:00:00. > :00:00.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:07.On Election Reporting Scotland tonight...
:00:08. > :00:09.What do the council results tell us about what will
:00:10. > :00:20.And I'll be calling the parties to account out
:00:21. > :00:48.And we'll reveal who really is Holyrood's top dog.
:00:49. > :00:53.Between now and the general election, we'll bring you up
:00:54. > :00:56.to speed with daily events from the campaign trail with
:00:57. > :01:01.If you watch nothing else each day, we will be here with your essential
:01:02. > :01:08.So, with the local elections now out of the way, today the general
:01:09. > :01:14.But who got the biggest bounce from Thursday's results?
:01:15. > :01:24.Here's our political correspondent Glenn Campbell.
:01:25. > :01:39.Nb That the SNP won is not in doubt. They are the biggest. Their win is
:01:40. > :01:43.reflected in new data confirming the share of first preference votes each
:01:44. > :01:47.reflected in new data confirming the party received. The SNP were first
:01:48. > :01:52.with 32%. Seven points ahead of the Conservatives on 25. Labour are on
:01:53. > :01:58.20%, pushed into third place ahead of independence and others with shop
:01:59. > :02:04.smaller shares. Now look at how that compares with what happened five
:02:05. > :02:09.years ago. The SNP vote share has not changed. The Tories are up 12
:02:10. > :02:12.percentage points, mainly at the expense of labour, down 11 on the
:02:13. > :02:20.last local Government elections. What might be going on? It looks as
:02:21. > :02:24.though what has happened have the Conservatives' concentration on the
:02:25. > :02:27.question of the strong, robust opposition has meant that Labour
:02:28. > :02:33.voters have gone straight over to the Conservatives because the Labour
:02:34. > :02:42.Party's message has been more muted, Let's the polarisation of Scottish
:02:43. > :02:48.politics between all the parties. The Tories will place the future of
:02:49. > :02:53.the union at the centre of their campaign for next month's general
:02:54. > :02:58.election. At Westminster, the SNP is defending 56 of the 59 available
:02:59. > :03:02.seats in Scotland. It won them with a 50% share of the vote across the
:03:03. > :03:07.country in the general election two years ago. That is more than the 47%
:03:08. > :03:13.share they got of the constituency vote at last year's Holyrood
:03:14. > :03:19.election for up and much more than the 32% of first preference is the
:03:20. > :03:25.party got in this year's locals. The truth is the figures for the SNP are
:03:26. > :03:29.low as compared with 2015 and 2016. But of course back in 2012, they
:03:30. > :03:33.also did relatively poorly in the local elections, so what we are now
:03:34. > :03:38.wondering is whether or not this simply reflects the fact that voters
:03:39. > :03:43.are less willing to vote for the SNP in local elections are if this is a
:03:44. > :03:47.sign of what is to come. Having won all but three of the Scottish seats
:03:48. > :03:52.in the last general election, the SNP has the most to lose in next
:03:53. > :03:54.month's vote. Opinion polls suggest there are still on course to finish
:03:55. > :03:57.with the largest group of MPs. We've got a trio of top commentators
:03:58. > :04:01.to talk about the campaigns so far and the challenges ahead
:04:02. > :04:02.for the politicians. Stephen Paton is the online content
:04:03. > :04:05.editor for The National, Marianne Taylor writes
:04:06. > :04:07.for the Herald, and in our Edinburgh studio, we're joined
:04:08. > :04:09.by Andy Maciver, a former director of communications for
:04:10. > :04:12.the Scottish Conservatives and currently director of the PR
:04:13. > :04:24.agency Message Matters. Thank you to you all for joining us
:04:25. > :04:29.this evening. Marianne, who gets the biggest bounce from Thursday's
:04:30. > :04:33.results? I think it is clear the Conservatives had a fantastic day,
:04:34. > :04:38.and it was not as we imagined it would would be. It has left some
:04:39. > :04:42.very interesting propositions, situations. I think it would be
:04:43. > :04:47.naive to think that all the voters vote on things like wheelie bins on
:04:48. > :04:52.the roads. Obviously the are influenced, knowing this year that
:04:53. > :04:59.there is a general election just around the corner, but I also think
:05:00. > :05:02.that it reflects, as John Curtis said earlier, the changing
:05:03. > :05:08.landscape, the new landscape we are in. Nobody quite knows how this will
:05:09. > :05:12.hit Julie Yates and how it will go. I think the SMB will be nervous
:05:13. > :05:17.about what has happened, but on the other hand, they are believed it
:05:18. > :05:22.quite strongly to you. Will they be nervous or does it suit the SNP, do
:05:23. > :05:27.you think, for the soon Conservatives, the old bogeyman
:05:28. > :05:31.against the opposition. I definitely think it helped them. Not just in
:05:32. > :05:35.terms of the general election but looking at a referendum in the
:05:36. > :05:39.future between the SNP and the Conservative Party. I do not think
:05:40. > :05:44.the local elections were a massive resurgence in Tory support as much
:05:45. > :05:48.the support for the union, collecting around the Conservative
:05:49. > :05:52.Party, when you are looking at the breakdowns figures with only 25% of
:05:53. > :05:57.the country voting for the Conservatives, it is not so much
:05:58. > :06:03.resurgence. That is a problem for them, because that is not a buy into
:06:04. > :06:06.their policies, it is to them to the opposition to independence at this
:06:07. > :06:08.time. If you look back to the local elections in 2012,
:06:09. > :06:13.time. If you look back to the local second had a higher percentage of
:06:14. > :06:17.the boat than the Conservatives. As they frame it as their win, I do not
:06:18. > :06:25.think the numbers back that up. And in Akiva, Glasgow lost. What now for
:06:26. > :06:29.Scottish Labour? Not much, but I think the reality of last week is
:06:30. > :06:35.Scottish Labour was a stock market company. It would have been priced
:06:36. > :06:39.into the stock last week, so I do not think it has a huge impact on
:06:40. > :06:44.labour. I think the interesting thing in last week's results and
:06:45. > :06:49.what it tells is the most about Juno the eighth added particular areas
:06:50. > :06:53.the opposition parties did well. You look in East Lothian, probably their
:06:54. > :06:58.top target see, they did well. The Lib Dems did it well in Edinburgh
:06:59. > :07:03.West. The Tories did well right across the South in Perth, Moray, in
:07:04. > :07:09.Aberdeenshire, all places they are hoping to take on June the 8th. That
:07:10. > :07:17.is something that will worry the SNP the most. But the thing that will
:07:18. > :07:22.really concerned the SNP is in those particular seats, maybe eight or ten
:07:23. > :07:25.target seats for other parties, the SNP did poorly and their main
:07:26. > :07:27.opposition in those seats did really well. Hang on, we saw the SNP do
:07:28. > :07:32.well in Edinburgh, at area they well. Hang on, we saw the SNP do
:07:33. > :07:36.not polls so well in the independence referendum. They did
:07:37. > :07:42.perfectly well in Edinburgh, but I think the biggest seats that is in
:07:43. > :07:45.jeopardy is Edinburgh West. They did not do particular well in some of
:07:46. > :07:50.the keyboards in Edinburgh West, I think that remains in jeopardy along
:07:51. > :07:55.with a number of others. What about the Liberal Democrats? They lost
:07:56. > :07:59.seats on Thursday. Tim Farron here today seemed to be very confident of
:08:00. > :08:04.a researchers for them in Scotland. I think that is hard to see. It is
:08:05. > :08:09.not impossible, but in the new landscape, I do not think there is
:08:10. > :08:14.room there for them at all. I do not see how they would be able to appeal
:08:15. > :08:18.to union voters who wanted a stronger voice, the whole Brexit
:08:19. > :08:22.thing is not playing strongly here in Scotland as it is elsewhere in
:08:23. > :08:25.England. I do not think there is room for them. It is not playing
:08:26. > :08:34.here at all. Brexit is the elections south of the body. It is all about
:08:35. > :08:38.independence year, no? Soul now framed through the constitutional
:08:39. > :08:43.lens of who is going to stand up for or against a referendum. Possibly
:08:44. > :08:47.one of the reasons why supporter has gone away from the Labour Party in
:08:48. > :08:50.the local elections, given that both the Labour Party and the
:08:51. > :08:56.Conservatives ran on the same message, vote for us to say no to
:08:57. > :09:01.another referendum. It is no surprise that the support... Andy
:09:02. > :09:04.Maciver, was we look forward to the surprise that the support... Andy
:09:05. > :09:09.next four weeks, not the big policy areas in Scotland? I think it it is
:09:10. > :09:14.going to be a policy election. They're going to trying keep this on
:09:15. > :09:17.policy, you will see what they have been doing with the well fine cap
:09:18. > :09:22.and they will try their best they possibly can to keep on two issues
:09:23. > :09:27.like that. This general election is almost like two referendums wrapped
:09:28. > :09:30.into one. As you look to England, is very much a referendum on Brexit and
:09:31. > :09:36.that is what the Tory party once it framed us. We saw them say that they
:09:37. > :09:40.need a bigger mandate to negotiate Europe. To me, the Tories are trying
:09:41. > :09:43.to make it into an independence referendum. It is a bit of an
:09:44. > :09:48.answering between the Tories on the SNP to see who can be the central
:09:49. > :09:52.theme of the campaign. Internally, the SNP have been under a little
:09:53. > :09:55.pressure to turn it back onto independence because there was a
:09:56. > :10:00.period where they were trying not to talk about that about this time last
:10:01. > :10:03.week, Nicola Sturgeon said it was a key issue in the campaign as well,
:10:04. > :10:08.so I do not think we will see much policy at all from south of the
:10:09. > :10:11.border, there is not much time for it, there is not a lot of space in
:10:12. > :10:15.the media for it, and there is not much appetite among the parties to
:10:16. > :10:26.talk about it. We will see personalities. Theresa May has been
:10:27. > :10:34.on the The capital Mac one Show. I believe we will seek Brexit, which
:10:35. > :10:40.is not soft cuddly. I think people deserve the... I would ask them why
:10:41. > :10:44.they have taken the biggest risk of the campaign by going on the show in
:10:45. > :10:45.the first place. We will find out tomorrow at seven. Thank you for
:10:46. > :10:46.your time. More from the campaign trail coming
:10:47. > :10:49.up, but first Anne Lundon has Two men from Larkhall whose bodies
:10:50. > :10:55.were recovered from the Irish Sea after going out on a speedboat
:10:56. > :10:57.at the weekend have Our reporter
:10:58. > :11:09.Willie Johnston has the details. The victims have been named as Sandy
:11:10. > :11:14.Hamilton, who was 35, and 47 old Kevin McKinlay, both from Larkhall
:11:15. > :11:18.in Lanarkshire. The friends had set out on Saturday morning from Port
:11:19. > :11:21.Logan just along the coast here, foray powerboats drive up the coast
:11:22. > :11:25.when something went badly wrong. Their bodies were discovered last
:11:26. > :11:29.night after a major air and sea search which had gone on for nearly
:11:30. > :11:34.24 hours. They were found about two and a half miles of straw. The
:11:35. > :11:39.tragedy happened in apparently benign conditions. Over the weekend
:11:40. > :11:42.we have had fantastic weekend weather. The water is very
:11:43. > :11:46.attractive, the sun is out, and it is good to go out and enjoy the
:11:47. > :11:52.water at that point. I think this highlights the danger the water can
:11:53. > :11:57.entail, how quick a very fun, enjoyable day can become a
:11:58. > :12:00.catastrophe and a disaster. The warning has been echoed by police
:12:01. > :12:05.Scotland, who say their investigation into the tragedy is
:12:06. > :12:07.continuing. Willie Johnston, Reporting Scotland, Portpatrick.
:12:08. > :12:09.A plea's been issued for more families to get
:12:10. > :12:12.The Fostering Network says over 600 new foster families
:12:13. > :12:14.are needed in Scotland, with homes particularly sought
:12:15. > :12:20.The charity says unless people come forward, children face being placed
:12:21. > :12:23.It's getting increasingly difficult to find somewhere to live
:12:24. > :12:27.in the centre of Edinburgh, and that's partly down
:12:28. > :12:29.to the capital's success as a draw for tourists.
:12:30. > :12:31.According to research by the Scottish Green Party,
:12:32. > :12:34.by 2050, almost half of the homes in the EH1 postcode
:12:35. > :12:46.Margo Mason lives in Edinburgh's New Town,
:12:47. > :12:49.and is one of the growing number of people who rent out their homes
:12:50. > :13:00.The extra income enables her to stay living in the city centre.
:13:01. > :13:06.I didn't have enough money coming in to live on.
:13:07. > :13:11.The alternative would be I would have to sell my house,
:13:12. > :13:16.Homeowners like Margot still live in the places
:13:17. > :13:19.they rent out at peak times, but there is an ever growing trend
:13:20. > :13:22.for people to buy up properties in Edinburgh that they will use
:13:23. > :13:30.Critics say this is causing problems.
:13:31. > :13:32.Ross Cowan lives on the historic Grassmarket,
:13:33. > :13:37.and there are now three holiday flats in his stair alone.
:13:38. > :13:41.You've got noise disruption, littering within the stair.
:13:42. > :13:43.For somebody coming into the holiday let,
:13:44. > :13:46.it is like a hotel without any staff.
:13:47. > :13:51.They can do what they like, because there is no-one there.
:13:52. > :13:55.Estate agents are concerned about losing rents from
:13:56. > :14:01.If you cannot find somewhere to live,
:14:02. > :14:08.The Scottish Green Party reckons that if the trend continues,
:14:09. > :14:11.around half the homes in EH1 will be holiday homes by 2050.
:14:12. > :14:13.Michael Allan's business manages short-term lets,
:14:14. > :14:16.which he says are good for the local economy, but he agrees
:14:17. > :14:20.All of the negatives can be solved by simple regulation,
:14:21. > :14:23.by the council taking insight from local neighbourhood areas,
:14:24. > :14:29.taking advice from agencies, to create good policy.
:14:30. > :14:31.Other cities like London and Paris have introduced regulations
:14:32. > :14:41.The challenge is to find a solution that suits the capital.
:14:42. > :14:47.Thanks, Anne, back to Election 2017 in Scotland.
:14:48. > :14:50.This was the day Labour and the Conservatives
:14:51. > :14:54.Nicola Sturgeon pulled a pint in Perthshire
:14:55. > :14:59.and Lib Dem Leader Tim Farron brought his battle bus to Scotland.
:15:00. > :15:07.Here some of the key moments with 32 days to go.
:15:08. > :15:12.Theresa May says the Conservatives will not abandon their promise to
:15:13. > :15:18.reduce annual net migration to the tens of thousands. Even though they
:15:19. > :15:21.have never met the target. Of course once we leave the European Union, we
:15:22. > :15:26.will have the opportunity to ensure that we have control of our borders
:15:27. > :15:30.here in the UK. Labour have been talking tax. Kezia
:15:31. > :15:33.Dugdale does not seem keen on the Shadow Chancellor's promise not to
:15:34. > :15:39.increase tax for low and middle earners. That is a policy he has
:15:40. > :15:44.produced because that is where the power lies, England. I have
:15:45. > :15:47.consistently argued for using our powers to raise the money we need to
:15:48. > :15:51.stop the cuts. The S hinted that a 50p rate for
:15:52. > :15:56.higher errors could be back on the table. We should not be increasing
:15:57. > :16:01.the burden of income tax for low and middle-income earners. The cost of
:16:02. > :16:06.living is going up. We set in the past that UK wide, going back to the
:16:07. > :16:09.50p top rate is something that should be considered.
:16:10. > :16:13.While the UK Lib Dems leader was in Scotland. He is not interested in
:16:14. > :16:17.deals or coalitions. Individuals will make their own choices and we
:16:18. > :16:24.are not in a case of being able to delegate. But the one party standing
:16:25. > :16:26.for Scotland in the UK and Scotland in the EU, that is a powerful
:16:27. > :16:28.message. With me to talk through today's
:16:29. > :16:31.events, Ivan McKee from the SNP, Annie Wells from
:16:32. > :16:33.the Scottish Conservatives and Jackie Baillie from
:16:34. > :16:34.Scottish Labour. And in Edinburgh is
:16:35. > :16:47.Alex Cole-Hamilton from Thank you all for joining us this
:16:48. > :16:51.evening. Jackie Baillie, John McDonnell announced yesterday a
:16:52. > :16:54.commitment to a tax rise for anyone over ?80,000 a year, will that be in
:16:55. > :16:56.commitment to a tax rise for anyone the Scottish party manifesto? We
:16:57. > :17:01.already control income tax in Scotland and we set out our
:17:02. > :17:04.proposals quite clearly at the last budget because we thought that the
:17:05. > :17:09.Scottish Parliament should use the new powers they have in a bid to end
:17:10. > :17:14.austerity. So we proposed a top rate of income tax for those lucky enough
:17:15. > :17:20.to earn over ?150,000 because we thought that was the right thing to
:17:21. > :17:24.do. Now we see the ridiculous spectacle of Nicola Sturgeon having
:17:25. > :17:27.initially proposed a 50p top rate of tax, then denying it in the
:17:28. > :17:33.Parliament where she had the power to do something about it. What about
:17:34. > :17:36.your policy, will you back what John McDonnell has been saying? Those
:17:37. > :17:41.people owning over 80,000 fans a year. We think those with the
:17:42. > :17:45.broadest shoulders should be a little bit more. -- over ?80,000 a
:17:46. > :17:49.year. In Scotland we have responsibility over our own taxation
:17:50. > :17:54.so we would come forward with proposals as we have done that suit
:17:55. > :17:58.what is going on at the time. And I will not include people who earn
:17:59. > :18:01.?80,000 a year? We think people should be paying a little and more,
:18:02. > :18:05.those who are fortunate enough to earn more, because we want to end
:18:06. > :18:09.austerity in Scotland, whereas the SNP and the Tories simply want to
:18:10. > :18:16.pass it on to the very poorest in our country. Ivan McKee, does the
:18:17. > :18:20.50p rate for higher earners remain on the table for you? Yes, it has
:18:21. > :18:24.always been on the table. The issue of the 50p rate is, you have to do
:18:25. > :18:28.the calculations to understand how much it will raise. If you don't do
:18:29. > :18:33.that property, it can actually cost you money. It would be insane to put
:18:34. > :18:36.a tax rise in that it is going to cost you money and you get less
:18:37. > :18:40.money for public services. But we are clear that we will not increase
:18:41. > :18:44.taxes for low and average earners, as you have seen in the Labour Party
:18:45. > :18:48.policy, to increase taxes for the lowest earners and societies, so
:18:49. > :18:53.they would pay for posterity twice. We do not think that is the right
:18:54. > :18:58.thing to do. So where should the line be? ?80,000 by the Labour
:18:59. > :19:01.Party, or is it for you? I am not go to make a manifesto commitment on
:19:02. > :19:05.this show. We will see what happens when the party manifesto comes out
:19:06. > :19:10.but the 50% rate is never off the table, and the details of what we
:19:11. > :19:15.will propose will be clear in our manifesto. Annie Wells, the other
:19:16. > :19:20.big story today was migration. You never actually managed to reach it
:19:21. > :19:24.appointments minister said -- Bardia Prime Minister say that the promise
:19:25. > :19:28.to cut net migration will be in it again. Do we have a problem with
:19:29. > :19:33.migration in Scotland? I don't think we do. The only issue here is that
:19:34. > :19:35.we only have 4% of people that come to the UK actually coming to
:19:36. > :19:41.Scotland. So we need more people coming? The Scottish Government have
:19:42. > :19:47.the leverage to control it, to make this the place to come. But who is
:19:48. > :19:54.good working with the highest taxes in the UK and a education system?
:19:55. > :19:57.But if the national Government, if the Tory Government nationally is
:19:58. > :20:01.setting these limits, but is inevitably going to impact on the
:20:02. > :20:06.number of people coming to Scotland. Of course, but you also have the
:20:07. > :20:13.operations that people are coming here for. At the end of the day,
:20:14. > :20:19.what we are saying is, if the SNP believe that we should get more
:20:20. > :20:23.migration here... Do you have an issue with migration here? We need
:20:24. > :20:27.to encourage people to live and work in our country but we need to make
:20:28. > :20:31.it a fair place for them to come and work. But on the 8th of June the
:20:32. > :20:35.people of the UK will have the vote there. We control our borders, or
:20:36. > :20:41.Jeremy Corbyn just as free movement of people. You have got Theresa May
:20:42. > :20:45.fighting an election campaign at a UK level on the basis that they want
:20:46. > :20:48.to reduce immigration despite the fact that when she was Home
:20:49. > :20:53.Secretary she completely failed to do so. 160,000 people a year from
:20:54. > :21:00.outside the EU. You have the Scottish Conservatives somehow
:21:01. > :21:04.trying to blame the SNP... No, because the SNP have been in
:21:05. > :21:08.Parliament saying we should have more migration in Scotland. We are
:21:09. > :21:12.saying that if people do not just come to Scotland or to any place
:21:13. > :21:16.because of cultural values, they come to Scotland or to any place
:21:17. > :21:23.come because there are jobs, job growth, things for them... That is
:21:24. > :21:28.not how it works. Immigration is there to encourage growth. If you
:21:29. > :21:31.ask economic experts, all the UK growth forecasts assume that
:21:32. > :21:34.immigration will be in the hundreds of thousands going forward, not the
:21:35. > :21:40.tens of thousands. If it was reduced to tens of thousand, the UK' numbers
:21:41. > :21:46.would take a tumble. That is going to hurt Scotland. Tim Farron's
:21:47. > :21:49.visit, Alex Cole-Hamilton is in Edinburgh. He lost to seize
:21:50. > :21:56.nationally and in Scotland only 7% of the vote last week. Your party
:21:57. > :22:00.leader says no deals or no pacts. Given how badly you did with that
:22:01. > :22:04.the last time, it is easy to see why he's doing it. But how will you get
:22:05. > :22:08.anywhere if you're not prepared to deal other parties? Firstly, the
:22:09. > :22:12.results of the local election showed our best results were in those seats
:22:13. > :22:16.where we are in contention against the SNP, Eastern Bodiger, North East
:22:17. > :22:28.Fife and in the West, and in the Highlands we saw us overtaking the
:22:29. > :22:35.SNP. Glenn Campbell should a photograph relic, it puts liberal
:22:36. > :22:36.Democrat in contention and shows that the SNP are unassailable, and
:22:37. > :22:42.we are absolutely bringing the fight that the SNP are unassailable, and
:22:43. > :22:47.to them. The seats we took from them last year, against the odds, and in
:22:48. > :22:51.North East Fife, so Tim Farron did a tour of some of those seats today to
:22:52. > :22:56.bring a message of enthusiasm to the activist base... But you will have
:22:57. > :23:04.to deal with other parties to ever get your hands on the levers. I do
:23:05. > :23:08.not think that is in question. If every party has ruled out a
:23:09. > :23:14.coalition. The SNP have ruled out ever forming a coalition with the
:23:15. > :23:17.Conservatives. We cannot ever see as aligning ourselves in this election,
:23:18. > :23:22.which everybody is for telling as being a Conservative landslide, what
:23:23. > :23:25.we have a race for here is the effective opposition to take the
:23:26. > :23:30.fight to Theresa May. Jeremy Corbyn has been shown to be woeful in
:23:31. > :23:35.delivering that. Complete capitulation over Brexit. The SNP
:23:36. > :23:38.are driving the SNP -- the independence agenda solely the only
:23:39. > :23:43.party standing up Scotland's place in the UK and the UK's place in
:23:44. > :23:46.Europe is the Lib Dems that is a message and you can see the results
:23:47. > :23:51.of both referendums, that is compelling and is winning over
:23:52. > :23:55.voters across those areas... Jackie Baillie, when his Jeremy Corbyn
:23:56. > :23:58.coming to Scotland? I believe he has already been and I think he will be
:23:59. > :24:03.back several times into the course of the campaign. But at the end of
:24:04. > :24:10.the day, what this is about is a bold for Labour is a boat very much
:24:11. > :24:15.against a second independence referendum and it is a vote to end
:24:16. > :24:19.austerity. We are very clear and Jeremy Corbyn is equally clear. What
:24:20. > :24:23.we want to do is we want to return to introducing the kind of values
:24:24. > :24:27.and policies that have been traditional to Labour. We are a
:24:28. > :24:29.tough time, thank you very much indeed. -- out of time.
:24:30. > :24:31.And finally, forget the local elections -
:24:32. > :24:33.anyone looking for clues as to the general election result
:24:34. > :24:35.today turned their attention to the first Holyrood
:24:36. > :24:38.14 contenders battled it out to be named Scotland's
:24:39. > :24:42.with the prize eventually going to SNP MSP Emma Harper
:24:43. > :24:48.The winner decided, apparently, on a first PAWS the post system.
:24:49. > :24:49.And that's Election Reporting Scotland.
:24:50. > :24:55.Tomorrow on the campaign trail, there's oil and gas, Europe,
:24:56. > :24:56.Join me again after the Ten O'Clock News,
:24:57. > :25:33.Cloud across the far north was patchy rain drifting into the
:25:34. > :25:37.Northern Isles by tomorrow morning. But not too cold. We could see a
:25:38. > :25:41.touch of frost towards the Great Glen area. So if I'm stuck to the
:25:42. > :25:47.day, any cloud breaking up as we head through the course of the
:25:48. > :25:51.morning. Seven or six Celsius across the South and the central lowlands.
:25:52. > :25:54.We could see a touch of frost towards the Great Glen Lyon. Across
:25:55. > :25:57.the North Coast and the Northern Isles, cloudy with patchy rain, a
:25:58. > :26:02.bit of a breeze coming from the West. For the rest of the morning,
:26:03. > :26:07.nothing changing across the far North. Cloud sinking further South
:26:08. > :26:11.into Aberdeenshire, Friday with bright and sunny spells. As far of
:26:12. > :26:16.the rest of the UK goes, some lovely sunshine for Northern Ireland, the
:26:17. > :26:21.Western side of the UK will have more in the way of cloud. Quite cool
:26:22. > :26:27.and eastern coastal areas, Newcastle right down to the South East.
:26:28. > :26:29.Temperatures not looking too bad at all, 18 Celsius for Northern
:26:30. > :26:33.Ireland. You will notice the East of Scotland feeling much better in the
:26:34. > :26:37.temperature stakes. We could see 17 Celsius by the likes of Perthshire
:26:38. > :26:42.and inland parts of the Borders as well. But very little in the way of
:26:43. > :26:46.rain. It will feel pleasant in the sunshine. Always a bit cooler under
:26:47. > :26:50.the cloud across the former. Holding onto cloudy conditions across the
:26:51. > :26:55.foreign or with patchy rain and drizzle. Elsewhere, dry as we head
:26:56. > :27:00.through tomorrow evening. Here is the pressure drop, high pressure
:27:01. > :27:04.driving our weather. -- the pressure chart. Brightening up on Wednesday,
:27:05. > :27:05.that rain clears from the Northern