28/02/2017 Reporting Scotland

The families of the two Scots couples killed in the Tunisia terror

attacks last June have been speaking of the devastating

Today the coroner delivered his conclusion at the inquest.

He found that all 30 Britons were unlawfully killed.

Cameron Buttle was at that hearing for us and sent this report.

It was a holiday the celebrate the beginning of a retirement they'd

both worked so hard for. Anne and Jim from Cumbernauld were in their

60s. As they enjoyed their holiday, a terrorist cell was watching their

hotel. It was seen as a soft target for

. Jim died on the way to hospital after waiting 20 minutes with a

gunshot wound to his pelvis. Their family watched the final day of the

invest via video link. Three weeks before Jim and Anne were killed, my

wife and I retired and we had a party. And that was the last time

the whole family were together. Unfortunately, in the aftermath of

what happened in Tunisia, we lost another sister-in-law who died three

weeks after the incident. So the whole family's been in shock really

for the past year-and-a-half. Lisa and Billy Graham were celebrating

their wedding anniversary at the resort. The couple from Perthshire

ran into the hotel to get away from the gunman but, as this hotel CCTV

shows, the gunman followed them upstairs. He caught them on the

first floor and shot them both once upstairs. He caught them on the

in the chest. They died in the corridor. Today at the inquest, the

judge was highly critical of the Tunisian Security Forces, saying

there were only three unarmed guards on duty at the hotel when the

shooting started and two of them ran away and one hid. He said the police

response was at best shambolic, at worst cowardly. He said there was a

specialist response unit nearby minutes away but it returned to base

to get more weapons. The judge said, this was a deliberate and

unjustifiable delay. Security Forces eventually cornered the gunman

outside the hotel and gunned him down. He'd been shot 20 times. I

don't think there'll be any total closure on it until such time as we

hear what recommendations are going to be made by the coroner. I think

that'll probably help us then. The judge said that there were

endless what ifs, what if there were more guards, more security cameras,

better travel advice. But ultimately, he said it was a sudden

and unexpected attack, and it would have made little difference.

There are calls for the Scottish Government to curb alcohol

advertising in a bid to protect children.

Alcohol Focus Scotland said there was clear evidence that

exposure to alcohol marketing through sports sponsorship

and public adverts led children to start drinking at a younger age.

Alcohol marketing is all around us. We often see it in sports like rugby

and football. And Scotland's best-known music festival is named

after the brewer which sponsors it. Now the charity, alcohol Focus

Scotland, says this kind of marketing is enticing children to

drink at an earlier age. But does the man in charge of Tea in the Park

think this is the problem. I don't think alcohol sponsorship per se is

an issue in itself. I think people's approaches to alcohol is where the

problems are, the cheap availability of alcohol is a real problem. So was

there enough evidence to link advertising to consumption? If

children are exposed to it and you can measure that by just simply

asking them what they've seen and you can see that a 13-year-old who

has seen a lot of alcohol marketing is more likely to drink, not just

then but you go back to them a year or two later. Tobacco advertising

has been banned since 2002. The authors of the report says that

played a huge part in the nation's health and they want similar

restrictions for alcohol. But would that make a difference to young

people today? There should be a cutdown on how much is shown on TV

and bill boards and stuff because young people who maybe don't have an

understanding of the effects of alcohol will see vodka adverts and

understand it's not a really strong spirit. I drink for pleasure with

friends and I see more marketing against alcohol than I do for

alcohol. The Scottish Government wants to tackle problem drinking

through minimum alcohol pricing but that policy's been delayed because

of legal action. Ministers say they'll study today's report while

continuing to press the UK Government which has responsibility

for broadcast advertising. The first minister, Nicola Sturgeon,

is accusing the Conservatives of attempting to use Brexit

to unpick the powers Her political rivals say she's

scaremongering to boost the case Our political correspondent

Glenn Campbell reports. It's no surprise that Nicola

Sturgeon believes the UK system doesn't serve the Scottish

Government well, Mo surprise she sees the Brexit vote where Scotland

voted one way and the UK as a whole voted the other as an illustration

of that. This evening, she's not jumped the rhetoric a little,

accusing some Conservatives of trying to use Brexit to

fundamentally undermine the existing devolution settlement. The promises

the leave campaign made in the EU referendum that a Brexit vote would

almost see swathes of new powers repatriated from Brussels to

Holyrood, there is not yet any real guarantee that the Scottish

Parliament and other devolved administrations won't in fact be

stripped of some of our existing powers. In my view, and it's a very

strong view, the post-Brexit landscape, would and should demand a

rebalancing of powers across the UK. I think she's particularly worried

that fishing and farming powers could be eroded, rather than

enHaned. But her political opponents have hit back. Labour say she's

scaremongering. The Conservatives say this is synthetic grievance,

more about making the case for another independence referendum. The

UK Government say they've made clear that they don't intend to take any

powers back from the Scottish Parliament and that they will use

the Brexit process to look for ways of giving devolved Members of

Parliament and assemblies more power.

MSPs have been told compensation for survivors of childhood abuse

in Scotland, could reach at least ?200 million.

Holyrood's Justice Committee has been taking evidence on a government

Bill to allow victims of abuse, to claim compensation beyond

Here's our Home affairs correspondent, Reevel Alderson.

Charities say few child victims of sexual abuse report the offence

within eight years, but the law allows victims three years to sue

their abuser, that's why the Government wants to extend the

so-called time bar back to 1964. How much will the cost of compensation

be? A small inquiry into institutional child abuse in Jersey

may give a guide, the committee was told. You have an average cost of

around ?40,000 and in Scotland that would involve about ?200 million if

we had the same kind of numbers which would be around 5,000 in

Scotland. So the scale of this, even at its potentially lowest level is

highly significant. The Government estimated its Bill would result in

2,200 court actions. Police say records they've examined of just one

former force, Strathclyde, going back just 17 years, suggests that's

a serious underestimate. We've found or we have catalogued for those

specific types of terms of reference just less than 2,300 files. That

said, we have 4,400 victims. MSPs wanted to know who'd pay the cost of

legal actions which could affect the services voluntary groups and

services provide. Would the Government step in? It should be

adequately resourced and if local authorities cannot meet those

resources, absolutely there should be extra funds available to cover

that and it may well be circumstances in which local

authorities didn't have insurance and then you get significant amounts

of claims coming in. So that will be of serious and significant impact to

local authorities, yes. The Government said it's consulting on

the issue of financial redress, but it added: All bodies who have

liability are required in law to meet that.

Police searching for a missing teenage girl from North Ayshire

believe she may have travelled to England to meet with

16-year-old Abbey Lewis was last seen late on Sunday evening

She was heading towards the train station.

It is thought Abbey may be trying to get to the Birmingham area

to meet someone she met on the internet.

Police investigating the rape of a woman in a Renfrewshire

village, revisited the scene of the attack last night and spoke

The woman was attacked behind the Wallace Primary School

Officers want to find a man who is described as white

Local residents are also being asked to check their gardens and bins

for any unfamiliar items of discarded clothing.

Football; Hamilton beat Aberdeen 1-0 in the Scottish Premiership tonight.

The home side scored in the ninth minute through Mikey Devlin and held

The result moves Hamilton off the bottom of the table

Now it's over to Kirsteen with the weather.

Thank you very much. Good evening to you. Tomorrow marks the beginning of

the meteorological spring. However, we still have some wintry conditions

in the forecast over the next couple of days. Certainly tonight, wintry

showers continuing in the north, given some slight accumulations of

snow to low levels, especially across inland areas. Otherwise dry

with a widespread frost and a risk of ice on any untreated roads and

surfaces as skies clear at times in the north and temperatures fall to

around freezing if not just below. That's continues into tomorrow

morning. Around 8 o'clock, perhaps cloudier

skies across the far south-west at times with one or two showers

affecting these areas. For the most part of southern, central and

eastern Scotland, it's a dry, cold, frosty start with plenty of sunshine

developing. A few showers remain in the Western Isles, the north-west

Highlands and in towards the Northern Isles, again wintry in

nature. As we go through the day, they'll become fewer and further

between and generally the snow level will be across the mountains, hills

and highest levels. Lower ground it will be sleet. A lot of dry weather

in the day with some sunshine. A chilly feel, however, across the

north. For the rest of the UK, after a dry, bright start, the rain

continues to push in during the afternoon. As it tracks north-east

during tomorrow evening, it may begin to fall as snow over the hills

and high ground and, all the while, winds strengthening across the far

south-west, gale force gusts, so all in all perhaps some tricky Driving

conditions here into tomorrow evening. Wintry showers again across

the north of Scotland for a time. Generally they'll become fewer and

lighter during the day. A bright and breezy day to come for many of us,

plenty of sunshine around. Some rain arriving into the south-west later

and temperatures ranging from around six to 11. That's the forecast.

Thank you. That is Reporting Scotland. The next update is at

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