The Immigration Minister Caroline Knox is to visit Dover today amid mounting criticism of the U.K. Government's response to the number of migrants crossing the Channel more than 70 people have been rescued from small boats since Christmas Day The U.K. Government to spend more than $100000000.00 pounds chartering extra fairly stiff ease congestion at Dover in the event of a new deal breaks that contingency plans are low for almost $4000.00 more Lottie's a week to cross at ports including Plymouth and Portsmouth. The high court has appointed administrators to run him v the music film and games retailer has collapsed after suffering a sharp fall and sales the administrators say they'll try to keep all the company's $128.00 stores open while a buyer has sought in the program we sought we spoke to consumer and retail expert kit Hardcastle people still while opportunity to experience traditional ways sales but it has to be much leaner and more efficient and that's against a tide of really big challenges as well rent rates and high streets and sell suffering with fall because of you know challenges to parking and accessibility say it really is going to be a continued evolution into 21000 and probably some other brands that are going to be lost on the high street as well new images of the volcano which erupted last week triggering a tsunami in Indonesia sure the event was so powerful that it destroyed 2 thirds of the vulcanite height and volume more than 400 people were killed when huge waves hit the core still turns and resource volcanologist Dr Janine except no says the damage is clear what you can see there the majority of. It will is actually gone now and that is clearly the course. Of these clips that it's a relatively rare but then well can it history but they can be a lot large as I think you have and that's Ellen's 1980 eruption that was it meant to. Them as. A pioneering project to investigate dementia has been set up in Scotland the body scheme Piers research was with people who are living with the disease it's being run by anybody university with funding from any terse log in and the Alzheimer's Society they hope it'll give the research is a better insight into what it's like to live with the condition which is changing in the person's brain and how to manage the disease day to day well that's the news here's the sport with kind of Crawford thank you Bill in just over 3 hours time the day of Darby's and. Scottish football will be getting underway as Rangers host Celtic I prox 1230 Celtic 3 points clear of Rangers as things stand that's followed by a T.S.A. Darby at Dens Park between Dunn D.N.C. And Johnston at 3 o'clock as real as a line it should Darby when Hamilton Accies host Motherwell then the staggered afternoon of top flight football continues at 530 with an Edinburgh derby at Easter Road between helps and hearts and don't forget further down the divisions as well Ross County and Rene Scally Thessa meeting and Highland Darby Montrose against Arbroath one of the darbies in League one away from football there's a 2nd leg of rugby 872 cup Edinburgh enjoyed a 237 factory It might if you would last Saturday but their head coach Richard Cork row expects a Glasgow sate seeking revenge this time they'll be hurt think we know they're going to be very physical and very direct at us the challenge for us is that we know we much we play better than we did last week it sets up a very well. Glasgow Fair says Edinburgh live on B.B.C. Radio Scotland at 3 o'clock with sports show and then shooting all that these football is covered as we will leave you have starts with Paul Hartley at 130. And no back to Theresa Talbot for the travel Thanks Kenny cancellations and the shops in again today on the Glasgow Central to New Castle trains via them fleece this is because of industrial action that are replacement buses for some of the journey and dozens of Scottsdale cancellations again today in and out of Aberdeen Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street this is because of staffing issues I went warnings on most of the bridges again with the table bridge there's a speed restriction in place it's also close to double deckers and cross winds affecting the want to having to and so extra care needed especially in high sided vehicles and that's B.B.C. Radio Scotland traffic thanks to the forecast a closely windy start with the overnight rain soon clearing although slower to leave the northern Earl's drier and brighter weather spreading in from the northwest extending to all parts by the soft and the strong north westerly will gradually ease down the turn. There's on the mild side again reaching out and 16 months possibly well the past year in America has been dominated by recurring themes an unpredictable president eliminating international allies the must resignation of his most senior staff court cases exposing the president's business and personal life Robert Miller's investigation into Russian influence and the confirmation of a highly controversial Supreme Court nominee on so much more here's a reminder. Film actress Stormy Daniels says Fear kept her from talking about an alleged affair with President. We are going to people that you read about in fact but not because we are going to be another statistic about man in America because Justice David that we are going to be the last match I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the nuclear deal. Yeah German Jim and I just signed a joint statement in which he reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. To Russia at all accountable for anything in particular to those who do I hope this country is responsible I think that the United States has been fortunate. To blame America does not boast because she has no need to. The America John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great. Altered my life for a very long time I was too afraid. To tell anyone. I'm not questioning the doctor for they have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place at some time. But I have never done this to her or to anyone my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. America so true here is the truth the people of the United States of America people the world don't believe what you say the main doesn't tell the truth and it's sad that I should take responsibility for his deeds. Will win the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives Jake this is a huge win for the Democrats a huge setback for the president and for the Republicans if we don't get what we want one way or the other whether it's through your military through anything you want to call I will shut down the. America should be doing the fighting. For every nation on earth not being reimbursed in many cases at all. If they want us to do the fighting they also have to pay a price and sometimes that's a monetary price so we're not the suckers of the world. Well the ongoing standoff between the president between the president and the Democrats over funding for the Mexican on the southern border in a practical partial shutdown of government here's a journalist move on the latest there in the weeks leading up to the shutdown it was believed that they would have a short term agreement or what they would call a continuing resolution where they would be able to fund the government. And then they could meet each January and sign some sort of longer term solution when the president evidently responded to a message from and culture and Rush Limbaugh very prominent media figures here in America saying that the president appeared weak because he would not be delivering on his campaign promise of building a wall specifically so the president did a $180.00 and then said that he would not sign anything unless an agreement it which it had. Specifically set aside for the war not border security generally but it was specifically And so the president has made it clear that he will not make any. Or any type of giving up or in any type of agreement unless the border wall security and wall specifically is included so how does this work. Well. Because Congress is not going to. Of the new year and. The house. Or the House which presume. If we take the president at his words and Nancy Pelosi has made it very clear she's not include any. Resolution. Should blink the president any will. Because they control the House of Representatives going forward so they may not back down this is a partial shutdown for some of the government is not functioning so it's not a complete government shutdown but many people. Because of it and. Affected. Several services it could be national parks people who work for the federal government. Or the country if you have. Or you. What if it's not. Service there's a good chance. Now supposedly they're supposed to. But it's not a guarantee so who will get the blame for this. It all depends if you listen to. The president's. Responsibility the president. Has some sort. Of. Where they will meet somewhere in the middle if the Democrats and you believe the Democrats you will take the president who said that he would accept the mantle of the shut and accept the blame for it and this is something that he has initiated but ultimately in the big picture is not going to make any difference because of one who is on the verge of being reelected. There is no election in the near future so the. People the. Opposition between now and Election 2020 but is there any concern within Republican ranks. In the Senate that their president does. Because of something. Yes there is great concern because if anything that means. That he is reactionary relative to what is being said about him in the media and. Public perception as opposed to policy and governance and when that's the case then you have dictating the policy of the White House not necessarily the party could lead to any untold corners when you think about what the president may be concerned about issue if the media. Makes a decision. Well joining us now is Chris Carmine who's the Stevenson professor of citizenship at the University of Glasgow Good morning T.V. Good morning thank you so much for coming in Hey Chris if we look at the turnover figures for senior staff in the White House over the last 2 years that might tell us a lot about what's going on so for example with George Bush Sr and George Bush Jr the turnover was 17 percent in 2 years with this president it's 83 percent So what does that tell us about him and who is now advising him to tell us quite a lot so I mean as you say there's been a lot of turnover. General Mattis who just stepped down as defense secretary that was the 4th cabinet member to resign or be forced out in the last 2 months or so it's the amount over the last couple of years but then also the churn that sort of constantly happening this tells us quite a few things because part of the issue is this means Trump is constantly replacing people so we lose institutional memory and people are constantly learning a new job plus when he replaces people he's replacing them with people that he's already comfortable with that is people he's already appointed to other roles and so when he moves people from $11.00 role into an into a role within the White House then he leaves himself with another vacancy that he has to fill and so it's constantly just churning over in these different positions so there's a problem with that. As you say this leaves us with the question of who is actually advising in this race is the sort of well it's in some ways it's almost more interesting to look at who's left in who has survived over the last 2 years then than who's who's gone so if we look at who's left we have Kellyanne Conway senior adviser you know she's the very familiar person who's been with Trump since the campaign and will seem to parrot almost anything that he says then we have Jared cushion of Onka Trump obviously of the trumping his daughter Jeri question her husband there are his senior aides. Wising team. And then we have people like you know sort of he's usually called arch nationalist Stephen Miller who's writes a lot of troops speeches and about 3 or 4 more others and that's it that's the core of his team that has been with him so the question is who's really advising him it's really difficult to say and I think this goes back to the reference with your conversation with with Moe Kelly you'd almost get the sense that who's advising him is whoever happens to be on Fox News on the day that's is where he's getting a lot of his ideas and that's what he hunkers down so we know over the last couple weeks he's been sitting in the White House basically watching T.V. Because he couldn't go tomorrow Lago because of the shutdown he couldn't go to Florida which is what he had planned to do because the you know the word in politics is the optics it would look bad for him to be at it playing golf during the government shutdown so he's left with sitting in the in the in the White House sort of by himself for Christmas watching Fox News and doing a lot of tweeting and that's where we end up with and that's how we're ending the year but isn't staying interpretation of some senior Republicans getting their very concerned that so many unilateral decisions are being made on an irrational bases they can't 2nd guess what's coming and they think strategy is completely undermined Yes if you look at the sort of news coverage over the last 2 weeks or so since the shutdown really sort of came into force it's been very difficult to find many of the top Republican leaders they've sort of disappeared they sort of left it to trump because Trump you know sort of famously a couple weeks ago said that he would be proud to own the shutdown it almost seems like the senior Republican leaders are saying well you want to own it it's now yours Merry Christmas whereas the Democrats are are out a bit more in in force attacking Trump and if you look at who is speaking out it's the Republicans particular Republican senators who are retiring and stepping down they're the ones who are now coming out and raising all these concerns. You've just discussed with Mo Kelly they're the ones who are out saying oh this is a real problem but they're the ones who are retiring the ones who has nothing to lose and yes exactly the ones who are staying are a bit more the true believers a bit more committed to the Trump agenda or are trying to keep their head down and just allow Trump to you know own the shutdown Yeah and do you think that there's also a fear that if you go against Tom he goes against you for the no you know once you're campaigning and all the rest of it he will undermine you so if you go against him you will pay a heavy price and you will lose in your in your state very much I mean Trump has has been very happy to undermine sitting senators and sitting members of the House of Representatives That's very uncommon for presidents to undermine members of their own party even if they disagree with them they tend not to say support people who are running against them in Carson Eliza's things you think will time very much that seems to be the case in you know you could go to the to him talking to the small child about Santa Clause or you could talk look at how he presented himself to the troops in Iraq when he visited them he was talking about here's what I have done for you which wasn't correct he claimed to have have. Gotten a 10 percent pay rise for the troops which is just simply not true it was 2.6 percent but you know this is it's all about him in what he believes that he has done and he will sort of almost make it up in order to to make it aggrandized to make a larger than than truth but it does seem that even though that was demonstrably not the case actually they were coming in at a much lower offer and it was bumped up but for the troops for example. It doesn't seem to matter that he is cold. You know demonstrably a lie this goes back to the you know what we heard during the $26000.00 campaign about the difference between taking Trump seriously and taking him literally and it still is a case that his supporters are. Everybody now sort of recognizes that trump exaggerates . This is just sort of taken for granted and therefore when he does it it's not that big of a deal because we know that he does it and so therefore well calling him out on it that's it doesn't really particularly matter that much so he has created this sort of fiction around himself which he's done his entire life and he's made it so that he can exaggerate he can bend the truth and and calling him out on it is sort of well almost what the point because he's going to do it again and he's done it before and it doesn't particularly matter that much the issue there though is if we look at say his accomplishments. Sort of in how he sells his accomplishments you know he's not particularly interested in making a deal on the budget shutdown he's not interested in making a deal with members of Congress despite you know he is the big part of the deal guy if we think about what a deal is to him it's more about him winning and so most of his accomplishments have been through executive action and not through legislative action he doesn't work with others well in that sense he doesn't work with members of Congress he forces his hand through executive orders and executive action and that's where we can find the Trump accomplishments over the last couple years how does he finish the Mexican wall issue though do you think it's going to this is this is the one where you know most commentators are saying they simply don't see how this is going to end well for anyone. The Democrats are going to dig their heels in particular because pretty soon they are going to control the House of officially. They're going to dig their heels in Trump you know famously claim that Mexico is going to pay for the wall and he's claimed that he would be proud to own the government shutdown this puts him in a very dark corner where Republicans are not going to come to his defense so at some point he is going to have to probably back down but this is him doing his part of the deal thing go big is what he does. Stretch the truth and then make these claims that are hard to support and his support in the Republicans as you say is going to be hard to find and Chris you've been looking at the possibility of who might be the Democrat nominee for president next time around because Paris is having a look at that yeah this is interesting so Tom prez who is the Democratic national party chairman was just out over the last few days talking about the schedule for the Democratic primary so this will be the elections across the states to pick the next Democratic presidential candidate running in November 2020 so he's announced that the Democratic primaries the debates for the Democratic primaries will start in June 2900 so this coming June we will get the debates beginning about who is going to be the next Democratic candidate I mean so rarely do you think well they're coming in really early because they want to clear the field because right now there's probably at least 20 plus people who are being talked about and they don't want to go into a situation like what they had with the Republicans going into 2016 where they had 16 Republicans and then the each and all fighting with each other and you end up with Trump So what they don't want to end up with is a similar situation where they have 20 Democrats all fighting with each other and you end up with somebody who's on the sort of on the fringe of the party they want a mainstream party person despite the popularity of the people on the on the further left they want to a more mainstream Democrat in order to be able to go after Trump and they want somebody who's going to be able to to sort of hold that fight so they don't swing there any thunder probably not win Bernie Sanders now or under. Apparently not her either. Chris thanks so much for that but I think there is a carbon and a good New Year because I came to you and we were here with Good Morning Scotland on Saturday until 10 o'clock and then feeling a stalker and for sure even from 10 o'clock. And guests Tom hardass Gemma fear and Peter Ross will chew over some of the week's big talking points including the collapse of them each M.V. The New Yorker honors and the queen telling us to be more civil to each other and the best festive T.V. You might have missed including a mammoth bio pic of Torvill and Dean no less well skating into the studio here stopped in the deal of and been in university when the people of you hello good morning Belton are secret teams that escape thinks and it's a mystery because it was pretty blue in the M.E. a Sprawling coming across it's it's blustery already about the forecast calls for it to diminish somewhat will hope so because I don't remember anything about be able to come out of shorts and think well of course it was just one big gust of wind lost in the Peoples this morning new one big story Domi thing the headlines although quite a few of them obviously have been bar Good less store victory than the good in the ordinary who have been given the on those new years on those lists with us plenty of nice photographs the earth example. Other peoples are sort of P.G. For example the whole cast list of local people up in the nick of the woods who we thought was What we're off mentioning is good idea always good to mention local people and yeah always difficult peoples local people to sort of the several photographs of Don't you feel they are in The Scotsman also in the tames of course photographs of 20 other people as well the 4 story that really caught my eye this morning or interesting the picking up and we just was seeing just beauty briefly was a very good story but it was you know sub the Washington correspondent in the deal with Telegraph which just really underlines what this column was seeing there a boat there about Trump overplaying his hand out of the deal of the thing because the studio this morning on Peach 20 is his queen yes to 50 you'll see off the entire Mexican border which would cost hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds of bike the saintly nobody knows how much it would cost to be still with the. So it's another example of Trump overplaying is kind of overblown rhetoric but police these beasts in all sorts of subtle see what like was back story the front page of the counting this morning this morning by Patrick Greenfield and see them out and exclusively Yes this is a story and the place and Lyndon wheels but it's social repercussions which is why mentioning obviously this morning to an audience in Scotland and the headline is consuls are paying for rough sleepers to leave now I didn't know but that's it didn't know that this was a load there was a policy that no this was something that legally would be able to actually happen but according to the story you look at the thought of given thousands of rough sleepers and the homeless people one week tickets in the past 4 years to leave the areas and sometimes even flights abroad says the tickets bought through reconnection policies that aim to encourage rough sleepers to voluntarily return to areas where their family and support networks have been described as quote street cleansing and then up the kitchen over sponsibility by some company those named peas Now this is on the back of the gout being due to an investigation as it and they have been to find some Dieter which the munched a teen which reveals for the 1st 610 tickets for travel had been popped just by now with an 83 councils in England and Wales since 2015 there has been peaks and troughs and when this is happened but there's no real pattern to it but what it sees as the local authorities of defending the policy insisting that tickets are voluntarily accepted and only provided where there's a vilified bill offer of accommodation support levels of you know rough sleeper you could be approached by someone from the currency who say to you would you know in London but we knew you came from Manchester so it will be your when we took it to go back home and the idea is that the check to whoever the person the targeting as well have a support network of released a roof over their head and possibly even some relatives or at least some social workers or someone they can connect with but it was interesting about as the governor. Sales have been there when that investigation spoke interviewed these people including someone called Philip samples a 35 year old mind and he sort of pervades this one of the key studies who said that he was actually from from London and he was offered a dream ticket to Birmingham and he didn't know anyone in Birmingham he'd never been in Birmingham and his entire life and I think would be the take it was awful it was almost quit intimidating So the chap caught in the trade and went to Birmingham and you know he almost fell through the cracks of society because there was nobody there to help them there was another example of a gullible cuss 22 year old to came to Britain from Hungary as a child and he said that people from Eastern Europe and the statistically they are being tugged at the idea of people from Eastern Europe being awful when we flate when we train ticket is essentially getter of Britain and not come by because he was pointing out some things are going to fall washed which situations which of course was the reason he might leak in the vault police than the. Experiencing in the U.K. And what's interesting about he was that when they actually approached different challenges for example someone who runs a soup kitchen in Bournemouth where 119 quote reconnections to police and the P.D. That one of the one of the helpers of the soup kitchen See this is essentially a policy that she regards as street cleansing getting people off the streets and giving the money to go away and not come back again when we take it and one of the former government health minister Norman Lamas say it was something he was inhuman and utterly inappropriate and so because many of these people get many many problems mental health challenges all that sort of stuff so it's not just a case of there are so many get lost. When they were contacted by the God thing and they have a typically the Vulgate different reasons and different stories and different claims about why they're doing this they don't deny them doing it but they say that they told on legitimately hold on legally some people are saying it's not in the spirit of the various legislation which isn't in existence it's not something that actually the the to abolish the burden that they will keep doing it so just how would you satisfy. Yourself you know homeless Bill White furred Chile has someone he can go to has someone who will be supportive has social work structures in place if your 1st contact with homeless Bill White for it is still fresh meant to get back to money kind of alliance a large proportion of Guardians looking at that as they are now cases looking at it to see how can you possibly truck someone if in the 1st place by the very nature of their condition their own truck couple so absolutely to a city of Appeals and then there's a See that's anything. Nor Scotland but this is just straight for a story in The Herald of Texas to smartphones and pieces look into yes this is interesting is one of those when you think of the not done this before but what this is front page story and the Scottish Labor M.P. Jay Killen is about to one should all party parliamentary group in the P.P. G. In 2019 to look at the effects and the impact of a mess of an addictive technologies such as virtual an augmented reality no this is on the back of the World Health Organization the only other human remember mentioning it and the slow have classified video game addiction as a mental health disorder for the for state so Mr Killen on the back of those wanting this all party parliamentary group to look at that and he's talking about the fact that look we all use these things but given the fact that after a lot over reception taking a lot of pain to speak a lot of international experience the are genuinely seeing this as a mental health disorder and the problem Intergroup a boat commission U.D.C. Have to look at themselves and see exactly we have a situation stands in the U.K. And I thought it was it was a pain when special of a special in the back of we are in the festive season the will of people a lot of people are just foreigners you know it was a story about a lot of 911 calls going to Christmas Day because people can get the news of was the phones to mark a story in The Times about the queen wanting a new royal you know is this is a saw an archive story this is an archive so this time of the year the archives will condoning curator National Archives so obviously there's the John was pale and the research Well actually the research was pale and then the job was to be them. To do that he said I've been there in a minute they even saw that Valan thing was I great little studio which isn't peach The other was a cracker which essentially completely contradicts all the stuff that you'll see in the crowing of the thing about the queen staying away from these mottos she did in her food steal where she got stuck in June in the tame that the rogue your put on your own but meaning 1095 was going during the troops and she was not happy about it and one of the few times they point that she's ever been seen shedding a tear people used to say was real dogs and it was for a boat she was not happy at all in the euro your put on your being decommissioned tons and tons are in lots of correspondence between Holland officials she was seeing a sensually this I went to New York and I want to make sure that cost comes 2nd to feasibility and I won all my questions on salt and I want to make sure the whole thing's explored properly tons of course there was no room got to turn you to it despite Boris Johnson trying to resurrect it again recently and the stink they will do instinctively as which is a belt of course operation table up in Edinburgh but really interesting stuff to show you the old the queen does get involved in politics when it suits her and when the ship is at risk so there we go and there's a good story and very quickly by Mark Kong which just if you think the world's going completely but he took the times in the 1950 S. Again it's an after life story that there was plans drawn up in the event of nuclear war as a that the government see the most important of the most important things was to shoot plenty of refreshments and tea and you finished with the Federation after the bombs going off and you've got to live what donors are always doing something don't angle and people have got to get to speak at points where they can get tea in the theatre or you know as plastic bowls and spoons of to be deployed required Oh well that would have made all the difference and I think I had infantry that would have hell all they say are stuck to them and they'll tell you about the queen's horses all the Queen's horses on the holiday yeah the Blues and Royals and Hazel covered horses get December off and then they come back and get groomed thought only well it was more exciting than that is playing at Dinah bit Kenny it was a big story. In the times if you want to read it you can in a moment because the headlines are close again it's 934 this is Good morning Scott Luther's of both his and Bill White for those headlines more than 100 Scots are being recognized in the New Year honors list including overloads and body we're violinist Nicholas Benedetti immigration ministers visiting Dover later to discuss ways of carping the sharp rise in the number of migrants and ivy and small boats and what know for after confirmation that administrators have been appointed to run the music retailer How long have I been doing this program KENNY Yes and you've so many ways of thinking and I'm not on automatic pilot Yes I thought that precise aim of your remains Also we are not certain. AIRLIE are in the program we looked ahead to Rangers fiercest Celtic Darby That starts today's action at $1230.00 in the usual Thea clock slot as a to say Darby between Dunn D.N.C. And Johnston and tussle with Hamilton Accies hosting mother rail then at $530.00 today's Darby's are rounded off with the fascinating prospect of HEP's Fair says hearts at Easter Road Paul Hartley played for hopes for 2 years and hearts for 4 and joins us on the line now good morning Paul did not get it you've played in these Edinburgh Darby's poll you've scored in them to give us a flavor of how much it means to be involved in them yeah the great games too involved and Seguin that you don't want to lose this again at the support build are still up for all week. Such a list at the start of this scene. You just really enjoy it but enjoy him as well and don't get beat Yeah I was looking at one of them and pretend I think it was 20067 season you're playing for hearts and it was a 3 to victory I think you scored in the 2nd minute poll it doesn't really get much better than a. We would always stall and thank us or take home advantage is thanks for you. 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Mentioned the couple faces they are charged up and frenetic in frantic obviously the magnitude of the meaning sometimes means that things can boil over in these facts as your Lennon had by the calling in the no no to attain Castle a couple months ago with aired yesterday Leeann Dempster Nan budge both Arjun can do you think the wrong type of control over say can be avoided this time Paul let's hope so I think and we will be talking about football after the game and nothing else but you get $20000.00 scientists are 5 check all the support in the public the whole Again a bit of a lot of call consumed less all those agree on this year and the talk of a ball nothing else. It's been a tough time for Hearts October November December only a couple of when's and there but that last went against Hamilton Accies poll really they really need to show that's a turning point. They needed the national told with the week before the pistol will be by out of the in the hall margining great a great start to the sheen of the key things the House says needs must but in the end there are no they what they were key to is for them know what I was a teen she didn't know how crucial they are today and so have a nice mass and they're obliged for that and heads finally with Martin Boyle Jimmy McLaren Mark Malloch and how crucial is that knew when I would want to use as an excuse spend the key players yet not much another tools to talk a correlation Lou Stephenson to it was obviously in the the but for for them I think boy was a key one for them it because of a station they can reduce and in short I don't like new users next year as a Darby game with the dozen mile the leader not to thank you all in a day who wants it most OK Paul Hartley played for both say types vs hearts as a. 530 sports and we'll have live coverage and plenty others plenty other Darby do all those just today as well as over the table thanks very much. Used to to the trouble Thanks Bill cancellations on trains out of Aberdeen to Inverness in victory and Montrose this is because of a signalling problem at dice and dozens of scores will cancellations again today in and out of Aberdeen Edinburgh and loss of Queen Street this is because of staffing issues cancellations and destruction again on the Glasgow Central to Carlisle Newcastle trains via Dumfries because of industrial action that are replacement buses for some of the journeys and high wind warnings and most of the bridges the door knocked bridge is closed to high sided vehicles on the table which has a speech restriction is also close to double deckers with cross winds affecting a wanted Haddington to so extra care is needed and that's B.B.C. Radio Scotland travel to the pioneering project to investigate dimensions been set up in Scotland the body scheme appears university research is with people who are living with the disease so they can learn from each other it's being run by and by university with funding from editors Levin and the Alzheimer's Society or science correspondent Kenneth McDonald has the support. To remain Golden is living with dementia so we are now in the area she's visiting the Sloboda tree not as a patient certainly not as a guinea pig She's a research body Yes So this is the bank where we're process the brain tissues our partner in the scheme is bringing scientist Dr Sue one wine that allows us to apply to drugs to see how that proof that memory the neuroscientist behind the scheme is Dr Chris Henstridge of Edinburgh University Center for discovery Brain Sciences He says it's bringing together of 2 groups who don't normally communicate they are both groups of people who have very specific views on what dementia is because of the way the experiences so one group of people are people who are living with dementia in the. The other group of people are researchers like myself who spend all the time at the bench trying to understand the disease and we've got a very clinical understanding of what dementia really is we read about it all the time but we don't really get over to experience and interact with people who live with the disease on a daily basis does that cause them so then that will cause the brain cells they come communicate very well in each other the changing room so then basically we start to see the brain change and as consequence of that we also see function change such as memory loss for additional night we use no told that there has is the nearest So what we're hoping is that by having these one on one interaction these conversations we can learn a bit more about how people live with the disease what kind of symptoms the try and deal with in a daily basis and in doing so scientists we can start to understand maybe a little bit more as to what's going wrong or what's changing in a person's brain it's a multi disciplinary approach I'm not just between neuro scientists and people living with dementia the pilot schemes coordinator is someone who studies human behavior social anthropologist Lillian Kennedy people who are living with the disease in people who are I think helping care for them actually the vast amount of expertise but what dementia is and what's needed to manage it day to day because I worked in clinical research for a couple years before I started my postgraduate and I really enjoyed it I loved coordinating clinical trials but what I really found over the course of my years doing that is that our participants who were coming in in their carers had so much knowledge that some chemical processes weren't really able to capture. Isn't on the microscope here she's looking through it with Dr Wang and she's quick to grasp the boats to serve Him to us homes in memory you know these kind of things it's certainly more of. Like don't call him Street it's. Valuable insights into dementia but what's in it for the people like Dorian who are living with it what we really want to do is try to give these people really some some hope and some understanding that we're really working as hard as we can to try and understand this disease with the ultimate goal of generating new therapeutics to actually treat disease and hopefully by coming into a border itself and seeing what it is we're actually doing they can understand what they're just how much work is going on to try and understand this you know if we're looking under the microscope we're into the cell so we can see the out took. Really different from the healthy cells this is a new way of doing science of letting people know what science is doing for their. Plant So that is absolutely a $1000000.00 and the report from our science correspondent Kenneth McDuff thought it was the Hollywood film director James Whale who in 1931 was perhaps most responsible for bringing the story of Frankenstein to a wider audience the film is still acknowledged as a brilliant depiction of the story though it's not a wholly accurate version of the novel maybe Shelley wrote in $818.00 it's 200 anniversary has been widely celebrated not least in done D. Where Mary Shelley lived for a short period of her childhood Well to discuss the importance of the book and done the connection we're joined now by the writer and broadcaster Martina Devlin and Dr Daniel cuckoos a specialist in 18th 1903 literature at Dunder University Good morning to you both Good morning Daniel what do you think are the key themes of this book. So Frankenstein pets were the most profound works of literature ever written its impact is and it's is profound it's hard to think of any author that has had more of an influence than than Mary Shelley the themes of the novel are manifest in various fields it's a book that raises questions about the ethics of science the morality of life itself it's just a profound thought about about being human and the rule of the created and the creator sort of cause a religious subtext there is well many ways Frankenstein is is. Often seen as one of the last great religious myths is also in written in a very secular age Mary Shelley was perfect was heavily influenced by contemporary science says there is a sense the book does deal with that fundamental theme what would happen if you could meet your own creator what would happen what would you say to him or her if you could talk to your own creator it's a fascinating question and off its time as well even things like electricity was and starting to intrigue people with the governing experiment absolutely immeasurably it was very well versed with those themes and Lord Byron a problem member of her literary circle once said lightning is his slave referring to the 19th century scientist if we could harness the power of electricity very well this is the age of experimentation not long after then from Franklin to experimentation with electricity and so on so it's a great age of chemistry as well which Mary Shelley was very professional him Well Martina what are we to make off Mary Shelley what do we need to know about her do you think and remember about her this remarkable young woman when she wasn't even 19 when she began the story she was a month or 2 short of a $1000.00 birthday and she had eloped with Shelley they were had moved to run to Europe and back to England and so forth and they were in Switzerland she does look at 16 and she Yes that's right they did marry after Shanley's wife committed suicide a very sad story but in any event she was in really stimulating company and she was with Shelley and Byron in nearly 2 EVA and they decided each to write a ghost story I mean it came about because the weather was shocking it was really wet they were indoors they couldn't get out by much and they decided on this initiative 4 of them the 4th was. Lord Byron physician and Mary this young girl was the only one to finish the project finish her ghost story . And she wrote an introduction in later years explaining I had Kemah by this way to uncongenial summers and incense and rain and they came across some volumes of ghost stories and she writes about the various ghost stories that she she she read at the time and Shelley seems to have been a very encouraging figure in Mary's life he kept telling her that she came from under her every background Godwin will stand craft and that she could and should be a writer and so she came up with the idea of a ghost story an issue he thought of it as a short story and again Shelley encouraged her to think of it in terms of a novel you know not just a few pages but much much longer. And this story highly original and in many ways the monster that she created overshadowed the creator overshadowed Frankenstein in the very interesting thing about the monster is that he's never given a name he's referred to as a sort of an as an Adam type figure but he we don't know his name and in later years we think of the monster as Frankenstein you know which is the name of the Creator so he overshadows the creature the the created you know the created in the Creator change places if you like and he's the creature in it is. The terminology that he's referred to as it's kind of cruel in a way the creature and you know not quite a man all sorts and he's a poignant figure he sees Terry he there's a lot of pathos and viewed in the original story and strangely enough we see that in the future representations in the Boris Karloff versions for example the creature also is quite pathetic and lonely I mean it's about loneliness we were talking about themes Airlie are being so. Solitary being rejected and the nature of evil if you know that you're not born evil but that if you're constantly rejected you can be driven to evil well done has you saying these profile own stands all the way through the boot multi-layered What was it about this young woman I mean she seems enormously accomplished for somebody our age but very far from typical given the life choices that she made we know she dispelled in done you know was she from a wealthy background what a load hard to make the choices she made well her family were into Actually God where most of crafters as with just said to radical philosophers of the age fairly well connected fairly comfortable living in London. Very well connected the main reason why Mary Shelley came up today and he was because of Godwin's connection the connection of the back to the family one of the most wealthy or the wealthiest families in Indian D. And so she had a very comfortable background very intellectual an avid reader in many ways just like the creature craves knowledge craves family and so on Mary lost her mother. Just after childbirth marry young Marian didn't me when I was in Korea married was a craft died of medical complications soon after her daughter was born so her relationship with her mother was purely textual she read her works and her father raised to be profound intellectual figure. But then the choices she made about eloping with Shelley and how that played out later on in her life and our relationship with her father I mean these were difficult choices to make for a young woman Yes absolutely so person was already married and Mary was a graph God women was very young been here for years I guess we would say. You know just but also she lost many children herself during. Their infancy. You know which is not uncommon at the time but would have had a massive effect on her interact with mental wellbeing Martino What is it that appeals to you about the book is it the writer you see behind it or is it the themes that she explores or both or me I know you're a huge fan of this and it just wondering why it's meant so much to you yes I read that chapter Elia just part of a day long reading of the novel to celebrate the 200 years since it was created I suppose it's that. Mary was a younger it was an extraordinarily ambitious story that she undertook and the thing she delivers it with a great deal of Panna I mean she creates a character that we remember 200 years later the book itself is read 200 years on and there's not too many books you can say there are some bite novels certainly. And you know she always believed in the story she she kind of DRAM to it into existence and then delivered it with a great deal of her. And it's quite a it's quite an ambitious way that she undertakes it it's a story within a story within a story you know there are there are kind of 3 concentric circles if you like and but I think it's really the character it's Frankenstein because. On the one hand we're told he's a monster but on the other hand we realize that he's a man who's just trying to be better than 20 is better than he was envisaged Yes And as you say you just end up feeling desperately sorry for him that he's being treated in a way he count fulfill a kind of potential he'd wish there's a a pathos running through all of it he's so you know only so song a chain you can but feel for and mighty and thanks very much indeed for that my Tina Devlin and also Dr Daniel Cooke there talking about Frankenstein no hoes you're hung over not yours specific. Props you avoided a ruined Christmas or you're contemplating the prospects of dodging one a new year in which case you might be interested in a new book hung over its author Shaughnessy Bishop still says while a lot has been written about drinking alcohol the boarding often surprisingly under recessed I wasn't actually able to find many if any entire books about hangovers that. I really dig this deep through history and through different cultures around the world there's been plenty written about you know the the heavy drinking bouts of your and and all sorts of. Stories about intoxication and drunkenness but not not that many about the morning after Yeah and you point to the medical profession is not very keen to do much study. Presumably in the slightly modalistic basis if you don't fault Well for sure there is that also I just think that throughout history doctors have been well busy in how they've been necessarily preoccupied with with other things and so this malady whereby you really only have yourself to blame tends to hit the the bottom of the to do to do list yeah now and I suppose you can also say well if you want to cure for it just don't drink. Well yeah yeah exactly I will need to get on to some of the sort of chemicals involved and what you might be able to do to mitigate one hung over but you don't quite a journey home you including Vegas but also Scotland and London and New Orleans. I traveled all over the world pretty much for this book and for the most part enjoyed it I do love Scotland I had a great fortune of. Being invited to Glenfiddich 100 and 25th or 150th birthday I forget now this is a while ago where they opened up some of the oldest casks and. Had had a few. Journalists from all over the world to taste some of their finest whiskies and. Traveled through the Highlands there and learned a lot about single malts which was brings me to feed you suppose what is in drink that causes hung over and some people will tell you it was quite by inducing hung over most of these imputed these are the things that are added to the alcohol and you've got plenty all voer experiences seems to be in trying different things to kill and be in a less of a what gives you the worst hangover and I don't get it over I'd love to set a little bit of that straight specifically for your listeners there in Scotland because I had a great fortune of talking quite a lot with the multi master Glenfiddich about this specifically and the thing is there's a sort of truism that yes if if you're if your drink is lighter or clearer it's safer than the darker the darker liquids and that's not necessarily true if you look at the way that a good single malt scotch is made. Of that white lightning that is put into. The oak barrel. Is a is a raw alcohol most. Slee ethyl alcohol and by happy accidents when they used to then send these barrels. To various places by a horse drawn cart or or rail or what have you to get all. Jostled about and so on and when the product would arrive at its. Intended location they'd open it up and suddenly this this white clear alcohol it's again this very golden color and this amazing taste and that was actually from the wood right and the barrel when charred and you Char the inside of it you get the the wine kind of stain out of it becomes both additive and subtractive there's a char layer and a toast layer and one of these layers actually pulls out the impurities from the from the liquid and brings it into the oak while another layer adds those wonderful tan and those colors and those. Flavors to the Scotch So when made properly. Scotch and a single malt scotch should be one of the purest and also purely delightful drinks that you could have just the way you're talking about it makes me think you are the reason you get so many hangovers because you love the drink but just know it is done this you mention chuckle though that's one of the things that you try in amongst And I think some. All of oil and milk and Alyssa's things but just just what would in Scotland you also you also try and brew one hung over all yes some success yes I was actually surprised to find that the you know that the drink made from girders. Actually seem to do a pretty good job the next morning especially when very chilled. I didn't realize though how much the company who makes Irn Bru has in conflict with this concept you know brew is very much a. Drink made. By the temperance movement to replace alcohol and was never intended to be either mixed with alcohol or used to sort of SUV the next day hangover suddenly as you know has taught me and it's certainly used but to get on to some of your cures then amongst other things I mentioned that each I chuckle scraped from the inside of a chimney that doesn't and. So again for you know if you're going back to your part of the world you know all over Scotland Ireland England Wales the chimney sweeps used to have. A sort of side gig around Christmas time where they would sell that they scraped from chimneys. To people. With the instructions that you were to dissolve it into a mug of warm milk and drink it down before before imbibing for the season and it doesn't sound as if it would be. To good to give you something else to think about or think I suppose because when you when you tried that and things like Oh you're right to tell you the truth it was it didn't taste that bad I was surprised it turned my teeth purple. But I made the mistake of combining that particular sort of folkloric remedy with one from the Mediterranean and which in which you. Drink down a a shot have all of oil to coat your stomach and I think that perhaps the 2 sort of remedies you're counteracted each other or created some you know Trish airy kind of chemical reaction inside me along with all the alcohol and I had a horrible Boxing Day Not year but soon to see the ship stolen his book is hung over and we don't recommend you try any of these killers and it's taken as a whole year bill but we are on time Shereen the 1st time I was here you know stop what she want you see oh shit oh how could I make the state Good morning good morning to me from Aborigines all the way down from Aberdeen thank you enjoy the nice to be a day guy and you should know it's no hangovers please plenty to talk about this week including 8 Chevy and the New Year honors we remember Paddy Ashdown and the best of the festive T.V. That still available on catch up on digital media 1995 and each one will be dealing with B.B.C. Radio still. Another news with a man in it suited. Thank you good morning rugby legend Don't be we and violinist nickle are Benedetti and among the Scots to be recognised in the New Year honors list more than 100 people from across Scotland will collect awards and 29000 other people to have been recognised include Monty Python star Michael Peel and his benighted and model Twiggy who's made a Dame and makes me giggle and it's wonderful it's a wonderful hour I was in complete shock when I read the letter I thought I'd misread it and I had to ring the Cabinet Office to make sure it wasn't a mistake and it's amazing a group of British divers have been decorated for their part in the dramatic rescue of a boy's football team stranded in a cave in Thailand more than 40 people have also been recognised for their response to the terrorist attacks in Manchester and London in 2017 the Immigration Services Union is questioning the French response to recent increases in the number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats more than 220 people have a right since the start of November the union says it believes people smugglers are openly tightening for business in Cali and says the authorities in northern France must be aware of that the Chief Constable of Sussex Police is defending his forces handling of the recent major disruption to flights at Gatwick because of drones flying near the runway Giles York says he is nice out and there was a drone that an officer suggested reported sightings might not have been credible Mr York is also apologizing for the distress calls to a couple arrested.