At the B.B.C. There's a disparity not just in what men and women got paid for doing work of equal value but also. The sheer number of very serious men who are of the highest salaries so it's welcome to see more women in the higher levels of B.B.C.'s in the top 20 B.B.C. And the gender pay gap has been reduced but nevertheless there's still so progress to be made Whirlpool has admitted there could be as many as $800000.00 faulty tumble dryer is in homes around the U.K. In June the government said it would issue a recall notice of up to half a 1000000 drivers which pose a fire safety risk but when pressed by M.P.'s on the business committee company executives admitted the number of unmodified machines could be higher so Davis says from the Consumers Association which we think it's acceptable that we really don't have a clear understanding of what the scale of it means which is they were the only city of reference frame of years that I can still find whether it's been handled in terms of the rise in terms of the response and then will be in terms of the effectiveness of the modification to the it is an issue of whether or not the 5 injury time is the only or divided She is an accurate figure the conservative leadership candidates have been answering questions about bricks it from party members in Belfast Jeremy Hunt said the idea backstop designed to prevent security checks in the border had to change or be scrapped and said existing technology could provide a solution but as Johnson called the backstop unacceptable and argued the border issue could be settled as part of a future free trade deal. Newly elected Amy Pease from Nigel Farage is breaks at party have staged a protest at the opening session of the European Parliament by turning their backs as the E.U. Anthem Ode to Joy was played the outgoing president of the parliament said they should show respect the B.B.C.'s Europe correspondent Adam Fleming reports the big . Difference in the new European Parliament is that the establishment parties of the sensor laughed and center right have lost their decades long grip on power things will be much more unpredictable because the U.K. Still hasn't left there are still 73 British army P's 29 of them are from the relatively new brags party and an act of what they called cheerful defiance they turned their backs and face the wall as the European anthem was played at the start of the session members of the pro European liberal Democrats were T. Shirts saying stop brags that the family of a woman who died after being discovered in a burning car in West Lothian say she lived a brief and exciting life and Drummond who was 47 had serious burns and a head injury when she was found near dumb cross farm in Bathgate she died to attend embroil infirmity on Thursday a man was found next to her and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries her death is being treated as suspicious. A medieval chest piece kept in a drawer of an Edinburgh home has been sold at auction 473-5000 pounds its previous owners had no idea that the object was one of the long lost Lewis chessmen they were phone buried in a sun June in the I live Lewis and 831 but the way to about 5 pieces of remained a mystery they had a grandfather an antiques dealer had bought the piece for 5 pounds in 1964 the new owner hasn't been named. The former Scotland rugby international Doughty weird has received his O.B.E. From the queen we're Huda field his motor neuron disease in 2017 was honored for services to rugby and N.T. Research and the borders community other recipients of owners included former sportscotland chairwoman Louise Martin the 1st female president of the Commonwealth Games Federation she received a dame who'd. Time now for the sport and here's Thomas Duncan thank you Christine you have been in executive chairman Ron Gordon has reassured fans there won't be sweeping change at the club claiming continuity is strength in the U.S. Based business and business and business men's already bought the majority shareholding of Sir Tom Farmer and outgoing chairman board Petri it means the club is no debt free and Gordon is investing a 7 figure sum the German defender Marvin Campari has left Celtic after 19 months having made just one appearance the 34 year old has now joined Doris' Bergen this German 2nd tier down to United would be foolish not to consider trying to bring playmaker Rheingold back to town advice according to the club's assistant head coach Lee McCulloch gold left United for Sporting Lisbon in 2014 but the Portuguese club are reportedly prepared to let him leave and on day 2 of Wimbledon Common already is through to the 2nd round after a straight sets win over Denis is to mean he'll face commish according next Meanwhile Roger Federer recovered from a set done to beat tournament débutante Lloyd house in 4 sets more sports at the Web site. Victoria Lumsden has the travel in Edinburgh a 720 city bypass has very slow way spying traffic between Miller Hill and Sheriff hole inside Lenox for the M 74 north buying Tazz one lane of the off slip a junction for Marysville blocked by a broken down car the outside lane there is blocked so take care and stick to the insights in and Glasgow on the Meet the on slip junction 16 Creek hole is partially blocked by a collision involving 2 cars traffic there is queuing a nearby roads are also very slow and in Aberdeen the 178 cent marker drive has heavy traffic between great northern route and King Streets B.B.C. Radio Scotland travel Scotland's weather tonight will be dry with clear spells the old shareable effect Shetland getting there early hours cloud will increase across the northwest followed by some patchy light train to Ward stone laws of 10 Celsius in the north west under to be a chilly night under clear skies with lows of fortified. If Celcius wins will fall light or next news bulletin at half past 5 No the you can quiet into blood contamination has begun hearing evidence in Edinburgh one witness described how he wasn't told he had hepatitis C. Linked to infected blood until 9 years after he was diagnosed he told the inquiry there'd be no coolish and of secrecy around the scandal it's estimated around $3000.00 people in Scotland were infected with HIV or hepatitis C. From contaminated blood products a health correspondent Lisa Somers joins me know Lisa families and victims who have obviously been with years for this opportunity Well that's right I mean Skolem's the 1st part of the U.K. To hold a statutory inquiry into contaminated blood but many of the people who had become infected over the years are their family members felt that they didn't have a central voice and that inquiry and they felt that the Penrose inquiry had limitations because it wasn't able to compel witnesses from outside Scotland to give evidence and so they were really really unhappy at the outcome of that investigation which concluded in 2015 so they feel that this new UKI white investigation that has white their powers might be able to provide some of the answers that they have long wanted and the inquiry cheer surprising lamps blank staff when he came Ted read today reiterated the fact that he wants the experiences of patients to be at the heart of the investigation so as you can imagine over the next 2 weeks we're likely to hear some very moving emotional and distressing evidence the 1st witness that we heard from today Alison Bennett is a retired a nice attest who now lives in Scotland but was here to talk about her son Alistair who had been diagnosed with hemophilia at the age of 10 months old Nigerian his life he'd been given blood products which turned out to be contaminated imported products from the US. When he was in hospital in Manchester he contract city and ultimately AIDS as a young man and she told the inquiry that while he did live his life as fully as he cute and he got into university in Newcastle he had over the years become increasingly unwell and unable to complete his studies and she told the inquiry of how over the Christmas in 1995 he had been at home when he was very unwell and then that led to his premise your death. He called the paramedics and they came around. To resuscitate him actually get him to it and so on then we had to go to pull him. In the ambulance and he stayed in the pool there until either the end of that month how old was that $22.00. Only so we also heard from a patient who is still due to Hepatitis C. Almost a decade after the doctors knew well that's right Emin Alister that you heard you had from his mom there was treated in England where the routinely used imported blood products in Scotland to transfusion service claim that there wasn't the same reliance on imported blood but died Griffis was a human family at that was treated in Dum Friess and now he said that we were so medical records that pointed to the fact that doctors knew that he had contracts hepatitis C. As early as 9090 but he said that he was not told of that fact until 1999 and he had questions for doctors at the time he said that he regularly asked his doctors when the could risk for becoming a parent of contaminated blood products and he said that despite his continual asking doctors told them that important blood wasn't used in Scotland then that the products that they had were nothing to worry about here's digress I was told by a doctor to list under a number of his staff in various occasions there is absolutely no need to worry we'd never ever use imported blood product in Scottish hospitals I was told up by a doctor to us and on the litter occasions I was told by some of the staff also. Know this distress because I knew for a fact that for at least 10 years I had been receiving important blood product I had seen the labels on the susses as I was being infused levels of laboratories in Australia labels of laboratories in America where. The material had all the super rich in it. Silly cereals to 3 year from well many to contract to infections from contaminated blood where people who had had blood transfusions it wasn't simply people have blood disorders like hemophilia anybody who had a blood transfusions call in before 1901 would have been at risk and understandably because of the stigma some of and because of their implications in their on their lives some witnesses don't want to be identified and this afternoon we hear from an anonymous witness who had been involved in a rude accident at the age of 15 he had multiple transfusions and had contract attacked otitis C. And he talked about the fact that the stigma and the illness had taken its toll and he ended up in a very very deep dark horrible police that had led him to try to take his life so it's a very emotional testimony from this man who had a blood transfusion and that the stage of the inquiry as you can hear we're hearing stories from all of the victims or their family members down the line we will also hear evidence from the doctors including some of the doctors specifically involved in these individuals cases and but ultimately it's going to take probably at least 2 years possibly up to 5 years for this inquiry to conclude and report back but there is hope certainly amongst the people that are here over the next couple of weeks that it me well provide answers for those victims in Scotland and a way that the Penrose inquiry could not Lisa Somers thank you for that. The trumpet ministration in Washington has put scotch whiskey into the crosshairs of its trade policy threatening tad of sun imports of Scotch as a response to what it sees as unfair subsidies for Europe's Airbus planes for business and economy editor Douglas Fraser joins me now Douglas didn't the reach of judgment in the street dispute a while ago well you might well recall that this is a 14 year dispute that doesn't go away or quickly that. World Trade Organization ruled on this as you say but such as the opaque nature of trade rules both sides were able to claim victory the U.S. Side a bit more plausibly I reckon with its criticism that European governments have been giving unfair subsidy support to air bus across French German British production that's seen as unfair competition for Boeing in the United States the other big player in commercial aircraft that's while the Europeans point out that Boeing has loads of less than transparent subsidies in tax breaks from Washington state where it's based on the huge procurement budget of the U.S. Military other parts of the American government so the dispute rumbles on the U.S. Wants to force the pace of a resolution in April it sent out a list of goods being targeted which from a Scottish perspective it's noteworthy that includes included salmon fresh salmon and cashmere sweaters more significant were lots of machinery bits of aircraft as well and why Scotch whisky then been added to this cocktail Well Washington seems to have wanted to raise the pressure a bit more in case the E.U. Wasn't taking them seriously or wasn't listening so they found it good with an import value at U.S. Ports of $4000000000.00 per year 89 different products made there clearly targeting things Europeans take very seriously such as Italian cheese and hams all of the oil waffles Belgian speciality there and whiskey from all over the E.U. But notably from Scotland and from Ireland the fact that we're talking about it's just it's doing the job intended for it's getting the attention of the public and and governments as well the U.S. Trade department so-called U.S. Trade representative is not saying how big the tariff on scotch whiskey might be it's for the W T O the World Trade Organization to decide what is appropriate then we get a sense of which products are included and at what rates we might find more about that later in summer so just how big a threat then is this to the distillers. Well for scotch the U.S. Market is clearly the biggest by value has been for a long time more than a 1000000000 pounds of exports of Scotch whiskey into the United States last year depending on the scale of the town of its potential a very big threat but it's far from clear that these types will be applied as part of a negotiation there's got Whisky Association is asking the European U.S. And also the U.K. Government to sort out the Air Bus Boeing dispute it says that terrorists help no one they hurt the exporting industry and the hurt importing consumers who have to pay the higher prices Americans are paying quite a heavy price for Donald Trump policies on trade at the moment it's also pointing out that U.S. And Scotch distillers get along just fine in that Scotch whisky distiller spend $70000000.00 pounds per year buying bourbon casks in which Scotch is matured and indeed on the other side of the Atlantic the U.S. Distillers are concerned that this could escalate into tariffs in the use on their products even Boeing has been urging restraint on the affected goods in this trade war where does all of this then fit into the White a picture of Donald Trump's trade wars. Well Brahms the most striking aspect of this is this is being done by the rulebook so far anyway don't tend to operate you know laterally with that much warning that's how we as handled the trade war with China they use tariffs to bully Canada and Mexico into some changes to their free trade agreement with the US He's been talking about penalizing E.U. Car imports into the U.S. Just imposed a tougher trade regime on India to try to bring it to the negotiating table he's fighting trade wars on many fronts you could say this is his signature foreign policy the Boeing Airbus dispute predates his presidency more than a decade however for now it's being fought within the World Trade Organization one problem there is that the trumpet ministration has hold the W T O by refusing to agree the appointment of judges within its adjudication panel until it gets the reforms at once and that could mean that it can't operate at all Douglas thank you very much indeed that's our business and economy editor Douglas Fraser. Drive on B.B.C. Radio Scotland 19 minutes past 5 the headlines Scots who were affected by the contaminated blood scandal in the 1970 S. And eighty's have started giving evidence to an inquiry in Edinburgh Whirlpool has admitted the number of its tumble dryer switch are faulty could be far higher than 1st thought and a medieval chest piece kept in a drawer in an Edinburgh home has been sold at auction for more than 730000 pounds this Thursday Sept Paul McCartney joins me for us to celebrate the photography of his late wife Linda he describes heartbreak district of exhibition taking place in Glasgow and what she was like as a photographer all the great things. People. Are strong born with Scotland liberal always loved Glasgow. Losing to the breast cancer one other guy crying for about a year or 2. Playing some of Paul's most loved so in that song I'm just talking about. Dream of Ricky Rasmussen Paul McCartney Thursday night from NY but is he in the middle of radio's got wounded on B.B.C. Radio Scotland. There is searchers in the United States a phone students can reduce stress by spending time with animals a study of more than 300 undergraduates phone that weekly hour long sessions with water known as therapy dogs improved their mental health concentration and memory Edinburgh Cambridge in what occurred among a growing number of British universities which bring in dogs to mix with students where later spoke to Dr Darren Logan Head of Research at the Waltham center for a picnic tradition and he worked with those running the study the goal of this study was really to the child one of the problems we have in modern society I think which is a lot of young adults suffer from stress and that stress can have significant impacts on their their ability to perform in their job in their learning at university and so we recruited $300.00 students from Washington State University and we split them into 3 groups and then we gave one of those groups one hour sessions for 4 weeks where they could interact with a pet therapy dog one of the groups we asked them to undertake regular stress therapy management courses that university offers and then the 3rd group we exposed to both but at a reduced rate and then we measured something called executive function which is really the complex. Measure of how the brain works what measures things like attention focus impulse control working memory and so caused the flexibility the ability to solve complex problems and they tested out after the 4 week session and what we found is that the students who had interacted with the pets had significantly improved concert function so so they were protected if you like against this this impact of the stress what really remarkable though was we then tested the same students 6 weeks later and we saw meant maintenance of that effect so it seems to persist and we saw a much bigger. Affecting the interaction with the pets than just regular stress management courses so why do dogs have that effect on them and so that really is I think the $1000000.00 question of why we think we have some understanding of how so the dogs interact with people we see a release of certain hormones in our bodies which the hormone just drives through of. Motional behaviors motional connections and that has to reduce stress and we think the reduction of that stress that allows them to perform better why that is is hard to say so it could be because of course pets you know interact with us and love us unconditionally and unlike humans we're often those conditions involved and that could be a. Bit of an eye to tote it may be more to do with evolution you know we've evolved with domestic pets for thousands of years and we've always got very strong emotional bonds with them a bit like proxy for children sometimes and then thirdly in this particular case though it may be something is as simple as the fact that our minds that the students of home softens being at college can be lonely and many of the students all of their own pets from their childhood and it may just remind them of that our therapy dogs particularly can of loving nice easy going dogs Yes So that is an important factor we do studies like these with train dogs so we don't take any dog in and expose him because that can be very stressful to the dog as well of course as to the people in a stress dog is unlikely to be as effective as a happy dog so a number of our studies that we work on we also measure the impact on the pets as well and what we're starting to see is evidence that it's mutual So the the pets get as much benefit out of interaction as the humans do how practical do you think it would be to install this kind of service at universities so it's really happening in the US there's many many hundreds of universities and colleges who have pet therapy dogs a resident and in the school or at least come in regularly we're seen increasing number in the U.K. Here universities the University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh both have pet therapy dogs. And increasingly schools as well special schools with special needs children often employ you have therapy pets as well so I think kids it's not uncommon and you know I think what's important this study is to sure that it doesn't have to be constant you know we're seeing a persistence of effect weeks or weeks after the last therapy session so we may be able to see situations where you can bring pets in occasionally and still see really positive effects on their learning outcomes and what if you don't like dogs with other pets do so that is a great question this particular study uses dogs and many of them do because of practical reasons it's much easier to bring a dog into a hospital or a school than a cat as you may imagine or certainly on our sneakers something that said there is studies on cats studies on horses that we worked on and actually did some studies of goldfish and depending on the context of the situation we have seen examples of positive impacts on all of these species so I don't think it has to be dogs and but it is important to choose the right animal for the right situation. That's Dr Dowden Logan there from the Waltham center for hit you Trish and now Thomas Don't kids but with more support thank you very continuity and strength that's the message from the new had barely known a role in Gordon after he acquired both sort Tom farmers and chairman Petri shareholding Petri is leaving the board and Gordon a U.S. Based businessman is to become executive chairman the takeover will leave Habs totally debt free after a mortgage of around $3000000.00 pounds was paid off and Gordon is also to invest a further 7 figure some people often fear change so let me reassure supporters and everyone associated with Hibernian that for me continuity is a strength particularly when I have such confidence in the executive and football leadership of the club so I 1st priority is to build on the strong foundation that we have at Hibs to build a vision and a plan that will take us forward in a way that reflects the legacy traditions and values of our wonderful club so as the new chapter begins let's build on the foundation that Sir Tom and Rob Petri have left us. Marvin's Campari has left Celtic after 19 months having made just a single appearance the 34 year 34 year old German defender signed a 2 and a half year deal in January 2018 after making a 1000000 pound move from RB wipes like he's no joint in the German 2nd tier down to United would be foolish not to consider trying to bring playmaker Rheingold back to Tama base according to the club's assistant head coach Lee McCulloch gold left United for Sporting Lisbon in 2014 but the Portuguese club are reportedly prepared to let him leave tennis now and Cameron already has made it to the 2nd round of Wimbledon for the 1st time after a straight sets win over Dana system in the Scot took the match 626-4642 progressed to progress past the 1st round for the 1st time I'm losing the feeling to help myself. And I made time to get through that the end of the 2nd round here such a great tournament some of the tradition. To meet someone like tennis to mention on the lights the grass a lot so I take a lot of confidence. Cameron Nori there he will face kid Misha Corti in round 2 Meanwhile Roger Federer recovered from a set down to beat Wimbledon they've beaten Floyd Houghton 4 sets he triumphed 36616262 admitted afterwards he was struggling struggling on felt a bit frozen legs going going felt like it was a bit heavy out there. Was no way to go in when I was hitting and I thought he was hitting it big and then next thing you know yeah things happen very quickly and I thought he did really well and that they kept me nervous you know for us at the half in the woman's draw you had a concert beat and I bogged down in straight sets in her 1st round match so you know Williams is on court now she's taken the 1st set 62 in her match plenty more from Wimbledon across the B.B.C. Sport website now the England women's captain Steph often says the team is in a better position than it was in 2015 when they exited the world. By the semifinal stage tonight they face the holders the USA at the same stage in Leon in the farce of the last 4 matches of the Women's World Cup a male Scottish Amateur rugby player has been banned for 2 years for taking a female fertility drug gala winger Craig Russell has been serving an interim suspensions and failing and in competition tests in a match against Edinburgh Rockies in October 2017 Klum afine selective East region receptor is prohibited at all times by world. And Manchester United have made a $70000000.00 pound bid for the Leicester defender how to Maguire United boss or going to social as king to sign an experience central defender and require a set of the leadership qualities he's looking for and that's all the sport for just now thank you. For the update though from Victoria Lumsden and strong winds will slow you down on the bridge in Aberdeen traffic is slow in the A 90 Anderson drive in both directions around the junction with a 93 great western route will be held up by a range 5 minutes they are in Glasgow on the 2 lanes are blocked by a collision East binds between junction 1910 and 18 Charing Cross at worst we're getting reports the vehicles there have hit the central reservation barriers so be prepared to be slowed right down also on the any east by and one lane is blocked at Junction 16 Creek hole so very slow right the way along that strange on the AM 74 in Glasgow there's a bloke by a collision sized Bines between junction 2 a campus lying and for medieval and traffic is building up there in West low the inn on the MH there's a lane blocked by a collision East binds between junction 3 a back gate and 3 Livingston and the 720 Edinburgh city bypass that are way spine delays between Miller Hill and Sheriff hole and in Dumfries the A 7 a one Edinburgh route has heavy traffic at the 75 range bites B.B.C. Radio Scotland travel time half past 5 news from Christine Finnegan public killings have begun in Edinburgh as part of the U.K. White inquiry into infected by. Lud set up last year it says tomato to around 3000 people in Scotland but infected with HIV or hepatitis C. Through contaminated blood products in the 1970 S. And eighty's one of the witnesses to give evidence today Griffiths from dumb Friesen Galloway described how he when they learned he had hepatitis C. 9 years after doctors knew he had the disease Mr Griffiths says he asked doctors repeatedly about the risks of imported blood products and was given reassurances that they weren't used in Scottish hospitals this distressed me because I knew for a fact that I for at least 10 years I had been receiving comported blood product I had seen the labels on the chances as I was being infused levels of laboratories in Australia labels of laboratories in America where all pool has admitted that $807000.00 of its tumble dryer sin homes around the U.K. Could be faulty in June the government said it would issue a recall notice of up to half a 1000000 dryers which posed a fire safety risk but when pressed by M.P.'s on the business committee company executives said the number of unmodified machines could be higher Gemma spurred was left homeless after her machine caught fire she told M.P.'s that whirlpools treatment of her after the incident was disgusting I felt like a way out when I felt like I was just another numbers a larger when it came up in the cost of bread and as well as a fellow criminological being questioned $3.00 of the B.B.C.'s Top 12 highest paid stars are no women in the corporation's annual report published this morning reveals that saw a poll Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman are now on the list over all the number of presenters earning more than 150000 pounds has also increased the. Corporation's been under pressure about how much it pays women staff but the director general Lord told says the figures show that real progress has been made we're also changing the culture in his organization that's reflected in the number of stars we now have in our top 10 I mean 3 women versus not only a year ago 45 percent of people on their own are women 25 percent 2 years ago a big change there and internally we have had a big review of how we can ensure that I believe in this that women can progress in this organization the Cabinet Office is investigating whether senior civil servants said they thought Jeremy Corbyn was too frail to be prime minister at the weekend the Times reported that government officials had questioned the labor leaders fitness to govern Here's our political correspondent Ben right number 10 said the Cabinet Office would investigate whether any civil servant had breached the ministerial code by briefing against Jeremy Corbyn to resume A's official spokesman said the probe would be carried out fully and fairly and could lead to disciplinary action being taken over the weekend Labor reacted furiously to The Times report in a letter to the cabinet secretary Mr Corbyn demanded a speedy thorough and independent inquiry into the matter had undermined confidence in the principle of civil service neutrality a medieval chess piece bought for 5 pounds more than 50 years ago and then kept in a drawer in an Edinburgh home was sold at auction 473-5000 pounds its previous owners had no idea that the object was one of the long lost Lewis chessmen the chessmen were phone buried in a sand dune in the I live Lewis an 831 but the way to bouts of 5 pieces have remained a mystery B.B.C. Radio Scotland news so how's the weather looking course of creamer is here says it all right but windy it's not been bad has it it's been a bit windy we have had high pressure. Center towards the west of us but we have these weather fronts to the north and they will continue to bring some outbreaks of sherry rain at times on and off this week for this even though most places will be dry to end the day and temperatures reach 900 Celsius net broke most places in the mid to high teens and we have some late spells of brightness and sunshine too but still the odd shower lingering across the Highlands across Aberdeenshire Orkney but overnight tonight it stays dry for most with some clear spells just the occasional shower for Shetland but we have the clear skies it will time quite chilly temperatures dipping down to around 3 to 5 Celsius with light winds but across the Northwest during the early hours we start to see some thick a cloud Araya writhing bringing with it some patchy light rain and it will be a bit warmer to temperatures dipping here to around 10 Celsius for the northwest where we have the cloud so for tomorrow the day starts off largely dry with some vital sunny spells but that cloud will continue to spill in from the northwest and during the course of the day we start to see some patchy rain mainly affecting the Western Isles the north and northwest Highlands and then later in the afternoon and into the evening across the Northern Alliance the Central Belt will be largely dry but cloudy and the best of any brightness will be across dump recent Galloway and the borders and temperatures here coming up to around 19 or 20 Celsius elsewhere highs of around $14.00 to $17.00 or 18 degrees tomorrow night will be mild to with the cloud cover preventing temperatures to fall away too far largely cloudy but should be dry for many but we start to see a cold front approaching into the northwest by morning and for Thursday there will be outbreaks of heavy at times persistent rain across the northwest with some brisk winds maybe up to 30 millimeters falling across the West Highlands That's your forecast. And it's already 92 to 95 F. Ing and eat one all Medium Wave B.B.C. Radio Scotland this is news Dr with a very secure snow Scottish universities are to recruit more medical students from Scotland. At the expense of those from elsewhere in the U.K. The Scottish government hopes it will lead to more doctors staying in Scotland after their training Well reporter Katie Hunter joins us know so what's behind us very quite simply Scotland needs more doctors we've been hearing for many years now by to shortage of G.P.'s as well as recruitment challenges in other areas of medicine too so the Scottish Government wants to increase the number of university medical places for students living in Scotland and the E.U. By 100 and reduce the number of places for students from the rest of the U.K. By the same number that's because there's evidence showing that medical students from Scotland are almost twice as likely to stay here after graduating as students from the rest of the U.K. Their international students are the least likely to stay with the Scottish government says the fees they pay medical schools are crucial to universities financial sustainability so there are no plans to G.C. Intake of overseas students the Scottish government estimates by making this change that an extra $36.00 doctors will stay in Scotland for the start of their speciality training each year so what has the reaction been well the Scottish Government's own Impact Assessment acknowledges that students from the rest of the U.K. Are likely to be disadvantaged by this change and it also says the policy has caused some concern in universities now I called all 5 medical schools in Scotland this morning but none of them wanted to air any of those concerns publicly in terms of medical reaction the Royal College of G.P. Said it welcomes all efforts to grew the G.P. Workforce in Scotland the British Medical Association told us the recruitment and retention of doctors is a pressing issue here in Scotland but warned we must be very careful that we're not turning away the highest quality students simply because we may lose them to other parts of the U.K. Our overseas the Scottish government says that the positive gain in terms of an extra 36 doctors a year justifies any in direct disadvantage Katie Hunter thank you. No it can't have escaped your attention that the Scottish Parliament has been celebrating the anniversary of its official opening Holyrood officially assumed its powers 20 years ago this week and over the years it's racked up a sizeable list of achievements but as our political correspondent Kristen Campbell reports there's still a great deal to do. So on those beautiful. Post you acknowledge what it's like to be homeless over the years he slept on the streets stayed in a hostel and in temporary accommodation now he lives with his son on the 17th floor of a block of flats in Leith where I saw the views of this film of The View stay away . Resist like security as well and that was like the 4th house in a long time the been woven together in a song where it was just amazing feeling to actually get off. Your own case but he's already in rented for years and is what it for the future being homeless are you know half ago I'm already becoming homeless again with an 18 month period because I was here according to the company decided not to pay me for a few. 130000 households and on a council house waiting list that's the same as the population of Inverness and peacefully combined and it's not a new problem legislation was passed to Holyrood back in 2003 giving every homeless person the right to home by 2012 but there are still people sleeping on the streets and there are still people waiting for a permanent place to call home grim Brown the director of the highs in charity Shelter says there has been progress we really have moved forward in terms of giving tenants far more security in the private legislator not an important item and of course importantly we've seen the legislation the right to buy which was one of the biggest sales sell off of public assets this country is actually seen so I think those one marks of your late have been important in Scotland who sings he says it's all time to supply the less we have enough houses. For people who are homeless 27000 people who are surface homeless the moment was cold and unless we have enough to see for changing population we're people living longer more people living on the road and over was the shooters are going for and. To that ain't work is underway to me just government pledged to build $35000.00 homes for social rant OK they want to tell me what the fix it Kelly was amidst tales of football managers facing abuse from the terraces are still making the back pages do you think adults could learn from the stuff that you did the anti sectarian charity nil by mouth works with schools to educate youngsters about religious prejudice that it's always like people know what they are like. Or. They could influence the charities director Dave Scott says it's time to deal with Scotland secret shame we really hope over the next 20 years the Scottish government in parliament is able to actually force Scottish football into the 21st century and actually make it step up to be kind to tackle this bigotry once and for a law designed to tackle offensive behavior at football was repealed and Mr Scott believes M S P's need to work together to find a solution I think politicians need to try and find common ground I think we need to stop the political point scoring and we need politicians issue genuine leadership and seek consensus on this issue it's impossible for them to ask consensus of all the people in society if they don't find themselves right their voices go OK let's get Kerry people's from all skanks primary in Edinburgh on an outing to the paint lines they plan that expedition carefully to keep costs down well aware that school trips like school uniforms can add to the pressures on low income families their. The office yes it was the devil's 240000 children are living in poverty in Scotland Holyrood hasn't always had the power to introduce benefits but it's planning a 10 pound Income Supplement and 2021 and it's focused on policies like free school meals childcare and affordable rents Scottish Parliament has made a difference John Dickey from the Child Poverty Action Group points out that the numbers are down on 20 years ago but that they're up and what they were 10 years ago and he says that has a lot to do with cuts to benefits at Westminster while some are doing slightly better than the rest U.K. Video it is compared to internationally and compared to what's possible compared to what we've achieved in the past the levels of child poverty that we continue to ought to tolerate in Scotland are completely and utterly unacceptable the positive thing is that the Scottish parliament across the parliament all parties agree to that all signed up and support of the Child Poverty Act setting statute targets toward eradicating child poverty by 20 there to do if we were going to because I don't think we're going to go that way at the bridge Emma speeds have a route map to tackle child poverty over the next 20 years the Scottish Parliament will hope to make more progress on a number of the challenges it's been facing sense its inception but from a political correspondent Kirsten Campbell. Please drive on B.B.C. Radio Scotland the headlines people affected by the blood contamination scandal have started giving evidence at public hearings in Edinburgh whom appliance company Whirlpool has admitted that as many as 800000 faulty tumble dryer could still be in use and the B.B.C. Has been defending the salaries of some of its biggest stars amid controversy over its decision to make millions of people over $75.00 P. For the license fee. Travel update now from Victoria in Inverness we're getting reports of slow traffic on the 82 long run route approaching the long run. Right in Aberdeen delays continue on the A 90 understand drive in both directions around the in 1003 great western route in Glasgow on the M 82 lanes remain closed West pines between junction 18 Charing Cross a 19 understand it's very slow in West Logan on the M 8 still very slow here because of an earlier collision way spines between junction 3 Livingston and 3 gates all lanes are not open but there are delays that are going to 10 minutes in Glasgow on the M 74 where there's a lane blocked by a collision binds between junction 2 A Cambuslang and for medieval traffic is extremely slow and heading back to junction one route we're getting reports traffics at a standstill in places there's a journey time there of a running tough an hour and insight there sure the A $78.00 between the right and the monks in the head right divides has heavier than usual traffic and delays of 5 to 10 minutes B.B.C. 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No 3 women of no made the list of the B.B.C.'s highest paid on air talent Zoe Ball Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz among the 10 biggest earners revealed in the B.B.C.'s annual report the list includes presenters and correspondents who are more than $150000.00 pounds a year and Gary Lineker is again the B.B.C.'s highest paid star he took home $1750000.00 pounds for presenting much of the day here's our media editor I'm all Rajan this is rather blog too in a way it doesn't sort of convey the full picture because some of these people do a range of different jobs Carolyn his pay would reflect the fact he does both match of the day and it was a World Cup year of course the salaries in the B.B.C. Report don't have the numbers for those who paid out B.B.C. Studios the commercial wing of the B.B.C. And lots of critics of the B.B.C. Say that means you've got a very incomplete picture when the B.B.C. 1st revealed the pivot stars the top 10 was entirely male and that led to protests about women getting paid less than men who were doing pretty much the same job well the corporation says it's gender pay gap has fallen from 7.6 percent to 6.7 percent Jane Garvey presents Women's Hour on Radio 4 and she says progress has been made but not enough I'd like to congratulate the 3 women who've made it into the top 10 that's the 30 percent of the top 10 of course be nice if it was 50 or maybe even more than that who knows we might reach that stage in a van or at some point in my in my life it's really worth saying course that these salaries are really eye catching frankly they are also i water and I'm sure the majority of your listeners right now perhaps it would have been better to cut more male salaries rather than to up some female salaries. Well while many female stars have had peeresses several mill presenters have seen their salaries cut they include Hugh Edwards Steve Wright Nicky Campbell and Jeremy Vine over all the top talent bill has increased by more than 10000000 pounds critics say the B.B.C. Should be cutting salaries as a way of saving money rather than means testing T.V. Licenses for over $70.00 five's the B.B.C.'s director general is Lord hole even if we were to pay none of our stars more than what the Prime Minister's paid we would only save $10000000.00 pounds it would go a fraction of the way towards coping with the burden of the entire over 70 five's which is 750000000 per annum and you can see the full list of the B.B.C.'s top earners on the B.B.C. News website. Now suspected store way thought to fallen from landing gear of a flight into Heathrow Airport has been found dead in a London garden a neighbor said the man landed just a metre away from someone sunbathing on Sunday afternoon police think he'd hidden in the wheels of a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi evasion analyst Sally Gethen joins me now says Sally how could this have happened. Yeah it's a very sad story and it looks as if this individual managed to climb onto the landing gear where I was and into this tiny AM section of the airplane above the landing way I was prior to departure at Nairobi where the Kenya Airways flight was departing and then. Then of course the wheels retract and they would have been and confined in that space and then the airplane which is a very high cruising altitude it's very hard to spy in in the end at that level at all because of. The temperatures and decompression and a variety of factors there and then what happened was it looks as if it happened is that the airplane then came into land into the U.K. Came over London and the landing gear wheels were deeply wait they're not individual fell out as part of that deployment and landed in an open area on Sunday afternoon so this isn't the 1st time somebody has stood away in the landing gear is it summarily you seeing that is just You'd never survive that in a way. There have been cases of people surviving they tend to be on the youngest side and have flown shorter distances possibly at low altitude so I was at a potential. Limitations a scenario where you could survive that it would be very very unlikely for an individual to survive such a long flight night at sorry 8 hours or more from Kenya to the U.K. At high altitude and we're talking you know be 787 aircraft which is very modern states the acro state the our aircraft and phenomenal speeds and very high altitudes on this hardly any space that you cling on to in the face. Splay so it will be very hard for them to spike it does happen we've had some instances about I'd say between about half a dozen in the last 10 years in this country and overall since records began we're talking about less than $100.00 globally since 1947 and again only a fraction of those individuals survived and for a lot of that era flying era airplanes were slower and at lower altitudes than they are now does it raise questions also about security at the airport. Yeah it does raise questions but in this instance it would raise questions about the airport in Nairobi obviously because. How did the individual come to be in you know being able to board the aircraft and not wait to get on board at that point to talk and it would suggest that I that they scared the perimeter fence or the security there and perhaps maybe made a run for it when the aircraft was prior to takeoff maybe after he left the gate on the other hand there are there are a lot of activities around an aircraft when it's breaking to depart out the gate but there are a lot of checks that are carried out that point and also even the pilot has a responsibility to go around and do an external preflight checks too so I mean people should be reassured. In every day circumstances this does not happen and there are a lot of protocols in place both globally and nationally there are rules and regulations that make sure that all the relevant checks are carried out so it is an exception rather than the rule this kind of thing can happen Sally Gethen thank you for speaking to us. Now a medieval chess piece kept in a drawer of an Edinburgh home has been sold at auction 473-5000 pounds its previous owners had no idea that the object was one of the long lost Louis chessmen the piece had been bought in an auction in the capital in the 1960 S. For 5 pounds and the new owner hasn't yet been named Alex cater is an auctioneer specialist at Southern base in London who sold the piece and Susan Mansfield is an art critic so Alex says 735000 pounds is that what you've been expecting when it's a record for a medieval chess piece so from that point of view it's a great result was I expecting a bit more well our estimate was 600 to a 1000000 so we were we were hoping that we would break that 1000000 pound barrier but on the day it wasn't to be so talk us through the atmosphere then in the auction room at the time were most people there over the bidding over the phone and most people who were the serious bidders were on the telephone there were a couple of bidders in the room but in the end you know there wasn't there was a lot of competition for it and it sold quite within the estimate but the room was electric there were people who were just coming to see it being sold members of the public and I think the whole of Sotheby's was actually in the room it seemed like because it's he's been quite a star with with all the people who work here and we will as well as a lot of people around the country can you tell us how many people did actually put in a bid. What we had about 3 telephones there are a couple of people in the room and the buyer is anonymous is that going to continue do you think or will we find out at some point I think for the moment to he's wants to remain anonymous yet is that a private buyer. It's anonymous buyer. OK. Just talk us through the moment you were handed this piece initially to have a look at what it was an amazing moment when it was handed to me because we received some photographs over the mail and at that moment I said look I must see this piece I can't tell unless I actually see the object whether this really could be something which has never happened since 831 and when the owners actually I bought the piece into some of these here in Bond Street and I held it in my hands you know I had a little doubt that it was the real thing I don't have to do a little a year's worth of research to confirm my belief but actually. It was love at 1st sight might say you might say Oh well thank you very much indeed for telling us all about that Susan Mansfield is also a well you've been listening to that I mean clearly quite a moment there absolutely I mean I suppose in an auction house you never know what's going to come across the threshold but it must be must be quite amazing to look down and see that you're holding one of the newest Chessman particularly one that hasn't come to light so far until that moment there are 4 or 5 missing I think the math gets a bit complicated but I think what experts have have arrived at is that the original hole which had some $82.00 pieces I think I'd have to chase again and say that they believe are components of 4 chess sets minus the points so and I think that they they think they have all the major pieces apart from fine if and so they are and this is one of the missing ones and talk us through the history of the memo I mean there's still some voters in there. There are questions and I think that there seems to be a fair consensus that they were made in towards the end of the 12th century probably in Norway. And I think it's thought that they might have been being carried by a merchant because they were carrying 4 sets and possibly to sell in Ireland that they might have been shipwrecked on Louis and buried them for safekeeping but there are various stories about how they came to be there and what are they made of at They're made of walrus ivory and and they're beautifully carved there are there really expert works there and all kind of slightly different from one another so they have real personalities and where they actually have been used for playing chess as we know it it would have been very close to chess as we know it the rules of the game changed slightly about 500 years ago so some of the pieces move slightly differently in different patterns on the board but it was recognizably chess and I think that's one of the things one of the reasons why they're such a big draw in museums because people can can really identify with and they can look at them and say those are chess pieces I've tried to play chess and is a kind of connection at that over sort of 800 years to those those people that that also played chess or well yeah you just thought Scottish museums be pretty keen to get their hands on them. You would I mean there are 11 pieces in the National Museum of Scotland sure they would have been quite keen to get a 12th and of course we don't know where this one is going to end so we have to hope that we might see it eventually either in a museum or on loan to a museum Let's hope so Susan thank you very much indeed Susan Mansfield you. Know just over 2 hours England will play the USA in the semifinal of the Women's World Cup The Americans are ranked number one in the world and of had an impressive tournament so far reporter Jane Prendergast isn't legal where the games being played so just remind us again that hope both teams got their. Yes Well of course you will remember England overcame Scotland Argentina and Japan to top Group D. And then had consecutive 3 no victories over Cameroon and Norway of course in the quarter final last Thursday America began the defense of their title with 13 nil win over Thailand it feels like quite a long time ago before further victories against Chile and Sweden and then narrow wins over Spain and France they beat France of course to one last 5 day to secure their position here in this semifinal say they are ranked number one they have in their history 3 World Cup finals that they have won England haven't made it to the final of the World Cup and ranked 3rd in the world but of course it is all about what happens on the night and the USA are favorites. Seem to have been quite evenly matched in this tournament so we could see a tight close game this evening you know the coach Phil Neville doesn't seem to be there what do you. No I mean this is always been his lie why should we worry about anyone I think we're good enough to win the World Cup he does promote you know positivity uses it from every pore and that has always been his message and the message we've been getting from the players as well and the key to Paris said the other day why should we be frightened of America comes the World Cup If you don't think you can win it it's a strong has been coming out of the England camp and I think you know positivity is the way they want to go forward but Phil Neville says you know I've been planning how to get the World Cup final since I took the England 18 months ago and he must the fact that America into that one of the interesting things I'm looking forward saying tonight is perhaps a battle between Rypien know who plays for America and bronze for England of course Rypien a place on the left bronze on the right that is being billed as something as well one pundit describe it potentially being one heck of a battle so looking forward to seeing that I really think both teams desperate to get to that final thank you for that. 1995. B.B.C. Radio Star. Good evening at 6 o'clock and this is news Dr with Valerie Stuart tonight backing both. Ventures north with a message of support he's a winner who can deliver the Union. And the whole you know a major new report says the South of Scotland results a watershed moment for the economic future the region needs. Help to regenerate course there are. More. Police in Australia see the terrorism plot we know that 3 men were arrested in civil 10 years raids across Sydney. The news from Christine Finnegan the U.K. Inquiry into blood contamination has begun hitting evidence in Edinburgh It says tomatoes around 3000 people in Scotland were infected with HIV or hepatitis C. From contaminated products the 1st witness to give evidence today was Alison Bennett whose son was diagnosed with hemophilia a 10 months old and contracted the Chive and ultimately AIDS through contaminated blood she described on the streets premature death in 1995 you called the paramedics and they came round. Resuscitate him actually gave him drips and so on and then we had to go to Liverpool. In the ambulance and he stayed in the pool there until he died at the end of that month and how old was a 22 by the same number that's because there's evidence showing that medical students from Scotland are almost twice as likely to stay here after graduating as students from the rest of the U.K. Their international students are the least likely to stay with the Scottish government says the fees they pay medical schools are crucial to universities financial sustainability so there are no plans to G.'s the intake of overseas students the World Heritage status of Orkneys archaeological treasures is threatened by climate change out of Porto's war and rising seas and higher rainfall mean the heart of neolithic Orkney site is extremely vulnerable say experts are correspondent James Cook reports from Kirkwall the greatest concern on Orkneys surrounds the 5000 year old village of scatterbrained which was revealed in $850.00 when a storm stripped away a sun June the report concludes that the potential for damage from sea level rise driven by climate change is particularly acute of the Neolithic settlement but there is some. Good news it also finds that the resilient island community is well placed to respond to the challenge the assessment is being presented today at a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Azerbaijan the method used to assess the impact of a warmer wetter climate on Orkney could eventually be rolled out to Wall $1092.00 World Heritage sites the former Scotland rugby international dadi Weir has received an O.B.E. From the Queen to set a mini at the Palace of holy to toast in Edinburgh Mr Weir who feel that he has more to nude on disease in 2017 is being honored for services to rugby and 90 research on the porters community sport know with Thomas dunk Thank you Christine Sir Tom Farmer says he takes great satisfaction in what had been in achieved during his 28 year spell as owner farmer along with chairman Rod Petri have sold their majority shareholding to the US based business minority Gordon It means the club is no debt free and Gordon is investing a 7 figure sum the German defender Marvin Campari has left Celtic after 19 months of being made just a single appearance the 34 year old has now joined Doris' Berg in the German 2nd tear down the United would be foolish not to consider trying to bottom to bring Ryan Gauld back to ton of ice according to the club's assistant head coach Lee McCulloch gold left United for Sporting Lisbon and 2014 but the Portuguese club are reportedly prepared to let him leave and Cameron already says he wants to play his 2nd round match at Wimbledon against Kenosha Corey on Center Court has progressed past round one for the 1st time by beating Denis Istomin in straight sets earlier Meanwhile Roger Federer recovered from a set down to beat tournament debutant Lloyd house in force set Serena Williams and rough on the dollar both leading in there much as just know there's more support as our website. And House the travel into a 92 green Dykes route has heavy traffic both ways around Broughty Ferry routes to excellence in Glasgow are causing very slow traffic the M 74 has one lean blocked by a collision that's so spined between junction 2. Fullerton route and for medieval traffic is extremely slow with delays of a run tough an hour on the Glasgow a meat eater queues away spine because of an earlier collision between junction 18 Charing Cross and 1900 stand Olin's are not open and an air traffic is heavy on the A 77 North.