:00:19. > :00:23.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Scottish a van driver Robert Black
:00:23. > :00:28.goes on trial for the abduction and murder of a schoolgirl more than 30
:00:28. > :00:34.years ago. The fall-out from the Scottish budget. Businesses are
:00:34. > :00:41.facing a tax bill rise. The murderers of Thomas Sharkey and his
:00:41. > :00:51.two children, Thomas and Richard. People are hoping Crimewatch can
:00:51. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:57.find the killers. -- and Bridget. He was doing a scholarship. It was
:00:57. > :01:03.a surprise, a good one. After the shock exits of last night, we
:01:03. > :01:07.report on the draw for the next round of the Communities Cup. The
:01:07. > :01:11.trial has begun of a van driver from Scotland accused of abducting
:01:12. > :01:15.and murdering a nine-year-old schoolgirl in Northern Ireland 30
:01:15. > :01:21.years ago. Jennifer Cardy disappeared while riding her bike
:01:21. > :01:26.in the village of Ballinderry in 1981. Her body was found six days
:01:27. > :01:34.later. 64-year-old Robert Black, originally from Grangemouth, denies
:01:34. > :01:44.the charges. Many of us that lived through the disappearance and
:01:44. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:49.murder of Iwate have been left with indelible images -- Jennifer Cardy.
:01:49. > :01:58.Ultimately, her coffin being carried. Duck hunters found the
:01:58. > :02:03.body hair. It was six days after she went missing. It sparked a man
:02:03. > :02:09.hunt lasting more than 30 years. The file on this case has not been
:02:09. > :02:14.closed. But the prosecution says a painstaking job, with people
:02:14. > :02:19.looking at millions of receipts, will allow people to prove that
:02:19. > :02:26.Robert Black was in this area on the day in question, August 12th,
:02:26. > :02:29.1981. That indeed he would have driven right past this spot. He is
:02:29. > :02:36.originally from Stirlingshire but in 1981 he was living in north
:02:36. > :02:41.London. His job sorting travel all across the UK. He is now aged 64.
:02:41. > :02:46.He wore glasses and a hearing aid and appeared to be listening
:02:46. > :02:51.closely and impassively. Much of the time he had his arms crossed.
:02:51. > :02:56.Just a few metres behind him, the mother, brother and sister of
:02:56. > :03:01.Jennifer Cardy. They kept looking at the prosecution barrister.
:03:01. > :03:05.Jennifer's mother, seen here are riding at court took the stand. She
:03:05. > :03:12.told the jury how proud Jennifer had been of her bicycle and how she
:03:12. > :03:17.wanted to cycle to a friend's house. Her mother sent her a watch and
:03:17. > :03:23.wound it up for have. Jennifer had wanted to be home in time for
:03:23. > :03:27.Jagger Norwich but she did not come home. Prosecutors say that Robert
:03:27. > :03:35.Black stopped her, sexually assaulted her and killed her, which
:03:35. > :03:40.he denies. The case is expected to last up to two months. Businesses
:03:40. > :03:45.in Scotland face a sharp increase in their local tax bills, after the
:03:45. > :03:50.Holyrood budget. We understood a new levy would be on shops selling
:03:50. > :03:57.alcohol and tobacco but analysis of the plans indicate an increase in
:03:57. > :04:02.business tax goes far beyond that. Here is our correspondent. How is
:04:02. > :04:06.this being applied? Business rates are based on the value of
:04:06. > :04:12.properties in which they operate. It is just above �2 billion per
:04:12. > :04:17.year at the moment and support local government. Economists at
:04:17. > :04:22.Glasgow University have been analysing this in greater detail.
:04:22. > :04:30.In the next few years, it will be a big increase in the rate. 23 %. Way
:04:30. > :04:35.above inflation. Then, it will be almost half a billion pounds of
:04:35. > :04:39.additional business tax as a result. Part of that is explained by the
:04:39. > :04:44.controversial levy on shops selling tobacco and alcohol and clamping
:04:44. > :04:50.down on empty properties which previously had a great relief. But
:04:50. > :04:55.it is not clearly explained. We have got questions for economists
:04:55. > :04:59.at Glasgow University. What is the level of commitment to a growing
:04:59. > :05:07.business from the Scottish government? It is a rather odd
:05:07. > :05:11.signal. It is a mixed signal. We would like to reduce corporation
:05:11. > :05:16.tax. It is not identical with the business rate but they are but
:05:16. > :05:20.taxes on what you are doing and we want them to be a bit lower. It
:05:20. > :05:25.will not be well received. government says it is committed to
:05:25. > :05:33.helping businesses to grow be a comic. But executives are not happy
:05:33. > :05:36.with this increase. -- the economy. We are very disappointed with the
:05:36. > :05:42.business rates in Scotland. We are just coming to terms with the
:05:42. > :05:47.increase last year after the transitional relief. We have got
:05:47. > :05:51.that levy defeated in the Scottish Parliament before. Coming back here
:05:51. > :05:59.a lot with potentially the end of property relief is bad news for
:05:59. > :06:04.business. What about other findings? They had a close look at
:06:04. > :06:09.other figures. Universities can be quite happy about the result of
:06:09. > :06:14.this allegation. But much of that is at the expense of further
:06:14. > :06:19.education colleges at a time when it is difficult to get places and
:06:19. > :06:25.funding is going down. They are looking at efficiency claims. It is
:06:25. > :06:30.difficult to prove that them. They might simply be cut. Also, pay
:06:30. > :06:37.policy. People recruited to executive jobs will start on 10%
:06:37. > :06:44.less than their predecessors. That is getting the pay bill damned. If
:06:44. > :06:49.we look at health, the NHS has been protected. -- pay bill decreased.
:06:49. > :06:55.This is what we are becoming used to. 20 % of the funding is not
:06:55. > :07:01.protected. That includes dentists, GPs and opticians, all facing a
:07:01. > :07:06.tight squeeze. Newsnight Scotland has got a special debate tonight on
:07:06. > :07:10.the budget on BBC Two at 11 o'clock. The murder of three members of the
:07:10. > :07:15.same family at a fire in Helen's brother will feature on BBC
:07:15. > :07:19.Crimewatch tonight. Thomas Sharkey and his children, Thomas and
:07:20. > :07:23.Bridget died after the fire was started deliberately last summer.
:07:23. > :07:32.Detectives are hoping the appeal will lead to new evidence to catch
:07:32. > :07:36.Tonight, viewers will see this. It is a reconstruction of the final
:07:36. > :07:43.moments of a Pam Murray. It is hoped the programme will find the
:07:43. > :07:49.killer. -- the final moments of a family. Angela Sharkey was the only
:07:49. > :07:57.survivor. A husband and two children died. I was immensely
:07:57. > :08:04.proud of my children. Thomas had just turned 21. He was doing a golf
:08:04. > :08:11.scholarship. It was a surprise. But a good one. Everybody thinks their
:08:11. > :08:17.children are brilliant. But Brigid was brilliant. She was told her
:08:17. > :08:22.family had been killed as she recovered in hospital. It was
:08:22. > :08:28.Angela's sister that told her the terrible news. How can you begin to
:08:28. > :08:31.deal with what you have loved being lost? It is two months since
:08:31. > :08:35.somebody approached this property in the early hours of the morning
:08:35. > :08:40.had deliberately set a fire that would kill a partner and children.
:08:40. > :08:49.Police have not found Qamishli was responsible or established a motive
:08:49. > :08:56.for the murder. -- who was responsible. I have got to face it.
:08:56. > :09:03.It would be made easier if I had a reason or it somebody can explained
:09:03. > :09:06.to me why they felt the need to do this. Police are looking to talk to
:09:07. > :09:11.this person caught on camera near the family home at the time the
:09:11. > :09:20.fire started. The hooded figure might be a key witness, detectives
:09:20. > :09:26.have said, but not a suspect. More about that on BBC One Scotland at 9
:09:26. > :09:31.o'clock tonight. This is Reporting Scotland. Coming up... And I became
:09:31. > :09:39.a grandfather again for the second time will stop it was amazing. We
:09:39. > :09:45.have been doing a lot of this. --. It was amazing. And we find out
:09:45. > :09:50.about the cast of parenting. Changes to the Rugby World Cup
:09:50. > :09:58.against Argentina. Another big night of shocks in the Scottish
:09:58. > :10:01.Community leaks Cup has Falkirk defeat Rangers. -- the Scottish Cup.
:10:01. > :10:05.Plans for councils in the West of Scotland to work closely together
:10:05. > :10:10.and save money are in disarray. Glasgow City Council said it will
:10:10. > :10:15.not be joining the scheme for councils to combine back office
:10:15. > :10:20.staff after other councillors had a lukewarm response. Here is our
:10:20. > :10:24.correspondent outside Glasgow's city chambers. Glasgow was
:10:24. > :10:34.previously clean. Why use the council not joining now? -- in
:10:34. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:38.favour. This is a situation where human resources would have been
:10:38. > :10:44.looked after for several councils across Scotland. It would have
:10:44. > :10:49.affected thousands of staff. But the scheme was losing momentum. One
:10:49. > :10:55.council walked away completely and others decided just to have limited
:10:55. > :11:00.involvement. Because of this, it was not adding up for Glasgow to be
:11:00. > :11:05.involved. It would actually cost more to set up the agency than it
:11:05. > :11:10.could have saved. But Glasgow's city council, as far as their
:11:10. > :11:16.involvement is concerned, the idea of a big back office is effectively
:11:16. > :11:23.dead. We might get limited steps in this direction from some smaller
:11:23. > :11:26.councils in the area. But if they cannot even agree to combine
:11:26. > :11:32.information technology departments, when can we get more radical
:11:32. > :11:37.changes to the public might notice? This is the important question.
:11:37. > :11:42.Behind this proposal, we had got a bigger project for councils in the
:11:42. > :11:48.West of Scotland to look at how they could share services. That was
:11:48. > :11:53.at their initiative. Glasgow and the other councils in the West
:11:53. > :11:58.remain very keen about the principles of sharing services, but
:11:58. > :12:02.the question is about what is actually practical. We are
:12:02. > :12:07.expecting to hear about proposals for joint waste management in the
:12:07. > :12:11.next few weeks. But some people here in Glasgow are all wondering
:12:12. > :12:16.just how much willingness there will be for some councils to
:12:16. > :12:21.voluntarily share some services, while the Scottish government might
:12:21. > :12:25.need to become involved. But that looks pretty unlikely. The
:12:25. > :12:33.government is keen on allowing councils to decide independently
:12:33. > :12:37.what the solution for their area is. The Dutch owners of Halls Foods are
:12:37. > :12:42.creating 250 jobs and apprenticeships in West Lothian.
:12:42. > :12:48.Vion is getting �2 million in Scottish government funding to fund
:12:48. > :12:52.a centre of excellence. They are demonstrating confidence in Halls
:12:52. > :12:56.Foods and the Scottish pig industry, according to the company. Family
:12:56. > :13:01.life is difficult for many people but for many, the cost of child
:13:01. > :13:04.care prevents people from taking a job at all. Surveys suggested one
:13:05. > :13:09.third of parents in severe poverty turned down work because it was too
:13:09. > :13:19.expensive to pay somebody else to look after their children. Save the
:13:19. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:24.Children has issued what it calls a Tracey is a stay at home mother in
:13:24. > :13:29.Glasgow. She would like to take a job but says she would struggle to
:13:29. > :13:36.pay somebody else to look after their son. Financially, it is not
:13:36. > :13:41.what it, going back to work. I want to go back to work to give my son a
:13:41. > :13:51.good example to start like that. I want that for my sanity. I want to
:13:51. > :13:53.
:13:53. > :13:58.Politicians cradled lifelike robotic babies to show their
:13:58. > :14:05.support for more affordable childcare. We cannot do things to
:14:05. > :14:12.make it more affordable. One it is making a commitment to part-time
:14:12. > :14:18.education, and extending early education to two-year-old, starting
:14:18. > :14:28.with those on low income so. became a grandfather for the first
:14:28. > :14:30.
:14:30. > :14:33.time last week. So Scottish government ministers understand the
:14:33. > :14:39.problem. Thousands of Scots are forced to choose between keeping
:14:40. > :14:49.their job and caring for a child. Campaigners say that one not change
:14:49. > :14:52.unless childcare is made more affordable.
:14:52. > :14:55.Some of the other stories across Scotland this Thursday evening:
:14:55. > :14:58.A teenage girl has been raped on a Glasgow golf course while golfers
:14:58. > :15:02.were playing nearby. The 16-year- old was on the Littlehill Course,
:15:02. > :15:05.near Stobhill Hospital, around 8pm on Saturday, 10th September. A man
:15:05. > :15:10.grabbed her from behind and dragged her into undergrowth near the tenth
:15:10. > :15:12.green. As many as one in five Scottish
:15:12. > :15:16.publicans have thought about selling their business or closing
:15:16. > :15:19.it down according to research compiled for a brewer. It also
:15:19. > :15:22.suggests while most were optimistic about their own prospects, many
:15:22. > :15:24.were generally concerned for the industry's future. The Scottish
:15:25. > :15:30.Licensed Trade Association says pubs have suffered from the smoking
:15:30. > :15:33.ban, weak economy and the trend for drinking at home.
:15:33. > :15:37.The makers of Highland Toffee could be rescued by the same investors
:15:37. > :15:42.who saved the company five years ago. McCowans is in administration,
:15:42. > :15:45.putting 103 jobs at its Stenhousemuir factory at risk.
:15:45. > :15:55.Ambrosia Holdings, whose investment saved the company in 2006, say it
:15:55. > :15:55.
:15:55. > :15:57.still believes it is a viable business with a strong brand.
:15:57. > :15:59.The Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate has defended its decision
:15:59. > :16:05.to publish an unauthorised autobiography of the WikiLeaks
:16:05. > :16:15.founder Julian Assange. Mr Assange has accused Canongate of
:16:15. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:20.profiteering from an erroneous draft of the memoir.
:16:20. > :16:26.This, the book that is causing controversy as it arrives on the
:16:26. > :16:30.shelf. The subject: A man it never far from it. Julian Assange is the
:16:30. > :16:34.founder of WikiLeaks. He has made his name publishing material other
:16:34. > :16:39.people do not want in the public domain, but now he says his
:16:39. > :16:43.autobiography has been published without his consent. Canongate is a
:16:43. > :16:48.small publisher based in Edinburgh, but has an international reputation,
:16:48. > :16:53.and many acclaimed authors on its list. Julian Assange Cider
:16:53. > :16:58.contracts last year, but try to pull out of it in June. -- Julian
:16:58. > :17:02.Assange it signed. The book was written by a ghost
:17:03. > :17:07.writer, and in it, you get an insight into his obsession with
:17:07. > :17:13.hacking into top secret organisations. There is also a
:17:14. > :17:17.chapter on the event ends Sweden that led to the allegations of
:17:17. > :17:22.sexual assault. In a statement, Julian Assange says
:17:22. > :17:29.the publication is in breach of contract, confidence and in breach
:17:29. > :17:34.of my creative rights and personal assurances. He accuses Canon Gate
:17:34. > :17:43.of old-fashioned opportunity for some, screwing people over to make
:17:43. > :17:48.a buck. -- opportunism. We would be publishing the first draft of this
:17:48. > :17:52.book as an unauthorised autobiography two weeks ago. We
:17:52. > :17:59.gave them a 12 days' notice. Julian Assange initially agreed to the
:17:59. > :18:05.book deal because he needed money to pay legal fees.
:18:05. > :18:08.The amount of wood grown and felled in Scotland is set to rise sharply.
:18:08. > :18:11.By the end of the decade, 10 million tonnes of timber could be
:18:11. > :18:14.harvested here every year. The industry is a major employer, but
:18:14. > :18:19.there's concern about the impact it could have on the landscape.
:18:19. > :18:28.They call this a big tree country. But in this part, at the words are
:18:28. > :18:34.not just for looking at. They help to grow the economy. -- indeed
:18:34. > :18:41.woulds. Tree trunks are sliced, and diced. They make palettes for
:18:41. > :18:47.transporting goods to our shops. Everything has been grown and
:18:47. > :18:52.harvested. It is basically a cropper. I believe that we are now
:18:52. > :18:58.replacing more than we are picking out. Across Scotland last year, 6
:18:58. > :19:02.million tonnes of wood was felled. By the end of the decade, that is
:19:02. > :19:06.said to have sought to 10 million tonnes. There is demand for wood
:19:06. > :19:11.right now because it is a very versatile product. Tree-trunks get
:19:11. > :19:18.chopped into planks and furniture. The smaller stuff gets turned into
:19:18. > :19:24.a wood panels and palates. The twigs, branches and Bach get
:19:24. > :19:29.chopped up and used for by a mass were burning. -- barks. But
:19:29. > :19:34.removing trees can leave a scar. People here are angry that this
:19:34. > :19:44.would have been clear felled. Every tree has gone, leaving a caravan
:19:44. > :19:45.
:19:45. > :19:50.park and walk a's path exposed to the road. Trees leave a screen. If
:19:50. > :19:56.they clear fell, this is what we are left with, it is very
:19:56. > :20:00.devastating and not a pretty sight. And because our forests grown over
:20:00. > :20:05.decades can become part of the landscape, there is pressure to
:20:05. > :20:14.minimise the impact of failing. would ask any manager to take into
:20:14. > :20:19.account the impact of these proposals on this landscape. Clear
:20:19. > :20:24.felling might be appropriate, provided it does not detract from
:20:24. > :20:34.the quality of the landscape. balance may be harder to strike in
:20:34. > :20:47.
:20:47. > :20:50.future, as forestry grows as fast as the trees themselves.
:20:50. > :20:53.Sport now. Here's Jonathan. You know what it's like - you wait
:20:53. > :20:56.a few years for a memorable Cup shock and three come along at once.
:20:56. > :20:59.After East Fife had dumped SPL side Aberdeen out of the Scottish
:20:59. > :21:02.Communities League Cup we thought we had had our shock. But last
:21:02. > :21:08.night, it was the turn of Hearts and League Cup holders Rangers to
:21:08. > :21:17.bow out of the competition to lower League opposition. I am so proud.
:21:17. > :21:23.But tonight, we are engulfing all aspects of tonight's teams. For
:21:23. > :21:33.many of the players, they will go on to play at a higher level.
:21:33. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:43.Tonight's result was remarkable. Rangers swapped back to do happen
:21:43. > :21:53.to, before this late goal. started it all right in the first
:21:53. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :22:04.five minutes, and then stopped. We did not start playing until we were
:22:04. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:13.a goal down. Mark Roberts with a decisive penalty in the shoot-out.
:22:13. > :22:23.Celtic now play in the League Cup quarter-finals. It will be a tough
:22:23. > :22:24.
:22:24. > :22:32.game. I am looking forward to it. It will be a tough game, but I am
:22:32. > :22:36.confident. East Fife travelled to Kilmarnock. They have been many
:22:36. > :22:38.question marks over the quality of the Scottish game, but in terms of
:22:38. > :22:41.excitement and drama, they can still get the thumbs up.
:22:41. > :22:45.Scotland have made five changes in their starting team for Sunday's
:22:45. > :22:50.crucial Rugby World Cup Pool B match against Argentina. Chris
:22:50. > :22:53.Paterson and Rory Jackson come in for Rory Lamont and Dan Parks. In
:22:53. > :22:56.the pack, prop Geoff Cross, lock Richie Gray and openside flanker
:22:56. > :23:01.John Barclay return in place of Euan Murray, Nathan Hines and Ross
:23:01. > :23:11.Rennie. The captaincy remains with scrum-half Rory Lawson so there's
:23:11. > :23:17.no place for Al Kellock. Just over a year ago, he was the
:23:17. > :23:21.man that led Scotland to a famous victory in Argentina. Now with the
:23:21. > :23:27.quarter-finals beckoning, he has been dropped as coach. To be fair
:23:27. > :23:35.to alk, he has taken it very well. He is an outstanding character, and
:23:35. > :23:44.this is phase two of an operation in the World Cup. We have got two
:23:44. > :23:54.games to win. Jim Hamilton is the captain's replacement. Jim has
:23:54. > :23:54.
:23:54. > :24:00.played fantastically well, and he has worked hard. He will bring a
:24:00. > :24:04.physicality in dealing with the scrums. That is what he will bring
:24:04. > :24:09.to the game. The biggest game for Scotland for four ideas, and they
:24:09. > :24:16.have dropped a captain. But his replacement feels Scotland can win
:24:16. > :24:21.this game. We can win this game. We need to improve allow performance
:24:21. > :24:24.from the first and second games, and it will be a big step up in the
:24:24. > :24:34.challenge, but one that we are relishing and have looked forward
:24:34. > :24:39.
:24:39. > :24:42.to for a long time. One of Scotland's top women
:24:42. > :24:45.footballers has told BBC Scotland she will play for Team GB at the
:24:45. > :24:49.Olympics if selected. Arsenal's Kim Little was part of the team which
:24:49. > :24:51.thrashed Finland 7-2 in a friendly at Tynecastle last night. And
:24:51. > :24:59.despite the Scottish Football Association's opposition to a
:24:59. > :25:07.British Olympic football team, she wants to play at London 2012.
:25:07. > :25:15.I think it would be a great opportunity. I don't know the
:25:15. > :25:25.selection process. If you were asked, would you play? Yes I would.
:25:25. > :25:35.
:25:35. > :25:41.It is a one-off tournament. I have Tomorrow and Monday will turn
:25:41. > :25:46.unsettled with heavy rain at times. As the weekend approaches, not
:25:46. > :25:50.looking too bad, but a nice enter the day today with decent spells of
:25:50. > :25:55.sunshine. We will see some rain spreading in from the West
:25:55. > :26:00.overnight. As we look at the map, you can see a dry start to the
:26:00. > :26:07.night. He comes that rain, gathering slowly across the north-
:26:07. > :26:12.west and north-east. Later on, it really gathers up to the West. Tony
:26:12. > :26:19.-- turning windier as well. There the chilly under the clear skies,
:26:19. > :26:29.but then it gets Marbeuf. Ended tomorrow morning, it looks like a
:26:29. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:42.grey, wet start. The north-west is the wettest area. Temperatures hair
:26:42. > :26:45.
:26:45. > :26:51.around 14 Celsius. -- temperatures here. The Grampian so also have a
:26:51. > :27:00.lot of short of. For the rest of the day, we will see drier spells
:27:00. > :27:10.across the south. The all-important weekend, like a mentioned, a mig
:27:10. > :27:14.
:27:14. > :27:19.jet of sunshine and showers. -- a mixture of a. The picture is quite
:27:19. > :27:24.mixed for Saturday. For the east and north-east, we will see good
:27:24. > :27:34.spells of sunshine. More showers out to the west and fairly when the
:27:34. > :27:35.
:27:35. > :27:39.as well. On a Sunday, not much changed. Another mixture of
:27:39. > :27:42.sunshine and showers. Temperatures around 17 Celsius.
:27:42. > :27:44.Just before 7pm, a summary of tonight's top stories:
:27:44. > :27:47.The head of the International Monetrary Fund is warning the
:27:47. > :27:57.chances of a global economic recovery are narrower now than at
:27:57. > :27:57.