10/11/2015 Reporting Scotland

A report on police call handling in Scotland says no more call

centres should be closed for now, because of weaknesses in the way

The review was ordered after the deaths of John Yuill and

Lamara Bell who lay undiscovered for days in their car after it crashed

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Reevel Alderson.

Here's our Home Affairs how no one responded to the

emergency call. Win just constant reminders of what happened to my

sister, what she went through. Those thoughts stick with me all the time,

and I would hate to see anybody else have to go through that. Three days

of suffering like my sister went through. It is just terrible. I do

say, we just want to make sure there is change and make sure this can

never happen again. This is the control room in Midlothian which

handled the call about the crash. It is now dealing with calls which is

to go to sterling, which is now closed. Agricole was handled was

investigated by the director of Constabulary. He looked at how calls

were dealt with a cross-party Scotland. He said oversight of the

programme was inadequate and there were insufficient staff. Call

handlers were sometimes on the under pressure to end calls, and some used

scribble pad rather than inputting data directly into the computer 's.

He said further closures should not go ahead without guarantees that the

service will not suffer. The report recognises that we are in the middle

of a long and complex programme of change and provides important

assurances about our call handling capacity capability and processes.

We of course acknowledged there had been challenges and issues and

today's report recognises that we have made progress in addressing

those issues. The Scottish Police Federation agrees things are

improving banks to more investment but says problems were inevitable

because the force has to save ?1.1 billion over 13 years. The almost

singular focus on track to save money at the cost of every thing

else was clearly one of the driving factors that resulted in such poor

service being delivered to the public and can come as no surprise

that on the back of an investment that enable people and personnel to

be put in place that resulted significant improvements, which the

report also highlights. Lee Scotland received 3.7 million calls a year on

999 and nonemergency numbers. The report was called shopping and an

indictment. But the Justice Secretary insisted it is working. We

accept that the whole issue of local centres are sticking forward could

have been handled better and the recommendation that have been made

by the inspectors set out very clearly the need for improvement and

how these types of changes are managed in the future. What we now

have to do is make sure that the progress that the report highlights

has been made in recent months, we build on that progress. And the

report into how the incident itself was handled was ordered by the Lord

Advocate and it will be published next year.

The former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael has said he

didn't lie over a leaked memo in an attempt to protect his reputation.

He said the reason he told the lie was to keep media attention

focussed on the alleged double standards of the SNP in

He was giving evidence for a second day at a special election

court in Edinburgh which will decide whether he broke the law.

Trying times for the former Scottish Secretary. Alistair Carmichael

arrives at court this morning faced with accusations that he repeatedly

lied about the leaked memo. The first time I became aware of this,

and this is on record, was when I received a phone call on Friday

afternoon from a journalist making me aware of it. He accepted he likes

to Channel 4 television and to a newspaper reporter and misled the

Cabinet Office enquiry into the leaked memo in a calculated move.

Challenged repeatedly in court that he had lied to save his reputation,

he said: He had authorised the leak of a

memo, the basis of an article, which claimed the First Minister had told

the French ambassador she wanted David Cameron to remain as Prime

Minister after the election, something Nicola Sturgeon denied. A

month after he was returned as MP for me and Shetland, but days later

evidence emerged that he had lied about the leaked memo. His

constituents have taken him to court, arguing he misled the public

in the run-up to his re-election as MP. He was asked if this episode had

taken its toll on him and his family. He replied it had been a

difficult few months. Asked if he regretted his involvement in the

leaks, he replied, "enormously." Alistair Carmichael left court this

afternoon, is evidence finished. Tomorrow, more illegal teams are due

to present more submissions. At stake is his political career. If he

loses this case he could lose his seat.

The UK Government has puts plan to relax Sunday trading laws

"on hold" while talks continue with opposition parties.

The SNP had threatened to vote against the plans because

of the impact on shop workers' pay across the UK, even though the plan

The Scottish Government's decision to award ?150,000 to

the organisers of T in the Park is to be reviewed by the public

The culture secretary Fiona Hyslop was called before a parliamentary

committee in September to be quizzed on the award.

Audit Scotland says it will examine the funding as part

Police in Edinburgh are hunting three men who attacked a shopkeeper

They stole a four figure sum of cash and a large quantity

of cigarettes from the Fernieside Newsagents around five

The 41-year-old shopkeeper was threatened with a knife and hammer

before being struck on the back of the head as the men made off.

A private funeral is to be held for 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne, who died

after being stabbed at Cults Academy in Aberdeen a fortnight ago.

A 16-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons -

was subsequently charged with murder and remanded in custody.

MSPs are being asked to approve an increase

in their expenses to allow them to employ an extra member of staff.

The Parliament's management committee are recommending that

staffing allowances increase by almost ?23,000 after the next

election, to ensure all office staff are paid the living wage and to deal

with the increased workload because of the new powers coming to

Rugby, and David Denton is leaving Edinburgh after six years.

The 25-year-old is moving south to Bath.

The Scotland back-row forward should link up with the Premiership side

later this week, following completion of a medical.

Denton hasn't played for Edinburgh since returning from the World Cup.

Well, it's over to Christopher now with the weather outlook

Gleaming. Largely dry across the country tonight thanks to our

weather watcher for this photograph. Cooler than last night.

Some rain around tomorrow morning across the South am a number of

showers for the Highlands and Islands, and breezy here, but for

most of us it will be a dry start to the day, temperatures 1011 Celsius

and winds later that may have been, wraps even some brightness to start

things off. Some showers around the Great Glen area towards the Northern

Isles. Through tomorrow, Armistice Day, the rain and the sewers does

clearway. The showers in the North West can to make their way

north-east words, a lot of sunshine for areas to the north, and cloudier

to the South. You can see the wet weather down towards the South

West. Cloudy conditions, some wet weather. For us in Scotland, 11 or

12 Celsius. The wet weather across the course of the afternoon arrives

for us. Difficult comment home with spray on the roads and difficult

visibility. Thursday starts OK, dry and bright with some sunshine, but

the cloud increases, the rain arrives and the winds strengthen, 11

or 12 Celsius. The wet and windy weather is courtesy of this area of

low pressure in the Atlantic. The Met Office has started to

insignificant storm is coming our way, this is the first, Abigail,

pretty windy conditions across the north-west as result, and we have a

Met Office yellow bear where early warning in force. That is the area

likely to be affected with gusts of 60 up to 80 mph overnight Thursday

into Friday. Our next update is during Breakfast

at 6:25 But, from everyone

on the late team here in Glasgow