:00:00. > :00:07.We need tens of thousands of new homes.
:00:08. > :00:29.Scotland needs the equivalent of up to eight new towns
:00:30. > :00:32.in order to meet our housing needs for the next ten years.
:00:33. > :00:37.We'll be discussing who is going to build them and where they should go.
:00:38. > :00:44.And Eilidh Child shines with silver and gets a standing ovation
:00:45. > :00:47.at Hampden Park. The UK is just one flight away from catching
:00:48. > :00:59.The Scottish government needs to help deliver six or eight major new
:01:00. > :01:02.communties either as new towns or as extensions to existing ones to
:01:03. > :01:04.meet the acute need over the next decade, according to
:01:05. > :01:08.We need more affordable homes in the private rented sector
:01:09. > :01:11.and more land needs to be made available to build them.
:01:12. > :01:13.So where should all these new homes go?
:01:14. > :01:28.There are high expectations for the latest new town under construction
:01:29. > :01:32.on the outskirts of Edinburgh. With 4000 new homes, three schools, shops
:01:33. > :01:36.and a town centre, it's also hoped it will shake off the reputation of
:01:37. > :01:41.much maligned Newtown we learned about in geography lessons. Plans
:01:42. > :01:46.have already been made and this model shows how it will look in the
:01:47. > :01:50.future. Optimism is a prerequisite when building a community from
:01:51. > :01:57.scratch. Here is Princess Margaret in 1967. A big day for the residents
:01:58. > :02:01.of this Scottish Newtown. Princess Margaret made it a day they will
:02:02. > :02:07.never forget. But that was then and this is now. Over time, the very
:02:08. > :02:13.idea of new towns has lost its glamour. Cumbernauld won the dubious
:02:14. > :02:19.accolade of carbuncle of the year not just once, as it fought back and
:02:20. > :02:26.won a public vote for civic pride, so if today's report once eight new
:02:27. > :02:29.communities built, would they look like this? Why do we need such
:02:30. > :02:34.drastic building plans? The report says it could take more than 20
:02:35. > :02:40.years to build the amount of new homes experts believe we need. At
:02:41. > :02:45.the same time, number of times people apply for social housing, it
:02:46. > :02:48.is rising sharply, and the number of older and younger people living
:02:49. > :02:55.alone is going up which means more houses fast. Which is what they
:02:56. > :03:01.thought were made build East Kilbride. The guide on how to build
:03:02. > :03:04.a new town has been rewritten. So are we ready for more?
:03:05. > :03:07.He's the chairman of the Scottish Housing Commission.
:03:08. > :03:09.And in Edinburgh is Neil Baxter, Secretary and Treasurer
:03:10. > :03:15.of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
:03:16. > :03:23.Let me ask you first, warily going to find six or eight new towns and
:03:24. > :03:26.where are we going to put them? The commission is calling for new
:03:27. > :03:34.communities up to eight, so I'm conscious of the use of towns and in
:03:35. > :03:38.the PC have just gone there, the message behind it is about a
:03:39. > :03:45.significant acceleration of House production. The Institute of Public
:03:46. > :03:49.policy research suggests in the last decade, Scotland has under produced
:03:50. > :03:55.housing to the tune of 100,000 homes, a significant issue and we
:03:56. > :03:59.need to look at it. What needs to happen in order to get new homes
:04:00. > :04:08.built? The recommendations are extensive. We started making sure
:04:09. > :04:12.that housing has a public policy priority in Scotland. Housing needs
:04:13. > :04:16.to break the glass ceiling beyond which lies issues such as health and
:04:17. > :04:22.education and let's remember the fantastic contribution great housing
:04:23. > :04:27.can make to educational attendance, and that has been lost along the way
:04:28. > :04:30.in terms of public policy. The commission is calling for a major
:04:31. > :04:34.shift in terms of political attitude for housing where we take the
:04:35. > :04:41.housing minister and put him around the Cabinet table this time. Neil
:04:42. > :04:44.Baxter, eight new communities. Can we reinvent the Newtown as something
:04:45. > :04:50.people want to live in or do we need to find a different way? I think the
:04:51. > :04:59.focus on new towns, on building major new communities, is perhaps
:05:00. > :05:04.slightly inappropriate. We should be looking at our existing communities
:05:05. > :05:11.and looking at consolidating brown field first. The idea we continued
:05:12. > :05:14.to build on greenfield sites is not the sustainable approach and it's
:05:15. > :05:20.not the right approach. This is an excellent report, no question, it is
:05:21. > :05:26.well researched. Our own president contributed to it, so the
:05:27. > :05:31.corporation has been involved, but the focus on this one aspect of the
:05:32. > :05:38.report, the building of new towns, is, I think, a distraction. We
:05:39. > :05:41.should really be looking at concentrating and increasing the
:05:42. > :05:48.density in our towns. Scottish cities at the moment, Glasgow has
:05:49. > :05:54.around 30 people per hectare, Barcelona, 171. I think that says a
:05:55. > :05:58.lot. After all, a lot of people would enjoy living in Barcelona, so
:05:59. > :06:02.we need to look at the density of our existing communities and perhaps
:06:03. > :06:06.address the problems they're rather than continuing to build on
:06:07. > :06:11.greenfield and potentially spoiling the countryside. Let me put some of
:06:12. > :06:15.that to Tom Barclay. You talk about needing to make more land available
:06:16. > :06:21.to bring down the price of new housing. Can we not use the land we
:06:22. > :06:26.already have built on? Yes, the solution will be a mixture of those
:06:27. > :06:30.things. I agree with his point in terms of focusing on town centres.
:06:31. > :06:33.There has to be a balanced approach but the reality is this not in a
:06:34. > :06:37.brown field sites to deal with the issue we have in front of us, so it
:06:38. > :06:44.has to be a balance of an approach to Brownfield and to greenfield.
:06:45. > :06:49.Affordability will have to be key. The snow point building homes people
:06:50. > :06:54.can't afford to live in and we see the cost of property going up again
:06:55. > :07:01.in Scotland. How can we make it affordable? The average House price
:07:02. > :07:07.in Scotland for June suggests we have a 5.9% increase in House prices
:07:08. > :07:13.in Scotland over the last 12 months, the first time in four years it has
:07:14. > :07:16.gone beyond the 5% mark. We are continuing to see inflation
:07:17. > :07:21.affecting it due to a lack of supply. In terms of housing
:07:22. > :07:27.economics, if we start to meet housing and make it a national
:07:28. > :07:33.priority, moving forward into the next decade, we then start to see an
:07:34. > :07:35.element of certainty. If we doubled the supply of housing, we allow
:07:36. > :07:42.developers to take a longer-term view of investment and perhaps other
:07:43. > :07:47.forms of finance will come into play such as institutional investment.
:07:48. > :07:54.OK, thank you very much for joining me tonight.
:07:55. > :07:56.This was always going to be a major day at the Commonwealth
:07:57. > :08:00.The day when Scotland's darling of the track, Eilidh Child,
:08:01. > :08:02.made her bid for a Commonwealth medal in the the hurdles.
:08:03. > :08:05.Hampden gave her a standing ovation as she won silver.
:08:06. > :08:07.Jonathan Sutherland is there for us now.
:08:08. > :08:08.Jonathan, what was the atmosphere like earlier?
:08:09. > :08:14.It's all quiet now but earlier this evening this was throbbing epicentre
:08:15. > :08:19.of Glasgow 2014. The eyes of a nation where very much on the
:08:20. > :08:23.national stadium. The big question, could Eilidh Child get a gold medal
:08:24. > :08:50.in the final of the 400 metres hurdles? This is what happened.
:08:51. > :08:55.A silver medal in the end for Eilidh Child.
:08:56. > :08:58.Well joining me now is Allison Curbishley who won silver
:08:59. > :09:03.for Scotland in the 400 metres at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
:09:04. > :09:11.Tonight Eilidh spoke about relief after she finished the race. Did it
:09:12. > :09:19.have any pressure on her in the performance? Not at all. It is a
:09:20. > :09:27.script for not the people in here tonight. It would have taken a
:09:28. > :09:31.lifetime best to beat Spencer. Eilidh has never beaten her. She got
:09:32. > :09:35.closer this year in Doha but was beaten by the better woman in a day
:09:36. > :09:40.in a time a lot quicker than Eilidh has ever run, so the relief was more
:09:41. > :09:46.about the build-up to these fantastic games. Day eight of the
:09:47. > :09:47.Commonwealth Games has been another successful day 14 Scotland. Medals
:09:48. > :10:05.have been one elsewhere. With two silver medals already to as
:10:06. > :10:12.names, Daniel Keating 's went into the final of the men's horse with
:10:13. > :10:17.confidence and he delivered a golden performance. He blew the competition
:10:18. > :10:23.away. A true Scottish star at these games. This gold was Scotland's 40th
:10:24. > :10:31.medal. Soon after, it was 41 and it came from a valiant performance in
:10:32. > :10:34.the wrestling. The Ukrainian injured his knee. These wrestlers are made
:10:35. > :10:44.of stern stuff. He's fought through the pain and claimed the bronze
:10:45. > :10:49.medal. Back in the hydro, and gymnastics, and gymnastics, another
:10:50. > :10:57.bronze, another man, Daniel Purvis. One more medal to add for Scotland.
:10:58. > :11:05.This was number 42. Of course, since then, Eilidh Child has made it 43
:11:06. > :11:09.medals for Scotland. You have watched all these games in terms of
:11:10. > :11:14.the Scottish performance. They have smashed through the tally they
:11:15. > :11:20.wanted, 33. How would you sum it up for Scotland? We're looking at the
:11:21. > :11:24.track and field team, 58 strong, and for me, the majority of them are
:11:25. > :11:28.under the age of 26. They have come here with a lot of experience but
:11:29. > :11:37.they are delivering. Best Potter take me up personal best. Again,
:11:38. > :11:41.personal best, that's all we can ask of the athletes to come here and
:11:42. > :11:46.cope with this stage because many of them will never experienced anything
:11:47. > :11:51.like it again. Thank you very much. A silver medal for Eilidh Child
:11:52. > :11:56.today at Hampden Park. A crackling atmosphere. 43 medals for Scotland.
:11:57. > :11:59.Another good day and hopefully another couple more good days to
:12:00. > :12:08.come to Scotland as well. Back to you. There are still two days to go.
:12:09. > :12:10.The man who has been focused on this tally total
:12:11. > :12:14.Sport Scotland's performance Director Mike Whittingham.
:12:15. > :12:20.Have you done better than they are expected to? I'm delighted. Watching
:12:21. > :12:24.that gives me shudder to believe what we're done because we have six
:12:25. > :12:31.medals guaranteed as well, so I think we will head the 50 mark. This
:12:32. > :12:34.started seven years ago. We learned from London, a collaborative
:12:35. > :12:38.approach is what brings a uniformity across what we have tried to do
:12:39. > :12:43.here, so we have been planning this. We had a vision seven years ago, but
:12:44. > :12:48.we have supported it through national lottery and the Government.
:12:49. > :12:52.Fantastic investment. It has allowed all of us to work closely with
:12:53. > :12:55.governing bodies to set up new initiatives. It's those winning
:12:56. > :13:02.margins, concentrating on the controllable is, they really are
:13:03. > :13:07.important to performance sport. Swimming, ten medals. Three gold
:13:08. > :13:14.medals. Those are world-class performances. Judo, and medal in
:13:15. > :13:18.every single category. 13 medals from judo, which cost up to a great
:13:19. > :13:23.momentum. Three more days left. We think this is down to a fantastic
:13:24. > :13:29.team I have and system we are trying to build, thanks to the support from
:13:30. > :13:35.the Government and national lottery, we have built a world-class system.
:13:36. > :13:38.Like the facilities, the legacy is fantastic facilities. We are
:13:39. > :13:44.providing an opportunity to athletes to say, if you really do commit
:13:45. > :13:47.yourself and professional, we believe our system can deliver
:13:48. > :13:51.medals consistently on the world stage so we started in London, and
:13:52. > :13:57.the Scottish athletes delivered 20% of the medals in London, 25% gold,
:13:58. > :14:02.in fact, and then a fantastical Winter Olympics. We want to complete
:14:03. > :14:05.it with Glasgow so we have set a target of the most successful cycle
:14:06. > :14:09.for Scottish sport and I think we're on the verge of that. You have set
:14:10. > :14:13.high performance sport does not come cheap. Is it where you put most of
:14:14. > :14:16.the money where you have seen most of the success? We don't have a
:14:17. > :14:22.bottomless pit so we have to target and focus and the other side
:14:23. > :14:26.concentrates on participation in development but obviously our job is
:14:27. > :14:30.to make sure that we deliver a good return on our investment and I think
:14:31. > :14:37.hopefully we are showing that. We are not complacent. We will have to
:14:38. > :14:40.look and plan for 2018, a really big year. We think we are ahead of the
:14:41. > :14:44.game for the Winter Olympics because we manage the curling programmes and
:14:45. > :14:50.have substantial investment from UK sport. For the Commonwealth Games on
:14:51. > :14:54.the Gold Coast, one fundamental element is the athletes, who had
:14:55. > :14:56.stepped up and shown that they have the right attitude, they have
:14:57. > :15:00.translated that into their performances and this is a country
:15:01. > :15:04.that sometimes is accused of having a negative attitude. What this game
:15:05. > :15:09.is relief is a belief that you can do things on the world stage and
:15:10. > :15:12.that can translate in all sorts of society so the power of sport I
:15:13. > :15:16.think is at stake here and I hope on Monday morning the Government will
:15:17. > :15:20.look at us and sport and save this is a great investment and they might
:15:21. > :15:25.want to invest more. Let's hope so. Thank you very much for joining us.
:15:26. > :15:28.The Ebola crisis in West Africa is the deadliest ever
:15:29. > :15:31.And it poses a very serious threat to the UK
:15:32. > :15:35.Government officials are eager to reassure us our health service could
:15:36. > :15:37.cope if the virus were to arrive on these shores.
:15:38. > :15:39.But UK border officials complain they are not properly
:15:40. > :16:02.Ebola is one of the most frightening disease is on the planet. So far 700
:16:03. > :16:13.people have died in West Africa. Doctors have two Wear protective
:16:14. > :16:18.clothing. Experts warned the UK is just one flight away from infection.
:16:19. > :16:24.It only takes one infected passenger to bring the disease year.
:16:25. > :16:26.In our Aberdeen studio this evening is the leading bacteriologist,
:16:27. > :16:47.Should we be worried in the UK about this Ebola outbreak? We should not
:16:48. > :16:58.be worried. It is not likely, that it is a possibility. A patient may
:16:59. > :17:03.come in infected but not yet ill. These may have symptoms such as a
:17:04. > :17:09.high fever. They may think they have got food poisoning. It is very
:17:10. > :17:18.important that a Dr or nurse asks these people where they have been
:17:19. > :17:20.from. There are reports that an athlete at
:17:21. > :17:27.the Commonwealth Games has been tested for the Ebola by this. How
:17:28. > :17:33.acutely aware will the authorities be that they need to be on the
:17:34. > :17:39.lookout? I think they are and where. That is why there has been all the
:17:40. > :17:43.publicity from Government. They are reinforcing the message that should
:17:44. > :17:49.be there. It is possible that they might have malaria, which is
:17:50. > :17:56.treatable. Sometimes malaria get noticed and people die. Pars
:17:57. > :18:04.sometimes malaria is not protest and people die. You will not catch it
:18:05. > :18:13.sitting next to somebody on a bus. You have got to have close personal
:18:14. > :18:18.contact. That is why doctors and carers in West Africa have a 25%
:18:19. > :18:25.chance of catching the virus if they are looking after somebody.
:18:26. > :18:40.I read properly prepared if we had one or two cases? I think so. We
:18:41. > :18:59.have never had an important case. If we did I think everybody knows what
:19:00. > :19:01.to do. We have the facilities. At present we know that we can call if
:19:02. > :19:09.we had an importation. Tomorrow marks the 300th anniversary
:19:10. > :19:12.of the death of Queen Anne, Despite having had
:19:13. > :19:14.at least 17 pregnancies, none of her children survived
:19:15. > :19:17.infancy and her failure to provide an heir caused a major crisis in
:19:18. > :19:20.the newly-created United Kingdom. Within a year of her death,
:19:21. > :19:22.this erupted in the Jacobite Our Social Affairs Correspondent,
:19:23. > :19:25.Reevel Alderson examines whether parallels can be drawn
:19:26. > :19:45.between that turbulent time and our A tragic queen who had striven to
:19:46. > :19:54.Unite the two kingdoms of England and Scotland. Here accepting the act
:19:55. > :20:07.of union which abolished the Scots Parliament. Seven years later she
:20:08. > :20:14.was succeeded by George the first. Coming to a United throne was a
:20:15. > :20:22.particular concern in Scotland. It signalled to Scotland that the union
:20:23. > :20:34.would be irreversible and that the Stuart line with the excluded from
:20:35. > :20:46.the throne. Scotland felt finally doubly excluded from the top table.
:20:47. > :20:51.In the National library of Scotland there is evidence of those Scots
:20:52. > :20:57.concerns. They did not want a monarch imposed upon them who was
:20:58. > :21:05.not of the royal line of Scotland. Here we have the act of security
:21:06. > :21:13.past in Scotland in 1704. It was a significant documents. It was
:21:14. > :21:17.contested through 19 settings. It caused controversy. It was
:21:18. > :21:28.significant at the time. The issue remained very significant in the
:21:29. > :21:32.early 18th century in Britain. This act of security said only Scots
:21:33. > :21:49.could choose the successor to Queen Anne. The union of the Parliament
:21:50. > :22:03.puts Vista man into the waistband of her study, but left a simmering
:22:04. > :22:16.resentment. -- put this act into the dustbin of history.
:22:17. > :22:25.The key thing here was that Queen Anne and her ministers wanted to
:22:26. > :22:31.ensure a Protestant successor. But was not enough for Scotland. One
:22:32. > :22:41.year after the death of Queen and the Jacobite standard was raised.
:22:42. > :22:47.20,000 men rallied. It happened without any French support and
:22:48. > :22:52.without any French troops. It is very much a native rising. It was
:22:53. > :23:00.likely it was going to happen once it was clear that George the first
:23:01. > :23:04.would succeed Queen Anne. The 1715 rising fields, but it highlighted
:23:05. > :23:13.the way in which the union was going - the English way.
:23:14. > :23:20.They did not want to be in a relationship with Scotland because
:23:21. > :23:23.it was Presbyterian and there was a perception that Scotland was pure
:23:24. > :23:35.and would be demanding hand-outs and support.
:23:36. > :23:38.Now with a different Queen on the throne in Scotland again finds
:23:39. > :23:42.itself at the concert usual crossroads. But this time the
:23:43. > :23:43.decision will be taking democratically in the referendum in
:23:44. > :23:54.September. And joining me to chat through
:23:55. > :23:57.the day?s news is the Herald Arts Critic, Alison Rowat and
:23:58. > :24:08.the Chief Executive of the Scottish Not much changes. There are still
:24:09. > :24:20.Tories who thinks their Scots are a doer bunch. Many would not have been
:24:21. > :24:26.taught about this at school. You can see it in the Edinburgh Fringe.
:24:27. > :24:32.Productions are picking up on it. It gives you a sense of the Star Trek
:24:33. > :24:42.times that we are living in. We must learn from her study. -- a sense of
:24:43. > :24:49.the historic times. We are a modern country. A dynamic country. We want
:24:50. > :24:59.to look at other issues that are affecting business. We want to move
:25:00. > :25:05.on after September the 19th. You have mentioned the Edinburgh
:25:06. > :25:10.Fringe. There is already controversy over an Israeli hip-hop opera that
:25:11. > :25:17.has been boycotted by pro-Palestinian protesters. They
:25:18. > :25:21.have been targeted because the theatre groups received some funding
:25:22. > :25:26.from the Israeli Government. Is this legitimate protest to stop them
:25:27. > :25:36.performing? They have a right to protest at the Theatre Company has a
:25:37. > :25:46.right to perform. I feel uneasy that the show has been ruled after one
:25:47. > :25:49.performance. While we do know that the company receives funding from
:25:50. > :25:54.the Israeli Government we do not know what the individual thoughts of
:25:55. > :26:01.the members of that company are. Their performance is not political.
:26:02. > :26:06.Should they be left alone to perform their play given that they are not
:26:07. > :26:13.making any of our physical stance? This is the wrong action. It will
:26:14. > :26:25.not achieve an impact in terms of the bigger picture. We see families
:26:26. > :26:29.being destroyed. I would like to see diplomats and Government leaders
:26:30. > :26:34.looking at the wider picture and do more. This will not achieve
:26:35. > :26:37.anything. A couple of weeks ago there was a letter signed by
:26:38. > :26:51.well-known writers asking if they knew not to put this production on.
:26:52. > :26:55.I was surprised at that. Are there other occasions on which the
:26:56. > :27:01.situation is so grave you have two protest by whatever means you can? I
:27:02. > :27:07.do not think by whatever means you can. They receive money from the
:27:08. > :27:13.Israeli Government. Our lot of British artists receive money from
:27:14. > :27:19.the authorities here. I am sure a lot of Russian productions have been
:27:20. > :27:23.funded by the Russian Ministry of culture. How would they like to be
:27:24. > :27:31.held accountable for the actions of the British Government as artists?
:27:32. > :27:37.Another story is the one regarding sobriety tags being tested in parts
:27:38. > :27:43.of London. One of these things will be strapped to the ankle of repeat
:27:44. > :27:52.offenders. You could be sent back to prison. Is that fair? Some people
:27:53. > :27:56.may think this is a stick type approach to what is a very serious
:27:57. > :28:03.issue. I think this is worth testing. We have had some Tests done
:28:04. > :28:11.in Scotland already through a number of universities. We must remember
:28:12. > :28:14.that this was a group of volunteers. But in London they are talking about
:28:15. > :28:21.forcing this upon offenders. We have got to look seriously at the effects
:28:22. > :28:31.of alcoholism on our community and at the cost of this. This tag will
:28:32. > :28:38.cost 1800 pounds over a six-month period. This costs the community
:28:39. > :28:45.?22,000 to actually House individuals that are reoffending
:28:46. > :28:50.through alcoholism. Two out of five attendances at Accident and
:28:51. > :28:56.Emergency are related to alcohol. If this works would you support it?
:28:57. > :29:09.Yes. There is obviously a problem with alcohol but this is not the way
:29:10. > :29:13.to tackle it. If you are consistently in court charged with
:29:14. > :29:18.alcohol-related offences then you have a real problem that will not be
:29:19. > :29:22.sorted out by putting at high on you. They say if you are genuinely
:29:23. > :29:27.alcohol dependent then this is not the punishment you would receive. It
:29:28. > :29:37.is for people who are binge drinking several times a week. It. You from
:29:38. > :29:45.having a glass of wine. Is it right that people are not allowed to take
:29:46. > :29:50.a drink at all? The individuals we are talking about are continually
:29:51. > :29:55.carrying out major crime, whether it's big domestic violence,
:29:56. > :30:11.murderers - 80% of murders are related to alcohol.
:30:12. > :30:17.That is all for now. We will be back next week. Goodbye.