the scotland street series has been running and running. of course the no.adies detective agency is now in its 17th volume. you also have the isabel dalhousie novels. now, she's very interesting because i always think there's a lot of you in there because she is mad about auden, as you are. yes. ifind it extraordinary, but i agree with isabel dalhousie on so many matters. in fact, we were in 100% agreement. i also agree with mma ramotswe. i agree with most of my characters. of course you don't have to scratch very hard to see where they get their ideas from. well, your enthusiasm for auden is well known to people who know your fiction well. what is it about auden that's always moved you? well, auden, ithink, isjust such a wonderful humane voice. i remember when i first started reading auden‘s poetry many years ago, i was so rested by it. i was struck by the stength of the ideas, the complexity of the ideas and the beauty of the language. so he's a poet who manages to say the most profound things about life in a very, very beautiful way. that is an enormous b

the scotland street series has been running and running and the number one lady‘s detective series iscause she is a mad about wh auden. as you. i agree with her on so auden. as you. i agree with her on so many matters and we are in 100% agreement. i also agree with most of my characters. they don‘t have to scratch hard to see where they get their ideas. your enthusiasm for wh auden is well—known to people who know your fiction. what is is about him that has moved you always? he was such a wonderful comic humane voice. when i first started reading his poetry, many years ago, i was just so arrested by it and struck by the strength of the ideas and the complexity of the ideas and the beauty of the language. he is a manages to say the most profound things about life in a very beautiful way. there is an enormous breadth there as you say, and you‘re a polymath in many ways yourself, because you‘re an academic and in the medical law field and then you suddenly discovered that brightening was more 01’ suddenly discovered that brightening was more or less taking over your life. you are produci

your scotland street series has been running and running.s mad about something, as you are. you don't have to scratch very hard to see. your enthusiasm for auden is well known. what is it about him? when i first started reading the poetry many years ago, i was just so arrested by it, and struck by the strength of the ideas, the complexity of the ideas and the beauty of the language. he is a poet who manages to say the most profound things about life in a very, very beautiful way. there is an enormous breadth, as you say. you are a polymath in many ways, because you're and academic, in the medical law field. and many suddenly discovered that writing was more or less taking over your life. you are producing three, four, five books a year. had he managed to organise your life to do that? is admittedly loosely organised ? your life to do that? is admittedly loosely organised? you have to be careful about organisation —— is it meticulously organised. i have a season for each series. be a period ofa season for each series. be a period of a few mon

down a lot, they started running and pieces of concrete and brick started falling all over the street. scotlandging of the guard ceremony at buckingham palace, because of the berlin attack. government borrowing fell in november to £12.6 billion — down 0.6 billion from november last year. a european court ruling preventing the government retaining internet data, in what critics called the "snoopers charter", is to be challenged by the home office. the number of victims of historical child sex abuse in football has grown — detectives are investigating 155 suspects at 149 clubs after more than 400 people came forward. before we go to the sports, let me bring you an update on the latest about the police operation in germany, hunting for a suspect they believe may have been driving the truck when it drove through the christmas market in berlin, killing 12 people. reportedly, police are searching for a tunisian suspect, so it seems a police operation is underway. they have not confirmed independently they are searching for a tunisian man, but it is being reported in the german media, a man who was an

streets. the scores, st andrews, tops scotland's list with an average of almost £2.2m.e 7000 points. that's all the business news. half day trading. how nice. letters have update on what is happening on the ground in malta. in the last few moments from their tweets coming out from the authorities in malta saying the crewmembers are now being released from this plane. we very recent images. we have seen passages been let off, of course, female passengers and children were let off first. mel passengers were allowed to go. this tweetjust in the last few moments suggest that crewmembers are being released. we are not clear about this. this was a libya internal flight to remind you. about this. this was a libya internalflight to remind you. it was due to land in tripoli. but it is now on the tarmac in the letter in malta. we do not have confirmation that everybody is. that simply is not clear. but it appears that certainly some crew members have been let off. 111 passengers and seven crew on board. we are of course keeping an eye on that. york minster‘s main bells have rung

there's nothing like christmas in scotland with its stately castles, elegant streets and warm, nobleuart varney, they have fun. topic number two. dutch people are good at two things; speed skating and beat boxing. you can now add a third to the list. they make cute mimicking babies too. watch this baby try to copy her uncle who just happens to be holland's beat boxing champion. ♪ ♪ kennedy: that's pretty much it. i love it. what did michael cain have to say about all of this? >> there are only two things i can't stand in this world, people or who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the dutch. >> what? kennedy: what? well said, michael. god rest his soul. topic number three. everyone is getting into the christmas spirit, even britain's royal family. or at least wax representations of them. madame tussaud's obtained permission from the royal family to dress up their likenesses in christmas jumpers to raise awareness for the charity save the children. save the children from these horrible, god forsaken sweaters. now, the corgis, they are real. they are not wax, and here's an i

minister says she is "determined" that scotland will remain in the single market, even if the rest of the uk leaves, and claims 80,000 jobs depend on it. downing streetposals but wouldn't accept what it called "differential relationships" with brussels for separate parts of the uk. our scotland editor, sarah smith, has more. nicola sturgeon has a plan. she says it is the only serious plan for brexit any government has yet come up brexit any government has yet come up with. and she argues thatjust because the uk is leaving the eu it does not have to leave the single market. i accept there is a mandate in england and wales to take the uk at the eu, however i do not accept there is a mandate to take any part of the uk out of the single market. scotla nd of the uk out of the single market. scotland can stay in the single market, even if the rest of the uk chooses to leave. today's proposals from nicola sturgeon are nothing like the red, white, and blue brexit theresa may talks about. it is more like it the spoke scottish tartan version. for scotland to stay in the single market, substantial new powers would need to be devolved. control over immigration,

minister says she is "determined" that scotland will remain in the single market even if the rest of the uk leaves and claims 80,000 jobs are dependent on it. downing streetthat it's not right to accept "differential relationships" with brussels for separate parts of britain. 0ur scotland editor, sarah smith, has more. nicola sturgeon has a plan, she says it's the only serious plan for brexit any government has yet come up with. and she argues, just because the uk is leaving the eu, it does not have to leave the single market. i accept that there is a mandate in england and wales to take the uk out of the eu, however i do not accept that there is a mandate to take any part of the uk out of the single market. scotland could stay in the single market even if the rest of the uk chooses to leave. today's proposals, from nicola sturgeon, are nothing like the red, white and blue brexit theresa may talks about, they're more of a bespoke, scottish tartan version. for scotland to be able to stay in the single market, substantial new powers would need to be devolved. control over immigration, business regulation and employment law would all need to be transferred n

scotland yard saying more barriers will be put in place there while plans to temporarily close the streets around the queen's headquarters have been brought forward. patrols have also been stepped up in u.k. christmas markets and around major monuments. >>> investigators are searching for conspirators. a team has arrived in turkey to figure out who was behind the murder ever russian ambassador andre karlov. u.s. secretary of state called the foreign minister of russia to express his deep condolences. he also offered american assistance in the investigation. secretary kerry also rebutted the turkish foreign minister's claim that the movement led by a u.s. based cleric was behind the attack. the state department spokesman said, quote, it's a ludicrous claim, absolutely false and there's no basis of truth in it whatsoever. >>> this morning donald trump inches closer to ending a controversy that dodged his campaign. overnight a federal judge gave preliminary approval to a fraud case over his university. the judge summed up on the settlement. that as one of trump's favorite primary targets, jeb

streets. the scores in st andrews tops scotland's list with an average of almost £2.2 million.uggests they are 17 times more likely to be a victim of crime than the general public. the charity, crisis, says homeless people are regularly attacked and abused. there are thought to be about 4,000 people sleeping rough in britain at any one time. our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan reports. 3am in worcester city centre, and two men approach a rough sleeper. one stamps the head, the other kicks the legs. casual, unprovoked violence is a daily fear for rough sleepers. they have no shelter, anyone, at any time, could attack. this man was homeless for five years and took to sleeping on london commuter trains after being assaulted. i was in leicester square, got into a discussion with a young man around the fact i was homeless. he became quite aggravated, i would guess, by the fact i was homeless and i was saying, being homeless, everybody‘s an individual and people are homeless for different reasons. and from there he ended up punching me in the face, basically. and it wa

streets. the scores in st andrews tops scotland's list with an average of almost £2.2 million. york minster have wrung out for the first time since the 30 strong team of bell—ringers was dismissed in october. they were run last night for the service of nine lessons and carols. for centuries, the bells have chimed out across the city. in october, they stopped. two days after the group was stood down by the chapter, we were hoping before long that the bells ring again. we are grateful for the courageous and generous ringers from inside the city and across the country that have come forward to try to help us move forward over this period of time. there they go again. it is a wonderful sound, singing the glory of god. the volunteer bell—ringers were dismissed over concerns about safeguarding procedures. it came after one of them was accused of indecent assault against young girls. no charges were ever brought. since then, the minster has struggled to find replacement volunteers to take over, with accusations of intimidation towards anybody who tried to step in. the previous team ha

the young people who come to me in the streets and actually say to me, "keep up the good work." the first minister of scotlando respect scotland's vote to remain within the european union. nicola sturgeon said it was her top priority to ensure scotland retained as many of the benefits of eu membership as possible, including the freedom to work, travel and study in other member states. we're also working to safeguard the opportunities that so many people in scotland now take for granted. we're determined that scotland's vote to remain in the european union will be respected, and that people in scotland can retain as many of the benefits of eu membership as possible — including the freedom to work, travel and study other european countries. the new year is inevitably a time when we look to the future. i'm determined to ensure that we give our children and our young people scotland's future. the support and care they need to live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives. and i'm confident that in 2017 we will make further progress towards that goal. german chancellor angela merkel has about 2015 was —— 2016 was a year o

scotland and europe. months traveling the entire world. , did a variety of business ventures. son went into a business venture on wall streetyou'll is a senior but all this law firm. this everything collapsed. he walked onto julia. between them. at that point, the century magazine had approached him to write his memoirs. -- dwight as a car eisenhower, there was one written. grant did not like memoirs because they were lifting oneself up. now he needed money. he agreed to write his memoirs. century magazine wanted him to write them and offered him $10,000. he was about to sign the dotted line on this. mark twain rushed over to his home. he was very approving and appreciative of grant. in his own language, he said $10,000, that is what you pay a comanche indian to write his memoir. i will write your memoir. he persuaded grant, it was very difficult. grant said i will sell 300,000 copies of your memoirs. almost at that moment, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. what i call the final campaign was his race against death. as he raised his memoirs to earn for julia. there was no presidential pension. he completes the memoirs. th

street area to see in 2017. public safety is a big consideration at these events, like all other new year's events around the uk, as we have been hearing. police scotlandionally and don't want to stop people having a good time but they also want to make sure people are safe as well, everything's gone according to plan, so everything's gone according to plan, so far. the big build—up now is towards the gigantic fireworks display we are going to see from edinburgh castle at ammed night, a p pa re ntly edinburgh castle at ammed night, apparently we will be able to see that from 30 miles outside edinburgh. the weather is pretty good. it was raining earlier on. it's nice and dry. very unusualfor this time of year in scotland, but as you can see, the crowds are in pretty good spirits, it's been a good night so far and i think there's still plenty of fun to come. long may it continue, andrew, thank you very much. 0ur correspondentjonathan blake is in central london for us. any sign that the security measures have put people off there? no, not so far. the crowds are really building here on the embankment in central london now. 100,000 or so people are expected

street, cloudy, with wind on christmas day. later, there is a chance that cold air will arrive in scotland. we could see some flakes of snow. reports from italy that the main suspect in the berlin lorry attack, anis amri, has been shot dead in milan. in germany, two men are arrested of another terror plot, a plan to attack a shopping centre. in australia, police say they've foiled a terror attack planned for melbourne on christmas day. another serious prison disturbance, as 60 inmates take over a wing of hmp swaleside. one of the world's biggest banks — deutsche bank — agrees to pay over seven billion dollars over its role in the financial crisis. and in the next hour, we'll tell you what to expect when storm barbara hits the uk. storm barbara battering the north today, but the effect

streets cannot be closed off. if you have a truck, it is even harder to stop that because it can get through some of the obstacles. we heard from scotlandns. they will be looking at this. there have been a few precautions put in place and we have seen police guards in some places. it is particularly difficult to try to stop this kind of attack unless you secure the perimeter very tightly something like a christmas market, which can be had when it is temporary. and few opportunities for security sources to be able to intervene and intercept intelligence when something like this is being planned. it is a much simpler prospect then having to get together everything that would be needed for something like making a bomb. yes, ten yea rs something like making a bomb. yes, ten years ago more complex lots were expected. all of that offered opportunities for the security services to spot them, to see that pattern. people travelling, gathering materials. but if somebody by themselves, without communicating with somebody else, which can be intercepted, perhaps decides to carry out an attack like this, perhaps having been inspired rather than being

street. hopefully he comes back said. the weather is not very festive. storm barbara is on our shores —— comes back soon. there is an ember weather warning for wind. especially for scotlandructural damage and also some travel disruption. but where ever you are, we are looking at strong winds today. across scotland are not a cloud, heavy rain pushing across. —— under a cloud. some of the rain getting into north—western england as well. towards east anglia and down towards ken, it is dry. dry the midlands, and then towards the south—west of england, largely dry —— kent. drizzle here and there. a dry start across wales. winter picking up along the coastline. into northern ireland, rain is moving in, and strengthening winds. the strongest winds this morning will be across the western isles. through the day, winds will pick up across northern ireland, scotland and northern england. gusts between 60 and 80 mph. 90 in the north. for the rest of england and wales, still windier than it has been, but they will arrive later, the strongest winds, as the rain comes out. behind the band of rain, a return to squally showers, some of which will be wintry with thunder and lightning and