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travel -- treble treble. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Ten years after he won his defamation case against the News | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
of the World, judges tell Tommy Sheridan | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
The owners of the oil rig that ran aground on the Isle of Lewis | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Also on the programme, with hopes of more medals | :00:21. | :00:32. | |
for Scottish athletes in Rio, we catch up with one of the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
He's the fictional master of the dark art of spin - | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
today we hear from his real life counterparts at Holyrood. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
And Scotland captain Scott Brown brings his international career | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
to an end to concentrate on Celtic's European campaign. | :00:45. | :01:06. | |
Judges have turned down a bid by the owners of the News | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
of the World to get a retrial of the Tommy Sheridan | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
They've also ruled that the award of ?200,000 to Mr Sheridan back | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
In August 2006 Tommy Sheridan with his wife at his side merged from a | :01:20. | :01:35. | |
court room in Edinburgh, victorious. He denied lurid stories about his | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
sex life published in the News of the World and sued the newspaper | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
group for defamation. Likening it to a David and Goliath battle to | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
protect his reputation What we have done in the last FIA weeks is the | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
equivalent of regret that taking on Real Madrid, in the Bernabeu, and | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
beating them on penalty, that is what we have done. Thanks very much. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
These were the headlines which prompted that case. Allegations that | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
MrSheridan had adulterous relationships and attended a | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
swingers club. Four years later MrSheridan was back in court, this | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
time to High Court in Glasgow, where he was convicted of lying, during | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
that defamation case, an sentenced to three years in jail. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
The real reason why he has been imprisoned today, is because he has | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
fought injustice, inequality, with every beat of his heart. | :02:36. | :02:45. | |
Now that MrSheridan was a convicted perjurer news group argued the | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
verdict should be set aside, along with the ?200,000 he had been | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
awarded in damages. Three Court of Session judges | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
rejected that today, saying for example the jury in the defamation | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
case were entitled to conclude that MrSheridan was not perfect, that he | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
lied to hem in some respects but that he was not someone who drank | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
champagne, participated in orgies and indulged in kinky sex. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Tommy Sheridan the long time campaigner was firmly focussed on | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
family matters today, with his father recovering after a heart | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
attack last night. He posted on Twitter. Beat criminal cancer which | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
Murdoch's NGN respects. -- respects. The News of the World at the centre | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
of case has of course being closed, the newspaper group today expressed | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
their disappointment in the ruling and said they are considering their | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
options. They will have to reflect on the | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
view of the judges that a court should be slow to interfere with | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
juriry's decision, meanwhile the Sheridans await payment of the | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
damages awarded to them here, ten years ago. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Efforts could be made this weekend to refloat the stricken oil rig | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
which ran aground in a storm on the west coast of Lewis | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
Salvage experts have today continued their work to assess | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
the damage to the structure and carry out necessary repairs | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
in order to pull the rig off the shoreline. | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
Last night, senior figures from Transocean, the rig's owners, | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
were at a public meeting in Carloway last night which was attended | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
The meeting was cordial and Transocean promised to make good any | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
damage caused by all the representatives skirted round the | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
question of why the rig stranded in the first place. A lot of | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
preparation work has been done and the salvage teams moved most of the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
remaining diesel from tanks below sea-level to tanks higher up. We | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
have compressors and everything coming which is critical to the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
operation, we will start testing in a critical area of the rig itself. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Compressors arrived today to start pumping come pressed air into | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
damaged tanks to increase buoyancy There will be a lot of work round | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
that over the next 24 hours, the personnel onboard the rig itself, up | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
until this time, they have been working up to the hour hour of | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
darkness, but a decision has been made they will start working 24/7, | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
so there will be a lot more happening onboard the rig itself, in | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
preparation for the refloat. The question uppermost in people's minds | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
now is when the rig will finally be towed away. I think at this point, | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
until we know what must be done for the refloat it is difficult to say, | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
so I think the best tide is on Sunday, we still have some | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
assessment to do. I honestly think it is unlikely, but it is possible, | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
but until we fully understand what we must do to refloat, we can't | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
answer that question. This morning anti-pollution equipment was | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
deployed just as an exercise in case it is needed to safeguard fishing | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
sites to the south-west of The Stranding site. Everything now | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
depends on the progress made with a flooded tank, if the salvage crew | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
isn't confident, that the rig can be moved safely on this weekend's high | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
tides, the unexpected visitor will have to wait here for another two | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
weeks for the next high tides. Six teenagers have been arrested | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
in connection with an alleged It comes after unconfirmed reports | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
they found a baby's remains in a bag NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
it could not comment on the alleged discovery at the secure facility | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
which is used to store The teenagers, who are aged | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
13 and 14 years old, have been reported to the Children's | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
Reporter. A video appearing to | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
show the discovery has Scotland has lost almost 1,000 Fire | :06:44. | :06:44. | |
and Rescue staff since the single The drop includes both front-line | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
firefighters, and people The Fire and Rescue Service | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
says the drop reflects planned efficiency savings, | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
but concerns have been expressed Andrew Black is with us for more | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
on the story. Our fire and rescue services play | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
a vital role in keeping us safe. And back in 2013, with money tight, | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Scotland's eight regional services merged into a national one, | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
the idea being to save cash while protecting | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
front line services. Today we learned that since that | :07:21. | :07:21. | |
merger, there's been a fall of 667 In addition, the number of people | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
working in support or control room Now, making savings | :07:25. | :07:37. | |
is what the merger was supposed to do, but what's worrying | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
the Fire Brigades Union is that front line firefighters | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
are leaving and aren't In some cases the union says that | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
means fire engines having The engines we are talking about are | :07:49. | :08:05. | |
whole time crew, they have been put there in a manner and that is based | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
on risk. So also we talk about firefighter is down to speed of | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
response, for effective intervention, now there is a chance, | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
if these appliances are unavailable, that risk increases of not getting | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
In response to these concerns, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
says this staffing fall reflects its planned reforms to make | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Since we became a single service, we still have these the number same | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
number of fire stations when we were eight. So we had 356 fire stations | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
prior to reform. We still have those today, and we have not removed any | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
vital emergency vehicles from those stations either. How we deploy them | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
has changed in becoming a single service to harmonise and transform | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
and standardise the way they go about our business. | :08:58. | :08:58. | |
So right now the general message is that there's no cause | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
for major concern just yet, and a firefighter recruitment drive | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
But given that the spending watchdog last year warned that Scottish Fire | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
and Rrescue faces a budget gap of more than ?42 million by 2019, | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
there may yet be more tough decisions to take. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
There are just over two days left of the Olympic Games in Rio. It has | :09:18. | :09:34. | |
been the best overseas games for Scotland with 12 medals so far and | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
still chances of medals. We spoke tour judo bronze medallist who say | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
success in lie owe has been infectious. This is the athlete | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
villages home to those who have been competing here and also home to | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
those who have been winning medals, like this one here, Olympic bronze | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
medal for Sally cop way, many congratulations, afew days for it to | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
sing in now. Reflect on that bronze medal for us. On the fifth day of | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the Olympics so I have had a couple of days to let it sink in. I can't | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
believe I am standing here with this medal round my neck. I have to keep | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
reminding myself sometimes and go in my bag and keep looking at it. Oh my | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
God I have an Olympic medal. It has been a wonderful Olympics from a | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Team GB point of view. You were among one of the early medal winner, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
do you think people like yourself helped inspire the team to galvanise | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
them if you like? I think, so when you see the other team members doing | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
so well and the medals are like rallying up, and think this inspires | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
people to think I want one of them. I think the momentum carries on, now | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
we are second in the table and it is amazing. You are a proud Scot, | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Edinburgh is your home, you compete for Scotland at the Commonwealth | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
game, here it is for Team GB. Scottish athletes have been doing | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
well. A special feel grorg to be part of that? It is. You have Team | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
GB and Scotland within that, and everyone is doing so well. I think | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
everyone who is looking up to the Scottish athletes, or Team GB | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
athletes it can inspire everybody to chase their dreams and you never | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
know, you could be standing here one day holding an Olympic medal and | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
having your dreams complete. What what about you in the few churks | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
back here, or Tokyo? It is not out of the question, at the moment I am | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
going to celebrate my medal, enjoy the moment. Go on holiday and then | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
take it year-by-year and, as long as I am still enjoying judo I am not | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
going anywhere. Hold your medal up, proud for people back home. Thank | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
you for talking to us. Sally Conway, an impressive win other after bronze | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
medal in the judo, elsewhere today Catriona Matthew continues her third | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
round at the Olympic golf course and later this evening, our time at 1.40 | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
Eilidh McColgan goes in the final of the 5,000 metres. | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
To the Edinburgh Festival now and the Festival of Politics, | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
where light is being shed on what is often | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
Spindoctors are loved and loathed in modern culture - | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the best known being the fictional foul-mouth Malcolm Tucker | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
But some very real former special advisers gathered | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
at the Scottish Parliament today to explain their role, | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
and our political correspondent Andrew Kerr joined them. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
No phones, come on. I have to go. Terry. Yes. Get on the phone to the | :12:24. | :12:35. | |
BBC. Come on. Malcolm Tucker t art of the special adviser, the ironic | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
title at the festival of politics, audience members are keen to hear | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
about the Dark Arts, which can be a bit of a mystery. | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
I think that spin-doctors have a very strong hand in telling people | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
how to present themselves, how to conduct themselves in their own live | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
TV or whenever they are speaking to the public. I don't think we need to | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
rely on them entirely to be able to communicate with politicians. We | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
have that conshin or misconception from things on the television and | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
things like west wing and stuff like that, you wonder what goes on behind | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
closed doors. Now a rare opportunity to find out what goes on behind the | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
scenes in the corridors of power. Five characters who sold their | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
skills to political masters. One of the most famous Alistair Campbell | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
was a controversial character, many question whether such people are | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
necessary. Paul Sinclair who worked for Gordon Brown certainly thinks | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
so. In Government, politician needs special advisers to make sure agreed | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
policy is implemented. I would describe them as drain cleaner, to | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
make sure there is no blockage in the system and what we agreed | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
happens and largely that happens harmoniously. Kevin Pringle was Alex | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
Salmond's right-hand man, known as a harmoniously. Kevin Pringle was Alex | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
gentleman but he could get frustrated too. What I would tent | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
tend to do was swear but only after I come off the phone, that is why I | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
suspect they didn't hear me swear very often, because I would get rid | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
of this frustration after I had the conversation and try to get it out | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
of my system. And Ramsey Jones, fresh from Downing Street, explains | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
how special advisers negotiate the Civil Service. There were one or two | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
times when I was tempted to be like Tonguer but I like to think I used | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
the power of persuasion rather an vocabulary. You would get frustrated | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
at journalists too Never, they are the most wonderful breed of people | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
it has been my misfortune to deal with. They emphasise the importance | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
of the truth. We managed to get one blast. I wouldn't compare myself to | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Malcolm Tucker but I remember a time at the Labour Party Conference when | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
your questions were completely and utterly out of order. | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
Scotland captain Scott Brown is retiring from international | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
football, after earning 50 caps in a decade. | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
The 31-year-old Celtic midfielder says he can no longer juggle | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
the demands of domestic and European club football | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
One former teammate says the pressure of having Rangers back | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
in the Scottish Premiership may have played a part in his decision. | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
Here at the Celtic training complex the manager Brendan Rogers is | :15:13. | :15:27. | |
putting Scott Brown and the rest of the squad through their paces. Scott | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Brown's in top form, in great condition, so why at the age of 31 | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
is he quitting international football? The player himself said it | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
is no secret that I have suffered some injuries in his career, once | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
you get over 30, you have to protect your body more. | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
As for the Scotland manager, he said: | :15:46. | :16:02. | |
The 200018 World Cup qualifying campaign is about to commence, while | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
he has suffered injury problems at 31 is he retiring too soon I respect | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
his decision, but I think for the sake of the nation it is a bit early | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
because I think he has a lot to contribute. When you consider the | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
campaign over two years, would extend it a bit further, so I think | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
with respect to his commitments at Celtic, it might be a wise decision | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
on his part. But a former team-mate thinks new | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
challenges on the domestic fronts may have played a part in his | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
decision The pressure of having Rangers back in the league and | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
wanting to excel couldout weigh the schedule. A tough decision for the | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
player but the right call is how the Celtic manager described it, good | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
news for Celtic as well he admits as playing for the Scottish champions | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
now becomes Scott Brown's sole Football Focus. | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
European football's governing body Uefa has begun disciplinary | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
It comes after some of the club's supporters | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
displayed Palestine flags during their Champions League | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
qualifier against Israeli side Hapoel Be'er Sheva on Wednesday. | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
Andy Murray has had an easy passage through to the quarter finals | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
The Olympic Champion beat the South African Kevin Anderson | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
That sets up a meeting with Bernard Tomic in the final eight. | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Elsewhere, the second and third seeds Stan Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
A look at other stories from across the country. | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
A cyclist who sustained serious head injuries when he came off his bike | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
earlier this week has died in hospital. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
22-year-old James Murray was from Wanlockhead | :17:42. | :17:42. | |
in Dumfries and Galloway, where the accident | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
Danus Skene, the SNP candidate who narrowly lost against Orkney | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael in last year's general | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
He died in the early hours of this morning following surgery in London. | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
Mr Skene was 72 and also stood for the Shetland seat in the recent | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
The Trussell Trust's opened its first foodbank in Shetland. | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
The Salvation Army has been handing out food parcels on the islands | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
for many years but demand for help has increased. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
It's been blamed on the downturn in the oil industry, | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
the end of some big construction projects, and changes | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
A drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes for more than 50 years could also | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
Researchers at Dundee University say Metformin could potentially be used | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
It's already believed it could help treat | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
The First Minister has launched a Reading Challenge, | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
aimed at encouraging a love of books amongst children. | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
Nicola Sturgeon joined pupils at the Edinburgh | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
International Book Festival, making origami books - | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
but had to be given a hand by author Alice Melvin. | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Ms Sturgeon says a love of reading can help boost attainment | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
In rugby, the New Zealander Dave Rennie will take over | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
as Head Coach of Pro12 team Glasgow Warriors next year. | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
He's currently in charge of the Chiefs in his homeland. | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
Meanwhile, the man in charge of Scottish Rugby Union says it | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
wants to attract substantial private investment in the country's two | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
Pro12 teams, otherwise the game in this country will fall further | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
Glasgow Warriors are a success story. Like the country's other | :19:31. | :19:48. | |
professional team, Edinburgh, they are funded by the Scottish Rugby | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
union. It costs the governing body about ?10 million per season. Now, | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
the man at the top wants some serious private investment. But | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
there are conditions. We would have to have very, very rich people. Rich | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
people that share our values and what we think we need to deliver for | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
Scottish rugby and for the national team. We have two teams here in the | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
pipeline for the Scottish national team, by and large, so we have to | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
protect that and have like-minded people with big pockets. | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
protect that and have like-minded Warriors the wading in cash from | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
sugar daddies? There are doubters. I think he knows it's not go to | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
happen, but he has every right to put it out there and say to people, | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
if you have a spare ?60 million, invest in Scottish rugby. He is also | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
talking about shares, it's just a glorified sponsorship agreement | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
because you will have no say. To make it more attractive, they want | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
the Pro12 league expanded. It's currently made up of teams from | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Italy. They want new teams from North | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
America to be added. What we have done his work with people that are | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
testing those markets. We are going to find out if it is feasible. The | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
early indications are that there is a good deal of interest. Bailey | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
Gwynne with warriors in 2015 has joined a team in France. The | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Scottish Rugby union fears if there is not substantial new investment in | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
Scottish rugby, more players will leave for higher wages. | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
Perth has launched a bid to become the UK City of Culture in 2021. It | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
is the latest to bed, with Paisley, commentary, Sunderland and | :21:39. | :21:39. | |
Stoke-on-Trent in the running. It started with a flash mob, a | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
celebration of what Perth can offer all year round if it wins the title | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
of City of Culture. They've got the concert hall, a wonderful asset to | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
the city. We are currently refurbishing Perth Theatre. The | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
building behind us will be refurbished, it will be an | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
exhibition Centre. Perth Museum and Art Gallery is go to have a major | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
refurbishment as well. There is a lot going on, and we have the | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
infrastructure that can support it. But there is competition for the | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
title, which comes with the promise of a multi-million pounds economic | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
benefit. Paisley is among several places already in the running. I | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
think it is healthy to have good competition, and fair play to the | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
fair city of Perth, they will be good competition, it is a very | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
different offer from Paisley. We want to be Scotland's bid, of | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
course. But we have good competition and we absolutely believe that | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Paisley has what it takes to win the competition. What makes Perth's bid | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
different from the others is the location, the amazing landscape, | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
community arts and the people that want to be part of it. Although | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
there are still some hearts to win on home turf. I don't think so. Not | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
enough going on? No, too small. Local people, I think they could | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
support it better. One home-grown actor that still lives here believes | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Perth has what it takes. I would not say people would say, yes, of | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
course, that is the City of Culture, but I think culture is the people | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
and there was a lot to offer. We come from an historical background | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
of culture. We have William Souter, Andy Gray, Ewan McGregor, but people | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
have a lot to offer. I think something like this will excite them | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
into creating something and bringing Perth to life. That ?20 million | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
lifeline for the city's cultural development will continue, | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
regardless of whether they win or lose. The winning city is announced | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
next spring. Lets see what we can expect from the | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
weather. What a wet day for some parts. There | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
was some sunshine coming across the coast. On the satellite picture, the | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
main event is the stripe of blue, rain edging northwards. While there | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
was some sunshine on offer, many weather watchers captured scenes | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
like this. Staying rather cloudy and dumped tonight. There is the rain, | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
edging northwards, which in all parts in towards Orkney as well. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Behind it, a number of showers developing. Dry overnight, but still | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
wet at times. Temperatures in towns and cities are about 11 or 15 | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Celsius, not a cold night. Low pressure still win us. The rain is | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
edging towards Shetland and the centre of the lower means that we | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
will see some heavy, potentially thundery downpours across central | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
and southern Scotland. It starts promising enough. Watch what | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
happens, the showers gathering force and edging across the South into the | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
central belt. The exact northern extent is open to some doubt. Most | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
likely, to the central lowlands and the South, heaviest across the | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
borders, in towards the capital. The wind will be fresh at times from the | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
east. After a dry morning, the north-east coast will see some | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
showers to the afternoon. Further west, dryer, decent spells of | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
sunshine across the North West, 21 or 22 Celsius. All the improving, | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
shuttle and having reigned for most of the day. If you are hill walking | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
or climbing, across the north-west, sunshine on offer. Wind speed at the | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
summit and temperatures across the Galloway and border hills, some | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
heavy rain showers merged together. For many eastern areas, after a | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
bright and sunny morning, expect torrential downpours for the | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
afternoon. The showers continue to swirl around with the low-pressure | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
system as we head through Saturday evening and overnight. Sunday, and | :25:59. | :26:10. | |
the low is pulling away lull in proceedings, something a bit more | :26:11. | :26:11. | |
cheerful for the west and proceedings, something a bit more | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
south-west. Sunshine on offer and feeling a good deal warmer. Cloudier | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
towards the East with one or two showers around. In the sunshine, 20 | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
or 21 Celsius. Next week, high pressure loading the continent, | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
low-pressure and the Atlantic and a weather front in between. That is | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
the dividing line between warmth coming in from the continent and | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
unsettled conditions and West. Where that goes will determine whether we | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
are likely to get. We will keep you posted. | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Judges have turned down a bid by the owners of the use of the world to | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
get a retrial in the Tommy Sheridan defamation case. They have also | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
ruled that the award to Mr Sheridan in 2006 will stand. | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
I'll be back with the late bulletin just after the ten o'clock news. | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
With just two days of Olympic action still to come, | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
we'll leave you tonight with a look back at some of those Scottish | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
Great Britain are in the lead, but only just! Callan Skinner brings it | :27:05. | :27:20. | |
home for Great Britain. Hanging in for Great Britain! 100 out, the | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
heads are still high. They defend their Olympic title and they have | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
done it in such style! Carnival time here! Bennett, Polly Swan, a real | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
driver and powerhouse in the middle of this. Sally Conway has wasted | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
hardly any time. What are we going to see from David? Just outside. | :27:46. | :27:58. | |
Silver again. Great Britain are on the board, they have something from | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
the final. Great Britain leading in the race for gold in the women's | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
team pursuit, with Laura Trott still on the track, Elinor Barker and | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
Katie Archibald. Katie Archibald, in on the track, Elinor Barker and | :28:13. | :28:21. | |
her first Olympic Games. Coming away with a silver medal, that is | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
brilliant. Catherine, vindicated, coming back. | :28:26. | :28:28. |