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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Plummeting oil and gas revenues leave Scotland's economy nearly | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Nicola Sturgeon says continued growth onshore is the answer - | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
the UK government says it shows Scotland is better off in the union. | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
Claims that hundreds of families are being exploited by rogue | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
We really felt quite helpless. You are just a simple porn and you | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
cannot do anything about it. It just felt unfair to me that someone could | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
do this and get away with it. We have the first of | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
two special reports. Tributes are paid to the Scottish | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
soldier who died after being shot during a live firing | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
exercise in Northumberland. Celtic are bound for the grand stage | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
of the Uefa Champions League. And Brendan Rodgers says | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Celtic's qualification for the Champions League is great | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
for Scottish football. The Scottish government | :01:01. | :01:15. | |
is spending nearly ?15 billion more than it's bringing | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
in, in tax. In percentage terms it means | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
the deficit here has climbed to more than twice the level of the UK | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
as a whole. Much of the increase is as a result | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
of falling oil revenues, but the figures are key | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
in the constitutional debate. Those against independence claim | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
it's a financial reality check, whilst pro-independence campaigners | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
claim things would improve if Scotland was in charge | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
of its own economy. We'll hear more on the political | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
fall out from Brian Taylor in a moment, but first here's | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Douglas Fraser with the numbers. These numbers help us understand how | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
much Scots pay in tax and how much So, in the year to April, Scots paid | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
nearly ?54 billion in tax. Almost quarter of that | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
was income tax. Nearly ?69 billion was spent | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
on Scotland by national So the difference last year - | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
nearly ?15 billion. More than a third of that spending | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
was on pensions and benefits, Now, it's OK for government to run | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
a deficit, but it has to be able The Treasury in London wants | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
to lower the deficit that ballooned after the financial crash, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
and last year, it got to 4% In Scotland, the deficit was nearly | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
10% of total economic output - more than twice the scale | :02:38. | :02:49. | |
of the UK overspend. In Scotland, government spending | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
was ?12,800 per head, while across the UK, | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
the spend was ?1,200 lower. And what's going on to explain this | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
rising deficit here, Most types of tax revenue keep | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
rising, but just take Recently, it's peaked at eight, 11, | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
?10 billion credited But with the price | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
and profits plummeting, The results over time, | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
look like this - a small UK surplus at the turn of the century, | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
a deep worsening with the financial crash, and while austerity has | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
driven the UK deficit towards 4%, the Scottish overspend | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
has been getting worse. but of course these figures have | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
been pounced on by those opposed to independence, | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
Brian Taylor, what's been The reaction has been intriguing. It | :03:57. | :04:08. | |
depends on your stance. This is about sums, but it has been | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
political from the outset from the early days when it was deployed by a | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
conservative Scottish office, against devolved self-governance. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
But today, the argument features Independence and also Brexit. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Cutting the cloth to suit, Nicola Sturgeon at Mitsubishi challenging | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
figures. But relies on the growth onshore, like this leather factory | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
in Glasgow which winds global orders from airlines and others. The | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
message of these figures is, the low oil price and tax cuts to support | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
the industry has had an impact. But the fundamentals of the Scottish | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
economy are sound and strong. It has grown by more than the fall in oil | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
revenues. Let's make sure we have the best environment to continue to | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
grow our economy and that is why I am worried about Brexit, because it | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
will make the task so much more difficult. But onshore growth was | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
almost wiped out by a sharp fall in the North Sea tax take. Dry | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
statistics which mask human costs. Myself, like thousands of others, | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
hundreds and thousands of others around the world lost our jobs. I | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
was made redundant at the end of May. It was fantastic work, over the | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
years I learned so much and enjoyed working with many interesting | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
people. Then it came to an end, which was a big surprise. But after | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
decade in the oil industry, both Roberts and Russell are retraining | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
as teachers through this initiative in Aberdeen. Everyone wants growth | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
onshore and off, but the Scottish Secretary said it was time to forget | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
independence. We have got the very challenging prospect in negotiating | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Brexit. We need to get the best possible deal for Scotland and the | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
rest of the United Kingdom. But what these figures confirm, is the really | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
important union for everybody in Scotland is the union with the rest | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
of the United Kingdom, rather than being part of the European Union. No | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
one is giving up on the North Sea, but with Scotland still in the red, | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
the aim is to diversify and grow. How will these figures be wielded in | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
the debates about independence and about independence in Europe, | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
potentially? It is about both and its substantial element in those | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
two. European Union rules says a member state should keep its deficit | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
below 3% of face possible sanctions. Scotland's deficit is 10%. Nicola | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Sturgeon shrugs that. She said these figures are not the starting point | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
for independence, not the point to which Scotland would move towards. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
There would be different calculations, the allocation of debt | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
with the UK Government. This was not how Scotland would look under | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
independence. European Union members, European Union officials | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
can see like everyone else, that Scotland's economy was fundamentally | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
strong. And she said she wasn't seeking to apply a renewed European | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
Union membership, she was trying to hold onto the existing membership. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
All of which is a case she is making very strongly. Just to add or borrow | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
the word she used, economically the future for Scotland looks | :07:38. | :07:38. | |
challenging. An investigation by BBC Scotland has | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
revealed that some of the most vulnerable people in Scotland | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
are being exploited by rogue landlords in the midst | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
of the First Minister's constituency And that some landlords | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
are continuing to work in the Govanhill area of Glasgow | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
despite being officially struck off. Our political correspondent | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Lucy Adams has the first in a series Here in the heart of Nicola | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
Sturgeon's constituency, communities and cultures come together to create | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
a neighbourhood unlike any other. Decades of immigration from Ireland, | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
south Asia and Eastern Europe have shaped Govanhill. Its problems can | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
be found in other Scottish cities, so what, if anything, makes this | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
place different? It has always been an area that attracted migrants, new | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
Glaswegians. It has always been a welcoming area. It has always been a | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
reasonably priced area to buy property in, if you were a | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
first-time buyer. Over the years, it has changed more into private rented | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
and I think that is where people, some of the landlords, not all, but | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
a lot of them are not willing to invest in the structure of the | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
property. Overcrowding and neglect have taken their toll, leading the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
council and Scottish Government to launch a unique ?10 million project | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
to buy out properties from the worst landlords and take them into public | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
ownership. As you can see, this flat has been affected with rot, and we | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
are finding a number of properties like this. Govanhill Housing | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Association is using the money to transform tenements. This | :09:20. | :09:31. | |
corner is at the heart of that project, aimed at tackling | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
regeneration and landlords. But the BBC has learned that almost half of | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
the properties bought were from those who already owned the flat | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
they lived in, the very people the project hoped to keep. The question | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
is, whether this project in its current format is really working. It | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
wasn't the plan. The Housing act was flawed because it didn't include | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
compulsory purchase orders. The idea was to attack the rogue landlords, | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
bringing down the area. Without the compulsory purchase orders, and to | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
achieve the targets, they are turning to people who want to sell | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
just to move out. Was the aim to buy up so many owner occupied | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
properties? I don't think it necessarily was. But if it is within | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
the target area and it adds to what we are trying to do, we will support | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
but going forward. There are eight properties close, you need to have | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
five. It enables you to manage the block. As the housing project | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
continues in Govanhill, the BBC has learned a number of rogue landlords | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
are continuing to practice, despite being deregistered. And a number of | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
cases are not being pursued because witnesses are too afraid to speak | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
up. So, who are these landlords? This man was deregistered as a | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
landlord in May after taking ?7,000 worth of deposits from tenants. His | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
letting agency was dissolved earlier this year, but the BBC has learned | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
the business in Govanhill has stayed open. He has now been reported to | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
prosecutors for alleged fraud, theft and acting as a landlord while | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
unregistered. This man paid almost ?1400 up front to him for a flat he | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
never set foot inside. The student from Bulgaria, one court case | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
against him, but still hasn't got his money back. We felt quite | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
helpless. You are just a simple pawn and you cannot do anything about it. | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
It just felt unfair to me that someone could do this and get away | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
with it for so long. He told the BBC he denies the charges and is | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
appealing his deregistration. Hundreds of families each year have | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
suffered from scams by a range of landlords and from housing beneath a | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
tolerable standard. The worst ones are the ones where children are | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
involved. New babies not having hot water, you just can't have that. You | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
hear the stories about children with bedbugs and these landlords just | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
raking it in and making this money on the back of exploiting someone. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
It is incredulous, there are these organisations working against it and | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
so slow to bring it to justice. Much is being done in this extraordinary | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
neighbourhood to kick-start regeneration, but for now, children | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
continue to live in substandard housing, while so-called rogue | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
landlords reap the profits. Tributes have been paid | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
to a soldier who was shot dead during a training exercise | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
in Northumberland on Monday. He's been named as 24-year-old | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
Private Conor McPherson from Paisley who was a member | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
of The Black Watch and based at Fort George in the Highlands, | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
from where Jackie O'Brien reports. Private Conor McPherson from Paisley | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
was killed during night-time training at a firing range within | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
the vast Otterburn training area in Northumberland. The young soldier | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. In a tribute to | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the 24-year-old, his commanding officer in The Black Watch battalion | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
said... But his troupe rationed his third | :13:17. | :13:29. | |
was to his parents and sister and was part of a very close-knit | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
family. It is tragic for his family, friends and colleagues at Fort | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
George, who are brave men and women in the Armed Forces who put their | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
lives at risk every day. Sometimes when they are on combat missions you | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
can be prepared for the difficult phone call or difficult | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
announcement. But when it is a training exercise it is even worse | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
for the people with him at the time and his family who have now lost a | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
loved one. The Black Watch soldiers seen here during a recent royal | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
visit left there for George base last week in these new armoured | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
vehicles to take part in the exercise, Wessex storm. They have | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
stopped that Otterburn for life firing practice on routes to | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Salisbury Plain. Outside for George today, life goes on as normal, as | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
tourists continue to visit this old fortification. Within these walls | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
where The Black Watch battalion is based, there will be sadness and | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
shock over the tragic death of a fellow soldier. These guys come in, | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
they are not far away from the village. It is devastating news. The | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
Army have a lot of questions to answer, why was this allowed to | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
happen on a training exercise. A major investigation is continuing to | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
establish exactly what did happen on Monday night, but at this stage, | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Northumbria Police said they believed the soldier's death was a | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
tragic accident. The Deputy First Minister has | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
criticised the owners of the oil rig that ran aground on the West Coast | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
of Lewis for transporting The Transocean Winner is now towed | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
to Broad Bay on the island's other Huw Williams watched | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
the rig's progress. This phase of the story is coming to | :15:13. | :15:27. | |
an end. The Transocean Winner has been under tow since high tide on | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Monday night, but problems with the structure listing in the water means | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
it has had to be towed a much slower than planned and so the journey has | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
taken longer than originally predicted. Broadway should provide a | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
more sheltered anchorage for it than the beach on the west side of Lewis | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
where it originally ran aground. Tonight the Scottish government are | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
asking why it was even at sea just over two weeks ago when such bad | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
weather had been widely predicted? The transport connections were | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
significantly restricted that we can and it was obvious from the Met | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
Office warnings there was going to be a significant storm to contain | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
with. There is a duty of care on those responsible presiding over | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
these operators, principally the owners, to decide whether it was | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
wise to undertake this operation. The plan is to spend the next three | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
weeks assessing the structure of the rig and whether any temporary | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
repairs are needed before experts decide what to do next. The Marine | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Accident Investigation Branch has already begun its inquiry, but there | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
are wider political questions. Should their once again be an | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
emergency tug based at Stornoway? These questions will not go away any | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
These questions will not go away any time soon. | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
Syrian officials have appealed to Scotland, | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
to help save the ancient city of Palmyra. | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
Many of the famous Syrian monuments were destroyed | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
Now the city's been retaken, the country's chief curator's come | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
to a cultural summit in Edinburgh to call for international help. | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
Palmyra's monuments are nearly 2000 years old. These were a global | :17:05. | :17:19. | |
tourist attraction before Syria's Civil War. This is a Roman temple of | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
Bal. Look at it now. Isis militia destroyed many sites because they | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
were symbols of idolatry. Behind this we have geological extremism. | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
What happened in Syria under control of Isis, including in Palmeiro, it | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
was a disastrous situation. His colleague and 14 other curators have | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
been killed protecting their cultural heritage. Each day I have | :17:52. | :18:03. | |
bad news about destruction, not only of the cultural heritage, but the | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
difficulty for other life, but we refused to leave Syria for this | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
reason. Palmyra has been recaptured and there are plans to rebuild. The | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
professor has come to Edinburgh to seek international help and stop the | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
black market in looted artefacts. We need contacts, expertise, because we | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
have a lot of traffic in coming from that area. He is seeking expert | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
support from the area and beyond so that one day these wonders can be | :18:40. | :18:40. | |
restored. The Scottish Government's | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
controversial named person policy will not be rolled out on the last | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
day of August as planned. The Education Secretary John Swinney | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
says changes need to be made after the Supreme Court ruled last | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
month that some proposals breach The system would appoint a named | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
person for every child The contenders for the leadership | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
of the UK Labour Party will be making their pitches | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
to Scottish members tomorrow. So how's the debate | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
shaping in Scotland? We've sent our political | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
correspondent Nick The banks of the Clyde in Greenock, | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
an imposing reminder of Scotland's industrial past. Once safe Labour | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
territory, now represented by the SNP. The logo label party you | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
support a Jeremy Corbyn last year, but this time it is split. Some | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
think he is still the right man for the job, but others think there | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
needs to be a change of leadership to arrest the decline. These local | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
members are backing Owen Smith. Christine Boyd never thought Mr | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
Corbyn was the right man, and James, who did, has now changed his mind. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
We need hope, energy and ambition to show that Labour is fighting and can | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
win again. And there when Smith is the man for that? That is what we | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
believe. I have been a Labour Party member for 30 years and regardless | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
of the outcome I will still be a member at the end of this process. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Siobhan McCreadie was the first Labour candidate to lose her vote | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
here and she disagrees. She thinks Jeremy Corbyn can win back Scotland | :20:19. | :20:19. | |
for Labour. Every day I get people Jeremy Corbyn can win back Scotland | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
who have been in the union for a Jeremy Corbyn can win back Scotland | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
number of years and who are totally disinterested, but they are coming | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
back on a daily basis. The party he narrowly nominated Mr Smith, but | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
they are in the minority. From the local parties in Scotland who have | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
picked a horse in this race, the majority are backing Jeremy Corbyn. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
But UK wide Jeremy Corbyn's lead over his challenger is far higher. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
We picked up nominations that were previously with Yvette Cooper and | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Andy Burnham, so very strong levels of support. The race has split the | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
top team in Scottish Labour. There have been rumours of a split in the | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
UK party, could there be one in Scotland? When you believe in the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Labour Party, you believe in the collective. I hear a lot of talk | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
about that and everybody is committed to the cause of labour. | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
How to change the direction of Labour's electoral support could be | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
In football, Celtic will find out tomorrow which teams they'll face | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
They qualified for European club football's most prestigious | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
competition after a four aggregate play-off win over Hapoel | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
He says it was the most nerve wracking 90 minutes of his career in | :21:38. | :21:54. | |
management, watching his team full two goals behind. If they had lost | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
another, their Champions League dream was over for another season. | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
Little wonder joy was unconfined, Celtic through by the skin of their | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
teeth. It was an amazing effort by the plays on the back of everything | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
we have been through before. Huge applause to them and I am delighted | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
we got the reward. Reaching the Champions League has financial | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
rewards as well, qualifying worth an estimated ?30 million. The manager | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
might want some of that upfront and quick to improve the squad. He is | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
still assessing players at the moment, he needs to get more in. | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Going into the Champions League you do not want to embarrass yourself, | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
you need a strong squad. Tomorrow the draw will reveal which three | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
clubs will be arriving along Celtic way. One of these European giants | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
could be among them. Barcelona, Bayern Munich and the defending | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
champions real Madrid. A lot of the fans would like to see Real Madrid | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
here because they have Barcelona and Manchester United, top-class teams | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
in the past years. Madrid is yet to visit here and the stars they have | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
got, it would be a special night if they were to come. It will be 50 | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
years since Billy McNeill the Celtic captain lifted the European cup in | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
May. Nobody is suggesting they will win it this season, but that will | :23:36. | :23:36. | |
not stop supporters from dreaming. It has been five years | :23:37. | :23:37. | |
in the making and has cost more than ?30 million, but | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
Scotland's new Sports Performance centre is about | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
to open for business. The concept of a centre for sporting | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
excellence followed a report by former first minister | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
Henry McLeish criticising Set in the grounds of Heriot Watt | :23:52. | :24:05. | |
University, it is on the outskirts of Edinburgh. 90% of the cost has | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
come through public funding with the balance of ?4 million coming from | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
the university, but is it money well spell? -- well spent. In comparison | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
to other places in the country, it is up there with them. The Scottish | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
will use this facility for all their national games, but it is not just | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
about football. Rugby, netball, basketball, squash and racquetball | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
will all use this facility, and in particular the high-performance | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
ring. Each individual athlete will get their own space. If you are in | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
the gym with the public, it would be difficult to get the equipment and | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
move around and it will help us become more professional. We want to | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
become professional athletes. It is not all about elite sports men and | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
women with specialist equipment open for the general public. And the Hibs | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
women with specialist equipment open against Hearts football match under | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
20 game has taken place on the impressive pitch with fans in | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
attendance giving the venue the thumbs up. It is absolutely | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
brilliant, the pitch is massive, I am impressed. The sports science and | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
sports medicine and conditioning they get, they can get prepared. | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
There is an expectancy of improved results on the field of play. We are | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
doing well in the six Nations, in results on the field of play. We are | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
the World Cup in rugby and we want to qualify across all age groups. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
All age groups will be here and we want to see the local community get | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
more involved in sports. It officially opens its doors on Monday | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
with an improvement in our national sporting squad is expected to | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
Now, let's get the weather. It was a lovely day across the vast majority | :26:03. | :26:17. | |
of the country. There was some stubborn cloud in the North East and | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
in the Western Isles and Northern Isles, but foremost we had guys like | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
that. To end the day, lovely spells of late sunshine. The cloud will | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
build in Central and eastern parts of the country, but it is mild | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
overnight with temperatures holding in double digits. Tomorrow | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
low-pressure nearby and a weather front in England produces heavy | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
outbreaks of rain, but we are in between and we should escape. It is | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
cloudy tomorrow compared to today, the best of the sunshine in the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
West. The rain in the North of England perhaps coming into the | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Borders. A few light showers in the Western Isles, but that wet weather | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
should stay away. Another dry day, the lion's share of the sunshine in | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
the West. Cooler where we have the cloud, but in the sunshine 20 or 21. | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
Across the Western Isles a chance of a few light showers. As we head | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
through the afternoon and into the evening the rain clears away, | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
perhaps brushing through the Borders. Low-pressure as we head | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
through towards Friday producing a few showers for the Highlands and | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
through towards Friday producing a Islands, but for most of the country | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
it is another dry and fine day. The highest temperatures in eastern | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
parts. In the West the cloud will break. On the face of it Saturday | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
looks fine and dry with sunshine, but take a look to the south of the | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
border and what is lurking and you will see a rather large area of | :27:56. | :28:05. | |
rain. It is likely to come our way. If you have planned this weekend, | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
stay tuned to the forecast. Is it from us, goodbye. | :28:12. | :28:14. |