:00:00. > :00:00.Quincy Jones. Join me now on BBC Two.
:00:00. > :00:14.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:15. > :00:25.It seems that a bid to refloat a massive drilling rig stranded
:00:26. > :00:27.off the Isle of Lewis has been successful.
:00:28. > :00:30.Within the last half hour a combination of high tide and two
:00:31. > :00:32.tugs have managed to refloat the 17,000 tonne Transocean Winner
:00:33. > :00:35.which was blown ashore during a storm two weeks ago.
:00:36. > :00:38.However the success of the operation may still hang in the balance
:00:39. > :00:40.depending on how much damage the rig has sustained below the water.
:00:41. > :00:43.Up to a hundred people gathered on Dalmore beach this evening
:00:44. > :00:47.The salvage team hopes to tow the rig to the east side
:00:48. > :00:55.A BBC Scotland investigation has found that the vast majority
:00:56. > :00:57.of new schools built under a private funding scheme
:00:58. > :01:01.So-called Private Finance Initiatives, allow private
:01:02. > :01:05.companies to take a stake in, build, and then run
:01:06. > :01:09.17 schools built under one of these schemes in Edinburgh had to be
:01:10. > :01:22.closed for safety reasons as Fiona Walker reports.
:01:23. > :01:28.Pupils and teachers are back to work after the summer. They are about to
:01:29. > :01:31.schools that have been closed over safety fears. The problems came to
:01:32. > :01:39.light when this wall collapsed into the playground during a storm in
:01:40. > :01:43.January. It is really distressing to be honest. It has made it very
:01:44. > :01:47.upsetting for parents knowing that we trust when we drop our children
:01:48. > :01:50.off at school that they are going to be kept safe. We do not want them
:01:51. > :01:56.off at school that they are going to going to buildings that are unsafe.
:01:57. > :02:00.What surprised parents IDs are relatively new schools. They are
:02:01. > :02:05.always private financed ones which means they are built and managed by
:02:06. > :02:10.a private company. Hundreds have been built in the UK. No stakes are
:02:11. > :02:16.bought and sold on financial markets. The whole PFI machine is
:02:17. > :02:22.the profit machine. There are an awful lot of people making
:02:23. > :02:25.substantial sums of money out of it. This has nothing to do with and no
:02:26. > :02:32.benefit to Edinburgh was Mark schools. Research shown to the BBC
:02:33. > :02:37.suggests that in Scotland alone the vast majority of PFI schools are at
:02:38. > :02:43.least partially owned offshore. What we do not know is how much money is
:02:44. > :02:46.being made except for one seal which included the 17 Edinburgh schools
:02:47. > :02:53.where we know that one company made what some would call a super profit
:02:54. > :02:56.of more than 40%. That is a very high profit but what you have to
:02:57. > :03:00.look at in terms of the way the council provided that service is
:03:01. > :03:05.what happens to the project over the 30 year he viewed. Given what has
:03:06. > :03:11.happened, a Wall has fallen down, does that provide value for money?
:03:12. > :03:16.We did a comparison between public procurement and Private procurement
:03:17. > :03:23.and we find this model gave better value. This should be no bearing on
:03:24. > :03:27.safety but for families their faith in the system has been shaken.
:03:28. > :03:33.Nobody had really been held accountable for what has happened
:03:34. > :03:39.and putting so many children's lives at risk really. The enquiry into the
:03:40. > :03:42.construction failures at the Adam Bristol 's will consider whether the
:03:43. > :03:47.Private Finance scheme contributed to the crisis year. If it did it to
:03:48. > :03:51.change the way schools and hospitals are funded across the UK.
:03:52. > :03:53.The leader of the Labour party in Scotland says the leader
:03:54. > :03:55.of the UK party couldn't win a general election.
:03:56. > :03:59.Kezia Dugdale has said she will back Owen Smith in his leadership
:04:00. > :04:00.challenge to Jeremy Corbyn - the ballot papers for
:04:01. > :04:09.Our political correspondent Nick Eardly reports.
:04:10. > :04:13.The Scottish Labour leader and her UK counterpart in better times.
:04:14. > :04:16.Kezia Dugdale had said Jeremy Corbyn's election at Labour leader
:04:17. > :04:23.She thinks this man is in a better position to unite the party and win
:04:24. > :04:27.I think Owen Smith represents the best
:04:28. > :04:31.combination of radical policies, combined with a credible plan of how
:04:32. > :04:36.I came into politics to see a Labour government deliver a
:04:37. > :04:40.fairer and more equal United Kingdom.
:04:41. > :04:43.That isn't a view shared by everyone in Scottish Labour.
:04:44. > :04:46.Most local parties who backed the
:04:47. > :04:51.His supporters thinks he has the backing
:04:52. > :04:57.Jeremy offers the alternative that the
:04:58. > :05:02.It is looking good at the moment, from indications
:05:03. > :05:11.Who are some of the key players backing?
:05:12. > :05:14.Mr Smith has the support of Scotland's only
:05:15. > :05:24.The decision was criticised by Kezia Dugdale's
:05:25. > :05:30.He said plotters were putting self interest first.
:05:31. > :05:34.And the new Shadow Scottish Secretary says Kezia Dugdale needs
:05:35. > :05:37.to get behind Mr Corbyn if he wins again.
:05:38. > :05:47.Dave Anderson does not speak for the Scottish Labour Party,
:05:48. > :05:49.or Jeremy Corbyn either, on the issue
:05:50. > :05:51.of the Progressive Alliance of the SNP.
:05:52. > :05:53.I work with Jeremy Corbyn all the time.
:05:54. > :05:57.It is possible to have a free and frank debate and come to a different
:05:58. > :06:00.conclusion on an issue like this, and still work together.
:06:01. > :06:02.We will hear more from these two men and
:06:03. > :06:07.what they are offering Scots when they visit Glasgow on Thursday.
:06:08. > :06:11.And earlier I asked him, where does it leave Kezia Dugdale
:06:12. > :06:21.Some believe that the Scottish Labour leader should not have
:06:22. > :06:26.publicly endorsed a candidate in this race. The say Kezia Dugdale
:06:27. > :06:31.will have to work with whoever wins and her comments today could make a
:06:32. > :06:36.future relationship with Mr Corbyn more difficult. For her part Kezia
:06:37. > :06:40.Dugdale said this is so important she could not sit by and not
:06:41. > :06:46.Gebhardt opinion. The suggestion that she could mark meth Mr Corbyn
:06:47. > :06:50.again in the future if needs be. Ian are some serious splits in the
:06:51. > :06:55.Labour Party both in the UK and even Scotland. It will be a key challenge
:06:56. > :06:59.for the Labour leader and for Kezia Dugdale to try and heal some of
:07:00. > :07:02.those wins. It is unlikely to be an easy one.
:07:03. > :07:04.A lecturer has admitting killing his wife after wrongly
:07:05. > :07:07.believing he was not the father of their two children.
:07:08. > :07:09.Robert Kerr stabbed Xin Xin Liu at their home in Newton Mearns,
:07:10. > :07:13.He was originally charged with murder - but the Crown
:07:14. > :07:15.accepted his plea of culpable homicide on the grounds
:07:16. > :07:17.of diminished responsibility after it emerged he suffered
:07:18. > :07:20."an abnormality of the mind" at the time of the attack.
:07:21. > :07:23.The completion of a new children's hospital in Edinburgh is to be
:07:24. > :07:24.delayed, after two construction firms involved in
:07:25. > :07:28.The ?150 million Royal Hospital for Sick Children was due to open
:07:29. > :07:31.next autumn but NHS Lothian says that will be now be delayed
:07:32. > :07:37.The firms involved were Dunne Group and JB Brickwork.
:07:38. > :07:40.The headteacher of a young boy who died along with his mother
:07:41. > :07:43.after being swept out to sea in Aberdeen has described him
:07:44. > :07:47.Six-year-old Lucas Walker was playing on the beach on Saturday
:07:48. > :07:53.His mother Julie, who tried to save him, also died.
:07:54. > :07:55.The youngster's 13-year-old brother Samuel, who also went
:07:56. > :08:01.to their rescue, is said to be recovering well.
:08:02. > :08:03.Some of Scotland's biggest local authorities are threatening to take
:08:04. > :08:06.The four - including Glasgow and Aberdeen -
:08:07. > :08:09.are angry they won't be included in final negotiations over next
:08:10. > :08:14.The government says it only negotiates with the local government
:08:15. > :08:16.body COSLA which these four local authorities chose to leave
:08:17. > :08:22.but the government says it will still consult with them.
:08:23. > :08:25.Football now and the Scotland manager Gordon Strachan says "now
:08:26. > :08:27.is the time" for his young talent to shine.
:08:28. > :08:29.He's named his squad for the first of the qualifiers
:08:30. > :08:32.That game's against Malta in two weeks' time.
:08:33. > :08:39.Good afternoon, I'm great, very good.
:08:40. > :08:42.The Scotland manager in good fettle as a new campaign approaches
:08:43. > :08:48.Callum Paterson, Keirin Tierney, John
:08:49. > :08:51.McGinn and Barry Mackay each have just one cap.
:08:52. > :08:54.Oliver Bekker Steven but all could play a role as
:08:55. > :08:58.Scotland begin their quest to reach Russia 2018.
:08:59. > :09:03.They have proved to us on and off the
:09:04. > :09:06.pitch that we can rely on them to trust them.
:09:07. > :09:09.We hope over the next year that they will progress at
:09:10. > :09:15.their clubs and that will help us out.
:09:16. > :09:18.Those options were among a number of issues for Strachan
:09:19. > :09:25.Some offer greater cause for optimism than others.
:09:26. > :09:27.Great options at left-back with Robinson and Tierney,
:09:28. > :09:33.but the same cannot be said of central defence or right back.
:09:34. > :09:39.A lack of a robust defender is an issue.
:09:40. > :09:42.I would say in the middle of the park with Scott Brown retiring
:09:43. > :09:45.and James McArthur still being unfit, that is an issue as well.
:09:46. > :09:47.Gordon Strachan wants the driving energy
:09:48. > :09:48.that Brown gave him, that is
:09:49. > :09:52.an issue he has to address, physical momentum in the middle of the park.
:09:53. > :09:54.It is not often we go into a qualifying
:09:55. > :09:57.campaign with a strike in such terrific form as Leigh Griffiths,
:09:58. > :10:00.so that is a real bonus for Gordon Strachan to have.
:10:01. > :10:03.Perhaps the one worry that the Tartan Army have
:10:04. > :10:09.No McCormack and no Shaun Maloney either,
:10:10. > :10:10.the Hull City player was
:10:11. > :10:14.Scotland's top scorer in the last campaign but according to Strachan
:10:15. > :10:18.hasn't played enough recently to make the squad.
:10:19. > :10:21.It may not be his time, then, but this time would be a
:10:22. > :10:25.good time to wash away memories of nine consecutive failed
:10:26. > :10:36.A King penguin at Edinburgh zoo has been made a Brigadier
:10:37. > :10:40.Sir Nils Olav also became Baron of a Norwegian island.
:10:41. > :10:44.An Edinburgh penguin's been the mascot of the Guard since 1972.
:10:45. > :10:48.The zoo says Nils has been practising hard every day
:10:49. > :11:05.When he hears the music or the singing of the Kings
:11:06. > :11:07.guard, he knows that is meant for him,
:11:08. > :11:08.or we think he knows that is
:11:09. > :11:12.meant to him and he walked right up to the front of the enclosure.
:11:13. > :11:14.Well, It's over to Christopher now with the weather outlook
:11:15. > :11:28.Some lovely son Jett charts coming in us tonight. Dry but a different
:11:29. > :11:33.story tomorrow. Rain across the south-west through entire, you sure,
:11:34. > :11:38.Dumfries Galloway. Surface spree on the Lords. Caps not quite as much
:11:39. > :11:45.rain as we are seeing on these charts the but an unsettled start.
:11:46. > :11:47.Dry further north with some early brightness but cloud will thicken
:11:48. > :11:52.during the day and you will see some spills of an, too. The wet weather
:11:53. > :11:59.starting to edge or words during the course of Tuesday. Turning light and
:12:00. > :12:02.more patchy in nature. It is part of a weather front which stretches down
:12:03. > :12:05.through parts of Northern Ireland and is also a dividing line between
:12:06. > :12:10.quite what decisions both of the border. Temperatures up to 30
:12:11. > :12:14.Celsius across the south-east of England with decent spell of
:12:15. > :12:20.sunshine year. Where we have the cloud and wet weather will be cooler
:12:21. > :12:25.but not cold. It will feel muddy in the afternoon with the cloud and
:12:26. > :12:30.outbreaks of rain. Some extensive hill fog in the mix as well. The
:12:31. > :12:33.rain will move northwards through the afternoon and the fact that
:12:34. > :12:39.weather front starting to pet up again ringing a spell of Andre rain
:12:40. > :12:42.across the South stretching into words the capital, Fife, Angus and
:12:43. > :12:47.Aberdeenshire. Short-lived but packing a punch. By Wednesday
:12:48. > :12:51.morning still with us but cleaning away. The rest of us will have
:12:52. > :12:59.fairly decent conditions. Bright and sunny. Some cloud again to the south
:13:00. > :13:03.and east on Wednesday. I find it fresher but pleasant with
:13:04. > :13:07.temperatures around 20 or 21 Celsius with some sunshine. Looking ahead
:13:08. > :13:12.towards Thursday low-pressure right in the Atlantic but again the hot
:13:13. > :13:17.air edging up from the new continents barking through a
:13:18. > :13:20.viewfinder storms from parts of the Midlands and perhaps fringing
:13:21. > :13:24.towards southern Scotland. For many on Thursday it is a cloudy day with
:13:25. > :13:28.just the few showers around. Highs of 18. That is the forecast for now.
:13:29. > :13:31.Our next update is during Breakfast at 6.25 tomorrow morning.