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9295810 medium wave and on digital radio b.b.c. Radio Scotland Good afternoon it's 4 o'clock. This is new strong for floral marks while our top story the forthcoming general election dominates press ministers questions the key issue this election is who is going to stand up for Scotland against an increasingly hard line tortie government the way the same feed as readying itself to poor negativity on this country at this election is shameful fresh hope for millions suffering from with degenerative brain disease if we stop in their tracks and we change the way they progress we will radically change the course of the Natural History of things like health from more than half a 1000000 pounds has been pledged to a young racing driver who suffered a double imputation up you know those positions on the line are not bad it was gone through the piece and they're thinking that. You won't be able race again. And warnings to cut back on school dinner puddings in a bid to halt childhood obesity. All that and an awful lot more coming up between now and half past 6 but 1st of all let's get a summary of the day's news with Christine Finnegan Thanks Laura Good afternoon the Labor leader Chatham a korban has promised to stand up for working people against the establishment in his 1st major speech of the election campaign he said the party's manifesto was fully costed and insisted the party's defeat is not a foregone conclusion he said labor wouldn't play by rules set down by both the. Stablish mint and the media it is these rules that have allowed a cosy cartel to rig the system in favor of a few powerful and wealthy individuals and corporations it's a ring system set up by the wealth extractors for the wealth extracted but things can and they will change. The general election was among the topics discussed at 1st minister's question time at the Scottish Parliament this lunchtime with party leaders setting out their pitch to voters our political editor Bryan Taylor says it follows comments from Jeddah may carbon after speculation about the formation of a coalition after the vote generally Coburn says he will do a deal with the s.n.p. Because he won't work with them Nicolas Sturgeon said today it a go to happen because the Labor Party is useless to use a phrase and Jeremy Corbin won't win so she was stressing instead of standing up for Scotland against the Tories as for labor Dugdale pursued her own attack she said that in practice the s.n.p. Wanted the Tories to win they wanted an outcome that was arguably inimical to Scotland because that would pursue and promote the idea of independence shooting 1st Minister's Questions the Scottish Conservative leader writhe Davidson was greeted with calls of shame from rival Amos peas after she refused to condemn the u.k. Government's so-called rate to close welfare reforms introduced by the u.k. Government earlier this month cut child tax credit and universal credit for 3rd or subsequent children with exceptions including women who conceived as a result of rape which the women have to prove misstatements and said if the 1st Minister doesn't like the policy she can change it the shadow Scottish sex trade the m.p.t. Vendor Hsan says he won't stand for reelection Mr Anderson who to place the Edinburgh m.p. In Monday when he quit to make organs front bench said he was leaving for health and family reasons his appointment was controversial as he doesn't represent a Scottish seat he served as m.p. For bleated in the north east of England for 12 years. A couple from East London who tried to disguise the violent death of their baby by pretending she'd been taken ill in a bus journey have been found guilty of causing or allowing her death they've been told to expect a substantial prison sentence from the Old Bailey Here's Richard Lister on September the 28th last year Rosalynn Baker boarded a bus near her home carrying him on me in a baby sling her partner Geoffrey Wiltshire was recorded on c.c.t.v. Giving her a thumbs up as she left what both parents knew was that in money was already dead half an hour later Baker raised the alarm on the bus and the video shows frantic efforts by distraught passengers to save the little girl but when examined by doctors it was clear she'd been dead for some time and had grave injuries including 40 rib fractures a broken wrist and a fractured skull a 7 man gang who blew up cash machines across the u.k. Including 4 in the north east of Scotland have been handed jail sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment during their year long crime spree 13 banks and shops were targeted and hundreds of thousands of pounds stolen A.T.M.'s in Aberdeen Carnoustie in Paris but among those targeted by the gang who were convicted at Liverpool Crown Court earlier this month. Over half a 1000000 pounds has been raised to help a teenage racing driver who had both his lower legs amputated following a high speed crash at Donington Park restruck in Leicestershire at the weekend Billy monger who 17 was trapped in his car for an hour and a half on Easter Sunday he's in a critical condition in hospital messages of support to being sent by fellow drivers including Scott David Buttle who took up the sport up to losing both his lower legs in Afghanistan 7 years ago I've been as positions on a line up. On through. You be sitting there thinking. You won't be able race again if you don't. Comment. Not the end of the world after. And you can hear that interview in full with David Betto later in this program that's the news Heather Jerry has the sport because in very good afternoon to you world number one on the memories be not size of the Monte Carlo Masters losing in 3 says to the Spaniards elbow Ramos in a loss Murray was full of up in the deciding sent but lost at 75 the water manager Jim Duffy has been ahead for they too much been plus one suspended for his touchline altercation with his balls Neil Lennon Duffy faces an additional one game ban if he transgressors again in 2017 while Morton were fined $500.00 pounds for the stoppage time Franca Neil Lennon meanwhile will find out his punishment next week while Lennon awaits his hearing has got Scottish Cup action to look forward to this weekend and he's adamant the pressure is off his side as they look ahead to their Cup semifinal against Aberdeen the Aberdeen boss start McInnes meanwhile hopes his side can use the disappointment of losing the League Cup final against Celtic to their advantage in golf play suspended at the Shands and open in China because the weather actually Ramsey the leading Scot now he's 3 on the par 3 of the leader Bubba Watson and the British Olympic high jump civil medalist a main Mason has died at the age of 34 after a motorcycle crash that's according to police in Jamaica the Jamaican born athlete to switch to represent Great Britain in 2006 won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics lots of the sport reason why the tragedies Good afternoon thank you Heather the a 96 through near Nord for example on St Ninians road a king street causing delays in both directions there's a 30 speed restrictions here and temporary traffic lights in an invidious to Avi more road slow north by and through the boardwalk said Allen this is just 138 junction and delays on Victoria Road both ways at Victoria Street nearby Albert Street is close by and so causing delays in the surrounding area in Perth 10 minute delays. I've been through the Lord works from and but I'm joined by dawn to the stand and about and Glasgow very slow moving and cruel road side by him from Anniesland cross dying to the Clyde tunnel and a 737 in Cole winning delays both ways at how gate again would what is causing the problems here and a 76 the commodity on fleece sure the road was just north of Thornhill there enter conflicts again to expect delays both ways all it 110295 is our number and that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel Scotland's weather at cloudy into the day for many brighter along the East Coast with some late sunny spells rain in the Far North West Highlands and darkening will intensify and slowly edge down the west coast through sky look and our Gale some of this white weather will extend east to towards Inverness Monday in parts of Aberdeen share elsewhere for most of central and southern Scotland it's a dry cloudy night lows of 9 Celsius for most or next bulletin at half past 4 you're listening to news Dr tonight with Laura Maxwell just know the time is coming up to 9 minutes past 4 or top story the general election campaign was well underway at Holyrood as the main political parties clashed at 1st Minister's Questions each party leader attempted to set out their key pledges and issues to voters are political correspondent under care was watching the exchanges and joins us now from the Scottish Parliament afternoon Andrew 1st of all the conservatives went out with their Pru Union stance Yes good afternoon Laura that straight to receive us in the skins Scott to conservative leader picked up on that 1st she was 1st stop at 1st Minister's Questions of when Emma's piece came back from their Easter recess they weren't expecting to be debating and discussing a general election serous Davis and was saying to the 1st Minister about the Yuki's international aid efforts and she was trying to portray the you kena very positive stance as opposed to how one s.n.p. M.s.p. Had been talking about the u.k. Is as Helen north apparently in one newspaper column. This week but then the 1st minister in reply Nicholas sturgeon picked up on the so-called rape clause this is a very controversial change to child tax credits which limits them to just 2 children and if a woman wants to claim for a 3rd or subsequent child she has to fill in an application form to prove with supporting evidence that she's been raped or been coerced of relationships so the 1st minister was saying to Ruth Davidson Shame on you do you still support this and Ruth Davidson was really forced to essentially see that she had already set out her strategy and this that she said that the 1st Minister if she didn't like it could change as she put it that the child tax credit issue and what was Labor's points today you so don't do when with a slightly unusual angle to the 1st minister saying bring up that vote at Westminster yesterday which really are should in the general election remember this was M.P.'s voting to. Start the general election process to not to get rid of the the fixed Parliament for this session at least and she was questioning why the s.n.p. Had abstained in really trying to suggest that in some way they were supporting the Conservative government by abstaining but the 1st minister really came back and said that Labor had actually voted with the Conservatives it was labor who are really the friends of the conservatives essentially saying they've gone through the voting will be at Westminster and as the 1st minister put it Turkey's voting for Christmas and then kids a done deal came by after that to the 1st Minister and was pointing out she was saying Be upfront this time about independence about another a 2nd referendum vote for the s.n.p. Is a vote for a 2nd referendum with the 1st Minister said she already had a mandate for that and the general election. Was about seeing who could stand up for Scotland and what was the Liberal Democrat strategy Yes So this was Willie Rennie the Lib Dems leader really trying to brandish as proof European credentials he was asking if membership of the European Union would be in the s.n.p. Manifesto for the general election because in his way he thinks he is a bit suspicious that the s.n.p. Is going soft in the European Union because they're one they're trying to appeal to s.n.p. Supporters who voted for Braggs it and he thinks that they're not being as pro European Union as the used to be in the 1st minister said that she was wanting membership of the European Union and Mr Rennie was just stick to waiting behind to really accusing her of ducking the question or answering the question although in a briefing afterwards it was confirmed to Germans from the Scottish government that the policy of the Scottish government was full membership of the European Union even an independent Scotland too so these were really all that the main themes of the campaign Laura are already being brought out already being fought over I think each party leader would be pretty pleased that they've got their their key points across to voters that was our political correspondent Andrew care. Now millions of people across the u.k. Live with his he says such as timers Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis with aren't effective treatment to cure scientists though haven't announced what could be a major step forward in treating these conditions they've discovered 2 drugs that could help one of the drugs transit don't is already used as an antidepressant Professor given another Chee is from the Medical Research Council and lead the team to behind this potential breakthrough we're not expecting cure we're not going to cure the thought Earth but if we if we stop them in their tracks and we change the way they progress we will radically change the course of the Natural History of things like health time with the things that other dimension. Because people will still be able to hold on to a you know a meaningful quality of life and stay out of institutional care so how excited should we be about this discovery Dr Louise Walker is from the Al slimmer society so it is exciting because currently we have no way to slow the progression of dementia. But we need to also be aware that this is still in early stage these drugs have not yet been tested in people so they've got great potential Oma looking forward to seeing whether they can build on that potential What drugs are we talking about so one of them is actually a drug that's already licensed for depression so it's called trying to say. And it can be used in older people but it's not currently been tested to see if it works for people outside without Simon Sissy's the other one is a drug called d.b.m. Which is also being tested in it's in trials for cancer as well and how would these work the drugs work together to try and prevent Alzheimer's and dementia other drugs that work on the same mechanism so what they do is they block and that's what offense mechanism which is found in cells and that's thought to be Iraq to in people with near degenerative diseases so out Simas other forms of dementia Parkinson's disease so these drugs actually partially block that defense mechanism and that looks like in these animals and in the experiments have been done it looks like block party blocking that mechanism helps to reduce the effects of these near gente of diseases so it doesn't cure them it won't care then it will the idea is hopefully that it will stop the progression of the disease and you mentioned there that it's worked so far in the animal trials but what are the logistics of moving these tests on to humans and seeing if they work and the researchers are hoping to move them into clinical trials in people relatively say the advantage of the drug and try to say is that as it already exists we have already have a lot of the safety data that we need so hopefully that means it can be brought to people so you know because it's already gone to. A lot of the clinical trials the things that we need say because it already exists we just need to find out whether it works in people with dementia or whether it has any side effects and things about dating and then once that is worked out we should be able to it would hopefully be bought people sooner rather than later and this is a core part about some societies drug discovery program where we look at existing drugs they can be bought people say you know. And I wonder. How easy will it be to to find people to take these drugs so that you can test whether this works. It's quite difficult to find people to take part in clinical trials and this is why the joint venture Research Service success say this is a way to match people who are interested in taking part in Dimension research wave suitable studies and we don't know if at the moment whether this particular study will be placed on joint venture research but there are lots of other clinical trials and other non clinical studies that are listed on the 7 s. And you can sign up by by talking to us from Scotland or by ringing out some a society's helpline Dr Louise Walker there from the Alzheimer's Society. When you strike my learning's at 17 minutes past 4 in his 1st major general election speech the Labor leader Jeremy Corbin has vowed to put power and wealth back in the hands of the people with Davidson was greeted with coals of shame from rival m.s.p. Zone after she refused to condemn the u.k. Government's so-called rate clause and a gang of $77.00 man gang who blew up cash machines including 4 in the northeast have been handed jail sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment which teams will be their place in the fight you know comes up and sometimes it was all the boys are going to scorch cause I was. I think you lose a child destroys with a game don't sport so you bring You have barely And this is Aberdeen Saturday from 12.810 media we've and digital radio to be back in some extent a little bit something else that I'm betting on Sunday I was just I was listening from $1130.00 for sale tick this is range of interest rate of 4 to go but to come to the game in their choice I really enjoyed the Scottish Cup on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. Time now 18 minutes past 4 technology delivered by a researcher at Harriet university in Edinburgh could help millions. People exposed to high levels of arsenic in their water supplies the world's 1st solar powered fully autonomous treatment plant has just opened in Bangladesh and it's already sharply reduced levels of the toxic chemical this report from our science correspondent Kenneth McDonald. In Scotland we don't just take water for granted we complain if there's too much of it but a many parts of the world water carries a deadly payload Professor Bhaskar Sengupta of Harriet water University says millions of people are exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic in the water they drink and used to grow crops they are not all is aware that high levels of arsenic may cause various types of diseases including us and it will it it cancer and this is the main problem in the been called which covers nearly 100000000 of affected the population the arsenic occurs naturally it's carried a silt in the rivers that flowed them from the Himalayas until just a few decades ago it's not harmlessly in the banks of rivers and streams but no the arsenic is this all going colorless and tasteless in the shallow awkward arse from which people draw their water it's the result of the law of unintended consequences and the introduction of new improved types of rice which requires a lot more water than fertilizer fertilizer which water from the ice fields raised the subsurface but due to lack of oxygen in the subsurface the arsenic bearing minerals become by default a kind of participant in the reaction and break up producing a very toxic type of arsenic Professor Sengupta solution involves in effect playing a trick on nature water is pumped out of a well gradually oxygenated in the air and then sent back then the well again the oxygenated water meets bacteria that normally live in an oxygen free environment the oxygen encourages them to change the arsenic from a liquid to a solid the process uses no chemicals produces no waste and at no point does the arsenic come to the softness the bacteria are slowly turns the more toxic more solid will dissolve from off arsenic to far less solid will and far less toxic more presidential. Of arsenic and binding it with the sand in Ireland and returning almost arsenic into the primitive you know the mineral form which has existed for thousands of years boss Carson group to underscore leagues have been working on the subterranean arsenic removal technique for almost a decade the latest advances introduced solar energy to post it and made it an autonomous system the 1st plant in the Camilla district of Bangladesh now serves $200.00 schoolchildren and will expand to cover a $30000.00 people the World Health Organization safe gave LNG for arsenic and water is 10 micrograms per liter the level in the well was $239.00 micrograms and after just 7 weeks the plant brought it down to just 2 and the spring the connected world there's an opto run at all now we have mobile phone apps exactly like your home security system you can turn it on and off from anywhere we do exactly the same thing we can run the plant from anywhere in the world as long as you have the wife a connection and the people who are running it this n.c.o. Bangladesh Green Energy Foundation they are actually running it from talk of more than 200 kilometers away. Millions of people worldwide are affected daily by arsenic in groundwater and Professor Sengupta wants to transfer his knowledge from hitting a port to the world he's hoping to set up a charity with a simple selling point with 5000 pounds you can improve a food and lives. In that report from our science correspondent Catholic Donald. No hoard of gold coins phone stuff piano in Shropshire has been declared a us treasure by the coroner it's been described as the largest ever hoard of gold sovereigns and it's thought to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds the family who own the piano had only recently donated it to their local secondary school and they'll get nothing from the proceeds I asked b.b.c. Reporter faith Page who was out today's inquest insurers free what happened at the hearing well past the story hit the headlines in January but the detail was kept a secret so the rightful owner could be established more the story emerged today the inquest which took place to a stoppage where the gold was treasure and therefore owned by the Crown the tests were was the hold gold yes it was had the coins been deliberately concealed Yes they've been carefully wrapped in 8 Packages and hidden deep inside the piano and could the descendants of who have a hit the gold be traced and the the Karna reach was no so the hold will pass to the Crown so why would the Queen's find in the 1st place all the piano was given to Bishop's Castle community college in Shropshire just recently in fact just in September the used by the peoples It was donated by the Hemmings family who bought the piano for next to nothing in a house clearance sale in Saffron Walden in Cambridge in 1983 they then moved to Bishop's costal in 2015 taking the piano with them so these cooling 938 of them and sat undiscovered inside the piano in the Hemmings home for 33 year is when the piano was donated the school had it tuned by Martin Backhouse who took it apart and found the coins inside it was very upsetting hidden underneath the key. And I got a problem with the keyboard that I knew it was too stiff and the keys were a bit sluggish so I needed to take the keys and that's when I discovered and so the coins haven't been impeding the keys it was only by removing the keyboard inside would you have seen them so what is the significance then of the Horde was believed to be Britain's largest. Hold of gold sovereigns they weigh sticks kilos and date between 846 and 915 the piano a Broadwood and sons of which thousands were made have been bought by old by a tuning and repack company in Saffron Walden in 1006 and sold on to a client now there was evidence inside the piano have been tuned in 1907 and a piece of card with a shredded wheat added That was also found in one of the packages but also gave a clue as to Shredded Wheat company wasn't in existence before $926.00 so didn't even the then come forward to say that they were the rightful owners we lost people 50 people in fact came forward the story was literally spread across the world by the media one family in particular had researched their family tree and found links to a wealthy musical family and Saffron Walden but the Karna today said that there wasn't enough evidence and that particular family said that they weren't giving up so what then will happen next well now it's declared treasure a museum in Saffron Walden has said it would be interested in buying some of the coins because of the interesting story behind them the proceeds to be shared between the piano to know who found the coins and the college who now own the piano and then what about the Hemmings who do own the piano for so long and moved it round the countryside will they get nothing but Meg having says she's happy with that yes very happy yes because it's Cisco learn all schools are in need to fund things. You know that that is the best outcome yes I hope they will do something that will benefit the children musical ability so I think we both feel very strongly about that now I know our reporter faith page said that make Hemmings was happy about the fact that the school was going to get to keep all the money I don't think she signs all that happy about that at all how would you feel here that you're a nice whole family all the gold sovereigns rather delighted Anyway any treasure inch in the sports desk are not friendly Mary Shelley's coming out of Monaco this afternoon there and Mary's ite of the month column asked as he was beaten in the 3rd round by Spain's Alba Cinemax Mari looked like he was well on the way to winning Carradine it son was watching the Mahdi's frustrating year as world number one continues having just come back from an elbow injury the top seed in Monte Carlo seemed to be cruising to the quarterfinals India for love in the deciding 3rd set he was just 2 games away from the last 8 but Spain's Alba Ramos for no loss is now a top 25 player and bottle back as the Scots levelled that for love became for all 5 all became 75 as money was sent packing he says he's not too disappointed as he played well and part cheers on his elbow is progressing he's still well clear at the top of the world rankings but has a mountain of points to defend and may now have taken an extra 2 intimate next week as he seeks more much as on clay in football the Morton boss Jim Duffy has been hit with a too much ban plus one suspended for his touchline altercation with the hips manager Neil Lennon Duffy faces an additional one game ban if he transgresses again in 2017 Well Morton were fined 500 pounds for the stoppage time for cats with the hips manager Neil Lennon will find out his punishment next week while Lennon awaits for that to happen you'll have all eyes on the Scottish Cup this weekend as the Easter Road outfit take on Aberdeen in the Cup semifinals and he's adamant the pressure will all be on their Premiership opponents Yeah I mean we're going to the games here which is no question. You know of a few of us and a lot of games a season of all the lot really well but there are boys all. Look forward to it I think the experience of last year with a lot of them think 4 times you know they wanted to call for. Me feels it's a great experience for them to carry on you know sort of his game of our way to the fact that the father a really hard season with the old as well and the priority of on the job instead you know they can really look forward to this game with the Webster process the manager didn't McInnes meanwhile hopes the Dons can use the disappointments of losing the League Cup Final to their advantage Celtic taking the League Cup on as earlier in the season well McInnes believes that reaching for 70 finals during his 4 years in charge willing to listen to has helped give his Aberdeen side vital big game experience Thank You can use any disappointment I think you go in as much experience as possible to deal with the occasions you know enough and we have had a lot by game experience in recent years I think the European stage is what we are not change as well. In a team which was to compete with c.l. 2 last few seasons to have some sort of table racing move always wise to try to stay in touch as long as we could and this is another test for us as a as a club you know we were domestic form week for where they want to try and wish to be 2nd in everyone else the big game experience I think any disappointment we don't speak about after was integration. It's only by revisiting saying if I was afraid that the get hung over and get used to comfortable with and you can read plenty more about that summary final on our websites night a girlfriend play is suspended at the Shands an open in China because of the weather Richie Ramsay currently the leading Scot that he's on 3 under par 3 off a leader of a what some Toronto Wolfpack of signs the Scotland international Ryan Brierly from Huddersfield he could make his debut in that Challenge Cup 5th round tie against suffered on Sunday and sideways the British Olympic high jump silver medalist Jermaine Mason has died at the age of 34 is after a motorcycle crash according to police in Jamaica the Jamaican born and. Switched to represent Great Britain in 2006 won silver at the 2008 meeting lympics more support for Miller 5 let's get the latest travel now with Three's a toll but the a 96 through near and road works on Sydney's Road King street causing delays both ways and indeed delays on Victoria Road in both directions up Victoria Street this is because nearby Albert Street is close by and so it's causing some delays in the surrounding areas 10 minute delays I'm in one Paris am so I've gone from the environment roundabout to the Bronx then going to buy this is through the road works at about a slow on the 8 Clause good old despondent go go round about just that the buying passes again this is because of road works and on the bypass delays from hair mussed into barbers and I can see the cameras very very busy here this evening and Glasgow slow moving and crowd heading it going to the south by a tunnel traffic backed up past and his line crawls on to be as they road and that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel and this is News Stream live tonight with Laura Maxwell Still to come parliament isn't yet dissolved but there's no doubt that the general election campaign is already underway we'll have more on the crowdfunding campaign for a young racing driver who lost both his legs in a crash and the Russians are cutting the cost of space travel all of that is still to come just know the time is it 29 minutes to 5 let's get the news with Christine Finnegan the Labor leader Jeremy Corbin has attacked big business and the elite in his 1st major speech of the general election campaign describing the June the 8th poll is a fight between the establishment and the people Mr Corbin said Labor would stand up for ordinary workers the m.p. Douglas cars well has said he won't stand for reelection and collect an Essex and has searched people to vote for the conservatives Mr Karr's Well defected from the Tories to Ukip before resigning from the party to citizen independent he explained why he wouldn't be standing I feel I've done the main thing I came into politics to do I became the conservative candidate you know Essex. 15 years ago saying that I thought Britain should leave the European years ah I promised when I was selected by my committee that I would do everything I could to make sure we got a referendum and that we won the referendum and we won Britain is about to become a sovereign country again I feel I've done what I set out to do gender to coin the man challenging Len McCluskey for the leadership of Unite has been suspended from his job as a regional official with the union the move comes as cantons about to get underway in the union's leadership ballot a couple from East London who tried to disguise the violent death of their baby by pretending she'd become ill in a bus journey have been found guilty of causing or allowing her death and money will cheer who was 4 months old was found to have multiple injuries including a fractured skull 25 year old Rosalind Baker and her partner Geoffrey Wiltshire who's 52 but acquitted of murder. More than half a 1000000 Scottish jobs are dependent on sales into the rest of the u.k. While less than a quarter of that number rely on sales into the rest of the European Union that's according to analysis by Strathclyde University economists commissioned by the u.k. Government while the Scottish government says similar numbers of people elsewhere in the u.k. Depend on sales into Scotland Gillian Myles reports the u.k. Government emphasises Scotland's reliance on its u.k. Markets while the Scottish Government is concerned with the job implications of leaving the e.u. Scottish Government figures already showed 4 times as much value from trade within the u.k. Today's report commissioned by the Conservative government translates that into Scottish employment 530000 jobs linked to the u.k. Trade and 125000 to either trade Scotland Secretary David Mendell says it's vital we maintain the integrity of the u.k. Market and. New barriers to doing business the Scottish government says that there are roughly as many u.k. Jobs dependent on imports into Scotland and that means a cross border trade is likely to continue in or out of the u.k. The French Health authorities say that a drug used to treat epilepsy is most likely responsible for severe birth defects in thousands of children the medication Valproic is no longer given to pregnant women James Reynolds reports from Paris 2 French agencies have conducted joint research into the effects of the medication valproate the drug was 1st made available in France in 1967 it was given to those at risk of epilepsy including pregnant women the report says the effects for many of these expectant mothers were serious preliminary results estimate that the drug was responsible for severe malformations in around 2 to 4000 babies the report says that women who were given the drug were 4 times more likely to give birth to babies with defects music from Star Wars jaws Indiana Jones and had a part or will feature at this year's problems as part of a tribute concert celebrating the 85th birthday of the film composer John Williams the Proms director David Picard said he hoped the musicians wonderful faded scholars would bring in a new audience b.b.c. Radio Scotland news now let's find out what the weather has in store Christopher bench at school here with his charts yes yes indeed they're not too exciting I have to say but lovely day today across the east coast 18.7 degrees in the burbs I'll have to take your word for it very pleasant indeed the best of the sunshine as they say was along the East Coast today and is still the case lovely sunshine at the moment Aberdeen Dundee not too bad in Edinburgh either come further west more the way of clouds some holes in the clouds some bright spirals coming through but generally cloudy year and as we head overnight reasoning. Cloudy for most of us with some patch outbreaks of rain across the northwest through parts of Caithness and Sutherland Orkney and the Hebrides and overnight that weather slowly edging its way southwards through Sky down towards the harbor and Argyle and eastwards in towards Inverness and Mari and parts of western Aberdeen should but most of the central opens in the south it's a dry nights and a cloudy night temperatures around 9 Celsius for most will be chilly for Shetland though they are in the clear a colder weather so temperatures here perhaps down around 2 or 3 Celsius with perhaps one or 2 wintry showers so to tomorrow and it's a pretty cloudy morning for most of us with outbreaks of rain once again across the northwest and these will slowly edge their way southward to the course of the day but by the time that where where the reaches the central belt sort of fragmenting really so a few spots here and there but not too many the afternoon is brighter but colder assists slowly brightening up through the course the day but the temperatures take taking a tumble that no 18 degrees tomorrow more like 9 or 10 at best as the forecast. News dry on b.b.c. Reduce Scotland to late with Laura Maxwell their m s P's have strongly criticized the Scottish police authority bosses over transparency and governance Holyrood's public audits Committee questioned s.p.n. Management earlier today Stephen Gordon reports the watchdog responsible for holding the police to account itself on the end of some tough questions from Hollywood's public audit committee this is not the Kremlin you're running is supposed to be an open public body. The early tone the chief executive of the Scottish police authority and its chairman Flanagan taken to task on the issue of transparency My understanding is that the meeting meeting before the board meetings that right there's a very short meeting before the boards or as least. So whose are the pre meeting meeting the board members is the record of course discussed at the premier no a lot is only preparatory for the of the food meal why is a little regular over the backdrop to these exchanges was it of you carried out by the s.b.a. Chairman of the behest of the justice secretary which created a new governance framework framework which included holding certain committees in private reached in part through discussions held a way from the public gaze something as open as governance as basic as government that's being decided you know all behind closed doors in a way that's going to be naughty through by the obviously compliant non-executive members of the s.p. Without seeing a decade about it and we're all supposed to accept that as a good example of open transparent government I think we have to make sure that the board meetings aren't perfunctory or rubber stamping I think that we need to have open discussion up those board meetings watching from the public gallery a former board member who describes herself as collateral damage when Mori Ali insisted her concerns about transparency were formally recorded in the minutes of last December's board meeting the chairman considered her dissent a resignation matter 2 months later having been removed from committees she did resign claiming she'd been silenced and for start I myself have been the subject of adverse headlines so I do understand the need to try to keep a control on things but I think it's the wrong answer I think the only way ever in any public body to live is an open and transparent and accountable way is the only arms and that's what they have to start doing asked if he considered his position under Flanagan said he was doing an effective job he told the committee that the way the s.b.a. Governs itself will be reviewed again in June after that he says that Derek penman the chief inspector of Constabulary on. A critic of the current arrangements will carry out a statutory inspection I think we're on a journey Is it perfect no it's not perfect but I think it in the last 12 months or so there have been significant steps forward in the meantime scrutiny by m s P's will continue with the public audit committee urgently demanding the minutes for every meeting carried out in private Stephen Gordon reporting. The parents of a 4 month old baby who was found with multiple injuries including 40 rib fractures have been found guilty of causing or allowing her death but cleared of murder the Old Bailey was told that Jeffrey Wiltshire and Roslyn Baker had tried to cover up the death of their daughter in money by pretending she'd taken ill on a bus in London to take of Inspector John Marriott's led the investigation and said it was a heartbreaking case having such a young victim of such an offense is unusual and I think that made it almost more renders you know why 3 months old child who spent was probably prematurely born and spent the 1st 6 weeks of life in hospital where was safe and then the next 6 weeks must have been misery to be honest and you know when you see the catalogue of injuries that poor Mani just suffered it really is heartbreaking correspondent Dan Johnson was at the Old Bailey in London to hear the verdict we may never know exactly what caused the death of this baby but what we do know is that in Mani just 4 months old suffered some horrendous injuries she had a fractured skull a fractured wrist and numerous fractured ribs and the evidence showed that she'd been assaulted at least 3 times in the week before she was eventually discovered and we know that her mother Roslyn Baker got on a bus in East London when baby Eman he was already dead as she was on that bus journey she suddenly told other passengers that had baby had become ill in the passengers tried to do what they could to save him on his life but she'd already. Being dead for some time paramedics could do nothing and the court was told how Roslyn Baker showed no emotion I was that desperate attempt was going on to try and save her daughter's life she showed no concern and no surprise when she was eventually told that her daughter had passed away while both parents Roslyn Baker and. Jeffrey Welch are a big cleared of murder but found guilty of causing or allowing the baby's death and they've been told they'll be sentenced next month the judge said that baby in Molly's life had been painful distressing and bewildering and he said the 2 defendants should be in no doubt that they will face a substantial cost owed your sentence because of the seriousness of the neglect that was our correspondent Don Johnson reporting from the Old Bailey in London. Tonight's news straight headlines the Labor leader Jeremy Corbin has used his 1st major speech of the election campaign to pledge to put the interests of the majority 1st at Holyrood the Scottish Conservative leader with Davidson has been greeted with coals of shame from rival and s.p.s. After she refused to condemn the u.k. Government so-called rate clothes and as we've just been hearing a couple from East London who tried to disguise the violent death of their baby by pretending she'd taken ill on a bus journey have been found guilty of causing or allowing her death those are the news headlines let's hear what's happening on the roads Here's 2 reason the 96 through near nude works on St Ninians road near King street causing delays in both directions and a 90 Stonehaven queue southbound delays of 10 minutes here through the route works and the one pair of 10 minute delay southbound again because of road works from about dying to the Bronx day and learned about Edinburgh slow on the east mounted Google roundabout just at the buying power because of the road works and on the bypass it self responder leaves from Hair mist and through to Barberton as Cambridge a breakdown so burned or respond blocking a lane causing delays so the delays are coming from the to Great Western Lords. Heading down heading toward the m 8 and in Glasgow slow on crude heading toward the south bank late tunnel traffic backed up past Anniesland cross back on to bears down road almost back to temple boat and that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel previously on the quay Adams programme an early election on June the 8 yes the announcement there at Westminster I'll be frank about this close quarter school on the whole you calls your stories how concerned are you either but your own diesel car or just a bit diesel vehicles being on the road at all they're still clearly dirty More few believe real clean alternative is a way to keep the key Adams program if you're in the market for another car go to what would you buy I'm all of you look a lot of my old I believe it is not very cordially by the devil but the conversation continues Monday morning from 9 am on b.b.c. Reduce going on. And this is news Dr tonight with Laura Maxwell a timeline just coming up to a quarter to 5 hundreds of thousands of parents have been raised to help a 17 year old racing driver who's had his lower legs amputated belly Mongar crushed cheering the formula for event at Donington Park in Leicestershire on Sunday has also had messages of support from fellow drivers including Jenson Button Herb Lewis Hamilton one driver though who knows better than most her belly will be feeling is David Perel a driver for wood or dray Singh who's hoping to compete in the 24 hour race in 2023 David took up the sport after losing both his lower legs in Afghanistan 7 years ago by Care April 2010 an hour go from improvised It's called the folks fired toe to toe to shoot its. Last legs and that helped a lot of the states. And soon as it. Provides its pulls at the various went off we came under contact somewhat Tennessee so the guys had to deal with a contact and I had to deal with my injuries so I had to turn a kid up my legs at a tame because you base it in a military sense of the golden hour where you you could bleed out. Sure Judo not tame must've been a couple of minutes went by I'm not sure how long it felt like I like to say yeah. It's dramatically different circumstances than than what has happened since you can barely longer but the news of his accident must've. For all the memories flooding back to you yeah definitely that I've been in has positions on a line and not bad exactly what's going through. He'll be said and I think in this life silver and a he won't be able race again if we don't he sell and things like up messes He commands us not the end of the world day. And the quote I am now used to go on 7 years to get where I am but I'm sure you have to support that you haven't a background showing we could have in these top is money you drive again if you want to drive relax so when you got in touch with a police family what did they say they do were just overwhelmed contacted um and it was still in a coma when they go back to me sin is not new news talking about. Trying to use a club trees is hundreds and and basically says it is a need to use a club to use and the thought uses likes when you get some because you want a racing driver before you went to Afghanistan where you learned you learned all of it when you when you came back after you'd recovered Yeah that's correct yeah I was I was and then combine to be a professional boxer after a month or so I don't add to the racing. As a title card and when I was using 100 controls. And I didn't I didn't seem normal and I went and fired time likes one day on a corporate event and I ended up going quick over my legs and and then I just kept on progressing from there then and the competition with want to race Janeiro runs and oh if you 100 able bodied man and a half hour finish date and they paid for my race license and then. From there. Do you think that that the motoring community will help him get back to racing again yeah but I think the hardest thing for him is going to be get and the race card again it's going to be that that flashback you move in and and stop and quite clear Well it will start running through his head what's happened and wait to myself I have nightmares of d.n.a. And and through the day sometimes it depended on what's now smells bring back a sense of what's happened has to take. A couple minutes to think and exactly where I am that it it race is a good thing says I see it's like a big massive family in the military and the reasons I got my head screwed away is give me something to focus on and hopefully I'll be the same for Billy yeah hopefully hopefully just hope it doesn't. To me yeah I'm not sure if it or members is at war and I wish I didn't remember Martin Bowers conscious through everything to treat myself. Thanks Chris get it. David Beryl there who's a driver for would argue racing has been in touch with Billy monger's family offering his help and of just how do we look on the the pace the Just Giving page that's raising money for Billy monger and it's now I reached over 540000 pounds if you've any thoughts on that or anything you hear tonight on the program to of course get in touch the text number is 8 to 95. Now if you're a cyclist listen up apparently pedaling to work reduces your risk of developing cancer and lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease by almost half researchers from Glasgow University studied 250000 commuters over 5 years and find that cyclists had a 41 percent lower risk of premature death from any cause Dr Jason Gill from the Institute of cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow explains why people struggle to prioritise time to be physically active during the days when you get busy don't go the gym so what we've shown is that by by multitasking if you like and getting your physical activity in by on your way to work you get very substantial health benefits cycle commuters on average covered about 30 miles per week whereas walking commuters did about 6 miles per week walking so bigger amounts of exercise give you a bigger benefit we also know that cycling is a little bit higher intensity than walking to get a bit more out of breath and we know that high intensity activity is more beneficial as well so we think the combination of the cycle to doing a little bit more and doing it a little bit higher intensity gives you the big a benefit so it's a cyclist singles go make of all this well the people we heard from love to use their bikes. I don't think it's anything new I mean I think everybody knows that any any form exercise is going to make you healthier and if. You know Max out where a good diet and wasting decent food then you talk to understand that cycling is healthy for you or is beneficial to you and such a large scale I think for me Chuck fairly shocking and I'm surprised and happy about it I think I decided in seeing that actually by a cyclist always passing the car or the bus you know just being in front of the lights and always going 1st I thought why am I not on a bike I should be on a bike getting a break is you know we for the 2nd week in the come say in just a bit in your head because the only thing you think of it you know not take you know you think since you start to ride a bike you start to think a bit more you look around and you look around but you're right about you 1st you go 1st out you're wrong but you realize or there's an amazing shot is there and there and you start to improve your lives your health your diet because you're moving your body to be to the most need to shoot food you eat the better you read by the easier becomes I don't know it doesn't even feel as an exercise in a more for me you know for me it's the way I moved and we've talked about health benefits and losing weight which is amazing Bach hopes will help you be having leisure sports and Health at the same time is pretty amazing. And we'll have more on this research later in the program now a cancer center designer and a missionary will be the 1st woman to be commemorated in a gallery at the National Wallace monument in sterling Mary Slessor and Mikey Kazik Jenks will be inaugurated into the Hall of Heroes following a public vote Rachel Bell has more on. The wall this monument in Starling commemorates one of Scotland's most iconic heroes Sir William Wallace. Halfway up its $246.00 steps Speidel staircase eyes are removed. Educated to some other historical figures Zillah Jamieson is Chait of Starling district 2 does a grim Hall of Heroes which is on the 2nd level and it's a very historical building and is very a story from the point of view of initially posts were put in or people who were felt to be Scotland's heroes at that time and I did recognize a few of them when I think probably the most well known one is a proper Burns our National Guard source got. Their highest historians here economists freedom fighters Robert the Bruce is obviously representative is world and they all sit and look at all the sort it's been a 100 years since someone was inducted into the Hall of Heroes a public campaign has think thousands of people voting on which women they want to see represented Cancer Center designer Maggie Keswick Jencks and missionary Miti Slessor have been selected from a shortlist of 14 women the 2 women who came out with the most schools where we're quite far in the eat there's a handful of votes between them so how could you possibly see that one had to be 1st Someone had to be 2nd so it would be it if I can use a chair Mitt was a pretty North Korean or that really we had to go with both women because it would been so unfair to choose just one while battling breast cancer Maggie Keswick Jencks developed the blueprints for centers aimed at offering support to sufferers and their families that are now 19 Maggie centers in the u.k. And Hong Kong Dr De Lima McLennan from the Saltire society was on the selection panel for the spotless heroine's project my best friend actually got a brain tumor in it in July and was gone in October and not having family here with her I was looking after most of it I and took her to Maggie center and it was it was a life changing thing for the time she. Those few moments and but the pose of her legacy is just amazing and it's incalculable the amount of people across the border to benefit from her legacy media slicer will also be recognized for her efforts to improve the lives of native people in Nigeria she's regarded as the most celebrated Scottish missionary since David Livingston you have brought me is because coming from a very religious we free background from the island of Lewis we did not many books apart from the Bible. The appearance progress and Mary Slessor and my mother all restraint maybe slated it was about the only books you read in English maybe she thought we would follow in her footsteps but. It wasn't to be. She was a remarkable woman and it's very strange to have known about it from a young age. Over the past few months thousands of people have taken part in the project syllogism ison says it's been quite overwhelming so you can see just what some of these women have meant to people currently living you know some people saying for sake of example but they had a twin in $1000.00 a year and if there had been from 80 Slessor they would be alive. There were comments you know about the Maggie centers in terms of the rest by and the support and care that those organizations gave people suffering from from the dreaded cancer so it wasn't necessarily just a number of warts which was obviously phenomenal It was the feeling the sentiment and the emotion that came with all of those chords. The project team will now decide how best to represent to me the slicer and Maggie case against in the gallery it's hoped they would be the only Scottish head of Insta feature in the whole of. That report from Rachael Bell we have politicians and other newsmakers who are actually setting the agenda each morning. Often the stories the answers they give us will make up the news as it progresses through the day ordinary people whom we interviewed just leave you thinking wow you know what a person oh what a story Good Morning Scotland world events and also what is happening here in Scotland and in the u.k. As well it's fast and when something breaks you could have story on the air it's that sense of immediacy Scotland's precious news program plus the main news sports headlines focus on a big c They just got to track let's get the weather forecast like Christopher done checked everything you need to know every day on b.b.c. Radio Scotland and they're back tomorrow again from 6 now as Iraqi forces continue their offensive to drive ins and out of West Mosul a symbolic concert has been held in the eastern side of the city an Iraqi violinist I mean McDowell play played to an air of music in the ruins of an ancient site under the watchful eyes of the security forces our Arab affairs editor Sebastian assure reports the fighting may still be raging on the other side of the Tigris River but music will turn briefly to the eastern half of Mosul in. Half. Alone violinist play to a handful of people at the reputed burial site of a prophet revered by both Muslims and Christians and what was welcomed as a symbolic victory of culture of to be a still rule of i.i.s. Which bans most music the musician was a mean Mokdad who returned to his home city after being forced to flee by the jihadists even after I took control of Mosul in 2014 the largely self-taught musician continue to practice and compose in secret but his house was finally raided and his instruments to his back playing music he composed and i.s. a Member of the audience at the music restored a little of the beauty of the real one still in spite of all the destruction. It is going to do what it was. That report from I mean Dad It was lovely to hear that go right the way to the very end the sound of the violin in the ruins in Mosul just beautiful there and thanks for your texts this evening Danny's been in touch on the horde of gold sovereigns found in a piano in Shropshire Danny says I think I would turn the sovereigns into tasteful rings and chains a bit like Del Boy I'm not entirely sure that their original owners of the piano would all be happy to see the sovereigns turned in to sovereign rings given especially that they're not going to get any of the cash out of that and still listening here on b.b.c. Radio Scotland the key sessions returns this evening when Roddy Hart welcomes Alice Myra she'll be showcasing chain up the swings her solo album that celebrates the musical legacy of her late father Michael Marra Alice will perform songs written by him and played with some of his original gales of blue orchestra that's the key sessions tonight from 9 on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. 82 to 95 f.m. 81 a medium wave and on digital radio b.b.c. Radio Scotland Good afternoon it's 5 o'clock. This is new strife with Laura Maxwell tonight Jeremy Corben delivers his 1st general election speech with this message it's a rigged system set up by the wealthy extractors for the wells extract but things can and they will change heated exchanges at today's 1st Minister's Questions Do you support the reach clause in principle or do you like me think it is utterly appalled it is the 1st minister doesn't like the 2 child tax policy it's a day when we hear from the teenager who left the classroom during adolescence to man a lifeboat I was inspired by my older brother he's been a crew member since I was very young so I followed in his footsteps. Yes. The 1st crystal finical the city's nose the Labor leader Jeremy carbon has used his 1st major speech of the election campaign to pledge to put the interests of the majority 1st he said the British people were being held back by a system rigged for the wealthy extractors or Political Correspondent Chris Mason was listening Jeremy Corbyn was passionate and energized the election he insisted was not a foregone conclusion Labor could defy what he called the establishment experts there was a cosy cartel at the top of society he said the city tax dodgers the media and unscrupulous bosses of course those people don't want us to win Mr Corbin told Party activists in Westminster because when we win is the people not the powerful who when the Labor leader appeared to leave open the possibility of a 2nd e.u. Referendum but the party later said that wouldn't be in their manifesto to resume or you claimed this proved that chaos would follow if Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister the m.p. For Clacton Douglas Carr's Wells says he wants to seek reelection insisting he's done what he set out to do by helping to secure Bracks it Mr cars will defected from the conservatives for ukip then quit to become an independent or ta leader the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson was greeted with calls of shame from rival m.s. Peace after she refused to condemn the u.k. Government's so-called rape clause welfare reforms introduced by the u.k. Government earlier this month cut child tax credit and universal credit for a 3rd or subsequent children with exceptions including Berman who conceived as a result of rape which the women have to prove a mistake it's unsaid if the 1st Minister doesn't like the policy she can change it . The pittance of a 4 month old baby who suffered multiple injuries including 40 ripped fractures have been found guilty of causing or lowering her death but cleared of murder the Old Bailey was told the Jeffrey will cheer and draws a line in Baker to try to cover up the death of their daughter Manny by pretending she'd been taken ill in a bus in East London. A gang of men that blew up cash machines at banks and supermarkets across the u.k. Including in the north east of Scotland have been sentenced A.T.M.'s in Aberdeen Carnoustie in Paris were targeted Rebecca cut and reports during the year long crime spree 13 banks and shops in England and Scotland were targeted some cash machines were blown up in other raids stolen cars were used to drag them away the gang mostly from Merseyside made off with hundreds of thousands of pounds in total during raids in Aberdeen Carnoustie paratha and parts of England the 7 men were convicted at Liverpool Crown Court earlier this month today they were sentenced to a total of more than 92 years behind bars as many as 100 jobs could go a day as you're bottling plants in Glasgow in Fife with plans buy the drinks trying to move some packaging to Italy with its bottling plant is running below capacity 70 jobs are expected to go a child hole by the end of the year and $35.00 at Leven That's unless new bottling contracts can be won from other companies unions have strongly criticized the move Unite says it's a shocking betrayal of Scottish workers m s P's have strongly criticised the Scottish police authority bosses over transparency in governance all they did public audit committee quizzed s.b.a. Management over claims of a secret society on its board and meetings held behind closed doors one m.s.p. Told bosses that it's not the Kremlin you're running while another asked if the group was fit for purpose authority. I mean under Flanagan insisted the body had made substantial progress over the last year. A cache of gold coins find hidden inside a piano in Shropshire has been declared treasure it means the hoarders know the property of the crown but the piano tuner who found it and Bishop's Castle community college which owns the instrument stand to share a huge troop board. Reports experts say this is the largest gold solver in hold ever found in the u.k. It consists of more than 900 coins and makes up more than 6 kilograms of gold bullion the Koreans dates from the reigns of Queen Victoria Edward the 7th and jewels to the 5th they were found by a piano tuner under the keyboard where they are believed to have been deliberately hidden any reward will be divided up between the Cina who discovered the hold on the college where the instrument was being reaching and just before Christmas sport now here's Heather thanks Christine Andy Murray's described his exit from the Monte Carlo monsters as progress and admitted he would have accepted a 3rd round defeat 10 days ago the world number one was full of up in the deciding set to Ghent Ramos for the last before the Spaniard to back to qualify for the quarter finals Murray says he wasn't sure he'd even be able to play the tournament after suffering an elbow problem the molten balls Jim Duffy has been hit with a plus one suspended for his touchline alter cation with the hips manager Neil Lennon Duffy faces an additional one game ban a few transgressors again in 2017 Lennon meanwhile will find out his punishment next week while he awaits his hearing he's got Scottish Cup action to look forward to this weekend and he's adamant the pressure is off his side as a look ahead to that Cup semifinal against Aberdeen. McInnes meanwhile hopes his side can use the disappointment of losing the League Cup final against Celtic to their advantage and the Gulf players currently suspended to the Shans and open in China because of the weather actually Ramsay the leading Scot that he's 3 under par 3 awfully debt bubble some that sold. Spoke to reason has trouble thank you hasn't it in 96 through nearly roadworks own sin enjoyed it King St causing delays both ways there's a 30 speed with stricture in here with temporary traffic lights and they NY in the Inverness of the more rude slow north by and through the road works at alland this is just the a 98 junction Stonehaven a 90 a half hour delays nice pretty grim here this evening half hour delay side by and through the board works Jeff excuse back to Michael's and Edinburgh slew on the 8 Glaus respond to the roundabout just at the bypass again because of road works and go slow on crude heading down towards the south by and Clay tunnel traffic backed up past Anniesland cross on the bears down road and the m 77 Glasgow slow from the Emmy to seaward Street on to junction one leg and 77 call winning very slow moving in both directions at Highgate through the road works that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel Scotland's weather a cloudy and the day for many rain in the far northwest Highlands and Orkney will intensify and slowly edge than the west coast through sky look up or under Gale Inverness Monday in parts of Aberdeen share loss of 9 Celsius for most Friday starts cloudy for most with rain across Highland and Grampian and white where there will be lighter and more patchy the further east you are our next new somebody tough past 5 You're listening to b.b.c. Radio Scotland news the time 8 minutes past 5 and this is new strive to meet with Laura Maxwell Scotland's political parties set their main campaign points during the 1st Minister's Questions at Holyrood by the time the general election comes round schools voters will have gone to the polls 7 times in just over 3 years but there was no sign of apathy today though as the party leaders tore into each other or political correspondent under care was watching it looks like a bruising battle ahead the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson was 1st praising the U.K.'s international efforts as she picked up an issue of independence setting off so we're about to fight a general election can. We are we know what the s. And P's message will be it will be that living in the u.k. Under a Conservative government will be hell on arse given the work that this country does around the world given the conditions the people face in other parts of the world can I ask the 1st minister at the start of this campaign to she really think that's a fair description of life in this country the 1st Minister Nicola Sturgeon had this warning who is going to stand up for Scotland against an increasingly hardline tortie government the Prime Minister herself has made it very clear that in this election her objective is to crush the sane so that she can do whatever she wants so people across Scotland have got to be clear there is no will see a tactical tortie for this election the surgeon added She was horrified by the prospect of Tory one party's stranglehold Westminster and she raised what she called an apparent issue the example of the so-called rape clause were child tax credit is limited to 2 children and women have to prove they've been reaps to claim for a 3rd child I'll give it Davidson a chance to duty what she has shamefully so far refused to do you know passed the buck stand up here to d. And tail this chamber tale Scotland St Do you support the rape clause in principle or do you like me think is utterly appalled and answer the question do you think it's an replied saying the 1st Minister had the power to make a change alone so the question the same way I answered it in the press this morning of the 1st Minister doesn't like the 2 child tax policy issues in changing how the streets. Extract that yes that's right thank God we stopped the I was complaining about u.k. Government and she. If I doing anything parcell the Labor leader Kayser Dugdale also mentioned the forthcoming battle saying the s.n.p. Were ultimately backing the conservatives after the vote at Westminster to usher in the general election so why did the s.n.p. Abstain yesterday instead of voting with Labor to get rid of this 20 government 1st minister. You know I hate to be the one that has to point to a. Case here don't do it wasn't the s.n.p. The 42 with the Tories yesterday in the House of Commons it was Labor Day trips to the luvvies with the toadies yesterday you know the lobby I mean it's that one that had talkies in Christmas I think about it then she asked if the 1st minister was being upfront about independence this time around time and time again we were told to a vote for the s.n.p. Is not a vote for another referendum so the 1st is to have the decency to tell the voters before they vote that she will use this election as another excuse for a divisive referendum for once again will she wait until the day after interesting with Nicolas Sturgeon said she already had a mandate for independence she wasn't making this election about the Constitution the line did for another referendum was sought and widen at the Scottish Parliament election. Thankfully. That's the way it is that that you stand up for Scotland against the toadies it's about who will stop the Tories silencing and crushing the opposition she called the party useless then we'll be ready the Liberal Democrat leader brandish his party's pro European credentials as he poked fun at the s.n.p. This impedes Dept of leader I guess Robertson struggle to explain his party's Judit policy on the radio yesterday 5 times he was the last for policy be in the modern. Yes the word for the general election 5 times asked 5 times he wasn't able to answer he became so desperate he even asked all the Westerners to write in with suggestions I it was answers I want to put Scott there she won food membership of the European Union in the s.n.p. Manifesto he asked the 1st minister answered policy of the s.n.p. On Europe is absolutely clear we want Scotland was to me I was going 7 to members of the European Union Mr Ranney was suspicious saying she was getting brags that supporters back onside was going soft in the e.u. Bud's everyone seemed ultimately pleased as it got their key pictures across to voters Andrew Carroll reporting from Hollywood Meanwhile at Westminster campaigning for the gin the vote appears to be in full swing to this morning the Labor leader Jeremy Corbin promised to stand up for working people against the establishment describing it as a rigged system run by a cosy cartel in while the prime minister treason May has been on the campaign trail in North London well let's go to Westminster now and our correspondent David Porter David So what did Mr Corben have to say for himself Laura in effect this was Jeremy call Vince pitched to the electorate wanting to if you like sort of Germany Corgan unspun where he wanted to get across the views that he will regard as important in this general election campaign there was criticism of big business there was criticism of the media and he essentially as you said he said that he wanted to change what he called the rigged system which allows the rich and the powerful to leech of ordinary working people he said that he believed that the election was in no way a foregone conclusion and he believed that Labor could do very well in many respects what we saw from Jeremy Goldman was the tactics that he employed in both of his election campaigns to be leader of. The neighborhood when he was 1st elected and then when he was reelected again last year appealing to the grass roots of the Labor Party not necessarily as he would see it playing the game of addressing the issues that perhaps the media would concentrate on and the media concentrating quite heavily on the possibility of electoral prospects what it Labor have to say but yes yesterday Jeremy Colvin although he didn't address it in today's speech and didn't take any questions on it ruled out that there would be any pact between Labor and the s.n.p. The shadow. Front Bench spokesman Barry Gardiner has got a little bit further for labor today again ruling out any formal coalition between Labor and the s.n.p. And saying that basically if Labor was to be in power even if it was a minority administration it would seek to govern and it would challenge the s.n.p. On a case by case basis to whether it was going to support it or not this is what Mr Gardiner had to say to us a few moments ago if we were to become the largest single party but not have a majority we would then set out our policies it would then be for the. Policy by policy to decide whether they thought they should vote with this or not that is the honest way to politics it's a dishonest way of doing politics to going to pack in the green. And Bracks has been fairly high on the agenda again Bracks it has been high on the agenda particularly of the agenda of Won't it seem a it was notable in his comments that Jeremy Coburn didn't want to talk about brakes it didn't really want to go down that road to reason may has showed no reticence because she wants this to be framed as a general election which is about Brecht it is about leadership and she was fairly quick to attack the comments that mean. To call we've had and had not made she has been on a visit to a factory in Enfield in north London this afternoon this election ensuring that we have strong and stable leadership in this country in the national interest it's about strengthening our negotiating hand for Bret's it and it's about sticking to our plan for a stronger Britain developing a more secure future for ordinary working people in this country what we saw from Jeremy Corbyn this morning was his refusal to rule out the possibility of a 2nd referendum over bricks it that's wrong people voted in the referendum last year to leave the European Union that's what the government needs to put into place on his failure to rule that 2nd referendum out shows the coalition of chaos that we would have under Jeremy and news today of more M.P.'s who are deciding to step out of the the political races year M.P.'s are having designed basically today where they want to contest the election or not and a couple of names who have made their intentions clear one Douglas Carswell now he's the m.p. For Clarkson who until recently was you keeps only m.p. He's not said that he will not be seeking reelection on June 8th he sits as an independent at the moment having resigned from Ukip but he said that you would be backing the conservatives on June the 8th and another name has decided that he is not going to seek reelection is David Anderson he is an m.p. For the North East of England but he is the Shadows Scottish senator and also the shadow Northern Ireland secretary he said because of health issues and wanted to spend more time with his family he could not commit to another 5 years in the u.k. And the Westminster Parliament so he has decided to call it a day as well David Porter at Westminster many thanks indeed. Is indeed one of our main headlines this evening the Labor leader as we've just been hearing Jeremy Corbyn has used his 1st major speech of the election campaign to pledge to put the interests of the majority 1st as many as 100 jobs could go at D'Angelo bottling plants in Glasgow in Fife with plans by the drinks giant to move some packaging to Italy and a member of Hollywood's audit committee has accused the police watchdog of acting like the Kremlin which teams will be their place in the fight you know comes up and some tough it was always the boys are going to scorch cars. Ah. I think they'll be a lot of challenges for as we begin to join sports so to bring you have barely and Bess is Aberdeen Saturday from 12.81 all media weave and digital review to be back in some extended club something else that I'm betting on Sunday. I. Just gave it a. Listen from 1130 for Celtic this is Rangers just really look forward to going back to help them again in their toys I really enjoyed the Scottish Cup on b.b.c. Radio Scotland and this is news drive tonight with Lara Maxwell the time now is just coming up to 20 past 5 the former Rangers owner Craig Whyte has gone on trial accused of a fraudulent acquisition of the club the 46 year old faces 2 charges relating to the purchase of the club back in 2011 the trial could last up to 3 months well our business correspondent David Henderson is going to be following this case and joins us now David what more can you tell us about what happened today well Laura this was a formal start to proceedings at the high courts in Glasgow a jury was selected made up of a man and 7 women no evidence has yet been led. But we know the charges Craig Whyte faces 2 charges relating to the way the club changed hands 6 years ago he's charged with fraud and with a breach of the company's act now the 1st charge alleges that Craig Whyte pretended to the then owner of Ranger. David Murray and 2 others that funds were available to make all the required payments to obtain a controlling and majority stake in the club and that included clearing an 18000000 pounds bank dead end and 5000000 pounds for the playing squad know the Crown alleges that Mr White's only had 4000000 pounds available at the time but took out a loan worth 24000000 pounds from a company called Ticket us against 3 years of future season ticket sales for Rangers which was held subject to agreement being entered into between the club and ticketless after the acquisition now the 2nd charge under the Companies Act centers on the $18000000.00 pound payment between Mr White's company wave tower and Rangers to clear a bank debt so pretty technical but Mr White has pleaded not guilty to both those charges and there has been a lot of publicity in this case over the years what does the judge had to say about that well that's right after the jury had been picked the judge lady Stacey asked them to consider matters before evidence was was Herod in the case she said and I'm quoting there has been some degree of publicist t. About Mr White and Rangers putting it at its broadest she said over the last number of years do you know Mr White do you know anyone personally who may be a witness she said to the jury during May 2010 and May 2011 that's the time of the charges where you a shareholder where you are bond holder or a season ticket holder of Rangers ask yourself if there's any good reason why you can't be an impartial member of this jury that the judge also encourage encourage jurors to put out of mind anything they might have repaired or read previously about the case now after a short break none of the men and women selected had to be excused the 1st witness is expected to give testimony tomorrow when the trial continues and the case. Flora is expected to last up to 12 weeks or potentially a very long trial David Henderson many thanks there was schoolgirl has taken part in her 1st lifeboat rescue after getting the cold light while she was in class 18 year old Danielle Meagher joined other crew members to help a vessel that had broken down off the Fife Coast yesterday hundreds and takes up the story. A pager goes off in a class and wait a chasm in find it belongs to 60 year pupil Danielle Maher she checks the message gets up and leaves the 18 year old as a volunteer with the straw the lifeboat and the ships in trouble in the 1st the 4th Danielle doesn't hesitate to leave class tell the teacher and to go and I just let's go this is for fun pictures part of this what was going through your mind here I wasn't really sure like what to expect when I got down there. And it's got going as well yes. When the call comes life or waterproofs life jackets and helmets are placed Danielle's school uniform she's been a volunteer with the r.n. There lion Anstruther for several months now but yesterday was the 1st time she's been on a rescue mission for real so why did she join up I was inspired by my older brother he's been a crew member since I was very young so I followed in his footsteps and what was going through your mind as you. Just pray and share because I obviously have never been on the show before so. I was really unsure and looking back on. It when we get done Yellin the rest of the and straw the lifeboat crew succeeded in getting the stricken ship in tow when you get safely into harbor they are depends on volunteers like Danielle Roy Giles as their operations manager. Is absolutely essential without the Youngblood we would stagnate We'll get to a point where we haven't got a people fit enough or I will enough to do the job and. Softer the school as well for their support and allowing it to do it and back up the road way to Council me they're proud of Danielle her teacher in Hughes It's wonderful that someday no young woman or 6 year old has taken the responsibility to. Take it to work with the community in terms of working without any ally. Coastal villages around here and some to tightly take on the responsibility of actually doing the training and actually in actually being prepared to leave school joining the d. Corps and place to help save someone in the local area as a credible his wonderful we're very very proud of her so one rescue under her belt Danielle's waiting for the next time the call goes out but not during the final year exams she's sitting in a few weeks time Anderson and 3 Anderson with that report that's really cool. Being an 18 year old were there before going off for they are now I. Heather spoke of weapon of a surprise this afternoon lower in the world of tennis and this time not related to Serena Williams pregnancy Andy Murray as i use of the Monte Carlo Masters he was beaten in the 3rd round by Spain's Alba Ramos fill us in a match Murray looks like he was well on the way to winning card in it Sam was watching the Mahdi's frustrating year as world number one continues having just come back from an elbow injury the top seed in Monte Carlo seemed to be cruising to the quarterfinals India for love in the deciding 3rd set he was just 2 games away from the last 8 but Spain's Alber Ramos for no loss is now a top 25 player and battle back as the Scots levelled that for love became for all 5 all became 75 as money was sent packing he says he's not too disappointed as he played well and part cheers on his elbow is progressing he still well clear at the top of the world rankings but has a mountain of points to defend and may now taken an extra to intimate next week as he seeks more much as on clay in football the Morton boss Jim Duffy has been hit with a team plus one suspended for his touchline altercation with the Habs manager Neil Lennon Duffy faces an additional one game ban if you transgress as again in 2017 Morton were fined 500 pounds for the stoppage time for ACA when Ellena meanwhile will find out his punishment next week in the meantime it's all about the Scottish Cup for Lennon as he looks ahead to their semifinal against Aberdeen this weekend Lennon insists all the pressure will be on their opponents on the day and says his side half what it takes to handle the big occasions I think the fruit particularly the last 18 months or so in the big games a season championship the player brilliantly. In the cup games you know the hearts who think there's a lot of pressure a normal schemes to handle are very well of course the Open last year they are getting through the championship was a big monkey off the back as well and that is over 36 games. Consistently will be at the top level of the Premiership team. So the goal of the right sort of the feel of all well the much throws up an interesting challenge for 2 brothers says Aberdeen's Graham shinee takes on have been eons and recently it will be the 1st time the former Inverness Caley Thistle teammates have Plage against one another in a competitive senior game but on small start McInnes says there's no competition between the players and it's Graham he would go with every time I would just want my shiny framed up and both are good players Shalimar show me tell you so much brings problems but you know I've watched a lot I recently I know he's a very good football himself I'm sure and appears to be very proud. Of it. And Ridgeway make sure this place is as clear. Elsewhere Manchester United manager is in Reno says his side to be positive in tonight's show play quarter final 2nd leg against on the lax after drawing one want to Belgium last week a clean sheet will be enough to see United progress to the last full another Niecy former England and Aston Villa defender. Is in hospital after collapsing at Tottenham's training center earlier today he's currently the Spurs under 20 three's coach and won 4 cows for England in goals place been suspended and open in the 1st round because of the weather which he Ramsay is the leading Scot that he's on 3 under par 3 of a leader Bubba Watson and Robbie league Toronto Wolfpack have signed the Scotland international Ryan Brierly from Huddersfield he could make his debut in the Challenge Cup 5th round tie against sulfides on Sunday and at the British Swimming Championships in Sheffield Scotland's Duncan Scott was fastest or in the men's freestyle $100.00 metres freestyle meant less on Maria Khana has qualified quickest for tonight's 50 meter freestyle for me at 6 let's get the latest traffic and travel tt's here the a 97 haven a half hour delay so I've been through the road works traffic is queuing back to Michael's body bridge delays on High Street in both directions just a Bridge Street the temporary traffic lights here through the road. Arcs are stuck on red causing the problem I'm 74 Glasgow North by delays heading on to the m 8 then slow from here on to the I'm 77 so I was buying from seaward St John to wonder and still very slow moving including Glasgow heading into the so I've been quite tunnel traffics by past cross and a 77 call winning to both ways of gate again because of road works that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel and this is News Stream live at the time is half past 5. Let's get a summary of the day's news with Christine Finnegan the Labor leader Cherami carbon has sought to present himself as the anti establishment candidate in his 1st major speech of the election campaign he promised to overturn what he called a rigged system which allows the rich and powerful to leech off ordinary working people at Holyrood the so-called rate clause and the general election dominated 1st Minister's Questions this lunchtime the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson was greeted with coals of shame from rival Amos peas after she refused to condemn welfare reforms which cut benefits for 3rd or subsequent children and lace women can prove their child was conceived as a result of rape misstatements and said of the 1st Minister doesn't like the policy she can change it or Correspondent Lorna Gordon is that Hollywood there's a protest outside parliament this afternoon over reforms to child tax credits that was one of the main issues at the start of the 1st Minister's Questions today there were noisy exchanges over that issue but what you did really get was a sense of the election issues ahead as many as 100 jobs could go bottling plants in Glasgow in Fife with plans by the drinks giant to move some packaging to Italy 70 jobs are expected to go and she'll told by the end of the year and $35.00 it Leven unless new bottling contracts can be won from other companies. The Scottish government has asked the chief inspector of Constabulary to speed up his investigation into transparency within the police watchdog the Scottish police authority later this year the chief inspector David Penman says he will report within a month it follows concerns voiced as a Hollywood Committee in which they're saying p member Alex Neil attacked the police authorities chairman and chief executive saying they were acting as if they were. Unning the Kremlin the whole thing is done without public knowledge without you know people being able to hold this board because this is all done behind the liberally behind closed doors to undermine the very principles of transparency and accountability that the whole puppets of the review the cabinet say could be saved up was designed to address how is that excusable or defensible a couple from East London have been found guilty of causing or allowing the death of their 4 month old daughter who suffered 40 rip fractures a broken wrist and head injuries Jeffrey Wiltshire and draw still in Baker tried to cover up the death of baby a money by pretending she'd fallen ill in a bus they were cleared of her murder Detective Inspector John Maddie it of the Metropolitan Police condemned the parents they betrayed everything that a parent stands for it's unimaginable to most of us in particular as a parent to see that this is just appalling sorry you know you can imagine what you did suffer through 5 the man challenging Len McCluskey position as head of the United min Jetter to coin has been suspended from his post at its West Midlands regional secretary the decision was announced as counting was about to get underway in the leadership ballot or correspondent in Westminster even Watson has seen an intentional e-mail that he says offers a possible explanation this is from the arts in general secretary where this contest been going on has been making an accusation that some of the literature put out in the election campaign by General calling was defamatory it was very critical of Alan McCluskey the incumbent are you suggesting that he may well have breached the unions rules but it does look incredibly suspicious to Jericho and supporters that the move against him has happened similar tenuously with the counting process in this election for the unions top job a massive cash of gold. Coins found hidden inside a piano in Shropshire has been declared treasure the British Museum says it's the largest collection of gold sovereigns ever found more than $100.00 coins the owner of the piano Bishop's Castle community college and the piano to know who found the coins will share any toward b.b.c. Radio Scotland news now let's see what the weather has in store for us Krista bunch it's here thank you very much indeed pleasant 19 degrees there in the burbs this afternoon not too bad at all for this part of April but next week something a good bit cooler and perhaps some snow showers as well with thanks hey let's let's not talk about that just yet let's talk about that here now and it's a fairly pleasant enter day for many central and especially eastern parts of the country with some late spells of sunshine the further west that you are the cloud always that bit thicker and some spots of light rain at the moment through parts of this and Sutherland the Western Isles and down through towards sky and parts of west of rust now overnight many areas will be cloudy with that weather in the Northwest becoming a little more extensive moving its way south a nice wood so expect some spots of rain towards Mari West Nabatean sure in south down towards parts of Argyle but a good part of the country drying cloudy overnight temperatures around 9 Celsius for many colder and clear in Shetland I should add with a fairly strong northwesterly and some fairly hefty showers perhaps with some hail in them tomorrow it's an improving day it's going to be cloudy through the morning for all with outbreaks of rain across northern parts through Highland Grampian edging its way southwards by the time it reaches the Central Belt in the south fragmenting and will have a brighter but fairly cool afternoon quick look at weekend Saturday dry fairly cloudy will be cooler Sunday wet and windy in the north the next week wintry showers as the forecast. News drives on b.b.c. Reduce Scotland tonight with Laurel mix well though winds. And heads to the polls on June 8th to vote in the general election the constituency often free show Clydesdale in tweet detail will excite a special interest it's one of just 3 that the s.n.p. Didn't win last time around and it's held by the Scottish secretary David Mendell who hung on to it for the conservatives with a majority of just $798.00 it's not the smallest majority in Scotland but it's not far off and there's talk that the Scottish greens may not put up a candidate in the constituency in a bid to help the s.n.p. Well reporter David Allison went to David Mandela's constituency to investigate further have been trying to 15 David Mondale's previous majority of more than $4000.00 was slashed by surging s.n.p. It's fair to say that is the only sitting Tory north of the border and of course the secretary of state for Scotland Mr Mandela's a scalp nationalist would love to claim what are the chances of a political opposite. Clydesdale into a do well it depends on what voters in places like Moffat reckon this election is all vote while the prime minister wants to make sure it's about Bret's it that's not a foregone conclusion I have a clear To be quite frank I think it's a little annoyances we're fed up militias it's just going to be the same again conservatism and then this is no and blah blah maybe there's a lot people won't even vote Labor the despair and then maybe they'll change the mention of. Because it's going to do with elections I'll think so I think so I don't think I would want another election where you've got one body like I know. What would you like to be talked about in this election health service and education is all important so you'd like to hear people talking about more than talking about Bracks Well think breaks it is happening and it should be discussed Israel because as happened that really says the same thing you see education we see national health services see jobs obviously you can see arms if you have. The pop set except I was number 4 on your list which is interesting Yeah so you think some of these other issues will creep up and start becoming the main issues. I think we should be but I think that will be still overshadowed by the fact that without this. Country's future I don't think it could be anything but Burchett to be honest with you they've only been in the only 2 years since the last election it's only going to be 5 years to the next one and not give them the 5 years to turn around whatever they're doing but the whole thing has to be a bit wretched That's the elephant in the room and it can't be about anything else I don't think it can be about anything else they have to run their course have already been doing what they proposed to do. To the people with. The parliament and she needs to stop the backstabbing Otherwise you'd have to go to the north they can break us apart and not what they will try and do think it's a foregone conclusion that it's about bricks and yet she needs. To get this and deal that will force the election campaign to be virtually all about Rex and hardly any other she's going to look at you know you know. Any opposition. Has nothing there when I. Was or she's doing my creep and I don't think she's Scottish. And yeah I would think that's going to be a what appears to be quite controlled idea of what this election's about could end up on rivaling about I think the more than one issue I think people's decision and you can get very excited about the prospect of the sa. It's just another concern is it something too many things to consider to be cut their might. So yes Bracks it is right up there is the issue this election will be all about but don't discount India rush to reason issues like education or health which you do. Volved to the Scottish parliament and as ever in politics there are events dear boy advance and minimal action campaign they can prove decisive. David Allison porting from Dumfriesshire there now as many as 100 jobs could go bottling plants in Glasgow in Fife with plans by the drinks giant to move some of its packaging to Italy our business and economy editor Douglas Fraser joins us now and Douglas what's happening with the issue that well unions were told today and they're really unhappy but those that are in about $100.00 jobs are likely to go outside shield hole in the west of Glasgow and leavin and Fife which are very big bottling plants 1300 people employed between the 2 sites very big and for whisky but also gin and vodka because the idea was by far the biggest most dominant player in spirits worldwide some bottling is shifting to the company's other European plant which is in Italy that's lost contracts for bottling partly because the angio sold its interest in wine which used to be involved with and the Italian plants are running well below capacity so the g.m.b. The end unites the unions involved at these plants in Scotland strongly critical of the drinks giant for making Scottish workers pay the price redundancies have not been announced this is not the start of a consultation on redundancy but staff have been told that managers expect their workforce to come down from that combined 1300 by more than just over 100 actually 770 or so from Played say 35 in Fife by the end of this year that's unless the company can win new contracts for bottling from other companies so it may yet be able to avoid this happening and other business news today quite big news the Green Investment Bank set up by u.k. Government 5 years ago which is headquartered in Edinburgh being sold what's what's behind the sale you know all the Green Investment Bank to get out of the coalition government set up 5 years ago to plug some of the. Gaps in funding green energy and there where there are quite a lot of gaps is taking a 1000000000 and a half of u.k. Government money it's got other funds from partnering of private investors pushing 800000000 pounds out into investments each of the years it's been going partly in big offshore wind farm projects but a lot of it in energy efficiency streetlight replacement in plans going to Stirling as well as south of the border bio planted to Martin distillery near the r.v. More an aerobic to gesture energy from waste plants including one in Edinburgh and though in in Whitehall with a Tory majority they decided to years ago would be better to sell the Green Investment Bank take these liabilities off the government balance sheet it's taken a long time to get to a sale but after competitive bidding they finally signed the deal with McCourty bank big investment bank based in Australia and there are strings attached for that for the new owners there yeah the evaluation of this deal is it puts $2300000000.00 pounds value of it over that $1700000000.00 pounds will actually be paid to the Treasury can go I assume towards reducing the level of the deficit and that comes with a number of conditions or at least agreement with the new order that there's a pledge to invest at least 3000000000 pounds over the next 3 years in green projects the team in Edinburgh which is know the headquarters will be retained it should grow with a new division managing these green assets and the question of whether Edmodo means each queues less clear the same each queue for everything and the quality is in Sydney but they're committed to Edinburgh with the team that's currently there at the headquarters though that may not describe it that way there's a firm requirement to stay focused on low carbon or green projects the government's put a special shareholding in place which means independent trustees will hold McCourty to account for its greenery of course it's a big infrastructure investor so anything that's not the green can move into other funds and so what's more quarry banks saying about its plans for future investment Well this is a still years biggest investment banks big in infrastructure of 25 years it's been investing in airports communications per. Plants roads it's also been in energy for the past 6 or so years it says that that means it's used to working in a heavily regulated sectors it's comfortable with the government's continued interest in its role it sees us as a business that's already established and what it had wanted to get into anyway in renewable energy it'll get to Britain and across Europe to invest in projects and it wants to do more about investment in new technologies than the Green Investment Bank has been doing up to most tended towards projects using existing proven technologies Douglas Fraser our business and economy are certain Many thanks indeed . Tonight's news drive headlines at a quarter to 6 the Labor leader Jeremy Corbin has used his 1st major speech of the election campaign to pledge to put the interests of the majority 1st at Hollywood the so-called rate close and the general election dominated 1st Minister's Questions time for questions and a couple from East London have been fined guilty of causing or allowing the death of their 4 month old daughter who suffered 40 rib fractures and a broken wrist and head injuries that's news let's get the latest travel with Teresa told that the 90 Stonehaven half hour delay saved by him through the road works traffic is queuing back to Michael's in a pair of 10 minute delay South Bend again because of road works so slow from environment trying to bite down to the stand and about 20 bridge delays on High Street both ways that Bridge Street know the temporary traffic lights through the road works here are stuck on red so causing some problems and Glasgow Balmoral has partially blocked there's been an accident just yes it came to go scares the street so slow in both directions that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel now too many sweet puddings and not enough fresh vegetables that's verdict of health campaigners on some of our school dinners obesity action Scotland says improvements to school meals could play an important point in reducing childhood obesity the government is reviewing the guidance it gives to local authorities on what should be in the meals we give to pupils or education correspond. And to Jimmy McCurry 1st spent his lunch hour today at a primary school in Glasgow I have some youngsters their school dinner is the most important meal of the day at this school fresh fruits and vegetables are always an option thanks so yeah I always think if I think it's hard to have the sound check that beginning to get a bad feeling I did speak to sleep over the tricks now I think that there are government guidelines to try to make sure the meals on offer a healthy baby needs councils and responsible for the local sadness I spoke to Julia McCready from Cardia which provides the service and teaches government how strict education the economy today that's what I heard Cecilia given the menu on said I was most important to make sure that other options are available are healthy and I Tyson for the young i many schools encourages would highlight what they say is good practice but although that our national guidelines is there a national consistency not saucy campaigners but in telling his from obesity action Scotland. Quality of skill is that offered across Scotland Vader's dramatically local authorities tended to offer pigeons more often than sit and they off when it regularly stares through say stood stale food and rates meat and we feel that that needs to change we also want schools to cut down on processed foods and say vegetables soups and salads should take priority over puddings the government is cutting pleaded viewing the guidance I would say to parents is that the standards that we have in place sudden forced by statute that are for high school to education secretary John Swinney the get into the go people of getting high called to high nutritional value food in our schools but that we are constantly considering on assessing those regulations to make sure that the high standards that we aim. To see it able to be delivered in practice and we put in place school inspections to make sure that's the case I back in this dining hall healthy choices seem to be popular choices councils can be held to account for the quality of school meals by volunteers and the kinds of actions are just a fortnight away the campaigners say candidates across the country should commit to improvements. That was our education correspondent Jamie McCullough for reporting now you may remember a few weeks ago we brought you the story of the b.b.c. Team that got caught up in an explosion from a lava flow on mind now when I we can actually tell you the story that they were there to reporter originally Rebecca morale our science correspondent has this report on a new method of predicting when volcanoes will erupt it uses subtle light says so can be used for any active volcano anywhere in the world not just on my intestine or where she found herself in danger just a few weeks ago. We've come up to see a lot of a flower which started to form of last night and mate it's in tents it's glowing red and you've got pieces of rock moving slowly slowly forward down the mountain last month I went to see. One of the most active volcanoes in the wild but just moments after recording this I experienced at Noah's devastating power at 1st hand. The series a huge explosion of love that instantly Yeah. Sending pulling off raining down. On the ground for our lives a little lucky the boys. The plausible cools down by fiercely hot lava mixing with melting snow underneath it's a wrestles of a current and hard to predict By contrast though the eruption from a crater. You can hear the magma exploding out of one hair that led to this unstable love of flight can be forecast that's one of our About 40 g.p.s. Stations. And over there we have one of our more than 60 seismic stations we have our magnetometers and cameras thermal cameras radar instruments gas me there are so whatever can be measured where we're measuring Boris Banka is a vocal I just he's been studying at now for the last 30 years he works for Italy's National Institutes of Geophysics some folk Knology which Mona says the folk a know around the clock at night is certainly one of the most intensely one the 3 volcanoes on Earth maybe the most monitored on the earth but obviously there are many other Ok nose and many dangerous water in those especially in poor countries where monitoring is much more rudimentary or in many places completely absent now though a groundbreaking project is about to change that's our plan is to really monitor all the volcanoes which are on land as about $1500.00 so around the world and to just be continuously Manci them and the beauty of the technique for using satellites means we don't even have to leave our desk Professor Andy Hooper from the University of Leeds is leading this wild white folk Aino watch the idea is that before of volcano erupts magma begins to rise from deep beneath the earth causing the ground above to Bolch it's only a tiny movement hardly noticeable but it can be detected with satellites that use radar by measuring defamation a machine built into the ground using this technique from space we can actually see the magma moving beneath the earth's surface which is key of course if we want to try and forecast. Tension eruptions this technology means hundreds of volcanoes can be monitored similar Taney Asli in near real time soon as something unusual happens at a volcano is that it moves in an unusual way. Where flyback and will alert the authorities in that country that something is going on it's really a step change in our ability to monitor organise Well actually roughly 800000000 people live within 100 kilometers of a volcano around the world Juliet big from the University of Bristol is also working on the project she says there are many places where this could make a big difference so an interesting fact is that roughly every 2 years an eruption occurs at a volcano with no historically recorded eruption so most of these have no no monitoring at all so recent examples are included in Chile in 22015 and in talking in Japan in 2040 and both of those either killed people or required major evacuations and there was little or no warning and he drew those examples so by studying all volcanoes around the world on a routine basis we hope to be able to provide information in cases like that. Back in Sicily and remains restless scientists still trying to understand what happened to us last month explosive interactions between larva and snow and little studied and we're now getting scientists out footage to learn more but my experience there gave me an alternate theory and insight into the danger that volcanoes compose and being able to forecast major rupture and could be a game changer in the satellite monitoring team hopes that by the end of this year there have been all of the world's volcanoes under their watch. B.b.c. Science correspondent Rebeca Morello porting. Now a 7 man gang that blew up cash machines across the u.k. Including 4 in Scotland stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds have been handed jail sentences ring. From 10 years to life imprisonment or reporter Rebekka current joins us now Rebecca just remind us of the background of the story well this was a year long crime spree which saw the gang of men target 13 banks and shops in both England Scotland the crimes took place between February 2015 and February last year and as you said 4 of the attacks were in Scotland 2 in Aberdeen one in Perth and one in Coney now the A.T.M.'s were blown up using powerful explosives and others were dragged away by stolen cars the police say the gang were using highly sophisticated but extremely dangerous techniques their gas or ways have been compared to blockbuster movies such as Fast and Furious on the Italian job after they made off at high speed in stolen performance cars which they've been transporting around the country inside an h.g.v. Lorry How were they eventually cold Well it was an attack on a cash machine at a co-op in Carnoustie in February last year that proved to be their last they hold the a.t.m. Out of the wall with a stolen Landrover before seizing around $16000.00 pounds in cash and hours later an off duty police officer spotted the suspicious car in our brutha armed officers then swooped on the car parked at the Times McDonald's and that's where 5 men all from the Merseyside it out were arrested but only after police fired tire deflation lines of the gangs Mercedes as they tried to get away but a few months before that detectives in Scotland and in England were already closing in on the gang it was an overnight raids and on the cash machine at the Co-op in King's wells which is on the outskirts of Aberdeen in August 2015 that police made their 1st major breakthrough c.c.t.v. From a nearby industrial estate picked up a rendezvous between a lorry and a high performance car as the gang headed back to England now the police have discovered the group had access to a stolen h.g.v. And they were using it to transport the. High powered cars they were using to commit the crimes so as not to draw attention to themselves that this was clearly a challenging case police said they didn't seem to be a pattern to the places targeted in the raids and they don't know why the gang who as I said are mostly from Mars the site travelled to Scotland and to tell the robbers still 550000 pounds including 110000 from the 4 raids north of the border and what can you tell us about the sentences they were handed today well each of the men received a custodial sentence they range from 10 years to life imprisonment and the charges against them included conspiracy to commit burglary and cause explosions collectively they will spend at least 92 years in prison and Police Scotland says sentences passed down reflect the seriousness of the crimes and the impact and serious and organized crime has on communities they also said the techniques the gang used were extremely risky and it's very fortunate that no one was hurt Rebecca Curran in Aberdeen many thanks. A Russian rocket has busted off carrying 2 crew members to the International Space Station instead of the usual 3 it's the 1st 2 man crew since 2003 last year the Russian space agency said it would reduce costs by cutting back on the number of cars minutes travelling to the station and it's been a busy day for space enthusiastic Chinese role could also successfully launched the country's 1st cargo spacecraft according to the official Chinese news agency the cargo ship is a step towards China school of completing its own crude space station by 2022 well our regular space expert at Leo and 9 joins us now Leo Just why are these 2 events significant Well they're both significant because in a way they begin to highlight more and more the way in which the Chinese are closing the gap on both the Americans and the Russians we had today the extraordinary sight of just 2 men instead of the usual trio astronauts leaving Earth on a Russian spacecraft this to save the Russians money because they're going to reduce the number of people on board 'd of their people on board by one crewmember it's good news for the Americans on board because in fact. What some the current commander of the mission she's actually going to spend an extra 3 months in orbit and there will be now 4 Americans rather than 3 on the space station with just 2 Russians now the the Americans of course are flying on a Russian spacecraft because they've now been grounded since the space shuttle has grounded they haven't been able to launch their own men and women into space so what happened today in China feeds directly into that because of course this is China declaring very solidly that they are now in the business of building a space station and they've now launched this huge cargo craft to show what they can do so there's no danger then that costs are being cut too much that the Americans are going to take a. The slack there from the Russians cutting costs yes there's a bit of that going on but the American So it's obvious concern of the United States at the long gap between the end of the space shuttle program and the arrival of the new vehicles both commercial and government Milt that are supposed to stand astronauts into space so the Americans under pressure the Russians under pressure and China rising and very briefly now says Peggy Whitson you mentioned she spent more time in space than anyone yet she spent more time than anyone I'm a spent in space she's all done more space walks than any other woman she's an extraordinary lady and she said that she's delighted that she's going to be spending 9 months on the space station and stead of just 6 Leo and right our space expert many thanks indeed. 922958 theme each one of the medium wave and on digital radio b.b.c. Radio Scotland Good evening it's 6 o'clock. The city's new strife with Laura Maxwell tonight the contest to be the next Prince President it reaches a crucial stage there is something approaching a full way dead heat in opinion polls why it's getting harder to move to a straight yes the key to successful integration into the Australian community is being able to speak English so that's that is that that's a very important trend and celebrating Shetlands maritime history what they painted in the sea for. The Marine harvest that kept the family faith they got the aid to be by sea move move goods move livestock. Before all of that live at the b.b.c. News at 6 with Christine Finnegan the Labor leader Jeremy carbon has promised to stand up for working people against the establishment in his 1st major speech of the leg. Campaign he said the party's manifesto was fully costed and insisted the party's defeat is not a foregone conclusion he said labor wouldn't play by rules said done by both the establishment and the media it is these rules that have allowed a cosy cartel to rig the system in favor of a few powerful and wealthy individuals and corporations it's a rigged system set up by the wealthy extractors full of the wealth extracted but things can and they will change. The battle lines have been drawn in Scotland's general election campaign as the party leaders set out their stall to voters at 1st Minister's Questions there were angry exchanges over Independence breaks that the controversial tax credit reaped clause and who could best stand up for Scotland our political correspondent under care reports from Holy Writ the Conservative leader Ruth Davidson claimed the s.n.p. Campaign would patrol the country as hell on earth under a Tory government while she praised the U.K.'s efforts on international aid the 1st Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned of Forte an unfettered out of control Tory government could do she said Shame on you if she attacked the conservative so-called rape clause limiting child tax credits to 2 children unless a woman can prove she's had a 3rd or subsequent child through rape Miss Davidson said the government could change the polls say the Labor leader case a done deal so the s.n.p. Wanted the tourism purr so they could campaign for a devise of referendum mean if well the Liberal Democrat leader will be rainy cold for the s.n.p. Is policy on Europe to be clarified claiming the party were going soft on it to get Bragg's its supporters back onside Nicholas surgeon said she wanted Scotland to remain a member of the e.u. The government has asked the chief inspector of Constabulary to speed up his investigation of transparency within the Scottish police authority Julie to this year the chief inspector David Penman says he'll report within a month it follows concerns voiced at a Hollywood Committee in which this n.p. Member Alex Neil attacked the authorities chairman under Flanagan and chief executive John Foley for as he put it acting as if they were running the Kremlin as many as $100.00 jobs could go a day as she will bottling plants in Glasgow in Fife with plans by the drinks giant to move some packaging to Italy but its bottling plant is running below capacity. 70 jobs are expected to go with shield hole by the end of the year and $35.00 at Leven and most new bottling contracts can be won from other companies. A couple from East London who tried to disguise the violent death of their baby by pretending she'd been taken ill in a bus journey have been found guilty of causing or lowering her death rather than Baker and Jeffrey Wiltshire were cleared of murdering baby and Manny but were told by the judge of the Old Bailey to expect substantial prison sentences and money was the subject of a child protection plan and a serious case review will now be held to learn any lessons John Brennan speaks for the n.a.s. P.c.c. It's evident that the baby was subjects of troubles action plan an evident that there was important monitoring and support going on and whether that was sufficient or whether there were gaps in that monitoring and support is going to be down to the serious case of you to determine what went wrong and if there are lessons to be learned a retired firefighters appeared in court charged with the murder of his 70 year old wife Eileen Thompson died in hospital 9 days after an instant her tears sheltered housing complex home in Melrose her husband David Thompson who's 69 appeared in private jets but a shed of court accused of her murder. The biggest hoard of gold sovereigns ever found in Britain discovered hidden in an old piano in Shropshire has been officially declared treasure by a coroner's court the hoard was found last year when the pianos cut into a nurse had it repaired and reach and by marchin Backhouse they will share any toward Mr Backhouse says it was a corpse marking moment when he discovered hundreds of gold coins in little bags under the keyboard I thought oh this is just moth balls perhaps if you can wrap which used to get in our pianos but this time it was just books be taught and they were actually soft and with my pent up cafe open I thought this is interesting material that is just very nice to stick. Respects Dick Cheney someone I priced at one end of Bush looks like gold to me that's the news Heather juror has the sport of secrecy not a bar is described as an exit from the Monte Carlo Masters is progress and says he would have accepted a 3rd round defeat 10 days ago the world number one was full of up in the deciding sat together. Before the Spaniard hit back to qualify for the quarterfinals Murray says he wasn't sure he'd even be able to play the tournament after suffering an elbow problem the Morton boss Jim Duffy has been hit with a too much ban plus one suspended for his touchline all to cation with the hips manager Neil Lennon Duffy faces an additional one game ban if you transgress is again in 2017 Lennon meanwhile will find out his punishment next week for mainland an Aston Villa defender Hugo ek Eoghan hospital after collapsing at Tottenham's training center earlier today he won 4 caps for his country he's the Spurs current under 20 three's coach and engulf 1st place been suspended at the Shands and open in China because of the weather Richie Ramsay the leading Scot that on 3 under par but Watson is 6 under Sports reason has to travel thank you has are Aberdeen slower than usual tonight on Ellen road northbound on the 89 to the parkway traffic scaling back on to King Street back to smack or drive in 1000 Stonehaven a half hour delay so as buying through the road works traffic skim back to Michael's and a 9 Paris still seeing delays size Bonser the road works between environment roundabout and the block stand and about Bonnie bridge delays on High Street in both directions at Bridge Street the temporary traffic lights through the road works where stuck in red I think they've been dealt with the moment but that's causing some problems here and the m 80 at junction 6 old in the northbound exits Lipp road that's closed following an accident to do expect some delays here and in Glasgow Balmoral is no closed in both directions scares the street now this is just near lamb Hill Cemetery. Police are directing traffic but as you can imagine very very congested in both directions here and sticking with still slow moving on crude heading down toward the side by Clyde tunnel to. It's backed up back toward Anniesland cross and that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel and a look at the way there are Claudette into the day for many brighter along the East Coast with some late sunny spells rain in the far northwest Highlands and Orkney will intensify and slowly edge than the West Coast and into parts of the east towards Inverness muddy and parts of Aberdeenshire elsewhere for most of central and southern Scotland it's a dry Kloden night laws of 9 Celsius for most colder for Shetland with showers and a strong northwest wind and looking ahead Fraidy starts cloudy for most with rain across the Highlands and Grampian anywhere to where there will be lighter and more patchy the for the race that you are judging the day the rain moving south that's the forecast snow Christopher Blanchett has the outdoor conditions forecast we cold front will sink south across Scotland tomorrow introducing colder conditions with some wintry showers over the hills starting with the details for climbers in hillwalkers a cloudy westerly Airstream coming in off the Atlantic will bring drizzly conditions with hill fog to western ranges with cloud base is down to 300 meters or 1000 feet at times and poor visibility the rain will be mostly light but across guy to harden and as in the rain will turn more persistent and heavier in the afternoon then turning to snow above 700 meters before dying out by evening cloud and patchy light rain will affect the can go for much of the day turning wintry on the summits in the afternoon the best of the weather conditions will be across eastern Perth or the Angus hills and Lima mules with some sunny spells in the morning although turning cloudy or in the afternoon cloud base is here generally above the summits but lowering to 800 meters or 2600 feet by evening winds at 100 meters will be north westerly 40 miles an hour gusting 50 and temperatures around plus 2 Celsius at 1st but dropping to minus 6 by early evening. Now the forecast for ensure waters around Scotland a fresh westerly breeze of around 45 or 6 in the morning slowly turning north westerly in the afternoon and increasing for 7 at times around Fraser and Peterhead the north westerly winds over Shetland will reach gale force at times rain will affect Western coast with blustery showers over the northern Ares seas becoming moderate or rough but very rough around Shetland and that's the forecast and that is b.b.c. Radio Scotland news the time know it is 10 past 6. France is days away from its most unpredictable election in recent times with the top 4 candidates to closely placed a call according to opinion polls tonight on French t.v. The 11 candidates for the French presidential election will be interviewed for 10 minutes each ahead of the 1st round of elections on Sunday our correspondent James Reynolds is in Paris they asked him how close the races there is something approaching a 4 way dead heat in opinion polls and in that 4 way dead heat you've got a Communist backed leader you've got a former colony minister who's now an outsider liberal you've got a social conservative fighting corruption charges and you've got the leader of the front as you now the National Front the far right party essentially France to show that in this 1st round at least it's politics and society is fractured down to its component parts and the job of the 2 people who get through and of the person who wins if indeed they do want to unite France is how on earth to put those pieces back together again and their old you on television tonight that's going to be a fairly long episode isn't it one by one they'll come not just the main candidates but some of the smaller candidates as well they'll each be given 15 minutes on television to be interviewed and then they'll go off the stage so a sort of a series of job interviews if you will but this will be one of the last chances the French people get to make up their minds before the for. Round traditionally in France a lot of people use the 1st round of presidential voting to make a protest vote to say I'm not happy with the system it seems that that's being taken to extremes in this particular election what issues do you think that they're likely to to highlight Europe business and immigration I think those will be the main ones on Europe some of the candidates John McMillan Sean from the far left in the pen from the far right extremist skeptical of the European Union and want to either renegotiate France's deal or get out altogether and then there's business the centrist candidate say there should be more of it less regulation those on either extreme say that there should be more protections and then you've got immigration the huge issue not just for France but for your pen in recent days as even toughened up her extremely hard line already proposing an immigration ban and a ban on reuniting families and we have seen this sort of rise of populism across Europe and America is found experiencing the same thing you just have to look at the candidates and look at their opinion poll ratings to say the obvious answer is yes they are this isn't a traditional election between traditional parties the 2 representatives of traditional parties Francois feel and more if you look at them together have got what maybe 30 percent of the vote 70 percent of the vote in the moment is potentially going to outsiders Now that may change in the 2nd round but certainly in the 1st round French will see this as a protest vote backed by the populist wave which is swept many countries in recent years and you mentioned the 2nd drawing there it does seem unlikely to be and they'll be a night right when they're on Sunday what happens with that 2nd round the 1st 2 candidates go through to the 2nd round and then France gets to pick one of them as its new president they'll be a 2 week gap between this 1st round and the 2nd round and that's when those 2 candidates will have to see if they can do deals to get the support of those who've been knocked out James Reynolds reporting from Paris they go. In a straight the air hasn't change is to citizenship laws including tougher tests for migrants wanting to become a strain citizens it follows a move earlier this week to scrap the current 4 year skilled migrant visas and adopt more stringent tests for applicants the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said people moving to a straight you must show they've integrated into history in society you'll need to have competent English that is a vital requirement not a requirement at the moment but we all know that the key to successful integration into the Australian community is being able to speak English so that's that is that that's a very important triumph and also we need to ensure that our citizenship test and neighbors applicants to demonstrate how they integrated into and in gauged with our Australian community Well our correspondent in Sydney Film or so touched me through the changes what it is a major overhaul of Australia's immigration system the government says that the changes will make citizenship a big prize in this country under these changes migrants will find it harder to become an Australian citizen they'll have to face tougher tests on English language skills the have to show an ability to understand Australian values and then also be a longer wait for citizenship as well applicants must have been a permanent resident of this country for 4 years that's 3 years longer than a president so these are big changes that as you'd imagine provoked some debate here and why are the changes being proposed what are the politics behind them. The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull leads a center right government here in Australia he says that these changes will make migrants better integrated into Australian society says that for some time he's been worried that migrants coming in who become citizens don't necessarily show an appreciation or an integration into Australian society and under these new changes migrants must show evidence of adaptation into Australian life and employment history for example membership of a sporting or community club and applicants with a history of domestic violence or links to organized crime may be barred from taking up citizenship so these are pretty tough and strict changes that the government wants to bring in Phil or Sara in Sydney they're. A festival celebrating the maritime history of Shetland this summer will include life boat building demonstrations where visitors can see a traditional wooden vessel take shape throughout the course of the week our reporter in the islands Daniel Lawson has been finding out more. This is his dog kennel hour work right over the shed at the museum there are several p.t. Boats traditional and otherwise moved here in the harbor and I've also managed to get Shelley museum curator to eat on but weak organizer Emma Miller to come alongside and tell me more about the festival this summer will start with you but we consist of we have a whole range of different events for Bowl Week this year from the 7th to the 13th of August be a lot of activities exhibitions and also we have this excellent book building project which we're really excited about that circle nothing fatties have supported us with the project will involve basically a book being built a scratch will start with a cane the very basic you were bought at the beginning of the week and join the week Jack and Robbie to will count this is here in the museum will be put in the planks on the boat so you'll actually be able to see the shape of it come to life during the week so you'll really see the progress and I believe this has to be the traditional Shetland type of boat can you explain for us what makes that stand out from others. Everybody seen lots of boats in marinas and on board. But in the main ones which are made sooth most of them fiberglass the board the turn to be made to spare the boat week is very much the backbone of additional boards it's a kind of a board kind of. Topical one that families with a head once upon a time it's like the modern equivalent of the family car and the good question in the 1st animals in a good 1st pleasure to get to the shopping and more of the historical roots of that type of craft there's a perceived idea that it's a Scandinavian to the Viking to edition of broken lineage is actually more complicated and more international than that because books used to be a part of the way but the actual building tradition at sale and which visitors here will be able to come and see as one of a relatively recent history it's one of probably the very tail end of the 18th century because that's when we stopped and part of the mid-South of building the most cells you mentioned Shetlands marketing tradition there have important as that been for the history of violence which is it. Couldn't have happened with the sea it really because new it is most traveled by by and more. Transported by. That absolutely was not the case once upon a time painted in the sea. The Marine harvest that kept the family fade they got the aid to be by sea move goods moved livestock goods as it is new. At this very much annoyed and it's tradition the importance of the sea that has led to this festival and it is. Really celebrated tradition and. Really something that you can see very often these days especially. Actually see. Bill is put together in the traditional way my final question to you guys is 10 you build. But when a week or how far you expect them to go. Well my my 1st request to Jack and Robbie was can you do this in a week and they both just laughed at me. It has been done before but the preparation takes an awful lot longer that's why they're going to be starting with the Kill implicit 80 we want to get to the stage of going to be if we can actually see stuff happen Tanya Lawson reporting there cycling to work reduces your risk of developing cancer lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease by almost half and reduces lowers the risk of premature death by 41 percent that's according to research from Glasgow University who studied 250000 commuters over 5 years and has this report. Cycling to work is something people from across Cortland do every morning when you of course do not want to be preached off by having to share the road with motorists or the time it takes to get to the office but might the latest medical research on the issue change their minds. Of the Glasgow bike station business is good the organization collects old bikes Those them up and then sells the more of an affordable price if you want to Smith works here as a development officer with the Commonwealth Games and British excess and in cycling events I think we're just seen a lot more people getting involved and I think it's kind of self-perpetuating So as more people start cycling more people see it just kind of grows and grows the bike station recently organized a project to get people cycling to work and they were pleased with the results that was working with lots of employers over in the city and we were working with their employees to try and get them cycling to work so I was waiting in of having bank loans available to them giving them cycle training giving them and refining advice and through that we worked with I think it was around 30000 people over the course of the 3 years and had really good results and during 20 percent changed their travel behavior to more active. A lot of pain there will be a bit of resistance initially because people are all creatures of habit and so what we do is get in our car and go to work and that seems like the easiest thing but the hardest part is just to get someone to try it if he's needed to try it I think it has been achieved. As I remember one thing I didn't cycle for 20 years until I got back on my bacon I'm going up at 7 and it Kenya list is faster to get in the city as well especially at rush hour in things so thank you go to Star is the is the hard part writing once again and keep out there's a lot easier for those who do cycle to work it seems the health benefits may be even more significant than 1st thought Glasgow University researchers looked into the habits of a quarter of a 1000000 commuters across the u.k. Over a 5 year period it said there was a link between regular cycling on the 45 percent reduction in the chances of getting cancer on a suggested the activity could also cut the risk of heart disease and find the study said regular cycling cubes cut the risk of death from any cause by 41 percent Dr Jason Gill was one of the researchers the overall message we need to get more people on our bikes and we need to change the design of our transport systems not city state to make it easier for people to get on their bikes this is going to cost money up front but it's likely to be substantially saving in terms of effect on public health it also will reduce pollution and congestion in the city so there's a number of wins associated with changing our transport system to make it easier for people to ride their bikes the results may be appealing but there will still be those who are putah say cling to work but former Scotland rugby player John Beattie cycles to work at the b.b.c. Every day he said it wasn't as arduous or as expensive a some might think so it's about 4 years ago running was getting sore and I just wanted to keep moving and I started off doing 3 miles each way now I turn miles each way and it's not difficult and I hate sitting in cars and I've lost weight it's not. A tough thing to do and I'm not a road cyclist the race or just commuting I'm not some kind of road cycling team and I'm just getting on a bicycle I'm going to few masterwork that's all it is it's not dressing up like oh this is stress cotton. It's a bird just moving to work another way. That was John Deasy ending that report by Andrew black and it was like crit wasn't stretched Carter told that anybody else he joined today can vouch for that no. As a choice of listening after us I have 6 sports zones on Medium Wave and digital will have more of that in a moment and sports bulletin and on f.m. Brian Barnet's here forget it or not was the theme tonight from wonderful world to earth the song yes its tracks all of our planet to my sister so many songwriters with big global versions catnaps to America why emergency in Planet Earth Oh good good actually defunct get started Yeah we've got a few art to suggest someone suggested we do World Party or asked when them fired us well so we're all about the world that tonight let's have your suggestions on 8 or 95 and we're going to start with a brilliant but rather gloomy sounding song from r.e.m. Right thank you very much indeed let's get the support I have that years back I saw the world number one has been all sides of the Monte Carlo Masters by the world over 24 Alberts Rommel's final last Sunday Murray cruising in the deciding set of their 3rd round match for love before the Spaniard hit back to qualify for the quarterfinals or Murray says he wasn't show he'd even be able to play the tournament after suffering an elbow injury so how did he feel about the final result like I'm disappointed to lose from the position I was and I mean if you sort of looked at the scoreline in a 75 in the 3rd and you know one week ago you know would have been Ok with that but saying you're being for love up and the 3rd or. You know lost many matches like that in my career so you know on disappoint feel like a enough chances. To win and I was you know I was close I think and 5 for you know how to chance in the. World so obviously disappointed. But you know I mean maybe you know tomorrow or you know be able to look back a little bit and think where I'm at now from where I was you know a week ago and my elbow felt pretty good I so much better than I did yesterday and that's only going to get better so hopefully I'll keep keep going and the right direction in football the Morton boss Jim Duffy has been hit with a 2 match ban plus one suspended for his touchline altercation with the Habs manager Neil Lennon Duffy faces an additional one game ban a few transgressors again in 2017 while Morton were fined $500.00 pounds for the stoppage time for aka the Habs manager Neil Lennon meanwhile will find out his punishment next week and while he awaits for that happening he'll have all eyes on the Scottish Cup this weekend as the Easter Road outfit take on Aberdeen in the Cup semifinals he's adamant the pressure will all be on their Premiership opponents Yeah I mean Aberdeen are going to the games here which is the question. Of a few of us and a lot of games a season of all the lot we will but our boys will. Look forward to it I think the experience of last year with a lot of them think 4 times you know they wanted to call for. Me feels. A great experience for them to carry on you know Saturday's game about the fact that the heart of a really hard season with the old as well and the priority of on the job ensure you know the community looks forward to this game with the Webster process the manager didn't McInnes meanwhile hopes the Dons can use the disappointments of leasing their League Cup Final to their advantage Celtics taking the League Cup on us earlier in the season because believes that reaching for 70 finals showing his 4 years in charge winning 2 losing 2 has helped give his Aberdeen side vital big game experience think you can use any disappointment I think you go if you get as much experience as possible to deal with the kitchen's you know we've had a lot by game experience in recent years think the European stage has helped or not change as well. As to compete was able to last few seasons to have some sort of table racing move always Meister trying to stay in touch as long as we could and this season is another test for us is a you know domestic form week form where they want to try and. Be 2nd everyone else the big game experience I think any disappointments we don't speak about after wasn't a gesture. It's only by revisiting the same failed to fight the hangover and get used to it and through comfortable with and you can have much more on the Scottish Cup tonight sunspot signed it when I meet away from Hopper 60 McEntire is joined by Barry Ferguson check young and Jim Spence now to go for the 1st place been suspended at the Shands and open in China because of the weather there Richie Ramsey's a leading Scot he's on 3 under par 3 off the leader Bubba Watson and I believe Toronto will spark of signs the Scotland international Ryan Brian Lee from hottest feels he could make his debut in the Challenge Cup 5th round tie against sulfides on Sunday and sad news tonight the British Olympic high jump silver medalist Jermaine Mason has died. Age of 34 after a motorcycle crash that's according to police in Jamaica the Jamaican born athlete to switch to represent Great Britain in 2006 won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics most sport for me Laura I have a 7 Now let's get to the traffic and travel with Theresa the a 9 high wind warning on the bridge they 90 Stonehaven to have a 20 minute delay signed by him through the road works in one of 5 Newgrange might this partially blocked westbound between catches brave and about an. Hour and about this is the road which runs alongside the m 9 has been an accident here so blocking a lane causing problems come an old central way the 8 or 11 partially blocked northbound between road side and the m 80 at the junction sick.

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