:00:00. > :00:17.cooler through the weekend, but the weather is looking pretty good for
:00:18. > :00:20.Hitting the wrong note. The special adviser guilty of a mistake and
:00:21. > :00:24.misjudgement, but he still has the backing of the First Minister. Team
:00:25. > :00:31.Scotland unveiled for the Commonwealth Games, aiming for a
:00:32. > :00:38.record medal haul. The roar when you view your name, it
:00:39. > :00:41.is an amazing feeling. The Edinburgh house facing
:00:42. > :00:49.demolition because of gas seeping from a former coal mine.
:00:50. > :00:54.A shock defeat for Andy Murray ahead of Wimbledon as he is knocked out at
:00:55. > :00:57.Queens. And we look at how Scots are
:00:58. > :01:12.preparing for the month-long festival of football as the World
:01:13. > :01:16.Cup gets underway. Good evening. The First Minister is
:01:17. > :01:21.facing down a renewed calls for him to sack a special adviser. The
:01:22. > :01:30.opposition parties in the Scottish Parliament say that Campbell Gunn
:01:31. > :01:41.has broken the code of conduct for briefing a newspaper against a
:01:42. > :01:47.Labour member. He hits the high notes as a folk
:01:48. > :01:53.singer. But the special adviser to the First Minister now stands
:01:54. > :01:56.accused of low politics. Cleo Lalli introduced herself as an
:01:57. > :02:04.ordinary mum at a Better Together event this month. He then e-mail the
:02:05. > :02:13.Daily Telegraph to say that she was actually a member of the Labour
:02:14. > :02:20.Shadow Cabinet. Confronted today, the First Minister
:02:21. > :02:29.said that the point about Pat Lally was wrong. He said that Mr Gunn had
:02:30. > :02:44.apologised profusely. Labour said that Lally had endured vile abuse.
:02:45. > :02:46.If he does not sack Campbell Gunn we can only conclude that all the
:02:47. > :02:57.bullying is by author and design from him.
:02:58. > :03:00.He warmly praised Ms Lally as a carers champion but said that the
:03:01. > :03:05.e-mail had nothing to do with online abuse.
:03:06. > :03:17.Everybody condemns mindless idiots who commit abuse. Where ever they
:03:18. > :03:23.perpetrated. We in this chamber have had the privilege of knowing Mr Gunn
:03:24. > :03:28.over several years and none of us believe that he was responsible for
:03:29. > :03:33.orchestrating abuse. The government code of conduct says
:03:34. > :03:35.that any special adviser ever found to be disseminating inappropriate
:03:36. > :03:41.material will automatically be dismissed. The First Minister said
:03:42. > :03:50.the code was prompted by the behaviour of labour's Damian Wright
:03:51. > :03:58.at Westminster, smeared opponents. The case of Campbell Gunn, he said,
:03:59. > :04:01.was entirely different. Our political editor is at the Scottish
:04:02. > :04:07.Government headquarters. Are they feeling the pressure?
:04:08. > :04:17.They are, it has been a difficult day. The issue came up in a
:04:18. > :04:19.rumbustious media briefing. The First Minister's official
:04:20. > :04:28.spokesperson was asked if e-mail is appropriate, he replied, clearly
:04:29. > :04:32.not. Then came opposition complaints that this was chaos at the heart of
:04:33. > :04:35.government. A further statement from the First Minister saying that the
:04:36. > :04:43.remarks had been mistaken and misjudged but had not been
:04:44. > :04:48.inappropriate. Is it the SNP's former deputy
:04:49. > :04:58.leader, Jim issue was making an interesting intervention? -- Jim
:04:59. > :05:05.Sillars. Yes, it is online. He says that
:05:06. > :05:13.those who treat and blog online abuse the yes side needs no external
:05:14. > :05:17.opponents. He says that Alistair Darling must be smiling at the role
:05:18. > :05:22.of useful idiots. He speculated that the security services could be
:05:23. > :05:30.infiltrating the wider independence movement, as they did in the past.
:05:31. > :05:34.Incidentally, Campbell Gunn spent the day working quietly in the
:05:35. > :05:41.building behind me. If he had picked up his guitar, it would have been a
:05:42. > :05:47.painful lament. Sarah Smith is here with the details
:05:48. > :05:53.of Scotland 2014. We will discuss the story with two
:05:54. > :05:57.political players. Also, the World Cup kicks off. We explain why you
:05:58. > :06:03.should care, even though Scotland and they are. And we have a special
:06:04. > :06:09.report and bounty hunters who tracked down women who have tried to
:06:10. > :06:12.escape from forced marriages. The Commonwealth Games team have
:06:13. > :06:17.been set an ambitious target for the event next month in Glasgow, team
:06:18. > :06:23.Scotland management want 34 medals at least. It would be our best ever.
:06:24. > :06:30.It would be the Edinburgh 1986 total of 33. In terms of gold medals our
:06:31. > :06:39.best performance was in Melbourne in 2004, -- 2006, with 11 goals. An
:06:40. > :06:44.historic setting for an historic announcement. Part of the largest of
:06:45. > :06:51.Scotland team to compete at the Commonwealth Games.
:06:52. > :06:55.We have raised the bar and put on our best performances to make sure
:06:56. > :07:06.we get into the team. The atmosphere and excitement is building. 310
:07:07. > :07:10.athletes will pull on the jersey. But will our largest of the team
:07:11. > :07:20.being sent to a Commonwealth Games also be the most successful?
:07:21. > :07:30.That gold, one of you living that Scotland took in Melbourne. -- 11.
:07:31. > :07:37.In terms of our strengths, where we have is traditionally been, bowls,
:07:38. > :07:48.swimming, athletics, it is great to see judo backing the games again.
:07:49. > :07:57.Who are the athletes to watch? Possible medal hopes with a home
:07:58. > :08:01.crowd shouting them on. When you hear your name, it is an
:08:02. > :08:08.amazing feeling. Picking out family members in the crowd is really nice.
:08:09. > :08:14.We have lots of belief in ourselves. Why can't we push others to the
:08:15. > :08:19.limit and get a result? That is the kind of confidence team
:08:20. > :08:26.Scotland want to hear. Still to come: The show must go on.
:08:27. > :08:30.Students display their degree work just three weeks after a fire at the
:08:31. > :08:34.art school. And a blow for Andy Murray a
:08:35. > :08:47.fortnight before he defends his Wimbledon title.
:08:48. > :08:51.64 council houses built on a former Midlothian coal mine are likely to
:08:52. > :08:55.be demolished. Carbon dioxide has been seeping into the properties,
:08:56. > :09:11.recommended to a special meeting of councillors next week that they be
:09:12. > :09:17.flat and and rebuilt. -- demolished. Such high levels of carbon dioxide
:09:18. > :09:24.have been found in houses that tenants were moved out of nine
:09:25. > :09:28.months ago. Brian is one of them. We spent ?3000 getting the guard and
:09:29. > :09:31.not last year. He would not have spent attending
:09:32. > :09:48.you what they are monitoring was about to reveal. -- spent it, if he
:09:49. > :09:53.knew what the in your monitoring. My girls going to school, and now we
:09:54. > :09:56.also don't know. Most of the tenants are still living
:09:57. > :10:00.in their homes with monitors keeping track of air quality. Next week,
:10:01. > :10:09.Midlothian Council will consider a recommendation to hold those older
:10:10. > :10:15.houses -- bulldoze all the houses. You have no idea where you can go,
:10:16. > :10:19.you just need to hope for the best. Why councillors saying that the best
:10:20. > :10:25.solution is to demolish houses built just years ago?
:10:26. > :10:30.It is clear to us from the advice available that the solutions are the
:10:31. > :10:34.best ones. There is no timetable yet for
:10:35. > :10:39.rehousing these families and tenants believe that the local council has
:10:40. > :10:46.many questions to answer. An investigation is under way.
:10:47. > :10:53.It is all part of an ongoing investigation. We will continue to
:10:54. > :11:01.investigate it until we find out why, how, where, when, etc.
:11:02. > :11:07.As soon as it is no real disclose that information.
:11:08. > :11:12.It is three weeks since a fire at the Glasgow School of Art destroyed
:11:13. > :11:18.and damaged students work. Against the odds today, the annual degree
:11:19. > :11:25.show went ahead. It is an end of term and showcase. The chance to
:11:26. > :11:29.display four years hard work. But the recent fire meant much of the
:11:30. > :11:34.work went up in smoke. Just as students prepare to hand it in.
:11:35. > :11:41.The roof collapsed. Everything was gone. There was no way anything
:11:42. > :11:45.could survive, I work with paper, flammable materials, it did not
:11:46. > :11:51.stand a chance. Few thought that the degree show
:11:52. > :11:56.would go ahead. But the students came up with an innovative solution.
:11:57. > :12:00.Each would contribute one digital image representing their work. Those
:12:01. > :12:04.who lost everything, and those who could have gone ahead with their own
:12:05. > :12:10.shows. I am not sure how I would have done
:12:11. > :12:16.that. It would have felt selfish to book a venue for my own. This is the
:12:17. > :12:23.only fair way to do it. And it looks really good as a show.
:12:24. > :12:27.Across the campus, all 500 students are showing their work. It is seen
:12:28. > :12:33.as a milestone in the school recovery. And it all counts towards
:12:34. > :12:39.final marks. It is a challenge because we are a
:12:40. > :12:42.new territory. But there are protocols for special processes and
:12:43. > :12:48.we have paid attention to the rules and regulations.
:12:49. > :12:53.The degree show with a difference is expected to draw a crowd. It is
:12:54. > :13:00.hoped that a full show can be staged next spring.
:13:01. > :13:05.There are under 100 days until we vote in the independence referendum.
:13:06. > :13:11.Anyone who is resident and on the electoral roll has a vote. That
:13:12. > :13:15.means almost 500,000 English people. Photos from England could make their
:13:16. > :13:21.mark on the independence referendum. -- fought are. Polls suggest that
:13:22. > :13:27.when it comes to changing the UK boundaries they are more likely to
:13:28. > :13:33.vote no. Most here in Perth batted away suggestions of anti-English
:13:34. > :13:39.sentiment in Scotland. It is crazy to regard us as the old
:13:40. > :13:42.enemy. Others understand that this argument
:13:43. > :13:48.is about self-determination and still are not swayed.
:13:49. > :13:53.I have spent half my adult life in Scotland. I would feel exactly the
:13:54. > :14:00.same if it was England looking to go and there on.
:14:01. > :14:05.A few miles north, this family have built a life away from Bradford.
:14:06. > :14:10.Both were undecided until a few months ago but have been persuaded
:14:11. > :14:15.by a message of hope. I phoned, growing up, that people,
:14:16. > :14:22.including myself, felt powerless about changing the world around. It
:14:23. > :14:25.is very hard, even as an adult. So I was excited by the prospect of
:14:26. > :14:31.changing the world around me and the country living.
:14:32. > :14:35.We believe that this best for our children. We are proud of that they
:14:36. > :14:39.have grown up here. children. We are proud of that they
:14:40. > :14:44.have grown As a family this is something we have chosen thought
:14:45. > :14:47.about. Every vote will count if it is
:14:48. > :14:54.close. The views from those outside Scotland could prove pivotal.
:14:55. > :15:03.Although a voters background may influence their decision, they could
:15:04. > :15:06.still be persuaded otherwise. It is a mistake that people are coming at
:15:07. > :15:10.this referendum with no preconceptions at all about what
:15:11. > :15:13.they might do. But if one side of another might come up with a strong
:15:14. > :15:20.argument they might go in One Direction or another. Each political
:15:21. > :15:24.point will be declared a small victory but as the old adage goes,
:15:25. > :15:31.there can be only one winner, and that will be decided by you.
:15:32. > :15:33.And every household in Scotland will receive a booklet
:15:34. > :15:35.from the UK government, outlining what it claims to be
:15:36. > :15:37.the benefits of remaining in the United Kingdom.
:15:38. > :15:39.2.5 million copies of the booklet have been produced
:15:40. > :15:46.A look at other stories from the across the country.
:15:47. > :15:51.Orkney Islands Council has admitted lessons need to be learned about how
:15:52. > :15:57.concerns over care home staff are highlighted. A male member of staff
:15:58. > :16:00.at Saint Bono 's House has been removed from the carers register
:16:01. > :16:04.after a catalogue of alleged physical and verbal abuse dating
:16:05. > :16:09.back to 2006. Highland councillors have expressed concern that
:16:10. > :16:14.specially trained armed officers aren't routinely carrying handguns.
:16:15. > :16:16.Police Scotland's Highlands and is the visual commando explained the
:16:17. > :16:20.operational change which he said came into effect last year. Members
:16:21. > :16:24.of the council said they will be writing to the Scottish chief
:16:25. > :16:29.constable, Sir Stephen House. If they are going out to an incident
:16:30. > :16:34.yes, but day-to-day, I would query whether that would be the right
:16:35. > :16:38.thing for here. A judge has overturned Western Isles Council's
:16:39. > :16:44.go-ahead for three wind turbines near you used the smack is used
:16:45. > :16:48.rocket range, claiming that it would interfere with radar systems. At the
:16:49. > :16:53.Court of session, Lord Doherty set aside the Council's decision. An
:16:54. > :16:57.agency aimed at maximising oil and gas production is to be built in
:16:58. > :17:01.Aberdeen. The oil and gas authority will encourage greater collaboration
:17:02. > :17:07.between companies. Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander --
:17:08. > :17:10.Annie Alexander, McGuinness and at a conference in Aberdeen. A memorial
:17:11. > :17:16.has taken place in Hampshire for the Scots sailor Timmy McCaul who went
:17:17. > :17:20.missing in the buy two years ago. He served on the warship, HMS
:17:21. > :17:25.Westminster. His body was never found. But the Ministry of Defence
:17:26. > :17:28.says that his death has now been officially registered. A group of
:17:29. > :17:31.walkers raising money for charity have apologised for leaving a wench
:17:32. > :17:37.on the summit of Ben Nevis. They left it so that other walkers could
:17:38. > :17:41.rest on it. It is understood that a mountaineer cut the bench up and
:17:42. > :17:45.carried the pieces away. The John Muir trust, which looks after the
:17:46. > :17:49.mountain, said the group had not intended to Act maliciously.
:17:50. > :17:52.A village on the north west coast is attempting to completely bypass
:17:53. > :17:56.Applecross would become the area from its own hydro scheme.
:17:57. > :17:58.one of the first communities in the UK to do so.
:17:59. > :18:01.The hope is it will lead to a reduction in energy bills.
:18:02. > :18:12.Life for Applecross residence is already full of twists and turns,
:18:13. > :18:15.but now the West Coast community, accessed by the highest road in
:18:16. > :18:21.Britain, is moving in a new direction. These freshly caught
:18:22. > :18:26.prawns might be landed conventionally, but they are
:18:27. > :18:33.delivered to the local hotel on his electric bike. It is good. It is a
:18:34. > :18:41.bit of exercise at the end of a long day, but it has a feel-good factor.
:18:42. > :18:45.I have already done a kilometres. This is just a small part of a
:18:46. > :18:49.master plan to make Applecross completely self-sufficient. There is
:18:50. > :18:55.a hope that Applecross could power is self one day. With virtually no
:18:56. > :19:00.reliance on big power companies or the National Grid. This burn will
:19:01. > :19:05.form part of a hydro scheme that will eventually supply power
:19:06. > :19:10.directly to local homes, to avoid the cost of exporting to the grid.
:19:11. > :19:14.The Applecross community company hydro scheme can sell into the grid
:19:15. > :19:18.for about five feet of the kilowatt hour, but people down the road paid
:19:19. > :19:23.12p per kilowatt hour to take it back out again. What we're trying to
:19:24. > :19:26.do is realise the potential in those cost differences by supplying energy
:19:27. > :19:31.directly using our own private wires. As well as cutting energy
:19:32. > :19:35.bills it is hoped the pioneering scheme will ensure that money stays
:19:36. > :19:40.in the village. We are not sending it out to one of the big energy
:19:41. > :19:44.providers. That money is spent here, and the profit is kept within the
:19:45. > :19:48.community to be used on community projects. Locals say the spin offs
:19:49. > :19:56.are already evident as tourists come to sample meals on green wheels.
:19:57. > :20:07.With less than two weeks till Wimbledon, Andy Murray's
:20:08. > :20:08.preparations have suffered a setback.
:20:09. > :20:11.He's been knocked out in the third round of the Aegon Championship
:20:12. > :20:14.The defending champion losing in straight sets
:20:15. > :20:24.It was a three o'clock kick-off for the defending champion at Queen 's
:20:25. > :20:29.club. A relaxed head coach whose mantra might be all-out attack if
:20:30. > :20:34.the first point was anything to go by that secured an immediate break
:20:35. > :20:39.of serve. Radek Stepanek broke straight back. He might be 35 but,
:20:40. > :20:45.with age comes guile and experience and an appetite for a fight. And
:20:46. > :20:48.that is how it continued, point for point, until the tie-break which
:20:49. > :20:54.Andy Murray led 6-2, only to squander four set points. Radek
:20:55. > :20:58.Stepanek refused to lose and took it after an hour and a quarter. That
:20:59. > :21:03.seemed to knock the stuffing out of Andy Murray, who was broken at the
:21:04. > :21:08.start of the second set for some sloppy errors which started creeping
:21:09. > :21:14.in. As the set wore on, Radek Stepanek's serves 20 and
:21:15. > :21:20.anti-extended his lead to 4-2. And an outrageous net call helped into a
:21:21. > :21:25.double break of serve at 5-2, then it was a case of holding serve, to
:21:26. > :21:29.send the defending champion tumbling out at Queens club. I have only
:21:30. > :21:35.myself to blame I lost the first set. I don't know how many set
:21:36. > :21:42.points I had. Quite a lot of them on my serve. On the surface especially,
:21:43. > :21:50.you should not be losing a set like that. That is what disappointing. It
:21:51. > :21:52.has not been the best of days for the two Scots taking part in the US
:21:53. > :21:56.open golf in North Carolina. This missed putt by
:21:57. > :21:57.Stephen Gallacher at the fourth hole was one of four
:21:58. > :22:00.bogeys tarnishing his scorecard. He finished three over par
:22:01. > :22:02.for the day, six strokes off current
:22:03. > :22:04.leader, American Kevin Na. The other Scot in the field,
:22:05. > :22:15.Chris Doak, tees off at 7:30pm. Rangers have added defender Darren
:22:16. > :22:19.McGregor after their ranks. The 28-year-old moved after four seasons
:22:20. > :22:23.in the top flight with Saint Mirren. Falkirk have a new head coach, Peter
:22:24. > :22:29.Huston, the former Dundee United manager, who takes over from Gary
:22:30. > :22:34.Holt. Can you take them to the top division? Let's be realistic. The
:22:35. > :22:39.better chances will be going to the big clubs in the league. However,
:22:40. > :22:49.that is on paper. Football is not played on paper. A group calling for
:22:50. > :22:54.the removal of them Hibernian chairman will now make a request in
:22:55. > :22:59.writing for his removal. Double Olympic champion Mo Farah will
:23:00. > :23:04.compete in two events for England at the Commonwealth Games. He will
:23:05. > :23:10.compete at the 5000 metres, and the 10,000 metres in Glasgow. There was
:23:11. > :23:14.lots more sports news on the BBC sport Scotland website. That is all
:23:15. > :23:20.from me for now. In the next couple of hours, the World Cup kicks off in
:23:21. > :23:29.Brazil. Scotland are not there this time but 20 parties are to get
:23:30. > :23:33.underway. -- plenty of parties. Scotland might not be playing in
:23:34. > :23:38.Brazil, but that does not mean that we are not caught up in the party
:23:39. > :23:42.atmosphere. The tennis is on the big screen now. But later, at this
:23:43. > :23:54.Edinburgh bar, they are getting ready to party with samba bands and
:23:55. > :23:57.a World Cup sticker swap. The staff have changed their names to those
:23:58. > :24:12.Brazilian football players, if they win. I am going to be named after
:24:13. > :24:19.the manager, Felipe Scolari. We have ended up in Edinburgh. We are from
:24:20. > :24:23.Germany. This Aberdeen butcher has concocted 32 new flavours of
:24:24. > :24:27.sausage, one for each of the countries taking part. The Russian
:24:28. > :24:37.sausage has vodka in it, the Belgian one has chocolate and chilli, and
:24:38. > :24:44.this is one World Cup final that you are guaranteed to be in. Obviously
:24:45. > :24:51.Scotland will never be eliminated, so they will go straight to the
:24:52. > :24:55.final. On the final day, we will see who wins the sausage World Cup.
:24:56. > :25:03.Hopefully Scotland. What if war does not float your boat? What about
:25:04. > :25:16.coming along to a flat area to experience the ultimate in
:25:17. > :25:20.relaxation? -- to a flotarium. It is very much away from football. But
:25:21. > :25:23.for a carnival atmosphere, here in Glasgow, the party has already
:25:24. > :25:27.started. Now the weather forecast with
:25:28. > :25:37.Kawser. So far today, it has been cloudy and
:25:38. > :25:43.mostly dry. Heading through the rest of the evening we will see more in
:25:44. > :25:50.the way of clout the killing. We have been unfortunate that the cloud
:25:51. > :25:54.cover. -- the way of cloud covering. The rain initially will be quite
:25:55. > :25:58.liked across the West. As the night progresses, heavy and more
:25:59. > :26:03.persistent rain will push in from the west. And misty and murky
:26:04. > :26:09.conditions will mean a humid night, with temperatures dipping to 13
:26:10. > :26:13.Celsius. Tomorrow morning, a cloudy and wet start. Some of that rain
:26:14. > :26:18.will be heavy and persistent, especially across the south-west and
:26:19. > :26:25.from Aaron after Argyll. Some of that sea fog will be lingering.
:26:26. > :26:30.Tomorrow afternoon, for Dumfries Galloway, cloudy conditions with
:26:31. > :26:33.outbreaks of rain. In Edinburgh, a wet afternoon, but drying out across
:26:34. > :26:38.Glasgow and the north, as that system pushes south, where it will
:26:39. > :26:43.become drier, and we will see some brighter spells for Caithness,
:26:44. > :26:47.Sutherland and the Northern Isles. Tomorrow evening, that cloud will
:26:48. > :26:52.continue, with that rain becoming weaker, with drier conditions
:26:53. > :26:57.towards the North, but a misty and mild night once again. High pressure
:26:58. > :27:01.is building for the weekend as promised, but that weather system is
:27:02. > :27:05.still with us, so it is a gradual improvement. For Saturday, it'll
:27:06. > :27:10.start of amp, then the cloud will break to other a few brighter
:27:11. > :27:15.spells. It will be warm, with temperatures of 19 Celsius in land,
:27:16. > :27:26.and cooler along the coast. It is a big day in Edinburgh as the Queen 's
:27:27. > :27:30.bat on really comes to town. -- baton relay. Temperatures could
:27:31. > :27:35.reach 21 Celsius. Now,
:27:36. > :27:48.a reminder of tonight's main news. The opposition parties in the
:27:49. > :27:52.Scottish home and say that Alex Salmond's aid, Campbell done, has
:27:53. > :27:53.broken the code of conduct a briefing and newspaper against a
:27:54. > :27:55.Labour supporter. I'll be back with the late bulletin
:27:56. > :28:01.just after the ten o'clock news. Until then, from everyone
:28:02. > :28:03.on the team - right across the country, have a
:28:04. > :28:06.very good evening.