22/09/2016 Reporting Scotland

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for the news where you are. The SNP narrowly avoided defeat

on council tax reforms tonight, because Labour leader

Kezia Dugdale failed to vote. Earlier, a majority of MSPs backed

a Conservative amendment which said the Government's

council tax proposals But when it came to

the final decision, Labour insists its Scottish leader

did vote on the motion, which was defeated only

on the casting vote of Yes, 63. No, 63. There were no

abstentions. As the boat is tight and we have been unable to reach a

view on emotion, I have to exercise my casting vote. In line with the

approach taken by my predecessors, I will cast against the motion. The

Well, the Scottish Parliament says its checked the electronic

voting system in the chamber and found it to be

Our Correspondent, Andrew Kerr reports.

It was a day of high drama here at Holyrood after a rather pedestrian

start to the afternoon. Labourer, Lib Dems and the Greens are angry

with the Scottish Government because they promise to scrap council tax,

but haven't done so. The Conservatives are upstairs to --

upset, to. They say money will be taken from the local authorities to

pay for and attainment gap fund. There was a final vote when MSPs

were tied at 63 - 63. There was a bit of a mystery, who was that

missing MSP? The Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh had to use his casting

vote and it saved the Government from defeat as he would do to

preserve the status quo. It emerged that the missing vote, the missing

MSP, was none other than the Scottish Labour leader Kezia

Dugdale. She says she did vote demanding an investigation. I

categorically voted in the parliament might. I know that, my

colleague was at my site and soggy vote register. We have to know from

the pilot meant why my vote was not registered. The SNP made a promise

saying they would scrap council tax, they have failed to do that. But

despite opposite parties are uniting to make. Ruck she is very upset at

the unfolding of events. The SNP have released a statement calling

her a Lone Ranger. They say she is taking her new-found autonomy

literally. This is the date because of labourer making changes to

structures. Labour are calling for an investigation into the Parliament

putts voting system. The parliament said they have checked the voting

system and are satisfied it is working properly. A bit of a mystery

tonight, but real frustration from the opposition today that the

Scottish Government managed not to be defeated tonight.

Scotland's independent police watchdog is to carry out a review

of undercover policing, after the UK Government refused

to extend an investigation currently underway in England and Wales.

The Scottish Government has asked the Inspector

of Constabulary to investigate, claiming there's evidence

that units from south of the border operated here.

There have been claims that some English officers worked

undercover with activists, who were planning to disrupt the G8

meeting at Gleneagles in 2005, and had sexual relations

Offshore workers have voted to accept a new pay

The dispute sparked the first strikes offshore

Members of the Unite and RMT unions, who work for oil services company

Wood Group, have voted for a revised offer.

A series of stoppages took place on seven Shell platforms

Police are investigating after messages were posted

on the internet featuring convicted religious killer Tanveer Ahmed.

They were apparently recorded in phone calls

from Barlinnie Prison, and contain mainly religious thoughts.

Ahmed was convicted last July for murdering Glasgow

The way some of our most vulnerable people are cared

for needs to change, to stop costs getting

That's according to the public spending watchdog.

Otherwise nearly ?700 million will need

to be found to pay for social work and social care by 2020.

Here's our local Government correspondent Jamie McIvor.

Karen is one of Scotland's's army of unpaid

She gets a lot of help from charity worker Susan.

Karen's partner is diagnosed with a form of

He went into the doctors office as a working man, and left as

The practical help Karen is receiving makes a huge difference.

Even a advice on household goods that are suitable for people with

It all means social services do not need

to get involved, at a cost of

People support them, to maintain their own confidence as

This all highlights a very big debate -

just what sort of social services can the taxpayer ruler

Are elderly people are consuming more of the social

work budget, the demand in the system, demographic change,

highlighted the fact there is not enough money, it is making things

But it is hard to divorce this debate about what is

best to those who need help from simple questions of saving cash.

This led to fierce exchanges at Holyrood.

And the truth is, the

accounts commission report tells us that overall spending is falling,

In fact, it says that these cuts or unsustainable.

And the truth is, they do not have to happen.

I'm only asking because Sturgeon to do what she has wanted

to do her retire political life, make different choices from the

I would ask her to reflect on the position she

She stands up regularly and says that the future

looks to be a Tory future in terms of the Westminster government, and

yet she has got the nerve to come here and lecture me about the

implications of Tory cuts that her party are powerless to do anything

One important thing the Scottish Government has been doing

is integrating health and social care.

The report argues that the people who rely on the service

and the wider public must be more involved in shaping its future,

saying fundamental decisions have to be taken on how services

are provided, and calls for a wider debate on the level, nature

What would seem clear from this report is that the status

Six more men have been arrested in connection with disorder

Police have now made a total of 76 arrests,

following the pitch invasion at the Hibernian-Rangers match

A Celtic fan is to stand trial, charged with displaying an offensive

banner and blow-up figures at an Old Firm match.

27-year-old Ross Brady entered a plea of not guilty

at an appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

Prosecutors claim he acted with others in behaviour

that might be likely to incite public disorder.

Brady faces a single charge under the Offensive

Rangers will play Celtic and Aberdeen will play Martin.

The songs of Robert Burns are often performed in a way that

focusses on the words rather than complex musical arrangements.

But researchers at Glasgow University have recorded some

of his works as they would have been performed in the 18th century.

The result has more in common with middle class Edinburgh drawing

rooms than Dumfries drinking howffs, as Aileen Clarke reports.

This song doesn't sound half as bawdy in this very refined

Burns, of course, wrote the lyrics using

But when he submitted the songs to his

Edinburgh publishers well, those tunes were given a very classical

What we've never really appreciated is that most of those

songs, the vast majority of Burns's songs were collected or written for

two rather posh, published collections of songs.

And because they were part of an 18th-century

musical culture they sound a bit classical,

they sound a bit fancy in

comparison to the more, kind of, songs on guitar or songs with fiddle

or the more folk settings that a lot of people appreciate.

Burns, the 18th-century remix, has been recorded and has been published

The culmination of a five year research project funded to

the tune of ?1 million by the UK arts fund.

This would have sounded quite fancy played on a drawing-room harpsichord

and it has given this classical musician involved in the recording

I was quite surprised at the beginning of

the project to learn of

composers such as Beethoven who have written musical settings for Burns's

poetry, burns's international reach is expanding all the time and able

to influence these men classical composers.

His appreciation of Burns came from her father in the musical Bill.

For him I think Burns worked better unaccompanied, or with a nice

setting that kind of, you know, brought out the nuances of the text.

Burns for these collections were so important

that he gave his songs for

Burns, of course, is warmly regarded as the people's poet.

But it's clear that he himself was also

keen to be celebrated in the smart drawing

style that echoed that of his artistic peers.

But as he would have said himself a man's Dame Ann for

Aileen Clarke, Reporting Scotland, Glasgow.

Well, It's over to Kirsteen now with the weather outlook

Did evening. But had heavy and thundery downpours across the

Western powers and coastal areas. Over the next few hours that wet

weather will continue to track its wheat used words, eventually

clearing to eat much tyre and clear conditions behind it and each chilly

night for some sheltered and rule a serious, with perhaps a bit of

frost. Into tomorrow morning we dawn on a dry note. Plenty of sunshine to

come tomorrow morning. Daily chilly still. Around eight o'clock tomorrow

morning, more especially across eastern areas. Ten or 11 Celsius for

western coastal parts. A bit more cloud across western and Northern

Isles tomorrow morning, with just a huge sherries lingering. A gusty

west of the UK, high pressure gives decent autumnal weather. It's all

changing as we go through the afternoon across Northern Ireland

and Scotland with rain moving in companies by wind. Across the

north-west of Scotland when that rain set in, it really stays with us

during much of Friday night and well into Saturday. As a result, the Met

office has issued a yellow warning. Risk of localised flooding,

hazardous driving conditions and the winds will increase reaching glial

forest alone western coastal areas. Into Saturday we still hold onto

that wet, windy weather. Heaviest and most persistent across the west

Scotland and Northern Ireland and eventually moving in the south-west

of England and parts of Wales, too. Further south and east a lot of dry

and bright weather with spells of sunshine and with southerly winds

temperatures could reach the rent 23,000 years. The wind eventually

easing later. Presenting we have a southwesterly flow winging frequent

and at times heavy showers into the north-west and a fresher feel.

Our next update is during breakfast, at 6.25am tomorrow morning.

But from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around