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Good evening. Controversial plans to bring down | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
the Red Road flats in Glasgow as part of the opening ceremony for the | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Commonwealth Games have been scrapped. The Games organisers said | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
the demolition of the five tower blocks would no longer feature, for | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
safety and security reasons. Jackie O'Brien reports. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
The decision to blow up five of these Red Road flats was planned to | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
symbolise Glasgow's social history and regeneration. But it proved | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
controversial and organisers faced increasing pressure to abandon the | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
plan. Today, the dead. But in a statement, the chief executive of | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Glasgow 2014 said the decision was made on safety grounds. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
The games are unifying force for Glasgow and Scotland. We want all | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
aspects of the games to bring Glasgow and Scotland together. So I | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
think that decision is sensible and should be supported. Opponents | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
always argued that the plan was insensitive to former residents and | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
asylum seekers still living in a sixth block. I think it is a | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
lesson, again, in consultation, anticipation, involving people in | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
decision-making to avoid situations like this. But there was a mixed | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
reaction from residents of past and present. We are living here. I am | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
living on the 22nd floor. I have a lot of memories and it would be | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
terrible to see it coming down. I stayed on those flights. Now I've | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
got a boathouse. And I think go for it. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Our reporter Jackie O'Brien is at the Red Road flats tonight. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
The decision will be welcomed in this neighbourhood because residents | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
here were going to have to be evacuated for the live violation on | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
day one of the Commonwealth Games. The organisers say they have always | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
stressed that this event would never have taken place if safety continued | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
to be an issue. Three men have been detained by | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
police in connection with the death of a man in Largs. William | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
McLachlan's body was discovered outside his home in Holehouse Road | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
yesterday morning. A 19-year-old and two 20-year-olds are now in custody. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
The pilots' union Balpa has written to the Civil Aviation Authority | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
urging it not to back down on safety improvements to helicopters which | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
are flying offshore. It comes after industry body Oil and Gas UK said | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
the changes risked damaging rather than enhancing safety. | :03:03. | :03:14. | |
Four people died last August when a Super Puma helicopter crashed off | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Shetland. In the league of the tragedy, new rules were drawn up by | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
the Civil Aviation Authority to improve safety. They include a | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
restriction on the number of people allowed to fly to and from the North | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Sea, something oil and gas UK warning could jeopardise the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
maintenance and productivity of oil platforms. But the pilots union says | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
the CAA should challenge any backsliding by the industry and | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
stick to its timetable. They are seeming to make a case that by | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
bringing the safety case forward, it is going to affect production. We | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
feel that we should be getting their full support in this. And their | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
stated aim is safety as their first priority so they should fully | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
support the CAA. The CAA says it will only be its recommendations if | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
it sees a safety case based on evidence. Meanwhile, a motion on | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
helicopter safety will be tabled tomorrow by the Unite union at the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Scottish trade union 's conference in Dundee. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
Football and St Johnstone reached their first Scottish Cup final by | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
beating Aberdeen 2-1. Aberdeen took the lead in today's semi final at | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Ibrox. Niall McGinn was the scorer. But with half and hour to go, Stevie | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
May levelled the scores, shooting in with his left foot. Then, near the | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
end, he exchanged passes with Steven MacLean before scoring again, this | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
time with his right foot. Saints will face Dundee United in the final | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
at Parkhead on May the 17th. Let's get the weather prospects for | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
this evening and the start of the week from Georgina Burnett. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Good evening. The good news is we have more settled weather on the | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
good news is we have more settled weather under way tomorrow way | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
first. We will start to see those wents and showers easing. Those | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
showers fragment in all the time. Confined to the north and money | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
caused by the morning. -- Moray coast. Tomorrow morning, those | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
showers still lingering. But few and far between. Some decent Shan shine | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
elsewhere -- sunshine. And with the wind continuing to drop, it will | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
feel more pleasant. The temperatures look disappointing, 11 or 12 | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
Celsius, but we could have a nice day, and temperatures of 13 or 14 in | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
Fife. Followed by a cold night, perhaps a little bit Ross Draper | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
central, southern and eastern parts. And that's Reporting Scotland. Our | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
next update's at quarter past ten. Until then, from everyone on the | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
team here in Glasgow, enjoy the rest of your Sunday evening. | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
We got to 17 degrees in the sunshine in London and many places enjoyed a | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
pleasant day. A different story for the zero | :06:19. | :06:19. |