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That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me - | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Tonight on Reporting Scotland: The man who was driving the bin | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
lorry that crashed in Glasgow, killing six people, | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
admits reckless driving in a separate incident. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
We speak to the mother of missing RAF serviceman Corrie Mckeague | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
It is my son. I will do whatever it takes to get him home. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
Also on the programme: Plans to use compulsory purchase | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
orders to reclaim homes in Glasgow's Govanhill | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
Nurdles, the tiny pieces of plastic causing big problems | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
And, from warriors to lions, hopes that Stuart Hogg and other | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
Glasgow players can be part of the British and Irish Lions team. | :00:52. | :01:17. | |
The driver of a bin lorry that crashed in Glasgow, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
killing six people, in December 2014, has pleaded guilty to culpable | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
and reckless driving less than a year later. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Our reporter is outside Glasgow Sheriff Court. | :01:26. | :01:26. | |
Harry Clarke appeared here at Glasgow Sheriff | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
He pleaded guilty to culpably and recklessly driving his car | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
near Baillieston in Glasgow on 20th September last year. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Nine months earlier he had lost consciousness while at the wheel of | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
the bin lorry that crashed in Glasgow City centre. | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
That was after his licence had been revoked. | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
The Crown accepted his plea saying that he either knew or ought to have | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
known he was unfit to drive and that he was at risk | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Harry Clarke leaves Glasgow Sheriff Court. Harry Clarke had his licence | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
revoked after he crashed the bin lorry he was driving on the 22nd of | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
December 20 14. George Square was full of Christmas showers when he | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
lost consciousness that the wheel. The lorry veered out of control. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Ticks people were killed, 15 others injured. -- six were killed. During | :02:28. | :02:40. | |
a fatal accident inquiry it emerged he had fainted while driving a bus | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
in 2010. It heard he had repeatedly lied about his fitness to dry. Nine | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
months after the bin lorry crash Harry Clark was seen by a neighbour | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
at the wheel of his Vauxhall Corsa. Police were called. | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
Today he admitted culpably and recklessly driving his car even | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
though he now he had suffered a lot of consciousness while driving on | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
two occasions and he should have known he was unfit to be behind the | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
wheel. He will be sentenced at the end of next month and could | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
potentially be jailed. at the forefront of a campaign | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
to find her missing son. 23-year old Corrie Mckeague, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
an RAF serviceman from Dunfermline, disappeared during a night out | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
near his base in Bury St Edmunds. CCTV captured him leaving | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
a nightclub in the town, and he was last seen | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
going down an alley. His mobile was tracked and matched | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
the route of a bin lorry, which had picked up rubbish | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
from the town centre and was heading This weekend it's hoped a search | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
of that landfill site will begin, but tomorrow night a ?50,000 reward | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
offered by a local businessman Nicola Urquhart, a serving police | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
woman in Scotland, has been Knowing the police and about to | :03:59. | :04:14. | |
start searching the landfill, everybody knows how much we have | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
wanted that to be searched, there there's a good chance that Corrie | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
may be there. I do not believe that who put him there will come forward | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
but of somebody else knows, if they know somebody that is behaving | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
strangely or they have seen things, we are going to find Corrie if he is | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
there so come forward and tell us where he might be. Tell us why you | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
think he is going to be there so that whoever has put him there does | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
not get away with saying he has fallen in a bin and it is an | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
accident. Give us some more closure, not just finding Corrie but finding | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
out how he got there and what happened to him. We have seen you | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
over the past 21 weeks in front of the media using social media, even | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
physically searching. How have you found the strength to do that? That | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
is when I end up not having the strength. It is... It is my son. I | :05:16. | :05:27. | |
will do whatever it takes to get him home. If somebody is not doing their | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
job, if I think they could do something a little bit better, if I | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
can do it myself, I will. If not I will do what it takes to help them | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
do it properly and that is all I have ever wanted, a basic | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
investigation, and that has given me the strength to fight for something | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
to try to get Corrie home. Honestly, social media, coming from somebody | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
who is a police officer who does not go out there saying to use social | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
media to families when I am dealing with them, the press and social | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
media is what has got me through this. People do not understand how | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
much it means when you are reading nice comments that other people are | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
thinking about your child and wanting to do things to help. You | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
and your family have been brutally honest. Corrie was on a night out | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
and was drunk. He was asked to leave a nightclub. You blame no one. No. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
But you think lessons can be learned. Absolutely. Lessons can be | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
learned when there were three tone pastors standing right at the door. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
People who are specifically there to look after...? Yes. Hindsight is | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
wonderful. I am not criticising them. If you are putting somebody | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
out of the club because they are drunk perhaps there should be some | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
kind of legislation for all pubs, all doormen to make sure they have | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
some sort of after-care. What do you think has happened? I don't know if | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
I will ever find out. Somebody has done something to him. That we are | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
sure. I am not going to try to kid by hoping I could connect with | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
somebody who has done something to my son. If they can do it, listening | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
to me talking to them and begging them is going to make no difference | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
to them whatsoever. There are still far more decent people in this world | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
than awful people. If any of them know something, fallen. Letters now. | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
Even if you think it is a waste of time, it might not be. You do not | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
know what is important so please get in touch. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Tony Blair has said the context for the Scottish independence case | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
is "much more credible" after the Brexit vote. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
During a speech the former Prime Minister said the vote | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
to leave the EU put what he called "the break-up of the UK" | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Our political correspondent is at Westminster. | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
The heart of Tony Blair's speech was a rallying call for those who | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
support the EU to continue making their case. There was also a warning | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
about what he believes the dangers of Brexit will be, economic and | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
political. In the political sense Tony Blair was saying he is still a | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
unionist who believes Scotland should stay in the UK whatever | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
happens with Brexit. He has tweeted he thinks the case for remaining in | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the UK is stronger than in 2014. He has been looking at the changing | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
political landscape and says the context of the post Brexit vote | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
could be good for independence supporters. There is the possibility | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
of the break-up of the UK. Narrowly avoided by the resultant Scottish | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
referendum, back on the table, this time with a context much more | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
credible for the independence case. What has been the reaction from | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
other parties? You will probably not be surprised to find it depends | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
where you stand on the independence question. The SNP I give and say | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
airfares to be another vote the context will be different -- I | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
believe. The Conservatives say there is no appetite for another | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
referendum and you do not solve the challenges of Brexit by leaving the | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
UK. What Brexit has shown is that within the UK Scotland's voices not | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
listen to and does not appear to count for much. The argument for | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
taking control of our own future and society and place in the world | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
becomes ever more strong. The case for Scottish independence was not | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
credible in 2014 when people rejected it and it is not credible | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
now. What Tony Blair might not now given that he has been out of front | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
line politics is that only about a quarter of people in Scotland want a | :10:14. | :10:14. | |
second referendum. The killer of a Clydebank schoolgirl | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
has had his sentence reduced John Leathem, who admitted stabbing | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
Paige Doherty more than 140 times, will now serve a minimum term of 23 | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
years. It was in this shop, | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
now under new management, that John Leathem ran a | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
delicatessen and it was here Leathem was jailed at the High Court | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
in Glasgow for life, with The sentence was | :10:37. | :10:49. | |
imposed because of the brutality of the killing and also | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
because he had attempted to dispose At the Appeal Court, | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
his lawyers argued that he showed genuine remorse and had | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
never been in trouble before. They also said he had left her body | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
in a place where it could easily be It was contrasted to | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
another case in Glasgow. He had also been jailed | :11:10. | :11:30. | |
for a minimum of 27 years and said that that case was | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
different from that The judges agreed to reduce his | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
minimum term to 23 years, but there is no guarantee he will get | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
out after serving that length of That will be a matter | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
for the parole board, who will base their decision on how | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
safe the community will be once John Leathem | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
is released. Drivers on Scotland's busiest | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
motorway have been told to expect significant delays, | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
as a diversion comes into force From 8pm, traffic on the east | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
and westbound approaches to the Baillieston interchange | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
on the M8 will be diverted It will allow contractors | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
to connect a newly-built Heavy congestion is expected | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
on surrounding roads. Last autumn you may remember we told | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
you how residents in some parts of North Edinburgh | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
were being terrorised Despite the focus on the problem, | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
it appears to be getting worse. Today, local people | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
met with officials to try to bring the crime spree | :12:37. | :12:37. | |
to a halt. Wrong side of the road, heading | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
north. Tearing through the streets of north Edinburgh with a police | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
helicopter in court suit these teenagers are oblivious to the | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
danger they are putting themselves in and others and local residents | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
say the spate of joyriders and motor bike thieves is damaging the area. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
The problem of motorbike crime and car crime and vandalism that goes | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
with it is residents say it comes in waves. They say authorities are not | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
doing enough to apply the breaks to the culprits. Some of those | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
residents met with police, Crown Office and city officials today to | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
place their concerns. Many of the offenders have been caught but | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
there's a feeling the punishments do not the crime. It seems like our | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
criminal justice system is a revolving door. Our communities say | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
you can go up to court and get a slap on the wrist. They come out and | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
two fingers that the police and the criminal justice system. This local | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
MSP has contacted the Crown Office over the sentences handed out but | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
thinks the bigger picture is important. Although a lot of the joy | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
reading happens here in north Edinburgh, it is an issue for the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
whole city because the theft of motorbikes happened in the south of | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
the city. Some of the bike thefts are happening locally. In September | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
CCTV footage here revealed a thief making off with his partner's | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
motorbike. This is my girlfriend's bike. We keep it in the kitchen | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
because it has been stolen before. The bike is back safe indoors but | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
the anti-social behaviour outside his house continues. It is every | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
couple of nights he can hear them and see them coming down especially | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
during the school holidays and later nights. It has been worse because | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
the kids have been off. Authorities say the meetings were positive and | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
have deployed special evidence gathering officers to the area. | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
You're watching BBC Reporting Scotland. | :14:48. | :14:48. | |
The man who was driving the bin lorry that crashed in Glasgow, | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
killing six people in 2014, admits reckless driving | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
And still to come: Why were these mysterious tunnels | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
We meet the scientists who are trying to find out. | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
Glasgow City Council say it will now begin to use compulsory purchase | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
powers to force rogue landlords out of the Govanhill area of the city. | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
?34 million will be spent in the next four years | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
in an attempt to address the issues of overcrowded, badly | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
When cleaning up the streets in Govanhill persistence and manpower | :15:28. | :15:42. | |
is key. Sorted out neglected housing stock is more complex. In the last | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
two years 124 flats have been bought. 60% by private landlords. | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
And done up for lead by the local housing association. The Scottish | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Government and local council have pledged more than ?30 million to | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
keep the scheme going. ?34 million is a substantial investment. We need | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
to make sure that all of the powers of the enhanced enforcement area are | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
used in this area. This is the only enhanced enforcement area in | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Scotland which means the council can demand access to private landlords' | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
property for rigorous inspections and they are about to introduce a | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
tough for measure. We will continue to target rogue landlords but if we | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
failed the scheme is not being as successful as we would like it to be | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
we will use compulsory purchase powers to make sure those | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
individuals are targeted and removed from the area. 87 flats taken over | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
by the housing association are currently being refurbished and it | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
is hoped the nature of the area will start to change when new tenants | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
move on. People will know who are and hopefully they will be | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
neighbours for considerably longer than just a few months at a time. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
That will give stability to the community. For many people who live | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
or work here that cannot come quick enough. It is called the slums. In | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
one house there is about 20 people living in one bedroom flat. It has | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
downgraded this area. You have not seen any improvement? No. It is | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
better. You can see more people are living in the properties and there | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
should be. This pilot scheme has put in place the powers in the process | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
to tackle some landlords and the City Council is aware there is | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
plenty of them operating here will stop the challenge is to target the | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
most persistent and the worst of them throughout this area. | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
A search of hundreds of beaches around the UK has found | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
three-quarters of them are littered with nurdles. | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
They're lentil-sized pellets used as a raw material | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
to make plastic products - and they can cause significant | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
damage to wildlife, such as birds and fish which eat them. | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
Huw Williams reports from Gullane in East Lothian. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
For the past five years on beaches from the south of England to | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Shetland they have been looking for nurdles, they are not recognisable | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
chunks of plastic like this and they are not micro beads which cause | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
problems for fish. They are pellets like this. On this beach in East | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
Lothian there are literally tens of thousands of them. So what are they? | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
And how many are out there? They are little plastic pellets, about the | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
size of a lentil and they are used in plastics manufacturer to make | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
most of our plastic products. In terms of the numbers we find we know | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
there are millions of tonnes of these produced and processed each | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
year in the UK alone and potentially billions of these little pellets are | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
escaping into the environment every year just from accidental spillage. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
And they end up on beaches like this and it's not just conservationists | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
like you who have noticed and are worried about them. I like to teach | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
my kids to pick things up, it's part of what we do, incorporate that into | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
the beach walk and it's tough to pick up thousands of these so we end | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
up taking some of the bigger items home but then we are left with the | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
idea that this is, this remains on the beach. So what should be done? | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
There are simple solutions to stopping this spillage, companies | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
can sign up to a scheme called operation clean sweep, a voluntary | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
scheme that allows companies to connect is evil pellet loss and | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
there are useful guidelines within that scheme. The problem is not many | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
people have signed up to that and there are no checks in place to make | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
sure companies who have signed up are doing what they promise. The | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
beach is looking absolutely stunning tonight. But the next time you're at | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
the seaside you might want to look a bit more closely at the sand to see | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
what else is there. The Glasgow Warriors head coach | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
hopes that several of his players will make a real impact | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
for the British and Irish Lions Gregor Townsend - | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
a former Lion himself - hopes they can push for places | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
in the test teams and not Three more years with the Warriors | :20:22. | :20:38. | |
for Peter Horne, committing his future to the Glasgow band of | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
brothers whose top stars are increasingly admired on the | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
international stage. One in particular has caught the eye is the | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
best players in Britain and Ireland try to impress the man who will pick | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
the Lions squad to tour New Zealand. Stuart Hogg scores in the corner! | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
He's done it again! Stuart Hogg has played right hasn't he? Missed a few | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
tackles last week so he will probably be looking at improving | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
some of his defence of stuff but in attack he's been pretty good. This | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
guy was pretty good as well as a scoring Lions full-back and thinks | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
his fellow Scots can easily wear his old Jersey. Stuart Hogg has been | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
playing extremely well, he has been the player of the first two rounds | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
for many of the four home nations the player of the first two rounds | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
and if he keeps his form up and keeps playing well then he would | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
certainly be in with a good chance of starting at 15. Three of his | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Glasgow team-mates have also been tipped by Vern Cotter for possible | :21:42. | :21:42. | |
selection. So is Scotstoun home of the Warriors | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
the breeding ground for the next Scottish star in the British and I | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
wish Lions? Well since the head coach here at Glasgow played in the | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
tour of South Africa years ago only one other Scot, Tom Smith, has | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
started a Lions Test match. It's tough because you are training and | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
competing against the best players in Britain and Ireland. But at least | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
once you are out there you have the opportunity to get that test place. | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
If you look at the Scotland team you're probably looking at three, | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
test 23, not just to list but probably three getting in the match | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
day squad if you're picking the test squad now. Josh Strauss unlikely to | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
be one of them, like a Greig Laidlaw the forward will miss the rest of | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
the Six Nations effectively ending the forward will miss the rest of | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
any hopes he had of impressing the selectors. | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
New light is being shed on a mysterious network | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
of tunnels and caves, hand-carved out of rock | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
Scientists, using radar imaging equipment, have discovered | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
that the ancient passageways at Gilmerton Cove extend much | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
More chambers have also been uncovered. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
As Fiona Stalker reports, it's hoped the underground site may | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
OK, some surface noise coming in here I think, it might be a cable or | :23:02. | :23:17. | |
something. The latest ground penetrating radar equipment, new | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
technology to unlock ancient secrets. The waves bounce off | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
cavities or tunnels carved into the secrets. The waves bounce off | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
rock below. This is where we have been looking at. When we were out | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
there on the road we were the other side of this wall. And where this | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
blocked up tunnel leads is just one of the questions unanswered for | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
hundreds of years. Strange places, very few things inside these which | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
tell us about the people who used it and what they were doing and why | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
they built it in the first place. So perhaps the work we are doing, if we | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
get a bigger picture we are mapping in a more extensive way the | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
footprint of it, then what we are hoping his battle tell us something | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
about the use. This is what is referred to in an early guidebook as | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
the chapel. There are several theories about what these chambers | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
and tunnels were used for. We have theories of secret religious work | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
it, a deep cut bowl, we have stories of it being a punchbowl so I secret | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
drinking den. Local legends that one of the tunnels leads to Craigmillar | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Castle a good mile from here and we have stories of May the Queen of | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Scots having used this place. This subterranean network card from the | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
sandstone is now known to be at least double the size originally | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
thought. That new information will be crucial in piecing the past | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
together. Whether a secret drinking den, a place of worship or something | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
more sinister the hope is that this work will finally solve the mystery. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
Fascinating. Let's see what we can expect | :25:13. | :25:13. | |
from the weekend weather. Some lovely blue skies around for | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
some of us today particularly in the east and north-east but for many | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
rather grey. But lovely weather watcher pictures, thanks. Cloudy and | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
breezy tonight and increasingly damp as weather starts to arrive off the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
Atlantic, showery outbreaks of rain. The further east in the wet weather | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
fairly sporadic but all these factors combined, the rain and the | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
breeze and the cloud mean it will be a mild night with temperatures for | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
most around 6-9 C. But the breeze will be of note around the west | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Coast coming strong from the South West. To start the weekend, Saturday | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
gets off to a soggy start with wet weather in the West, edging its way | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
east, fizzling out. From around lunchtime many central southern and | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
eastern parts will see an improvement, dryer and indeed | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
brighter. By mid-afternoon generally driver central and southern | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Scotland, through Kintyre up towards the Highlands and Islands further | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
outbreaks of rain, further east into parts of dried, perhaps 13 degrees, | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
the rain spreading through, Shetland largely drive. If you are hell | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
walking or climbing in the West it will be wet and windy. Temperatures | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
falling through the course of the day. Eastern ranges more drive it | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
still windy. Temperatures holding fast at five or six, they will not | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
drop as far as they will as the West. Into the night and the wet | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
weather edging its way south and east getting wet through the central | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
belt on Saturday night and Sunday. For a Sunday, the second half of the | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
weekend, not too bad, whether France in the north-west bringing quite | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
windy from the West. Early Sunshine for central and eastern Scotland but | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
through the course of the day the sunshine becoming increasingly | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
confined to Eastern coasts, in the sunshine 13 degrees. Further west | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
rain come in. Subtropical air coming in, that could well lead to a high | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
of 15 or 16 degrees, it will not be sunny, it will be cloudy and indeed | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
windy. That's the forecast. Thanks. Now, a reminder of tonight's main | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
news: Harry Clarke - the man who was driving the bin | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
lorry that crashed in Glasgow, killing six people - | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
admits reckless driving And Tony Blair has said the context | :27:58. | :27:58. | |
for the Scottish independence case is "much more credible" | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
after the Brexit vote. He said the vote to leave the EU put | :28:03. | :28:16. | |
what he called the break up of the UK back on the table. | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm - and the late bulletin just | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team - right | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
Secure your place at the 500 Words Final, | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
BBC Radio 2's writing competition for kids with our honorary judge | :28:31. | :28:39. | |
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall. | :28:40. | :28:43. |