:00:16. > :00:19.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. The news across the nation tonight:
:00:19. > :00:24.An inquiry begins into the suicides of these teenage girls, after they
:00:24. > :00:27.walked out of the care home where they lived.
:00:27. > :00:37.It's the school of hard knocks as figures show just one in five new
:00:37. > :00:43.teachers found permanent, full-time jobs last year. Our rent is up at
:00:43. > :00:47.the end of the month and I am thinking, what are we going to do?
:00:47. > :00:49.And thinking, what will I do now? But ministers say today's figures
:00:49. > :00:52.don't reflect the current situation. Also to come:
:00:52. > :00:56.The billion pound plan to slash rail journey times on one of
:00:56. > :00:59.Scotland's busiest routes. And what job might you avoid if you
:00:59. > :01:09.were highly allergic to wasp stings? Meet the pest controller
:01:09. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:14.who dices with death on a daily An inquiry into the deaths of two
:01:14. > :01:18.girls who jammed together from the Erskine Bridge has heard that one
:01:18. > :01:23.of the teenagers had written a suicide note a year before her
:01:23. > :01:29.death. 15-year-old Neve Lafferty and 14-year-old Georgia Rowe died
:01:29. > :01:35.after falling to their deaths in 2009. Aileen Clarke is at Paisley
:01:35. > :01:39.Sheriff Court. The purpose of this enquiry is to
:01:39. > :01:46.try to determine if any steps could reasonably have been taken to save
:01:46. > :01:50.the lives of these teenagers. 15-year-old Neve Lafferty and 14-
:01:50. > :02:00.year-old Georgia Rowe jumped to their deaths from the Erskine
:02:00. > :02:10.Bridge around 8:30pm on October 4th, 2009. They were both residents of a
:02:10. > :02:13.
:02:13. > :02:22.home where young women with emotional difficulties left. Neve's
:02:22. > :02:29.mother told the court she had separated from Neve's father after
:02:29. > :02:37.he was drinking heavily. Neve witnessed an argument between her
:02:37. > :02:40.father and her friend in which her father was repeatedly stabbed, and
:02:41. > :02:44.another man died. Her mother realised she had been seriously
:02:44. > :02:54.affected by what she had seen when she found a letter that look like a
:02:54. > :03:18.
:03:18. > :03:22.suicide note she had written to a Neve's mother told the inquiry that
:03:22. > :03:28.Neve's behaviour started to deteriorate a few months after that
:03:28. > :03:34.incident. Neve started drinking and shoplifting, and she was taken into
:03:34. > :03:44.care in June, 2008. Around six months before her suicide, her
:03:44. > :03:44.
:03:44. > :03:49.boyfriend died of a drugs overdose. The inquiry heard today that almost
:03:49. > :03:54.a year before she died, Neve was in and out of the Good Shepherd centre.
:03:54. > :03:59.Things were starting to look more positive. On the night she died,
:03:59. > :04:07.her mother took her back to the Good Shepherd centre after a visit
:04:07. > :04:14.home. They had a snap together, and when she took her back to the
:04:14. > :04:19.centre, she waved and they said goodbye, and that was the last time
:04:19. > :04:23.she saw her daughter alive. Just one in five new teachers found
:04:23. > :04:26.permanent full-time jobs after qualifying in Scotland last year,
:04:26. > :04:30.according to a survey by the General Teaching Council. The
:04:30. > :04:39.Scottish Government says the figures do not reflect that
:04:39. > :04:43.situation. Here's Seonag MacKinnon. When Callum signed up for teacher
:04:43. > :04:48.training, a lack of jobs was the last thing he expected. Now he and
:04:48. > :04:52.hundreds like him and having to get used to it. Our rent is up at the
:04:52. > :04:57.end of the month and we are thinking, what are we going to do?
:04:57. > :05:01.We have no job and are thinking, what will I do now? Are latest
:05:02. > :05:08.figures indicate a 5th of new teachers are in full-time permanent
:05:08. > :05:13.jobs. That is compared to almost half three years ago. A falling
:05:14. > :05:17.birth rate over many years has resulted in fewer pupils. There is
:05:17. > :05:21.not the multitude of small classes across the country we expected a
:05:21. > :05:27.few years ago. That is partly because councils are strapped for
:05:27. > :05:32.cash. Many new teachers are leaving Scotland in search of work. Some
:05:32. > :05:37.find temporary posts, but one in six has no work at all. For each
:05:37. > :05:45.individual, it is a crisis. In terms of the overall issue in
:05:45. > :05:48.teaching numbers, a lot of work has been done to tackle this. It has
:05:48. > :05:56.given me a lot of sleepless nights, but I think we are making progress.
:05:56. > :06:02.I think these figures and improving. According to a union leader, the
:06:02. > :06:06.competition for school jobs will only he's if teacher training
:06:06. > :06:13.institutions stop recruiting for at least a year. It would be cruel to
:06:13. > :06:18.let it continue. It is two years of a new graduate's life that they
:06:18. > :06:22.will not get back. It is doing them no use at all. The Education
:06:22. > :06:30.Secretary says he is not keen to deny aspiring teachers the chance
:06:30. > :06:35.to train for work they'd laugh. -- the chance to train for work they
:06:35. > :06:40.love. It seems jobs in general have
:06:40. > :06:45.stalled across the country. There was a fall in the number working
:06:45. > :06:50.and in the size of the labour market. Douglas Fraser is here with
:06:50. > :06:54.the details. No one said economic recovery would
:06:55. > :07:02.be easy, or easy-to-understand. The number of Scott on unemployment
:07:02. > :07:07.benefit was up by 1,200 last month, to just over 139,000. The number of
:07:07. > :07:11.Scots looking for work in February, March and April was down by 10,000,
:07:12. > :07:17.taking the total to 207,000. That has been going down for seven
:07:17. > :07:22.months. The number of people in work was down also by 7,000. It is
:07:22. > :07:31.a setback in what has been an improving trend. Women have fared
:07:31. > :07:34.significantly worse than men. Kelly has been unemployed for six
:07:34. > :07:39.months. She has applied for hundreds of jobs, but has not got
:07:40. > :07:46.any of them. I am unemployed and have been since January. I did work
:07:46. > :07:50.full-time before them, but with trying to get a job, with being
:07:50. > :07:55.unemployed for so long, it is quite hard. I hate to say it, I think it
:07:55. > :08:00.is because they are so many women employed, and I think age is a
:08:00. > :08:06.factor. In the year up to April, female unemployment increased by
:08:07. > :08:10.4.7 %. In the same period, male unemployment decreased 10.2 %.
:08:10. > :08:17.There are concerns that the situation for women is beginning to
:08:17. > :08:20.get worse. That is what this advice centre is seeing. We are seeing
:08:21. > :08:25.mass public sector cut. More women work in the public sector than men
:08:25. > :08:32.in Scotland, which has meant more redundancies for women over the
:08:32. > :08:37.past year. Changes to the benefits system may
:08:37. > :08:43.be skewing the statistics. Kelly is hoping for her dream job in
:08:43. > :08:47.pharmaceuticals. She is determined to buck the trend.
:08:47. > :08:51.Another signal of low confidence in the Scottish economy, retail sales
:08:51. > :08:59.were down last month, the biggest fall since this survey began 12
:08:59. > :09:05.years ago. That is despite rising prices. Spending was pulled back,
:09:05. > :09:12.not just on big-ticket items, but also clothing. April saw a boost
:09:12. > :09:18.for sales, but Mary, we reverted to a winter wardrobe.
:09:18. > :09:22.We are still wearing yet! Still to come: Living history. How studying
:09:22. > :09:31.past battles is helping modern-day soldiers.
:09:31. > :09:35.In sport, we have transferred news and lots of eight. We are in the
:09:35. > :09:44.USA talking to the Scot who has been tipped as a contender in the
:09:44. > :09:47.US Open golf. A Alex Salmond has been accused of
:09:47. > :09:52.losing the plot after he lost an attack on one of Scotland's most
:09:52. > :10:02.experienced judges, describing his rulings as extreme. The First
:10:02. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:08.Minister is angry with the decision. Here's Raymond Buchanan.
:10:08. > :10:12.One makes law, the other end forces it. Judges and ministers have
:10:12. > :10:22.separate jobs to do, but Alex Salmond has decided to take on Lord
:10:22. > :10:23.
:10:23. > :10:26.Hope. The First Minister to a belated Holyrood Magazine that Lord
:10:26. > :10:31.Coe's judgments are extreme, leading to the vilest people on the
:10:31. > :10:35.planet getting lots of money off the public purse. He is talking
:10:35. > :10:38.about rulings like this. As there were no compelling reasons for
:10:39. > :10:44.restricting the right in this case, the appeal must be allowed...
:10:44. > :10:48.year, Lord Hope led the panel which outlawed Scottish police
:10:48. > :10:54.questioning suspects without giving them access to legal advice. It led
:10:54. > :10:57.to hundreds of prosecutions being abandoned. Last month, this.
:10:57. > :11:02.court held that the trial would have been significantly different
:11:02. > :11:06.if the undisclosed evidence had been available. The Supreme Court
:11:06. > :11:10.ruled a businessman's human rights were breached during a murder trial.
:11:10. > :11:15.Those decisions have convinced Alex Salmond that the UK Supreme Court
:11:15. > :11:20.is undermining the independence of Scots law. He would prefer human
:11:20. > :11:26.rights rulings to be made in Europe, not London. The First Minister is
:11:26. > :11:32.now being accused of battling the man, and not just the system.
:11:32. > :11:36.has decided he does not like the judgments made by the court, so he
:11:36. > :11:43.lays into individual judges, like Lord Hope. I wonder whether he has
:11:43. > :11:48.lost the plot, whether the power has gone to his head. He needs to
:11:48. > :11:52.get it under control. This is not doing Scotland any good. Today, Mr
:11:52. > :11:56.Salmond's colleagues have been keen to dampen down the row. The First
:11:56. > :12:00.Minister gave an interview a few weeks ago when this issue was
:12:00. > :12:05.acting very intense level and had a great deal of heat in it. Since
:12:05. > :12:13.that time, we have taken this issue forward. An expert group is
:12:13. > :12:17.examining the rule in Scots law. Its fees are expected shortly.
:12:17. > :12:20.Some of the other stories across Scotland.
:12:20. > :12:27.And 19-year-old student from Craigellachie has died in a
:12:27. > :12:31.climbing accident in the French Alps. Robbie Cammack fell 1,300 ft
:12:31. > :12:36.after reportedly becoming trapped on the mountain of Aiguille du Midi
:12:37. > :12:40.last week. A 200 metre exclusion zone has been
:12:40. > :12:44.put in force by firefighters after a major blaze in Lanarkshire. Gas
:12:44. > :12:49.cylinders were being stored in Cleland when the blaze began.
:12:49. > :12:52.The Green Party leader Patrick Harvie has criticised the Scottish
:12:52. > :12:56.Parliament for inviting the President of what he described as a
:12:56. > :13:01.homophobic University to address MSPs. Today's time for reflection
:13:01. > :13:05.was led by Cecil Samuelson of Brigham Young University in Salt
:13:05. > :13:09.Lake City. University is run by the Mormon. The Presiding Officer we
:13:09. > :13:17.defended the invitation, saying that time for reflection of rules
:13:17. > :13:22.Ideas for regenerating Aberdeen city centre had been put forward by
:13:22. > :13:29.the area's business community. It is all the 20 suggestions will
:13:29. > :13:36.stimulate a debate on the city's future. Aberdeen's flagship St, but
:13:36. > :13:39.many feel it has seen better days. The closure of this music shop is
:13:39. > :13:45.another nail in the coffin of Union Street, and business leaders want
:13:45. > :13:49.to stimulate the debate on this area's future. It really is sad in
:13:49. > :13:59.many ways to see many of the local heritage buildings looking so
:13:59. > :14:00.
:14:00. > :14:05.sleepy and tired. The exodus of shops from Union Street.
:14:05. > :14:09.concern is a controversial plan to raise the level of these Victorian
:14:09. > :14:13.gardens has overshadowed the desire to develop a wider City Centre.
:14:13. > :14:20.Despite the objections, a shortlisting of designers is about
:14:20. > :14:23.to begin, with claims that a suitable plan can be found. If in
:14:23. > :14:31.our choice of a lead scheme we pay serious attention to the
:14:31. > :14:38.conservation needs, we will know it when we see it, and a scheme can be
:14:38. > :14:43.provided that will appeal to the Aberdeen community. The idea being
:14:43. > :14:50.put forward for the city centre is a far-ranging one. While many bets
:14:50. > :14:53.will not materialise, it is about putting development on the agenda.
:14:53. > :15:01.There's a suggestion that the buildings are joined together with
:15:01. > :15:06.walkways for at winter. There are suggestions that different parts of
:15:06. > :15:12.Union Street should be concentrated on. With the decay becoming ever
:15:12. > :15:16.more noticeable, that is being seen as a priority. Rail users are being
:15:16. > :15:23.asked to give their views on plans to improve train travel in central
:15:23. > :15:27.Scotland. The Scottish Government and Network Rail are to invest �1
:15:27. > :15:32.billion in the next few years, with the aim of cutting journey times
:15:32. > :15:37.between Edinburgh and Glasgow to 37 minutes. So far, the scheme has not
:15:37. > :15:43.attracted much public attention. Rush-hour at Waverley Station.
:15:43. > :15:46.These days, more and more commuters are taking the train. The Edinburgh
:15:47. > :15:52.to Glasgow railway line is already the busiest in Scotland, carrying
:15:52. > :15:58.as many as 7 million passengers a year. This investment means it will
:15:58. > :16:05.get busier still. Rail bosses argue there will be economic benefits for
:16:05. > :16:09.the whole Scotland. The economists will tell you that Freni met -- any
:16:09. > :16:15.minute you reduce the journey time, you inject a lot of money into the
:16:15. > :16:20.economy. After the chance fiasco, can we trust anyone who tells us
:16:20. > :16:24.transport projects will be delivered on time and on budget?
:16:24. > :16:31.have delivered the end 74 under budget, around �80 million under
:16:31. > :16:35.budget. The other motorway will be completed ahead of schedule. There
:16:35. > :16:44.are projects in the West of Scotland, they have been delivered
:16:44. > :16:48.on budget. Services across central Scotland will be improved, and 350
:16:48. > :16:55.kilometres of track will be electrified. The project is due to
:16:55. > :17:02.be completed in five years. We are going back in time now. Most
:17:02. > :17:06.of us know the Battle of Culloden Saab Bonnie Prince Charlie defeated
:17:06. > :17:11.by the Duke of Cumberland. But what can today's soldiers learn from the
:17:11. > :17:18.battle? At course at the sight of the battle aims to help Scots
:17:18. > :17:25.officer cadets understand the strategies used to. Our reporter
:17:25. > :17:34.joined them. Peering through the fog of war, created by an
:17:35. > :17:39.eighteenth-century cannon. But this is not just military heritage.
:17:39. > :17:43.Historians and modern strategists apparently got much in common.
:17:43. > :17:50.read the landscape, and that is what an army opposite us. They do
:17:50. > :17:55.it for a very different purpose, but they will come together and
:17:55. > :17:59.learned. How to fight and not a fight a battle at Culloden. As well
:17:59. > :18:03.as learning about military skill and battle craft, the cadets are
:18:03. > :18:11.also gaining some kind of insight into what it was like to be a
:18:11. > :18:19.soldier back then. The trials and tribulations of loading up musket.
:18:19. > :18:25.It was not too bad to a net. -- aiming it was not too bad. It is
:18:26. > :18:29.almost as tall as I am. It was quite difficult. Candidate's
:18:29. > :18:37.soldier really learn anything from victories or mistakes of the last
:18:37. > :18:43.land battle fought on British soil? The nature of warfare is a constant,
:18:43. > :18:47.it is that they never going to plan and that is always the same. The
:18:47. > :18:51.individual wins combat. Some of these cadets could be the top brass
:18:51. > :18:59.of the future. Staring down the barrel of history may teach them
:18:59. > :19:03.vital lessons for their military careers.
:19:03. > :19:08.Time for the sport. A couple of golfers are flying the flag for
:19:08. > :19:13.Scotland in America. They are indeed. The US Open starts
:19:13. > :19:18.tomorrow. There are two Scots tomorrow. Stephen Gallagher and
:19:18. > :19:21.Martin Laird will participate. Martin Laird is based in the United
:19:21. > :19:24.States and has already won a tournament there. He is being
:19:24. > :19:34.tipped as a real contender. Our reporter is at the course in
:19:34. > :19:38.Maryland. Welcome to the Congressional Country Club. This is
:19:38. > :19:45.one of America's picture perfect golf courses on the outskirts of
:19:45. > :19:49.Washington DC. It is a course that befits the hosting of the US Open.
:19:49. > :19:54.This year, a Scotsman is being quietly fancied to turn the form
:19:54. > :19:59.book on its head and get inside the top 10. Martin Laird, the American-
:19:59. > :20:05.based Scotsman. Number 25 in the world. I caught up with him earlier,
:20:05. > :20:11.and he is quietly confident. definitely feel comfortable on this
:20:11. > :20:19.golf course. I have been playing well this year, and it has a good
:20:19. > :20:29.set-up. I have been driving the ball well be some way. If I can do
:20:29. > :20:34.that this week, I can have a chance. Martin Laird there. I am joined by
:20:34. > :20:42.a local journalist, what you think about Martin Laird? Martin Laird is
:20:42. > :20:46.definitely on the radar screen. He won a competition earlier in the US,
:20:46. > :20:51.and if you can win here you are a great player. Martin Laird falls
:20:51. > :21:00.into that category. It will not be a surprise if he is in the next.
:21:00. > :21:07.Thank you very much. He tees off 1:13pm. Stephen Gallagher tees off
:21:07. > :21:11.at the same time. Andy Murray has been seeded 4th for this year's
:21:11. > :21:15.Wimbledon tennis. The All-England championships start on Monday. He
:21:15. > :21:23.goes into the tournament on apply after lifting the Aegon title at
:21:23. > :21:26.Queen's earlier this week. Rafael Nadal is the top seed, Novak
:21:26. > :21:32.Djokovic his second, and Roger Federer his third. Gary O'Connor is
:21:32. > :21:37.a Hibernian player again. He signed a one-year contract. He has 16
:21:37. > :21:41.Scotland caps, and left Easter Road for Lokomotiv Moscow five years ago.
:21:41. > :21:46.He also played for Birmingham City, but has been looking for a club
:21:46. > :21:53.since been released by Barnsley in April. Talks between Rangers and
:21:53. > :21:58.Tomer Hemed are continuing. Ally McCoist hopes to make him his first
:21:58. > :22:01.signing of the summer. The club are also talking to Craig Conway. He is
:22:01. > :22:07.available after his contract with Dundee United finished at the end
:22:07. > :22:12.of the season. We only started officially -- he only started
:22:12. > :22:16.officially today, but Kenny Shiels has already signed one new player
:22:16. > :22:25.at Kilmarnock. He was caretaker boss, and has been given a one-year
:22:25. > :22:32.contract. He has signed Paul Heffernan. Hopefully I can get into
:22:32. > :22:40.the box and score some goals. I like scoring tap-ins. How many
:22:40. > :22:46.other players are you actively pursuing? We are on the verge of
:22:46. > :22:56.three other players. I am not going to dive in and get people because
:22:56. > :22:56.
:22:56. > :23:04.they are players, I want the right ones. Do you one remember this
:23:05. > :23:14.person? It is John Spencer. These days, he manages Portland Timbers.
:23:14. > :23:24.He has become a big cake and not just for his day job. Fasten your
:23:24. > :23:35.
:23:36. > :23:42.seatbelts, using this technology. Alaska Airlines offers priority
:23:42. > :23:47.boarding for anyone wearing a Portland Timbers jersey. Fantastic.
:23:47. > :23:51.Enjoying your job is one thing, but the you love it enough to risk your
:23:51. > :23:56.life every time you clock on? That is the situation Barrie Montgomery
:23:56. > :24:00.finds himself in. If he is stung by a wasp, he suffers a serious
:24:00. > :24:07.allergic reaction. Despite being hospitalised numerous times, he
:24:07. > :24:11.says it will not stop him. For Barrie Montgomery, protective
:24:11. > :24:16.clothing is more than just simple commonsense. He approaches every
:24:16. > :24:21.job knowing that if he is stung he will going to shock. It is a
:24:21. > :24:25.potentially fatal reaction he first experienced two years ago. My hands
:24:25. > :24:31.and feet started burning, I struggled for breath, my face
:24:31. > :24:35.swelled up, it was scary. I thought that was it. In the course of the
:24:35. > :24:40.season, he will come into contact with millions of Wasps. Each one is
:24:40. > :24:49.a potential danger. Twice a year they land him in hospital. Does he
:24:49. > :24:57.ever think he should change his career? Not until now. Even then,
:24:57. > :25:05.it is no contest, I will keep doing it. I love it. Portable adrenalin
:25:05. > :25:12.provides some reassurance, and the best defence is avoiding Wasps.
:25:12. > :25:17.Hence an up, or -- an upcoming Winter wedding. The timing is good
:25:17. > :25:24.as it is after my dad's birthday. I do not want to get stung before my
:25:24. > :25:34.wedding. He will take his chances with an angry wasp, and angry
:25:34. > :25:34.
:25:34. > :25:37.fiance is another thing entirely. fiance is another thing entirely.
:25:37. > :25:45.The weather forecast now, and today was a warm day across the country.
:25:45. > :25:49.We saw a top temperature of 21 Celsius. It was also quite cloudy.
:25:49. > :25:55.Then our clearing skies pushing into the West. That is the picture
:25:56. > :26:01.for this evening. Earlier today, we had this band of patchy rain
:26:01. > :26:05.putting across the country. That will linger across the North East.
:26:05. > :26:11.We could see some heavy bursts of rain this evening meal. Elsewhere,
:26:11. > :26:20.it is dry with clear spells developing. It will be mild, with
:26:20. > :26:26.lows of 10. Tomorrow morning will be dry and bright. In the Shetlands,
:26:26. > :26:36.it will stay wet. As we go through the day, and as temperatures back-
:26:36. > :26:38.
:26:38. > :26:41.up, we will see showers developing. It will be attached cooler. -- it
:26:41. > :26:46.will be a bit cooler, but this is where we will see the best of the
:26:46. > :26:52.sunny spells. We will see temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees in
:26:52. > :26:57.the east coast. Tomorrow evening, the showers will gradually peter
:26:57. > :27:03.out, and we should see a dry end to the day. That will remain that way
:27:03. > :27:11.overnight. The pressure charts now, and here is that from that was
:27:11. > :27:19.cutting through today. That is moving away to Norway. Hopefully it
:27:19. > :27:24.will scarred by S. We should have showers, but not too wet. Staying
:27:24. > :27:31.with the warm air, temperatures will be around 18 degrees. Already
:27:31. > :27:38.thinking about the weekend, it when it will be showery. There will be
:27:38. > :27:42.sunny spells on Sunday. That is all. Now a summary of the top stories,
:27:42. > :27:45.an inquiry into the death of the two girls to jump from the Erskine
:27:45. > :27:51.Bridge has heard that one of the girls wrote a suicide note idea
:27:51. > :27:57.before her death. Neve Lafferty and Georgia Rowe fell to their deaths