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:00:00. > :00:12.for the news where you are. The SNP narrowly avoided defeat
:00:13. > :00:15.on council tax reforms tonight, because Labour leader
:00:16. > :00:17.Kezia Dugdale failed to vote. Earlier, a majority of MSPs backed
:00:18. > :00:20.a Conservative amendment which said the Government's
:00:21. > :00:21.council tax proposals But when it came to
:00:22. > :00:24.the final decision, Labour insists its Scottish leader
:00:25. > :00:32.did vote on the motion, which was defeated only
:00:33. > :00:50.on the casting vote of Yes, 63. No, 63. There were no
:00:51. > :00:55.abstentions. As the boat is tight and we have been unable to reach a
:00:56. > :01:00.view on emotion, I have to exercise my casting vote. In line with the
:01:01. > :01:06.approach taken by my predecessors, I will cast against the motion. The
:01:07. > :01:09.Well, the Scottish Parliament says its checked the electronic
:01:10. > :01:11.voting system in the chamber and found it to be
:01:12. > :01:15.Our Correspondent, Andrew Kerr reports.
:01:16. > :01:23.It was a day of high drama here at Holyrood after a rather pedestrian
:01:24. > :01:27.start to the afternoon. Labourer, Lib Dems and the Greens are angry
:01:28. > :01:30.with the Scottish Government because they promise to scrap council tax,
:01:31. > :01:38.but haven't done so. The Conservatives are upstairs to --
:01:39. > :01:45.upset, to. They say money will be taken from the local authorities to
:01:46. > :01:52.pay for and attainment gap fund. There was a final vote when MSPs
:01:53. > :01:57.were tied at 63 - 63. There was a bit of a mystery, who was that
:01:58. > :02:01.missing MSP? The Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh had to use his casting
:02:02. > :02:07.vote and it saved the Government from defeat as he would do to
:02:08. > :02:11.preserve the status quo. It emerged that the missing vote, the missing
:02:12. > :02:15.MSP, was none other than the Scottish Labour leader Kezia
:02:16. > :02:20.Dugdale. She says she did vote demanding an investigation. I
:02:21. > :02:25.categorically voted in the parliament might. I know that, my
:02:26. > :02:30.colleague was at my site and soggy vote register. We have to know from
:02:31. > :02:34.the pilot meant why my vote was not registered. The SNP made a promise
:02:35. > :02:41.saying they would scrap council tax, they have failed to do that. But
:02:42. > :02:46.despite opposite parties are uniting to make. Ruck she is very upset at
:02:47. > :02:53.the unfolding of events. The SNP have released a statement calling
:02:54. > :02:56.her a Lone Ranger. They say she is taking her new-found autonomy
:02:57. > :03:00.literally. This is the date because of labourer making changes to
:03:01. > :03:04.structures. Labour are calling for an investigation into the Parliament
:03:05. > :03:08.putts voting system. The parliament said they have checked the voting
:03:09. > :03:13.system and are satisfied it is working properly. A bit of a mystery
:03:14. > :03:17.tonight, but real frustration from the opposition today that the
:03:18. > :03:17.Scottish Government managed not to be defeated tonight.
:03:18. > :03:21.Scotland's independent police watchdog is to carry out a review
:03:22. > :03:23.of undercover policing, after the UK Government refused
:03:24. > :03:25.to extend an investigation currently underway in England and Wales.
:03:26. > :03:27.The Scottish Government has asked the Inspector
:03:28. > :03:29.of Constabulary to investigate, claiming there's evidence
:03:30. > :03:35.that units from south of the border operated here.
:03:36. > :03:47.There have been claims that some English officers worked
:03:48. > :03:49.undercover with activists, who were planning to disrupt the G8
:03:50. > :03:51.meeting at Gleneagles in 2005, and had sexual relations
:03:52. > :04:04.Offshore workers have voted to accept a new pay
:04:05. > :04:06.The dispute sparked the first strikes offshore
:04:07. > :04:11.Members of the Unite and RMT unions, who work for oil services company
:04:12. > :04:13.Wood Group, have voted for a revised offer.
:04:14. > :04:15.A series of stoppages took place on seven Shell platforms
:04:16. > :04:18.Police are investigating after messages were posted
:04:19. > :04:20.on the internet featuring convicted religious killer Tanveer Ahmed.
:04:21. > :04:22.They were apparently recorded in phone calls
:04:23. > :04:23.from Barlinnie Prison, and contain mainly religious thoughts.
:04:24. > :04:25.Ahmed was convicted last July for murdering Glasgow
:04:26. > :04:35.The way some of our most vulnerable people are cared
:04:36. > :04:39.for needs to change, to stop costs getting
:04:40. > :04:41.That's according to the public spending watchdog.
:04:42. > :04:43.Otherwise nearly ?700 million will need
:04:44. > :04:46.to be found to pay for social work and social care by 2020.
:04:47. > :04:50.Here's our local Government correspondent Jamie McIvor.
:04:51. > :04:54.Karen is one of Scotland's's army of unpaid
:04:55. > :05:02.She gets a lot of help from charity worker Susan.
:05:03. > :05:03.Karen's partner is diagnosed with a form of
:05:04. > :05:12.He went into the doctors office as a working man, and left as
:05:13. > :05:17.The practical help Karen is receiving makes a huge difference.
:05:18. > :05:20.Even a advice on household goods that are suitable for people with
:05:21. > :05:26.It all means social services do not need
:05:27. > :05:29.to get involved, at a cost of
:05:30. > :05:32.People support them, to maintain their own confidence as
:05:33. > :05:36.This all highlights a very big debate -
:05:37. > :05:39.just what sort of social services can the taxpayer ruler
:05:40. > :05:45.Are elderly people are consuming more of the social
:05:46. > :05:48.work budget, the demand in the system, demographic change,
:05:49. > :05:51.highlighted the fact there is not enough money, it is making things
:05:52. > :06:07.But it is hard to divorce this debate about what is
:06:08. > :06:09.best to those who need help from simple questions of saving cash.
:06:10. > :06:11.This led to fierce exchanges at Holyrood.
:06:12. > :06:12.And the truth is, the
:06:13. > :06:15.accounts commission report tells us that overall spending is falling,
:06:16. > :06:18.In fact, it says that these cuts or unsustainable.
:06:19. > :06:20.And the truth is, they do not have to happen.
:06:21. > :06:23.I'm only asking because Sturgeon to do what she has wanted
:06:24. > :06:25.to do her retire political life, make different choices from the
:06:26. > :06:38.I would ask her to reflect on the position she
:06:39. > :06:44.She stands up regularly and says that the future
:06:45. > :06:47.looks to be a Tory future in terms of the Westminster government, and
:06:48. > :06:50.yet she has got the nerve to come here and lecture me about the
:06:51. > :06:53.implications of Tory cuts that her party are powerless to do anything
:06:54. > :06:59.One important thing the Scottish Government has been doing
:07:00. > :07:02.is integrating health and social care.
:07:03. > :07:06.The report argues that the people who rely on the service
:07:07. > :07:09.and the wider public must be more involved in shaping its future,
:07:10. > :07:11.saying fundamental decisions have to be taken on how services
:07:12. > :07:14.are provided, and calls for a wider debate on the level, nature
:07:15. > :07:23.What would seem clear from this report is that the status
:07:24. > :07:31.Six more men have been arrested in connection with disorder
:07:32. > :07:34.Police have now made a total of 76 arrests,
:07:35. > :07:36.following the pitch invasion at the Hibernian-Rangers match
:07:37. > :07:41.A Celtic fan is to stand trial, charged with displaying an offensive
:07:42. > :07:43.banner and blow-up figures at an Old Firm match.
:07:44. > :07:46.27-year-old Ross Brady entered a plea of not guilty
:07:47. > :07:47.at an appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
:07:48. > :07:49.Prosecutors claim he acted with others in behaviour
:07:50. > :07:51.that might be likely to incite public disorder.
:07:52. > :07:53.Brady faces a single charge under the Offensive
:07:54. > :08:19.Rangers will play Celtic and Aberdeen will play Martin.
:08:20. > :08:22.The songs of Robert Burns are often performed in a way that
:08:23. > :08:24.focusses on the words rather than complex musical arrangements.
:08:25. > :08:26.But researchers at Glasgow University have recorded some
:08:27. > :08:29.of his works as they would have been performed in the 18th century.
:08:30. > :08:32.The result has more in common with middle class Edinburgh drawing
:08:33. > :08:38.rooms than Dumfries drinking howffs, as Aileen Clarke reports.
:08:39. > :08:43.This song doesn't sound half as bawdy in this very refined
:08:44. > :08:54.Burns, of course, wrote the lyrics using
:08:55. > :08:57.But when he submitted the songs to his
:08:58. > :08:59.Edinburgh publishers well, those tunes were given a very classical
:09:00. > :09:07.What we've never really appreciated is that most of those
:09:08. > :09:09.songs, the vast majority of Burns's songs were collected or written for
:09:10. > :09:11.two rather posh, published collections of songs.
:09:12. > :09:13.And because they were part of an 18th-century
:09:14. > :09:15.musical culture they sound a bit classical,
:09:16. > :09:16.they sound a bit fancy in
:09:17. > :09:19.comparison to the more, kind of, songs on guitar or songs with fiddle
:09:20. > :09:22.or the more folk settings that a lot of people appreciate.
:09:23. > :09:30.Burns, the 18th-century remix, has been recorded and has been published
:09:31. > :09:43.The culmination of a five year research project funded to
:09:44. > :09:46.the tune of ?1 million by the UK arts fund.
:09:47. > :09:52.This would have sounded quite fancy played on a drawing-room harpsichord
:09:53. > :09:54.and it has given this classical musician involved in the recording
:09:55. > :10:03.I was quite surprised at the beginning of
:10:04. > :10:04.the project to learn of
:10:05. > :10:09.composers such as Beethoven who have written musical settings for Burns's
:10:10. > :10:12.poetry, burns's international reach is expanding all the time and able
:10:13. > :10:16.to influence these men classical composers.
:10:17. > :10:19.His appreciation of Burns came from her father in the musical Bill.
:10:20. > :10:22.For him I think Burns worked better unaccompanied, or with a nice
:10:23. > :10:25.setting that kind of, you know, brought out the nuances of the text.
:10:26. > :10:45.Burns for these collections were so important
:10:46. > :10:47.that he gave his songs for
:10:48. > :10:52.Burns, of course, is warmly regarded as the people's poet.
:10:53. > :10:54.But it's clear that he himself was also
:10:55. > :10:56.keen to be celebrated in the smart drawing
:10:57. > :11:06.style that echoed that of his artistic peers.
:11:07. > :11:08.But as he would have said himself a man's Dame Ann for
:11:09. > :11:12.Aileen Clarke, Reporting Scotland, Glasgow.
:11:13. > :11:14.Well, It's over to Kirsteen now with the weather outlook
:11:15. > :11:28.Did evening. But had heavy and thundery downpours across the
:11:29. > :11:32.Western powers and coastal areas. Over the next few hours that wet
:11:33. > :11:36.weather will continue to track its wheat used words, eventually
:11:37. > :11:40.clearing to eat much tyre and clear conditions behind it and each chilly
:11:41. > :11:46.night for some sheltered and rule a serious, with perhaps a bit of
:11:47. > :11:50.frost. Into tomorrow morning we dawn on a dry note. Plenty of sunshine to
:11:51. > :11:55.come tomorrow morning. Daily chilly still. Around eight o'clock tomorrow
:11:56. > :12:01.morning, more especially across eastern areas. Ten or 11 Celsius for
:12:02. > :12:05.western coastal parts. A bit more cloud across western and Northern
:12:06. > :12:10.Isles tomorrow morning, with just a huge sherries lingering. A gusty
:12:11. > :12:18.west of the UK, high pressure gives decent autumnal weather. It's all
:12:19. > :12:23.changing as we go through the afternoon across Northern Ireland
:12:24. > :12:26.and Scotland with rain moving in companies by wind. Across the
:12:27. > :12:32.north-west of Scotland when that rain set in, it really stays with us
:12:33. > :12:39.during much of Friday night and well into Saturday. As a result, the Met
:12:40. > :12:42.office has issued a yellow warning. Risk of localised flooding,
:12:43. > :12:46.hazardous driving conditions and the winds will increase reaching glial
:12:47. > :12:52.forest alone western coastal areas. Into Saturday we still hold onto
:12:53. > :12:55.that wet, windy weather. Heaviest and most persistent across the west
:12:56. > :13:00.Scotland and Northern Ireland and eventually moving in the south-west
:13:01. > :13:04.of England and parts of Wales, too. Further south and east a lot of dry
:13:05. > :13:07.and bright weather with spells of sunshine and with southerly winds
:13:08. > :13:11.temperatures could reach the rent 23,000 years. The wind eventually
:13:12. > :13:16.easing later. Presenting we have a southwesterly flow winging frequent
:13:17. > :13:19.and at times heavy showers into the north-west and a fresher feel.
:13:20. > :13:24.Our next update is during breakfast, at 6.25am tomorrow morning.
:13:25. > :13:27.But from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around