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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The helicopter manufacturer, Sikorsky, grounds all of its S92 | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
aircraft after an incident on a North Sea platform last month. | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
Confusion in the Labour party over immigration with mixed messages | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
on the free movement of people from the EU. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Families coping with the effects of Type 1 diabetes call for more | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
research to find a cure for the condition... | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
It was an absolute poster because we had no history of this in our family | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
and we knew very little about it. Also on the programme, | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Could a change in the format of the World Cup improve Scotland's | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
chances of reaching And it's hoop dreams | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
for the Glasgow Rocks basketball team as they bid for cup glory | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
and try to inspire the young. Good evening. Offshore helicopters | :00:57. | :01:21. | |
were grounded today after urgent safety checks were ordered. It | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
follows an incident on a North Sea platform. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Our reporter Rebecca Curran is at Aberdeen Airport | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
The skies above the north-east have been unusually quiet as much of the | :01:36. | :01:50. | |
helicopter fleet has remained on the ground but there's been an awful lot | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
of work ongoing in the hangers behind me as engineers undertake | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
mandatory safety checks. It is expected those checks will be | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
completed by midday tomorrow. It is hoped that in the next 24 hours the | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
aircraft will return to the skies. Going nowhere fast. Every S 92 | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
helicopter around the world spent most of today on the ground. The | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
manufacturer issued an alert over concerns about the tail rotor | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
following an incident in the North Sea when an estimated two | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
experienced a technical fault. Nobody was injured but it left | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
significant marks on the deck. Operators were told to take out | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
immediate safety checks before the helicopters could return to service. | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
It will cause concern given the history of helicopters. I think the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
delays must be accepted for what they are, precautionary measure to | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
ensure it is safe. I'd rather put up with the delay. We've got to make | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
sure the aircraft are safe. Oil and gas UK cannot say how many workers | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
have been affected by the delays but have described the restrictions as a | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
precautionary measure to ensure the safety of them workforce. The safety | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
group met in Aberdeen and say they will keep in touch with the | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
operators at the manufacturer for any further updates. As these safety | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
checks have been ongoing, in the background the investigation into | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
exactly what happened on the platform on the 20th of December is | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
also ongoing. In the last half an hour, the Maritime and coastal | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
organisation have issued an update. They've confirmed that they are back | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
in operation and they say the rest of the fleet is expected to fly | :04:13. | :04:13. | |
soon. There's confusion tonight | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
over Labour's position In a speech this afternoon, | :04:17. | :04:17. | |
the UK leader Jeremy Corbyn said Labour wasn't wedded | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
to the principle of free movement But he also said he | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
wouldn't rule it out. Our political correspondent | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
Andrew Kerr has been It's the first day back after the | :04:32. | :04:48. | |
break at Holyrood. Coffee counter is doing a roaring trade as people look | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
a New Year pick me up. The Ricoh. Jeremy Corbyn is looking for a | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
boost. He attempted relaunch with a major on Brexit. He was due to say | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
that his party is not wedded to freedom of movement, hardening his | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
stance, hoping to appeal to traditional Labour voters. This | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
morning, no new restrictions on immigrants. Undercutting payment | :05:17. | :05:28. | |
restrictions and the directive... In the speech there was a caveat. We | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
are not wedded to free movement of the EU as a point of principle but I | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
don't want to be misinterpreted, nor do we rule it out. So, not wedded to | :05:38. | :05:47. | |
and not ruling it out. Jeremy Corbyn may have been hoping to make clear | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
his stance today. As you've seen, perhaps there needs to be some more | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
clarification. Scottish Labour are setting out their own position. We | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
believe the freedom of movement in Scotland is good for Scotland but we | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
understand concerns when they cannot get a house and they cannot get an | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
appointment. The answer to that is not to blame free movement of people | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
but to invest in public services. Opponents seized on the | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
contradiction. Jeremy Corbyn is saying he is not sure whether he's | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
in favour of freedom of movement or not but is in favour of the single | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
market. You cannot be in the single market without freedom of movement. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Back at the coffee shop, maybe Jeremy Corbyn is having his cake and | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
eating it, wanting to mix it up on immigration but not change his | :06:55. | :06:55. | |
views. Political parties should be fined | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
if they fail to ensure just under half of their candidates at general | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
elections are women, Less than a third of MPs | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
are female and representation Our Political correspondent | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Nick Eardley reports. The Prime Minister and First | :07:11. | :07:23. | |
Minister, two of the most important politicians and Age UK. But are | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
there enough women in politics more generally? Kirsty Blackman was | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
reprimanded for taking her kids to a committee meeting. It feels very | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
male dominated. We've got that committee meeting. It feels very | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
female as a figurehead but you don't see her kicking around the House of | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Commons, she's not in there with MPs most of the time. Less than a third | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
in the House of Commons are women. The figure is slightly higher for | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
MPs representing Scottish seats. The main parties had more men standing | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
than women. A proportion would help improve gender balance. If there is | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
not significant progress at the next general election, made major parties | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
be required to have 45% of their candidates as women, then we believe | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
there could be fines for parties. The Scottish Parliament fears only | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
slightly better for gender balance. Campaigners said some parties have | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
made efforts to address that what they want legislation at Holyrood as | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
well. We only make up 35% of women MSPs and councillors and there is a | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
long way to go. I think people see politics as guys in suits. It's not | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
something I woman would naturally go far but personally, I would rather | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
have got it on merit and got it because they needed a female to fill | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
a role. That's a view shared some at Westminster. They think the best | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
candidates should be chosen regardless of their gender. Even | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
those who support S92 admit it won't solve the problem. But those on the | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
committee think this is an important first step -- quotas admit it won't | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
solve the problem. We are increasingly familiar with | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
the problems with type two diabetes. But in Scotland we also face a major | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
battle with Type 1 diabetes which is an auto-immune condition | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
not caused by lifestyle factors. We have the third highest rate | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
of the Type I in the world, and today families and people | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
affected have been taking their case to Parliament to press for more | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
to be done to find a cure. Here's our Health | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Correspondent, Lisa Summers This girl was diagnosed with type | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
one diabetes when she was three years old. I check the CGM quite a | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
lot to make sure my levels. Nobody in the family had any history of the | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
disease and learning to live with it has been a roller-coaster for the | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
family. Being that young, the insulin was too large so she was | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
spiking. At night she is unaware so if she drops then she will not | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
spiking. At night she is unaware so up. For two years we did not get it. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Now she uses a pump and the monitor known as a CGM. It will connect to | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
my phone so when she is at school, even though I know school take care | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
of her, I can see what her levels are. They had to fight for it to be | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
funded by the NHS. We would like everybody to be given access to this | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
funded by the NHS. We would like technology, it is fantastic and I | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
would like other parents to not go through the struggles we go through | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
to get them. 30,000 people in through the struggles we go through | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Scotland have type one diabetes and the number is growing every year. It | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
is not clear why Scotland has such a high prevalence of type one | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
diabetes. It is up there with other North European countries. Charities | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
believe Scotland is well placed to find a cure. We need to see some | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
funding behind fellowships so we can attract the best researchers here. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
They were joined by families and people in parliament to press their | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
case. We've put investment to help people cope with it but we will work | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
with groups and people who have type one diabetes to make sure if there | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
are further improvements we will see where we can make them. Technology | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
has been vital to her quality of life. Her family hope it will not be | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
too much longer before there's a cure. | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
It's been just over a week since the first families | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
received their baby boxes - the scheme where new parents receive | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
a package of essential items from the Scottish Government. | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
The initiative is costing six million pounds - | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
but critics believe the money could be better targeted. | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
Our reporter David Deldy has been finding out what parents think | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
in one of the pilot areas for the scheme, Orkney. | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Little over a week old but already with plenty possessions. This baby | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
and parents are the first to benefit from a baby box. Changing mat which | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
is always handy. We've got clothes in all sizes, newborn, 0- three, | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
3-6, 6-9. Over 50 items are included, from clothes to nappies | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
and much more. We've got books, we've got a play mat. Things that he | :12:59. | :13:09. | |
will use. And Alicia who is three and a half still loves a good toy in | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
the bath. When this stuff has been cleared out of the box one of the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
main ideas is that the baby can sleep in it. But if that something | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
main ideas is that the baby can parents in Orkney have been making | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
use of? For this baby it is an old but it is a different story for | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Cameron. She slept in hers as everyday. The parents said the box | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
itself has been handy but they won't use everything. For first-time mums | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
there is a lot of things they will need but this is my fourth baby so | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
there's a lot of stuff that we don't necessarily need. If they were | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
giving it to parents that already had children they would need to have | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
a scheme that you could return items they don't need. It is estimated it | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
will cost ?6 million a year to run the scheme. The government say it | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
will give every child and equal start but critics claim there are | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
many parents who do not need this level of support. I would like to | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
see the money targeted at those most in need. I understand the problem | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
with stigmatising certain families but we need to be more imaginative | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
how we deal with that, can we look at ways where accessing some kind of | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
extra support doesn't involve lots of difficult form filling are being | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
interrogated? What do new mums and dads think? It is for the child, not | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
for the mums and dads, I think every child should get it. | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland. | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
The helicopter manufacturer, Sikorsky, grounds all of its S92 | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
aircraft after an incident on a North Sea platform last month. | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
When Old Macdonald had a farm, I bet his cow didn't | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
We look at the growing use of technology in agriculture. | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
Pioneering research carried out at St Andrews University could lead | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
to a new generation of medical devices which prevent infection | :15:17. | :15:17. | |
It involves coating them in a powder which can be | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
loaded with antibacterial and healing agents. | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
Here's our science correspondent, Ken MacDonald. | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Sometimes trying to make you well can make you ill. Science is | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
fighting a constant battle against healthcare acquired infections. They | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
have a new weapon, metal organic frame works or Mofs. This is what it | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
looks like. It's full of holes, that's a good thing. The microscopic | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
holes can be filled with substances that fight infections. They can take | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
a healing gas where a gas couldn't otherwise go. They are metal organic | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
frame works. They are porous materials. You can think of them as | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
being sponges. What I can do now, I can put inside these a gas. It's by | :16:10. | :16:26. | |
logically active gas. We would open this valve here. It changes colour. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Solid with a gas inside can fight infections in new ways. These | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
coatings will make a huge difference to people who use medical devices | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
which are prone to infection, healthcare acquired infections and | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
people with chronic and slow to heal rules. The delivery from the | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
products will reduce these infections and increase healing | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
routes. The company has been spung out from St Andrews University. It | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
won an award and a big new investment to take it to the next | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
stage. W-he are the first company who used this technology in the | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
healthcare market. We are excited about this. This has got our | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
investors excited well. They can be loaded with pay loads to turn back | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
the tide of healthcare acquired infections. | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
An amateur sailor, who grew up in Scotland, has been awarded | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
the Yachting Journalists' Association Yachtsman | :17:34. | :17:34. | |
of the Year Award after rescuing five crew from a stricken vessel | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
28-year-old Gavin Reid was taking part in a Round the World Yacht Race | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Despite having no previous sailing experience and being deaf, | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
he swam to help rescue four crew from the vessel and a fifth | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
who had been trapped in the rigging for nine hours. | :17:49. | :18:01. | |
you could be looking at its effects in a whole new light | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
when you discover cows are being given something similar. | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
That's because their walking activity has a direct corrolation | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
It's another example of how technology is increasingly | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Our rural affairs correspondent, Kevin Keane, can tell us more. | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
After the Christmas excesses none of us wants to put on an activity | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
monitor. This is being higher. It's a better heat. This is about more | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
than fitness. It tells the farmer when she's ready to be artificially | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
inseminated. A text to his mobile phone tells him when the cow is | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
ready and how long he's got. For me, when building my c o ow numbers up, | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
I couldn't justify to have a bull about. So this way was a lot more | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
efficient for the way I was working things. A lot more cost effective | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
and a better management tool. Two years on and he is less reliant on | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
and a better management tool. Two it. The neck collars provide lots of | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
helpful data. My activity monitor is worn around my wrist and told me I | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
have done 3,000 steps today. With these animals, it's much more | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
sophisticated. It's on this strapped device here, the data is contained | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
in this and they wear it around the neck. She's actually due to be | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
served... The technology is more widely used in the dairy sector | :19:31. | :19:31. | |
where the animals are kept indoors widely used in the dairy sector | :19:32. | :19:43. | |
in a controlled environment. They are like the Usain Bolt's of the cow | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
industry. Every technology we can are like the Usain Bolt's of the cow | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
use to maximise and Ute lice the genetic potential in these cows, the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
more advantage for us. The technological potential doesn't just | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
stop at pedometers according to those promoting what is available. | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
The temperature... Drones, satellites, virtual fencing and | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
robots are being used to help the farmers. Not replace them. With the | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
next generation of farmers coming along, most have a smartphone in | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
their pocket. They are able to use apps and orbits of kit that helps | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
them until their daily job. I think we will see a shift. There will be | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
more of this technology used in the future. All of this is down to the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
bottom line, but the technology is getting cheaper and that is seeing | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
uptake increase, albeit slowly. For Scotland football fans who dream | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
that maybe, one day, the national team could join those | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
greats holding the World Cup there From 2026, Fifa is to expand | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
the finals from 32 to 48 teams. It's been welcomed by the SFA, | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
but what effect might it have Alasdair Lamont has | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
been finding out. At Fifa's headquarters today the | :20:57. | :21:08. | |
first changes to the makeup of the World Cup in almost 20 years were | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
agreed. The new format means an expansion from 32 to 48 teams. That | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
will mean 16 Groups of three teams each. A minimum of two games per | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
country. So what is the likelihood of one of those countries being | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Scotland? Well, Europe is likely to get an additional three places. That | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
would take the total number of spots on offer to European nations to 16. | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
Currently Scotland are ranked 33rd in Europe, which suggests it will | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
take more than tournament expansion to lead to a World Cup return for | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
the Scots. Nonetheless, the move has been welcomed here at Hampden. The | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
SFA's Chief Executive For Scotland to make an impact on | :21:51. | :22:05. | |
the world stage again, further changes appear necessary. There has | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
been a lot of mistakes made over the years and, hopefully, now, they have | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
a job to improve this aspect of developing the game, hopefully that | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
will happen. I think a lot of good young players are there and they | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
need to be brought along in the right fashion in order to develop | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
them to the tlaefl you need for the highest level of football, which is | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
both at World Cup and European level. Few Groups have missed that | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
level of competition more than the Tartan Army. Do fans view this as a | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
favourable move? On the surface, from a Scotland perspective, good | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
news, more chance of qualifying. It comes with caveats. Those caveats | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
are with that expansion there is potential only to travel far | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
distance for only two games. A cost implication there for fans. The | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
bigger picture here is that, what is going on at Fifa in terms of the | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
politics. Critics of world football's governing body say | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
today's decision is about power and money. Others feel tl dilutes the | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
tournaments quality. Fifa believe it's a fairer deal for improving | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
nations, many of whom have left Scotland in their wake. | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
The Glasgow Rocks basketball team has reached the final | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
of the British Cup, they play arch rivals Newcastle for | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
But as well as excelling on the court, the Rocks are hoping | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
to play a valuable part off the court too, helping young people | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
Getting ready for one of the biggest games of the season. But when the | :23:36. | :23:47. | |
day job is over, Glasgow Rocks mentor school children and | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
vulnerable young people in themes which can be life saving. We will be | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
here talking to you guys about healthy eating, staying away from | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
smoking and drinking in order to become a combood athlete and also | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
bouncing back from bad situations, all right. It can be school, home | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
sport, I will talk anything. To you about not smoking and the effects it | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
could have on your body from smoking. This is tar. Not a pretty | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
sight at all. Disgusting. Terrible. Making a mistake is a bad thing true | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
or false? Positive messages for our children. The Rocks head coach | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
places great value on his players' work in communities. Because you | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
learn from your Mistakes. Excellent. It's very important. I think with | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
the amount of time our professional athletes have in a day, things like | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
that put them in positions to be role models for these young kids. I | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
think if you do that, that role models for these young kids. I | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
them going in the right direction and us as an organisation as well. | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Who can tell me what alcohol is? Yeah. A drug. Yeah. Antidepressants. | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
Right. Dangerous depressant. Definitely. One of the most | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
important thing the Rocks said to me today is about drinking. If you | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
drink you can't do a lot of sports. That's how I've learnt today. I will | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
never drink. They tell us not to give up and some things are hard, | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
you pick yourself up and bounce back. We come in here with 100% | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
effort and mentality. We come here to have a positive change on what is | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
going on and the kids react to us in such a way they want to give us a | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
medal. Them feeling that, you know strongly about us, thatst poive way, | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
I think that's the light we want to shone. The Rocks will look for more | :25:31. | :25:42. | |
medals in Sunday's BBL Cup final. What an inspiring bunch. I wonder | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
how #24e they will deal with the weather forecast, Christopher? Not | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
much to cheer about. It was OK today, wasn't it? Cloud and rain, | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
reasonably mild. The calm before things turn wintry and windy. This | :25:58. | :26:09. | |
air will bring a cold snap as we head through the latter stages of | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
Wednesday into Thursday. Warnings out for the strength of the wind and | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
the risk of snow. Let us start with this evening, we have rain west to | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
east, pushing through quickly and gone by midnight replaced by showers | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
and the wind gusting to gale force, severe gales in the far north. | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Wintry really only over the mountains at this point. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Temperatures around zero to four Celsius. Those high winds will mean | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
tomorrow morning likely to be disruption on the bridges and | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
potentially the ferries as well. It will be a windy day for all. The | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
showers will be frequent. For most, the showers will be of rain, perhaps | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
sleet or wet snow mixed in, certainly on the higher ground. | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
Brightness with them at times, the best of which around the east coast. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
A windy showery day all today. Temperatures lower than today, four | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
or five Celsius generally. As the showers come through the temperature | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
will drop and add on the wind it will feel cold. Best of anything | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
dryer and brighter around the east coast, East Lothian to Aberdeen. The | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
showers will be frequent. Around the coast they will be of rain, inland | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
more likely to be wintry. That is when it starts to bite. As we head | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
through Wednesday evening those showers increase in number, as does | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
the intensity. We will see snow to lower levels and higher parts of | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
these roads likely to see a covering at times too. The heaviest of the | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
showers will drive the snow down to sea levels. The showers nowhere the | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
snow will occur, that's the tricky bit. Thursday, another windy and | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
showery day. The warnings still in force. It will be cold, bitterly so, | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
with the strength of the wind. That's the forecast for now. Jackie. | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
That's us all terrified. Thank you very much, Christopher that's | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
Reporting Scotland. We will be back with the headlines at 8.00pm and the | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
jurs after the Ten | :28:03. | :28:05. |