06/06/2016 Reporting Scotland

Police hunt for a teenage boy after a seven year old girl

was sexually assaulted in South Queensferry

Edinburgh airport puts plans for new flight paths

out to consultation - we speak to some of the residents

We are being overflowing many times in the day. This used to be a

tranquil area. Also on the programme,

Investigations continue into a targeted attack

on the outskirts of Glasgow which left three men hospitalised

and two vans set on fire A survey of cancer care finds

most people are happy with their treatment but feel

they don't receive enough support And our national team

might be struggling - but fans are still queueing up

for domestic football. Police are hunting a teenage boy

in connection with a sexual assault It happened as the girl played

on a cycle path in South Queensferry Our reporter Joanne Macaulay

is there for us tonight. What more do we know,

Joanne? This is a wooded area of South

Queensferry. The path is run along the back of the village bowling

club. It is an area used by many cyclists and walkers.

The child was playing here on Friday afternoon which was assaulted

between 1:30pm and 1:45pm. It was a sunny afternoon. There may have been

many people in the area who could come forward with information for

the police. Detectives have been carrying out investigations over the

week. They say they are now confident the child was indecently

assaulted. And there is a description of a

suspect? Yes, the suspect is described as a

white male of high school age. He has hazel brown hair swept forward.

of the attack he was wearing dark trousers and a blue T-shirt with a

white writing on it. He also had a temporary tad too on one of his

hands, and he was in possession of a blue and black rucksack. --

temporary tattoo. Police are asking deeper if

they know somebody who may match that description. Detectives are

this is an incredibly rare incident but a worrying one, nonetheless.

There is a high police presence in South

Queensferry while the enquiries continue.

Edinburgh Airport is consulting on plans for new flight paths,

after a trial last year was cut short, when residents complained

The airport, which is Scotland's busiest, says expanding the number

of flight paths would allow for safe and sustainable growth

It is rush hour up above. What is it like living in the flight path?

Noisy, but we have got to stop talking when they go over, otherwise

you cannot hear each other. We all learn to stop when we are talking.

CHUCKLES Airspace above Edinburgh has not

changed since 1970. Back then, a million people use the airport, now

it is 11 million. The airport would like to increase capacity even

further and that is why it has launched a major consultation into

expanding its flight path routes. Expect adverts online and

information through the letterbox. It is from up here in the control

tower that traffic is directed in and out of the airport. At the

moment they can handle one departure every two minutes but they want

increased that to one per minute. 70% of the planes take off to the

west, flying over West Lothian. The consultation fans out the

possible alternative airspace and they want

to know which routes would be the least disruptive. 30% take off to

the east. Again, the consultation is looking at the most viable route

across the Firth of Forth and beyond. They say it is vital for

business and tourism with local companies like this gin exporter

backing the expansion plans. The benefits for the whole country.

We need to be connected. We are an

island nation that on international trade.

that be tourism, trade, or exports. Let's make sure we give ourselves

the best chance of being successful. A trial

last year had to be cut short because of noise complaints.

sees and hears up to 70 aircraft overhead every day.

unfair. We bought our home to the peace and tranquillity

from us effectively by the actions of Edinburgh airport.

The airport insists it isn't set on any particular routes at this point

but simply wants to canvass views in the first phase. It says

any changes will not come into The Scottish Government is asking

the EU Commission for flexibility on the deadline for CAP payments

to be made to farmers and crofters. Last week, Rural Economy Secretary,

Fergus Ewing, said everything possible was being done to make

the payments ahead of the EU's The Government could be facing tens

of millions of pounds in fines if it Police say they're looking for three

men in connection with what they're describing as a targeted attack

on the outskirts of Glasgow It happened yesterday afternoon

on a street in Cardowan Two bands set on fire after one,

deliberately crashed into the other. deliberately crashed into the other.

-- vans. The men were chased and attacked by the men who arrived in

the stolen vehicle. The men were assaulted with bladed instruments.

At some stage during this incident, the vans were set on fire. The three

men responsible for attacking the victims, we believe, left in two

vehicles. A black four by four bagel and a white

saloon vehicle. and the edge of the road is scorched

by the intensity of the flames yesterday afternoon. What happened

here has left local people shocked and

appalled. This is normally a quiet residential street. It is a quiet

area. You would not expect something like this to happen here. There was

a quick response from emergency services. Forensic officers picked

up evidence that eyewitnesses were asked about the attack which

happened on a sunny afternoon on in North Lanarkshire housing scheme. It

was a sunny Sunday afternoon. It will be fully investigated. I would

like to reassure the public that we will keep a high patrol of uniformed

officers in this area for the foreseeable. Police say the attack

was targeted. But a member of the public could have been caught up in

it. A man has been arrested

in connection with the death of a 41-year-old man,

following a large-scale disturbance Scott MacKenzie, from Shotts,

was fatally injured during the incident at a house

in the town's Inverkip Drive in The 33-year-old man is expected

to appear at Hamilton Still to come on tonight's

programme: A machine invented by twin brothers

from Ayrshire is set to revolutionise railway building in

America. In sport we are not going to Euro 2016. But one Scotland star

says Scottish football is on the up. Holding a cup but chasing more,

Shaun Lunt heads to Japan to break a record. More details in the sport

coming up. Almost a third of the UK's

oil and gas companies are planning more job cuts,

as the oil price takes longer A Bank of Scotland report says

almost two thirds of Scottish businesses say they've been severely

or quite badly affected. Steven Duff is in

Aberdeen for us tonight. The results of this will come as no

surprise to those who work, live, and breed the oil and gas industry.

All those whose businesses rely on it. -- breathe. They asked companies

if they would be fermenting any cost-cutting measures next year.

Nearly 43% said they were. Around 140 companies were questioned. 32%

said they were planning more job cuts. That is on top of the tens of

thousands of job losses which have already been. It also says in the

survey that Scottish oil and gas companies have been hardest hit. 57%

of them said they had been severely or quite badly affected. That

compares to 41% which is the UK average. This is bad news but there

some glimmers of hope on the horizon. The stabilisation of the

oil price and the cuts that have already been taken and the further

efficiency gains that are being sought, should hopefully start to

see that position turn around and more investment decisions coming

back. And hopefully present an industry which is more resilient

going forward. One other chink of light is that a fifth of the

companies said that they were still light is that a fifth of the

looking for investment in exploration opportunities in the

North Sea. Thanks very much.

The first ever Scottish survey of cancer care has revealed that,

whilst the majority of people are happy with their treatment,

many are still not given enough support through their diagnosis

The survey of 5,000 cancer patients found that one in five weren't given

information about support groups, and a third weren't given written

information about the type of cancer they had.

Our health correspondent, Eleanor Bradford, reports.

Laura isn't even 30 and already she has had cancer twice and watched her

father die from it. So she is something of an expert on being a

cancer patient. Her medical care has always been excellent but she had to

go searching for support. At the beginning you keep thinking, I need

to get better, then towards the end using, what has happened to me? You

start to get upset because you have not realised how much a fight you

have had for maybe six months. It has just been tough. When it comes

to cancer care in Scotland, most has just been tough. When it comes

people say they had a good experience, but whilst the NHS does

well at the Curtain Call stuff it is the emotional side where it seems to

fall down. -- clinical stuff. One in five said they were given no

information on support groups. Nearly half were given no

information on financial help or benefits. And a similar number were

not informed about ongoing side-effects, even after treatment

had ended. Nicola Sturgeon admits some of this isn't rocket science.

Some of this is not about resource it is about how people work. Often,

it busy clinician will not deliberately be doing something like

this, it is just about trying to focus on the importance of that.

Everyone with cancer is supposed to have something called a care plan to

make sure all of their needs are met. Those with a care plan had a

much better experience, but only one in five have one. Everybody that had

one of those scored more positively in every single question in that

survey. We need absolutely make sure that becomes part and parcel of

everybody's cancer care. It is a constant battle to provide the

latest treatments, the latest drugs, enough staff, but the survey

suggests there are simple ways in which cancer care can be

transformed. By seeing each patient as a person, not merely a number.

A look at other stories from across the country...

Two inmate at Perth prison have died over the weekend. The Scottish

prison service confirmed. Darryl Smith, who was convicted of

shoplifting, died the day before the other one did. A woman has been hit

by a car and sky. The 21 you wrote was struck in the early hours of

this morning. -- a woman has been hit by a car in Skye, the

21-year-old. Some teachers are claiming there were a number of

problems with questions, including the way somewhere phrased. The paper

has been defended with the authority saying it went through the proper

checks. Stephanie Ingles has opened and I for the first time during her

recovery from a serious accident in Vietnam. -- opened an eye. She

suffered head injuries in a Vietnam. -- opened an eye. She

motorbike taxi accident on the 7th of May. She is being treated in

hospital in Thailand. Gordon Igman has raised over ?500,000 for

research into a cure the motor neurone disease. He was diagnosed

with the disease to years ago. He was a director of research for the

Better Together Campaign during the referendum. I never dreamt of this

much money. It is an insane amount of money. It is amazing and I

couldn't be prouder. Services to commemorate the 100th anniversary of

the sinking of HMS Hampshire have taken place in Orkney. The ship was

lost after hitting a German mine off the islands in 2016. -- 1916. Lord

Kitchener has been commemorated with a large stone tower. A stone wall

with all of the names on it was unveiled last night.

A machine to lay railway line, invented and patented by twin

brothers from Ayrshire, is set to revolutionise

Billy and Danny McCulloch have taken their Track Rail Transposer

to New York to renew part of the city's iconic subway.

Until now, that's been back-breaking work carried out

They're the unlikely directors of a multimillion pound company, twins

Billy and Danny McCulloch left school with no qualifications and

turned initially to lorry driving and farm work. Billy turned out to

be a born inventor. Employed once to clear trees from the side of a

railway, he designed a machine to do it better. The same thing happened

when he saw Railtrack being laid by gangs of men by hand. He came up

with this, the track rail transposer. It's the only such

machine capable of working on single line railways because it doesn't

require another one alongside to run on. That makes it uniquely suitable

for the cramped New York subway. In New York A 300 feet length of

railway like this was taking 50 men a day to lay. The McCulloch track

rail transposer can do twice that a day to lay. The McCulloch track

length in six minutes, using only two men. Not that the Americans knew

that, until Billy interrupted a family holiday and knocked on a door

to tell them. It led to a trial and eventually a contract. It was 1904

when the railway was build in New York and last Friday night McCulloch

Rail made history, mechanised the way they lay the line in New York.

It's one of the moments you think, oh, my God, the school teachers were

wrong about me. Really Good Value for us to go to the centre of the

world to show people how to do it. That's beyond belief. It's Just the

Two of Us. We worked in a shed at my father's property. 110 we've got

now. Phenomenal. A lorry driver, then working at a farm. Ended up

being a gardener to come to this. It's something that you couldn't

make up. You couldn't put it into words. In New York they called the

TRT the critter and word about it has spread. There's already interest

from Boston, Washington and Long Island with more likely to follow.

Craig Gordon will struggle to watch football's European Championship,

that begins on Friday, because the pain of Scotland

The Celtic goalkeeper admits there will be no escape

But, as Chris McLaughlin reports, despite the international failings,

there may be reasons for domestic optimism.

With Scotland missing out on the euros, could it be time for a change

With Scotland missing out on the of sport? Not quite for this

internationalist, it's just a case of helping out. Of course, he would

much rather be somewhere else. It is difficult. The matches will be on TV

over the summer and you won't be able to escape it whether you want

to watch it or not. Will you watch it? Not all of it. Bits and pieces.

It's a little bit annoying not to be there. Yeah, I don't think I'll

watch every match. I'll probably take in a few now and again.

Scotland's healing process wasn't helped by two friendly defeats.

First at the hands of Italy, then this, the first of three without

reply against France at the weekend. But in the bright summer sunshine

it's not all doom and gloom. This is the queue outside Celtic Park today

for new season tickets, a feel-good factor brought on by the appointment

of their new manager Brendan Rodgers, across the city Rangers

have been promoted and are looking strong in. Aberdeen there's real

belief and Hearts have record season ticket sales. Hearts' fans could end

up on a waiting list with over 12,000 renewing already, that's

before a public sale. It's a record renewal at Rangers with over 33,000.

And the queues continue at Celtic, it's down to limited availability.

All of a sudden Celtic are back in business, Rangers are back in

business, resurgent Hearts and Aberdeen. Even the championship next

season is going to be extremely hard to predict. There's a real sense of

optimism about the domestic game. If only we could take a bit of that and

throw it into the international scene, we'd be better for it. For

now, a hard summer awaits, as all eyes turn to France. After that,

domestically, at least, Scottish football may well have something to

shout about. Andy Murray says his recent success

on clay means he will not have his usual preparation

for the grass court season The world number two begins

the defence of his Queens Club But after reaching finals

on clay in the Madrid, Italian and yesterday's French Open,

how does he feel for grass? I need to rest and let my body

recover a little bit, because I've never had a clay court season like

that before, never won that many matches, never played a final here.

What was actually very difficult conditions the last couple of weeks,

heavy, slow, you know, physical matches. I need to recover a bit

before getting back on the grass and training again.

Sean Lamont hopes to take a step closer to Chris Paterson's record

number of Scotland caps on the national team's

The 35-year-old Glasgow Warriors wing was initially left out

of the squad, but an injury to Tim Visser paved the way

He may have been a late call-up, but Sean Lamont was one of the first on

the training field as Scotland began their preparations for the two Tests

against Japan later this month. He is only five caps short of Chris

Paterson's record of 109. Though that is not the main focus, he

wouldn't mind equalling that feat. I'd love to be involved and keep

going for that. If it happens, then it's one of those things, I'm glad

to be involved. Likewise, if it doesn't I've had no bad innings.

I'll take it at that. We'll see. We don't know what the future holds.

Japan are tenth in the world rankings, one place below Scotland.

The Scottish don't expect to get it easy in the two forth coming Tests.

Scotland won the last meeting, in the 2015 Rugby World Cup, by 45-10.

An away trip, two Tests, things like home advantage, weather, it will be

hot and humid out there, so above all, their a good team. We've got to

be very aware. They pushed us in the World Cup for a good 60 minutes.

Towards the end, we ran away with it, but it was by no means easy.

Both matches on the 18th and 25th June are live across the BBC and

with the Scots unbeaten in five meetings with Japan, they'll be

hoping that figure moves on to seven by the end of this month.

That's all the sport, I'll see you tomorrow.

Beer made entirely out of ingredients from Scotland may

soon be available on supermarket and off-licence shelves.

Hops haven't been grown here on a commercial

scale for 140 years, because of the climate.

But now scientists near Dundee are trying to produce them,

using techniques usually reserved for berries.

Here at a research facility near Dundee something is brewing. A team

of scientists are trying to find out how to grow hops on a commercial

scale for the first time in 140 years in Scotland. They're using

poly tunnels more commonly used to grow berries to create the right

environment. We can demonstrate that you can grow these things

financially viable, that will bring good returns for farmers and give

them an alternative. The good thing about this is that there's strong

de-Nanned from local breweries -- demand from local breweries for

locally grown hops. They're quite an expensive commodity on the market.

This would stop them being flown in from New Zealand or North America.

Polytunnels are a common site here. It may be a hop, skip and a jump to

adopt this technology from berry growing to harvesting hops.

Breweries across the country have shown interest in the project. One

local business keen to use Scottish hops is the St Andrews brewing

company. Currently we have a British beer with all British ingredients.

The sticking point is hops. Currently we get hops from England.

It would be nice to have a local Scottish hop, Scottish barley,

Scottish water, Scottish yeast beer. Different hops from different areas

have different flavours. It will be lovely to experiment with the

Scottish hops and the flavours. Hops like these were used to create this

test beer last year. It is hoped this ongoing research will help to

create a new Scottish hop growing industry.

Now here's Shelly Joffery with details of Scotland 2016.

Tonight, should the Government be able to access your internet

browsing history to help in the fight against terrorism? MPs get

their last chance to amend the controversial investigatory powers

bill. Should the Scottish Government rethink it's moratorium on the

bill. Should the Scottish Government growing of GM crops? Join me on BBC

Two at 10. 30pm. To the weather now and

it's over to Kirsteen. Good evening. We've had very warm

sunshine across much of Scotland once again today. That warmth has

triggered hefty and indeed thundery showers, as you can see, from the

satellite and radar picture. 27 Celsius was the high today in

Glasgow. In sharp contrast, along the East Coast struggling to nine

Celsius. As we head into this evening, I think there will be

showers around for a time. Equally, there will be some warm evening

sunshine. As we go through tonight, these showers will tend to die out.

It becomes dry across the country with clear spells. Some mist, low

cloud across the Northern Isles, the Murray coast, Aberdeenshire and the

Angus area through the night too. Certainly not a cold night, though,

temperatures widely around eight to 12 degrees with light winds. Into

tomorrow, we're still under the influence of this area of high

pressure. However, this weather system moves in through the day.

That energises and inI having rates the showers -- invigorates the

showers. Mist and low cloud along North Sea coastal areas. These

showers will spark off as we go through the course of the afternoon.

That has prompted the Met Office to issue a yellow warning. Some of the

That has prompted the Met Office to showers will be locally very, very

heavy indeed. It could cause localised flooding. And certainly

hazardous driving conditions and they may be thundery too. At this

hazardous driving conditions and stage, we think the main focus of

the showers will be across the likes of the borders, Fife in towards

central parts of the country. Up into Western Ross too. There is

plenty of warm sunshine tomorrow. Temperatures around 24, if not 25

Celsius. Again, though, for north-eastern coastal areas an the

Northern Isles, cool, perhaps the mist and low cloud lingering. Very

slowly into the evening, the showers will tend to die out. Into

Wednesday, a somewhat cloudier day than of late, fewer showers, some

bright spells and still feeling fairly warm. That's the forecast. (

Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.

Police are hunting a teenage boy in connection with a sexual assault

It happened as the girl played on a cycle path in South Queensferry

I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm and the late bulletin,

which is indeed late tonight at 11pm.

Until then, from everyone on the team, very good evening.