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A senior judge is appointed as the new chairwoman | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
of the Scottish government's child abuse inquiry. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Why the amount of money health boards are spending | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
A political and legal battle at Holyrood - | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
as independence supporters are told they cannot camp outside | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
What about human rights in Scotland? Hopefully we have the right to stage | :00:25. | :00:41. | |
an appeal. The onus is on them to remove themselves but ultimately if | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
they don't we will seek to remove them. | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Also on the programme, calls for a decision to be made | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
about the future of wild beavers in Scotland. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
And Leigh Griffiths brings Celtic a 1-1 draw in Kazakhstan | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
BBC Scotland can reveal that survivors of abuse at the former | :00:54. | :01:13. | |
Fort Augustus Abbey School have turned to England | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
It comes as the government has announced a new chair to head | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
the independent inquiry into child sex abuse in care in Scotland. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Reevel Alderson reports. | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
It is four short months until the independent inquiry into the abuse | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
of children in care held its first session outlining its high ideals. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
This inquiry is not just for survivors of abuse in the past, it | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
is also, for some Scottish children yet to be born. Yet earlier this | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
month the chip resigned leaving the process in limbo. Now in place of Ms | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
O'Brien, one of the most senior High Court judges in Scotland, Lady Anne | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
Smith. Survivor groups welcomed the speed of the appointment yet have | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
criticised the government for failing to consult them and have | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
demanded that the Education Secretary widens the inquiry scope. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
A bit surprised why we are pleased about the speed of the appointment | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
that he hasn't able to indicate today that he is prepared to extend | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
remit and include a recommendation about redress in the inquiry. Now we | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
are seeking an urgent meeting with him with a view to resolving not | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
only this issue but a number of others as well. Allegations of | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
systematic abuse at the school run by the Benedictine order will be a | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
part of the inquiry Dexter one survivors group is so disillusioned | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
with progress in Scotland it has been accepted as core participants | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
in the English inquiry held by Dame Goddard. In a notice published in | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
the court she said one of the individuals experienced sexual abuse | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
in Scotland which falls outside the inquiries terms of reference, the | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
alleged institutional failure relates to an institution based in | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
England and Wales. This means the group, White Flowers Alba is | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
eligible for redress, something it has pressed the government to offer | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
but so far ministers have avoided changing the remit. I want to | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
discuss that further with survivors groups and with Ladysmith following | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
her appointment. These issues are under active consideration to make | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
sure we have an inquiry that can properly and fully address the | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
issues of concern, to summarise the awful experiences of individuals and | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
we can do that task properly on their behalf. The government insists | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
the inquiry will continue to operate independently with no assistance | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
from ministers. Reeva Alderson, Reporting Scotland. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Figures the BBC has obtained show that the amount of money | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
healthboards are spending on overtime payments to consultants | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
In the last three years the bill has increased by almost 50% | :04:04. | :04:15. | |
Doctors argue it points up the lack of full time consultants in post. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
-- The Scottish Government says it's a very small portion | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
Our reporter Aileen Clarke has been looking at the figures. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Well, it makes quite interesting reading.....these figures have come | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
from a UK-wide freedom of information request by the BBC. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
So three years ago in Scotland the bill for consultants' overtime | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
was ?14.27 million, last year that had risen to almost ?21 million. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Now, remember this is overtime so money consultants earned | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
for extra shifts often in the evenings or at weekends. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
In one example a consultant working for NHS Lanarkshire earned | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
The healthboard say that was necessary to meet waiting | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
list targets at a time of pressure due to staff vacancies. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Critics say there is simply not enough staff to cope | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
with the growing pressures on our hospitals | :05:00. | :05:00. | |
We need long-term solutions that create a sustainable NHS. So many of | :05:01. | :05:16. | |
the issues that are faced deal with sticking plaster, temporary | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
solutions that do not solve the problem. They may patch and meant | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
for the short-term but we need to think not just about the next five | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
years, but the next 25 years. Three years ago NHS Grampian | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
spent nothing at all Last year they spent more than one | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
and a half million pounds. Again, they say that spend | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
is due to a lack of staff, particularly at busy periods | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
for surgery like hip operations The BMA, who talk on behalf | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
of Scotland's consultants, say that the overtime bill could be | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
dramatically reduced if the right number of consultants could be | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
recruited, latest figures And in the meantime | :05:57. | :05:57. | |
here's a suggestion. We have to think more sensibly and | :05:58. | :06:09. | |
carefully about simplistic targets for waiting times alone. It is | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
really important, both from the doctor 's perspective and from the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
patient but perspective that we are concentrating on the quality of | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
care, making sure that the outcome for patients, whether the operation | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
is successful or not is what we are measuring rather than sticking to | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
counting the easy thing which is how long it took to have the operation. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
The Scottish Government says the overtime bill is in contact, but the | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
number of consultants has risen by 40% in the last ten years and | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
training places are being increased but Health Secretary takes on board | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
there may be better ways of prioritising care. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Patients want to be seen as quickly as possible, that remains important, | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
however measuring outcomes, it's also important that some of us, | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
waiting time targets are blunt instrument and we want to listen to | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
the professions and listen to patient groups about how we could | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
focus more on the outcomes for patients, but we need to see what | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
the group comes up with and what recommendations they need to make. | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
The best way to achieve that balance of delivering quality care | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
but in an acceptable time frame, at a reasonable price, | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
is what it seems is now very much up for discussion. | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
A group of independence supporters have lost a legal fight to remain | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
camped outside the Scottish Parliament. | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
A judge has ruled that they can be evicted. | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
Parliament welcomes protesters but not this eight month long occupation | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
by supporters of Scottish independence. It took these | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
so-called IndyCamp members to court in what became one of the weirdest | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
of cases. There are unusual arguments heard in the case, the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
compass are good about the declaration of Arbroath and tried to | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
call the Queen as a witness and actually claimed that Christ had | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
returned to Earth and was backing Scottish independence. Yet at the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
end of the day the case was based on serious law, human rights, whether | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
the group at the right to stay here and the right to freedom of | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
assembly. In a written statement Lord Turnbull has turned in favour | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
of Parliament and against the IndyCampers, whose position come he | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
says, is arrogant in that they seemed to assert that their right to | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
use this space is greater than the rights of others. Lord Turnbull said | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
it would not be disproportionate for Parliament to seek the removal of | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
this independence vigil. I think it's shocking. Basically it has | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
walked all over human rights in Scotland. Hopefully we have the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
right to appeal and stadium in the appeal because the vigil is a good | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
thing. We are not a bad thing, we've never had any reported incidents to | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
the police. Parliament officials welcomed the judgment and hoped to | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
persuade them to leave peacefully. We have to have those conversations | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
with them, clearly Lord Turnbull has said the onus is on them to remove | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
themselves, if they don't we will seek to remove them. After 244 days | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
of occupation today's judgment should mean that the days of | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
IndyCamp are numbered yet the campus hope that they can still stay put | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
until Scotland becomes an independent country. - the campus. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme. | :09:46. | :09:46. | |
The search for evidence of a rare pre-Bronze Age site | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
In sport, we'll have reaction from the Celtic manager | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
following their Champions League tie in Khazakstan. | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
And we'll hear from one of our top medal prospects as she prepares | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Glaxo Smith Kline has announced plans for a huge expansion of its | :10:02. | :10:20. | |
Montrose site. It is vesting of ?100 million despite warning during the | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
referendum campaign that a vote to leave the EU would be a mistake. Our | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
business correspondent David Henderson is with me. A big | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
investment, what more can you say about it? A big commitment. | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
All in all they say they'll invest ?275 million | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
One here at their Scottish site at Montrose in Angus. | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
It is the biggest employer in town. They currently make medicine for | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
conditions like asthma and HIV. And the plan is to invest | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
?110 million there Currently 460 people work | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
full time at the site. The company says these jobs should | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
be safeguarded by this investment. This going to be investment to build | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to make products which are | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
part of our respiratory product portfolio. These active ingredients | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
will go into medication that treats problems like asthma and pulmonary | :11:26. | :11:26. | |
disorders. And David - before the EU | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
referendum - this company had warned of the THREAT posed | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
by a Brexit vote. I am not sure they have changed | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
their mind. Well, their last chief executive | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
said a vote to leave They want to able to recruit | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
scientists from right across Europe. And they want a single set of rules | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
across Europe for approving drugs. And regulating drugs. They want no | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
more red tape. The company's clearly decided that | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
basing their operations in Scotland and the UK still has | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
a lot to offer. A lot of incentives to invest in | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
research. the pound's fallen in value | :12:04. | :12:18. | |
against the dollar. That's a benefit - if you're | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
producing things to sell overseas. Now this announcement's been seized | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
upon by supporters of Brexit who say it shows the UK | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
is still good for business. But firms like Glaxo | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
will still be wary - about whether leaving the EU | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
could bring red tape and new barriers to trade with other | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
countries in Europe. We will wait and see. Thank you, | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
David. Edinburgh is to become the first | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
city in Scotland to impose a twenty mile an hour speed limit | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
across the city. The new regulations apply | :12:50. | :12:50. | |
to residential and shopping streets. The move is designed to reduce | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
injuries and save lives - but critics argue it's unnecessary, | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
and could damage trade. 20 is plenty for Edinburgh. The new | :12:56. | :13:09. | |
limit is being rolled out across the city in phases from Sunday. Main | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
roads are not affected. Surely a few minutes difference in your journey | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
if you go at 20 miles an hour or 30 miles an hour it is more likely that | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
at 30 miles an hour you'll have a serious accident in terms of a | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
pedestrian or a child. Critics say it will slow down the city, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
increasing road rage, disrupting trade and adding to travel times. We | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
work 24-7, what happens at 3am when you are driving on an empty road | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
with no traffic, is crawling at 20 miles an hour saving lives or just | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
creating unnecessary noise and emissions and making everyone take | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
longer to get from a to B? Five areas in Glasgow already have 20 | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
miles and is, Edinburgh is the first to roll them out across the city. | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Suburban residents have different views. People with a brain will know | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
it's sensible to have it onside roads. Most people do that anyway | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
especially in these slowest it's because of speed bumps. Your car is | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
just up at 30, 40, sometimes before you even know it. A lot of cars just | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
goes fast. I think they forget. We've been allowed on board one | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
police safety van which will enforce the new speed limit. There's a laser | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
gun on-board which bounces a signal of vehicles to detect how fast they | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
are going. Anyone breaking the limit faces a fine of ?100 and three | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
penalty points. It's not a defence as such and that is why the market | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
campaign is in place today. Part of that officers looking at the | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
scenario and deciding what action they will take in particular, and | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
that could be issuing a ticket or it could be giving advice. ?2 million | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
of public funding is being invested in this initiative is trying to save | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
lives by slowing down. Reporting Scotland, Edinburgh. | :15:05. | :15:05. | |
Conservationists are calling for the government to make | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
a decision of the future of beavers in Scotland. | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
After becoming extinct here in the 16th century, | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
a trial reintroduction of beavers took place at Knapdale in Argyll. | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
In the first couple of weeks they swam around here, soon they found | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
this little burn, they build this dam and it's created this beautiful | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
beaver pond, full of life. After an absence of 400 years Beavers were | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
introduced in Argyll in 2009 for a five-year monitor to trial. They | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
used to be a key link in the wildlife chain and it is claimed | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
they should be again. They create the perfect wetland habitat to allow | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
dragonfly to lay larvae in the water. It attracts fishlike pike to | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
the water and birds of prey which will feed on the pike and so forth. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
They also have proven flood mitigation benefits. So you get this | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
echoing and effect from one animal to a wide variety of ecosystem | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
benefits. Signs of beaver activity are easy to spot, less so the | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
animals. The lodge is 200 metres away, across the Loc, it's eight | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
o'clock in the evening and we are told that between now and dusk is | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
the best chance we have to spot a beaver before the evening feed so I | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
guess it's just a waiting game. Within minutes we are lucky as a | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
beaver trundles past. In the nearby reed bed he leaves the water to pick | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
and eat his supper. However, on Tayside there is a larger, | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
unregulated beaver population, created by an escape or illegal | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
release. This, says it costs ?5,000 a year to clear dams and drainage | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
ditches and repair damage to cropland. In low ground farming like | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
this I don't believe they can live in harmony. When you go up into less | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
food producing areas, where the trains are not so critical to that | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
cultural land, that may be more of a place for them. Conservationists say | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
many sites are suitable. We've got a suite of reserves across Scotland | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
and two years ago we had an independent assessment done so that | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
if the decision went the way of our findings we could potentially | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
reintroduce them. The trial report was sent to the government two years | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
ago, yet no conclusion has been reached. Spokesperson said the | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
complex issues around their management and legal protection | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
which ministers are considering before making a decision on the | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
future of Beavers in Scotland later this year. Willie Johnston, | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
Reporting Scotland. A look at other stories | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
from across the country. Natalie Harrison helped the women at | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
the surface until lifeboat crew were able to halt on to the boat. The | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
incident happened on Monday afternoon close to Shakespeare's | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Globe Theatre. Rail safety officers have issued a warning to young | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
people across the country after a rise in the number of reports of | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
children playing on the tracks. There has been an 18% increase | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
between 2013 and 2015. Glasgow has the highest rate of people venturing | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
onto train lines in Scotland with 50 incidents last year. The second | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Edinburgh food festival is underway, it's one of the capital 's newest | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
and hosts talks and debates about the food industry as well as | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
showcasing Scottish produce. There is a plan to increase the number of | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
golden eagles in the South of Scotland, the scheme aims to have up | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
to 16 pairs of the birds across the Scotland, the scheme aims to have up | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
borders and companies in Galloway and it's getting ?1 million of | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
lottery money. We'll have more robust population of golden eagles | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
in the south of Scotland, but also we anticipate that over time we will | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
also have nature tourism and other benefits locally. Tickets for | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Edinburgh 's Hogmanay street party are on sale even though the | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
programme isn't announced until the autumn. Around 75,000 people took | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
part in the celebrations last year which saw live music and fireworks. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
Let's get tonight's sport now, from David. | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
Creditable performance from Celtic this afternoon in their | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
Yes Sally, Celtic earning a one all draw in the first leg | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
of their qualifier against FC Astana in Khazakstan this afternoon. | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
We'll hear from the manager of the Scottish champions | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
Brendan Rodgers shortly, but first the story | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
Having suffered June lesion in Gibraltar in the last round, Brendan | :19:45. | :19:56. | |
Rodgers was hoping his side would produce a result more worthy of note | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
in Kaz extant. It was Celtic who had the first real chance, Leigh | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
Griffiths finding space. But Astana were quick on the break and Mikael | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
Lustig had to be alert to deal with this cross. From the resulting | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
corner, Astana made the breakthrough. Craig Gordon flapping | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
at fresh air as Kazakhstan champions were headed in front. Astana | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
unbeaten in their last seven Champions League games at home came | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
close to adding a second. But this time Gordon was up to the task. | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
There was another fright for the Scottish champions early in the | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
second half, a striker clipping the crossbar. But 12 minutes from the | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
end Celtic got the equaliser, and it might prove to be priceless. Leigh | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
Griffiths! Leigh Griffiths, last season's 40 goal hero coming up | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
trumps for the new Celtic manager. It was Celtic 's only shot on target | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
and sets them up nicely for the second leg in Glasgow next week. | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
So as John was saying there, that draw leaves Celtic with a good | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
chance of making the final round of Champions | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
We can hear what manager Brendan Rodgers makes of that | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
What it is is a very good result. It is half-time, huge amount of credit | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
to the players. Thinking of the team they are playing, we were all | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
written off before the game, everyone had been pretty clear in | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
their opinion on the game, that we would do well to come back from | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
anything other than a loss but I think you saw the players deserve an | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
immense amount of credit. To fight an sure that spirit and passion in | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
the game as well, the second half, gaining more controlled the game. A | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
wonderful goal by Leigh We know the significance of the goal but like I | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
said we are not getting too carried away, we have another good game | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
against a very good side. One of our best medal prospects | :22:00. | :22:00. | |
at the Rio Games says it was never her childhood dream | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
to compete at the Olympics. But cyclist Katie Archibald | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
will be there as part of the British Women's | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
track pursuit team. And as Jane Lewis reports her rise | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
to prominence has been impressive. Katie Archibald likes to be unique. | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
Coloured here, body art, even her route into cycling was different. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
She came to the sport from swimming and has only been on the British | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
cycling programme for two years. Great Britain leading the way with | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Katie Archibald and Laura Trott and Elinor Barker. They will bring it | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
home. That sets her apart from the team-mate Shi won gold with at the | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
World Championships in 2014. As a child I did not think I would go to | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
the Olympic Games. There is a big difference, I have other team-mates | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
who knew they wanted to be there. When I was a kid I wanted to beat my | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
next-door neighbour and then when I got older I wanted to beat my | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
brother. Now I am at the point where got older I wanted to beat my | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
I want to be in a team which beat the rest of the world. She was a | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
spectator during London 2012, some of her idols from four years ago are | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
now team-mates. They were the sort of separate superhumans on the other | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
side of the TV. Now they are rivals or team-mates and we appears and I | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
guess that's just stopped being reared. The British women's pursuit | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
team are among the favourites for gold in Rio but this is the | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
question, what colour will your hair be? We have already packed, I have | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
one pot of paint. And if she makes top spot on the podium it's not just | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
hair which will be the pink. Now we know the Vikings landed | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
in the Northern Isles and the Outer Hebrides | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
hundreds of years ago - Archaelogical students from Wales | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
and the United States are hoping The team are spending four weeks | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
on a dig on the small isle of Ian Hamilton visited | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
the work in progress. These archaeology students from | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
Cardiff and Pennsylvania in the United States are working on a joint | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
project. They believe that under this small island could be a | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
settlement which goes back as far as 4000 years. Here on the south-west | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
of the rest Uist, they say there could be an important site but until | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
the cover the rest of the mines the could be an important site but until | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
one now. We have opened up three, one has a substantial stone house | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
which we are now time to get the precise date of. It is certainly | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
pre-Viking, it could be about 600, 700 A.D. Or it could be much earlier | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
which I think is most likely, about 2300 BC. Similar sites like this | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
along the coast have disappeared due to erosion and the fear is if they | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
don't work fast it could also happen here. Americans are here to see if | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
they can find any parallels between Viking settlements in Scotland and | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
those in North America. The hope is if we continue this research over | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
multiple years we will continue to look at more Viking era Norse | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
settlements. The work I do is on colonialism and what happens to | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
locals when non-locals emigrate so looking at the process over | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
centuries you see long-term culture changes both in the recent colonists | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
as well as the long indigenous population. The theory is there | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
could be an iron age settlement under here and if that is the case | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
have international importance due to being so rare. | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
Before we go, time to catch up with Kawser, | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
Lovely day for most of us, more in a bit of cloud around to end the day, | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
if we look at the satellite you can see where we have at the breaks, it | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
remained quite cloudy across the far north-west, the cloud spreading | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
across other areas as we head through to the end of the day but | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
still some decent spells of sunshine to end the day across the East | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
especially. Remaining dry, 12 showers around, still quite cloudy | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
and showery across the far north and north-west as we | :26:21. | :26:32. | |
head. Clear spells developing elsewhere, temperatures are widely | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
holding onto double figures, under the cleaver spells in the | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
countryside they could dip down to around six, 7 degrees which will | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
make it quite cool. You can see from the map outbreaks of cloud pushing | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
on and that'll be the rest of the of the day, the rain pushing across | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
Dumfries Galloway, heavy at times spreading across the east to the | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
Borders and might edge to the central belt for a time with Glasgow | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
and Edinburgh are seeing more in the way of cloud and perhaps patchy | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
outbreaks rain. Towards the north for a time there will be spells of | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
sunshine. Let's take a closer look at tomorrow afternoon, 4pm. For the | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
far north and north-west it will remain cloudy and drizzly conditions | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
buttress guy across to Tayside and part of Aberdeen shirt some good | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
spells sunshine. Further south cloudy conditions, the rain becoming | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
patchy by the afternoon and temperatures widely in the mid to | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
high teens possibly reaching 19 or 20 degrees from parts of | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
Aberdeenshire. Tomorrow evening the weather slips away, still mainly | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
fairly cloudy from the far north-west and the Northern Isles, | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
drawing in air from the north-west as we look ahead to Friday and the | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
weekend, fresher feeling conditions. Friday there will be showers across | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
the far north at first, drier and brighter elsewhere with sunshine but | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
those showers becoming more widespread. That's the forecast. | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
That's it, I will be back for the headlines at 8pm and the late | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
bulletin just after the ten o'clock News. From all of us here have a | :28:04. | :28:04. |