31/07/2014 Reporting Scotland

Gymnastics gold at the Commonwealth Games.

Dan Keatings holds off a strong English challenge to

We have got the highest scorers in the world at the moment so it

We have got the highest scorers in to me but it could have gone to

anyone of us. Added to a wrestling bronze,

that means Scotland's medal tally is Over 40,000 fans will cheer

on Scotland's poster girl I am a live at Hampden that we are

in just a few minutes' time we will be talking to Eilidh Child' father

and sister. The Glasgow kiss that got this

medal-winning wrestler kicked out And in other news, an Israeli show

at the Fringe has been cancelled because of demonstrations

against the conflict in Gaza. Scotland has won another gold

medal at the Commonwealth Games. The 24-year-old gymnast Dan Keatings

produced a stunning routine in the He'd fought back from a series of

injury setbacks to compete at his home Games, after missing out on

selection for the London Olympics. COMMENTATOR: This is a lovely

swinging start. Nice pick-up. Into the stretch bodies swaying. On one

handle. Going for that special move. That is such a difficult one to

control. I tell you, this is a great start. Spindle. Hands absolutely

parallel. Very, very nice work indeed. Into another triple Russian.

Big guns indeed here for Daniel. Travelling back. Keep the swing. Oh,

that is huge! Daniel Keatings swinging Street, clean and keeping

his rhythm. Daniel Keatings is through. Well, he has laid down the

gauntlet. Well,

let's go live to the Hydro arena, You have been watching the

performance. Yes, I heard you earlier speaking of

the Hampden roar about the police in the went absolutely berserk when

Daniel Keatings took gold. What a pleasure it was to witness that and

what a performance. He was still smiling when he dismounted the

apparatus. No wonder. He had to defeat to Olympic medallists to

claim gold and he was still smiling when I asked him how he was dealing

a few minutes later. Over the moon. I cannot explain in words how I

feel. It is amazing. The atmosphere was awesome and the cheer I got on

the top of the podium was unbelievable. The whole crowd

singing the National Anthem, I had such a sense of pride and joy. You

were smiling before you left the apparatus. I have not seen that too

often. At what point did you realise you had one gold? Not until Max's

score came up. I was feeling a bit nervous as there were other

competitors to go. Then Max, who has been on top form at these games. He

did a really good routine and his start was a little better than mine

so I did not know until his score. What a reaction from the home crowd

after your apparatus and then on the podium. It was amazing. And the

support, not just for myself but the Hall of Scotland for Scottish

athletes, it is amazing and makes you feel so proud. This was the

moment the home crowd had been waiting for. You have already

treated them to two silvers and now the gold. I was hoping I would not

get a third silver! I was hoping to fight for the gold but the talent of

the others, I knew it would be hard. I am just happy that I went for my

routine. David, what a performance that was from Daniel Keatings. You

may recall he broke his back in Melbourne in 2006. He

may recall he broke his back in Melbourne in 2006. He missed the

Olympics in 2012 through injury. Here's years at these games with two

silvers and now a gold. He is back in action tomorrow on the horizontal

wires and I will hopefully be zero for that one. His team-mate Daniel

Purvis is about to take to the apparatus. He will be taking part in

the rings and another medal would do me! -- I will be easier to see it.

Thousands of fans are gathering at Hampden Park in Glasgow

for what should be one of the most exciting evenings

Scotland's athletics team captain Eilidh Child is going for gold

Let's cross straight to Hampden Park and our Games reporter Lisa Summers.

It really is a big night here. She has very much in the face of

athletics for these games and Eilidh Child goes tonight in the 400 metres

hurdles final. She has been in great form but is not the favourite in

this race. There are high hopes for a silver tonight. Can she deliver?

COMMENTATOR: It is Scotland she is representing. Looking to get to the

final. She is the golden girl of the games and the hopes of the nation

are on her shoulders. It was a comfortable win in the heats. I

started a bit into the last hurdle so you have to just go for it and

then you can really only ease up at the last hurdle. Her main rival for

gold run even faster. The 27-year-old no trains in Bath. She

got a silver in India in 2010 and will be desperate to do better than

that tonight. She is obviously the poster girl for athletics in a

Commonwealth Games in her home country. She will feed off that

enormously. The crowd are fantastic so she will feed off that but along

with that comes pressure. There will be huge pressure on her. Eilidh

Child Brockley bat on over the order. She is very much the female

face of the games. What can she deliver? She has had a fantastic

start. Every reason she has done she has been fantastic and committed and

her mistakes and has been minimal and she has corrected them. I think

she has a fantastic chance. The crowds at hand and have been raucous

and tonight will be the biggest cheer of all as Eilidh Child steps

onto the track. If she can secure a medal of any colour we will have the

best medal haul since 1990. It is pretty noisy but will be loader

later on. West Meon are her dad and sister. Ronnie, it is a big day. Our

feeling? I have been a packet of near all day and it has just got

worse. Have you talked to her today? I have not but we caught up after

the heat on Tuesday and she was quite positive about everything,

where it quite positive about everything,

forward to tonight. You have got a big team with you today in your

T-shirts. There are 14 of us. Myself, my wife, her two sisters,

their husbands, her brother, his partner, their daughter and my

nephew and niece and their partners have, from England. A huge crowd.

You are a huge sporting family. The whole family slam and then many of

you turned to athletics but you talked to hurdle. Yes, we went over

some plastic barriers in the back garden so I like to be the one to

claim that I taught her everything she knows! Well, you have done a

good job so far. The races in a little while. Are you going to get

your little while. Are you going to get

or will you be too nervous? The closer it gets to the race, the more

dinner, so we will be glad when it is over but we are so excited, proud

of her and cannot is over but we are so excited, proud

Thank you. The race is at 8:25pm. It is very loud and the biggest roar of

the night will wrestling. It feels wonderful. I

struggled with a previous injury and did not know if I could continue but

the support of the crowd has really helped me. I do not know where I got

the strength from but I did it. Well done to him.

It's also been the first day of competition

While Scotland's David Millar failed to repeat

his Commonwealth gold triumph in Delhi, it didn't dampen the event

for competitors, or spectators, who lined the time-trial route

Jane Lewis joins us now from the route near Glasgow Green.

David, that is the finish line and the point that all of the cyclists

were aiming for today as they hit the road for the first time during

this Commonwealth Games. It may be quiet at the moment but believe me,

it was a very different story a couple of hours ago.

Thousands of people gathered in Glasgow Green as the road time trial

came to Town. Noise was the order of the day as the crowd played their

part in the race against the clock. Loving the atmosphere. Glasgow has

come alive. It is brilliant. We are from Canada and we went to the Isle

of Man and then he for the games. Glasgow has put on a fabulous show.

It is brilliant. This is another free event for spectators to enjoy

and they are certainly doing that in huge numbers. Will the home cyclists

be among the medals however? David Mellor, the big Scottish hope, was

the last cyclist added. He knew what he had to do. Miller, the defending

Commonwealth champion, was treated to tremendous support all around the

course, all willing him on. But he had to settle for eighth place. It

was incredible, like the Tour de France in Glasgow. The amount of

people was phenomenal. You can still see it here but all of the flag.

Once-in-a-lifetime experience. -- you can still see it here with all

of the Scottish flag. Later, -- earlier, the women were in action.

Katie Archibald the best of the Scots, with fifth place. I lost it

in the flat which was not satisfying because I had so much coming down

the final straight because I could have won a sprint but what good is

that when you have been going slow? I was not quite honoured on the last

ten kbytes something to work on. Plenty of respect, even without

medals, with Miller now looking ahead to Sunday's Road race.

Both David Mellor and Katie Archibald will be back on the Sterry

Road on Sunday for that road raise and both suggesting to me that they

believe they have a better chance on Sunday of doing something that

needed today. -- will be back on these roads on Sunday for that road

race. Meanwhile, over in Edinburgh

at the Commonwealth Pool, a big name Tom Daley spent

the afternoon practicing ahead He was joined by 14-year-old

Matthew Dickson, the youngest member They'll compete

in the men's 10 metres synchronised An Australian weightlifter who

admitted head-butting another competitor in the Commonwealth Games

village yesterday has been ordered 29-year-old Francois Etoundi

assaulted a Welsh weightlifter There was a massive media presence

at Glasgow Sheriff Court today. Australian crews have been here

since early morning to see this man, 29-year-old weightlifter Francois

Etoundi. He brought pride to Australia on Sunday when he won a

bronze in the weightlifting 77 kilograms category. But he ended up

spending last night in custody after he head-butted a fellow

weightlifter, Gareth Evans, from the Welsh team. The assault happened at

about 5:30am on Wednesday morning at the athletes' village. In court, it

was said the two men had words after the Welshman's girlfriend had had to

Francois Etoundi. In court, Francois Etoundi pleaded guilty to assault by

head-butting and he broke Mister Evans' knows. He was ordered to pay

Gareth ?400 in compensation and the Sheriff told him that he had chosen

to bring the law of the playground to the Commonwealth Games athletes

village and fall out with someone over a girl. Team Australia are

disappointed in what has happened. It is wrong. That is part of our

code of conduct. The behaviour to other people has to be exemplary.

That is something we are very concerned about. A note was sent

around the athletes today to remind them to be on their best behaviour

at the Commonwealth Games. Francois Etoundi will now go back to

Australia on the first available flight and he will not be allowed to

take part in the closing ceremony. We are back with the Commonwealth

Games later in the programme but first, the rest of the news.

An Israeli show at the Edinburgh Fringe has been cancelled

after only one performance because of pro-Palestinian demonstrations

"The City" has been the target of a cultural boycott campaign because

the Jerusalem based company receives funding from the Israeli government.

Our arts correspondent Pauline McLean reports.

# I am fortunate's Phil... . # This young company from Jerusalem

radio show has nothing to do with what is happening in Gaza. The

Israel government does not find this, but for the sake of art. To

boycott art is trying to stop freedom of expression. The

protesters say it is a legitimate target for a cultural boy cat and

yesterday staged a protest outside the first performance. I think there

is a lot of similarities between this and apartheid in South Africa.

It was accepted then that you could not separate the cultural elements

of South Africa from the critical elements and I think it is the same

now. As long as theatre groups and arts groups keep taking money from

the Israeli government, they cannot pretend not to have a say.

Individual Israeli groups that come over here to perform is none of our

business. It is that they are sponsored by the Israeli government

and on the posters it has the Israeli government on their posters.

That is what we take issue with. # I still believe in yesterday... .

# In the end, it was the venue pulled

the plug after the protests disrupted a number of shows. They

say that they hope to find a new location for the

say that they hope to find a new to run until the end of August.

Thousands of tax workers across Scotland were on strike today

as part of a rolling dispute over job cuts and office closures.

The walkout coincides with the deadline for tax credit renewals.

The tax authority, the HMRC, has criticised the timing, saying

They have extended the deadline until 6th August.

Hundreds of jobs are expected to be created after Wick was chosen to be

the service base for the construction of one of the

The company building the Beatrice Windfarm say they'll use

The windfarm is one of two planned for the Moray Firth.

Scotland's two national parks are to receive around ?3 million from

the Heritage Lottery fund to help restore their network of pathways.

The Cairngorms, and Loch Lomond and Trossachs national parks,

which attract close to 5.5 million visitors a year, have numerous

The grant will help restore 41 upland routes.

Football now and Celtic's manager Ronnie Daila says he's unbelievably

disappointed after his team's four one defeat to LEGGIA Warsaw

in the first leg of their latest Champions League qualifying match.

Although he believes his team can still qualify for

the group stage of the competition, he admits they got it wrong.

They were losing their course this is my responsibility. I

have been much clearer on what we expect but again, I think we started

well. We have to find out what is happening when we have such a good

start and suddenly everything opens up at us again. I think we have to

find out together. But I have to take the responsibility for that.

troops in the early years of the First World War.

HM Factory Gretna was a game-changer, and now

its role is being remembered in a new custom-built museum which opens

It's called the Devil's Porridge, after an explosive paste

which was mixed there, and it's been completed just

Newspapers called it the Shell scandal. The British Army's chronic

shortage of firepower on the Western front. The Government's response was

to build this factory, truly a munitions super factory. So little

is left that it is hard to imagine now that this was part of a factory

that stretched nine miles. There were 30 miles of roads, 125 miles of

real ways, 20,000 people coming to work here from all over Britain and

its empire. During the First World War, it was the biggest munitions

factory in the world. It helped to speed up the war effort and was the

biggest raw materials factory in the country and made this new type of

propellant. The workers were nearly all young women, the job to make a

paste, a particularly nasty brew dubbed the Devil's Point. It was

next with sulphuric acid, and nitroglycerin. It was very volatile

and the women were not allowed any jewellery in case it caused a spark

and let up. The work was dangerous and unpleasant but many girls find a

rewarding after domestic service. They all worked... Jim's three

adults were typical. Dangerous work, long-term hazard form chemicals but

it earned them some money and they cleaned self-respect, which they did

not have in domestic service. A new museum opened today to tell the

factory's story and how the new towns of Gretna and others were

built within less than a year to provide for the workers' needs. The

total cost of ?9 million was four times over budget. But it may just

have been priceless for the war effort.

He was best known for his appearances on the Victoria Wood

He was also a respected theatre director, working at His Majesty's

theatre in Aberdeen and the Lyceum in Edinburgh.

Kenny Ireland, who was 68, had been suffering from cancer.

Let's return to the Commonwealth Games.

One of the most joyous celebrations of the games so far,

Viorel Etsko took bronze for Team Scotland

Born in Moldova he was still a teenager when he came to Britain.

He's been competing for Scotland, now since 2001.

This is what you call a proper medal winning celebration. COMMENTATOR:

That is not easy on a wrestling match, I can tell you! Today,

Scotland's wrestling bronze medallist is famous. I feel like I

know what it is like to be Usain Bolt. I get stopped every two metres

to get a photograph or autograph. When I take pitches, the

congratulated me. I am still living the dream and are trying to pinch

myself. I will wake up any minute! We have only been here a few minutes

and this is their crowd that the bronze medal has attracted. The

crowd, who saw him when his boat yesterday, witnessed the first

wrestling Commonwealth medal for Scotland in 20 years. COMMENTATOR:

Scotland gets a bronze in the wrestling Hall! He may have been

born and bred in Moldova that came to Britain when he was 19 and first

wrestled for Scotland in 2001. This is the biggest show in Town and I am

happy to be part of it and I am finishing my career. What a great

way to do it, in your backyard with all of your friends and family and

millions of people all over the world watching you. Married to the

gymnast Laura Davies, the live with their son in Aberdeenshire were they

have opened a gym. It just shows with a bed of hard work and

determination where you can get to. There has been a real buzz because

everybody was saying that he had won the bronze medal and it was all over

Facebook last night. Everybody was shearing it and liking it. It is

really good for the Town and everybody is please. He had been

concentrating on coaching. His decision just a few months ago to

tour competitor one more time as certainly paid off.

Let's go back to Hampden Park, now, where this evening's athletics are

Lisa, there's a lot of focus on the Scottish runner Eilidh Child.

But there are lots of medals up for grabs.

Tonight, really, it is about semifinal for a lengthy. Just behind

me, that race is underway. She is running in lane six and has been on

brilliant form lately. She has been running under two minutes, more than

her personal best, so we have high hopes for her to get to the final.

She has got to go round the circuit at hand and wife so we will see how

she gets on we have also got another competitor in the 800 metres final.

But that competitor is not expected to medal, although a great

achievement. -- she had to go around the circuit twice. You can hear the

crowd cheering and it will get louder as she gets near to the end

of the race. Thank you very much, Lisa.

Let's see how the weather's faring for the Games

Good evening. It was a day of sunshine and showers and for some, a

few more showers than others. Here is the satellite pitches showing a

line of showers, but some bright spells around. For many, it will be

a light evening. As we head through overnight, that rain will fragment

in the South West into elsewhere, and generally drying up up. Not a

cold night. Tomorrow, it is almost a repeat. Showers as we head through

the day with the cloud thinning and breaking but the showers increasing

and one or two good be fairly heavy. By mid afternoon, certainly across

the central belt and father and uplands, a decent amount of sunny

weather but one or two showers around. If you get the sunshine,

pleasant temperatures but if you get showers further North, running for

cover. Some sunshine, particularly up the coast. Shetland will be dry

but the showers will come your way as we head through the rest of the

afternoon. They are aspirant there we ever both words. -- they are

spiralling ever northwards. There is a Met Office warning in force. The

showers across Shetland are happening. Some early light

persistent weathers through the day. For Saturday morning, dry for many

but that rain still there. The western extent still up for grabs.

It will arrive in Glasgow at some point. By Sunday, the whole system

pushes up towards the north-west and it will be next for -- wait for many

of us over the weekend. To recap the weather for the games over the next

few days... Tomorrow, showers but sunny spells, rain on Saturday and

the rain hopefully clearing away on Sunday for the closing ceremony.

Just before we go, Daniel Purvis has won bronze on the rings final for

Scotland. I am back just after 10pm. Until then, goodbye.