27/02/2017 Reporting Scotland

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After former Celtic captain Billy McNeill's dementia diagnosis,

ex-players' families demand a study into football and dementia.

You have Mark Watson who died. Frank Beattie. My dad is now suffering

from dementia. Coincidence? Definitely not.

Does doctor know best or should patients get more involved

in the police force - and spend more on front

Wales, the Scotland rugby team move up to fifth in the world rankings -

And David Tennant on the red carpet as a very different doctor -

playing the controversial Scots psychiatrist RD Laing.

A former head of the SFA says footballers may in future have

to sign disclaimers to prevent them suing over dementia

It follows the news that the former Celtic player and manager,

And tonight Alzheimer Scotland announced it's to hold a summit

on the possible links between football and dementia.

COMMENTATOR: McClane. A goal that set Kilmarnock on the weight of

their one and only league title. I think he got in trouble because he

their one and only league title. I should not have been in the box.

Success secured legendary status for David Sneddon and team-mates. In

recent years, David's Sun said another shared experience has

emerged. Mark Watson died from Alzheimer's. Frank Beattie had

Parkinson's and dementia. Big Jackie had Alzheimer's. Jim had Parkinson's

and my dad, who is now suffering from dementia. Coincidencenot.

David's suspicion centres on a particular skill. In training,

beheading drills, these were everyday, heading drills. You can

argue that heading the heavy ball may have had a form of influence on

the disease he has got. Billy McNeill's family have similar

questions having revealed the former Celtic captain is suffering from

dementia, they are calling for more research. Scientists at Stirling

University analysed heading drills and found small but significant

short-term changes in brain function but that, they say, is just a first

step. We cannot make decisions on the guidelines. What are the safe

limits? It is not the time we can address that. More science is

needed, a better understanding of what happens to the brain when

heading a ball. They football and dementia summit aimed at developing

a research strategy will be held this spring. An issue some believe

could have profound consequences for the game. We'll want to play

football. I would still have wanted to play the game regardless of

problems even if I was told it was a problem. They might have to have a

situation in order that people cannot be suit at a later date, once

you know that it can cause damage, they might have to sign a disclaimer

to not sue in the future and it is everyone's choice to continue as a

player or not. As he approaches his 81st birthday, David Sneddon's

family say it is not about changing the game they all love. Today's life

is about informed choices. If you have the information you can choose

to play football, or do you not. With the amount of money in

football, I would reckon most players would say, I will take the

chance. Scotland's Chief Medical Officer

wants doctors to spend more time listening to patients,

in a bid to avoid prescribing Catherine Calderwood has dubbed

the concept "realistic medicine" and argues that quality,

rather than quantity of life can be Here's our health

correspondent, Lisa Summers. Alistair does not know how much

time he has got left. But he is determined

to make the most of it. There's nothing worse than getting

towards the end of your life and realising you have wasted

day after day. As the sun comes up I'm looking

for something interesting He is already having treatment

for a series of long-term conditions but after a conversation

with his consultant he decided not I did not fancy spending three days

a week in the infirmary when I could be out and doing things

with my family. I want quality of life,

not length of life, particularly. The sum dialysis is the right course

of treatment. And this is what realistic medicine is about. The

Chief Medical Officer is asking the best treatment for patients. I think

we have overestimated the benefits of some treatments and maybe

underestimated the risks and perhaps under estimated the burden of health

care is so visits to hospital and the GP surgery, blood tests,

monitoring, and now we are having the GP surgery, blood tests,

open and honest conversations. At Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, they are

open and honest with patiently Mac. Dialysis is there for those hit

benefits and they support those for whom it will not. We are making

ageing medical, and death. There are doctors who believe you can solve

everything, you start believing you can solve everything and then

realise you can't and what we need to do is help patiently Mac. It is

too brutal to say, you have however many weeks and months left. We do

not know the answer to that. But we have to be honest about where you

can make a difference and where you might not. There will be

challengers. Doctor struggle for time with patiently Mac and the

Chief Medical Officer said it is not about saving money but involving

patiently Mac and families in decisions about their care.

Downing Street has reiterated that there should not be a second

It follows renewed reports that the UK Government is concerned

Brexit could bring about a second vote in Scotland.

And tonight that was echoed by the former Prime Minister,

Sir John Major, in a speech on the impact of Brexit.

In Scotland, I believe a hard Brexit will encourage a second referendum

on independence. This may seem improbable at this moment, but it

would be reckless to ignore the risks. As we saw last June, the

emotion and national pride can overcome economic self-interest. If

Scotland were to become independent, both Scotland and the whole of the

United Kingdom would be diminished. That cannot be ignored as Brexit

evolves. Our political correspondent,

David Porter, is in So, could events over the next few

weeks make things clearer, David? That could very well be the case.

The people of the building behind me are aware that the clock is ticking

on Brexit and it could have huge implications for Scotland and the

possibility of a second independence referendum. In principle the

Scottish Government is against Brexit. They say the people of

Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain within the United Kingdom and

therefore that Scotland should not be forced out of the EU. Downing

Street are equally clear. They say as far as they are concerned in 2014

the people of Scotland voted to remain within the UK and should

therefore not be a second independence referendum. They say

the issue was settled for a generation. How could what is

happening with Brexit in the next few weeks affects the implications

and the general demeanour of what is going to happen in the wider

Scottish constitutional debate? Today and later this week the House

of Lords is discussing Brexit legislation and if they are happy

with it, it could become law as soon as next week. If not then maybe

Parliamentary wrangling that could delay things and it means in the

week beginning the 13th of March, Theresa May may decide to trigger

Article 50, which formally begins the Brexit negotiations.

Coincidentally, towards the end of that week, the SNP meets in Aberdeen

for it's spring conference. If, as you would expect, the First Minister

Nicola Sturgeon is unhappy with what has happened, she will come under

immense pressure to spell out what she is going to do and whether she

is going to go ahead with a second independence referendum. Over the

next couple of weeks some very important decisions have got to be

taken. Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon have very big calls to make

and what they decide could affect us all. Many thanks.

A 42-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder

Julie McCash and David Sorrie died following an incident in the city's

It's alleged Robert Stratton struck them both with knives.

He's also charged with the attempted murder of a third person.

He made no plea at Dundee Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody.

Police officers are continuing to search for a teenager

believed to have fallen from cliffs at Arbroath.

18-year-old Ralph Smith has been missing since

A coastguard helicopter, four coastguard rescue teams and two

lifeboats were involved in searches over the weekend.

Further safety checks have been ordered on a fleet

of helicopters following a fatal accident last year.

The European Aviation Safety Authority has asked operators

of the Super Puma EC225 and L2 aircraft to carry out one-off

The 225 was grounded following a crash in Norway last April.

13 people died, including Iain Stuart from Aberdeenshire.

The number of officers policing Scotland is likely to be

It's one of the proposals contained in a strategy for the force

But despite the financial pressures the national force is facing,

it insists the number of operational officers will increase,

as those currently doing administrative tasks are redeployed.

Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Reevel Alderson reports

on the changing face of policing in Scotland.

Officers at Stuart Street police station received their briefing at

the start of the ship. Once on the street it is clear policing is

anything but traditional. Increasingly they deal with bun

rubble people rather than crime. Keeping in touch with businesses and

residents, these officers are part of the problem solving team, a new

approach. The idea is to engage with people and tackle them as best you

can. We have always had that with community policing but we are not

responding to calls as much as we were previously and the idea behind

that is so we can focus on communities we are working in. Crime

is at a 40 year low and the nature of crime is changing. One if I've

calls to Police Scotland results in a crime being recorded. It deals

with 57,000 mental health incidents and 30,000 missing person enquiries,

meaning they have to refocus efforts. The journey of policing in

the last 30 years is from one that is where we police public space, to

one where we police private space. Now as the world is changing quickly

around us, people are living their life online and we need to protect

them there as well. The number of officers is likely to fall by 420

20, but the body that oversees the police service says as it adapts,

there will still be officers on the beat. This is an essential part of

policing and we believe we can free up officers from administrative and

other tasks that prevent them being visibly seen by the public. We think

in 2026 you will see officers in their uniforms. The government

welcomes the strategy and said it is concerned about the right mix of

skills, not just overall numbers. You're watching BBC

Reporting Scotland. After Celtic legend Billy McNeill's

dementia diagnosis, ex-players' families demand a study

into football and dementia. The Scot who's flying the flag

in one of the world's The Scotland rugby team are up

to fifth in the world rankings, It follows the weekend win over

Wales in the Six Nations. And there's been further

good news for Scotland, Scotland's rejuvenation as a force

in world rugby continues. Also on the up is their world ranking. The

win over Wales takes them from eighth upto fifth, above some

illustrious names. Their highest ever placing. How much of this is

down to their implacable coach? The players are playing for him and the

team have a real identity in what they are trying to do. They have

scored tries, six of them from outside channels. In Paris, it was

created in an outside channel so it is the identity of how they try to

play that suits Scotland. The immediate future holds games against

these two, Italy and before that England. They will not treat the

Scots as the fodder they have often been. Coming into this I would never

have thought the game I would eagerly anticipate is England and

Scotland. We have a real prospect of a match at Twickenham and a real

exciting Scottish side. Wonderful performances and great individual

players. Regardless of how that match goes, Murrayfield will be fall

again in three weeks, the first time a game against Italy has sold out.

Another reflection of the upturn in Scotland's fortunes.

Rangers have identified the Southampton Director of Scouting

and Recruitment Ross Wilson as their number one target for their

The club say they want to create this new position,

Since Mark Warburton left two weeks ago, Rangers have lost

both their league matches, including this defeat to

Almost 800,000 people in Scotland currently care for a relative

or loved one, saving the UK Government billions of pounds,

Over the next 20 years, it's estimated that three in five

As the Scottish Government prepares to take over

the Social Security system, how might they do

What do you fancy for tea? John has been caring for his mother for the

last four years. Carers UK, people like John save Scotland almost ?11

billion per year. She was diagnosed with dementia as well as many other

illnesses. I saw her struggling from afar. She had very or little-known

help whatsoever from home helps. That started our journey of trying

to fight the system. It took two years to get an adequate care

package put in place for his mother. Over that time, he had to give up

his own home and his job. Carers save billions to the Scottish

Government and the British government. And yet we are down at

the very end of need for support. The package for caring is between 45

and 54, -- the peak age. That is likely to change as the population

ages. More people are going to be providing care for very elderly

people. In fact, actually, continuing to work well into their

60s, providing care at the same time. Scotland is getting control

over 11 welfare benefits. One of these is carers allowance and the

government are putting forward a number of proposals. One is to

change the restrictions inside at benefit, which put a limit on the

amount of money in individual can land whilst still receiving the

carers allowance. The other restriction is on the number of

hours that you have to prove you care for a person in each week.

Again, that restricts the individual from being able to perhaps pursue

study or that part-time employment. For carers like John, support is

much more than just financial. It's about quality of life. Not only for

his mother but for him. What does he think should change? There should be

a one-stop shop where when a carer needs assistance and they have been

assessed, they get from start to finish the help that they need and

that's financial support and any other support that they need for the

person they are caring for. Campaigners who want a leisure

centre on the Isle of Lewis to open on Sundays have vowed to fight on,

despite their offer to fund Sunday openings being turned down

by Western Isles council. Families into Sports for Health

raised almost ?11,500 for a trial opening of the sports centre

and swimming pool. But Western Isles Council rejected

the offer of cash and said it Leisure centres on Lewis and Harris

have been traditionally closed on Sundays in observation

of the Sabbath. New figures from the Civil Aviation

Authority show that laser attacks on Glasgow Airport doubled last year

to 83, making it the second-most targeted airport in the UK

after Heathrow, The number of attacks

at Edinburgh Airport dropped from 55 The sport of UFC, or the Ultimate

Fighting Championship, Stars like Ireland's Conor McGregor

have helped make the uncompromising mixed martial art sport hugely

popular. This weekend, Scotland's Paul

Craig enters the arena He pulled off an impressive victory

on his debut last year. Paul Craig! The brutal world of UFC

now has a Scottish contender. Scotland's Paul Craig making his UFC

debut. Paul Craig, one fight, and one win against Brazilian Henry de

Silva last month. A strong start to life in sport where clearly you have

to be tough. I never wanted to be punched in the face. But once you've

taken your first punch, you need your first breaking your nose and

it's not that bad. Once people realise your face isn't going to

crumble into dust, you can take it. Paul Craig's next fight is against

Australia 's Tyson Pedro. That's a long way from this freezing gym

where Craig puts in the hard graft. His aim is to emulate UFC's ultimate

Warrior, Irish superstar Conor McGregor. I really suppose he is to

find the sport. You would be the Scottish Conor McGregor? Some people

have said I have the ability to talk like him. I'm not dense, I can talk.

And I can fight. I would like to think it's good to be compared to

somebody like that at the top of his game. I would like to be the

Scottish Conor McGregor. Why do you think at this moment in time right

now UFC is so popular with so many people? I don't think it's the state

of humanity. We are an aggressive nation or and aggressive world at

this precise moment. I think it's to do with how it's marketed. You're

getting the best fighters against the best fighters. Anything can

happen. It doesn't matter how good you are. On that night, if you get

caught flush in the bottom, you will go down. By day, Paul Craig teaches

young people vocational skills in Scotland but his life as an educator

is on hold for now as he continues on his own UFC learning curve.

Another win required on Sunday if he is to make his own fighting future a

success. He's famous for playing Dr Who,

but last night David Tennant brought the Glasgow Film Festival to a close

with a performance as In "Mad to Be Normal",

he plays the controversial Scots As our arts correspondent,

Pauline McLean, reports his work continues to divide opinion almost

30 years after his death. It is a small household people

in different states of mind. The Scots psychiatrist RD Laing

was unlikely celebrity but in the 1960s he was famous,

not least for an experiment in which patients and

therapists lived together. His ideas were hugely controversial

and are no less now, actually. Some people will say

what he did was extraordinary on and others will say

that he was a crack Born in Glasgow in 1927,

he was prolific and outspoken. Although his views and methods

divided the critics, they continue Adrian Lang, one of his ten

children, has seen many versions of his father

on stage and screen. He was a very angry, articulate,

educated Scotsman who decided before he was 30 that he would take a stand

against the establishment So there's a kind of romantic

revolutionary angry Scottish person The film doesn't gloss

over his personal failings. Like his most famous

book, The Divided Self, The Ronnie Laing to his patience

was not the same as him as a parent. I hope that the film does

encourage some people But also realise there is more

to the man than meets the eye. It seems RD Laing's moment

in the spotlight is not yet over. It seems RD Laing's moment

in the spotlight is far from over. A second film about his life

is already being planned. Bit of a wash-out at

the weekend, Judith. It certainly is. A wee bit of snow

today, we weren't expecting it, across the South. One of our weather

today, we weren't expecting it, watchers sent this in, a winter

wonderland. The pressure chart, this area of low pressure flirted with

this out of the country, hitting cold air. Now this low-pressure belt

is yesterday's low-pressure making a return, bringing something wintry

across western Scotland tonight and early tomorrow. A cold night. Met

Office yellowed be aware warning for ice. Western and Central and

Southern Scotland. Edinburgh will be at risk. Bear that in mind. Pulling

away from the South as we speak. We will see something coming into the

far north-west in the overnight period, the overnight pressure. We

far north-west in the overnight expecting anything in in land will

be frosty. Widely below freezing. I score risk first thing tomorrow, a

cold start but bright -- ice risk. In eastern Scotland it is bright.

The low-pressure making its presence felt. Outbreaks of rain in coastal

areas will come inland. Sleet and snow in high ground. That continues

to sink South and then brighter conditions feeding into the far

north. Another change coming our way. In the afternoon, the remnants

of that low-pressure in south-west Scotland but it will improve

eventually. In the -- borders and Central lowlands, still feeling

cold. Further north you go, you will see more in the way of the winds as

they pick up. The Northern Isles will see those winds becoming strong

and showers for the Shetland Isles. In the evening, anything in the

and showers for the Shetland Isles. South will clear away. A lovely end

to the day for most. Wintry showers will take hold in northern parts in

the brisk winds. Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, a cold start.

Some showers in northern Scotland and along the West Coast. It looks

like a fine day. Thank you. Now, a reminder of

tonight's main news. A former head of the SFA says

footballers may in future have to sign disclaimers to prevent them

suing over dementia It follows the news that the former

Celtic player and manager, The organisers of the Oscars have

apologised after an envelope mix up led to the wrong film being read out

as winner of the Best Picture award. The producers of La La Land were in

the middle of their acceptance speeches when the mistake

was discovered and Moonlight I'll be back with the headlines

at 8pm and the late bulletin just Until then, from everyone

on the team, right across the country,

have a very good evening.