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Rural Britain has some of the most challenging

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environments in the world.

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In Scotland, the mountains, lochs and coastline

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encourage tourists and locals to get out into the wilds.

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But with that comes danger.

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Keep your arms by your side!

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The emergency services north of the border have to deal with

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extreme challenges every day.

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-Don't stop right in the middle of there.

-Keep coming.

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We need to get through.

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From severe weather and treacherous terrain...

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-Is the pain getting worse, do you think?

-Yes.

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..to covering huge distances on country roads

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with time against them.

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So we'll just get him out ASAP.

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They work around the clock

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battling against some of the most difficult situations.

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We'll be right at the heart of the action,

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side by side with Air Rescue saving lives,

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on the road with paramedics caring for the injured

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and following the police fighting crime,

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as the emergency services work together to pick up, patch up

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and protect the public in rural communities.

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This is Countryside 999.

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Coming up -

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rural police officers confiscate firearms following a dispute

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between neighbours.

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We can do him for poaching, unlawfully taking a shotgun...

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In A&E, a patient's had an accident with an air gun.

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I still expect there to be a pellet embedded quite deeply in his forearm.

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And a Royal Navy helicopter crew joins forces

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with the bomb disposal squad.

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When Britain's rural emergency services get an urgent call-out,

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they pull out all the stops to respond,

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no matter how remote the location.

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And they have to be prepared for anything.

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HMS Gannet's Royal Navy Search and Rescue Team, based in Ayrshire,

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cover an area of 98,000 square miles...

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..providing 24-hour assistance across Scotland, northern England

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and Northern Ireland.

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Their Sea King helicopters help them recover climbers, rescue fishermen

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and provide vital medical evacuations from the nation's remote islands.

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It's 1.30, and they've just received a call-out.

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The team is preparing to despatch to the remote island of Canna

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in the Inner Hebrides.

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It's the most westerly of the Small Isles,

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measuring just five miles by one, and is home to only 12 people.

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Today, they're on a high-priority mission

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with a uniquely dangerous twist.

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The unexploded device is a marine marker used in military training

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to mark a position with smoke and flames.

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If not detonated, they can be lethal in the wrong hands.

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There are many exercises that go on in the Outer Hebrides

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and up in these areas. Submarine exercises,

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there's a lot of joint maritime exercises, NATO forces.

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And ordnance is used to pretend to be part of mock battles

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and these things get washed up.

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Most of them are utterly harmless but if there was a little bit of explosive charge left in something,

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and a child finds it, or someone who isn't sure

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of what they're doing with it... We can't take the risk.

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The man who found the device accidentally rode over it

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on his quad bike, which could make it extremely volatile.

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So they've called in bomb specialists, known as Explosive Ordnance Disposal.

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The EOD team is located at the Navy's main Scottish base, Faslane.

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But when they arrive, an update racks the call up to an emergency.

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It's emerged that the man who found the unexploded charge

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has removed it from the beach and placed it next to a tank of fuel.

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With the bomb disposal unit on board,

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the team head straight for Canna.

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Unexploded devices are a rarity in Britain, but guns are not.

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Our countryside is home to thousands of large rural estates.

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Shooting for sport is a huge business,

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bringing in £1.6 billion a year to the economy.

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There are over 700,000 gun certificates in the UK,

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and for the police, reports of possible misuse of guns

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are taken extremely seriously.

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In Dumfriesshire, PCs Stewart Rae and Matt Tate

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have received a worrying call.

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Stewart describes the allegations.

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Somebody's been out walking

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and they've came across a male person out shooting.

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He went across to speak with him

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to see if he's had permission to be there.

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The person's then threatened the gentleman.

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The man making the complaint is Harry.

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Harry alleges that his neighbour's son

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was shooting pheasants with a friend,

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uncomfortably close to his back garden.

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After the friend allegedly ran away,

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Harry got into an argument with his neighbour's son.

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Harry's alleging that the youth was not only shooting far too close to his garden,

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he also threatened him - and was possibly trespassing with a loaded shotgun.

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This could be a neighbourly dispute but, because there's a gun involved,

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the police have to take it very seriously.

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Back at the station,

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Stewart has taken advice from the licensor for firearms.

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A string of offences might have been committed, including the possibility

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the youth has used his father's gun without permission.

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He says the boy's been trespassing because he's on his land,

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so section 19, cos he's had a loaded shotgun.

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Poaching as well - can do him for poaching.

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Unlawfully taking a shotgun.

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His dad can get done with... The keys need to be separate

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so that nobody can access the gun cabinet

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so that there's about two or three charges for the father

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if he's not kept the gun cabinet safe.

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The incident took place on a large shooting estate

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where Harry is a tenant.

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The officers need to speak to Andrew, the owner of the estate.

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They want to see if he knows whose land the youths were on.

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The wood at the back of his house belongs to him.

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The top of that - there's a little strip of my wood next to them.

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On either side of the burn, it comes up to Harry's garden. His ground.

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-His ground.

-Yeah. Now, where he was,

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I don't know.

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Yeah, he says he's been down at the ravine just right of the veer,

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and the dry stone dyke, so that would be on his land.

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-That'd be on his land.

-You're describing it, yeah.

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Stewart still needs to know if the youths

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were allowed to be shooting the pheasants in the first place.

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And it turns out it's not as straightforward as it seems.

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The birds are whoever's property they're on.

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While they may have been most definitely released on my land,

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if they strayed onto his land, they're his birds.

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If he shoots one, and it falls on my ground, it actually...

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He can't go and pick it up on my ground - it belongs to me.

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If I shoot one and it falls on his ground, it belongs to him.

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Thanks very much. Cheers.

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The interview with Andrew hasn't shed much light on the incident.

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Later, Stewart and Matt visit the youth's father,

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to question him about his son's behaviour.

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The Royal Navy Search and Rescue team

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are heading to the Hebridean island of Canna

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along with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit,

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the Navy's bomb squad.

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A local crofter found an unexploded device on the beach,

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brought it home and placed it next to his diesel tank.

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Observer Angela Lewis gets an update.

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Hello, this is rescue helicopter 177, hello.

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This is the crew of the helicopter

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that's bringing the bomb disposal team up to you.

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We should be with you at the landing site in about 20 minutes.

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Would be good if you could meet us there.

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Could you confirm that we can just walk

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from the landing site to where you are?

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Brilliant. That's great. we'll see you there in about 20 minutes, then.

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Only 12 people live on this island, so there's plenty of room

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for the aircraft to land right next to the crofter's house.

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Might get a bit of turbulence as we come through it,

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just to let you know.

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We're five minutes from Canna, five minutes.

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There's limited daylight and deteriorating weather,

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so the team land swiftly.

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A red marker guides them to the landing site.

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Steady. You're clear.

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It's been placed by Murdo,

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the crofter who came across the unexploded ordnance.

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Murdo's lucky the device didn't explode when he rode over it.

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Now the priority is for bomb-disposal expert Alan to move

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the device away from the diesel - and well away from the helicopter.

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Murdo had no idea he'd picked up an explosive device.

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I picked it up.

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I thought, because I can't see very good without my glasses,

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"I'll take it home and read what it is all about."

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And then when I was standing at the back door and I started reading it,

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we were kind of... Well, once we'd read what it was

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we thought, "Well, we'd better inform somebody." It said on it to inform either the police or the military.

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And it also said that there was a mechanism on it that,

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if you turn one way it was armed, and the other way it was unarmed.

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I was a wee bit worried then as to what the mechanism was.

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So then I put it out away from the house,

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cos it was very close to the diesel tank.

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I never really thought about the diesel tank when I put it there.

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While the EOD team look for a safe place to detonate the ordnance,

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Alan gets ready.

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He'll lay an explosive charge next to the ordnance

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so he can blow it up.

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Alan needs to calculate exactly

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how much of his own explosive charge to use.

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But the daylight's starting to fade,

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so there's only one chance to get it right.

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The emergency services

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working across the huge area of Dumfries and Galloway

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look after a scattered rural population of 148,000.

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Many people own guns here, so there are occasional accidents.

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In Dumfries Royal Infirmary's A&E, Emergency Consultant

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Mike Quigley is preparing to deal with one such case.

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I'm just off to see a 43-year old gentleman who's had an injury

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with a BB gun, a ball bearing gun.

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Apparently, he's had a gunshot wound to his forearm,

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so I'm just going to go and have a look at him.

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Hello, I've come to have a look at your arm, is that right?

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Yeah. And this is an injury that you sustained with a BB gun?

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Aye.

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Is that, in my understanding, is that sort of an air-propelled gun?

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Gas gun, OK, and it fires metal ball bearings.

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-Right, how big are they?

-Very small.

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-Does it fire one at a time?

-Aye.

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OK. Have you any numbness, pins and needles?

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Although Daniel's been in pain, he waited three days

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to come to hospital, and he knows who's to blame for the accident.

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What happened?

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Well, I put it against my arm to see what the pressure was with it.

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-I'd never fired it before.

-OK.

-It was my son-in-law's.

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And I didnae ken it automatically loaded itself.

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-OK, so was it right against your skin?

-More or less.

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OK. When did you do that?

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-Saturday night.

-Saturday night, OK.

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Mike examines the injury to determine if the metal pellet

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is still in his arm and, if so, where it is.

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-So, X marks the spot.

-It seems to be swollen.

-Yes.

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And would you say that has developed over the...

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since Saturday or has it been much the same?

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-It's developed from Saturday.

-OK. What about the hand?

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-Everything's fine.

-Works OK? Have you any numbness,

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pins and needles, tingling in your fingers, no?

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OK, let me just check a couple of wee things out if you don't mind.

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Stretch your fingers out for me. Good man. Just relax for me.

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Just going to stretch this up a little bit.

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If the pellet is still in Daniel's arm,

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it could cause a serious infection. But right now,

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Mike can't even feel it - and that might mean it's lodged deeply.

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I'm going to arrange for a wee X-ray first off

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to see if we can pick this up on X-ray, and that'll give us

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an idea of how deep it is, and how easy it'll be to get back.

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And then we'll talk about what we need to do for it.

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-Is that OK?

-It's maybe...

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Just pinged away. Well, OK, OK, that's fine,

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We'll need to check and see with the X-ray first, OK?

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Sit tight for a minute or two, thank you.

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Functionally, it doesn't seem to have involved

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any of the important structures in his arm,

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as in his hand and wrist are working fine.

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There's no involvement of the nerves

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or the blood vessels, so that's good.

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But I still expect there to be a pellet embedded quite deeply

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in his forearm, so the first thing to do is to find out if it's there,

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where it's at, how deep it is and how easy it'll be to remove.

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Mike's hunch was right.

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The X-ray shows the BB pellet as a white dot next to Daniel's bone.

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It's penetrated deep into his forearm.

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The X-ray shows up what we expected,

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so you've got a little air gun pellet or a little BB pellet.

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It's in very deep, Daniel.

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It's right up against the bone, actually.

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Just probably straight in somewhere in that position there.

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What I'm going to do - to get it out is actually quite a tricky job,

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and it quite often means a small operation.

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We use special X-rays to find the metal bearing under X-ray control,

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and that would be done by our orthopaedic doctors.

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OK. Good man, sit there for a minute or two,

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and I'll come back and speak to you soon.

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While Mike talks to the orthopaedic team, Daniel reflects on his mishap.

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Ach, I was drinking with the boys and...

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You know, the boys had got somebody a BB gun for their Christmas

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and they brought it out of the box

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and I put it against my arm to fire it, to feel the pressure of the air.

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And I didnae realise it automatically loaded itself. So...

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that's the outcome.

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Similar sort of thing - gas canister fires it.

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It's too deep for me to go chasing - it's been in there for three days.

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Mike consults the orthopaedic team.

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They decide that because the pellet is made of aluminium,

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which is a low irritant and nontoxic,

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it's unlikely to cause further problems.

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Lucky for Daniel, who can be sent home.

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So he's gone home with some antibiotics

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and some anti-inflammatory tablets, and if everything settles down

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in his forearm, they'll just be left alone.

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If they become more symptomatic,

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then they'll have to do something about it.

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In Dumfries and Galloway, PCs Stewart Rae and Matt Tate

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have been investigating an allegation of illegal game shooting

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and threatening behaviour on a large country estate.

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So far, they've interviewed Harry, a tenant on the estate.

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Harry says he saw his neighbour's son and a friend

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shooting at pheasants across his garden.

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They also took a statement from Andrew,

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the owner of the estate, and now, they're visiting the youth's father,

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a local doctor and a gun licence holder.

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He could be in trouble

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if his son was using his gun without supervision.

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We had a phone call from one of your neighbours on Saturday saying

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there was shooting ongoing on land behind him.

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He's identified your son and one other,

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we don't know who else has been there,

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with shotguns shooting. Are you aware of this?

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But at the time you weren't, no?

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So you weren't there supervising them as such.

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No.

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Stewart wants to know if the youth was using one of his father's guns,

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which by law must be kept under lock and key.

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What about if your son wanted to access them?

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How easy would it be for him?

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He doesn't know where the keys are?

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Yeah. There's always one time, though.

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-I'm just trying to discover as much as I can about one of your guns having been used.

-I know, I know.

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Regards to what's been said between your son and your neighbour,

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certain things, what I'll arrange to do,

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I'm going to come and seize your weapons

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and your certificate as well, until this case has been finished.

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Yes.

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I've got concerns for public safety at the moment.

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If your son's staying at your address,

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with access to your address and there's guns there, I can seize them.

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I've liaised with the firearms licensing officer in Dumfries

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and also my sergeant, and they're quite happy for me to do this.

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OK?

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Not for me, it's not. OK.

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Britain has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world.

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Until Stewart and Matt establish whether or not

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it was his father's gun the youth was using,

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and under what circumstances, they need to take every precaution.

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We have made arrangements to go to his house tomorrow night,

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where we'll seize his guns and his certificate as well

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until such times as we feel appropriate to hand them back to him.

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Matt and Stewart confiscate the doctor's guns

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but they still need to speak to more witnesses

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in order to get to the bottom of what's happened.

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The doctor's son is called Mo and, days later,

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Mo's friend Alan arrives to give his side of the story.

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Alan was there on the day of the incident

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along with his own brother.

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Talk me through Saturday, then.

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Saturday, well, me and two of my mates went up to Mo's.

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Brother had his shotgun there, brother went out in front.

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Alan reveals a key piece of evidence.

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It was his brother's licensed gun that was being used,

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not the doctor's.

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My brother was across... He went across the boundary

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to look for this pheasant.

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Then he came walking back, said there was a guy across the river,

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kind of mouthing off or whatever.

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Mo then went across the boundary to see what the guy was saying,

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the guy was going daft or whatever.

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The guy came up to Mo with a German Shepherd and guy took his top off

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and was right up in Mo's face

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and... Couldn't hear anything that was being said

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but, there was, like... There was shouting going on

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and the guy seemed quite aggressive towards him.

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It's clear there was a row between Harry and Mo on that day.

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What's still not clear is what part the gun played in that.

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PCs Stewart and Matt have to be cautious.

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Now they know it was the brother's gun being used,

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they need to seize that one as well.

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-Right. It's dirty.

-Is it?

-Aye.

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It takes a further month for Stewart and Matt

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to conclude what has been a complicated case.

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Now they have enough evidence to charge Mo.

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Six statements have been taken

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and tomorrow night we'll be detaining a youth,

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and I have enough evidence to charge him with a breach of the peace.

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So he will be detained and brought here tomorrow night,

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if we can get a hold of him.

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He'll be interviewed to give his side of the story,

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and then I'll be charging him with a breach of the peace.

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Even though there was a gun involved,

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in this case there were no firearms offences committed.

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For Stewart, it's a relief that this very rural case

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didn't amount to anything more serious.

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On Canna, the Navy's Search and Rescue Team have brought

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the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit to an emergency call-out.

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They're conducting a controlled explosion after local crofter Murdo

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rode over an unexploded device on his quad bike.

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He took the device home, and put it next to his fuel supply.

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The EOD unit has moved the device to the safety of the beach,

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away from the house, the helicopter and the diesel tank.

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They've rigged up an explosive charge

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and set it next to the unexploded ordnance.

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It's basically filled with... It's like a black gunpowder,

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and then for my calculation,

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I can work out how long a delay I want to put before it initiates,

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and by working out the burn rate,

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then I can estimate, you know, by cutting it X size long.

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And it just gives us a delay to walk away safely from the item.

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With no way of knowing how much explosive is left

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in the marine marker, they can't tell how big the blast will be.

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It's crucial everyone stands as far away as possible.

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To ensure there's no further danger,

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bomb-disposal expert Alan does a final check.

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Just see, obviously the power of the explosives here,

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the force from our charge, how it's broken up into large chunks.

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That small amount of explosives has ruptured these rocks.

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Crofter Murdo is relieved he called the Navy.

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You always think when you find something like that

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you're maybe wasting people's time, but I can see by what I saw there

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just now it was obviously worth getting it disposed of properly.

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His only concern now is that the explosion

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on the normally quiet island might have rattled the hens.

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They're only young hens that have just started laying good eggs

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so yeah, but they'll be fine.

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It's been all go for the emergency services in Scotland's rural areas.

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Daniel's wound healed up,

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so he gets to keep the BB pellet as a permanent souvenir.

0:28:040:28:08

The doctor got his guns back, and so did the friend.

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And Mo was dealt with out of court by the Crown Office.

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And as for Murdo's hens,

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they've recovered from the shock of the bomb blast.

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And you thought it was quiet in the countryside.

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