02/11/2016 Reporting Scotland


02/11/2016

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An MoD firing range in the Highlands is under lockdown tonight

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after a soldier was killed during a live firing exercise.

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There is still a big police presence and there are few details,

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although police say there is no risk to the local community.

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Although primarily a bombing range for the RAF,

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practice here the Tain range has increasingly been used by the army.

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Yesterday troops were taking part in a training exercise

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It is thought more than 20 members of the Black Watch

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based at Fort George near Inverness were involved.

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The death of their colleague has sparked an intensive investigation.

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We've got 30 detectives that we've allocated to the inquiry,

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we have initially resourced from Tain and we are taking more

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officers from across Scotland to support the inquiry,

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we also have more officers on the scene of controlling entry

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and monitoring the scene to support the investigation.

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Since 2000 135 UK Armed Forces personnel have died on exercises

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or training, 11 of them in live firing operations.

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Two months ago Black Watch Private Conor McPherson from Paisley

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was shot dead in a live firing exercise in Northumberland.

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I have a daughter serving in the Royal Air Force

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I know the training needs to be of the highest possible standard

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and this must include live firing but we had

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So I am saying this is to be an exhaustive inquiry.

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Whatever it takes to find out what happened.

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The local MP has called for a full inquiry to put community

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Meanwhile both the Prime Minister and First Minister have

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offered their condolences to the family of the victim.

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MSPs have voted to urge the Scottish government

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to repeal its Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.

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Opposition parties united behind a motion condemning the legislation,

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which was designed to tackle Sectarianism, as badly

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Our Political Correspondent, Andrew Kerr, watched the debate.

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Keeping an eye out for offensive behaviour at the football, but for

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how much longer will the police operate under the current laws?

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The opposition rounded on the government

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at Holyrood calling for legislation to be appealed in the appropriate

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their subs but would rather leave an injured player on the pitch

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rather than removing him for a benefit for their team.

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There are moments when a change in criminal law is

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appropriate and in this case the view of legal practitioners

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is that they were already adequate laws in

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place and those should be used to prosecute

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this behaviour rather than

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verifying football and its thousands of fans.

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Defending the government line, the minister said the powers

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I would point out that the statistics

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clearly demonstrate that the prosecution rate for the act is

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comparable to other prosecution rates.

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The latest information covers 2014-15 and shows that proceedings

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have been carried out so far in 19 places,

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76 people convicted, a conviction rate of 84%.

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Backed up from the backbenches, today's events

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have been described as an opposition ploy.

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That has nothing to do with trying to improve the legislation and

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everything to do with trying to defeat the government.

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But the opposition, still smarting, claimed the

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legislation was pushed through without regard women when the SNP

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It was introduced and believed by the Justice

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Secretary and by government showing scant regard

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for this parliament for

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civil liberties over the complexities of the problem they

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Time for an early bath for this legislation, he said, the

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Yes, 64, no, 63, the motion is therefore agreed.

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Labour now say the act is dead in the water and want action.

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The government must therefore bring forward

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immediate plans on how they

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will repeal this act as a matter of urgency.

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The presiding officer said Parliament had made its view clear,

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it was up to the Scottish Government to reflect on how to respond.

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England and Scotland could face a points deduction if they defy

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a Fifa ban on players wearing poppies when the teams

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English Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn said both

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FAs will defy the ban and accept any punishment.

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Fifa general secretary Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura

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told the BBC any kind of sanction could follow.

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World football's governing body prohibits political,

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religious or commercial messages on shirts.

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Aberdeen City Council has become the first local authority

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The stock market bonds, worth ?360 million, will go

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towards the council's capital plan, which includes redeveloping the city

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centre, building schools and houses, and road construction.

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A Labour MP has been cleared of attacking a Yes campaigner

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in Glasgow on the day of the independence referendum.

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Marie Rimmer, who's the MP for St Helens South and Whiston,

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faced two charges following an incident outside

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Shettleston Community Centre on 18th September, 2014.

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Yesterday, the 69-year-old was cleared of a charge of abusive

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Today Ms Rimmer was acquitted of assaulting 52-year-old

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Patricia McLeish by kicking her, after a sheriff found the case

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I am absolutely delighted and very, very grateful and thankful

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for and support that everybody has put in with me.

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I want to really get back now to go on and do the job

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I was elected to do, representing my constituents

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A memorial service has been held to remember those who died

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when Aberdeen University's Zoology building collapsed 50 years ago.

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It was under construction on November 1st, 1966,

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when the steel and concrete frame failed, with tragic consequences.

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Our reporter Steven Duff has been speaking to two men

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When I arrived there, I was absolutely appalled

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and could not understand how we could deal with the situation.

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It was one pile of steel girders, steel pipes, concrete,

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I had seen the building standing, it was eight stories high,

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and suddenly there were eight stories, fallen on a house of cards,

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I felt that if you had stood on tiptoe you could have touched

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Five people lost their lives that day in 1966, the zooology building

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at Aberdeen University which was under

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92-year-old John Burgess was senior fire officer in charge that today.

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He helped to rescue one of three workers who survived

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after being buried in the rubble.

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We made a chain of human firemen to the entrance of it.

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I said, when I give the word Paul, you are coming out.

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I yelled at the top of my voice, pull, and I could shout

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And we all came out and the only injury he got was the abrasions

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we caused pulling him out of this little part with he was.

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Gordon had been a news reporter for only eight

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days when he was sent to the scene of the collapse.

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He remembers the final survivor emerging.

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I don't remember any emotion, none of the cheering or applauding

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somebody shook his hands, we were awfully glad

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After the tragedy, the construction was completed and the

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This evening 50 years on a service of remembrance at Aberdeen

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University for the five men who lost their lives.

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The Scotland manager, Gordon Strachan, says he didn't

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consider quitting his post following a disappointing

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start to the World Cup qualifying campaign.

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He's just named his squad for next week's World qualifier

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As expected, his former captain Scott Brown has been

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picked after coming out of international retirement.

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Back in Scotland and back in the national squad.

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Celtic's in form captain, returning home with his club at the

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Soon, he will be reunited with the Scotland manager,

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following a short lived international retirement.

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The backroom staff have done a final build-up conversation that went on.

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He was thinking about trying to get back in the squad and making

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From then, we checked it out and that is the case.

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We spoke on the phone and we are back together again.

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Is the reunion a long-term thing or a one night stand,

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beginning and ending with the game against England at Wembley.

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Hopefully it is a decision we are all happy with.

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Then after that we will decide what the future is for everybody.

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What about the manager's commitments?

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His resolve to stay in position is as strong,

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Here he is reacting to suggestions he considered stepping aside

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If you honestly think that from that moment,

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maybe 24 hours after the defeat, I was thinking about myself,

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I think at that point, how do I get this group of people,

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the fans, the players, the backroom staff into a major tournament?

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I am 59 years old, do you think I was thinking about myself

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The Scots are fourth in their qualifying group,

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Defeat at Wembley wouldn't kill Scotland's prospects of qualifying,

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but it would render them are pretty slim, with or without

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Well, now the weather outlook for tonight and tomorrow.

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Thank you. Good evening. This is a lovely picture from earlier,

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beautiful autumnal colours, but all change tonight with the rain moving

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in. In the bigger picture you can see the weather system moving in

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from the Atlantic, bringing outbreaks of rain overnight and

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thickening cloud. A different day the store tomorrow. It is chilly at

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the moment but with cloud building overnight temperatures will recover

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by dawn. These are the likely temperatures at 8am. Cloudy and

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damp. In the West the rain is heavy and persistent east you are, lighter

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and more patchy in nature but still fairly damp. Winds, from the South

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West. Shetland is not faring too bad. A few showers but the bulk of

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the wet weather is in the south. Through the course of Thursday it

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will be fairly wet in the West but further east the brain is often on

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through the course of the day but pretty cloudy. You can see the wet

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weather stretches through Northern Ireland and the north-west of

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England and North West Wales and towards Devon and Cornwall. South

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and east are fairly dry with some brightness. They could be for girlie

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on. Temperatures are feeling fairly chilly. The winner will be

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north-westerly by the end of the afternoon and it will drive in

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showers for a showery night overnight Thursday to Friday. On

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Friday low pressure is in charge with areas of rain in the south and

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the North. In the central lowlands dry and fine weather but quite

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chilly. Cold air moves in as the locals away. On Friday rain clears

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and a lot of sunshine in central Scotland. In the north another band

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of rain edges south through the day with snow on the hills. Saturday and

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Sunday, the cold plunge of their moves down and it is quite frosty

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overnight. Sunshine during the day in showers around the coast.

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Our next update is during Breakfast at 6.25am tomorrow morning.

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

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