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Scotland's economy is hovering close to recession | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
and well behind that of the UK, according to the latest figures. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
A criminal gang is jailed for stealing hundreds | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
of thousands of pounds by blowing up cash machines. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
A warning in the European Parliament that | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Brexit may break up Britain - unless Scotland gets a bespoke deal. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
A grandmother loses her case against Trump International | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
for breaching her privacy - but claims a moral victory. | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
To me it was never about the monetary compensation, I was not | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
interested in money, I was only interested in clearing my name. | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Could Scotland's Russel Knox be the man | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
to watch at the Masters which gets underway in Augusta tomorrow? | :00:53. | :01:09. | |
The Scottish economy is hovering close to recession, according | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
They show output fell during the last three | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
months of last year, and fell well behind UK growth. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
That continues a trend of lower growth here. | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
Our business and economy editor, Douglas Fraser, assesses | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
It takes a microscope to find signs of growth at this business in the | :01:27. | :01:41. | |
north of Glasgow. And as the Finance Secretary is learning evidence of | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
economic growth is not easy to find either. Bioscience is one of the | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
hopes for the future of the Scottish economy but it will need something | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
inventive to shake about the near stagnation of the past year for the | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
figures covered the final three months of last year but the output | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
from the whole Scottish economy falling by 0.2%. Production, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
construction down most, the services sector flat compared with 0.7% | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
growth for the UK economy as a whole. Take the whole of the year | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
and to does the 16th of the Scottish economy grow by only 0.4%, very weak | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
growth, the UK, growing more than four times faster. Why, the downturn | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
in oil and gas is a likely culprit, the Scottish Government says it also | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
has a lot to do with consumer confidence following the Brexit | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
referendum decision even know that affects the whole UK. It seems to | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
contrast between Scotland and the rest of the UK, maybe the people of | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Scotland had more awareness of the impact that it is going to have on | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
the Scottish economy and of course there is a different attitude to | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Europe. Still strong economic foundations to our Scottish economy | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
and still growth in 2016. Slow growth has to do with choices made | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
by business but the challenge is for government. If that shrinking of the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Scottish economy is repeated at the start of this year we will be in a | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
recession. That is troubling for a number of reasons. But it is a call | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
to action for the UK and Scottish Government. These figures ought to | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
signal a red alert to government at all levels and its response to that | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
ought to be a recognition that businesses need support to grow. But | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
we need a competitive economy in Scotland and competitive taxes. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Forging change in Scottish finances, income tax divergence from the rest | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
of the UK begins tomorrow for the new financial year and there are | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
some signs that the economic engine is sparking better but not by much. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Inflation is back to put a squeeze on household budgets. And there is | :03:52. | :03:52. | |
also uncertainty in the economy. How significant are these quarterly | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
figures? It may look like an abstract statistic about three | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
months, a fraction of 1% does not seem a big deal but it is a vital | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
economic measure because it compiles overtime to have a big effect. And | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
jobs, pay, prosperity, are placed in the world, Scottish growth used to | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
lag behind that of the UK. In the last decade it caught up and matched | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
the UK average but now it has been falling behind for about two years. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Roughly dating back to when the oil and gas downturn began. You could | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
hear some of the reasons why the problem might be there, no one knows | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
for sure. There is also a question of whether we do enough for start-up | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
companies and to grow companies. Our people efficiently managed. And the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
politics of this as well, the Scottish Government has treated this | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
growth figure as its main target, for the ten years it has been in | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
power. But if it blames Brexit uncertainty for Scotland falling | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
behind, there's also the question of the other constitutional issue and | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
behind, there's also the question of whether that is putting a bit of a | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
chill on consumer confidence and business investment. That of course | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
is independence. Fans and former players | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
are threatening to boycott They want the club's board | :05:18. | :05:18. | |
to rethink their decision to sign David Goodwillie - | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
the former Scotland player who was ruled in a civil court | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
ruling to be a rapist. David Goodwillie scoring for his | :05:25. | :05:39. | |
country in 2011. In January the Court of session 's rules that David | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Goodwillie and his former team-mate David Robertson had both raped | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
Denise Clare in 2011 and they were ordered to pay ?100,000 in damages. | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
In the civil case Denise Claire said she was incapable of consenting | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
because of alcohol consumption. The judge found her to be cogent, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
persuasive and compelling. But the Crown Office said there was not | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
sufficient evidence for a criminal prosecution. Today Denise Clare told | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
the BBC she is dismayed that he had been allowed to return to | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
professional football. He was a promising footballer but when he | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
left Plymouth FC in January by mutual consent, many thought it was | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
the end of his career. But last week Clyde football club announced they | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
had signed him. In a statement they said, the coverage of the signing | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
brings the conversation back into the media, around an event that is | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
clearly damaged lives and this conversation raises awareness of the | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
need for both responsible decisions and respect. As a socially | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
responsible employer we will always seek to support people to rebuild | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
their lives and careers especially so after mistakes. Former Clyde | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
player Stephen Tennant says many think it is the wrong decision. He | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
suggested fans who own the club could try to force the board to | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
change its mind. On the whole I do not like it when footballers are set | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
out as role models, I think is probably over four David Goodwillie | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
in terms of football, I do not feel he has a place in the game any more. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Many fans today said they will boycott the club from on. George | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Lennox has been two games since he was eight years old. Today he wrote | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
to the club to say he will not return until they get rid of David | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Goodwillie. As far as I'm aware a large number of people are not | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
coming back. A few of my friends have written big essays on Facebook | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
justifying the reasons for not going back. It seems the club is more | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
interested in staying in the professional leagues then doing the | :07:48. | :07:48. | |
right thing. And Lucy Adams is outside | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
Clyde Football Club for us tonight. And there has been further reaction? | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
I have spoken to a lot of people here today outside the stadium. Many | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
of them have very strong feelings about this. Many feel he should be | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
allowed to play. Some in fact think this will help with his | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
rehabilitation. It is important to remember of course that David | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Goodwillie is appealing that civil court decision which came out | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
earlier this year. The context is everything. The clubs themselves | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
said that this was a difficult decision for them. This club faces | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
for the first time at the end of the season dropping out of the top | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
leagues for the first time in its 140 year history. But I spoke | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
earlier to former director Bobby Casey has said that is no excuse for | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
signing David Goodwillie at this stage. And that they should put good | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
moral decisions and the reputation of the club above their | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
considerations about relegation. I also spoke earlier to Denise Claire | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
herself and she said in her view it is time for football to grow up. She | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
said if David Goodwillie had gone through the civil case, if he were a | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
policeman or a doctor, he would not be allowed to go back to his former | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
job as a professional. And as such she once the system to change. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
Scotland's longest serving MEP has predicted the UK will no longer | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
exist if the there is no flexiblity during Brexit negotiations. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Labour's David Martin was speaking as the European Parliament | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
debated its negotiating objectives after the triggering of Article 50. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Scotland's longest serving MEP has predicted the UK will no longer | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
Our political correspondent Nick Eardley is at the parliament | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
The various arguments on Brexit are well rehearsed. We've heard more of | :09:32. | :09:44. | |
them today from European politicians, from UK politicians as | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
well. Not everyone is toeing the party line. The Labour MEP David | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Martin thinks the way the Westminster government is dealing | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
with the process could eventually lead to the break-up of the UK. | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
The city where the EU is directly elected politicians come to vote. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Strasberg is where the European Parliament will accept or reject any | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Brexit deals. Today those politicians set out their priorities | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
and heard how some Scots see the process. Including from this Labour | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
MEP who says he's no longer sure how he would vote on independence. The | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
UK does not show flexibility in these talks, then it will not only | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
be the UK leaving the EU but the UK will not exist any longer. Nigel | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Farage has been one of the fiercest critics of this Parliament and that | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
continues. He says they're making unreasonable Brexit the man. You are | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
behaving the Mafia. You think we are a hostage, we are free to go. From | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
the European fight a desire for future partnership. But also a | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
warning, they plan to be united and firm in protecting their interests. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Colleagues, we are going to remain partners and friends but the United | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
Kingdom has got to accept the fact that there will be a tough | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
negotiating position on the European Union side. So what are the European | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Parliament 's priorities? MEPs say the UK must fulfil all of its | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
obligations up until the date leaves. Echoing other institutions, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
they say the UK cannot enjoy similar benefits after it leaves. The call | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
for fair treatment of EU citizens and the motion highlighted the fact | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
that Scotland and Northern Ireland voted differently to the UK result. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
This SNP MP hopes that could prove yours. That keeps the door open for | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
greater things, whatever they may be. This is the start the process | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
and we keep all open. There will be a lot of attempts by member states | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
perhaps to divide the UK and we must be united. The European Parliament | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
has become the first institution to formally set out what it wants from | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Brexit. Later this month European leaders will meet to hammer out | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
their objectives too. Then the real talking begins. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
Seven men have been convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
of pounds by blowing up cash machines across the UK | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
Liverpool Crown Court heard how the professional and organised | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
criminals used dedicated, ruthless and sophisticated methods | :12:20. | :12:20. | |
During the year-long crime spree, 30 banks and shops in England and | :12:21. | :12:40. | |
Scotland were targeted. Some cash machines were blown up using | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
oxyacetylene gas. In other raids stolen cars were used to drag away | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
cash machines. An estimated ?110,000 was stolen in two raids on the | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
outskirts of Aberdeen. Perth and Carnoustie. The attack on the Co-op | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
proved to be the last for the gang. Hours after the robbery and off duty | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
police officer spotted a suspicious car seven miles away in Arbroath. As | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
shocked diners looked on armed police swooped on the car park at | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
the McDonald's in the town and five men were arrested. Police used a | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
tyre deflation weapon to stop the gang getting away. In the weeks | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
leading up to the arrests, detectives in Scotland and England | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
were already closing in on the gang. It was after an overnight raid on | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the cash machines at this store at King 's Wells on the outskirts of | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Aberdeen when police made a major breakthrough in the case. CCTV from | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
a nearby industrial estate picked up a rendezvous between a lorry and a | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
high-performance car. We became aware that the group had access to a | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
stolen HGV and they were actually using high-powered motor cars to | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
commit these crimes. But transporting the Audi within the HGV | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
to not travel -- to not draw attention to themselves. This setup | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
would not be lost to fans of the classic film the Italian job. They | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
had fuel, toilet rolls, and they had cut a small area within the outer | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
skin of the HGV to allow them access in and out without drawing attention | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
to themselves by opening the rear of the lorry. The charges that the gang | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
have been convicted of carry hefty prison terms. They will be sentenced | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
later this month. A grandmother who tried | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
to sue Trump International for breaching her privacy has | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
lost her case. Rohan Beyts took on the company | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
after being told there was mobile phone footage of her that had been | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
recorded while she was urinating in sand dunes near the company's | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
Aberdeenshire golf course. The sand dunes skirt the Rohan Beyts | :14:52. | :15:08. | |
-- the temporary golf course. One day last April by walking with a | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
friend Rohan Beyts got caught short and answered the call of nature in | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
the sand dunes. That was caught on and answered the call of nature in | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
camera by a member of the golf course staff. They watched Rohan | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Beyts and her friends that they as they were known for their opposition | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
to the Trump development. Rohan Beyts said she was distressed at | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
being photographed at such a moment and she sued for breach of privacy. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
But golf course may have registered plenty of plaudits but she argued | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
they had not registered the data protection arrangements necessary | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
for the kind of surveillance carried out. The sheriff however was not | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
convinced by the argument. He said that the distress suffered by Rohan | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Beyts had not been caused by the golf course bridging of state | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
registration requirements. He said there was no link between the lack | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
of registration and her distress. I was in it to clear my name because I | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
had been accused of doing something deliberately. I have been accused of | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
being close to the clubhouse which I was not. I was accused of doing it | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
in full view of people, I could see nobody. And the sheriff has | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
confirmed that he believes me and that is so important. Sheriff Donald | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
caught in its ruling pointed out that Rohan Beyts had been urinating | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
in circumstances where she would have a reasonable expectation of | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
privacy. He went on to observe that she should not have been | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
photographed. I have to emphasise that officious bystanders taking | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
pictures of the most urinating in the countryside put themselves at | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
real risk of prosecution. Whether for a public order offence or | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
voyeurism. Anyone in Scotland walking through the countryside and | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
has to go is perfectly entitled to go in terms of the Scottish outdoor | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
access code. And Rohan Beyts has been utterly vindicated in this | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
case. Trump International issued a statement saying we are satisfied | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
that justice has prevailed. The disingenuous claim they said by | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
Rohan Beyts was a perversion of the truth and nothing more than a poor | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
attempt at self publicity in an effort to garner support for her | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
anti-Trump, anti-business propaganda. Tonight Rohan Beyts is | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
glad that the case is over and plans a series of long-distance walks down | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
through Scotland. She says her roots may go through few toilets but even | :17:24. | :17:24. | |
fewer courses. Scotland's economy is hovering close | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
to recession and well behind that of the UK, | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
according to the latest figures. Could Scotland's Russel Knox be | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
the man to watch at the Masters, which gets under way | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
in Augusta tomorrow? The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
has arrived at the United Nations headquarters in New York, | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
where she's expected to announce new funding | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
for conflict resolution work. Our political correspondent, | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
Glenn Campbell, is at And while the UK takes the lead on | :17:54. | :18:07. | |
overseas aid, the Scottish Government also has a relatively | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
small budget for international assistance and the First Minister | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
arrived here in the last hour, and she would like to spend more of that | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
money on peace work. Symbolism is important in politics, and the First | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
Minister who would like one day to see the flag of an independent | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Scotland flying between those of Saudi Arabia and Senegal, here at | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
the United Nations, has chosen this theatre of state had to send out her | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
government's more to world affairs government's more to world affairs | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
-- statehood. Her visit Karen sighs with an emergency meeting of the UN | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Security Council -- coincides. Discussing the use of chemical | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
weapons in Syria. The UK is one of five permanent members of the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
council, and the devolved minister is not involved in those | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
discussions, but she happens to be here at UN headquarters today to | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
give an address on human rights and conflict resolution organised | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
through the office of the UN special envoy to Syria. The First Minister | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
is committing extra cash to peace building work with ?1.2 million to | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
be spent in the next few years, training 200 women in conflict | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
resolution and mediation. Nicola Sturgeon indicated last night that | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
contributing positively on the international stage would be the | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
hallmark of the independent Scotland. Independence defined | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
within interdependence is the best way for us to build a fairer society | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
at home and to make a positive contribution to the world. | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
president of the UN General sellers president of the UN General sellers | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
-- assembly thinks more nations have a way to conceive it, even if they | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
don't choose independence. -- have a way to contribute. That is entirely | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
up to the people of Scotland to decide, but the more I go through | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
life I see life in terms of us being human beings on one planet and it is | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
not the divisions that are important, it is bringing us | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
altogether and that is why this place is so important. The Scottish | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Government's cash at a little to the ?2.46 billion the Prime Minister has | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
committed to help Syria alone. -- adds a little. Supporters of the | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
union says Scottish can make a big impact internationally as part of | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
the UK, a global power with a big budget. And of course that is the | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
sort of debate that will intensify if there is going to be another | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
independence referendum, the First Minister said she is fairly certain | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
it will go ahead, despite the continuing stand-off between the | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Scottish and UK governments and her political opponents wished that she | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
would call it off and concentrate instead on turning around the | :21:06. | :21:06. | |
Scottish economy. A campaign to vaccinate girls | :21:07. | :21:07. | |
against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted infection has led | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
to a dramatic drop in Researchers found a 90% reduction | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
in levels of the human papilloma virus in women since the vaccine | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
was made available in 2008. The virus is thought to account | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
for about 80% of cervical cancers. Public health specialists say | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
the large numbers of girls taking up The whole success stems from the | :21:30. | :21:39. | |
fact we have got a very high uptake of the vaccine and have done since | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
the inception of the programme and so a 90% uptake of all three doses | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
remove the iris from the population. remove the iris from the population. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
-- virus. Events to commemorate 100 years | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
since one of the most significant events of the First World War | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
are taking place this Sunday. The Battle of Arras | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
in Northern France marked a major push against German forces | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
and featured the highest concentration of Scots troops | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
to fight at any point Donald Mackay was living in | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
Edinburgh when war broke out and he signed up for the Battle of Arras | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
like many young Scots. His dispatches from the front line are | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
this letter he sent home in 189017 this letter he sent home in 189017 | :22:25. | :22:36. | |
-- April 19 17. He wrote this 17 days before he was killed in battle | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
at the age of 29. He seems to be an ordinary average young man of the | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
day, Nvidia felt they had a duty to go and fight -- who really felt. I | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
think law is a last resort, but the First World War haunts me and he | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
sort of haunts me, as well -- I think war is a last resort. It was | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
an offensive on the Western front, but the cost was high, one third of | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
the 159,000 casualties were Scottish. This weekend special | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
commemorations will be held here at the Scottish War memorial and in | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
France. There is nobody alive who was in that battle and so we are now | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
creating a lasting legacy based on stories that have been handed down | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
through generations of descendants. Organisers say the anniversary is an | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
important reminder of the past and one which will serve generations of | :23:35. | :23:35. | |
the future. It's one of the most eagerly awaited | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
events in the sporting year. Golf's Masters gets under way | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
in Augusta, Georgia tomorrow. And Russell Knox, one | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
of the two Scots competing, could be the man to watch, | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
according to a fellow Scot who's In the sporting calendar there are | :23:48. | :24:06. | |
few events which can rival its beauty, and only the best get to | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
battle with Augusta, but when play gets underway tomorrow there will be | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
just two Scots in the field. One is a former champion, Sandy Lyle, who | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
won 1998, but his odds to win this week tell their own story. Russell | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
Knox is in better shape than he has a few wins under his belt. He is | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
23rd in the world, although the bookmakers don't really fancy his | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
chances either. But as the man himself continued his preparations, | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
there was support back home. Maybe the conditions being a bit soft | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
might hamper him, he is not the longest, but he is a great iron | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
player and it would not be surprising if he is in the mix on | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Sunday afternoon. Other European hopes rest with this man, the | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Masters is the only one of the big four tournaments that has eluded | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
him. It has been relatively quiet which is quite nice, not that I feel | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
I can fly under the radar any more, but at the same time it has felt | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
that way to me. It has been nice to prepare and just go about my | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
business and try to get ready. But preparations this year have been | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
tricky with strong winds forecast and tornado warnings issued, | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
mastering Augusta this year could be even tougher than usual. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
To the weather now, and it's over to Kawser. | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
It is quite windy, but it has been bright and quite breezy, but fairly | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
cloudy. There are a few holes to end the day to allow some sunny moments | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
and the best that has been towards the east. This picture from one of | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
our weather watchers, some bright blue skies, and for the evening it | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
is mostly dry, but fairly cloudy. In the course of the night we will have | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
the cloud thickener, and some of that thick enough for some drizzle, | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
and some fairly breezy weather across the Northern Isles. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
Temperatures could dip to around 3-5 in the north-east. Elsewhere, 7-8. | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
Tomorrow fairly cloudy, the best of the brightness across the East Coast | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
and again the cloud thick enough for some light drizzle across parts of | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
higher ground in the North West. If you are heading out around four | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
o'clock in the afternoon, fairly cloudy and wet across the Shetlands, | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
and Orkney, brighter, and the North will have the best of the sunshine | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
and temperatures could reach 15. Cloudy elsewhere, the central belt | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
will be largely dry, like the South, and temperatures 10-11. I pressure | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
has been responsible for this fairly settled weather and that will be in | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
charge for Friday, as well. Fairly cloudy conditions will continue in | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
the West and the best of the brightness further to the east and | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
still quite breezy across the very far north and the Northern Isles | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
with tight isobars will stop this is the picture. The West East split. | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
Thicker cloud. Showery outbreaks of rain, but patchy, two wards the | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
ease, the best of the sunshine, and temperatures could reach 15 -- | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
ease, the best of the sunshine, and towards the east. And we have a | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
change on the wafer Sunday and I will have more on that morrow. -- | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
change on the way for Sunday and I will have more on that tomorrow. | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
Now a reminder of tonight's main news. | :27:47. | :27:47. | |
The Scottish economy is hovering close to recession according | :27:48. | :27:49. | |
They show output fell during the last three | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
months of last year, and fell well behind UK growth. | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
The UN Security Council has held an emergency session to discuss | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
the suspected gas attack on a rebel-held town in Syria. | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
The attack is believed to have killed more than 70 people, | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team, right across the country, | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
I'm finding out for the first time I could have 17, 18 siblings. | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
They were the brothers and sisters scattered across Scotland. | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
I had no idea there were any of the others. | :28:20. | :28:22. |