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of blue results. He spent just ten months in the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight on Reporting Scotland: The baby ashes scandal - hundreds of | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
grieving families didn't know their babies remains had been disposed of. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Now those families may be a step closer to finding out what happened. | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
She said I'm really, really sorry. We just don't have your ashes. And | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
we have believed that all that time. As it turned out, it's lies. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Also on the programme: Our ageing population and the independence | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
debate. Gordon Brown warns of a pensions time bomb but the Yes | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Campaign says pensions here are "more affordable". | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
A seven-year-old boy who was severely burned in Aberdeen last | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Friday dies in hospital. And as David Moyes leaves Manchester | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
United, why fewer Scots are working as managers in the English Premier | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
League. It was a scandal that affected | :00:53. | :01:11. | |
hundreds of grieving families - the remains of babies they'd lost | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
disposed of without their knowledge. Tonight, those families may be a | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
step closer to finding out what happened at Mortonhall. For almost a | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
year, the former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angionlini has been | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
investigating the way the Edinburgh crematorium handled babies' ashes. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Her report, which is expected to be critical, is now in the hands of | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Edinburgh Council who're preparing to pass its contents on to parents. | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
Morag Kinniburgh reports. Fraser was born in 15 years ago on | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Remembrance Day. He lived for five minutes. We had | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
him in our hands. Then he moved on to another world. | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
He was cremated here as Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh. His | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
parents were told there would be no ashes, but it later emerged that | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
there were ashes - buried, scattered without his parents permission. | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
I remember speaking to the woman. She says I'm really, really sorry. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
We just don't have ashes. And we have believed that all that time | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
since 1999. As it turned out, it's lies. | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Hundreds of parents have been affected in the baby ashes scandal | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
that emerged in 2012. We hope that they hope this report will help them | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
come to terms with what happened to their babies ashes. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
It's important that this never happens again. We need better | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
communication between hospital staff and crematoriums. Parents deserve | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
that. I have a lot of anger because they | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
deprived me. No one has any right to deprive a mother of her baby's | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
ashes. Somebody, somewhere decided, for whatever reason, that my baby's | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
ashes weren't worth anything. Some families are considering legal | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
action. Others just want to know what happened to the remains and why | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
they were treated with such little respect. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
The report is expected to be critical. It is also focused on the | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
role of the NHS and the funeral directors. There could be widespread | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
repercussions across the whole of Scotland, as a further reports is | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
published later on this brain. For now, many hundreds of anxious | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
families are wondering and waiting. How much longer does Edinburgh City | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Council need to sit on this report? It was submitted last Wednesday and | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
yet we still don't know when it will be given to the families. The | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
council have said in the last hour that it will be released in the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
coming days. -- they will be writing to the families in the coming days. | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
Scotland's ageing population and the cost of paying for it has taken | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
centre stage in the independence debate. In a speech tonight, the | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that an independent | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Scotland would face what he describes as a pensions time bomb. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
But the Yes Campaign says pensions here are "more affordable" than the | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
rest of the UK. The latest Scottish government | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
figures show that in 2012, just under a million people, or 17 % of | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
the population, was 65 or over. But by 2037, it's estimated the number | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
of over 65s will be up to almost 1.5 million and they'll account for a | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
quarter of the population. Well, our political editor Brian | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Taylor is at Glasgow University where Gordon Brown has been making | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
his speech. What's he been saying Brian? | :04:59. | :05:10. | |
This is the view from Glasgow University, spreading out over the | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
city. Gordon Brown's views were expressed tonight at the University. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
He cited the BBC and the private sector, he cited public-sector | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
employment, but his big initial emphasis was on pensions. He said | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
that Scottish pensions were more reliance than elsewhere. Here is | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
what he had to say. It is a system which has benefited | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Scotland. We have more disabilities and more pensioners. The system is | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
the right one. You pay and more pensioners. The system is | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
National Insurance. You've paid it all your life and you | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
National Insurance. You've paid it benefit that is equally spread to | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
mitigate the risk across the widest group possible. | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
In response to that, the Yes Scotland campaign say that issues | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
like NHS funding are already being handled in Scotland. They would be | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
successfully handled in Scotland. They says Garland is potentially | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
more wealthy than the remainder of the UK, therefore, more able. -- | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Scotland is potentially more wealthy. Tarmac -- | :06:32. | :06:44. | |
more generally, people in Scotland will look to the Scottish Parliament | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
in looking after older people. There would be free national care and free | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
travel. It is a better bet for looking after Scotland's older | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
people than Westminster. Why has Gordon Brown chosen to make | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
this speech now and why for Better Together? | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
That latter point is a good one, Jackie. Several speeches under way. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
This is his first speech aboard the Better Together campaign. I think it | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
is stressing the unity of that campaign. It has been under some | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
scrutiny from its opponents and in the media. Secondly, his message | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
about public-sector employment and pensions is particularly salient. | :07:34. | :07:46. | |
A seven-year-old boy who was severely burned in Aberdeen last | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Friday has died in hospital. Preston Flores suffered the injuries in the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
incident near his home in the Bedford Avenue area. His mother | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Louisza said Preston was a special little boy and his loss had ripped | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
her family apart. Steven Duff reports. | :08:00. | :08:00. | |
Seven-year-old Preston Flores and his mum Louise. His death, she | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
says, has ripped her family apart. He died in Edinburgh's Royal sick | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Children's Hospital in the early hours of this morning. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
It was Friday afternoon near his home in Aberdeen's Bedford Avenue | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
when he received terrible burns. Neighbours described seeing him on | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
fire and in great pain. At his school today Preston's classmates | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
returned from their holidays to the news of his death. Dot-mac he was | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
the kind of kid who would often be found smiling. | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
Some of the children were very upset. We looked at photographs of | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
him in happier times. The challenge for staff at the | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
school is how to explain the death to his friends. | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
Accidents like this do happen and it's very sad. To try to reassure | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
children that going out to play is not dangerous in itself is | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
difficult. Only Scotland are treating what | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
happened as a tragic accident. The family says he meant the world to | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
them and will always be deeply missed and loved. | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
Members of Margo MacDonald's family were at the Scottish Parliament this | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
afternoon to hear party leaders pay tribute to the independent MSP who | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
died earlier this month. The First Minister, Alex Salmond, described | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
her as "the finest parliamentarian" to serve at Holyrood. Here's our | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
At Holyrood, MFP is made condolences to Margo MacDonald's families. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
Inside the chamber, the presiding officer wore bright colours as she | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
led tributes to one of Scotland's brightest political stars. | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
We will never see your light again. The First Minister recalled Margo | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
MacDonald falling asleep when, as a student, he gave her a lift. | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
It was the only time I ever got a word in edgeways. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
He also praised her Holyrood contribution. | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
She is the finest parliamentarian we have ever seen. | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
She gave tips on everything from politics to fashion. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Her advice on jackets to wear, make up to buy, all of that made her more | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
endearing still. She had also been taken under Margo | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
MacDonald's wing. She was gutsy but she also had a | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
real warmth. The Liberal Democrat leader compared | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
to Tony Benn. She could deliver unpalatable | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
messages in an appealing way. The Green party leaders Sumter up | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
simply. I think we will all miss her on a | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
daily basis. -- the Green party member summed her up simply. | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
The cafe in Parliament is informally known as Margo's. A conversation in | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
here will sparkle that bit less now that she has gone. | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
A 26-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
two-year-old girl in Fife. Kevin Park from Kelty made no plea or | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
declaration at Dunfermline Sheriff Court and has been remanded in | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
custody. Madison Horne was taken to hospital in Kirkcaldy on Sunday | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
evening where she was pronounced dead. The little girl's family say | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
she was a much loved daughter who will be sorely missed. | :11:51. | :12:00. | |
A look at other stories from the across the country: A man has died | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
after his car left the road, rolled down an embankment and crashed into | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
a greenhouse in Edinburgh. At least 20 firefighters were | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
involved cutting At least 20 firefighters were | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
vehicle but he was pronounced dead at the scene in the city's Colinton | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
area. Finance Secretary John Swinney has | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
revealed that a power cut which affected more than 200,000 homes in | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
northern Scotland was caused by a fault at a station near Inverness. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
He told the Scottish Parliament that Scottish and Southern Energy is | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
confident the incident will not be repeated. | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
MSPs have been hearing concerns about plans to shut the emergency | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
services control rooms in Inverness and Aberdeen. The Scottish | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
government says the creation of single fire and police services and | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
up to date computer technology mean fewer control rooms are needed and | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
the closures will save millions of pounds. | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Opponents have cited safety worries and fears about a centralisation | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
process which will see no emergency call centres north of Dundee. | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Inspectors have graded the quality of care and education offered at an | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Aberdeen private school and nursery at the lowest possible level. But | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
Education Scotland and the Care Inspectorate said they had no | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
immediate concerns about children's safety or welfare at the Waldorf | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
school. Earlier this month, the school's owners announced it would | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
close in the summer due to financial difficulties. | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
A major wild salmon producer says it's giving up the culling of seals | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
after facing protests it's giving up the culling of seals | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
in the North East. The Scottish Wild Salmon Company says it was | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
confronted at Gardenston harbour this morning by a large group of | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
activists. It's now more than a month since | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
police began investigating the mass poisoning of birds of prey in | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Ross-shire. Twenty birds have been found dead, including fourteen red | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
kites. The police investigation is relying heavily on the work of a | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
team of scientists in Edinburgh. Here's our environment | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
correspondent, David Miller with this exclusive report. | :13:51. | :14:00. | |
Scotland's read heights are scavengers. That makes them | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
especially vulnerable to poisoning. But they have a team of scientists | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
on their size. These laboratories outside Edinburgh are on the front | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
line of the battle will stop -- on their side. | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
They are able to give police vital information about the poisoning of | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
birds of prey. Dot-mac this was a fine specimen at its prime. | :14:27. | :14:40. | |
Just three of the species which can end up here include buzzers and red | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
kite will stop without these analyses, police and | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
law enforcement -- law enforcement agencies would not know whether the | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
bird was poisoned or not. The top priority is identifying the | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
poison used by taking samples from the death heard. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
The latest DNA techniques are used to gather further evidence. | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
We extract DNA from the bird's mouth and stomach. That tells us about its | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
last meal. If poison was present, that can be useful information to | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
tell the police. It tells us the method of delivery for the poison | :15:29. | :15:29. | |
that the bird eight. method of delivery for the poison | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
birds of prey are reduced to mere evidence in criminal investigations. | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
birds of prey are reduced to mere to help solve those crimes. | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
If you're a woman, your vote really matters in the referendum this | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
September. That's because women make up the majority of the electorate, | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
and have a history of being less keen than men on independence. So | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
what's the Yes side doing about it? I've been finding out. So much of | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
the discussion around this referendum takes place in TV studios | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
and organised events but that is not where you hear what women in general | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
are thinking. Here, at the bingo Hall in Paisley, there is a Lord of | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
doubt about the questions facing Scotland. I do not know enough about | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
it. Have you made up your mind about how you will vote? I am just not | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
sure. This is a palling experts who works on the Scottish attitudes | :16:46. | :16:58. | |
survey. -- polling expert. We found a 7% gap between votes for | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
independence between men and women. It is a pattern still being | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
replicated in the latest opinion polls. Across the country the yes | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
campaign and this group, women for independence, are trying to reach | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
women voters. It is our job to create the space and have those | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
conversations so that women can make their own minds up when it comes to | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
September this year. The opposition parties are sceptical. We have a | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
notion about what women respond to which I am quite uncomfortable with. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
I do not believe you can identify one thing that women will respond | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
to, like child care, and that will help them make the leap to leave the | :17:56. | :18:05. | |
United Kingdom. Different matters are issues for young people than for | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
old people. I do not think it is just to do with being a woman. Our | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
pitch is not exclusively to women. That would be a silly thing to do | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
but if we can make independence appealing to women I think we will | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
have cracked the referendum. That remains a big task. The yes campaign | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
had the lot of work to do to catch up in the polls. Whichever side wins | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
the women's vote has a good chance of winning the referendum. And What | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
Women Want is over on BBC Two Scotland tonight at nine. We know | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
what Manchester United want and that is a new manager! Here is the sport. | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
Good evening. Davie Moyes was sacked for feeling in an impossible job, | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
that is according to another sport to managed Manchester United. Tommy | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Docherty's told the BBC no-one could live up to Sir Alex Ferguson's | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
achievements. But as our senior football reporter Alasdair Lamont | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
explains, Moyes' departure highlights a dwindling Scots | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
presence in the English Premier League. It was the worst kept secret | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
in football. At half past eight this morning David Moyes' departure from | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
Manchester United was confirmed. Things quickly went wrong for Moyes | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
who found Sir Alex too tough and act to follow. They have an impossible | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
task. They will always be faced with good manager, but not as good as | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
their day. That is the chalice they have to carry at the moment. -- | :19:53. | :20:09. | |
Fergie. He find the legend of Matt Busby overshadowed his reign at Old | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
Trafford. Just two seasons ago Moyes was one of seven Scots managing | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
teams in the Premier League. Paul Lambert is the only one remaining. | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
Is this the end of an ego? I think you will always find around three | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Scottish managers in the Premier League, we do produce a board of | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
managers. I think the heyday is passed. Moyes will surely be keen to | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
reverse the current trend and prove his managerial pedigree once again. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Neil Lennon's assistant manager Johan Mjallby is leaving Celtic at | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
the end of the season. He says he wants to move on to other projects. | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Lennon says he's very sad to see Mjallby leave. Here's a look at | :20:59. | :21:12. | |
other news in Scottish sport. Four time world champion John Higgins has | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
made a first round exit at the Crucible for the second year in a | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
row. His fellow Scot Alan McManus goes into the second round of the | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
World Championship after his ten frames to seven victory. It was just | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
as well I had a pretty big lead to close the match out. I was getting | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
nervous and twitchy and had chances to put it away and did not manage | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
it. Thankfully I fell over the line in the end. The Delhi Commonwealth | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
Games silver medallist Peter Kirkbride was in top form at the | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Scotland team trials for Glasgow 2014. He's going for gold and ready | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
to rouse the crowd at the Clyde Auditorium when the Games begin. It | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
is good to put on a show and show people it is not just ordering. I | :21:55. | :22:10. | |
love getting the crowd find me. -- not just boring. The Wimbledon | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
champion can add Dr Andy Murray to his list of titles. Stirling | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
University will award a doctorate for outstanding contribution to | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
tennis. And as well as Graduating tomorrow, Murray has agreed to bare | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
his soul, live in an interactive webcast. On April 23 I will be | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
answering questions from young people across the country on | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
anything, well, almost anything. Well, most things. There are some | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
definite no go areas! The venue is Wallace High School in Stirling, but | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
you can watch the whole webcast live at bbc.co.uk/getinspired. Murray | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
will be serving up some ace answers from two o'clock. Well worth a look. | :22:45. | :22:56. | |
That is it for tonight. Find you. Let's see what the weather has in | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
store. It is a mixed bag this week actually. There will be some rain | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
and cloud at times. Some late evening sunshine through the | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Northwest. Elsewhere cloudy with some outbreaks of rain. The cloud | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
staying with us this evening and overnight although the rain tending | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
to move away. You can the map overnight. Low cloud and mist | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
developing in the East. Elsewhere cloudy and not a cold night. To | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
start tomorrow, a fairly cloudy and at times Marty start. Elsewhere, | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
lots of cloud around. Some patchy light rain and this will be more | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
organised into the far south-west. By mid-afternoon we should start to | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
see some cloudy spells coming through. The | :23:57. | :23:57. | |
see some cloudy spells coming breaking for Edinburgh and possibly | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Glasgow breaking for Edinburgh and possibly | :24:02. | :24:14. | |
up around the Moray Firth. -- cloudier than today. The East will | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
be chillier and cloudy. The capital feeling OK but perhaps a few showers | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
into the afternoon. All eyes on that drain in the South West tomorrow | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
night. That will bring rain right night. That will bring rain right | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
across the country overnight. You can see clearly on the pressure | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
across the country overnight. You chart, there is the weather front | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
bringing the rain in. It will start wet for many central and eastern | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
parts of the country on Thursday, drier and bright behind it. Thursday | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
afternoon will be bright spells and showers and not so warm as today or | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
tomorrow. That's all for now. The headlines are at eight o'clock and | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
the late main bulletin just after the Ten O'Clock News. For now, enjoy | :25:17. | :25:17. |