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Scottish Power announces a big increase in energy prices, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
with electricity rising by eleven per cent. | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
Welcome to the launch of Andy Murray live... | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Concern that tickets for Andy Murray's charity event | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
in Glasgow are being sold online for ten times their face value. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
We're with Scotland's rugby fans in Paris as their team prepares | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
to take on France in the Six Nations. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
The Celtic boss tells us that too many Scottish footballers aren't | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Other things come into their life. Going out becomes more important. | :00:32. | :00:44. | |
Then they become wasted talent. And later in the programme good news | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
for winter sports enthusiasts. Relief for Scotland's ski centres | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
as the snow arrives in time Scottish Power has become the latest | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
of the Big 6 energy companies It will mean an increase of nearly | :00:59. | :01:14. | |
eleven per cent for electricity and almost eight per cent | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
for dual tariff. The price rises come into effect | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
at the end of March. But this morning Scottish GAS said | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
it was freezing prices until August. From dawn till dusk and right | :01:23. | :01:35. | |
through the night, the energy that powers Scotland and in which we all | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
depend, the news that ScottishPower will soon raise its prices for | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
electricity and gas will not be welcome them. The company says it | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
has been absorbing higher external costs for months and now it is | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
passing them on, to its customers. Something to think about next time | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
they stick on the kettle. About 1.1 million of them will pay more. On | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
average 10.8% for electricity and 4.7% for gas and those on dual fuel | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
deals will see rises of 7.8%. The company says two | :02:07. | :02:20. | |
thirds of customers will not be affected because they are already on | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
cheaper fixed-price deals. In a statement it said... The energy | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
companies buy gas and noticed a wholesale in advance and in theory | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
customer bills should reflect lower as well as high prices. We saw big | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
falls in the price of wholesale energy through 2014 and 2015 that | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
were probably not reflected particularly in the big six standard | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
tariffs as opposed to the best deals in the market. It is an interesting | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
question. We do see increases in non-energy charges, so charges for | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
the grid, wires and renewable subsidies and so on and they are | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
features of stopping prices falling so far. With M Power also raising | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
prices recently, their customers may feel the chill. We know a third of | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
households in Scotland are living in fuel poverty. We are most concerned | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
about them. Especially when we hear about energy suppliers putting up | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
the price of fuel. It is not cheap to heat your home any more and any | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
increase in the price will be a worry for people. Energy price rises | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
can seem particularly cruel while the weather remains so cold. One | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
company, Scottish Gas says it is freezing its prices until August. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
John McManus, reporting Scotland, Edinburgh. | :03:42. | :03:42. | |
Our Business and Economy Editor Douglas Fraser joins me now. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Douglas, why is Scottish Gas freezing prices while Scottish | :03:46. | :03:46. | |
These companies do a bit of gambling. They buy supplies of | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
energy months and years ahead and take an informed guess as to where | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
they think the prices going and that is an insurance policy against | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
volatility in the future called hedging. What they do not do is | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
share or tell the public what their strategies are and it be that | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Scottish Gas parent company, Centrica has a different strategy | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
for hedging from ScottishPower or you could get one company that is | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
willing to accept lower profits for a while, in this case until August, | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
for Scottish Gas, to attract more customers to switch during that | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
period. The big pressure here is an electricity, that is with rising | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
demand, fewer power stations, they have been closing, subdued wind | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
strength for turbines was winter, all putting an upward squeeze on | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
power prices. We were hearing there, it is not just about wholesale cost, | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
households and businesses are paying the costs of government policy for | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
green measures, more wind turbines, subsidise, also improved building | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
insulation and they are paying out billions to offer a smart meter to | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
every home in Britain by 2020. That should help people to save money | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
over time, to use energy more efficiently, they are not doing that | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
out of the kindness of their hearts, they are doing that because they | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
have been told to and because we indirectly are paying for it through | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
our bills. A one hundred and eighty million | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
pound innovation centre has opened in Aberdeen to help the offshore | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
industry out of The centre will aim to develop | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
cost-saving technologies and pair the firms behind them | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
with the big oil players. Our energy correspondent | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Kevin Keane reports. It is the same technology used to | :05:30. | :05:43. | |
see babies in the womb, but here, used to check pipes for corrosion | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
and the people behind this ultrasound scanner hope the new | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
technology centre can take this to a wider market. What we are hoping and | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
expecting for the technology centre is that it will allow us as an | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
organisation which has solutions to particular problems that we know | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
exist, to get a better connection, with end users and clients to allow | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
us to take this out into the field and give us the opportunity to | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
demonstrate to potential clients. We are now 40 years on... The ?180 | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
million facility was opened today by the oil tycoon Sir Ian Wood and it | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
aims to replace the research and development which has tailed off in | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
recent years. Can you imagine if we suddenly had 250 small feels... With | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
the landscape changed significantly, technology is considered more | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
important than ever. We have much more operators in the North Sea now, | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
more than 60, or is back in the 1980s there were five or six so it | :06:42. | :06:52. | |
is a hugely different world. Though smaller operators do not have a | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
technology operation, they cannot support that. The centre will work | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
with institutions like universities to develop the technology. This | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
drilling rig simulator will be used to trial the principles of some of | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
the design been developed. They will be able to get the results back from | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
that, whether they are talk and drags or hydraulic models, they can | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
be tested here, more cost-effective, than trying to do it on a real rig. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
The oil prices still refuse to top the $60 mark and the industry has | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
been adapting to that so with margins tight, the new centre is a | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
big hope for sustaining the future of this sector. | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
More than sixteen hundred people in Scotland visited | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
a self-help website last year, designed to stop them viewing | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Sexual abuse prevention campaign, Stop It Now, also said that 78 men | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
The service offers "anonymous, effective support" to those worried | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Police Scotland are encouraging anyone with concerns | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Andy Murray's management team have expressed concern about the prices | :07:44. | :07:57. | |
that tickets for his charity event at the Hydro are fetching online. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Tickets for his exhibition match are being sold for up to a ten | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
times their face value on reseller sites. | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
Our reporter Suzanne Allan is outside the Hydro for us tonight. | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
Well Sally, a night out at a concert is something millions of us look | :08:08. | :08:24. | |
forward to, but how much would you pay for that experience? In around | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
six months' time Andy Murray will come here to the Hydro to play an | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
exhibition match against Roger Federer and today his management | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
team said they had some concerns about the high prices of tickets. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Yesterday in London, the man himself was there to announce Andy Murray | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
live, it is an exhibition match for charity, with Roger Federer. Images | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
by Annabel Croft, one of the selling points was the ticket price. 10,800 | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
tickets will go on sale today, with over half of all of those seats, | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
just ?25, making the event are very accessible for all. But today those | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
tickets were selling for it many times the price. The digital age | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
makes it more of a problem, because professional touts use computer | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
programmes to buy up large numbers of tickets to sports and | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
entertainment events. It means real fans often miss out. I have not done | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
it and I don't think I ever would. I think it is a bit unfair on the | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
artist or whoever is doing it and it is just some secondary guy making a | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
big buck. I missed out on some and I had a look and thought I cannot | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
afford that. It is just not worth it. If there is a band that you want | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
to see, I will have a look. If we like them that much, we will pay, | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
whatever is left in our wallet. Artists like Adele and Elton John | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
have both come out against the websites that sell at inflated | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
prices. Elton John said he would rather have empty seats. The resale | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
of football tickets is banned. But the reselling of live music tickets | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
is not. Is it time for a new law? It is a very complex | :10:06. | :10:21. | |
issue, it would be nice if the government would take some | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
legislation against it, but I don't think that will happen. Don't hold | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
your breath. I think the easy answer would be if the public just voted | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
with their feet and just said, were not paying the inflated prices, we | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
will definitely not by secondary tickets at five times over the face | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
value, we will not go to the gig. That is easier said than done. The | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
fanfare alliance which campaigns for better laws says that wait until | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
nearer the date as more tickets may be released. You heard there are | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
from the fanfare Alliance say more tickets might be released and we | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
spoke to the Hydro and asked if they had come to any agreement with the | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
management team and they did not comment but I can tell you that one | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
of those sites that were selling the Andy Murray tickets, reselling them, | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
says they have taken them from sale as it is not their policy to resell | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
tickets for charity events. Thank you very much. | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
It's another big weekend of sport, and in rugby it's | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
Scotland are playing their first away match of this year's | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Our sports reporter David Currie is in Paris to look ahead | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Lovely shot there. Thank you very much. | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
Where The Scotland team has arrived on a wave of optimism. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Looking to follow up their win over Ireland at Murrayfield last weekend | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
But history tells us that might be difficult. | :11:31. | :11:47. | |
Take a moment to savour the city of light. Its sights and sounds. Its | :11:48. | :11:57. | |
ambience and its architecture. This is one of the city 's most famous | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
and controversial buildings, it is the Pompidou centre and this year it | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
celebrates its 40th anniversary. And in all the time that this building | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
has been open, Scotland have only won twice in Paris. It is still | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Scotland with the champs. They must score. The most recent triumph was | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
in 1999. Every time we go across, we are always written off. We were | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
always playing second fiddle. We went across there and I always | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
always playing second fiddle. We remember, a bright sunny day | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
everyone thought we were here, 18 years to wind in Paris, that is a | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
long time and hopefully that will change on Sunday. Scotland beat the | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
French last year at Murrayfield, getting the better of them on their | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
home soil might be more difficult. I believe that this is the game will | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
set the 6 Nations alike. We know that. We have seen and heard the | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
noises coming out of their camp. It is pretty clear what is coming. Life | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
is certainly rosy for these Scottish rugby fans. Travelling hopefully and | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
looking for another famous when. I definitely fancy it. It keeps us in | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
line for the Grand Slam. Not counting our car jet, but hopeful. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Confidence is high, lot of skill level, really exciting times. Even a | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
Frenchman with a heart of stone is open to the romantic possibility of | :13:33. | :13:46. | |
another Scottish wind. Have a good day and good game. Rugby! Yes. Viva | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
Scotland! And I'm sure my friend in White will | :13:50. | :14:03. | |
be delighted to learn that Scotland have made just one change to the | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
be delighted to learn that Scotland team that beat Ireland. Ryan Wilson | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
is out with an injury, he is replaced by John Barclay. The team | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
will train tomorrow at the Stade Francais for the big game on Sunday | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
and we wish them all the very best. Thank you. Just coming up to 17 | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
minutes to seven. Scottish Power announces a big | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
increase in energy prices, And still to come, people in some | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
towns are more than five times likely to be their own boss | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
than those living in other When hospital patients | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
suddenly deteriorate, getting them the help they need | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
quickly is vital. A hospital in Fife has found that | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
technology might hold the answer. Nurses at Victoria Hospital | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
were given touch screen tablets to help them easily identify | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
the patients at highest risk. At the Victoria Hospital every day | :15:02. | :15:17. | |
begins like this. Each department coming together to share | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
information. The purpose of the meeting some up in three words. It's | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
safe to start. Fulfilling that mantra requires a combination of | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
traditional and modern methods. Fife are the only health board in | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Scotland using this technology. Patients' vitals are entered into | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
the tablet, generating a score. Information is instantly available | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
throughout the hospital. It is very easy for people to see patterns and | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
have they calculated early warning score. We can see where the sickest | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
patients are. So we can ensure resources go to the right areas. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Ride introduced in one ward as part of a pilot project, the technology | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
is now used throughout the hospital. It has helped to reduce the number | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
of cardiac arrests. Pleased with the results, the hospital are now | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
considering an upgrade, wearable technology that constant updates the | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
patient's readings. -- constantly. Information has gone through to a | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
phone. How would you feel about wearing it? It feels all right. I | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
can move around? Yes. Just like the current system, a high score | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
triggers an immediate call to the doctor. The longer it takes for | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
doctors and nurses to recognise a patient is deteriorating, the longer | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
and more serious that is for the patient. The quicker we can respond | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
and initiate treatment, the better it will be for the patient. This | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
trial points towards the future but it still needs to pass an age-old | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Does it help staff help the patients who need it most? | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
People in some Scottish towns are more than five times more likely | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
to be their own boss, than those living in other parts | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
That's according to research by the Federation of Small Businesses. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
It's calling for more government help, to encourage | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
It's time for a copy break in a village just north of Glasgow. | :17:26. | :17:41. | |
Business is brisk at the Three Sisters Bake. There I met one of the | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
owners, a self-starter who is enjoying being self-employed. Having | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
said it is really tough, the upside is by far outweigh the difficult | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
days. It is unbelievably rewarding to walk into your own cafe business, | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
for example, and see it full of people who are enjoying the | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
atmosphere and drinking our copy and eating our food. You get such a buzz | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
from that. Being your own boss is not for everybody. But here, lots of | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
people have gone down that route. Sometimes they have even higher | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
rates of self-employment. When it comes to jobs and work, there are | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
huge differences across the country. This is North Lanarkshire, once home | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
to heavy industry. Now though its rates of self-employment are among | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
the lowest anywhere in Scotland. A few people are their own boss but | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
the rates are low. Five times lower than in wealthier towns. Industrial | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
decline has left a long shadow and one business support group told me | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
new entrepreneurs are thin on the ground. We are certainly seeing low | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
levels of self-employment in towns which used to have one large | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
employer. The impact of that change is evident almost 40 years later in | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
places like this. What we are not seeing is that there aren't good | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
small businesses in place, there are. But the key challenge is the | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
increasing number of self-employed businesses in some of the most | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
deprived areas in Scotland. Starting a business can be a grind | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
deprived areas in Scotland. Starting Scottish government has poured in | :19:30. | :19:29. | |
millions of pounds to help Scottish government has poured in | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
entrepreneurs through measures. But even then, the recipe for success | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
can still be elusive. David Henderson, reporting Scotland. | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
Brendan Rodgers says too many Scottish footballers have | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
become wasted talents who blame everyone else. | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
Speaking to the BBC, the Celtic manager says, in his experience, | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
players here can do more to make the most of their ability. | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Scotland haven't qualified for a major tournament | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
in nearly 20 years, and have tumbled down | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
More from our senior football reporter, Chris McLaughlin. | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
He is the man who brought Champions League football back to Scotland, | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
whose side is 27 points clear in the lead. And he has a message to young | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Scottish players. Be the quickest, the quickest, the strongest, the | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
biggest, the most skilful boy in school, but as you progress to | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
professional life, it's about the talent plus the hard work. This man | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
can relate to those words. A career in England and Scotland, and perhaps | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
potential unfulfilled. Now keen to hear more of the Celtic manager's | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
thoughts on footballers here. They stop. Other things, going to their | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
life. Growing up becomes more important. Doing other things and | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
then they become wasted talent. With wasted talent what you get is, they | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
still play but they blame everybody else. As soon as I made the first | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
team, I thought I had done it. But what Brendan is obviously saying is, | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the hard work starts them. But it's difficult, because you are young, | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
you have got all of these things that are pushed out you in your | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
contract. You can have a good life. Sometimes you forget how you got | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
there. Brendan Rodgers is not the first manager to come to these | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
chilly shores, high Labour football failings and suggest possible | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
answers. But the bare facts are brutal. No major international | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
tournament for most 20 years, and 67th in the world Fifa rankings. His | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
message was a message for footballers in general but he had | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
this for their own players -- his own players. For them, if they want | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
to be in my team, we're trying to build a consistent Champions League | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
club, you have to have the Champions League mentality. You need to be a | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
professional. If they don't, it's OK. It's fine. I don't lose sleep | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
over it. There will be someone else. There will be someone else to come | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
and take their place. Record numbers of three species | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
of dolphin have been recorded off The sightings were noted | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
by the conservation charity, Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust, | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
on its marine research Volunteers and scientists recorded | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
over 2,400 dolphins. The reasons for the | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
increase is unclear. Scotland's ski operators | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
are breathing a sigh of relief, as the wintry weather they've been | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
hoping for finally All five snowsports areas now report | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
varying levels of ski-able snow, and they're keeping their fingers | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
crossed that the cold Craig Anderson reports | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
from the Nevis Range This is a scene Scotland's ski area | :22:42. | :22:56. | |
operators have been desperate to see since before the start of the year. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
It has been an anxious time with the mountains refusing to turn white. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Now the weather has obliged and just in time for the crucial half term | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
break. It's a busy time of the year. It seems to have grown over the | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
years. The English schools are off It seems to have grown over the | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
for the whole weekend coincides with long weekends in Scotland. It is a | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
busy time. The last few years we have had some of our best seasons. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
The snow has come. It has been here through to the end of April and we | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
have had some great skiing conditions. Be snow cover may be | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
thin but given this is the first opportunity to head for the slopes | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
this year, enthusiasts weren't complaining. It is still a bit | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
rocky. But yeah, good condition so far. Enough covering for a good ski. | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
I'm looking forward to the rest of the day. We couldn't get up here | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
yesterday because of the wind. Today is fantastic. I am really happy. I | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
got a season pass and it is great to be able to use it. Winter sports are | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
worth about ?20 million a year to the Scottish economy. While the | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
season had a delayed start, there is a long way to go. No two winters are | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
the same. Sometimes we started November. It is not unknown to start | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
as late as February. We need to a manner that at the end of the | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
season, most of the resort. Offering snow sports because there aren't | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
enough people, not because there isn't enough snow. There's plenty of | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
time to enjoy the conditions. The five mountain ski areas in Scotland | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
have invested heavily in summer activities because that provides | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
them with all year-round income. But skiing and snow sports remain their | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
core activity. Frankly, without it, they wouldn't exist. So with the | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
white stuff now having arrived, they will be keeping their fingers | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
crossed it stays here for a good few weeks to come. | :24:52. | :25:03. | |
Any joy for skiers? There is some snow on the forecast. Some lovely | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
blue skies for some today. Great picture from Tina. But for many, | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
rather leaden skies and wintry in places as well. In fact, the cold | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
wintry theme continues tonight. We have a beer where warning from the | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Met Office, referred -- affecting the borders, the Lothians and | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
Edinburgh. Elsewhere, largely dry. Few wintry showers in the | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
north-east. In the south-east, rain, sleet and snow moving in through the | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
early hours. Modern -- moderate accumulations of snow on the lower | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
levels. Difficult driving conditions. It is a cold night. | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
Temperatures well below freezing for most. In the coldest glens, -8 to | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
minus ten. Tomorrow, in the West, largely dry. Some brightness. Come | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
further eased and it is cloudy. Some outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow. | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
The snow mainly over the hills and high ground. It pretty unpleasant | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
weekend across the south-east, including Edinburgh. And it will be | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
cold for all. But again, those strong winds through central and | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
southern Scotland adding to the bitter feel. Fairly cloudy in the | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
south-east. Further north west, like today, this is where the best of the | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
site will be. Sunny but cold for Orkney and Shetland. If you are hill | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
walking or climbing, across the West, driest. In the north-west, | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
sunniest. Eastern ranges, more on the way of cloud and strong winds. A | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
severe winter chill. There will be snow and some extensive hill fog as | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
well. As we just heard, there is some snow in some of the ski runs. A | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
handful likely to be open tomorrow. In the eastern part it will be windy | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
and quite wintry. The rest of the afternoon into the evening and | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
overnight, we still have that area of rain, sleet and snow moving west. | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
It will tend to ease off. As we head into Sunday, high pressure still in | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
charge of conditions. Starting to change its orientation somewhat. | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
More of a south-easterly, if not southerly by the end of Sunday. | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Really it means most of the second half of the week and largely dry but | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
also largely cloudy. A few showers dotted about. Perhaps snow and they | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
had ground. Rain from any. It will be cold, wet afternoon highs three | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
to 5 degrees. I'll be back with the headlines | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
at eight, and the late bulletin just Until then, from | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
everyone on the team, | :27:38. | :27:41. |