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compete in the Games. Join me now on BBC Two. Here on BBC One it's time | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
for the news where you The First Minister has set out | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
a plan to boost Scotland's economy through help for companies | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
looking to invest. It's part of the Scottish | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
Government's programme There's also a big emphasis | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
on education, and support Opposition critics said | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
the package fell short More from our political | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
editor Brian Taylor. New times, new ideas, | :00:25. | :00:42. | |
touring this new high Nicola Sturegon pryer advertises | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
education and the economy. She intends to channel cash | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
directly to schools, handing more power to | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
headteachers and to parents. To boost jobs, a ?500 million scheme | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
to guarantee loans to companies It's a new departure | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
and would need Treasury sanction, alongside | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Holyrood agreement. In short, we are determined | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
to build an economy where everyone has a fair chance | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
to contribute to growth and where everyone can share in | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
the benefits of that growth. Already, capital investment | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
on projects like the new Forth crossing | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
is protecting jobs. Miss Sturegon promised more | :01:20. | :01:20. | |
investment in transport. And more in the economy | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
allowing cuts to air passenger duty, a national institute | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
to foster manufacturing and action to boost oil platform | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
decommissioning in the North Sea. The Scottish Government won't match | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
a planned Treasury cut The Tories said that could | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
disadvantage Scotland. Pushing | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
income tax rates above levels in the rest of the UK isn't | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
going to help Scottish growth. Labour welcomed measures such | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
as gender balance on public boards, but accused ministers | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
of being too timid. Over the past decade, | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
this Parliament has become | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
more and more powerful, but the Government's programme has | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
become less and less ambitious. There is a bill to tackle | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
domestic abuse, including for the first time, | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
psychological abuse. Victims of childhood abuse | :02:20. | :02:20. | |
will be given longer Today's programme also | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
includes plans for a new Social Security system | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
in Scotland, scrapping the so-called bedroom tax and there's | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
more on the family. Extra help with childcare, | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
an attainment fund to help disadvantaged pupils | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
at school and a child A qualified welcome for those, but | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
Patrick Harvey of the Greens hates the planned cut in | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
air passenger duty. That benefit will go | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
to the wealthiest frequent fliers. Nicola Sturegon insisted today's | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
programme was about the nuts and bolts, | :02:57. | :02:57. | |
the day job, not independence. Willie Rennie of the Liberal | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Democrats wasn't convinced. The First Minister | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
should ditch the charade and ditch her new plans | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
for independence. That would be the best | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
thing for Scotland. Still, with the constitution, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
MSPs endorsed the appointment of Mike Russell | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
as the minister to handle Brexit A man has gone on trial accused | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
of murdering an Asian man in North Lanarkshire almost | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
18 years ago. Ronnie Coulter denies killing | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
Surjit Singh Chhokar in November 1998, in Wishaw | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
and trying to conceal From the High Court in Glasgow, | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Andrew Black reports. Arriving at the High Court | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
in Glasgow, the sister and mother of Surjit Singh Chhokar | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
with the family's lawyer. It's almost 18 years | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
since he was killed. Mr Chhokar, who was | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
32 and worked as a Donald Finlay, QC is defending | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
the man charged with his murder, Alex Prentice, QC, today opened | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
the prosecution's case. in Overtown, Wishaw, Mr Coulter | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
attacked Mr Chhokar by beating him with a wooden baton and striking him | :04:15. | :04:29. | |
with a knife and further accused The only witness today | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
was a retired policeman who was part of the | :04:33. | :04:52. | |
team investigating the killing. He set the scene for | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
members of the jury video of the scene of the killing | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
and also the area of Wishaw where Mr Mr Coulter is also accused | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
of breaking into Mr Chhokar's house in 1998 | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
and stealing a cooker and forging a signature | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
on He denies all the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
charges against him. The trial is expected to last | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
around five weeks. The new Borders railway | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
is one year old today. The route runs from Edinburgh | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Waverley, to Tweedbank near Melrose - a line that had | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
been shut for 46 years - and cost more than ?350 | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
million to reopen. The service has brough | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
a welcome boost for tourism but has it been a victim | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
of its own success? Perhaps it's no surprise that | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
a route this stunning has surpassed expectations but the scenery can't | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
hide some teething problems. It's had some problems | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
recently over the past few weeks but hopefully | :05:52. | :06:05. | |
getting those sorted out. Since it has come, I have been | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
using it instead of the bus. It is much more comfortable | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
but you pay It has got better, | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
to be honest, over time. Campaigners who back the line have | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
been monitoring its progress and say | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
there is a clear need for The downside is the service has | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
been quite unreliable. Problems with cancellations and late | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
running because of inadequate Too much single track, | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
not enough double track. That has been a worry, | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
it doesn't affect visitors but for regular | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
communitiers that's a concern, if it is too unreliable they will go | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
back to using the car or the puss. ScotRail who operate the service | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
admit there have been problems but A railway like the Borders is | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
fantastic, it connects the community We will continually | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
improve it to make sure whatever the issues are, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
that have come up, are fixed. One of the main reasons | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
for reopening the Borders Railway line was to bring an | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
economic impact to the area and in places like Melrose, | :07:09. | :07:20. | |
businesses are reporting an increase in the number of business sores | :07:21. | :07:21. | |
but questions are being asked about how far that | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
economic impact has spread. In the years ahead | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
we'll see the economic impact flush throughout the Boarders | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
but in the first year already there are significant signs the economic | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
benefit is coming to fruition. One year on, there | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
is now an expectation that the service will improve | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
and the benefits will spread. But, as one passenger | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
put it, at least we now have a railway | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
it complain about. More than 11 years ago, | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
five members of one family from South Uist were killed | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
in one of the worst storms to hit the Western Isles | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
in living memory. A fatal accident inquiry | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
has never been held But relatives say they believe | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
the tragedy may have been caused by the construction | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
of a nearby causeway. From South Uist, | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
Ian Hamilton reports. This has been a desperate search, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
a community struggling to find their Locals used anything | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
they could to find their youngsters, garden rakes, | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
old walking sticks. Father MacDonald recalls a tragedy | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
that hit his parish community in South Uist | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
in 2005, that claimed five lives. I believe around about 7.00, | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
which was high tide, the waves were crashing | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
over the top of the And that was what prompted | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
the family to leave. On that night, the family came along | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
this road They were put here two | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
years after the accident. This was just an open piece of road | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
built along the sandbank. The cars were swept | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
away here but it's believed that the source of | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
the problem was further up the road. The causeway is two miles further | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
down the road there, with | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
the growing waves, sea levels, the wind | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
was The causeway was | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
acting as a dam, the water had to go somewhere, | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
so it burst overland. Locals believe that the accident | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
could have been avoided. A family member told us | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
that the original plan for the causeway linking the mainland | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
and island had gaps but the final We would like to see | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
a fatal accident inquiry. We did a freedom of information | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
request to the local authority for all documents relating | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
to the construction of the causeway. As soon as we started | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
going through it, it was evident there was | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
a lot of papers missing. Well, if you ask for something | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
and they don't provide it, it gives the impression | :10:02. | :10:13. | |
they are trying to hide something. Maybe you think they are liable | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
or somebody is liable for making that decision | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
to cut from three to one. We want to find out, | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
but we are facing a brick wall. We invited the council to respond | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
to the concerns and suspicions regarding the freedom | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
of information request. A council spokesperson told us that | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
all the information 11 years on, residents | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
here still live in In July, ?25,000 was made | :10:44. | :10:55. | |
available for a feasibility In July, ?25,000 was made | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
available for a feasibility study to improve the causeway | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
and the Crown Office told us that a fatal accident inquiry | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
was still under consideration. Now let's join Judith | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
for the latest on the weather We will squeeze another day of warm | :11:10. | :11:25. | |
temperatures tomorrow. Tonight is a very humid night. A beautiful | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
picture here. Cloud increasing as we head to the night, predominantly | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
picture here. Cloud increasing as we dry, although we will see some rain | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
and misty and murky conditions towards west and coastal areas. | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Cloudy for most, Misty and murky conditions up the West Coast. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Outbreaks of patchy rain and drizzle but it is an improving day. Very | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
mild first thing, monkey really. A little lower in the north but still | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
noticeably humid. We will see that rain across the fourth north-west. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Winds are delighted here tomorrow and will cloud over for me tomorrow. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Rainer pushing here as we head to the day. It brightens for this size | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
and increasing amount of sunshine across eastern Scotland and through | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
the central lowlands. Patchy rain towards the Western Isles and the | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
far north-west into or acne. As far as the rest of the UK is concerned, | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
similar conditions for Northern Ireland. We will see good spells of | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
sunshine are running along the south coast and towards the Channel | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Islands and hot temperatures for the time of year, potential highs of 25 | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Celsius. Back on home turf, we are looking at everyone tempered at the | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
time of year. More widely into the low 20s tomorrow. Almost like a warm | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
summer 's day. Heading into the evening, very little changes but an | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
overnight, cloud building up in the west and some rain pushing in here. | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
The pressure chart, you can see, introducing outbreaks of rain along | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
with strengthening winds. We will just see that rain is going off | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
itself. Deteriorating as it does. It will be a noticeably windy day but | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
brightening up behind the rain. And that's all from | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Reporting Scotland tonight. There are regular updates | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
during Breakfast from From everyone on the late | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
team here in Glasgow | :13:26. | :13:29. |