Week five, day 2

Because Dr Riddell, whose dredging evidence was led yesterday, was not able to be here for the whole day today, he will return for his cross-examination tomorrow.

The new programme, which was only fixed at 6pm last night, started with Ted Keegan. This was a rather unusual session as Mr Keegan had not written a precognition, and consisted of his giving an account of correspondence between him and SNH in the years leading up to the Inquiry.

After coffee, it was the turn of Mr Bromley, the Babcock witness for Marine Ecology. He was subject to cross-examination by SNH, Forth Ports and JAG. This lasted most of the afternoon before some 'housekeeping' arrangements were made, before Lyndsey Nicholl the chief Reporter suggested we would all be heading off for our Valentine's Day dates!