02/07/2014 Reporting Scotland

the Turner Prize in 1999. Christie's said it had been bought by an

A man is facing life in jail for murdering his girlfriend then

John Davis pleaded guilty to carrying out a sustained assault

on 19-year-old Hazel North in Kilmarnock earlier this year.

It's thought Hazel - from Cairneyhill near Dunfermline - could

have been left dying for 18 hours before the final fatal injury.

26-year-old John Davis had only been released from jail three months

before he murdered his girlfriend. 19-year-old Hazel North had gone to

stay with Davis at his flat in Kilmarnock. They met in May 2012 and

had an on off relationship, much while he was in prison for attacking

someone with a golf club. The last time Hazel's parents heard from her

was in February. Then nothing and she was reported missing. Suspicion

felt on Davis who lived here in North Craig Road. Police searched

his flat and garden a number of times. No one was home. But they

found a spade covered in mud. Davis had fled. At one point he had said

she was going to join the foreign legion. The court heard he confessed

to a friend that he had done Hazel in and buried her. Later he handed

himself in to police, saying Hazel is dead and I will show you where

she is. He directed police to Dean Park, 300 yards from his flat.

Police found Hazel's body there. It is thought she had lain there for

two weeks. She was the victim of a brutal assaulted and suffered

massive bruising and multiple fractures. The court heard Davis

wrapped her body in a sheet and a curtain and buried her in a shallow

grave. In court, John Davis pleaded guilty to her murder. He gave no

reason. And at the time of Hazel's killing he would still have been in

prison for the previous assault, had he not been released earl ye --

early. He will be sentenced here tomorrow.

The Ministry of Defence has accepted liability for a mid-air collision

between two Tornado fighters over the Moray Firth in July 2012.

Families of the three who died and one seriously injured crew

member are said to be angry at the absence of a collision

14-year-old Elliott Peacock from Newton Mearns - who died

on an adventure holiday in the Italian Alps with his Scout group -

Elliott's head teacher at Eastwood High School said a book

of condolence will be opened at the start of the new term.

A post mortem is being carried out into his death on Sunday.

There's been a rise in the number of people living in so-called

The term is used to describe people worse off than the majority

Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell.

Marie and her two children are struggling to get by on benefits in

Glasgow. I want to enjoy life and have a nice job and enjoy my family.

But poverty, you're not going to get that in poverty. I just feel as if

you're getting crushed. Officially she is living in relative poverty.

That means she has less than 60% of the UK median income to live on.

There are 820,000 Scots in relative poverty in 2013. That is up 110,000.

The deputy First Minister met another low income family and blamed

rising poverty on UK Government welfare changes. We shouldn't have

so many people living in poverty in a country as rich as Scotland. There

is a link between this and the austerity policies at Westminster

and the restrictions in eligibility for tax credits. Tackling poverty is

a responsibility Holyrood shares with Westminster H but the Scottish

Government reckons its could do a better job if it had control of tax

and benefit systems. This former First Minister favours more powers

for Holyrood, but not in independence. If people want to

change the situation for children in Scotland growing up in poverty, they

need to campaign the Scottish and UK Government to change their policies.

Not change the system of Government. Because the system is right. Home

rule inside the UK is the best for Scotland. His former deputy, Lord

Wallace, said poverty would have risen more sharply if the coalition

had not cut public spending. It is 15 years to the day since the Queen

opened the Scottish Parliament. Poverty has been on a down ward

trend since, but o' for the first time since devolution, that trend

has turned. A Labour parliamentary candidate has

resigned after Tweeting an image of the Hitler Youth

in relation to an anti-BBC protest. Kathy Wiles,

who was to stand in Angus in next year's Westminster election,

said she wanted to highlight the dangers of using children in

political campaigns after a protest outside BBC Scotland headquarters

in Glasgow on Sunday afternoon. A cow that got into the water at

Aberdeen Harbour was shot by police marksmen after it couldn't be coaxed

ashore. The cow had broken free while being loaded onto a transport

float. The police said humane Now Sarah with the weather. We are

seeing a change in the weather for Wednesday morning. That is down to

this area of low pressure heading our way. So we are going to see

mainly dry and bright weather across the mainland. But in the north-west,

strong winds, touching gale force across the Western Isles and some

rain. For many it starts dry and bright with temperatures around 14

Celsius. So a mild and pleasant start. But as we head to the

north-west Highlands, that cloud increases and that brings seem rinse

across the -- some rain across the Western Isles. That rain will push

south and east and it will be heavy in the Western Isles, Skye and the

north-west Highlands. As it pushes south, it will start to fragment and

for most of us it should stay dry. But turning cloudy in the afternoon.

Temperatures still peaking at around 19 or 20 Celsius. But where the rain

it will be cooler. We are back tomorrow morning at 6. 6.25.

Goodbye. more cloud on Friday. None of this

survives into the weekend, some rain around on Saturday.

It's certainly been a feast of football again. The temperature in

S?o Paulo was much the same as we had in Glasgow and Bristol. Here,

temperatures are set to climb higher in the next few