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Neil Lennon last night strode into the history of Celtic after surviving a day plagued by nervousness. The Celtic manager watched his side defeat Hibernian 3-0 in the William Hill Scottish Cup final at Hampden to follow Jock Stein and Billy Mcneill as double winners as both player and manager for the Parkhead club but said: “I felt so nervous this morning, and all the way during the game, really. Just the weight of expectation riding on the game. Obviously we didn’t want to be the team that broke the hoodoo for Hibs as well and have that thrown at us.” More than two centuries after it was first connected to the mainland by “bridging the Atlantic”, an island is to have a modern water system which will have far-reaching consequences for local wildlife. Although the Island of Seil, a few miles south of Oban in Argyll, has been linked to the mainland by a bridge since 1792, it lacks any kind of waste water system. The result is domestic waste water is discharged daily into the narrow strait between the island and the mainland. However, Scottish Water is now to spend £8m on a public waste water system. Scottish Secretary Ian Lang yesterday announced a review of Scotland’s unique not proven verdict. The move follows a campaign led by the parents of murdered Hamilton student Amanda Duffy, 19. They handed in a 60,000-signature petition to the Scottish Office calling for the verdict to be abolished. The Duffys began their campaign after a jury at the High Court in Glasgow returned a not proven verdict against 20-yearold Mr Francis Auld, 20, who was charged with their daughter’s murder.