:00:13. > :00:17.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news:
:00:17. > :00:27.The News of the World and the Tommy Sheridan perjury trial - police are
:00:27. > :00:29.
:00:30. > :00:36.asked to investigate the evidence given by some witnesses.
:00:36. > :00:42.Individuals such as food ball- players, athletes and TV stars,
:00:42. > :00:45.Olympic athletes and their spouses and even a murder victim.
:00:45. > :00:48.Also in the programme tonight: Waste not want not - the 50,000
:00:48. > :00:51.tonnes of food that hotels and restaurants throw away each year.
:00:51. > :00:54.Messing about on the River - salmon fishermen say they're being driven
:00:54. > :00:57.away from the Tay by commercial rafting.
:00:58. > :01:07.And playing out of the world's biggest bunker - we're live at the
:01:07. > :01:09.Scottish Open as the Castle Stuart Prosecutors have asked Strathclyde
:01:09. > :01:12.Police to investigate witness statements from the Tommy Sheridan
:01:12. > :01:16.perjury trial, after fresh allegations in the News of the
:01:16. > :01:19.World hacking scandal. Three journalists associated with the
:01:19. > :01:24.paper gave evidence at the trial, including its former editor Andy
:01:24. > :01:29.Coulson. Mr Sheridan's lawyer and a senior MP have presented a list of
:01:29. > :01:38.names to police of people they claim had their phones hacked. Our
:01:38. > :01:42.political correspondent Raymond Buchanan reports. This was the day
:01:42. > :01:47.Tommy Sheridan was convicted of lying in court and sentenced to
:01:47. > :01:51.three years in prison. His legal team claimed he had been done end
:01:51. > :01:55.by his enemies and none were greater than the News of the World
:01:55. > :01:59.and its owners. Several million pounds of public money was spent
:01:59. > :02:03.investigating me and my wife. Is it not time that similar resources
:02:03. > :02:10.were devoted to investigating the activities of the News of the
:02:10. > :02:16.World? Are amongst those questioned by Tommy Sheridan in the witness
:02:16. > :02:21.box was the former editor of the UK edition of the News of the World.
:02:21. > :02:26.At the Coulson was asked, did the News of the World pay for police
:02:26. > :02:30.officers? Not to my knowledge was his answer. It has now been alleged
:02:30. > :02:34.that he did authorise payments. The editor of the Scottish edition
:02:34. > :02:39.claimed in court that details -- e- mails about the case had been lost.
:02:39. > :02:45.It has now been reported that they could have been available after all.
:02:45. > :02:48.Today it has been asked of officers here as Strathclyde for two you can
:02:48. > :02:51.-- we examine certain witness evidence. It follows the scandal
:02:51. > :02:57.surrounding the News of the World in recent days. Police have been
:02:57. > :03:02.asked to come up with a preliminary assessment. This afternoon, Tommy
:03:02. > :03:08.Sheridan's lawyer and a senior Labour MP handed over a dossier to
:03:08. > :03:12.detectives. They want police to re- examine the evidence given in court
:03:12. > :03:18.and to contact scores of people this they may have been victim to
:03:18. > :03:22.phone hacking. Nine months ago, we were presented with a dossier of
:03:22. > :03:30.individuals such as football players, heart surgeons, a soap
:03:30. > :03:35.stars, athletes, TV stars, TV chefs, an Olympic athlete lakes, Lord
:03:35. > :03:44.Mayor's and even a murder victim. The potential Voicemail victims are
:03:44. > :03:47.not being named. This man died on operation in Iraq. Her mother
:03:47. > :03:52.turned her grief into a high- profile campaign to bring the
:03:52. > :04:01.troops home. Now she is trying to find out if her voice mail has been
:04:01. > :04:08.intercepted. I think it is shocking. How low can someone go? I do not
:04:08. > :04:13.think they could stoop any lower. Sheridan and his lawyer always
:04:13. > :04:20.claimed they were battling and media empire. The News of the World
:04:20. > :04:27.may now be gone, but Mr Sheridan's conviction remains.
:04:27. > :04:32.Raymond Buchanan is with me now. How is always likely to affect
:04:32. > :04:37.conviction -- the conviction of Tommy Sheridan? Well, his legal
:04:37. > :04:42.team are appealing his conviction. It is worth putting this into some
:04:42. > :04:46.sort of context. There are three significant witnesses from the News
:04:46. > :04:51.of the World in what was a three- month long perjury trial. Lots of
:04:51. > :04:56.other witnesses also accused Tommy Sheridan of lying and that is what
:04:56. > :05:00.the jury decided would be their verdict when the convicted him of
:05:00. > :05:04.perjury. So it may well be significant in the future, but it
:05:04. > :05:08.is worth putting it in the context -- context but also other people
:05:08. > :05:14.believed he was a liar as well and that may have been what helps make
:05:14. > :05:18.the jury. His legal team are asking detectives to look through a
:05:18. > :05:22.substantial dossier, of which I have a copy here, the whole point
:05:22. > :05:25.of this is that they believe that other people may well be guilty of
:05:25. > :05:32.misleading the court and they want police officers to pursue them with
:05:32. > :05:36.the same vigour. The stunning device to -- demise to date of the
:05:36. > :05:40.News of the World, what effect will that have? For the Sheridan team,
:05:40. > :05:46.this is a very personal battle that they had between themselves and
:05:46. > :05:50.what they described as the Murdoch empire. Tommy Sheridan is currently
:05:51. > :05:55.in prison and I think tonight that he will be delighted at the news
:05:55. > :06:00.that the News of the World will be no more. As I say, in terms of into
:06:00. > :06:04.-- of his conviction, there were lots of other witnesses aside the
:06:04. > :06:10.News of the World. You're watching Reporting Scotland
:06:10. > :06:13.from the BBC. Still to come before 7pm:
:06:13. > :06:23.Dampening spirits - why music fans might be in for a lightening
:06:23. > :06:28.
:06:28. > :06:32.Tonight's sport comes from castles to -- castle steward because it is
:06:32. > :06:38.day one of the Gulf. I will have news of a dramatic and successful
:06:38. > :06:41.day. And we were hear from Andy Murray ahead of another big event.
:06:41. > :06:45.Scottish chefs are being told that they could save millions of pounds
:06:45. > :06:47.a year if they put less food on our plates. Zero Waste Scotland, an
:06:47. > :06:52.organisation set up by the Scottish Government, says caterers,
:06:52. > :06:55.restaurants and hotels are throwing away 50,000 tonnes of food a year.
:06:55. > :07:05.The industry is being warned that three quarters of the waste they
:07:05. > :07:11.send to landfill could be recycled. Laura Bicker reports.
:07:11. > :07:17.Every scrap, every leaf, every stock is put to good use here.
:07:17. > :07:25.popping them into the vegetable stock Pops. Everything gets popped
:07:25. > :07:28.into that. Anything she cannot cook with it goes into compost. But she
:07:28. > :07:32.noticed that most of the restaurant's waste came from
:07:32. > :07:37.customers not finishing their food. We used to think that we will give
:07:38. > :07:43.them a big bet but more often than not they do not want to eat all
:07:43. > :07:49.that so we moved from a large vegetable balls to small ones and
:07:49. > :07:53.if we see there is ever -- if there is only a little bit left, then we
:07:53. > :07:59.offer them more effect than a protect all out at once and the
:07:59. > :08:05.waste have of it. Zero Waste Scotland tells us that the
:08:05. > :08:11.hospitality sector throws away 130,000 tonnes of waste a year. The
:08:11. > :08:18.say that one quarter of that could be recycled. The say if that was
:08:18. > :08:24.used properly, that would save 150,000 cubic tonnes of CO2. That
:08:24. > :08:33.is the equivalent of taking 50,000 cars off the road. This country is
:08:33. > :08:36.turning into a trend of having very large portions. Jacqueline
:08:36. > :08:40.remembers being shocked at the amount of waste when she first
:08:40. > :08:45.opened Tower restaurant. She hopes Scotland will follow her lead and
:08:45. > :08:48.stop filling the nation's landfill sites unnecessarily.
:08:48. > :08:50.Some of the other stories across Scotland this Thursday evening:
:08:51. > :08:55.Grampian Police have confirmed that a body recovered from a Banffshire
:08:55. > :08:58.shoreline earlier this week is that of the missing teenager Jake Miller.
:08:58. > :09:02.The 18-year-old from Turriff went missing two weeks ago when a boat
:09:02. > :09:07.capsized at night between Banff and Whitehills. His two friends managed
:09:07. > :09:11.to safely swim ashore. A police investigation is
:09:11. > :09:13.continuing after a man's body was discovered in a Fife alleyway. The
:09:13. > :09:18.body was found in a narrow lane leading from Dunfermline High
:09:18. > :09:20.Street at around quarter to seven this morning. Detectives say they
:09:20. > :09:24.are in the very early stages of their investigation and are
:09:24. > :09:26.currently treating the death as unexplained.
:09:26. > :09:31.Smaller construction firms in Scotland are continuing to struggle,
:09:31. > :09:34.according to an industry survey. The Federation of Master Builders
:09:34. > :09:37.found that business conditions in the past three months improved
:09:37. > :09:47.compared to the winter months, but many bosses say they expect to see
:09:47. > :09:50.orders declining and staff being It's an issue that angers
:09:50. > :09:54.pedestrians up and down the country - dog owners who fail to clean up
:09:54. > :09:57.after their hounds. But it appears that some councils are more strict
:09:57. > :10:07.than others when it comes to penalising offenders. Catriona
:10:07. > :10:07.
:10:07. > :10:15.Renton reports. Need to seven- month-old Lexy. She is her owner's
:10:15. > :10:19.best friend. If you are a responsible dog-owner, you should
:10:19. > :10:27.pick up your dog's business because that is part of being a dog owner.
:10:27. > :10:30.People that do not, well, they should. This dog's owner feels just
:10:30. > :10:38.as strongly. It does not take a couple of minutes to bend down and
:10:38. > :10:43.put it in a bucket. There are buckets around the park. This might
:10:43. > :10:47.seem like a cheeky message, but the council is taking the issue of dog
:10:47. > :10:52.fouling very seriously. They have run a poster campaign and they have
:10:52. > :10:57.put controversial leaflets showing dog mess three people's doors. The
:10:57. > :11:01.result, a cleaner streets and complaints are down. Out in the
:11:01. > :11:05.streets in the north of Edinburgh, at this area was a hot spot for
:11:05. > :11:12.wardens. It is the thing that residents in the City complain most
:11:13. > :11:17.often about, so we take a hard line on it. If we catch someone then
:11:17. > :11:23.they have a fixed find that they have to pay within 20 days. If they
:11:23. > :11:30.do not pay that it rises to �60 and if they do not pay that then they
:11:30. > :11:37.get taken to the Procurator Fiscal. Over tea appeared, Edinburgh has
:11:37. > :11:41.issued 946 find and Glasgow 1530. Overwork a four-year period,
:11:41. > :11:48.Sterling issued to just 13 and Orkney handed out to none at all.
:11:48. > :11:55.So is there just no dog fouling in Orkney? We do have a steady flow of
:11:55. > :12:03.complaints that come into us and we investigate these as they come in,
:12:03. > :12:07.but the public here... Is there to say that if there is people around
:12:07. > :12:12.and you have got your dog out you pick up because there is peer
:12:12. > :12:17.pressure. This is a problem that the public want councils to keep on
:12:17. > :12:19.a tight leash. It was once one of Scotland's most
:12:19. > :12:22.appealing fishing beats, but it's claimed that anglers are now
:12:22. > :12:25.staying away from a section of the Upper Tay after it became what's
:12:25. > :12:28.described as a "highway" for commercial rafting. Salmon
:12:28. > :12:32.fishermen want the local authority to restrict access to the river
:12:32. > :12:41.three days a week. But the rafters argue that such a move would
:12:41. > :12:44.threaten the local jobs they provide. Steven Godden has more.
:12:44. > :12:51.Two very different past times competing for space on the same
:12:51. > :12:58.stretch of the Upper Tay. A battle that the salmon fishermen where it
:12:58. > :13:02.-- worry there are losing. For years, the bank just a stone's
:13:02. > :13:07.throw from his house was one of his fear it -- favourite fishing
:13:07. > :13:11.streets. The reason is commercial rafting which he says has turned
:13:11. > :13:16.the river into a highway. If you come here to fish, you will find
:13:16. > :13:25.that quite often there are a lot of laughs going through and she will
:13:25. > :13:29.not catch fish. The result is that people tend to stay away. Brisk
:13:29. > :13:34.business for the rafting companies reflects the upward trend in
:13:34. > :13:39.popularity, and while local guides have sympathy for fishermen, they
:13:39. > :13:44.do not always accept that boats are a nuisance. Do not get me wrong, or
:13:44. > :13:48.we do play around on the river. We do not do it in sensitive areas or
:13:48. > :13:55.fishing holes and if we can see a fisherman then all messing about
:13:55. > :13:58.stops. We will paddle past nice and quietly. Everyone agrees that
:13:58. > :14:03.fishing and ratting are not compatible and that one solution
:14:03. > :14:09.would be to split up the week. The problems arise in deciding how many
:14:09. > :14:15.days and exactly which ones to assigned to each activity. Anglers
:14:15. > :14:19.believe that setting aside ratafia days would encourage at revival but
:14:19. > :14:24.rafters argue it would threaten the local employment and so the dispute
:14:24. > :14:27.continues. Both are equally important to the airier and I do
:14:27. > :14:32.not think anyone wants to see the quality of the experience that
:14:32. > :14:42.people come to fresh are going to have because of other activities.
:14:42. > :14:46.
:14:46. > :14:53.In we can do anything to help, or Of their optimistic a compromise
:14:53. > :14:57.can be reached but the conversation has been going on since 2005. It
:14:57. > :15:01.could be some time before there is harmony on the Upper Tay. A
:15:01. > :15:04.memorial book from the funeral of Lord Byron has been gifted to the
:15:04. > :15:07.National Library of Scotland. The 186 year-old volume is a one-off.
:15:08. > :15:12.It turned up at a church bring-and- buy sale in Georgia in the United
:15:12. > :15:20.States. The lady who found it has gifted it to be included in the
:15:20. > :15:24.Byron papers which are housed at the National Library. Let us go to
:15:24. > :15:28.Castle Stuart and joined David at the Scottish Open.
:15:28. > :15:36.Welcome back to the shores of the Moray Firth on day one of the
:15:36. > :15:41.Scottish Open. The son has been shining. On and off. Some of the
:15:41. > :15:46.world's top golfers have been making hay, none more so than Lee
:15:46. > :15:51.Westwood who has a share of the lead on seven under par. Alongside
:15:51. > :15:58.the Chilean golfer Mark Tullo. Not a bad day for Colin Montgomery
:15:58. > :16:04.either. He is up on the leaderboard with five under par for his opening
:16:04. > :16:07.round. Mark Warren is also on five under par, despite getting off to a
:16:07. > :16:14.horrendous start with a triple- bogey eight at the very first hole
:16:14. > :16:19.of his round. I managed to catch up with mark when he had finished his
:16:19. > :16:27.opening round. Congratulations, quite an eventful round. He had a
:16:27. > :16:34.triple bogey at the first. Obviously, a poor tee off the first.
:16:34. > :16:40.I need to practice. I took a bad drop. It was nice to hear few
:16:40. > :16:46.cheers today. That start meant an hour to put it to the back of my
:16:46. > :16:53.mind. It is a massive event - the Scottish Open. It is too early to
:16:53. > :17:00.get frustrated. I told myself I was hitting the ball well. Mia admit it
:17:00. > :17:09.is not great but I think you got seven birdies. -- my arithmetic.
:17:09. > :17:13.had eight birdies, seven in a row. I missed a five-foot putt on the
:17:13. > :17:19.last one. I felt as if I was hitting good putts all day. I do
:17:19. > :17:24.not remember one bad Pat so if I keep that up, I will be happy. --
:17:24. > :17:29.bad putt. Are you aiming to make the cut or do you think you can
:17:29. > :17:37.make an impression on the leader board? The way I am hitting the
:17:37. > :17:41.ball, t he shot as it comes, seven birdies and a role, I felt as if
:17:41. > :17:48.mentally I was really good. That is the focus, to stay aggressive on
:17:48. > :17:52.each swing and see what it takes me on Sunday. With seven birdies in a
:17:52. > :17:58.row, Mark Warren is clearly enjoying himself at Castle Stuart
:17:58. > :18:04.but what about the public? Craig Anderson has been out and about and
:18:04. > :18:09.mingling. With the change in the weather - it
:18:09. > :18:16.was set fair for a tremendous tournament. The water hazard is the
:18:16. > :18:22.Moray Firth. The clouds - back the crowds have arrived and local fans
:18:22. > :18:28.are raising a glass. It is not often we get last -- golf
:18:28. > :18:33.tournaments up here and it looks well attended. It is wonderful for
:18:33. > :18:39.they are and thank goodness the sun is shining. They have come to a
:18:39. > :18:44.beautiful golf course. I played it a month ago and I really enjoyed it.
:18:45. > :18:54.Colin Montgomery is desperate for a top-five finish. What are his
:18:55. > :18:59.
:18:59. > :19:04.chances? Saloon, I think. I keep my fingers crossed. -- slim. He got
:19:04. > :19:09.the in in the end. I think he would do it in the end. I think he will
:19:09. > :19:13.keep us run going for the Open. With six of the top players in the
:19:13. > :19:17.world here, the crowds enjoying themselves, Castle Stuart has
:19:17. > :19:23.definitely hit it off on the international golf circuit.
:19:23. > :19:29.I told you it was sunny earlier. It is getting cloudy now but hopefully
:19:29. > :19:33.it will remain dry. One of Scotland's top referees says the
:19:33. > :19:37.SPL has to sort out the wage dispute before the start of the new
:19:37. > :19:43.season. Craig Thomson and his colleagues want an increase up to
:19:43. > :19:49.�1,000 per match. The comments came on the day it was revealed that
:19:49. > :19:55.referees will start their training in the clash and. -- in the
:19:55. > :19:59.classroom. The job of Scottish referee could have come with a
:19:59. > :20:05.government health warning in the past. Waugh recently it has led to
:20:05. > :20:12.sackings and strikes. -- more recently. Now they're going back to
:20:12. > :20:18.school to nurture new talent through a referee qualification.
:20:18. > :20:25.Tensions remain. The men in the middle want a wage rise of �200 a
:20:25. > :20:33.game. At the moment they get �800 and match - enough? As a referee
:20:33. > :20:37.and he will say no. It is no longer just A90 minute job. They argue
:20:37. > :20:43.that increased fitness levels and pressure should be reflected in the
:20:43. > :20:49.pay packets but the SPL are standing firm. I would imagine it
:20:49. > :20:54.will be resolved before the start of the season. I hope it is. When
:20:54. > :21:01.the focus returns to it ref again, they hope a rush to the classroom
:21:01. > :21:04.will fall. -- refereeing. Derek Riordan has swapped Easter
:21:04. > :21:06.Road for the Far East. The 28 year old striker has signed for the
:21:06. > :21:09.Chinese side Shaanxi Chanba. Seen here scoring against former club
:21:09. > :21:19.Celtic, he moved after failing to agree terms with Hibs. He has
:21:19. > :21:20.
:21:20. > :21:24.signed a two-year deal, significantly increasing his wages.
:21:24. > :21:28.Well done to him. Great Britain play Luxembourg in the Davis Cup
:21:28. > :21:34.tennis in Glasgow tomorrow. Andy Murray is one of two Scots in the
:21:34. > :21:39.Britain team. He says it has been refreshing to come home after his
:21:39. > :21:45.semi-final defeat in Wimbledon last week. It made a big difference,
:21:45. > :21:49.everyone has been so positive and upbeat. They are happy and I like
:21:49. > :21:54.that. It has made a big difference. I want to work hard and make sure
:21:54. > :21:59.that I play my best and put on a good performance.
:21:59. > :22:05.A big weekend of tennis to look forward to and also another three
:22:05. > :22:12.days of golf here at Castle Stuart. For now, back to you.
:22:12. > :22:14.Thank you very much. It must have been one of the most unusual rock
:22:14. > :22:16.gigs ever played in Scotland. It was certainly the quietest. No
:22:16. > :22:18.massive loudspeakers when indie band The View played to fans in a
:22:18. > :22:20.Dundee shopping centre car park. To avoid disturbing shoppers, the
:22:20. > :22:29.performance was relayed to headphones. The fans seem to enjoy
:22:29. > :22:34.it just the same. Wellies and waterproofs are likely
:22:34. > :22:40.to be out in force and the next few days as music fans head to T in the
:22:40. > :22:45.Park. Campers have begin -- cappers have begun arriving already. Heavy
:22:45. > :22:49.rain and lightning are expected. It may be putting some people off with
:22:49. > :22:56.reports that many second-hand tickets are failing to sell. Our
:22:56. > :23:02.reporter has been to see how the -- how the preparations are going. So
:23:02. > :23:07.far so good here. This is the production engines. You can see
:23:07. > :23:16.that some tents are already up. Campers have been arriving ahead of
:23:16. > :23:20.the festival's start tomorrow. Reports had been for torrential
:23:20. > :23:26.downpour earlier this week but it looks like the event itself will
:23:26. > :23:35.take place under a somewhat more seasonal weather forecast. Forecast
:23:35. > :23:42.is that tomorrow will be some showers but later. -- but later.
:23:42. > :23:52.How much do you care about the weather? Not a toff. It is what you
:23:52. > :23:53.
:23:53. > :23:57.make it. Wellies, come rain or sunshine. Good news for the
:23:57. > :24:02.organisers if it is not so wet. They take measures against heavy
:24:02. > :24:08.rain but after 18 months of planning and thousands of people
:24:08. > :24:15.expected, with more than 200 performers, the organisers hope
:24:15. > :24:20.that it is going to be a sunny day for performers and audience alike.
:24:20. > :24:24.Confident words there from our amateur weather forecast to. Real
:24:24. > :24:29.words from our proper weather forecast are now.
:24:29. > :24:34.It will be an improving picture but we have seen a lot of rain already.
:24:34. > :24:38.Some of the shares today quite Some of the shares today quite
:24:38. > :24:43.heavy. We can see them shown up here with the brighter colours. --
:24:43. > :24:52.shares. Into this evening, the shares will start to ease and we
:24:52. > :25:02.will see a dryer picture overnight. -- showers. Dry overnight. One or
:25:02. > :25:04.
:25:04. > :25:11.two clear skies. Tomorrow - it will be a dry, fine and bright start to
:25:11. > :25:17.the day. By mid-morning, showers will start again. They will not be
:25:17. > :25:23.as heavy as today. The best of sunshine north of Glasgow. By mid-
:25:23. > :25:29.afternoon, we will see more cloud and the showers merging. Further
:25:29. > :25:34.north the showers will be scattered and brighter spells of sunshine.
:25:34. > :25:40.Through the rest of the afternoon tomorrow and in to tomorrow evening,
:25:40. > :25:45.we hold on to the rain across the south and the Borders. It makes its
:25:45. > :25:49.way up the east coast. Showers elsewhere are dying out. Expect
:25:49. > :25:56.heavy showers on Friday but improving throughout the weekend.
:25:56. > :26:01.He is the pressure charge. Low- pressure remains on Friday and into
:26:01. > :26:06.Saturday. -- here is. The further west you are, drier and brighter
:26:06. > :26:11.conditions with more showers further east. If you are into the
:26:11. > :26:19.net for the tour Ships races, one or two showers are possible on
:26:19. > :26:25.Saturday. -- told ships. Sunday 8 - and improving picture. Some showers
:26:25. > :26:29.to the north. Drier and brighter conditions are on the cards. That
:26:29. > :26:34.conditions are on the cards. That is the forecast.
:26:34. > :26:38.A summary of at the top stories - this Sunday's edition of News of
:26:38. > :26:43.the World will be his last. After days of pressure and public anger
:26:43. > :26:47.after the phone hacking scandal, the German broke the news to
:26:47. > :26:51.shocked staff that the paper and said it wrong doors had turned and
:26:51. > :26:56.good news run into bad. Prosecutors are asking Strathclyde
:26:56. > :26:58.Police to investigate witness statements from the Tommy Sheridan
:26:58. > :27:02.perjury trial after fresh allegations in the News of the
:27:02. > :27:06.World hacking scandal. Three journalists gave evidence at the
:27:06. > :27:10.trial, including its former editor Andy Coulson.
:27:10. > :27:16.A man has been the first person ever convicted of trafficking women
:27:16. > :27:20.out of Britain. Anthony Harrison has been sentenced to 20 years
:27:20. > :27:23.after imprisoning two teenage Nigerian girls before attempting to
:27:23. > :27:28.traffic them to Spain and Greece as prostitutes.