05/05/2016 Reporting Scotland

The headlines on Reporting Scotland this Thursday lunchtime:

Party leaders are among the people casting their votes as the polls

And a grieving family calls for a review of automatic

early release of prisoners in England and Wales.

People across Scotland are casting their votes at

Four million people are registered to vote in the election,

which will see 129 MSPs returned to the Scottish Parliament.

And for the first time in a Holyrood election, 16 and 17-year-olds

Our political correspondent, Lucy Adams, reports.

Smiles, sunshine and a surfeit of handshakes. SNP leader Nicola

Sturgeon arrived at the brewhouse community Hall with her husband and

SNP chief executive Peter Murrell. Kezia Dugdale cast her vote in

Edinburgh, accompanied by her partner, the wheeze riddle. Scottish

Conservative leader Ruth Davidson also voted in Edinburgh with her

partner, Jen Wilson. Willie Rennie, the Liberal Democrat leader, cast

his vote in Cambridge, and the Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick

Harvie cast his vote at the Glasgow Kelvin target seat for the Greens.

People have been headed to the polling booths today for the first

Scottish parliamentary election since the parliament was created but

the first in which 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote

for 129 MSPs. About for me and people are registered to vote in

this election. Each will be asked to mark a crossed to select their

contingency MSP, of which some 73 will be elected, and to vote for the

regional MSPs allocated to parties through a form of reportable

representation. Polling booth will close at 10pm and ballot papers will

be hand counted through the night, with the first results expected

around two-way and live coverage by the BBC through the night. -- two

a.m.. Members of the jury in the Liam Fee

murder trial wept as they were shown a video of the toddler's body filmed

by detectives Jurors immediately asked for a break

after watching the 12-minute film that included distressing images

of the young boy lying in his pyjamas on the

floor of his bedroom. Rachel and Nyomi Fee deny murdering

Liam at a house near Glenrothes The trial at the High Court

continues. A Renfrewshire family is calling

for an independent review into the automatic early release

of prisoners in England and Wales. It follows the murder of their son,

Craig Hepburn, four years ago at the hands of two men

who were being supervised Create happy earn, a member of the

Milngavie pipe and, was 19 when he was murdered near Huddersfield any

family visit. He was attacked by Anthony driver and Luke Elliott, who

stabbed him 11 times and kicked him as he lay bleeding. Both were on

licence, released early from prison. Craig's parents wonder why the men,

who each had a string of convictions for violence, were free to kill

their son. If the courts made them serve the full time it would have

saved. Tougher sentences given out to crimes like this and they would

have to serve their home time and not be allowed out early and if they

were out on licence they should carry that through. The National

offender management service carried out a review of the case last year.

It revealed Luke Elliott, convert that of murdering Craig, was

recalled to prison for breaching his licence conditions that was

rereleased. Driver has 54 convictions and was also on licence.

The review says he was not sufficiently controlled within his

licence after breaching its conditions several times. For every

paragraph in that report it ends with, there are lessons to be

learned. We would like to see those lessons learned that you will be

sitting with another family ten years from now and those same

lessons will have to be learnt. The National offender management service

says it will carefully consider the findings in this case but could not

say if its recommendations had been carried out. The Hepburn family want

an inquiry into early releases in England to ensure other families do

not suffer as they have. Another ?450 million is being set

aside to compensate Clydesdale Bank customers for mis-sold payment

protection insurance, taking the total cost of mis-selling

to just over ?2 billion. The vast majority of the new

financial provision is coming from the National Australia Bank,

the former owner of As Lucy Adams said earlier,

the polls are open until 10pm and then the ballots will be counted

throughout the night. We'll be on-air with our election

results coverage, We're an air from 10:30pm and we

will be with you tonight, bringing you all the key moment. Our

reporters are on location at times across the country. We will

broadcast live from Shetland to Dumfries. I'll be offering analysis,

inside, assessment of the results as they come in, the personalities and

the policies on offer. I'll have pretty news from across the count

and will keep you up to date with headlines in Scotland and the rest

of the UK so you don't have to miss a thing. Scotland's political

landscape looks at to change tonight. We will show you how using

state of the art graphics. Last time we voted in 2011 this was the

result. The Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Lib Dem 's Orange and

SNP yellow, and there were also 56 MSPs elected through the regional

vote, including a couple of Greens. Eight regions, seven MSPs apiece.

Tonight we start again. The map is about to be redrawn. Here in our

election cafe we bring to get their media spin doctors and voters to

give us their reactions to results as they come in and we will keep an

eye on social media so used the # SP 16. Join us at 10:30pm on BBC One

for the most comprehensive election coverage in the country.

Now let's get the polling day weather outlook, and Sarah

It's looking like a decent day for most of us, some lovely blue skies

across Aberdeen sure and it is looking bright and breezy foremost

this afternoon, but we are seeing a fair amount of cloud across the

borders, that will gradually break up, in between it looks like a

lovely day but with cloud and rain affecting the western isles, that

will push in towards the Highlands and become lighter and more

fragmented, but it stays breezy with strong winds, elsewhere a lovely

afternoon, decent spells of sunshine and in that sunshine we already see

temperatures reaching 16 along the Mori coach, perhaps elsewhere 14

Celsius and winds will start to ease, so we decent end to the day

for most, then overnight it will stay largely dry with the odd spot

of rain in the far north, and clearer spells, so-called than last

night, two or three in more rural spots. Then tomorrow we see this

weather front linger across eastern Scotland, so we will hold onto more

cloud that in general tomorrow looks like it isn't day. Fine and dry

weather, good spells of sunshine, especially for western parts of

Scotland. Perhaps the odd spot of rain up towards the north-east but

best temperatures in the West. We'll be back with more

news, sport and weather From everyone on the lunchtime team,

have a very good afternoon.