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Brexit. That is all from us, it is goodbye from me and on BBC One we | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
can now join the BBC's teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight on Reporting Scotland: with a week to go until the election, | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
education and child poverty top the campaign agenda. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
Edinburgh University apologises after sending final year students | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
an email which implied they'd failed their final exams. | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
Immediately I panicked thinking that I must have failed something, | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
something has gone wrong and I'm not going to be able to graduate. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
The prosecution in the Craig Whyte trial asks the jury to convict | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
the former Rangers owner of acquiring the club by fraud. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Concerns about the safety of tram tracks in Edinburgh | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
And Andy Murray battles through to the third | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
With exactly one week to go until the election, | :00:46. | :01:04. | |
political leaders have been arguing about the future for | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
The issue was raised on the campaign trail this afternoon and earlier | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
at Holyrood during questions to the First Minister. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
This from our political editor Brian Taylor. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
The new broom at Holyrood, or at least a little fresh paint. But | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
inside, the battle lines are fixed and familiar. Nicola Sturgeon isn't | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
personally up for election in this Westminster contest, but her record | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
in devolved government is up for scrutiny. And Ruth Davidson said | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
that an teacher recruitment, that record was poor. First of all they | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
had too many trainees, with the consequence that they ended up on | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
the dole and not in the classrooms, and then they cut it so drastically | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
that we don't have enough teachers. Does this sound like the record of a | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
competent government? Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland schools' | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
record was better than elsewhere in the UK, and she warned that a UK | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
Tory victory would have a devastating impact on Scotland's | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
children. We need to make sure that over the next seven days we don't | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
end up with another Westminster government that is taking action and | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
making cuts that are likely push an additional 1 million children across | :02:27. | :02:36. | |
the UK into poverty. All the opposition leaders accused her of | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
neglecting her job in pursuit of independence, she said it was her | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
rivals who are obsessed with the constitution. And one SNP candidate | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
has gone further. George Kerrigan placed an ad in his local paper | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
insisted the UK election is not about independence but about a | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
strong Scottish voice. Labour said that is desperation. Labour's topic | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
was hell. They paraded a hospital bed sheet signed by petitioners | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
worried about health care. Again, the First Minister said Scotland's | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
record was better than Labour in Wales. Deftly binding a bouquet of | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
Labour red roses, Kezia Dugdale agreed these elections are about | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
choice. We have seen an increase of 40,000 children in Scotland living | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
in poverty. That is a scandal and it should shame both the SNP and the | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Tories. Willie Rennie sets off on a flying Finnish tour of key | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Westminster seats with the Holyrood offer. Liberal Democrats want to put | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
a modest penny on income tax to give children of all backgrounds the | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
chance to succeed in life. And the Tories publish a pledge card with | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
support for the union number one. And Nicola Sturgeon meets voters of | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
the future, while urging their elders to back her party. At | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
Holyrood, the leaders join together to back a cancer charity, but for | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
the next week, their political differences will be on display as | :04:09. | :04:09. | |
they seek your votes. And Brian Taylor joins me | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
now from Edinburgh. With a week to go to the election, | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
how are the parties standing Brian? Politics is rarely pure and never | :04:17. | :04:28. | |
simple, and perhaps in this curious but intriguing election, we can | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
detect three levels. You have the UK contest primarily driven by Brexit, | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
that was the cause given good other prime ministers are calling the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
election. You have the suggestions of Labour narrowing the Conservative | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
lead in some polls, others suggesting the lead is still | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
relatively comfortable, which would mean a decent majority, but the real | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
intriguing fight in which of course Scotland is involved, and then you | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
have the battle in Scotland, the battle that is perhaps dominated by | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
the SNP because they are defending 56 out of 59 seats, basic | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
arithmetic, and within that you have such polls as there have been | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
suggesting the SNP is still pretty far in the lead with the Tories and | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
the Labour Party fighting for second place. But then you have the third | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
election, the third type of election, where individual | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
candidates meet individual constituents in individual seats to | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
win their individual votes which accumulate into victory and | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
ultimately a UK Government, and it is those close encounters of the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
third kind which will determine this election. Brian Taylor, thank you | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
bro much. Tax has been a battleground issue | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
in this general election campaign. The Scottish Conservatives | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
have repeatedly claimed that under SNP policies, | :05:44. | :05:44. | |
Scotland has become "the highest But the SNP contend that income tax | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
alone doesn't represent the whole Laura Maceever has run the issue | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
through a reality check. From April, the UK Government raised | :05:51. | :06:04. | |
the threshold for those paying a 40p rate of income tax to ?45,000. The | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Conservatives at Westminster aim to raise it to ?50,000 by 2020/21, but | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
Scottish finance secretary, Derek Mackay, using new powers devolved to | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Holyrood, froze that threshold at ?43,000. As a result, in the current | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
year, more than 370,000 Scots who are in this bracket pay more tax | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
than those earning the same amount south of the border. For those | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
earning ?45,000, the differences about ?400. However, while some pay | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
more income tax, after a succession of freezes, most people in Scotland | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Payless council tax than those in England. The average band D property | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
in Scotland pays less than the average in England, the difference | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
is about ?429. The Scottish Government recently raised the | :06:58. | :07:12. | |
higher bands, capital E to capital a H, but the average bill for each | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
band is still lower in Scotland, on average ?371 cheaper than in | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
England. So the reality check verdict, around 370,000 pay more | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
income tax than those earning the same amount south of the border, | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
however council tax is generally lower in Scotland. The SNP also say | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
that Scotland has a more generous benefits system, including free | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
prescriptions, free personal care for the elderly and free university | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
tuition. All of the parties' tax plans are available on the BBC News | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
website. Edinburgh University has apologised | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
unreservedly to hundreds of students who got an e-mail which implied | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
they'd failed their final exams. The e-mail, sent to them just | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
after midnight last night, told them they wouldn't be able | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
to graduate next month. The university is now trying to find | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
out what went wrong. Our education correspondent | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
Jamie McIvor is at Edinburgh This is an anxious enough time for | :08:04. | :08:15. | |
students who have just set their final exams. The exam papers are | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
being marked just now, students should know in the next few weeks | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
whether or not they have passed or failed, and if they have passed, | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
what class of degree they will be getting. But some students here had | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
a sleepless night worrying that they had failed. For a university which | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
prides itself on its international reputation, this affair is hugely | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
embarrassing, but for many students, it was simply hugely worrying, even | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
distressing. Calum MacLeod to become a teacher, but before he starts his | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
teacher he'll need to get a good degree. | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
Just after midnight, he got a disturbing e-mail. I panicked, | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
thinking that I must have failed something, something has gone wrong, | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
and I am not going to be able to graduate, so I logged into the same | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
university portal which had the same message saying I couldn't graduate | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
this summer and that I wouldn't be able to go to the ceremony and if | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
this was wrong, to get in touch, but with it being during the night, I | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
couldn't get in touch with anyone in the university right away. This is | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
the e-mail sent to him and it is thought hundreds of students. It was | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
headed graduation ceremony cancelled, no award, and it told the | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
students they were not expected to complete studies until later in the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
year. The university is blaming a system error. Student leaders want | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
assurances this error won't be repeated. Hundreds of students were | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
immensely stressed last night because they found out about the | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
news through social media and couldn't contact anybody at the | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
University and thought they would be unable to graduate. In going | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
forward, the university has to make sure nothing like this ever happens | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
again. The university has apologised unreservedly, but didn't want to do | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
any interviews today. It sent students another e-mail at 9:30am | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
reassuring them that no graduation ceremonies had been cancelled and | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
saying they would get the exam result as scheduled within the next | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
few weeks. The university is still trying to work out exactly what it | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
was which went wrong, but this was clearly a very serious mistake even | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
if there may well be an innocent enough explanation for it. Thank you | :10:25. | :10:25. | |
very much. A jury has been asked to convict | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
former Rangers owner Craig Whyte of acquiring the club by fraud | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
in May 2011. Summing up the prosecution case, | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
Alex Prentice QC told the High Court in Glasgow that Mr Whyte took over | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
the football club using money From the High Court in Glasgow, | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Andrew Black reports. With evidence concluded in this | :10:39. | :10:50. | |
trial, prosecutor Alex printed QC told the jury that despite its | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
apparent public is, the Crown's case was relatively simple. Craig Whyte | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
did not have the money for his takeover of Rangers. In his closing | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
speech, he said the Crown says Mr White through his company bought the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
football club without a single penny of his own, and used money that he | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
was not entitled to. The trial heard previous Rangers owner Sir David | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
Murray sold his majority shareholding in the club to Mr Whyte | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
for ?1. The deal also required Mr Whyte to take an ?80 million of bank | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
that and put ?5 million into the playing squad. It's alleged Mr Whyte | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
try to conceal that he helped fund the takeover through an agreement | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
over season tickets. Alex Prentice told the jury that this case was not | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
about public inquiry into how Rangers was run at a corporate | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
level, it was a case about whether a crime had been committed and whether | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
Mr Whyte was responsible. Mr 20s said the answer to both those | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
questions was yes. Donald Findlay, QC, representing Mr Whyte, will make | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
his closing remarks to the jury tomorrow. Mr Whyte denies acquiring | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
Rangers by fraud in 2011. He denies a second charge under the companies | :12:11. | :12:11. | |
act. 90 jobs are to go at the oil | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
giant Shell's North Sea Staff were told about | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
the redundancies at Shell says the decision allows them | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
to maintain competitiveness and ensure the long-term | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
sustainability of their The jobs will go by | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
the end of the year. The Transport Minister is to meet | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
safety campaigners after the death The woman was hit by a minibus | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
after her bike became Edinburgh Council is already facing | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
dozens of compensation claims from cyclists who say they've been | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
injured in accidents This is one of Edinburgh's easiest | :12:50. | :13:01. | |
junctions at the West End of Princes Street, and it was here during | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
yesterday's morning rush hour that the cyclist's bike got caught up in | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the tram tracks, causing her to topple over into the pathway of an | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
oncoming tour bus. The 24 you rolled was taken to Edinburgh Royal | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
Infirmary, but police later confirmed that she had died of as a | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
result of her injuries. This lawyer represents 141 cyclist who claim | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
they have been hurt after falling on Edinburgh's tram tracks, and he | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
warned more than two years ago that it was a death waiting to happen. | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
The response of the council to the network and the complaints made | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
about it has been characterised as one of bloody minded arrogance, and | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
complete and utter indifference to the safety of others. Before the | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
trams were even on the tracks, they were warned about the dangers, they | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
were told it was unsafe and people would be injured. They were told | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
that we all feared somebody may eventually die. That is exactly what | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
has happened. Cameras show the kinds of hazards faced by the capital's | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
cyclists. We've now done about 29 operations around the body, a lot of | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
upper limb, clavicle, wrist, elbow, but lower limb injuries, we have had | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
a skull fracture and broken hips. Of these injuries have caused suffering | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
and disability of time off work for people that are just going to work. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
Cyclists raised their concerns before the trams were even | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
introduced, and they say the council could be doing more to reduce | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
accidents. On the junctions you could put in separation so you have | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
separate lights that only the cyclists would be going through | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
rather than motor vehicle is at the same time, so they can clear the | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
area where the tram tracks are, or you could have a separate lane going | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
along Princes Street which would make more sense, you wouldn't have | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
to mix in with cars and buses and the tram as well. Edinburgh City | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
Council say they have gone to every effort to raise awareness about the | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
impact of the trams on road users, and they say road markings have been | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
introduced to direct cyclists along safe routes. But it will now be for | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
the courts to decide if that's been enough. Graham Stewart, Reporting | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
Scotland, Edinburgh. You're watching BBC | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Reporting Scotland. A reminder of tonight's | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
top story: With a week to go until the election, | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
education and child poverty top And still to come: Limbering up | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
for the British and Irish Lions Three Scots will start | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
in the first match. Back to the election now, | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
and the latest in our Today it's Scotland's | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
most northerly seat, The seat was held by | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Alistair Carmichael in 2015 for the Liberal Democrats by just | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
817 votes in a close Stretching from Orkney to Shetland, | :15:50. | :16:04. | |
it's Scotland's most northerly constituency. Machine farming and | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
oil are the mainstays of the economy. For nearly 70 years, voters | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
have been sending liberals to Westminster, but as the political | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
tide turning in the Northern Isles? We've got pretty good quality | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
education here. Liberal Democrat candidate Alistair Carmichael is | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
campaigning hard to retain the seat. Alistair Carmichael is duly elected | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
as the member of Parliament for the Orkney and Shetland constituency. He | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
held it in 2015 with a vastly reduced majority of 817 votes. But | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
he was in choppy waters after the result. It was revealed he had | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
backed the leaking of a document which suggested Nicola Sturgeon | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
wanted David Cameron to be Prime Minister, a claim she denied. He | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
faced calls to resign, and was taken to an election court by campaigners. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Judges say he told a lie about what he knew about the memo in a TV | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
interview, but ruled he hadn't committed an electoral offence. To | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
be in politics is to be judged, I have always known and accepted that, | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
and that is the judgment people will make on the 8th of June, but people | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
here are fair-minded, they will judge me not just on one incident | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
but the 16 years of service I have given, the things I have achieved, | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
the people I have helped in these communities. Mickey waves is the SNP | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
candidate, 26 you rolled Miriam Brett. Joining her is prominent | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
party candidate Murray Black. The SNP offer something different at a | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Westminster level, whether that is our opposition to posterity, our | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
opposition to ?180 billion being squandered on nuclear weapons or our | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
opposition to apparent policy such as the bedroom tax. Labour and Tory | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
party fortunes in the Northern Isles have ebbed and flowed down the | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
years. We will honour the decision made in the referendum, we will | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
stand up to the plans for another independence referendum and we will | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
make sure there is a strong voice in Westminster. So we can vote in a | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Labour Party for the many, not the few, and in places like Orkney and | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Shetland, they will support people like our fishermen and | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
agriculturalists to make our lives the best that they can be. At | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
catching votes again is fisherman Robert Smith. Standing free Ukip, | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
he's looking to convince the electorate that his party is still | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
relevant post Brexit. It's going to be a bunfight between | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
the Liberals and the SNP probably but we need a big UK wide vote to | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
put pressure on Theresa May to get this negotiating done properly. One | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
man who wants to take the helm and the Orkney and Shetland told her own | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
independence is Stuart Hill. And campaigning to take back Orkney and | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
Shetland's already existing sovereignty and independence. It | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
doesn't exist with the UK, it is ours and belongs to the people of | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Shetland and Orkney. Voters will decide which side to cast their | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
vote, opting to stay liberal or turn the political tide and vote SNP. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Sport now, and Andy Murray is safely through to the third | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
But the world number one was made to work very hard for his four-set | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
victory over Slovakia's Martin Klizan. | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
Watching courtside in Paris was Kheredine Idessane. | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
Selfies in the sun for some, hats for the heat for others, someone had | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
even been reading up on Scotland's world number one, in preparation for | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
the arrival of Andy Murray on the Susan Long long court. The usual | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
exercises for his recovering elbow but a sluggish start was compounded | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
by an early break of serve. Could he somehow spark himself into life? | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
Flashes of inspiration helped him recover the break of serve. | :20:10. | :20:30. | |
But while he was error-prone in the tie-break, Klizan was cynical. -- | :20:31. | :20:44. | |
clinical. And then the fretful and grumpy Andy Murray turned into the | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
calmer and more focused one with immediate results. The scrapper is | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
scrapping. The top seed broke ties and easily levelled the match at | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
1-1. It was much the same in the third set as he looked more like | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
himself and eased further ahead. But the fourth set mirrored the first | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
from a 5-2 down to level things up from a 5-2 down to level things up | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
-- Murray. And if you're going to win, do it in style. | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
What a shot! Victory, yes, but far from vintage Andy Murray who knows | :21:21. | :21:30. | |
he will have to improve for the third round on Saturday which is a | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
rerun of last year's Olympic final against Argentina's Juan Martin Del | :21:36. | :21:36. | |
Potro. All three Scots in the British | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
and Irish lions squad are in the starting 15 for the first | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
match of their tour of New Zealand. Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
and Greig Laidlaw will all line up against the Provincial Barbarians | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
on Saturday. As David Currie reports, it's | :21:49. | :21:49. | |
a chance to improve their prospects of facing the world champion | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
All Blacks later this month. Not quite ready to roar, the Lions | :21:53. | :22:10. | |
limbering up in New Zealand. Stuart Hogg one of eight Scottish trio | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
playing in the opening match of the tour but don't read too much into | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
the line-up. The head coach begin play is partly based on attendance | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
at pre-tour training. -- picking players. We had 14 players in Wales | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
for the first week and 13 of them are involved in the first game and | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
the players who came in for the second week in Dublin, the players | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
who have been involved in the first two weeks of camp are primarily the | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
ones who are in the 23 involved in the first game. There are six games | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
before the first of three Test matches against the world champions, | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
New Zealand, and competition for places against the All Blacks will | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
be fierce. The Scots have an early chance to stake their claims. It is | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
a great opportunity for the players who have been selected for the first | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
match to go out and lay down a marker and I think for everyone, the | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
dream is to be involved in the Test matches. Tommy Seymour! Tommy | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
Seymour could have a real chance because George North's injury record | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
is not the best and there might be an opportunity and Stuart Hogg just | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
had to do what he has been doing and he hopefully it will be nailed on | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
and with three scrum halves Greig Laidlaw as a good chance of getting | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
capped at some point but for anybody to be capped is such a huge thing. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
The lions have already come face-to-face with a few New | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Zealanders on this tour. Some have gone head-to-head. Stuart Hogg even | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
got involved in some sort of seeing off. For the Scots in the party, the | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
real action starts on Saturday. After Reporting Scotland, | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
Glenn Campbell's here with another Ask The Leader, | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
and whose turn is it tonight, Glenn? All this week we're putting | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
Scotland's political leaders on the spot and tonight the Scottish | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, will face questions from our studio | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
audience here in Glasgow as Ask The Leader is live on BBC One just after | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
7pm. This time last week it was all the | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
talk of sunshine and barbecues but today is rather different. To | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
welcome in the ecological summer, cloudy and quite damp. And further | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
outbreaks of rain to come tonight. Understandably, many of the Weather | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
Watch pictures have leaden skies. That rate is quite persistent across | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
the hills in Argyll and part of Dumfries and Galloway and slowly | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
moving eastwards and north of the central lowlands the rain is lighter | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
and more patchy. A mild night with temperatures around nine to 13 | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Celsius in towns and cities but tomorrow morning will be cloudy and | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
dump with the heaviest rain in the rush hour across the borders and the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
capital and Aberdeenshire -- cloudy and damp. Heading into the | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
afternoon, the rain will clear and the sun comes out and it should be a | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
pleasant afternoon for many. Here is a closer look mid-afternoon around | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
4pm, temperatures into the high teens and with light winds it will | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
feel quite pleasant. A couple of showers but you would be unlucky to | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
catch one. Further north and north east, a bit of cloud holding on in | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
parts of Aberdeenshire, a few showers around Caithness, Orkney | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
faring well but Shepley is fairly cloudy and damp for most of the | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
dates. The rest of the afternoon and evening, plenty of sunshine on the | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
cards but one to showers at times -- Shetland is fairly cloudy. | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Overnight, largely dry but at the weekend the low pressure is never | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
far away and that will influence conditions with a fair few showers | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
on Saturday and Sunday. In the morning, generally dry but in the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
afternoon the showers get going and one or two could be quite heavy and | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
perhaps the odd rumble of thunder as well. Sunday is similar, some | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
sunshine from some showers, mostly through the afternoon, and if you | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
get the sunshine temperatures in the mid-to high teens. That's the | :26:15. | :26:15. | |
forecast. Thank you. I'll be back with the headlines | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
at 8pm and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone on the | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
team right across the country, | :26:30. | :26:32. |