20/08/2016 Reporting Scotland


20/08/2016

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-- thank you. We will have more news on those stories throughout the BBC

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News Channel and we are back with the late news at 10:10pm. Now

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In the last few minutes, the emergency services have said

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There are reports of several people in the water.

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The police, the fire service, ambulance and the coastguard

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Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Glasgow

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This year's festival is centred around a campaign calling

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for schools to introduce mandatory teaching to stamp

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Banging the drum for equality, the gay rights movement has claimed

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significant victories over the years. Even Her Majesty agrees. Gay

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pride has evolved, now celebrating the lives of transgender and

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intersex people. This may be a colourful celebration of pride but

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there is a serious message that the march for equality still goes on.

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The suicide of 15-year-old Chloe from Dumfries in May was a reminder

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of how people still struggle with sexuality. Campaigners say it is

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time schools introduced mandatory teaching of LGBT issues. It acquires

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bravely and the Scottish Government to push the mould and stick to their

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rhetoric once and for all. If we are truly a progressive country, we need

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rhetoric once and for all. If we are a progressive education system to

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reflect that. We want to make sure our schools and education system as

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a whole has the capacity and confidence and that teachers and

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other people who work in the education system feel confident and

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comfortable in giving our young people support that they rightly

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deserve. We didn't vote for it and were not it. -- not having it.

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deserve. We didn't vote for it and head of Stagecoach campaigned

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against legislation to make it easier for teachers to discuss LGBT

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issues. The climate remains. Engineers hope to re-float the oil

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rig grounded on the Western Isles The 17,000-tonne vessel,

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Transocean Winner, came ashore near Carloway on the West Coast

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of Lewis, during a storm It was being towed from Norway to

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Malta. The salvage team says it's now moved

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over 100 tonnes of diesel fuel from below the water line to tanks

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higher up in the rig. I have a meeting with the Transocean

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tomorrow and I expect him become the meeting by mid-morning we will have

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made a decision whether we're going to attempt to refloat over the

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following 24 hours or whether it will be slightly longer.

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Scots competitors are in medal contention tonight in Rio.

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With the latest is our Olympics Reporter, Jane Lewis.

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As the Olympic Games here in Rio reach their conclusion, tonight is

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the final night of the athletics and there is plenty of Scottish

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interest. Lindsay Sharp really impressed as she qualified for the

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final of the 800 metres, a medal you might think is not beyond her. That

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probably isn't the case for Andrew Butchart. The Dunblane runner is on

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the final of the 5000 metres. He has done ever so well just to reach the

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final and he will be running alongside his team-mate Mo Farah who

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is a medal prospect this evening. Eillidh Doyle could be part of the

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400 metres relay squad who are eyeing a medal this evening. In

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golf, Katrina Matthews had a better final round today. She is one under

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today but way off the pace, falling way out of medal contention.

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Football now, and here are today's Premiership results.

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There were victories for Aberdeen, Hearts and Rangers,

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It puts Rangers top of the Premiership.

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Let's get the latest weather forecast now, with Stav Danaos.

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We're not doing too bad with conditions it looks like any showers

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should clear away. Pressure clears out into the North Sea. For many

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areas, it will be a dry night and temperatures dipping a little lower

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than these values suggest. Into Sunday, still a bit of cloud and

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some showers across the Northern Isles and the northeast but even

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here, showers begin to fade away and fog many of us, it looks like a dry

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afternoon with plenty of sunshine around, maybe just one or two

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showers across the northwest Highlands and the southwest.

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Temperatures of around 20 Celsius. From everyone here, enjoy the rest

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of your Saturday night. Good evening. What a windy day it

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has been across many parts of the UK. Here's a picture

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