and coming up in the sport on bbc news. the history chasers can they become the first scotland side to make it out of the group stage of a major tournament? hello and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. well, in just a few hours, scotland s footballers kick off the euros, taking on germany in the opening game of the four week tournament. tens of thousands of scotland fans have descended on munich. england play their first match on sunday, against serbia. john watson s in munich for us and john, a big task for scotland tonight playing germany in germany? it is. they are calling this the biggest party in scottish football in 26 years. not since the world cup which was staged in france back in 1998 have scotland qualified for a major tournament overseas. as you can probably see behind me most of the scotland fans have now arrived here in munich. they have been mingling alongside their german counterparts here in one of the main squares in the city. it has been good natured, good
times by english water companies, in one year. small amounts making a big differnce. i ll explain why an increase in microdonations is good news for charities. sunshine makes a big difference at the moment but the problem is a lot of shower cloud around and i have been looking for summer but still no sign. it s friday, ilithjune. around 200,000 scottish fans are expected to be in germany for tonight s european championships opening game. scotland s been drawn in a tough group, with the first match against the hosts taking place in munich. meanwhile, england heads into the competition as one of the favourites having reached the final last time around. john watson is there for us. good morning. finally, the tournament about to begin. that is right. good morning. the day has finally arrived. for scotland fans, it is called the biggest party for them in 26 years as they prepare to take on hosts germany in the opening match of the euros. their first major overseas tournament since
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be a lot on your own, but if you give just a be a lot on your own, but if you givejust a penny be a lot on your own, but if you give just a penny you be a lot on your own, but if you givejust a penny you can really make a difference debate are you not concerned, alison, i know that pennies, your organisation, has been around a long time, you jumped on this idea of digital giving early on, now everybody else is creeping into your area and offering people the option to save, to put money into investments, and how likely are people to do both? it s a really good question, sally. i think people will do both, i think people will do both, i think we do a lot of card transactions every week and not all of them need to be rounded up. when i d go back to when we used to drop coins in a box, you don t drop all the time, but you do when you want to do it. and i think, yes, we need to save and we need to get young people investing, and, in fact, earlierabout young people investing, and, in fact, e