13/01/2017

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:00:00. > :00:10.NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have apologised to expectant mothers,

:00:11. > :00:11.who were turned away from the flagship

:00:12. > :00:16.Queen Elizabeth Hospital because of a shortage of beds.

:00:17. > :00:19.One pregnant woman who was waiting for a bed after her waters broke,

:00:20. > :00:22.told BBC Scotland the situation last night was "chaos."

:00:23. > :00:26.Here's our Health Correspondent Lisa Summers.

:00:27. > :00:29.Normal service has resumed today but it was a different story

:00:30. > :00:34.yesterday, with labour wards full foremost of it.

:00:35. > :00:36.This is how one expectant mother described the scene last night,

:00:37. > :00:40.when she was waiting for a bed to become available.

:00:41. > :00:43.She said it was chaos, and another woman whose contractions

:00:44. > :00:48.were two minutes apart had nowhere to give birth.

:00:49. > :00:51.NHS Glasgow and Greater Clyde offered an apology but said

:00:52. > :00:56.Three mothers were diverted to the Royal Alexandra Hospital

:00:57. > :01:03.Two others had their planned deliveries delayed.

:01:04. > :01:05.But the pressure on services in Glasgow raises concerns about

:01:06. > :01:14.Across the country, a picture of pressure on maternity

:01:15. > :01:20.Our birth rate in Scotland is steady at the moment.

:01:21. > :01:26.The issue we are seeing is a greater complexity in the women we care for.

:01:27. > :01:30.That is partly to do with women being older when they have babies,

:01:31. > :01:34.maybe they come to us with some medical conditions,

:01:35. > :01:37.and there is a higher rate of Caesarean sections

:01:38. > :01:42.Maternity services are having to adapt and as the face

:01:43. > :01:45.of the nation changes it will inevitably mean more pressure

:01:46. > :01:54.Detectives investigating the death of a man in an East Dunbartonshire

:01:55. > :01:56.house fire have said they are following what they call

:01:57. > :02:14.The body of 23-year-old Cameron Logan was found at his parents'

:02:15. > :02:21.house in Milngavie just before 7:30am on New Year's Day. His

:02:22. > :02:26.girlfriend, Rebecca Williams, suffered serious injuries, although

:02:27. > :02:30.reports suggest that her condition in hospital may be improving so much

:02:31. > :02:37.she has been able to talk to police officers. And both she and Cameron's

:02:38. > :02:41.parents needed treatment for smoke. Soon after to what they call this

:02:42. > :02:45.complex crime scene, forensics investigators say they believe the

:02:46. > :02:49.fire had been started deliberately. Police called it a targeted and

:02:50. > :02:53.wilful attack and they've been treating it as a case of murder and

:02:54. > :02:58.three cases of attempted murder. This afternoon, detectives said they

:02:59. > :03:01.were now following what they called a definite line of inquiry and to

:03:02. > :03:05.try and unpack what that means, it is often police speak for the fact

:03:06. > :03:10.they have identified the suspect, and it usually means they would hope

:03:11. > :03:13.to be able to make an arrest quite quickly. Officers have been trying

:03:14. > :03:17.to trace dog walkers and joggers seen in the area at the time the

:03:18. > :03:24.fire started. And a week after the attack year happened, they were also

:03:25. > :03:27.in nearby streets and local shops stopping and talking to passers-by

:03:28. > :03:28.in the hopes of identifying more witnesses.

:03:29. > :03:31.The family of a woman who died after battling multiple sclerosis

:03:32. > :03:34.for years say she should have been allowed to choose when to die.

:03:35. > :03:37.Flora Lorimer, who died last month, was paralysed and in constant pain

:03:38. > :03:41.Her family have published harrowing pictures of her ravaged

:03:42. > :03:43.by the illness, in the hope that they will persuade

:03:44. > :03:45.politicians to change the law on assisted suicide.

:03:46. > :03:47.Steven Godden's report contains pictures some

:03:48. > :04:02.Childhood sweethearts, they had only been married three years

:04:03. > :04:07.She shrugged and said, let's get on with life.

:04:08. > :04:12.It did not bother her, you know, for 30 years.

:04:13. > :04:17.But in the last four years, her deterioration accelerated.

:04:18. > :04:19.Completely blind, Tom could not see it, but could only

:04:20. > :04:29.She could not move, feed herself, could not scratch her nose.

:04:30. > :04:34.That's when she started to say, I don't want to be here.

:04:35. > :04:39.Every day she would be crying, I want to die, please help me.

:04:40. > :04:45.The government could help her, doctors could help

:04:46. > :04:53.If the law had allowed it, the family say she would have

:04:54. > :04:58.When she died last month, they took these pictures

:04:59. > :05:04.Difficult to view, the difficult decision to make them public

:05:05. > :05:10.People need to know why they want to stop it.

:05:11. > :05:18.She said, do it when I'm dead, not when I'm alive.

:05:19. > :05:36.Proposals to introduce right to die legislation through the Scottish

:05:37. > :05:36.parliament crystallised opinion on both sides.

:05:37. > :05:38.The Law Society and Church of Scotland were among those

:05:39. > :05:46.MSPs were given a free vote and the bill was defeated.

:05:47. > :05:49.The problem is that if you change the law for the hard cases,

:05:50. > :05:51.it can cause problems for many vulnerable people.

:05:52. > :05:53.They might feel under pressure from other people,

:05:54. > :06:02.Since sharing these pictures, the family say they have been

:06:03. > :06:07.inundated with messages from others with similar stories.

:06:08. > :06:11.They hope politicians might be prompted to look again at the issue

:06:12. > :06:17.Well, it has brought it back into the spotlight.

:06:18. > :06:19.I don't think it will make a difference.

:06:20. > :06:28.What's claimed to be the first underwater pictures of humpback

:06:29. > :06:32.whales in UK waters have been taken by a wildlife guide

:06:33. > :06:38.Richard Shucksmith has taken advantage of an exceptional year

:06:39. > :06:41.for whale sightings in the islands to get the shots.

:06:42. > :06:51.Looming out of the dark, two 30 ton humpback whales.

:06:52. > :06:54.This sequence of stills was shot just before Christmas in Shetland

:06:55. > :07:02.He has seen whales many times, but never so close.

:07:03. > :07:05.To get in the water with them, and one of the biggest animals

:07:06. > :07:11.in the world coming past here, it was exhilarating, it was fun.

:07:12. > :07:17.A little bit nervous, but generally, it was an amazing experience.

:07:18. > :07:19.His encounter was captured on film by fellow wildlife

:07:20. > :07:29.It turns out this was probably the first time humpback whales have

:07:30. > :07:33.been caught on an underwater camera in the UK.

:07:34. > :07:38.an image of something, and to be the first one to get it

:07:39. > :07:45.2016 was an exceptional year for whale watching in Shetland

:07:46. > :07:48.and local tourism organisations hope it will bring more

:07:49. > :08:06.Well, it's over to the weather outlook for tonight and tomorrow.

:08:07. > :08:12.Good evening. After a cold day, a cold night in store with

:08:13. > :08:16.temperatures subzero pretty much across the board. Our attention is

:08:17. > :08:24.on the risk of ice, a yellow be aware warning. A cold start the day

:08:25. > :08:26.tomorrow, icy in places, a few rain showers, a few snow showers for the

:08:27. > :08:32.far north, North and Northern Isles but for many tomorrow it is a dry,

:08:33. > :08:36.crisp, cold and sunny winter's day. Similar south of the border. Across

:08:37. > :08:45.Northern Ireland in towards the Isle of Man and Wales, cloudy with some

:08:46. > :08:49.rain showers. Down eastern coast, some wintry showers. The bulk of the

:08:50. > :08:55.UK dry and bright. Bit of an east-west split as well. Western

:08:56. > :08:59.areas, the Northwest, cloudy, some rain showers but milder. Elsewhere,

:09:00. > :09:06.dryer, brighter, sunnier but colder, too. If there is snow on the ground,

:09:07. > :09:09.struggling to get above freezing. The cloud tends to increase through

:09:10. > :09:14.the day but it shouldn't spoil things for most of us. However,

:09:15. > :09:19.heading through the second half of Saturday, we see a change as the

:09:20. > :09:26.cloud builds and the rain arrives, pushing its way in west to east.

:09:27. > :09:29.This is a warm front. As it meets cold air, potentially a spell of

:09:30. > :09:35.snow. It soon clears away but the legacy behind it is a very different

:09:36. > :09:40.day on Sunday compared with tomorrow. It is far cloudier, quite

:09:41. > :09:45.murky at times with extensive hill fog. It will be milder with

:09:46. > :09:50.temperatures up to eight or nine. Further east, seven or eight.

:09:51. > :09:51.Brightness, that will be very limited indeed. That's the forecast

:09:52. > :09:52.for now. From everyone on the

:09:53. > :10:01.late team, goodnight. Why wouldn't

:10:02. > :10:04.he even look at our offer? You treat sickness of the mind,

:10:05. > :10:08.doctor.