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BBC News at six. It is goodbye from me. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
An oil rig is beached in the Western Isles. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
It broke free from a tug last night on the west of Lewis. | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
And is being monitored for any pollution threat. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Forensic teams examine a supermarket carpark in Renfrewshire. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Detectives are investigating the rape of a teenager. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
The economic outlook - exports and tourism look strong - | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
but business surveys show signs of a downturn. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Edinburgh Castle explodes in colour - | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
as the International Festival gets underway. | :00:39. | :00:50. | |
I am at the Olympic Park in Rio, reflecting on some good Scottish | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
performances today and what we can expect over the weekend. | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
An oil rig - with 70,000 gallons of diesel on board - | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
is aground on a beach in the Western Isles. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
It was blown ashore in last night's storms, after breaking free | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
from a tug which was towing it to the west of Lewis. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
A Marine Accident Investigation is underway and the coastguard | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
It was en route from Norway and undertow when it broke at 420 in the | :01:27. | :01:41. | |
morning, the weather has been rough in the Western Isles since Saturday | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
afternoon with gusts of up to 60 mph. There are people here who have | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
their livelihood is dependent on fishing and fish farming and tourism | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
and the main tourist attraction is one mile up the coast from where | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
this has happened and if this had been an oil tanker the place would | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
have been devastated. In a way the people of Lewis have been fortunate | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
this was not a tanker carrying some horrible cargo which could have | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
caused pollution of the many years horrible cargo which could have | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
to come but it raises questions, chief amongst these, whether they | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
should be an emergency towing vessel which could deal with such | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
incidents. Two tugs already on station, one based in Shetland, a | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
salvage team is expected to arrive on the scene and the Secretary of | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
State's representative will be here this evening. The island | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Parliamentary representatives have called for a review of the decision | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
to not have an emergency towing vessel stations nearby. The UK | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Government have agreed to continue provision as Karen Lee is not | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
adequate -- as it is currently, but it is not adequate, we are not | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
talking about the middle of winter, we are talking about August and | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
benign conditions, but still accidents can happen like this. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Angus is there tonight, what are the next steps in the salvage operation? | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
The next steps, three articulated lorries are coming with salvage | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
equipment, salvage company has been contracted to do the salvage work | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
and it is expected that a third tug might come over from Aberdeen and I | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
believe it is on the way. There will be a meeting tomorrow morning with | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
the Secretary of State's representative come the Marine | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
accident investigation Branch and local representatives of the | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
emergency services and they will decide what happens, the wind is | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
expected to go down and the next high tide is not until nine days | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
hence, so unless they can do something before the next high tide | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
it could be some days before we see some action. Everything will become | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
clearer tomorrow by lunchtime and we will see what action they are going | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
to take. Thanks for joining us. A 14-year-old girl has | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
been raped outside The girl was attacked shortly | :04:17. | :04:17. | |
after 8pm last night as she left the store | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
in the Main Street Shopping Our reporter, John McManus, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
is there for us. This is the scene behind me where | :04:25. | :04:38. | |
the 14-year-old was raped last night in Barrhead. The incident began at | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
the town's Asda store, they say the girl was cycling around and she | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
stopped in the supermarket and when she came out she was approached by a | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
man who forced her across the Main Street, to the spot behind me, where | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
she was raped. Police say it was an extremely traumatic event, | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
unsurprisingly, and they have had forensic experts out combing the | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
area for evidence and they have also issued a description of the suspect | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
they want to speak to, mail, aged between 20 and 30, wearing a grey | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
top with a zip and he was carrying a large black holdall and he was | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
wearing a white trilby. They have also said they know the suspect was | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
inside Asda before he approached the girl so they are examining footage. | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
They also examining CCTV footage from the parade of shops close to | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
the spot, but one of the shop owners I spoke to said she is not waiting | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
for the police and she has already started looking through her own | :05:44. | :05:44. | |
footage because she is so anxious to started looking through her own | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
help police catch this man. Thanks for joining us. | :05:49. | :06:03. | |
One year on from a BBC Reporting Scotland investigation, | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
the cash available to parents who need help to pay | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
for their children's school uniforms still varies widely depending | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
Anti-poverty campaigners say the situation needs to change. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Buying a school uniform can be an expensive business, some estimate | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
the cost at least ?129 per child, and for some families it is simply | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
not affordable. Today in Dundee these mothers gathered to hear the | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
equality secretary announced long-term bands to eradicate child | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
poverty -- plans. But for some their concern was the more immediate | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
pressure of buying school clothes. It is quite stressful because kids | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
like certain clothes and it is kind of expensive, as well, brand names. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
There is a system in place to help low income families pay for uniforms | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
which is run by a local authority, but the levels of cash available | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
varies widely from council to counsel, from ?20 in Angus to ?110 | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
in West Lothian. Across Scotland's 32 council areas there has been very | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
little change in the levels of payment available since BBC Scotland | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
first looked at this issue almost one ago. So now anti-poverty | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
campaigners want ministers to bring in a minimum school clothing grant | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
to alleviate the pressure on less well off parents. That is causing | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
stress amongst parents, in some cases leading families into debt and | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
where they can't get uniform together for their children children | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
are going back to school feeling uncomfortable and they are not | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
equipped to learn and some of them are getting into trouble with their | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
teachers for not having the uniform they need and some are being | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
bullied. The Scottish Government gains new powers to bring in a | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
clothing grant earlier this year and says it is listening -- gained. It | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
is not acceptable there is such a wide variation in school clothing | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
grants across Scotland and we are determined with our partners in | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
local government to address this issue, it is a matter of equality | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
school uniform is a huge undertaking school uniform is a huge undertaking | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
-- I certainly recognise. Ministers will begin talks with a council | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
group, but the question from councils at the moment, if there is | :08:29. | :08:29. | |
a minimum grant, who pays? For many teenagers | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
an anxious night awaits - they'll be receiving | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
their exam results tomorrow. Our education correspondent | :08:37. | :08:37. | |
Jamie McIvor is at the helpline in Glasgow for anyone who needs | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
advice if they don't get the results 140,000 candidates will be | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
getting their exam results tomorrow. More than a third of them won't be | :08:45. | :08:58. | |
waiting for the postman, though. They've signed up to get notified | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
by text or e-mail so they'll know how they've done before | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
the certificate comes As ever, there will be some | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
who are disappointed. Especially if they didn't | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
meet their conditional offer So the helpline here | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
will be up and running. The deputy first minister | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
visited this afternoon. Trained advisors here have | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
information on the clearing system, college courses, apprenticeship | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
schemes and the like. The advisers are well trained to | :09:23. | :09:35. | |
have an appreciation of all of the opportunities and options that are | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
available for young people, no matter the results they have | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
received. Even if young person gets results which are not good as they | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
anticipated, the helpline is here to give all the necessary assistance | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
and I would encourage young people to use that service. Many candidates | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
are going to be nervous tonight, so you might want to note down the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
helpline number. Some might be worrying about their higher English, | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
- it was changed at relatively short notice. | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
We'll know tomorrow if the replacement paper had any | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Another question will be how this year's Higher Maths exam proved. | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
Last year the pass mark was lowered to just 34% | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
as it was so much harder than it should have been. | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
Will this year's pass mark be back within the usual acceptable range? | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: the teenager who knocked | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
down and killed a nurse as she walked home from work | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
In sport, we are live in Rio for the very latest news | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
And the new star of Celtic, Scott Sinclair reveals the former | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Parkhead player who persuaded him to join the Scottish Champions. | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
The economic outlook in Scotland is deteriorating - | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
with two business surveys showing signs of a downturn. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
But is it too soon to say this is about that referendum vote | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Let's find out with our business and economy editor, Douglas Fraser: | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
Good evening. As with the unseasonal weather, Scotland's economy has been | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
battered by summer storms ever since the vote on EU membership. Two | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
significant reports, one from the Bank of Scotland, suggesting | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
businesses have seen a big dip in new orders and the other report | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
suggests the economy is finally balanced between standing still and | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
recession, this comes after the Bank of England sought to navigate its | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
way out of the storm by cutting interest rates and pumping new cash | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
into the economy. Before the Brexit vote Scotland had moved into a worst | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
position than the UK as a whole, it only just avoided recession last | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
winter and the underlying problems have not gone away. We are seeing a | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
contraction in the Scottish economy, a downturn in manufacturing and also | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
professional services. We have spoken about the impact of oil and | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
gas, especially in the North East of Scotland, but this is now reaching | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
further afield, manufacturers across Scotland are seeing a downturn in | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
demand and they reduction in their work in progress. The some parts of | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
the economy there is better news because the value of the pound has | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
fallen by around 15% of the currencies of major trading partners | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
and that should help exporting, because goods here look cheaper to | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
foreigner, -- foreigners, although imports Luke Morris pensive to us. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
The visitor to Scotland is finding it cheaper than it was just a couple | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
of months ago -- although imports will look more expensive to us. At | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, not much of a slowdown, seemingly. I'm | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
the managing director for a hotel group and July and August is always | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
a buoyant time for our hotels especially in Edinburgh because of | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
the fringe Festival, we have extra people committing to book for our | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
hotels in Scotland and that is up from Europe and the United States by | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
up to 50-100% in terms of conversion to bookings on our website which is | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
a very positive thing, and I can only assume with the weaker pound | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
that will help, people will decide only assume with the weaker pound | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
to travel to our hotels in Scotland. The uncertainty about Brexit | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
impacted and was answered single most, even though the Bank of | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
England's moves last week were welcomed by businesses, but now it | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
is over to governments to explain how they will support the economy. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
Could we see tax cuts or more public spending from Downing Street? And a | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
big choice for Holyrood with their new tax powers. Neither government | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
is likely to answer those questions until later this year. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
A teenager who knocked down and killed a nurse | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
on her way home from work - has been jailed for 6 years. | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
Dylan Jenkins was being followed by a police car in May this year - | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
when he lost control of his vehicle and struck Jill Pirie. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
She was taken to the hospital where she worked - | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary - for treatment - | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
Jill Pirie was walking home from work when she was hit and killed by | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
a car driven by Dylan Jenkin, the car powered into the back of her | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
throwing her against a wall. She was rushed to the hospital where she | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
worked, and colleagues battled to save her life but they were not able | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
to. Jenkin only had a provisional licence and he was not insured and | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
he had bought the car on a website for just ?40. Police tried to get | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
Jenkin over because of the state of his car, but instead he took off at | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
high speed, instigating a chase down this road. All the while Jill Pirie | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
was heading home after shift to see her young son and she was less in | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
half a mile from home when she was struck, and afterwards Jenkin | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
climbed over the fence into this golf course and ran away, it was the | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
following day when he gave himself up. A major investigation involving | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
police forensics and search teams was launched and the July Jenkin | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
pleaded guilty to death by dangerous driving. -- in July. At the High | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Court he was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from driving | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
for seven years. Family and friends were in court and the judge spoke | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
about the terrible toll this had taken on them. Later Jill Pirie's | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
sister issued a statement, saying the sentence was a sick joke. | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
In the meantime the police investigations review commission | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
continues to investigate because police officers were involved. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Report will be sent to the Crown Office in Duke. -- in Duke course. | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
A fresh wave of strike action has been announced in a pay dispute | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
Members of Unite and the RMT are taking action against oil | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Strikes will be staggered, with 24 hour stoppages taking place | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
on six different Shell operated platforms on different days | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
Wood Group says the escalation is extremely unhelpful. | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
The death of a 24-year-old man in the east end of Glasgow | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Gary Weir was stabbed when a fight broke out as he left a party at | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Three other men in their twenties were taken to hospital | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
Crawler and she had come out of the property behind me, have extended a | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
21st birthday party with his friends. When they left, the pub was | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
emptying, there was a discussion between another group of individuals | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
who had not been at the party, this resulted in a fight in the street, | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
and during this, Gary sustained a fatal injury, which resulted in his | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
death. We are keen to identify the other members of the group, who had | :17:26. | :17:26. | |
been involved in this. Scottish Labour leader | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Kezia Dugdale is to marry her The 34-year-old says she is "utterly | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
thrilled" after getting engaged The couple have been | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
together since 2008, but Ms Dugdale only talked publicly | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
about their relationship Team GB is on the medal | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
table at the Rio Olympics after Adam Peaty's world record swim | :17:46. | :18:10. | |
for gold and Jazz Carlin's No medals yet for the Scottish | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
contingent though, AND the Murray brothers are already | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
out of the doubles. Let's get the very latest | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
from Kheredine Idessane. Not a wonderful weekend for some of | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
the Scots, but much more promising today. Straight to the action on the | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
rowing lake, Heather Stanning and her partner, favourites for a gold | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
medal, defending Olympic champions, they have not lost in 36 races. That | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
almost came to an end, coming from behind to get past the Danish crew. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
A decent first performance from Heather Stanning and Heather Lovell. | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
A good new story to be told as well, across at the canoe doubles, Richard | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
Hounslow was in action, they performed in the single canoe, | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
really good performance to qualify third fastest, today it was all | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
really good performance to qualify about the two-man canoe, they are | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
the silver medallist from London four years ago. -- Helen Glover. | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
They qualified second fastest in the semifinals. They have been talking | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
about how tricky the course was. Some tricky moves, particularly the | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
bottom section, definitely one that was testing all of the cruise. We | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
took on what we thought was a pretty safe way of going about it, with the | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
objective that they get through to the next round, that is it. David | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
Florence, that double act, not so the double act of Andy Murray and | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Jamie Murray, they are unfortunately already out of the doubles in the | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
first round, this was their opponent's seven match point, | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
extraordinary second set tie-break, which the Murray brothers lost | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
agonisingly 16-14, going out at the first hurdle, understandably | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
disappointing for Andy Murray, he spoke with me afterwards. You don't | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
get this opportunity often, the way the match finished, | :20:05. | :20:31. | |
the net cord, just one of those days, unfortunately. The good news, | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
Andy Murray is still in the singles competition, is playing Juan Monaco | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
in the second round tomorrow, and fingers crossed there could be a | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Scottish medal here tomorrow, David Florence going in the canoe singles, | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
Scottish medal here tomorrow, David and then the final, we hope to bring | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
you some good news tomorrow. New Celtic signing Scott Sinclair | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
says he was sold on a move to Parkhead after speaking | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
to the former Celtic The 27-year-old made his debut | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
for the club yesterday, in what proved to be | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
a very eventful afternoon VOICEOVER: He has Chelsea, | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
Manchester City and Swansea on his very impressive CV, for the next | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
four years, Scott Sinclair will be a Celtic player, if Ben forehand | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
yesterday is anything to go by, then Celtic fans are in for a treat. -- | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
if yesterday is anything to go by. COMMENTATOR: Dream debut for Scott | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
Sinclair! VOICEOVER: Scoring what proved to be the winning goal, just | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
minutes after coming on as a subject, in his first game, the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Parkhead club have paid around ?4.5 million to Aston Villa for his | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
services, he says that former Celtic midfielder Stilley and Petrov has | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
given him plenty of advice about the move to Celtic Park. I spoke with | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
stand before I came here, I discussed with him, and asked him | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
questions about what it was like, and he told me, basically, you will | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
never experience the atmosphere and what the fans are like. -- | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
never experience the atmosphere and Petrov. He said it was great to get | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
my football back on track, and it is great for me to enjoy football | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
against white sink there is also teaming up once again with Brendan | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Rodgers, who managed him at Swansea, he says he knows all about the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
quality of the striker and what he can bring to the squad. He is a | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
really top talent. It has been difficult for him the last couple of | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
seasons, after his move to Manchester City and then to Aston | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
Villa, but he is a player that gets you off his seat. Perfect start for | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Scott Sinclair, in what he hopes will be a flourishing Celtic career. | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
STUDIO: Russell Knox may well have done enough to secure a wild card | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
The Inverness born golfer claimed victory at the Travellers | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
In the process he joined a small and illustrious group of Scots | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
The question is, will Ryder Cup captain Darren Clark be impressed? | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
VOICEOVER: It was a 12 foot putt to win in Cromwell, Connecticut, | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Russell Knox has well and truly thrown his hat into the ring for a | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Ryder Cup captain 's pick. Automatic selection has not yet been achieved, | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
he rarely plays in the European Tour, he's just outside selection | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
from the world points list. His pedigree is not in doubt. Now 18th | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
in the he joins a small select group of Scots to have achieved world top | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
20 status, only Sandy Lyle, Sam Torrance and Colin Montgomerie have | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
reached such giddy heights on the world stage. In terms of winnings | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
this season, he has also impressed, earning over ?4 million, but will it | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
be enough to satisfy Darren Clarke? The Ryder Cup captain has three wild | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
card picks with Martin Kaymer and Lee Westwood expected to fill two of | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
them. Is Russell Knox worthy of the third? Everything is in his favour | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
just now, especially having played in America, the Ryder Cup in | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
America, his form this year has been fantastic, he has been very | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
consistent in the Majors, he has gone up the world ranking points, | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
now it is just a waiting game for him. He has done everything he could | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
do. Ryder Cup paddled the commences against the Americans on the 30th of | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
September, has Russell Knox done enough to be back in the spotlight | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
for the European team? -- Ryder Cup battle commences. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
STUDIO: The Edinburgh International Festival opened last night with one | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
of biggest and most spectacular shows to date. | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
Around 27,000 people gathered beneath Edinburgh Castle | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
to watch a free light and animation show. | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
And our arts correspondent Pauline McLean was among them. | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
VOICEOVER: The Edinburgh International Festival has played | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
host to some big names but I shows go this must be one of the biggest | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
and most spectacular, Wayne tribute to the great philosophers and | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
geologists produced by Scotland, as well as poets, writers and | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
musicians, a huge challenge squeezing 350 million years of | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
history into 18 minutes! Very large surface, we have a lot of | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
projectors, aligning that many project is very accurately over a | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
building and a surface of this size is very technically complicated and | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
unpredictable, if it rains, the rock will get darker, when we did the | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
test back in January, was not so many trees and grass on the rock, | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
the organic nature of the canvas has been a real challenge and we have | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
had to respond to some environmental factors. We have had the full range | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
of Scottish weather today, and torrential rain to high wind, many | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
events cancelled around the country, but not this one, which is just as | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
well, 27,000 free tickets have been snapped up, and thousands of people | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
have arrived here already. They liked what they saw. Really enjoyed | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
it, some of it really blew my head off, fantastic! Spectacular, the way | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
that they split up all the different parts of the castle, and the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
surroundings... It was amazing, I am privileged to be here. The people | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
here that are young, 50 years down the line, what will they see! It is | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
just what the Festival hope for, a chance to celebrate the ordinary as | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
well as the extraordinary people who host the event every year, and see | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
their city in a whole new light. Is it a night for getting out and | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
about? We will find out with Kirsty. Blustery spell of weather, | :26:27. | :26:38. | |
certainly, over the next few days, feeling changeable conditions on the | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
cards, this evening, looks dry for most of us, spells of sunshine to | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
end the day, share was continuing to these, the main increase for most of | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
us, the one exception continues to be some very strong wind across | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
Shetland for a time, gusting to around 55 mph, wet conditions, | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
during the night, the wind here will moderate, it will become drier, | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
elsewhere, looking largely dry, some clear periods, just a scattering of | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
showers, especially across the north-west, driven in on brisk | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
north-westerly wind, this will help temperatures stay up around nine, 10 | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
degrees, just dipping to something called for sheltered rural areas in | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
the North and the clear skies. Tomorrow, dry for most of us, plenty | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
of sunshine around, as we go through the day, cloud will bubble up for | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
most of us, and there will be some showers. Tomorrow afternoon, the | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
heaviest and most frequent showers will be across the likes of the | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
borders, Dumfries and Galloway, scattering of showers through the | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
central belt, and for somewhat stern coastal areas, and we will see some | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
breaks as well, spells of brightness. The driest, brightest | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
conditions tomorrow afternoon across the North Highlands and the | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
north-east, temperature wise, around 15 to 17 Celsius, and the wind will | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
continue to ease across the board. Tomorrow evening, the showers will | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
continue for many areas, and a band of rain will feed into the West | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
during the course of the night, by Wednesday morning, that rain | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
continues for a time in the south-west, although clearing fairly | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
quickly, behind that, a lot of decent weather to come, spells of | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
brightness and sunshine, and with light wind and highs of 19 Celsius, | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
it will feel Pleasant in the sunshine. | :28:27. | :28:30. |