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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A minimum price for alcohol gets the go-ahead | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
after judges reject an appeal by whisky makers. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
A drink driver is jailed for seven and a half years | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
as she returned from her son's wedding. | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
You always remember your wedding day, it is the highlight of your | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
life and to lose your mum the next day in tragic circumstances is top. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Everyone who was there have seen the happiness, then the sadness. | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
after making what are described as homophobic comments at a dinner. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
The Scottish Green Party urges the people of Scotland | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
to back holding another independence referendum in the wake | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
as Morton take on Aberdeen in their first Hampden | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
Scottish Government plans to set a minimum price for alcohol have | :00:55. | :01:14. | |
The Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled against a challenge | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
to the legislation from the Scotch Whisky Association. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
It claimed the plans were a breach of European Law. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
The ruling now paves the way for the Scottish Government | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
It's four years since it was passed in Holyrood, | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
where ministers argued it would save lives and reduce crime. | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Steven Godden reports from the Court of Session. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
In a country with a complicated, often troubled relationship with | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
alcohol, ?5 is enough to drink more in a week than doctors would | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
recommend. Those who deal with the consequences of problem drinking | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
believe minimum pricing is the best way to tackle it. What minimum | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
pricing targets is the cheapest, strongest alcohol, which is | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
precisely the alcohol that is drunk by the people who end up in our | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
hospitals and who end up dying from alcohol-related causes. It is a | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
very, very targeted policy. It is not about your bottles of wine, it | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
is about cheap cider, cheap supermarket vodka. A minimum price | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
of 50p per unit would ensure a bottle of spirits cost at least ?14, | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
or cheap, strong side could double in price. MSPs approved the policy | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
in 2012, but a court challenge, led by the Scotch Whisky Association, | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
stopped it in its tracks. After four years of legal argument, here at the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Court of Session in Edinburgh and at the European Court of Justice, the | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
ruling boiled down to one key question- would encasing the tax on | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
alcohol be as effective as minimum pricing -- increasing the tax on | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
alcohol be as effective as minimum pricing when it came to protecting | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
people's help? Today, the panel of three judges ruled it wouldn't and | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
rejected the appeal. Obviously, we regret the ruling today, we believe | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
it is a barrier to trade and not the most effective way to deal with | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
alcohol related problems. But we will decide on it before the next | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
steps. Now it has that report, it has the overwhelming backing up | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Parliament and we need to move forward with this policy because it | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
will save lives and the evidence points us in that direction, so I | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
would hope it does now spell the end of the legal delay. An appeal to the | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
UK Supreme Court could be launched within the next month, but the | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Scottish Government said today's judgment should be respected. Their | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
aim, to make minimum pricing a reality as quickly as possible. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
A drink-driver who crashed into a taxi | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
as she returned from her son's wedding has been jailed | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
21-year-old Steven Bennie was being chased by police | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
at the time and had been driving at speeds of up to 80mph. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Marie Laurie was getting into the taxi with her husband | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
when the crash happened in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Aileen Clarke reports from the High Court in Glasgow. | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
This family have lost a mother, wife, a grandmother, because Marie | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Laurie was all of these things and more. They came to court hoping for | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
a sentence which might begin to reflect their loss. It is never | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
enough, compared to what we have lost, but we got enough for us to be | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
happy today. Marie Laurie was killed and her husband seriously injured | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
when Steven Bennie crashed his car into the taxi they had just got into | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
last November. Steven Bennie, 20 at the time, was being followed by the | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
police and driving at high speed when he drove through a red light | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
and then hit the taxi. The judge jailed him for seven and a half | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
years. On sentencing, Lord Boyd said to Steven Bennie that Marie Laurie | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
had been returning home with her husband from her son's wedding, one | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
of the happiest days of her life, he said, and in an instant, that life | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
was gone. He said it was difficult to imagine a more serious level of | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
dangerous driving. You had no licence, he said, you weren't | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
insured, you had taken alcohol, he didn't stop when the police | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
signalled to you to do so and you reached 80 mph in a 30 mph zone. You | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
had even turned your headlights off, he said. It was the wedding of her | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
son Martin that Marie Laurie was on her way home from and although the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
two events are now intertwined, he says he can't dwell on Steven Bennie | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
and his reckless actions last night. He is just a boy that had a bad | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
experience and he has caused the death. To be honest with you, he | :05:55. | :06:04. | |
could be regretting for his life as well, so let's hope he takes that. I | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
have no hatred. As I say, I do not want to be filled with anger. The | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
first anniversary comes next month. A difficult time for the family. I | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
will never forget those two days of my life. You always remember your | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
wedding day, it's the highlight of your life and to lose your mum the | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
next day in such tragic circumstances is going to be tough, | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
it's going to be tough for the whole family, you know? Everybody was | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
there, they had seen the happiness, they've seen the sadness. The man | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
accused of murdering an Inverness born policeman may have cooked and | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
eaten parts of his body, a court has heard. The remains of 59-year-old | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Gordon Semple were found when investigators searched a south | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
London flat. They found his DNA on cooking utensils in the kitchen | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
belonging to Stefano Fritz Lee, who denies murder but admits | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
dismembering and disposing of his body. The UK Brexit | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
secretary David Davis has been hearing a range of Scottish opinions | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
on negotiations for leaving the European Union. He met his opposite | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
number in the Scottish Government as well as business leaders during a | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
meeting in Glasgow. And he heard a call for more clarity about the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
shape that Brexit is going to take. Here is Douglas Fraser. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Protective headgear may be required for the man with a challenging new | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
job. Secretary of State for exiting the European Union. Tell me what | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
you're doing. David Davis was in listening mode at Clydeside today at | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
this business start-up centre, a new fruit from the Glasgow deal. Across | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
the North Sea, his boss was at her first Brussels summit as Prime | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Minister, emphasising that Britain is fully in until it is fully aired. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Yet other governments think the British will eventually change their | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
minds and remain in the European club. That's not going to happen, | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
the Prime Minister has made clear that the now infamous phrase "Brexit | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
means Brexit" is going to happen, the people have given us an | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
instruction, we have to carry it out. The UK Government has to | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
negotiate with 27 governments across Europe and devolved administrations | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
around the UK. The trickiest one is probably with Scotland's Brexit | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
minister. After they met today, they Holyrood minister was looking for | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
clarity other than the hints of what we might expect. This is a matter of | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
enormous significance to Scotland, to our economy, to the way we live | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
in the European citizens that live here and citizens of Scotland but | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
live elsewhere. Hints are not good enough, there must be meaningful | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
open discussion about what happens next and that is the message I gave | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
to David Davis. This is about tone, attitude, the human component. Next, | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
meeting business representatives at Strathclyde University, they raised | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
concerns about foreign recruitment and access to markets and while | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
rebuffing calls for devolved power over immigration, David Davies | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
insists this is more than just listening to pressure groups. These | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
are not just lobby groups, these are the people of Scotland, they | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
represent various groups of the people of Scotland and it will have | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
an influence on things like fisheries policy, on farming and our | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
approach to negotiations there, it'll have an influence on our | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
approach to things like data, the single issue that came today raised | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
by one of the financial services people here, management of data. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Every time we have one of these meetings, some important new issues | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
up. There are many Scottish voices around the table at the meeting here | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
today, from fisheries to universities, all looking for risks | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
as well as opportunities in these extremely complex Brexit | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
as well as opportunities in these negotiations ahead. They are not | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
your talking about outcomes, they're talking about the inputs and the | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
process that will decide which voices dominate. | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
Two people have charged with human trafficking | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
for the purposes of prostitution, the arrests took place | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
A 40-year-old man and 32-year-old woman will appear at | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
The charges follow a day of action by police to target | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
A well-known Aberdeen hotel owner has apologised after making | :10:10. | :10:26. | |
what were described as homophobic comments at a fundraising dinner. | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Stewart Spence used the term - regarded as highly derogatory | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
and which will be mentioned in Steven Duff's report | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
Steven joins us now from outside the five-star Marcliffe Hotel now. | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
Well, Stewart Spence and the Marcliffe Hotel here in the west End | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
of Aberdeen, the city's only 5-star hotel. He is a well-known | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
businessman, entrepreneurial, awarded the MBE for his services to | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
the tourist industry. At a fundraising dinner last night, he | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
was speaking and he used the term "poofs" a number of times when he | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
was claiming the hotel industry had a history of employing homosexuals | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
and he said himself he had never employed a homosexual. Now, today, | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
he apologise sincerely for what he described as ill-advised comments, | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
saying he was mortified and he said as far as he was concerned, the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Marcliffe Hotel was inclusive for staff and guests, whatever their | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
sexual orientation. You say he has apologised, what has | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
the reaction been to his remarks? Well, the event last night was for | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
the hospitality industry trust, which helps find funding for young | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
people who want careers in hospitality. We were told by one | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
guessed that the chief executive quickly disassociated himself and | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
the Organisation from the comments, getting a round of applause in | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
response. Today, it put out a statement saying it was shocked and | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
distressed by what Stewart Spence had to say, saying the hospitality | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
industry is known for being inclusive and diverse. Stonewall | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Scotland says the comment shows how far there is to go before LGBT staff | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
can feel safe and included in the workplace. It says if there is one | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
positive from what Mr Spence had to say, it is the strong reaction and | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
strong criticism he has received. Thank you very much. The Scottish | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
Government says it will carefully consider proposals to introduce | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
measures to pardon gay men who were convicted of historical offences | :12:28. | :12:27. | |
which have since been abolished. The SNP MP John Nicolson failed | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
earlier in a bid to have automatic pardons introduced | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
in England and Wales. The UK Government has said it | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
will grant pardons to those still living who apply | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
and meet criteria. The operators of the Fort William | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
aluminium smelter have confirmed they are in negotiations | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
to sell the plant. The operation employs around 170 | :12:47. | :12:47. | |
people and is one of the largest There have been local fears that | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
a review by owners Rio Tinto could lead to the closure | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
of the factory but it's believed the discussions | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
could lead to its being sold You're watching BBC | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Reporting Scotland. A minimum price | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
for alcohol is given the go-ahead after judges rejected an appeal | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
by whisky makers. Greenock Morton prepare | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
for their first Hampden semi-final The Scottish Green Party is urging | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
the people of Scotland to back holding another independence | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
referendum in the wake Speaking at his party's autumn | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
conference, the co-convener Patrick Harvie pledged his support | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
for the Scottish Government's stance - but he said he would also | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
push the SNP to make Our political correspondent Andrew | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Kerr is in Perth this evening. Independence and Brexit dominating | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
yet another party Yes, that's right, Sally. Like all | :13:56. | :14:07. | |
the conferences, I suppose, Brexit has been the big issue and it was | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
the big issue here today on the first day of the Green Party | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
conference. This is the final conference of the autumn conference | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
season and as the green leaves turn golden at this time of year, I | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
suppose, the Green Party here think they are entering perhaps a golden | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
phase, because at Holyrood, they entered... At the Holyrood election, | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
they managed to treble their representation, they overtook the | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
Liberal Democrats and they are now very powerful in a way, because the | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
SNP is a minority Government, so their votes do matter. They are very | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
important. So it looks like the Greens are going to push the SNP | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
when it comes to issues like fracking, proposed cuts to air | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
passenger duty and local authority taxation. They'll really giving the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
SNP a push in the way they want them to go, they are claiming, and now | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
their co-convenor Patrick Harvie spoke to the conference this | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
afternoon, he addressed the members there and it also looks like he | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
wants to push the SNP, the Scottish Government, left wing when it comes | :15:10. | :15:10. | |
to the Scottish Government's budget. So the SNP must make significant | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
moves from their manifesto position in the direction of progressive tax | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
if they expect to see Green support for their budget plans in the coming | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
months. Now, back to Brexit and the | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
Constitution. Patrick Harvie essentially spoke at his disgust at | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Brexiteers, the vote that has taken the UK out of the European Union. He | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
wants to, as he says, protect Scotland's place in the EU, so he | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
was fully supportive of the Scottish Government's plans to launch the | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
consultation on the draft Referendum Bill, because he says the people of | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Scotland, their voice must be heard. This is what he told the conference | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
when it came to independence. Scotland's mandate, that 62% remain | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
vote, is being utterly ignored by Theresa May's Government. Well, we | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
will respect that mandate. We will commit to keeping Scotland's place | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
in Europe, because that's what the people living here voted for. | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
APPLAUSE. One of the consequences of this vote | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
is that the Scottish Government must be supported in their decision to | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
publish a consultation on a bill for an independence referendum. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
So, as I said, the Greens supporting the Scottish Government when it | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
comes to another referendum, but it's interesting, they are not | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
looking for a quid pro quo when it comes to that, they are not looking | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
for something in return. As I mentioned, votes are really vital to | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
the Scottish Government. More on Brexit tomorrow, the Green | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
conference here in path. They will hear from the German Green MEP | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
outlining Scotland's connections with the rest of Europe, and the | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
co-leader from the Scottish Green Party will be pushing the green | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
message when it comes to the local authority elections next year. | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
Andrew, thank you very much indeed. A look at other stories | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
from across the country. A 12 year old boy has | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
died, after falling Lachlan MacKenzie from Muir | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
of Fowlis in Aberdeenshire was visiting relatives in Troon, | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
when the accident Police in Suffolk have released | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
new CCTV footage of the missing Scots RAF serviceman | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
Corrie McKeague. He vanished after a night | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
out in Bury St Edmunds Aberdeen Harbour is playing host | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
to a flotilla of NATO ships The vessels from countries including | :17:45. | :17:58. | |
Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Finland are part | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
of a mine-sweeping group that's been A councillor is calling for more | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
central government investment in roads in the Argyll islands, | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
to help cope with the large Much of the surge is down | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
to the introduction of the Road Equivalent Tariff - | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
which has seen a significant All the infrastructure is done by | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
the council, said the council has to get more funding for the | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
infrastructure, for the increase of traffic. It's great that all that | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
traffic is coming, but I'm afraid the infrastructure is not going to | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
cope. The highest red phone box | :18:42. | :18:42. | |
in the UK has been saved, after a local campaign to keep it | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
in place.It sits two thousand feet above sea level at the base | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
of the ski-slope in the Cairngorms. Almost a third of public payphones | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
in Scotland have been earmarked for removal by BT, | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
because of under-use. Pink and orange clouds | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
appeared in the sky The phenomenon was captured | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
in photographs taken by BBC Scotland website readers and BBC | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
WeatherWatchers around The clouds are believed to have come | :19:07. | :19:07. | |
from the Ineos petrochemical It's believed they were caused | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
by heat from cooling towers, which created | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
instability in the air. It's the Scottish League Cup | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
semi-final weekend. Celtic and Rangers meet on Sunday, | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
but tomorrow the action kicks off The Dons are heavy favourites | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
to progress against the side But as our Senior Football Reporter | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
Chris McLaughlin reports, the underdogs, who haven't enjoyed | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
Cup success since 1922, On the banks of the River Clyde you | :19:42. | :19:53. | |
don't have to look far for reminders of its industrial maritime past. But | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
this is no misty eyed tale of long forgotten shipyards and days gone | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
by, because for over 140 years here in Greenock, as the industry has | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
ebbed and flowed like this great river, there has been one great | :20:12. | :20:12. | |
constant. Morton's success can be enjoyed | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
mostly in black and white, but things could be about to change. | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
That's ?15 altogether... Merchandise tills ringing to the sound of | :20:31. | :20:31. | |
optimism. We haven't had an easy tills ringing to the sound of | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
time at Greenock, there have been ups and downs, but it is an | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
incredible community with an incredible community spirit. Just | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
ask the kit man who has been at the club 41 years. Would it be going too | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
far to say this club has been your life? It's cost me about a dozen | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
girlfriends in the past! I'm still single. I've been here since I was | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
nine, a ball boy, then I got too old for doing that. I was 16 and I | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
started on the kit and full-time 16 or 17 years. You can feel a buzz | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
around this place and not just from the Longmore, the fan to make the | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
pilgrimage here every other week has been starved of success for so long. | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
In fact, you have to go back to 1979 to find footage of Morton in a | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
League Cup semifinal. That was also against Aberdeen, and the Reds | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
progressed with help from this goal. These days the dons are led by a | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
former Morton midfielder, back in the days when short work short and | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
strips were interesting. My job is to get Aberdeen to a cup final and | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
hopefully go and win it. We're looking forward to the game. I think | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
the players have done well to put themselves in this position. So the | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
dons versus the tonne, two sides with plenty of history on one side | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
with nothing to lose. The Commonwealth Games gold | :21:59. | :21:59. | |
medallist Ross Murdoch has lost his top Podium level of funding | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
for the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020. Instead he drops to "podium | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
potential" after missing out on a place in the 100m | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
Rio Olympic final. There are four Scots named | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
in the elite Podium category. They are the Olympic relay silver | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
medallists Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott and Dan Wallace along | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
with the three times Olympian and multiple international medallist | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
Hannah Miley. Scotland's men and women take | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
on representatives from Ireland tomorrow in the annual | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
shinty/hurling The Scots ladies were emphatic | :22:35. | :22:35. | |
winners last year but will expect their toughest challenge of recent | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
years as they face With the men's competition only over | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
one leg this year, Ireland has met senior men's under | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
the most of home advantage. Ireland has met senior men's under | :22:50. | :23:02. | |
21 and Dublin women's hurling teams arrived at Inverness today ahead of | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
their clash with their Scottish shindig counterparts tomorrow in | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Inverness. The Irish are under no illusions that a tough challenge | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
awaits them. You have two Celtic nations who enjoy the physical | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
contact. We're looking forward to the contest tomorrow. Scotland won | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
outlast year before losing the return leg in Dublin. This year | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Scotland's manager thinks playing just one leg will be a benefit. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Normally when it is a two legged affair, the next leg we struggle, | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
and get turned over having had a nine or ten point lead. Last year | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
there was nothing between the teams. We could have. Both games are there. | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
Points scoring specialist Kevin Bartlett has set the Mac as a | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
priority. The last two years we have read from the first half, which has | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
gone on to help us win those games. They come back better in the second | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
half. Scotland's women have been honing their skills this league and | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
are hoping to keep the winning run from 2010 running, despite recent | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
opposition in recent years. The whole of the women's game has | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
progressed quite a bit but we are expecting a hard, fast, physical | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
game, as always, with the Irish. Scotland's teams will hope to build | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
on last year's successes at home. Let's see what we can expect | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
from the weekend weather. Good evening. Fairly settled | :24:30. | :24:39. | |
conditions this weekend. Much like today. There was a fair amount of | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
cloud around. Sunshine and a few showers and we hold onto a lot of | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
black cloud as we had overnight. Nothing desperately cold. Reasonably | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
dry for many. The exceptions, a few showers in the North Sea. Those are | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
likely to edge inland overnight, some patchy rain perhaps in the | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
Western Isles, but for most it is dry. With that cloud, nothing too | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
cold, temperatures in towns and cities around 6-8dC, but some clear | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
conditions in the Highlands leading to a touch of Frost. Perhaps in | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
western fog to start the day tomorrow. Quite a busy pressure | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
chart this week but the low pressure and rain staying away from us. We | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
are under the influence of a ridge of high pressure and there is an | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
easterly flow coming in off the North Sea, so that means a bit of an | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
east-west split weather-wise. In eastern parts the country, more | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
likely some cloudier skies. Further west, more likely to and brighter | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
weather. When we have that cloud there will be a few showers at | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
times. Not a wash-out by any means, but cater | :25:42. | :25:59. | |
for one or two coming in. In the West, sunshine more likely. We | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
generally light winds, reasonably pleasant, temperatures 11-13. But on | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
the East Coast with the breeze coming in off the coast, pressure at | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
times, something just a touch cooler. Around the Northwest, plenty | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
of sunshine, a pleasant afternoon in store will stop also in the Northern | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
Isles comedies and spells of sunshine. If you are thinking of | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
walking or climbing across the north-west, plenty of sunshine on | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
offer. Temperatures good and winds moderate light. Across the eastern | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
areas, little more in the way of cloud, a few showers but not a | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
wash-out, but cater for one or two coming through. Temperatures are on | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
the summit. The rest of the coming through. Temperatures are on | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
afternoon into the evening, generally dry for many, still a few | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
showers and eastern parts of the country. Into Sunday and little in | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
the way of change. Still an easterly flow. There could be a little fog | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
around to start the day on Sunday but plenty of sunshine went it comes | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
up in western parts. Further ease, likely to have more cloud than some | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
showers. The wind backing north-easterly, so shades down | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
temperature wise perhaps. On Monday we do it all again. A bit of an | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
east-west split. In the West plenty of sunshine and dry, further east | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
are little more cloudy. Temperatures 10-11. | :27:06. | :27:06. | |
Thank you, Chris. Now, a reminder of | :27:07. | :27:07. | |
tonight's main news: Scottish Government plans to set | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
a minimum price for alcohol have been backed by the Court | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
of Session in Edinburgh. The Scotch Whisky Association | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
claimed the plans were The people of Aberfan in Wales have | :27:15. | :27:27. | |
been marking the 50th anniversary of the day a coal slurry avalanche | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
buried at school. 26 people are being treated at the scene for | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
breathing difficulties and two taken to hospital. I will be back with a | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
headline that eight and the late bulletin just after the ten o'clock | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
News. See you then, goodbye. | :27:49. | :27:51. |