:00:23. > :00:32.the Open begins, the debate over whether women should be allowed to
:00:32. > :00:39.be members of Muirfield intensified. You cannot be locked in the 1950s
:00:39. > :00:45.forever. We are also live with the latest on the golf.
:00:45. > :00:51.And the heat is on on day one of the Open Championship here in Muirfield.
:00:51. > :00:57.Who has been burning up the course and who has crashed and burned?
:00:57. > :01:01.And unions stage protests against plans to re-privatise the East Coast
:01:01. > :01:06.Main Line. And much of Scotland basks in
:01:06. > :01:10.another hot summer's day. Join me to find out why Scotland is
:01:10. > :01:17.at the very centre of the warm weather for once. A full forecast
:01:17. > :01:20.later in the programme. The row over sexism in Gulf
:01:20. > :01:29.threatened to overshadow player as the Open got under way at Muirfield
:01:29. > :01:31.this morning. The Scottish Government has urged the golf
:01:31. > :01:38.authorities to stop posting championships at clubs which prevent
:01:38. > :01:41.women from being members. A perfect day for the start of the
:01:41. > :01:47.tournament but as the golfers and spectators tried to focus on
:01:47. > :01:56.today's play at Muirfield, the row over the D choice of host is heating
:01:56. > :01:59.# The row over choice. It was raised in the House of
:01:59. > :02:05.Commons today and later the Conservative sports minister called
:02:05. > :02:11.on golf's governing body to rethink its position. When a privately club
:02:11. > :02:17.fulfils a public function it will be open to this type of criticism. I
:02:17. > :02:21.would like the authorities to allocate the Championships to equal
:02:22. > :02:31.opportunities golf clubs. Earlier the culture secretary announced she
:02:32. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:40.would boycott the event. Her Labour counterpart waded in. She could do
:02:40. > :02:45.more, take action. I am challenging Maria Miller to end the exemption in
:02:45. > :02:50.the equality act which allows men only clubs. Many who travelled far
:02:50. > :03:00.to soak up the atmosphere had their own thoughts. I think things will
:03:00. > :03:01.
:03:01. > :03:09.change. They can take a leak out of Augusta National assessment book.
:03:09. > :03:15.is archaic. Golf's governing body said it will not be making any
:03:15. > :03:22.further comment at the Scottish Women's Golf, union did not appear
:03:22. > :03:28.too concerned. It really has to come from within the game and that is the
:03:28. > :03:31.best way to get change. The rough may have been giving some of the
:03:31. > :03:37.golfers a headache on the first day of the open here at Muirfield but
:03:37. > :03:42.for the sport iss governing body, the long grass is exactly where they
:03:42. > :03:47.would like to see the debate stay. A rail union is protesting against
:03:47. > :03:50.plans to re-privatise the East Coast Main Line, which runs from Edinburgh
:03:51. > :03:55.to London. The RMT union says the service is well run and profitable
:03:55. > :04:02.since been put into public ownership.
:04:02. > :04:05.The views of the rail workers union work laid out in black and white for
:04:05. > :04:09.commuters this morning. The East Coast Main Line has been in public
:04:10. > :04:13.ownership for four years and the RMT union says it has been a success,
:04:13. > :04:16.providing a better service and generating millions of pounds of
:04:16. > :04:24.profit for the taxpayer. Something they say private ownership has
:04:24. > :04:31.failed to do. They are apps in the robbing the public blind, the
:04:31. > :04:39.private companies. We believe the way forward is to keep the railways
:04:39. > :04:42.in the public domain. -- they are absolutely robbing the public mind.
:04:42. > :04:48.That is something that is unlikely to happen. The UK Government says it
:04:48. > :04:52.is committed to getting the service back into private hands, even though
:04:52. > :04:58.the last two franchises ended badly. GME are collapsed and National
:04:58. > :05:04.Express handed back. For passengers though, the main concern is seeing
:05:04. > :05:11.the trains run on time. I travel a lot on the east coast. In terms of
:05:11. > :05:15.the future, it is a good service. is a step backwards. People should
:05:15. > :05:20.not be privatising things more and more. We should beginning more and
:05:20. > :05:27.more to the public instead. I just want a good service. I do not care
:05:27. > :05:31.who it is owned by. The Government has its own ideas for improving the
:05:31. > :05:35.East Coast Main Line. It has just ordered these new high-speed trains
:05:35. > :05:42.in a �1.2 billion deal. They promised to bring more capacity and
:05:42. > :05:45.shaved 18 minutes of the travel time from London to Edinburgh by 2019. At
:05:46. > :05:52.every turn to the days of nationalisation is not a journey the
:05:52. > :06:01.Government is prepared to make. We can cross now to Westminster
:06:01. > :06:03.correspondent for more. What is the UK Government saying about this?
:06:03. > :06:07.Ministers will not deny there have been some catastrophes in terms of
:06:07. > :06:11.franchises both on the East coast mainline and the West Coast Main
:06:11. > :06:14.line in recent years but they also say the best deal for passengers,
:06:14. > :06:19.the best way to get better investment and point to an
:06:19. > :06:24.independent review which say so is for private operators to continue to
:06:24. > :06:28.run the railways. That means the UK Government will continue to run the
:06:28. > :06:33.East Coast Main Line until debris 2015. The Scottish Government would
:06:33. > :06:38.like to have all Scottish railways under its control. That may depend
:06:38. > :06:42.on the outcome of the 2014 referendum. While Westminster still
:06:42. > :06:47.has control, the UK Transport Secretary says those who want state
:06:47. > :06:50.ownership are simply wrong. BBC Scotland can reveal that
:06:50. > :06:54.investigators are now including a fourth victim in the ad break of
:06:54. > :06:59.Legionnaires' disease in Edinburgh last summer. Until now only three
:06:59. > :07:03.deaths have been linked to the outbreak but the Crown Office has
:07:03. > :07:09.confirmed a 64-year-old woman also died. Our correspondent joins me. To
:07:09. > :07:14.be clear, we are talking about an outbreak a year ago. That is right.
:07:14. > :07:21.This was the outbreak thought to have been spread from paper released
:07:21. > :07:25.from cooling towers in Edinburgh. -- vapour. We are still waiting to see
:07:25. > :07:28.whether there will be prosecutions. The Crown Office have told us today
:07:28. > :07:34.they are now treating the death of a fourth person as part of this
:07:34. > :07:40.enquiry. That fourth big team was a woman who was aged 64. She died six
:07:40. > :07:48.weeks after the first death. The other three deaths which are
:07:48. > :07:52.included were all men, aged 56, 47 and 65. Also today, NHS Lothian gave
:07:52. > :08:02.me a new total of the number of people infected in the outbreak as a
:08:02. > :08:06.whole. That is 92. That is made up of 60 feet -- 65 confirmed cases and
:08:06. > :08:09.some suspected cases. The solicitors for many of the victims and their
:08:09. > :08:14.families say they are frustrated that we still do not know who is to
:08:14. > :08:19.blame. Initially, our clients were simply concerned about what had
:08:19. > :08:24.happened to them. A little bit bewildered. Then they became
:08:24. > :08:30.concerned about the amount of time given to -- taken to give them
:08:30. > :08:35.answers. Now some of them are very annoyed. We, as solicitors, shared
:08:35. > :08:38.that concern and frustration that it has taken so long and despite our
:08:38. > :08:45.various attempts to get further information we are still largely in
:08:45. > :08:49.the dark. So why have the investigations taken so long?
:08:49. > :08:54.not know. The Crown Office said it would be inappropriate to comment.
:08:54. > :08:58.NHS Lothian is due to release a report next week. That is purely
:08:58. > :09:03.into how this outbreak was handled why health officials. Also, the
:09:03. > :09:07.Edinburgh outbreak seems slightly less serious than an outbreak that
:09:07. > :09:15.happened in Quebec, the game from paper released from cooling towers.
:09:15. > :09:21.In that outbreak there were more deaths and more infected. That
:09:21. > :09:25.occurred a month after Edinburgh's outbreak, yet in Quebec they already
:09:25. > :09:32.know who was to blame. A 14-year-old has been killed after
:09:32. > :09:36.he was not of his bike by a car in Aberdeenshire. -- knocked off. It
:09:36. > :09:41.happened on the Newburgh to Cruden Bay road at 6pm yesterday. Connor
:09:41. > :09:45.Shields was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary but died of his
:09:45. > :09:51.injuries. It is the third fatal road accident in the North East in as
:09:51. > :09:57.many days. Still to come: Artist Ken Currie
:09:57. > :10:03.unveils his first solo exhibition for more than ten years.
:10:03. > :10:07.And the sport comes from Muirfield, on day one of the Open Championship,
:10:07. > :10:11.where things are heating up on and off the course. We will have the
:10:11. > :10:20.story of the day so far and I will be speaking to a golfing great of
:10:20. > :10:24.yesteryear. Join me later. A dog is being used to rehabilitate
:10:24. > :10:31.prisoners in Scotland's largest jail. But the boxer visits Bellini
:10:31. > :10:36.once a week and officers say they have noticed an improvement in
:10:36. > :10:41.behaviour since. Visiting time. Pepper and her owners
:10:41. > :10:49.have been volunteering at Barlinnie for the last five years. Once a
:10:49. > :10:52.week, the ten-year-old boxer attends the daycare centre. In and out of
:10:52. > :11:02.Barlinnie several times for minor offences, Peter is due for release
:11:02. > :11:08.in a few days. What I have been feeling stressed in here, she's here
:11:08. > :11:16.and you concede and talk to her and give her wee treats and that. It
:11:16. > :11:22.relieves you a bit. Instead of being stressed out, you just sit with the
:11:22. > :11:26.dog and forget about things. Is her visits began, episodes of self harm
:11:26. > :11:34.have reduced, suicide are Darren and there has been less abusive
:11:34. > :11:39.behaviour. -- suicide attempts are down. Written is a hard environment,
:11:39. > :11:43.one where any sign of full ability could be open to abuse. Pepper is a
:11:43. > :11:48.welcome distraction to that. She allows the inmates are here to show
:11:48. > :11:54.care and affection without any form of ridicule or judgement. One guy
:11:54. > :11:58.came and spoke to me and told me he had confided in the dog, told the
:11:58. > :12:03.dog he had been set to be abused in the past. I asked him why he told
:12:03. > :12:08.the dog. He said because the dog could not tell anyone. That then
:12:08. > :12:12.gave him the courage to come and talk to me. That is valuable.
:12:12. > :12:19.the years, Pepper has had such an impact on some of the inmates that
:12:19. > :12:26.they have even stayed in touch with her owners. For some of them it is
:12:26. > :12:33.the only club they have in their life. It is very sad. It is very
:12:33. > :12:38.moving. They obviously think a lot of her and when she is not there
:12:38. > :12:42.they think of her, because they are doing things for her. Pepper is
:12:42. > :12:52.currently the only pet visiting prisoners in Scotland. It is hoped
:12:52. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :12:58.in the future more prisoners can A �14 million study to track the
:12:58. > :13:01.development of tumours in lung cancer is being launched in
:13:01. > :13:05.Aberdeen. 850 patients will be monitored to see how the cancer
:13:05. > :13:11.mutates when it returns. Kevin Keane reports.
:13:11. > :13:14.Tom Haswell is a rare case, diagnosed with lung cancer whilst
:13:15. > :13:19.working overseas. But he is still here to tell the tale and believes
:13:20. > :13:26.his type of cancer has never received the support it needs.
:13:26. > :13:31.you have 40,000 people being diagnosed with one particular thing
:13:31. > :13:36.and 35,000 people dying, if this was a Third World charity --
:13:36. > :13:40.country, there would be charities screaming out to save this waste of
:13:40. > :13:47.human life but it doesn't seem to work that way for lung cancer.
:13:47. > :13:53.cancer is a massive killer. It in Scotland, nearly 5,000 diet
:13:53. > :14:02.diagnosed every year but a minority live beyond a certain number of
:14:02. > :14:07.years. How are you feeling today? On the cancer ward at Aberdeen
:14:07. > :14:11.Royal Infirmary, they are excited about the potential of the research.
:14:11. > :14:16.Around one half of lung cancer sufferers see the tumour returned.
:14:16. > :14:23.Those taking part will have their cancers compared to better
:14:23. > :14:26.understand how it develops. We can look at how the genes change to
:14:26. > :14:31.aggravate its gross or cause the cancer and when a patient is
:14:31. > :14:36.followed up, we will take blood samples to see if there is a clue
:14:36. > :14:40.to changes that might letters no early about the chance of the
:14:40. > :14:46.Cancer relapsing. Four out of five cases of lung cancer are caused by
:14:46. > :14:51.smoking as some cases -- patients feel stigmatised. As the biggest
:14:51. > :14:53.cancer killer, some researchers hope to prolong a larger number of
:14:54. > :14:56.lives. Now, other stories from across
:14:56. > :14:59.Scotland this Friday. Police investigating the rape of a
:14:59. > :15:03.13-year-old girl in South Lanarkshire have issued an e-fit
:15:03. > :15:07.image of a man they want to trace. She was attacked while walking home
:15:07. > :15:10.through Cambuslang Park in the evening of Thursday June 6th.
:15:10. > :15:13.The Royal Mail is to mark Andy Murray's historic victory in the
:15:13. > :15:17.Wimbledon men's final with a special set of stamps. They'll go
:15:17. > :15:21.on sale on August 8th and consist of four stamps. They feature scenes
:15:21. > :15:24.from the match when he became the first British man to win the title
:15:24. > :15:27.for 77 years. More than 36,000 children in
:15:27. > :15:32.Glasgow are estimated to be living below the poverty line, according
:15:32. > :15:36.to new research. The cost of that poverty is nearly �400,000 to the
:15:36. > :15:41.city council. Child Poverty Action Group says in the UK, only
:15:41. > :15:44.Birmingham and Manchester fare worse than Glasgow.
:15:44. > :15:47.Firefighters have been tackling a blaze at a recycling plant near
:15:47. > :15:50.Dumfries. More than 60 firefighters from across the region, including
:15:50. > :15:55.those from Cumbria, have been involved in dealing with the
:15:55. > :16:05.incident at Scotgen on Lockerbie Road. The cause of the fire is not
:16:05. > :16:07.
:16:07. > :16:13.We have 800 tonnes of waste that is deep-seated. We are on top of it
:16:13. > :16:16.but the next stage will be to start to drag that out and break it down
:16:16. > :16:20.so we can get to the seat of the fire properly.
:16:20. > :16:23.A team has sailed from the Isle of Mull as part of a project to shed
:16:23. > :16:27.new light on the lives of basking sharks off Scotland's coasts.
:16:27. > :16:37.They'll be fitting satellite tags to the creatures and the public
:16:37. > :16:43.
:16:43. > :16:45.He was one of the generation known as the New Glasgow Boys. But artist
:16:45. > :16:49.Ken Currie has always shied away from the limelight, despite
:16:49. > :16:52.creating some of the country's best known images. Now he's unveiling
:16:52. > :16:58.his first solo exhibition in Scotland for more than ten years.
:16:58. > :17:03.Our arts correspondent, Pauline McLean, has been to meet him.
:17:03. > :17:07.When you strip it all back, we are all the same... Life and death have
:17:07. > :17:12.always been central to his work and this latest for the Scottish
:17:12. > :17:18.National Portrait Gallery is no exception. Like his eikon EST --
:17:18. > :17:25.iconic image of three oncologists, they were too busy to sit for him
:17:25. > :17:29.so he made these masks. People who have done things and achieved
:17:29. > :17:34.things in society and so they get their portrait painted. But when I
:17:35. > :17:43.look back at all of my work, there has always been a human presence
:17:43. > :17:47.and that has been a central preoccupation of mind. Ken Curry
:17:47. > :17:51.was one of a string of artists to emerge from Glasgow School of Arts
:17:52. > :17:57.in the late 80s. Dubbed the New Glasgow Boys, they were hugely
:17:57. > :18:02.successful and very different but it had its downside. The artists I
:18:02. > :18:07.admired in the past haven't had shows until they are 40 years old
:18:07. > :18:10.and things like that. They do stated and developed their work. So
:18:10. > :18:15.we had to develop in the full public glare which was an added
:18:15. > :18:21.pressure. That is why I decided to keep away from the media spotlight
:18:21. > :18:25.as much as I possibly can. For many, it is a rare glimpse of an artist
:18:25. > :18:33.who let -- prefers to let his work do the talking.
:18:33. > :18:40.Sport now and straight to David at Muirfield.
:18:40. > :18:46.Yes, it is hot, hot, hot here. I have been topping up a holiday tan
:18:46. > :18:54.and some of the best golfers have been crashing and burning. Rory
:18:54. > :19:01.McIlroy, a double Major winner, finished 8-over par. A winner of
:19:01. > :19:07.the Open in 1999 finished on 10- over par with a round of 81. 15
:19:07. > :19:12.shots behind it earlier leader, Zach Johnson of the United States.
:19:12. > :19:19.Here is a take on the story so far. With weather like this you have a
:19:19. > :19:23.choice, go to the beach or the golf. At Muirfield there is really only
:19:23. > :19:33.one winner. For some, but they did not know where they were meant to
:19:33. > :19:46.
:19:46. > :19:54.Rory McIlroy was also moving, but Literally in some cases. Not that
:19:54. > :20:00.Johnson cared. A 5-under Power rout -- 5-under par round saw him top of
:20:00. > :20:07.the leaderboard. There was time in the afternoon to be shown what
:20:07. > :20:13.others could do. Especially this man. Not a lot early on. Tiger
:20:13. > :20:22.started with a whimper at the first. Martin Laird gave the home gallery
:20:22. > :20:28.something to shout about briefly. By then, the attention was on Shiv
:20:28. > :20:34.Kapur. On a day when you had to be cool at your work, many of the
:20:34. > :20:41.world's top golfers failed to do so. You know what, some have been
:20:41. > :20:47.having a right old whinge. The golfers are complaining about some
:20:47. > :20:49.of the pin places on the course and also the surfaces on the greens and
:20:49. > :20:56.fairways, saying they are too hard fairways, saying they are too hard
:20:56. > :21:02.and fast. Earlier, I spoke to a golfing great about the state of
:21:02. > :21:08.the course and a few other things. You can't attack the course the way
:21:08. > :21:11.it is playing today. You have to treat it respectfully and get the
:21:11. > :21:19.ball on the beat -- green. The greens are getting away from these
:21:19. > :21:24.guys. We are seeing three putts from 10 feet if you get the wrong
:21:24. > :21:32.side of the hole and bear patches and if you pitch on menu bounce on
:21:32. > :21:38.hard. It is a real juggling act. anyone you would -- is there anyone
:21:38. > :21:43.you would tip? Mickelson is in good form. Somebody with his pedigree
:21:43. > :21:48.who can deal with these conditions and he understands that everyone
:21:48. > :21:52.will get punished for bad shots sometimes. It is tough to put
:21:52. > :21:59.behind you and it is the guy who can do that this week who will come
:21:59. > :22:06.out the victor. There has not been a Scottish winner in 99. Ken you
:22:06. > :22:12.see us sneaking it? It is the word Open. It is more relevant this week
:22:12. > :22:17.because it is right Open. Anyone who can handle these conditions,
:22:17. > :22:21.the golf course playing as it is and, as I say, this mental
:22:21. > :22:27.exercise... These guys I used to getting rewarded after good shots
:22:27. > :22:30.but it is not happening here all the time. Just a bit and it is how
:22:30. > :22:36.they deal with that. It will be exciting to see how it unfolds at
:22:36. > :22:40.the weekend. Yes, maybe after Andy Murray
:22:40. > :22:46.winning at Wimbledon, it would be too greedy to hope for a Scottish
:22:46. > :22:55.winner here. The leading Scott so far is Martin Laird, finishing on
:22:55. > :23:00.1-under par and is just four shots behind sacked Johnson of the USA. -
:23:00. > :23:04.- Zach Johnson. Let me tell you about the football. The Europa
:23:04. > :23:12.League action under way in the qualifiers. Two Scottish teams in
:23:13. > :23:19.action. St Johnstone are in Norway and they are leading 1-0. That is
:23:19. > :23:24.just about it from me. Back to basking in the rays. I will bring
:23:24. > :23:34.my factor 50 tomorrow! It has been another cracking day
:23:34. > :23:35.
:23:35. > :23:40.for many across the country. Here, it reached 26 degrees. A Highland
:23:40. > :23:50.cows and others were enjoying the sun in a Glasgow park. And in
:23:50. > :23:57.
:23:57. > :24:02.Glasgow, people were taking a dip At least you must be getting a bit
:24:02. > :24:07.of a breeze there? Yes, it is probably one of the few
:24:07. > :24:10.places in the country way you are guaranteed to get some relief from
:24:10. > :24:20.the heat because it has been a very warm day once again across the
:24:20. > :24:21.
:24:21. > :24:25.This evening, it is a picture of warm sunshine and the reason is
:24:25. > :24:29.high-pressure anchored right across us and it is not often we can say
:24:29. > :24:35.Scotland is the centre of the warm weather. This weekend we certainly
:24:35. > :24:40.will be. This evening, settled and largely dry with clear spells.
:24:40. > :24:44.Spits and spots of rain for the northern and western Isles and
:24:44. > :24:49.misty and murky conditions here. Overnight some of that will spill
:24:49. > :24:58.down the coasts of the mainland. Not as he made as recent nights so
:24:58. > :25:02.more comfortable for sleeping in -- not as humid.
:25:02. > :25:11.The cloud will burn right back and it will be in other very warm day
:25:11. > :25:18.tomorrow. Plenty of sunshine and temperatures getting up to 26
:25:18. > :25:24.Celsius. For Argyll and the West Highlands, 27 or 28 degrees Celsius.
:25:24. > :25:30.Even the Western Isles will get good spells of sunshine tomorrow.
:25:30. > :25:36.Later in the afternoon, some of the mist and roll -- low cloud will
:25:36. > :25:40.roll down into Aberdeenshire. Cooling down here. Tomorrow evening,
:25:41. > :25:47.at the low cloud becoming more expensive and some will spill
:25:47. > :25:51.inland through the central belt overnight. For the weekend, a
:25:51. > :25:55.slightly different feel for Saturday and Sunday. Saturday will
:25:55. > :26:00.start with misty and murky conditions, burning back to the
:26:00. > :26:08.east coast but it will linger for much of the day so that could cause
:26:08. > :26:13.issues for the golf at Muirfield. For Sunday, is similar looking date
:26:13. > :26:17.with a low cloud and mist burning back to the east coast and it will
:26:17. > :26:27.hang around there so peg their if you want a break from the heat.
:26:27. > :26:29.
:26:29. > :26:38.Warmest in the West. If you enjoy A reminder of tonight's news: A
:26:38. > :26:44.reminder over sexism in golf threaten to overshadow play as near
:26:44. > :26:49.field and the Open got started today.
:26:49. > :26:54.As temperatures remain high across much of Scotland and the rest of
:26:54. > :26:58.the UK, a heatwave there lurked in England has been extended to two
:26:58. > :27:03.more region's. The south-west and the West Midlands have now be
:27:03. > :27:07.issued with a level three warning by the met Office, joining the
:27:07. > :27:12.south-east and London. Forecasters say this July could be the driest
:27:12. > :27:16.on record. A rail union is protesting against
:27:16. > :27:21.plans to re privatise the East Coast main line which runs from
:27:21. > :27:25.Edinburgh to London. The RMT union says the service is well run
:27:25. > :27:30.unprofitable since been put into public ownership.
:27:30. > :27:34.That is Reporting Scotland. I will be back at 8 o'clock and the late