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The convicted drug smuggler, Melissa Reid, could soon be back | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
in Scotland after spending almost three years in prison in Peru. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Reid from Lenzie near Glasgow was jailed for trying to smuggle | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
cocaine worth ?1.5 million pounds out of the country. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
A Peruvian judge will decide in the next few days whether she'll | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
be released and expelled from the country, | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
or transferred to a Scottish prison. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Here's our home affairs correspondent, Reevel Alderson. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
It began on the Spanish island of IB felt when Melissa Reid and Michaela | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
her friend were recruited to stay smuggle drugs. This was in 20 13 in | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Lima with cocaine valued at ?1.5 million in their suitcases. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Initially, the pair Aspasia had been coerced as drug meals but later pled | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
guilty. They were sentenced to six years and eight months. Michaela was | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
freed last month but was ordered to spend part of her parole improved. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Melissa returned to court yesterday were as judge considered whether she | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
to be expelled from Peru. At this stage, although it is difficult to | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
understand except what is happening to her, her family hope it is not | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
too long for shall be back home. 18 months ago, her father took part in | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
a Home Office video, warning of the dangers of smuggling drugs abroad. | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
It's horrendous seeing the condition she has to put up with. There is no | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Christmas in our house, no Christmas tree until she comes home. If | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Melissa Reid is expelled, she will be able to come home without | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
spending any time in prison -- more time in prison. | :02:05. | :02:05. | |
A 38-year-old man has been arrested following the death of a woman | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
at a house in Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire. | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
Police say 39-year-old mother-of-two Xin Xin Liu died following | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
a disturbance at the property in Beech Avenue yesterday. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
A forensics team has spent much of today at this house in Beech Avenue | :02:16. | :02:29. | |
in Newton merits. Police were called about midnight after a disturbance | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
and the 39-year-old woman who lived here died. It is understood she was | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
the mother of two young children and had lived here with her husband and | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the children for some years. Neighbours expressed their sadness | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
and disbelief at what had happened. One handwritten a heartfelt tribute | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
on the spooky. I felt I had to do this. We are in terrible shock. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
Nothing like this happens. Usually about it in other places that when | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
it happens on your own street, it's kind of hits you. I'm very shocked. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
This is a very quiet area. You never hear about anything like this. I'm | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
badly shocked. Police have been following a definite line of enquiry | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
and it is understood that robbery is not thought to be a motive in this | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
case. This is the kind of quiet suburban street when people smile | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
and nod and pass the time of day. Free young mother to lose her life | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
in such circumstances as shocked and deeply upset people here. -- for | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
such a young mother to lose her life. | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
The Liam Fee murder trial has heard claims that two women accused | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
of murdering the toddler were panicking as they tried | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
to dismantle a cage in which they allegedly | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
The evidence was from a child witness who was in the house | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
near Glenrothes when Nyomi and Rachel Fee realised that | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
This was the third day of recorded evidence from the second child | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
witness, who was asked about the day that happened on the day that | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
He spoke about a makeshift cage in which it is alleged another | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
boy was imprisoned by Rachel and Nyomi Fee. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
He said they were panicking about the cage and kept | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
He was asked what happened to the cage. | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
The court heard allegations that the | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
child and another boy had been forced to hit each other. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
The young witness said that one of the | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
accused, Nyomi Fee had encouraged the other | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
boy to strike him with a shoe and a tube of skin cream. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
He said the other boy kept whacking him | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
The young witness also said before the police came, | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
the accused told him he would go to prison if he didn't | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
tell them what the other boy had done to him. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Nyomi and Rachel Fee deny murdering Lee and mistreating two other boys. | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
The Scottish Labour Party has launched its manifesto | :04:55. | :05:03. | |
saying it's a return to Labour's roots. | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
Labour plans to increase income tax in Scotland to boost | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
spending on schools, the NHS and other services. | :05:09. | :05:09. | |
Party leaders say the richest will pay most while the low paid | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
will be helped by a UK increase in the point at which | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Here's our political editor Brian Taylor. | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
Gathered in Edinburgh's Grassmarket, awaiting Labour's waiters manifesto. | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
It the mix comes Kezia Dugdale, arguing Scotland can choose spending | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
cuts or higher tax. The message is deliberately blunts and even iced | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
and cupcakes. Scottish Labour has struggled of late and sold them | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
these are summoned history and links the NHS to a promise to protect | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
spending. This is a manifesto in the best traditions of the Labour Party. | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
The key policy, 1% on all tax rates plus a new 50p top rate to boost | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
public spending, particularly education. You cannot get a | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
world-class education system on the cheap. Someone has to pay, so we are | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
going to ask the witch just 1% to pay more sleet and invest in our | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
school but we will also put a penny on the basic levels so we can stop | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
the cuts. If we fail to do that, we are faced with ?3 billion of cuts | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
yet to come to our schools, to the care for elderly, all the public | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
services that we hold dear. We have a chance to stop the cuts, invest in | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
the future and our schools with Labour's plans. Within the package | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
that comprises Labour Party Labour's plans. Within the package | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
education policy, they offer a prayer breakfast club for every | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
primary school. For the NHS, as guaranteed appointment within 48 | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
hours October not make not be with an GP and they want to build 60,000 | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
affordable homes plus extra help for first-time buyers. Among other | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
policies, Labour plans police reform with greater local accountability. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
They would band fracking, unconventional drilling for gas and | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
they would use Holyrood powers to top-up pensions for women born in | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
the early 90 50s who have lost out under UK changes. Kezia Dugdale | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
holds out another referendum on under UK changes. Kezia Dugdale | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
independence -- ruled out. The manifesto reflects Scottish Labour's | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
confident decision that the new converted territories not be news | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
even though Ms Dugdale takes a different line. Sign she says that | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
this is about party policy, not the personal choice of the leader. Final | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
major manifesto finally launched, final week. | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Union officials have travelled to Westminster to call on MPs | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
to give assurances that jobs will not be lost at the Clyde | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
shipyards as a result of delays in the order to build eight | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
The UK Government says it remains committed to building new warships | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
But the SNP, Labour and the Liberal Democrats | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
are demanding job guarantees from Conservative ministers. | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
There have been a number of promises given to the workforce at the Clyde | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
about building frigates and there was a huge amount of investment | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
supposed to be coming into the Clyde. That investment has not | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
happened and what we are seeing is a constant slippage in the frigate | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
building programme. What we have been told very clearly by BAE | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
Systems is that the Government is pushing them to cut the work and | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
send some of it down to England. Prince Charles has been | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
in the Highlands to present medals to soldiers from | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The prince is royal colonel | :08:48. | :08:48. | |
of the Black Watch, which is based at | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
Fort George near Inverness. Seven members of the regiment | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
as well as one civil servant received medals | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
during a ceremony at the base. Storm Frank may have | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
wreaked environmental havoc back in December, | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
but much of the debris it left behind has been a big problem, | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
especially in Aberdeenshire. Today, the Army has been in Ballater | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
lending a hand to clear it, The raging torrent caused | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
by Storm Frank didn't many of them damaging | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
bridges and leaving Some jobs require that | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
extra bit of muscle and that's why the Army have | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
come here to help clear | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
debris from this bridge. It is a slow job, though, | :09:32. | :09:43. | |
which requires a lot of patience. We are about five hours | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
into our first day, managed to make quite | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
a lot of progress. Once we are done with | :09:55. | :09:55. | |
the caravan behind us, on the far side, | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
we are going to try to This is just one place | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
that Storm Frank has Aberdeenshire Council has over 300 | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
damaged bridges from Storm Frank. through that prioritised | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
programme of repairs. We started with the | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
Inver Corbridge, we were We are now working | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
our way through, and this is one of the major | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
ones we are keen and we are very pleased | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
the Army has tackled. There's only so much | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
a winch can do, though. Sometimes you just need to get hands | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
on to finish the job. Hargreaves, the operator of opencast | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
coal mines in Scotland, is to accelerate the closure of | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
six out of its seven sites, leaving only the House | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
of Water site in Ayrshire. The company says it plans to spend | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
more than ?3 million on the Scots closures, | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
across Lanarkshire, It blames the slump in coal prices | :11:03. | :11:03. | |
and the closure of Well, let's get the latest | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
weather from Christopher. Yes, Scotland in springtime, what a | :11:09. | :11:26. | |
joy (!). Clear skies so it will be called everywhere. Frosty to, towns | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
and cities close to freezing and the countryside perhaps as low as -5 in | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
the saddle highlands. A cold start countryside perhaps as low as -5 in | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
to the day tomorrow, but a sunny one. A few showers around the West | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
and north coast and at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, some sunshine and | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
blue skies but still perhaps two or three Celsius. Winds should be | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
relatively light. Towards Perthshire and intermarry, still freezing or | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
sub zero at 8am. If you showers for Orkney and Shetland. As we have | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
through the morning, cloud bills from the West are spoiling some of | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
that early sunshine followed by outbreaks of rain and this weather | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
surgeon of rights. It will journey eastwards around lunchtime. It | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
stretches the southern Scotland into the north-west of England, through | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Cumbria and perhaps the Lord of Wales though clearing Northern | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Ireland. Reason the dry and write some sunshine and double digit | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
temperatures. Not only rained here but snow. That's only on the hills. | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
North towards Angus, generally dry, elsewhere cloudy and wet through the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
afternoon, feeling cool into the evening and its wings its way | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
northwards but its exact tracks and position is open to doubt. A best | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
guess is it will affect part of Tayside down towards the capital. | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
That could change, it could be further morphed or south. I'm | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
keeping a close eye on it. The Friday morning, potentially | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
destruction to travel if the snow which is lower levels. For most of | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
the day on Friday, showers and some bright spells. But whether it is | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
pushing towards the north of England but for most of the Midlands, Wales | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
and Northern Ireland, relatively dry, sunshine. Cloudy on the south | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
coast, the Southern counties some rain just affecting the coastline | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
near as well. Temperature is a little bit higher, but one to watch | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
without snow. More tomorrow. Our next update is during Breakfast | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
at 6:25 tomorrow morning. But from everyone on the late | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
team here in Glasgow | :13:25. | :13:27. |