STV News at Six - Aberdeen Friday, August 03, 6:00pm

At her fourth Olympics, Scots rower Katherine Grainger has finally won the gold medal she has craved for so long. Along with her partner Anna Watkins the 36 year old was victorious in the women's double skulls. In the previous 3 games she left with silver. But today in front of an adoring home crowd, it was her golden moment. In other news; the Royal Bank of Scotland's Chief Executive claims it's making good progress despite announcing pre-tax losses of one and half billion pounds. It's now set aside 300 million pounds to deal with a computer breakdown and two mis-selling scandals. In local news; a child rapist wrote to police from his prison cell telling them he wanted to confess to a sex attack on another youngster carried out at his home in Keith. William Duncan was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh to serve at least eighteen months before he can apply for parole. He will remain under supervision for the rest of his life for the attempted rape of a nine year old girl in 2001. He was jailed in 2006, for eight and a half years for raping another girl. And; offshore firm Total say they've made significant progress towards a permanent solution on a platform which was at the centre of a major gas leak. Essential safety and support systems on the Elgin installation have been re-started. Also in sport; as representatives from the SPL clubs gathered in Glasgow there was a new face round the table. Dundee's Scot Gardiner arrived as the Chief Executive of an SFL club - he left with the Dark Blues now a fully fledged SPL team. This international version of STV News at Six is viewable world-wide. It has been edited for rights reasons, which also allows us to keep the programme online after the initial 24-hour broadcast window in the UK has passed. Viewers within the UK who want to watch the full episode 'as broadcast' should select the UK version of the programme.