens went | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
to carry out a survey. We have been looking at elm trees | :23:10. | :23:22. | |
for over 20 years. It's a large tree and a weeping habit. We are standing | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
underneath the canopy. It reaches quite close to the ground. If it was | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
left untrimmed by the gardens here it would reach the ground and sweep | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
the floor. The Palace gardens are land scaped with two trees over 100 | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
years old, beautiful features, attracting many an admirer. It's | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
lovely. Beautiful. The other feature about this tree that helps us to | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
know it's a Wentworth Elm it has large leaves. They are nearly as big | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
as my hand. That is unusual for elm trees. It begs the question - why it | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
took so long to spot that these trees were a rare breed? Colleagues | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
had been to collect samples of the elm trees with the few of propgating | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
them. They took cuttings. They couldn't identify the trees. I was | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
asked to come along and figure out what the identity of the various | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
trees was. There was a theory they survived Dutch elm disease while a | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
third succumbed. Subsequent records in our archive refer to a single | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
tree. We haven't the proof. It's tempting to think maybe these two | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
trees in Holyrood are two donated to tempting to think maybe these two | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
the Palace by the royal botanical garden Edinburgh. It might be time | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
to get the cuttings to the potting shed and secure a new building for | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
the Wentworth Elm. It's nice to see them with space to breathe and to | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
kind of frame the landscape. It would be a great pity if we didn't | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
plant elms for the future. Now, here's Laura McIver | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
with details of Scotland 2016. We will have today's news from the | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
Conservative Party conference in Birmingham and the latest pro | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
general elections on the global economy. And we report from the | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
headquarters of Scottish ballet who have been live streaming | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
performances. Time to look at what the weather has | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
in store, over to Kawser. Good evening. Many of us have ended | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
the day on a lovely note. Lots of sunshine today and, let's cast our | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
mind back to earlier this morning, this the sunrise. I couldn't resist | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
showing you weather watcher pictures from early this morning. This is | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
from Voxpopbob in the highlands and in the Western Isles glorious | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
colours. As we head through to the evening it looks to be largely dry | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
and rather breezy, especially for coastal areas. There is more in the | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
way of cloud across Aberdeenshire for Angus, eastern borders and the | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
risk of one or wo showers. For most it will be dry with clear spells | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
developing. For the north-west temperatures could dip to four or | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
five Celsius. For most holding up to nine to 11 shell suss. Coastal areas | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
will be breezy. Tomorrow we will stay with the fairly strong | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
south-easterly winds especially for t northern isles. There will be more | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
cloud around tomorrow than there has been today. The best of the sunshine | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
once again across the north-west of the country. Further towards the | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
north-east more cloud. It looks as if most of us will stay largely dry. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
Temperatures 14 to maybe 16 degrees. A shade cooler than today. Today we | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
reached 17 and 18 Celsius for many of us across the north-west of the | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
country. This area of high pressure across Scandinavia keeping weather | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
systems at bay in the Atlantic. For most of us across the UK it's fine, | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
dry and settled and will remain that way all the way into the weekend and | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
maybe even the start of next week as well. It does mean it's breezy. The | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
winds are still breezy for Thursday, too. They will tend to ease as we | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
look ahead to the end of the week. Up over the hills and the summit we | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
have strong gusts, especially for tomorrow, 60-70mph. They will ease | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
by Thursday. Temperatures 13 to 14 degrees. That's your forecast for | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
now. Even a nice skyline behind me this evening. Hope it's nice where | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
you are. We are back with the late bulletin, 10.25pm. Good evening. | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
expected. Any cloud will be broken up by the breeze with good spells | :27:47. | :27:47. |