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BBC Scotland has learned that the cost of the inquiry | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
into the Edinburgh trams fiasco is already more than ?3.7 million. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
The Scottish government set it up two years ago to look into why | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the project came in late and at more than double its original budget. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
The Edinburgh trams have been running for about two years now and | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
they seem to be proving popular. Passenger numbers are higher than | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
expected. The line runs from Edinburgh airport to the city | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
centre. The cost, ?776 million. It was five years overdue, and the line | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
did not go as far as it was meant to. Swift and Fera was the aim when | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
the tram enquiry was launched back in June 20 14. It is said to be | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
making good progress, already collating more than 6 million | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
documents. A Freedom of information request from the BBC to the Scottish | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Government shows that the costs have already exceeded ?3.7 million. That | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
includes ?1.8 million on staffing costs. And ?716,000 on legal fees. | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
On the streets of the city, another multi-million pound headline | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
involving the trams does not seem to be going down well. The enquiries | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
cost the earth. I am not be going down well. The enquiries | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
with that. I think it is wrong that they should have to pay so much for | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
an enquiry that should have been paid for by the people that cost us | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
this much money. Why? It is like school, is somebody going to get the | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
cane? I don't think so, they just get moved on. Some transport experts | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
say there has to be an enquiry into such an expensive and controversial | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
project and it will be worth it. We need to understand the reasons why | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
that happened so that we can then inform the design and planning of | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
other major transport infrastructure schemes in the future and hopefully | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
save ourselves money in the future. That is why we should not | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
necessarily be too concerned about the cost of the enquiry, because | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
when we compare it to the potential savings from implying its findings, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
we could save ourselves a lot of money. -- applying its findings. A | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
spokesman said that Scottish ministers have been clear from the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
start that it should be timely and cost effective. The government said | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
that the enquiry team is committed to delivering a fair and balanced | :02:31. | :02:31. | |
report with their recommendations. A holiday park operator has been | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
fined nearly a quarter of a million pounds, | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
after a schoolboy died Six year old Aidan Sands | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
died from brain injuries following the accident | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
at the Red Lion Caravan Park Loch Earn Caravan Parks admitted | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
a number of health and safety A woman's body has been | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
recovered after a car plunged into the River Clyde | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
at Renfrew this afternoon. It happened next to the Braehead | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
shopping centre just Witnesses said they saw | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
the car speeding along It hit two cars before | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
crashing through a metal A big search and rescue | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
operation was organised, involving the coastguard helicopter | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
and police divers. Meanwhile, four children and a 56 | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
year old man escaped injury, when their car fell | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
into the water in Burntisland. A 14 year-old girl managed to climb | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
out before the car hit the water, while three others, aged 10, | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
13 and 14, made it ashore before The UK government's senior law | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
officer has ruled out a veto for Scotland over when the Brexit | :03:36. | :03:47. | |
process is started. The Attorney General, Jeremy Wright, | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
said there would be consultations with the Scottish Government | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
but that it would not be able Here's our Westminster | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
correspondent, David Porter. A month ago today, we were voting on | :03:57. | :04:11. | |
whether to stay in the EU. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain, but | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
the UK as a whole decided to leave. That set about quite a train of | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
events. A Prime Minister has resigned. A new occupant has moved | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
into Downing Street. And the Labour leader is fighting for his survival. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
The First Minister has indicated a second independence referendum is | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
now in her words highly likely. Four weeks on and minds are turning to | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
how Brexit will work and what role Scotland will have. The Prime | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Minister has stated that Brexit means Brexit and the First Minister | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
of Scotland has stated that for us, remain means remain. Do you agree | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
that the will of Scotland should be respected? By Minister has indicated | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
that she will not trigger Article 50 until there is a UK approach to | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Brexit. Does the learner gentleman agree that there should be | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
researched on to see... All Parliament of the UK, including the | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
devolved administrations, should be able to participate in the process | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
of developing the United Kingdom's approach to these negotiations but | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
that does not mean that any of the parts of the United Kingdom have a | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
veto over this process. And so consultations most certainly, but | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
veto, I am afraid not. From an English Eurosceptic Conservative, | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
this. I am quite happy with the government consulting with the | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
devolved administrations, but what concerns me is that we do not finish | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
up being held to ransom by Scottish Nationalists. I think the Prime | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Minister has been very clear that the United Kingdom will leave the | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
European Union and that means all of the United Kingdom. As MPs packed | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
their bags and head for their summer break, they know one thing is almost | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
certain, whatever else may happen, when they get back, the Brexit | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
question is likely to dominate all other issues. | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
Yesterday economic data revealed that the Scottish | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
economy is stagnating - and growing at less than half | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
Much of that is down to the impact of the downturn in the oil industry, | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
but what sort of effect could Brexit have on Scottish business? | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Our correspondent, David Henderson reports. | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
My name is Paul Duncan and I am the business development manager here. | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
The company has been around for 30 years and was established by my | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
grandmother, Elizabeth Duncan. We produce and baked shortbread and | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
oatcakes, all made to a traditional family recipe. Our most famous one, | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
we are most known for our old butter shortbread. We can produce anywhere | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
up to 50,000 of those in our thanks to this production facility that we | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
have and the expansion of our warehouse. Small beginnings but this | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
is a big, productive output. Definitely. We have grown quick and | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
rapidly. It is an exciting time for the business. How important our | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
European countries, particularly countries in the EU, for you and | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
your business? We export to Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and further | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
afield. Australia, America. We do a lot of private labels as well as | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
leading with the -- dealing with the likes of Morrisons and Tesco's. Just | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
now, it is uncertain. No-one seems to know the answers to the | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
questions. Butter, sugar, margarine, everything that is an important | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
ingredient in the products we use, sadly they are all in price. Whether | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
or not we are in the European Union, you will want to the single market | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
to continue. Without a shadow of a doubt. We needed to continue as a | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
business. We would have to adapt and change as we have done in the past, | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
but for us to maintain growth at such a healthy way, we need the | :08:05. | :08:05. | |
market to remain open. The Royal Navy is investigating how | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
a Faslane-based nuclear-powered submarine collided with a civilian | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
boat off the coast of Gibraltar. HMS Ambush has now been taken | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
into port to be checked. Here's our correspondent, | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
Andrew Kerr. Limping back into port, HMS ambush | :08:19. | :08:33. | |
with significant damage. The boat is being assessed for repairs. It | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
struck a merchant vessel off the coast of Gibraltar. One defence | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
analyst says it may have been trying to hide as part of an exercise. One | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
suspects that perhaps she was using a relatively noisy tanker as cover | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
and got too close. Perhaps she misjudged the draft of the tanker. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
It was apparently a bunkering tanker and they go up and down. If she did, | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
she made an error. A retired sub Mariner has some sympathy with the | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
crew. If you listen to all that noise of vehicles underneath | :09:08. | :09:08. | |
crew. If you listen to all that Forth Road Bridge, that noise, that | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
is what you hear in the Gibraltar Strait. A stop start, with fishing | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
vessels and draft tankers, lots of them. You never get a minute to just | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
stop. It is the latest incident involving an astute class submarine. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
One ran aground off sky in 2010. This kind do not carry nuclear | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
weapons but they do have nuclear reactors. The Royal Navy say that | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
there was no threat to the reactor but the SNP have expressed concerns. | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
The MoD have explained to do as to how this happened. It calls into | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
question the overall safety aspect. The MOD do not yet know if the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
submarine will be repaired here at its home base on the Clyde or | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
elsewhere. What we do know is that this has been an embarrassing | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
incident for the Royal Navy, a service which normally prides itself | :10:11. | :10:11. | |
on stealth and seamanship. Three people who died after a | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
disturbance in Aberdeen on Tuesday night have been named. Police | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
believe the 40-year-old Tracy Gabriel and 40-year-old Keith Taylor | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
were murdered by Stuart Gallacher, 57. He plunged to his death from a | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
12th floor balcony after police arrived. The Scottish Police | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Federation has claimed that senior officers were sent to charity shops | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
to buy equipment. Officers escorting a child in a police car went to the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
shops to buy sunblinds to screen the child from public view. Police | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
Scotland acknowledged budget challenges. | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
Football, and Hearts and Hibs have been knocked out | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
Hibs defeated Brondby 1-0 tonight, to level | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
the score on aggregate, but the Danish side progressed | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
Hearts lost 2-1 at home to Malta's Birkirkara. | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
But it was good news for Aberdeen, with a 1-0 | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
win over Ventspils in Latvia, bokking them a place | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
Let's get the weather outlook for tonight and tomorrow | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
Most of us have had a fairly pleasant day of weather with bright | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
or sunny spells. Tonight, it becomes cloudy for most of us with some | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
outbreaks of rain. Especially across West of Scotland. Some fairly heavy | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
pulses at times. It will be a muggy night foremost temperatures around | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
13 Celsius. Tomorrow, cloudy note, with outbreaks of rain tracking West | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
to east. Eight o'clock tomorrow morning, some Brighton is holding an | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
across the far north-east. And something of a clearance already | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
beginning to show its hand across the Western Isles, and for some | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
West, coastal areas. Otherwise, looking cloudy with outbreaks of | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
rain. As we go through the course of the day, that rain will continue | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
rain. As we go through the course of track east towards, becoming lighter | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
and patchy, eventually clearing into the North Sea. Something of a legacy | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
of cloud for some eastern areas. One or two shark showers in the | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
afternoon, otherwise some sunshine. Taking a look into tomorrow | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
afternoon, some spells of sunshine and heavy, thundery downpours | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
developing throughout the London area and East Anglia. The odd rumble | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
of thunder, and hail in the mix. Temperatures peaking around 25 or 26 | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Celsius, feeling warm in the sunshine. Into the evening, and | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Scotland will hold onto showers across Aberdeenshire, perhaps for | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Easter and coastal areas too. Otherwise looking dry and bright | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
with sunshine. Saturday, we have a weather front making inroads during | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
the morning, gradually tracking across eastern areas during the | :13:07. | :13:07. | |
course of the day. The driest, across eastern areas during the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
brightest weather will hold on across the far south and east | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
although showers developing here, too, and a fairly muggy, quite warm | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
feel, especially across the south-east. And it is a fresher feel | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
elsewhere. From everyone on the late team | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
here in Glasgow and around | :13:28. | :13:31. |