10/08/2011 Reporting Scotland

Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news:

Hundreds of Scots police reinforcements are on their way

south as English cities stand by for another night of violence and

looting. Meanwhile, two teenagers accused of

using Facebook to incite rioting here have been remanded in custody.

In other news this evening: as the downpour continues our will be live

as Scott and braces itself for flood warnings. Never take it as

red. We visit this amazing colour and light show at the Fringe.

75 years on and still on track, the music, poetry and film of the night

250 riot trained officers have been sent to the north of England and

the Midlands to help deal with the violence and looting in cities. The

First Minister, Alex Salmond, said Scotland had an obligation to help,

but insisted it would not leave us unprotected. Meanwhile, two

teenagers have been remanded in custody after appearing in court

accused separately of using Facebook to encourage people to

riot. Three many buses carrying police

from Grampian set off down the A90 this morning, Destination England.

According to the Scottish government, a total of 250 officers

are being dispatched from the aid of police forces. That is 40% of

all I work riot trained police. 17,000 police officers remain in

Scotland. We have many police officers in Scotland, sending 250

to assist colleagues at a time of great need is a small number. We

are playing a part in the wider UK effort. This is where they are

being sent, England's West Midlands and North. Officers are setting off

amid concerns that the reporting of disturbances in English cities as

UK riots may be damaging Scotland. In London... In London... While

some foreign broadcasters correctly identified it as London-based, some

UK channels have referred to UK riots. The First Minister is

concerned for public order and for the potential impact on tourism.

This sort of activity has never happened in Scotland, normally be

allowed to. There is the issue of economic damage. We have got a huge

importance on the tourist industry. We have got Edinburgh Festival on

we do not want anybody to have their impression that Scotland is

anything that but perfectly safe. Some foreign governments like

Germany have advised people to travel -- avoids travelling to the

UK. In Edinburgh, most visitors say they are unconcerned. Not at the

moment because they are in London. I do not feel any worries. I was

happy to get away from it yesterday. I got to Birmingham and will hold

the Street was closed. It is different. Meanwhile, two Scottish

teenagers have been remanded in custody accused of trying to cause

civil unrest in Scotland. An 18- year-old was refused bail and a 16-

year-old appeared in Glasgow. But neither entered a plea.

A sergeant with Lothian and Borders Police has been jailed for eight

years for abusing two young girls, 36 years ago. 51 year-old Paul

Greig was convicted of raping the girls while he was babysitting them

when he was 14. The girls were aged just six and eight. The women, who

are now in their forties, said they were too terrified to tell anyone

at the time. Flood alerts have been issued for

much of the country after hours of heavy rain across most of Scotland.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued 12 alerts, and

forecasters have increased their rain warning from the Elita amber

for this evening and overnight. A reporter is at the white cart water

in the south side of Glasgow for us. Andrew, how worried should we be?

I am at a white cart water where much of their country is

experiencing a heavy rain for most of the day, I am your poll cows in

the South Side of Glasgow. You can here the water behind me. It is

very high and very fast. During the course of the day the Scottish

Environment Protection Agency issued 11 flood alerts, starting

off in Sky Lochaber. It went down through Scotland and the Borders

and up into fight and Tayside. In the past hour and a half the issued

another flood alert for a Murray, has beside and India and. They are

telling people to be prepared just in case something should happen. --

and Nirvana. How bad do they think things will get? Just in the last

few minutes we have heard the Scottish Environment Protection

Agency have issued a flood warning for Caithness and Sutherland. That

was unexpected. It was not on flood alert during the course of the day.

People in that place should be ready to take action in case of

flooding. We are also hearing that the northern borders has

experienced heavy rain during the course of the afternoon. There is

potential for a flood warning via as well. There is potential for

flood warnings in Tayside, Fife, Central and the Lothians. As the

heavy rain continues across much of the country, heavy rain in some

parts of the country over the course of the week leaving a field

water locked and so on, there is the potential for flooding. People

should be prepared to take action. Our own of broadcaster will have a

full weather forecast at their end of the programme.

Still to come before 7pm: how out documentary about a train carrying

mail still has the power to captivate.

And in sport I will be looking ahead at tonight's international

between Scotland and in Denmark. It is just a friendly but I will be

telling you why this match could really matter. You can also find

out why some of Scotland's top clubs could be at risk of going

Sheriff officers have been at Ibrox today as Rangers tax dispute with

Revenue and Customs continues. The officers serving papers as part of

the process of payment of a bill of almost �3 million. Our business and

economy editor joins me now. Very complicated, can you give us some

more detail as to what happened? The latest element of a long

running saga about reader's finances which are complicated. --

Rangers. This is about a tax bill at Glasgow. This is why the

majority shareholder was in place. There was a takeover. This bill is

for �2.8 million and dates back eight years. Half of it is a

penalty element of from HM Revenue and Customs. What Rangers is now

saying is that negotiations earlier this week reached an outline deal

on what will be paid off that a bell. The formality requires that

the terms are outlined and a document spelling out their

enforcement measures of the money is not paid. Nobody wants a visit

from Sheriff officers, it does not look good, but they are saying that

it has got to be done under law. What is not resolved is a very much

bigger tax bill, it could be tens of millions of pounds, it is

grinding its way through a slow tribunal process. Rangers are

saying that it is utterly dismayed that information about the this

week has been leaked to the media. They are not been afforded the

confidentiality that other normal businesses could expect from major

Revenue and Customs. Rangers is not any normal business.

A special paint could hold the key to tackling the the problem of

metal theft by criminal gangs. The invisible coating, called Smart

Water, is being sprayed onto copper and lead to give buildings a unique

ID. Police say the subsidy transfers onto the skin and the

should be able to catch those responsible.

Another attack by a gang of organised criminals. Look closely,

the black areas should be raged like the greenish sections

alongside. We are standing outside the C D T blog. On the roof the

sections of copper cladding where stolen. Half of the roof was stolen.

Behind me here is the gymnasium, large sections of this roof, the

copper was also stolen. There is damage to their interior of the

building. The criminals are brazen, highly organised. Copper and lead

the most valuable metals. Church bells are taken and melted down.

But now the police have a new weapon in their search for a stone

and metal. It is an invisible coating called Smart Water which

acts like a building's de any. is a substance that allows us to

mark property so it can be identified at a later date and

distinguish it from other similar kinds of Materials. It also marks a

offenders, people who are responsible for committing crimes,

in such a way that allows us to identify them. Metal theft have

more than doubled here in the past year so the council have teamed up

with police to test this Smart Water and try it dummy materials

which look and act like copper and lead without a scrap of value.

Now, some more stories: 22 people have been taken to hospital after a

bus crashed through Glasgow Airport's perimeter fence. It

happened this morning near the fire training as it -- centre. The

ambulance centre said nobody was seriously injured.

A well capping device designed to stop oil spills has been

successfully tested. The project was commissioned in the wake of the

Deepwater Horizon rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last year. A oil

and gas you cases the trials took place last year in waters west of

Shetland. Edinburgh Castle has enjoyed its

best ever visitor numbers this July, up 19% compared to last year. It

attracted almost 204,000 visitors It is one of the most extraordinary

sight of the Edinburgh Fringe this year, a giant inflatable that looks

like a bouncy castle from the outside but inside takes you into a

world of colour and light. Every morning, the mass of silver

plastic is blown up... And transformed into this huge shining

structure of domes and tunnels. want people to be stimulated to a

sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. I build these big

structures to frame their experience. The way it works with

the colours, the colours are a very small part of the structure. Most

of it is opaque. It is like working with the stained glass. Although

light you see is natural daylight, made luminous by the contrast of

colours and the use of scenes and lines. The designers hope that vote

will provide a place of quiet concentration, removed from this

frenetic activity of the French outside. It was so relaxing, it

reminded me of a treatment room when you go to get reflexology. I

could have fallen asleep. I like are the colours. I like this sounds

of the music. It reminded me of tramp Eileen's. The Mirazozo Dome

is the largest structure that the company has built so far. The

beginnings were small. The director first started experimenting with

sculptures as part of his job with the probation service. From working

with offenders, he started making small inflatables and the project

grew to projects that have been inside the Sydney Opera House and

Time for the sports news. I do not -- welcome back to a damp hand in.

Scotland are playing their last warm-up match before four crucial

European qualifiers. The opponents are Denmark. I am joined by John

Robertson. A last chance to get it right before those matches. We play

the Czech Republic next month. What will Craig Levein hoped to get from

the match this evening? He will want attacking football and

the performance. He will want the players to pressurise the Danish

with high-tempo football. If he gets that he will be happy.

That all sounds great. Let's have a look at the formation however and

we see a lone striker. Not terribly adventurous for a home game.

But when we have of the ball it will be a 4 - 3 - 3 formation.

Charlie Adam and Brown will both get for work. For it - a 5 - 1 is

only the formation when defending. -- 4-5-1.

I think we have mercurial players who can produce something out of

nothing. Thank you. You can listen to the

match live on BBC Radio Scotland, Medium Wave, and Digital Online.

Highlights on BBC One Scotland this evening at 10:45pm. And if you are

in the a rear of the National Stadium you can still buy a ticket.

There are still on sale. And Scottish football needs bottoms on

seats. There is a warning that clubs could go out of business

recently. It came from an individual looking into the health

of the League set up. The top league is in profit, but that does

not tell the whole story. This report from Christopher McLoughlin.

Some say that the 1960s was a golden era which will never be

repeated. Times are now tough and many clubs fail to fill redesigned

many clubs fail to fill redesigned stadiums. Attendances are a

dwindling. The figures show a worrying trend. In 2006 attendances

peaked at 3.7 million but have gone into freefall since. The average --

into freefall since. The average -- the figure stands at just over 3.1

the figure stands at just over 3.1 the figure stands at just over 3.1

million now. The

The doomsday scenario is that some clubs may go under and just cannot

survive. Some clubs get less than �1 million from the broadcasting

contract and take the majority of their income from turnstiles,

ticketing, match programmes. Some supporters are voting with

their feet and a quick look at the website gives you an indication of

why. High admission prices, serious issues with the league format, all

opinion has put forward. What are clubs doing to reverse the trend?

The clubs are working hard with supporters and recognise the need

to make the match-day experience more attractive. A lot of work has

gone on in that regard. So the message is clear, comeback

football supporters. Your clubs and your country needs you. John

Robertson is still with me. How do we get punter's back through the

turnstiles? Or are we passed the point of no return?

I do not think we have passed that point. Motherwell are attempting to

get youngsters are back in. In a mess, my home town club, there are

attempting to up the entertainment stakes and provide value for money.

But yes, we must look at the league format and get people in the

grounds being entertained. That is the only way to go forward.

But you do not believe the picture is as bleak as the author of the

reports suggested, clubs going to the wall?

Lots of First Division clubs who still have a full-time players do

need investment. Whether that is television or a change of format to

help them stay full-time. The Premier League is a decent product

but prices do have a lot to do with the problems.

You will now be joining our common Terry team for this evening's game.

-- commentary team. A sprinkling of footballs and celebrities combined

for a charity game at Celtic Park last night. Gerard Butler was

playing for Celtic. But the start of the show was Henryk Larsson. He

scored a hat-trick. The match raised �300,000 for famine relief

victims in East Africa. Nice to see the legends in action

and there. However, Andy Murray's latest performance was not the

stuff of legend. He has been knocked out in Montreal and his

opening match to his South Africa an opponent. It took only one hour

and 10 minutes. What went wrong? I trained very hard to get ready

for a tournament in a place where I have always played very well. But I

could not get anything going. To return serve so badly does not help

against somebody who serves as powerfully as Kevin. I could not

get anything going at all. So, Andy Murray down cast. But

still three weeks before the start of the US Open in New York. Looking

at my watch, it is 50 minutes to kick-off here at the National

Stadium. All the details throughout the night on BBC radio and

television. It was a documentary about a mail

train journey which somehow captured the imagination of the

nation. Now, the documentary is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Our social affairs Correspondent It is one of the nation's

favourites. A story told by WH Auden's poem. Benjamin Britten

provided the score. Innovative editing techniques combined to make

a new type of documentary. What this film did was to show how

documentary can involve the marriage of sound and image without

having to rely on the voice-over to describe what is being shown.

The film shows mail collected and distributed along the route.

Narrated by John Grayson, it showed the way work carried on as the

train sped northwards. The trains were withdrawn 80 years ago.

Veterans of the Post Office still miss it. -- 18 years ago.

You would be eating and working at the same time, everything was

cleared to getting things ready in time for what ever stop was

necessary. Wh Auden's words still teach

children the images of rhythm. He matched his words magnificently

to the pace of the film. What you see is some body sorting letters.

You do not know what is inside them, but WH Auden symbolically opens up

the letters. It was to prove an inspiration for

later film makers. It was pretty wet today across most

parts of the country. We can see the rain making its way across from

west to east. The Met Office has increased their warming for rain

from yellow to amber - be prepared for some significant downpours and

difficult driving conditions. Here as the map at 7pm. The heaviest

downpours will be throughout Strathclyde, the central belt,

Tayside, Fife, Edinburgh, Lothian, and parts of the Borders. But all

that rain and cloud will mean temperatures are fairly mild, no

less than ten Celsius. The dry weather will continue to sink South

tomorrow morning. Likewise in the south-west down towards Stranraer

and Dumfries where it will dry out. But the rain will persist in the

south of the country. -- South West. With the rain as you might feel

will remain. Some sunshine for the North East around Peter head. But

still with an easterly breeze. The rest of the afternoon into the

evening will see the rain finally die away from the south but more

rain will return on Friday. Another weather front waiting on the wings

will push and and began -- bring heavy downpours to the west coast.

That low pressure front will be with us Friday and to Saturday.

Showers in behind it, particularly down the western side. On Saturday

temperatures will recover. The drier and brighter it will get the

further east you go. More detail on A summary of the top stories - the

Prime Minister claims a fightback is underway after the 4th night of

rioting across England. In a statement he claimed it was clear

that things were badly wrong with our society. He also added that

contingency plans were in place for water cannons to be available at 24

hours' notice. Scottish riot police have been sent to the Midlands to

help deal with their violence. Alex Salmond claimed that Scotland had

an obligation to help but said it would not leave the country

unprotected. Two teenagers have appeared separately in court after

allegedly using Facebook to encourage people to write it. Flood

warnings have been issued after heavy rain across most of Scotland.

Forecasters have increased the rain warning from yellow to amber this

evening and overnight. There has been a further gloomy prediction

about the future of Britain's economy as the Bank of England

lowers its future forecast for growth whilst the Government claims