:00:12. > :00:13.Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: Fears that elite athletes could lose
:00:14. > :00:16.out as the BBC learns that Scottish sport is facing a 20
:00:17. > :00:22.Snow, rain and high winds bring travel disruption
:00:23. > :00:24.across the country, as Storm Doris causes power cuts
:00:25. > :00:37.The lorries are at a standstill, so they have much in common with a lot
:00:38. > :00:38.of commuters in Scotland this morning, who are going nowhere fast
:00:39. > :00:39.in the snow. pressure over its investments
:00:40. > :00:44.with an oil giant. The sister of Moira Anderson,
:00:45. > :00:48.who disappeared 60 years ago, reveals she was molested by the man
:00:49. > :00:54.suspected of killing the schoolgirl. And two years after he thought his
:00:55. > :00:57.international rugby career was over, John Barclay is named Scotland
:00:58. > :01:14.captain for the game against Wales. funding cut over a three-year
:01:15. > :01:22.period, a move being described The country's sport agency
:01:23. > :01:28.have yet to decide where the cuts will fall,
:01:29. > :01:39.but there's concern elite The Government says that reducing
:01:40. > :01:40.health inequalities is their current priority.
:01:41. > :01:53.Lynsey Sharp might just get their - is a medal for Scotland. Lynsey
:01:54. > :02:00.Sharp, against the odds, winning silver. Organisers and politicians
:02:01. > :02:04.promised a legacy, that sport would have the ability to build on its
:02:05. > :02:08.success. But since then, funding to Sport Scotland has fallen. First of
:02:09. > :02:12.all, here is how it is funded. Around 60% is made up from the
:02:13. > :02:18.Scottish Government, with lottery sales making up the rest. In the
:02:19. > :02:28.year ending 2015, total revenue was ?65.1 million, that is divided up
:02:29. > :02:36.amongst 52 spot. By the end of next year, that figure will have fallen
:02:37. > :02:41.to around 51.8 million pounds. That is a cut to the budget of over 20%
:02:42. > :02:45.in just three years. The man in charge of awarding the cash to the
:02:46. > :02:50.sports says there are tough decisions ahead. It is heartbreaking
:02:51. > :02:55.to me, because I just know the effort that the governing bodies and
:02:56. > :02:58.the community around, the volunteers, mums and dads, have put
:02:59. > :03:06.into this, so to have to say that we are having to cut money back is, I
:03:07. > :03:10.believe, not the right way to go. One-way Scottish athletes are going
:03:11. > :03:15.is down under. Their funding is more or less secure for the Commonwealth
:03:16. > :03:19.Games in Australia's Gold Coast next year. Beyond that... For me, I think
:03:20. > :03:22.this will have a huge impact across year. Beyond that... For me, I think
:03:23. > :03:26.the board. In future, it means Scotland will be playing catch up
:03:27. > :03:34.now. It is almost impossible to catch up if you fall too far behind
:03:35. > :03:38.the leading nations. The agency responded, saying: -- the Government
:03:39. > :03:55.responded, saying: This was Laura Muir recently,
:03:56. > :03:57.breaking records in the 1000 metres, and perhaps proving why the current
:03:58. > :04:03.system had been working. But in terms of the Government cuts...
:04:04. > :04:08.Clearly, it's not a priority and they don't value the role of sport
:04:09. > :04:13.within the Scottish community. And they need to address that, and we
:04:14. > :04:14.need to look at funding and how other countries are increasing their
:04:15. > :04:20.funding and support for sport. other countries are increasing their
:04:21. > :04:25.pain is real, but the cause is not entirely political. Lottery cash is
:04:26. > :04:27.drying up, and sport Scotland hope that the medals don't follow. Chris
:04:28. > :04:30.McLaughlin, Reporting Scotland. Snow and high winds caused
:04:31. > :04:33.by Storm Doris have led to travel disruption,
:04:34. > :04:34.power cuts and school closures. Cross-border trains and planes
:04:35. > :04:36.are still affected. The M80 was closed for a time this
:04:37. > :04:40.morning in both directions, after heavy snow led
:04:41. > :04:55.to treacherous driving conditions. The M80, a difficult drive this
:04:56. > :05:00.morning in the snow, then add in a lorry or two jackknife, and the
:05:01. > :05:09.result was gridlock. Daily commutes turned into 3.5 hours long drives.
:05:10. > :05:17.It has taken me, to go five miles, 4.5 hours. I got caught at
:05:18. > :05:22.Bonnybridge and I was stuck there for just under 2.5 hours. Right
:05:23. > :05:27.through Cumbernauld, absolute mayhem, a standstill in Cumbernauld.
:05:28. > :05:31.The road reopened around 11am, but the chance of snow had been
:05:32. > :05:37.predicted by the Met office in a revised weather warning last night.
:05:38. > :05:45.We had 130 gritters out on the M80 last night, and we have salt stocks
:05:46. > :05:48.at high levels, so plenty of preparation. An unpleasant journey,
:05:49. > :05:57.of course, for those on the M80 this morning. I never liked to see
:05:58. > :06:01.disruption on the transport network. In South Lanarkshire, traffic was
:06:02. > :06:12.trying to make it up two shots on the M8, but at least here a gritter
:06:13. > :06:17.has got through. Some traffic is managed it -- is managing to get
:06:18. > :06:22.down this way, but the conditions are dreadful. It had to be expected.
:06:23. > :06:25.They said it would snow, and it is. I have come from five miles that
:06:26. > :06:31.way, sat here for two hours, trying to get to a meeting in Edinburgh.
:06:32. > :06:34.I'm just going home. It was hard going for gritters too. Near
:06:35. > :06:42.Balfron, this one ended up in a ditch. School buses were cancelled
:06:43. > :06:46.in some places, but roads stayed open. In Aberdeenshire, a few
:06:47. > :06:51.schools were shut, along with a few in Stirlingshire and one in
:06:52. > :06:56.Auchterarder. For the M80, the usual advice for drivers to stay in their
:06:57. > :06:59.vehicles could not contain this one. The captain of Falkirk Football Club
:07:00. > :07:03.was determined not to miss out on training. David the cracking braved
:07:04. > :07:09.the elements to work those muscles, even using the standstill to show
:07:10. > :07:13.off a few squats. And Aline is back at the M80 against
:07:14. > :07:19.for us tonight. It looks clear. And you don't even need your hat. What
:07:20. > :07:22.are the conditions like? Well, the traffic is moving very well here
:07:23. > :07:27.tonight. What a difference a few hours makes. And you are right - it
:07:28. > :07:31.is not nearly as cold as it was this morning. I don't even have gloves
:07:32. > :07:35.on. This morning, I thought my fingers would fall off. The
:07:36. > :07:41.temperature was very cold. Even on some parts of the motorway network
:07:42. > :07:44.tonight, it is thought to be a bit lighter on traffic then it usually
:07:45. > :07:47.was, and that may is because so many people try to get into work this
:07:48. > :07:50.morning and gave up and went home. When you think about the grandmother
:07:51. > :07:59.in Kilsyth who should only have had to drip the like -- had to drive
:08:00. > :08:04.five minutes, she had got nowhere near her daughter after trying for a
:08:05. > :08:11.long time. Conditions much better this evening. Some disruption on the
:08:12. > :08:17.trains across the border. That is because of what Storm Doris has done
:08:18. > :08:19.down south. A bit of signalling failure between Haymarket and
:08:20. > :08:23.Linlithgow here, but apart from that, I think it is fair to say that
:08:24. > :08:24.people are getting home tonight in short order than they got to work
:08:25. > :08:26.this morning. The First Minister has said
:08:27. > :08:28.that she would "reflect further" on whether Scotland should introduce
:08:29. > :08:30.whole-life sentences She was replying to a question
:08:31. > :08:35.from the Conservative leader Ruth Davidson,
:08:36. > :08:37.who raised the 23-year sentence given to the killer
:08:38. > :08:39.of the schoolgirl Paige Doherty. Our reporter Catriona Renton
:08:40. > :08:57.is here and can tell us more. Just remind us of the background to
:08:58. > :09:04.this. Paige Doherty was murdered in March last year. John left them
:09:05. > :09:08.admitted stabbing her to death in Clydebank. Under Scots law, life
:09:09. > :09:13.sentences must be given for murder, but a judge must also give the
:09:14. > :09:17.minimum length of time they will spend in prison before being able to
:09:18. > :09:20.apply for parole. In John left them's case, he was given a minimum
:09:21. > :09:24.apply for parole. In John left term of 27 years, but Appeal Court
:09:25. > :09:28.judges last week reduced that to 23 years, which has led for calls for
:09:29. > :09:33.the courts to be able to pass life sentences which mean life. These
:09:34. > :09:37.exist in England, and it came up First Minister's Questions today.
:09:38. > :09:54.Our judges do not have the tool of a whole life
:09:55. > :09:58.tariff at their disposal, and we say they should. We can wring our hands
:09:59. > :10:01.and express outrage every time something like this happens, all we
:10:02. > :10:03.can do something about it. I want to do something about it. If the
:10:04. > :10:05.Scottish Government won't act, I can say today that the Scottish
:10:06. > :10:08.Conservatives will, by pushing ahead with a bill making a case for the
:10:09. > :10:10.introduction of whole life sentencing in Scotland. I give a
:10:11. > :10:15.commitment today that the Government will continue to reflect about what
:10:16. > :10:18.further changes we might think appropriate, and that Parliament
:10:19. > :10:22.should act in the way it thinks best, in light of all the
:10:23. > :10:27.circumstances. Why don't we have the option of whole life sentences? A
:10:28. > :10:31.leading human rights lawyer we've spoken to has indicated that if a
:10:32. > :10:35.judge in Scotland were to get a whole lifetime, the Appeal Court has
:10:36. > :10:39.suggested it would not necessarily strike it down or oppose it. That
:10:40. > :10:44.has yet to be tested. Judges have given minimum terms, which would
:10:45. > :10:49.mean that an offender would not be released in their lifetime. The
:10:50. > :10:57.longest punishment was given for the Wallsend murderer, who was given 37
:10:58. > :11:03.years of a sentence. He would have been 106 before being released. A
:11:04. > :11:19.whole lifetime was given recently to Thomas Mair, who kill BMP Jo Cox.
:11:20. > :11:26.The Budget Bill has just completed its passage through Parliament.
:11:27. > :11:29.The Government's ?31 billion package of tax and spending plans
:11:30. > :11:40.after the SNP secured the support of the Greens.
:11:41. > :11:50.So, the deal between SNP and the Greens stuck? He said -- yes. It was
:11:51. > :11:55.said that it would bring additional infrastructure spending and would
:11:56. > :11:59.protect key services. Labour and the Lib Dems call that timid. The Tories
:12:00. > :12:04.said it would leave Scotland as the most highly taxed part of the UK.
:12:05. > :12:06.You may have remembered that the Tory said of the Greens that they
:12:07. > :12:13.were lentil munching, sandal wearing watermelons. Patrick Harvey wore it
:12:14. > :12:18.as a badge of pride today. You can perhaps see it as a watermelon upon
:12:19. > :12:21.it. Mr Harvey was making the point that while the budget was not
:12:22. > :12:26.perfect, he believed it brought additional investment and was proud
:12:27. > :12:30.of it. The minister had some comments about council budgets. Yes,
:12:31. > :12:34.he drew attention to the fact that there had been lots of complaints
:12:35. > :12:44.about money going from central Government and local and mention
:12:45. > :12:49.that a number of Labour councils -- and mentioned that a number of those
:12:50. > :12:52.councils were Labour run. Labour are saying it is up to individual
:12:53. > :12:56.councils. They say it is right for them to make their own decision, but
:12:57. > :13:00.they say part of the explanation will be that they believe the
:13:01. > :13:02.council tax is regressive, not a good tax. Another part of the
:13:03. > :13:06.expedition will be that there are local elections in May.
:13:07. > :13:09.The animal charity, the SSPCA, is facing calls to sell the shares
:13:10. > :13:13.Campaigners say the charity should not hold shares in a business
:13:14. > :13:18.The SSPCA says it hasn't bought any shares in Shell
:13:19. > :13:21.for more than 12 years, and most of them had been
:13:22. > :13:29.Here's our business correspondent David Henderson.
:13:30. > :13:39.It is Scotland's largest animal welfare charity. The SS PCA has a
:13:40. > :13:43.network of centres like this, all funded through donations, but are
:13:44. > :13:49.the investments it holds true to its values? The charity owns shares in
:13:50. > :13:53.the oil giant Shell, a company which conducts experiments on animals, and
:13:54. > :13:57.that shareholding is substantial, worth more than ?600,000. Other
:13:58. > :14:03.charity campaigners have told us that that is a mistake. It is a
:14:04. > :14:07.stupid situation for them to get into. They are a very wealthy
:14:08. > :14:10.organisation with people who are there to deal with funds and
:14:11. > :14:14.investments, and they should have been ethically investing for
:14:15. > :14:18.decades. They have known about this for 12 years but don't seem to have
:14:19. > :14:24.done much about it. In recent years, Shell has been heavily involved in
:14:25. > :14:27.animal testing. The latest figures, for 2015, show that more than
:14:28. > :14:31.100,000 animals were experimented on, most of them fish, but some
:14:32. > :14:36.amphibians, rodents and rabbits. Shell say they are committed to
:14:37. > :14:40.eliminating animal testing where possible, but the number of animals
:14:41. > :14:44.involved has more than doubled in five years. Shell has also been
:14:45. > :14:49.fined for an oil leak in the North Sea which put birdlife at risk. So,
:14:50. > :14:55.why would the SSPCA want to hang onto the shares? Shell is an
:14:56. > :15:00.attractive income producer. Its return is around 6.5% per annum, it
:15:01. > :15:03.has extremely good cash flow, meaning its ability to continue to
:15:04. > :15:09.pay that dividend is it strangely strong. The SSPCA claims most of the
:15:10. > :15:14.shares it owns in Shell were donated by members of the public, but it
:15:15. > :15:21.also admits that it bought shares in the oil giant back in 2005.
:15:22. > :15:24.Charities like this campaign group says it is impossible to hold
:15:25. > :15:30.investments in line with their values. If we were given a share in
:15:31. > :15:34.Shell, it would not be consistent with our investment policy, so we
:15:35. > :15:43.would have to either politely turn that give down, or liquidate it and
:15:44. > :15:56.put it into a better place. In a statement, the SSPCA told us: The
:15:57. > :16:00.charity declined our request for an interview be told us and plans to
:16:01. > :16:01.review its investments in the coming weeks. David Henderson, Reporting
:16:02. > :16:04.Scotland. the Coatbridge schoolgirl
:16:05. > :16:09.Moira Anderson disappeared. Today in the Lanarkshire town
:16:10. > :16:14.there was a service to remember her. Our reporter Suzanne Allan
:16:15. > :16:25.has been speaking to For the first time, she has been
:16:26. > :16:26.talking about how the man suspected of killing her sister molested her
:16:27. > :16:33.too. An emotional reunion for Moira
:16:34. > :16:38.Anderson's sister, she lives in Australia and is home for today's
:16:39. > :16:46.anniversary. The service was short, simple, symbolic. Today was also a
:16:47. > :16:52.celebration of Moira's short-lived. Moira was happy-go-lucky, she had a
:16:53. > :16:56.job in the local dairy, she used to deliver milk, and at the end of the
:16:57. > :17:03.week she would get pocket money. Full of fun, a tomboy, she had to be
:17:04. > :17:06.outdoors. Moira left her grandmother's house to buy margarine
:17:07. > :17:10.from a local shop. She boarded a bus trip and by Alexander Gartshore, a
:17:11. > :17:17.man later convicted of abusing a young girl. Her family never saw
:17:18. > :17:21.Moira again. Our innocent childhood days were gone, absolutely, and my
:17:22. > :17:27.parents were overly protective, and I do believe the whole community,
:17:28. > :17:31.the parents changed after that, you know, they were very careful. There
:17:32. > :17:35.have been countless appeals and searches to find the 11-year-old.
:17:36. > :17:39.Three years ago, the Crown Office said, had he been alive, they would
:17:40. > :17:44.have charged Alexander Gartshore with her murder. Today Janet told me
:17:45. > :17:50.he had molested her beside his car. I felt quite secure, because it was
:17:51. > :18:00.daylight, nice area. And he told me to hold his dipstick, and and he
:18:01. > :18:06.went and an, and I ran, jotting down the registration number. This
:18:07. > :18:10.assault happened two years after Moira disappeared. It may have been
:18:11. > :18:16.six decades ago, but police haven't given up. In next few weeks, the
:18:17. > :18:19.search to this this canal just outside Coatbridge. Specialist teams
:18:20. > :18:24.in boats will use ground penetrating radar and sonar to try to find the
:18:25. > :18:27.body of Moira Anderson. The little girl who never came home.
:18:28. > :18:30.Passengers on a flight from Edinburgh to Amsterdam have
:18:31. > :18:34.been evacuated after the plane's landing gear collapsed
:18:35. > :18:48.Andrew Black is in our Edinburgh studio and can tell us more.
:18:49. > :18:56.This was a normal scheduled flight from Amsterdam operated by Flybe,
:18:57. > :19:01.and the problems began when the plane decided to land at Schiphol
:19:02. > :19:05.airport, the landing gear failed, and it was all captured in some
:19:06. > :19:12.ready dramatic social media footage. You are now about to see images of
:19:13. > :19:17.what happened, as well as the pilots talking in the aftermath of the
:19:18. > :19:19.incident. Mayday, Mayday, broken landing gear. Roger, copy, Roger May
:19:20. > :19:40.Day. Mayday, evacuating from the cabin on
:19:41. > :19:47.the runway. The Fire Brigade is on the way. Footage there from the
:19:48. > :19:49.plane landing at Schiphol airport, everybody unharmed.
:19:50. > :19:51.The Director-General of the BBC says the corporation's
:19:52. > :19:53.new TV channel for Scotland is a "statement of intent".
:19:54. > :19:55.Tony Hall appeared before Holyrood's Culture Committee this
:19:56. > :19:57.morning, following the announcement that the new channel, which includes
:19:58. > :20:08.a nine o'clock news hour, will begin broadcasting next autumn.
:20:09. > :20:16.The 30 million we are talking about is, in crude terms, cash to spend on
:20:17. > :20:20.the channel. You know, if you look at the BBC for comparison, there are
:20:21. > :20:25.other things we lay into it, which are not for content. This is
:20:26. > :20:28.absolutely cash for content. And 60% of the output will be new
:20:29. > :20:30.commissions, which I think is a really very good start.
:20:31. > :20:32.But what of the rest of the news media,
:20:33. > :20:35.and the competition for readers, viewers and listeners?
:20:36. > :20:37.Newspaper print circulation figures today show fewer of us
:20:38. > :20:47.Here's our business and economy editor, Douglas Fraser.
:20:48. > :20:52.All the news that is fit to print, but Scottish newspapers are not in
:20:53. > :21:00.that fit a condition, not in print at least. Among the four main city
:21:01. > :21:01.papers, sales of the Courier and the Press and Journal were down almost
:21:02. > :21:18.10%. Most are picking up some readers
:21:19. > :21:24.online, but one title that is bucking the trend on print sales, as
:21:25. > :21:29.well as online, is the Times. Rather than giving a copy away for nothing,
:21:30. > :21:33.we think people should pay for it, and that has been borne out in our
:21:34. > :21:38.figures, where we show year-on-year growth in additional subscriptions.
:21:39. > :21:41.You need that money to pay for the journalism, and if you get that
:21:42. > :21:47.revenue, that will be borne out in the quality of the product you
:21:48. > :21:51.produce, and year-on-year we are growing subscribers both digitally
:21:52. > :21:53.and in print. The internet has given the opportunity to set up new news
:21:54. > :21:59.ventures. This one looks to the opportunity to set up new news
:22:00. > :22:03.sponsorship and advertising, but as the BBC expands its journalism
:22:04. > :22:07.reach, it is tough going. The BBC website is the daddy of them all,
:22:08. > :22:11.but it has got what seems like endless resources, I am sure the BBC
:22:12. > :22:15.would argue otherwise, but it seems to be able to produce anything
:22:16. > :22:19.online, comprehensively macro, which is very difficult for the
:22:20. > :22:23.opposition. The big thing for us is that we have to make money, and the
:22:24. > :22:32.BBC doesn't. That is a huge issue for everybody in the industry. STV
:22:33. > :22:35.competes for viewers, but not for funding, and it is launching a
:22:36. > :22:39.channel as well, on screen in the next few months. It is very
:22:40. > :22:43.flattering, because it is a very similar pattern to that announced by
:22:44. > :22:47.STV. We are launching our own channel later on this year, we will
:22:48. > :22:51.have our own integrated news service, which will be at seven
:22:52. > :22:55.o'clock, a combination of Scottish, UK and international news, and we
:22:56. > :23:00.see a demand for that, and we see and also being met by what the BBC
:23:01. > :23:03.has announced. But the way that we get our news is changing, and
:23:04. > :23:09.rapidly, for young people. The idea get our news is changing, and
:23:10. > :23:13.of live, edited evening news is being replaced by news where you
:23:14. > :23:16.want it with the format and priority that you choose. Douglas Fraser,
:23:17. > :23:19.Reporting Scotland, at STV News. Two years ago, he was left out
:23:20. > :23:22.of Scotland's World Cup squad. Now he'll captain the team
:23:23. > :23:24.at Murrayfield for their Six Nations match
:23:25. > :23:26.against Wales on Saturday. John Barclay takes over
:23:27. > :23:28.from Greg Laidlaw who'll miss the rest of the
:23:29. > :23:30.tournament through in jury. As David Currie reports,
:23:31. > :23:33.the Scotland head coach says Barclay deserves credit for fighting
:23:34. > :23:50.his way back to the top. The Scottish sex, or rather lack of
:23:51. > :23:54.it, was big news yesterday. -- six. The man who will wear the number six
:23:55. > :24:01.jersey against Wales is the new Scotland captain. It is a huge
:24:02. > :24:05.honour for me, there is a group of guys who have been working together
:24:06. > :24:10.since he has been in charge, and before that, to make my job easier
:24:11. > :24:20.as captain. John Barclay breakthrough! It comes to him
:24:21. > :24:23.naturally, so he doesn't have to force and self as a captain, it
:24:24. > :24:30.comes naturally, he is respected by the players. We could call John
:24:31. > :24:34.Barclay Captain Scarlet, because he plays for the Scarlets in Wales, but
:24:35. > :24:38.comeback kid might be more appropriate. He won the first of his
:24:39. > :24:42.57 caps ten years ago against New Zealand but spend a couple of years
:24:43. > :24:50.in the international wilderness and was not chosen for the 2015 World
:24:51. > :24:53.Cup. Great for him to force his way back in, now he is going to run out
:24:54. > :25:05.as captain of the team against Wales, where he is playing his club
:25:06. > :25:09.rugby. What a bit of timing! The story of my comeback, or how ever
:25:10. > :25:15.you want to say it, is very much what I can provide now as captain,
:25:16. > :25:18.and as a player. There is news concerning the Scottish number 92,
:25:19. > :25:27.the scrum-half jersey will be sported by Price, who took over from
:25:28. > :25:33.Laidlaw in Paris. The Scots haven't been Wales in ten years. Whatever
:25:34. > :25:36.part Scotland's number six and number nine play on Saturday, a
:25:37. > :25:38.Scotland win will make headlines across Britain.
:25:39. > :25:48.Here are Shereen and Glenn with the details.
:25:49. > :25:54.How gay friendly is the army? One serving soldier tells us why the
:25:55. > :25:59.rainbow flag will be flying about Scottish barracks tomorrow.
:26:00. > :26:04.Methadone Mick and Fred Macauley in a culture clash over their home
:26:05. > :26:08.towns, we will explain why. And the killed yoga boys are on live.
:26:09. > :26:14.In the meantime, Chris has the weather.
:26:15. > :26:20.Amongst all that disruption from Storm Doris, a moment of calm, a
:26:21. > :26:23.walk to school in the snow, thank you very much indeed to all the
:26:24. > :26:29.Weather Watchers for sending in pictures. Doris is well and truly on
:26:30. > :26:34.the way out, moving quite apace, 100 mph, over Poland by midnight
:26:35. > :26:37.tonight. Behind it, cold conditions, icy conditions. A Met Office
:26:38. > :26:47.yellowed bee aware warning in force overnight and into tomorrow. This is
:26:48. > :26:50.how things look tonight, generally dry, clear conditions, cold
:26:51. > :26:55.conditions, temperatures in towns and cities around zero down to minus
:26:56. > :27:00.two, but minus it is possible in the coldest glens. Friday dawns rather
:27:01. > :27:04.chilly, icy in places, one or two showers around, but for many a dry
:27:05. > :27:07.and bright morning with some sunshine, but change is afoot.
:27:08. > :27:13.Through the afternoon, cloud bills, you can see the rain arrives. By
:27:14. > :27:18.mid-afternoon, for most of us, largely dry, but properly cloudier
:27:19. > :27:23.than the morning. Brighter skies towards the borders, the Lothians,
:27:24. > :27:26.Fife, Angus and Aberdeenshire, in the West, pretty wet with a
:27:27. > :27:30.strengthening southerly wind. Despite the sunnier skies across the
:27:31. > :27:38.far north, the Northern Isles and the north-east, quite chilly, 3-5 C.
:27:39. > :27:41.The rest of the afternoon and evening, rain falling as snow, then
:27:42. > :27:46.back to rain, a wet and breezy night. Certainly looking ahead to
:27:47. > :27:50.the weekend, wet and windy sums up Saturday fairly well, I'm afraid.
:27:51. > :27:56.But not only wet and windy, quite mild. Saturday gets off to a soggy
:27:57. > :28:02.start, but the afternoon hopefully try and brighter. But look at those
:28:03. > :28:06.temperatures, up to 12 Celsius. Sunday, another spell of rain
:28:07. > :28:09.working its way in from the Atlantic, drying up and brightening
:28:10. > :28:10.up across the north-west, but it will be turning colder. That is the
:28:11. > :28:13.forecast. I'll be back with the headlines
:28:14. > :28:16.at eight, and the late bulletin just
:28:17. > :28:19.after the ten o'clock news. Until then,
:28:20. > :28:20.from everyone on the team, right across the country,
:28:21. > :28:30.have a very good evening. Educating the mass of a population -
:28:31. > :28:34.that is a wonderful ideal. see how the life of the Scottish
:28:35. > :28:37.child has changed