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So it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
There are renewed concerns over the way the police handle emergency | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
calls as officers prepare for their busiest time of the year. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Storm Barbara is expected to bring winds of 90mph, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
with travellers warned of disruption in the run-up to Christmas. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Help we were due to Eve, but with the weather forecast | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
we thought we should change the plans, so we changed it to Friday, | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
then yesterday we changed it to Thursday. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
MSPs unite to call for an end to what they describe as "the horrors" | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
And stay tuned to find out which Scottish football fans | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
for Christmas number one in the charts. | :00:50. | :01:08. | |
An investigation has begun into the way police responded | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
to calls from the public about a parked van | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
in Stirlingshire in which a man's body was later found. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
It took them two days to act, and the leader | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
of the Scottish Liberal Democrats is demanding to know | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
It's the latest concern about call handling and comes as emergency | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
services gear up for their busiest time of the year. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Here's our home affairs correspondent, Reevel Alderson. | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
The front line for police, calls from the public range from | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
emergencies to domestic abuse, wildlife crime, and storm related | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
incidents. And this is the busiest time of the year. But how is police | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
confidence in call handling? Operators at this call centre failed | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
to tell officers about a couple who lay in their car on the AM nine for | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
three days in July last year. Four months later, police apologised to | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
the family of a pensioner after faults in the investigation into her | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
disappearance. And in the case of an Inverness pensioner found two months | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
ago, the independent police investigator was asked to review | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
police actions. It is now also investigating the police response to | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
calls about a man in which a man's body was found last week. Opposition | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
parties are also demanding answers. We do need to find out what has gone | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
wrong, whether it is the front line, with the pressure on front line | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
police officers, or the call centre, with the old story about the backlog | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
on calls. Whatever it is, we do need to understand what has gone wrong so | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
we can learn lessons. The Government says it awaits the outcome of the | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
investigation, but the Justice Secretary says he is confident that | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
call handling procedures have improved. It is appropriate that we | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
allow the investigation to take its course, the staff do a very good | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
job, and there have been significant changes in the way we handle calls. | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
I am confident that we are making as much progress as we can to ensure | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
that they work in a coordinated fashion. Police say 30 | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
recommendations made by the Inspector of Constabulary have been | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
implemented, with a new process to ensure high standards of call | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
handling. 99.996 of our calls were handled without any issue at the | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
point of first contact so that I am confident in our process, and the | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
public should be too. The force says it cannot comment on the recent | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
public should be too. The force says incident while the investigation by | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
Pirc is continuing. Police Scotland say they're | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
reviewing their security measures at the Hogmanay celebrations | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
in Edinburgh following They emphasise that there's no | :03:51. | :03:51. | |
specific threat but that the public Our correspondent Andrew Kerr | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
is in Edinburgh for us tonight. Did the police voice any concerns? | :03:56. | :04:13. | |
Well, Jackie, I am at the heart of the capital's Christmas celebrations | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
here at the Edinburgh Christmas market, and of course there also the | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
centrepiece of the nation's Hogmanay celebrations too. Police have been | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
saying that their Hogmanay preparations have been in place for | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
some time, of course, but just in light of what happened in Berlin, | :04:33. | :04:33. | |
they are now reviewing those plans. The joy of Christmas, bright lights, | :04:34. | :04:45. | |
tasty food, and a seasonal atmosphere at Edinburgh's market, | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
but there was festive lights have been deemed at Berlin's | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Kurfuestendamm after the terrorist attack which left 12 dead. A | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
delivery lorry was turned into a deadly weapon. But back in Scotland, | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
people say you cannot live in fear. If something is going to happen, it | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
is going to happen, and there's nothing you can do. Feel a bit | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
isolated here in Scotland, you feel as if it is not going to happen. If | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
you look at anything and think, are we going to get attack today, nobody | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
will ever go out. Police are preparing for their busiest time of | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
year. The message that we keep repeating is be aware of your | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
circumstances, don't be alarmed. If you see something suspicious, if you | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
feel uncomfortable about something, approach a police office and tell | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
them about your concerns. In Aberdeen the organisers of the | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Christmas village are working with police as the First Minister also | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
says to be aware. We must be vigilant, the police will continue | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
to be vigilant, the Scottish Government, working with their | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
partners in the UK Government, the police and the intelligence | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
agencies, will make sure we are vigilant, but the public should be | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
vigilant as well. The threat level is still severe, defined as an | :06:05. | :06:05. | |
attack being highly likely. Well, Jackie, one security expert | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
spoke to today said that counterterrorism is like being a | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
goalkeeper. Even the world's best goalkeepers can occasionally let a | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
goal in, and that is the trouble is that the security services face with | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
these low-tech methods that terrorists are using, such as | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
lorries. It is not like some big conspiracy that is easier to detect. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
But as the police, and that the people we spoke to also said, life | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
must go on. Andrew Kerr, thank you very much. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
The second big storm of the winter is expected to cause widespread | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
travel disruption in the run up to Christmas. | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
Calmac is advising ferry travellers to check for updates with winds | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
of up to 90mph due to hit the west of the country on Friday. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Meanwhile, the airline Loganair is switching passengers | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
onto earlier flights amid concerns that high winds could | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
In Shetland, at Lerwick this lunchtime, travellers headed for the | :06:58. | :07:10. | |
Aberdeen Ferry which had been bought forward five hours to try to beat | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
the worst of the weather. They were very keen to make itself for | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
Christmas. I was supposed to be leaving on Friday, but due to the | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
weather conditions I have had to leave today otherwise I will be | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
stuck on Shetland for Christmas, which I don't fancy. Sometimes we | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
are delayed, sometimes we get away on time, all part of it. The wind is | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
gathering, this will hit the Western Isles... At Loganair HQ, they are | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
keen watches of the weather. They have been booking people onto | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
flights going today and tomorrow to try to avoid the worst of the storm | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
later in the week. Friday will see the storm at its worst, and we have | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
moved a number of flights earlier in the day to try and plan around the | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
moved a number of flights earlier in weather forecasts, and for a small | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
number of flights later in the day we have decided to cancel them based | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
on the forecast showing there is no reasonable prospect of being able to | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
fly. Travelers here at Glasgow airport are pretty relieved to be | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
getting away today for Christmas, rather than leaving it to the end of | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
the week, when that storm will be at its height. Where are you heading? | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Were you always going to travel today? I was supposed to be | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
travelling on Friday, I had to change it because of the weather. | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
You wanted to get home for Christmas? Oh god I did not want to | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
spend it in Glasgow. I had always planned to travel to Shetland today, | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
safer to travel early. My brother was travelling on Saturday, but he | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
has changed his flight as well. So you will be both home for Christmas. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Thankfully! In Kirkwall, it will be breezy on Friday. There has been a | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
frenzy of changing of plans here too. Wheel was go south for | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Christmas, we were due to go on Christmas Eve, then we changed it to | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Friday because of the weather, then we changed it to Thursday. Spare a | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
thought for around 100 staff on this oil platform west of Shetland. The | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
seas will be too high for the helicopters to operate there, so it | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
looks like they once now get home for Christmas. For others still | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
heading for that family reunion, though, the advice from very | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
operators like CalMac is keep checking the websites, because there | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
will be disruptions. Storm Barbara is bearing no gifts -- only very | :09:25. | :09:39. | |
high winds. And we will have a full weather forecast at the end of the | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
programme. Earlier this week, we told you how | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
hundreds of women have still been receiving controversial | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
mesh implants despite a call from the Scottish Government | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
for their use to be suspended. Now new research has found | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
that they should only be used and not other conditions | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
like pelvic prolapse. Our political correspondent | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Lucy Adams Before I had the surgery, I was | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
really active, I walked five miles everyday... Lorna's mesh implant of | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
2008 has completely changed her life. I now have chronic pain, from | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
the moment I opened my eyes until I go to bed at night, I am in pain. A | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
steady today looked at hospital readmission up to five years after | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
mesh surgery. Some women can take up to years before the problems arise. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
In my case, it was six and a half years before I got surgery to have | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
it removed. And the actual removal surgery is really complicated. The | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
substance attaches itself to organs and tissues, like I said, so it is | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
really difficult to get it out. The report found that mesh should only | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
be used in certain circumstances. Mesh surgery for prolapse, | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
particularly for prolapse of the bladder or bowel, should not be | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
recommended as a first-line treatment. Conversely, mesh surgery | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
for incontinence, currently available evidence does support the | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
use of mesh surgery in that instance. This is a strip of | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
polypropylene mesh... The lead clinician on the study says that | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
obligations could happen much later, as in Lorna's case. The study | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
compared the number of adverse events that required admission to | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
hospital following procedures, comparing mesh procedures and | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
non-mesh procedures, but it did not look at the severity of these | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
complications, or indeed the impact of these particular complications on | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
patients's quality of life. The continued use of mesh in spite of | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
patients's quality of life. The government advice was brought up in | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Parliament yesterday. We all welcome the Scottish Government moratoriums | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
and it was announced, many health boards have respected that | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
moratorium, can we include other than that those health boards who | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
have not have wilfully acted, putting women's lives at risk? We | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
can't get away from the fact that it is the job of the agency to regulate | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
medical devices across the UK, and that so far they have not issued a | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
medical device alert regarding the implant is concerned. The Scottish | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Government's own report on mesh will be published in the New Year, but | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
forlorn at the damage is irreversible. Lucy Adams, Reporting | :12:25. | :12:25. | |
Scotland. -- but for Lorna. for an end to the "horrors" | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
of puppy trafficking. It comes after a BBC Scotland | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
investigation earlier this year of dealers who make millions | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
from the illegal trade. Meet the Springer spaniel looking | :12:38. | :12:49. | |
for a new home. And Nicola, the First Minister, who has a fear of | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
dogs. You might not ever get this again! She was here to open an | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
extension to the Scottish re-homing centre in Glasgow. It can now | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
accommodate twice the number of abandoned dogs and cats, all waiting | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
for new owners. The problem of abandoned dogs and cats is always in | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the spotlight at this time of year, but it's the growing practice of | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
illegal poppy farming which was discussed in Parliament this | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
afternoon. These ewes were highlighted in a BBC Scotland | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
investigation earlier this year. -- of the issues. This poppy farm in | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
the Republic of Ireland was filled with boxes full of dogs bound for | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
the UK market. These are kept in appalling conditions, they have very | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
little human contact, very little light, they do not get the chance to | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
interact with each other, it is not like regular breeding kennels that | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
we might conceive of over here. Due more politicians with cute poppies. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Today's debate in Hollywood was not so much about changing laws but | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
highlighting best practice when it comes to buying poppies. -- | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Holyrood. Do not buy a poppy unless you see it with its mother, do not | :14:03. | :14:16. | |
buy a dog from a car park at night. The message from politicians is that | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
we can all do our bit to stop the multi-million pound trade, and where | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
better to start than with some of those deserving cases at your local | :14:26. | :14:26. | |
dog and cat? -- dog and cat home? You're watching BBC | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
Reporting Scotland. Police control centres say | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
they are ready amidst renewed concerns | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
over their call-handling systems. a forest in the Highlands | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
which features in Harry Potter. Children with disabilities have been | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
entitled to mainstream education But are their needs | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
and the needs of other children In a documentary tonight, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
our correspondent Ian Hamilton looks at the challenges | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
facing an education system already facing | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
tough financial choices. Ella is in her first term at a busy | :15:07. | :15:23. | |
Glasgow mainstream secondary school. Despite having complex medical | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
needs, she is doing well. My first years been really amazing. I've had | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
a good transition from primary to secondary. I'm encouraged to do most | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
of the work myself. Which is good. Are you happy here? Or a special | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
school? I'm quite happy here. Until 1974 children with a disability had | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
no legal right to an education although most blind and deaf | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
children attended special schools. In the 1970s campaigning started in | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
earnest. Disabled people wanted the right to a full life. Through the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
80s and 90s the disability movements started to get a bit of traction. | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
They wanted to see change on one of the big changes they wanted to see | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
what's in education. They believed inequality of education and | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
opportunities were limited. In 1985 it became illegal to diss | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
discriminate man with a disability. The thinking was it will provide | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
better academic chances for those children with different support | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
needs. But not everyone is coping. This mother has three children with | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
additional support needs. Caitlin at, ten, has cerebral palsy and her | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
brothers have favourable problems. Caitlin is doing well in mainstream | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
but it's not working for Ali. We are very concerned about how much he's | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
missed. The amount of time he was excluded from school last year... No | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
educational input from a teacher, as well. Sometimes they just can't | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
cater for kids with extra needs. There's not enough support, not | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
time, funding, and I think more speciality school would be a better | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
option it's a mixed picture and there's a role for many teachers to | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
make mainstreaming work. Teachers want to be inclusive, they want to | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
have a comprehensive system that supports every youngster, but what | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
they're finding at the moment is that I'm not the resources to do so. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
Whether it is bodies on the ground, appropriate training for staff... It | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
makes it more difficult to help in that way. The Scottish Government is | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
about to start a review. Critics of the current system say children with | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
disabilities may go to mainstream schools, but are they really | :18:08. | :18:08. | |
included? And you can see more | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
of Ian Hamilton's investigation in Am I Included? | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
tonight on BBC One Scotland at 7.30. A look at other stories | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
from across the country. The Scotch Whisky Association is to | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
take its appeal against a minimum price for alcohol to the UK | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Supreme Court, judges have ruled. The Association was given permission | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
to go to Britain's highest court at a hearing at the Court | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
of Session in Edinburgh. The whisky body believes | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
that the proposal contravenes A health watchdog has found almost | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
4,000 women in Scotland weren't called for breast screening | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
within the recommended Health Improvement Scotland has | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
reported the women weren't sent routine invitations to be screened | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
during the timescale. National Services Scotland has | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
apologised and said all the women The Maritime and Coastguard Agency | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
has signed a five-year deal to maintain an emergency tug boat | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
in the north of Scotland. A newer vessel is moving | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
from the Adriatic Sea to replace the current emergency towing | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
vessel, the Herakles. Health-and-safety standards | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
in the oil-and-gas sector have dropped in the past six months, | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
according to the Unite union. It surveyed more than 700 offshore | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
workers, and just over 58% claimed Just over 3% reported | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
an improvement. The union said many respondents | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
felt unable to report an incident The industry body Oil | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
And Gas UK said safety Engineers have just completed | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
the first mile of what will be a three-mile long tunnel to channel | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
waste water under Glasgow. Scottish Water's ?100 million | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
Sheildhall Tunnel project is part of the biggest upgrade | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
of Greater Glasgow's waste-water infrastructure | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
since Victorian times. It's hoped the project will help | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
improve river water quality and tackle flooding in parts | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
of the city. A new Conservative MSP | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
was sworn in at Holyrood today. Bill Bowman replaces | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
the late Alex Johnstone Mr Johnstone died two weeks | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
ago at the age of 55 A forest in the Highlands | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
which could contain a hidden hoard of Jacobite gold has been taken over | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
in a joint buyout by a community Loch Arkaig Forest near Fort William | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
provided a training ground for commandos during World War II | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
and even featured in A toaster Scotland's latest | :20:40. | :20:53. | |
community land purchase, but this one is a big one. Loch Arkaig Forest | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
stretches to 2500 acres, one of the largest remaining remnants of | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
Scotland's pine. But over the decades it's been degraded by | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
unsympathetic tree felling, overgrazing and the planting of | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
unsympathetic tree felling, non-native trees. It's part of an | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
ancient Caledonian pine forest. It is very special woodland and we will | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
restore that. It's been planted with non-native species, we will take | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
those away and encourage the native forest. Wartime special forces | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
famously trained here. Harry Potter pals flew over on a dragon and it | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
has wildlife from pine marten is to wild boar, to wild birds of prey. We | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
had sea eagles nesting in one of the Woodlands and ospreys and we have | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
red squirrels. I think it will help enormously in the wildlife, flora | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
and fauna, of the area. The Woodlands have been sold off by the | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
Forestry Commission, keen to encourage more groups to take over | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
local forests. It's been one of the success stories of the last decade, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
how communities have become more involved in the management of local | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
woodlands, and we welcome the opportunity to do more. As well as | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
the wildlife and connections with commandos and Harry Potter, there is | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
another potential attraction here, because in 1745 the French Centre | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
consignment of gold to help Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite uprising. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
It was supposedly buried in these hills and hasn't been discovered | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
since. Finding that has got to be one attraction for a walk in the | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
woods. Now to a seasonal | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
tale with a twist. It pits one | :22:47. | :22:47. | |
of Britain's biggest pop bands - against supporters of one of | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
Scotland's biggest football clubs. The price resulting from this list | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
feud... The Christmas number one. More from our sports | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
reporter David Currie. It's become a bit of a festive | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
tradition, like decorating the tree or squabbling over what to watch on | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
television. Talking about the fight to be the Christmas number one in | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
the music chart. This year it's taken a turn for the bazaar. | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
Britain's biggest girl band are in the mix, they're called Littlemix, | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
and their song is called touch. One of their rivals for the top spot is | :23:35. | :23:44. | |
the 60s band. Not down to a wave of nostalgia, but to Rangers fans. | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
Rangers fans, for some bizarre reason, have adopted this by the | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
Dave Clark five as a musical tribute to their player Joe Gardener. | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
A social media campaign to get the original to number one seems to be | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
having an effect. The company compiling the official music chart | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
have confirmed glad all over was one of the biggest selling songs in the | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
UK in the last 24 hours. So could it be the Christmas number one? Dave | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
Clark five winners 250-1, Littlemix 25-1. We think Aleem Dar and it will | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
come in, 25-1 on to win this competition. In the old days you | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
would have to go around and walk in at 15 or 20 minute intervals and by | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
physical copies of the single. I know it, I've done it myself over | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
the years, to try and get some Scottish bands into the top 30. Now | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
you can sit in the comfort of your own home with your computer and you | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
can steer a record to the top of the charts. Joe Garner is nowhere near | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
the top of the scoring charts, but he might be celebrating being top of | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
the Pops, sort of, this Christmas. We will find out on Friday. We will | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
also find out about storm Barbara, what is happening weather-wise? | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Some lively weather in the next few days. Today has been blustery and | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
showery. Wintry showers, especially over high ground in the north and | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
west on that theme very much continues tonight. The showers | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
continuing to pile in an blustery, gusty west of south-westerly winds. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Snow falling, and continuing to accumulate across high ground, and | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
some sweet at times at low levels. An additional hazard tonight will be | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
thunder and lightning, which might lead to some power outages. There | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
will be clear spells in between the showers. As temperatures fall to | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
around freezing or just below, there will be the risk of ice on untreated | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
roads and services. Tomorrow dawns on a very showery note. That theme | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
continues throughout the day. A similar dated today. Snow over the | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
high ground, especially inland areas north and west, leading to very | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
difficult driving conditions. Few if any showers across much of the South | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
tomorrow afternoon and more in the way of sunshine. For the most part, | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
the showers continuing. Snow over the high ground, some sweet at lower | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
levels, and some brightness or sunshine in between these showers. A | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
cold feeling day in exposure to the gusty westerly winds. Fewer showers | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
across Aberdeenshire tomorrow gusty westerly winds. Fewer showers | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
afternoon and plenty of sunshine. Tomorrow evening, the very same | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
theme continues. Plenty of showers feeding in on these strong westerly | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
winds and again, wintry in nature. The risk of ice again on any | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
untreated roads and services. Friday heralds the arrival of storm | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
Barbara, our second named storm of the season. Bringing with it some | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
heavy rain and exceptionally strong winds for some. As a result of this, | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
the Met office does have several warnings in place. The yellow and | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
amber warnings across the Western Isles, the north-west coast and on | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Friday in the northern isles we are expecting winds to dust around 90 | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
miles an hour. Here is the chart on Friday. Heavy rain pushing in as we | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
go through the course of the morning and following that rain there will | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
be a number of showers feeding in. All the while, the south of | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
south-westerly winds continuing to strengthen. We are expecting travel | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
disruption quite widely. There may be power outages and we may see some | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
structural damage. That is the forecast. | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
I'll be back with the late bulletin just after the 10 o'clock news. | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - | :28:00. | :28:02. |