17/02/2017 Reporting Scotland

Harry Clarke - the driver of a bin lorry that crashed

in Glasgow in December 2014, killing six people -

has pleaded guilty to culpable and reckless driving less

The crown accepted his plea saying that he either knew or ought to have

known he was unfit to drive, and that he was at risk

Harry Clarke pleaded guilty. He had a licence revoked by the DVLA after

crashing the bin lorry was driving in December 20 14. George Square was

full of Christmas shoppers when he was consciousness at the wheel. The

glory there out of control. Six people were killed, 15 others

injured. No charges were brought against Harry Clarke for this. The

crown office maintained there was not enough evidence in law to

prosecute him. During a fatal accident enquiry, it emerged he had

fainted while driving a bus in 2010 and it heard he had repeatedly lied

about his fitness to drive. Just nine months after the bin lorry

crash, Harry Clarke was seen at the wheel of his Vauxhall Corsa. Please

look old, Harry Clarke told him: Today, he admitted culpably and

recklessly driving his car, even though he had suffered a loss of

consciousness while driving twice in the previous five years and you'd

have known he was an fit to drive. We will be sentenced next month and

could potentially be jailed. For more than five months,

Nicola Urquhart has been campaigning Twenty-three-year old Corrie McCaig,

an RAF serviceman from Dunfermline, disappeared during a night out

near his base in Bury St Edmunds. He was last seen

going down an alley. His mobile was tracked and matched

the route of a bin lorry working in the town and heading

for a landfill site This weekend, it's hoped a search

of that landfill site will begin. Nicola, a serving police woman

in Scotland, has been Knowing that the police are about to

start searching the landfill, which everybody knows how much we wanted

that to be searched, and there is a good chance, I think, as to the

police, that Corrie might be there. I dared believe the person who put

him there will have come forward as they will have by now. If someone

knows that someone is behaving strangely, have heard or seen

things, we will find Corrie if he is in the landfill, so come forward now

so that whoever has put him there does not get away with saying he has

fallen in a game and it was an accident. Give us some more closure

and not just in finding Corrie. Finding out how he got there and

what happened to him. -- bin. We have saw you physically searching

over the past few months, how have you found the strength to do that?

That's when I end up not having the strength. It is... It is my son. I

will do whatever it takes to get him home. If somebody isn't doing their

job, if I think they could do something a little bit better, if I

can do it myself, I will. If I can not, I will do what it takes to help

them do this properly. That's all I ever wanted. A basic investigation.

That has given me the strength to fight for something to try and get

Corrie home. Tony Blair has said the context

for the Scottish independence case is "much more credible"

after the Brexit vote. The former Prime Minister insisted

the case for Scotland staying in the UK is now stronger

than in 2014. But he said the vote to leave the EU

put what he called "the break-up There is the possibility of the

break-up of the UK. Narrowly avoided by the result of the Scottish

referendum, but now back on the table. This time with a context much

more credible for the independence case.

In response, the SNP said that if there is to be another

independence vote then the context would be very different to 2014.

The Scottish Conservatives maintained that there is no appetite

What Brexit has shown is that within the UK, Scotland's voice is not

listened to and does not appear to count for much. They are given for

taking control, taking charge of our own future, society and place in the

world becomes ever more strong. The case for Scottish independence was

not credible in 2014 when the people rejected it and it is still not

credible now. What anywhere may not know, given his time out of

politics, is that only around one quarter of people in Scotland want a

second referendum. The killer of a Clydebank schoolgirl

has had his sentence reduced John Letham, who admitted

stabbing Paige Doherty more than 140 times, will now

serve a minimum term Our Home Affairs Correspondent,

Reevel Alderson reports. It was in this shop,

now under new management, that John Leathem ran a

delicatessen and it was here Leathem was jailed at the High Court

in Glasgow for life, with The sentence was

imposed because of the brutality of the killing and also

because he had attempted to dispose At the Appeal Court,

his lawyers argued that he showed genuine remorse and had

never been in trouble before. They also said he had left her body

in a place where it could easily be It was contrasted to

another case in Glasgow. A case that a body has been

attempted to be disposed of in an accident. -- acid bath.

He had also been jailed for a minimum of 27 years

and said that that case was different from that

The judges agreed to reduce his minimum term to 23 years, but

there is no guarantee he will get out after serving that length of

That will be a matter for the parole board,

who will base their decision on how safe the community

will be once John Leathem is released.

The girlfriend of a man who died in a house fire on New Year's Day

has described him as "the love of my life".

Cameron Logan, who died at the family home

in Milngavie was laid to rest today at Clydebank Crematorium.

His brother Blair Logan has been charged with his murder.

Drivers on the M8 have been told to expect together in delay around eBay

listing interchange. Contractors are working on a newly built section of

the motorway. -- second. -- Ballieston.

Rugby, and Edinburgh have lost their Pro 12 league match

The final score was 20 points to 10.

Yes, and looking very cold across most of the country. Saudi border,

largely dried up fairly cloudy. Certainly for tomorrow morning, it

will get off to a rather soggy start for central and western areas, Biggs

of rain. The filly GR, whether getting patchy. Staying dry along

the north Aberdeen child goes. That drain trundles eastwards and intend

to fill out. The afternoon is an improving picture. Across the UK,

edging across northern England and toward northern parts of Wales.

Midlands fairly cloudy and dry any sound with some sunshine certainly

around the London area and overnight to what Hampshire. Mild. Images and

its afternoon around 12 Celsius. The best of any sunshine, up towards the

coast, although the genes. West of best of any sunshine, up towards the

hair, thick clouds and likely to be wet. Rain continuing to fall and a

few heavy showers in the next as well. With a fairly brisk, Southwest

breeze. Into this time tomorrow night and the rain in the north

stars, turning wet. If you're out on the town. Looking towards Sunday,

that weather cleared towards the south of us and reasonably drive.

There is another weather front waiting in the wings but, for many

on Sunday, a dry, cloudy day. Reasonably bright but the building

through the course of the day. Any son, maybe 14 Celsius possible.

There is the next batch of rain heading into the West Coast. Looking

to Monday, importing some subtropical air from the resource,

that means 16 Celsius is possible but it will be fairly cloudy and

also firmly windy. That is the forecast for now. -- -- Azures.