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:00:07. > :00:11.BBC Scotland has learned that the cost of the inquiry

:00:12. > :00:16.into the Edinburgh trams fiasco is already more than ?3.7 million.

:00:17. > :00:19.The Scottish government set it up two years ago to look into why

:00:20. > :00:22.the project came in late and at more than double its original budget.

:00:23. > :00:34.The Edinburgh trams have been running for about two years now and

:00:35. > :00:38.they seem to be proving popular. Passenger numbers are higher than

:00:39. > :00:44.expected. The line runs from Edinburgh airport to the city

:00:45. > :00:48.centre. The cost, ?776 million. It was five years overdue, and the line

:00:49. > :00:56.did not go as far as it was meant to. Swift and Fera was the aim when

:00:57. > :01:01.the tram enquiry was launched back in June 20 14. It is said to be

:01:02. > :01:05.making good progress, already collating more than 6 million

:01:06. > :01:08.documents. A Freedom of information request from the BBC to the Scottish

:01:09. > :01:14.Government shows that the costs have already exceeded ?3.7 million. That

:01:15. > :01:21.includes ?1.8 million on staffing costs. And ?716,000 on legal fees.

:01:22. > :01:24.On the streets of the city, another multi-million pound headline

:01:25. > :01:27.involving the trams does not seem to be going down well. The enquiries

:01:28. > :01:33.cost the earth. I am not be going down well. The enquiries

:01:34. > :01:36.with that. I think it is wrong that they should have to pay so much for

:01:37. > :01:42.an enquiry that should have been paid for by the people that cost us

:01:43. > :01:45.this much money. Why? It is like school, is somebody going to get the

:01:46. > :01:52.cane? I don't think so, they just get moved on. Some transport experts

:01:53. > :01:54.say there has to be an enquiry into such an expensive and controversial

:01:55. > :01:58.project and it will be worth it. We need to understand the reasons why

:01:59. > :02:03.that happened so that we can then inform the design and planning of

:02:04. > :02:06.other major transport infrastructure schemes in the future and hopefully

:02:07. > :02:09.save ourselves money in the future. That is why we should not

:02:10. > :02:14.necessarily be too concerned about the cost of the enquiry, because

:02:15. > :02:19.when we compare it to the potential savings from implying its findings,

:02:20. > :02:23.we could save ourselves a lot of money. -- applying its findings. A

:02:24. > :02:27.spokesman said that Scottish ministers have been clear from the

:02:28. > :02:30.start that it should be timely and cost effective. The government said

:02:31. > :02:31.that the enquiry team is committed to delivering a fair and balanced

:02:32. > :02:37.report with their recommendations. A holiday park operator has been

:02:38. > :02:40.fined nearly a quarter of a million pounds,

:02:41. > :02:41.after a schoolboy died Six year old Aidan Sands

:02:42. > :02:48.died from brain injuries following the accident

:02:49. > :02:50.at the Red Lion Caravan Park Loch Earn Caravan Parks admitted

:02:51. > :02:54.a number of health and safety A woman's body has been

:02:55. > :02:59.recovered after a car plunged into the River Clyde

:03:00. > :03:01.at Renfrew this afternoon. It happened next to the Braehead

:03:02. > :03:03.shopping centre just Witnesses said they saw

:03:04. > :03:06.the car speeding along It hit two cars before

:03:07. > :03:10.crashing through a metal A big search and rescue

:03:11. > :03:16.operation was organised, involving the coastguard helicopter

:03:17. > :03:19.and police divers. Meanwhile, four children and a 56

:03:20. > :03:22.year old man escaped injury, when their car fell

:03:23. > :03:29.into the water in Burntisland. A 14 year-old girl managed to climb

:03:30. > :03:32.out before the car hit the water, while three others, aged 10,

:03:33. > :03:35.13 and 14, made it ashore before The UK government's senior law

:03:36. > :03:47.officer has ruled out a veto for Scotland over when the Brexit

:03:48. > :03:52.process is started. The Attorney General, Jeremy Wright,

:03:53. > :03:54.said there would be consultations with the Scottish Government

:03:55. > :03:56.but that it would not be able Here's our Westminster

:03:57. > :04:11.correspondent, David Porter. A month ago today, we were voting on

:04:12. > :04:16.whether to stay in the EU. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain, but

:04:17. > :04:22.the UK as a whole decided to leave. That set about quite a train of

:04:23. > :04:28.events. A Prime Minister has resigned. A new occupant has moved

:04:29. > :04:32.into Downing Street. And the Labour leader is fighting for his survival.

:04:33. > :04:40.The First Minister has indicated a second independence referendum is

:04:41. > :04:44.now in her words highly likely. Four weeks on and minds are turning to

:04:45. > :04:50.how Brexit will work and what role Scotland will have. The Prime

:04:51. > :04:56.Minister has stated that Brexit means Brexit and the First Minister

:04:57. > :05:01.of Scotland has stated that for us, remain means remain. Do you agree

:05:02. > :05:04.that the will of Scotland should be respected? By Minister has indicated

:05:05. > :05:09.that she will not trigger Article 50 until there is a UK approach to

:05:10. > :05:17.Brexit. Does the learner gentleman agree that there should be

:05:18. > :05:20.researched on to see... All Parliament of the UK, including the

:05:21. > :05:23.devolved administrations, should be able to participate in the process

:05:24. > :05:27.of developing the United Kingdom's approach to these negotiations but

:05:28. > :05:31.that does not mean that any of the parts of the United Kingdom have a

:05:32. > :05:37.veto over this process. And so consultations most certainly, but

:05:38. > :05:40.veto, I am afraid not. From an English Eurosceptic Conservative,

:05:41. > :05:43.this. I am quite happy with the government consulting with the

:05:44. > :05:49.devolved administrations, but what concerns me is that we do not finish

:05:50. > :05:53.up being held to ransom by Scottish Nationalists. I think the Prime

:05:54. > :05:56.Minister has been very clear that the United Kingdom will leave the

:05:57. > :06:01.European Union and that means all of the United Kingdom. As MPs packed

:06:02. > :06:06.their bags and head for their summer break, they know one thing is almost

:06:07. > :06:10.certain, whatever else may happen, when they get back, the Brexit

:06:11. > :06:12.question is likely to dominate all other issues.

:06:13. > :06:14.Yesterday economic data revealed that the Scottish

:06:15. > :06:16.economy is stagnating - and growing at less than half

:06:17. > :06:25.Much of that is down to the impact of the downturn in the oil industry,

:06:26. > :06:28.but what sort of effect could Brexit have on Scottish business?

:06:29. > :06:35.Our correspondent, David Henderson reports.

:06:36. > :06:43.My name is Paul Duncan and I am the business development manager here.

:06:44. > :06:47.The company has been around for 30 years and was established by my

:06:48. > :06:51.grandmother, Elizabeth Duncan. We produce and baked shortbread and

:06:52. > :06:56.oatcakes, all made to a traditional family recipe. Our most famous one,

:06:57. > :07:00.we are most known for our old butter shortbread. We can produce anywhere

:07:01. > :07:05.up to 50,000 of those in our thanks to this production facility that we

:07:06. > :07:09.have and the expansion of our warehouse. Small beginnings but this

:07:10. > :07:15.is a big, productive output. Definitely. We have grown quick and

:07:16. > :07:18.rapidly. It is an exciting time for the business. How important our

:07:19. > :07:23.European countries, particularly countries in the EU, for you and

:07:24. > :07:28.your business? We export to Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and further

:07:29. > :07:34.afield. Australia, America. We do a lot of private labels as well as

:07:35. > :07:38.leading with the -- dealing with the likes of Morrisons and Tesco's. Just

:07:39. > :07:42.now, it is uncertain. No-one seems to know the answers to the

:07:43. > :07:47.questions. Butter, sugar, margarine, everything that is an important

:07:48. > :07:51.ingredient in the products we use, sadly they are all in price. Whether

:07:52. > :07:56.or not we are in the European Union, you will want to the single market

:07:57. > :08:00.to continue. Without a shadow of a doubt. We needed to continue as a

:08:01. > :08:04.business. We would have to adapt and change as we have done in the past,

:08:05. > :08:05.but for us to maintain growth at such a healthy way, we need the

:08:06. > :08:10.market to remain open. The Royal Navy is investigating how

:08:11. > :08:12.a Faslane-based nuclear-powered submarine collided with a civilian

:08:13. > :08:16.boat off the coast of Gibraltar. HMS Ambush has now been taken

:08:17. > :08:18.into port to be checked. Here's our correspondent,

:08:19. > :08:33.Andrew Kerr. Limping back into port, HMS ambush

:08:34. > :08:36.with significant damage. The boat is being assessed for repairs. It

:08:37. > :08:41.struck a merchant vessel off the coast of Gibraltar. One defence

:08:42. > :08:47.analyst says it may have been trying to hide as part of an exercise. One

:08:48. > :08:52.suspects that perhaps she was using a relatively noisy tanker as cover

:08:53. > :08:55.and got too close. Perhaps she misjudged the draft of the tanker.

:08:56. > :09:01.It was apparently a bunkering tanker and they go up and down. If she did,

:09:02. > :09:07.she made an error. A retired sub Mariner has some sympathy with the

:09:08. > :09:08.crew. If you listen to all that noise of vehicles underneath

:09:09. > :09:15.crew. If you listen to all that Forth Road Bridge, that noise, that

:09:16. > :09:21.is what you hear in the Gibraltar Strait. A stop start, with fishing

:09:22. > :09:30.vessels and draft tankers, lots of them. You never get a minute to just

:09:31. > :09:35.stop. It is the latest incident involving an astute class submarine.

:09:36. > :09:40.One ran aground off sky in 2010. This kind do not carry nuclear

:09:41. > :09:44.weapons but they do have nuclear reactors. The Royal Navy say that

:09:45. > :09:51.there was no threat to the reactor but the SNP have expressed concerns.

:09:52. > :09:59.The MoD have explained to do as to how this happened. It calls into

:10:00. > :10:02.question the overall safety aspect. The MOD do not yet know if the

:10:03. > :10:06.submarine will be repaired here at its home base on the Clyde or

:10:07. > :10:10.elsewhere. What we do know is that this has been an embarrassing

:10:11. > :10:11.incident for the Royal Navy, a service which normally prides itself

:10:12. > :10:22.on stealth and seamanship. Three people who died after a

:10:23. > :10:26.disturbance in Aberdeen on Tuesday night have been named. Police

:10:27. > :10:30.believe the 40-year-old Tracy Gabriel and 40-year-old Keith Taylor

:10:31. > :10:33.were murdered by Stuart Gallacher, 57. He plunged to his death from a

:10:34. > :10:39.12th floor balcony after police arrived. The Scottish Police

:10:40. > :10:43.Federation has claimed that senior officers were sent to charity shops

:10:44. > :10:48.to buy equipment. Officers escorting a child in a police car went to the

:10:49. > :10:50.shops to buy sunblinds to screen the child from public view. Police

:10:51. > :10:52.Scotland acknowledged budget challenges.

:10:53. > :10:54.Football, and Hearts and Hibs have been knocked out

:10:55. > :11:00.Hibs defeated Brondby 1-0 tonight, to level

:11:01. > :11:01.the score on aggregate, but the Danish side progressed

:11:02. > :11:09.Hearts lost 2-1 at home to Malta's Birkirkara.

:11:10. > :11:11.But it was good news for Aberdeen, with a 1-0

:11:12. > :11:13.win over Ventspils in Latvia, bokking them a place

:11:14. > :11:21.Let's get the weather outlook for tonight and tomorrow

:11:22. > :11:29.Most of us have had a fairly pleasant day of weather with bright

:11:30. > :11:34.or sunny spells. Tonight, it becomes cloudy for most of us with some

:11:35. > :11:39.outbreaks of rain. Especially across West of Scotland. Some fairly heavy

:11:40. > :11:46.pulses at times. It will be a muggy night foremost temperatures around

:11:47. > :11:49.13 Celsius. Tomorrow, cloudy note, with outbreaks of rain tracking West

:11:50. > :11:54.to east. Eight o'clock tomorrow morning, some Brighton is holding an

:11:55. > :11:58.across the far north-east. And something of a clearance already

:11:59. > :12:03.beginning to show its hand across the Western Isles, and for some

:12:04. > :12:07.West, coastal areas. Otherwise, looking cloudy with outbreaks of

:12:08. > :12:09.rain. As we go through the course of the day, that rain will continue

:12:10. > :12:13.rain. As we go through the course of track east towards, becoming lighter

:12:14. > :12:17.and patchy, eventually clearing into the North Sea. Something of a legacy

:12:18. > :12:24.of cloud for some eastern areas. One or two shark showers in the

:12:25. > :12:32.afternoon, otherwise some sunshine. Taking a look into tomorrow

:12:33. > :12:34.afternoon, some spells of sunshine and heavy, thundery downpours

:12:35. > :12:42.developing throughout the London area and East Anglia. The odd rumble

:12:43. > :12:47.of thunder, and hail in the mix. Temperatures peaking around 25 or 26

:12:48. > :12:51.Celsius, feeling warm in the sunshine. Into the evening, and

:12:52. > :12:56.Scotland will hold onto showers across Aberdeenshire, perhaps for

:12:57. > :12:59.Easter and coastal areas too. Otherwise looking dry and bright

:13:00. > :13:06.with sunshine. Saturday, we have a weather front making inroads during

:13:07. > :13:07.the morning, gradually tracking across eastern areas during the

:13:08. > :13:11.course of the day. The driest, across eastern areas during the

:13:12. > :13:16.brightest weather will hold on across the far south and east

:13:17. > :13:19.although showers developing here, too, and a fairly muggy, quite warm

:13:20. > :13:21.feel, especially across the south-east. And it is a fresher feel

:13:22. > :13:27.elsewhere. From everyone on the late team

:13:28. > :13:31.here in Glasgow and around