24/10/2011 Reporting Scotland

Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news, a

family's grief at the brutal murder of a son. Stewart Walker was beaten

and burnt in what police say wasn't a random attack. One of the best

and most fun guys I've ever had the chance to meet in my life. Every

Monday morning it was a pleasure going into work. We'll be in

Ayrshire tonight with the latest. Also in the programme, get ready

for severe weather. The government campaign to give advice and help -

just in case this winter turns out to be as bad as the last one. An

inquest opens into the death of this 84-year-old women, killed when

a high-speed train came off the rails in Cumbria. And later... Why

some of the most beautiful women in the world are hitting the high

Detectives investigating the murder of a 28-year-old Ayrshire man at

the weekend are trying to piece together his final few hours. There

was speculation that the killing of Stuart Walker was motivated by

homophobia, but police say there is nothing to indicate that is the

case. This afternoon some of Stuart's family visited the spot

where his body was found. Aileen This afternoon, Stewart Walker's

family came to lay flowers the where he was found. The grief and

pain almost too much to bear. Stewart was 28 years old, and the

life and soul of any party. But that zest for life was cruelly and

brutally cut short in the early hours of Saturday morning. I am

stunned that something like this could happen. To somebody like him.

I can only speak as I find. very polite boy. He used to come to

the House with my grandson, very polite boy. Couldn't have got a

nice a boy than him. Amongst those laying tributes, one woman recalled

that he had been beaten up before. He got battered the last time. His

mum went to rescue him and got an ambulance. He was found lying on

this roadside just before 5am. He was badly beaten, there were burn

marks on his body and he was pronounced dead shortly after being

found. Just last week he had started a new job at this far in

Kilmarnock. The manager told me that he had a really good

personality and was really good with the customers. This friend had

a text message from him on Wednesday. Laugh out loud, awesome.

Telos and Rona and them all that I am asking for them. Was he a fun

person to be around? One of the best, fun guys I've ever had the

chance to meet in my life. Know what matter what, every Monday

morning it was a pleasure going into work. He'd have the music on

and be on top of the world all the time. Thousands of people have now

logged on to a special Facebook tribute page for him. He was gay,

but the police are not convinced that this stage that this was a

homophobic attack. There's an element of violence which is

uncommon. The motive for that we have yet to establish. Suffice to

say, a young man who had everything to live for has had his life

cruelly snatched away. We will do everything to bring those to book

who are responsible for this horrible crime. The police know

that Stewart was out on Friday night. He was last seen at around

2:30am beside the fire station in Cumnock. Where he was between there

and when he was found at 4:50am is what they are trying to find out.

It is an absolute and utter shock. Nobody can comprehend what has

happened to him. Nobody can believe this would happen. Our police any

nearer finding a motive for this killing? It's interesting because

the police are saying tonight that they are optimistic that they will

be able to solve this fairly soon. They say they write a number of

leads they are following up. Among those leaves may be the possibility

that Stewart actually knew his killer. Look at where we are

standing. This is a very lonely industrial estate. If you think

about this place in the early hours of a Saturday morning, it was

probably very lonely indeed, very quiet. It's not the kind of place

you would cut through to go to anywhere. Was it perhaps that he

came here to meet someone? The police are saying that they believe

his injuries that went on to kill him, those dreadfully violent,

brutal injuries, were inflicted here. That will be one line of

inquiry that the police will be following up tonight. It's

interesting that they are optimistic that they will manage to

solve this fairly soon. A majority of Scots say they don't feel

prepared for adverse weather conditions, such as the heavy snows

and prolonged freezes which have marked the last two winters. Today

the Scottish Government launched a campaign giving advice to help

reduce the risks if we're hit by another severe winter. Cameron

Buttle is at Edinburgh Airport for us tonight. Explain to us why you

are there, Cameron. These machines have been the backbone of the fight

to keep Edinburgh airport open every winter. There are five of

them. The past couple of winters have been so severe, they haven't

been enough. That's why Edinburgh airport is investing �2 million in

people and equipment, equipment like these state-of-the-art snow

blowers. That can shift more snow than ever before. So much snow fell

last winter, it was still lying about here in piles in May. This

machine is designed to smack through those hard-packed snow

drifts. The staff here aren't going to close again because of

severe weather. They are saying that if they have to clear it, they

can clear it twice as quick as before. It may be hard to think of

Arctic conditions already, but these pictures are sure to send a

shiver down your spine. It was a near constant battle to keep the

runway of Scotland's busiest airport open. Sometimes it was

simply not possible. Hopefully this year the fight will be a bit more

even. It was the continual snowfall, it was very challenging. One of the

biggest things, safety is paramount. With the amount of snow for we had

come a lot of aircraft can't perform in that level. It's about

being able to clear the runway quicker. In December be unthinkable

happened. The M8 was closed. It was chaos on the roads, thousands were

trapped in their cars all over central Scotland. It cost the

minister his job, it cost the economy. Huge parts of Scotland

near ground to a halt. These are space blankets, used in an

emergency to keep people warm - potential life-savers. These are

going to be distributed all over Scotland by the Red Cross. For

those caught in the chaos on the M8, it's enough to make sure that they

and hopefully others are prepared. I was in my car for about 15 hours

in the end. My phone battery died, my car battery diet -- died. It

wasn't the most pleasant experience. Do they, the Scottish Government

launched a campaign to encourage us all to get ready for whatever this

winter might throw at us. We know there is a willingness for people

to do what's necessary, to look after themselves and look after

their neighbours. We want to make sure that they know what it is they

have to do. Winter is coming in at Scotland. We are probably going to

see the likes of this again. You may hope for the best, but the

message is we should plan for the worst. There is lots of advice and

information out there now. The advice is to have a look at it now,

make your plans because the advice is doing now why you cannot you've

got time before it might be too late. Hopefully it won't be too

late, maybe we won't have that bad a winter. Scotland midfielder Barry

Bannan has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving. The 21-

year-old was travelling in a car which struck the central

Sunday morning. The Aston Villa player was also arrested on

suspicion of failing to stop at the scene of an accident. No other

vehicles were involved and no-one was injured. You're watching

Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come before seven, we look

at the little-known links between Scotland and modern-day weather

forecasting. And why more than 100 of the world's best-looking women

gathered in Perthshire field. In Sport, we can get the better of

Celtic's shaky defence, so says a Hibs striker. Jody Morris rules

himself out of the running for the St Johnstone job. And in good hands

- second division East Fife go looking for another SPL scalp in

An inquest opened today into the death of an elderly woman from

Glasgow killed when an express train travelling at 95 mph derailed.

Margaret Masson was travelling home with her daughter and son-in-law

when the train came off the tracks in Cumbria in 2007. A short time

ago we spoke to our correspondent Danny Savage, who has been at the

inquest. It was a dark winter's evening in February 2007, a Friday

night, when the 1715 service from London Euston to Glasgow came off

the tracks here in the embankment behind me, near Kendal in Cumbria.

It went over a set of points, causing the train to derail. It

stayed at break for some 300 metres before it came off the track,

leaving the carriages scattered across a wide distance. The reason

we've been hearing about this today is its the inquest into the only

person who died that night, 84- year-old Margaret Masson. We heard

from her relatives who were on the train with her. Her daughter was

with her shouting, mum, mum! She was trying to help their elderly

mother. We also heard from her late husband, Richard Langley, who

described being thrown the 6 ft into the air during the crash. He

ended up wedged in by a table. Scenes of people being wedged under

seats and scattered across carriages in the moments that

followed the crash. The inquest also heard from the train driver,

Iain Black from Dumbarton. What were his recollections?

He took over as service drive that at Preston station. He described to

the court that the journey should have been easy. Driving at various

different speeds up to 125 mph. As he went over the points here and

the train began to do rail, he told the court without a shadow of a

doubt, I knew what I was in Big Bopper. The train jumped into the

air. He said he lost consciousness in the moments that followed, but

he then woke up again. He was wedged on top of the dashboard

under the windscreen looking back at my seat in the cab. I heard

screaming, I knew I was badly injured. But he still had the

presence of mind to pick up his mobile phone and place a call to

warn that there had been an accident and to get the line closed.

He has finished giving evidence, but other people will be heard from

throughout his inquest, which is Amman is to stand trial in January

charged with the murder of his four-month-old baby daughter. 32-

year-old Craig Jamieson is alleged to have killed his daughter at a

flat in Glasgow on Dumbarton Road in February 2008. It is claimed he

inflicted blunt force trauma or her head and body weaving her so

ensured that he died later at Glasgow's Yorkhill Hospital.

The trial has heard details of how a businessman was shot dead at a

flat in Kirkcaldy last year. Mohammed Nadeem Siddique died in

the flat owned by his brother. Mohammed Azam Siddique is one of

those charged. A tall ships event in Greenock this year generated

millions of pounds for the Scottish economy according to a recent

independent report. �10.4 million of revenue was

brought into heck -- Inverclyde, with a further �8.8 million going

to the West of Scotland. Memories of a nice day. 11 the

programme, we were telling you about the campaign to prepare us

for another harsh winter. But how do we know just how cold, windy or

wet it has been in comparison to rather years? Our correspondent has

been taking a look behind the weather map.

Snow, rain, wind and occasionally even warmth. He then Scotland we

are used to the ups and downs of the weather.

A stronger and gusty south-easterly breeze.

It is a complicated business predicting the future. It relies on

supercomputers crunching vast amounts of data. And to get it

right, we need to know how likely it is.

This monitoring station has a lot of history behind it. The

observatory stood quiet for many years. Its inhabitants took note of

Mother Nature's mood swings. The superintendent here started

work in the 1920s and produced a book about weather prediction, and

it is still the system we use today. In some ways, it could be described

as the birthplace of modern weather forecasting.

Today it is computers rather than pencils that recall the weather.

Measurements are taken at scores of weather stations across Scotland

and new daytime is updated every minute. It has changed dramatically

in my 40 years. You did go out every hour to beat the thermometers

and so on, but nowadays, you just start checking the automatic

equipment is working properly. Nowadays, the humble balloon still

plays an essential role. This is a standard five inch copper ring

gauge. We pour the contents into this measuring cylinder. Predicting

the weather is never going to be easy and we will never get it right

all of the time. One thing is certain, it will always keep

changing. The Scottish Government is being

asked to establish a fund to support the video games industry.

The industry association says a creative content fund would provide

incentives for companies to stay in Scotland. The Scottish Government

says millions of pounds has already been provided.

Rangers have taken the Swedish international striker Jo Sise on

trial. He is out of contract with Swedish club Halmstads. Meanwhile,

Celtic captain Charlie Mulgrew says it is win at all costs. Victories

for the Old Firm yesterday means there is still 10 points between

the teams. For Celtic, today was about giving

and asking the fans to get behind their remembrance gesture.

Yesterday was all about taking. Three point was all that matter.

We do not think about the critics we just concentrate on our cells.

Hopefully we can keep winning, no matter how we do it. Charlie

Mulgrew's winner came after the Celtic defence had again been

penetrated rather be easily. That did not to detract from the

manager's admiration for his skipper. His improvement since

coming back here has been huge and it is a credit to him. He played

down south and then came back and never gave up on it. It is a great

achievement for him. Do not ask Charlie Mulgrew about personal

glory. Do you feel you have a chance of

being in Craig Levein's squat? is up to him and I will just keep

playing and concentrating on Celtic. Their rivals Rangers continue

undefeated at the top of the SPL table.

St Johnstone captain Jody Morris has ruled himself out of the

running for the vacant manager's job at -- at McDiarmid Park. He has

made it clear he would like to carry on playing and a player

manager appointment is not a core. The Hibs striker Junior Agogo says

the Easter Road side could not Celtic out of the Community's leak

Cup because their defence is shaky. Junior Agogo says that head spore

into the game confident after a win over St Mirren on Saturday.

scored two goals. Coming back in the manner that we do it will give

us confidence. We will go into this game on Wednesday confident that we

can do a job. Before that League Cup tie, Second Division East Fife

are in action tomorrow night looking for another SPL scalp. They

go to Kilmarnock in their quarter final and after knocking out on

farmland and Aberdeen in previous rounds, all eyes are on them and

their goalkeeper, who has a knack Not one, not two, but three penalty

saves from East Fife goalkeeper Mark Bridges. What is his secret?

bit of a guessing game. I am a big lad, so I hoped that if I went the

right way, I would get something on them. He is on loan at the club

from Hearts. His manager, himself a former Tynecastle player, says that

the experience he is gathering will serve him well when he returns to

Edinburgh. It will stand him in good stead because he is going back

to challenge some very good goalkeepers there. There might be

an opening for Mark. The Hearts goal keepers are in for a challenge

of when he goes back. The East Fife strikers have also

had their shooting boots on. They are confident they could take

another SPL scalp. We know that if we play well on the day, anything

could happen, so hopefully come Tuesday night, we can repeat what

happened at Pittodrie. Scenes of joy from the East Fife faithful in

the last round, with dreams of a More than 100 of the best-looking

women in the world gather in Crete today. You can imagine there was

little reticence among my male colleagues to cover this story

which involves the competitors in the Miss World competition, taking

part in a Highland Games. 1221 a be Miss Worlds in a damp field on a

rainy day in Perthshire. -- 122 Among them, Miss Scotland.

I think they are asked -- shocked that I am in shorts, when some of

them are struggling with the temperatures. That was the main

question I got, will Scotland be called?

The competition has been going for many years. At its peak, more than

27 million people turned in -- tuned in for the final. It

gradually fell out of favour with the major broadcasters.

The Miss World competition has come in for criticism pills --.

Organisers are keen to point out that half of these young women are

studying for a degree, many of them are already have a degree, and half

of them speak three or more languages. The woman at the helm of

the Miss World competition insists that the competition is keeping up

with the times. We do not get caught up in the weather we are

more important than men. We should respect each other.

Those taking part today looked like they were enjoying themselves.

It is a bit cold that you cannot see that in the photos.

One of these women will be crowned Miss World 2011.

A reminder that our money expert Fergus Muirhead will be back on

Wednesday, looking at the confusion that exists over the best energy

tariffs. Any questions to the usual e-mail address. We have already

heard about what to do in a cold snap, and how it is measured. But

what is in store for the next few It is not looking too bad at all

considering it is at the end of October. It will be Wendy,

particularly in eastern Scotland. - - windy. Overnight, we will see an

area of rain kissing into East Lothian and into the Adam by a area,

towards Fife. -- the Edinburgh area. It will still be windy, strong or

even gale-force. The Met Office have a yellow warning in place for

heavy rain across Eastern parts of Scotland for the likes of Fife,

Perthshire, Angus and Aberdeenshire. This could cause localised flooding.

You can see where the rain is concentrated. Elsewhere, a lot of

dry weather to start the day. Tomorrow afternoon, for the likes

of Dumfries and Galloway, a lot of dry and bright weather. Perhaps the

odd shower. The Glasgow area should be predominantly dry. The Western

Isles will see some fine weather. Temperatures lower than today. The

rain will push into Caithness by the afternoon. Here is where we

will see the heavy rain. For Lady as to the North of Dundee and Perth,

on higher ground. -- a as. -- areas. Throughout the day, the rain will

become less intensive. Wednesday looked to be a better day with dry

and bright weather. That is the A summary of the top stories:

detectives investigating the murder of a 28-year-old man in comeback at

the weekend are trying to piece together the last few hours. Police

say there is nothing to indicate that there was a homophobic Motors.

MPs will vote on this issue tonight, and Mr Cameron is facing the

biggest rebellion since becoming the party's leader.

The Scottish Government has started a campaign to encourage people to

get ready for the winter. A survey carried out by the Government

indicated that most people do not feel adequately prepared.

Rescue teams are warning that time is what -- running out to save many

people trapped in rubble following an earthquake in eastern Turkey.

265 are known to have died but hundreds are still missing. The

final figure is expected to be higher. Authorities say that around