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Urgent repairs are needed to Scotland's roads, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The body of missing fisherman Andrew Livingstone has been found | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
in Orkney - the search for his brother continues. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
As Zika arrives in Scotland, we hear from an expert | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
at the forefront of the global battle against the virus. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Have you ever considered a digital detox? | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Almost 60% of us think we're hooked on the internet. | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
I know that when I spend a day in the landscape without my phone and I | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
am aware of others doing the same, it is so much healthier. And more | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
from Rio as a former Olympic champion tips the Scottish swimmers | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
to shine at these games. Potholes - the scourge of many | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
a driver and cyclist. And a new report agrees, | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
saying Scotland's roads Audit Scotland claims one in three | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
council roads are poorly maintained, and spending on road maintenance has | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
fallen between 2011 and 2015. Every single road, there are | :01:17. | :01:34. | |
potholes. June has been a career in Edinburgh for 32 years. It's not | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
very good coming onto this road in the morning after you have had your | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
breakfast. With a fleet of vans, motorcycles and bicycles, bumpy | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
roads are bad for business. I have had crystal, bottles, and every | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
road, you are petrified in case something gets broken or the samples | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
leak. Today's report shows over a third of council roads need repairs, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
with trunk roads and motorways also deteriorating. This car has been | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
driving into town, went down a pothole, and it has damaged this | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
part. And this is where the cost of poor roads is felt. As you can see, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
broken off at the end. Scotland has poor roads is felt. As you can see, | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
the worst record for pothole damage in the UK. During the week, we | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
change approximately a dozen coil springs. It is very common. Scotland | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
has 56,000 kilometres of roads. Most, like this one, are managed by | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
local authorities. They're spending has gone down 14%, but when it comes | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
to trunk roads and motorways, in England spending is 25 times higher | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
than it is in Scotland. It is a huge issue of concern to the public. 57% | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
of the public in the Scottish household survey indicated | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
dissatisfaction with the state of the roads. The local authority | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
organisation say they are doing well, despite stretched finances. I | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
would not argue that our roads are perfect, but in the last three | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
years, the roads being looked after by local authorities have stayed | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
stable and have not got worse. At a time of austerity and less money for | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
councils, that is a good result. The government says it is listening. The | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
state of the roads is a priority for us. We have invested ?6.5 billion | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
which we had not invested since 2007. We are investing in major | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
infrastructure projects. Where the report says we can do more, we will | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
look to do that. But with more and more roads showing signs of | :03:53. | :03:53. | |
disrepair, it appears that money more roads showing signs of | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
will have to be found to keep motorists satisfied. | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
Let's go to our local government correspondent, | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
Jamie, given that council budgets are tight, can anything be done | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
That is an important part of this story. Councils tend to spend money | :04:06. | :04:20. | |
filling in potholes when it is an issue. There is a big pothole here. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
In an ideal world, many would accept that it would be better to change | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
the emphasis to spending more on preventative work to stop the | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
potholes from appearing in the first place and keep the roads in good | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
condition. The problem with doing that is that it can be more | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
expensive to begin with, even if it proves to be better value in the | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
long term. That is a big issue at a proves to be better value in the | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
time when budgets are tight. The other question is whether the system | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
for maintaining local roads could be better. At the moment, each council | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
decides for itself how much it needs to spend on local road maintenance. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Really all of them have their own separate road departments. One | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
question is whether there could be more regional coordination. Another | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
question is whether you could see shared services to try to cut the | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
overheads and spend more on the roads. Again, that means spending | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
more. This is not an easy to solve. A fisherman whose body was recovered | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
from a loch in Orkney yesterday has been named by police as 71-year-old | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Andrew Livingstone. He was found after a search | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
operation involving coastguard, Andrew Livingstone stayed just a few | :05:24. | :05:39. | |
miles down the road from the board house loch, where he and brother | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Boyd had come to fish on Tuesday evening. The search was launched | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
early yesterday afternoon and by late afternoon, Mr Livingstone's | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
body had been recovered from the loch as well as the small boat the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
pair had been on. That search effort has continued today. Members of the | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
local community have been assisting police and coastguard teams to try | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
and locate Boyd Livingstone. The pair were well known on the local | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
angling circuit. They were very experienced by all accounts, and | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
liked to go out on the loch to fish for brown trout. They lived in a | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
nearby area, a small village, a community tonight which has been | :06:17. | :06:17. | |
rocked by these events. At least one Scot has been caught up | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
in an attack on foreign tourists They were among 12 travellers | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
ambushed while on their way Six were injured, as well | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
as an Afghan driver. The aftermath of a brutal attack in | :06:27. | :06:40. | |
Herat province in the north-west corner of Afghanistan. The targets - | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
an international group of travellers who had chosen to go there, despite | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
the danger. One news agency reports a spokesman for the local Governor | :06:52. | :06:52. | |
saying: 12 foreigners were travelling. Among | :06:53. | :07:10. | |
the 12, there were Americans, British, a Scot. And now I have got | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
a picture from the scene from a local journalist. When you see this | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
picture, the minibus is totally destroyed. They were very lucky to | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
escape this attack. It is understood that the group had been in Darmian | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
escape this attack. It is understood and may have been on their way to | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
the city of Herat when they were attacked. It may seem unlikely, but | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
search the internet and there are companies offering holidays in | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
Afghanistan. This business, based in west Yorkshire, has a group in the | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
area where the attack happened at the moment. I have been trying to | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
contact them to get a comment. On their website, they say that some | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
will regard it as premature to go to Afghanistan, given the continued | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
conflict there and a lack of effective government control. But, | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
they say, tourists going to Afghanistan and spending money there | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
is a way of bringing direct benefit to local people, many of whom are | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
still desperately poor. The Foreign Office has confirmed that it is | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
providing assistance to British nationals involved in the attack in | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Herat, and is coordinating closely with local authorities. It is a | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
dilemma. The hope is that tourism, money and jobs may freeze out the | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
violence, but perhaps today's use shows that they react to that by | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
proving that they can strike anywhere. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
The Government says there's no public health risk in Scotland | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
It follows the news that a small number of people have been diagnosed | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
More than 50 people across the UK have been treated for the infection, | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
which is associated with severe birth defects in babies. | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
This is what the Chief Medical Officer had to say. | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
There is no health risk to the general public. The virus is | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
transmitted by a mosquito and there are no mosquitoes in Scotland, but | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
because our climate is too cold. There is a very small risk of sexual | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
transmission, and people who have been infected are advised very | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
carefully about how to minimise transmission to sexual partners. | :09:17. | :09:17. | |
Just before we came on air, I spoke to Dr Mario Stevenson. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Born in Airdrie and now living in Miami, he's one of the world's | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
leading infectious disease researchers and is at the forefront | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
of the global battle against the Zika virus. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Dr Stevenson, we have been assured there is no public health risk in | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Scotland from the small number of confirmed cases. It couldn't be | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
clearer. Are we and the world overreacting to Zika? I think the | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
response in Scotland is spot on. There is no risk to the population. | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
The situation is different in terms of women who are planning pregnancy. | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
The message is clear - stay away from regions where Zika is endemic, | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
protect yourself. And if you can avoid travel to those areas, do so. | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
It is not worth the risk. You are investigating this all the time. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
What is your biggest worry as you wrestle with it? We don't want to be | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
complacent. We want to put the risks in perspective. It is up to | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
scientists and public health officials to be responsible and not | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
exaggerate the situation or frighten the population. But at the same | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
time, I keep repeating myself, we hope for the best, but we prepare | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
for the worst. Six months ago, the Governor of Florida declared a state | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
of emergency in Florida. People thought that was an overreaction to | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
the possibility that Zika could spread in Florida. Now we have 14 | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
cases of local infection, individuals who contacted the virus | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
in Miami. So that was the right message. My fear is that we want to | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
hit that sweet spot of being cautious, but not over extending the | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
fear of Zika infection. It is serious for pregnant women, but for | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
everybody else? For most people, you would not know you were infected. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
There are no symptoms. So to the general public, there is no risk, | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
but to the pregnant woman, the situation is grave. That cannot be | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
overstated. And no danger from midges? No danger from midges, | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
correct, other than the nuisance they always present at picnics. | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
Thank you very much. An elderly man has been rescued | :11:46. | :11:46. | |
by firefighters after becoming stranded on an island | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
in the River Don at Inverurie. He was walking his dogs at the time, | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
and they were also taken to safety. A specialist fire service water | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
rescue team was deployed to bring The man is not thought to have been | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
hurt, and the dogs were looked "Insensitive and offensive" - | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
that's how the makers of the global gaming craze Pokemon Go | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
are being described after they sited an animated character on a memorial | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
to offshore workers who died The group who maintain | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
the Piper Alpha statue and garden It's the latest craze. Pokemon, a | :12:21. | :12:38. | |
virtual game, the aim to capture animated characters that pop up on | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
your smartphone and local landmarks. Just grew up playing the games, and | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
I have gone back to being a 12-year-old. It's really fun, and it | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
makes you get out and about. Pokemon and his friends are popping up all | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
over the place, but are not always welcome. What do you think when you | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
see this? I suppose it's the future, but as far as I am concerned, I | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
don't think it has a place here. 167 men died in the Piper Alpha disaster | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
in 1988. This memorial was created for their loved ones. For the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
families, their friends and people associated with Aberdeen, this is a | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
place of reflection and remembrance. The last thing that everybody wants | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
connected to this monument is to have hordes of people basically | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
fussing around the site, looking for these virtual Pokemon characters. | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
Those concerns are shared by others. There are a lot of silly places. A | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
crazy idea that people who come here to look for a Pokemon on top of the | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
statue. I would say it is inappropriate. And it's not just | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
there that the game has been causing distress. Nearby, this baby 's | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
memorial garden has also had a Pokemon character. The charity has | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
been in contact with the game makers, asking them to remove it. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
Game makers Nintendo have also had requests to remove Pokemon | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
characters from the Hiroshima peace Memorial Park and Auschwitz. The | :14:19. | :14:19. | |
company has yet to comment. In the summer of 1971, | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
Scots watching television had their viewing interrupted | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
by a four-minute video of water The video - unannounced | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
and unexplained - was in fact a work of art, | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
one of a number made by artists placed in organisations | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
around the country. Now an exhibition at | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
the Edinburgh Fringe is celebrating the work | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
of the Artist Placement Group. Our arts correspondent | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
Pauline McLean reports. This installation is a work by David | :14:44. | :14:56. | |
hall. In a gallery in Edinburgh, it's easy to see David hall's TV | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
interruptions as artworks. But when he first made them in the summer of | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
1971 during a placement as an artist with Scottish television, it was a | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
lot less obvious. Viewers switched on their TVs to see this, four | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
minutes of a tap running, with no explanation. David hall observed | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
different examples of people acting rather surprised, but there was | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
another example where he went into a local shop and told staff that a | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
piece of his work was now on television, then he had to go out | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
through the back door because they were getting really aggressive and | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
reacting not very positively to it. Hall was one of a number of artists | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
embedded with British companies as part of the Artist Placement Group. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
As well as Scottish television, others worked with British steel and | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
even the Scottish office. John Latham, who worked there, even had | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
his own office where he focused on the post-industrial landscape. These | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
waste tips were works of art to him in their own right. His widow | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Barbara was the driving force behind the APG, writing hundreds of letters | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
to request placements. The thing we negotiated with these organisations | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
was the open brief that they wouldn't know, that they would take | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
us on and we would not be required to say what we were going to do. So | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
it was a risk initiative, and a lot of people don't want to take risk. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
At the time, artists were also thought of as painter or sculptor. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
The exhibition celebrates the legacy of those artists who wanted to make | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
art and everyday experience, and perhaps offers an explanation to | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
those who switched on their TV in the 1970s and were baffled by what | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
they saw. Only to our own special artwork, | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
David. Celtic's manager Brendan Rodgers | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
is urging fans to be patient and to trust the players | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
as they try to make it After beating Astana in a tense | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
encounter, Celtic are one round away from the group stage, | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
and now know the five potential opponents waiting | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
in tomorrow's draw. Supporters are often described as | :17:11. | :17:26. | |
being the 12th man, inspiring players to great things. Celtic's | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
and claim some credit for their team's latest triumph. The first | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
goal came from the penalties spot. goal came from the penalties spot. | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
-- penalty spot. Griffith gave them the lead. This exceptional equaliser | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
made for a night of high anxiety in the stands. The stress levels eased | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
only in stoppage time. Another penalty. And another goal. The | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
French ban's first for the club, earning them a place in the final | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
qualifying round while supporters earning them a place in the final | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
and a mild rebuke. They were unbelievable tonight. I think they | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
need to show patience as well. I am a Celtic supporter. I know what they | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
want. I know how desperately they wanted. They put players on edge at | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
times full stop instead of having the edginess, trust the players. A | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
little patience is also required a Celtic supporters wait to find at | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
who they will play in the next round. Finding out tomorrow if it is | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
dynamo so grab or a Bulgarian team, FC Copenhagen, Dundalk from Ireland | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
or an Israeli side. Supporters know what the manager expects. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
It's 1-1 from the first leg, as both clubs aim for | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
But they do so in trying circumstances, as | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
A small memorial outside Maribor's Stadium. The Aberdeen manager laid | :19:00. | :19:18. | |
this tribute to the two young players who died. People deal with | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
things in different ways. We want to block it out and focus on the game. | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
It may play a part in their minds. It gives them a boost in a way, to | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
try harder to win the game. The sympathies of these Aberdeen fans | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
will give way at kick-off time to a fervent desire to see their own | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
team, on top. Maribor hold a slight advantage. They scored an away goal | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
in the 1-1 draw. That means Aberdeen have to score to get any chance of | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
progressing. They will need to do that without the injured Johnny | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
Hayes. He has been a big part of Aberdeen performance going forward. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
It will be a tricky situation trying to replace him. Possibly they will | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
shuffle around the pack and go with one up front instead of the two that | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
worked so well last week. We'll be interesting to see what Derek does. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
One other factor to content with in this pretty Slovenian town is the | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
searing heat. Temperatures were around 30 degrees this afternoon and | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
forecasts still to be in the mid-20s this evening. | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
Andy Murray has spoken of the honour of being chosen to be | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
the British Team's flag bearer at the Olympic Games | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
Murray will lead Team GB's athletes into the Maracana Stadium | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
in a ceremony watched on TV by millions of people worldwide. | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
Last night was amazing. I was just getting into bed at about 11:15pm. I | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
was in my pants. Our team leader came and said we need to speak to | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
you. I'd jumped out of bed, ran downstairs. I was speechless. I did | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
not know what to say. I was repeating myself, I think, a knot, | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
saying how honoured I was. -- honoured. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Let's get more from our team in Rio now as the build-up | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
Officials in the Brazilian city are adamant it will all be a huge | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
success, despite a variety of concerns over | :21:37. | :21:37. | |
After the opening ceremony tomorrow, the action will get under way in | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
earnest on Saturday. The focus, much of it, we'll be here, in the pool, | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
in the Aquatic Centre in the Olympic Park. There are eight Scottish | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
swimmers in Team GB. Hannah Miley and Ross Murdoch are both in action | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
on day one. Much is expected from the Scottish swimming pair. They put | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
the training in and now the Olympics weight was in the last two years, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Murdoch has a one world, Commonwealth and European medals | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
will Olympic success come next? I am delighted with the way things are | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
going. I am in the shape of my life. I'm having fun and enjoying the | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
process as well. Scots make up a third of the GB swim team, evidence | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
process as well. Scots make up a that Scottish swimming is in a good | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
place, according to this former Olympic champion. We have centres of | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
excellence around the UK. Sterling is really strong that they -- is | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
really strong. Not too many Scottish women swimmers in the team. Lots of | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
competition. I'm sure there will be some Scottish medals this week. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Hannah Miley in her third Olympics competes on day one in the pool and | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
in her favourite event, the 400 metres individual medley. Hannah | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
Miley and Ross Murdoch start that Olympic campaign in the pool on | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Saturday. Before that, there is the opening ceremony with Andy Murray | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
leading out Team GB and carrying the British flag. Plenty more on that on | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
tomorrow night's Reporting Scotland. Digital overload is driving more and | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
more robust to drastic solutions. You see | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
it everywhere. Using smartphones and other devices to access the internet | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
is now second nature. The range and scope of what can do online growth | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
daily as evidenced here at the Edinburgh Digital entertainment | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
Festival. The new survey suggests many internet users have concerns. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Going online is a way of life for many of us. Lots of people so using | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
the internet is a positive experience. There is another side as | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
well as respondents to the Ofcom survey shows. 60% of people said | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
they felt that to the devices are used to access the internet, whether | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
it was a laptop or smartphone. 25% because they purposely spent time | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
away the internet in order to digitally detox. 45% said they felt | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
more productive as a result. Not everyone is happy. 21% people said | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
they felt lost whenever unplugged from the internet. It is a habit | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
that is hard to shake. It is quite hard not to be on it. It comes to | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
the end of the day, even if I am unwinding in front of a laptop or | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
whatever, I will with my phone next to me, checking and trying to keep | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
up to date with people on social media all the time. Ofcom says the | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
public is becoming more clued up about switching off technology. For | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
a certain proportion of people in Scotland, they are hooked. What we | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
found is some of these people do recognise this and are taking steps, | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
positive steps, to try to detox. In other words, they are not using | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
devices for a period of time. A wider IT of users are now | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
re-engaging with the outside world. I have to use technology all the | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
time that is part of my practice. When I spend a day in the landscape | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
without my phone, and we're working with others doing the same, it is so | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
much healthier. Seven out of ten people also said they had been | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
snubbed by someone they were with he was on a smartphone. There is a | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
game. You really like it and then you have to turn it off. Sometimes | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
you get in an argument. It is good because it is good for chatting. It | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
keeps you connected as well. It does have its prose. The families living | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
down south, so it is an easy way to keep in touch. If -- it is messaging | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
apps which takes a much of our time online. Is the technology serving as | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
or have we become slaves to it? Good evening. Many and ascended the | :26:09. | :26:22. | |
down a fine note with bright and sunny south coming throughput of | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
this lovely pictures and timber one of our weather watchers. There have | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
been one or two heavy downpours across the Lothians and eastern | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
borders. As we head into the evening be largely dry. We will see some | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
late spells brightness coming through. Across the North and | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
north-east, it has been cloudy, to the day. Only cloud lingering across | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
the Coast. Clear spells developing ebonite and turning quite chilly | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
temperatures in towns and cities down to 8 degrees. The winds will be | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
lighter. Tomorrow, good deal of sunshine around to start the day. A | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
brief ridge of high pressure for a time for study will see more in the | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
way of cloud coming in from the West. -- a time. A few scattered | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
showers to their living by the afternoon. Here is 4pm you can see a | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
scattering of summer showers, some may be quite sharp in the North | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
West. Some sunshine around the showers and temperatures widely in | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
the high teens may be 19, 20 across the day. The area of whether | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
bringing the showers will clear away on Friday night and they'll become | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
quite cool once again on Friday night. You can see behind me an area | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
of low pressure which will bring some unseasonably wet and windy | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
weather in times of the weekend. Saturday does start of dry with a | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
good deal of sunshine around. Cloud thickening across the north-west. | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
The start to see some outbreaks of rain and strengthening winds coming | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
in from the south. As the air is coming in from the south, ill be | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
quite 20. The winds are concerned. quite 20. The winds are concerned. | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
-- are of concern. With a few gusts of 45, 50 miles an hour, maybe up to | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
60 miles an hour across the Western Isles. Whilst not unusual for | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
Scotland it is unusual for this time of year. That is | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at eight and the late bulletin just | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
Can't have a day off, can't afford it, cos Rio's around the corner. | :28:23. | :28:38. | |
I think I know you, and you surprise me again. | :28:39. | :28:42. |