Julian Whelan Nicola Sturgeon has been grilled on her government's health service record at 1st Minister's Questions that followed an Audit Scotland reports which listed concerns about missed targets longer waiting times and growing pressure on budgets Mr Jin insisted had ministration was already delivering reforms which were starting to make changes but Scottish Conservative leader Rick Davidson said the government was missing its own targets there's been in 1009 percent rice and the number of patients waiting more than 12 weeks in the last year alone yes m.p. Said that all targets to make things better but they've improved in only one in the last 5 years we know there's no long term plan even though what one was promised for the start of this year that G.P.'s are being underfunded and that we spent a $171000000.00 poems hiring in agency staff to plug the gaps the Council on government says its leader has suspended a statement he was expected to make in the past hour about the future of the region there had been speculation that he was poised to call new elections on Ramon's declaring independence it's not clear if the speech will go ahead later a couple whose bodies were held in a mortuary for 15 years to being discovered in a freezer and a former fishmonger shop have been buried Eugenie arson Hilda Marcel went to the died in the late eighty's and early ninety's their son Melvin Marcel opposed their burial and wanted to build a private mausoleum for his parents in the grounds of his property however the city council won a legal battle to arrange the funeral police from across Europe say they've broken up an international people smuggling ring raids were carried out over night across the continent including in Britain 11 people were arrested in London Birmingham in Gateshead those being smuggled were mainly from Afghanistan but also from Pakistan and Vietnam. Scotland's population is expected to keep growing and aging the latest official figures predict that over the next 25 years the rising number of pensioners will be far bigger compared to people of working age and to block us more these figures from the national records of Scotland give an insight as to how things might look in the future it's predicted the number of pensioners will increase by a quarter over the next 25 years compared to a one percent rise in the number of working age people in future see the figures people age 75 and over it will be the fastest growing age group The figures also predict Scotland's population will rise over the next quarter of a century from 5400000 to almost 5600000 driven by migration into Scotland both from the rest of the u.k. 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Radio Scotland travel Scotland's weather becoming a dry and bright afternoon for many with some spells of sunshine for the central Lulin southwards lighter winds in your city but still quite windy across the northern coast and for a time a number of showers for the Northwest Highlands North Isles on ne edging as far south as Argyle across to times 2 that's the latest b.b.c. Radio Scotland. Welcome for me to start with you until 4 o'clock as always in Thursday's the 1st hour of the show is devoted to movies new releases are up for review are marvelous surge storm movie a slapstick take on the hero with a hammer or rocknroll there's a ravishing Gabriel Munson the stunning setting of northern Italy and call me by your name and based on a true story starring clear for Garfield. His directorial debut it was literally one of the most powerful scripts I've ever read affects me so deeply and the 2nd hour of the show actor Laurence Fox is in the studio we and I was the 1st details at the centenary celebrations of the Life and Work of de Muriel Spark and contemporary artist Susan Phillips joins me to talk about her contribution. To the dynamic new exhibition which is this weekend at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The Jennifer side show on b.b.c. Scotland. Well although we've got 3 big films to talk about today none of particularly scary or spooky So given that we're approaching Halloween let's hear your film recommendations for Choose do the 31st of October the more terrifying the better text 80295 tweet b.b.c. Egypt show or leave a message on the Facebook page Well we've already had some tweets this morning when we asked the question Steve Grove cries in a whisper Yes but Bergman it's not technically a horror film perhaps more a drama but it's pretty intense more than Cunningham and Halloween 3 the only sequel not to feature Michael Meyers and a worthy standalone order in its own right well it's my great pleasure to introduce today's film reviewers Graham virtue here with me in Edinburgh and Paul Gallacher In our Glasgow studio hello both. Well both of you are top choice of the film to watch on Halloween and why the guy sitting opposite me is Graham so I'll go with you 1st well I mean three's quite good as a very good standalone installment in that franchise if you're Edinburgh the Cameo is actually showing a Nightmare on Elm Street which is one of my favorite kind of battery horror films they're showing on Saturday Night Live and o'clock I think to kind of get ahead of or just go back to the source and watch the original John Carpenter's hell week that's a tremendous movie with a tremendous score Pope Yeah if you looking to go out to the cinema you know the screenings of the shining across the on Halloween with a special short film a thing about the making of it playing with it so that's on everywhere The Shining is a bit of a classic kind of can't go wrong to get scared with that home I would recommend and this ties in with thaw Tiger Woods he's what we do in the shadows. Spoof documentary which is hilarious Ok it's not that scary but if you like scary films there's lots of jokes in that that will make you laugh more Texan tweets that had Len Shepherd says Angel Heart creeps the life of her and to Smiley recommenced the 4 Carpenter's The Thing copper turns anything by the horror masturbating. Time to talk about this week's film releases the 1st stop Marvel Studios thought Ragnarok where Norse god Thor played by Chris Hemsworth is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get to a scarred to prevent Ragnor rock which has been foretold as the destruction of his homeworld and the end of its guardian civilization. But 1st he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger Mark ruff a loose the Incredible Hulk Let's hear the chatter now I would want your hats. So much has happened since I last saw you. Last night I'm a like yesterday so that's still pretty fresh. And I went on a journey of self discovery live. On our own your idea live I love to go to the deficit does God allow me to live you and I have 5 years to worry. About is that since the right Strickland. Scalped is dead little. The same as the cotton from. All quarters for Goldwater. Agency to small. The trailer for Thor Ragnor grim perch and Paul Gallacher have seen it let's hear their views Well I've seen the trailer in the cinema a couple of times it looks camp slapstick funny how does playing it for laughs compete with the previous 2 there were films which were directed by Kenneth Branagh and Alan t. Interpol. Yeah this is like the way to do Thor as far as I'm concerned I was not I was so impressed with the 1st or film that I didn't even watch the 2nd one so I can't give you an honest comparison to those previous 2 films but I thought yeah the kind of more serious take of the 1st thought was very silly and didn't really work but this take it easy as referred to before the director who people may know as the director of last year's hunt for the world of people he also has been involved with fly the concords and like I said what we do in the shadows and he goes for all our comedy which I think you know takes the ridiculousness of the thought character and it's crazy so of fantastical as guard setting and says let's just make this all a big joke and which really really works I mean I thought this film was absolutely hilarious like packed with laugh out loud moments and I know I was I was lucky. And yet leave me it's not like I mean I actually have to come and see this yeah well I would say is a guaranteed good time in the cinema like really fun and in terms of how it fits in the in the Marvel world so far I feel like they have this sort of tongue in cheek tone that sort of runs a low level through most of their films so it isn't completely inappropriate to have like an all out comedy and it's important say that it's not just like kind of comedy where people stand around making jokes like that action in this thing is fantastic like there's some some brilliant action sequences and fight sequences So let's bring it on me and you just don't know and you've done your homework Graeme you've seen no 3 movies it's just it's the best oh well this is certainly the best Thor movie today and maybe one of the best in this kind of ongoing Marvel project as well as pos as it is a full on comedy an out and out comedy from the very beginning there's not even a sort of fake out where it's you're made to believe it's going to be this huge Norse cosmic epic and then suddenly undercuts it with a joke there are jokes from the start listening to that trailer watching to the trailer you might think I have the used up all the best lines already but this is absolutely crammed with jokes I mean almost almost overstuffed I would say with lines that mean that kind of larger storytelling blocks are maybe a little bit lost in the shuffle how this might fit in with the rest of the movies if you're not quite sure because they're having such a good time I want do you think of Marvel's choice at this cult favorite New Zealand director of this particular suit well. It's I mean it's pretty brave because I would say hunt for the older people which was his biggest hit today but still very much in New Zealand story very much a film made for an end of independent budget that just happens to be extremely troubling and is done very well around the world I mean it could just be the fact that they're making so many Marvel movies at the moment they're kind of running out of directors. We you know we need a new guy who we're going to get what's very impressive about this is that when directors sign up to be part of these huge ongoing projects which you know we already know what the next 6 Marvel movies are going to be the danger is that these that they get subsumed into the project take a y.t.d. Has managed to do incredibly well and far better than I thought would be even able to do is imprint his own sensibility on this and he puts himself in the film he plays a character halfway through yet we hear his voice the Billy Corgan is kind of stone character so he's so determined to make sure he has ideas in the film you put himself in the film and it does work very well with him Paul do you think he retains enough of the style or are there still enough of the conventions of the superhero to fill Well I think like the marvel of kind of doing thing where those conventions are pretty elastic and I think because they to me I think this film probably wouldn't have been possible in Marvel wouldn't have sort of gone with it if it hadn't been for the huge success of Guardians Of The Galaxy which I think was their 1st kind of major step into like less familiar characters but also a very kind of fantastical world like not based on Earth or tall and also much more kind of self reflects of humor. And that was a huge hit and was seen to them as being quite a gamble and you can see how now they've sort of had the confidence to just say to take it easy Ok take your crazy vision and do whatever you want with it in terms of how it fits in the wider story I think they've quite wisely not made too many rules about how this needs to tell a story like there's references to I can't remember what they call those these little objects that The Avengers have been pursuing round the universe and infinity still the insanity stern and like thought makes an offhand reference to searching for infinity Stones did. Find any you know like and there is that kind of awareness of the wider story and obviously this character's whole can lowkey Let's talk about that those characters and I show it Chris Hemsworth is a lot shorn Thor. How is he Chris Hemsworth I mean he is such a beautiful jug antic man and he's been working out insanely for this movie his arms are unbelievable in this you you cannot believe they're on the screen but he does have this gift for comedy and you know he turned up in the Ghostbusters remake . As the comic relief and he is he does have great comic timing in this and you know Thor is as always been a bit of a buffoon a bit of a fish out of water. In the 1st film again the brown director did you know he kept getting knocked over by cars and you know he would order beer and then throw the glass away so that there always has been a comic threat to the character but you know they really embrace it here and even if you love the long hair he does look pretty given and the course very credible actress and supporting Rose Mark Russell is the hot Cate Blanchett stories older sister Tom Hiddleston as is troublesome younger brother Luke How did the fear in this franchise installment then do you think Paul and also Tessa Thompson is yes she's brilliant test something is really actually very I think like. What works the reason why it really works the companies because you can these counts in these performances are recognizable So we've seen Loki and we've seen the Hoke in quite a few previous films and even though the comedy of this film is much more overt their performances do fit with the performances that they've done in the previous film it's not like they're changing those characters to make them like Wink knowingly at the camera camera more like So there is still a kind of through line for they are I think Margaret flows great like he gets to become. Bruce Banner for a bit of the film and get some very funny lines where he's attempting to deal with the reality that he's been the hope for quite a long time keep blanche it is interesting she gets a brilliant introduction to a character she's going to so yeah I mean she's actually she looks amazing her 1st scene is like incredible I feel like she's perhaps the one weak point not her performance but just like what they do with that character and how I guess how it develops or doesn't really develop she's basically there to do one thing to be the big threat and I think compared to the things that everyone else gets to do and say in the film she is a little bit limited which is a bit of a shame because she's brilliant she's a brilliant actress and she probably could have done more if given the opportunity quickly Tom Hiddleston Graham as low key and. You like Mark. Thompson It can kind of do the standing on his head now he's kind of got extra stuff I mean I think Hopkins is in this movie as well very briefly has a great time but the massive star in the breakout star of this is Jeff Goldblum you know I think Jeff Goldblum at the center of this movie and he's created a society around the cult of Jeff Goldblum and Tyco Whitey just embraces that So for the middle 3rd of the movie where literally just in Jeff Goldblum world and it's brilliant so Marvel Universe at this in out as they are going to really go with it I think it might even be a little bit shocked at how funny is and it might be a bit like well you know we're supposed to look into the Infinity stones here guys come on Ok so we're spots important and it does almost tipple little bit into kind of a Red Nose Day version of the Marvel all the big names big characters that you're used to coming up to send themselves up but you know I'm glad it got us out there and got another I think was interesting is that significant things are still allowed to happen to key characters like without giving anything away one thing that frustrates me about these films that no one really do. I no one loses anything of significance they just continue in this film that's not true there are don't tell us no no no I'm not going to spoil it but I really like that and you know and you love the film clearly Yeah it's great like think real significant things that will change these characters and future films are allowed to happen in this kind of silly film grammar poem or reviews in a minute Thor Ragna rock is nicer to 12 then we once called one you know a thing but the thing is to usual thing to do something like go in on a sponsored run thing maybe as sponsored run that backwards thing how about running backwards trace a deep seated robot juggling 3 cakes plate you made for your children bake sale or you could just do a sponsored run do your thing for b.b.c. Was single a week Tic-Tac Toe from John John go in a few minutes time we'll be reviewing the new release brief actor Andy Serkis his directorial debut it's to choose story of rope and Diana Cubbon dish played by Andrew Garfield and clear for a couple who refused to give up in the face of a devastate. In disease when Robin is struck down by polio at the age of 28 he is paralyzed from the neck dying confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live against all odds with the help of Diana's twin brothers played by Tom Hollander and the ground breaking ideas of inventor Teddy hole Hugh Bonneville Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward and build a fool life together raising their young son and chopping the world to help transform the lives of other polio patients. The producer of the film is their son Jonathan cabin dish he and his friend actor Andy Serkis who foun