07/07/2011 Reporting Scotland

Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news:

The News of the World and the Tommy Sheridan perjury trial - police are

asked to investigate the evidence given by some witnesses.

Individuals such as food ball- players, athletes and TV stars,

Olympic athletes and their spouses and even a murder victim.

Also in the programme tonight: Waste not want not - the 50,000

tonnes of food that hotels and restaurants throw away each year.

Messing about on the River - salmon fishermen say they're being driven

away from the Tay by commercial rafting.

And playing out of the world's biggest bunker - we're live at the

Scottish Open as the Castle Stuart Prosecutors have asked Strathclyde

Police to investigate witness statements from the Tommy Sheridan

perjury trial, after fresh allegations in the News of the

World hacking scandal. Three journalists associated with the

paper gave evidence at the trial, including its former editor Andy

Coulson. Mr Sheridan's lawyer and a senior MP have presented a list of

names to police of people they claim had their phones hacked. Our

political correspondent Raymond Buchanan reports. This was the day

Tommy Sheridan was convicted of lying in court and sentenced to

three years in prison. His legal team claimed he had been done end

by his enemies and none were greater than the News of the World

and its owners. Several million pounds of public money was spent

investigating me and my wife. Is it not time that similar resources

were devoted to investigating the activities of the News of the

World? Are amongst those questioned by Tommy Sheridan in the witness

box was the former editor of the UK edition of the News of the World.

At the Coulson was asked, did the News of the World pay for police

officers? Not to my knowledge was his answer. It has now been alleged

that he did authorise payments. The editor of the Scottish edition

claimed in court that details -- e- mails about the case had been lost.

It has now been reported that they could have been available after all.

Today it has been asked of officers here as Strathclyde for two you can

-- we examine certain witness evidence. It follows the scandal

surrounding the News of the World in recent days. Police have been

asked to come up with a preliminary assessment. This afternoon, Tommy

Sheridan's lawyer and a senior Labour MP handed over a dossier to

detectives. They want police to re- examine the evidence given in court

and to contact scores of people this they may have been victim to

phone hacking. Nine months ago, we were presented with a dossier of

individuals such as football players, heart surgeons, a soap

stars, athletes, TV stars, TV chefs, an Olympic athlete lakes, Lord

Mayor's and even a murder victim. The potential Voicemail victims are

not being named. This man died on operation in Iraq. Her mother

turned her grief into a high- profile campaign to bring the

troops home. Now she is trying to find out if her voice mail has been

intercepted. I think it is shocking. How low can someone go? I do not

think they could stoop any lower. Sheridan and his lawyer always

claimed they were battling and media empire. The News of the World

may now be gone, but Mr Sheridan's conviction remains.

Raymond Buchanan is with me now. How is always likely to affect

conviction -- the conviction of Tommy Sheridan? Well, his legal

team are appealing his conviction. It is worth putting this into some

sort of context. There are three significant witnesses from the News

of the World in what was a three- month long perjury trial. Lots of

other witnesses also accused Tommy Sheridan of lying and that is what

the jury decided would be their verdict when the convicted him of

perjury. So it may well be significant in the future, but it

is worth putting it in the context -- context but also other people

believed he was a liar as well and that may have been what helps make

the jury. His legal team are asking detectives to look through a

substantial dossier, of which I have a copy here, the whole point

of this is that they believe that other people may well be guilty of

misleading the court and they want police officers to pursue them with

the same vigour. The stunning device to -- demise to date of the

News of the World, what effect will that have? For the Sheridan team,

this is a very personal battle that they had between themselves and

what they described as the Murdoch empire. Tommy Sheridan is currently

in prison and I think tonight that he will be delighted at the news

that the News of the World will be no more. As I say, in terms of into

-- of his conviction, there were lots of other witnesses aside the

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from the BBC. Still to come before 7pm:

Dampening spirits - why music fans might be in for a lightening

Tonight's sport comes from castles to -- castle steward because it is

day one of the Gulf. I will have news of a dramatic and successful

day. And we were hear from Andy Murray ahead of another big event.

Scottish chefs are being told that they could save millions of pounds

a year if they put less food on our plates. Zero Waste Scotland, an

organisation set up by the Scottish Government, says caterers,

restaurants and hotels are throwing away 50,000 tonnes of food a year.

The industry is being warned that three quarters of the waste they

send to landfill could be recycled. Laura Bicker reports.

Every scrap, every leaf, every stock is put to good use here.

popping them into the vegetable stock Pops. Everything gets popped

into that. Anything she cannot cook with it goes into compost. But she

noticed that most of the restaurant's waste came from

customers not finishing their food. We used to think that we will give

them a big bet but more often than not they do not want to eat all

that so we moved from a large vegetable balls to small ones and

if we see there is ever -- if there is only a little bit left, then we

offer them more effect than a protect all out at once and the

waste have of it. Zero Waste Scotland tells us that the

hospitality sector throws away 130,000 tonnes of waste a year. The

say that one quarter of that could be recycled. The say if that was

used properly, that would save 150,000 cubic tonnes of CO2. That

is the equivalent of taking 50,000 cars off the road. This country is

turning into a trend of having very large portions. Jacqueline

remembers being shocked at the amount of waste when she first

opened Tower restaurant. She hopes Scotland will follow her lead and

stop filling the nation's landfill sites unnecessarily.

Some of the other stories across Scotland this Thursday evening:

Grampian Police have confirmed that a body recovered from a Banffshire

shoreline earlier this week is that of the missing teenager Jake Miller.

The 18-year-old from Turriff went missing two weeks ago when a boat

capsized at night between Banff and Whitehills. His two friends managed

to safely swim ashore. A police investigation is

continuing after a man's body was discovered in a Fife alleyway. The

body was found in a narrow lane leading from Dunfermline High

Street at around quarter to seven this morning. Detectives say they

are in the very early stages of their investigation and are

currently treating the death as unexplained.

Smaller construction firms in Scotland are continuing to struggle,

according to an industry survey. The Federation of Master Builders

found that business conditions in the past three months improved

compared to the winter months, but many bosses say they expect to see

orders declining and staff being It's an issue that angers

pedestrians up and down the country - dog owners who fail to clean up

after their hounds. But it appears that some councils are more strict

than others when it comes to penalising offenders. Catriona

Renton reports. Need to seven- month-old Lexy. She is her owner's

best friend. If you are a responsible dog-owner, you should

pick up your dog's business because that is part of being a dog owner.

People that do not, well, they should. This dog's owner feels just

as strongly. It does not take a couple of minutes to bend down and

put it in a bucket. There are buckets around the park. This might

seem like a cheeky message, but the council is taking the issue of dog

fouling very seriously. They have run a poster campaign and they have

put controversial leaflets showing dog mess three people's doors. The

result, a cleaner streets and complaints are down. Out in the

streets in the north of Edinburgh, at this area was a hot spot for

wardens. It is the thing that residents in the City complain most

often about, so we take a hard line on it. If we catch someone then

they have a fixed find that they have to pay within 20 days. If they

do not pay that it rises to �60 and if they do not pay that then they

get taken to the Procurator Fiscal. Over tea appeared, Edinburgh has

issued 946 find and Glasgow 1530. Overwork a four-year period,

Sterling issued to just 13 and Orkney handed out to none at all.

So is there just no dog fouling in Orkney? We do have a steady flow of

complaints that come into us and we investigate these as they come in,

but the public here... Is there to say that if there is people around

and you have got your dog out you pick up because there is peer

pressure. This is a problem that the public want councils to keep on

a tight leash. It was once one of Scotland's most

appealing fishing beats, but it's claimed that anglers are now

staying away from a section of the Upper Tay after it became what's

described as a "highway" for commercial rafting. Salmon

fishermen want the local authority to restrict access to the river

three days a week. But the rafters argue that such a move would

threaten the local jobs they provide. Steven Godden has more.

Two very different past times competing for space on the same

stretch of the Upper Tay. A battle that the salmon fishermen where it

-- worry there are losing. For years, the bank just a stone's

throw from his house was one of his fear it -- favourite fishing

streets. The reason is commercial rafting which he says has turned

the river into a highway. If you come here to fish, you will find

that quite often there are a lot of laughs going through and she will

not catch fish. The result is that people tend to stay away. Brisk

business for the rafting companies reflects the upward trend in

popularity, and while local guides have sympathy for fishermen, they

do not always accept that boats are a nuisance. Do not get me wrong, or

we do play around on the river. We do not do it in sensitive areas or

fishing holes and if we can see a fisherman then all messing about

stops. We will paddle past nice and quietly. Everyone agrees that

fishing and ratting are not compatible and that one solution

would be to split up the week. The problems arise in deciding how many

days and exactly which ones to assigned to each activity. Anglers

believe that setting aside ratafia days would encourage at revival but

rafters argue it would threaten the local employment and so the dispute

continues. Both are equally important to the airier and I do

not think anyone wants to see the quality of the experience that

people come to fresh are going to have because of other activities.

In we can do anything to help, or Of their optimistic a compromise

can be reached but the conversation has been going on since 2005. It

could be some time before there is harmony on the Upper Tay. A

memorial book from the funeral of Lord Byron has been gifted to the

National Library of Scotland. The 186 year-old volume is a one-off.

It turned up at a church bring-and- buy sale in Georgia in the United

States. The lady who found it has gifted it to be included in the

Byron papers which are housed at the National Library. Let us go to

Castle Stuart and joined David at the Scottish Open.

Welcome back to the shores of the Moray Firth on day one of the

Scottish Open. The son has been shining. On and off. Some of the

world's top golfers have been making hay, none more so than Lee

Westwood who has a share of the lead on seven under par. Alongside

the Chilean golfer Mark Tullo. Not a bad day for Colin Montgomery

either. He is up on the leaderboard with five under par for his opening

round. Mark Warren is also on five under par, despite getting off to a

horrendous start with a triple- bogey eight at the very first hole

of his round. I managed to catch up with mark when he had finished his

opening round. Congratulations, quite an eventful round. He had a

triple bogey at the first. Obviously, a poor tee off the first.

I need to practice. I took a bad drop. It was nice to hear few

cheers today. That start meant an hour to put it to the back of my

mind. It is a massive event - the Scottish Open. It is too early to

get frustrated. I told myself I was hitting the ball well. Mia admit it

is not great but I think you got seven birdies. -- my arithmetic.

had eight birdies, seven in a row. I missed a five-foot putt on the

last one. I felt as if I was hitting good putts all day. I do

not remember one bad Pat so if I keep that up, I will be happy. --

bad putt. Are you aiming to make the cut or do you think you can

make an impression on the leader board? The way I am hitting the

ball, t he shot as it comes, seven birdies and a role, I felt as if

mentally I was really good. That is the focus, to stay aggressive on

each swing and see what it takes me on Sunday. With seven birdies in a

row, Mark Warren is clearly enjoying himself at Castle Stuart

but what about the public? Craig Anderson has been out and about and

mingling. With the change in the weather - it

was set fair for a tremendous tournament. The water hazard is the

Moray Firth. The clouds - back the crowds have arrived and local fans

are raising a glass. It is not often we get last -- golf

tournaments up here and it looks well attended. It is wonderful for

they are and thank goodness the sun is shining. They have come to a

beautiful golf course. I played it a month ago and I really enjoyed it.

Colin Montgomery is desperate for a top-five finish. What are his

chances? Saloon, I think. I keep my fingers crossed. -- slim. He got

the in in the end. I think he would do it in the end. I think he will

keep us run going for the Open. With six of the top players in the

world here, the crowds enjoying themselves, Castle Stuart has

definitely hit it off on the international golf circuit.

I told you it was sunny earlier. It is getting cloudy now but hopefully

it will remain dry. One of Scotland's top referees says the

SPL has to sort out the wage dispute before the start of the new

season. Craig Thomson and his colleagues want an increase up to

�1,000 per match. The comments came on the day it was revealed that

referees will start their training in the clash and. -- in the

classroom. The job of Scottish referee could have come with a

government health warning in the past. Waugh recently it has led to

sackings and strikes. -- more recently. Now they're going back to

school to nurture new talent through a referee qualification.

Tensions remain. The men in the middle want a wage rise of �200 a

game. At the moment they get �800 and match - enough? As a referee

and he will say no. It is no longer just A90 minute job. They argue

that increased fitness levels and pressure should be reflected in the

pay packets but the SPL are standing firm. I would imagine it

will be resolved before the start of the season. I hope it is. When

the focus returns to it ref again, they hope a rush to the classroom

will fall. -- refereeing. Derek Riordan has swapped Easter

Road for the Far East. The 28 year old striker has signed for the

Chinese side Shaanxi Chanba. Seen here scoring against former club

Celtic, he moved after failing to agree terms with Hibs. He has

signed a two-year deal, significantly increasing his wages.

Well done to him. Great Britain play Luxembourg in the Davis Cup

tennis in Glasgow tomorrow. Andy Murray is one of two Scots in the

Britain team. He says it has been refreshing to come home after his

semi-final defeat in Wimbledon last week. It made a big difference,

everyone has been so positive and upbeat. They are happy and I like

that. It has made a big difference. I want to work hard and make sure

that I play my best and put on a good performance.

A big weekend of tennis to look forward to and also another three

days of golf here at Castle Stuart. For now, back to you.

Thank you very much. It must have been one of the most unusual rock

gigs ever played in Scotland. It was certainly the quietest. No

massive loudspeakers when indie band The View played to fans in a

Dundee shopping centre car park. To avoid disturbing shoppers, the

performance was relayed to headphones. The fans seem to enjoy

it just the same. Wellies and waterproofs are likely

to be out in force and the next few days as music fans head to T in the

Park. Campers have begin -- cappers have begun arriving already. Heavy

rain and lightning are expected. It may be putting some people off with

reports that many second-hand tickets are failing to sell. Our

reporter has been to see how the -- how the preparations are going. So

far so good here. This is the production engines. You can see

that some tents are already up. Campers have been arriving ahead of

the festival's start tomorrow. Reports had been for torrential

downpour earlier this week but it looks like the event itself will

take place under a somewhat more seasonal weather forecast. Forecast

is that tomorrow will be some showers but later. -- but later.

How much do you care about the weather? Not a toff. It is what you

make it. Wellies, come rain or sunshine. Good news for the

organisers if it is not so wet. They take measures against heavy

rain but after 18 months of planning and thousands of people

expected, with more than 200 performers, the organisers hope

that it is going to be a sunny day for performers and audience alike.

Confident words there from our amateur weather forecast to. Real

words from our proper weather forecast are now.

It will be an improving picture but we have seen a lot of rain already.

Some of the shares today quite Some of the shares today quite

heavy. We can see them shown up here with the brighter colours. --

shares. Into this evening, the shares will start to ease and we

will see a dryer picture overnight. -- showers. Dry overnight. One or

two clear skies. Tomorrow - it will be a dry, fine and bright start to

the day. By mid-morning, showers will start again. They will not be

as heavy as today. The best of sunshine north of Glasgow. By mid-

afternoon, we will see more cloud and the showers merging. Further

north the showers will be scattered and brighter spells of sunshine.

Through the rest of the afternoon tomorrow and in to tomorrow evening,

we hold on to the rain across the south and the Borders. It makes its

way up the east coast. Showers elsewhere are dying out. Expect

heavy showers on Friday but improving throughout the weekend.

He is the pressure charge. Low- pressure remains on Friday and into

Saturday. -- here is. The further west you are, drier and brighter

conditions with more showers further east. If you are into the

net for the tour Ships races, one or two showers are possible on

Saturday. -- told ships. Sunday 8 - and improving picture. Some showers

to the north. Drier and brighter conditions are on the cards. That

conditions are on the cards. That is the forecast.

A summary of at the top stories - this Sunday's edition of News of

the World will be his last. After days of pressure and public anger

after the phone hacking scandal, the German broke the news to

shocked staff that the paper and said it wrong doors had turned and

good news run into bad. Prosecutors are asking Strathclyde

Police to investigate witness statements from the Tommy Sheridan

perjury trial after fresh allegations in the News of the

World hacking scandal. Three journalists gave evidence at the

trial, including its former editor Andy Coulson.

A man has been the first person ever convicted of trafficking women

out of Britain. Anthony Harrison has been sentenced to 20 years

after imprisoning two teenage Nigerian girls before attempting to

traffic them to Spain and Greece as prostitutes.