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and on BBC One, we can now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
The new Chancellor says the best future for Scotland is inside | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
the United Kingdom economy and not forming a different relationship | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
His comments come as Nicola Sturgeon meets a group of experts | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
who are advising the Scottish government in the wake of Brexit. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
We'll be speaking live to the First Minister | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
The UK government begins transferring welfare powers | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
And we live at the Open Championship on a beautiful and eventful day at | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
Royal Troon. Scotland's First Minister says she's | :00:46. | :00:57. | |
"deeply disappointed" after the new Chancellor said | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
he didn't see Scotland forming a different relationship | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
with the EU. Philip Hammond's comments also | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
appear to put him at odds with his Cabinet colleague, | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
the Scottish Secretary. We will be speaking live with the | :01:10. | :01:21. | |
First Minister in a few minutes time for her reaction. | :01:22. | :01:22. | |
Our correspondent David Porter is at Westminster for us this evening. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
It is highly significant that the new Prime Minister's first | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
engagement is to come to Scotland to meet the First Minister? It is | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
extremely significant. Yesterday, she arrived in Downing Street saying | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
she wanted to preserve the union and do all she could to do that. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Tomorrow, she will be in Scotland to make that case. It is another day at | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
Westminster which has been frenetic and highly charged, as Theresa May | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
reshapes her government, the new UK Government is very different from | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
that which David Cameron had. There has been a cabinet reshuffle which | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
has been a wholescale reshaping of what the UK Government looks like. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
As expected, David Mundell will remain as Scottish Secretary. There | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
have been plenty of comings and goings today. My colleague Nick | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Eardley has been following events today and examining what it will | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
mean for Scotland. Scotland's man in the cabinet. Not | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
the most surprisingly of appointments, he's the only Scottish | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
MP with a Scottish seat. He might not be going anywhere, but many of | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Theresa May's top team are new to their jobs. One of them is he a new | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
next-door neighbour, the Chancellor. Do you hold the opinion that Brexit | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
is dangerous? He said he will not change the funding arrangements | :02:55. | :02:55. | |
is dangerous? He said he will not which decide much of Scotland's | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
budget? But when asked if he could see Scotland developing a different | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
relationship with Europe when the UK leaves, he told the BBC... No, I | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
think the best future for Scotland is inside the UK economy. Let's make | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
this UK economy work for all of us and lets negotiate with the European | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
Union with outside the European Union, a relationship which works | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
for Britain and works for Europe. That appears to be slightly | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
different from what the Scottish Secretary things. What I have said | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
is if it is possible to get different arrangements from the EU | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
then we will look at that and that is why we're not standing in the way | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
of the First Minister and the Scottish Government's initiatives. | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
The Chancellor has expressed a view that he thinks it is buried unlikely | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
that there will be the possibility of a separate Scottish deal, but see | :03:50. | :04:01. | |
what the First Minister and the Scottish Government comeback with. | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
We will look at that. I think it is important that Scotland's needs are | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
addressed and that is why we are determined that Scotland should play | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
a strong part in the negotiations that should take place. The comments | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
present a challenge for Theresa May. In her words, Brexit means Brexit, | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
but can she find a path which allows Scotland to maintain a relationship | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
when the rest of the UK leaves? Nicola Sturgeon has been holding | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
talks. She says the new Chancellor's comments are disappointing and she | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
wants the new PM to be more constructive. Mrs May says the party | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
needs to recognise the referendum result. We have a clear position. | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
Scotland wishes to remain within Europe. Theresa May has two respect | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the wishes and desires of the Scottish people and the Scottish | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Government. Mrs Sturgeon is expected to meet the new Prime Minister | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
tomorrow. A number of issues for the two most powerful women in politics | :05:06. | :05:06. | |
in Britain to discuss. the first meeting of the group | :05:07. | :05:19. | |
of experts set up to advise the Scottish Government | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
in the aftermath of the Brexit. The Standing Council on Europe | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
is made up of 18 legal, economic and diplomatic specialists, | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
and will offer guidance on Whether the streets of Amsterdam, | :05:28. | :05:38. | |
Paris or Central Ed, our connections with the European Community are | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
long-standing and deep rooted. In same anyways we collaborate with | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Europe. In education, there is co-operation over student places and | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
funding. In science and technology, money and expertise comes from the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
EU. And much of our high street is shaped by our relationship with | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Europe. So the question is, can Scotland maintain its relationship | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
with the EU while remaining part of the UK? The First Minister called on | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
some of the country's leading experts for advice from finance, | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
business, Law, science. We are looking at the way in the short run | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
we can look at the engagement with the whole Brexit debate, at UK level | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
and EU level, but also in terms of practical advice to the Scottish | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Government. On the table, Scotland's future relationship with the EU, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
whether there is a second independence referendum or not. A | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
former vice president of the European Parliament says while | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
negotiations are brokered over the European Parliament, Scotland can | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
take some matters into their own hands. There is no reason why | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Scotland cannot have a distinct approach and start putting building | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
blocks in place, for example, free movement of students has been | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
important to us. Can we ensure research funding continues? Justice | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
and home affairs is a devolved matter in Scotland, and there are | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
European justice issues like the European Arrest Warrant. Would we | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
want to remain part of that? Anne -- and in the holiday season, there | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
will be thousands of Scots going on holiday and at the moment if their | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
flight is delayed or cancelled, they are entitled to compensation which | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
is agreed through the European Union. Ultimately, it will be | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
difficult to say what our future relationship with Europe will be | :07:37. | :07:36. | |
like. I'm joined now from Edinburgh | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
by the First Minister, Thank you for joining us, First | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
Minister. You are meeting Theresa May tomorrow, what will you say to | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
her? First of all I will say congratulations on becoming Prime | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Minister. After that, I am looking forward to building a constructive | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
working relationship with Theresa May. Everyone knows we have | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
political differences but we both have a duty to serve the people. We | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
have a determination to work together where we can. But his fro | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
match the approach I will take into the meeting, I hope it is | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
reciprocated. I don't think it will come as any surprise to anybody, | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
that the top issue on the agenda will be the issue of the European | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
Union. I am determined that we will be the issue of the European | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
attacked Scotland's interests. Our businesses, it universities, | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
citizens' rights and workers' rights are very much at risk because of the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Brexit vote. I am determined to find ways to protect those interests and | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
the question is, can I do that through the UK process, and by | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
message to Theresa May is the more open and flexible but process can | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
be, the better. It may be that independence is the only way to | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
protect those interests, but I have always said I want to examine every | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
option along the way. Her opening remarks yesterday to the crowds did | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
not seem to make a very flexible approach, when she talked about the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
deeply she felt about the you're 's deeply she felt about the you're 's | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
-- union. Do you think this is a Prime Minister you will be able to | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
do business with? Everybody knows Theresa May and her party believes | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
in the union as in the United Kingdom, and I believe in | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
independence. What I would say though is for those who advocate the | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
United Kingdom, there is an onus of responsibility now, in light of the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
EU referendum, to demonstrate that the UK is possible protecting | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Scotland's interests. Those interests, the ability for our | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
businesses to trade and for workers' rights to be protected, our ability | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
to influence big global policy on climate change for example, these | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
interests are at risk because a UK wide vote has threatened us with | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
exit from the EU. For those of us who believe in the UK, the onus is | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
on them to prove they can protect and defend Scotland's interests. I | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
am determined to find the best ways to protect Scotland's interests, and | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
I am determined to find ways and options to take place to do that. I | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
have been very open so that the best or only option will be to consider | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
whether we can become an independent Scotland, but I am open to examining | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
all options, and I hope tomorrow I encounter a Prime Minister who will | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
not have her mind changed on the union any more than I will on | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
independence, but a Prime Minister who is just as willing as I am to be | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
open-minded and constructive about the options which might lie ahead. | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
There does seem to be some confusion among ministers that the new | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
line-up, but perhaps a chink of light for you and your case when | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
David Mundell effectively said the ball is in your court, come up with | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
some options to consider. The good news for David Mundell, I have just | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
been having a meeting of some of the best brains in Scotland and indeed | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
overseas, to look at how we start to influence this process, and indeed | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
come up with those options. In the standing council meeting I had just | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
had, we had a former judge of the European Court of Justice, two form | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
a very senior diplomats, some people with direct experience of working in | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
the European Commission, some serious and hefty economic | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
expertise, politicians not just from the SNP but the Labour Party. Whole | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
range of expertise. It is now looking exactly at what the options | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
are for Scotland. I said on the morning of the referendum I did not | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
underestimate the difficulty or challenge of this. The difficulty | :12:05. | :12:16. | |
is, we are in uncharted territory. You have an opportunity to try to | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
shape the future. My message to the primers to tomorrow is not to | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
convince Scotland to be independence, but to see if we can | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
agree in this very difficult time, a difficult time which is not of | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
Scotland's making, that we should be open-minded to these options. I say | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
again, there is a big onus on those who say Scotland should continue to | :12:33. | :12:33. | |
be part of the UK, to prove in light who say Scotland should continue to | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
of the referendum vote that it still protects and serves our interests, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
because frankly, there is a big question mark over | :12:42. | :12:57. | |
that now. What about David Mundell's remarks and asking you to come up | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
with a range of options, what do you say to that? I have just said, that | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
is exactly what we are doing. I have just been in St Andrews house behind | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
me now with some eminent experts beginning that line of work. We do | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
not know what process the UK will take forward. We do not know what | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the UK's negotiating stance will be. I have had different opinions | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
expressed by different members of the Tory party. I have heard | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
different opinions about whether or not they think UK should remain in | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
the single market. We are doing that work. Obviously, we need to | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
understand the process the UK is going through. There will be no | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
shortage of ideas and suggestions and options coming forward from the | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Scottish Government. That is not the problem here. What we need to know | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
is when we bring those options forward, will not have doors closed | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
prematurely, or a refusal to consider those options, because of | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
that happens, people will quickly conclude that we cannot protect | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Scotland's interests when we need to protect them through this UK | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
process. First Minister, thank you for your time. Thank you. | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Our political correspondent David Porter is at Westminster. | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
I think the symbolism is very important. 24 hours ago, Theresa May | :14:07. | :14:18. | |
was arriving in Downing Street. At the are beginning of her speech she | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
said she was the leader of the Conservative and Unionist party and | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
she wanted to see the union between England, Scotland, Wales and | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Northern Ireland continue. 48 hours into her Premiership, she will be | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
travelling to Edinburgh to meet Nicola Sturgeon. As Nicola Sturgeon | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
said, they will not change each other's views on independence. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Nicola Sturgeon does not think she can suddenly convert Theresa May to | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
the cause of independence and Theresa May will be well aware she | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
can't persuade Nicola Sturgeon to become an ardent unionist, but they | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
are both pragmatic politicians and they realise on the question as big | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
as taking the UK out of Europe, that there will have to be some kind of | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
negotiation. There will have to be compromise between the two | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
governments. Theresa May will also meet Conservative Party workers in | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Scotland tomorrow. I think that is very much from her point of view to | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
say she values the union and she wants to make sure the first trip | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
she makes out of Downing Street was not a foreign trip, it was to | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
Edinburgh, to meet Scots Tories and the First Minister. Thank you. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
The UK Government has begun the process of transferring welfare | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
This will be the first time the Scottish Government has | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
been able to legislate - to introduce new benefits, | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
Our social affairs correspondent, Reevel Alderson joins me now. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
The Scottish Government already has limited powers over welfare. | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
The Scottish Welfare Fund, which offers small payments | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
and provides washing machines or cookers to people to establish | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
themselves in a home if, for example, they're fleeing | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
The government can reduce council tax levels. | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
And they can give discretionary housing payments. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
These have been used to help people hit by the so-called "bedroom tax." | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
The new powers will introduce Benefits in devolved areas such | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
The government has already said it wants to introduce early years | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Ministers will also be able to top up benefits such | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
as Universal Credit, tax credits and child benefit. | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
They could also change the timings of payments | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
Food banks are the most visible sign of poverty in Scotland. Charities | :16:28. | :16:44. | |
running them say demand for their services is still rising. Agencies | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
giving advice say increasingly, they are sending clients there as the | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
effects of benefit cuts are built by individuals. Citizens advice | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Scotland has welcomed the transfer of welfare powers to Holyrood, which | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
it says may now tailor solutions to the particular problems here. I | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
think it can have a big role in erasing poverty. It doesn't have to | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
cost more money doing things differently, having a better culture | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
cost more money doing things and administration of benefits. It | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
doesn't need to cost money, it is doing things in a better way to make | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
sure people don't have those periods without payment and don't drop into | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
poverty as a result. Many clients, the charity says, are choosing | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
between heating, food and rent when benefits are delayed. The Scottish | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
Government says it can help improve the efficiency of the welfare system | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
and increase benefits where necessary. We said it would be ?20 | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
million into one of the support streams, because it has been a huge | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
cut to the UK Government. We want to examine the efficiencies in the | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
system and any efficiencies that can be made will be trying to improve | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
the lot even further are people in need. The important thing is to | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
start up on the right way, building dignity and respect and building the | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
system. Ministers point out that 85% of the Scottish welfare budget is | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
being retained by Westminster. The government has already said | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
it'll create a Scottish social security agency | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
to oversee the changes. But before they can take place, | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
the Scottish Parliament must pass new legislation which ministers say | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
could be completed by An improved T in the Park campsite | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
set-up, with a more visible police presence is needed to allay public | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
fears over safety, Strathallan councillor Tom Gray said | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
the campsite could be if festival organisers could "get | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
on top of indiscipline". The organiser DF Concerts said it | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
cared about "each and every music Two teenagers died at this year's | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
event and police are investigating Now let's find out what's been | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
happening at Royal Troon - and the rest of the sport | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
- with Rhona. Fantastic. Yes, good evening. The | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
first round at the Open championship in Troon is well under way and for | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
once, good weather is one of the main talking points with the | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
players. The best of conditions means that scoring has been low. | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Jonathan Sutherland has also been lapping up the sunshine and can tell | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
us more. Yes, it has been a glorious day at | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Royal Troon, that is for sure. We have also witnessed huge excitement | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
within the last half an hour, almost record-breaking excitement. Just | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
over my shoulder at the 18th hole, in fact. More on that shortly but as | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
you have been seeing, it has been a glorious day of weather at Royal | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Troon. It all got under way at 6:35 a.m.. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
The dawn of a new Open Championship, perhaps the twilight of Colin | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
Montgomerie's open career. A dream for Monty to tee off the | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Championship on his home course, immediately turned into a nightmare. | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
A double bogey on the first hole. But to his credit, Monty rallied | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
with five birdies on the first nine holes. He hold this part on the 18th | :20:02. | :20:13. | |
to finish level par -- this pot. A lot of better players than me in the | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
world of golf would have taken 71 after being two over at the 1st. One | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
of the easiest holes, if not the easiest par-4 at the course, so to | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
be true over there, a lot better players would have 71 after that -- | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
to be 2-over. So I am proud of myself for hanging on in, it was | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
easy to score 78. Not such a different ball game for Russell Knox | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
either. Scotland's number one golfer double bogey at the 2nd. And rarely | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
plain sailing for some of the biggest names. After a good start | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
for Rory McIlory, double bogey at the 13th. If I stepped on the first | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
tee and someone gave me a 69, I would have taken it, but on the | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
10th, I probably wouldn't have. I knew today was a day where you had | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
to make the most of the conditions, because I don't think we are going | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
to see the course like this for the rest of the week. I think the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
elements are going to be a bit of a challenge but 2-under par, shoot | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
something in the 60s, it is a solid start. 2013 Open champion Phil | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
Mickelson in vintage form, which got him to 6-under par. Glorious | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
sunshine, glorious golf and a hole in one. The 2010 Open champion Louis | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Oosthuizen at the 14th. A sight to behold on a day when golf in | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
Scotland shone brightly. And since we recorded the package, | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
it has been exceptional from Phil Mickelson. We mentioned he was | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
6-under but he had an exceptional back line, one that will go down in | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
golfing history. Huge drama. He had the chance to finish on a 62. That | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
would have been a record in all Majors, a truly epic golfing moment. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Unfortunately, it didn't quite go in, which means he finishes on 63, | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
still a hugely impressive effort from Phil Mickelson, who won the | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Championship in 2013. Still a few golfers to go, but he is the leader | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
at 8-under par, currently with a 2-stroke lead. It has been a day of | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
epic excitement. Can we topic tomorrow? There will be a damp | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
pouring of rain, it will be tricky for the competitors but a fantastic | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
start to the 145th Open Championship, that's for sure. | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
Hearts will face temperatures of more than 30 degrees tonight | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
when they take on the Maltese minnows Beer Keer Kara | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
in the first leg of their Europa league qualifier. | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
The squad trained at the stadium last night, | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
at the same time as kick-off this evening in attempt to | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
Head coach Robbie Neilson feels his players will cope, | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
and are good enough to take a lead back to Tynecastle for | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
And there are three Scottish sides hoping to make | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
The Sportsound commentary game is Hibs versus Brondby - | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
with updates from Hearts v Birkarkara, | :23:03. | :23:14. | |
and Aberdeen at home agains Ventspils. | :23:15. | :23:15. | |
Plus you can follow the action on the BBC Sport Scotland website. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
That visit but denied, back tomorrow the golf tomorrow. -- that is it | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
tonight. And more weather for the golf. | :23:29. | :23:29. | |
Let's get the weather now and tonight, | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
Christopher is at Dunrobin Castle in Golspie. | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
Yes, it does look like we are in France without building behind us | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
but the midges are the giveaway. A fairly spectacular building, perhaps | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
not quite you would expect in Scotland but if you live around here | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
or have driven this way, an iconic building and a real draw for locals | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
and visitors alike, many of whom, like us, are driving the MC 500. | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
From the North Coast, we head you said, the road sneaking through | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
villages fringing the Murray further. The popularity of the car | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
back to the late MC 500 is clear, whether you choose to bring your | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
home with you or something smaller. Hotels and campsites are reporting a | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
big upturn, like the castle. It is designed to look like a friends | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
big upturn, like the castle. It is chateaux, the design comes from the | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
Palace of Versailles, so there is a huge French influence, even in the | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
furniture. And it is certainly popular. We are heading for another | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
record year and part of that must be down to the MC 500, because almost | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
daily, we are seeing people visiting the castle who are driving the route | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
-- NC 500. Folk from Germany, Dutch, we have a lot of visitors from | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
Holland as well. But the French, Spanish, Italian, people from all | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
over the and visit. And I don't think there is anybody who could | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
imagine how successful it has become and how popular and we can only hope | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
that it continues for a long long time to come. | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
And it really is approving -- proving a real boom for businesses | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
along the route, just the sheer number of people coming to this part | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
of the country. Cloudy here today, but 21 degrees in Edinburgh today. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
This evening, dried foremost with late sunshine around and actually as | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
we head through the first part of this evening and tonight, it is | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
going to stay dry and as we head overnight, you will start to see | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
some cloud building across Western areas, with some outbreaks of rain | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
approaching the West Coast, a sign of change on the way. Temperatures | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
in towns and cities holding out double digits. Tomorrow, very | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
different day of weather in store. It is cloudy, wet and really quite | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
windy at times. The rain always heaviest and most persistent or | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
western parts of the country but through the course of the day, it | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
will slowly spread its way eastward. The further east you are, the rain | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
lighter and a little more patchy, but the winds will be strong around | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
the west Coast. Perhaps we could see something dry around the south-west | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
coast by the end of the afternoon. Temperature wise, value similar to | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
today, 19 or 20, and at the rain, it will feel quite humid at times. The | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
west Coast, touch cooler with the heaviest of the rain and the wind | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
west Coast, touch cooler with the will be strong from the south South | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
west. A across most of the north-west and down towards the | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
south-east, some wet weather as well. Mid to high teens. The rest of | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
the afternoon into the evening, the heavy rain in the north-west will | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
work its way south-east. Then looking ahead to the weekend, the | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
high-pressure we have had today has long gone. Low pressure in charge | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
and that is going to bring some outbreaks of rain and showers, | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
particularly across the North. Here is how Saturday is heavy showers | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
across the west of the country, sometimes merging for longer spells | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
of rain. Elsewhere, reasonably dry but fairly cloudy, some spells of | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
brightness but breezy around the coast. So for the competitors at the | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
Open in Troon, challenging conditions and for the rest of the | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
weekend for most of us, very unsettled. That is the weather the | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
next few days. Join us tomorrow night as we head | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
further down the coast. A reminder of the main news. New Prime Minister | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
Theresa May will hold her first talks with the First Minister Nicola | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
Sturgeon in Edinburgh tomorrow. Mrs May spent her first full day in | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
Downing Street hiring and firing ministers. David Mundell remains as | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
Scottish Secretary. Meanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon has been attending | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
the first group of experts set up to advise the Scottish Government after | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
the Brexit Road. The standing Council is made up of 18 specialists | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
in different fields and will offer guidance on Scotland's relationship | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
with the EU. And that is it, I will have the | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
headlines at 8pm and the late bulleting just after the Ten O'Clock | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
News. From everyone on the team, right around the country, have a | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
very good evening. | :28:14. | :28:14. |