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The vote is on. Millions of people answer the question, should Scotland

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be an independent country? Also in the programme, we report on the

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result of another referendum. The Royal and ancient in St Andrews is

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voting to decide whether to let women joined the golf club. A man is

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found guilty of murdering his wife and two-year-old son at their home

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in Midlothian. The French local team adding a continental flavour to the

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semiprofessional Football League in Scotland.

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The people of this country are voting in the referendum to decide

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whether or not Scotland will become an independent country.

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Polling places opened at 7am today, and will remain open

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More than four million people are registered to vote in what's

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At 7 AM, the doors opened on what is expected to be the busiest day in

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Scottish electoral history. More than 97% of the electorate have

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registered to vote, amounting to more than 4.2 million people. Among

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the early voters whether leaders of both sides of the campaign. The 1st

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minister cast his vote in his home constituency in Aberdeenshire.

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Alistair Darling made an early visit to his local polling station in

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Edinburgh. Many 1st-time voters have also been casting their vote. More

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than 100,016 and 17 -year-olds registered. The question being put

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to voters is, should Scotland be an independent country? Thousands of

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people have been specially trained to help people with their vote.

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Tonight the polls will stay open until 10 PM before the votes are

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counted. It may take longer than expected for a result from the

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western isles. The ballot boxes will be taken by fishing boat and rode to

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the count in Stornoway. The declaration there is likely to be

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delayed until 5 AM. It might be quiet here in the referendum studio

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right now but come 10:25pm, this'll be a heart of the action. Our

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presenters will be here to guide you through the story as it evolves. --

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this will be the heart of the action. My colleague, Jeremy Vine,

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will also be here to analyse those faults as they come through. Voting

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takes place across 32 council areas in Scotland. Later when we show the

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results, it is green for yes and read for no. Here they are from

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Aberdeen city to West Lothian in alphabetical order. What if I order

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them in terms of size? We see Glasgow with half a million people

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is the biggest council area. An Edinburgh, then five, Lanarkshire

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and Aberdeenshire. Then we get to Orkney, Shetland with 20,000 people.

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It will be these really huge councils, Glasgow, Edinburgh and so

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on, that I watched particularly keenly on the night. The result is

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expected early tomorrow morning. Election Scotland say the most

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likely time for a declaration is between 6:30am and 7:30 AM.

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Let's go to our reporter, Cameron Buttle, who's at the Royal Highland

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That's the venue for the central count.

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That is where the result will be announced sometime tomorrow. Let's

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have a quick look around. They have been building up the TV studios all

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day. Laura Becker and Andrew Marr will be there later on tonight. This

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is the more traditional site, the counting tables. This is where the

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votes for the Edinburgh area will be counted later tonight. That is

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mirrored across 32 authorities right across Scotland to have been

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bringing in those bashes rabbit who will bring in those ballot boxes

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right across Scotland. -- who will be bringing in those ballot boxes.

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This is expected to be full of hundreds of journalists from all

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over the world sending their stories. There is such a huge

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interest in this story. There is starting to be a bit of a buzz about

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the place already. We have just heard that news from Stornoway. When

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do we expect the final result to come through? All I can give you is

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the best guesses. They are talking about getting the first turnout

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figures from 1 of those 32 local authorities roughly about midnight.

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That will help to build up a national turnout figure some hours

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after that. They were talking about possibly getting some of the results

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for the local authorities at about 1am. Some of those 1 upcoming

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between 3M and 60 M. As for the result itself, the chief accounting

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officer has basically said sometime around breakfast tomorrow. -- 3am

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and 6 AM. Most of the thinking around here is sometimes between 7

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AM and 9am, but that is if everything goes to plan. For the

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first time in its long history, women will be allowed to join the

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Royal and ancient golf club. This news just emerging. Over my

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shoulder is the clubhouse. That is the secretary of the golf club. He

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has been in a meeting with 300 or so members. The result of the poster

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vote they have all been involved in that women will now be allowed to

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become members, a hugely significant moment at the home of golf. A world

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renowned public links open to all. Traditionally less inclusive. For

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260 years, the Royal and Ancient capital G Club held onto its men

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only policy until today. The secretary of the strong hint at the

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outcome. I am hoping for a positive outcome. Our members, who have a

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long record of acting in the best interest of golf will represent the

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golf club well. Why together they faced intense criticism last summer

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for hosting the open championship at real field. Fast forward 14 months

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to a hierarchy encouraging change. They want to grant all 2400 members

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worldwide a postal vote. Today's outcome will not affect the choice

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of open venues. A private club matter but one with a wider context.

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This business model is not 1 that is recommended. There is one source of

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income, the open championship. If the corporate backers suddenly

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decide they do not like what they see and disappear, it has huge

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implications for the working of it. Along the links, mixed views at the

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all ladies patting club. We have to move with the times. They need to

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think again. I do not think they should be dictated to by other

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courses around the world. I do feel if they are administrating male and

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female golf, I can understand why some people are upset. More than two

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and a half centuries of tradition overturned, a significant footnote

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on the day Scots are answering a much bigger question. Is this a sign

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of changing times in golf? You'll agree yes, it is. Two years ago we

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had -- yes, it is. Yesterday, Neal Field, the source of so much

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controversy last summer, said they would review their membership

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policy. The Royal and Ancient say it is a matter for the private members

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club. Their golf is very much a global game where sponsorship is

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very important. Over my shoulder, the media scrum shows how much

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interest there is in the game. Section is very important. This is a

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hugely important moment the game. Still to come

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on tonight's programme... The story of Scotland's

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forgotten golf courses. Lost in the rough of war,

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now rediscovered. After getting dumped out

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of the Champions League, can Celtic And on the day the R might finally

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allow women members, could we possibly see the first

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female winner of the Ayr Gold Cup? A man who killed his wife

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and two-year-old son at their home in Bonnyrigg in Midlothian has been

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found guilty of their murders. Garry Lockhart carried out

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the atrocity after a night He killed his wife and son after a

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night of heavy drinking in December last year. Having returned home at

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2am, three times over the drink-driving limit by his wife felt

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he would be unable to look after their son when he left for work at

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4am. They had an argument and he strangled her. Sometime later he

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smuggled his young son and tried to kill himself, believing they might

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all be reincarnated together. The 33 -year-old funeral director pleaded

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guilty to the murder of his wife and the culpable homicide of his 2

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-year-old son. This latter plea, made on the grounds of diminished

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responsibility, was rejected. Police Scotland said today that only Gary

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Lockhart knows why he took the lives of his wife and son. The case is 1

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of the most heartbreaking the judge had been involved with. Gary

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Lockhart will be sentenced to both murders on 16th of October.

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Reporting from the High Court in Edinburgh.

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An inquest has heard how a zoo keeper from Glasgow was mauled

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to death by a tiger, as she worked in the animal's enclosure

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After the jury's conclusion this afternoon, Sarah McClay's mother and

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partner reacted to the end of the inquest, as Beccy Meehan reports.

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A wildlife lover with her dream job. Working as a zookeeper in Cumbria,

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she was mauled to death by a tiger last year. An inquest heard how the

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24 -year-old from Glasgow was working inside the big cat enclosure

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in the Park in May 2013 when she was killed. Today the jury concluded

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that the male Sumatran tiger walk through the door that had been left

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open and snatched Sarah from the keepers corridor. She loved animals.

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How ironic that she would have been killed by an animal! She respected

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animals and would have known it was only doing something in its nature.

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Much of the testimony focused on how the safety door was open. Earlier

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this week, the zoo owner told the jury how he fired a rifle at the

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tiger to help emergency services get to Sarah. She was a dedicated number

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of animal caring staff. Her enthusiasm unfriendly character were

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appreciated by everyone she met. Separate investigation into the zoo

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is ongoing. For Sarah 's partner, the trauma is very current. What

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could have been... The number of chaplains

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in the workplace has shown a sharp According to

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Workplace Chaplaincy Scotland, there are now 93, operating

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in places like shops, theatres, The man or woman in

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the dog collar provides all kinds of support to people of any faiths and

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free from management interference. Elizabeth Quigley's

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been finding out more. Annie Hogg is a familiar face in

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Pitlochry Festival Theatre. She does not tread the boards, Celtic it's

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all work in the cafe. She is the chaplain. -- sell tickets all work

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in the cafe. I have to be prepared for the unexpected and walk

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alongside what ever is going on with the people who are engaged with the

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particular sorrow, sadness, joy and crisis and be there with them. Not

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trying to mend things for them but just walk alongside them. This role

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of a sympathetic ear and an official go-between is invaluable to both

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employee and employer. -- unofficial. Many of our cast and

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crew come to live here. Perhaps they can often feel quite lonely and

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could potentially feel isolated. Having a chaplain, someone who is

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impartial and not connected with management, for them to be able to

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go there at any time and talk through any issues is incredibly

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valuable. From theatres to shops, workplace chaplains are becoming

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more and more popular. Why is that? We live in challenging times. People

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want someone to speak to. They want someone to listen to them. They want

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someone who values them as a person, not because of what they can

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do that who they are. That is chaplaincy. A theatre chaplain just

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like every chaplain will always be a sympathetic audience.

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250 abandoned golf courses have been discovered across the country.

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The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

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says many of them were lost during the two world wars.

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Others were converted into farmland, or abandoned

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Our environment correspondent, David Miller, reports.

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Scotland 's top golf courses are known around the world. This is a

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story about the countries lost golf courses and why they give us a

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fascinating insight into Scotland 's sporting and social history. This is

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on the banks of the Tay in Perthshire. This golf course was

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developed in the 1920s. In effect, it was one man's private plaything.

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Today it has gone and all but forgotten. Like so many other golf

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courses right across Scotland. I have a photograph here which I have

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marked the bunkers, the Tees and the Greens. I did this before coming to

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the site. The photograph says there is a bunker here. Let's see if we

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can find it. Researchers have been using aerial photography to identify

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key features of the course and hundreds of others. The long gone

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bunkers, greens and fairways reclaimed by nature. People

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concentrate on some of the beautiful links we have. Lots of golf courses

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have been lost without a trace. A few remain behind. Much has changed

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over the years but goal from mains as popular as ever. Researchers have

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already been building up a record of the courses and clubhouses which

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have enjoyed. Why? We have been doing aerial photography of over 500

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golf courses. That means we have incredible coverage of the landscape

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of Scotland and how golf courses fit into that. The aerial images and

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archive photographs of the lost golf courses and those which survived now

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easier to find. They are all available online, just in time for

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the Ryder Cup. Let's get all the sport now from

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Jonathan. We start with the Europa League and

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Celtic who are now half way through Ronnie Delia's side away to the

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Austrian champions, FC Salzburg. The match kicked off at 6 PM. It was

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a perfect start for Celtic. They scored the opening goal.

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Unfortunately Salzburg equalised. What a way to announce his Celtic

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debut! It is now 1-1 in that match. Paul Hartley has turned

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down the chance to become The Dundee boss was offered

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the job before Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stepped down in the Welsh capital

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at lunchtime today. Hartley, who was appointed at

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Dens Park in February, has two years In a statement, the club,

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who are unbeaten so far in the Premiership this season,

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said Hartley had long term plans to A former Strictly Come Dancing star

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thinks he knows which horse is going The race which is the highlight

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of the Scottish flat season takes And, as John Barnes reports,

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history could be made This is a trophy which awaits the

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winner on Saturday. The draw to determine the stall the horses will

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start in was drawn by Miss Scotland and a former footballer, no more

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recently better known for his moves on the dance floor. He is here in

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air, strictly for the racing. I was here last year. I enjoyed the

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experience. I was invited back this year. I like watching the racing.

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There was a fantastic atmosphere and I am delighted to be back. Do you

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have a tip? I wanted Jack Dexter to win last year. There has not been a

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Scottish trained winner since 1979. The Scottish cup was won 200 and

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grams -- 210 years ago. There has never been a female jockey win this

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event. Is that all about to change this year? I would hope so. The

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horses in great form and is of confidence. It is pretty versatile.

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The flat track will suit him. She rides Lane, which was trained by her

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father. Does that add added pressure? It is like riding for any

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of the trainer. I took there was plenty of money changing hands. Who

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will be waltzing off with this Trophy on Saturday and the ?100,000

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first prize? The result from the Royal and

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ancient golf club of St Andrews. We have voted overwhelmingly in favour

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of welcoming women members. More than three quarters of the club 's

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global membership took part in the ballot with a decisive 85% voting

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for women to become members. This boat has immediate effect and I can

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confirm that the Royal and ancient golf club of St Andrews is now a

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mixed membership club. The membership also acted to fast track

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a significant initial number of women to become members in the

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coming months. This is a very important and positive day in the

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history of the club. The R and A has served the sport of golf well for

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260 years. I am confident that the club will continue to so do in

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future with the support of all of its members both men and women.

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Thank you. Stirring times. Thank you.

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The unprecedented entry of a brand new team into the South of Scotland

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semi-professional league this season is causing a bit of a stir.

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The players of Hamilton-based Edu-sport Academy are

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adding a distinctly continental flavour to the competition.

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Come on, the Reds. It might be a common touchline shout. Allez les

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rouge would make these players feel at home. I consider myself to be a

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failed professional footballer but that lead me to value the link

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between education and development. That is what gave birth to this

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academy. I had the idea to take French footballers to Scotland. They

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are living in student accommodation at the University of the West of

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Scotland and attend classes at Coatbridge College. On the football

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front, the coaching team is led by a French man who starred for Hibs and

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made Scotland his home. It is quite a lot of excitement. I think

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everything is beneficial for them. A handful of players have been signed

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by Scottish clubs in the programme 's first three years, most notably

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Morton goalkeeper. The hope is that regular competitive action this

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season in the South of Scotland league as well as friendlies against

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professional clubs under 20s teams will help some of these players to a

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career in the bon jeu. I understand it is very difficult and I have to

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work hard. This would be wonderful. It is a very good country. The

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Scottish person is welcoming. For success in this academy, I have

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everything. Let's see how

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the weather is shaping up now. Fairly cloudy across most parts of

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the country. In the west and south-west, temperatures were up to

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22 degrees. Tonight clad it once again with the mist and fog.

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Extensive across eastern Scotland and slowly spreading inland. At

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times the cloud is big enough for one tonight spots of rain or

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drizzle. Some patch sub missed as well. Not a cold night. -- patches

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of missed as well. Tomorrow, a familiar, cloudy, murky and misty

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start in places. Slowly improving across western and south-western

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parts of the country and also showery rain in the Northwest.

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Fairly cloudy but tending to brighten up with some hazy sunshine

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coming through. There is that line of showery rain. Behind it some

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fresh and bright conditions for the Western Isles as we head through the

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day. Orkney and Shetland will still see the showery outbreaks of rain.

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Through Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, Angus and Fife. Fyffes, it is still

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cloudy. Some brightness as we head towards the latter stages of the

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day. Into the evening some showers in the north but never affecting

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central and southern parts of the country. You can see the cold front

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bringing showery rain tomorrow. It will be followed by high pressure

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which will settle things down. A cloudy start in the South East. Some

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decent bright or sunny spells around. One or 2 very light showers.

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It will be cooler than of late. Similar on Sunday. That bit cloudier

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towards the north and east. It should be brighter than we have seen

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over the last few days. That is the forecast. A reminder of tonight 's

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main news... Millions of people have been heading to the polls to decide

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whether Scotland should become an independent nation. In stations are

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open until 10 PM. A British hostages shown in a new video from a ceramic

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state extremists. The man identifies himself as journalist John Cantley

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and says he has been held prisoner. For the first time in its over 200

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year history, women will be allowed to join the Royal and ancient golf

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club of St Andrews. Within just the last few minutes, members have been

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told the results of a vote on the issue, which has been the source of

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much controversy for the glove. I will be back with the headlines at

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8pm. And our referendum results

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coverage starts at 10:25pm Tomorrow there will be

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an extended lunchtime and a special programme

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from Edinburgh at 6:30pm. Do join us then for reports

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and analysis.

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