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Claims of a Scottish government U-turn over business rates as it | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
announces a multi-million pound package aimed at | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
MSPs vote for top earners in Scotland to pay more income tax | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
Concern that thousands of young carers are suffering stress, | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
I was never quite like are the kids, because I had my mum was... I had | :00:27. | :00:41. | |
Also on the programme: issues being out with others. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
the Scottish king brutally murdered | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
nearly 600 years ago - now plans are unveiled to search | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
We are the sirens. Changing the game! | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
And netball gets a reboot as the Scottish Sirens take | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
to the court for the start of a new national Superleague. | :00:59. | :01:10. | |
The Scottish Government has announced a ?44 million package | :01:11. | :01:23. | |
The Scottish Government has moved to quell a business rates revolt | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
by announcing a package of financial support. | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
44 million pounds will go to curb rate rises in the hospitality | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
industry, the North-east and in the renewables sector. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
The move has been widely welcomed - although the Conservatives said | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Ministers had been forced into a climbdown by | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
This from our political editor Brian Taylor. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Table ten. It was lovely! Sheila? We told you about how her | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
hotel faced a business rate increase of more than 100%. She warned her | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
community, already blighted by the oil downtown Michael Cole downturn, | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
risk becoming a ghost town. The Minister already acted, | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
attempting to cut rates and exempting more small firms but it | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
was not enough. With particular pain being felt by hotels, pubs, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
restaurants and cafes, their value is linked uniquely to turnover. Many | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
were facing huge increases, and so this... I can confirm today that we | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
will offer a new national relief that cap increases for hotels at | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
12.5%. The announcement covers the entire catering industry, 8500 | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
premises. But the owner of this five Aberdeen hotel is still refusing to | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
pay any increases at all. -- 5-star hotel. Aberdeenshire has been badly | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
hit by the downturn, some areas will also be capped at 12.5%. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
If they listened to the chamber and members, we would expect to see real | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
benefits over to the businesses in the region. There is additional | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
support for the renewal for sector. Tories welcomed the moves, but felt | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
they had been forced into a U-turn, after denying there was a problem. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
It is typical actions from a government that time and again fall | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
asleep at the wheel and only wake up when they crashed the car into the | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
wall! Back to Sheila in Stonehaven, she scrutinised the statement today, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
and her response? Personally, it is a big relief. In real terms, they | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
would go up by ?100 per month rather than ?1000 per month. It is a big | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
relief. I can relax, not having to sit and analyse whether I will have | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
two lay off staff or not. One satisfied company, but a review of | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
business rates is due in the summer. Meanwhile, MSPs have voted to set | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
income tax for the coming year - and for the first time | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
the arrangements here will be Higher earners living in Scotland | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
will be asked to pay more than those in England, | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland. For as long as revenues have flowed | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
from income tax, the charges applied have been the same on both sides of | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
the Tweed River, and in all parts of the UK but that is about to | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
change... In Scotland, tax isn't going up, but SNP ministers have | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
decided not to match a tax cut for higher earners in the rest of the | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
UK. If there's a percentage of taxation in Scotland which is | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
marginally higher, it is well spent if spent on the NHS. We are one | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
country and should have the same tax and money spent everywhere. From | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
April, you will pay income tax at 20p in the pound on annual earnings | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
of above ?11,500, same as south of the border. But there is a | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
difference for those paying higher tax rates of 40p per ?1. Elsewhere | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
in the UK you would only pay that rate on earnings over ?45,000. In | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Scotland, the threshold is frozen at ?43,000. It means higher rate | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
taxpayers here will pay up to ?400 more each year than elsewhere in the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
UK. With policies like free prescriptions and free university | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
tuition, the finance secretary argues that Scotland has the best | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
deal on tax and services. But there are those who think the government | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
is not making enough use of its tax powers. We are disappointed there is | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
not enough there to battle austerity and support public services. My | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
union is a union of tax workers, and we believe in tax, justice, and | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
redistribution of wealth. Others things that taxing Scots more than | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
those in the rest of the UK could damage the Konta me. I think it | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
could be a significant disadvantage for Scotland in the longer term. -- | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
economy. It's the potential for sending out messages that Scotland | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
is going in that direction and we think I tax is the country's future. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
There will always be a disagreement over how much tax we pay, but what | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
income tax, it is never politicians income tax, it is never politicians | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
-- it is never politicians here setting rules for those in Scotland. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Let's get an overview of today's events at Holyrood | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
from our political editor Brian Taylor. | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
Brian, these are economic decisions on rates and income tax, | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
but how much are they politically driven? | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
It is very substantially politically driven. Nothing stirs the minds | :06:26. | :06:37. | |
rather than anxious voters, and by contrast, nothing is more than | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
opportunity for opposition parties. On the question of business rates, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
conservatives were piling in on this one. It was a slow burner, an | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
accumulation of a series of protests from individual businesses but it | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
grew into a substantial and significant road indeed. It was a | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
challenge for the Scottish Government. | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
challenge for the Scottish -- significant role. Did they answer | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
every point? The Conservatives said that they had not. The SNP believe | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
that they have given ammunition to their party with local elections due | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
in May. With the issue of the tax decisions, and money to be raised by | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
the tax decision, much of it in the deal with the Green party, is being | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
diverted to local councils. It was a basis of the Labour complaint. Local | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
services overall were benefiting but now they can argue that more money | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
is going to councils. Labour are not happy and say it is insufficient, | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
and say it will leave councils short. These are big battle grounds, | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
if you like. The SNB believe that they have given defence to their | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
candidates. -- SNP. Local elections happen in May, and in Scotland, | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
there always appears to be an election pending, or a referendum, | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
or both! Brian Taylor, thank you. A stonemason has told a fatal | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
accident inquiry into the death of an eight year old boy | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
who was killed by a falling gravestone, that the memorial was | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
a 'definite hazard and dangerous'. Peter Hayman told the hearing that | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
had he seen it before Ciaran Williamson's death | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
he would have fenced Ciaran Williamson's family leave | :08:07. | :08:20. | |
court, having heard testimony from a stonemason who examined gravestones | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
at Craigton Cemetery after the accident. Here, on the evening of | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
the 26th of May nearly two years ago, Ciaran Williamson came here to | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
play with friends. Not long after arriving, a gravestone fell on top | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
of him. Today, the court heard from Peter Hayman from the National | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Association of memorial Masons, who told the fatal accident enquiry that | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
if he inspected the gravestone before Kiran's death, he would have | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
it was a definite hazard and danger it was a definite hazard and danger | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
-- fenced it. Under questioning, he said that the problem with the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
gravestones was a lack of dowels, combined with the roots of a nearby | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
tree clamping over it. He said the headstone would have failed or | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
fallen at some point anyway. Later, a representative for the Council | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
asked that if he thought the headstone was so perilously balanced | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
that the wind could knock it over. Peter Hayman replied no, but if it | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
was leaning further, it might. Later in the afternoon, there were tears | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
from Ciaran Williamson's family, as the pathologist reports detailing | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
his injuries was read out. It said that the stone fell on top of his | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
head, and then fell further down and hit his chest and tummy. His death | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
was instant. The fatal accident enquiry here at Glasgow Sheriff | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
Court continues tomorrow. When we think of carers, | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
usually we assume they are adults. But it's estimated there are almost | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
30,000 carers in Scotland who are under 18 - | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
and more than a quarter of them Whilst many are proud | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
of their role as young carers, others suffer serious stress, | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
isolation and depression. I hope it isn't he saw one... | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
is partly paralysed by an autoimmune disease. Is that good? Not bad for | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
me! Her 13-year-old daughter, Abbey, is her Qera. I was never like the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
other kids, because my mum is... I had some issues like being out with | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
my friends, or I would have to be home if my dad was at work -- carer. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Do you want chicken, or chicken? Over a quarter of Scotland's Young | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
carers care for more than one parent or sibling, or care for them alone. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
She has to be my Qera, and I regret it, she should be a teenager and do | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
the normal things that teenagers do the normal things that teenagers do | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
-- carer. There are 29,000 young carers in Scotland. It is thought | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
many more are trying to cope. Scared of asking for help in case they are | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
separated. There are those who have more demand, and heavier | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
responsibilities. In some instances, that would impact on their mental | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
health and we must make sure we have the appropriate services for those | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
young people. The survey found many feel left out or stressed. Peer | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
support groups can help. I've become more confident because I'd gone to | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
things like that, before I was not confident at all. Now, I'm feeling | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
slightly better. The Scottish Goodman says that young carers make | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
a vital contribution, they spend ?130 million on targeted programmes | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
but except more support is needed. Sometimes we fall out about it. She | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
gets fed up and I understand that. Are you all right? I don't think I | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
am special, it's how I have to be. For as long as I could remember, my | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
mum has had the disease and I have lived with it. There is nothing I | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
can do. It is just how things are. Police in Renfrewshire | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
are investigating reports that a 27-year-old woman was raped | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
on a pathway behind An area near The Wallace School | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
in Elderslie near Paisley The suspect is described as a white | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
male aged between 35 to 50 years old with dark receding hair, | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
and a medium to stocky build. One of the senior figures carrying | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
out the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry Glenn Houston, seen here | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
on the right, was the only He remained on the inquiry team last | :12:24. | :12:35. | |
year after the resignation of the chair, Susan O'Brien QC | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
and panel member Michael Lamb. One survivors' group | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
has described the news Police are investigating allegations | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
of malpractice involving It follows claims of cronyism | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
within the department responsible for services such | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
as cleansing and roads. An internal council inquiry started | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
last year while the senior manager responsible for the service | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
resigned last autumn. Police Scotland say their inquiries | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
are at an early stage. Claims of a Scottish government | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
U-turn over business rates as it announces a multi-million pound | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
package aimed at Who will fill this man's boots as | :13:19. | :13:32. | |
captain when Scotland take on Wales in the six Nations? | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
A Scottish architect has helped pioneer a virtual reality guide | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
to designing buildings for people living with dementia. | :13:40. | :13:40. | |
Charities say more than 90,000 people in Scotland currently have | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
dementia and that figure expected to rise. | :13:44. | :13:44. | |
It's hoped that by allowing architects to "virtually" attain | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
a sufferer's point of view then more sympathetic designs will result. | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
If you are a gamer, you might be familiar with this, the virtual | :13:50. | :14:07. | |
reality headset. But what it is demonstrating today is something far | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
from a game. It is being used to show you the world as you would see | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
it and then through the eyes of someone with dementia. OK, let's | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
have a go... I am in a care home. Everything is very beige, but my, | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
now things are getting quite difficult to make out... It looks a | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
little bit muddy, I'm not enjoying it. Many people with dementia have | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
cognitive and perceptual problems, meaning interpreting what you are | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
looking at is problematic. This is a different room altogether, there is | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
a bright purple blanket on the bed. With the filter on, things are still | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
much easier to see than they were in the beige room. It is interesting, I | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
can navigate my way around the room, and see where everything is. It just | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
isn't as bright as it would be for someone who does not have dementia. | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
We need to understand that if there is in contrast, things are | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
invisible. In the beige room, for many people with dementia, they | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
cannot even see the bed properly. In the bright, clear and bold design, | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
the bed is very obvious and clear. You can immediately work out what it | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
is and where it is, and where to sit You can immediately work out what it | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
if you want to sit on it. You go You can immediately work out what it | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
into the bathroom and you can see the toilet instantly. You are more | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
confident and more relaxed and more independent, and safer. I think what | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
it does, very clearly, is help you to understand exactly what someone | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
with dementia lives with. And, from that, you can design out risks like | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
trip hazards, material changes and contrasts, so they can see what you | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
see. You design from empathy. What it has done is take the knowledge | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
that doctors and academics have had about dementia for years, and put it | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
into a way that designers cannot just see it, but experience it. It | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
is hoped it will bring about more dementia friendly buildings in the | :16:10. | :16:10. | |
future. A look at other stories | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
from across the country. the oil services giant the John Wood | :16:13. | :16:26. | |
Group has reported a 28% fall in annual profits, operating profits | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
were 2016 were $244 million. That's $100 million down on the previous | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
year. The company says the industry continues to present challenges. A | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
quarter of women in Scotland don't take part in sport or physical | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
activity. That's compared with 13% of men. That's compared to a | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
self-selecting survey of more than 3000 people. The majority said they | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
did it for health and social benefits. Plans for a multi-million | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
pound artificial surfing break on the outskirts of Edinburgh are to be | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
unveiled at a series of public consultations. Wave Garden would | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
turned this quarry into a huge lake with a machine that created waves | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
for any level of surfer. The development expects to create more | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
than 80 jobs. Depeche Mode will headline the BBC six music festival | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
in Scotland. They will be joined by Belle And Sebastian and a host of | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
other acts. The festival takes place across the city with Depeche Mode | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
playing at the end of March. Glasgow is a really big part of the British | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
music scene. When I sit in my studio in London and talk to artists who | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
are on tour and say where are you excited to go, they always a | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
Glasgow. Obviously a massive massive musical heritage up here. It's | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
really exciting to be here this year. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
He was brutally murdered on this day 580 years ago and plans have been | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
unveiled to search for the tomb of King James I. | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
He was buried in Perth and finding his grave would be part | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
of a project to create a major visitor attraction in the city. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
The city of Perth. Could it have become Scotland's capital back in | :18:16. | :18:31. | |
the 15th century? King James the first had big plans for the place. | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
He held several of his parliaments in Perth. It's in this area the | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Charterhouse would have stood... James wanted the city to rival | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
London, with a university to match Oxford. I'm not sure whether perp | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
would have been the capital but it was definitely in the running for | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
being the capital in a way that the murder halted the idea in its | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
being the capital in a way that the tracks. That murder took place in | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
this Priory where James had royal apartments. Today a pub stands on | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
the site. James tried to hide from his enemies underground in an area | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
similar to this pub cellar. He tried to flee through a hatch but it had | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
been blocked. His enemies got to him, they stabbed him 16 times and | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
the King of Scotland lay dying in a pool of blood. He was buried | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
somewhere near here, a monument marks the site of the Priory. Now | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
there are plans to search for the team. If we were to locate where the | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
royal tomb was within this complex, we saw what that did to Leicester | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
with the rediscovery of Richard III. A lot more people know Richard III | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
but we are looking to try and change that. When Richard III's remains | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
were found and reburied it brought a tourist bonanza. It is hoped James | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
the first could do the same for Perth. Technology like this would be | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
used in a new visitor centre to bring the story alive. Through the | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
archaeology and research will be able to recreate, for example, the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Charterhouse in which James the first, his queen and Margaret Tudor | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
are all buried. We will be able to do that. James would no doubt seeing | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
his story brought to life in the heart of his beloved city. | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
Scotland's rugby coaches still to publicly name his captain for the | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
remainder of the Six Nations. After beating Ireland and losing to | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
France, they are at home to Wales at Murrayfield on Saturday. The team | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
don't appear to have been told who will lead them either. | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
This is Scotland's training base in Edinburgh. Traditionally during a | :20:39. | :20:48. | |
Six Nations match week the captain holds a media conference every | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Tuesday. Not this week. Greg Laidlaw's injury forcing him to | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
withdraw from the squad. So who will take over for the remaining three | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
matches? Might it be whoever was sitting in for media duties today? I | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
put my hat in the ring but I don't think that's possible. Yeah, I'm not | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
actually sure to be honest. There are more serious contenders. | :21:14. | :21:26. | |
John Barclay was captain when Greg went off against France. It was six | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
minutes before he had to go off himself. He's more vocal than Jonny | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
Gray who took over for him. He's got the experience as well. Jonny Gray | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
is a year and a half into captaining Glasgow and it's been a bit of a | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
mixed bag. His communication skills aren't as good as Laidlaw's. The | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
other candidate is Henry Pyrgos who has the leadership skills required. | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
He's coming back from injury and they'll probably start him on the | :22:06. | :22:15. | |
bench so it's got to be John Barclay. This seat will be filled | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
when they name the new skipper on Thursday. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Scotland has a brand new professional sports team, | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
and tonight they launch themselves to a sell-out crowd | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
The sport is netball, the team are called The Sirens, | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
they are based in Glasgow and will play in the Vitality | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
As Rhona McLeod reports, their creation has been | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
ambitious and their survival is far from assured. | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
An appropriate name for a team screaming out for support. The | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
Sirens will launch tonight with a sell-out crowd of 4000 at Glasgow's | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
emirates arena. That's more than attended three of the weekend's | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Scottish premiership football games. It's really exciting, but it's not | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
just for the sport of netball. I think for women's sport and Scottish | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
sport it's a historic moment for us to have a professional women's team | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
with a TV deal, particularly when you look at the current statistics. | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
We are hoping this is a game changer. It is New Zealand's number | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
one women's sport. It's on TV readily, people know who you are | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
when you walk down the street. That's what we want to grow over | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
here. I think we are able to do that and we have the team behind the | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
scenes to make it happen. The team will be chasing success against nine | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
others from across England and Wales. The fact we are new, we don't | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
know what the outcome will be. That is what makes it exciting for me. If | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
we stick to who we are as The Sirens, then we should be | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
victorious. The Sirens squad is filled with ambitious signings from | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Scotland and across the world. Inspiration for youngsters in the | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
sport will exist in abundance but investment will also be needed. We | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
have set up as a partnership between apple Scotland and the University of | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Western Scotland. We aren't publicly funded, we don't take money from the | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
governing body or sports Scotland. If this is to be sustainable we need | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
to attract more investment, that comes from commercial investors. The | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
Sirens will face wasps netball tonight for a centre pass at 7:45pm. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
And its time for the weather now with Kawser. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
A lot to fit in this broadcast. Good evening. It is already quite wet | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
across many western parts of the country and will continue to see | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
further outbreaks of rain. You can see the rain piling in from the | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
West, heaviest across the North West. It will continue to make | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
progress further south-east as we head into the evening. A stormy | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
scene here sent in from one of our Weather Watchers on the Isle of Skye | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
earlier today. While we continue to see further outbreaks of rain this | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
evening it's going to become very windy indeed. Is the scene for this | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
evening. The rainbow progress further south-east. Behind it | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
clearer skies but blustery showers falling as snow. It's across the far | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
north and north-east, and for the Northern Isles where we have the | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
strongest gusts perhaps reaching severe gale force. There are weather | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
warnings for those areas lasting throughout the night and for much of | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
the day tomorrow. It's going to be a cold night competitor last night. | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
Tomorrow starts cold, blustery, showers continuing across the North | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
West. Maybe even the odd rumble of thunder. The strongest winds across | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
the far north continuing for much of the day. Let's take a close look at | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
tomorrow afternoon. The winds will moderate across the mainland and | :26:11. | :26:11. | |
will start to see those showers moderate across the mainland and | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
becoming fewer and further between. More sunshine across more central, | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
southern and eastern areas. Temperatures back to around average | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
for the time of year but feeling cold in exposure to the winter. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
During the evening a brief respite, clearer skies and a touch of frost. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
Then we'll see rain pushing through across the south-west during the | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
evening. This is associated with Storm Doris. A deep area of low | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
pressure bringing heavy, persistent rain and strong winds. The strongest | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
will be towards the south across north-western parts of England but | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
as the heavy rain moves into the colder air over Scotland, it will | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
form increasingly as snow. At a higher ground, the southern uplands | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
in particular but even in lower levels, there is potential of snow | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
during Thursday morning. The Met office have issued a Yellow Warning | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
for the risk of snow and the potential of some disruption. Keep | :27:07. | :27:07. | |
up-to-date with the forecast. Now, a reminder of | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
tonight's main news. The Scottish Government has moved | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
to quell a business rates revolt by announcing a package | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
of financial support. MSPs have voted to set income taxed | :27:15. | :27:24. | |
for the coming year. And for the first time | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
the arrangements will be different Higher earners living in Scotland | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
will be asked to pay more. Our next main bulletin is just | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
after the ten o'clock news. Until then, from everyone on the | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
team, right across the country, Nawal El Saadawi, | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
the world-renowned Egyptian author A fearless feminist | :27:43. | :27:59. | |
facing a world in turmoil. | :28:00. | :28:00. |