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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Tonight, on Reporting Scotland, Labour's leadership contenders | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
Both are here for their party's hustings. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
But strains are already showing between the party south | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Why people in Glasgow's Govanhill are resorting to stealing | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
from charity clothing containers and hunting in bins for food. | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
Some don't have money for food for baby. Only husband go working. They | :00:32. | :00:43. | |
need the money to buy everything for the child. | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Our correspondent has another special report. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
An unlikely political scandal - so-called "Legogate". | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
We'll explain the row over a councillor, a conference | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
And Celtic find out who they'll face, now they're | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is in Scotland tonight | :00:59. | :01:18. | |
for a hustings with Owen Smith, his challenger | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
Mr Corbyn has said he's disappointed that the party's Scottish leader, | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Kezia Dugdale, isn't backing him for the job. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Meanwhile, Mr Smith has told the BBC he's open to a free vote for Labour | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
politicians in the event of another independence referendum. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
But said it was ultimately up to the Scottish leadership | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Our political correspondent, Nick Eardley has the story. | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
Which direction should the Labour Party take? Fresh from a row about | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
whether he was forced to sit on a floor on a busy train, today the | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
focus turned to how to get Labour's electrode performance in Scotland | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
back contract. Mr Corbyn's supporters think his radical brand | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
of politics can attract voters. That is despite the Scottish leader Kezia | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Dugdale saying he is unelectable. His response? I'm disappointed she | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
is not supporting my real election as leader. I hope she realises that | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
we are putting forward a clear and hysterically programme. But he | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
agrees with her that independence is not the answer to Scotland's | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
problems. The SNP have a different purpose which is to achieve | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
independence. I respect their right to advance their cause but so | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
reserve the right to disagree with it. We are not looking for an | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
alliance with the SNP. I will welcome support for all or any of | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
our policies from any other political groups or parties. Owen | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Smith thinks the party needs change at Westminster, especially if it is | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
to win the porters and seats back from the SNP and Tories. Scotland is | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
a great heartland of the Labour Party and Scotland needs a Labour | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
government in Holyrood and also in Westminster. I think I would bring a | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
very detailed understanding of devolution, how it works, given my | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
experience as the Shadow Welsh Secretary. Could that mean allowing | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Labour politicians a free vote on Scottish independence? It would not | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
be for me to determine what MSP 's will do. That would be for Kezia | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
Dugdale and the Scottish Labour Party. I am all for maximum autonomy | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
for the party. I think that is one of the mistakes we made in the past | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
that we did not give people their head as Scottish people to reflect | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
their own identity. Can this enthusiastic support be extended to | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
the wider electorate? That is the challenge ahead for Labour. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Our political editor Brian Taylor joins us now from outside the SECC, | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
where the hustings will start in the next hour. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Brian, Jeremy Corbyn says he is to -- disappointed not to get the | :04:03. | :04:15. | |
support from Kezia Dugdale? I have heard him speak twice today and I | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
will can delete my hat-trick in a moment. He has said he is against | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
austerity and the Labour Party is out of that -- out of step for not | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
supporting him. I'm sure Kezia Dugdale would take issues on certain | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
policies but she does not believe that Jeremy Corbyn is a credible | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
leader or a credible contender for Prime Minister. She believes in | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
short he is a loser. Team Corbyn think she will have to do backtrack | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
short he is a loser. Team Corbyn and he will be a winner in this | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
Labour leadership contest. What you make of Owen Smith's view on a free | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
vote? He did about a 90 degrees turn within a few seconds. He is not the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
first UK politician to stumble over the intricacies of Scottish | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
politics. I think it reflects yet again that Labour is still seeking | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
to balance this idea of being a UK party with a class -based appeal, | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
and economic appeal, and trying to work with that sense of Scottish | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
partridges. That sense of Scottish identification. In terms of the | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
contest within the party, it will be decided by the votes, but right now | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
contest within the party, it will be it does not look like ending in a | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
particularly comradely fashion. Thank you. | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
An investigation by BBC Scotland has found that exploitation of workers | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
is commonplace in the heart of Govanhill in Glasgow. | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
In the second of her special reports, our political | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
correspondent, Lucy Adams, also found that exceptional levels | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
of poverty in the area were being exacerbated | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
In the south side of Glasgow, we find two win in taking food from | :05:58. | :06:15. | |
bins and filling an empty pram with bags of clothes from a charity | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
clothing bin. The company which looks after the banks says that are | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
so commonplace they have had to make them more secure. They actually | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
dropped a child inside the clothing bank to pass the stuff out and when | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
someone came to chase them away, the child was left there and the police | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
had to rescue it. A study obtained by the BBC found of 300 Roma people | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
and Govanhill, most were working but almost a third earned less than the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
minimum wage. These people say low wages were one reason why women | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
steal from charity clothing bins. Some do not have money for food for | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
baby. Too many ladies are not going working, only husband goes working. | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
They need the money to buy everything for the child. Volunteers | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
say the solution is education. If their English is not good enough, | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
they don't know their rights, they're working for less than the | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
minimum wage. The solution would be more English classes in the area, so | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
if their English is getting better and better, they can get a better | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
job. I am teaching English in Govanhill because we have people | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
from 42 different countries. These English lessons in the Church on | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Daisy Street started last year because of growing demand. Dozens of | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
people come each week. My name is Ivanovic I am from Slovakia. I have | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
been in Glasgow six years. I have a very beautiful son. I am very happy. | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
Learning some English does not guarantee the minimum wage. ?3, | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
maximum ?7. Are you happy to work for less than the minimum wage. Yes. | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
The poverty here echoes Glasgow's past. What we saw was a community | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
which reminded me of growing up in the 1960s in the East End of | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Glasgow. You had workless men standing on street corners. They by | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
and large tend to have large families, so the men are standing | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
and large tend to have large out to get away from the wife and | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
children. You have flats where there are infestations we have not seen in | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
this country for many generations, bedbugs, cockroaches, rats in flats. | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
Figures obtained by the BBC show in Govanhill in the past four years, | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
there have been 1500 instances of mites, bedbugs and fleas and almost | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
2000 cases of cockroaches although recent figures have fallen slightly. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
This lawyer sees the results daily. Quite often your clients have read | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
pockmarks and they are scratching and the children are scratching. The | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
landlords will pick up mattresses in the street and put them in a | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
client's flat. If there are fleas or bedbugs they will be transferred | :09:27. | :09:27. | |
into the new property. bedbugs they will be transferred | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
is an issue. There is an increase in migrants after the referendum in | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
May. We have definitely seen an influx of migrants. They see it | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
perhaps is the last chance and they are coming here. It is new migrants | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
which have made Govanhill what it is. It is an amazingly vibrant | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
place. All of the things that people see as the bad things have their | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
emperors at its aspect as well. Being so busy means there is always | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
something going on. The low rents also bringing artists and students. | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
There are lots of things happening in Govanhill. There are lots of | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
people doing things to address problems at different levels. I just | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
love the noise. It is events like this world music night which really | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
reflect the diversity and vibrancy of the area. Are you having a good | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
time? Everyone is together. You don't see that anywhere else. The | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
group of young people I work with just want to work. They want to | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
express themselves, some want to be famous, they want to wrap and | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
perform, they just want to make something of themselves. They are | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
not here to leech, or to rob or harm anyone, they just want to have a | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
good life. This diverse community has its fair share of problems. But | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
talk to people here, they tell you they could be overcome. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Scotland's colleges have been through a massive shake-up, | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
with several mergers and a cut in the number of part-time students. | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
But according to the public spending watchdog, more work is needed | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
to understand what impact the controversial changes are having. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
The Scottish government says it'll consider the findings. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
As our education correspondent Jamie McIvor reports, | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
the changes have seen winners and losers. | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
Stephan is getting ready for college. He is about to begin a | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
two-year HND course in mechanical engineering. Heart -- after college | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
I will go to university and get a job at the end. Colleges now focus | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
on full-time courses like the one Stephan will do. More school leavers | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
and young adults are getting full-time places. It is the result | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
of a deliberate policy move. But there is another side to the coin. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Overall budgets were cut by nearly a fifth in real terms over five years. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Jobs have gone and the number of part-time students is down | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
dramatically, nearly half in eight years. One of the issues remains | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
about funding. A number of colleges are facing significant financial | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
challenges over the next year. The sector is one which does not have | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
problems to sue. One big change is the merger of colleges. City of | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Glasgow College is hailed as a good example. Nationally, the public | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
spending watchdog says it needs to be easier to show if reforms are | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
getting results. It is not possible for the government to report on the | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
getting results. It is not possible costs and benefits of the reforms | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
they have been through. It is not clear if they have been fully | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
achieved or what the cost was. The shake-up has sometimes seemed | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
difficulties. This year saw a national pay strike, but colleges | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
claim overall they have a good story to tell. It is only right the | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
government puts the funding in and wants to see good results at the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
other side. If that means we have to do more data collection, that is | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
fine as long as it does not detract from the impact on the student. Some | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
working in colleges have real worries about their futures. | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme... | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
An unlikely political scandal - so-called "Legogate". | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
We'll explain the row over a councillor, a conference | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
The former Education Secretary, Mike Russell, has been | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
appointed to a new post as, basically, minister for Brexit | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
He'll lead discussions with the UK government to protect | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Scotland's interests ahead of negotiations on leaving the EU. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
Our political correspondent, Andrew Kerr, is at the Scottish | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
Something of a comeback for Mr Russell, Andrew? | :14:19. | :14:28. | |
Yes, sadly. Mike Russell is the comeback kid of Scottish politics | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
tonight. There had been some speculation about who would emerge | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
from behind the black door at the house, the First Minister's official | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
residence to be appointed Minister for Brexit. As you see, the former | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Education Secretary, he stepped down from government two years ago when | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Nicola Sturgeon took over, perhaps rather unwillingly, but he is a | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
political heavyweight to the right of the party. Maybe Nicola Sturgeon | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
to the left but she welcomes his talents and she wants a strong voice | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
for Scotland at these negotiations. This is what she told me earlier. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
This is a job for a capable and experienced minister. Over the next | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
few months as the UK develops its negotiating position, it is vital | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
that Scotland's voices heard and we have the opportunity for protecting | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Scotland's place in Europe which is what the majority of Scottish people | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
voted for. We have to be in those negotiations meaningfully and Mike | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
Russell will leave those for us. So Minister for negotiations on | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
Scotland's place in Europe, to give it its Sunday title. The Prime | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Minister has said Brexit means Brexit. The Scottish Government | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
wants to protect Scotland's place in Europe, so he says he will not be | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
frustrating or being an obstacle to these negotiations, but a difficult | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
job for Mr Russell and a difficult job for the UK ministers as well. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Thank you. Police Scotland has said it's | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
to delay further its plans to close control rooms | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
in Aberdeen and Inverness. They had been expected | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
to close early this year, with calls being transferred | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
to a new control room in Dundee. But after the M9 tragedy, | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
in which control staff failed to pass on details of a call | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
about a crashed car in which two people died, the Inspector | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
of Constabulary ordered the closure Relatives of a mother | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
and her six-year-old son, who died after getting | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
into difficulties at Aberdeen beach, have thanked those | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
who tried to rescue them. Six-year-old Lucas Walker | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
was playing, when he was His mother, 37-year-old | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
Julie Walker, tried His brother Samuel, who's 13, | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
and bystanders also tried to help. A look at other stories | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
from across the country... A firefighter has been seriously | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
injured after a wall collapsed on him while he was tackling a blaze at | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
a disused building in Inverclyde. He was among a team of 24 firefighters | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
called to the building just after midnight. An investigation is | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
underway and the cause of the fire is being treated as suspicious. A | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
2-year-old boy has been badly injured after falling from the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
window of a flat in South Lanarkshire. It happened in | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Rutherglen on Tuesday afternoon. A toddler is being treated at | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. Groups representing bus | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
companies and passengers met today in Edinburgh. A recent report from | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Citizens Advice Scotland highlighted concerns about bus coverage and | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
prices in rural areas. One solution discussed today was community owned | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
transport which is growing in popularity. We focus on registered | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
bus services, and the community transport is not registered bus | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
services. I think there is a wealth of them out there and it is just a | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
case of looking to see how they can work in the future, in partnership | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
with a traditional bus company. For the first time in 20 years, a | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Scottish comedian is up for the most prestigious award at the Edinburgh | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
fringe. Richard Gadd from Fife is one of eight comics short listed for | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
the ?10,000 Edinburgh comedy awards prize. Hibernian's all the supporter | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
has died at the age of 106. Just months after watching his team left | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
the cup. Sam Martinez had followed the team since arriving in Edinburgh | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
70 years ago. He finally saw Hibernian win the cup in May, the | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
first time they had won the trophy in 100 years. | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
It's been dubbed "Legogate" and has led to calls | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
for the resignation of a senior Aberdeenshire councillor. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Martin Kitts Hayes walked out on a prestigious conference | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
at Legoland in Denmark, after complaining that the log | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
cabin accommodation was not up to standard. | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
Today a report revealed that the abortive trip | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
for him and two colleagues cost almost ?3,500. | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
It is many a child's dream to visit the home of Lego. For almost half a | :19:07. | :19:23. | |
It is many a child's dream to visit century this place, with billions of | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
bricks, has been providing holidays to remember forever. But for one | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
senior counsellor it was the setting for a trip he would rather forget. | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
That man was the co-leader of Aberdeenshire Council. He, and two | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
colleagues, flew out of Aberdeen airport to attend a conference of | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
the North Sea commission. When he saw the accommodation, he was not | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
happy, lightening it -- likening it to Butlins in the 1970s. We have | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
come here to see the most cheerful lass of the week. In less time than | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
it took to judge the swimwear competition, the councillor was back | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
on the plane. Then an hour and a quarter, he had rejected alternative | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
accommodation suggestions and book to the party on the next flight | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
home. But the saga did not end there. It is claimed that he tried | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
to cover up his decision to fly home, phoning his PA to get her to | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
tell people that they had not returned. Within two hours of | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
arriving, they are on their way to fly home again. The report shows | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
that if he had waited just half an hour or 45 minutes, he would have | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
been alternative accommodation made available. There are calls already | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
for Cancelo Kitts Hayes to resign over what happened in this resort. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
He has admitted his decision to return home was April one. But what | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
has been dubbed Legogate does not end there. Councillors will discuss | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
his actions at a specially convened meeting next week. | :21:01. | :21:01. | |
The draw has been made for the group stage of the Champions League | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
and Celtic have a tough task if they're to progress. | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
David Currie is at Celtic Park for us tonight with all the details. | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
Today's Champions League group stage draw was always going to produce a | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
tough group for Celtic, as you say. And now we know exactly how tough. I | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
will not keep you in suspense any longer. Let's have a look at the | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
teams that Celtic will face, home and away. Starting with the top | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
seeds in the group, starting with the champions, Barcelona, Soares, | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
may mark et al. The second ranked team are Manchester City under Pep | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Guardiola. He can call on the talents of Sergio Aguero, Kevin de | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
rape's little brother, Yaya Toure. rape's little brother, Yaya Toure. | :21:59. | :22:14. | |
-- Celtic player Yaya. A short time ago, Kieran Tierney gave his | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
reaction to the draw. It is a great draw with three great teams. That is | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
why we are in the Champions League. Of course it is difficult in any | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
group. It is the best of the best. This is the biggest competition and | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
we are delighted to be there but we are not just making up the numbers. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
It is worth bearing in mind that only the top two teams from the | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
group progress to the knockout stage. If Celtic were to qualify it | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
would be a tremendous achievement, and maybe Celtic supporters will | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
settle for some great European nights here at Celtic Park, like the | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
one in November of 2012 when Celtic beat the mighty Barcelona 2-1. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
There was a long-standing discussion about whether Scotland has too many | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
professional football teams. Some clubs came close to merging in the | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
90s. It is among the issues explored in a documentary charting some of | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
the most significant moments in Scottish football over the last 30 | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
years. European triumphs against Barcelona, along with regular | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
domestic success in the 1980s resulted in high praise for the then | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
Dundee United manager, Jerry Maclean. There is a man who totally | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
transformed the face of football in this city. He wanted to take that | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
transformation a step further by merging the Tannadice club with | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
their city rivals, Dundee. I believe that the club would be more | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
successful if we joined ranks and pool resources and at the moment, we | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
are spread too thin. It was very close to happening. It was within | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
two or three days of happening, but it did not. There were other | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
murderers. Edinburgh was nearly a merger at one point. Thompson is | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
correct. In 1990 with Hibernian floundering financially, the Hearts | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
chairman launched an audacious takeover bid. It should not come as | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
a cultural shock. The thought of putting together two teams who have | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
been competitors for 100 years or so. QR brawler from Hibernian fans | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
at the next Edinburgh derby. There had been chants throughout the game | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
against the Hearts chairman who is not here this afternoon. At | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
half-time, there was the fear of another pitch invasion. They | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
basically said, if you score another goal, we may have to stop the game. | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
So if you can help it, don't score. So we said, no problem at all, | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
thanks. And we said, no, that isn't happening. Hearts won the match but | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
there was no merger. But the feeling that 42 senior clubs in Scotland's | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
game was overkill remains. By any standard, that is too many. That is | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
an issue in itself, in my view. What is the solution? I don't know. But | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
it is something we should look at. Perhaps we will still be looking at | :25:24. | :25:24. | |
it in another 30 years' time. And Scotland's Game | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
is on BBC One Scotland tonight at 9. Let's see how the weather | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
is shaping up. Good evening. There was some | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
sunshine around today but for many, not much. If there is blue sky on | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
offer, our weather Watchers will snap it. This evening, some showers | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
clearing away from the borders. Misty and murky at times. In the | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
west post, a number of downpours edging into the Hebrides. -- on the | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
West Coast. Away from those two areas, mild, and with the wind in | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
the South West, that should push the showers offshore. Tomorrow, low | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
pressure nearby. For the Highlands and Islands, probably a wet morning | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
but it will improve later. Elsewhere, after a cloudy start, the | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
sunshine will come out and for central and southern parts, a fairly | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
decent day with perhaps some showers around at times. The wet weather | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
pushing up towards Orkney and Shetland. By mid-afternoon, we're | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
looking at 17-19 foremost, warmer east with one or two sports reaching | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
20. Perhaps some light showers at times. You are more likely to catch | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
one to the west of the great Glen. Still, heavier rain affecting | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Shetland, and Orkney, but continuing to improve. The rest of the | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
afternoon and into the evening, some late sunshine and a scattering of | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
light showers here and there. To the weekend, and low pressure is still | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
nearby but confidence is building that it should stay away from us. On | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
the face of things, as it stands, at the moment Saturday looks reasonably | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
dry but fairly cloudy. Some light showers here and there. The wind is | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
generally light with temperatures around the high teens. And | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
hopefully, on Sunday, the rain will stay away, south of the border. | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Cloudy with showers but with wind coming from the north, a fresher | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
feel. I'll be back with the headlines at 8 | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
on the team right across the country, have | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
a very good evening. | :27:47. | :27:50. |