:00:15. > :00:18.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news: An
:00:18. > :00:22.unrepentant First Minister, Alex Salmond, refuses to bow to pressure
:00:22. > :00:30.and apologise for his controversial attack on senior legal figures in a
:00:30. > :00:37.magazine article. Well he out -- apologise for these outrageous
:00:37. > :00:42.remarks. Opposition parties say he should
:00:42. > :00:46."grow up" and say sorry. Also to come: An inquiry into the
:00:46. > :00:50.suicide of a teenage girl hears how she'd once fantasised about being
:00:50. > :00:52.taken into care after watching a children's TV show.
:00:52. > :00:57.A mystery benefactor offers thousands of pounds to make sure
:00:57. > :01:01.pupils at a Lanarkshire school can afford its new uniform.
:01:01. > :01:11.And we report from the red carpet as the stars come out in force for
:01:11. > :01:14.The First Minister has repeatedly refused to apologise for an
:01:14. > :01:18.outspoken attack on senior Scottish legal figures. Alex Salmond was
:01:18. > :01:20.told to "grow up" by Labour leader Iain Gray as he came under
:01:20. > :01:24.sustained questioning from opposition leaders during Question
:01:24. > :01:27.Time at Holyrood. They rounded on him for the comments he made in a
:01:27. > :01:35.magazine interview, and accused him of undermining the independence of
:01:35. > :01:41.the judiciary. Our political editor, Brian Taylor, reports.
:01:41. > :01:45.Trial by Parliament. Alex Salmond's opponents believes he went over the
:01:45. > :01:55.top for criticising the UK Supreme Court for intervening in Scottish
:01:55. > :01:57.
:01:57. > :02:04.cases. Perhaps Tony Kelly is considering to sue or for saying
:02:04. > :02:09.that Lord Hope had extreme political consequences for his
:02:09. > :02:14.intervention. Scottish lawyers aren't happy. The whole profession
:02:14. > :02:18.was upset and alarmed by the type of comments being made about a
:02:18. > :02:23.senior member of the judiciary and a senior solicitor who is only
:02:23. > :02:29.carrying out his duty to the Court and his client. Iain Gray reckons
:02:29. > :02:34.it adds up to an attack on judicial independence and he accused the
:02:34. > :02:38.First Minister of losing the plot. Grow up, own up and apologise so
:02:38. > :02:45.this debate can move on and be conducted in the way it should have
:02:45. > :02:50.been in the word go. Will he apologise? Mr Salmond said he had a
:02:50. > :02:56.duty to speak out when the autonomy of Scots law was under threat from
:02:56. > :03:00.a London court. It is a real issue. The integrity of the judicial of
:03:00. > :03:04.Scotland is set matter of public concern that was never meant to be
:03:04. > :03:11.second-guessed in the way that is happening. Annabel Goldie tried
:03:11. > :03:17.again, she is a lawyer. The First Minister's has obscured the real
:03:17. > :03:21.issue and has made a laughing stock of Alex Salmond and has diminished
:03:21. > :03:26.the Office of First Minister in this Parliament. Will he now
:03:26. > :03:36.apologise for bringing the Office of First Minister into disrepute?
:03:36. > :03:39.
:03:39. > :03:44.No. Someone also added to the charge seat. His refusal to
:03:44. > :03:48.withdraw is embarrassing for him, this Parliament and Scotland.
:03:49. > :03:53.controversy resurfaced over the case of Matt Frazer convicted of
:03:53. > :03:58.murder. The Supreme Court ruled he had not had a fair hearing and
:03:58. > :04:04.tomorrow a High Court will decide whether to order a retrial.
:04:04. > :04:09.We can speak to Brian Taylor now. It has been a tough day for Mr
:04:09. > :04:14.Salmond. He is stressing the independence of the judiciary was
:04:14. > :04:18.entrenched by it an act of this very Parliament but the opposition
:04:18. > :04:23.ms Peakes are pointing out that one element of that is that the First
:04:23. > :04:29.Minister is obliged to defend, up holed and support the judiciary.
:04:29. > :04:34.Alex Salmond is adamant he has a duty to speak up when he feels the
:04:34. > :04:39.position of Scots law is undermined. He seems to want the debate to move
:04:39. > :04:43.on from his controversial remarks to a more considered attempt to
:04:43. > :04:47.address the situation. When a politician wants to move on, it is
:04:47. > :04:49.normally because they are uncomfortable with where they are.
:04:49. > :04:52.Nominations for the Inverclyde by- election for Westminster have
:04:52. > :04:56.closed with just five candidates standing. The four main parties -
:04:56. > :05:00.Labour, the SNP, the Lib Dems and Tories - are each contesting the
:05:00. > :05:04.seat, while UKIP has also fielded a candidate. Voters go to the polls
:05:04. > :05:07.on June 30th to elect a successor to Labour MP David Cairns, who had
:05:07. > :05:14.a majority of more than 14,000 votes, following his death in May
:05:14. > :05:18.from pancreatitis at the age of 44. A teenage girl who was living in
:05:18. > :05:20.care when she jumped to her death from the Erskine Bridge, had
:05:20. > :05:24.fantasised about being taken into care after watching the hit
:05:24. > :05:27.children's TV show Tracy Beaker. The revelation came as an inquiry
:05:27. > :05:30.into the suicides of 15-year-old Neve Lafferty and Georgia Rowe, who
:05:31. > :05:34.was 14, heard a second day of evidence from Neve's mother. She
:05:34. > :05:42.said her daughter had watched the programme as a young girl. Aileen
:05:42. > :05:46.Clarke reports. This is the photograph of Neve
:05:46. > :05:52.Lafferty just months before she jumped from the Erskine Bridge. Two
:05:52. > :05:58.years before heard death, she sent a different fate it to her cousin
:05:58. > :06:05.taken on a mobile phone. It showed where she had/Tehran lot more than
:06:05. > :06:10.25 times - lots of red, and Greek wounds. Her mother, Collette
:06:10. > :06:15.Bysouth, told the inquiry she had her daughter referred to a
:06:15. > :06:20.psychiatrist but it had continued, the self harming. The following
:06:20. > :06:26.April, Neve had slashed her wrists. The inquiry heard how things came
:06:26. > :06:30.to a head two months later after Neve insult -- assaulted a pupil.
:06:30. > :06:36.That this time, she was living with her father and could not cope with
:06:36. > :06:42.her behaviour as he was a heroin addict. She insisted to be taken
:06:42. > :06:46.into care. Another said that Neve watched Tracy beaker when she was
:06:46. > :06:51.younger and she thought growing up in a children's home would be fun.
:06:51. > :07:01.It came to the point of her being taken into care but she was quite
:07:01. > :07:14.
:07:14. > :07:18.upset and she said, "why did I have a junkie dad?" Neve -- Neves... At
:07:18. > :07:24.the Good Shepherd Centre where she was staying, she told staff she was
:07:24. > :07:28.going to walk to the bridge. She was placed in a secure unit for hut
:07:28. > :07:38.and safety. Her mother said she should have been made to have
:07:38. > :07:41.
:07:41. > :07:50.counselling while she was there up You are watching Reporting Scotland.
:07:50. > :08:00.Still to come: Keeping traditions alive - a new film aims to preserve
:08:00. > :08:06.Scottish folklore for the future. wanted to go to my maternal
:08:06. > :08:10.grandfather and record all his stuff. It never happened.
:08:10. > :08:16.Be in sport: Scottish bosses are all the rage in England and we meet
:08:16. > :08:21.-- needs some fans they -- you are reading their club is about to
:08:21. > :08:26.appoint one. Find out why this film clue -- crew is playing would be at
:08:26. > :08:30.an Edinburgh score. Figures have emerged showing the
:08:30. > :08:37.cost of the controversial you lead Denny power line has more than
:08:37. > :08:47.doubled. The new 600 million kind upright -- price tag will be met by
:08:47. > :08:51.
:08:51. > :08:56.it electricity consumers. How much Harnessing the power of Scotland
:08:56. > :09:04.comes at a cost and the price tag is bigger than we thought. The new
:09:04. > :09:11.power line will run for 137 miles. There will be 600 pie longs, some
:09:11. > :09:16.more than 200 feet high. The project has always been a hugely
:09:16. > :09:23.controversial because the We'll run through many of Scotland's most
:09:23. > :09:30.cherished landscapes. In 2004, the line was expected to cost �331
:09:30. > :09:35.million but the price now is likely to be �600 million. The jump in
:09:35. > :09:39.price is down to inflation and moves to limit the visual impact of
:09:39. > :09:47.the. Campaigners say Scottish and Southern Energy as ScottishPower
:09:47. > :09:53.should have seen it coming. thought the prize would go up
:09:53. > :09:59.anyway but to go up by nearly 100% business elite incredible. The cost
:09:59. > :10:01.of maintaining and improving the electricity network is met by
:10:01. > :10:07.consumers but the industry regulator says there is no need to
:10:07. > :10:13.worry. It argues that the entire cost of the upgrade will be just
:10:13. > :10:18.10p a year for consumers right across the UK. The UK will have to
:10:18. > :10:28.invest something like �200 billion in replacing -- replacing his power
:10:28. > :10:29.
:10:29. > :10:33.stations with new, cleaner forms of power. Frankly, we are fitting the
:10:33. > :10:37.bill for years of under-investment. Big companies and building the line
:10:37. > :10:42.say it is vital to Scotland's economic future and construction
:10:42. > :10:46.will beat -- begin later this year. The parents of a child who was
:10:46. > :10:48.paralysed from the neck down after a delivery by forceps have been
:10:48. > :10:52.awarded an undisclosed amount of compensation in an out-of-court
:10:52. > :10:55.settlement. The couple were seeking �23 million in damages from Greater
:10:55. > :10:59.Glasgow Health Board for the child who will need 24-hour care for the
:10:59. > :11:02.rest of his life. The settlement is unusual in that it involves
:11:02. > :11:10.payments in stages during the child's lifetime to avoid the
:11:10. > :11:14.danger of a lump sum being too much or too little.
:11:14. > :11:19.A mystery benefactor is offering to pay thousands of pounds to make
:11:19. > :11:25.sure pupils can afford his new uniform. Some parents have said
:11:25. > :11:28.they would struggle to find the money for a new blazer as requested
:11:28. > :11:33.by the head teacher of Bellshill Academy.
:11:33. > :11:42.It is just bits and pieces of cloth coloured and striped but these
:11:43. > :11:48.young people want the uniform. makes everyone look like we are
:11:48. > :11:55.players on the same team. We were the only school that weren't
:11:55. > :11:59.wearing blazers. Other pupils looked really smart. Somewhere
:11:59. > :12:06.nearby, its support from a surprising source. The donor,
:12:06. > :12:13.thought to be a local businessman, is contributing �10 to the �28 bill
:12:13. > :12:18.for each child which adds up to a cool �6,000. It is our chance to
:12:18. > :12:26.continue to raise our standards... This head teacher says pupils who
:12:26. > :12:34.dress better do better. He said, I don't think I did as well because I
:12:34. > :12:38.didn't have my blazer on and he meant that. We come into work and
:12:38. > :12:45.we are dressed to raise our own standards and I think the people
:12:45. > :12:51.here are very committed to it. There were doubts side? We have not
:12:51. > :12:55.got people being judgmental. They are all the same say you will not
:12:55. > :13:04.get kits being victimised. There is a lot of time later on in life to
:13:04. > :13:09.be different. At school, you should all be fairly similar. We passed
:13:09. > :13:16.some schoolkids and every group of girls we passed were wearing a
:13:16. > :13:21.strong perfumes. I would hate to be a teacher do Dale! In half an hour,
:13:21. > :13:31.we couldn't find one person against. The head teacher hopes to find
:13:31. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:36.Police investigating the death of and 88-year-old man who was
:13:36. > :13:43.attacked in an underpass in Sterling have made an arrest. John
:13:43. > :13:46.Gillespie died six days after he was found injured at the under pass
:13:47. > :13:51.in the city on April 9th. A 50- year-old man is expected to appear
:13:51. > :13:58.in court tomorrow. An offshore worker has died after falling
:13:58. > :14:03.overboard from a North Sea oil platform. The 37-year-old was
:14:03. > :14:07.rescued from the water and taken to a supply vessel where he
:14:07. > :14:13.subsequently died. It is not known where the man is from but police
:14:13. > :14:18.say his family have been informed. A man has died after falling from
:14:19. > :14:24.scaffolding in Dundee. The 57-year- old was working with a colleague
:14:24. > :14:33.that allows in the city. He died at the scene despite the efforts of
:14:33. > :14:37.paramedics. Forget London, New York, Paris and Milan. Last night Glasgow
:14:37. > :14:42.was at the centre of the fashion world as it hosted the Scottish
:14:43. > :14:52.Fashion Awards. Celebrities were out in force for a Gaelic dinner at
:14:53. > :14:53.
:14:53. > :14:59.the city's Science Centre. No question, it was Scotland's most
:14:59. > :15:04.glamourous night of the year. The great and the good worthier. Models,
:15:04. > :15:10.actresses, the Prime Minister's wife and even a genuine superstar.
:15:10. > :15:14.They were all here to celebrate Scotland's fashion success. I love
:15:14. > :15:20.coming to Scotland, especially Glasgow, it has very good memories
:15:20. > :15:30.for me. I came several years ago, it is almost anything Scotland that
:15:30. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:35.I am right in two. I am all over it! As the models and celebrities
:15:35. > :15:45.make their way along the red carpet it is easy to think it is all about
:15:45. > :15:51.fancy frocks and frivolity. The Scottish fashion industry
:15:51. > :15:57.contributes millions of pounds to the British economy. Our turnover
:15:57. > :16:00.from the textile industry is �758 million per year. That is a big
:16:00. > :16:10.deal and sometimes people do not take fashion as seriously as they
:16:10. > :16:11.
:16:11. > :16:17.should. Designer of the year was Jonathan Saunders. I am incredibly
:16:17. > :16:24.proud. It is good for the industry and for all of us. It is a great
:16:25. > :16:34.industry to work in. It makes you proud. And night with hard business
:16:35. > :16:36.
:16:36. > :16:40.development sense behind it. I needed some tips! Dame Joan
:16:40. > :16:47.Bakewell, Melvyn Bragg, Pamela Stephenson and others will appear
:16:47. > :16:51.at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival.
:16:51. > :16:55.Alasdair Gray will open the festival. It will also feature an
:16:55. > :17:05.event with John Hartson, the first Premier League footballer to appear
:17:05. > :17:07.
:17:07. > :17:11.on stage there. I am still on my first book, I will may be beat
:17:11. > :17:17.another one another time! Scottish managers are all the rage in
:17:17. > :17:25.Premiership this time round. The latest appointment of another Scot,
:17:25. > :17:30.Alex McLeish, has led to protests from supporters of the club he is
:17:30. > :17:37.about to join. These Aston Villa fans do not want Alex McLeish as
:17:37. > :17:42.their new team boss. Very surprised, shocked and hurt. They will lose so
:17:42. > :17:49.much money it is unreal. A lot of these lads will hand their season
:17:49. > :17:54.tickets back in. McLeish has quit Birmingham City to take the job.
:17:54. > :18:02.Birmingham City and our rivals, we don't like them and they don't like
:18:02. > :18:08.us. Under McLeish, Birmingham won their first trophy for nearly 50
:18:08. > :18:15.years. The they're also relegated to the championship. We do not want
:18:15. > :18:20.someone who has taken our rivals down. He is a joker. I know Blues
:18:20. > :18:28.fans to have said to me he is a great guy. Villa fans do not know
:18:28. > :18:36.McLeish joined -- enjoyed a 70% when rate as Scotland manager. He
:18:36. > :18:46.won the SPL twice with Rangers. But maybe they just do not here.
:18:46. > :18:47.
:18:47. > :18:57.Rangers have turned down a third offer from the Turkish club
:18:57. > :18:58.
:18:58. > :19:08.Bursaspor at four best man Whittaker. The two Scottish players
:19:08. > :19:10.
:19:10. > :19:16.playing in the US Open have both par at the opening holes. They will
:19:16. > :19:24.just let you watch this. We will bring you updates on the Scottish
:19:24. > :19:28.players' progress throughout the evening on Radio Scotland. Now
:19:28. > :19:34.during the First World War I group of 26 refugees from Serbia sought
:19:34. > :19:40.refuge in Scotland. They arrived bewildered and exhausted and left
:19:40. > :19:46.as sporting heroes. Here is our Rugby reporter. 100 years ago the
:19:46. > :19:52.school bell would have been a familiar sound. Their energies may
:19:52. > :19:59.have faded but their memory shines bright. Young men in search of
:19:59. > :20:05.safety transformed into a Rugby team. Their journey was a hard one.
:20:05. > :20:15.Hundreds of thousands of Serbian strive to cross the mountains of
:20:15. > :20:22.Montenegro. About 8,000 died. Those who came here were survivors.
:20:22. > :20:29.boys ended up at Heriot-Watt school in Edinburgh. The boys did not let
:20:29. > :20:39.the Rugby tradition down. They were pretty good competitors. Later on
:20:39. > :20:45.
:20:46. > :20:53.the Serbian boys have their own team. They took a love of Rugby
:20:53. > :21:02.back to Serbia with them. Interest in the boys'' homeland has now been
:21:02. > :21:07.rekindled. A documentary is being made for Serbian television. When
:21:07. > :21:10.they first started playing Rugby here they thought it was a very
:21:10. > :21:14.difficult sport and a very rough sport but afterwards they were told
:21:14. > :21:21.they were did that it and they actually brought Rugby back to
:21:21. > :21:28.Serbia. The story took place 100 years ago but they remain an
:21:28. > :21:37.inspiration to pupils of today. They have been described as
:21:37. > :21:45.national treasures, Gaelic comedian Peter Uihlein and traditional story
:21:45. > :21:49.tellers -- Norman Stuart and Margaret Bennett and Sheila Stewart
:21:49. > :21:59.probably know more about Scottish traditions than anyone but what
:21:59. > :22:06.happens when they are gone? Margaret Bennett is widely regarded
:22:06. > :22:10.as Scotland's leading folklorist. She plays a village matriarch whose
:22:10. > :22:15.death marks not only the passing of a great character but also the loss
:22:15. > :22:21.of one of the foundation stones of her community's culture and history.
:22:21. > :22:26.It is happening for relive the day all over Scotland. So many times
:22:27. > :22:32.you hear of someone dying and with them their generation and that
:22:32. > :22:42.generations of tradition. Our songs are our cultural identity. If we
:22:42. > :22:43.
:22:43. > :22:53.lose that we lose more than we can afford to lose. In this film this
:22:53. > :23:00.
:23:01. > :23:09.young aspiring bar and has a crusade to keep alive local songs.
:23:09. > :23:16.I wish I had a pound for every time as a young man I wanted to go up to
:23:16. > :23:23.my maternal grandfather who brought me up and record all his staff. It
:23:24. > :23:27.never happened, did it? Someone has to do it before it is too late.
:23:27. > :23:32.This director is one of a new generation of Scots involved in
:23:32. > :23:37.this film determined to do just that. When we're talking about
:23:37. > :23:42.songs and poetry they're talking about the collective consciousness
:23:42. > :23:48.and the soul of generations. I think it is so important that it
:23:48. > :23:58.does not die. This is one of a series of films aimed at bringing
:23:58. > :23:59.
:23:59. > :24:04.music, drama and folklore of Scotland into the national
:24:05. > :24:11.consciousness. It has not been a bad day today in Glasgow at least
:24:11. > :24:15.but how is it looking into the weekend? Not good unfortunately.
:24:15. > :24:25.The showers that weather around today will disappear this evening.
:24:25. > :24:25.
:24:25. > :24:30.It will be dry and mild air after across the whole of the country.
:24:30. > :24:37.The game will leave Shetland finally as well. Temperatures not
:24:37. > :24:41.dipping too far up tonight. Tomorrow Scotland will start dry
:24:41. > :24:47.and find but rain will make its way in through the Irish Sea. There
:24:47. > :24:53.will be strong winds around the Mull of Kintyre. As we go through
:24:53. > :24:56.the day the game will push northwards across Dumfries,
:24:56. > :25:01.Galloway, the Borders and central belt by lunchtime, then into Perth
:25:01. > :25:06.Show by afternoon. By mid-afternoon tomorrow not a very pleasant the in
:25:06. > :25:13.store for many of us across the country. Temperatures struggling as
:25:13. > :25:17.well. Some of the game will be heavy. Further north temperatures
:25:17. > :25:21.of around 16 Celsius. The best of the weather in Caithness,
:25:21. > :25:24.Sutherland and the Northern Isles. Through the second half of the
:25:24. > :25:33.afternoon and through the evening tomorrow we still have that rain
:25:33. > :25:37.with us. A dull and damp end to the working week. It is here to stay.
:25:37. > :25:44.This low pressure over the top of us Friday into Saturday means rain
:25:44. > :25:49.for the start of the weekend. That band of rain will struggle from the
:25:49. > :25:55.north-west to the south east of the country. It will be reasonably
:25:55. > :26:05.light, just a few heavy bursts. As we move into Sunday the rain starts
:26:05. > :26:07.
:26:07. > :26:17.to move away. The cloud will start to thin. That is the forecast for
:26:17. > :26:20.
:26:20. > :26:22.now. So we have had our summer! Now a summary of tonight's top stories.
:26:22. > :26:31.The First Minister has refused to apologise for comments he made
:26:31. > :26:35.about senior legal figures in a magazine article. He was accused of
:26:35. > :26:41.undermining the independence of the judiciary. There has been a much
:26:41. > :26:47.bigger fall in UK High Street sales. After the feel-good factor of the
:26:47. > :26:55.royal wedding boosted shopping in April last month saw a drop by a 4%.
:26:55. > :27:02.Ed Balls said the Government should drop VAT. A teenage girl who was
:27:02. > :27:08.living in care when she jumped to her death from D Erskine Bridge had
:27:08. > :27:16.fantasised about being taken into care when she watched the TV show
:27:16. > :27:21.Tracy Beaker. The BBC's Panorama has been ordered to apologise after
:27:21. > :27:25.using footage that was probably fate as part of a report about