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00:00Hello, welcome to the Scotsman's Daily Bulletin for Tuesday. I'm Alan Young, I am Deputy Editor
00:11of the Scotsman. I'm joined today by our political correspondent Rachel Emery to take a look
00:15at what's on the agenda. Hi Rachel. Good morning. Let's have a look at the front page first
00:22off. We lead today on figures which have been released for Edinburgh's low emission zone.
00:31This started, or began, sorry, at the start of June and the figures show that almost twice as
00:39many motorists were found in Edinburgh than they were in Glasgow in the first month of operation
00:47there. That has been described by the Scottish Conservatives as astonishing. City transport
00:53leaders are obviously fully supportive of this and say they're already seeing changes in driver
01:00behaviour. Just to put that in context though, that's 6,000 fines, a huge amount of money going
01:07into the council's coffers there. Pictured at the top of the page, the tiger who came to tea
01:14Indeed, Tiger Woods arrives ahead of the open kicking off Rob Troon later in the week and we
01:21also cover the Donald Trump latest in the wing column there. He of course appeared overnight at
01:29the Republican convention with a bandaged ear following the assassination attempt. So that's
01:36you up to date. Rachel, looking ahead, despite the fact Scottish Parliament's in recess, it's a
01:46big week for politics. All eyes on London tomorrow for the state opening of Parliament and then we
01:53will get the King's speech and this is really eagerly anticipated. Yes, so as you said,
02:01nothing's happening in Holyrood just now because it's on recess but that doesn't mean that things
02:04are not all heating up down in Westminster. So tomorrow King Charles III will go to Westminster
02:10for the King's speech. Basically he'll be setting out what Sir Keir Starmer's government is going
02:15to do for the next year. There's a lot of pomp and ceremony that goes along with this and there's a
02:20lot of fancy outfits that get worn and lots of strange traditions that get done as well. Behind
02:26all of that there's a lot of serious politics getting announced tomorrow. What we're looking
02:31for in the King's speech, particularly for Scotland, is probably GB Energy. Now during the election
02:36campaign Labour were very, this is a big policy for Labour, saying that they were going to introduce
02:41this publicly owned energy company and it's going to be headquartered in Scotland. But they wouldn't
02:46be pressed on whereabouts in Scotland it could be. There's been plenty of suggestions put forward and
02:51none have been confirmed. So perhaps we might get some more details to what GB Energy might look like,
02:56when it might get set up and potentially even whereabouts in Scotland it will be headquartered
03:01as well. So that's probably the main thing for people in Scotland that are wanting to see what's
03:05in this speech is going to look out for. Lots of other things to look out for too. Labour's new
03:11deal for working people, so things such as ending fire and rehire, getting genuine living wages,
03:16for example, banning zero-hours contracts. That's also going to be detailed in the King's speech
03:21tomorrow. Also the devolution powers, we're expecting the Labour government to try and
03:26devolve more powers to local communities. We'll need to wait and see as to how much that will
03:30affect the Scottish government as well. So plenty for people in Scotland to look out for in this
03:35King's speech and things that might have quite a big impact on them. Along with GB Energy, I guess
03:41oil and gas is a huge issue. We had reports last week quickly denied that Ed Miliband, the
03:49Energy Secretary, had ordered an immediate halt on new North Sea drilling. Do you think we're
03:55likely to see any clarity on the Labour position around that tomorrow? I think given what happened
04:01at the end of last week with Ed Miliband, we might very well do. This obviously caused quite an upset
04:06very quickly. I think Labour are now sort of seeing some of the sort of challenges that they
04:09might face now that they're actually in government with what they're able to say and what they're not
04:13able to say. So as you said, it was very quickly shut down, this report about stopping oil and gas.
04:20This is on the back of, of course, in their election manifesto saying that they would
04:23be against issuing new exploration licences in the North Sea. So it'll be interesting to
04:28see if we get any more detail on exploration licences, on drilling, on all these kinds of
04:32things that are going to affect the oil and gas industry in the North East of Scotland. So
04:35interesting to see if anything comes up on that. Indeed, we'll be very closely watched. Thanks very
04:41much for that. Rachael, please keep an eye on scotsman.com throughout the day for all the very
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04:51And if you're out and about today, as ever, please do pick up a copy of the paper from me
04:57and from Rachael. It's bye for now. Goodbye.