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and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Rachel Fee's lawyer tells a court Liam Fee's death | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
was a genuine tragedy, but his mother was not his murderer. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
For and against the EU: with four weeks to go | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
to the referendum, Holyrood debates Britain's membership. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Nicola Sturgeon lends her support to an Australian family threatened | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
My friends are here. My cousins are here. All my friends and family are | :00:24. | :00:36. | |
here. Also on the programme, | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
North Sea tax revenues go into the red for the first | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
since records began. And can Andy Murray get back to top | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
form at the French Open after admitting to "losing his way" | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
in yesterday's match? The judge in the Liam Fee | :00:47. | :01:03. | |
murder trial has begun Earlier, the lawyer representing | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Rachel Fee, the boy's mother, told the court that the death | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
of two-year-old Liam was a genuine tragedy | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
but that she was not his murderer. From the High Court in Livingston, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Lisa Summers reports. This morning, the lawyer for Rachel | :01:19. | :01:30. | |
Fee, seen here on the left, gave his closing speech to the jury. He said | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
the jury must put aside any preconceptions and prejudices they | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
might have and look dispassionately at the evidence of what he called a | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
harrowing case. Mr McConachie said tragedy is an overused word in these | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
courts but he said the death of Liam Fee is a | :01:48. | :01:48. | |
genuine tragedy. However, he urged the jury not to compound the tragedy | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
by finding Rachel Fee guilty of her son's murder and there was not a | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
shred of evidence against her. The lawyer said there was no evidence | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Rachel Fee was even in the house when the fatal blow was inflicted on | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Liam, or that she ever assaulted her son. | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
Mr McConnachie said Rachel Fee had admitted she failed to get him | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
medical treatment when she knew was a spec that he had a broken leg. He | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
described that as an unforgivable crime for which you will be duly | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
punished. But he said that does not make her a murderer. The lawyer said | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
there was a persuasive case against another child. He said he had the | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
motive, the opportunity and he had admitted it. With the defence case | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
now closed, the trial judge, Lord Burns has begun to give his | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
direction to the jury which he will finish tomorrow. He said there was | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
no room for emotion and the jurors must act impartially as they | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
consider the evidence in this circumstantial case. Rachel denies | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
murdering Liam in March 20 14th and blaming his death on another child. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
They also deny harming two other boys. | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
With exactly four weeks to go until the European referendum, | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
MSPs have voted overwhelmingly to back Britain's continuing | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
The leaders of all five parties believe it's in Scotland's | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
But in the debate, that view was countered by some Conservative | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
From Holyrood, here's our political editor, Brian Taylor. | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
Outside Holyrood, a Leave campaign approaches two voters. An Gignac | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
wrote can I convince you, do you think? Not at all? You are as well? | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Nothing daunted the Leave team from putting on a display. Remain! | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Matched earlier by their Remain counterparts? In the chamber, the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
leadership of everybody backs Remain. For the Scottish Guzman, | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Fiona Hyslop says Scotland benefit hugely from EU membership in workers | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
rights and trade. Our priority as a Scottish governor is to make jobs in | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Scotland by levering our EU membership to grow exports. She says | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
300,000 Scottish jobs are linked with exports to the EU. The union | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
has helped fund renewable energy development in the Moray further | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
only this week and union migrants -- EU migrants pay more here than they | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
take. The Conservative leadership recalls that European cooperation | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
was born out of European war. What sort of Britain do I actually want | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
to live in? Do I want to have an internationalist view or an | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
isolationist view about place in the world? And Labour's Kezia Dugdale | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
values cross-border solidarity. We will argue this with reason but also | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
with passion. We will make all these arguments but we will also argue | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
that there is something beautiful about being part of the European | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
family. But some backbenchers opt for Leave. Margaret Mitchell | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
complains about unchecked EU migration to Britain. Anyone from | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
this 500 million population can come and live in the UK. And new Tory MSP | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Graham Simpson says it is more fundamental still, it is about | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Graham Simpson says it is more sovereignty. Do I want decision | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
affecting my country to be taken by people out with these borders? Do I | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
think it is right that unelected and unaccountable European judges can | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
overturn decisions of democratically elected politicians? Labour's Elaine | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
Smith also backs Leave but from a diametrically different perspective. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
She condemns the EU from the left. The original title of the EU, the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
common market, told socialists it was essentially capitalist and | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
designed to reverse the socialist advantage that were made in western | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Europe after World War II. She voted to leave the EU, as did seven | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Tories, including Oliver Mandell, the Scottish Secretary's son | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
although one Conservative voted Leave by mistake. Still, support for | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
Gabi Maine was overwhelming. The result of the vote is as follows, | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
yes, 106, no, eight. There were three abstentions. The motion is | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
therefore agreed. Brian Taylor, Reporting Scotland, Holyrood. | :06:06. | :06:06. | |
And Glasgow will play host to a BBC television debate | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
Andrew? Yes, Sally, how should I vote is the | :06:10. | :06:22. | |
title of the programme. Four politicians will be trying to | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
persuade the audience of 18-29 -year-olds about their case and the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
European Union. From the Gabi Maine side, we have Alex Salmond, the | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
former First Minister. On the Leave side, Liam Fox, the former | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Conservative Defence Secretary, arguing for the UK to pull out of | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
the European Union. A live and lively debate which you can watch on | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
BBC One Scotland at 8pm. Back to you for now. | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
A seven-year-old Australian boy and his family, | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
who live in the Highlands, face no immediate threat | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
of deportation, according to the UK immigration minister. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
The case of Lachlan Brain was the subject of a heated debate | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
The family's case has also been taken up by the First Minister. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Here's our Westminster correspondent, David Porter. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Maybe a group hug? Hugging a politician and hoping to be allowed | :07:13. | :07:22. | |
to stay. Lachlan Brain and his mum and dad, taking their case to Nicola | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Sturgeon at Holyrood this afternoon. It is the UK Government that will | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
decide if they camera Maine in Scotland but no doubt where the | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
First Minister's sympathies lie. -- if they can remain. The wee boy has | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
lived most of his life here, he's a Gaelic speaker, used to all intents | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
and purposes Scottish. It would be tragic to see them have to leave so | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
I hope they can save because they have a lot of injury. -- they can | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
stay. Magdeburg we are just asking the Home Office to honour the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
agreement when they gave as an inducement and got us to sell our | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
house and move everything we had to arrive here, and the Visa was | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
cancelled after two years. We have lived up to an end of the agreement | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
is not hopefully we can ask the Home Office to do the same. My friends | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
are here. My cousins are here. All my friends and family are here. The | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
family moved to Dingwall in 2011 when Kathryn Brain was studying. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
There are seven-year-olds son, Lachlan Brain, is also learning | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
Gaelic. But now they are facing a possible | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
deals being returned to Australia. Urgent question. In the Commons, | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
ministers were left in no doubt as to how MPs feel. Show some | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
compassion and humanity. All of us should be judged by the actions we | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
take. For goodness sake, Minister, today, do the right thing. This is a | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
family who came to the UK on a government scheme, specifically | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
designed to attract people to relocate here. They entered legally. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
They have integrated into their community and have fully embraced | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
its way of life. From the minister, a hint of reassurance. I'm meeting | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
the honourable member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber are again this | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
afternoon to further discuss the matter. But he can be assured the | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
family does not face an imminent risk of immediate deportation. And a | :09:18. | :09:29. | |
night, signs of progress. I think the minister was listening. I think | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
he's a decent Minister and I hope the does the right thing, the humane | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
thing and recognises this is a family who will be a credit to the | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
Highlands and Scotland. Home Office ministers insist they are listening | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
and they want the best for everyone. Supporters say they are optimistic | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
the family will be allowed to stay. David Porter, Reporting Scotland, | :09:42. | :09:42. | |
Westminster. You're watching Reporting | :09:43. | :09:43. | |
Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on tonight's | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
programme: 75 years since the sinking of the Bismarck - | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
the story of the Scottish pilot In sport: Andy Murray looks | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
for a quick fix to avoid another five-set epic | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
at the French Open tomorrow. And is amateur football | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
in Scotland in decline? The UK Government has made a loss | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
from oil and gas production in the North Sea for the first time | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
since records began in the 1960s. In the past year, the Treasury put | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
?24 million more into investment and decommissioning than it got back | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
from tax revenues. The oil and gas industry is going | :10:23. | :10:35. | |
through some choppy waters. Figures released today by the UK Government | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
show the impact of the downturn on tax returns. Five years ago, the | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
industry made ?10.9 billion for the Treasury. Last year, -?24 million. | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
The lowest levels since records began in the 1960s. The Treasury put | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
more into investment in decommissioning than got back in | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
tax. The first time that has happened in four decades. Where we | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
are in the majority of the North Sea at the moment because of the oil | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
price, high cost base, we are now in a very unusual, I'm not sure it is a | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
unique position but it is certainly come in all the time I've been | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
dealing with oil and gas, the first time that across-the-board, | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
companies are almost every single one of them in a loss position and | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
therefore, they are in a position where the exchequer, in addition to | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
petroleum revenue tax is, is making repayments. The industry does not | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
have its troubles to seek. Yesterday, Shell announced almost | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
500 jobs were going. Predictions are the industry won't get back to where | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
it was during its golden years. These companies pay payroll taxes, | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
national insurance and VAT. They still make a huge contribution to | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the economy but they will not, going forward, make the kind of | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
contribution they have in the past in terms of the production taxes. | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
The industry body, oil and gas UK, in terms of the production taxes. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
points out Company have paid more than ?330 billion to the Treasury to | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
date. Perhaps some good news on the horizon. Today, a barrel of Brent | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
crude oil passed the $50 mark for the first time this year. Fiona | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
Stalker, Reporting Scotland, Aberdeen. The Westminster | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Parliamentary standards watchdog will not investigate the expenses of | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
two SNP MPs in connection with their religion chip with the same woman. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
The commission of the standard has decided not to look further into the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
claims for accommodation expenses made by Stewart Hosie and Angus | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
MacNeil. Stewart Hosie has announced he will not seek re-election as SNP | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
deputy leader this autumn after news emerged of his relationship with the | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Westminster journalist who had also had a relationship with Mr McNeil. | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
BBC Scotland can reveal details of why the Higher English exam had | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
A replacement paper was sent to schools just days before | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
It seems a teacher with knowledge of what would be in the question | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
paper may have given information to students. | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
Our education correspondent Jamie McIvor is with us. | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
What more can you tell us? You will remember that a couple of days | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
before the Higher English exam, we revealed a replacement for one of | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
the two question papers had been issued and had to be compiled much | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
more quickly than usual against a very tight deadline. We now know a | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
bit more about what led to this near emergency. BBC Scotland understands | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
the problem was sparked by a single teacher who had been involved in | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
setting being Sam. The beer is the question may have given -- they may | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
have given students information about the questions on how they | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
could be answered. Word got back to the SQA and it acted. The concern | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
was students could have been unfairly advantaged or spread the | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
information widely on social media and ended up undermining the exam. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
The SQA is still investigating just what happened will stop it says it | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
won't be commenting until a detailed investigation is completed. But just | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
to make the point, there is no suggestion that any SQA employee | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
acted inappropriately, nor of any mistakes by third-party agencies, | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
like the printers. What might the consequences be? The SQA is not off | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
the hook yet. We won't know until we get the results in August whether | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
the replacement paper was really up to scratch. But it looks now as | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
though what happened is that the SQA averted what could have been a very | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
real crisis. As for the teacher, we will have to wait until we get the | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
full report to find out exactly what happened. But the SQA does take | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
confidentiality issues very seriously indeed. Thank you for | :14:38. | :14:38. | |
joining us. It's 75 years since one | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
of the most decisive actions in the Second World War - | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
the sinking of the giant German It all came about thanks | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
to photographs taken And as our social affairs | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
correspondent, Reevel Alderson, reports, that's not the only | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Scottish connection to the story. Taken from 25,000 feet by a plane | :14:54. | :15:07. | |
flying from RAF wick, these photographs proved Nazi Germany's | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
largest battleship was ready for war. It tells us, the founder, this | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
is the Bismarck, in the room stat field, close to Bergen. The Bismarck | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
was preparing Attacking Allied shipping to staff Britain. Analysis | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
of the pictures was crucial. She's not refuelling or arming. She is | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
ready to go. You now know it is critical. At Bletchley park, the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
codebreakers already knew this was the case, that the operation had | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
been given the green light from Berlin. The Clyde built major | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
method, the Royal Navy's largest vessel, set off to intercept and on | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
May the 24th, 1941, she engaged Bismarck North of Iceland. But it | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
was an uneven fight. The Hood was over 20 years old and she was a | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
battle cruiser, not a battleship, which meant she had rather less | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
armour than a battleship, particularly horizontally, against | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
plunging fire, Shell is coming down from on high and at long range. That | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
is what proved to be her vulnerability. It is believed | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Could's magazines exploded, sinking her in seven minutes with the loss | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
of all but three of the crew of almost 1500. It was a devastating | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
blow for British morale which needed a response. We receive the signal | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
from Churchill, "Sink the Bismarck". John Moffitt, then 21, was a Fleet | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Air Arm pilot on the carrier Ark Royal, flying in ancient Swordfish | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
biplane, Carrington single torpedo, yet act Bismarck. Despite dense | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
black comedy launched the weapon, guided by his observer, hanging out | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
of the open cockpit. Eventually, he said, "Let her go!" I pressed the | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
firing pin on my throttle. And the torpedo dropped. It was him that | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
said, "We have got a runner, Jock!" torpedo dropped. It was him that | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
The torpedo disabled Bismarck's rudder and unable to flee, she was | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
caught by the Royal Navy and destroyed. The Bismarck turned on | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
its side and all the sailors seems destroyed. The Bismarck turned on | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
to be in the water. It must have been a terrible sight? It lived with | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
me for a long time. The Bismarck could no longer threaten Britain, | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
banks to these photographs taken by a Spitfire from RAF wick. Reevel | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
Alderson, Reporting Scotland. A BBC Scotland investigation, which | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
exposed the multi-million-pound world of dog trading, | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
has won Best Current Affairs programme at the Royal | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Television Scotland awards. The Dog Factory was made by BBC | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Scotland's Investigations unit and discovered traders hiding behind | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
fake identities online to profit Veteran broadcaster Jim McColl, | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
of The Beechgrove Garden, won the RTS Scotland Award, | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
while other BBC winners on the night included the comedy Burnistoun | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
and the drama Stonemouth. Let's get the latest | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
sport now, from David. We'll find out tomorrow | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
morning if Andy Murray can rediscover his best form, | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
after admitting to losing his way in his second-round win | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
yesterday at the French Open. Murray takes on Croatia's Ivo | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
Karlovic, and after two five-set victories so far, | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Murray wants to win quickly this time, as Kheredine Idessane | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
reports from Paris. Straining for a view of the world | :18:43. | :18:57. | |
number two. Barely even standing room at his practices this week, and | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
there's plenty for him to work on after struggling badly yesterday to | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
beat a player ranked over 160 places below him. Yeah, just lost my way. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
Hopefully that doesn't happen again throughout the tournament. I'm | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
hitting the ball well in practice. Obviously had perfect preparation | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
really and yeah, the matches aren't going to get any easier. So if you | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
have those drop-offs against higher ranked or more experienced | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
opponents, they'll make you pay for it. No sign of Andy Murray around | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
the grounds today, preferring to train off-site away from prying | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
eyes. His coach Jamie Delgado will have a key role in trying to keep | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
his protege calm on court. Someone who's known Andy Murray since they | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
were kids says his outbursts only come from competitiveness. That's | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
why he is who he is. I think there's been time that's he would admit it's | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
boiled over slightly into being too negative. But even when he's playing | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
his best tennis, there's a real burning desire and passion and | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
fightiness to him. He just needs to control it. He's proven he can beat | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
the best in the world as he did against Djokovic in Rome. If he does | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
that tomorrow he could move into the Fourth Round at the expense of | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
Karlovic, who he's never lost to. If not, he may be out of the French | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
Open. Some of the biggest names | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
in Scottish football started off in the amateur ranks, | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
but nowadays it's rare for professional clubs to recruit | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
players from that level of football. Indeed, one man at the top | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
of its governing body admits the amateur game is battling | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
decline. Nothing amateurish looking about | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
this goal. But it was scored by an amateur player in the Scottish | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
amateur Cup Final. Winners coalville park from Motherwell clearly | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
thriving. Not so the sport in general at this level. A tough | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
thriving. Not so the sport in environment at the moment, given the | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
costs involved in running an amateur team and kids nowadays have much | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
more choice in sport and lessesure time. -- leisure time. Kenny | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
Dalgleish like many other footballing greats was first spotted | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
in his teens at amateur level. Nowadays, talent scouts sign up | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
promising young players much earlier in life. Scouting used to be at | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
under 19 boys club level, juvenile level and jun wore football. -- | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
junior football, moving into senior football. Most of the young ones | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
when they show promise, they're gobbled up by the academies. A few, | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
maybe all of these young folk, may become amateur players in future. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
But some amateur clubs are also targeting more mature participants | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
to ensure their survival. We're looking to start an over 35s team | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
for next season purely because of interest. Because we're growing, | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
there is an older population coming in. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Regardless of age, the country's amateur players have always taken | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
the game seriously, on occasion, perhaps, too seriously. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Finally from me, some news on the vacant manager's post | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
at Inverness, because an unlikely candidate has missed out on the job. | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
In his hand-written application, he says he can speak | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
to his headmaster to "see if he can leave school early for | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
Adding, "I'm sure it won't be a problem, as long | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
as the players chip in and help me with my homework." | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
He's going to go far! I do hope so. Thanks very much. | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
It was one of the darkest features of the First World War - | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
306 soldiers executed for cowardice and desertion. | :23:01. | :23:01. | |
Many suffered from what we now know as post-traumatic stress. | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
Now a new production by the National Theatre | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
Our arts correspondent, Pauline Mclean, reports. | :23:07. | :23:24. | |
In a little corner, a Baranau is the stage for a long-forgotten story of | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
the First World War. The -- a barn. The 306 is about the soldiers who | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
were executed for cowardice and desertion. A difficult story the | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
National Theatre of Scotland felt it had to tell. No-one else had. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
There's not a lot of literature about these men. It's so bizarre to | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
find a topic we all know so well and learn about in school and find a | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
corner of it is undiscovered. That's what we look for. We read first-hand | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
accounts by firing squads and by family members, but a lot of them, | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
there was a lot of shame involved in these stories. I think people | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
changed their names, moved house so they weren't associated with these | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
men any more. As I think we try and make clear from the beginning of the | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
show, these men aren't remembered in the way that maybe they need to be. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
It's only in the last decade that the 306 have been hardened and a | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
memorial raised in their honour. For years they were written out of the | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
history books. I've been a historian of the First World War for 30 years | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
and we don't really know enough about it, given what a scandal it | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
is. That's largely due to the fact that it's the whole story has been | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
quashed for 100 years. The Government's been too embarrassed | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
about the whole thing. Stories like Harry Farr's, a professional | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
soldier, who suffered what we now know is post-traumatic stress, shot | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
at dawn in October 1916, one of the 306 remembered 100 years later. | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
Let's see what we can expect from the weather now. | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
Fairly settled over the next few days. Good evening. It's been | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
something of a south to north split today weather-wise. Across many | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
southern and indeed central areas, it's been something grey and damp. | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
This was the image from AJ's office in Stirling today. By contrast, | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
across the north, we've had plenty of sunshine. This was the scene in | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
the Shetland isles where even the seals appeared to be enjoying the | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
sunshine. This evening and tonight, we hold onto dry condition across | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
the north of Scotland with long, clear spells tonight in the North | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
West, chilly here. Otherwise cloudy and murky. Some bits and pieces of | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
light and patchy rain continuing for central and southern Scotland too. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
But not a cold night to come for most of us, with light | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
south-easterly winds. Into tomorrow, away from the North-west, it's a | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
cloudy, Americay and damp start. During the day, we should see | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
something by way of improvement, drying up and many of us seeing | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
bright or perhaps sunny spells come the afternoon. Taking a closer look | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
tomorrow afternoon then. Brightness, sunshine working into the | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
south-west. Rather cloudy, perhaps some bright spells through central | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
and eastern Scotland. Some sunshine to come across argyle. However, the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
best of the sunshine tomorrow will be reserved for the likes of Harris, | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
Lewis, in through the north-west Highlands, along the Murray coast | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
and for north Aberdeenshire. Temperatures peak at 19 Celsius, | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
feeling pleasantly warm with light winds. For the most part around 13 | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
to 16 degrees. Into the evening, we may see a few shore showers across | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
the Highlands. Otherwise dry with spells of brightness and sunshine to | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
end the day. For Saturday, high pressure to the north of the UK | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
keeping things fairly settled. On Saturday again, a fair amount of | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
cloud around for eastern coastal areas, otherwise mostly dry with | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
some spells of brightness and sunshine. Best in the north. Highs | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
of 18 or 19. Now, a reminder of | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
tonight's main news. The lawyer representing Liam Fee | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
estate agency mother -- Earlier, the lawyer representing | :27:33. | :27:43. | |
Rachel Fee, the boy's mother, told the court that the death | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
of two-year-old Liam was a genuine tragedy | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
but that she was not his murderer. The Government said the figure was | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
numbers below 100,000 by 20. numbers below 100,000 by 20. | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
-- 2020. I'll be back with the headlines | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
at 8pm and the late bulletin just | :28:01. | :28:06. |