14/06/2014 Reporting Scotland

baton through. The baton will now go on to more than 400 communities

before the start of The Queen's Baton Relay has arrived

in Scotland ahead Over the next 40 days it will travel

the length and breadth of Scotland. And tonight it's in Edinburgh,

from where we join our Games Graham, you join me at Princes

Street Gardens, where there has been a concert this evening to celebrate

the first day of the Queen's baton arrival in squat pond. -- in

Scotland. The baton has been carried down into the stand by the

Commonwealth games former gold medallist Alex Arthur. Here's the

last baton bearer of the day, 100 have carried it throughout its first

day in Scotland, where it began its journey first thing this morning in

Coldstream. There is an old Borders phrase,, and you may see the same of

the baton as it is brought in on a ghillie.

Daley Thompson handed it to Eilidh Child, gold medal hopeful for

Glasgow. From there to Edinburgh, and

on-board a tram. Much to the surprise of passengers.

I am going into town to get my hair done.

I have got a ticket for the opening ceremony in Glasgow. It made

everyone feel so happy, it is a lovely design and it is special.

This is the start of the hand to hand baton relay, for the next 40

days it will be carried up and down the country.

Michael Lang, the baton bearer, designed the 1986 baton.

In 1986 things were very different. I love the new baton today and it

has been designed with electronics and lot of new people. In 1986 it

was me and a sketch pad. Then on to the castle when a 21 gun salute

healed of the Queen's Birthday. The relay continued down the Royal

mile to Parliament. Then a chance to soak up the

atmosphere at Meadowbank, host of two previous games.

That baton will go right round the country, 400 towns and villages from

the Shetland Isles to everywhere. Thousands of people will get a

chance to carry the baton is what will be fantastic for all of

Scotland. The baton is designed to be handled and to infuse.

Edinburgh has enjoyed its chance to get involved.

Of course, no tour would be complete without a visit to the Commonwealth

pool. It will soon be in the limelight again, our host for a

third Commonwealth Games. Tomorrow the baton goes to West

Lothian where there are a series of special events planned in the likes

of Linlithgow and Livingston. Every day it is inching closer to

the opening ceremony on July the 23rd at Celtic park.

And you can see live streaming on when it visit your community on the

BBC News website. People from across Scotland and

from all walks of life have been recognised

in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Professor Tom Devine from the

University of Edinburgh has been knighted for his services to the

study of Scotland's history. He paid tribute to his family, colleagues

and students. The Chief Executive of the Edinburgh

Festival fringe Society for the past five years is made CBE.

There is an MBE for Edinburgh born Dario Franchitti, who has won the

Indianapolis 500 multiple times. His driving career was ended by a

crash at the end of last year. And another MBE for 24-year-old Fraser

Doherty, who turned his grandmother 's jam recipes into a thriving

business based in the capital and selling round the world.

The Stornoway rower Neil Iain Macdonald who is

attempting to cross the Atlantic from New York to the Western Isles,

He contacted a control centre in Cornwall reporting that he'd got

Time for the weather outlook for tonight and tomorrow.

It has been lovely weather for most of today and we can expect more of

the same next week. It will not be wall-to-wall sunshine, as today

parts of the northern isles have struggled with cloud, but where we

have had the sunshine in the south-west we got up to 22 Celsius.

A few showers this evening but they will die away to leave a dry night

with clear spells. Becoming quite misty come especially in the Glens

and scarcely a breath of wind tonight, mild and humid and

temperatures holding up at 13 Celsius. Tomorrow is a repeat

performance, loud and missed-macro in the morning, that will burn off

allowing the cloud to break and some spells of sunshine. There will be

some showers around but very isolated, light, mainly over hills

in the East. Good spells of sunshine getting temperatures widely up to

the high teens or the low 20s. There is more tomorrow at lunchtime.

From all of us, have a good night. Goodbye.

But from all of us on the team, goodbye.