And Duncan cackled is here with the news the u.k. Government has promised that stuff who works for the contract are Karelian and the public services will continue to be paid despite the collapse of the business the company which had overall debts of one and a half 1000000000 pounds has gone into liquidation after attempts to save it failed early this morning the Cabinet Office minister David Livingston says the government will do all it can to protect the company's workers and contracts the 1st priority the one I've asked all ministers and all officials to concentrate on is actually ensuring that public services continue so the message to workers is come into work today it's important work to be done as we go forward some services will be taken in house some services will go out to alternative contractors in a managed orderly fashion in Scotland Karelians part of the consortium building the Aberdeen Western peripheral road projects involving Karelian also include the extension of platforms at Edinburgh Waverley and it has several major contracts for managing public facilities including for the m d and west of Scotland housing association here is our business and economy added our Douglas Fraser It has some big projects in construction is Scotland the biggest one of these as I say they operate in western peripheral route ring road as I like to call it. But Transport Scotland which is the client on behalf of the Scottish government so I was confident that the other contractors their 2 other contractors in a consortium there they will maintain the pace that we're they will keep to the commitments to keep building it and it looks like a relatively simple thing to if there's equipment if this stuff there for Karelian to pass them over to those other operators who are there on site that may be more difficult but it's the only contract or. A paper to be published shortly by the 1st Minister says Scotland's economy could be cut by 12700000000 pounds a year under a so-called heartbreaks that the study calculates the impact of 3 different scenarios on Scotland and its u.k. Prepares to leave the European Union Nicholas stars and says that time is running out to prevent the most damaging deal from a marriage ng and u.k. Government spokesperson said they were seeking a deal that works for the whole of the u.k. And arch the Scottish government to work to protect the U.K.'s internal market the leader of you keep says he's no longer dating a model who revealed to us who was revealed to have sent Reese's text of a Prince Harry's fiance Meghan Markle and me both on the set his relationship with Joe Marnie who's 25 was incompatible with his position where he's rejected calls to resign saying people were seeking to undermine him people have have used and they've been able to of course because of her comments but used in order to attack me these are people who have tried in the past to attack me found no way of doing it so now they're going at it through this. For Gen trains us to reverse its decision to ban sales of the Daily Mail on its west coast services so Richard Branson said he answer Brian Souter who is a part owner of the company had asked managers to reconsider saying that tolerance for differing views were in the core principles of a free society that's the news of the latest sports genius former head striker just incomings is in Glasgow for a medical as he looks to complete a loan move to Rangers Cummings moved to English Championship side Nottingham Forest from Hibs this summer but hasn't been playing recently or Rangers are also making moves to sign the naughty City defender Russell Martin on loan he hasn't played for knowledge since August talks are likely to take place this week between the Scottish Football Association and Michael Neil over their vacant manager's role the safety have reached a compensation agreement with the Irish a free tributes are being paid to the former West Brom an England former some forward to settle Regis who has died he was 59 Britons a Kyle Edmund says he's really happy after beating the 11 seed Kevin Anderson in 5 sets in the 1st row and off the a stallion open last year's runner up and rough on a dial is also through to the 2nd round he's just beaten Victor Estrella Burgas off the Dominican Republic and straight sets and you can follow the tennis and more sports news at the b.b.c. Sport Scotland website and though here's Andy with all your travel news thank you Jan and looking to end run the city by pass why spend one late night open between Miller hell and Sheriff Hall there was an accident blocking it completely for a while but still have a going in the 8 other one lane open queues and I am 77 north by in between junction for Christopher road and junction one brick road looking slim the Glasgow a made way span between junction 13 front and that's the 80 link and 15 for 10 head with congestion actually on the Amy to back up the junction to drop Royston on the train services between Glasgow cream street and Mollie facing to Leeds and it's because of overrunning workout gear looking at us b.b.c. Radio Scotland track. Thanks so much on Larry Scotland's weather temperatures falling away as a day goes on mostly dry day for many eastern parts and some spell and sunshine cloudy in the West with a scattering of wintry showers snow initially for the hills but done to lower levels later in the day and into the evening high survey of our own 5 Celsius and that's p.c. Reduced clues thanks very much Duncan mornings with the Adams on b.b.c. Baby. To listen to b.b.c. Radio Scotland with me k. Adams coming up this morning we believe we're having a wills surgery so this is your chance to speak to annoyed about any questions our concerns you have about a will that you haven't made it or one that is existing wait 59295 double is the number to call or you can text 8 to 95 plus she said there were 30 years in the music industry and lots Love singer songwriter. Yeah I want to go to do is a very soon to talk about journey from growing up in Atlanta to being named an outstanding Scottish one and actor and rest agreed to join me last week in the program he spoke about how social media had helped him after losing his mom definitely social media was that help me and going in and speaking about it and talking with the people all of us would be in the soon circumstances mean it was quite come from so what about you do you find the online world a good place to greet mornings with key Adams on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. And great comment still coming in about conversation about sexual harassment promising is minimizing this and if we learn from Spike magazine and needs to be addressed through education as a spectrum of behavior to be addressed here I've been offered money for sex several times physically and verbs. Assaulted and belittled in public more times in the kitchen remember each of these incidents leaves its mark I'm a professional educated woman and still this behavior reduces me to the scared girl I was when all of this started men need to understand what's appropriate and what is not we are just people like they are they should be educated to understand that women are not other and that the way women are treated impacts all. Thoughtful takes work and in this morning Allan I'm a guy's in the elephant in the room as accessibility of the most extreme integrating program be available to very young children the click of a button we need to address that and she says using insulting language is wrong easy when you have your mates laughing along with you interchange a sexist comment with a rhesus or homophobic one and you have your answer holding a door open for anyone is a gulf kind term argument is giving your seat up for a pension and he just so keep those thoughts come in please $8.00 to $95.00 And there's also room for a bit acute on the program those old I mean Madonna pet but that's not you yeah a horse this isn't your kid. You are cute but. This is a video of 2 Glasgow brothers and 2 love guys and they can recite all the players the Celtic squad and the numbers and they're very pleased with the other we listen to this and they thought. And then I we. Yes and I know yeah. So there they go Evan and Jack they're right on the game so tell us what are the random facts that you keep in your head and you have no idea why but they're just in their last year we were talking last night you know last week we were talking and it was John Beattie that brought this up but we're talking about cars and he says doesn't everybody remember the registration plate of their 1st car and I said No don't be ridiculous and then we just go all these takes of people who are able to remember the registration of cars that they've had like or 2 years ago so we're looking for the random facts whatever they are that you keep tucked away in your mental filing cabinet whatever it is maybe at old school or at you know whatever don't and it would to 95 and there's a wee bit in the clip with I don't know whether 7 or Jack but he gives his mother a for helping him for this one no matter where. You get. No more lead you can only. Q When did Gail meet out my mum we gain Yeah we get it so the vehicle you give random facts tonight 5 rate she's also very cute and she's been described as one of the country's all time great vocalists she's too with Tina Turner b.b. King and hoarsely Donald has been inducted into the Psalter society's stand a woman Hall of Fame but this being the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote we thought was a good time to speak to some of Scotland's standing Good morning to you let's say good morning to you Kate how are you and very key this morning. The random facts in the head of yours so well I was trying to remember our 1st registration but I know that my older brother probably do that before me but there's plenty of random facts and here. You're going to have to be churning through lots of folks who you know working an autobiography and working on my biography the moment I just yeah. Yeah it's some of it's tough and it's quite surprising and some of the I'm really struggling with her because my editor of keep said and I remember the thread is always about the music it's always about music because my wife has run on that play mine but we want to about 6 and then I was. So I'm I'm having to look at things that I know ordinarily have gone back to look at we want to interesting of course how does not feel because it's deeply personal it's very deeply passionate especially for myself and and the way I've torn up and things that happened to me but I'm also starting to think about other people because you know I use pseudonyms or I don't know so I'm still struggling with that because this is the very 1st sort of strength of the book so it's about music was very much on me as I grew up and yeah but I didn't actually I thought about rating I didn't look at that sort of part of what I thought about it over the ality is you do have to start looking at it and how it's affected you and so want to hold this image of reflective in your life very deflective and still reflecting and. Well do I carry on that or mean themes running through it like everyone's lives but I think fain in your voice is the universal one for me trying to tame a voice and so you say music has always been there so well when did it start to surface. I think the 1st thing I remember is being trying to influence a couple of battles at my nana's house to listen to the talks. That really does show major support. But I would always say I wanted to be with you that it ended there but about and this was just I was obsessed by this I think it must mean 5 and I've actually still got little red George or tiny George or worth a drawing of the trucks that so. In the house my dad listened to classical music an opera and pilot without my mom when he was a she would be listening to the radio so which was presumably what we'd listen to no just one of those committed together. Going Up Top Of The Pops various things like that there's buzz a difference between appreciating music and many people you know appreciate enjoy music but to know that you have a talent and to develop that talent for music. Gosh I'm really going to start to get into my need to get in my evil Pixie on my shoulder because you carry on I never I never looked upon myself as being talented It was always a boat trying to get through things and going towards a goal I would always put a goal ahead of me I spent a lot of my tame and teenage years in my bedroom listening to music and I think a lot of people perhaps would recognize that when things were difficult I would go and listen to music in my bedroom on my record player with the arm ruled by listening to the same album all over again. I think use my voice has been something that just developed in some sort of them was most of us in a strange way so when I was heart or upset I began to play guitar and sing and never did other people songs whether that was laziness or. I don't know i Phone my voice through doing that through singing through using my voice but as for it being a talent I always was quite tough on myself. And many things happened over the years and I became obsessed with trying to get record they all and Angela Michael and and myself who wrote together we worked for a good 6 or 7 years before we actually say into a publishing deal but the publishing the almost in some respects was more important than the record deal because someone who knew about songs recognized their songwriting talent and when there was no other women of our own and writing in that way or working and the music industry because we were never puppets so we focused on our music and we focused on that and. It grew of Islay and I wrote with Angel for a good 1000 years so much saw that when we stopped working together I thought will ever be able to write such great let it speak as her let x. Are probably. Some of the most outstanding let x. There no one ever produced in Scotland the wonderful letter x. . And. The 1st few songs I wrote after coming out I mean I was dead right to the same time that of course songs at all on my own sort Lee but. The 1st song for songs I wrote and I thought caught up with these kids and and Valmy their mother said to me one of her favorite horse songs was shipped a short which is a song I wrote on my own I thought I'd go back and write I can actually I can I always did but that collaboration was very powerful to women writing together and tuning traveling Angela was an exceptional guitarist saw. Yet it's that constant struggle to have near the head above the parapet and be recognized not for being a women but because you're good that that's one of the sort of main themes in my life just to be recognized because I think I'm good as you're writing always come from a very emotional place I would see so yes yes and no more so with and when my mom and dad passed away 10 years ago and I know. My mom was dying with cancer and I was going and seeing her all the time obviously and spending a lot of time with her and I would go home and I write about how I was feeling and sometime after he died 6 weeks later sometime after that maybe about 9 months later I began to write songs that came from that experience and that a few songs on the album that came out of that coming out for. Really a very very deep deep rooted and deep. Careful one of the songs that's best known. I sang that to my mom which passed away and what was a simple pop song Let It Go from there is so powerful so simple. It just seemed perfect for that moment and it changed for me that song changed at that point and when you see that moment I mean it when she before she was just before she passed away I sang to you know just Family them and. I sang to her and it was just one of the most moving moments of my life because after I wanted to give her something when a child comes into the world you want to give them something a gift that is nothing there's nothing that seems important off but when I sang to our wants to give us something I wanted to do something. I want to sighing today it was like this this is just something saw so special and it just you know underlaying for me that music is a very very very powerful thing we probably don't even know how powerful as it can move people. Kind of have to lean it for in your moment in life and death Absolutely and. I've actually just become an ambassador for Nordoff Robbins which is a charity which is very based trained music therapy and as life goes or an idealized hope ur For you can I to music can be and I witnessed a session with a ghetto of 8 years old and was just blown away by the expedience. Saw my whole experience of music is just whoa amazing it's been for me but also I can when I gave I get back I deceive it's the most wonderful thing. You mentioned earlier you know when times were difficult you're in your room with a record player and I'm sure you know every young person growing up will will recognize that but can we speak a bit more about you know why that early part of your life was really to go well you talk. You know women getting the vote I think again the universal theme in life has been about finding my voice and I grew up in a house will post fifty's early sixty's where my dad was an important man in the tone and the acted so this very kind of recall. Family scene where the man is the most important in the house. You know and what was really hard was my mom would sort of go with the flow and there was 2 boys and me and my example of being female and my hopeful was it wasn't a good thing actually no no no because even my mom you know my dad would cease something or we call it I just it's a bloody women drive in the car I'm on the go yes it's a bloody women and you know and this is pretty much I think typical of those times and I said incredibly to the discussion that we had for the 1st time I didn't hear that no I didn't get to the negativity attached to the female and you wonder is it worth fighting but I thought I could never not be myself and that's the heart of the core of my life I didn't know who I was and it's been a set to find Oh and there was a period of time in my teens where I thought well I'm not a ghetto because that's not a good thing and I was attracted to get also so well I must be a boy and I wanted to actively be a boy and I grew up thinking that way and to me part of that issue was the way I was brought up. And so I sort of head to head myself away and my room and I had a girlfriend and but she wasn't anyone saw I basically had to constantly hide myself and not be. So I guess it was a lonely lonely place did you speak to mom or dad about your sexuality not until a key moment when I said I want to say exchanged to my mom and I said you had a I tell you don't tell my dad. But of course I went off to school I went off to school and. I came home from school and I knew the 1st thing my mama do be to tell my dad to Course and my dad said You going to the doctor then I went through a whole range of doctor's appointments and then psychiatric appointments. And I stopped going because they were talking about saying to me for. A fashion therapy we would call it a day you know you see t. Hey do you I mean apart from that you know you don't experience of that which as a young woman growing up must have been saw a. Challenge but you know how you have played on in terms of the you know the kind of current debate and. Trans community except for a sex change is it and you believed at that time I did that you wanted to have a section change you reflect on that now. Well I don't like to point to and in a way is thinking Well I'm glad that didn't happen because in actual fact the you need to come and see the play whenever I get this is careful Yeah I told her that as well but. You know if there was a doctor who's never been struck off who was