09/09/2011 Reporting Scotland

Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news. The

UK's most expensive degree - what a second Scottish University is to

charge students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Detectives release CCTV pictures of two people they hope can help them

solve the triple murder in Helensburgh.

The future's bright, the future is staying orange - Europe decides not

to change the amount of colouring in Scotland's other national drink.

And later in the programme, the excitement is building in New

Zealand. Who they're going to it hear about it, they are going to

know about it. And you can hear much much more

from him as Scotland makes final preparations for their first game

of the Rugby World Cup. St Andrews University has joined

Edinburgh in becoming the most expensive place in Britain to study.

The university court has decided to charge the maximum tuition fees of

�9,000 a year to students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

It means an honours degree will cost �36,000. When more students

from England Wales and Northern Ireland will have to pay it a lot

more. There is a lot of change her head. They can only pay fees just

over �7,000, but some Andrew's will now charge �36,000 over four years.

The figure drops to �21,000 to Glasgow Caledonian. It is not a

popular decision as an Andrew's. It is no more expensive to study here

than it did that Oxford or Cambridge. Rides in fees in England

caused a mass of protest there. is feared there could be problems

appear. It does not seem fair that I get it for free and people south

of the border have to pay. As a Scottish should me I should be

happy that it remains charge less for us, but I do not think I would

feel the way if I was from England. The university says they are

offering a big rise in bursaries. The Scottish government is

monitoring these decisions. It is vital that when we debate this and

that is a voted in the press, it has to be point out that I will

never charge Scottish students tuition fees. With most university

still to declare, it is expected the average fee will be about more

modest �6,000. Meanwhile, Scotland's newest

university, of the Highlands & Islands, is looking for more

funding. Its principal wants another �3m a year from the

Scottish government. James Fraser says the institution needs the cash

because of an increasing number of students and rising demand for

training in renewable energy. Police are hoping new CCTV footage

will help them find the killer of three members of one family.

Detectives say they are urgently trying to contact possible

witnesses to the crime. Thomas Sharkey and two of his children

were murdered when a fire was started at their Helensburgh home

in July. Raymond is in Helensburgh for us tonight. Could these be the

pictures that could help catch the killer. Focus on the date first. It

is 24th July this year and just after five or clock in the morning.

Detectives want to trace the hooded figure crossing the road. They also

want to trace this man. He was also spotted in Heller's brat town

centre in the early morning of that day. Shortly afterwards, a fire was

started which killed three people. They also want to talk to the

owners of this car. Are you wanting to talk to these people as

potential witnesses or suspects? want to interview them because they

were in the area at the time they it fire started and may help take

the investigation for were. Three members of the family were killed

when a fire broke out. The father Tom Sharkey and his two children.

His wife survived and she recently spoke of her anguish. If I knew any

sort of reason or motive I would say, because their three p Finlay's

I loved most in my life are now dead. The play some are asking the

public to take a close look and if you can help, please do. Raymond,

the police have been slowly revealing a number of details as

they have pieced together events. What does this tell us about the

investigation? It is now six weeks then someone came to this warm and

started this fire. The fire led to the deaths of three members of the

family and the injury of Mrs Shah K. Since then, there has been several

appeals by Strathclyde Police for information which could lead them

to the killer or killers of these three people. There has been

billboards, there has been talk of rewards and as you saw there, the

wife of Thomas Sharkey giving a very emotional interview. All of

that has not led to any sort of positive conclusion and led to this

latest release of information by the police. When you talk to

detectives involved in this that the answers lie here in the town.

They think someone here knows what happened in the early hours of that

Sunday morning. They are desperate for them to get in touch or if they

believe they might have information which could help find the killer or

killers to get in touch. As they say, they believe the answer to

this lies in the Helensbrugh. You are watching Friday's Reporting

Scotland from the BBC. Still to come before seven o'clock... Police

investigate a new lead in the baffling murder of a bank manager

at his family home. And on the Bru - find out why one of the "secrets"

in our national fizz has been under threat.

In sport, the very latest from Andy Murray. He is currently on court

against American John Isner, battling for a place in the US Open

semifinal. And the World Cup countdown for Scotland. Andy

Robinson's men meet Romania in a few hours from now. We are in New

Zealand with the squad. Join me for the sport, coming soon.

New local television stations could be coming to parts of Scotland. The

UK Government's proposals have been met with some scepticism about

whether the idea was commercially viable. But BBC Scotland has learnt

there are plans which could lead to stations in at least four areas.

Our business correspondent Jamie McIvor has been to see one of the

likely bidders. Here I am standing on the corner of a very wet streets.

In this is the sort of news you make not here on it local

television. But it is gaining an evidence in the local community in

Helensbrugh. People are enjoying it. They are catching up and events

that the book would otherwise maybe not know about. But they us is not

a TV station as you would normally see it. It is a website, but maybe

pave the way for new local dit television stations. In that area,

it is perceiving the way people engage about politics, few local

sport and things like that. This is a station in Lanarkshire. To attend

their board failed financially, but the Government believes the sums

may add up now. Because of technological advances, the cost of

running a television station has now Lord to less than what be local

newspaper would cost. Nine a areas have been identified where local TV

stations may be viable. Apart from Helensbrugh, there is serious

interest in Ayrshire in Dundee. There is a concern that a the is in

the south could miss out. It is a pity. We have never been served

well by local television and this is a repeat of what we have always

experienced. The Scottish government has different proposals

for a television station covering the whole of Scotland. But for now,

there is a chance that places like Helensbrugh could have local

television in two years. Online services could be set up elsewhere

in the country. Some of the other stories across Scotland this Friday.

Two people have pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in the first

convictions in Scotland under new legislation. 22-year-old Sarah

Beukan and Stephen Craig, 34, admitted moving 14 men and women to

various addresses in across the UK for prostitution. Two other men,

Malcolm McNeil and Gordon Dryburgh, had their pleas of not guilty

accepted by the Crown. A 27-year-old man has been

convicted of murdering his former landlord. Robert Henderson is

thought to have strangled or suffocated 57-year-old Hugh Boyd at

his flat in the city's Yorkhill area in October 2009. Henderson

then hid the corpse, which was found in October 2010, before going

on a spending spree with Mr Boyd's bank card and Post Office account.

He faces a mandatory life sentence when he is sentenced later this

month. A boy as young as 13 is being

sought by police in Aberdeen after four women were indecently

assaulted in the street. The victims were said to have all been

left shaken by the assaults in the Mastrick area. The oldest was aged

70. Officers say the teenager had short brown hair and was carrying a

yellow bag. Highland police are investigating a

possible new lead in one of the most baffling murders in recent

criminal history. Bank manager Alistair Wilson was shot in the

steps of his family home in Nairn seven years ago. The killing

stunned the Moray Firth town and no-one has ever been arrested in

New information as police continue their search for the killer...

November twoup 4 and as he went to talk the a man who call at his

house bank work eAlistair Wilson was gunned down. Although the

murder weapon was later found in a drain near the crime scene,

detectives have been unable to track down the killer, or establish

etch a motive. Mr Wilson's widow was equally bewildered. I pray the

police find this man who did this to my family. To me this is still

very unreal, I see his picture, I hear every day he has been murdered,

but, it is still so unreal. National publicity and a �10,000

reward still wasn't enough to generate that vital lead that would

unmask the murderer. The murder remains a mystery. Now a local

newspaper says a Dutch national has phoned them with details of a man

claiming to have known Alistair Wilson and the identity of the

gunman. The witness even maintained he had had to flee Scotland for his

own safety. The unnamed caller suggested there was a link between

Mr Wilson's murder and his job at the Bank of Scotland, though

intensive inquiries have discovered no such connection. Northern

Constabulary insisted despite the passing of the years all unsolved

cases remain livement whether this latest twist in the Wilson case

lead to a breakthrough or another dead end, only time will tell. Some

news for Irn-Bru fans, the makers of Scotland's popular fizzy drink

here were facing the prospect of having their recipe changed by

order of the European Commission. Officials are concerned at the use

of a food Coll rapt called sunset yellow which gives it its

distinctive hue. Our reporter has been toll Lowing this. What

happened in Brussels today? Sally, this is what it is about.

Generations of Scots will recognise this bottle of Irn-Bru but it is

what is inside that has been exercising the European Commission.

Irn-Bru has been I had from a special secret recipe since 1901

and only three people in the whole world know what is in it. That was

threatened by commissioners in Brussels, and that is because of

tin collusion of that Coll rant sunset yellow. It is linked to

hyperactivety in children and it has been banned in countries like

Norway and Finland. At the moment manufacturers are allowed the use

50 million graps per litre. The Commission wanted o reduce this to

10 milligrams. But Irn-Bru uses 20. Today the Commission voted and they

came up with the number of 20 milligrams so Irn-Bru is safe for

now. But they had powerful supporters in this issue. The First

Minister Alex Salmond wrote to the Commission, as did the Food

Standards Agency. It does make you wonder whether we should be

drinking this sunset yellow? Food Standards Agency say that the

amount that is in Irn-Bru is perfectly safe, and for the past

year though, Barrs have put this disclaimer on bottles with the

advice of the Food Standards Agency, they say that sunset yellow and

other colour may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in

children. Barrs say despite this decision they will continue to take

the best add voice they can from the expects but relief tonight that

secret recipe is safe for now. Thank you. MPs have voted against a

Conservative backbench bill which sought an answer to the weth

Lothian question. The debate op whether Scottish, Welsh and

Northern Ireland MPs should be allowed to vote on English matters.

Tory MP for west Worcestershire pushed it to a vot but lost by 40

to 4. The date has been set for prun ses street in Edinburgh to

close, againlet and it will stay shut for almost a year. Buses,

taxis and cyclists will be diverted to George street from 19th

September to allow work to resume on the tram project. All other

traffic will be rerouted along Queen Street. The council say no

work will take place during the withiner festivals. It is due to

finish in July 2001. Now the sport. Thank you. If you are a rugby fan

you maybe preparing to stay up all night. At 2.00 in the morning

Scotland kick off their World Cup campaign in New Zealand, with their

pool B opener againstroom that. It is a match that the Scots are

expected to win, Jim Mason sends this report. Scotland's players

limbering up for their first World Cup match. In the time for talking

is nearly over. 1.00 tomorrow is when we start, and I think the guys

are locking forward. They worked really hard. There is a great team

spirit and now it is about delivering performance. In is the

scene for Scotland's opening game in the Rugby World Cup 2011. The

opposition are Romania, and Andy Robinson's men are keen to go.

Everything we are been doing, from the gym to the running has been

focusing on this one point., So I think the start is Hulme, and I

think the guys will come out of the blocks firing. Away from the

stadium the fans too are in optimistic mood. Although this

fan's accuse season doesn't match the tartan. We are going to have a

piper so we can make a racket from one end to the other. They will

know about I under the shelter, their ears will be screaming. We

will whip them up in a fransy and get it on and be like a snowball.

Get bigger as we gather up fans. By the time we hit the park we will be

hoarse. We will struggle to cheer but we will find more, we will,

because go Scotland, you beauty! Well Romania, I would hope they

were going to win and beat Romania. I mean, I don't think it will be an

easy game. I don't think the Georgia game will be particularly

easy or for that matter the Argentina game. Frpl driving down

from Queens town., they have the flags up and everybody make a big

occasion of it. So the road begins for Andy Robinson and his men in a

quiet town in the south of New Zealand. It all kicks off in seven

hours. And if you want to have a good night's sleep join us on sport

nation tomorrow at nine. From New Zealand, to New York and Andy

Murray is chasing a place in the semifinals of the US Open. He is up

against the American John Isner and Murray has taken the first set 7-5.

The Scot is currently a break up in the second set, he leads by two

games to one. The Rangers manager Ally McCoist believes the club is

this better shape than prior to the change this ownership. He says the

fact the players are no longer for sale indicates the financial

situation has improve. The morning Rangers found themselves in court

over an unpaid lawyers' bill. It was claim there was concern over

the club's solvency. Ally McCoist takes his Rangers side to Tannadice

this weekend. Keen to see them preserve their status as league

leaders. But while things are going fine on the park, off field issues

persis. Rangers were in court today to confirm they paid a bill of

�35,000, due to the law firm. During the hearing Jonathan Brown

claimed there is a real concern about solvency. The Rangers manager

admits he is not party o the financial ins and outs but he

believes there are signs of improvement. How they managed to do

it, sometimes beggars belief but the player last year, where the

whole squad was up for transfer. They showed an unbelievabledownty

and spirit, you know, there is nobody telling us that you know the

staff are up for sale. So it has to be in a better place. Their

attention during the transfer window in the face of multi-million

pound interest would seem bear that out. I don't have that decision.

That decision, you know, is not mine to make. I just, I am very

thankful to the man who made the decision. But obviously, we are no

different from the vast majority of clubs, that when offers come in you

have to listen to them. At the moment though, he is still trying

to add to his squad with the Argentine mild feeder on trial for

the next week. Celtic will continue with their preparations as normal

ahead of Thursday's euro ka cup visit to Madrid. They are fully

focused despite potential obstacles. They hope not to fall out of the

competition on Tuesday, that is the Tay that they will have their

appeal heard to be reinstated into the competition We are preparing as

if we are in the tournament. Again, I am not disappointed, I can

understand where they are coming from on their point of view. You

know, we have been told we are in the competition, and until we are

told otherwise we will carry on. pilot project to get more fans

through the turnstiles will see senior football matches plays on

Friday nights in Scotland later this month. Ab dope and Dunfermline

will be the first teams to saver the Friday night ats in fore. It

will be a 7.45 kick off on Friday 0th September. On the same fight

First Division Partick Thistle will face more on the. The United States

start as strong favourite for the Walker Cup at royal Aberdeen but

they will face a stiff challenge by the best amateurs from Great

Britain and Ireland. Wet and windy weather promises to be in

opposition but for Scotsman Michael Stuart a possible opening match

will provide the perfect storm. would be great, you know, and no

matter what happens I am looking forward to betting out and playing

well with my partnerment if I was to g out first, we would have a

great following, being Scottish, we would have a great support for us

and go out and have fun and enjoy it. Very busy weekend of sport

coming up. Thank you. Let u luke at the weather now. The risk of

encouraging you to do a Michael Fish what is this about hur capes?

It looks like the remnants of hur cape Katrina is doing to come

cape Katrina is doing to come across. She will bring strong winds.

I will come on to this in a moment. It looks like before we see the

remnants of Hurricane Katrina we will have a low pressure system.

There will be some rain and showers as well, but in between sunny

spells it is not doom and gloom. Campbeltown saw the highest

temperatures b and it looks it will be dry for the of thing be before

the next batch spreads. Very mild you will notice, 14 or 15 will be

the low across the southern half of country. A bit cooler further north

but still into double figures. Very respectable. So to start the

weekend it is not a nice picture, a lot of rain round but like today,

an improving picture as we bo through the curse of the afternoon.

The best of the brightness in eastern area this is where we will

see the best temperatures. Up to the low 20s. More rain' cross the

west, so temperatures round 17 or 18, but again with shelter across

the North East, Moray may see 21 or 22. It is not looking too bad. So

the you are heading out to the Rangers the best of the weather

will be northern and eastern area, but add on the strong gale force

winds with gus up to 75mph. It will be hard going to be walking op the

summits. As you go to the west. Still windy with wind speeds round

75mphment that is winds guing to that. If you take a small boat out

to the south-west, it will be fairly copy,s for force five to six.

The visibility will be good though the winds will be stronger. Across

the east side a similar picture, good visibility. Winds round force

five to six, so choppy where eryou are. Now then, locking through at

the winds then, on Saturday, you can see southerly winds in western

areas. A bit lighter, but still strong in eastern areas. Here is

the all-important pressure chart. You can see this deep area of low

pressure. This is the recommend nands of the hurricane which is

going to roach our shores for Monday. Before then, this is the

low pressure that has brought unsettled weather on Saturday. So

this is the picture for Sunday. Most of the rain out to the west,

with gale force wnds for the Western Isles. The further east

some bright spells round as well. Temperatures Koller than what we

have seen over the last few days. Still respectable if any bright

spells in the north, there is the remnants of the hurricane, located

to the North of Scotland, bringing severe gales from a westerly

direction. Probably in time for the morning commute into work on Monday,

so the Met Office have inissued an amber alert. So the picture for

Monday isn't looking too good. Heavy rain round, very strong winds,

temperatures cooler as well. That temperatures cooler as well. That

is how it is looking. Now, crust before 7.00, a summary of the top

stories. Ahead of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks New

York City and Washington DC are facing a credible but unconfirmed

terrorist threat according to US officials. A major security

operation is now under way in both cities to prevent what intelligence

suggests could be a car bomb plot in tunnel, or on bridges. St

Andrews university has joined Edinburgh in becoming the most

expensive place in Britain to study. The university courts decided to

charge the maximum �9,000 a year tuition fees, to students from

England, Wales and Northern Ireland. An hon mores degree will cost

�36,000. David Cameron says Britain's economy is facing very

difficult times with a vast budget deficit. In an exclusive intervow

he said the Government was focused on making the right, long-term

decisions. Police have released CCTV footage in the hope it will