95810 medium wave and on digital radio b.b.c. Radio Scotland Good afternoon it's 4 o'clock. And this is news Dr with very Stuart tonight the u.k. And Scottish Government's meet to talk BRICs that the talks we've had so far have been serious have been constructive the right over nuclear waste from Scotland being dumped an Aborigine London astray written off to their people over the years that it's 2017 the right behind look at the sorting out our pubs rather than creating something for other people and why the wet weather is causing problems for Scotland's birds. That's all to come between know and 631st the news from Christine Finnegan the u.k. And Scottish government say that some progress has been made in the latest round of talks on breaks it but admit the 2 sides are still far apart They've been meeting in London to discuss concerns about the e.u. Withdrawal bill after a note of talks both sides said the meeting had been constructive but conceded there's still a long way to go before any deal the Deputy 1st Minister John Swinney set out the Scottish Government's main concern but we won't be positive and it is an attempt by the u.k. Government to come up I was responsible to spot today in government when they should be properly exercised by the sponsor on the Chancellor Philip Hammond has said he's entirely in accord with the u.k. Government's policy for a breaks a transition period of a run 2 years speaking on a visit to dun d. Mr Hammond said the transition would need to be complete before the next general election in 2022 the case thing is to give business certainty about the environment they will fight so that the investment can get going again and this is a promise said on Friday an interim. Period of around 2 years will greatly assist business as well as government agencies in preparing for the future labor is calling for a limit on the amount of interest credit card companies can charge people the party is urging the government to cap fees so no $1.00 pays more than interest than the amount they borrowed the shadow chancellor John McDonald told the party's conference in Brighton that if the conservatives didn't tanked a future Labor Government would amend the law more than $3000000.00 credit card holders are trapped by their debt they paid more in interest charges and fees than they originally bollard now the Financial Conduct your thought is argue for action to be taken credit card debt as on payday loan. So I'm calling up on the government right now and apply the same rules on payday loans to credit card debt it means that no one will ever pay more in interest than their original loan the German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she wants to win back the voters who switched their support to the anti immigrant t.f.t. Party but she says that would not involve a lurch to the right for her government the f.t. Has a marriage has the 3rd biggest group in parliament after yesterday's election Peter redundancy was an advisor to the former German German Chancellor Helmut Kohl he says Mrs Merkel one c.f.d. Voters to know she takes them seriously she tries to divide the party from the voters because we know that more than half of the voters are people or only want to for test against us perhaps we can come in terms of coffins be with them that see are willing to vote for us again a belly of Scott trail made a loss of 3 and a half 1000000 pounds in its 1st food year operating train services in Scotland new accounts also show that last year a barely old was loaned 10000000 pounds by its start sister company Here's our business correspondent David Henderson a barely 0 is a subsidiary of the state owned Dutch railways in its 1st 9 months a Scot real franchise operator it made profits of almost 10000000 poems that led critics to accuse a belly of of profiteering Since then the companies faced challenges with delays and cancelled trains linked to major work on railway lines so for 2016 a belly all run at a loss of more than $3000000.00 pounds with no dividend paid to its dutch parent company and it received a load of $10000000.00 pounds from another member of the a belly or group the firm says it's no the best performing large rail operator in the u.k. Motorists are reporting long dillies on the 9 in the Cairngorm. Traffic Scotland had warned of a 30 minute long delay northbound and 60 Minutes southbound agree surfacing works in the passive drum October beer Scotland c roadworks are being lifted to ease the situation a beer McIntyre was driving so Ford's earlier told us about her journey she was you know much stationary and traffic so I don't find a bit of baking I can see right behind us of the curve of the mine to here and so that key traffic as far as we can see what heading towards our having had just had a lovely weekend in Gallo but there's a serious thing you're really I can tell you that much an Egyptian who was once believed to be the world's heaviest woman has died she was $37.00 at one point. We did more than 70 stones she suffered from heart disease and kidney problems and was undergoing rehabilitation at a hospital in the United Arab Emirates that's a new sport hears him in the best thanking the sculls a manager Gordon Strachan has called up leads Captain Liam Cooper for his 25 months scored the qualifiers against the vacuum and Slovenia and it could all very much as they must win if they are to have a realistic chance of making the World Cup in 20186 players but nor Steven successive players rather but no Steven Naismith Tom Kenny or Russell Martin and relation to likely defeat for could allow the weighting of Poppy's getting any November game struck and says common sense has prevailed all for u.k. Football associations are fine for players getting Poppy's an Armistice Day last year seen as a political symbol by the governing body also can see have begun their search for a new manager after Jim Mackin terrace system Billy dogs left the club the Staggies have won just once in their opening 7 games and Sept 10th in the Premiership academy director Steven Ferguson will step in caretaker and Glasgow orders assistant coach Kenny money and sisters definitely a lot more to come from the site following an impressive win over Munster to secure a 4th successive pull $14.00 victory no here's the so is Matthews with the latest travel. Thank you in the Highlands they eat and I know what has been close both ways because of a road accident but it recently reopened to cars only an update on the 89 woodworks at remarked our past as we heard in the news the surfacing works have now been lifted and that leaves the link the 2 banks that would have portably up to 2 oversight by many no other unusual hold ups in the woods but Scott real and Virgin trains north are made or are being delayed cancelled and diverted due to signalling fault and in Fady some comics services are subject to disruption because of the weather so check ahead b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel Scotland's weather Cloete for most with outbreaks of rain across eastern parts winds mainly light but brisket times over the north are Niall's a north east coast 15 to 18 Celsius our next new somebody at 430 so the u.k. And Scottish government say that some progress has been made in the latest round of talks on Bret's that but admit the 2 sides are still far apart They've been meeting in London to discuss concerns about the e.u. Withdrawal bill well our Westminster correspondent David Porter can tell us more so I would you characterize these talks. I think there's a willingness on both sides to try and make progress if they can and if they can get an agreement get an agreement but wanting an agreement and getting an agreement are 2 very different things they did make progress today the talks were described by both sides as constructive and serious but they are still a long long way apart and the reason for that is very simple that under the brakes that negotiations and the likely brakes settlement the u.k. Government wants powers to come back from Brussels to Westminster it will then decide whether those powers should be devolved whether they should go to Edinburgh or up to Cardiff the Scottish government sees it differently they would like the powers to go directly from Brussels to Holyrood and for them to be maximum devolution Now they went for an hour today they made some progress and they basically agreed that they needed a lot more time to talk about it but when I caught up with Damian Green who is in effect the deputy prime minister down here at Westminster he seemed quite optimistic he thinks with the right political will and I think a lot of hard talking they could approach a compromise at this morning's meeting was a serious meeting I was I was very pleased with the attitude of the Scottish Government ministers I think we engaged constructively so and I'm glad that we are now at the the serious stage of these talks because obviously we need to be we've got 18 months or so before we leave the European Union and it's very important that the evolution aspects of that all got light. So what's the Scottish Government's taken and well they want to deal if they can get one but they say it has to be the right deal and to paraphrase or I suppose a phrase used by treason may in the past the British prime minister no deal is perhaps better than a ban do they say that the way that the u.k. Government's proposals are framed at the moment and the e.u. Withdrawal bill which is going through Westminster they regard it as a real threat to diva Lucian they say that one clause of that bill clause 9 could basically rewrite the whole devolution settlement and they don't like that and they say that if they can't get agreement they would be willing to veto the legislation from Hollywood's point of view not to pass what is known as a legislative consent motion but John Sweeney again speaking after the talks said that they did want to make pros progress but his job was to safeguard the rights of Holyrood the process of withdrawing from the e.u. Should not be used as a means of cropping powers back to the United Kingdom and should be a means of in changing the evolution of responsibility to the Scottish Parliament and working together to create common thing marks where those are relevant and should be in place in the Scottish Government is perfectly happy to do that but we wouldn't be passive and it's an attempt by the government to come up person responsible to spot to thinking in government when we should be properly exercised by the Scottish Parliament so David clearly a lot of progress yet to be made hose it all going to pan out you're right in the sense I get of this is that there is an awful lot of hard talking hard bargaining and lengthy discussions which going to have to be held I suppose if a deal is to be reached there is going to have to be compromise on both sides and the u.k. Government say that if the legislation can be improved they will listen to ideas for that I draw a bit of a parallel with some negotiations that went on when it was decided to give only rude. More powers the so-called fiscal framework then there were very lengthy discussions between the Scottish Government and the u.k. Treasury as to how it was all going to work in practice they were to put it mildly comprehensive and prolonged breaks it is more complicated by the power of 10 than those negotiations because you are dealing with so many very big issues on a variety of subjects so it is not going to be easy there is going to be an awful lot of hard talking unlink the talking going on and I think both sides recognize that and I think quite frankly the Scottish and the u.k. Governments know that they are in for the long haul on this David Porter at Westminster thank you for that. Germany's right wing nationalist d.f.d. Party has voted to fight an invasion of foreigners into the country after winning its 1st parliamentary seats in Germany's recent election Chancellor Angela Merkel has been reelected for a 4th term but her conservative bloc received its worst result in almost 70 years let's go to our correspondent Damien Maginnis who told me what we can learn from this vote Well there's a couple of things going on I think here very on the 1st 1st of all it's important to point out that Chancellor Merkel of course as we know will remain as chancellor for another 4 years so she's won a 4th term which is a victory however it's being described here as a sort of bitter victory because the percentage of the vote she gets in the parliament has actually gone down by about 8 percent so that's that's one thing so she's slightly weakened the reason why she's lost some of her voters is simply that she this is new party which we've been talking out about quite a lot the last few days the anti migrant a.f.d. Party it's. It's anti Islam is anti migrant and it's very controversial here about a 1000000 voters who last time voted to c.d.u. That saying the medical center right party voted this party and that's why they have now entered the parliament for the 1st time scoring almost 13 percent and is the 1st time since the 2nd World War really that we've seen a far right nationalist populist party is how it's often described so that's a big shift in German politics and it's a very controversial move which has got a lot of people here worried because they accuse the a.f.d. Of stirring up hatred against migrants against minorities and against anyone who doesn't fit into a sort of ethnic nationalist view of what it means to be German So how influential is the f d lately to be then yeah I mean it's interesting to see really because they've managed to get into Parliament. But they're not going to get into government so that's because no other party will work with them every other party has said that this is that the f.d.a. Is beyond the bounds they described this I mean some members of the f.t. Have links to neo nazi groups it's a broad church so it ranges from people who simply object to the euro right through to people who say you shouldn't have Muslims in Germany but because of the controversial some are controversial members of this party no the German party will work with them which means they will stay out of government because Germany's a coalition system needs to work together to form a government but they'll have quite a lot of seats in parliament you know it could looks like possibly 80 or 90 seats in parliament which gives them a sizeable voice in parliament However what we're already seeing is that internal rivalries within the f.t. Are already leading to strains within the party because it's all very well fighting a ferocious campaign getting into parliament but actually in a mature democracy how do you then have to prove your worth by getting some party. Loyalty and having a bit of rigor and then working in Parliament and establishing policies is a very different proposition to getting yourself into Parliament in the 1st place so the party's going to the f.t. Is going to find that difficult and the it is drawn is split between 2 wings one more moderate which wants to get into government next time and wants to drop the nationalist rhetoric one which is more extreme and which says things like you should be able to shoot migrants if they if they try to cross the border even if they're women children or says that we're going to tear down minarets or says that you can't be German and Muslim at the same time so those 2 wings of the party are already under strain and when you have the elections yesterday and that was shown by one of the co-leaders said she wasn't going to sit in the parliamentary group of the f.t. So we're already seeing now a fight within the f.t. For the direction of this party which shows that we could find that the party might be very influential in the debate and the might be sent coarsening of the rhetoric within the debate and it might become a more argumentative parliament or we might find that the f.t. Actually doesn't manage to do very well as a parliamentary party that it might be riven by internal splits and they might not be able to keep their more controversial members under control and so the party could simply fall apart it could be one of those 2 options there's a correspondent in Germany Damien McGuinness. And that is one of the headlines the German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she wants to win back voters who've left her party for the far right after she was reelected yesterday on a reduced sheet of the vote the main headline The Scottish and u.k. Governments have held what are described as constructive talks over breakfast but are still a long way from a deal and a British woman is believed to have died in Greece after apparently being attacked by a pack of street dogs. When it comes to music t.v. . See Radio Scotland has you covered whether you're looking for some classic country and remember. The very best song rate from established and emerging artists maybe your new favorite n.p.p. . The blank slates of jazz probably even something a little more traditional music on b.b.c. Radio Scotland Oh it's right there great music every night to week on b.b.c. Reduce Scotland. Now the Kurds of northern Iraq are voting in a referendum on independence organized by the regional government today it's non-binding but the voters incurred the wrath of the national government in Baghdad and warnings from the United Nations it could destabilize the region neighboring countries Turkey and Iran which also have Kurdish minorities are similarly alarmed they've both closed their land borders with Iraqi Kurdistan will says on my Dell is a blogger in Iraqi Kurdistan and supports independence and I spoke to her earlier I went this morning quite early actually but. Like some queues are thousands of thousands of people so we'd have to come out of queues some of us go back home and then go back later points to. Buy I think I read around 3 o'clock almost 63 percent of eligible voters had already voted today and for many people are jesting up with you on makeup so it's a very celebratory occasion here the streets are decorate the Kurdish flag so it's a real event a historic event in fact what the kids today it's interesting that you're talking about are going to festival atmosphere is that normal during voting there. It is usually voting before had been like it would be this campaign that activity was ever going on but this one in particular it's almost like a dream or that it's a dream that was passed on from our grandparents from our fathers and for us as well and it's brought all the kids together despite political party differences despite any difference we've had it's just this feeling of unity feeling all this is this is the day that we've all been waiting for so yes it is a festivity in the obviously there will be people who are voting nul some of them saying it's because the government there is not running the country well what do you say to that argument. You know what it's a referendum and it's a vote King and everyone goes and vote yes or no and it's entirely up to them it is expected of boss vast majority of people to vote yes knowing the history of the Know what we've lived through recently. And the question of the referendum is simply one question it's not a question of our government it's not questioning our leaders it's not questioning and. The only question is do you want an independent country from Iraq yes or no so those vote no obviously they're free to do so but vast majority expected to be a big Are you worried about what might happen in the rest of Iraq with the Kurdish influence. Worried I mean any election you don't know what's to come to what you make you vote you cast your vote and then what happens afterwards it's a guessing game but Iraq is not a united country Iraq is not a peaceful country it's not like Iraq is so put together and so if peace could pull out it would break up part it's already broken into pieces and so I don't think that's an influence and if you don't want a lot of what's a success story the only part of Iraq that was a success story that was peaceful was the other Iraq that we called and that was the could this done region. If you do get independence what about the other Kurdish parts of the a.t.o. You know in Turkey and Syria and Iran would you be wanting a bigger Kurdish nation eventually. You'd have to ask but let's just obviously my as a ration is just a peaceful code. For little ness to be available for anyone who's goodish to live in so aspirations of other parts of Kurdistan it goes back to them it's not for us to decide at the end of the day but for the could this done region off not in Iraq it's reached a point in time where no that. The time has come. That the Iraqi Kurdish blogger says and I'm a deli. That researchers in the u.k. Say they've discovered a new use for Turkey tendons helping to develop new treatments for weak bones was spotted all to evolve from from Harry at what university and I asked him about the implications of an ageing population and people's bone strength it has a high socio economic impact we know that one in 3 women after Mina Porson one in Chinese men after the age of 50 are affected that makes currently 2 $100000000.00 women suffering from osteoporosis alone that causes over $9000000.00 fractures and yearly which again down costs tens of billions of and there you can choose to currency euro dollar pound in annual costs that of course have an impact on society so we are going after it's quite a challenging topic on diseases and osteoporosis in particular you know and obviously as it gets to the extreme stage it has really damaging impact on people's lives. Well if you consider a hip fracture which is the most detrimental one in case of us to propose us that leaves more while immediately usually And then in care for at least or in care for quite a long time sometimes longer than a year and apparently quite a fraction figures are a little bit in difference that between 12 and 20 percent of the patients suffering a practice at the elderly at the older stage die within a year not from the hip fracture but from all the follow up courses that are coming there so it's elderly people immobile they lose the. How to say they are the optimism and the kind of will to live if mobility is gone and obviously something needs to be done there so there is a great deal of possibilities to be done so for the average patient. There are good pharmaceutical treatments but for the non average patients 40 are still Friday Payson which is another bone disease that has a high impact those pharmaceuticals are nonexistent or not helpful and then you need of course alternative technologies and alternative solutions to actually lower the burden for the patients and in the end you cannot be impact on society so obviously there's a lot of work going on to try to find alternative treatments tell us what you're doing essentially what we're doing I'm in I'm in engineering I'm a mechanical engineer by training so what we do in our research is essentially break on off in the computer and in the experimental understand why and when it is fracturing and but to clear the rift is this research. We're working on now we're going to the very very low length scales of this intriguing materials that we're investigating the year it's fundamental building block which we call them on the mineralize college at fiber and that's essentially to fiber skeleton is made of and to be able to investigate this develop we're pretty fancy new experiment that allows us to probe to. Fibers on an individual basis and from discreet old to do is there a load bearing capabilities and that's information that we can use to improve his prediction or to Inform development of materials for tailored personalized implants solutions and using Turkey attendants for this Yes Well Turkey to Turkey Leg mineralized to recollect and then there's quite intriguing material so it's fundamental building block is also the minimalist college and fiber and that's very similar to what we find in the human scale of what the set up of the material system is much easier and since we are need to create test specimens a millionth of a metre in size to be able to. Test those stores those fibers That's Dr overvote from there from Harry at what university no time to the sport and here's the Macbeth thank you to Scott the manager gardens shack and has called up lead captain Liam Cooper for his 25 months scored the qualifiers against Slovakia and Slovenia in October matches they must win if they are to have any realistic chance of making the World Cup in $20000.00 United skipper Cooper was 1st included in the national squad in March 26th in head of a game against Denmark but has yet to win his 1st fill cap stack and admits he possibly should have by no he's playing well. And I wanted to say 8 is a big influence and it's a tick up to know and that's big progress for Leeds which is good and himself. Publishable the middle school to be the. Major the sue me state again there are 6 Celtic players in the squad including striker Lee Gryphus who scored 3 goals in his last 3 internationals but no Russell Martin Tom Kenny or Steven Naismith else America Monica Medfield or Jordan joins me the Northern Ireland squad for the 1st time they face Germany and Norway in their qualifiers farmer Ross County player body Wilson says the departure of Jim Mackin Billy don't come as a surprise the b.b.c. Scotland pundit who covered the studies regularly says they've had a tough run a fixtures and but it's still early in the Premiership season results have been play as such in the last 5 or 6 weeks but you know stuff really very well of the season and they will have heart of a hard going to games lately so for me ultimately you are the devil you follow but most are in for one that gave us a fail safe place there's a lot of money in the coffin and it's but the discussion that you're in Bevan The chief executive the League Managers Association has told the b.b.c. He believes the Football Association should appoint a woman to succeed Mark Samson as England's women's team manager is that the right message of the game is to further develop top 3 male characters the likes of Emma hazel or being Kelly chambers they need that commitment at the moment in the Women's Super League after 19 teams only 7 head coaches are women and we need to invest in their careers to a greater extent and the Commonwealth Games and Olympic medalist Dan Wallace has spoken exclusively to b.b.c. Scotland about his embattlement following a drink driving conviction he's just ended a 3 month competitive ban from swimming following a race and he was driving ban for being 2 and a half times over the legal limit Wallace says he's aware how damaging his actions were as a sports role model and increase the impact they had There's a lot of people that the heard about I would with you know my losses from his own feet I thinking about it and I've got thousands of fans who are all young young Somers and so same of they have the same I have the name in the head. For the wrong reasons and that kind of was the hardest thing for me was I was here though a lot of people and there's more from then Wallace with your own Reporting Scotland but that your support for there may be thanks for that now let's get to travel update there have been problems Susan Matthews is the latest in the Highlands about extent on the 8000000 a What the hell has restricted traffic in both directions only cars allowed to pass at the moment by police they 9 south by and at when he is still very slow with traffic heavier than normal travel time is around 30 minutes the earlier road works have been lifted to ease congestion in Paris 85 and killed street as a fuel spillage northbound between St Catherine Jordan Stanley Crescent due to the St Catherine's retail park. And a glass with a m. E. To the broken down vehicle West bind at the junction 24 entry slip but there's also an ax to between junction 24 hill and St and junction 25 car Donald causing things to clog up and the calm o'clock crying ferry has been suspended due to the weather b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel. And you're listening to news Dr with a very Stuart the time now is half past 4 let's get the news from Christine Finnegan the u.k. And Scottish Government sees some progress has been made in the latest trend of talks on breaks it but the 2 sides remain far apart they met friend arid in London to discuss concerns about the e.u. Withdrawal bill the Scottish Government is seeking changes to the legislation for taking the u.k. Out of the e.u. Saying it amounts to a power grab the 1st secretary of state Damian Green insists that isn't the case we would all bill is designed as a temporary measure so those powers that come back from Brussels come back to this country but then we want to devolve all the powers that are already devolved and more to Scotland and indeed Wales and Northern Ireland the Scottish Labor leadership candidates have been setting out their positions on breaks it was on a sardar criticising rich. Leonard for voting in favor of triggering Article 50 of the party conference in Brighton Mr Savva told the b.b.c. He hoped Mr Lennard regretted that decision accusing him of voting with the conservatives on the issue but Mr Leonard said he was a Democrat who respected the referendum result uki worried. A doctor has been stabbed in the back of the neck on his way into a mosque in Greater Manchester in a suspected hate crime he's now been discharged from hospital following the attack which happened last night 2 men have been arrested Judith moderates reports now so Curdie often leads prayers at mosque but last night as he was on his way into the building and altering them in south Manchester he was stopped by security says he remembers a blow to the neck and that he ran inside the mosque to get away he was taken to the hospital where he works as an orthopedic consultant and treated by his colleagues he's now recovering at home Greater Manchester Police are treating the attack as a hate crime but have not classified it as terrorist related they've arrested 2 men aged $54.32 in connection with it a British woman is believed to have died in Greece after apparently being attacked by a pack of street dogs the 64 year old has been named as Celia Hollingworth of Bradford on even in Wiltshire. The German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she wants to win back the voters who have left her party for the far right the anti immigration a.f.d. Parties a marriage has the 3rd biggest group in parliament after yesterday's election Mrs Merkel has said she'll now talk to a number of parties to form a coalition including the Social Democrats despite their leadership already ruling out a pact Michael foods who's the vice chairman of Mrs Merkel c.d.u. Said he was disappointed by the Social Democrats I would think it's irresponsible because I mean we are democratic parties and we have to talk to each other if the world pros are giving us this kind of result we have to face the realities and I am very much astonished that. We correct it immediately to form another coalition. The taxi hailing company Hooper has admitted it's made mistakes but insists it will appeal against the decision by Transport for London not to renew its operating license its promise to make changes as our business correspondent Simon compared explains now we have a letter from Daraa cause the Sharkey who is the worldwide head of the new broom has brought been brought in to give them a better image and he said yes we've got things lot wrong along the way we will appeal this decision but we must also change we're writing the next chapter but we're going to show him military and we will work with London to make things right so that clearly pretty preparing themselves for what they see might be a long haul of wooing the authorities again to keep their license in London the former Scotland international football there Denis Law has spoken of his pride at plans to grant him the freedom of Aberdeen the 77 year old who was born and brought up in the Granite City said the owner would be one of the highlights of his life he'll be made a free man jetting a special ceremony on the 25th of November b.b.c. Radio Scotland news now let's get the weather forecast and course their quiver is here with us thanks very well a much brighter end of the day for many of us it's dry with some bright spells mainly across more western parts of the country for central parts too so some low cloud lingering though across parts of Aberdeenshire also for the Southwest and as we head into the evening it's a largely dry evening ahead to some think a class of patchy drizzle just hanging on to the east Highlands Aberdeenshire the southern uplands but for most it's dry the Central Belt Northwest Heinen see some breaks in the clouds and it's another mild night temperatures dipping to around 11 to 13 Celsius for most perhaps a bit cooler for the Northwest Highlands where skies will be clearest and quite a breezy night in store for Shetland for tomorrow then a fair bit of cloud around to start some patchy lie brains as well across the northeast and rachet them but this will tend to break up and burn away during the morning and the best the sunshine. Across the northwest Highlands the central belt and across Mari there will be some cloudy a conditions of course the Northeast Perthshire Argyle and for the Southwest and here may be thick enough for the on spots of drizzle but not amounting to much for most places tomorrow will hit a largely Droit day and it will become quite warm to temperatures reaching up to 18 or 19 Celsius with Glasgow for Edinburgh maybe even the odds 20 degrees some high cloud making the sunshine hazy to end the day and sunny across the East Coast where we have an onshore breeze feel a little cooler the wind strengthening later in the day and then for Wednesday was quite a breezy day in store they'll be some sunshine but then we'll start to see a weather front approaching from the west in the spring with some rain the wind strengthening to and temperatures still in the mild side. News drive on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. Aborigines are leading a fight to prevent nuclear waste from Scotland being dumped on culturally and spiritually sacred land in Australia fears are growing over the ruler rural area 280 miles north of Adelaide which has been identified as ground where the material from the don't read nuclear reactor encasements can be buried Well earlier I spoke to Gary Khushi a jewel a strictly in British citizen who lives in Glasgow and has written to the 1st Minister Nicola Sturgeon asking for the waste transfer to be reviewed He spoke to me from Adelaide and I started by asking him how he found out about the story I grew up in South Australia so we've this is the this is the 3rd attempt this I think of months had to try and build a national radioactive waste dump for it to manage just right it's we're going to get waste which is mostly medical work its logical isotopes from the kind of things that also create to do good things to help people but. So I was aware of on this before we've had to see 2 successful campaigns one and wouldn't start a strategy on one and then on 3 more recently split when it came up again and the the same people came up again and said Right let's stop this one again and I just happened to be in Scotland by that time sir. To that bit of digging and found out that the this right up to waste in Scotland that was that was scheduled to be put at this facility so I thought I'd try and do something about it right this is radioactive waste it is come from Australia gone to do we know it's getting back yes it's quite a long time ago now they say they didn't have the facilities to reproduce just wastes in the sense of the generation for reprocessing and under agreement that it would so it would be sent back and which is just come up now. You know they have obviously in the process of decommissioning the site so they they need to know to to get rid of all these wastes or what but what they have done is done a substitution deal so they actually worked it's almost daily it's not going back to Australia that substitutes for waste from several fields so it's different wastes that it's being returned and this waste is waste of study it doesn't actually have a final destination for yet so it the plan is to temporarily store it of this new facility for and they were between 220 to 100 years is 4 figures I've heard and the Aborigines are saying that this is spiritual the secret Deland tell us it in what way it has been secret and well if anyone has any understanding of indigenous straight is this site pertains to you lately I've been among the people I'm not in a position to explain their spiritual and thought through beliefs but they they have asked. The community to. Stop the stump I mean you can look up which you know Mackenzie on by and she's been quite good at promoting that what she wants to say about the sites and why they are significant to whether it's this. Fossilized remains that are around that is that along with that there's a lot of stock into the ground and essentially she just wants to be left alone to live on the land as she always has done and they the arrangements with the Scottish Government and the u.k. Government were made with this government not with them and people so they sort of see it as not their responsibility to look after it's really is nuclear waste so what is it you're asking Nicola Sturgeon to do in this letter ideally to stop the shipment altogether if you're a director for 300 years and employment they're talking it correctly storing it cites against the wishes of indigenous people and. That's just and we can we can do better than that and I think we've got off to their people who are heard that he is and that's 2017 then we can maybe. Look at sorting out our own problems rather than creating something for other people that's got a case raises in that letter to Nicholas sturgeon. No the company which operates Scott real services made a multi-million pound loss over the course of last year a belly also borrowed millions from a sister company in the Netherlands while struggle to deal with delays and cancellations on Scotland's real network well transport correspondent David tenders and joins me now so David these problems for passengers then obviously have a knock on effect in the company so it would seem yes 2016 was a very difficult year for many passengers on Scot Rail services because of trains being delayed and canceled and it turns out it was also a terrible year for a belly or Scott real limited that's the company which operates the Scott real franchise the numbers make painful reading for them back in 2015 when a barely 02 call for Scott real they made 19000000 pounds in profit in the 1st 9 months that's a 1000000 pounds a month it prompted some people to accuse them of profiteering then they've experienced this drastic change of fortune they made a loss of 3 and a half 1000000 pounds last year and it gets worse because the company took out a loan from its sister company a belly or transport holdings to the tune of 10000000 pounds and a barely 0 hasn't transferred any money back to the Netherlands in that time so in financial terms a pretty terrible year and it would seem that the problems faced by passengers over the year seem to just have rebounded on to Scott real ability or. So what does this mean for passengers Well the problems faced by a belly or have forced the company to up its game its performance has improved its lair and the hard way what happens if you fail to meet performance targets you lose millions of pounds and of course in this at the same time the Scottish government has threatened to strip them of the real franchise but remember these delays were not all a belly was faulty even though they carry the can it's Network Rail who did that work on the rail lines which led to services being disrupted and all of course this happens against the backdrop of the u.k. Government wanting to reduce the public subsidy for rail travel which means that rail companies rely increasingly on fares and profits to invest in trains and rolling stock and services for the future so the problem here is if they're unpopular and if they're losing cash that investment could suffer a long term and where does this leave the political route over who should be running Scot real well it takes some of the heat out of the debate for now on the face of it these numbers are tough reading for for the a belly or group but they may be relieved relieved that they made a loss not a profit because you can imagine the political anger if that happened these are accounts of course cover a bad year for passengers performance punctuality on services dropped down below the limit set out in the franchise agreement that was partly due to to major work on routes through the central belt and Queen Street Station in Glasgow being closed for 20 weeks since then Scotland's performance and punctuality has bounced back to a point where the company is able to boast today that it's the best performing large operator in the u.k. But the damage has been done and the Scott real franchise for now at least remains a political punch bag there are plenty of politicians who would vote. To end private companies involvement in the rail system altogether and of course last month Nicholas sturgeon announced that public sector bodies would be allowed to bid to run Scotland's rail services next time the franchises are up for renewal so Scott real financial loss turns down the heat on this debate for no but its record on performance and punctuality are bound to face intense scrutiny in the months to come David Henderson our transport correspondent thank you. And that is one of our headlines a belly was got real making a loss of 3 and a half 1000000 pounds in its 1st full year operating train services in Scotland the others the u.k. And Scottish government say that some progress has been made in the latest round of talks on BRICs that but admit their positions are still far apart and the German chancellor Angela Merkel is said she wants to win back the voters who've left her party for the Far Right now let's get a travel update here Susan Matthews in the Highlands only cars are allowed to pass an accident on the 89 a what a hellish slow traffic is restricted there the 89 south by and tell Winnie is still very slow with traffic heavier than normal travel times that I'm 30 minutes but the earlier road works were lifted to ease congestion and pair for 85 Street as a fuel spillage North bind between St Catharines road and Stanley Crescent Edinburgh as a 90 to me but it always has heavy traffic with a hold up of around 5 minutes north by and up aren't in Junction and North Lanarkshire that Alexander Street at court Dyke has slowed traffic waste by and between each is in street and muti whole street east in Glasgow the any town to cover the work in a vehicle at the junction 24 entry slipways bind with congestion to junction 25 and on the south side Allison Street is closed due to a police incident it's a one week between poll children and street and site here shares a 70 westbound at Belsen is busy but moving at almost and running to beit. Travel things than they exactly go to plan for Celtic and the 1st game of the Champions League group stage that is an absolute joy staying for the Scottish champions finish out their failed p.s.g. Fight next it's a trip to Belgium to take on and the way we need to go there and try and get something that's a huge game for us in the future get some points for the big guns Brendan Rodgers main being a crucial 3 points away from home so he's going to be very very tough about us are well into sports the Champions League and the links Vesa Celtic wait and see from $630.00 on each one or medium wave and digital media. The same review Scotland. Now the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abbott has called an election a huge dourly it will dissolve parliament Mr Abbott said he was seeking a fresh mandate to overcome a national crisis amid rising threats from North Korea his decision comes amid rebounding approval ratings after a record low for the summer with the opposition largely in disarray Well Richard Lloyd Perry is the Asia editor for The Times in Tokyo and I asked him why the election had been called It's been called because him set up a thinks that he can win it and win better now than he worked so he left a few months down the road he said rather rough year earlier this year he was the king light rather worn out figure in the 6. He didn't seem to run out of new ideas that were a series of problems stop and scandals that were eating away at his popularity but the the North Korean missile crisis if that's what we call a summer. Has been an end to the unexpected when benefited Mr Adler he seems to come out of it quite well he's he certainly you know not sooth people's fears he's been emphasising the danger they threat to Japan but he's been presenting himself as the solution and you know his is poll numbers have improved as a result we all know obviously elections can be a gamble the recent example in this country of course and how definite is it that he will get enough support particularly to push through these changes to the Constitution. Yeah he's not going to he's not going to try and do that immediately that would be pushing it too far you're right of course that snap elections come back far as treason Mary found her cost at the moment he said the you know the polls show that he's a had one reason for this is that the in a lot of ways the opposite popularity is negative it depends on the abject weakness and continued incompetence of the of the opposition in Japan who really are all over the place and have been for years but interestingly earlier today just before he made his announcement it was somewhat up study just. A lady called your equal coach Couric who is the governor of Tokyo and the elected governor and I very popular figure probably the most popular politician in the country our session there are she's a woman she's a conservative She's a former member of his party and a former cabinet minister and she has done very well in Turkey locally and she has today launched a national party which she says will campaign against this garbage that will Democratic Party nationally now she won't be hasn't got any chance of winning an oval majority but she could get a bloody nose certainly in Tokyo and if that were to happen that would in the long run undermine his authority and dim some harm would you say then pretty much the only issue is the threat from North Korea you know he in his speech today he he said this is going to be an election about a national crisis and part of the national crisis is North Korea the other part is what is known in Japan as the crisis of the aging society. Living to greater age and not young japanese or not having children so you have a situation where a large number of pensioners claim benefits on the if you're a few young tax payers around to to pay for them and this is something that you know governments for well have known has to be dealt with so that's another aspect of the crisis he's promising to tackle he's promising more places in nurseries and kindergartens for children to encourage mothers to have more kids and he's promising to spend more money on welfare as well so that is the other part of the crisis. Something equally important I think to many Japanese That's Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo. Now have you ever been the victim of a crash for cash scam that's when somebody deliberately causes a crash hoping to profit from an insurance claim often the car will slam their brakes on leaving you no time to avoid slamming into the back of the auto driver may flash their lights at you to come out of a junction and then drive straight into you well then blame you and you'll get a letter for inflated costs like car hire and whiplash claims Richard Turner is a victim of one of these scams and he told the b.b.c. What happened I got 2 cars in front of me pulled up a motorway island and by all going straight over and at the last minute the car that right in the front decided on not going that way and fled off but then you're all in the conference make braked. Violently and I just about managed to stop myself but I just clipped his back bumper so I went into the car in the middle of us swapped insurance details so I went home and only lived about a mile away from my docks and happened and as I drove past a lay by both cars that were involved in the crash were there both sets drivers and passengers all talking to each other so I turned around again got photographs and video of more talking they drove off I pulled the labor to phone the police and while I was on the phone to the police when I won. I watched them on the phone police they were saying the sting go up again about another 3 times well it's estimated there are $30000.00 false claims each year it cost in shooters $340000000.00 pounds a year and ultimately these losses are passed on to customers in the form of higher premiums and you list is commode highlighting the worst places in the country for that kind of fraud hotspots include Birmingham Greater Manchester and Bradford the list has been drawn up by the insurance fraud bureau there head of investigations is Jason Porter these are particularly sinister. Sort of crimes against innocent individuals whereby people simply slam on their brights causing your vehicle to hit theirs in the rain and we've seen injuries coming out of this you know it's not just about premium costs it's about people's lives well if you think you have been targeted in a crash for cash scam the advice is to not down as much information as you can take photographs and call the police to report your suspicions. No it is the chemical element that's literally part of our d.n.a. And essential to our food supply but the world is running out of it in fact we could already be at peak phosphorus now scientists at Glasgow Caledonian University are working on ways of recovering it from sewage our science correspondent Kenneth McDonald donned his rubber gloves and filed this report. Phosphorous it's the stuff that makes much is late when you want them to but not go off in your pocket it's a chemical element that is literally part of our d.n.a. And most importantly it's an essential ingredient in the fertilizers that put food on our tables the bad news the planet is in danger of running out of the stuff some think we may already have reached peak force for us Professor all a polyp Glasgow Caledonian University is among those facing up to the problem there's millions of tonnes of it but be you it's an awful lot I think this is the stick say that every person uses about 22 kilograms or so of the origin of the material and rock a year so multiply that with about population and then you can imagine how much of it and that's that the problem that the phosphorous is in the ground saw in order to get to that we need to mine phosphorus just like in mine cold or other minerals and there was limited limited and diminishing our bodies use only a little of the phosphorus in the food we eat the rest of it. We flush it down the drain and to see Glasgow Caledonians researchers are part of a European program even to recapture phosphorous from waste water Scotland's problem is that it is relatively few big sewage marks so if we're to recover phosphorous from waste we'll have to do things on a smaller scale. In the lab ph d. Student Lena Reichelt is doing just that using 2 tanks of waste water and millions of microscopic getting l b in these tanks we have them I call us and we feed them constantly with waste water and we see how much they were moving off the phosphorus in the 1st time constraints that I'll use or suspend that and the other one the alligator getting attached to a bio. And actually consuming the phosphorus and in the end we're trying to recover this phosphorus from things like I'll use. Biofilm in which the capturing the phosphorus is nothing more sophisticated than rule it's a technology which would suit a nation like ours where waste tends to be collected in smaller sewage plants or septic tanks research assistant daughter on the griddle says it's the old that's not really special they are really resistant and they don't need lots. So in a place like is called the Land of well not always you know being in an alley is really interesting right because where everyone things that we have crazy because we are growing micro. With no light but this is Pacific. Actually with a lot of light. So they prefer it that we have it in and then with colleagues here and on the continent the Glasgow Caledonia researchers are attempting to create technologies that will work on an industrial scale and on smaller ones as well but Professor Paul says we need a debate about what that could put on our plates what we're trying now is to see whether people will be happy with a closer look you know close to their own home that you could almost nor the neighbors that would have produced this phosphorus and are you happy to put that back onto the land maybe not to grow salad but you to go forestry to grow grass that then our new cows can graze on and things like that if this program is a success it will create something we've never had before a forcefulness cycle to prevent this vital element in most of. The report from our science correspondent Kenneth McDonald. No numbers of Scottish woodland birds plummeted last year that's according to the national breeding bird survey that found due to the heavy spring rainfall in early 2015 the numbers of chaffinches bluetits and blackbirds has sharply declined in Scotland compared with the rest of the u.k. Well Dr Mark Eaton is the principal conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and he joins us now good evening good evening so we mentioned 3 birds in the lead in there but many more than that isnt it. It is we saw this this drop but I don't think we should be too too alarmed by that and in fact over the longer term woodland birds in Scotland are doing pretty well so far though we do see these fluctuations year to year depending on the winter and and you know what the weather's like in the spring when birds are breeding over the longer term Scottish woodland birds are having a good time of it so no need to get too worried so run it through then typically which birds we're talking about things like great tits and coats but it will pack a long tail tips you see big increases going back about 20 years this breeding survey this volunteer base survey which gives us our stats so a whole range of species showing these increases probably helped by by milder winters the trend was milder winters and yes they might be hit by the occasional bad spring where they don't raise as much young but those model winters are helping this this range of species some of which is struggling across the u.k. As a whole we've seen a doubling of trip it's in Scotland whereas in the u.k. There actually are red list of the species we're most concerned about so there's a woodland bird that Scotland's really helping at the moment we're talking about these short term decreases some of them are fairly dramatic aren't they for example green finches there 35 percent yes greenfinch is actually one we're worried about because they're showing up a longer longer decline we think there's a disease problem with that species but some of these other birds they can they can drop by quite large large numbers for a big sort of a bad year and then one good year can help them them bounce back specially are smaller birds when they breed well they can raise huge families that can help populations bounce back very quickly so the short term fluctuations not such a big concern except for the want to be treated and why they particularly susceptible to a wet spring. What spring are small birds most of our birds are small birds need insects that Pete their young then we might see them on our bird feeders e.t.c during the winter but when they're raising young they eat insects and when the weather is cold and wet insects can be very hard to find so it's finding those those insects the feet the young the young don't get enough enough food and the nest they just don't survive through to fledging so you can have quite severe mortality within the young birds if there aren't enough insects around in that cold and wet weather so it's in the short term to clain where the Year 2015 has the following you're looking to think. Well we're still doing on the number crunching we hope will the scene of a bounce back some of the indications were that that work was good breeding season so some of those boats should be back in good numbers when we look at the trends next year Ok Well we'll have you on when you got your figures like you very much indeed for speaking to us that stock market in there whose principal conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 19905 f.m. 81 a medium wave and on digital radio b.b.c. Radio Scotland Good evening it's 5 o'clock. And this is news Dr with Valerie Stuart tonight Philip Hammond is in Scotland to talk about the economy an interim period of around 2 years will greatly assist business as well as government agencies in preparing for the future the closure of Scotland's busiest needle exchange this closure of this facility you actually were giving out over a 1000 sets of India to equipment a month will be sadly missed and potentially lead to serious consequences and why don't people send postcards anymore obviously the digital her revolution has completely changed the way that we interact with people when one holiday we would rather go through social media. Is all coming up 1st the news from Christine Finnegan a 4th round of breaks the talks has been taking place in Brussels between u.k. And e.u. Negotiators there were hopes of a breakthrough following the Prime Minister's speech in Florence on Friday speaking within the past few minutes the E.U.'s lead spokesman Michel Barnier said that 6 months into the BRICs that process clarity was necessary the European Union the scheme and eager. To understand better how do you keep government will translate the Prime Minister's speech into negotiating positions. This is essential and would enable us to advance this week I hope. And make a real progress over the coming months the u.k. And Scottish governments have been meeting in London to discuss their respective concerns about the e.u. Withdrawal bill here's our Westminster correspondent David Porter after an hour of talks both sides said the meeting had been constructive but conceded there is still a long way to go before any deal can be reached u.k. Ministers say it's now time to get serious Last week the Scottish and Welsh 1st ministers Nicholas and Carwyn Jones wrote a joint letter to resume a highlighting amendments to the bill which they say are necessary to make it workable for devolution Scottish ministers say if no agreement can be reached they reserve the right not to give Hollywood's consent the u.k. Government says it's right that powers brought back from Brussels go 1st to Westminster before its designer did whether they should be devolved to Holyrood the German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she wants to win back the voters who have left her party for the far right the anti immigration e.f.t. a Marriage has the 3rd biggest group in parliament after yesterday's election and has vowed to combat what it called an invasion of Father knows but in a sign of infighting the party's called leader Flo Capeci has already broken ranks saying she wants to citizen independent correspondent Jamie and McGuinness told us what they E.F.T.'s in 10 or divisions could mean for the German parliament the party might be very influential in the debate and they might be sent coarsening of the rhetoric within the debate and might become a more argumentative parliament or we might find that the f.t. Actually doesn't manage to do very well as a parliamentary party that it might be riven by internal splits and they might not be able to keep them or contra. Members under control and so the party could simply fall apart it could be one of those 2 options police in the u.k. Say they're helping officers increase investigate the death of a British woman who is thought to have been attacked by street dogs the woman who is 64 is believed to be from Bradford on even our correspondent Sophie long reports the woman who's thought to be from will share has been named locally as Celia Hollingworth she was reported missing on Thursday after visiting an archaeological site in northern Greece reports suggest she had tried to contact relatives in London after being attacked by wild animals a Foreign Office spokesperson confirmed there in contact with Greek police regarding a missing British woman and said they were providing consular assistance to her family there are reported to be more than a 1000000 stray dogs in Greece after many were abandoned during the country's financial crisis police are treating the death of a man following an incident in done deal yesterday a suspicious they say they are following up positive line of inquiry the man was found shortly before midnight need a block of flats on our cli street a woman who was found with injuries in a garden in Fife has died she was discovered this morning outside a house and unfair Millan and it's believed she had multiple stab wounds the woman who was in her sixty's was taken to hospital in Kirkcaldy but didn't survive police say they're treating her death as unexplained. The Scottish Labor leadership candidates have been setting out their positions on breaks it with Anna sorry criticising Richard Leonard for voting in favor of triggering Article 50 at the back to conference in Brighton Mr Sardar told the b.b.c. He hoped to Mr Leonard regretted that decision accusing him of voting with the conservatives on the issue but Mr Leonard said he was a Democrat who respected the referendum results u.k. Wide He added that he would prioritise join. Consumer protection and Scottish interests if elected Mr Sardar took the stance I think it's great the way you put jobs feeder what deflates at the heart of the British but I just think it's great that we oppose hard to break that we also think this is great that we should be open minded on the question of you know like this and membership of the single market. Or barely a score trail made a loss of 3 and a half 1000000 pounds in its 1st full year operating train services in Scotland new accounts also show that last year a Belial was loaned 10000000 pounds by its dutch sister company Here's our business correspondent David Henderson a barely 0 is a subsidiary of the state owned Dutch railways in its 1st 9 months a Scot real franchise operator it made profits of almost 10000000 poems that led critics to accuse a bell you of profiteering Since then the companies faced challenges with delays and cancelled trains linked to major work on railway lines so for 2016 a belly all run at a loss of more than 3000000 pounds with no dividend paid to its dutch parent company and it received a load of 10000000 pounds from another member of the a belly or group the firm says it's no the best performing large real operator in the u.k. An 81 year old woman has died after being rescued from the river clay did Greenoak this afternoon a marriage and says services were called to the sea non-clinical split made just before 1 o'clock police said there were no suspicious circumstances that's a new sport now here's a Macbeth Thank you Scott the manager Gordon Strachan says his 25 months squadron is today our fill of belief and confidence is the World Cup qualifying doubleheader next month the schools will face the back yet only in Slovenia away matches they must win if they are to have a realistic chance of making Russia 20 team Ross County have begun their search for a new manager following the departure of Jim McIntyre An assistant Billy Dodds the studies of one. In just one of their opening 7 games and sit 10th in the Premiership academy director Steven Ferguson will step in as caretaker Commonwealth Games and Olympic swimming medalist down Wallace says he's embarrassed about his conviction for drunk driving 3 months ago the 24 year old faces an anxious wait to see if you'd be selected next week by Team Scotland for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April and Glasgow Warriors assistant coach Kenny money insists there is definitely a lot more to come from the site after their 4 successive poor 14 victory at the weekend well as your sport season Matthews has your travel in the Highlands still a 30 minute delay deported in the 9 sites by between Eta region down the spittle lords and Aberdeenshire the 90 sized bones at Stone he even has very slow traffic before the b 97 ones don't even fast link travel time is 5 minutes through the road works the year in Paris the 9 has queueing traffic site by and approx 10 roundabout taking you 5 to 10 minutes in Dundee John's now even you is close both ways due to an electrical box explosion incident at Glenmore you have a new face in 92 a Kirkcaldy has heavy traffic southbound at the Red House trying to bite that's b.b.c. To Scotland travel Scotland's where they are this evening will be largely dry just some patchy drizzle hanging on for the East Highlands Aberdeenshire and the Southern uplands for the Central Belt in the Northwest Highlands they'll be some breaks in the cloud a mild night with temperatures 11 to 13 Celsius for most a wee bit cooler in parts of the Northwest Highlands where skies remain clearest our next bulletin and help us 5 so the chancellor Philip Hammond has made clear that the BRICs that transition must be over before the next general election he was speaking on a visit to Scotland where the head of the Chambers of Commerce said business would prefer a longer period of adjustment political correspondent Glen Campbell has been speaking to the chancellor So what's he been hearing then and this visit well done the university was visiting the life sciences department and hearing about some of the cut. Edge work that they're doing there but the university is also very keen that he and other members of the government are aware of the extent to which they seek to recruit both talented staff and students from across the European Union he was the professor who heads up the school of life sciences professor Julian. Absolutely so we have around 900 staff here and that represents 60 different 60 different stuff from 60 different countries I believe it's about 20 percent of asked our on u.k. E.u. Nationals and we continually recruiting from the European Union taking really the best of the research challenge and of course we have undergraduate students who come again from throughout the world many from the European Union and we want to allow this free flow of highly skilled people to continue that will continue for the time being and if the government gets its way or in a transition deal lasting for around 2 years then it should continue through that period as well the university and was keen to to welcome that although they thought a transition period of greater generation might be necessary and the same was the view from some of the business leaders that the chancellor met in Dun Di including the head of the Scottish chambers of commerce Cameron I think the transition into 2 years is helpful but from a business perspective yes we would have preferred a longer p.d.s. To enable us to really develop plans and in some cases that contingency plans in place should we have to develop new business models to trade with you know how long . You know the 4 or 5 years that's a kind of title like timeline that business would prefer air but we acknowledge that that may not be possible so Glenn what has the chancellor been saying when I. Within discovery point in done dnd I asked him quite simply was 2 years going to be enough but the key thing is to give business certainty about the environment they will face so that investment can get going again and as the prime minister said on Friday an interim period of around 2 years will greatly assist business as well as government agencies in preparing for the future of you lobbied the prime minister for a longer transition Well I've said in the past somewhere between 2 and 3 years would be good but I've been very clear that it must end before the next general election British people would expect us to get this over and done with before the general elections or something around 2 years is a good place to be doing Boris's simple mind you don't break no I don't think Boris is simple minded on anything I think Boris is a very intelligent and important partner in government and we work very closely together and that simple minded reference is to a newspaper report today quoting an aide to the Chancellor as describing the form secretary's approach to BRICs it as being simple minded Boris Johnson was in private to day what he said he thought the transition peed could be completed comfortably within 2 years and as you had from the chancellor there it needs to be completed before the next general election which is shed jeweled to take place in spring 2022 Glenn thank you very much indeed that's our political correspondent Glen Campbell. Now Scotland's busiest needle exchange service for drug addicts will close today is based in a branch of Boots the chemist at Glasgow's Central Station Network Rail who in the building say they've been forced to take action after drug taking part of familia has been found discarded in public areas drug workers have condemned the move Here's what some people in Glasgow Central think of the move. It was that his wife . Will not work at the Usenet and the reason that I think she. Was Like. For that that there would be there. Well joining me now is the director of the Center for drug misuse of the University of Glasgow Professor Neil McKagan e Good evening to you just was the background to this closure Well needle and syringe exchanges in pharmacist are actually commonplace across Scotland and elsewhere in the u.k. The concern here however is that it's in a transport hub and you're going to get drug use in the vicinity of these services and there will be instances where discarded needles are are left where there are overdoses occurring and I think it's in the light of that concern which get increases as the numbers of users of the service increase and there clearly is a need for the service but I'm not entirely sure that a transport hub is the ideal place for such a set a setting this is a facility used by families young people and I think there are genuine problems where any service which draws drug injectors to it there will be concerns about what behaviors are likely go hand in glove with that so I think we need these services but we don't necessarily need one located in central station Yeah I suppose the advantage of Central Station is it's open long hours where other shops maybe are not yet but I mean that's an administrative problem the people using drugs 24 hours a day so you certainly need these facilities that are accessible on a level but I do have some sympathy with that where rail because I think there's if in your premises you're finding discarded needles where somebody maybe overdose he may have overdosed may or may have actually died I think these are not the occurrences about which one could be comfortable any time is but actually occurring within a transport hub in a sense doubly worrying so I think that the message must be that we need these facilities with an increase in h i.v. And widespread hepatitis c. Infection amongst injectors we do need them that's not in doubt I think but the issue about are they appropriate located in a trance or harbor I think that is a genuine question I suppose the problem is forever you move a service like this nobody's going to want at their doorstep I don't think any. Body I were very few people would welcome it certainly never the less I mean so as your as your commentator said there is a recognition that it is something we need in Scotland No that may be regrettable but it's a fact of life and the issue then is where do you where do you place them. Retail pharmacists in High Street across cotland provide that service and I think that's appropriate because it's located within communities. And I say I have some concerns myself about how appropriate is within that sort of facility and you can't stop I mean if you are providing needs and syringes to people you can't stop musing drugs they're going to get their equipment very probably because they've got drugs on them and once they have the drugs and the needles they want to use those drugs very rapidly or very start to withdraw and they will use them in the immediate vicinity around Central Station and in Central Station I suppose the problem is you know although you can understand the concerns of network realize the facility does need to be sited somewhere convenient for the addicts and there will be fears what that about HIV rates and hepatitis c. Rates which you've mentioned if the service isn't replaced to that extent Well that is certainly the case although it has to be said the increase in each i.v. Has occurred even asked that provision is in place. But it underlines why in Scotland we do need these services and we should look at where they should be located I mean there is discussion currently within Glasgow for a safe injecting center there are many people advocating that as a solution to discarded needles which are being found if you provide millions of needles to people it is inevitable that a fair proportion of those needles will turn up in public places accessible to children a link that concern is genuine and well founded but let me underline we need the services but we Health Board needs to look now where else it can provide services that are accessible 24 hours a day but are not necessarily located in the heart of central station Professor Neil the cake and he thanks for coming in. Just leaving 17 minutes past 5 the headlines at a 4th round of bricks at talks in Brussels the e.u. Spokesman Michel Barnier said he was keen and eager to see how to resolve May's major breaks that speech last week gets translated into negotiating positions the chancellor Philip Hammond has insisted he is personally 100 percent behind Prime Minister to resume a following speculation about a future Conservative Party leadership contest and the German chancellor Angela Merkel has said her policies will not veer to the right after the success of the anti immigrant e.f.t. Party in yesterday's election so let's see what Germans living in Scotland think of the results Joining me now from our Edinburgh studio is Fabian Hill friend who was born in Germany and their lectures at the city's university Good evening good evening this is having me thank you for coming in is this an exciting time that out of Washington for German politics Well I think it's probably both at the same time although slightly more worrying I would say yeah I mean to tell us a bit more about e.f.t. Friend up to that hasn't already had extreme at least some of their members can be well I think the election shows in general that Germany is not immune to the forces and the impacts of worldwide migration refugee crises and so on and so forth I mean the likes of which we have seen and breaks it and also in the election of Donald Trump although I'd also like to emphasize that of course that the f.t. Got nowhere near comparable numbers with the under 13 percent but the party is undoubtedly a very worrying collection of people that can range very widely from ultra conservative to Nazi tendencies and a lot of them have just recently confirmed those with some very worrying. Statements about the past about how Germans should be proud of what their soldiers did in both world wars about the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as a monument of shame. And so on and so forth this is the 1st time then do you think that we've seen a kind of c.d.s. Resurgence of far right nationalism there no I think it was I mean the potential was always there I think it's compounded by by fears that are shared across Europe and probably it's fair to say across the world so so I think this was the perfect storm in the making also with the 2 biggest parties in Germany in coalition the last time we've seen a slightly comparable rise of the far right in German history was also in the wake of the last grand coalition at the end of the 1960 s. So so I think this is what you always get when when the main parties are cute by the center and rule together then opposition gets pushed to the fringes do you think it's also perhaps caused by a mishandling of the refugee crisis by Angela Merkel I don't think we can really call that a mishandling and I think to call them as handling would also would play into the hands of the a.f.p. I think pretty much in 2015 Germany was left without alternatives and frankly also without a lot of help by a lot of the other particularly Eastern European countries but but the alternative at that particular moment in time would only have been the one that was actually advocated by one prominent member of the f.t. Which was basically shooting at refugees or using water cannons against them I mean basically over a 1000000 people were at Germany's borders so I think what angle or Merkel did was brave but it was also without alternative just very briefly how influential then do you think will be. Well we already see today we see them falling apart almost immediately we have seen that in some of the regional parliaments in the east of Germany where they are already in power but we have seen. One of the 2 heads of the parties today of the party today proclaiming that she would not sit with the party but that she would act as an independent in Parliament so so we'll have to see how they perform under the strain of really playing a political role in the Bundestag Now Ok thank you very much indeed for coming in Ted Brous Judio that's Fabian Hill free there. You know fish apparently have personalities you're probably thinking I doubt it but they do at least that's what we're being told by researchers at the University of Exeter Dr Tom Heisley is the leader search of the study and he joins me now how do you do this. Thanks for having me. Well the definition of personality here is that individuals of the same species and from the same population consistently behave differently from one another and so we can easily test this by taking note individuals and testing them in standardised arenas and looking at how they behave so what sort of test did you give them. So in this particular project then we wanted to know you know do they show Firstly do they show personality so do they consistently behave differently from one another also is this Are these personality differences quite simple are they complex and also do they change when we change the environment so what we do is we can take individual fish in this case and put them into unfamiliar tanks and just measure their behavior using video tracking software What did you find so we did find that they showed these consistent differences in the ways that they behave so some of them when put into this unfamiliar environment were to hide in the shelter others of. Seem to panic and try and escape the situation well those were more border to explore the arena and these differences between them were consistent over multiple tests so they have personalities but the big question nature or nurture. Well this is actually what we're going on to do next is because we know these personality exists that there's meaningful differences in the way that these individuals behave then we can start looking at whether this is due to genetic effects whether it relates to other aspects of the individual like their physiology and really get a better picture of how and why individuals have been shaped and how they how they behave I was the kind of aim here anyway in terms of our understanding of species. Well when you look in the wild there's such a vast a review of ways in which animals behave not only between species but also within species even within populations as we find out here and so to really get a better idea of how evolution is. Has managed to shape the way that these behaviors are formed and also why it's not even more so and also higher evolution might shape behavior in the future this is really going to give us a better insight into the natural world Ok Well thank you very much for speaking to us that's Dr Tom Heisley there from the University of Exeter. He has a personality to actually a sports. Thank you for the Scotland manager Gordon stack and has unveiled his 25 months squad for the qualifiers against the faqih and Slovenia and October matches they must win if they're to have a realistic chance of making the World Cup in $2186.00 ounce of players in the squad a call up for Leeds Captain Liam Cooper but no Russell Martin Steven Naismith or Tom Cairney Chacon does say though the squad are full of belief and confidence for the huge games coming their way if we don't have the belief in each other then we're going to be at this stage positively on the stand and that. Our own hands. And say that there was. And if you wouldn't believe what we're doing or don't trust us then we wouldn't be here but what he and what all relish nurse Porter want to watch over the last last 2 or 3 weeks a real will forward to the us I think this is huge and they all would be involved in it and between them and the 5000000 people that are supporting us at the moment nor support not because of them ever did them up with the world who are supporting us. That we look forward to any occasion we know it can be occasionally could get disappoint the last link in the way we believe that they sneeze and go to $182.00 games and the way the players have been playing and perform and the real issue challenge former Ross County player buddy Rosen says the departure of Jim Mackin time Billy daunce has come as a surprise the management joke I did the Highland side to their 1st major trophy the 2016 League Cup Wilson says it was going to be tough to meet expectations particular with a tough on a premiership fixtures of late little break to little success all but they're going to cut the national results like a couple of seasons ago. Still exist and on the other no one really does have the heart of get back at the league it still exists can offer them something you know impression that has 5 percent of the stairs to fall over too much the Commonwealth Games and Olympic medalist Dan Wallace has spoken exclusively to b.b.c. Scotland about his embarrassment following a drink driving conviction he's just ended a 3 month competitive ban following an arrest and here is driving ban for being 2 and a half times over the legal limit well says he's aware how damaging is actions were as a sports role model under greats the impact they had there is a lot of people that heard about I would wish you know my losses from his own See I think here by the end I've got thousands of fans who are all young young Somers and . They have to see if I have the name in the headlines for the wrong reasons and that kind of was the hardest thing for me was I was Hiller a lot of people and in rugby Glasgow Warriors say their home a Scotsman is fast becoming a fortress as a poor 14th said completed another league win against Munster at the weekend assistant coach Kenny money says they want to make it's really tough on any team visiting there is always over the last 5 years and it's been a real big part of our game is playing real home washable disappointed to lose a few games at home so Stephanie are the focus. Ok patient I sure didn't want to meet that you thought isn't difficult place to come in all of the really good go to . One of my uniform and we. Haven't actually one of the season is gay difficult given what he has gotten and that's your support. Thank you for that let's get a travel update now here's Susan in the Highlands that Ethan I know has restrictions in both directions due to an accident the 9 a tattered his very slow scythe bind with heavy traffic through earlier roadworks cleared but we're still getting reports of 30 minute delays there and 55917 keel road is very slow North buying through the road works at Anstruther the m 90 Queensberry crossing a sluggish North buying just now and at a military meet has heavy traffic West binded on junction to new bridge travel time and 5 minutes in North you're sure the East 78 are dross and road. Traffic engine jest in the us through the road works on the East 77 north by and in so if you're sure air has heavy traffic before the bank feel drained by untrained skull trail have a reduced service on the Fife line to the signalling problems are dying to stalling cables b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel and you're listening to news Dr with very Stuart And still to come we'll look at concerns over fire safety in the rented sector after Grunfeld Is it Ok to tell children white lies and will the postcard be consigned to history which I know is half past 5 let's get the news from Christine Finnegan a 4th round of break said talks is taking place in Brussels between u.k. And e.u. Negotiators it's hoped a breakthrough can be meaty following the Prime Minister's speech in Florence on Friday but the E.U.'s lead spokesman Michel Barnier said Britain still has to translate to reason these proposals into precise negotiating positions the brakes it Secretary David Davis had this message as this week's round of talks got underway the. He's absolutely committed to work through the details we are laying out concrete proposals. And there are no excuses for standing in the way progress. It will take pragmatism on both sides to make headway and I hope we can achieve that this week the chancellor Philip Hammond has insisted he is personally 100 percent behind to resent me following speculation about a future Conservative Party leadership contest speaking during a visit to dun d. He said she was leading efforts in getting a good break sit deal the Scottish Labor leadership candidates have been setting out their positions and breaks it with Ernest Sabar criticising Richard Leonard for voting in favor of triggering Article 50 the formal process of taking Britain out of the e.u. At Labour's conference in Brighton Mr Sabar told the b.b.c. He hoped Mr Lennard regretted that decision accusing him of voting with the conservatives on the issue but Mr Leonard said he was a Democrat in 2014 we had an independence referendum where the people of Scotland voted to remain in the u.k. In 2016 we had a referendum on our membership of the European Union the franchise for that was the whole of the u.k. So I as a Democrat want to respect the outcome of both the 2014th and the $26.00 the referendum I don't think it's the place of parliamentarians to block the will of the people a medical student from Oxford University who stopped her boyfriend with a bread knife has been given a suspended jail sentence a judge prompted controversy earlier this year when he said he believed a custodial sentence would damage Lavinia Woodward's career the 24 year old had admitted attacking the man at Christ Church College while she was under the influence of drink and drugs today she was given a 10 month jail sentence suspended for 18 months a doctor who was stabbed in the neck on his way to. A mosque in a suspected hate crime has said he feared the worst consultant surgeon Dr Nasser Curdie was attacked in Greater Manchester yesterday afternoon 2 men have been arrested Dr Kirby says he's trying to move on I told my family that as far as I'm concerned. For Given that guy I have I have absolutely no negative emotions towards him and I've also said to my family yesterday that I made sure that. They grasp that concept and they've agreed with me on that the German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she wants to win back the voters who have left her party for the far right the anti immigration e.f.t. Party as a marriage has the 3rd biggest group in parliament after yesterday's election Mrs Merkel said many people felt they weren't being taken seriously she also explained how she planned to talk to the Social Democrats even though they've said they want to end their alliance with her party Vivian a 3000 police Both course will speak to the Free Democrats in the greens but I want to add to the Social Democrats it's important that Germany will have a good and stable government I heard what the s.p.d. Said yesterday but nevertheless I think we should be talking a real company in England says more than 10000 items have been left in their trains during the past 6 weeks including an inflatable shark an ironing board and a pita false teeth southwestern railways is asking passengers to check their of all their belongings before they leave their seats b.b.c. Radio Scotland News thanks very much know we've had all sorts of all weather over the holiday weekend Corsican tell us what's to come well indeed even now we have an east west but across the country it's a much drier bright end to the day for many as i Cloud continues to break or central and western areas for some late spells of sunshine in the best of which will be across the Western Isles in the Northwest Highlands but this cloud is much more stubborn. Cross eastern areas we still have some further patchy drizzle some light rain heading on to the east Highlands and for the Southern uplands to some lingering low cloud around as well but as we head into the evening it becomes largely dry there be some mist and some low cloud around still and Central Belt the Northwest Hines perhaps in the best of any kind of break some clear spells here and fall it's a mild night temperatures dipping to around 11 to 13 Celsius still quite breezy though for the Northern Alliance and for the northeast coast tomorrow then starts a fairly cloudy with a mist some merch around still a little patchy light rain in the northeast of the Shetland but this will tend to break up and as we head through the day the cloud will tend to thin and break the best of any sunshine developing for Mari the Northwest Highlands and across the central belt 2 remaining cloud across the northeast in terms of Persia and the southwest as well now temperatures tomorrow could climb up to 18 or 19 Celsius it will feel quite warm for late September maybe even your 20 Celsius for Inverness perhaps the sunshine becoming hazy later in the day and it's along the East Coast here feeling a bit breezy and make you feel a little cooler now as you look at a Wednesday it's quite a breezy day once again it will be mainly dry and bright with some sunshine but some heavy rain on its way later in the day into the evening and to start off Thursday improving later on in the day for Thursday now that's your forecast no. Be abused dry on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. No 3 months after the Granville tire fire research suggest most tenants in rented apartments don't know what to do if there's a fire and 4 in 10 say they've seen fire doors propped open when I heard more about the findings from Hannah Mansell from fire door Safety Week which commissioned the survey and from the deputy assistant commissioner of London Fire Brigade drawbridge I asked Lee 1st a fire doors would an issue in the Grunfeld least well that will be part of the public inquiry into that incident so we can't really preempt the outcome of that inquiry but London fog and the farmers queue service do not father was saved lives by our legal requirement for building owners to consider as part of their fall risk assessment and that's why we're supporting father or scifi week so typically when you do inspections what kind of state do you often find fired or is it. Well I'll roll in the legislation is to make sure the building owners and landlords are fulfilling their requirements really so we will encourage them to Mike sure therefore risk assessments are suitable and sufficient if we subsequently go in an old premise and find out that they're not fulfilling their requirements we will take action of a new that powers against them and how not just talk us through what your research is Phone some of these figures are fairly warning us that they fire safety in a building is about a lot of different things working together as a system but one of the things that's really important is of course your father because that provides the 1st barrier to stop fire and smoke spreading around the building but that's coupled with knowledge and that's the knowledge of the tenants all the residents that the occupies of the building knowing the specific fall plan and what to do in a fire yes because often the advice I think only is that you're better off staying within your flat rather than trying to get 0 to Initially yeah most Haros residential properties will have a stipend policy and it's important residents know the plan for the building. They are in because it does vary from property to property and as well as reminding building owners of their responsibility obvious it's important we remind residents of their responsibility so should know the plan for their building and they should make sure that they of course Mark alarm within their property to give them early warning of fire and then on their not propping father was within the premises open which would stop the door doing its job which is to stop the fast brought in and the smoke around the other parts of the building and Hannah then tell us about some of the findings then from the survey what residents were telling you both the state of their fire doors well really quite worrying because it would talk about some basic stuff it all they fired was a pretty complex product when it comes to fire safety if you've got good Fardell there are things like reporting that it's got a damaged or broken window in it waking the door open enormous gaps around the edge of the door where it's not closing properly in the frame and of course as the 1st barrier to stop a far from spreading if the door's not closed then it's just simply not going to do the job and other fire safety issues that we've picked up and again these are really on the very basic scale is for instance proper signage within the building to tell a resident What birth Pacific fire plan for that they were doing is and also to show where the means of escape routes are yeah I think you'll find that 4 in 10 people said that they didn't know absolutely though to be honest with you I'm not really surprised by that the campaign's been going on for 5 years that every year we go and do research to understand what people think about fire safety and the fire doors within their buildings we often find these elements which just slip off the radar because people think that far won't happen to them it falls into the background and it's only when you sort of look at it with fresh eyes when you realize that actually there's a lot of little basic fire safety issues within a building and and it is an ongoing task of course to keep all these things up to scratch and keep them in good working order for when the time comes and really I suppose if people are going just. It by their buildings fire plan they need to have confidence don't mean that the fire doors are going to be effective for example absolutely a risk assessment for any building not just do it once and put it on the shelf and forget about it they need to make sure that they all regularly reviewed and as Hannah said if residents when they're moving around those buildings are seeing things that they're not sure of all comfortable about the money to report them to their building owners might sure they're doing something about it and if they're not seeing action from the building owners then reported to the local Fos of us we've we've actually made a really simple film with us that anyone can watch it they can understand what a fire drill actually does but they can also do the 5 step checks they this is a check that will just take a couple of minutes but it's going to really highlight those basic Feith safety issues that you often get around fire doors and also as Lee has said about where you can report any concerns to and to get action on them fundamental and lead drawbridge you know the gas processing plant still in vote excision an estimated 8 percent of the U.K.'s gas consumption from the fields to the west of Shetland but an industrial dispute over pay could end up with the taps being turned off the Union unites in a pit dispute with sub contract to acar solutions which provides critical operations and maintenance services at the plant Well I speak no to unite regional organizer John Boland 1st of all then what are you balloting over get even. In on 3 things one is hold it. Hold it. Hold. Until How long is all of this been going on that you've been trying to sort this out. This is been going on since the start of this year we could appeal queen in February start favorite it. And basically come back and see. When session to discuss and it's only been once were hard to ape the power and for industrial watch and it combines it that know won't negotiate only with their own power what we've said to them is well we put our claim and come back with something and then most at the negotiating. Right so you are prepared to strike obviously over this. And to watch in power for stray Karcher an option short Strake option as I say there's a wage issue but there's also another issue not so old d.p. As well in which. One our acculturation or members aren't getting paid 40 p. Or it's getting warmed up and. Both of which. Know them right so is there any way that you could shelve the ballot even temporarily to start discussions with Dr . Or what we've said to us is that Adam meeting with them last year's day. Was something that we cannot discuss and negotiate then discuss where members and it may be possible. But they have the option was no going to see the result of our squeezes next Friday right and how far apart are you in terms of the Piggly. It's very difficult to. Say because we put the Pickwick men in February as a seed with the end for an increase in basic in a loan says and our kids never came back with anything on us so we don't know what their position as and as it stands at the moment they're going to tell us a position unless we withdraw the ballot which. State and can we be clear then as to if your members there do withdraw their labor the plant have to shut down. Again I'm going from what I don't see themselves to. Question And I'm sorry. To all them poilus and on not. Due to their city critical so my members carry out and the interview plant would have to shop. Thank you very much indeed for speaking to us that's John Bull and they are from Unite nobody from acar was available to speak to us today but the company issued a statement saying it had been notified of the strike ballot over pay and holiday pay and remained It says firmly committed to working closely with union representatives and its workforce to bring it to a resolution. The 1st round of Brecht's talks between British and the e.u. Negotiators has begun in Brussels today is the 1st opportunity for the European delegation to respond to to resume a speech in Florence last week which aims to break the deadlock in the. Or Europe Correspondent Chris Morris is in Brussels I think what we're going to see this week is the e.u. Side trying to fire early road test if you will undertake technical level some of the carefully worded general pronouncements that reason may made in that speech so for example she said you know she suggested the the u.k. Would be willing to pay into the e.u. Budget for a couple of years during the transition period now the e.u. Will want to know what do you think you're paying for there is it just to maintain the current role the u.k. Has in the single market or does the u.k. Think by paying that money will be paying off some of it past debts as well similarly on the role of the European Court of Justice in any agreement on e.u. Citizens rights now the e.u. Has been saying the European Court should be the ultimate legal authority what Mrs may suggest it last week was that British courts could take into account the judgments and rulings of the e.c. J is there a way to sort of put those 2 positions together in some form of compromise The other thing that's going to be happening today is that Michel Barnier the European negotiator who will meet David Davis the softer noone can also be talking to ministers from the other $27.00 countries and we spoke to a couple of those ministers on their way in the small inning and it was a similar message really we've heard what Mrs May said we quite like the tone now but we need more detail Chris Morris in Brussels. 14 minutes to 6 the headlines the e.u. Is chief negotiator Michel Barney says he's keen and eager to see how to resolve May's major BRICs that speech last week translates into negotiating positions as the 1st round of talks gets underway in Brussels the Scottish and u.k. . Governments have held constructive talks in London over the e.u. Withdrawal bill but say they're still a long way from a deal and Chancellor Merkel of Germany a said she wants to win back voters who deserted her in the general election for the far right nationalist e f d previously on the key Adams programme whose job is it to control your credit at your age the look you've got commonality and you don't have reached. You calls your stories. Of your plate if I went you know you can get a card from the minute the 18 the key Adams program been talking about 80 with former St Johnson player Roddy gran I'm trying to focus on one thing at a time and that's how we understand to deal with I just know the conversation continues Monday to Thursday from 9 am on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. A lot of people will be returning from a holiday weekend let's get the latest travel from Susan in the highlands the 890 has restrictions in both directions at due to an accident they 9 Ettridge is still very slow site by and with reports of 30 minute delays there in Dundee aren't Clee Street remains closed both ways due to C.D.'s police incident between clapping to maraud and Denzel in 5 a 917 Keilor does very slow north by and through the road works at Anstruther and Edinburgh the m 1000 or find a slow traffic and 2 leans close due to a broken down Lawdy before junction one Queensferry and Edinburgh as a meet has heavy traffic junction to new bridge in North Yorkshire the East 78 are dry bright is very slow with conjecture to mourn for drying to bite and inside here sure the East 77 North bind has heavy traffic before the banks bite delays and cancellations on Scotland Virgin trains out of Edinburgh today have been discovered to be due to stall in signalling cables check ahead and some disruption on the ferries because of the weather the law fine fate has been. For the rest of the you to fall b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel and don't forget you can keep us up to date with any travel problems by texting 82 to 95 we get plenty earlier in the day with all the hold ups on the 89 and we've also got a text here we're talking about a shortage of Scottish woodland birds because of bad weather this one says it's not just spring weather that means a shortage of small birds like black birds and the next is because so many people are obsessed with keeping cats some households of at least 3 and they're out 24 hours a day these birds that nest in hedges have no chance of survival we already have car free zones cat fees would be an excellent idea thank you to Liz for that one no are selfies killing postcards Britain's oldest postcard publisher is planning to stop making them because more of us are using social media snaps and instant messaging to keep in touch while we're away j. Salmon has been going since 880 but is planning to publish his last traditional postcards in December because of falling sales the b.b.c. Has been asking holiday makers and such support whether they still send postcards we always send ones with images of where we are so it gives friends and family at home and inside where you've been railing It's nice to get something I want rather on down the road the main road down here the only problem is the stumps so expensive I which came on to say show Media Center via paste on it's a lot quicker as well if you did this country like but it's on the Get It I did all of us. Just set the taxes Well like so that's about it I bother with a fortune I. Well postcards were once an essential part of a holiday I asked George and Gerard another travel historian who lectures at sometimes university if he surprised at their demise it's not that surprising we should say because obviously the digital her revolution has completely changed the way that we interact with people when we're on holiday we would rather go through social media and send a snap of a picture of where we are so it's not that surprising that of course the postcard is the collateral victim I know from my own experience for making my children send postcards No I only do it to elderly relatives generally because that's where they still expected exactly yeah there is a certain public postcards I don't think postcards are dead I really think there will be people who will keep doing so but not in the same proportion that we've seen before I mean we've seen that some of Sevenoaks which is sadly closing used to sell about $20000000.00 postcards a year it's gone down to $5000000.00 so I mean there is a need for restructuring of the of the industry have to be modernized as a whole it's hard to say really I mean how do you modernize a postcard you could diversify for sure you could try to use the vintage. Trend a bit more you could put it you could publish calendars you know old railway calendars for instance but as far as postcards are concerns you know it's difficult to to modernize the industry you've seen a little bit of this kind of luxury postcard the cost a bit more and that acts a bit like a souvenir something that you might buy for yourself actually be apart from the postcards have remained postcards What is the history of the postcard when did we start sending them we start the late 19th century basically in Europe for the u.k. It's mostly the 181-818-1818 ninety's when there was a need to to to visualize what travel experience was about supposed to started to to be a thing. And then postcards as well as a as a way to to advertise or a certain scene in a in an idealized way perfect weather perfect infrastructures perfect and scape So originally that it was very much a British thing it was to an extent at least because British tourism so. Started with places like Brighton or Blackpool there was a certain trend in the u.k. And some of Sevenoaks was one of the one of the leading industries in one of the leading companies that would sell those perfect images of the English seaside in particular and that was what I suppose a shooting off to your friends liquid I am it's fabulous which is what still is on and Facebook isn't exactly I was going to say that so I think the spirit of the postcard has not died I think what we do what we used to do with postcards which is as you said to to brag about our holiday is exactly what we do on social media now so that's that's perhaps the silver lining to this to this entire story that postcards did such a trend about 120 years ago and still it still goes on with social media yeah but social media is less personal isn't it there is something really nice about getting a card through the door it's more of an effort to completely agree it is an effort and to an extent I guess social media works better if you want to to brag to more people I mean you know who knows who's going to see your You're post so absolutely for the for the receiver for the person who does receive that postcard it's much more it's much nicer than receiving a. Cation on social media and you can't really collect Social media can you lots of people collect postcards that's right now that's perhaps they're also the good news about postcards they are more timeless than social media who knows what's going to happen in the next 20 years in terms of you know Instagram Snapchat and so on are they still going to be here or is a new new social media platform going to emerge so postcard will still be in our draws and we'll still be able to use them as a as an archive as a source as a travel source Jordan Girard and their films in town Drew's University. Now did you know that the biggest Elvis festival each year takes place not in America but in a small Welsh coastal resort this year's event has just ended and tens of thousands of people attended including the B.B.C.'s arts correspondent Vincent diode she. Said over a long weekend more than 30000 fans and joy some 150 E.T.A.'s Elvis tribute acts the word impersonator is more or less a band in 2004 the man behind the idea was Peter Phillips If you walk into a cake shop they'll be dressed as Elvis the bus company dressed their drivers as Elvis and it's because of the tribute artist people performing Elvis music live in knots what the public want Pete you could get a mediocre tribute artist or you could have a brilliant tribute artist it's a broad spectrum of ability and we welcome it all the way to no one else in the stand me. There are. Always wrong. One favorite is when Roberts an Anglican chaplain you're that rare thing a Welsh speaking Elvis Yes my name which is given by a lot of people is Elvis can write which is Welsh Elvis I actually do sing Elvis concerts in Welsh as well just give me a little flavor of Elvis in Welsh this is going to be the wonder of you hear now now moment of the. 2 hikers said today go by now the thing. Tionne up with yesterday. The E.T.A.'s have competition from their bling happy fans this weekend surely the world's supply of jet black rock up. We had pieces and powder blue jumpsuits was in South Wales I never I never listened to out of this before and I now have to have it I love it all everything from the from the. Until now I love it all yet live on forever you about. For his real fans Elvis is part of their lives as much as ever 40 years after he died. Thanks. For reporting no parents tell their children 3 white lies a day on average a study of parents is also found that $9.10 believes telling the report keys is the secret to successful parenting some of the most common white lies are eating cats will help you see in the dark and this is a cracker when the ice cream van please the music that means ice cream is sold out so is it really the best parenting method well a list freezer is an expert in pitting under 3 teens of her own and listen to her no and also parent and comedian Nigel Buckland Liz what you think. Definitely when the ice cream van music they are totally sold out we all know that. If you do what lies a pose of civil eating Parenthood all day I don't think anyone could get a without saying something that's not church I certainly did odd and I have no intention of not doing so for my next child coming along in about 2 months. And things you can divide in the middle that some of them were largely in the survey that you just mentioning some of them were really really funny and the Tooth Fairy's already and. If you don't hurry up I'm going without you that was you know . I think we've all done now and then there are actually I do you divide because there are some that I think are not quite right like you know when I have an injection is something all this won't hurt is what will it will hurt and say things that I don't tend to do or we need that when you want to call it when any day again I don't do that much I will say we're going to get this talk next 5 hours with even if there's a riot. Nigel What do you think. It's a Swiss I've been eating crusts my whole life and my hair has not gone Curly can tell you that fact and also I'd like to say they agree with Liz I wouldn't say the ice cream sold out because it's making the noise because that's a lie that a kid is going to understand is a lie when they get older and the needle hurting is another one you mention I think you have to kind of becomes a ongoing negotiation I'd imagine as they get older they get smaller more difficult you know the other one is of course some got a naughty list I'm sure we all yeah. I can see why people would do that because like it keeps them in line even though I thought this I would never do that but I just give you an example of something my 6 year old said to me the other day she said Oh I love Michael Jackson I love his music and I love his with us tell me all about him Dad I said Stevie Wonder is blind we start with him because it's not a lie as such but you have to kind of get round the truth because you realize that if you. If you don't have the filter on the children things get very difficult very quickly yeah i was another one I think maybe a bit awkward as your pet has gone to live somewhere else what you think yeah yeah yeah sorry are you carry on normal is when you go you know we never did that and again I think you know it depends on your you know your own child as well you know what they can handle or what they can't it's one of our pets died I'm afraid to say they died and we left the place down the toilet and buried has turned dark and that's just recently of course your heart. Well he was dead sorry to be gay they were already dead. But you have to ask what your motivation is in telling it what lies is no point just telling little white lies all the time because actually mildly seriously you know if you're teaching children that you can just say whatever you like because it suits you that's all you really really bad precedent so you saw what was the motivation you know the motive behind the reasoning behind it is perfectly innocent and there's a great risk to saying so you're not harming anyone then fine but just going around telling lies it was. A Nigel thank you both. $92.00 to $95.00 if it went to a medium wave and on digital radio b.b.c. Radio Scotland. Good evening at 6 o'clock. And this is news Dr with very Stuart Tonight we're at the Labor conference in Brighton play to be absolutely clear Scotland can make the difference but it still works president drums row with some of America's most famous sports stars I think the idea that the president is in on going disputes with football players and the fact that these people appear to have more ethical and moral back is a deeply worried driver than twice splitting the infinitive as just so common. The news from Christine Finnegan the u.k. And Scottish government say that some progress has been made in the latest trend of talks on breaks it but admit the 2 sides are still far apart They've been meeting in London to discuss concerns about the e.u. Withdrawal bill after a note of talks both sides said the meeting had been constructive but conceded there was still a long way to go before any deal the Deputy 1st Minister John Swinney set out the Scottish Government's main concern but we wouldn't be positive and it's an attempt by the government to come up I was responsible. Spotted in government when they should be properly exercised by this for. A 4th round of bricks said talks is taking place in Brussels between British and European Union negotiators the breaks that Secretary David Davis has insisted there are no excuses for standing in the way of progress following to resume a speech in Florence last Friday but the used lead negotiator Michel Barnier said the u.k. Still needed to translate the Prime Minister's proposals into a precise strategy the chancellor Philip Hammond says that he's personally 100 percent behind to resent me after he earlier declined to say whether she would be the best person to lead the conservative party into the next election speaking during a visit to dun d. Mr Hammond said the government was focused on delivering bricks it with the transition needing to be complete before the next general election in 2022 the case thing is to give business certainty about the environment they will face so that investment can get going again and was the problem it said on Friday an interim period of around 2 years will greatly assist business as well as government agencies in preparing for the future North Korea's foreign minister riyal Hoare has accused President Trump of declaring border in his country speaking in New York he said its military had every right to shoot down u.s. Jets even if they were outside North Korean airspace in a show of force over the weekend u.s. Lancer bombers flew in international airspace over waters east of North Korea the Pentagon has warned that Mr Trump will be provided with options to deal with Pyongyang if it continues its provocative actions. The German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she wants to win back the voters who have left her party for the anti immigrant a.f.d. Party but that wouldn't entailed a lurch to the right for her government the f.t. . He has a marriage has the 3rd biggest group in parliament after Sunday's election or Berlant correspondent demean McInnes reports angular MacHall may have won the most votes and will remain chancellor but she now has to cobble together a coalition between 4 different parties including the Greens and the business friendly liberals all of which have completely opposing views on key issues such as refugees or eurozone reform Meanwhile the anti migrant a.f.d. a Party that Mrs Merkel will not work with is struggling to stay united one of its leaders how capitally has announced that she will not belong to the party's parliamentary group she wants to drop the more nationalist rhetoric to give the f.t. a Chance of being part of a future governing coalition but at the more radical end of the party its founder Alexander Garland as vowed to fight what he called an invasion of foreigners the Scottish Labor leadership candidates have been setting out their positions on breaks it with than our sorrow are criticizing Richard Leonard for voting in favor of triggering Article 50 of the party conference in Brighton Mr Leonard said he was a Democrat who respected the referendum result u.k. Wide doing he would prioritise jobs consumer protection and Scottish interests if elected Mr Salazar said the u.k. Should be open minded on future membership of the single market and Customs Union. Lawyers for the man who is charged with kidnapping a British model in Italy say the entire case could be a sham Michael harebell who's $36.00 has appeared before magistrates in London to fight extradition he's alleged to have conspired with his brother who's in custody in Italy to adopt Chloe illing a ruling on the case will be given on Friday our correspondent Richard Lister was in court 2 months ago Chloe ailing told British consular officials in Milan that she'd been held the 6 days by a guy. Yang who wanted to sell online she said she'd come to the city for a photo shoot but had been drugged and driven to a remote farmhouse with her at the consulate was her alleged kidnapper would cash Haeber a Polish national living in the West Midlands she said he decided to abandon the plot he's now facing trial in Italy his brother Mikao was subsequently arrested in the West Midlands and is fighting an Italian extradition request his lawyer George Burns Scot argued today there was a real risk the whole case was a sham a woman who was found with injuries in a garden in Fife has died she was discovered this morning outside the house and on famine and it's believed she had multiple stab wounds the woman who is in her sixty's was taken to hospital in Kirkcaldy but didn't survive police are treating the death of a man following an instant and done deal yesterday a suspicious they say they are following a positive line of inquiry the man was phoned shortly before midnight need a block of flats on our cli street that's a new snowy mimic Beth has the latest sport Thank you Scott the manager Gordon Strachan says his $25.00 man squad are full of belief ahead of the World Cup qualifying doubleheader next month the Scot of a Slovakia and Slovenia match as they must win if they are to have a realistic chance of making Russia 28 team for a player badly Wilson says Ross County may be victims of their own success after a poor league forms resulted in the departure of manager Jim McIntyre and his assistant Billy dogs and come up games in Olympic swimming medalist Dan Wallace says is embarrassed about his conviction for drunk driving 3 months ago all the 24 year old faces an anxious wait to see if you'd be selected next week by Team Scotland for the calm of games in April says Matthews has your travel in Aberdeen to the ninety's easing southbound at Stonehaven before the fast lane calf to Airlie or congestion impaired t. St There is heavy traffic both Weezer on site street and Sterling the 9 or 7 Alloa road house queueing traffic. With delays of a 95 minutes Edinburgh is a 72 all city bypasses partially blocked East bind on the entry slip road with slow traffic due to a broken down vehicle and the resulting recovery work they 90 northbound in Edinburgh has 2 lanes closed due to a broken down Lawdy before junction Warney Queensferry junction in Renfrewshire as World Bank is closed in both directions at Cobar can that's because of an instant lose Crescent that's ongoing in the emergency services are they are and and so if you're sure that the 78 Monckton It's very heavy between trying to bite and Monckton hay trying to buy b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel Scotland's weather and drier and brighter into the day for many years the cloud breaks across central and western Nadya's to lows some late spells of sunshine with the Western Isles the Northwest Highland seeing the best of this the cloud more stubborn across eastern parts with some further patchy drizzle or late train for the East Highlands upper denture and Southern uplands and no here with the outdoor conditions forecast it's Katrina the pros thank you rather moist sight the steely winds will cover Scotland's climbing u.t.s. Starting with the details for climbers and hillwalkers expect a misty start to the day across many ranges with some low cloud in the top 6 unfold patches in the glens the fog should soon clear with Hill fall becoming confined mostly to the southern and eastern highlands and along with the Galloway Hills elsewhere those I'm hazy sunshine developing in the morning and the best of this along coastal ranges in the northwest then into the afternoon many ranges will be dried with some hazy sunshine and on the patchy Hill fold Haverhill fall is likely to persist across the east Highlands and perhaps the holes and there may well be some drizzle as well Clyde we dined to 300 to 500 meters that 1st hour 1000 to 1500 feet but this should steadily lift off most summits in the afternoon Clyde will. 300 meters across the east Highlands throughout the day will be a windy day across all ranges with fresh to strong sight to say the easterly winds and these reaching gale force of the north and waist temperatures at this height to be near 8 Celsius now the forecast for ensure water is around Scotland southeasterly 4 or 5 but 6 or 7 along expose costs of the money furthest Northern Isles and I to Hebrides the time no is 10 past 6. No labor delegates at their annual conference in Brighton have been told the Scottish Labor is back on track and must prepare for a government into them Scottish Labor leader Alex Rowley said they'd experienced tough times but that was no all in the past. To the way in Scotland because let me be. Let me be absolutely clear Scotland can meet with their friends at the next election Well our political correspondent Nick haired Leigh is at the conference in Brighton we heard Alex Rowley there in confident mood is that the general mood yes I think it is funny I think the Labor Party is happy where the election result and thinks it has something to post on what a difference from the conversations we're having a year ago here where many in the Labor Party felt a sense of despair after joining me carbons reelection they didn't think he was a likeable they didn't think he would do well but quite clearly the fact of the performed expectations in the general election means that many in the party think that they are on the verge of power if there's a general election and many in the party think they would when and that confidence is particularly clear in Scotland like you had there Alec Rowley the interim leader saying that he thinks that Labor can when Scotland back in the next election I think they've got a number of targets Scotland they have a close eye on. And disagreement then wrecks it today a row between the Scottish leadership candidates Yeah that's right post the leadership speculation has almost completely gone from this conference there are divisions on sure and breaks is the most obvious one there was a demonstration outside yesterday calling for Labor to commit to staying in the e.u. Single market leadership is lukewarm on that there's no saying they're going to do so Keir Starmer who's the party's main man breaks it was talking about earlier saying that his party will be the dollar at the ready to negotiate with Europe if the kids have the government that was to fall the c labor are ready to step in to the full the probably have is that there are many in the party who want the party to membership of the single market and the Customs Union after the proposed transition period which would come after we leave the European Union one passage whose open to that idea is one of the Scottish Labor leadership candidates and I savoir I spoke to him a little earlier about his priorities for the president of the party. Pointed to the Ritalin or voted with the Tories it's regrettable. So his priorities into things like jobs but as you head there he thinks you know. Gloves off moment in the leadership election he's saying that his his rival Richard Leonard hasn't had a strong enough. Track record on that issue and spoke to Mr learnt about his priorities for breaks in 2014 we had an independence referendum where the people of Scotland voted to remain in the u.k. In 26 days we had a referendum on our membership of the European Union the franchise for that was the whole of the u.k. So I as a Democrat want to respect the outcome of both the 2014th and the $26.00 the referendum I don't think it's the place of parliamentarians to block the will of the people so rejecting that criticism Valerie and putting his own priorities is things like jobs the economy and protecting investment and also earlier in the day we had John McDonald making an announcement and p.f. I contract says some comment from Mr Leno do not want to get that straight So John McDonnell saying that p.f. Eye has been wasteful and pledging to break p.f. I contracts those contracts which were signed in the 1st decade of the 21st century primarily back in-house so Labor will review contracts if it gets power with a view to to buying and I safely to bring those contracts back into public hands now Richard Leonard saying tonight that he wants something similar in Scotland he wants a fund to be set up by the Scottish government which would help by p.f. I contracts and their successors a p.d.s. In Scotland he says that would be has priority if he were elected 1st minister now some of the s.n.p. Pointing out tonight that most of the current p.f. I contracts in Scotland were signed by the Labor led coalition Holyrood's when it was in power Richard Leonard a strong supporter of the u.k. Labor leadership Jeremy Corbett and John McDonnell and protect. Seems clear in many ways he's happy to break with previous party legacy the previous party policy in a similar way to Mr Corbett has done on a national scale Ok thank you very much indeed that's Nichiren Lee in Brighton. Now last night to more than 80000 American football fans at Wembley saw a marketable protest ahead of the n.f.l. Match between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens 27 n.f.l. Players and staff knelt to tutoring the American national anthem to protest against racial injustice so many of them joined in because of what Donald Trump said on Friday at a rally in Alabama apologies for the language used but he is the American president when you love to see one of these n.f.l. Owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now out of these 5 was was well basketball star John Amaechi used to play in the n.b.a. For amongst others the Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic and I asked him what he made of the row between Trump and some of America's best known sports stars and club owners I mean it's deeply undignified for starters. Who in America they take I mean I lived there for more than 20 years they they take a great deal of pride in the idea that being a president comes with the label of also being presidential which is something that is supposed to reek of dignity and the opposite of that is now what's happening I think the idea that a president you know the leader of the free world is in on going disputes with football players basketball players and other people and the fact that these people appear to have more ethical and moral background Bolen him is a deeply worrying trend I mean his argument I suppose is that they're feeling to respect the flag the national anthem and war dead perhaps what do you make of the protest self because it did begin relatively quietly. I mean I think the pro I don't know I don't know how much more dignified you can be than to meal. I don't I've either Lee's people aren't turning their back on the flag I would also remind people that in this discussion we need people to be a touch more educated so if you if you listen to the 3rd verse of the now the American national anthem you will find out that in it is written in the 3rd person . An exhortation that speaks of how slaves who run away should be caught and buried alive this is the anthem that people hold their hand on their heart to be for sporting events so. In an obit self the anthem is worthy of some protest. But in this particular case the idea that black people black boys unarmed black boys are being disproportionately shot by police not to a level of one or 2 times as many but as up to 11 times as frequently as anybody else this is not a function of the criminality this is a function of bias within the law enforcement what Captain Nick and Le Bron and others who are speaking out on this issue are doing or saying on the side of police cars in America it says protect and serve protect and serve should apply equally to everybody and at the moment it doesn't for people in this country who don't understand or appreciate perhaps how big some of these sports stars are just put it in context or you get somebody of the stature of liberal on Jay was calling Donald Trump a bum a minute is incredible Yeah I mean his his language is certainly on politic in that particular regard. But it's been on the lips of many other people including other politicians in America at this stage about him but it is it's like one a messy stepping into 2 major issues of domestic and as even international importance in Spain it is like I don't know any player that you you can imagine at the very top of their game in in the Premier League in Britain speaking out about Teresa behave in in that way it is absolutely remarkable on the one hand but also welcome I think if we want our athletes to be role models then they should be taking stands on issues of principle that it impacts the moral fiber of our society do you think this will backfire and Donald Trump because we keep eating that you know he said this to rally I think in Alabama in the crowd loved it but you know what about the wider audience. The wide audience will I think in turn you to be repelled by this I just don't see anybody white black or otherwise who sees issues of inequity as as as as aspects of our life that we should step away from and so he's only while he's working to make sure that that 30 percent of his base his political base stays loyal to him and feels energized by him every time he energizes them he disenfranchise a broader group of more mainstream individuals who have a moral conscience and I think that eventually will be as I'm doing that's the basketball star John Amaechi knows splitting an infinitive in a sentence might make some of us wins but researchers behind a new study suggests doing so has effectively become part of modern spoken English and should be embraced language experts at Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press have gathered the largest ever public collection of transcribed British conversations using recordings from participants smartphones all Robby lovers the lead researcher at Lancaster University who can lead to the research and we can speak to no Everest of all in terms of how easy it was I suppose forms of media research much easier. Absolutely yes yes if you compare the work that we've been doing to the original spoken British national Copus which was collected in the early 1990 s. Things have been a lot easier in that regard with with getting members of the public to use their phones to recall the conversations at having So you've done this study and you're comparing the findings to a similar study in the 1990 s. What did you find then in terms of the split infinitive Well the split infinitive has very much made a mock rise between the 1990 s. And the present day to the degree of about 4 times as frequent as it was in the ninety's it already was fairly frequent it was certainly not saying it suddenly disappeared out of nowhere but the fact that it has risen to such an extent is definitely note worthy is it good or bad. Very good and I would I would say neither I mean I try not to attach an evaluation on changes in language the most important thing is to simply accept that they happen Robert then worrying all thinking that the language is being ruined by certain changes but I suppose you have to have a kind of set of rules to do if you're teaching English for example in school you know do you see the split infinitives are Ok or not Ok Or do you simply see this is a split infinitive do you like but. Yes I mean you know the importance of studying present day spoken British English is exactly that so that you can teach learners of English the most up to date version of the language so to speak now that's not to say that you know I don't think that rules should be used when you're teaching language of course they should have a wise how on earth would you teach it but just like we change the laws as time in society moves on it's the same with making observations about about language use and that in my view and if you have many in the field of Corpus linguistics is the right way to go so if this is just language evolving I mean I suppose obviously we don't speak speak in English anymore either so obviously it does that what else did you find in terms of the main changes Well if you look at the words like so and like at the beginning of sentences and I just said the word well if they can get minds of perhaps you could you could include that these sorts of things have really increased as well over the last 20 years when most of the scientists particularly when you interview them start the sentence with to us interesting I mean it does serve a function to control the discourse and perhaps give a little bit of time for somebody to think which of course in this context it's very useful and what else did you find. Well if you compare youngest speakers to well just because you see some really interesting differences there so looking at under thirty's in the present day you get things like genuinely huge set massively and cool being really popular among those speakers and perhaps another way of looking at language changes to compare youngest because of all this because some of the older ones you get words like Anyhow parish and perhaps unsurprisingly grandson and granddaughter being more common with with the older speakers Robbie that's also thank you very much indeed that Robbie love They're the lead researcher at a Lancaster University I know Brian Byrne It is here to tell us what's coming up and get it on hello hello tight we're paying tribute to I think one of the coolest instruments and pop and that is the saxophone imagine those create Bruce Springsteen terms without Clarence Clemons Sachs it's what you remember from The Sound of Madness as well we're going to get lots of great jazz lots agree soul on tonight's program let me know what use is 895 the show was sax appeal and we're going to start tonight with takes his midnight run of Ok a special request for a bigger street I think is called going to be another variation of the I thank you very much now let's get a round up of disease sport and here's Amy thank you very much this call the manager Gordon Strachan say it is 25 months squader full of confidence ahead of their qualifiers against the vacuum and Slovenia and October much as they must win if they are to have a chance of making the World Cup and $28006.00 out of players in the squad a cart from Leeds Captain Liam Cooper and over us on Martin Steven Naismith or Tom Cairney evidence of the belief in each other then we're going to be at the stage who could talk positively on the stand and the. Audition is our own hands. And to say that there was. And if you wouldn't believe what we're doing or don't trust us then we wouldn't be here but what here and what all relish nurse Porter want to argue over the last. Last year 3 weeks in real will forward to the us the thing this is huge and they all would be involved in it between them and the 5000000 people that are supporting us at the moment nor support not because of the them of the day the mark with the world that we look forward to a good education we know it can be occasionally could get disappoint but the last link in that will come out of games and Olympic medalist Dan Wallace admits he's on his last chance for Team Scotland and Scottish swimming following a drink driving conviction 3 months ago speaking exclusively to b.b.c. Scotland the 24 year old knife faces an anxious wait to see if you'll be named next week for the golf course Commonwealth Games also St between Have times over the limit when he was arrested and bound from driving for a year he's been given another chance and appreciates the help to get his life back on track team is gonna score 7 we've done a lot in the game a lot of great help for this whole thing to make sure that our performance on our lifestyle is up to par so where I want to be in up to where they want to be I think there were certain areas last year where my life started in me and been fresh laughing so there's no more more no more room for error and I think that the next season is going to be one to test that I'm very anxious. This will be about 2nd camos games of homes like this and for me that's just as exciting as the 1st one. So I think you know I'll be really waiting for the team to be official and if I'm on or off will be a great time it's taken me to sink. You know a real load to realise what it is I want through swimming and through my life so I think for a deficit person on every day and it's no part of my story I think that I just need to deal with and use it to my advantage I'm kind of make a bit of a comeback Glasgow Warriors assistant head coach Kenny muddy says it's great to have world class referees at Scotstoun after Nigel wants to charge of their win over Munster at every Canes the Welsh Rugby day for lost his patience for the 2 saves in gathered all the players together. For a strict talking to guys if what if City one of the best in the world scream for all the cops in the top of 14 kids to get him ready again and enjoy it. You know this was that as it was a day that we wanted to March to physical to show you that it was any incident should be able to go been so Ok and if it is the way we always jump or that something is that way to top it you can watch that clip on a b.b.c. Sports column website it's like lots of little boys getting a row and Aston Martin have agreed a deal to be the title sponsors a Formula One team Red Bull from next season the team will be officially competing as Aston Martin Red Bull Racing snappy name if you're good in commentry I think that's your sport. 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Scotland travel just time for a quick text on pushcarts or talking about the demise of the postcard This one says the point of a postcard is to let someone know you're thinking about them not sure enough we were competing with Facebook is delightful to receive a postcard with a lovely picture and truly feel special I've kept in touch with friends for more than 30 years by postcard a postcard comes under the same category as a handwritten letter thank you Ilene and Aberdeenshire for that now the main news before we go the Scottish and you.

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