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Scotland's economy is showing signs of recovery according to new | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
figures. A young woman from Lenzie accused of | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
drug trafficking in Peru. Her mother said she had no idea she had | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
travelled to South America. Tributes paid to the former Scottish | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Conservative leader David McLetchie who has died at the age of 61. And | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
also in tonight's programme I'm in Ayrshire, the home of the new | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
potato, to find out what the problem is with the humble spud. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
And on the glorious 12th, why it is expected to be able bumper season | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
for Scotland's grouse Moritz. There are signs of recovery in the | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
Scottish economy. -- more as. Meanwhile, a separate report by the | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Scottish Government's cheap economies says that the -- chief | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
economist says that he recovery is gaining momentum. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Last week there was a positive news for much of the UK economy. This | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
week we will learn more about the Scottish one. It starts with | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
purchasing managers reporting strong growth in activity, although it is | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
slightly less strong than last month. The service sector and | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
manufacturing were both up and exports returned to growth. The Bank | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
of Scotland survey shows firms are winning new orders, there are | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
growing backlog is of work and more staff should be needed. And with a | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
bit more confidence around, they are pushing up their prices. There is an | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
update on inflation tomorrow. Made in Falkirk, these buses are designed | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
for comfortable cornering. Its co-founder has turned it into one of | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
Scotland's manufacturing success stories. To sustain success, bosses | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
here are pushing on the exports accelerator. Business is OK, but I | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
wouldn't say we are booming. In the UK we are finding things are still a | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
little bit hard. We are down 20% on what we were last year, however we | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
are growing overseas and 15% of our business is now going into other | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
continents, the Far East, North America and Australia. We learned | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
today from the Scottish Government's chief economist that | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
productivity has bounced back and that is important for growth as | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
confidence returns. The Scottish Government is taking a series of | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
steps to ensure that the recovery is deeply rooted. We've been | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
concentrating on strengthening the skills base in Scotland and | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
improving the capital infrastructure of Scotland, and it is a confluence | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
of those interventions that have created stronger foundations for | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
recovery. We need to be optimistic and see in this report signs of | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
recovery in the Scottish economy, although the report does say that it | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
is growing slightly and at a slower rate than England. We have seen two | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
other reports today, one of which says Scotland needs to create | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
110,000 new jobs to get back to where we were at before the | :03:38. | :03:47. | |
recession. This is as well as they fall in real earnings. The chief | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
economist says there is traction, but there are fears that this is | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
based on consumer spending, which could mean more debt we cannot | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
afford all stop that is why we need to see exports growing if this is to | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
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be sustained. We will learn more about the homeless market tomorrow. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
The mother of a teenager from Lenzie held by police in Peru on suspicion | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
of drug trafficking says she thought her daughter was in Ibiza. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
19-year-old Melissa Reid and a friend from Northern Ireland are | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
accused of trying to smuggle more than 11 kilograms of cocaine from | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
South America to Spain. It was only a couple of months ago | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
that Melissa Reid decided to quit her job and take a working holiday | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
in Ibiza. For updates on Facebook show a teenager making the most of | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
the party lifestyle. Now she is in jail in Peru accused of being a drug | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
smuggler. She was stopped at this airport in the Peruvian capital of | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
Lima as he tried to board a flight to Madrid. Police in Peru said that | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
when they searched bags they found cocaine worth millions of pounds. | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Her parents say they have not had a chance to speak to Melissa since she | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
was arrested. In what must be every parent's nightmare, Melissa's mother | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
said she had no idea her daughter was in Peru until she found out she | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
had been arrested. She did not want to speak on camera today but she | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
said her whole family thought Melissa was still in Ibiza having | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
fun with her friends. They are now considering whether or not to go to | :05:32. | :05:41. | |
Peru. Melissa Reid and her friend are being held in prison in Lima. | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
The conditions are poor. Overcrowding is at 200%. People | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
aren't just sleeping in cells, which are full, but in corridors and | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
toilets. People accused of drug smuggling in Peru face tough | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
sentences. Police allege she was carrying 11 kilograms of cocaine. If | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
found guilty, that could mean seven years in jail. Even if they are | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
found innocent, they face another year in prison before their case | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
comes to trial. On the line is Dan Collins. You've | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
been talking to police about the girls' situation. What do police | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
have to say? Police told me this is a very common crime they deal with | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
in Peru. At the drugs policing headquarters there are 12 other drug | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
mules being held in cells in headquarters apart from these two | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
young women. They also said that a police video, which I was able to | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
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see, shows that the two young women were at the check-in counter at the | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
airport. When Melissa Reid was asked whether she knew what was in her | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
bags she responded that she was forced to carry the bags, which | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
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police claimed carried the drugs in two containers. Meanwhile, her | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
companion remained silent through the interview, which I was able to | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
see on the police video. It is worth pointing out here that there is an | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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ever demo of drugs mules in Peru. -- epidemic. They put this down to the | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
global economic crisis. Most of them are Spanish and they say that the | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
price of cocaine in Europe is at an all-time high and the imported from | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
Europe on to places like Russia. The price on one kilo of cocaine can | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
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reach over $100,000. That is exactly what appears to have happened to | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
these young women. They will remain in holding cells at the headquarters | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
of the drugs police in Lima and the investigation will probably move | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
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them over to Santa Monica prison. Thank you very much for that update. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
The Prime Minister has led tributes to the former Scottish Conservatives | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
leader David McLetchie who died today after suffering from cancer. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
David Cameron described him as one of Scottish politics' most | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
formidable intellect. The current Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
said his passing has left a large hole in Scottish public life. | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
A traditional Tory, but never pompous, never stuffy. David | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
McLetchie battled consistently for his party and Scotland's interests | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
as he saw them. The fault lies not with the... From his early days as a | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
party activist, devolution brought into prominence in the Scottish Tory | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
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leadership. David McLetchie was a lead elected -- was elected leader | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
of the Scottish Conservatives. knew he had to grab voters. David | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
McLetchie was certainly noticed lampooning the first minister, Henry | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
McLeish, over his office expenses. big boy did it and ran away. McLeish | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
resigned, but years later David McLetchie was landed in trouble | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
facing claims he had charged Parliament for trips on party | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
business. He quit as party leader. For some that might have been the | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
end, but David McLetchie regained his reputation, partly through | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
diligent, intelligent Parliamentary work, not least through his party's | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
business manager, but also because he was affable and widely liked. Few | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
politicians could look entirely at ease serenading a boss party. David | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
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McLetchie could. I declare that David McLetchie... He stayed in | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Holyrood under the guise of a lawyer who was killed with Parliamentary | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
debate. I think it is a fig leaf to cover up the government's | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
embarrassment that its table thumping has frankly come to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
absolute not. David McLetchie had a hinterland, golfer, family man, golf | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
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fan. His party and family will miss him. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
You are watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
programme before seven o'clock: Will a degree course in sign language | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
correct a shortage of interpreters? In sport, we will report from | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
Scotland's training base ahead of Wednesday's friendly with England. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Also, one former Hibs player says manager Pat Fenlon should be given | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
more time as he blames the players for their poor start. We will have | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
athletics news as well. A cancer surgeon who lied he had | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
removed a patient's brain tumour at an Aberdeen hospital has been found | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
guilty of misleading and dishonest conduct. Emmanuel Labram faced a | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing after the incident | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in September 2008. He misled the | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
patient, who eventually sought private treatment, and light to | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
colleagues and forged documents. Three men have appeared in court | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
charged with murder after the death of a 26-year-old man in Aberdeen | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
city centre. Offshore industry worker Craig Grant died early on | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
Friday. Jonas Marcius, 21, and Kiel Hauley and Adrian Morley, who are | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
both 32, appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, ready made no plea | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
and were on bail. When is a new potatoes not a new | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
potato? When it is an old potato. The definition of what makes a new | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
potato is currently a hot potato for the taxi industry. It is a hot | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
potato. I'm in windy and beautiful Ayrshire. This is a new potato, it | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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should be on somebody's plate later after it has been harvested. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
At this farm, harvesting starts early in the morning. These are new | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
potatoes and from today they have a new definition. It is because of | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
this man. He thought the potatoes he bought were not fresh, so he | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
complained to the council. I noticed when I was doing shopping that new | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
potatoes were on sale in January and February, and these were new | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
potatoes of UK origin. Knowing that the potato harvesting season is | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
basically late October, I thought months later what is a new potato | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
doing on sale in one of our retailers? It turned out that these | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
new potatoes were anything from that day to one-month-old. They were | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
being marketed as new potatoes when they were harvested earlier in the | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
year. How fresh would you expect them to be? Just out of the ground. | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
I like them to be quite fresh. Just out of the ground. As of today there | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
is a new definition. Over time the definition of a new potato has | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
changed. They have become a small potato that is often oiled or | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
steamed and they have lost the traditional meaning. That is just | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
something that has changed over time. -- boiled. We have created a | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
new industry standard to avoid confusion and celebrate when | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
potatoes are at their best in season. With me now is Jay | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
Crawford, a potato farmer. What is your definition of a new potato? | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
that is harvested first thing in the morning, five o'clock, six o'clock | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
in the morning, is delivered out to various jobs, is then retailed to | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
the consumer and is on the dinner table the same day. What are we | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
looking for? Is it feel, text? would say a new potato is generally | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
small, you should be able to rub the skin off like that between your | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
fingers. It has not been put in storage and brought out for resale. | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
Thank you very much. There you go. Supermarket shopping for potatoes | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
will never be quite the same again. That is why they don't taste the | :15:55. | :16:05. | |
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Students at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are the first in | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Scotland to study for a degree- level qualification in British Sign | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
level qualification in British Sign level qualification in British Sign | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
level qualification in British Sign level qualification in British Sign | :16:20. | :16:20. | |
level qualification in British Sign Language. There has been a lack of | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
trained sign language interpreters for many years in the UK, leading | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
to communication problems for deaf people. Our health correspondent | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Eleanor Bradford reports. 12-year-old Andrew was born | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
profoundly deaf. When he went into hospital to have an operation, none | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
of the staff could use sign- language and that was in the ear, | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
nose and throat ward. For instance, our weather, it has been absolutely | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
our weather, it has been absolutely our weather, it has been absolutely | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
our weather, it has been absolutely our weather, it has been absolutely | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
beautiful for the last four weeks. How | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
How many words was that? So Andrew's mum has become one of | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
Britain's first ever sign language degree students. It was like | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
starting from scratch. I'd learnt vocabulary, sentence structure but | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
on this course, I started from scratch again. It was the whole | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
syntax of the language, the whole structure. The course has been | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
running for a year at Heriot-Watt University but its tutor says it is | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
not another Mickey Mouse degree. Because there is a shortage of sign | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
language interpreters in Scotland and in the UK as a whole, their | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
employment prospects are likely to be extremely good. Grace already | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
has her next career move lined up. She will be working for the | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
helpline NHS 24 and be helping deaf people via a video link. I'd like | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
you to set yourself up into lines. This taster session at a Heriot- | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
Watt summer school for children is already sparking interest. Turn to | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
the outside of the room. I know someone that is partially sighted | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
and deaf. They came to my house and it's quite interesting seeing them | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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talk. I just wanted to learn more about it. I know what it is like to | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
feel left out on the occasion and deaf people, they really would like | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
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And that is why it is so important It's the Glorious Twelfth and the | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
guns have been out on estates across Scotland as shooting parties | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
look to bag the first grouse of the season. The last few years have | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
been difficult on the country's grouse moors but thanks to the good | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
summer weather the number of birds is said to be at the highest for | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
years. Andrew Anderson joined one party this morning in the Angus | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
glens. Sometimes you have to travel a | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
difficult road to find a grouse. This party was out early. Clearly, | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
the dogs knew it was a big day. Estates like this are expecting a | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
good season. The weather warmed up just in time for grouse chicks. | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
work hard all year to get the grouse in shape and sometimes the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
weather goes against us. It is quite nice when it all comes | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
together. Not everyone agrees with their sport, but those who ran that | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
Scotland's Estates says grouse shooting brings the millions of | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
pounds a year. They are looking after a natural resource, | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
harvesting up and making sure they do not take too many birds. They | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
look after a lot of other birds in the process. It is good for | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
Scotland and that local economy. They are off to continue their | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
day's shooting. I am off to a local restaurant to see the first of the | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
day's grouse goal in the pan. By lunchtime, the first grouse was | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
being cooked. Over the next few weeks, this will be a highly prized | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
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addition across the country and abroad. -- dish. Let's see what all | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
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Now I can see what all the fuss is about. Absolutely delicious. You | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
can go now. Other stories from across Scotland | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
this Monday. A tourism levy is being considered | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
for Aberdeen to raise funds which would be ploughed back into | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
promoting the city at home and abroad. Businesses including | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
restaurants, hotels and conference venues could contribute on top of | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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business rates. We are not well known as a tourist destination, but | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
we are known as a business destination. Through the week, we | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
are busy, but the weekend's there is spare capacity. Scottish Water | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
has completed a �7 million project upgrading aqueducts supplying a | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
quarter of Scotland's population. The company says it's the biggest | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
improvement to the aqueducts from Loch Katrine since they were built | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
more than 150 years ago. Visitors from around the world are | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
gathering in the Sutherland village of Helmsdale this evening to | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
commemorate the bi-centenary of the worst excesses of the Highland | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
clearances. 200 years ago today, 96 people set sail from Helmsdale to | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Canada after being burnt out of their homes in the Strath of | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
Kildonan. Edinburgh Military's Tattoo has | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
sold-out for the 15th year in a row. All 215,000 tickets have been | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
snapped up, generating almost �9 million at the Box Office. This | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
year's show has over 1,000 performers. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
And there are more stories from your area and all the latest news, | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
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24 hours a day on BBC Scotland's website. | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
To sport now and Jane can update us. The Brighton midfielder Liam | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Bridcutt has pulled out of the Scotland squad to face England with | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
a groin problem. Everyone else is fit and ready to go, though, for | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
the first meeting between the two sides since 1999. The players have | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
been settling into their training base ahead of Wednesday's match and | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
our senior football reporter Chris McLaughlin is with them. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
In the heart of the English countryside, in a tranquil, Harte | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Roger hotel, the Scotland squad relaxes and wait. The calm before | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
the storm? A few training sessions under our belt. I do not think | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
there have been any call offs, so that tells you something. Only Liam | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Bridcutt has pulled out of the huge squad of 29. The players seemed | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
desperate to be involved. But a confession from the camp. I am | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
always an England fan when Scotland are not there. I made my living | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
here. I think they have fantastic players and they have the potential | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
to go all the way in any competition. Professional respect | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
and even admiration for England within the Scotland camp. After 14 | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
years, does absence make the heart grow fonder? Let's leave the answer | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
to the fans. 20,000 will start to arrive tomorrow. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
The Hibs players, rather than the manager, should be taking the blame | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
for the club's current woes. So says their former League Cup | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
winning captain. Their worst European defeat has been followed | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
by back-to-back league losses, heaping pressure on boss Pat Fenlon. | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
And their defeat to Hearts It is hard watching a derby defeat, | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
but surely it is too early to talk of a manager drinking in the last | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
chance saloon? One famous former player believes the club should not | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
be too hasty. He has brought new players into the club. The has to | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
give them time to see if they will settle him. If it does not happen, | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
then it is time to make changes, but it is too early. Defeat to | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
Hearts yesterday had some fans calling for Pat Fenlon's head. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
fans had been fantastic since I came here. We are working hard to | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
get it right. Do you think they are sticking with you? I cannot answer | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
that, you will have to ask them. we did. They are not giving him | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
enough money to spend. The manager needs to go. He has not done | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
anything in the lead. I think it is time for him to go. Why have some | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
fans or lost patience so early in this season? Pips have lost all | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
four of the matches they have played so far. They have conceded | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
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11 goals and have yet to score themselves. | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Scotland's Eilidh Child says she will need to go for it in her World | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Athletics 400 metres hurdles semi- final. Child, running in lane 1, | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
finished second in her heat earlier today in a time of 55.17 seconds to | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
reach tomorrow's semi-finals. And she's already eyeing a place in the | :25:37. | :25:46. | |
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Good evening. We saw some sunshine around today but also a number of | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
showers. Some of them were fairly heavy. The seedling and overnight, | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
those showers will fade away and be confined to the North coast. Some | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
late evening sunshine for some but generally dry and the wind easing | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
down as well. Overnight, a mixture of clear skies and cloud. Good use | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
if you want to sit out and catch the proceeds meteor shower. -- the | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
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proceeds -- Perseids. Tomorrow, we have got this little ridge of high | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
pressure coming in. Keeping things a relatively settled. The showers | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
will not be as heavy it as today. For most of us, for most of the day, | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
it will be dry and bright. Some light showers around. Good news if | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
you are out on the hills War came or cycling to school. -- out on the | :26:55. | :27:04. | |
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hills walking. Some thicker cloud by the end of the day in the West. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
The rest of the afternoon into the evening and overnight, we continued | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
to watch this weather front working his way in from the Atlantic. It | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
will fragments are not too much and the way of rain with it. But it | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
will cloud over in Western parts of the country. By Wednesday, it will | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
be cloudier in the West. A southerly wind just pumping up some | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
more murkier, 19 or 20 Celsius. Thursday, generally dry and bright | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
with a few showers. Thicker cloud in the West. Friday, bright and | :27:43. | :27:51. | |
breezy with showers. Thank you. Now, a reminder of | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
tonight's main stories. There are signs a recovery in the Scottish | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
economy is under way. Figures from the Bank of Scotland show rising | :27:57. | :27:59. |