Edinburgh Evening News Daily Bulletin 19 October

Your daily news bulletin from the Edinburgh Evening News.

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00:00 Hello and welcome back to enbrunews.com. I'm Neil Johnston, a reporter at the

00:05 Enbru Evening News and these are some of the top stories you can find on our

00:08 website today. The Met Office has forecast heavy rain and wind speeds of

00:14 over 40 miles per hour today with our yellow weather warning being issued for

00:18 the weekend. After a wet start to the day where there's a 90% chance of rain, the

00:23 weather is expected to change to overcast by lunchtime where the chance

00:27 of rain falls to 10% between 1 and 2 p.m. But heavy rain is set to return

00:32 between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. where there will be an 80% chance of rain and wind

00:37 speeds picking up to around 30 miles per hour. The Met Office has issued a yellow

00:43 weather warning for winds between 12 p.m. on Friday 20th of October until 12 p.m.

00:48 on Saturday 21st of October with strong winds and heavy rain forecast on both

00:54 days before a slightly brighter day on Sunday that sees intermittent showers

00:58 and reduced wind speeds. Edinburgh City Council has raked in more than £2

01:03 million from bus lane fines between 2022 and 2023, a 20% increase on the

01:10 previous year. More than 70,000 penalty charge notices were handed out to

01:15 motorists for driving in bus lanes, a significant rise of the record 58,000

01:20 issued in 2021 and 2022. This has led Tory transport spokeswoman Marie Claire

01:28 Munro to say that changes in road layouts across the city and poor signage

01:32 were the reason for the increase. Transport convener Scott Arthur said

01:36 "Ideally we would hope that bus lane cameras would not raise any income

01:40 because we want drivers to obey the law and help ensure public transport can

01:44 stay on time" and added "if anyone has any examples of bus lane signage which

01:50 isn't clear I would be happy to discuss this with council officers". And finally

01:55 an Edinburgh pub is hoping to be crowned Scotland's best place for a pint for the

01:59 third time. Kirstorfen pub Winston's is one of three finalists for the beer

02:04 quality award which is handed out annually by the Scottish Licensed Trade

02:08 News in association with tenants. Located at 20 Kirkclone the bar is now hoping to

02:15 make a hat-trick of wins after successes in 2019 and 2022. For all the latest news

02:22 from Edinburgh and the Lothians you can check out our website at www.enridnews.scotsman.com

02:27 Thanks for joining us and have a great day!

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