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investigation and uncovers evidence of serious abuse of boys at a

Catholic boy -- boys school in the Highlands. The beatings stopped, the

sarcasm and making a fool of you in public, it all stopped. That was

once the Codling started. Australia we confront one of the

monks responsible. I don't care who you are. Get off my property or I

will call the cops. I want to speak to you about allegations of sexual

abuse. Our correspondent has an exclusive report.

Also a baby's remains found near a cemetery in Edinburgh. Police

appealed for the infant's mother to get in touch.

Administrators warn Hearts could face offers for the club. And gone

in six seconds. Scotland's tallest building is turned to dust.

A BBC Scotland investigation has uncovered evidence of serious

physical and sexual abuse as one of the country 's most prestigious

Catholic boarding schools. Accounts of child abuse at the now closed

Fort Augustus school and at the Carlkemp spent decades. We have

spoken to 50 former pupils at the school that was run by Benedictine

monks. Much of the abuse was covered up. You may find the news

disturbing. For more than a century, Fort

Augustus was home to monks of this Catholic religious order. Donald

Macleod was 14 when he attended the school from 1961. He was groomed by

Australian monk, Aidan Duggan. He was then raped but wasn't believed.

I was called in the headmaster 's office and he said that I have been

telling my parents about Father Aidan. He said I shouldn't tell

these lies and it was a mortal sin to lie about things like that.

Brothers Christopher and David were abused physically then sexually at

the Fort Augustus prep school, Carlkemp, by this same monk. I was

being group -- grinned. Making a fool of you in public, that all

stopped once the cuddling started. It wasn't until later that it fell

into place. It was all about the beatings and all of that was about

this. We were told about another Australian monk. He repeatedly

sexually abused a people, Brendan, not his real name, at Fort Augustine

in 1977. I felt sick. They told me, get out! I thought, what have I done

wrong? I did what you wanted. Get out and don't tell nobody. Brendan

told his parents who complained to the school but the headmaster failed

to alert the police, instead, the father was sent out to Australia

along with Aidan Duggan without any warning is being given. When they

got back there, they were allowed to become parish priests in Sydney and

Aidan Duggan continued to offend. John Ellis was sexually abused by

him for years in Australia from the age of 13. It got to that point when

I knew that I was in a situation that I didn't want to be in. I

didn't know how to get out of it. Aidan Duggan is now dead but I

tracked the other man down to this suburb. Can I speak to you please? I

am from the BBC. I don't care who you are, just get off my property or

I will call the cops, OK? I want to speak to you about allegations of

sexual abuse. How we allowed to leave and come back to Australia

without going to the police? Get off my property or I will call the cops.

He is the most -- Dominic is the most senior monk in the UK. I am

very serious about any abuse at Fort Augustine is. The school closed 20

years ago. The ministry closed 15 years ago and a lot of the people

involved are dead. Under those circumstances, it is going to be

very difficult to get cancers which will satisfy people. Police Scotland

is investigating complaints about monks at the Abbey. The secrets of

Fort Augustine is represent a shameful period in the history of

the church. For its victims, their struggle continues.

Mark joins me now. An apology of sorts there from the senior monk. Is

that it as far as this Catholic church grows? He may have been

sincere but what these men want as well as a full apology, is how these

monks were able to get away with this abuse, how it was covered up,

how they were able to travel to other countries and continue to

abuse. Some of these men have waited nearly 60 years to speak out and

what they are looking for is not money and compensation, it is

accountability. The Benedictine monks are accountable only to the

Pope. This happened on Scottish turf and some of the biggest names in the

hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Scotland are regular visitors to the

Abbey and big supporters of the Abbey. We were watching very

carefully to see what reaction, if any, there would be from the church

in Scotland. So far they appear to be saying it is managed -- matter of

the Benedictines. That may change. Also a mention of a police

investigation. Tell us about that? They are investigating complaints

about monks at the Abbey. One of the monks we are investigating is the

monk that I visited in Australia. The Catholic Church in Sydney on

hearing about the allegations, stripped him of his priestly

faculties. They want to know how he and Aidan Duggan were able to arrive

in Australia without any warnings whatsoever from the Benedictines in

Scotland. Viewers can see more of this on ABC Scotland at 9pm on BBC

One. -- BBC Scotland. The police in Edinburgh are

investigating the discovery of remains of a baby found by a dog

walker near to a cemetery last night. Detectives are appealing for

the mother to get in touch with them.

It was a man walking his dog near Seafield Cemetery in Edinburgh who

made the discovery. A baby 's body hidden at the side of the footpath.

Forensic teams have been carrying out tests to discover the age, sex

and race of the baby but that could take days. The only certainty is

that a baby is dead and some of the baby but that could take days. The

only certainty is that a baby is dead and summer there is a mother

who may be frightened, upset and the mother, regardless of how the baby

has come to be here, may need medical assistance or treatment and

I would imagine some emotional support. I would ask her to come

forward. We want to provide her with that support. Today, dog walkers who

use the area spoke of their sadness when they heard the news. When I

heard there was a baby, it is quite shocking. I keep thinking, what if I

had found it? Your imagine starts -- your imagination starts going when

you walk past. You keep thinking, is it a go that has had a baby and is

frightened? It is really tragic. can't believe anybody would leave a

baby. There isn't a lot to go on but this is a busy area and the police

are pinning their hopes on the possibility that somebody saw

someone an usual or something unusual along this path. Detectives

are trying to trace women who have recently given birth in the local

area in the hope that that could lead them to the mother. The police

search is likely to take days but the forensic evidence will be able

to tell them a lot about the circumstances of the baby's death.

You can work out how old the baby is very accurately by the x-rays. It

tells you whether it is born at term or alter the mat. It can determine

whether the child has -- was breathing after it was born.

focus will be trying to trace the mother of the baby. Police are

appealing for her or anyone who knows her to get in touch.

You were watching Reporting Scotland. Still to come: Of flash

flooding strikes again. In Dumfries and Galloway they are mopping up and

counting the cost. Hearts are being threatened with

liquidation. Prospective buyers may have to up their bid by millions.

And there is a ticking time bomb may not be according to one former

Scotland star who says players are cheating tests the concussion in a

bid to get back in the game. -- for concussion.

Rail services between Aberdeen and Inverness -based days more

disruption after thieves stole around a mile of metal cable from

the line. It is believed to be one of the biggest cases of metal theft

on Scotland's rail network. Our reporter is at a level crossing to

night. All day engineers from Network Rail

have been working around this level crossing at Gartly. Along this

stretch of track affected by the theft, a mile long metal cable

stolen by thieves and stop metal theft is a big problem not just for

the rail network but across the UK economy. Millions of pounds is lost

every year and the problem is becoming more significant in recent

years because of the market value of copper has risen significantly. That

has become a lucrative target for thieves. Engineers from Network Rail

at a level crossing in the village of Gartly. Their task is to relay

and check almost a mile of cabling stolen from this isolated stretch of

track just west of Hartley. -- Huntley. Train services were

stopped. This is organised crime and that is a lot of cable and it is

very valuable and has caused massive disruption to the infrastructure

along that section and is causing inconvenience to hundreds of people

trying to go about their normal business. ScotRail was forced to lay

on replacement bus service is the customers caught up in the

disruption. Has it disrupted you much? A little bit. It is annoying

but we have enough time. I don't have a lot of time. The theft of

track cabling cost Network Rail an estimated �90 million a year. Police

are regularly carry out spot checks on scrap yards. The Scottish

Government is looking at tighter regulations including banning cash

payment for scrap metal. It normally fluctuates on the value of copper. A

lot is a form of copper. We are working with the government to make

metal theft a cashless transactions are they can't sell this to scrap

yards. Network Rail says it could be Wednesday before the Aberdeen to

Inverness railway line is back to normal again. Network Rail say this

is a complex operation, not helped by heavy rain, thunder and

lightning. Transport police are investigating what has been

described as an unthinking, dangerous and reckless act.

Now after the last few weeks of brilliant sunshine, it has been back

to the kind of summer we are reduced to. Many parts of the country have

been affected by torrential rain. In Dumfries and Galloway, it caused

serious flooding in Annan. Mopping up in temp one -- Annan's

Street. Houses devastated by the flash flood. It has already been a

wet night and at 9am Reuben became torrential. The drains around here

couldn't cope and within minutes, filthy water was flooding into these

back gardens into and through the houses. The water was coming through

the vents at the back of the house and you could hear it rough --

flowing. It was like a river. The water ended up coming through the

floorboards and you could hear it rough -- flowing. It was like a

river. The water ended up coming through the floorboards until it is

soaking as you can see. There was 15 minutes of heavy rain and it was

enough. This man's wife and new baby were due home today. It is the worst

time because we have got a new baby at home. Several high street shops

were inundated. The owner of this hair salon has seen nothing like it

in 45 years in business. My staff are very good and so are the

customers. They all got together and tried very hard to keep the water

out that there was nothing they could do. It kept coming.

lunchtime, the fire brigade had prompted the water from the affected

properties but with the cleaning up and counting the cost, it will be

sometime before it is sorted. There is concern it happen again. A search

is continuing for a 16-year-old boy who was swept into the river the end

of yesterday. Police have identified a 16-year-old

boy who was swept into the River Tay in Perth as Mateusz Wilamowski. 30

personnel have been involved in the operation but there's been no sign

so far of the teenager. He had been in the water last night with two

companions near Scone Palace. He has been living with relatives in Perth

since arriving from Poland in May. Other stories from across Scotland

this Monday. The body of a man has been discovered after a fire in a

caravan at a house in the Borders. Forensic officers have been

examining the scene in Melrose. It is claimed Aberdeen's housing

market has now returned to pre-recession levels. Solicitors say

property sales are up a quarter on last year. But they're warning that

level of activity could eventually overheat the market.

The importance of domestic tourists to Scotland's national parks has

been revealed in a new report. VisitScotland says Loch Lomond and

the Trossachs and Cairngorms National Parks contributed �243

million to the country's economy - an increase of a quarter on the

previous year. A Mariachi band took to the

esplanade at Edinburgh Castle to trumpet the launch of the Edinburgh

Tattoo. Now in its 64th year it will celebrate The Year of Natural

Scotland and Our Wonderful World in 80 different musical items during a

three week run starting on Friday. 220,000 people are expected to

attend the 24 performances. The Scottish singer-songwriter Amy

Macdonald brought the curtain down on the Wickerman Festival at

Dundrennan at the weekend. She performed to around 20,000 fans

before moving to the hill overlooking the arena to light a

giant Wickerman to close the festival.

And there are more stories from your area and all the latest news, 24

hours a day on BBC Scotland's website. Doctors say too many

elderly patients are still being moved out of words when hospitals

are short of beds. The Royal College of physicians in Attenborough argue

that moving nations is a false economy as patients end up spending

longer in hospital. It was until last night Scotland's polished

freestanding structure. At ten o'clock last May, the former

Inverkip power station chimney stack came crashing to the ground.

Hundreds came from far and wide to see it being demolished. It was one

of the most dramatic demolitions ever seen in Scotland.

In just seconds, the tallest freestanding structure in the

country was reduced to rubble. Thousands came by boat, by car and

on foot. The crowds arrived early to secure the best possible vantage

point and to contemplate life without the landmark. It will be

strange. You see it when you are flying in from Prestwick. It must be

a landmark for shipping as well. sailors, it is what we look for to

head home. We are waiting for the warning signs to sound, the final

countdown is already underway. Two blasts will bring 1.4 million bricks

and 20,000 tonnes of concrete crashing to the ground. In just the

few moments now, one of the landmarks of industrial Scotland

of the event, from the explosives through to the event management to

the care and attention displayed by our sentries and the police to the

work that went out on the estuary, everything was absolutely perfect.

One last chance, then, to see the demolition. A local pilot captured

the moment that the Clyde coast to change forever and the chimney stack

took the title of Scotland's tallest freestanding structure. And now for

a word about the special edition of Newsnight Scotland.

Tonight, Queen and country. One week after the birth of the Royal baby,

and with the independence referendum looming, we have put together an

audience and panel to discuss how well served RE by our heads to the

heads of state. That is Newsnight Scotland on BBC Two Scotland from

10:30pm. Time now for the sports news.

Hearts are being threatened with liquidation, unless offers for the

club are significantly improved. The club's administrators say any

prospective buyer may have to up their bid by millions of pounds

otherwise liquidation is a possibility. Our reporter Brian

McLauchlin is outside Tynecastle. Brian, do we have any indication

just how much it will take to buy the club?

That is the big question. We know that the beds currently received are

in the region of three or four million -- billion pounds. That

includes working capital. The club are owed somewhere in the region of

�25 million. The creditors will not get anything close to that. I would

suggest somewhere closer to �5 million may be a successful bed but

the administrator have told us that the liquidation of the club is still

a distinct possibility. We have always warned that there is a chance

of liquidation, and I still believe that the bank, if we can get up to

an acceptable amount, that it is still feasible. We do have offers,

it is not as though we are working with nothing. What he weather

readings are seeing is that those offers are not quite enough. They

are giving us an opportunity to get there. This weekend we have the

start of the new Scottish professional football league.

Pos-mac first match as an away game to Saint Johnstone. -- Hearts's

first match. Tomorrow afternoon we have the creditors meeting of

Dunfermline athletic who are also in administration. At the meeting is

successful then Dunfermline will continue as a football club but if

it goes against them they could face the possibility of being wound up

and that would leave the new week with a huge problem in their first

week. Gary Hooper said the opportunity to

catch the aisle the England manager was one of the reasons he left

Celtic for Norwich. The chance to play in the top flight of England

was a key attraction for the man who scored more than 80 goals in three

seasons at Celtic. He joined up last week in a �5 million deal.

The former Scotland rugby star Rory Lamont has warned that a health time

bomb is about to explode throughout world rugby if the culture of the

game does not change. Lamont says that many players, himself included,

succumb to the pressure put on them to perform by coaches, meaning they

take to the field injured. In some cases players are cheating

concussion tests in a bid to be back in action before they are safely

ready. It is 2010 and Scotland are prepared

to face the all Blacks. But Rory Lambert knew he should not be

playing. I was just incredibly fearful that I would not be able to

perform to the best of my ability. I felt that I did not really have a

choice, if I wanted to keep on getting packed for Scotland and keep

up the good relationship with the coaches. I did not feel that I could

actually withdraw myself from that match. He withdrew at half time with

a four inch tear in his hamstring. The desire to impress means that

some players are ticking even greater health risks, by cheating

baseline brain activity tests. have witnessed guys talk about it,

the arrow interested Wendy Doody a sling S, which sets the standard for

brain function. -- they are not interested when the carry out the

reasoning test. They produce a protest, -- reproduce a poll test to

get back into the game. He stresses that this is a problem throughout

the rugby world. We look after our players extremely well and ensure

the others after properly. We will only return them to the field when

they are ready to do so. Unless people identify the issues and come

out and, to speak about them then things will not change. At the

moment it is a ticking time bomb, particularly with concussions.

is all of the sport. We saw the effect of the heavy rain

We saw the effect of the heavy rain in Annan, any improvement?

We saw heavy showers in Edinburgh, three quarters of an inch in just 15

minutes. We will continue to CDs and showers over the next few hours.

This is the reader, the brighter colours indicating the heaviest of

the torrential downpours were some brighter skies in between. Tonight,

the showers will ease off as the track and offers, going towards

Caithness. Most of the mainland well be generally dry with a mixture of

cloudy and clear skies. There will be some murky weather over Shetland.

The low temperatures will be 11 to 14 degrees. Tomorrow morning starts

fairly wet with most of the mainland dry and bright. This will be fairly

widespread across the country, not as heavy as what we saw today. We

will see one or two with a risk of thunder that is fairly sharp at

times. Tomorrow will be equally be then today, still with showers

hanging around and we could well see one or two of them get fairly wet if

we are not too careful. Equally, some brighter skies to enjoy if we

can. For Orkney and Shetland, generally dry after a wet morning

but the showers will continue later on. Winds will be light. Into the

evening and overnight the showers will continue to easily with some

late evening sunshine remaining. And it will be a dry evening tonight as

we head into Wednesday, one or two showers in the North with these

weather fronts having thirsty written all over them. Wednesday

looks try and break but with showers far north. The rain will work and

overnight into Thursday, some pretty heavy rain associated with that

weather front. 50 itself will have a soggy start but the rain will work

north and north-west words. -- thirsty itself. The showers will

return by Friday, I am afraid. An unsettled week letter.

Now, a reminder of tonight's main Now, a reminder of tonight's main

news in brief. A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of sexual and

physical abuse at a prestigious Catholic boys school in the

Highlands. Accounts of child abuse at Fort Augustus Abbey School and

also at its prep school in East Lothian span three decades. Both

schools have now closed. There are also claims much of the abuse was

covered up. Italy's worst road accident for

decades has now claimed 39 lives. A holiday coach carrying 50

passengers, including many children plunged off a viaduct east of

Naples, into a ravine. Initial reports suggest it was travelling at