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Commemorations have been taking place both in France and Scotland | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
The First Minister joined other politicians and dignitaries | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
at the battle site, to remember those who died in the bloodiest day | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Our reporter Cameron Buttle has this report. | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
In this small, French village, the commemorations centred on this | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
memorial, which has been dedicated to the battalion of | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
The Royal Scots attacked from just over the skyline on the morning | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
When the whistles blew, 800 men climbed out of the trenches. | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
By the time they got to this position here, | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
670 of them were dead or injured in one hour. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
By this time in the evening, on the first day of the Battle | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
of the Somme, tens of thousands of men lay dead or dying | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
This was the furthest any British unit got on that | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
This one, small stretch of the 14-mile battle front, | :01:13. | :01:24. | |
so many dead and injured for one mile gained, a position | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Then they travelled over to France to commence battle here. | :01:29. | :01:45. | |
The main commemorations were held at the Thiepval memorial, | :01:46. | :01:46. | |
attended by the heads of state of the allied nations, | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
For all of us to have a chance to pay | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
respect, it's important that the new generation carry these | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
lessons of the First World War into the future. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
These are really important occasions. | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
The kings own Scottish Borderers, from the islands to the low lands, | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
cities, towns and villages, the Black Watch, | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
Perhaps it is only those who fought in them understand what it was like. | :02:17. | :02:40. | |
It is sad but you are honoured to be here. Young men from across the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
whole of the nation doing the right thing as it was at that time in this | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
environment. It makes me think about my own mortality as a soldier. | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
In Scotland there have been ceremonies across the country | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
They began last night with a vigil at Edinburgh Castle, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
which concluded this morning with the two-minute silence. | :02:58. | :02:58. | |
After the sun rose this morning, the firing of a gun from the castle | :02:59. | :03:14. | |
walls was the signal for a nation to fall silent. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
That silence was broken by a Wessel, originally belonging to Robert | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
Hamilton, and act military officer loan by his great-nephew. It was a | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
sound that would have sent the soldiers over the top and into | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
battle. -- artillery officer. Around the country the sacrifices of those | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
men were remembered. The loss of more than 1500 men during the battle | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
was marked today in Aberdeen. In Inverness, veterans and others | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
gathered that the city's War Memorial to remember those who never | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
returned. And in Glasgow, volunteers what the seats silently representing | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
individuals who died. Ordinarily people caught up in extraordinary | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
events. A week after Britain | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
voted to leave the EU, The MP Michael Gove, | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
formally beginning his bid to become the next Conservative leader, | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
said he didn't think there'd be a second Scottish | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
independence referendum. Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn | :04:19. | :04:19. | |
remains as Labour leader, but tensions are growing | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
in the Scottish party. Here's our political | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
correspondent Andrew Kerr. The result has left the political | :04:24. | :04:33. | |
class at Westminster reeling. Michael Gove launched his | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
leadership bid today, Mr Gove and the Home Secretary, | :04:37. | :04:37. | |
Theresa May, seem to He said the vote raised profound | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
questions for Scotland and had this brief comment | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
about another referendum. I don't think we're | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
going to have a second To Labour now and their | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
leadership row drags on. The beleaguered Jeremy Corbyn looks | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
like he's survived another day and a leadership challenge | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
might now come next week. At a time when the party could have | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
been exploiting the Tory turmoil. This should have been a week | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
for Labour to come out as a strong party of Opposition | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
at a time when the Government In fact, what we've seen | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
is the exact opposite, with Labour Party also falling apart | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
in front of our very eyes. Jeremy Corbyn no longer commanding | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
the support of his party. Now the Scottish leader | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
was in London today meeting They want to protect | :05:35. | :05:35. | |
Scotland's links with the EU. Further tensions in the Scottish | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
party were clear for all to see, when her deputy, the MSP | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Alec Rowley, criticised MPs for their coup | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
against Jeremy Corbyn. Even though she herself had | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
essentially said his To someone who's had a better week, | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, She met with the president | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
of the Commission. it formally triggers | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
the process of leaving. Pollsters say it's probably | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
the case for the first time in polling history, | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
a majority of Scots are in favour of independence | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
following the referendum. Professor John Curtice says | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
the ability of an independence referendum to deliver continuous | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Scottish membership of the EU At the end of the day, | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
whether or not it's going to be worth the SNP trying to hold | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
a second independence referendum off the back of this Brexit vote | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
will depend whether or not eventually the European Union says | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
look, actually, if you go independent, you're in and you're | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
in on a continuous basis or not. We've seen how the Spanish Prime | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Minister has said look, we shouldn't be talking to Scotland, | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
France has said similar things. Ms Sturgeon's diplomacy | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
will continue, what a week David Anderson, Labour MP | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
for Blaydon, in the north-east of England, is to be the new shadow | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
Scottish secretary. The job became vacant | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
after Edinburgh MP Ian Murray Mr Anderson also became shadow | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Northern Ireland Secretary Royal Troon Golf Club voted | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
overwhelmingly tonight Royal Troon is to host this year's | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
Open later this month. Muirfield voted in May NOT to admit | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
women members and lost its right The Queen has been | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
taking part in her first She presided over the symbolic | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
ceremony of the keys at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh this | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
evening, during which she was handed the keys to the city | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
by the Lord Provost Tomorrow she'll open the new session | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
of the parliament at Holyrood. Let's get the weather | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
outlook for tonight It has spent an evening so far of | :08:01. | :08:13. | |
late sunshine but also scattered heavy showers continuing and some | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
rainbows. Here is one from one of our weather watchers and as we head | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
through the night there will still be showers, mainly to the west and | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
for the least it becomes prior what clear spells and turning chilly | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
especially in rural areas. These scattered showers are the result of | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
low pressure dominating our weather and weather front after weather | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
front pushing and from the Atlantic. By tomorrow morning we continue to | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
see showers towards the west of the country and some sunshine towards | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
the East, so a closer look at 9am tomorrow. There will be heavy | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
showers in the South West and western parts of the central belt as | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
well and along the West Coast. Along the east, some sunshine around | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Aberdeen. They went light on land and the Northern Isles will see some | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
sunny spells and if few isolated showers. As we head through the day | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
showers become more widespread and heady with the risk of hail and | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
thunder across the UK. The showers heaviest towards the north of the | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
country and Scotland and around the mid-teens, perhaps 17 five Aberdeen. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
By Saturday into Sunday, there will be some sunshine further towards | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
late evening for Saturday and for the start of Sunday as well, we're | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
looking at heavy showers towards the north of the country but the bulk of | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
England and Wales and Northern Ireland see some sunshine but also | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
some showers, but they will be fewer and further between compared to | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
recent days. And for the South of England some showers and outbreaks | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
of Shola radian across the south-east lingering into the | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
evening. The temperature on Sunday around 15 but in the breeze it will | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
feel cooler, and that is all for now. | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
From everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around | :10:04. | :10:05. |