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:00:00. > :00:10.A Bradford taxi driver pleads guilty to the religiously-motivated murder

:00:11. > :00:21.We'll examine the background to this case and hear

:00:22. > :00:27.-- but his family after living in fear. It has split the family apart.

:00:28. > :00:28.Some members of the family have left Scotland or are in the process of

:00:29. > :00:29.leaving. We'll examine the background

:00:30. > :00:32.to this case and hear Two young children die after the car

:00:33. > :00:38.they were travelling Thousands of music fans are heading

:00:39. > :00:43.to Perthshire for T In The Park, but can the festival avoid last

:00:44. > :00:49.year's traffic chaos? It's the opening day

:00:50. > :00:52.of the Scottish Open, and the golfers are facing an extra

:00:53. > :00:56.challenge - the Highland weather. And, forget the rail replacement bus

:00:57. > :01:13.- here's the road replacement train. A 32-year-old man has admitted

:01:14. > :01:18.murdering a Glasgow shopkeeper Tanveer Ahmed drove from Bradford

:01:19. > :01:27.to Glasgow to kill Asad Shah at his shop in the Shawlands area

:01:28. > :01:30.of the city. Aileen Clarke was at

:01:31. > :01:40.the High Court in Glasgow. Asad Shah, a friendly local

:01:41. > :01:45.shopkeeper, much loved by all of the community he served in Glasgow. In

:01:46. > :01:49.person, you was chatty and upbeat, a personality that also found an

:01:50. > :01:52.outlet on social media, posting his thoughts on Islam, is humanity and

:01:53. > :01:56.religion. Tanveer Ahmed from Bradford became aware of some of

:01:57. > :01:59.these postings on a trip to Glasgow. He believed Asad Shah was

:02:00. > :02:03.disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad. He travelled back to Glasgow a few

:02:04. > :02:08.days later, telling Fred, "This needs to be nipped in the bud". The

:02:09. > :02:15.judge were shown CCTV footage taken from a camera behind the counter of

:02:16. > :02:18.Asad Shah's shop and 90 was attacked. Ahmed is seen talking to

:02:19. > :02:20.him, he stand aside to let another customer be served and then comes

:02:21. > :02:24.back and continues the conversation. Reaches into his robes, pulled out a

:02:25. > :02:27.knife, comes around to Mr Shah's side of the counter and start

:02:28. > :02:31.stabbing him repeatedly. Mr Shah flees into the road. More CCTV

:02:32. > :02:36.footage there shows him being repeatedly attacked, stabbed,

:02:37. > :02:42.stamped on, punched, way beyond the point he was able to do anything to

:02:43. > :02:44.defend himself. There was a huge public outpouring of shock and

:02:45. > :02:54.sympathy in Glasgow in the days following the murder. He was very

:02:55. > :02:59.friendly and morning we shook hands and said, "Good day, have a nice

:03:00. > :03:04.day", just a person, lovely lad. Very sad, everyone is very sad. We

:03:05. > :03:10.could not believe when we heard the news. Very upset and last night,

:03:11. > :03:13.when we heard it. Vigil was quickly organised and very well attended but

:03:14. > :03:18.the grief became all the more acute for Asad Shah's wife and family,

:03:19. > :03:30.left devastated, shaken and scared. It has split the family apart since

:03:31. > :03:34.the incident. Some members of the family have you they have left

:03:35. > :03:40.Scotland or are in the process of leaving. When the police arrived

:03:41. > :03:43.that night, Mr Shah was dying on the pavement, despite the best efforts

:03:44. > :03:46.of a doctor and nurse who came across the scene. Ahmed sat quietly,

:03:47. > :03:51.praying in a bus stop, waiting for the police to arrest him, even

:03:52. > :03:55.showing them where the knife was lying. It was clear Tanveer Ahmed

:03:56. > :04:00.was motivated by his own religious beliefs but that is not an excuse to

:04:01. > :04:03.conduct the actions he has. A sentiment echoed by the judge who

:04:04. > :04:07.told Ahmed he was facing a very lengthy prison sentence for this

:04:08. > :04:12.truly despicable and shocking crime. The shop where Mr Shah shook hands

:04:13. > :04:15.with his customers and enquired about their families stays tightly

:04:16. > :04:19.shuttered. His family said he can't face the prospect of running it

:04:20. > :04:22.without him. Aileen Clarke, Reporting Scotland, Glasgow.

:04:23. > :04:27.As we've seen, the murder prompted an outpouring of grief

:04:28. > :04:30.from the community in the south side of Glasgow.

:04:31. > :04:33.But the killer of Asad Shah has shown no remorse.

:04:34. > :04:35.The court heard that Tanveer Ahmed set out purposefully

:04:36. > :04:38.to carry out the murder, driving from his home in England.

:04:39. > :04:40.Andrew Kerr reports now on what may have motivated him.

:04:41. > :04:45.His report contains comments that you might find upsetting.

:04:46. > :04:52.The city of Bradford in West Yorkshire. Those limbs make up a

:04:53. > :04:56.quarter of the population. This was home for Tanveer Ahmed, and where he

:04:57. > :05:02.first heard about Asad Shah. He had moved here from Pakistan in 2001 and

:05:03. > :05:07.lived with his wife and family. There was no hint of his capacity

:05:08. > :05:11.for violence. Preceding the act of the crime, there was a calmness but

:05:12. > :05:15.the act itself was four minutes of extreme violence, the likes of which

:05:16. > :05:19.we have not seen before. This is unique event in terms of where it

:05:20. > :05:23.has happened and why it has happened. So why did the religious

:05:24. > :05:27.musings of a Glasgow newsagent prompt this crime? Ahmed has been

:05:28. > :05:32.quite clear, in his highly unusual court statement from April. He said,

:05:33. > :05:36."Asad Shah disrespected the messenger of Islam, the Prophet

:05:37. > :05:39.Muhammad. Mr Shah claimed to be a prophet. If I had not done this,

:05:40. > :05:44.others would and there would have been more killing and violence in

:05:45. > :05:48.the world". Ahmed, who is 32, worked for the taxi firm Uber and set off

:05:49. > :05:54.from Bradford on the Thursday before for the taxi firm Uber and set off

:05:55. > :05:59.Easter weekend, his destination Glasgow South side. After arriving

:06:00. > :06:03.here, Tanveer Ahmed stabbed Mr Shah in his shop, the punishment for what

:06:04. > :06:08.he saw as blasphemy. He made no attempt to escape and was detained

:06:09. > :06:14.by police at the scene. His Volkswagen remained abandoned

:06:15. > :06:17.industry. Tanveer Ahmed's hard-line views do have some mainstream

:06:18. > :06:21.support in his home country of Pakistan, which has some of the

:06:22. > :06:24.strictest blasphemy laws in the world. Insulting the majority

:06:25. > :06:31.religion of Islam can be punished by death. The BBC spoke to Tanveer

:06:32. > :06:35.Ahmed's brother in Pakistan, who did not denounce his brother's actions.

:06:36. > :06:44.Some viewers may find his remarks offensive. TRANSLATION: Our profit

:06:45. > :06:46.is the last prophet but Asad Shah negated that by telling lies to

:06:47. > :06:50.is the last prophet but Asad Shah everyone in a very wrong way. There

:06:51. > :06:59.was no other way to stop him, until his tongue was made silent. Mr Shah

:07:00. > :07:02.was and Ahmadiyya Muslim, his tongue was made silent. Mr Shah

:07:03. > :07:09.sect within Islam who have faced persecution in Pakistan. Peace and

:07:10. > :07:15.blessings on you. But it was his videos, posted online, that made him

:07:16. > :07:21.a target for Tanveer Ahmed. He was claiming to be a profit. If someone

:07:22. > :07:26.says, "I am God", you don't just go and kill the person on that ground.

:07:27. > :07:28.This extreme thinking has caused this murder. Asad Shah was

:07:29. > :07:33.confronted with extreme thinking and extreme violence. One man would

:07:34. > :07:36.simply not tolerate the views of another. Andrew Kerr, Reporting

:07:37. > :07:38.Scotland, Glasgow. Before we came on air,

:07:39. > :07:40.I spoke to the BBC's I began by asking Shaima

:07:41. > :07:53.Khalil about the issue It is an extremely sensitive issue

:07:54. > :08:01.here, and issue that provokes a lot of violence and a lot of fear among

:08:02. > :08:04.people. And the reason for that is that blasphemy, firstly, officially,

:08:05. > :08:08.is a capital crime in Pakistan. Someone accused of blasphemy can

:08:09. > :08:14.stand trial and possibly get the death sentence. Despite no one

:08:15. > :08:18.actually having been executed for it, dozens of people were killed

:08:19. > :08:22.outside court, they were killed before their cases even made it to

:08:23. > :08:27.court. And the reason for that is, many people get quite provoked that

:08:28. > :08:32.someone, who they see has insulted the profit and Islam, or the

:08:33. > :08:36.Prophet's family in any way, take it upon themselves to defend Islam, as

:08:37. > :08:40.they say, or defend the honour in the name of the profit, and as a

:08:41. > :08:51.result of that, there are many cases of violence -- of the Prophet. There

:08:52. > :08:54.are instances of people being killed or injured having just been used

:08:55. > :08:57.blasphemy. There have been many calls the laws to be changed and

:08:58. > :09:01.many people have spoken against it because they said mainly targets

:09:02. > :09:04.religious minorities. But it is a very sensitive subject which is

:09:05. > :09:07.often quite life-threatening to the people who talk about it. So many

:09:08. > :09:13.people, especially politicians, avoid talking about it. What can you

:09:14. > :09:16.tell us about the specific background to this case? To

:09:17. > :09:20.understand what inspired Tanveer background to this case? To

:09:21. > :09:28.Ahmed to do what he did, we have do talk about a man in Pakistan who has

:09:29. > :09:31.become the symbol, if you make of the kind of islands that the issue

:09:32. > :09:35.of blasphemy inspires and provokes. This is a man who killed the

:09:36. > :09:38.governor of the Punjab province five years ago because the governor spoke

:09:39. > :09:45.out against the blasphemy law and he was imprisoned for five years and

:09:46. > :09:48.subsequently hanged. But too many of his supporters, they think of him,

:09:49. > :09:54.still, as a hero, the man who defended the religion and the

:09:55. > :09:59.Prophet. It is not just Pakistan where he enjoys support. He also

:10:00. > :10:02.enjoys support in the UK. The religious leader of a mosque in

:10:03. > :10:07.Glasgow, risotto, expressed regret about his execution but also Tanveer

:10:08. > :10:16.Ahmed himself was quite inspired, and we spoke to Mumtaz Khadri's

:10:17. > :10:19.brother in Pakistan who said Tanveer Ahmed was in close contact with him

:10:20. > :10:24.when you was in prison and even had dreams about him, saying that Mumtaz

:10:25. > :10:27.Khadri had said he was chosen for a certain duty. According to Mumtaz

:10:28. > :10:33.Khadri's brother who was also in touch with Tanveer Ahmed, Ahmed was

:10:34. > :10:36.very much inspired by what Mumtaz Khadri did and subsequently went

:10:37. > :10:40.ahead to Glasgow and kill Asad Shah. Thank you for joining us. Shaima

:10:41. > :10:45.Kalil, speaking from Islamabad. Investigations are continuing

:10:46. > :10:47.into a fatal crash in Argyll yesterday, in which two

:10:48. > :10:49.young children died. A car skidded off the road

:10:50. > :11:03.into a loch just north of Kilmelford It was here at Loch nan Druimnean,

:11:04. > :11:07.on the outskirts of the small village of Kilmelford that the

:11:08. > :11:11.tragedy occurred at around 4pm yesterday afternoon. A car skidded

:11:12. > :11:16.off the road and into the water, and 36-year-old woman managed to free

:11:17. > :11:20.herself. Was treated in hospital in Oban and later released. But two

:11:21. > :11:24.toddlers remained trapped within the vehicle. Eyewitnesses on the scene

:11:25. > :11:29.shortly afterwards said they could see no sign of the submerged car and

:11:30. > :11:34.a full-scale emergency operation was then launched. We just noticed a lot

:11:35. > :11:38.of emergency vehicles gumming up the hill and an hour or so later, a

:11:39. > :11:47.helicopter turned up, did not seem to stay long. And then they shot the

:11:48. > :11:52.road, the road was blocked by the police. -- shut the road. The

:11:53. > :11:55.emergency services recover the car in the early hours of this morning

:11:56. > :12:00.but unfortunately, the two children were dead. Local people say that

:12:01. > :12:04.this stretch of road is notoriously dangerous and there have been

:12:05. > :12:08.several accidents here in the past. Yesterday's events have started this

:12:09. > :12:13.village community, whose population numbers less than 200. This

:12:14. > :12:16.afternoon, police named the two children as Leia McCorrisken and her

:12:17. > :12:19.brother Seth and issued a plea for anyone who may have witnessed the

:12:20. > :12:25.events surrounding the accident to contact them as their investigations

:12:26. > :12:26.into the crash continue. Craig Anderson, Reporting Scotland,

:12:27. > :12:35.Kilmelford. Survivors of child abuse met the

:12:36. > :12:39.Scottish Government today and John Swinney said the remit into the

:12:40. > :12:42.inquiry into historic child abuse would be reconsidered and assured

:12:43. > :12:45.them it will be independent of government. It comes after the

:12:46. > :12:47.resignation of the inquiry's chair earlier this week. Lisa Summers

:12:48. > :12:52.reports. Right from the start, a cloud of

:12:53. > :12:55.controversy has hung over this enquiry by the greeting was civil as

:12:56. > :12:58.John Swinney met some of the abuse survivors and campaigners today. It

:12:59. > :13:03.is fair to say that bus far, they've not been impressed. This was billed

:13:04. > :13:05.as the most extensive inquiry commissioned by the Scottish

:13:06. > :13:10.Government but it could also prove to be one of the most costly. No

:13:11. > :13:13.budget has been set, although the government says it does have a duty

:13:14. > :13:18.to ensure it does not incur any unnecessary costs. Since then, the

:13:19. > :13:23.government has become increasingly under pressure over concerns about

:13:24. > :13:27.its scope, limited to children abused in residential care but not

:13:28. > :13:32.in use groups or judges, for example. Questions of government

:13:33. > :13:37.interference and the resignation of key players. I accept that we are at

:13:38. > :13:41.a difficult period of the inquiry entirely. I've worked hard this

:13:42. > :13:44.afternoon with the benefit of a long amount of time with the survivor

:13:45. > :13:47.community, which irony welcome, to try to address those issues and I

:13:48. > :13:51.will continue to work on that to get us to a stronger position in

:13:52. > :13:55.relation to the progress of the enquiry. In the main, it seems the

:13:56. > :13:59.Cabinet Secretary provided assurances during today's three-hour

:14:00. > :14:02.meeting. Today was the first positive meeting I've attended with

:14:03. > :14:07.the Scottish Government. The inquiry now has to basically get rebooted

:14:08. > :14:11.and they are seriously looking at changing the remit, including the

:14:12. > :14:15.terms of reference and where we go now. A commitment to review the

:14:16. > :14:25.scope of the enquiry was cautiously welcomed. -- inquiry. It's

:14:26. > :14:28.upsetting. I represent a group of former Quarriers were eight people

:14:29. > :14:31.were convicted, including my own former Quarriers were eight people

:14:32. > :14:35.abuse and we are still seeking justice. Survivors will meet John

:14:36. > :14:38.Swinney again in the next three to four weeks as the government begins

:14:39. > :14:41.the process of getting this troubled inquiry back on track. Lisa Summers,

:14:42. > :14:42.Reporting Scotland, Edinburgh. Scottish Conservative leader,

:14:43. > :14:44.Ruth Davidson, says she's backing Theresa May to be

:14:45. > :14:46.the next Prime Minister. Conservative Party members

:14:47. > :14:48.will choose between Mrs May and Andrea Leadsom to lead

:14:49. > :14:54.their party, after David Cameron resigned following

:14:55. > :14:56.the UK vote to leave Almost one in five Scots applying

:14:57. > :15:00.to go to university is not The public spending watchdog,

:15:01. > :15:03.Audit Scotland, says that while more people are applying,

:15:04. > :15:06.more are also being turned down. Our education correspondent

:15:07. > :15:09.Jamie McIvor is here. So Jamie, is it now more

:15:10. > :15:20.difficult for Scots to get Certainly, Sally, the proportion of

:15:21. > :15:28.applicants who don't get offered a place has gone up from 15% in 2010,

:15:29. > :15:31.to 19% last year. But that isn't the whole is Tory. The number of places

:15:32. > :15:36.overall has gone up in the past few years but the number of applications

:15:37. > :15:40.has gone up even faster, so by implication, more applications are

:15:41. > :15:45.going to be unsuccessful. This is one of the figures in a wide-ranging

:15:46. > :15:49.health check of universities by the public spending watchdog, Audit

:15:50. > :15:53.Scotland. It says universities are in good shape but they face a number

:15:54. > :15:56.of issues going forward and crucial amongst those is just what happens

:15:57. > :16:00.to make sure that there is a sustainable way of helping more from

:16:01. > :16:05.disadvantaged areas get a place which of course is one of the

:16:06. > :16:09.Scottish cot and's top priorities. Talking about big issues, this

:16:10. > :16:12.report was written before the EU vote and universities are already

:16:13. > :16:17.saying they are feeling the impact of that. Indeed, there are very big

:16:18. > :16:21.worries in universities about the practical consequences of Brexit.

:16:22. > :16:23.Universities say it is leading to instability and serious levels of

:16:24. > :16:28.risk, not least when it comes to research funding. A significant

:16:29. > :16:31.chunk of that comes from EU wide funding bodies. Whether the money

:16:32. > :16:35.can be replicated or whether some means can be found of maintaining

:16:36. > :16:39.these arrangements is going to be a big issue in the months and years

:16:40. > :16:42.ahead. As for students from other parts of the EU, though, their

:16:43. > :16:45.position does not change for now. The Scottish Goffman has made that

:16:46. > :16:49.very clear. Thank you for joining us. -- Scottish Government.

:16:50. > :16:52.Thousands of people are heading to the T In The Park music

:16:53. > :16:54.festival in Perthshire, where music fans are busy setting up

:16:55. > :17:04.Everyone hoping there is not going to be the same problems getting in

:17:05. > :17:10.and out of the camp as there was last year. That's right, Sally. Last

:17:11. > :17:16.year was the first time that T in the Park has held here at strath

:17:17. > :17:20.Allen castle. Although the music side of things wept well, there was

:17:21. > :17:23.chaos when people tried to leave on the final evening. Hundreds of

:17:24. > :17:27.people were trapped for several hours, either if they were trying to

:17:28. > :17:31.drive out or waiting to be picked up by family and friends. Well, a lot

:17:32. > :17:34.of thought has gone into the organisation of this year's event.

:17:35. > :17:37.The question is, will it be enough to make sure there is no repeat of

:17:38. > :17:42.last year's scenes. 70,000-strong and looking forward to a weekend of

:17:43. > :17:48.mud and music. Well, if they can beat the queues, first. This is the

:17:49. > :17:50.23rd year of it. In the Park, Scotland's preeminent music

:17:51. > :17:57.festival. But only the second time it has been held here in Srathallen

:17:58. > :18:00.festival. But only the second time Castle in Perthshire. There were

:18:01. > :18:05.serious problems last year. The traffic management plans didn't

:18:06. > :18:07.work. It wasn't fit for purpose. Looking back with hindsight, the

:18:08. > :18:10.first year in and communication could have been better. Those

:18:11. > :18:15.returning this year are hoping for the best We are coming on the

:18:16. > :18:20.Monday. The buses all came and they got jammed in. We ended up waiting

:18:21. > :18:25.out here in the mud for about seven, eight hours. You have come back this

:18:26. > :18:29.year Come back this year because of the other days. They were good. The

:18:30. > :18:34.acts and atmospheres were good. It is worth coming to. Because you have

:18:35. > :18:38.two entrances and different car parks it should be a lot better.

:18:39. > :18:40.Shouldn't be a problem. The venue's new bus station is part of the

:18:41. > :18:44.Shouldn't be a problem. The venue's solution. We had to create this from

:18:45. > :18:47.a grass field that looks like the round about into a fully-functioning

:18:48. > :18:51.almost like city centre bus station. Of course, it is not about buses, it

:18:52. > :18:52.is about music and what the organisers call a party weekend,

:18:53. > :19:00.like no other. Let's get all the sport

:19:01. > :19:02.now, from Jane. Blustery conditions have made life

:19:03. > :19:07.difficult for the players on the opening day of golf's

:19:08. > :19:09.Scottish Open at Castle Stuart. Gusts of up to 35mph hampering some

:19:10. > :19:12.of the world's best from scoring From the course near Inverness,

:19:13. > :19:27.here's Phil Goodlad. Castle Stuart in the wind is a tough

:19:28. > :19:29.owe Pope epted. Blustery swirling conditions makes playing here

:19:30. > :19:34.anything but plain sailing. -- opponent.

:19:35. > :19:43.This South Korean showed us he was more than up to the challenge.

:19:44. > :19:48.Home favourite Mark Warren also went along well early on, before

:19:49. > :19:55.eventually finishing on 1-over. Despite bogeying the last, Chile's

:19:56. > :19:59.Aguilar was an early-club house leader in 3-over. A man well-dressed

:20:00. > :20:03.for the occasion. It is really windy. You have to be able tow swing

:20:04. > :20:09.the ball with several layers on you. It is not very comfortable for us.

:20:10. > :20:13.It is playing long today. I hit a 2-iron and 4-iron and barely made it

:20:14. > :20:18.in front of the green. If the wind is up, the other way, sometimes you

:20:19. > :20:28.play five irons into the green. So striky conditions for the opening

:20:29. > :20:34.morning here and with no Scot on the leaderboard, could Russell Knox

:20:35. > :20:38.change that in the afternoon? The answer was yes. Shots like this

:20:39. > :20:45.helping him birdie his opening two holes. Look at this. He says he has

:20:46. > :20:46.been waiting years. Finding things less straight-forward, though,

:20:47. > :20:51.five-time Major champion, Phil less straight-forward, though,

:20:52. > :20:55.Mickelson. While it is fair to say not everybody is finding the

:20:56. > :20:58.blustery conditions offputing, it has so far stopped anybody

:20:59. > :21:02.dominating the leaderboard and with similar weather forecast for

:21:03. > :21:03.tomorrow, that could become a familiar theme here at Castle

:21:04. > :21:08.Stuart. Andy Murray's preparing to face

:21:09. > :21:10.Tomas Berdych in the Wimbledon semifinal tomorrow afternoon,

:21:11. > :21:13.and says he'll have to be at the top of his game if he wants

:21:14. > :21:22.to make Sunday's final. 1.00pm today and already back on the

:21:23. > :21:26.practice court. Well after 8 owe clockpm last night and a fab

:21:27. > :21:31.five-setter against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was being settled by the

:21:32. > :21:35.Scot. COMMENTATOR: Murray. What a return. Tomas Berdych now blocks

:21:36. > :21:40.Andy Murray's path to a third Wimbledon final. A man he knows very

:21:41. > :21:45.well. We have never played on grass before, though, but he has made the

:21:46. > :21:50.final here, and beaten Djokovic and Federer on the grass and he's

:21:51. > :21:56.obviously playing some good entennis this week. I have only seen a little

:21:57. > :22:01.bit of his match in the fourth round against Vesely which he came through

:22:02. > :22:06.in four sets. He is a big guy. Hits the ball hard. I will need to be on

:22:07. > :22:11.my game, for sure. At 30, tomorrow's opponent is a year older than Andy

:22:12. > :22:17.miles per houry. He is the world number 9 but was once ranked fourth.

:22:18. > :22:21.-- Andy Murray. His form against Murray, played

:22:22. > :22:25.four, lost four. He has to be aggressive and go for the shots. He

:22:26. > :22:29.has been waiting for the chance to win a Grand Slam his whole tennis

:22:30. > :22:34.life. When he has a chance like this, he used to be more careful. He

:22:35. > :22:39.didn't go for the shots, he didn't risk it and I think he found that

:22:40. > :22:42.this is not the way to win the big title.

:22:43. > :22:45.For Andy Murray, it is a case of five down, two more to g as he

:22:46. > :22:46.targets another Wimbledon win. -- two more to

:22:47. > :22:51.G Kheredine

:22:52. > :22:52.Idessane joins us now And Kherdine, no love lost

:22:53. > :22:56.between these two, if last year's Australian Open was

:22:57. > :23:04.anything to go by! Yes, it got Tatsy between them in

:23:05. > :23:10.Melbourne last year, even in the stands, there were some verbals from

:23:11. > :23:16.the future Mrs Murray, prompting Kim to wear that famous T-shirt -

:23:17. > :23:21.explicit lyrics. I think there will be more decorum in the royal box.

:23:22. > :23:27.Talk of the royals, the Duchess of Cambridge was here and our

:23:28. > :23:31.wheelchair star Gordon Reid got to meet her and that inspired him to a

:23:32. > :23:34.win today. He is through to the semifinals. He is in doubles action

:23:35. > :23:38.tomorrow in that wheelchair event and be Andy Murray is in action, we

:23:39. > :23:42.are expecting around about 4 owe clockpm. Thank you. And football

:23:43. > :23:44.news: Aberdeen are in action

:23:45. > :23:46.as we speak against Fola Esch of Luxemborg in the second leg

:23:47. > :23:49.of their Europa League match. But Dons are not getting

:23:50. > :23:51.things all their own way. Samir Hadji scoring just before half

:23:52. > :23:54.time to give them a 1-0 Aberdeen still lead 3-2 on aggregate

:23:55. > :24:00.though. And there will be more tennis

:24:01. > :24:05.tomorrow night. Thank you very much. There's nothing unusual

:24:06. > :24:06.about replacement buses But what about replacement trains

:24:07. > :24:10.when there are no buses? That's what's happening this week

:24:11. > :24:12.between two remote villages in the Southern Uplands and,

:24:13. > :24:28.as Willie Johnston reports, Scotland's highest village,

:24:29. > :24:31.Wanlockhead a mile away from its nearest neighbour, Headhill, people

:24:32. > :24:39.travel between them for work and services but if the road is closed

:24:40. > :24:44.for repairs, the detour is 50 miles. Rattling to the rescue, Clyde, a now

:24:45. > :24:46.engaged locomotive which normally takes tourists from one village to

:24:47. > :24:49.the other on summer weekends. It is takes tourists from one village to

:24:50. > :24:54.about a mile-and-a-half in length. When they heard about the road

:24:55. > :25:00.closure, the heritage railways volunteer operators stepped up to

:25:01. > :25:03.the plate. We devised a timetable and recruited some volunteers from

:25:04. > :25:08.the village as well. We have had a lot of passengers in the last couple

:25:09. > :25:12.of days. It's been quite useful getting people that are commuting up

:25:13. > :25:17.between the two villages. The seven daily round trips just the ticket

:25:18. > :25:23.for passengers like Annie Gough I cook the breakfast in a hotel in

:25:24. > :25:27.Ledhills, I need to get back to Wanlockhead to go to work at the Led

:25:28. > :25:31.Mining Museum which is difficult when the road is closed. Heading the

:25:32. > :25:34.other way is Margaret. For when the road is closed. Heading the

:25:35. > :25:40.necessity, going to the doctors and to pick up prescriptions and things

:25:41. > :25:45.like that. It will be used, yes and getting to work. To the museum, at

:25:46. > :25:51.Wanlockhead, also. The weekday service will run only as long as the

:25:52. > :25:55.road closure lasts and then it is back to weekends only. Some might

:25:56. > :25:59.miss it. It gives you more time it play about on trains snoochl oh,

:26:00. > :26:05.gosh, yes. That's the best bit, isn't it?

:26:06. > :26:07.Let's see what we can expect from the weather.

:26:08. > :26:14.Well, the beginning of the working week I thought the weather was going

:26:15. > :26:18.to be changeable T stayed that way. We saw rain and dry weather. That

:26:19. > :26:20.will be the case through the weekend. Here is one of our weather

:26:21. > :26:24.will be the case through the watchers, who sent in this lovely

:26:25. > :26:28.picture. 'S Khiam tour meteorologist. He will be 90 later

:26:29. > :26:31.on this month. Happy birthday. As for as this evening is concerned,

:26:32. > :26:35.fineshine to end the day for south and east but rain pushing in from

:26:36. > :26:40.the Atlantic coming our way tonight. Gathering force across the West. It

:26:41. > :26:43.will become persistent as it extends across the country, heavy bursts

:26:44. > :26:48.anywhere but the main focus of anything heavier will be North

:26:49. > :26:53.Argyll up towards Skye. Temperatures on the mild side around 10-14. A

:26:54. > :26:56.fresher, strong south-westerly wind over the Western Isles and Northern

:26:57. > :26:59.fresher, strong south-westerly wind Isles. A rather wet start early on

:27:00. > :27:03.tomorrow, but quickly improving that. Rain pushes away into the

:27:04. > :27:05.North Sea and cloud breaks up and we'll see brighter, sunny spells

:27:06. > :27:09.coming through. One or two showers developing but the emphasis will be

:27:10. > :27:12.on a lot of dry weather come the afternoon. For the Northern Isles,

:27:13. > :27:16.some cloud but also some bright or sunny spells coming or going. We

:27:17. > :27:20.could see 18 or Orkney up towards Caithness. We will see some cloud

:27:21. > :27:24.lapping into the Atlantic on the westerly breeze towards western

:27:25. > :27:28.coastal areas. More in the sunshine here during the day. 1 in the west.

:27:29. > :27:32.The best of the sunshine in the east and highest temperatures, too,

:27:33. > :27:36.widely reaching 20, even 21. We have had a lot of parents requiring about

:27:37. > :27:40.it. In the Park. Not folks going there. Here is the forecast. A

:27:41. > :27:43.general look. Dry warm and sunny to. Rain moving in tomorrow night. Rain

:27:44. > :27:48.for a time on Saturday. Sunday showers but warm and winds will be

:27:49. > :27:52.light. So a fine end to the day for Friday. Good spells of sunshine but

:27:53. > :27:56.here is the weekend weather. This Atlantic low moves in tomorrow night

:27:57. > :27:59.bringing outbreaks of rain and then we see this feature coming up into

:28:00. > :28:02.the south, some sharp showers developing Saturday night. So it

:28:03. > :28:08.the south, some sharp showers will wet across the northern half of

:28:09. > :28:12.the country, that rain becoming confined to the far north-west where

:28:13. > :28:16.it gets stuck. Brightening up else where. That's your forecast.