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:00:00. > :00:00.and on BBC one we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

:00:00. > :00:07.The Scottish Labour party gathers in Perth.

:00:08. > :00:09.Federalism is on the agenda, but those by-election

:00:10. > :00:16.More bad news for the Royal Bank of Scotland, as it reports

:00:17. > :00:22.The school that's teaching pupils how to deal with the stress

:00:23. > :00:33.and depression caused by life as a teenager.

:00:34. > :00:39.If you're on one social media it is like you have to have all the

:00:40. > :00:43.profiles, everyone has to see everything you are doing in your

:00:44. > :00:45.life and you have to keep up with them and you are maybe telling

:00:46. > :00:50.people think she would not normally tell them.

:00:51. > :00:58.Scotland will attempt to record their first win over Wales since

:00:59. > :00:59.2007. And, the plan to protect

:01:00. > :01:02.the RED squirrel, by eradicating the rival grey

:01:03. > :01:17.squirrels in Aberdeen. The leader of Labour in Scotland has

:01:18. > :01:21.been setting out an upbeat vision for the future of the party as part

:01:22. > :01:30.of a federal United Kingdom. By contrast Jeremy Corbyn,

:01:31. > :01:32.the UK leader, has been recovering from a bruising by-

:01:33. > :01:34.election defeat, at the hands Our political editor Brian Taylor

:01:35. > :01:38.is in Perth at Scottish Labour's Brian, Kezia Dugdale

:01:39. > :01:43.wanting to focus on federalism but was that

:01:44. > :01:46.overshadowed by Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's chances of government

:01:47. > :01:59.ebbing further away? Let's put it this way, there are two

:02:00. > :02:04.elements to politics, there is policy and in that regard Labour

:02:05. > :02:07.think that the announcement on federalism gives them a big

:02:08. > :02:11.cardboard alongside that is power. In opposition you get to say things

:02:12. > :02:14.but in government you get to do stuff. Kezia Dugdale is stressing

:02:15. > :02:18.the autonomy of the Scottish Parliament but she is only too well

:02:19. > :02:24.aware that difficulties for Labour south of the border tend to wash

:02:25. > :02:31.north to Scotland. Nice to see you. It started with a kiss, and a

:02:32. > :02:35.promise. Kezia Dugdale knows the last thing Labour wants to talk

:02:36. > :02:43.about is the constitution. Labour needs a new offer. Our vision, the

:02:44. > :02:47.Scottish Labour vision is for a radical reshaping of the UK that

:02:48. > :02:53.offers a poster Brexit solution that delivers for it the four corners of

:02:54. > :03:01.these islands. It is time for a new act of union. Your speech was great!

:03:02. > :03:05.Kezia Dugdale visualisers a People's Convention. More clout for the

:03:06. > :03:08.regions of England. On the fringe, she even suggest that it could be

:03:09. > :03:13.put to the Scottish people if another independence referendum is

:03:14. > :03:17.held. I don't want to be another referendum. I can certainly see a

:03:18. > :03:23.legitimate case for if there were to be a referendum that you might put

:03:24. > :03:26.something as strong as a federalist solution the ballot paper.

:03:27. > :03:32.Implementing that would require Labour to be in power, not on the

:03:33. > :03:34.horizon, according to one delegate. It has never been tougher being a

:03:35. > :03:38.Labour member then now from a UK It has never been tougher being a

:03:39. > :03:44.wide perspective, we have never looked further from forming a

:03:45. > :03:47.government. Labour held of Ukip in the Stoke by-election but lost

:03:48. > :03:53.Copeland to the Tories, so where does that leave the leadership of

:03:54. > :03:59.Jeremy Corbyn. It is a disappointing result. I can't help but think, it

:04:00. > :04:03.is to blame for that. Jeremy Corbyn is our leader, he has the support of

:04:04. > :04:08.the entire Labour Party because we have to get on with it. Personally,

:04:09. > :04:15.I didn't vote for him but he is my leader, so I'll support him. The

:04:16. > :04:19.voice of the members, what does the leader think? Should Jeremy Corbyn

:04:20. > :04:24.consider his position? I am 100% behind him. I have a job to do here

:04:25. > :04:30.in Scotland. It is an autonomous party. I'm going to continue doing

:04:31. > :04:32.that. The conference will hear from Kezia Dugdale tomorrow and from

:04:33. > :04:34.Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday. Brian -- and Kezia Dugdale has been

:04:35. > :04:45.talking about the pressures Yes. That was also at that fringe

:04:46. > :04:50.meeting, reflecting that since the beginning of the years she has split

:04:51. > :04:54.from her partner of nine years and her best friend has died. She said

:04:55. > :04:59.it was dreadful and appalling to cope with but she did so simply by

:05:00. > :05:03.taking it one step at a time. But there will be huge pressures in the

:05:04. > :05:06.party and Labour need to take some galloping strides to advance its

:05:07. > :05:09.position both north and south of the border. In one regard, I think there

:05:10. > :05:26.will be movement on that idea of the

:05:27. > :05:28.People's Convention and I think that Tom Watson, the Deputy Leader of the

:05:29. > :05:31.party may give it its backing tomorrow and it is expected in the

:05:32. > :05:33.next few weeks or months that there will be an actual move to set up

:05:34. > :05:34.such an initiative. There was more gloomy news

:05:35. > :05:37.for the Royal Bank of Scotland today as it reported a 7 billion pounds

:05:38. > :05:40.annual loss -- the ninth year in a row that its

:05:41. > :05:42.failed to make a profit. The bank is now looking to make

:05:43. > :05:45.savings of two billion pounds, which will mean job cuts

:05:46. > :05:47.and more branch closures. But its chief executive wouldn't be

:05:48. > :05:54.drawn on their scale. I have not put a number out and I

:05:55. > :05:58.will not. My view is to always talk to our people first and there will

:05:59. > :06:04.be job cuts in this organisation, there has to be, given that over the

:06:05. > :06:07.next four years we will take ?2 billion worth of costs out of the

:06:08. > :06:13.organisation to make us a really good bank. These things are

:06:14. > :06:16.happening because banking is changing and it is changing rapidly

:06:17. > :06:16.as well and we need to be a competitive bank.

:06:17. > :06:19.I'm joined now by our business and economy editor Douglas Fraser.

:06:20. > :06:26.Douglas, are these losses better or worse than predicted?

:06:27. > :06:33.They are a lot worse and the pain goes on for longer. There is a core

:06:34. > :06:39.bank in their summer struggling to get out. It made not a bad figure in

:06:40. > :06:46.profits. That was last year. Set against that, you have ?10 billion

:06:47. > :06:51.of fines and legal costs and restructuring, that is for

:06:52. > :06:54.mis-selling, for claims that they misled investors, rigging markets,

:06:55. > :07:00.?2 billion for restructuring and a huge bill for trying to carve out a

:07:01. > :07:04.bit of Royal Bank of Scotland, which they called a different name, that

:07:05. > :07:08.has failed and they cannot sell it or floated and the costs of

:07:09. > :07:13.reintegrating it back into RBS and getting rid of the tuba gating

:07:14. > :07:14.branches, that looks like billions more, effectively for achieving

:07:15. > :07:16.nothing at all. So, how does RBS hope

:07:17. > :07:25.to turn this around? There is that core bank, it is

:07:26. > :07:30.attracting customers as well. They need to get these fines and legal

:07:31. > :07:35.cases behind them, their plans have slept for another year, they don't

:07:36. > :07:39.expect a profit from this year and we are looking at ten years of

:07:40. > :07:43.losses, probably more than ?60 billion of losses by that time and

:07:44. > :07:49.because they have slimmed down from the one of the biggest banks to

:07:50. > :07:51.focusing only on the UK and Ireland, costs are high relative to income by

:07:52. > :08:07.industry standards and they want to continue cutting costs, ?3 billion

:08:08. > :08:09.over the past two years. That means a lot of jobs, it means branch

:08:10. > :08:12.closures and that is partly because the industry is changing. Most of

:08:13. > :08:13.their customers use digital and mobile banking, one fifth use only

:08:14. > :08:15.their customers use digital and that so financial technology is a

:08:16. > :08:17.threat and an opportunity and RBS wants to be at the forefront of it.

:08:18. > :08:17.Thank you. The man who advises the UK

:08:18. > :08:20.government on Scots law is to appear before a sheriff in Edinburgh,

:08:21. > :08:23.charged with a firearms offence. Lord Keen is accused of failing

:08:24. > :08:25.to secure a 12-bore shotgun It's understood Lord Keen

:08:26. > :08:30.was reported by police investigating Leuchars in Fife is to

:08:31. > :08:38.become the centre of Army The Defence Secretary Sir Michael

:08:39. > :08:42.Fallon was in Scotland for a meeting of the MoD defence board,

:08:43. > :08:45.which met in Edinburgh He confirmed spending of one point

:08:46. > :08:50.seven 7 billion pounds on HM Naval Base Clyde,

:08:51. > :08:53.the site of the UK's nuclear submarines, and on the Lossiemouth

:08:54. > :08:55.fighter jet base in Moray. The Scottish government said

:08:56. > :09:04.it was "too little, too late". One in ten adults are currently

:09:05. > :09:05.on anti-depressents. And its estimated that almost half

:09:06. > :09:08.of adults with mental health problems developed them before

:09:09. > :09:14.they left school. Now, a school in one

:09:15. > :09:17.of Glasgow's most deprived areas is training parents,

:09:18. > :09:18.pupils and staff how The aim is to intervene

:09:19. > :09:22.early, BEFORE mental Our correspondent

:09:23. > :09:40.Lucy Adams reports. They do have worries, but what kind

:09:41. > :09:44.of impact does it have a new? These fourth-year pupils at St Paul's high

:09:45. > :09:48.school in Glasgow are learning how to manage stress. Other people can

:09:49. > :09:54.judge how they look on social media and back and get them stressed. From

:09:55. > :09:59.exams, obviously, you need them for your future to get a good job, go to

:10:00. > :10:05.university. Pressure from your friends because you feel if they do

:10:06. > :10:12.better than you, you feel as if you have done something wrong and it

:10:13. > :10:12.knocks your confidence. Relax. The eight-week course offers pupils

:10:13. > :10:19.practical ways of dealing with eight-week course offers pupils

:10:20. > :10:24.anxiety. The aim, not just for these pupils, but for their parents and

:10:25. > :10:29.their teachers is to learn new ways to cope with stress. So that they

:10:30. > :10:34.can get on with their lives. It started with a psychological test of

:10:35. > :10:40.all the pupils. We were a bit surprised at just how many of the

:10:41. > :10:44.pupils were already showing signs of difficulties with anxiety and

:10:45. > :10:48.depression, around numbers back or out of ten of them at the start of

:10:49. > :10:53.the programme. By the end of the programme, we had cut that in half,

:10:54. > :10:57.but when we followed that up, we were seen that they were still

:10:58. > :11:00.continuing to improve. Lauren was so stressed that she ended up in

:11:01. > :11:07.hospital before her preliminaries last year. My foot was getting very

:11:08. > :11:11.sore and I was not able to walk on it. My mother took me to the

:11:12. > :11:15.hospital and they said it was an explained what it was but because I

:11:16. > :11:21.was at explaining that it was about exam time, they said it was really

:11:22. > :11:26.due to stress. It is not just about exam pressure,. If you're on one

:11:27. > :11:29.social media, you have to have all the profiles, everyone has to be

:11:30. > :11:33.able to see what you are doing in your life when you have to keep up.

:11:34. > :11:36.You are telling people may be things that you would not usually tell

:11:37. > :11:41.them, where you are going, what you are doing all the time. It is

:11:42. > :11:50.constantly, so everyone has an insight into your life. The modern

:11:51. > :11:52.world is not just stressful for pupils. Classrooms can be stressful

:11:53. > :11:55.situations, both for pupils and for teachers. It really helped me to be

:11:56. > :12:01.able to identify what stress was happening. The council says it will

:12:02. > :12:06.now assess the results and look out which other schools could benefit.

:12:07. > :12:09.Those involved believe stress management could help everyone,

:12:10. > :12:11.young and old. Lucy Adams, Reporting Scotland.

:12:12. > :12:13.A memorial service has been held for the former

:12:14. > :12:17.The veteran politician, who spent 43 years as an MP,

:12:18. > :12:24.The ceremony at St Michael's Parish Church in Linlithgow was attended

:12:25. > :12:26.by prominent Labour figures from Westminster and Holyrood.

:12:27. > :12:29.Among those was the former Labour MP Brian Wilson, who paid tribute

:12:30. > :12:44.There was a privilege to know him, to work with him, to agree with him

:12:45. > :12:51.and sometimes even to disagree with him. He was, by any standards, and

:12:52. > :12:55.utterly unique political figure and in a generally grim period for

:12:56. > :13:00.politics, it is a bleak thought that there is even less respect in his

:13:01. > :13:03.career for the importance of being awkward and even fewer politicians

:13:04. > :13:06.with the diligence and independence of mind to pursuit that designation.

:13:07. > :13:08.You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland.

:13:09. > :13:13.The Scottish Labour Party gathers in Perth.

:13:14. > :13:14.Federalism is on the agenda, but those by-election

:13:15. > :13:21.And still to come - Scotland's women footballers are going full-time

:13:22. > :13:32.ahead of this summer's Detectives investigating the death

:13:33. > :13:36.of a north-east man nearly a year Police had even turned to the BBC

:13:37. > :13:42.Crimewatch programme, in what they described as a lengthy

:13:43. > :13:45.and complex investigation into the death of 67-year-old Brian McKandie.

:13:46. > :13:59.Rebecca Curran reports. Brian McKandie's body was found here

:14:00. > :14:04.at his cottage on March 12 last year. The 67-year-old's death

:14:05. > :14:07.prompted a huge police investigation. Hundreds of motorists

:14:08. > :14:11.were stopped by officers in the weeks that followed and Brian's

:14:12. > :14:16.brother made an appeal on the BBC's Crimewatch programme. Somebody must

:14:17. > :14:21.know what happened to Brian and we would ask them to look to their

:14:22. > :14:26.conscience and call the police. We have lost our brother and we just

:14:27. > :14:30.want to know what happened and why. With the anniversary of Brian's

:14:31. > :14:34.death approaching, police stepped up investigations. On Monday this week,

:14:35. > :14:42.officers carried out a fresh surge on the roads and today, they

:14:43. > :14:46.confirmed a 23-year-old man has been charged in connection with Brian

:14:47. > :14:51.McKandie's death. Expected to appear at Aberdeenshire Crown Court on

:14:52. > :14:56.Monday. The police says enquiries continuing and a police hut has been

:14:57. > :15:01.situated here today for anyone with concerns. Police are in attendance

:15:02. > :15:04.at another property today as part of their investigation.

:15:05. > :15:09.The Cowdenbeath football player who'd admitted betting

:15:10. > :15:12.against his own team has been released by the League Two club.

:15:13. > :15:14.Dean Brett told BBC Scotland he hoped to have a future

:15:15. > :15:17.with Cowdenbeath, but would accept their decision at a

:15:18. > :15:20.disciplinary hearing. He's now been told he has no

:15:21. > :15:23.future at Central Park, and has had his contract terminated.

:15:24. > :15:25.This week, he was also banned for four matches,

:15:26. > :15:28.with a further four suspended, for using homophobic

:15:29. > :15:34.A look now at other stories from across the country.

:15:35. > :15:37.Detectives investigating the rape of a woman in Renfrewshire have

:15:38. > :15:41.asked for help to trace her missing trousers.

:15:42. > :15:44.The woman was attacked by a man on a path near

:15:45. > :15:47.Wallace Primary School in Elderslie, on Monday evening.

:15:48. > :15:49.Police have urged people to check gardens and bins

:15:50. > :15:57.Profits at Standard Life have increased by nine

:15:58. > :16:03.The Edinburgh based insurer and asset manager made

:16:04. > :16:08.a pre-tax profit of more than ?7 hundred million.

:16:09. > :16:11.a pre-tax profit of more than ?700 million.

:16:12. > :16:13.The assets it manages increased by 16%.

:16:14. > :16:16.The company says it will add staff in Frankfurt and Luxembourg

:16:17. > :16:18.after the Brexit vote, as part of its contingency plans.

:16:19. > :16:21.The Scottish government has defended the Borders Railway after claims

:16:22. > :16:24.the infrastructure vision for the project was "short-sighted".

:16:25. > :16:26.Think-tank Reform Scotland said the route had been left with limited

:16:27. > :16:29.potential for expansion, and that the Edinburgh

:16:30. > :16:32.to Tweedbank line had shown thinking was "too small"

:16:33. > :16:38.The Scottish Government said the railway had proved a huge

:16:39. > :16:41.success and it expected more investment in future.

:16:42. > :16:44.Three Scottish dogs are being honoured by a vet

:16:45. > :16:47.charity for their bravery and devotion to duty.

:16:48. > :16:50.Police dog Ozzy is getting the prestigious PDSA gold medal

:16:51. > :16:54.for disarming a man who threatened to blow up a block of flats.

:16:55. > :16:58.Fellow police dog Sweep has won the order of merit for his work

:16:59. > :17:01.detecting drugs and firearms, and civilian dog Sabby will also get

:17:02. > :17:09.the award for supporting people with learning disabilities.

:17:10. > :17:20.The difference they can make, the lives they have saved, whether it be

:17:21. > :17:24.taking the dog of the street or finding the person with dementia

:17:25. > :17:28.that has gone missing. I feel very lucky to have a job that you

:17:29. > :17:29.genuinely get up in the morning and think, I wonder what'll happen

:17:30. > :17:32.today? In sport, it's another big

:17:33. > :17:34.weekend for Scotland, They play Wales at Murrayfield

:17:35. > :17:40.tomorrow, from where our sports And David, this is a really

:17:41. > :17:47.important match for both teams. Yes - with one win and one defeat

:17:48. > :17:51.each so far in the tournament - whoever wins tomorrow's match

:17:52. > :17:54.still has a chance to Not so for the losers -

:17:55. > :18:00.so plenty at stake tomorrow Scotland have home advantage

:18:01. > :18:09.but this is a venue Welsh players and supporters seem

:18:10. > :18:27.to love visiting. Not quite tourists, more like

:18:28. > :18:32.pilgrims. Upholding a tradition with a biennial visit to Edinburgh. What

:18:33. > :18:37.is so special about this fixture? Friendly, happy people and to us, we

:18:38. > :18:42.come to Scotland and we have a fabulous time. It is brilliant. How

:18:43. > :18:48.many times have you been coming? 40th year this year that I have been

:18:49. > :18:53.coming. That tried by Luke Phil Bennett, legendary drive. Absolutely

:18:54. > :19:03.brilliant try. They were a brilliant team in the day as well. Wales are

:19:04. > :19:07.usually associated with... It tends to be a high-scoring game and lots

:19:08. > :19:14.of good tries. Certainly, if you look at the teams on Saturday, lots

:19:15. > :19:25.of firepower. If the weather holds up and it is a decent day, I would

:19:26. > :19:35.expect quite a lot of tries scored. Ten years, Scotland haven't beaten

:19:36. > :19:39.Wales. I thought it was eight. Is it ten? Obviously not a big issue for

:19:40. > :19:45.you! I am the eternal optimist but it will be a tough game. There have

:19:46. > :19:48.been many references to the training and it will be a different animal we

:19:49. > :19:53.play against this week than we have done in the past. The Welsh of

:19:54. > :20:00.course are not unbeatable any more and contrary to myth that every

:20:01. > :20:05.Welsh person has a good voice. SINGING

:20:06. > :20:08.I can't predict the score - but I'm confident the rugby will be

:20:09. > :20:14.much better and more entertaining than the singing.

:20:15. > :20:20.Scotland's women footballers are going full-time ahead of this

:20:21. > :20:24.summer's European Championship. National coach Anna Signeul

:20:25. > :20:27.is calling it a real breakthrough for the women's game.

:20:28. > :20:30.A new funding package is allowing the players who work

:20:31. > :20:41.Kheredine Idessane went to meet one of them to find out more.

:20:42. > :20:49.Let's go. Listen to the referee. Sound advice to the footballers of

:20:50. > :20:54.the future. Female footballers of the present in Scotland work before

:20:55. > :20:58.they play. This one is normally an active schools coordinator but from

:20:59. > :21:01.now until the summer's European Championships, she gets to go

:21:02. > :21:06.professional. What difference will it make. Hopefully a big difference

:21:07. > :21:12.in terms of being able to be rested and recovered going into sessions

:21:13. > :21:16.and able to give 100%. We are in preseason but the next thing we need

:21:17. > :21:19.to look at now is the technical aspects of the game and tactics

:21:20. > :21:22.going forward into the Championships. Having the time to

:21:23. > :21:28.focus on that should make a huge difference to each player and the

:21:29. > :21:31.team in general. Patron of the team, the First Minister, helped with the

:21:32. > :21:35.announcement today and she will no doubt remember a similar arrangement

:21:36. > :21:38.which allowed the Scottish women's hockey team to go full-time in the

:21:39. > :21:43.run-up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. How much has

:21:44. > :21:47.been provided for our female footballers to go professional? The

:21:48. > :21:50.overall package could be worth over ?100,000. A third coming from the

:21:51. > :21:54.Scottish football partnership, a ?100,000. A third coming from the

:21:55. > :21:58.third from sport Scotland and a third from energy provider SSC. So

:21:59. > :22:06.many young girls would look at these players and this team and want to be

:22:07. > :22:13.one of them. I think it will actually have so much benefits,

:22:14. > :22:21.positive benefits coming on after this.

:22:22. > :22:26.Any more reds? LeAnn Ross is giving up the day job to become a full-time

:22:27. > :22:29.footballer, at least for a while, but she's hoping she and her

:22:30. > :22:33.Scotland team are paving the way for girls just like the ones she has

:22:34. > :22:34.been teaching for one day to become full-time footballer is right here

:22:35. > :22:37.in Scotland. Hundreds of volunteers are to be

:22:38. > :22:40.enlisted to help ensure the long term survival of Scotland's

:22:41. > :22:44.native red squirrel. The scheme aims to reduce grey

:22:45. > :22:47.squirrel numbers in southern and central Scotland,

:22:48. > :22:50.and eradicate them Our environment correspondent,

:22:51. > :23:02.Kevin Keane reports. It might look like free food but

:23:03. > :23:07.this cute little red squirrel is giving a piece of himself every time

:23:08. > :23:12.he lifts the lid. Inside, little sticky pads take a tiny sample of

:23:13. > :23:17.the of the animal brushes against it. These are collected and examined

:23:18. > :23:22.to find that the prevalence of the red and grey squirrels. We have two

:23:23. > :23:26.here that are from the two species and without much doubt, the one on

:23:27. > :23:30.the right is grey and the one on the left is red. Sometimes you find

:23:31. > :23:37.both. That is when you really need a microscope to look at these pads

:23:38. > :23:40.because you have crisscrossing hairs from two species on the same piece

:23:41. > :23:46.of Velcro and you have to look very carefully. The ?2.5 million funding

:23:47. > :23:49.from the lottery fund will be used to set up large-scale community

:23:50. > :23:55.monitoring. They will then be able to target areas where grey squirrels

:23:56. > :23:59.are advancing and reduce their numbers. That is happening already

:24:00. > :24:03.in Aberdeen with huge success and now there is a new aim of

:24:04. > :24:07.eradicating grey squirrels entirely. It behaves like an island population

:24:08. > :24:16.so it is spread out and what we have managed to do is restrict them and

:24:17. > :24:21.eradication is feasible. This scheme has its critics. People asking,

:24:22. > :24:25.should we be killing one animal in favour of another? Conservationists

:24:26. > :24:31.argue this is an invasive species whose presence is causing the

:24:32. > :24:37.decline of a native animal. It is estimated just 120,000 red squirrels

:24:38. > :24:38.survive in Scotland and if the grey squirrels are controlled, the team

:24:39. > :24:40.hope that number can increase. A fairly decent day of weather in

:24:41. > :24:57.the east particularly. The rain A fairly decent day of weather in

:24:58. > :25:02.clouds have been moving in from the west during the afternoon and indeed

:25:03. > :25:06.tonight, it looks west for most of us and fairly windy. The rain will

:25:07. > :25:09.turn to snow for a brief period across the hills and the very

:25:10. > :25:20.highest roads but fought turning back to rain and it will be fairly

:25:21. > :25:23.persistent. Strong to gale force south-westerly winds, especially

:25:24. > :25:28.across western and northern isles and through Sam Northeast in coastal

:25:29. > :25:32.areas. Becoming increasingly mild as we go through the night with

:25:33. > :25:38.temperatures recovering to around seven to nine Celsius during the

:25:39. > :25:44.early hours. Tomorrow, we have a lot of cloud and further outbreaks of

:25:45. > :25:48.rain and gale force winds. It is an improving picture through the day,

:25:49. > :25:51.the bulk of the rain going to the south east and leaving behind much

:25:52. > :25:59.drier and brighter conditions in the afternoon. Sunday perhaps holding on

:26:00. > :26:02.among the southern uplands. Further north, a mixture of bright sunny

:26:03. > :26:07.spells and a scattering of mostly light showers. After a very mild

:26:08. > :26:11.morning, I think things will feel fresher tomorrow afternoon with the

:26:12. > :26:17.arrival of westerly winds although they will be easing a little bit

:26:18. > :26:21.compared the morning. If you are heading to Murrayfield tomorrow for

:26:22. > :26:25.the Six Nations, favourable conditions, bright or sunny spells,

:26:26. > :26:31.highs around eight Celsius and light to moderate westerly winds. For hill

:26:32. > :26:36.walking and climbing, a very wet and windy morning although improving for

:26:37. > :26:42.most come the afternoon. For the Galloway hills, perhaps some light

:26:43. > :26:48.rain. West or south-westerly winds, 30-40 mph. We will have some rain

:26:49. > :26:53.across the border hills perhaps, otherwise, some showers and winds

:26:54. > :26:58.from the south-west ranging from 30-60 mph. Tomorrow evening,

:26:59. > :27:02.remaining rain clears away and a few showers holding on across northern

:27:03. > :27:06.areas, especially a tossed of frost perhaps developing under clear

:27:07. > :27:11.skies. Sunday, we start dry in the east although generally we will have

:27:12. > :27:14.a fairly cloudy day with some outbreaks of rain. Some drier and

:27:15. > :27:19.brighter interludes and winds strengthening from the south-west.

:27:20. > :27:27.Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.

:27:28. > :27:29.Kezia Dugdale, The leader of Labour in Scotland -

:27:30. > :27:34.has been setting out an upbeat vision for the future of the party,

:27:35. > :27:36.By contrast Jeremy Corbyn, the UK leader, has been

:27:37. > :27:42.recovering from a bruising by- election defeat, at the hands

:27:43. > :27:44.I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm - and the late bulletin just