21/04/2017

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:00:00. > :00:09.Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

:00:10. > :00:17.The trial of the former owner of Rangers, Craig Whyte,

:00:18. > :00:19.has been hearing evidence from two of the club's former managers.

:00:20. > :00:23.Walter Smith and Ally McCoist told the High Court in Glasgow

:00:24. > :00:25.about the first time they met Mr Whyte, shortly before he took

:00:26. > :00:28.He denies acquiring Rangers by fraud.

:00:29. > :00:46.Craig Whyte arriving at the High Court in Glasgow for a trial which

:00:47. > :00:51.will focus on his takeover of Rangers six years ago. He faces two

:00:52. > :00:55.will focus on his takeover of charges. He is accused of fraud by

:00:56. > :01:00.pretending he had the funds available to buy the club and he is

:01:01. > :01:04.alleged to have breached the companies act. The first witness in

:01:05. > :01:11.this trial, one of football 's best-known figures, Walter Smith. As

:01:12. > :01:17.he celebrated winning the league in made 2011, his rain at Ibrox was

:01:18. > :01:22.ending, just as Craig Whyte acquired control of the club. But today, he

:01:23. > :01:27.admitted Rangers' finances were in a perilous state when the club was

:01:28. > :01:33.sold with a bank overdraft of ?18 million and a lack of money for the

:01:34. > :01:42.playing squad. Defence counsel asked Walter Smith, did you know by 2011

:01:43. > :01:46.if the bank had had enough of bankrolling Rangers? Mr Smith said

:01:47. > :01:51.yes, we had had an indication of that before 2011 with difficult cuts

:01:52. > :01:56.being made at Rangers to make the club more viable. Donald Findlay

:01:57. > :02:00.asked him, it must have been very distressing to see the club in a

:02:01. > :02:04.state like that. Yes, Mr Smith replied. It was. But we had been

:02:05. > :02:09.trying our best to handle the situation while it was there.

:02:10. > :02:14.Today's other witness, former Rangers star Ally McCoist, who took

:02:15. > :02:20.over the manager 's role at Ibrox when Walter Smith's top-down. He

:02:21. > :02:24.talked of his difficulty in getting funds to boost his squad of players.

:02:25. > :02:26.He claimed offers being made by the club to sign players were not

:02:27. > :02:31.He claimed offers being made by the realistic. The prosecutor asked Ally

:02:32. > :02:35.McCoist about the level of investment in the playing squad

:02:36. > :02:41.after Craig Whyte took charge at Rangers. Ally McCoist reply, we got

:02:42. > :02:47.some players, just not players that would have kept as at the same

:02:48. > :02:51.standard as we had. But Ally McCoist acknowledged that new players were

:02:52. > :03:02.signed after Craig Whyte took over at Ibrox. Craig Whyte denies both

:03:03. > :03:06.charges against him and his trial will continue on Monday.

:03:07. > :03:08.Drug-driving limits and roadside testing are to be introduced

:03:09. > :03:12.It follows moves by the Scottish government to cut

:03:13. > :03:23.Our correspondent Lucy Adams reports.

:03:24. > :03:30.The footage is genuine. Shot by a member of the public, it shows how

:03:31. > :03:39.erratic some motorists are prepared to be. The driver, impaired by

:03:40. > :03:43.alcohol and drugs, was later jailed. Hendry Robertson runs a guest house

:03:44. > :03:50.in Inverness. His father died after being hit by a car whose driver had

:03:51. > :03:55.taken cannabis, LSD, and methadone. My dad lived on a farm just outside

:03:56. > :03:58.Forfar. And every day in life, he would go for a walk. He was out for

:03:59. > :04:08.his evening walk and was struck by would go for a walk. He was out for

:04:09. > :04:14.car driven by someone who was under the influence of drugs. Kenneth

:04:15. > :04:16.Robertson was 92 at the time. He died in hospital two weeks later.

:04:17. > :04:22.The driver was sent to prison for died in hospital two weeks later.

:04:23. > :04:33.eight years. It is long overdue, this facility should be in place and

:04:34. > :04:43.people should be tested if they are thought to be using drugs whilst

:04:44. > :04:48.driving. Most people don't know what the current impairment test

:04:49. > :04:51.involves. Or how long it takes. I volunteered to allow specially

:04:52. > :04:57.trained officers to show us. I am going to examining the size of your

:04:58. > :05:02.pupils. Officers can stop drivers when they have reasonable cause. It

:05:03. > :05:07.is already illegal to drive while impaired by drugs in Scotland but

:05:08. > :05:11.the current test takes around 15 minutes and means being taken back

:05:12. > :05:13.to a police station if you are suspected of having

:05:14. > :05:19.to a police station if you are Then there's a blood test that

:05:20. > :05:23.follows. In future, the idea would be to do an instant roadside test by

:05:24. > :05:29.your car. Scotland is following changes in England and Wales where

:05:30. > :05:33.officers now use a saliva test which detects cannabis and cocaine. They

:05:34. > :05:39.caught 8000 people in the first 12 months of using the test. Police

:05:40. > :05:42.Scotland welcome the move and warned people to avoid anything which

:05:43. > :05:48.impairs their driving. This is about all drugs. A drug is anything that

:05:49. > :05:52.can impair your ability to drive. People need to be mindful, it is not

:05:53. > :05:57.just about heroin and cocaine, it is also about prescribed

:05:58. > :06:02.antidepressants. You need to be following guidance given by your

:06:03. > :06:07.doctor. Road safety campaigners say the test could have been introduced

:06:08. > :06:11.sooner. But ministers say Scotland will soon be ahead of the rest of

:06:12. > :06:17.the UK. There are some drugs where it will be a zero tolerance

:06:18. > :06:22.approach. You will be committing an offence. And for others, it will be

:06:23. > :06:26.a specified amount. In the same way it is with alcohol. We will engage

:06:27. > :06:31.with stakeholders around what those limits should actually be. Ministers

:06:32. > :06:32.will be setting out exactly which drugs will be limited and how in the

:06:33. > :06:35.next few months. 200 jobs are set to be created

:06:36. > :06:38.in the West Highlands, after a contract was signed to build

:06:39. > :06:41.parts for floating wind The dry dock there was last

:06:42. > :06:44.used to work on the Skye The yard was built to construct

:06:45. > :06:48.North Sea oil platforms and in the 1970s employed more

:06:49. > :06:56.than three thousand people. Rangers say they're "shocked

:06:57. > :06:58.and saddened" at the death of their former player

:06:59. > :07:00.Ugo Ehiogu at the age of 44. He suffered a heart attack yesterday

:07:01. > :07:03.at Tottenham's training ground, Ehiogu played for Rangers ten years

:07:04. > :07:07.ago, and is often remembered for this winning goal

:07:08. > :07:17.against Celtic. Wildlife experts are hoping

:07:18. > :07:20.to rescue a whale which has become It's hoped that the 20-foot minke

:07:21. > :07:24.whale can be refloated later tonight, when the tide

:07:25. > :07:26.is high enough. A team of around eight people from

:07:27. > :07:29.British Divers Marine Life Rescue The minke was spotted on a beach

:07:30. > :07:33.west of Elie by a passer-by. Coastguard teams from St Andrews

:07:34. > :07:39.and Leven were at the scene. Olympic gold medallist

:07:40. > :07:40.Dame Katherine Grainger has been Great Britain's most decorated

:07:41. > :07:45.female Olympian retired from rowing, after winning a medal at a fifth

:07:46. > :07:47.Games last summer. She'll succeed Rod Carr

:07:48. > :07:49.as head of the funding Let's get the weather forecast

:07:50. > :08:12.now from Christopher. Good evening. A chilly night in

:08:13. > :08:15.store with clear conditions. There will be a number of showers across

:08:16. > :08:22.the far north. That is how we start things tomorrow morning. Being blown

:08:23. > :08:25.in bad -- on that brisk wind. Elsewhere, a sunny morning. The

:08:26. > :08:32.cloud will bubble up through the course of the day. Showers further

:08:33. > :08:36.north. They will continue. Across the UK, reasonably settled and

:08:37. > :08:43.drive. Some bright spells through parts of Wales, the Midlands and the

:08:44. > :08:48.north of England. Temperature wise for us, we are looking at around ten

:08:49. > :08:51.or 11 Celsius for many. You can see the cloud having bubbled up through

:08:52. > :08:57.the course of the day but still some bright weather and sunny spells.

:08:58. > :09:10.Further north, vary -- varies that rash of showers. Most of them,

:09:11. > :09:14.wintry on the tops at times. As we head to the rest of the afternoon

:09:15. > :09:21.into the evening, showers still with us. Largely dry for many overnight.

:09:22. > :09:25.A cold night. And then for Sunday, high-pressure influencing conditions

:09:26. > :09:29.for most of the UK but low pressure across the far North brings a wet

:09:30. > :09:35.and windy spell of weather for the far north and the Northern Isles. We

:09:36. > :09:39.could see some gale force gusts. Elsewhere, a largely dry day to come

:09:40. > :09:42.on Sunday with some sunshine and cloud. Temperatures up a notch but

:09:43. > :09:48.they will come straight back down again into Monday and Tuesday. An

:09:49. > :09:49.arctic blast of wind and the wrist were mackerel risk of wintry showers

:09:50. > :09:55.everywhere.