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Helping to bring the tally to 50 medals with | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Drug-related deaths rise to a record high. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
We found needles, syringes and other drug paraphernalia lying in | :00:08. | :00:23. | |
considerable quantities. The people leaving their staff are the people | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
most at risk of dying. They are the hardest to reach by the drug | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
services. Also on the programme: | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
as unemployment falls, we'll assess the state | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
of the economy. The construction faults | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
which closed 17 Edinburgh schools could have implications | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
for buildings across the UK - according to the leader | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
of the city's council. A new coach for the | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Scotland Rugby Team - Gregor Townsend will | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
replace Vern Cotter. And we'll be in Rio where Scotland's | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Catriona Matthew in is in action The number of drugs deaths | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
in Scotland has hit a record high. Health professionals | :00:57. | :01:15. | |
are calling for new strategies to tackle the problem, | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
including the introduction of medically-supervised heroin | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
for addicts most at risk. Our home affairs correspondent, | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Reevel Alderson reports. Front line troops in the fight to | :01:30. | :01:43. | |
get drug deaths down. Glasgow's assertive outreach workers. Each | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
day, teams tried to find users who are injecting on the streets, | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
putting themselves and the public at risk. We are trying to drill the use | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
of clean needles. We also provide the antidote to opiate overdose. We | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
actually provide kits. You don't have to go far from Glasgow city | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
centre to find evidence of street have to go far from Glasgow city | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
drug use existing. We found drugs paraphernalia lying in considerable | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
quantities here. The people who are leaving this stuff are the people | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
most at risk of dying and they are the hardest to reach by the drug | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
services. Official figures just released show the scale of | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Scotland's problem. There were 706 drug-related deaths in Scotland last | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
year, up 6% on the year before. Older users, over 35, with long | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
drug-taking histories account for 70% of those who died. There are | :02:43. | :02:54. | |
public health implications. Needle sharing has led to a rise in | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
infections, such as HIV and botulism. Copenhagen is one of many | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
places around Europe offering users the chance to receive medical grade | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
heroin under supervision. These ideas are one's health officials | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
here would like to explore to save lives and money. There would be a | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
cost benefit, cost reduction to the health services. Prisons, the | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
criminal justice systems, housing, except read. We had three new | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
members last month, which was quite sad. Kevin Butler died from an | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
overdose. She offers support to families bereaved by addiction and | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
is in favour of supervised drug injection. It is getting people out | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
of the shadows. I could hold my head high. I have a problem, yes. I'm | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
still being. I can hold my head high, walk in. I am not going to be | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
judged. Some good news in the figures. The number of people dying | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
from drug-taking is coming down and the number from taking drugs is the | :04:00. | :04:00. | |
lowest in a decade. A police whistleblower has told | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
the Scottish Police Federation that an overtime ban is leading | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
to proactive investigations The claims are made | :04:07. | :04:07. | |
in an email the federation Police Scotland say there is no | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
overtime ban in place and officers However the federation says pressure | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
is being put on officers They are being told, if they do into | :04:16. | :04:29. | |
overtime, they will not be getting paid. Whether that is an overtime | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
ban or strict examination of the overtime budget, it makes no | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
difference. If there is no overtime available, the public will suffer. | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
Police Scotland are a crucial part in tackling drug misuse across | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
country. They are a positive partner in our approach to tackling some of | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
the issues we have in our country. They are taking forward some of the | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
innovative work across the country as well and are very much dedicated | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
to trying to insure our communities remain safe. | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
Unemployment fell in Scotland, and across the UK, | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
And there's been another rise in the number of Scots who're in work. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Our business correspondent David Henderson can tell us more. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Jackie, this snapshot reveals the health of the jobs market | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
with all that means for households and prosperity right | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
But the official figures look back - they cover | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
In that period, the number of people out of work and looking | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
for a job in Scotland fell by 26,000. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
That means the jobless total is heading in | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
the right direction - downwards, but that | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
still leaves 143,000 jobseekers in Scotland. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
There's another positive sign, though. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Scotland's workforce increased, with 51,000 | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
Well, it could be small businesses, like this one, a chain of private | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
hearing clinics with ambitious plans to expand. | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
Our market seems to be growing right now. It is largely driven by an | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
ageing population and also easy now. It is largely driven by an | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
access to hearing care and health care. It started with a small clinic | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
in Bath Street. The have grown that to three permanent sites across | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
central Scotland, including Stirling and Edinburgh. We have six | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
outpatient clinics. There is high demand for skilled staff. Clinical | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
audiologists, ear hygienist, administrators and back office | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
workers in the company. As we grow, the impact of the honours is that we | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
will have to keep stretching because we are buckling at the seams right | :06:44. | :06:44. | |
now. but the unemployment rate | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
here in Scotland is still higher more needs done to tackle | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
economic uncertainty, because these job figures just | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
cover the early summer, so they don't reflect | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
the impact of the Brexit vote. Now, if we're looking for signs | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
of confidence to wipe away those Referendum fears - | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
they're hard to find One expert said it's still far too | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
early to say if that vote We don't know what negotiations will | :07:08. | :07:29. | |
come out of Brexit. It will take an awfully long time to that get down | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
to the consumer's. The once did well were electricals and the home. And | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
is a fine people are still spending on big-ticket items. Those that did | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
less well worth footwear and fashion. That is a weather-related | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
thing. There is more unsettled weather in July than one might have | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
hoped. Now the UK Government says | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
the economy's in a strong place But with those negotiations | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
still some way off, we've yet to see how many businesses will react | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
as they weigh up whether to invest and hire new staff and its | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
still unclear how we'll react with decisions | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
on how we spend our cash. The Scottish Secretary, | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
David Mundell, says the UK Government wants EU citizens living | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
in this country to be able He was responding to a fresh call | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
from the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, for | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
a guaranteed right to remain, issued on the day she met | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
EU nationals in Edinburgh. Here's our political | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
correspondent, Glenn Campbell. With passports from almost every EU | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
country, they came to discuss Brexit with the First Minister. Some fear | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
they could be forced to leave the UK. They must have thought of wait | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
resettle me somewhere, to give us a cushion to fall on. And not make | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
them the refugees of Europe. The First Minister is not in charge of | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
immigration. The UK Government is. It breaks my heart that, as First | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Minister, the elected leader of this country, I cannot sit here and give | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
you the county and certainty you want. Perhaps if we can do one thing | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
from today, all of this together is to send a very clear message to the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
UK Government. End this uncertainty and end it now. The UK Government | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
does not want to give guarantees until it has secured similar rights | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
for UK citizens living in other EU countries. Discussing Brexit with | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
farmers in East Lothian, the Scottish Secretary seemed confident | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
of a deal. The Prime Minister has made it clear she wants EU nationals | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
here in the UK to be able to stay and she will do everything she can | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
to make that happen. It is also important that we secure the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
position of UK nationals who are in other parts of the EU. In the | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
background to this debate, other parts of the EU. In the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
whether or not EU nationals should have a guaranteed right to remain on | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
UK soil after Brexit, the politics of Scottish independence. By | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
pointing out the power she does not have, Nicola Sturgeon is inviting | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
you to imagine what it would be like if she did have them. Another | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
independence referendum might suit this German couple, who support the | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
SNP. They decided to leave the UK because Brexit. Today the First | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Minister has asked them to give it more thought. They they will. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
The construction defects which closed 17 schools in Edinburgh | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
could have implications for buildings across the UK. | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
That's according to the leader of the city council who's | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
commissioned an inquiry into what happened. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
He was speaking as children returned to school in the capital | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
This primary School in January. A massive storm had caused a wall of | :10:46. | :10:59. | |
the school to collapse and luckily there were no injuries. Checks | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
carried out on all of the city public school is soon uncovered the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
same faults will do yesterday, reporting Scotland revealed 30 | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
schools across the country had to have repairs because of defective | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
wall and header ties, like this one in East Renfrewshire. Thousands of | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
pupils were unable to return to school after Easter while repairs | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
were made. The first day of repairs at this high school in Edinburgh. As | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
pupils begin the academic year, the council is starting its own enquiry | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
as to why 17 of its schools had to close earlier this year. All the | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
schools were built or refurbished and the public - private partnership | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
championed by Labour. Edinburgh Council says that financial model | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
was not to blame. It is not a contract issue, it is a construction | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
issue. We'll be holding them to account for what has gone wrong. The | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
enquiry will report by the end of September 2016 and I will be | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
ramifications. For the whole of Scotland and potentially the rest of | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
the UK. These pupils explained how they had to be bussed to different | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
schools for three months. We had no clue that would happen. It was an | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
initial shock. That is it. I did not know about it. I switched on my | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
phone, I was studying, and then it came through that we were not in | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
school Monday. It was confusing. Older people is heading for exams | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
were prioritised. Many students did suffer disruption. It was a very | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
reduced school day. Only several hours. The actual teaching they were | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
not taught proper lessons. Parents will await the outcome of the public | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
enquiry, expected to include in December. -- conclude. | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: we'll be in Rio | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
where Scotland's Catriona Matthew in is in action in the | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
The director responsible for a crematorium at the centre | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
of the Aberdeen baby ashes scandal has failed to appear at a crucial | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
meeting discussing a secret report into its handling of the issue. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
The city council says he is on annual leave. | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
A summary of the report was shown to councillors - then taken back. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
This was a very significant day for Aberdeen City Council. Elected | :13:24. | :13:41. | |
members were given the opportunity to scrutinise the two reports that | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
have been published in response, or produced, in response to the baby | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
ashes scandal. One public and one private. What is most noticeable | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
today was not the number of people or the individuals who were here at | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
that meeting but the one who was not. Pete Leonard, the director of | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
the department responsible ultimately for what happened at the | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
crematorium. You would ordinarily be at a meeting like this, particularly | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
when his department was being discussed. Today he failed to show. | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
The official response from the council was that he was on annual | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
leave. Opposition councillors attacked him for that. They said he | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
should have been there today that he was defended by the council's | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
leader. Pete is on annual leave today. Everybody is entitled to | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
annual leave. On such a crucial day? The report today was from the chief | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
Executive. She was talking about that report. Councillors have had | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
the answers they required. The detail within a report that I have | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
confidence in the ongoing process, that it will be dealt with. A | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
summary of that confidential report was presented to councillors today | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
that they were given ten minutes to read and then it was taken away from | :15:05. | :15:05. | |
them again. At that point, the lawyer, the chief lawyer for the | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
council, told members they were potentially breaking employment | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
legislation if they were to discuss a comment publicly and then only | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
three questions were asked by the 43 members of the council about the | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
public report. That was the level of scrutiny that again today before | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
they moved on to another agenda right. Still lots of questions to be | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
asked about it and about the level of scrutiny being put on this. Thank | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
you. The First Minister's | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
mother has quit as Provost of North Ayrshire council, | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
along with the rest The SNP group lost its status | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
as the biggest party in the local authority | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
after the Nicola Sturgeon's father Now Joan Sturgeon and the SNP | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
administration have They will formally leave the posts | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
after a special meeting Former Scotland rugby player | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
Gregor Townsend is to become He's currently in charge | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
of Glasgow Warriors and will replace New Zealander Vern Cotter | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
next summer. As David Currie reports, | :16:12. | :16:12. | |
the Scottish Rugby Union say they are appointing a man of vision | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
to take the team to This is the man who led Glasgow | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
Warriors to their first and only pro 12 league title. Beating the best | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
clubs from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Italy in 2015. Now the SRU is | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
putting its faith in him to take on the best national teams in the | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
world. Its chief executive said: under Vern Cotter Scotland won just | :16:38. | :16:56. | |
two six Nations matches in two years. They came within seconds of | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
beating Australia to a place in the World Cup semifinals last year. Vern | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
Cotter's contract expires next summer at which point Gregor | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Townsend steps in. He brings organisation, a bit of honesty, | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
plain talking, he's the boss. If you watch Glasgow Warriors you know | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
you're watching a team that is organised and I have criticised | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Scotland in previous years for being disorganised, a shambles almost, | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
getting better under Vern Cotter and I think Gregor Townsend will make | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
them even better, I think he's the best young fish coach around in | :17:34. | :17:34. | |
European rugby. He might not be thinking ahead to | :17:35. | :17:49. | |
next year at the moment but Glasgow Warriors are. They say they are | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
already looking for his replacement. A look at other stories | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
from across the country. An elderly man has died in a single | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
vehicle track only a 75 in Dumfries and Galloway near Gatehouse of | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Fleet. The 76-year-old driver was the only person in the car. A | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
63-year-old woman died and two men were injured near Dingwall in the | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Highlands, the collision happened around 10:30pm last night. Inmates | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
at Polmont Janan offenders institution spend extended periods | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
in their sales due to a fear of violence. An inspector 's report | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
found that despite an improvement in the relationship between the | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
prisoners and staff interaction between inmates is limited. Around | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
20 further education colleges in Scotland including the new city of | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Glasgow College could be hit by strike action that will coincide | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
with students starting their courses at the end of the month. Members of | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
unison which represent admin and support staff say there has been an | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
overwhelming vote in favour of stoppages in a dispute over pay. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Edinburgh City Council has approved plans to turn one of its most famous | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
landmarks into a music school. The a listed Royal high school on Calton | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Hill has been the subject of a number of proposals over the last | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
few years including a luxury hotel development which was rejected by | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
the council at Christmas. The new plans endorsed today have been drawn | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
up by the architect Richard Murphy for Saint Mary 's music school. | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Scottish athletes have made it through the heats in two events | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
on the track at the Olympic stadium this afternoon. | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
Andy Butchart qualified for Saturday's final of the 5,000 | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
metres and Lynsey Sharp is through to the semi-finals | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
Meanwhile, Catriona Matthew has been in action in the women's | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
golf tournament and our Olympics reporter, Jane Lewis, | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
Doesn't the Olympic golf course looks stunning? Bathed in the | :19:46. | :19:57. | |
sunshine. This golf course was designed and built specifically for | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
these games and is a course that Scottish golfer Catriona Matthew has | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
already played her opening round on making her Olympic debut. She did | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
not do too badly at all, she finished level par after her opening | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
round, just five shots off the clubhouse leader, more play underway | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
behind me. She admits when she was called up to the first tee that she | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
felt one or two extra nerves. It was good, I was a bit nervous on the | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
first tee. But got off to a bit of a shaky start but then good birdies on | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
six and nine got me back into it. I had chances on the back nine, | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
hopefully could have been better if I had holed a couple but still in it | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
which is the main thing. Why the extra nerves, because it's the | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Olympics? Yes, being in the Olympics is different for us, if you don't | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
feel a bit nervous there is something wrong with you. Earlier | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
today two Scottish track and field athletes in fantastic form at the | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Olympic Park, Lynsey Sharp through to the semifinals of the 800 metres, | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
in convincing style as well, winning her heat in a time of just over two | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
minutes. She admits she's coming into these games feeling in great | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
shape. Absolutely, I feel in the shape of my life. I know it will | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
take that to get amongst the medals. But I'm confident I can get times | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
close to what the other girls are running so looking forward to the | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
next few rounds. Before that, Andy Butchart made it to the final of the | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
5000 metres finishing fifth in his heat today. He was in the second | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
5000 metres finishing fifth in his heat and will join none other than | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
Mo Farah, his British team-mate in Saturday's final. He says hopefully | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
he is starting now to make a name for himself. You have to make | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
yourself known to these guys. I am unknown to half of the people in the | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
field and hopefully today they will keep their eye on the final. It's my | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
first major championships, the aim was to make the final which I've | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
done so I will enjoy it and see what I can do. Great news for Andy | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Butchart, they have been talking all games about the frustrating time for | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
the sailors, a lack of wind but it is getting up at the minute. It was | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
meant to be the final of the 470 class for the men at the women's | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
final was delayed so the men's will take place later this evening. | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
Scottish sailor Luke Patience out of medal contention so frustrating | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
times for him, disappointing as well as he got a silver medal in London | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
but nothing this time around in Rio. Frustrating and disappointing times | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
for him but Catriona Matthew will be back out there on that stunning golf | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
course tomorrow hoping to improve on her round of level par. Thank you, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
it does look stunning. Football now and Celtic | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
are at home in the first leg of their Champions League | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
play off against the Israelis If they win the tie, | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
they qualify for the lucrative group Our reporter Alasdair Lamont | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
is at Celtic Park to assess Celtic's Without question the most important | :23:11. | :23:22. | |
game thus far of Brendan Rodgers short time in charge at Celtic. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
Alongside me to assess how the game might go this evening is former | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Celtic striker Scott McDonald. This is the point at which Celtic have | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
Celtic striker Scott McDonald. This fallen out of the Champions League | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
in the last two seasons, from what you have seen so far do you think | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
they are better equipped to night? I think certainly yes, we have seen a | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
different team under Brendan Rodgers, some quality players added | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
as well who will give that extra forward edge. And goals hopefully. I | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
fully expect them to take the lead tonight into the second leg. The | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Achilles heel in the last couple of seasons has been the loss of goals | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
at Celtic Park which is ultimately killed them in the play-off stage. | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
Is keeping a clean sheet actually no more important than scoring? I think | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
it is key, in the last couple of seasons it's been well documented | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
that Celtic have lost crucial goals at home and I think they will have | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
to keep the back door shut tonight in order to qualify. But they will | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
to keep the back door shut tonight still have to go to the other end as | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
well and hopefully get on the scoresheet and take a lead into the | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
well and hopefully get on the second leg. Scott will be part of | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
the BBC radio Scotland coverage. The golf in Rio might have looked good | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
but I think we can give them a run for the money in the weather? | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
It was a lovely day across most of the country, great picture from a | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
weather watcher on the north-west coast. Lovely sunshine this evening, | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
not blue skies were all, this weather bringing cloud and outbreaks | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
of rain across the Western Isles and still more to come over the next wee | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
while but for most this evening it is dry. Staying that way as we head | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
overnight. There will be some cloud and clear spells and also missed and | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
low cloud around North Sea coast at times drafting inland. Temperature | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
will overnight in towns and cities hit double digits, in the | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
countryside perhaps single budget but not too cold. Tomorrow is | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
another dry day in the main, bit more cloud compared to today but | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
still sunshine on offer. Pretty pleasant conditions I have to say. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
By mid-afternoon looking at temperatures of around 20, 20 two | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
Celsius, always cooler towards the coast, particularly the east Coast, | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
perhaps low cloud lingering at times. Sunshine towards the West | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Coast, cloud and spots of rain for the Western Isles but many parts | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
will be dry, winds light to moderate. Rest of the afternoon into | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
the evening and indeed overnight drive, sunshine to end the day, but | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
those dry conditions won't last because there is change afoot. You | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
can see what I mean, low pressure arriving from the South West, quite | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
an autumn work to that which will turn things wet and windy through | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
Friday. We start dry but the cloud increases and the rain follows, it | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
moves north across the country through the course of the day. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
Temperatures down a bit but it will be breezy as well but a cool | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
feeling. The low-pressure sting into the weekend so an unsettled scene, | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
some heavy thundery downpours at times and quite humid and breezy | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
feel to both days. Some sunshine but limited. Thank you, just time for a | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
reminder of the main news tonight. The number of drugs deaths in | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
Scotland has hit a record high, more than 700 people died last year, a | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
15% increase on the year before. Health professionals call for new | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
strategies to tackle the problem including the introduction of | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
medically supervised heroin addicts most at risk. Unemployment has | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
fallen in Scotland and across the UK as a whole, official figures show | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
the number of people out of work here between April and June was down | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
by 20 6000. And that's Reporting Scotland, we are back with the main | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
bulletin which is scheduled to be just after the 10pm News but it's up | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
to the Olympics what happens. From everyone here enjoy your evening, | :27:43. | :27:43. | |
goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:45. |