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Kaye Adams asks whether Olympic cynics have been won over by the games.

Kaye Adams asks whether Olympic cynics have been won over by the games and whether too much is expected from hospital emergency departments.

It's been revealed that the number of people having to wait 12 hours to be seen by a doctor in A & E has soared over the past four years, with the number of patients left over eight hours more than doubling. But the Scottish Government's health secretary, Nicola Sturgeon, defended the figures and said the "vast majority" are seen within four hours of arriving. So where does the problem lie? Have staff cutbacks and pressures on the NHS led to the rise? Or is it time wasters, drunks and drug users who are clogging up our emergency departments?

Are we simply expecting too much from our hospital A & E departments?

And this weekend football fans across the land are poised to turn out in huge numbers to show there's plenty life left in Scottish football, despite the drama with Rangers over the summer. It's Sell out Saturday and the clubs are hoping the boost in gate admissions will last. Kaye hears from the SPL home teams whether they got the attendance they were hoping for.

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