That's all from the Scotland Live team for today. We're back tomorrow from 07:00.

BBC Scotland Weather
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Tonight, it will be cloudy and wet as the rain turns heavy for a time - heavy and persistent across the north and west Highlands with 20-30mm of rainfall possible, but lighter and patchier in the east for a time.

Winds from the south will strengthen too.

However it will be mild, with temperatures in the west unusually increasing up to around 10C after dark. Mild enough for some snow melt too.

The rain clears overnight and cooler air follows on for Thursday.

An armed robber who admitted "I'm as guilty as sin" to police, has been jailed for four years.

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John Sherlock admitted stealing £360 from Nan's Dairy in Glasgow, while armed with a knife in December last year.

At the High Court in Glasgow, the 40-year-old also pled guilty to pushing shop manager Denise Murray to the ground and struggling with her.

Sherlock's counsel said he "apologises to the shop workers for the ordeal".

The contents of a kitchen have been taken during a break-in at a closed down bar in Paisley over the weekend.

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Police say the vast majority of equipment, furniture, fixtures and fittings were stolen from The Wallace Bar on Causeyside Street.

It is thought that the robbery took place between 10:00 on Sunday evening and 07:30 on Monday morning.

A white transit van was seen parked in and near to the street behind the bar during the period in question.

Theatre productions containing nudity will be exempt from new licensing laws covering sexual entertainment, the Justice Secretary has said.

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Michael Matheson was giving evidence to MSPs on the Local Government Committee on the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Bill.

The proposals would allow local authorities to limit the number of sexual entertainment venues in an area.

But MSPs have been told it could have an inadvertent effect on risqué shows.

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Scotland

Rangers goalkeeper Steve Simonsen's two-match ban for betting on matches has been appealed by the SFA compliance officer.

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He says the punishment handed down by an independent panel was too lenient.

Simonsen was banned for two matches - one suspended until the end of the season - after being found guilty of betting on a total of 55 games.

This is the first occasion a compliance officer has appealed the decision of an independent panel.

The Liberal Democrats have tabled a parliamentary motion calling for the Scottish government to abandon proposals to allow 120 different organisations access to the NHS register.

Party leader Willie Rennie said the plan would create a national identification database that would be at great risk of abuse.

He said he feared it could be the first step towards introducing ID cards by the back door.

The consultation on the changes closes today. Ministers have said no decision has been taken, but the idea is to make it easier to trace missing children and to identify Scottish taxpayers.

Organisers of the Kiltwalk have defended the Scottish charity event's running costs after losing several partner groups.

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Four charities have withdrawn as official partners of the event in recent weeks. Two cited concerns about the amount of money reaching them.

The event's 2013 accounts show more was spent on costs than went to charity.

Kiltwalk bosses said costs had been inflated by a re-structuring of the organisation due to the event's growth.

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Scotland

The Scottish Professional Football League board says it will review its rules relating to spectator misconduct.

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In a statement the board said it would review recent events at next month's meeting, with particular focus on sectarian chanting.

"An SPFL board meeting was convened by conference call to discuss recent supporter misconduct at matches."

"The strong view of the SPFL board is that such behaviour has no place in Scottish football," the statement read.

Listen to discussion on this issue on @BBCSportsound from 18:10 on 92-95FM/810MW/digital.

BBC Scotland Travel
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There's a high wind warning on the Skye Bridge.

In Dundee traffic is very slow this evening on the A90 Kingsway eastbound at Strathmartine Road.

On the Forth Road Bridge there is a 15 minute delay on the M90 southbound approach. It is slow back to Pitreavie.

In Edinburgh, there is queuing on Telford Road due to a broken down lorry on the inside lane, westbound, just before Blackhall junction, heading toward Leith.

On the M8 in West Lothian, there are 10 minute delays westbound through the roadworks from J3a Bathgate to the cones at J4 Whitburn.

And on the Glasgow-bound M8/A8, it is very slow moving from J6 Newhouse to the A8 at Eurocentral.

On the A73 Chapehall to Newhouse road there are delays southbound through the roadworks heading for the M8.

There are eastbound delays on the M8 from J27 Arkelston to J26 Hillington. It is also slow from J25 Cardonald through to J16 Craighall because of an earlier accident.

The A9 at Dunblane is very slow southbound heading for the Keir Roundabout.

The M80 at Falkirk is very slow southbound from J8 to J7 Haggs.

BBC Sport
Scotland

Scotland fly-half Finn Russell's bid to overturn a two-week ban for a dangerous tackle has been rejected by an independent appeal committee.

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The Glasgow Warrior received a retrospective red card and suspension for a dangerous tackle on Dan Biggar during Wales 26-23 win at Murrayfield.

The Scottish Rugby Union appealed, but saw their attempts to reverse the ban dismissed at Wednesday's hearing.

Russell, 22, will now miss Saturday's Six Nations match against Italy.

Leaders from the offshore oil and gas industry said they were ''encouraged'' after meeting Chancellor George Osborne to discuss the sector's future.

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Mr Osborne said the significant fall in the oil price had been a challenge to the industry but a benefit to the British economy.

Oil and gas companies say tax cuts are needed to save jobs.

Malcolm Webb, of industry body Oil and Gas UK, said: "We did come away encouraged."

A doctor who paid a foreign woman to show him young girls' private parts over the internet has been jailed.

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Kevin Titheridge was also caught with 366 indecent images of children at his Arbroath home and a flat in Aberdeen.

The 34-year-old was working as a trainee at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary when he made payments to a woman who had young children strip in front of a webcam for him.

Titheridge was jailed for three years and four months.

Tom English
BBC Scotland

Time for Celtic's Virgil van Dijk to cut out the errors. Rangers response to sectarian chanting "not good enough". "Fitting tribute" to motor racing legend Jim Clark.

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Read the latest Tom English column.

The Sunday Herald was the only Scottish-based newspaper to see a boost to its print sales last year, after backing independence in the run-up to the referendum.

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Its print sales rose by 34% in July to December, compared with the end of 2013, reaching 32,200 average weekly sales.

The Glasgow-based newspaper pulled ahead of its rival, Scotland on Sunday.

The Edinburgh-based title reported print sales fall by 16% to 27,500.

David Henderson
BBC Scotland News

Longannet power station faces the threat of closure within a year, unless the cost of connecting it to the national grid is reduced.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has accused David Cameron of not doing enough to safeguard the future of the coal-fired plant.

Longannet was set to close at the end of the decade - but that may now happen much sooner than planned.

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Talks between Scottish Power, which owns the plant, and National Grid have stalled - with the company warning that the £40m annual cost of connecting Longannet to the grid makes it uneconomic.

Ms Sturgeon had urged Mr Cameron to intervene. But today she said he had not offered enough, and unless that changes, a decision will have to be made next month on Longannet's future.

The BBC understands that would mean closure within a year.

UK Ministers have said there is no threat to Scotland's energy security, because if need be, Scotland could import electricity from the rest of Britain.

A Dumfries teacher convicted of drink driving and being in possession of ecstasy has been reprimanded and allowed to return to the classroom.

Paul Webley, 62, was a behavioural support teacher at Maxwelltown High School when he was caught driving while four-times over the limit.

He was fined and banned from driving at Dumfries Sheriff Court in July 2013.

Now the General Teaching Council for Scotland has laid out conditions under which Mr Webley can continue to teach.

Steven McKenzie
BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter

The front of Historic Inverness Town House is to be wrapped in specialist material decorated with a full-size image of the building's frontage during repairs.

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Highland Council has asked for the wrapping to help hide scaffolding while work is carried out on the building.

Work starts this year on the three-phase, three-year maintenance project costing £4.2m.

The repairs had previously been estimated to run to more than £7m.

Tim Reid
Political correspondent, BBC News

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has condemned a campaign launched by the UK government to promote the powers expected to be devolved to Holyrood after May's general election as "blatant electioneering" and a "phoney public relations offensive".

The party's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, said that spending £1.5m on a leafleting and online campaign to explain further devolution was "a disgrace" and electioneering by pro-union parties to try to stop the SNP from making gains.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Exeter prop Moray Low will gain "plenty more Scotland caps", according to the club's head coach Rob Baxter.

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Low, 30, has been named in Scotland's squad to face Italy this weekend, his first call-up since moving to Exeter.

Low has won 29 Scotland caps, but has not featured since coming on in the 55-6 loss in South Africa last June.

"He's very diligent in what he does, and has real ambition in the game, so I'm sure he'll gain plenty more Scotland caps," Baxter told BBC Sport.