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in Rio. That's it from the BBC newsroom. Time to join our | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Olympic champions again - Heather Stanning and Helen Glover | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
defend the rowing title they won at London 2012. | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
We put a lot of pressure on ourselves as. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
As we talk it down. It means so. To us. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
We'll have all the latest from the Games in Rio | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
RBS no more - after the bail out and huge losses, | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
the bank rebrands itself as Royal Bank of Scotland. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Two Turkish men convicted of smuggling more than three tonnes | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
of cocaine are jailed for a total of 42 years. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Another milestone for the Queensferry Crossing, | :00:45. | :00:57. | |
as the North Tower is connected to Fife. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Piping hot in the pouring rain, the World Championships come to Glasgow. | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
It's been another great day at Rio for the Scottish | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Lossiemouth's Heather Stanning, along with her partner, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Helen Glover, have taken Gold in rowing in the Women's Pairs. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Our reporter, Jane Lewis, is in Rio and can tell us more. | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
Another sensational day here at the Rio Olympics. Yesterday it was all | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
about Katherine Grainger on the rowing lake. Today the focus turned | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
to Heather Stanning. Defending Champion from London 2012. Unbeaten | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
with her partner Helen Glover since 2011. They were going for 39 wins in | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
a row for the Gold medal and they made it. It was an understandably | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
relieved, if tired, pair who spoke to us afterwards. We put an awful | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
lot of pressure on injure selves a. As we talk it down. I'm so emotional | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
this week. This is not me at all. It means so. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
To us. More than London. London was a home Games, there was nothing more | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
special. This is defending a title. This is like, we raced for the last | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
four years. It means so much with the pressure we put on ourselves. We | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
said - no pressure. Inside we are dying. What about defending, | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
defending a title? We have to say thank you to all our families and | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
friends. Sglp we have to get you married? Now I have to think about | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
friends. Sglp we have to get you wedding. Less than a month. Talk | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
about it later. Terrific stuff from Heather Stanning | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
and Helen Glover. A marvellous Gold medal. Let us talk Rugby Sevensment | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
the fooirs time it was at the Olympics. It was invented in | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Scotland. It's right the Scots should do well. Look at these very | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
heavy, but wonderful Silver medals. The two Marks, Bennett and | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Robertson. What does it feel to have the medals wrapped around your | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
necks? It's a pretty surreal experience. Coming in 10 weeks ago | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
we didn't know what to expect because we are such a new group. | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
It's been an incredible experience. One that we're absolutely loving. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Obviously, to win that Silver yesterday and the number of messages | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
we have had and the support from family and friend it has been an | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
awesome experience so far. Glasgow Warriors and Scottish Ken | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
Livingstone international, highlight of your career so far It's been some | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
journey, that is for sure. We game together 10 weeks ago. We didn't | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
know any of the other players. 10 weeks down-the-line we got a Silver | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
at the Olympics, it's incredible. What does it do for Rugby Sevens and | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
the game? For us, we really did want to showcase it to the world. Show | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
how exciting a game it is. It has reached a whole new audience now. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Also for the kids to see after the game how close we are with other | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
teams. Teams.you make awesome friends along the way. The big thing | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
is, like, we're really, really enjoying what we do. Can see that on | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the pitch. It's a lot of fun. The crowd enjoy it, too. We're hoping it | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
grows and grows over the next few Tell us about years. This Rio 2016 | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
experience, being part of Team GB. You got a Silver, there are other | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
Golds with Heather Stanning and Katherine Grainger and David | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Florence on the water. What is it like being part of this Awesome. | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
It's incredible. Walking through the Village last night the number of | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
people stopping us and congratulating us was incredible. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
It's not over yet. We have a few days to experience some other | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
sports. Enjoy the other sports. Enjoy the Silver medals. Fantastic | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
from the two Rugby Sevens guys. We had a Gold for a Scottish athlete in | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Team GB last night, Callum Skinner doing a Chris How. He was mentored | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
by Kiss Hoi. Anchoring the Team Sprint guys home to an excellent | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Gold medal. A narrow win over New Zealand. We caught up with Callum | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Skinner afterwards. Also with his mum. We are outsiders. Previous | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
World Championships we struggled to put a ride together sometimes. We | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
wanted an Olympic result. Amazing we game away with it. Olympic record, | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
beating the world champions and a Gold medal couldn't be happier. He | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
got into a habit with the big medals he won of sending them to his | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
granny. I haven't spoken to my mum yet. I got an email from her this | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
morning saying - tell Callum not to send the medal in the post. So if | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
you pick this up - don't send the medal in the post. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
Murray is on Centre Court. Andy Murray, a ding-dong battle he took | :06:36. | :06:47. | |
the first set. It was level at 6-4. It's 4-4 in that decisive third set. | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
This is a quarter-final of the Olympics remember. Tomorrow's | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
semi-final, 4-4 in the third set. We will bring you the news on that this | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
on. Final to finish with pictures you might find odd. Take a look at | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
this. This should be the green diving pool. We had algea problems. | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
Grace Reid will have to dive into that lart on in the 3m Diving. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
Rather her than me. We are assured it's perfectly safe. It's to do with | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
PH levels and algae. Good luck to her and Andy Murray. Callum Skinner | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
will go in the Velodrome later on. It's the first day of athletics. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
There was aened woerful world record on the track for the Ethiopia | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
athlete. 14 seconds off the world record. Lauren Muir is the British | :07:44. | :07:55. | |
record holder she goes in the heats in the small hours of tomorrow | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
morning am we will bring you all the news tomorrow. Thank you very much. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Speaking from a windy Rio de Janerio there. Apologies for any loss of | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
sound quality. Two Turkish men, convicted | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
of smuggling ?500 million worth of cocaine on board a ship | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
in the North Sea, have been jailed Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
were found guilty after more than three tonnes of the drug | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
were discovered inside the vessel after it was intercepted | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
off the Aberdeen coast. Aberdeen Harbour in April last year | :08:24. | :08:35. | |
and the search was on for a particularly valuable cargo hidden | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
aboard the foreign tug the MV Hamal. 3.2 tonnes of cocaine with an | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
estimated street value of ?500 million was removed from a specially | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
adapted tank deep down in the tug. It took the search team days to find | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
it and get it out. It's a black bin bag material. A layer of latex. | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
128bales of cocaine. Thought to be 70% pure. The largest seizure in the | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
UK. Today the Turkish captain of the tug and his second command were | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
jailed for the smuggling and supply of that Coe kale. The Judge told the | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
two men that though they were not at the top end of the drugs hierarchy, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
the quantity of cocaine in this case was not only significant, but | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
massive and they had both played important roles. He jailed the | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
captain, Mumin Sahin for 22 years and his First Officer Emin Ozmen for | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
20 years. I'm hoping it will send out the message that the courts in | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Scotland will not tolerate anyone using our waters for international | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
drug smuggling. What about people watching that case in Scotland? What | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
would the impact of that consignment been here, any? Yes. 3.2 tonnes of | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
koef cane destined for mainland Europe. The UK is a large user, the | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
largest user of cocaine in Europe. A large quantity of that would have | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
found itself into the UK and the streets of Scotland. The entire 3.2 | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
tonnes of cocaine made it as far as the High Court in Glasgow. A | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
high-level security operation was put in place to bring it in for the | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
jury to see. That cargo had been on an international voyage. Loaded in | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
South America and tracked to the Pentland Firth. The UK Border Force | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
and the Royal Navy were involved acting from a tip-off from the | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
French authorities. 100 miles east of Aberdeen the Hamal was boarded | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
and brought into harbour. The criminal investigation to find those | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
higher up in this sophisticated smuggling operation continues. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
This is Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on tonight's | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
programme. Two men are jailed for BBC. Still to come on tonight's | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
sexually abusing boys at a Catholic-run school. I will be in | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Edinburgh where the city's latest festival is about to get underway. | :11:10. | :11:23. | |
R-B-S - three letters still able to enrage people, all these years | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
after the bank collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
Today, BBC Scotland has learned that these three letters | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
are being consigned to the back office. | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
Here, it'll be strictly Royal Bank of Scotland, while RBS | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
in England and Wales will become NatWest, | :11:37. | :11:37. | |
The rebrand was announced, as the bank's chief executive | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
visited staff and customers in the Highlands. | :11:42. | :11:42. | |
Our business and economy editor, Douglas Fraser, | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
Loch Ness, in search of a very big financial creature making monstrous | :11:45. | :11:57. | |
losses. Its head has been spotted near here. Here he is. The Chief | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Executive of Royal Bank of Scotland at a breakfast meeting with one of | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
his customers, a wildlife monitoring firm who has stayed with RBS through | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
choppy waters. When they are bailed out to that tune anyone would be | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
naturally concerned about their banking affairs. I was, but I didn't | :12:16. | :12:28. | |
feel that I had to jump ship. Ross usually views his bank operations on | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
are spreadsheets, he can now get to meet staff and customers including | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
those at this Highland branch and address persistent negative | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
perceptions. You have announced a loss for the first half of the year | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
?2 billion, there is more to come, perhaps worse yet to come. Your | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
shareholders, the public, is asking shareholders, the public, is asking | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
- is this ever going to end? Two years to restructure the bank and | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
bring it back here to the UK and the Republic. We set aside the two years | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
to do as. As we could with the conduct and | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
litigation issues so that the bank could move forward a lot faster. | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
Then we set out the next phase of our strategic plan as 2017 through | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
to 2020, which is around full focus of all of our parts of the business | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
on the customer itself. Launching a new programme for Highland start-up | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
businesses, the RBS is looking for its own new beginning. The brand is | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
not only being rebooted, it's getting the boot, at least from the | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
high street. The bank became a global brand and RBS became the | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
global brand. We no longer have global aspirations we have local | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
aspirations. The individual brands should stay. Ulster Bank for | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
Ireland. The Royal Bank of Scotland for Scotland NatWest for England and | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Wales. Each one will stand for something different in their own | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
communities. Asked if they would recommend Royal Bank of Scotland | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
fewer Scottish customers say they would not thait rather than would. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
This Premier League customer has been newly recruited. They were | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
playing in the global Super League of banks and at financial risk. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
Eight years after it nearly Coe loped it has adjusted on more modest | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
ambitions playing on home urf. A railway line will remain closed | :14:28. | :14:46. | |
for a second night after a 100-tonne The landslip blocked the line | :14:47. | :15:15. | |
between Fort William and Mallaig Two men jailed for sexually abusing | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
boys at the Catholic-run school where they taught, | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
were told by a judge they committed John Farrell and Paul Kelly | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
were sentenced to five They assaulted vulnerable pupils | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
at St Ninian's in Fife Our home affairs correspondent, | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
Reevel Alderson, reports. It was a school which should have | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
been a haven for Children in Need of care. But St Ninians was where a | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
number of vulnerable youngsters were subjected to gross physical and | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
sexual abuse. Paul Kelly, whose 64 and lives simpler method, was | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
convicted of seven offences and received a ten year sentence. He | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
continues to deny charges. Former headmaster John Farrell, later a | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
continues to deny charges. Former parish priest, was convicted of four | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
charges and jailed for four years. Jailing the pair, Judge Lord | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Matthews told them, the vulnerabilities to which the victims | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
were already subject... Today's sentences marked the end of | :16:18. | :16:34. | |
a 13 year campaign by one of Farrell's victims, Joe. He didn't | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
want to give a recorded interview but said while there can never be | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
closure in cases like this, at least he's seen justice done today. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Prosecutors originally charged seven men with more than 100 offences | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
dating back more than three decades and involving 35 alleged victims. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
They admit it was a complex case. There is no doubt that the victims | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
for whom a conviction has not been secured will feel disappointed in | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
the result. However the Crown's responsibility is to listen to these | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
victims, take what they are saying seriously, consider whether or not | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
there is sufficient evidence for the case to be indicted, and thereafter | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
present the case to the court in the hope of securing a conviction. As | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
the men were taken to the cells, a woman shouted "May God do to you | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
what you did to others". The Scottish Qualifications | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
Authority is investigating why an entire class of 20 students | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
failed a course. They received no award | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
for the Higher media course at Inverness College UHI, | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
part of the University The college says the usual quality | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
assurances were in place for the course, and have asked | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
the SQA to investigate. Services have returned to normal | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley after the building | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
was affected by a water The issue forced dozens | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
of operations to be postponed. Water supplies had been affected | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
by a build up of sediment Engineers working on the new Forth | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Crossing have connected the north It's the first significant stage | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
to be completed since the opening 222 metres, 6000 tonnes, inch by | :18:07. | :18:26. | |
inch they pushed it out from Fife. For such a huge structure the final | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
connection to the north tower was the most delicate of operations. Win | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
and just plant movements on the north tower caused quite a lot of | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
movement and the bridge was fluctuating up and down about 100 | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
millimetres. So this is the north tower of the bridge, and 700 | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
millimetres over here, we are now in Fife. In these blustery conditions | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
in the middle of summer, you get a sense of how challenging it has been | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
at times to work on this construction. Today is a significant | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
milestone, measure of progress after the news that its completion date | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
has been pushed back. The economy secretary visited the crossing | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
today. He says he's confident it will open on time. Of course it's | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
disappointing, we would like it done by the end of the year, but it will | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
be done within its contract completion date, June next year. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
People can appreciate the scale and complexity of the challenges of a | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
project like this. Strong gusts mean no dead lifting can take place | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
today. Piece by piece 110 sections will be lifted into place and | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
attached to the towers. There are 24 to go. It's a very sequential | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
operation building a bridge like this. Once we are in the situation | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
where we did get some delays pushing closure back, we are into a | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
different weather pattern. As you appreciate from being up here today, | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
once you are into difficult winter weather, that causes a knock-on | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
effect. The joining of post to Tower marks further progress. In the next | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
few months, the expectation, to see this stretching right across the | :20:02. | :20:02. | |
Forth. Another day, another festival gets | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
underway in Edinburgh. This time it's the international | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
book festival which will play host to 800 writers, politicians, | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
actors and scientists over Our arts correspondent | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
Pauline McLean is in Pauline. Sally, you wouldn't think | :20:14. | :20:25. | |
they'd be able to squeeze another festival into this city with so much | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
going on already, it's bustling. As you can see they are ready to go for | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
tomorrow, tense up, chairs out, they just need visitors to arrive. Nick | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Farley is the director. Fair to say you are taking on the world this | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
year? We always try to take on the world but particularly this year in | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
the light of recent events we will try to take on the world, yes. I | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
think it's vital that we have a look at where Scotland is going now in | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
light of the Brexit vote. We've also got to remember there is a big | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
migration crisis going on out there and got to try to work out how on | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
earth society will react to that. Serious discussion going on, plenty | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
of other events as well. Julia Donaldson just passed us, setting up | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
for her first show tomorrow. Lots of events like that? That's right, | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Julia kicks off the festival in the main theatre tomorrow. We've also | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
got Michael Moore Pogo doing a fantastic performance in the | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
children's programme. And people like Billy Bragg, the singer, | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
talking about how he writes songs. So plenty of fun as well. Sarah Howe | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
is here, you are a poet. Reading is traditionally a solitary pursuit, | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
poetry in particular, yet its profile here is pretty high? I like | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
wandering lonely as a cloud as much as the next poet but for me poetry | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
is all about communicating, touching and meeting eyes with people. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Whether one-to-one on the page or with the excitement and magic to | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
live performance that I think nothing else can beat it, really. | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
Yours is one of a number of events, I know Jackie Key is curating a | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
whole string of events, the profile is really up for it? , It's so | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
exciting. I'm so glad that festivals like Edinburgh are making for | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
poetry. I think it's a really exciting moment when poets are | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
reaching audiences that they would never have reached before. People | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
are sort of coming to live events who would never have thought to even | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
pick up a poetry book on a shelf but who didn't know that they need poems | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
but love them. Sarah and Nick, thank you very much. Outside these gardens | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
the International Festival and the fringe continue. We have one of the | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
most anticipated shows, it has been cancelled Jude to the ill-health | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Richard Wilson. We wish him a speedy recovery. | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
The 2016 World Pipe Band Championships have begun in Glasgow. | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
More than 230 bands from across the world are competing | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
in the hope of securing the ultimate piping prize. | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
It's now almost 70 years since the world's pipe band Championships were | :22:55. | :23:09. | |
first held at Glasgow and the contest is as popular as ever. Today | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
first held at Glasgow and the here in Glasgow 's George Square | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
members of the public were treated to a number of small number of the | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
bands performing this weekend. In all some 8000 pipers and drummers | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
are coming to the city in the hope of being crowned the next world pipe | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
band champions. 234 bands from all over the world are taking part from | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
as far afield as the US, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. Very excited. It's | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
amazing. All the pipers. And we've learnt a lot. When you come down | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
here, this is the home of piping. There's always so much that you | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
learn. Despite some traditional Scottish weather to go with the | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
music, spirits weren't dampened. And Scottish weather to go with the | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
organisers are delighted with the standard eventually is. People who | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
go and see these competitions and have been for years are telling me | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
that the standard is now higher than it has ever been. Much of the focus | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
this year will be on the defending champions. Last time they became the | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
first Scottish band to win the contest in more than a decade. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
They'll face strong competition. We'll find out what happens when the | :24:23. | :24:23. | |
winner is declared on Sunday. Some fine looking umbrellas, there. | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
Tell us it is going to get better. It is going to get better. It's been | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
a thoroughly miserable couple of days of whether especially across | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
much of the West of Scotland. As we go through this weekend we can offer | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
a gradual improvement. However this evening we hold onto a lot of cloud | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
and some fairly heavy pulses of rain across much of the country leading | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
to poor driving conditions. Through the night we will see rain clearing | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
away to the north-east and to the south. Behind it a legacy of cloud | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
and some bits and pieces of drizzle, especially for western Scotland. | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
Mild night to come with temperatures company holding up into double | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
figures and the winds will continue to ease. So a fairly cloudy start | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
tomorrow. We will continue to see some bits and pieces of drizzle. As | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
we go through the course of the day, much of the country will become dry, | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
and we could see brightness and some sunshine. Here is the picture around | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
4pm tomorrow. A couple of showers across south-western coastal areas. | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
For much of southern, central and eastern Scotland it does look dry, | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
there will be brightness, perhaps sunshine most likely for eastern | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
areas. Cabbages may well peek around 20 Celsius. Across the Northern | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
Ireland 's -- Northern Isles, cloudy conditions, spells of rain but | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
generally not as wet for these areas as it has been over the last couple | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
of days. A westerly breeze for western coastal areas, highs of 14 | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
to 16 Celsius. If going hill walking and climbing tomorrow, showers and | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
longer spells of rain, extensive low cloud, winds from the West gusting | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
around 45 to 55 mph. And furthermore southern ranges tomorrow, just a few | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
showers across the Galloway hills. Winds here from the West gusting | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
around 35 to 45 mph. And for the world pipe band Championships in | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
Glasgow tomorrow, it's looking largely dry. Perhaps the odd shower, | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
some bright spells, highs of 16 or 17 Celsius and a gentle breeze from | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
the West. Into tomorrow evening we will see a scattering of showers | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
continuing for the West, otherwise mainly dry. And for Sunday this area | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
of high pressure just beginning to establish itself. So for Sunday | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
itself we hold onto a fair amount of cloud, one or two showers across the | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
North, mist, low cloud, highs of 18 or 19 degrees. Into Monday more in | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
the way of sunshine and warm. Thank you. A reminder of tonight 's main | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
news. Another great day at Rio for the Scottish athletes in Team GB. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning have taken gold. Two Turkish men | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
convicted of smuggling ?500 million worth of cocaine on a ship in the | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
North Sea have been jailed for a total of 42 years. And that's | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
reporting Scotland. I'll be back with the late bulletin just after | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
the ten o'clock news. Until then have a very good evening. | :27:39. | :27:40. |