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and on BBC one we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Scottish Labour party gathers in Perth. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Federalism is on the agenda, but those by-election | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
More bad news for the Royal Bank of Scotland, as it reports | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
The school that's teaching pupils how to deal with the stress | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
and depression caused by life as a teenager. | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
If you're on one social media it is like you have to have all the | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
profiles, everyone has to see everything you are doing in your | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
life and you have to keep up with them and you are maybe telling | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
people think she would not normally tell them. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
Scotland will attempt to record their first win over Wales since | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
2007. And, the plan to protect | :00:59. | :00:59. | |
the RED squirrel, by eradicating the rival grey | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
squirrels in Aberdeen. The leader of Labour in Scotland has | :01:03. | :01:17. | |
been setting out an upbeat vision for the future of the party as part | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
of a federal United Kingdom. By contrast Jeremy Corbyn, | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
the UK leader, has been recovering from a bruising by- | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
election defeat, at the hands Our political editor Brian Taylor | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
is in Perth at Scottish Labour's Brian, Kezia Dugdale | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
wanting to focus on federalism but was that | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
overshadowed by Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's chances of government | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
ebbing further away? Let's put it this way, there are two | :01:47. | :01:59. | |
elements to politics, there is policy and in that regard Labour | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
think that the announcement on federalism gives them a big | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
cardboard alongside that is power. In opposition you get to say things | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
but in government you get to do stuff. Kezia Dugdale is stressing | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
the autonomy of the Scottish Parliament but she is only too well | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
aware that difficulties for Labour south of the border tend to wash | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
north to Scotland. Nice to see you. It started with a kiss, and a | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
promise. Kezia Dugdale knows the last thing Labour wants to talk | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
about is the constitution. Labour needs a new offer. Our vision, the | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
Scottish Labour vision is for a radical reshaping of the UK that | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
offers a poster Brexit solution that delivers for it the four corners of | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
these islands. It is time for a new act of union. Your speech was great! | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
Kezia Dugdale visualisers a People's Convention. More clout for the | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
regions of England. On the fringe, she even suggest that it could be | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
put to the Scottish people if another independence referendum is | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
held. I don't want to be another referendum. I can certainly see a | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
legitimate case for if there were to be a referendum that you might put | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
something as strong as a federalist solution the ballot paper. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Implementing that would require Labour to be in power, not on the | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
horizon, according to one delegate. It has never been tougher being a | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
Labour member then now from a UK It has never been tougher being a | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
wide perspective, we have never looked further from forming a | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
government. Labour held of Ukip in the Stoke by-election but lost | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Copeland to the Tories, so where does that leave the leadership of | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. It is a disappointing result. I can't help but think, it | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
is to blame for that. Jeremy Corbyn is our leader, he has the support of | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
the entire Labour Party because we have to get on with it. Personally, | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
I didn't vote for him but he is my leader, so I'll support him. The | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
voice of the members, what does the leader think? Should Jeremy Corbyn | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
consider his position? I am 100% behind him. I have a job to do here | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
in Scotland. It is an autonomous party. I'm going to continue doing | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
that. The conference will hear from Kezia Dugdale tomorrow and from | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday. Brian -- and Kezia Dugdale has been | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
talking about the pressures Yes. That was also at that fringe | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
meeting, reflecting that since the beginning of the years she has split | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
from her partner of nine years and her best friend has died. She said | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
it was dreadful and appalling to cope with but she did so simply by | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
taking it one step at a time. But there will be huge pressures in the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
party and Labour need to take some galloping strides to advance its | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
position both north and south of the border. In one regard, I think there | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
will be movement on that idea of the | :05:10. | :05:26. | |
People's Convention and I think that Tom Watson, the Deputy Leader of the | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
party may give it its backing tomorrow and it is expected in the | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
next few weeks or months that there will be an actual move to set up | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
such an initiative. There was more gloomy news | :05:34. | :05:34. | |
for the Royal Bank of Scotland today as it reported a 7 billion pounds | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
annual loss -- the ninth year in a row that its | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
failed to make a profit. The bank is now looking to make | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
savings of two billion pounds, which will mean job cuts | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
and more branch closures. But its chief executive wouldn't be | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
drawn on their scale. I have not put a number out and I | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
will not. My view is to always talk to our people first and there will | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
be job cuts in this organisation, there has to be, given that over the | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
next four years we will take ?2 billion worth of costs out of the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
organisation to make us a really good bank. These things are | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
happening because banking is changing and it is changing rapidly | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
as well and we need to be a competitive bank. | :06:17. | :06:16. | |
I'm joined now by our business and economy editor Douglas Fraser. | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Douglas, are these losses better or worse than predicted? | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
They are a lot worse and the pain goes on for longer. There is a core | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
bank in their summer struggling to get out. It made not a bad figure in | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
profits. That was last year. Set against that, you have ?10 billion | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
of fines and legal costs and restructuring, that is for | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
mis-selling, for claims that they misled investors, rigging markets, | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
?2 billion for restructuring and a huge bill for trying to carve out a | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
bit of Royal Bank of Scotland, which they called a different name, that | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
has failed and they cannot sell it or floated and the costs of | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
reintegrating it back into RBS and getting rid of the tuba gating | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
branches, that looks like billions more, effectively for achieving | :07:14. | :07:14. | |
nothing at all. So, how does RBS hope | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
to turn this around? There is that core bank, it is | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
attracting customers as well. They need to get these fines and legal | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
cases behind them, their plans have slept for another year, they don't | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
expect a profit from this year and we are looking at ten years of | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
losses, probably more than ?60 billion of losses by that time and | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
because they have slimmed down from the one of the biggest banks to | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
focusing only on the UK and Ireland, costs are high relative to income by | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
industry standards and they want to continue cutting costs, ?3 billion | :07:52. | :08:07. | |
over the past two years. That means a lot of jobs, it means branch | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
closures and that is partly because the industry is changing. Most of | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
their customers use digital and mobile banking, one fifth use only | :08:13. | :08:13. | |
their customers use digital and that so financial technology is a | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
threat and an opportunity and RBS wants to be at the forefront of it. | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
Thank you. The man who advises the UK | :08:18. | :08:17. | |
government on Scots law is to appear before a sheriff in Edinburgh, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
charged with a firearms offence. Lord Keen is accused of failing | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
to secure a 12-bore shotgun It's understood Lord Keen | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
was reported by police investigating Leuchars in Fife is to | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
become the centre of Army The Defence Secretary Sir Michael | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
Fallon was in Scotland for a meeting of the MoD defence board, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
which met in Edinburgh He confirmed spending of one point | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
seven 7 billion pounds on HM Naval Base Clyde, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
the site of the UK's nuclear submarines, and on the Lossiemouth | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
fighter jet base in Moray. The Scottish government said | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
it was "too little, too late". One in ten adults are currently | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
on anti-depressents. And its estimated that almost half | :09:05. | :09:05. | |
of adults with mental health problems developed them before | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
they left school. Now, a school in one | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
of Glasgow's most deprived areas is training parents, | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
pupils and staff how The aim is to intervene | :09:18. | :09:18. | |
early, BEFORE mental Our correspondent | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Lucy Adams reports. They do have worries, but what kind | :09:23. | :09:40. | |
of impact does it have a new? These fourth-year pupils at St Paul's high | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
school in Glasgow are learning how to manage stress. Other people can | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
judge how they look on social media and back and get them stressed. From | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
exams, obviously, you need them for your future to get a good job, go to | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
university. Pressure from your friends because you feel if they do | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
better than you, you feel as if you have done something wrong and it | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
knocks your confidence. Relax. The eight-week course offers pupils | :10:13. | :10:12. | |
practical ways of dealing with eight-week course offers pupils | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
anxiety. The aim, not just for these pupils, but for their parents and | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
their teachers is to learn new ways to cope with stress. So that they | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
can get on with their lives. It started with a psychological test of | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
all the pupils. We were a bit surprised at just how many of the | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
pupils were already showing signs of difficulties with anxiety and | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
depression, around numbers back or out of ten of them at the start of | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the programme. By the end of the programme, we had cut that in half, | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
but when we followed that up, we were seen that they were still | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
continuing to improve. Lauren was so stressed that she ended up in | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
hospital before her preliminaries last year. My foot was getting very | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
sore and I was not able to walk on it. My mother took me to the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
hospital and they said it was an explained what it was but because I | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
was at explaining that it was about exam time, they said it was really | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
due to stress. It is not just about exam pressure,. If you're on one | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
social media, you have to have all the profiles, everyone has to be | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
able to see what you are doing in your life when you have to keep up. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
You are telling people may be things that you would not usually tell | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
them, where you are going, what you are doing all the time. It is | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
constantly, so everyone has an insight into your life. The modern | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
world is not just stressful for pupils. Classrooms can be stressful | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
situations, both for pupils and for teachers. It really helped me to be | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
able to identify what stress was happening. The council says it will | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
now assess the results and look out which other schools could benefit. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Those involved believe stress management could help everyone, | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
young and old. Lucy Adams, Reporting Scotland. | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
A memorial service has been held for the former | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
The veteran politician, who spent 43 years as an MP, | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
The ceremony at St Michael's Parish Church in Linlithgow was attended | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
by prominent Labour figures from Westminster and Holyrood. | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
Among those was the former Labour MP Brian Wilson, who paid tribute | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
There was a privilege to know him, to work with him, to agree with him | :12:30. | :12:44. | |
and sometimes even to disagree with him. He was, by any standards, and | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
utterly unique political figure and in a generally grim period for | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
politics, it is a bleak thought that there is even less respect in his | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
career for the importance of being awkward and even fewer politicians | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
with the diligence and independence of mind to pursuit that designation. | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland. | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
The Scottish Labour Party gathers in Perth. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Federalism is on the agenda, but those by-election | :13:14. | :13:14. | |
And still to come - Scotland's women footballers are going full-time | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
ahead of this summer's Detectives investigating the death | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
of a north-east man nearly a year Police had even turned to the BBC | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Crimewatch programme, in what they described as a lengthy | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
and complex investigation into the death of 67-year-old Brian McKandie. | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Rebecca Curran reports. Brian McKandie's body was found here | :13:46. | :13:59. | |
at his cottage on March 12 last year. The 67-year-old's death | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
prompted a huge police investigation. Hundreds of motorists | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
were stopped by officers in the weeks that followed and Brian's | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
brother made an appeal on the BBC's Crimewatch programme. Somebody must | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
know what happened to Brian and we would ask them to look to their | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
conscience and call the police. We have lost our brother and we just | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
want to know what happened and why. With the anniversary of Brian's | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
death approaching, police stepped up investigations. On Monday this week, | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
officers carried out a fresh surge on the roads and today, they | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
confirmed a 23-year-old man has been charged in connection with Brian | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
McKandie's death. Expected to appear at Aberdeenshire Crown Court on | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Monday. The police says enquiries continuing and a police hut has been | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
situated here today for anyone with concerns. Police are in attendance | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
at another property today as part of their investigation. | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
The Cowdenbeath football player who'd admitted betting | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
against his own team has been released by the League Two club. | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
Dean Brett told BBC Scotland he hoped to have a future | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
with Cowdenbeath, but would accept their decision at a | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
disciplinary hearing. He's now been told he has no | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
future at Central Park, and has had his contract terminated. | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
This week, he was also banned for four matches, | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
with a further four suspended, for using homophobic | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
A look now at other stories from across the country. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
Detectives investigating the rape of a woman in Renfrewshire have | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
asked for help to trace her missing trousers. | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
The woman was attacked by a man on a path near | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Wallace Primary School in Elderslie, on Monday evening. | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Police have urged people to check gardens and bins | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
Profits at Standard Life have increased by nine | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
The Edinburgh based insurer and asset manager made | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
a pre-tax profit of more than ?7 hundred million. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
a pre-tax profit of more than ?700 million. | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
The assets it manages increased by 16%. | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
The company says it will add staff in Frankfurt and Luxembourg | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
after the Brexit vote, as part of its contingency plans. | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
The Scottish government has defended the Borders Railway after claims | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
the infrastructure vision for the project was "short-sighted". | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Think-tank Reform Scotland said the route had been left with limited | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
potential for expansion, and that the Edinburgh | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
to Tweedbank line had shown thinking was "too small" | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
The Scottish Government said the railway had proved a huge | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
success and it expected more investment in future. | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Three Scottish dogs are being honoured by a vet | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
charity for their bravery and devotion to duty. | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
Police dog Ozzy is getting the prestigious PDSA gold medal | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
for disarming a man who threatened to blow up a block of flats. | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
Fellow police dog Sweep has won the order of merit for his work | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
detecting drugs and firearms, and civilian dog Sabby will also get | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
the award for supporting people with learning disabilities. | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
The difference they can make, the lives they have saved, whether it be | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
taking the dog of the street or finding the person with dementia | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
that has gone missing. I feel very lucky to have a job that you | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
genuinely get up in the morning and think, I wonder what'll happen | :17:29. | :17:29. | |
today? In sport, it's another big | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
weekend for Scotland, They play Wales at Murrayfield | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
tomorrow, from where our sports And David, this is a really | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
important match for both teams. Yes - with one win and one defeat | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
each so far in the tournament - whoever wins tomorrow's match | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
still has a chance to Not so for the losers - | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
so plenty at stake tomorrow Scotland have home advantage | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
but this is a venue Welsh players and supporters seem | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
to love visiting. Not quite tourists, more like | :18:10. | :18:27. | |
pilgrims. Upholding a tradition with a biennial visit to Edinburgh. What | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
is so special about this fixture? Friendly, happy people and to us, we | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
come to Scotland and we have a fabulous time. It is brilliant. How | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
many times have you been coming? 40th year this year that I have been | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
coming. That tried by Luke Phil Bennett, legendary drive. Absolutely | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
brilliant try. They were a brilliant team in the day as well. Wales are | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
usually associated with... It tends to be a high-scoring game and lots | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
of good tries. Certainly, if you look at the teams on Saturday, lots | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
of firepower. If the weather holds up and it is a decent day, I would | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
expect quite a lot of tries scored. Ten years, Scotland haven't beaten | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
Wales. I thought it was eight. Is it ten? Obviously not a big issue for | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
you! I am the eternal optimist but it will be a tough game. There have | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
been many references to the training and it will be a different animal we | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
play against this week than we have done in the past. The Welsh of | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
course are not unbeatable any more and contrary to myth that every | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
Welsh person has a good voice. SINGING | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
I can't predict the score - but I'm confident the rugby will be | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
much better and more entertaining than the singing. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
Scotland's women footballers are going full-time ahead of this | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
summer's European Championship. National coach Anna Signeul | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
is calling it a real breakthrough for the women's game. | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
A new funding package is allowing the players who work | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Kheredine Idessane went to meet one of them to find out more. | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
Let's go. Listen to the referee. Sound advice to the footballers of | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
the future. Female footballers of the present in Scotland work before | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
they play. This one is normally an active schools coordinator but from | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
now until the summer's European Championships, she gets to go | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
professional. What difference will it make. Hopefully a big difference | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
in terms of being able to be rested and recovered going into sessions | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
and able to give 100%. We are in preseason but the next thing we need | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
to look at now is the technical aspects of the game and tactics | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
going forward into the Championships. Having the time to | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
focus on that should make a huge difference to each player and the | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
team in general. Patron of the team, the First Minister, helped with the | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
announcement today and she will no doubt remember a similar arrangement | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
which allowed the Scottish women's hockey team to go full-time in the | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
run-up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. How much has | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
been provided for our female footballers to go professional? The | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
overall package could be worth over ?100,000. A third coming from the | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Scottish football partnership, a ?100,000. A third coming from the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
third from sport Scotland and a third from energy provider SSC. So | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
many young girls would look at these players and this team and want to be | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
one of them. I think it will actually have so much benefits, | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
positive benefits coming on after this. | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
Any more reds? LeAnn Ross is giving up the day job to become a full-time | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
footballer, at least for a while, but she's hoping she and her | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
Scotland team are paving the way for girls just like the ones she has | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
been teaching for one day to become full-time footballer is right here | :22:34. | :22:34. | |
in Scotland. Hundreds of volunteers are to be | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
enlisted to help ensure the long term survival of Scotland's | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
native red squirrel. The scheme aims to reduce grey | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
squirrel numbers in southern and central Scotland, | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
and eradicate them Our environment correspondent, | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
Kevin Keane reports. It might look like free food but | :22:51. | :23:02. | |
this cute little red squirrel is giving a piece of himself every time | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
he lifts the lid. Inside, little sticky pads take a tiny sample of | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
the of the animal brushes against it. These are collected and examined | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
to find that the prevalence of the red and grey squirrels. We have two | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
here that are from the two species and without much doubt, the one on | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
the right is grey and the one on the left is red. Sometimes you find | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
both. That is when you really need a microscope to look at these pads | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
because you have crisscrossing hairs from two species on the same piece | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
of Velcro and you have to look very carefully. The ?2.5 million funding | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
from the lottery fund will be used to set up large-scale community | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
monitoring. They will then be able to target areas where grey squirrels | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
are advancing and reduce their numbers. That is happening already | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
in Aberdeen with huge success and now there is a new aim of | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
eradicating grey squirrels entirely. It behaves like an island population | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
so it is spread out and what we have managed to do is restrict them and | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
eradication is feasible. This scheme has its critics. People asking, | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
should we be killing one animal in favour of another? Conservationists | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
argue this is an invasive species whose presence is causing the | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
decline of a native animal. It is estimated just 120,000 red squirrels | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
survive in Scotland and if the grey squirrels are controlled, the team | :24:38. | :24:38. | |
hope that number can increase. A fairly decent day of weather in | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
the east particularly. The rain A fairly decent day of weather in | :24:41. | :24:57. | |
clouds have been moving in from the west during the afternoon and indeed | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
tonight, it looks west for most of us and fairly windy. The rain will | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
turn to snow for a brief period across the hills and the very | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
highest roads but fought turning back to rain and it will be fairly | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
persistent. Strong to gale force south-westerly winds, especially | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
across western and northern isles and through Sam Northeast in coastal | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
areas. Becoming increasingly mild as we go through the night with | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
temperatures recovering to around seven to nine Celsius during the | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
early hours. Tomorrow, we have a lot of cloud and further outbreaks of | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
rain and gale force winds. It is an improving picture through the day, | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
the bulk of the rain going to the south east and leaving behind much | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
drier and brighter conditions in the afternoon. Sunday perhaps holding on | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
among the southern uplands. Further north, a mixture of bright sunny | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
spells and a scattering of mostly light showers. After a very mild | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
morning, I think things will feel fresher tomorrow afternoon with the | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
arrival of westerly winds although they will be easing a little bit | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
compared the morning. If you are heading to Murrayfield tomorrow for | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
the Six Nations, favourable conditions, bright or sunny spells, | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
highs around eight Celsius and light to moderate westerly winds. For hill | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
walking and climbing, a very wet and windy morning although improving for | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
most come the afternoon. For the Galloway hills, perhaps some light | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
rain. West or south-westerly winds, 30-40 mph. We will have some rain | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
across the border hills perhaps, otherwise, some showers and winds | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
from the south-west ranging from 30-60 mph. Tomorrow evening, | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
remaining rain clears away and a few showers holding on across northern | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
areas, especially a tossed of frost perhaps developing under clear | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
skies. Sunday, we start dry in the east although generally we will have | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
a fairly cloudy day with some outbreaks of rain. Some drier and | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
brighter interludes and winds strengthening from the south-west. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news. | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
Kezia Dugdale, The leader of Labour in Scotland - | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
has been setting out an upbeat vision for the future of the party, | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
By contrast Jeremy Corbyn, the UK leader, has been | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
recovering from a bruising by- election defeat, at the hands | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm - and the late bulletin just | :27:43. | :27:44. |