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Kilda. The mystery of the stolen bowls: How | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Scotland's gold-medal hope at the Commonwealth Games is coping with | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the theft. An Edinburgh woman who is | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
charged with murdering her three-year-old son has made her | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
first public court appearance. 34-year-old Rosdeep Adekoya has been | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
accused of beating Mikaeel Kular on various occasions over a four-day | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
period and then murdering him. Arriving at court from custody, | :00:26. | :00:41. | |
Rosdeep Adekoya is appearing under her married name. This was her first | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
public appearance in court since she was charged with her son Mikaeel's | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
murder. In January the 16th, Mrs Adekoya had called the police and | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
reported her little boy missing, saying she thought he had climbed | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
onto a stool and unlock the front door of her Edinburgh flat. The | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Crown says she did this knowing he will already dead. These were the | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
pictures of hundreds of Mikaeel's neighbours, members of the public, | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
police and coastguard who searched for the three-year-old. Then, the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
news that was dreaded. Mikaeel's body had been found in woodland 25 | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
miles away in Kirkcaldy, near a relative's has that Mikaeel had | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
lived in with his family 18 months before. I can confirm that we have | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
recovered the body of a young boy in Fife, shortly before midnight. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
34-year-old Rosdeep Adekoya stood in the dock. She was dressed all in | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
black. She showed no emotion, and she did not say anything during the | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
hearing, which lasted just three minutes. She has entered no plea. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
She was taken back to custody. In documents lodged with court, Mrs | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Adekoya is accused of hitting her son over the head and body, hitting | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
his body against a hard object, and causing blunt force injuries to his | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
head and body in the family home. This was between the 12 and 15th of | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
January. She is accused of failing to seek medical attention for | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Mikaeel, and murdering him. She is also accused of attempting to defeat | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
the ends of justice by wrapping Mikaeel's body in a duvet, putting | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
him in a suitcase, and then into the boot of her car, and driving to | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Kirkcaldy. Mrs Adekoya is then said to have hidden the suitcase under a | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
bush in woodland behind her home. The case is being continued, and | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
there will be a further hearing here in Edinburgh on the 25th of July. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
MPs are calling for a public inquiry into concerns | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
commercial pressure from oil and gas companies is putting | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
The Commons transport select committee launched | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
an inquiry following last year's fatal crash off Shetland. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
In all 20 people have been killed in offshore helicopter accidents | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
James Nugent survived a Super Puma helicopter crash off Shetland last | :02:54. | :03:08. | |
August. Full of his colleagues died. He is still coping with the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
after-effects. I don't have a broken leg or back or anything like that. I | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
had very supple injuries. I have had a constant headache since the | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
accident, I get migraines, anything up to three times a week. Those | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
cannot me out for four days. It will be Shetland crash that sparked the | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
enquiry by MPs. 20 people in total have died in offshore helicopter | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
accidents since 2009. The committee chair wants a full public enquiry to | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
investigate if commercial pressure is putting lives at risk. Do the oil | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
and gas companies have power that has led to cost-cutting and safety | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
measures? Has there been another enforcement of safety regulations? | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Is there an openness that workers can express their concerns when they | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
feel these are correct? There are around 100 light into the North Sea | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
and west of Shetland every day. The oil and gas companies deny | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
helicopter operators are put under unsay pressure to make things work. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
If the government called for a public enquiry, we will support one. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
We will get intimately involved with that process. But it is not | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
something the oil and gas industry would support unless it was | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
ordered? We are not asking for it, but we would support it if it is | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
required. You don't think it is necessary? I didn't say that. I said | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
we would support it if there was evidence. Unions and relatives of | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
those killed in other helicopter crashes have long supported a public | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
enquiry. The UK Government says it will look at the committee's report. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
James Nugent says he might return offshore one day, if he feels it is | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
safe. Now, | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
cast your mind back to last summer. Yes, it's the time of year again | :04:50. | :04:50. | |
when the panda-watch gets underway. Let's cross to Edinburgh Zoo | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
and join Julie Peacock. Yes, it certainly is, but staff here | :04:57. | :05:13. | |
at Edinburgh zoo are urging people not to get too excited about this | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
excitement that their panda has conceived, and that is because the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
embryo has not yet implanted, meaning that technically she is not | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
pregnant yet. Staff here have good reason to be cautious, because life | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
and earths are still rare in captivity -- live panda births. And | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
we have been here twice before. Last year, she lost a foetus late in | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
pregnancy, and the year before, these two pandas failed to meet at | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
all. However, we are seeing this being welcomed as a positive | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
development. It is good news, and if all goes to plan, we could see a | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
baby panda here in late August. Already, lots of people have been | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
anticipating the arrival of a baby panda, including the First Minister | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Alex Salmond, who tweeted: This is exciting news. It would be terrific | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
to welcome a baby panda. If we do nearly bit about our tiny beads | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
here, any time soon, you can be rest assured, we will be right here to | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
tell you all about it. Thank you very much. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: | :06:18. | :06:18. | |
In the first of two referendum reports, we take to the streets | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
And we meet the Scottish golfer who's come back home to show us | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
And the Scot who has become the most expensive player in championship | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
history. Tributes have been paid to | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
a 14-year-old boy who drowned at Bocharie Sonnah got | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
into difficulty while playing with Local people and the emergency | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
services were unable to save him. They gathered to pay their | :06:43. | :07:00. | |
respects. A silent tribute for a 14-year-old boy whose life was cut | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
short here at Torduff reservoir. Barker Rhys on, known to friends as | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
box, was mad about football. -- Bocharie Sonnah. There is shock and | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
disbelief at his death. Everybody loved him. You can see just from the | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
people leaving flowers and that, he was really taken too soon. Far too | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
soon. Gone but never forgotten. That is the. Rest in peace, pal. He got | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
into trouble last night in the water. One eyewitness said he will | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
be haunted by the screens echoing across the reservoir. A lady man | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
passed, saying a boy is drowning. My friend got on his mobile to phone | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
the emergency services. When we got to the water, the lad had | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
disappeared under. His other friend was trying in vain to get him from | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
the water, but to no avail. Locals have told me it is a very popular | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
area, especially during the summer holidays. Scottish water and this | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
reservoir, and there are signs up saying it is unsafe to swim here. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
These signs warn people that they should not be swimming in the waters | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
behind me. Today, a community reflects and remembers one they have | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
lost. Scotland's first satellite has been | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
launched from a space centre UKube-One was built by | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
a Glasgow-based company. It's already in orbit, and it's | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
due to separate from its Russian Here's our science correspondent | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Kenneth Macdonald. Not quite mission control Maryhill, | :08:40. | :08:56. | |
but even without live pictures, it felt a lot like it. Confirmation | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
that the satellite has launched. It is the first satellite fully | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
designed and built in Scotland, so it is a big step forward from that | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
perspective. The other benefit is, it is a different type of satellite. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
It is a more off the shelf type of satellite. UKube-1 is the most | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
advanced satellite of its kind in the world. It is small, but backs | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
six experiments into just three metres, studying things like space | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
weather and satellite security, and giving school students a chance to | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
contact a satellite. More than that, it is blazing a trail for the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Scottish space industry. We are spending most of our time writing | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
proposals to people all over the world who are interested in doing | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
larger scale missions, and constellations of satellites. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Somebody is talking to us about hundreds! These scientists say the | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
buzz has already been good for business. The fact we have done it | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
with UKube-1, which is such a complex satellite in its own right, | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
that really as studies in good stead and allowed us to step up to the | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
plate where the customers are concerned. Today's rocket while an | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
updated version of the ones that once carried solely Soviet | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
cosmonauts into orbit. The world's first artificial satellite and the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
first man in lifted off from here. Today, it was Scotland's turn. | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Both sides in the Scottish independence debate have been | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
trading insults after campaign donations for | :10:37. | :10:37. | |
The figures show that the pro-union Better Together campaign raised ?2.4 | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
million in big donations - twice the 1.1 million raised by Yes Scotland. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Our Political Editor Brian Taylor is here. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
So, Brian, what are the Yes and No campaigns saying, then? | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
The complaints are familiar. We have heard them before. A lot of the | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
controversy is focusing upon the money that is going to the lead | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
campaigns, but organisations that have registered on each side. They | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
are looking to support the union, and 300,000 are going to business | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Scotland and Christians For Independence. Better Together are | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
focusing on that money, saying there are effectively front organisations | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
working together with the league campaign. You can do that, working | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
together, but if you do so, it perhaps alters the amount that can | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
be spent. There are rules governing that. They say these upfront | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
organisations. In response, Yes Scotland say that is absolutely | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
untrue, they have obeyed the rules from the start, and they continue to | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
do so, and their response is fairly blunt to their rivals in Better | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
Together. They say, this is a bit rich coming from a movement that is | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
funded largely by wealthy landowners, bankers and rich Tories. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Many of whom live outwith Scotland and do not have a vote in the | :12:00. | :12:00. | |
referendum. Hankie. -- thank you. Scotland's streets have become a | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
campaigning battleground as armies of activists in the independence | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
referendum fight for your vote. For many, it's the first time | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
they've been involved in politics. Our Referendum Correspondent Laura | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Bicker has been out with both sides Tonight, she's in Ayrshire with | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
Yes Scotland. It is good to see as many as are | :12:17. | :12:29. | |
here tonight. John Wallace leads the team in South Ayrshire. Keep it | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
simple, be courteous, and don't get into any trouble. The battle lines | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
are drawn. This army foot soldiers are now seeking targets. The | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
undecided voter. I am undecided. Undecided. The measure support for | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
independence on a scale of one to ten, where ten is a definite Yes. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Where would you say you sit on this scale? A nine. The team will visit | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
those who are undecided. I was born to do this. I had been wanting | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
independence since I was that high. My father and grandfather before me. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
With a name like Wallace, the passion is there. John works 60 | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
hours a week, and is also a husband and father. But he now spends most | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
evenings away from them, campaigning. What do you think about | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
spending all your hours on doorsteps? My wife loves it! She has | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
beaten quiet to watch the television. Straight from the | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
doorsteps, and time to feed the troops at a pie and pints night in | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Prestwick. None of the speakers are elected officials. I believe a vote | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
for No will be a vote of No confidence in ourselves. Whereas I | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
think a vote for Yes will lead to an absolute renaissance in Scotland. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Much of this meeting felt like a rally. We are all discussing these | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
things, but we need to win that vote! Vote No is not an option. Vote | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
No is seriously not an option, it is just the mince we have had before. | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
But there were a few undecided voters. I came to the door, and I | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
said to my daughter, you fancy going along, see what it is about? She | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
said Yes, so we came. I never really knew anything about it, it was just | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
like Braveheart and haggis and that sort of thing! And then listening to | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
them really has convinced me to vote Yes, for definite. There is | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
determination here, steely purpose, but there is also emotion. It is | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
clear hearts will be broken in September. The next few weeks will | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
determine which side of this argument that will be. | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
Tomorrow evening, Laura will be behind-the-scenes with the No | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
And the latest in our series of Referendum Debates from across | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
the country is later this evening. Here's James Cook with the details. | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
With the referendum just ten weeks away, we've come to the Isle of Skye | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
to seek answers to the key issues. Our guests are the actor David | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Heymann, business and John Boyle, and representatives from Labour and | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the Scottish Government. Join us for the referendum debate, tonight at | :15:14. | :15:14. | |
9pm on BBC Two Scotland. Now, a look at other stories | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
from the across the country: A woman is in hospital | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
after being seriously injured when The collision happened | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
around 9 o'clock this morning The road between South St Andrews | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
Street and West Register Street A million square feet | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
of land has been released for It's the latest stage in the ?1 | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
billion transformation of the site. It's thought the area, which will | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
also be home to the V A Museum, The Duchess | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
of Rothesay has officially opened She met community groups | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
and swimmers training The Duchess later conferred her | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
first degrees in her new role as A businessman from Skye says | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
the Scottish Government must put pressure on delivery companies to | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
implement a fairer charging system. Alasdair Martin says he was recently | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
quoted ?400 to have 1,000 DVDs delivered to the island, | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
but only ?15 for them to be sent to a friend's house ten miles away | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
on the mainland. There has to be political pressure | :16:19. | :16:33. | |
put on some of these countries, -- companies, because it doesn't seem | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
fair to charge such an exorbitant amount of money to deliver somewhere | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
that is not really far-away. Paul Foster is | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
a world champion lawn bowler hopes for a medal at the | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
Commonwealth Games. However, with just two weeks to go, he's been the | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
victim of theft. Some of his prized bowls have been stolen from his | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
Troon club. Is it a simple case of Is it a simple case of robbery, | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
or could it be international This is true then Portland Bowling | :16:56. | :17:10. | |
club, and with just 15 days to go before the start of the Commonwealth | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
Games, No surprise to see this man, Paul Foster, down here practising | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
this evening, but Paul, it has been a hard day for you, because last | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
night, you had to get a new set of balls. You'll agree Yes, I came down | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
to the pub last night, and they phoned up to say it had been broken | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
into, and my bag had been taken along with three balls. I was left | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
with one bowl. So, what is that suggest EU, foul play? It could be a | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
lot of things. It could be jealousy, people who don't want me to do well, | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
but I got on the case straight away last night, and luckily enough from | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
me, I have managed to get another set of bowls very quick. I suppose | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
with the game is just 15 days away, you need to be practising, but all | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
balls are not the same, so how significant is this in your run-up | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
to the games? There is not too much difference between this set of bowls | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
on the one I have stolen. It is psychological, but I am putting up | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
out of my mind, because I cannot come into the games with a negative | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
attitude, because it is not fair on my team-mates. I am gutted. I have | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
been training for three months solid now, and doing pretty well with | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
those bowls. It is a sad day that someone could do that to me, or | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
anybody. There are some sad people out there. Thank you for joining us. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
We appreciate your time, and Police Scotland or on the case with this, | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
and if you have any information you think could help Paul find his | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
missing bowls, please contact them. Let's get better sporting news now | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
from David. I can't promise you better, but I | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
can promise you more! The Scotland international striker | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
Ross McCormack has set a new record. He's become the most expensive | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
player in the English championship. The 27-year-old has joined Fulham | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
for Tries a shot and scores! He cannot | :18:49. | :19:03. | |
stop scoring! With 28 goals, Ross McCormack is the top scorer for the | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
season just gone. Now, he is the English second-tier's most expensive | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
player. Scotland team-mate Steven Naismith in his native Ayrshire to | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
back his former boys club financially today, is backing | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
MacCormack to justify his ?11 million price tag. He is a quality | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
player, and he has proved that. He may be lost a bit of confidence when | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
he lost Rangers and was told by then he was not given up, but he has come | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
back and proved everybody wrong. MacCormack left Rangers eight years | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
ago after just 11 appearances. After a spell at Motherwell, he joined | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
Cardiff city, and then on to Leeds, where he became a favourite of the | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
fans. Now, he will lead the attack for one of their championship | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
rivals, and hoping to play his way into the Scotland team for the | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
European Championship qualifiers, which start in September. Scott | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Brown is likely to miss Scotland's opening qualifier against Germany. | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
We have learned the Celtic captain is expected to be out around three | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
months because of a hamstring injury. | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
If so he'll miss all of Celtic's Champions League qualifying | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
And Mo Farah has pulled out of this weekend's Diamond Lead athletics | :20:18. | :20:29. | |
event in Glasgow. The reason appears unclear, but he is still expected to | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
compete at the Commonwealth Games later this month. The build-up | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
continues to be Scottish open golf, which start on Thursday. It will be | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
something of a homecoming for Inverness golfer Russell Knox left | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
Scotland But this week marks the first time | :20:44. | :20:44. | |
he's come back as a pro to play. From Royal Aberdeen, | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
here's Phil Goodlad. welcome home, Russell knocks. We had | :20:50. | :21:04. | |
been expecting you. This is my debut, and I have been pro for seven | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
years. I am delighted to make it here to Royal Aberdeen, and | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
hopefully, I will do well. You may not recognise the face or indeed, | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
the accident, but the 29-year-old from Inverness is making a name for | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
himself on the PGA Tour, already earning $1.3 million this season. It | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
is an extremely difficult job to crack. This is an important week, I | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
would love to play well, and if I don't, it is not going to be the end | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
of the world. I will still love every minute of being home in | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
Scotland. If you are following him around this week, you will notice he | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
is accompanied by his lucky dolphin mascot. I quite often over in the | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
United States get asked, are you from Australia? I say No, but I can | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
have a kangaroo on my back! It is all good. So, it is all about | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
reacquainting himself with being back home this week. Perhaps | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
rebuilding important relationships. I am staying with my best friend | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
this week, who lives in Aberdeen. I haven't seen him for a long time. He | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
used to be my best friend, it has been so long, he probably hate me | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
now! You've earned $1.3 million so far this season. He will still be | :22:13. | :22:24. | |
your best friend! More on the golf for the rest of the week, whether | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
you like it or not! Thank you very much, David. Let's get the details | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
now and what is coming up on Scotland 2014 tonight. | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Tonight, an exclusive story about how quickly you will get an | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
ambulance if your life is at risk. The Scottish Government has set a | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
target response time of eight minutes for the most severe cases, | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
but we hear from staff who say they are being pressured to distort the | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
figures by downgrading some of the more serious cases just to make it | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
look like the Tigers are being that. We will also talk about how it is | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
money the Yes And No campaigns have received, and wondering whether | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
Scotland's future might be in space. To the Commonwealth baton relay now, | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
and today it's been on St Kilda. It flew from Benbecula airport by | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
helicopter to the most remote part of the UK, uninhabited St Kilda. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Never far away, was our reporter. St Kilda, known as the island on the | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
edge of the world. Beyond it, the Atlantic and America. Around 30 | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
people work here year round. They are used to the odd visitor, but | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
this was exceptional. A couple of weeks ago, our team, including | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
myself, try to swim from Harris out here, but we had to give up after | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
five or six swells. We were doing it to raise money for a few different | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
charities. St Kilda is actually a small chain of islands, and we are | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
on the biggest right now. In the old days, during an emergency, people | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
used to climb to the highest point here and light a fire and hope a | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
passing ship would see it and come to their aid. The history of the | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
island is a sad one. The population abandoned it in 1930. Now there are | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
hopes to promote more of an understanding of its story. People | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
do want to experience St Kilda, they want to learn about the history and | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
culture of St Kilda and the past, and there are plans to have some way | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
to interpret that much closer to the mainland of the UK. Hopefully, that | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
will happen within the next two or three years. The Queen's baton has | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
travelled the Commonwealth, going to some amazing locations, but few | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
could rival this truly stunning island. | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
And from Cameron on St Kilda to Tarbert on the Isle of Harris now, | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Thank you very much. Good evening. We have been enjoying some lovely | :24:46. | :25:01. | |
weather across much of the Western Isles today, as the battle continues | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
its journey from South to North. It is due to arrive here in Stornoway | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
very shortly, and as you can see, the celebrations continue behind me. | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Not all of us have been as fortunate with regards to the weather today. | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
Heavy, thundery showers across eastern parts of the country. This | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
evening, we are looking at the showers easing, and there will be | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
some fine spells of brightness and sunshine to end the day. Looking | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
ahead to the overnight period, it stays largely dry, and there will be | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
some clear spells around in the West. Further east, cloudy, misty, | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
murky conditions, and we will also see some rain working its way into | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
Shetland during the course of the night. Temperatures generally around | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
10 Celsius, perhaps slightly lower in rural spots, and under clearer | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
skies in the West, and the winds will remain light. Into tomorrow, we | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
start on a largely finance, especially in the West. We see the | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
cloudy, misty conditions gradually burning off towards eastern coastal | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
areas, and we will hold onto that reign in Shetland. Tomorrow | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
afternoon, for the likes of the Southwest and Glasgow, we will see | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
some fine spells of brightness and sunshine, and in the sunshine here, | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
temperatures will climb to around 22 Celsius. Another fine day to come | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
across the west coast, the Outer Hebrides, and here, temperatures | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
will reach 17 Celsius, and there will be very little to speak of in | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
terms of wind, so it will be a fairly pleasant. We held on to the | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
fairly cloudy, wet weather across Shetland. Some brightness perhaps | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
across Orkney. A fine day across Inverness and the Murray closed, | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
although eastern coastal areas in sharp contrast, will be cloudy and | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
cooler, around 14 Celsius. Tomorrow evening, it stays cloudy and cruel | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
towards eastern coastal areas, with the best of the weather around in | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
the West. Into Thursday, we see a warm fronts moving its way into | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
eastern coastal areas. In the West, the best of the weather here, and it | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
will be feeling warm in the sunshine, with highs of 23 Celsius. | :27:05. | :27:18. | |
That is the forecast. Indeed it is Stornoway! | :27:19. | :27:18. | |
I'll be back with the headlines at 8 and the late bulletin just | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
Until then, from everyone on the team, right across the | :27:25. | :27:25. |