内容摘要：The entire west coast of the UK is now about 2.5C above average. A large portion of Scottish waters are 2-3C warmer than usual for the time of year.

The entire west coast of the UK is now about 2.5C above average. A large portion of Scottish waters are 2-3C warmer than usual for the time of year.

It is also the first real opportunity to see if Reform UK's recent successes in England can give them what they call a "tartan bounce".The outcome will help shape the political narrative in Scotland ahead of the national Holyrood election next May.

While Hamilton has its place in the history of horse racing, it has also earned iconic status when it comes to jockeying for political power.It was here that Winnie Ewing made her stunning by-election breakthrough for the SNP in 1967.It was this town that gave the former NATO secretary general Lord Robertson his start at Westminster in 1978.

It was the people of Hamilton South who elected Labour's Tom McCabe as the first MSP in 1999.Driving around what is now the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency, you would be forgiven for thinking the 2025 contest was a two horse race between the SNP and Reform UK.

That's only because these are the parties dominating billboard advertising.

This observation takes no account of the intensive door knocking, direct mailing and social media campaigning that's been going on for weeks."The people of Lockerbie showed how humanity works. How to display compassion, to display love. I'll never forget them.

"I don't know if it's quite macabre to say this but I've always said I am glad that's the place that my sister's life was ended. Because of the type of people that live in this place."The events of the night of 21 December 1988 have resonated across the decades.

In 2001, a Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, was convicted of the bombing and 270 counts of murder, following a trial in front of three Scottish judges sitting in a special court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.His co-accused, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was found not guilty.