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The leader of Aberdeen Council has spoken for the first time

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since the conviction of a 16-year-old boy for the killing

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Jenny Laing says an independent review that's been set up

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into the circumstances surrounding the death of Bailey Gwynne

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at Cults Academy will be important for his family.

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Stabbed to death at Cults Academy in Aberdeen last October.

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Immediately afterwards, an independent review was promised.

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It has been announced today that Andrew Lowe will head the review.

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He has a background in social work and mental health care.

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One question for him perhaps is why the headteacher of Cults Academy

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told the trial that the boy who killed Bailey Gwynne

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had been warned about the dangers of carrying knives.

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Yet in a statement at the end of the trial the council said

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teachers were not aware he was carrying weapons into school.

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Aberdeen's leader Jenny Laing did not want to talk to us earlier

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but later gave us an interview.

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If it is found that evidence that the boy who was found guilty

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if it is found there were warning signs in the past,

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as BBC Scotland has found, but they were ignored,

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I do not want to pre-empt any outcome from the independent review,

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Because I think that is very important for Bailey and his family,

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that we await the independent review. I am sure that Andrew Lowe

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is an excellent chair, he will make sure the heads of terms cover all

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areas necessary and I wouldn't want to pre-empt the findings of that and

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I would like to wait and see what they are and we will obviously take

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the appropriate action based on the findings we have. But if that

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appropriate action amounts to carpeting somebody over ignoring

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warning signs... Thank you for your time, I feel I have answered what

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needs to be answers today, we are in the position of an independent

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review and we need to let that take its course.

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The review will cover difficult ground

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but that will not deter the man in charge.

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I am aware of the sensitivity of these matters

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Putting those things together means I will inevitably be looking

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at a range of factors that have bearing on the events

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That is my overall brief and that is what I will do.

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If it means going back further in time, that will also happen.

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This review is expected to be concluded by September.

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The First Minister has told BBC Scotland that increasing the

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top rate of income tax in Scotland could end up cutting the cash raised

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That's because she says top earners could shift their money elsewhere

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The warning comes on the eve of the SNP conference in Glasgow.

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Our political editor Brian Taylor reports.

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Very big choices indeed that the parties, I am here at the venue for

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the SNP conference. From next year, Scotland will have control of all

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income tax rates and bands and it is concentrating minds. Nicola Sturgeon

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already said no to increasing the basic standard rate of income tax

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but what about the top rate, the 45p rate by those earning over ?150,000.

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Labour say they would increase it to 50p. Nicola Sturgeon was pretty cool

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about it and said it could end up costing Scotland money. That is a

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about it and said it could end up judgment we have to make, there are

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less than 20,000 people in Scotland who pay the higher rate of income

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tax. These are some of the most mobile people in the country and it

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wouldn't take many of them to shift the income out of Scotland and for

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us to not make money out of that but lose revenue. There are other

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options, it is thought that next week the Chancellor in his budget

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will push up the threshold at which people enter the 40p tax rate, in

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effect meaning you have to learn a fair bit more before you go into the

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upper rate and in effect, a bit of a tax cut on those who have middle and

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high earnings. Nicola Sturgeon could say that the Scotland, if they have

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the power, they will not implement that and keep the threshold as it

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is. She confirmed it is an option they are looking at. I have George

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Osborne is sensible now. I am not hugely hopeful about that but I hope

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he sees this is not a time for significant tax cuts for the better

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off in society. But I believe that is the case so we will wait and see

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what comes in the budget and we will base our decisions once we know what

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what comes in the budget and we will happens in the budget. And without

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telling me the outcome, you will have the option of reversing that

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tax cut? Of not doing that, of course we will have the option, as

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we will have a range of options around income tax. We had two days

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of the SNP conference to come, the focus next weeks ships to Labour,

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with their spring conference. They had the main event pushed back to

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November, this one is a bit ad hoc but one name that will not be

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featuring is Jeremy Corbyn, he will not be attending, it is said to be a

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time question but there are also indications that Labour want to keep

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the focus on Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish leader.

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The father of a climber who's been missing on Ben Nevis for almost

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a month has spoken of his family's heartache.

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Tim Newton and his girlfriend Rachel Slater failed to return

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from a climbing trip on the Valentine's Day weekend.

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It was on a weekend in February when Rachel Slater and Tim Newton

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But the Bradford couple failed to return from their outing

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Today, Tim Newton's father described the moment he got the news.

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I had a phone call from the police at Fort William,

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saying that Rachel had been reported missing

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Because 50 years ago, my sister was killed

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And I remember it all coming back to me.

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And we had to wait because it was in Yugoslavia.

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It was a Communist country that time.

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It is like having to wait all over again.

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I think the agony, for me, was the thought that they might be

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alive, but absolutely buried

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And how could I cope with my child suffering like that?

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Rachel and Tim were reported missing on Monday the 15th of February.

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It is thought they were caught in an avalanche.

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They knew the risks but, Mr Newton said,

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He said they would never be forgotten.

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They were so young and enthusiastic,

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full of life, with everything in front of them.

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Football and there was one match in the Scottish Premiership tonight.

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Motherwell came from behind to beat Dundee United 2-1 and severely dent

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the Tayside club's hopes of top flight survival.

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Let's get the weather outlook for the weekend now,

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Thank you very much. Good evening. A fairly cloudy and damp conditions

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across the country this evening and those conditions lasting into

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tomorrow. It was a fairly cloudy day but a lovely picture from one of our

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weather watchers. Over the next 24 hours, low pressure in the Atlantic,

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high pressure towards Scandinavia and in between, the south-westerly

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flow bringing cloudy, damp but mild conditions. Most of the heavy rain

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tomorrow in the West but there will be some outbreaks of rain further

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eased and that wet weather is stretching south in towards Northern

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Ireland and the far north-west of England. Most of England and Wales,

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largely dry and bright, spells of sunshine but fairly persistent fog

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in the at first. For us, through Saturday morning, cloudy and damp

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with the rain slowly working its way ever eastwards with the winds from

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the cerebral south-west, fresh, occasionally strong around the

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coast. -- from the cerebral south-west. Cloudy and dump the

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northern half of the UK but further south, dry with some brightness

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coming through -- cloudy and damp. As we head through the afternoon

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coming through -- cloudy and damp. into the evening, some brightness

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around the Inverness area, Northern Aberdeenshire and overnight into

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Sunday, a lot of the rain clears away and Sunday is a very different

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day all due to high pressure. Dry and brighter across the north-east,

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still if you outbreaks of rain up and brighter across the north-east,

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towards the Northern Isles through the afternoon but most areas dry and

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where we do get the sun low to mid teens is possible. Most areas double

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digits. High pressure bringing this condition stays through next week, a

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lot of dry unsettled weather around, some cloud and sunshine for the best

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of which is likely in the West and the potential for some hard

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developing around the east coast. From everyone on the late team

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here in Glasgow

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