Created and today I guess is a time to reflect that we shouldn't take anything that we have in terms of our own freedoms for granted and a warning that Scotland's care home sector is on the brink crisis is an often overused word but we are facing real difficulties this year to ensure sustainability and to ensure survival. A summary of the news no from Christine Finnegan r.b.s. Says to keep 10 closure threatened branches open until at least the end of the year the bank said the use of the branches would be reviewed by independent research over that period the branches are bigger Beauty Castle beyond Badda Comrie Douglas Gretna infinity Melrose Kyle of the house and tongue 52 other branches across Scotland still face the threat of closure in blog for the s.n.p. Leader at Westminster says the partial reprieve is due to pressure from communities there should be on the back of the pressure from the community as we have been pretty good in petitions from our communities is the fact that people in all these places and the towns and villages that you mentioned and places like bigger places like a on the one concession see have said look we need to be able to make sure that we can continue to benefit from banking services we are given a voice to that in Parliament and I'm delighted that r.b.s. Have listened to a certain extent a 22 year old man from Edinburgh who repeatedly threw a 2 month old baby boy in the ear causing him to fracture his ribs and one of his thighs has been jailed for 13 months Lee and Simpson admitted culpable and reckless conduct of videos locations in Scotland between December 26th Dean and March last year the High Court in Edinburgh that Simpson was arrested after the baby fell ill and was x. Rayed at hospital. Share prices in New York have recovered after Airlie losses the Dow Jones dropped more than 2 percent when the. Market opened today but quickly bounced back shares across Europe of also regain some of their value after plunging the smartening following falls in Asia the f.t. 100 index closed down more than 2 and a half percent at 7141 at economics correspondent Andrew Walker reports. For a volatile stuff of the day trading on Wall Street there was a substantial fall at the Open followed by a rebound that have raised the losses within 15 minutes investors have been digesting news that suggests there may be new inflationary forces building in the United States economy which could in turn lead the Federal Reserve the country's central bank to raise interest rates more quickly than previously expected the prospect of better interest rates has made shares look less attractive and led many investors to sell them and most P.C.'s are debating this until 90 of the legislation which gave some women the right to vote for the 1st time they're paying tribute to the suffragettes and suffragists who campaign for women to have a political franchise senior executives that could really and have for the 1st time explained in public what went wrong at the collapsed outsourcing firm several apologized to M.P.'s but none volunteer to give up their bonuses the company employed 20000 people in the u.k. More details from my business correspondent John t. Balloon Karelians collapses had shareholders pensioners workers and contractors but M.P.'s had trouble finding anyone amongst the 8 highly paid directors they questioned who thought that they had done anything wrong or could have done more to save the company the former finance directors of a car on denied being asleep at the wheel and told M.P.'s he warned the board that cruelly and could not really afford to pay a dividend to shareholders last year but had been outvoted other directors blame too much borrowing which left Karelian vulnerable when for different contracts went wrong but that still does not explain how such a huge. Company could be highly profitable at the start of the year and perilous by Christmas a Scottish judge China's halted as a temp to get the European court to decide if the u.k. Can hold the breaks it process alone campaigners say they're considering their next move but hope to be able to appeal u.k. Government lawyers said it was a hypothetical argument as ministers had made it clear the u.k. Was leaving the e.u. . A judge sitting at Westminster Magistrates Court has rejected a request by the founder of Wiki Leaks Julian are soon to have the u.k. Arrest warrant against him declared invalid mistress songs has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for more than 5 years to avoid being extradited in connection with sexual assault allegations in Sweden Richard gulp and sent this report from outside the embassy in appealing for the arrest warrant to be dropped Mr Assad his lawyers had argued it no longer had any purpose or function they said that was because of the decision of the Swedish authorities last year to stop investigating Mr Assange over allegations of sexual assault and rape but prosecutors argued the arrest warrant should stand because Mr Assad had committed an offense by skipping bail when he took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy more than 5 years ago they also said he should not be rewarded for outliving the Swedish authorities attempts to have him extradited an academic a football club is to launch a legal action against r.b.s. After it was defrauded of almost a 1000000 pounds the club wants to recover almost half its losses after being targeted in a sophisticated scam last October r.b.s. Said it was confident there was no breakdown in its security procedures and is working with police to identify the culprits how militants said it had recovered about 170000 pounds after the fraud but about 800000 remains outstanding. Sport and here's lot of Mickey Scotland's only try scorer in the opening 6 Nations game Peter Horne says the squad had an honesty session in the aftermath of the game in Cardiff following the team debrief the players are eager to bounce back against France at money fields and Horan believes that Scotland have the attributes to trouble any of their 6 Nations opponents the Celtic goalkeeper Doris to freeze admits he did consider his future after being understudy to create garden for the majority of his time at Celtic whoever believes he has everything being at the Parkhead club there are 2 matches in the Premiership this evening 3rd place Rangers are away to Partick Thistle and a win for Motherwell at home to send Johnson would lift them into the top 6 there's live coverage on sports and it went on medium wave from $630.00 and Glasgow's Riverside Museum will act as the starting point for the time trials when the European cycling road championships come to the u.k. For the 1st time this summer more than 300 of Europe's best male and female cyclists who compete in the events being staged in August that sports know the travel with Victoria less than in Aberdeen in $1006.00 all Camilla ruled has queueing traffic both ways at the heart you can run debates and on D.-Day 90 Kings way has each time queues at the retail park and I do brother queues on the 8 Glasgow Road Why spend approaching the m one at junction one new bridge clearing that junction is taking up to 10 minutes just nearby the 90 Queensferry road as heavy westbound traffic around the barn to injunction to Glasgow and little sun clear is meaning it's heavier than usual traffic on the any West by in-between junction of 14 freight markets and 18 Charing Cross on the m 8 East by and that are delays between 22 plantation and 16 Creek hold and on the trains a signalling fault with flit means destruction between Del Muir via Motherwell among guy and Cumbernauld via Motherwell b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel. Scotland's weather a cold frosty night come with icy conditions almost anywhere and temperatures well below 0 even in town they'll be further sleet and snow showers across the Highlands islands. North America and West Coast Otherwise it's mainly dry and tomato and dry start for most with some sunshine across eastern Scotland lasting until mid-morning through the day our weather front pages east bringing cloud and rain across western Scotland with some snow in the hills of 3 to 5 Celsius or next Billiton at half past 5 so 10 of the bank branches in Scotland which r.b.s. Plan to close have been given a reprieve is good news for the communities involved mainly rural and isolated and a partial success for those campaigning against the 62 branch closures planned well among them is the union Unite to is deputy Scottish secretary is Maria Alexander Good evening good evening so your reaction to this news tonight well we welcome the partial turnaround by r.b.s. And we're pleased that you know it's campaign in Scotland with local communities. Led to this partial tunnel don't it is though a partial turnaround doesn't it 1st of all it's only 100262 you've been campaigning to save Well there's 10 out of 13 last buying contents which we were very concerned about and there's 50 to demeaning as you say and campaign from the start of that was about branch closures and stopping the branch closures and the and we'll continue to do that because we know think the bank should be placed in the pause button on the 52 demeaning branches hope to Mystic can you be then I mean use it to think this is a sign you might crack in the rest of. Well I certainly think they need to sit down and review how they came to the decisions they made on these 62 closures that we've seen this train of public reaction. Where you know United has been protesting outside but inches with local communities and local communities have made their voice hared about the devastation these closures would bring in terms of jobs and their communities so I think the bank really has to do a sit down with us and do a branch review of the whole process. The thing is this is only until the end of this year is not that long a stay of execution as of. It's no and that's why we want to have urgent talks with senior bankers to sit down and. Branch review we also want the Westminster government to look again at this and intervene and that's what we've been calling for all along are you worry that these 10 branches will just close ultimately anyway because you know the bank's been fairly clear that not only does it want to keep seeing these branches being used but once increased revenue out of them well we would question on 4 bases the banks have made the decision to close these banks you know they talk about food fall in China actions and we want to see some impact assessments done and these to be published and sit down and talk to us about these impact assessments because we want to know for the impact is on the communities and taken or not having you know that bank branch there we also want to look at the basis on which they made these decisions about. Actions so we don't necessarily a set that arguments and we will continue to campaign to fight for these branches to Demain often Muriel Xander from unite. Thank you so good news then for 10 communities most of those being reprieved the more isolated communities where they are the last bank branch in Titan like Barrow in the Western Isles though you and McNeil edits the local paper on about us so the people there celebrating I am Hi there yeah definitely this is a good news story 1st on the earth paper and for community this week there's a the story of the closure was quite devastating when we 1st heard of it so sexily news all albeit a who can say is a short short term stay of execution Yeah yeah it's been a pretty hard fought campaign has been to them battle you know though is often the one highlighted out of the whole list just minutes from where we suffer reading from very protective a t. And 7 we would have been involved in an overland trip underfed a trip and another overland trip to get to the nearest branch to either lift money check a balance our population is an aging population so we don't a lot of the population of our don't use the technology is readily available there like I say we suffer from poor connectivity so a lot of banking isn't done on mine and bottom Yeah although I suppose r.b.s. Does point out that they provide a lot of services through post offices. But again I can say that we do have a post office here and it runs a good service but I think when they are there says can of promoting things like personal banking the nothing more personal than going in and going to see a face so you can actually trust a person in the site who can actually bring you up to date if you're a current tickets to your friends and really so those friends reprieve as we've mentioned there's only until the end of the year in r.b.s. Does want to see increased revenue from any branch that's likely to survive so hopeful do you think people are that this will last. Because it will be too hopeful Beacham they want to they would make an argument to retain it so far we're very pleased sorry for the branches that they're on bring gritting. But from by this point if you disagree if you stored it especially the 2 season coming in all of it in commits Beeston it to just mark and it's going to be read in English and the figures that received over the last year this year certainly could make up of the year and so it's good news for them to be able to access runs and do transactions to destroy it to businesses will be able to continue their banking and things from you and thank you very much indeed you McNeil there from Barrow Well that Kilwinning airshow the r.b.s. Bank is still going to close near McDonald the secretary of cool winnings community kind soul you must be disappointed definitely disappointed again is for the communities that have had their save the corn and also r.b.s. Is our last major bank that Cohen is also a population of over $21.00 sows and so the idea that we have it's belief without any major bank is is a terrifying situation so this is still a last bank and time kind of scenario why do you think i.p.s. Has given some of these communities a stay of execution a not cool winning Well I don't know him game we had to go back left quite a number of years ago and at that point out of b.s. To does at the end the last major bank and you can rely on. The leave in the communication headdress into the chief executive of r.b.s. In the identity to just spawns effectively saying oh well get on with S.T.'s the post office but I think that's rather missing the point the post office can only do so much and that a community like Cohen of $21.00 ses and we also are the 1st major banking to sell it for a lot of the $78.00 s. Which is probably one of the safety authors and people know having r.b.s. Wealth is going to have a deep impact not only just for local people but for local businesses and groups is Vale So what is your nearest alternative. Only this whole tattered probably out of in which is the next me just tell you not over but that's all right for some believe that can jump in the car and go over but I would elderly population and for those that can't drive going to even just to go to the bank it's carving a big chunk of their day and we've been speaking to small businesses who are symbol that we get we quote the mall Nintendo d.s. To get our change official at the end it's either going to be some of these going to have to take a made for maybe cut in here or funding helping put money into the business to go and get changed to going to places so it's going to impact their bottom line is going to impact how safe they feel in that business and also of course they miss the point being made by local churches as they have collation place in a sun didn't rely on the night safe which will also be taken away if r.p.s. Closes are you going to continue your campaign then. C.s. Levy if obviously we're vetting to the Chief Executive we intend to Visa's their next me into and Fabian which is in the sestina and we intend to keep up the faith as a communicator we have in Iraq a unique position that we don't have an affiliation to any political party so we can talk to everyone in the town and people can in fact as insane will lick this bank is a lifeline and over the r.b.s. Is save these 10 banks and said they'll be an independent review I think it's a bit tame they did there a saying Steve and the peeved old bank closures for the $62.00 branches and independent review where they came to communities like what and let us to our point across at why we need to bank thank you very much for speaking to us that's near McDonald they are from Kilwinning Community Council. News drive on b.b.c. Radio Scotland and that's our main headline r.b.s. Have announced a partial u. Turn on their plans to close 62 branches in Scotland by saying 10 of them can stay open until the end of the year a judge has rejected a bid from across party group of Scottish politicians to review whether the u.k. Can withdraw Article 50 on its own and a man who threw a 2 month old baby into the area numerous occasions has been jailed for 13 months. Now the Paris based company stagecoach and Virgin Trains should be barred from running any real service after the failure of their contract to run the East Coast Main Line That's according to a former transport secretary Lord Adonis yesterday the government said stagecoach would lose hundreds of millions of pounds after over bidding for the East Coast service well transport correspondent David Henderson joins me now so how did this come about then well according to the government stagecoach as you said had simply over bid for the contract to run the East Cost rail line u.k. Transport secretary Chris Grayling told the Commons yesterday but the parents based firm stagecoach had got its numbers wrong and overburden was not. Paying the price for that he told M.P.'s the company as a result will take a massive financial hit there is no question of anyone receiving a bailout stagecoach will be held to all its contractual obligations in full but as the banner of you said 5 years ago this is what you expect from a competitive franchise system probably because this is risk substantial amounts of their own capital and if they fail to live a quest traction targets they lose out not the taxpayer and we're told Stagecoach is set to lose around $200000000.00 pounds from this deal that's the equivalent of 20 percent of the company's entire market value such stagecoach big plays a big price although apparently as it is insured against some of that loss now the contract to run the East Coast Main Line began just 3 years ago it went sour quite quickly with the Reliance revenue really falling short of expectations so the whole business model which was based on the the idea of increased passenger numbers and so more profits just fell apart the good news though is that the government insists this is not going to impact on the railways day to day operations and it says they'll be no impact on services or starve on the East Coast this is though the 2nd time the East Coast services run into financial problems yet it's happened twice now in a decade back in 2009 the line was nationalized temporarily nationalized and then run by the government after National Express defaulted on the contracts a big contract worth more than 3000000000 pounds it sees 20000000 passenger journeys each year on those intercity routes between Scotland Yorkshire and London we're told that stagecoach will be allowed to continue to operate the franchise on a short term basis and despite its failing the transport secretary said there was no legal grounds to. Prevent stagecoach from bidding for other real franchises and you know while these 2 companies stagecoach and Virgin have between them struggle to run the east coast line the u.k. Government's just awarded them well rather another of their joint ventures an extension to operate the West Coast Main Line service between London and Glasgow that was also announced yesterday and that's simply not good enough for the former transport secretary Andrew Adonis though Lord Adonis who said much more drastic action was needed because he said that amounts to an award for failure stagecoach and virgin should both be banned from operating their contracts because they've walked away from 2000000000 pounds worth of commitments they made to taxpayers across the United Kingdom when National Express win 8 on their contract for the East Coast Main Line in 2009 I planned a secular state for transport operating future rail services they're no longer in the rail business the same should happen to Virgin and Stagecoach if they're not prepared to honor their commitments to taxpayers then they shouldn't be in the rail business in the 1st place and we should have a state company instead so where does this leave the debate and her train services are run well certainly fired up that the political run who over the way a real services are run Gordon Martin of the our empty real union has called for a complete rethink on how our railways are run by private companies here ias here we have yet another monopoly. That actually won the public interest and or put it at the last resort the school streams and at the time the profit the government through that ideology put it back on in the private sector and here we have another bill here and another feeling to be on disaster for the apostles. So that's our empty and and that view is echoed by many in labor who want to see rail services re nationalized but the u.k. Government the conservatives argue that the integrity of the rail franchise system remains intact they say because the companies who have bid for the work and who fail to make a profit won't be bailed out by the taxpayer instead they'll pay the price and then the case of Stagecoach at the price is 200000000 quid now there's reaction to from the Scottish government in a statement tonight the transport minister Holmes a use of said that the u.k. Government of course has the contractual relationship with East Coast Rail's operators and they should be held to account for the current situation he went on to say the u.k. Government should learn from their experiences and maintain the east coast line in public ownership because he says he's made clear and successor and and previous transport ministers in Scotland have made clear that the Scottish government's preference for public sectors operators to be given what he called a fair chance to operate our railways so the old consensus that it was better for the private sector to be running rail services has fallen apart and though both Labor and the s.n.p. Are calling for much more public and state involvement in running the railways thank you that sir transport correspondent David Henderson the Scottish Cup is alive on the b.b.c. The 4th range had its fair share in drama. The. Part of a year that it could take up and some resenting victories. Was up real cause of death toll for Celtic the pressure is on that he will rank the headlines in the 5th ranked great victory at the magical Scottish Cup on t.v. Radio and I'm up for the huge job that has caused all the action in sports that. This weekend on b.b.c. Big deal Scotland. No Laura McGhee has a look ahead to tonight's big match indeed I did well Rangers are hoping to cut the 6 point gap on 2nd placed Aberdeen tonight when they play Partick Thistle at Firhill in the Premiership or b.b.c. Sport Scotland's commentator Liam McLeod alongside summariser Stephen Thompson are there ahead of the game Hi Guys hello should be expect at the time edition from Rangers to bounce back from losing to head Berni and given the gap to 2nd place that yeah I would see so a lot I think they need to show a reaction to lose and Saturday seem incapable this season after another run of sustained victories together and if they've got designs on finishing 2nd in the league they're going to have to get a result here today but I've got a very good record here that far held. Against Partick 1st all over over the years . Liam Rangers manager Graham Murty claims after the loss to head Barry and his state are close to ridding themselves of inconsistency that has undermined and undermine the season but it's games against Lord in the table that seem to cause them a little bit more problems is it not it's been that Achilles heel has been a case in point at the weekend against a barony and I think before the season started if you'd said to anyone connected with Rangers that they would beat Aberdeen 3 times out of 3 in their 1st 3 meetings this season they would have expected to be above the dawns in the league table it is quite the opposite right now Aberdeen have a 6 point cushion on them with Rangers coming into this one tonight their game in hand a chance to bring that back to 3 but they've had their problems here this season at Firhill the could only draw in the league game here $22.00 was only $8.00 goal that salvaged a point in the League Cup year which was just after that's the few days after that they were $10.00 up looked to be cruising Christodoulou and scored a last minute to take it to extra time although Rangers eventually managed to squeeze through and the extra time saw game Marty will come here with a little bit of trepidation given what you're seeing there but the fact that they have struggled as Celtic have done at times this season to to try to we this idea is that they would expect to be pleasing only so do we sense then they still are an improving team because results as you see seem to have picked up in the league over the last 10 games or so yes I think listen Partick Thistle are well equipped to keep their heads above water at the moment they're 4 points clear at the bottom this is a game in hand they have overcame to have at least one more than they have been to more than Hamilton so if they still can win this one I would put some serious a deal between themselves and the bottom club Ross County Steven I would have thought yeah and their record here recently has been excellent 105 of the last 7 and only not only lose and to Celtic to one a few weeks back so it mean there's a massive incentive for Partick Thistle to make just as much as that as for Rangers for very different reasons. Furthur So you're just a point ahead of Hamilton there in 10. And there's still that pressure there to keep the points ticking over because there doesn't seem to be much of a margin between the sides near the bottom of the table or I think when you see what last weekend in sticking for past on the park it shows you that all these clubs and these teams are capable of going into these matches and coming up with 3 pointers County did spectacularly at the weekend how often we know have good runs the they're desperate for one just know picking up the odd point for very very good . Partick Thistle So yeah I mean all these teams and. Even Motherwell still not quite Ok we have a couple of games in hand for the table as well they'll be looking top 6 us of course. But yeah I mean this is not too much margin for error despite the fact there's only you know 1012 games left for for these clubs the season lot it's very cold here tonight so if anyone coming along. Looking at Stephen has got all the Earlier this evening wrap up very well this game's not on the telly tonight we are full coverage of Partick Thistle Rangers and of course will be the mother will seem Johnston game is on another big big game between those 2 Park thanks very much guys be live on sports and it went on medium wave from 630 this evening sports thanks for that Victoria has the travel news. In Marty the 96 Alexander Rudin Elkan has slowed traffic both ways the wind and Aberdeen in 178 cent marker drive as heavy traffic that's approaching the junction with great northern route the 956 and also looking for North Wind at the Queen Elizabeth Bridge and banked done d. In their queues on the a 90 Kings week East bind and on the 1001 West markets gate and the Westport trying to fight in Edinburgh out west to protrude has been closed by police in both directions because of an accident that happened at the junction with rules burn Street in Glasgow the still looking slow West by and between 14 fruits market and 18 Charing Cross and east binds between 22 plantation and 16 Creek coal and on the train. Signalling fault a privilege means disruption on a number of services so if you check before you set off b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel. And you're listening to news drive with a very Stuart the time no half past 5 let's get the news from Christine Finnegan r.b.s. Has announced a partial u. Turn on its plans to close 62 branches in Scotland saying 10 will stay open until the end of the year while their uses monitored cars will be on better bigger Bewley Comrie and Douglas Gretna infinity Melrose scale of law couch and tongue stay open for no the deputy Scottish secretary of the Unite union made a Alexander told does it's time for the bank to pause its closure programme I certainly think they need to sit down and review how they came to the decisions they made on these 62 closures that we've seen this train of public reaction Preeti you know Unite has been protesting outside but inches with local communities and local communities have made their voice haired about the devastation these closures would bring in terms of jobs and their communities Westminster Magistrates' Court has ruled that the u.k. Arrest warrant against the founder of Wiki Leaks Julian a song remains valid even though Sweden has dropped its request to extradite him mistress song she was given an asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London more than 5 years ago and is still living there a judge has rejected a bid from a cross party group of Scottish politicians to view whether the u.k. Can withdraw Article 50 on its own the politicians wanted to go to the European Court of Justice for a ruling on whether BRICs it could be called off Lord Doherty ruled against them at the Court of Session saying their bid had no deal prospect of success here's our political correspondent Andrew care. Lord dog Herty delivered his judgment dashing the campaigners hopes they wanted the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg to ultimately decide if the u.k. Alone can hold the Bragg's that process without the c. Of the other e.u. Member states that means the u.k. Parliament could have a 3rd option rather than just accepting the Braggs deal or leaving with no deal the judge ruled their prospects of success fell very far short and their case was hypothetical and academic charming with a view put forward by u.k. Government lawyers that means a full hearing and whether to refer to Luxembourg will no not take place the cross party campaigners accept the conservators will probably no appeal saying they're willing to go up to the Supreme Court's the former chairman of Karelian Philip Green has taken the blame for the collapse of the construction and outsourcing giant Last month he was among the company's executives who appeared before 2 Commons committees investigating the firm's demise several of them have apologized but the chair of the business energy and industrial strategy committee Rachel Reeves says the hearing left her dispirited they were in absolute denial about the scale of the problem the pension deficit the fact that they have left so many small businesses and subcontractors up the creek without a paddle even at the end of the session where we also whether they thought that they deserved the huge payments that they'd been receiving even now they seem to think that those payments payments for failure essentially were justified and Miss Peace have been paying tribute to the women and men who fought and campaign for the right of women to vote events are taking place across the u.k. To mark the scintilla of women's suffrage speaking during a special debate a tolerated the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said it's important to note that only some women won the right to vote 100 years ago on June affairs. Suffrage took some time my great grandmother Betty Richie wouldn't have been among despite hardly the age barrier despite raising 5 sons to addle who'd had a daughter who died young she didn't qualify leaving school at 14 and living in a Glasgow Corporation tenement traced and she had neither the means nor the education to be deemed worthy of political decision making Ruth Davidson and that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland news so how's the weather forecast here is Christopher is going to a cold one tonight very temperatures well below freezing even in towns and cities mostly dry mostly clear but really quite cold still a number of wintry showers across the Highlands and Islands the Northern Island a few drifting the way down the west coast affecting our Garlin towards can tire and the coast as well as through parts of Galloway but elsewhere reasonably dry and as the say with those clear skies temperatures dropping like a stone in towns and cities down to minus 3 to minus 6 and certainly even on the coast freezing or lower so there will be a risk of ice almost anywhere especially on untreated roads and surfaces so to start the day tomorrow for many central and eastern parts it's dry with some early sunshine Byrd's it doesn't look like it's going to last because across western Scotland and through the Hebrides a warm front will bring thickening cloud in through the day that cloud moves eastward so if you wake up tomorrow with some sunshine expect the cloud to come streaming in and with that cloud they'll be some outbreaks of rain across many central and western part of the country through the afternoon snow chiefly to the hills rain really to low levels and quite a cool feel for many central and eastern parts of the country from Aberdeenshire down towards the borders perhaps just 3 to 5 Celsius further west where we have the thickest cloud and some outbreaks of rain temperatures slowly on the rise and certainly up to 8 degrees for Stornoway with a wind from the southwest that will be moderate to fresh looking ahead towards Thursday generally a milder day fairly clearly the best of. Brightness in the east and the north east that's the forecast for now. $92.00 to $95.00 f.m. And wave b.b.c. Radio Scotland. Have been debating this interior of the legislation which gave some women the right to vote for the 1st time they've paid tribute to the suffragettes and suffragists who campaigned for women to have political front but 100 years on the agree that the campaign for equality isn't over from Hollywood Kristin Campbell reports I'm putting on a shopping cart to celebrate 6 the representation of the people that act on the streets of Edinburgh storyteller's publicize the purple white and green We have been fighting for the fact it's the story of the Scottish suffragettes a mix of historical facts and proves which will be going on to or across Scotland was by now if he was in the Scottish Parliament at the foot of the Royal Mile most of Scotland's female m s P's gather in the debating chamber ahead of a debate to mark the centenary of the legislation which gave some women the right to vote for the 1st time the representation of the People Act 1900 men who didn't own property to vote to but it's women's suffrage that's the focus here I. Was cleared Adamson's the s.n.p. M.s.p. For Motherwell and was shot anything in case is democracy and this is equality as we welcome and celebrate it and today I guess is a time to reflect that we shouldn't take anything that we have in terms of our own freedoms for granted and he well as the conservative m.s.p. For Glasgow isn't or what the campaigners achieved if it wasn't for what they did a 100 years ago would have been the 4 sexes wouldn't be here today for Labour's Jackie Baillie the campaign for equality continues is the case that there is still much more what to do you know we still. The gender pay gap you know we still have equal pay legislation the is required today so you know we've got a great number of women in the Scottish Parliament we need to grow our numbers the Scottish Conservative leader with Davidson is backing a campaign for a posthumous pardon for suffragettes who would imprisoned there is a call from the families of those who were prosecuted and criminalized because of they are advocates of votes for women to have an anonymous to you know we've seen another radios and I think that would be absolutely right to recognise those those right shifts pioneers and trailblazers for what they wear rather than them staying on the books as criminals because it's on the the back of the shoulders of giants that the rest of us stand today the next fad how business is a debate on motion one or 2 at 5 in the name of Nicholas traction and celebrating 100 years of women's right to vote the 1st minister Nicholas sturgeon told Emmis piece that she hoped that future generations would be able to look back on the achievements of the Scottish Parliament with the same sense of pride that covenant parliamentarians few to suffer ejects forced to us in our generation through deeds not words to complete the work that the suffrage movement started to ensure that no longer will gender be a barrier to any woman achieving her dreams that in my view is the only truly appropriate way for us to repeal the norm is a date to the heroic movement that we celebrate on or to be the labor m.s.p. For the Lutyens can see a duck deal said she was still angry and still marching could you believe that 100 years on 2 women die are weak at the hands of their violent partners the $80000.00 women a year would be raped that 400000 women would be sexually assaulted in countless more harassed could they comprehend that we would still see low pay and insecure work. The 100 years on women would still work a few week and struggle to keep food on the table her success as Labor leader Richard Leonard agreed that the fight for equality isn't over the path which those campaigners 1st chart at the beginning of the last century still has many miles to run so why this afternoon we look back we must also face the future. Face the future with a renewed commitment and a renewed purpose to deliver really quality in our society and in our time m.s.p. After m.s.p. Paid tribute to the remarkable woman who made today's debate possible and m.s.p. After m.s.p. Agreed that another century must not be allowed to pass the 4 men and women are equal Kirsten Campbell reporting from Hollywood. No divers say they've uncovered evidence that illegal scallop dredging has been taking place in a protected area in the west coast of Scotland b.b.c. Scotland can reveal that broken shells dislodged boulders and fresh scallop meat were all discovered on the seabed near open our environment correspondent Kevin Keen reports. In the Firth of law on a dive not to collect scallops but to document the destruction from illegal dredging broken shells dislodged boulders and even fresh meat suggesting the disturbance is recent. The dredges dragged deer along the sea bed to collect the shellfish but of marine protected areas or M.P.'s they're banned from operating under Downey's from the campaign group open seas it's a massive concern it's it's a tragic situation of the sea bed was left alone it would recover but instead we've got a legal dredging going on this is not an isolated incident it's occurring. Which are illegally changing and so when protected areas and they are selling the scallops into the supply chain you know that the Scottish Government have got to get on top of the situation the divers who found the damage believe dredges are operating here frequently without tracking devices and even at night one of them Steve Barlow is a no doubt about what he found her constant that it was they did absolutely 100 percent. The shells of the cup. The shells are brought up to work one of them I brought up and it showed where the top shelf. Which is a flat show and have been stabbed by the sword over the dredge it gone through the top show broken a. Piece off critics say the M.P.'s are too big for marine Scotland to police the one with a disturbance runs from the point of American through to the sound of Jura the fishing limits were agreed with the industry and Bertie Armstrong from the Scottish fisherman's Federation condemns those responsible Scotland has almost a world leading m.p. a System it's a work in progress but but it was done properly with the participation of the fishermen that's the whole point so when in selecting the areas and applying the management measures so in this sort of thing happens we just roundly condemn it with this can't go on and we look to the Scottish Government I will give every assistance to finding out if this is happening who's doing it and why. The disturbance follows damage last year to a rare reef in La Karyn The Scottish government says it's compliance boats do patrol these areas as more M.P.'s are considered the Scottish Greens want the fleet of patrol boats to grow Kevin Keen reporting. Now as we've been heating air later in the program the umbrella group Scottish care has warned Scotland's private sector care homes are on the brink having never before faced such challenges to their survival the closure of another home this time in East Lothian was announced this morning with the loss of 16 beds and 27 jobs it comes amid warnings from Audit Scotland the care home funding model is unsustainable more akin to Brown has compiled this report. That's well done and the reals are 2nd to none Thomas Chalmers used to be the gardener at leaving home care home in Musselburgh he's saddened to hear it's to close not only because he has friends who are residents there this rate and for what they're doing for the National. And this is yet we're already getting it going to be good for. 241 operator Good to see. The former. Even hold this part of innocence care which runs 12 elderly care homes are in Scotland it's chair Robert Cooper says the decision to close was made because the building is below modern standards it's been running at a loss for years and it's too costly to adapt he warns the pressures on care home providers across Scotland are intense and I think we are staggering towards the edge of the cliff in this regard and more and more care homes are closing for a variety of reasons less and less are being built and in fact at a time when the demographics show there is a need for more beds the last 3 years has been a net loss and beds being available in the sector what happens with that is more blocking and it has no closure date has been and I instead new homes are still to be thrown for the 16 residents here 27 staff I'm looking for other work this is the latest in a long list of elderly care homes being closed in Scotland despite increased demand for this kind of care and the knock on impact it's having on the n.h.s. So yes here we currently get absolutely nothing back from the Scottish government for the strobes tax in the Scottish Parliament this morning Audit Scotland said the way social care services are provided currently is not sustainable and the funding model around residential care homes is also not sustainable but the health secretary should a Robeson rejected claims the Scottish government isn't funding the care sector properly we have as you'll be aware provided significant resources to p. The living wage for example to all parts of the state to including the and dependent sector is something that we felt was important in terms of helping them to dictionary teen staff and we have significantly increased the national cable contract as more of us live longer more care homes are finding it harder to recruit new. Says harder to meet costs and harder to reach regulations the umbrella group Scottish care has said the care home sector in Scotland is on the brink it has never before faced such challenges to its sustainability and survival and it concludes dignity comes at a price and it's a cost we're not paying at the moment. More akin to reporting. The news drive on b.b.c. Radio Scotland time no 14 minutes to 6 the headlines r.b.s. Have announced a partial u. Turn on their plans to close 62 branches in Scotland by saying 10 of them can stay open until the end of the year the former chairman of Karelian Philip Green has taken the blame for the collapse of the construction and outsourcing giant last month and m.s.p. As have been debating this in the legislation which gave some woman the right to vote for the 1st time his Victoria with the latest on the roads this evening in the n.t. The 85 Riverside Drive has heavy eastbound traffic in Perth and Kinross the 94 Cooper and guess the road works they are at the junction with Prince and road continue to cause delays both ways in starting the in 1001 has slow and slower and heavier than usual traffic sites by and because of the closure of the nearby cursed road and edge of the West approach road disclosed both ways because of an accident at the junction with Westfield road also on edge about traffic is heavy heading out of agent in the ne it's around junction to new bridge in full character so find delays on the ne t. Between junction 8 at the Emirates $76.00 and junction 7 Hanks to Glasgow when there are delays on the Emmy twice by in between junction 25 car Donald and 27 Arkell stand and then between 13 proven and 22 plantation b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel. Know the former boss of Karelia and has apologised for its collapse the construction and services firm which employed 20000 people in the u.k. Went into liquidation. When the banks refused to continue providing it with lending appearing before members of 2 Commons committees the interim chief executive Keith Cochrane said he was sorry to those affected by the collapse can I say devastating the high failure really has been from Cory's for customers for pension for suppliers and I'm truly sorry for him it was the worst possible outcome. This was a business course fighting for what I saw to do the right time a chief executive but he told M.P.'s It wasn't fair to suggest the board should have done more to challenge how the firm was being run clearly with the benefit of hindsight I could should the board have been asking for more probing questions perhaps but you know from our perspective against the back of. The management environment and the information that we received the testing and challenging of my agent. We believe there was no basis at that time for for fun or accepting the view the management put forward well Zafar can was Karelians finance director until he left the firm in September $27000.00 he also denied there was more he could have done to prevent the company from collapsing but no I don't believe a staple of the sleep of the bill because. The sort of the came into the role we will look to tackle the issues and the key focus of noise. From the role was to bring down and and as we see you fail then in the 9 months that you were in the business you did the right things there aren't on believe it or not believe I did everything that. I could have done essentially However the independent financial commentator Francis Coppola said alarm bells should have been sounding she says auditors and accountants at the firm were too complacent when I looked at trying to 16 accounts I found at the audit. How do you facts flagged up a number of risks to do with revenue recognition and the accounting treatment of good will which is these intangible assets that evaporated when it failed. Flagged it up as risks and then said But we're satisfied that it's Ok but clearly it wasn't so I think the external order to has some questions to answer and I also think in turn the internal accounts and internal teaches to to for the same reasons Well clearly and former chairman Philip Green also appeared before M.P.'s He was asked how much responsibility he bore for the firm's collapse full and complete took. Root. Look no question my mind about. Not not listening culpability but fool responsibility no question and if I look back during the course of the things would have done differently well the firm has been heavily criticized for the peer awards it gave out to senior management despite continuing underperformance Allison horror nurtured the company's remuneration committee and she defended their decisions it was right time because we wanted to retain Richard house and its chief executive in its nest at a period when the sector was volatile and the benefit of hindsight miss one of those decisions were right about this if there were a lot about many of the decisions that we have made and I think that decision in terms of increasing his pay was correct Well some commentators have also put the blame on the government claiming minister should have stripped the firm of contracts once problems started emerging but Jim Pickard from the Financial Times says that would have been a bad move is one profit warning the trigger for a government no longer giving contracts to a company because if they did that they would be an awful lot of outsourcing companies here right now would be getting no government contracts tone you have to look at capital which made a profit warning last week in the shares fell about 50 percent in the space of 48 hours to see that this is potentially and then they can not related to any one company Jim Pickard they are from the f.t. . But the search for the final resting place of Simon Fraser 11th Lord Leavitt goes on after the coffin believed to hold the remains was found to contain the bones of other people Lord love it known as the old fox was the last man beheaded in Britain following the Scots defeat at the Battle of cologne and 746 Eric Lindbergh from the Wardlaw mausoleum trust told me what the forensic examination found super walk and of course you know how can find out there was actually means of 5 people in the coffin the main one of the most complete was thought of a young lady aged between 25 and 35 And do we know who these people where how old the bones were. Redoing renewal of the post the age of the lady we do not know the date and time when the lady was placed there when she died off into the other remains unfortunately so the mystery is the last resting place of the old folks is through Not yet another mystery but one several. There's a whole new set of questions that will keep me going giving talks and emotionally and for quite some time to come how are you going to go about trying to identify these people. As good or bad difficult we are still trying to see if we can get a viable d.n.a. Sample off of one of the borns all of the young lady but even that's nice to do that then we need to try and find out some day to day who might be a living relative and can we don't know who she has been difficult we are 5 trying to walk and it's hard diet from the chemicals in our bones and princes a lot of what if she was body we all fade it might suggest that she's a lady off some standing hops Osprey's or if she were and it minus the hot side of it of the lady in London I thought she went into the coffin and as to the other questions that I suppose the obvious one is you know we're still is the final resting place of Lord love it when are we with ob Well I guess the most likely solution has to be that he is indeed in a chamber and we're all on the top of the time one has seen Peter Best of luck along with his fellow took up by Lawrence come on out on bond but you know however I'm quite calm to what we do have his cough and minus just below him in it you know somebody had suggested that perhaps you've been investigating the wrong coffin you're pretty confident that's not looking but he can't do with the right coffin for the authentic reasons the double double skin laid the name plate on the top exec truck and I'm hopping out this his coffin to possible that he'd come up to minus and not cough and then removed from but perhaps by members declined to even say for hiding place. So who knows what are you going to do not. Well save I've got the it's patience cutting a d.n.a. We're also looking to see if we can get. Dates and locations for the failing off a tree which supplied the timber to the lining of the coffin using my friend who has a dendrochronology just that my shoe outfight on the coffin was made in Inverness or made in London and I don't suppose you could get permission to do some kind of digging the tired of London would not be nice and I was so enjoyed that I'm sure Sue could love it and be very hard if it done Still to come and so but wouldn't it . Would depend upon the thought it is done they are getting a commission to do so we have to get to approach them. The mystery continues that's Eric loued bag there from the Wardlaw mausoleum trust in the let's cut. Through the Great to be here it's always good to come to Glasgow a city full of music and you're guaranteed a country maybe a night or so delighted to be here for Israel complete a live survivor be a part of this catch up on the highlights from Glasgow's Winter Music Festival see the b.b.c. I clearly do well I put Celtic connection celebrating on National Guard rather by the b.b.c. Before going to traditional music the fun of it I think thank you so much for this piece that was killed to connections can be deceiving to school. Flaming lanterns and helium balloons might look pretty but they cause problems the lanterns can cause fires and both lanterns and balloons can be mistaken for food by animals or marine creatures so it also from the sometimes and I'm a fallen tree Marine Reserve says they were all over the place on a beach clean near some tabs head like that so I can take 7 heem belongings probably I think stop calling probably back. To the beach and that was. In 200 mi I mean unbelievable. Well the problem of balloons and Lanterns is lead to Scottish animal rights group to call them both Holyrood and Westminster to bring in the uki white ban on them or John Robins is from the animal concerned advice line based in the Bart and evening to you good evening so what sorts of problems if you come across were 5 cases of farmers supporting Chockfull eating the wire cages that the frame of the one thumbs and on a ML's that the wash problem those balloons once they get into the marine environment the look to the fresh and to marine mammals the look as well the brave fruit. The mistake of a jellyfish they ingest them they look at what's really just stuff the dollars where. Stick and the fabric from the bones and it is right through the food chain the smaller the bones break the iron but smaller animals eat the bits and pieces the larger animals eat them and just what's with through the food chain and you end up with things that pour poison and whales being killed by what really is rubbish not something that should be an atmosphere is interesting I've been hearing a lot about plastics pollution things you know like just you know the things used to take off make up that kind of thing all sorts of plastic pollution but balloons is maybe not something people have thought of too much as they call for a bargain that's for the last 50 years and it's quite an easy one really because it's not a by product as a deliberate act to release balloons. For office as a modern area or young at all campaigned read about what was happening seen the pictures on television of animals being killed for ingesting millions and she started a campaign there and the school agreed to stop building releases the used to the For raise money for charity and things a lot and all it needs is for the government to say sorry we're not no as happen again we're going to bonnet it's been banned in other countries over half the county councils in Scotland of bond but that only means from property they own so you could just stay put say that the kids were property and then release these balloons on line things and there's nothing to stop it and it causes great damage the environment and as a real risk to marine mammals and other wildlife and bugs and just them they feed them to their young. And they also can travel for many many miles as not something very localised they can literally run from the sea travel photos of miles so just in a 15 seconds or so you've got the Scottish Government to act we want both the holier than Westminster to bind them by a law and the last offer Ok Well thank you very much indeed for coming in this evening that's John Robbins there from the animal concerned advice lie. In. $92.00 to $95.00. Each one will be dealing with b.b.c. Radio star. Good evening at 6 o'clock this is news Dr with the very Stuart tonight more on the winners and losers in the r.b.s. Branch closure U.-Turn the idea that. Any major bank is a terrifying situation 100 years on paying tribute to the Scots women who won the right to vote I'm really proud of her both on. Family also on behalf of women and Creative Scotland changes its mind over some of its funding cuts when dealing with public funding and it's really important to get it right. All of that to come in the last half hour of the program 1st the news from Christine Finnegan Roe Bank of Scotland has a nonstarter prefer some of the 60.