03/04/2017 Reporting Scotland

A ?200 million deal has been struck to sell the North Sea's

The Forties system pumps 450,000 barrels of oil and gas every day.

BP has been running it since production started.

Its new owners, INEOS, already own the Grangemouth refinery

Here's our business and economy editor, Douglas Fraser.

The symbolic Royal start to the North Sea oil boom 42 years ago.

No longer shipped by tanker the Forties pipeline

was the vital link that made it viable.

Since then it has carried the lion's share of 43

billion barrels of oil from the North Sea.

The system covers oil and gas from 40 offshore installations

from 40 operators to a single landing point and then it goes

through three pumping stations to Grangemouth and a terminal by the

BP and all associated with them have been in the forefront

of achievement on our continental shelf...

When BP started operating it the company was half owned by the

It is now selling it to INEOS which already owns Grangemouth

INEOS have a lot of skills in running assets efficiently

the same skills to the pipeline system, we are trying to extract

maximum economic value out of what is, everyone understands,

is a declining stock of oil and gas in the North Sea.

BP insists it is still committed to the North Sea and

investments like this platform West of Shetland

It's about what skills are best for which assets,

we are exploring and drilling wells, etc, but for INEOS, they have

experience and they'll be taking Fourties pipeline

to loading arms and tankers and they will be

300 staff are to be consulted and no redundancies planned yet as

Grangemouth workers found the hard way in 2013 INEOS can be very tough

You are effectively handing the keys of the

kingdom to one individual, a company driven by one individual.

They were speaking about such a key asset, not

just to the Scottish economy but to the UK economy.

The oil that flows to the refinery and petrochemical

plant here is only half of what it was at peak

production for the North Sea but and is reckoned that it

could still be operating 30 years from now.

One small pipeline, a very big asset for the economy.

Douglas Fraser, Reporting Scotland, Grangemouth.

The First Minister has met the Governor of California

at the start of a five-day visit to the United States.

Tomorrow Nicola Sturgeon is due to make a speech

at Stanford University before travelling to New York where

Our correspondent James Cook reports from Sacramento.

The First Minister says the focus on her five-day visit to California and

New York is on trade and investment, particularly stressing links between

Scottish and American companies. Here in Sacramento at the state

Capitol building, she met the governor of California Jerry Brown,

he's a democratic, busily opposed to President John's climate change

scepticism and in that regard, he shares that position with Nicola

Sturgeon. -- President Trump. She Tommy afterwards it was a great

meeting. I have met once before and there is a great deal of common

interest between California and Scotland when it comes to tackling

climate change. We share the same ambitions and we were talking today

about areas where we might collaborative in the future,

particularly around offshore wind. The First Minister is now travelling

to California's Silicon Valley four discussions with business leaders

that and also to make a speech tomorrow at Stanford University

where she is expected to discuss Brexit and also to talk about the

middle east and, of course, the issue of Scottish independence. Back

home, that is not going down very well. The Scottish Conservatives say

she should get back to the day job. James Cook reporting.

Almost 40% of Scots are physically inactive.

A study by the British Heart Foundation warns that 1.6 million

of us have an increased risk of heart disease and early death.

Woking up an appetite, these fitness fanatics in Glasgow

regularly squeeze in an exercise class in their lunch hour.

day, gives you a better outlook, something to do when I go back to

work I am energised, refreshed, focused.

You just end up putting on weight when you work in

It makes me feel good, means I can get away

hour, come to the gym, meet people, and it keeps me fit.

It seems so simple but the British Heart

Foundation say not enough of us are doing it.

The charity estimates 1.6 million people in Scotland are physically

They say the average man spends around 84 days

And overall women are 24% more likely to be classified as

What we should be doing according to medical

guidelines is 150 minutes a week

spread over a few days of something that gets the heart

moving, a brisk walk, running or cycling.

For some people that is part of their daily

Inactivity is something that can really creep up on you.

And apparently it is creeping up on around one quarter of us.

Of course you will find people sweating

in the gym but just a few hundred yards away

how active are people on the streets outside?

I didn't figure that I was unfit until a doctor

actually said, you need to do more exercise than just walking.

Not a lot of people do sport, I can't

think of one of my friendship group that does it.

I see lots of many people walking on the streets, maybe

they are going in taxis than they should walk.

The British Heart Foundation say it is no laughing

matter and doing regular vigorous exercise like this will

significantly reduce the risk of coronary heart disease or early

Rebecca Curran, Reporting Scotland, Scotland.

A legal battle between a grandmother and the Aberdeenshire Golf Resort

owned by President Donald Trump is underway at the

It's an unlikely case which is being brought by the woman

after she was filmed by Menie Golf Resort staff

She says filming was a breach of data protection law.

Rohan Beyts, left, arrives at court, one woman taking on a large company,

she's making a claim against Donald Trump's

This is her at home, she told the court she likes to take

long walks, on April 11 last year she went for a walk on

She passed the golf course, when she was on the beach she

realised she needed the toilet urgently.

She said she went into the sand dunes where she thought no one

could see her and she said she followed mountaineering Scotland

guidelines on what to do if you need to go outdoors.

Three days later there was a knock at the door and police

charged her with relating in a public place in a manner

which would have caused or was likely to have

She said that she was shocked to think that she was in

Police later said that three men, two of whom

were employed by the development, had secretly filmed her.

She said she knew she hadn't done anything

wrong and the Procurator Fiscal took no action.

But, upset, she took out a claim instead.

I felt that people should not be filmed when they are

out in the country doing something that...

It is something that many walkers, many climbers, people who

It is a fact of life, there are not toilets out

At the time Trump International wasn't licensed to

hold such data, in view of strict data legislation laws, Rohan Beyts

said she made no secret of the fact that he opposed the development

from the early stages and was involved in a Facebook page,

The lawyer for the organisation said that from her

She continues to challenge the claims.

The case will be heard again tomorrow.

After Celtic's league title win at the weekend,

their manager Brendan Rodgers has assured fans he's

Here's our senior football reporter Chris McLaughlin.

If you are happy and you know it, raise the flag.

At the Celtic training ground today it was pretty

This was them powering their way past Hearts yesterday.

Like so often this season they put on a show to go with the

The architect of the club's success was once again the

When you shine in Scotland, it is often noticed in England.

The man who has been now is not interested for now.

18 months after the Liverpool job, I was

The other reality is his players are on course

for a treble and a possible season unbeaten.

I know you do not like to talk about it but there must be

something you focus on in that dressing room.

It would be very nice to do. Of course.

It is the history that people talk about for years and

To get the squad to do that, I believe we have the potential.

We just need to keep working hard, as I

But they know when they do they get the rewards.

It's over to Kirsteen now with the weather forecast

Good evening. A cloudy wet evening across most of the country. That

trend will continue to clear way into the North Sea leaving largely

dry conditions behind it, some clear spells, allowing a touch of frost to

develop in the sheltered these. Some showers moving in and they will be

accompanied by a brisk westerly winds. Tomorrow gets off to a

reasonably dry start. If you are heading out around eight o'clock

tomorrow morning, expect some brightness, sunshine across much of

southern, central and eastern Scotland. The chilly start however

particularly so in the eaves. Always that bit more in the way of cloud

across the north. Showers affecting the Western Isles. Also strong to

gale force winds across the foul north during the day and increasing

further towards the evening. During tomorrow, the cloud will tend to

spill in from the north west. There will still be some hints of

brightness and sunshine at times. The showers will continue to affect

the far north. Across the UK as a whole, a fine afternoon to come

across Northern Ireland and after a fairly cloudy, damp start across

much of Wales and the south-west of England, it is an improving picture

tomorrow afternoon. Some and sunshine. Across East Anglia and the

south-east of England, remaining fairly cloudy with outbreaks of

rain. Temperatures down a notch on today's values and for us in

Scotland, somewhat fresher feel than we have been used to of late with

these winds. During tomorrow evening, the winds will strengthen

further across the Northern Isles reaching severe gale force for a

time and only very gradually easing during tomorrow night. As we look

ahead to Wednesday, and indeed over the next few days, we have this area

of high pressure moving in from the self which will result in largely

dry and settled conditions although we always hold onto that bit more in

the way of cloud and a breeze in the north. That is the forecast.

Our next update is during Breakfast at 6:25 tomorrow morning.

From everyone on the late team here in Glasgow