24/02/2017 Reporting Scotland


24/02/2017

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 24/02/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

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.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS