:07:55. > :08:06.one consult si which supports self-employed people. Software is a
:08:07. > :08:10.big focus for us and a shortage of engineers is a problem. With skills
:08:11. > :08:16.shortages, recruitment specialists say this is an area of concern after
:08:17. > :08:20.Britain leaves the EU. Access to skilled people from the EU is a real
:08:21. > :08:24.challenge. It is parts of our plan to make sure we have people for the
:08:25. > :08:28.industry in the long-term. We would love to see more people coming from
:08:29. > :08:33.within the Scottish population and joining the sector. But it is not an
:08:34. > :08:37.overnight solution. It will take a long time to train people. Today's
:08:38. > :08:41.other report shows the problem is not widespread. Almost everyone
:08:42. > :08:45.needs some tech skill and we are not keeping pace. Chambers of Commerce
:08:46. > :08:50.asked member what is are the most important skills and three quarters
:08:51. > :08:56.said computer skills, communicating through IT, handling data. But more
:08:57. > :09:00.than half say the demands of IT are putting extra pressure on staff and
:09:01. > :09:06.a third are struggling to meet customer requirements. This is
:09:07. > :09:12.impacting on every employee in the workforce today that does require to
:09:13. > :09:20.have these basic skills, technology is moving at a fast pace and
:09:21. > :09:24.business and our staff are not keeping up with that. Do the workers
:09:25. > :09:29.think they have the skill they need? Probably not. Definitely lacking in
:09:30. > :09:34.them. Probably an age thing. I think imquite well trained for the job I
:09:35. > :09:43.do. Also I have children and they're into IT. They're good and could
:09:44. > :09:48.teach me. We have personal training and go through the training
:09:49. > :09:58.programmes and if there is major changes, it is almost self taught. A
:09:59. > :10:03.will the A lot of jobs s seem to be threatened by technology. Where work
:10:04. > :10:05.meets technology, the race is on to harness it before it harnesses our
:10:06. > :10:08.jobs. The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon,
:10:09. > :10:11.met the former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
:10:12. > :10:13.in New York last night. They chatted backstage at the Women
:10:14. > :10:15.in the World conference, where they each gave
:10:16. > :10:17.separate, live interviews. From New York, here's our political
:10:18. > :10:31.correspondent, Glenn Campbell. They welcomed her like a celebrity
:10:32. > :10:33.and interviewer Tina Brown asked her about the US election. President
:10:34. > :10:38.Trump is the president of United States and I respect that. She took
:10:39. > :10:44.care not to renew her criticism. I'm here as the guest of the United
:10:45. > :10:53.States just now... LAUGHTER But I want to be allowed back in in
:10:54. > :11:00.future. She praised German's Angela Merkel for standing up to the
:11:01. > :11:06.president and heaped praise on his defeated rival. What Hillary
:11:07. > :11:09.Clinton, she has been a trail blazer for women in politics and pleads I
:11:10. > :11:15.easier for women like me in politics. I think for that, I and
:11:16. > :11:21.women across the world, owe Hillary Clinton a debt of gratitude. The
:11:22. > :11:27.First Minister was asked why Holyrood has three female leaders.
:11:28. > :11:32.Something in the water! Exactly. Or something in the whisky. Something
:11:33. > :11:36.in the whisky. To describe her relationship with Theresa May. We
:11:37. > :11:41.both like shoes. That is a good starting point! She criticised the
:11:42. > :11:47.treatment of female politicians in the media after this front-page. So
:11:48. > :11:53.this you know tendency to reduce women to body parts or to, what they
:11:54. > :11:58.wear or their hair, it is not innocent and it is not something we
:11:59. > :12:04.should just laugh off. It is a deliberate attempt to demean women
:12:05. > :12:07.and we should speak out about it. Mr Her contribution was well received.
:12:08. > :12:14.She was may favourite person speaking today. Oh, my God. Perfect.
:12:15. > :12:23.She was really good. I love what she said. We need more women like her.
:12:24. > :12:25.Awesome. I loved her. Over seas endorsement for a politician billed
:12:26. > :12:30.here as queen of Scots. You're watching BBC
:12:31. > :12:32.Reporting Scotland. The remains of an Edinburgh woman
:12:33. > :12:38.who has been missing for 15 years The photographer who became his own
:12:39. > :12:44.subject when he spiralled Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has
:12:45. > :12:53.signed a new four-year deal He's already led the club
:12:54. > :12:57.to the league title this season and remains on course
:12:58. > :12:59.for the domestic treble. The former Liverpool boss says
:13:00. > :13:02.agreeing a contract extension Here's our senior football
:13:03. > :13:16.reporter Chris McLaughlin. After news that a major
:13:17. > :13:20.announcements was coming, this. Celtic Football Club is delighted to
:13:21. > :13:25.announce that we have agreed a new contract with Brendan. The term of
:13:26. > :13:33.the contract will be four years. And it will run to June 2021. This was
:13:34. > :13:38.Rogers taking the job last May a big name and a big reputation. And this
:13:39. > :13:42.was him just last week, League Cup in the bag, celebrating the title
:13:43. > :13:47.with eight games to spare and on course for the treble. I have loved
:13:48. > :13:53.my life in Glasgow. It has been a great city. People have been
:13:54. > :13:57.fantastic. Really loved living here. For me, Celtic's the greatest club
:13:58. > :14:04.in the world. I have the privilege to manage it and I want to make it
:14:05. > :14:07.the best I possibly can. It is warding off invaders from south of
:14:08. > :14:13.board hear the have been linked with Brendan Rodgers. You know, whatever
:14:14. > :14:17.scenario at perhaps Arsenal or Spurs, he has been linked with the
:14:18. > :14:22.top jobs in England. The news might not have been expected, but it will
:14:23. > :14:26.certainly be welcomed by the Celtic fans, Brendan Rodgers simply in
:14:27. > :14:30.their eyes can do no wrong and of course we know this deal does not
:14:31. > :14:35.necessarily mean he will stay until 2021, but the four years in itself
:14:36. > :14:39.is pretty significant. Why? Well, there are some here who believe that
:14:40. > :14:42.in four years time this club could go on to break a record and secure
:14:43. > :14:51.ten league titles in a row. Now, who's your bet
:14:52. > :14:53.for the Grand National? The most famous horse race
:14:54. > :14:55.in the world takes place tomorrow, and, for the first time in a long
:14:56. > :14:58.time, a Scottish-owned horse One For Arthur is
:14:59. > :15:12.highly-fancied amongst the 40 Meet One For Arthur and his two
:15:13. > :15:21.owners, friends with an intriguing partnership name. Our other halves
:15:22. > :15:26.play a lot of golf. We don't mind. We are delighted! We have been at
:15:27. > :15:31.school together, pony club together and we had kind of gone our separate
:15:32. > :15:34.ways, and then we found our friendship in this yard, and we
:15:35. > :15:40.thought it would be fun to go into partnership. After is part of
:15:41. > :15:45.Lucinda Russell's yard near Kinross. And the word is, if you fancy a
:15:46. > :15:49.flutter, he's a horse in form. We go there with more than hope, we go
:15:50. > :15:56.with a strong level of expectation. So, you know, I am as confident as
:15:57. > :16:00.one can be going in for a race like this. It has been a while, almost 40
:16:01. > :16:11.years, in fact, since the last Scottish winner. This was TechHub
:16:12. > :16:14.stick coming home first in 1979. It takes a year of preparation to get a
:16:15. > :16:19.horse ready for the most talked about horse race in the world. So,
:16:20. > :16:24.what makes One For Arthur want to watch? I suppose the horses that we
:16:25. > :16:28.have run in it before have been fantastic courses but they really
:16:29. > :16:31.needed heavy ground. This horse is better on soft but he can cope with
:16:32. > :16:36.good ground as well. It's something that I really want to do, it is not
:16:37. > :16:40.just for Scotland, it's for Britain and it's for the team here, for his
:16:41. > :16:44.owners, for everyone connected with him. I think he deserves his place
:16:45. > :16:48.this year. He's done really well this season and he deserves to be
:16:49. > :16:53.down there. All we want is for him to come home safe and sound, enjoy
:16:54. > :16:59.his race, and anything else would be a bonus. It certainly would, a huge
:17:00. > :17:02.financial bonus, with ?1 million awaiting the winner.
:17:03. > :17:04.Highlands and Islands Airports Limited has reported an overall
:17:05. > :17:06.increase in passenger numbers of just over 15%
:17:07. > :17:09.The Scottish Government-owned company said more than 1,600,000,
:17:10. > :17:15.The business operates 11 sites in the Highlands,
:17:16. > :17:19.Western and Northern Isles, Argyll and Dundee.
:17:20. > :17:28.Inverness, Sumburgh, and Dundee were among its busiest.
:17:29. > :17:29.Graham MacIndoe was a successful photographer
:17:30. > :17:32.who went from the streets of West Lothian to taking portrait
:17:33. > :17:34.pictures of some of the world's most famous celebrities.
:17:35. > :17:36.He became addicted to drugs and ended up
:17:37. > :17:40.During his devastating descent into drug
:17:41. > :17:42.addiction, he turned the camera on himself -
:17:43. > :17:44.giving a remarkable insight into an addict's life.
:17:45. > :17:47.An exhibition of those photos is now going on display
:17:48. > :17:48.at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
:17:49. > :18:03.A warning, this report contains images of drug use. I think it is
:18:04. > :18:06.the content, because it shows you... For photographer Graham MacIndoe,
:18:07. > :18:10.there is no normal exhibition. It tells the story of his descent into
:18:11. > :18:16.chaos, caused by addiction to drugs. After growing up in West Lothian and
:18:17. > :18:21.studying at the Edinburgh College Of Art, he moved to New York to do
:18:22. > :18:25.portrait pictures of some of the biggest stars in the world. The
:18:26. > :18:32.stresses of his life led to a reliance on alcohol, cocaine and
:18:33. > :18:36.then heroin. I was having a good time, I was drinking heavily, people
:18:37. > :18:41.were doing drugs I had never tried. I was just like, try that. It
:18:42. > :18:45.started off as partying and using sometimes with friends and it turned
:18:46. > :18:49.into a real serious habit, which turned into addiction, then became
:18:50. > :18:52.something that I was totally incapable of dealing with. The
:18:53. > :18:55.instinct of a photographer never left him and he started taking
:18:56. > :18:59.pictures of himself. I caught a glance of myself in the mirror once
:19:00. > :19:03.when I was in somebody's apartment where people were using drugs. I
:19:04. > :19:08.looked at myself, and I thought, wow! This is how bad I look! I
:19:09. > :19:12.realised that photographing myself was more relevant than photographing
:19:13. > :19:16.other people. He hit rock bottom when he spent four months in New
:19:17. > :19:20.York jail for drug possession, five more in an immigration centre. In
:19:21. > :19:25.the end it was love that helped him conquer his addiction. He's been
:19:26. > :19:28.clean for nearly eight years. I first saw these pictures when Graham
:19:29. > :19:32.had accidentally posted some of them online, and it was during the period
:19:33. > :19:35.when we were together. At first it was devastating for me, because this
:19:36. > :19:39.was his life that I had not been privy to. I'm really proud that he
:19:40. > :19:43.has put them out there and the reaction has largely been very
:19:44. > :19:47.positive. I'm certainly not when rising it, I am showing it
:19:48. > :19:54.bare-bones as to what it was like for me, you know. What I really want
:19:55. > :19:57.people to take away from it is that you can fall really far, but you can
:19:58. > :19:59.get back on your feet and you can get clean and healthy.
:20:00. > :20:01.An environmental charity in the Highlands is heralding
:20:02. > :20:03.a horticultural breakthrough which could preserve one
:20:04. > :20:06.The aspen has suffered more than most species from centuries
:20:07. > :20:08.of deforestation, but experts have successfully persuaded saplings
:20:09. > :20:10.to flower in nursery conditions and this could yield thousands
:20:11. > :20:12.of seedlings to be planted out in the wild.
:20:13. > :20:33.a beautiful tree with shimmering leaves. But it is a bit like the
:20:34. > :20:37.giant panda of the tree world. The aspen only produces flour catkins
:20:38. > :20:42.once every few years. And pollination in the wild is hit or
:20:43. > :20:46.miss. The trees don't flour very often and an individual aspen is
:20:47. > :20:51.either male or female and you need the two in close rocks are many to
:20:52. > :20:55.pollinate. It is a very attractive species for deer, they will not eat
:20:56. > :20:59.anything else. So if the seedling gets eaten, that is the end of the
:21:00. > :21:03.line. This elderly aspen they have fallen over but it is still alive,
:21:04. > :21:07.and in a few weeks' time, they will be producing catkins which can
:21:08. > :21:15.produce seed if they are pollinated. In these tunnels, they are giving
:21:16. > :21:20.nature a bit of a helping hand. Emma, she was getting male pollen
:21:21. > :21:23.from male trees, and she was painting the pollen onto the female
:21:24. > :21:27.flowers that we have here in the tunnel. And that's the first time we
:21:28. > :21:32.have been able to do that with female flowers, so we're really
:21:33. > :21:37.excited. And increasing the spread of aspen in Scotland is likely to
:21:38. > :21:42.benefit a range of other species, too. It is a very special tree for a
:21:43. > :21:46.number of reasons. It has a whole suite of rare organisms that grow
:21:47. > :21:53.only with it, things like rare mosses, special lichens. Aspen is
:21:54. > :21:59.also a favourite nesting site for species like the great spotted
:22:00. > :22:02.woodpecker. These valuable saplings effectively represent a captive
:22:03. > :22:07.breeding programme for trees. Once released into the wild, their
:22:08. > :22:09.offspring should spread biodiversity - and colour - into Scotland's wild
:22:10. > :22:12.environment. It would go down as their greatest
:22:13. > :22:15.victory if the Dundee Stars ice hockey team can win the UK Elite
:22:16. > :22:17.title this weekend. The unfancied side head to Sheffield
:22:18. > :22:20.this weekend hoping to see off Jonathan Sutherland has been to meet
:22:21. > :22:40.the underdogs hopeful Could the champagne be nice for the
:22:41. > :22:43.Dundee Stars? Formed in 2001, they are in the UK play-off finals for
:22:44. > :22:47.the first time. It is massive for us, we are a small club and it is
:22:48. > :22:51.the first time in our history that we have been to the final four. I am
:22:52. > :22:55.very proud of the group behind me. Dundee is famous for many things,
:22:56. > :22:59.but ice hockey, perhaps not. They are desperate to make a statement in
:23:00. > :23:07.the sport this weekend, but they go into it very much as underdogs. They
:23:08. > :23:11.upset the odds last weekend by seeing off fellow Scots the Braehead
:23:12. > :23:16.Clan. They may have one of the smallest budgets and one of the
:23:17. > :23:20.youngest teams, but if they beat the Cardiff Devils tomorrow, and then
:23:21. > :23:25.either Belfast or Sheffield in the final on Sunday, they will win the
:23:26. > :23:32.biggest prize in UK ice hockey. Can they upset the odds? Yes. I have
:23:33. > :23:35.been in a situation like this before, being the underdog. The
:23:36. > :23:40.pressure is not on us but we know that if we play the way we have
:23:41. > :23:44.been, with the same kind of resolve and tenacity that we have shown over
:23:45. > :23:49.the past two months, then we have as good a chance as anybody to produce
:23:50. > :23:53.the goods. We were down and out in January, we were not even in a
:23:54. > :23:57.play-off spot. The guys fought through and came together at the
:23:58. > :24:02.right time. We just have to win two game, that is all it comes down to.
:24:03. > :24:08.Sheffield and Belfast, in the other semifinal, and the winners play on
:24:09. > :24:11.the Sunday. It is 120 minutes of hard work, and hopefully we will
:24:12. > :24:17.come back with the trophy. It might be a stretch for the stars to align,
:24:18. > :24:26.but on Grand National weekend, there is always hope for a long shot.
:24:27. > :24:31.That is the only ice you will be seen tonight, I hope! We have some
:24:32. > :24:35.good weather for the start of the weekend, but it goes downhill on
:24:36. > :24:41.Sunday, I'm afraid. Today has been fairly settled, with fairly cloudy
:24:42. > :24:43.conditions, but largely dry, thanks to the high pressure which has been
:24:44. > :24:48.dominating the weather for much of the week. It is holding on, just,
:24:49. > :24:53.for the time being. Waiting in the wings in the north-west, though, we
:24:54. > :24:58.have a weather front. This picture came from Aberdeenshire today. This
:24:59. > :25:04.evening it is mostly dry, still fairly cloudy for some. Clearer
:25:05. > :25:07.skies as we had through the night, especially for central and east
:25:08. > :25:12.parts of the country just across the north-west and the Northern Isles,
:25:13. > :25:15.it stays cloudy here with patchy light rain and drizzle and a
:25:16. > :25:19.strengthening south-westerly wind. We may have some low cloud across
:25:20. > :25:23.the Galloway coast by the start of the day tomorrow. In the clearer
:25:24. > :25:28.skies, in rural areas, temperatures could get close to freezing. There
:25:29. > :25:37.could be a touch of frost. But in the towns and cities, 4-7 Celsius.
:25:38. > :25:41.The cloud to start will melt away and we will have plenty of sunshine
:25:42. > :25:45.tomorrow across much of the country. Only across the very far north-west,
:25:46. > :25:49.I'm afraid, it stays fairly cloudy and breezy with some drizzle. Around
:25:50. > :25:54.four o'clock in the afternoon, Shetland I'm afraid stays rather
:25:55. > :25:58.cloudy and damp. Some writer spells perhaps for Orkney. Across the
:25:59. > :26:07.north-east, temperatures could get up to 18 Celsius. Elsewhere, plenty
:26:08. > :26:10.of sunshine. So, a good day if you're planning to go out for any
:26:11. > :26:18.help or activities. The hills and mountains, fairly dry conditions
:26:19. > :26:25.here. While the valleys have liked winds, as you go up in height, the
:26:26. > :26:31.gusts could be getting up to 45mph. Further towards the east, a pleasant
:26:32. > :26:39.day for walking. The Cairngorms, gusts of up to 45mph. Still quite
:26:40. > :26:44.breezy across the Border hills. Clear spells as we head into the
:26:45. > :26:50.evening and night. Once again, cloudy in the north-west. Looking
:26:51. > :26:55.ahead to Sunday, the high pressure slips further towards the east and
:26:56. > :26:58.we have his weather system arriving, bringing with it some outbreaks of
:26:59. > :27:06.rain, heaviest across the north-west at first. Becoming colder behind it.
:27:07. > :27:08.Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.
:27:09. > :27:10.Russia, an ally of Syria, has condemned a missile strike
:27:11. > :27:12.authorised by President Trump on a Syrian government target.
:27:13. > :27:15.59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles were fired from US warships
:27:16. > :27:17.in the Mediterranean at the Shayrat air base.
:27:18. > :27:19.It was from there, according to Mr Trump, that this week's deadly
:27:20. > :27:24.chemical weapons attack in Northern Syria was launched.
:27:25. > :27:27.The remains of an Edinburgh woman who has been
:27:28. > :27:30.The remains of an Edinburgh woman who has been missing for 15 years
:27:31. > :27:35.Louise Tiffney was last seen leaving her home in the city's