:00:15. > :00:17.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news:
:00:17. > :00:22.Guilty. The Scots-born child-killer Robert Black is convicted of
:00:22. > :00:27.murdering a fourth little girl. He abducted, abused and killed
:00:27. > :00:30.Jennifer Cardy 30 years ago in Northern Ireland.
:00:30. > :00:40.Tom Maxwell was just three years old when Black murdered his sister
:00:40. > :00:45.
:00:45. > :00:48.Susan. I think the family, there will be some tiny element of relief.
:00:48. > :00:51.We'll have a special background report into the crimes of Robert
:00:51. > :00:53.Black. In other news this evening: The First Minister apologises to
:00:53. > :00:57.parliament for misquoting an academic in support of his plans
:00:57. > :01:07.for a referendum on independence. Send your children to your local
:01:07. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.school. A council urges parents not to make school placing requests.
:01:12. > :01:16.This time, physical exercises for Lady.
:01:16. > :01:18.And a look the book which looks at the early days of BBC Scotland.
:01:18. > :01:21.The triple child killer Robert Black has been convicted of the
:01:21. > :01:24.murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy, who was abducted and killed
:01:24. > :01:27.in Northern Ireland 30 years ago. Black, who's originally from
:01:27. > :01:30.Grangemouth, is already serving life for the murder of the Scottish
:01:30. > :01:35.girls Susan Maxwell and Caroline Hogg, as well as Sarah Harper from
:01:35. > :01:38.Leeds. After he was found guilty at Armagh Crown Court, Jennifer
:01:38. > :01:48.Cardy's parents said they didn't hate Robert Black but pitied him
:01:48. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:55.for the life he'd led. Laura Bicker reports. Jennifer Cardy was proud
:01:55. > :02:00.of our new red bicycle. On a sunny August day, she decided to cycle to
:02:00. > :02:06.a friend's house. She told her mum she would be home in time for to
:02:06. > :02:12.watch television. But it was not to be. All I can appeal for is that
:02:12. > :02:17.she comes back and whoever has heard doesn't hold her. Divided
:02:17. > :02:22.Protestant and Catholic communities united to set -- to search the
:02:22. > :02:28.streets. Hundreds of people were eager to help. Within hours her
:02:28. > :02:36.bicycle was found. Police and her parents feared the worst. They took
:02:36. > :02:41.her because she was a lovely wee girl. Jennifer's body was
:02:41. > :02:45.discovered in this damp, face down, floating among the weeds. It was a
:02:45. > :02:51.petrol receipt which finally linked her murder to serial killer at
:02:51. > :02:56.Robert Black. A six-week trial revealed the full horror of hit --
:02:56. > :03:03.of his crime. How you kidnapped, sexually abused and murdered the
:03:03. > :03:08.little girl. Today, at court, her parents were there. All of a sudden
:03:09. > :03:13.we are confronted with the awfulness of those last few hours
:03:13. > :03:18.and what she would have had to suffer. That has been truly awful
:03:18. > :03:24.for each and every one of us. Jennifer had a lovely thought for
:03:24. > :03:34.almost beyond her nine years. She will be for ever remember it and
:03:34. > :03:41.always missed. Robert Black has done this awful deed, but I joined
:03:41. > :03:46.with my husband and say that he will not destroy us. For 30 years,
:03:46. > :03:50.Jennifer Cardy's parents have prayed for justice, today, their
:03:50. > :03:53.faith was finally rewarded. It's 17 years since Robert Black
:03:53. > :03:56.was convicted of the murders of Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg and
:03:56. > :04:00.Sarah Harper. Even before today's verdict he was facing the rest of
:04:00. > :04:10.his life in prison. Willie Johnston has been looking back how he was
:04:10. > :04:15.finally brought to justice. Robert Black's reign of terror ended here
:04:15. > :04:19.in the Borders village in 1990. He was seen abducting and driving off
:04:19. > :04:25.with a six year-old girl in the back of his ban. The police were
:04:25. > :04:33.called and stopped the van. His years of abusing and eventually
:04:33. > :04:38.killing young girls were over. was who did, bound and gagged. The
:04:38. > :04:42.look of terror on her face was incredible. Robert Black was
:04:42. > :04:50.convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but for investigators that
:04:50. > :04:55.was only the start. His his UK wide delivery job had given him scope to
:04:55. > :05:03.target children around the country. The police linked him to three
:05:03. > :05:11.unsolved murders. Susan Maxwell was matched. She had nothing we power
:05:11. > :05:19.but a tennis racket. She was just coming home for her tea. Caroline
:05:19. > :05:28.Hogg was next. She disappeared from a funfair near her home. We want
:05:28. > :05:33.her back. We want her back now. then Sera Harper, at taken while
:05:33. > :05:38.running an errand -- an errand for her grandmother in Leeds. The
:05:39. > :05:43.investigation was long and painstaking. Police traced black's
:05:43. > :05:53.workrooms and used fuel receipts to prove he had been where girls had
:05:53. > :05:57.to disappear. Black was convicted of all three murders in 1994 and
:05:58. > :06:03.given 10 life sentences. Every parent in the country can rest more
:06:03. > :06:08.easily knowing that Robert Black is in jail for the rest of his life.
:06:08. > :06:13.Now Black has been convicted of another killing. There may yet be
:06:14. > :06:19.more or. But Black is not a man who surrenders his secrets. He is very
:06:19. > :06:24.close and controlled. A coldness and somewhat empty eyes. Very
:06:24. > :06:33.striking eyes. He would stay issue for long periods of time in
:06:33. > :06:37.complete silence and eventually his head would drop. It is an element
:06:37. > :06:43.of power. There are some serial killers who love to tell every one
:06:43. > :06:46.of the crimes they have committed, there are others, like Black, who
:06:46. > :06:51.liked to keep information to themselves because the power is
:06:51. > :06:57.there that they know it is up to you to find out. Today's verdict
:06:57. > :07:01.may represent justice, but possibly not the closer the family may crave.
:07:01. > :07:09.Susan Maxwell's brother was only three when his sister was killed.
:07:09. > :07:15.He says the shadow of black's you will never left. I think the family,
:07:15. > :07:21.that there will be some tiny element of relief. That he is in
:07:21. > :07:26.jail, he is going to rot there, but it doesn't bring Jennifer back. Is
:07:26. > :07:35.it going to make a difference? Is it going to make a difference to
:07:35. > :07:40.the gap that her death left, no. Someone has finally can -- been
:07:40. > :07:42.convicted, but is that any kind of close to? I do not think it is.
:07:42. > :07:45.The brother of Susan Maxwell ending Willie Johnston's report. You're
:07:45. > :07:47.watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come before
:07:47. > :07:49.seven: 90 years of remembrance - the
:07:49. > :07:53.Scottish Poppy Appeal is launched in Edinburgh.
:07:53. > :07:56.In sport: A premier League club manager asks his chairman to make a
:07:56. > :08:00.public statement backing him - news on that, and what did Neil Lennon
:08:00. > :08:09.say to his players behind closed doors at Easter Road last night?
:08:09. > :08:12.Whatever it was, it worked. More on The First Minister Alex Salmond has
:08:12. > :08:15.had to apologise to the Scottish Parliament after a row over his
:08:15. > :08:18.plans for an independence referendum. Mr Salmond had
:08:18. > :08:20.suggested to MSPs that he had received a retraction from a
:08:20. > :08:25.prominent academic who had criticised the planned two-question
:08:25. > :08:29.ballot. But it emerged later that the words quoted by the First
:08:29. > :08:38.Minister came from a draft drawn up by one of his own special advisers.
:08:38. > :08:42.Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. At the SNP
:08:42. > :08:47.conference over the weekend, Alex Salmond hinted that his
:08:47. > :08:50.independence referendum might include a second option, to give
:08:50. > :08:56.Holyrood the power to raise the money it spends without Scotland
:08:56. > :09:01.leaving the UK. At question time today, rivals for and against
:09:01. > :09:05.independence accused him of confusing the issue. Why are we
:09:06. > :09:11.prattling about with this second question? Surely it cannot be the
:09:11. > :09:15.case that the First Minister lacks the courage to put his big idea of
:09:15. > :09:21.independence to a strict yes or No vote of the Scottish people, or is
:09:21. > :09:29.he afraid? That First Minister said at to question vote had been
:09:29. > :09:33.endorsed by set a world leading expert. It closes by saying that,
:09:33. > :09:39.while it is a matter for the Scottish people to decide, at two-
:09:39. > :09:44.question proposition it would be fair, reasonable and clear. But the
:09:44. > :09:54.expert in question are never wrote those words. In fact, he is quoted
:09:54. > :10:01.
:10:01. > :10:06.in today's Times as the end, -- as Opposition said that the First
:10:07. > :10:10.Minister had misled Parliament by making up a quote. The First
:10:10. > :10:15.Minister has up a track record of misleading Parliament, but to write
:10:15. > :10:21.a letter putting words in someone else's mouth and then at reading it
:10:21. > :10:25.out as if they had been that said is really Loring himself. This is a
:10:25. > :10:30.doctoring evidence and pulling the wool over the eyes of the people of
:10:30. > :10:35.Scotland. The First Minister came back to the chamber to say sorry.
:10:35. > :10:40.was given evidence that this was wrong, and therefore might response
:10:40. > :10:45.was ended -- incorrect. This is my responsibility and therefore I
:10:45. > :10:53.apologise. It was a rare moment of contrition from the only First
:10:53. > :10:57.Minister to ever command a majority in this Parliament.
:10:57. > :11:01.A bit embarrassing for the First Minister.
:11:01. > :11:07.Yes. He is used to commanding of the chamber with soaring rhetoric
:11:07. > :11:12.to -- rhetoric. I think we have clarified a few things. The
:11:12. > :11:18.academic has written another letter to the Times. He says that perhaps
:11:18. > :11:22.his full position was not reckon it -- represented in the first
:11:22. > :11:28.representation. He says that a two- question ballot is not advisable
:11:28. > :11:34.because then there can be confusion. He says Scots should be asked to do
:11:34. > :11:39.you want change, if so do you want a fiscal devolution? He thinks that
:11:39. > :11:42.those two things could be put in conflict with each other. I think
:11:42. > :11:47.Alex and it has probably dampened down this road for now. The
:11:47. > :11:49.question of the to quit as -- of the two questions will continue.
:11:49. > :11:52.A campaign has been launched in Edinburgh to persuade parents to
:11:52. > :11:54.send their children to their nearest local authority school. At
:11:54. > :11:57.the last count, 30,000 families across Scotland made placing
:11:57. > :11:59.requests to schools outside their catchment area. But the Scottish
:11:59. > :12:02.Government have stopped compiling these figures and that's led to
:12:02. > :12:05.criticism that they've removed an important measure of parental
:12:05. > :12:15.satisfaction with the education system. Here's our education
:12:15. > :12:16.
:12:16. > :12:20.correspondent Seonag MacKinnon. At how's whole life determined by the
:12:20. > :12:29.quality of their school. Best primary school is helping many
:12:29. > :12:35.children fly rather than finder. is a magnificent building, a state
:12:35. > :12:40.of the art building. It is equipped for the 21st century. The learning
:12:40. > :12:46.and teaching is of a very high standard. For the last few years,
:12:47. > :12:52.our attainment has increased from 40% in national tests to the early
:12:52. > :12:55.70s in national tests. But many try to get their children into schools
:12:56. > :13:00.further afield. There is a widespread assumption that children
:13:00. > :13:05.do better in schools in posher areas. But inspectors say that in
:13:06. > :13:12.reality, many schools are coasting. Results could be down at two input
:13:12. > :13:18.from parents and coasters. What would be the first sound? Council
:13:18. > :13:26.leaders want more appearance to give their local school at times.
:13:26. > :13:30.am local. The school seems satisfactory to me. Going to the
:13:30. > :13:33.local school is easier on the mother. If the school in the area
:13:33. > :13:37.wasn't something I was impressed with, I would rather have the
:13:37. > :13:41.choice to send them out with that the area. All schools should be up
:13:41. > :13:47.to a proper standard and then everyone would go local. At the
:13:47. > :13:51.last count, 30,000 families across Scotland it to opt out. But there
:13:51. > :13:56.are no figures for this year because the Scottish Government
:13:56. > :14:00.have stopped publishing them. A decision that concern some.
:14:00. > :14:04.information will still exist and will be known by the Government.
:14:04. > :14:08.What has ended here is the opportunity for everyone else to
:14:08. > :14:12.get access to the same kind of information as the quality makers
:14:13. > :14:17.have. The Scottish Government says it has stopped pulling the figures
:14:17. > :14:22.together because it is too much of a burden for local councils.
:14:22. > :14:32.Placing requests by parents are expected to keep rising. But for
:14:32. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:44.Arman murdered in comeback at the weekend -- a man murdered in
:14:44. > :14:48.Cumnock at the weekend had previously been questioned by
:14:48. > :14:54.police over alleged indecency. Strathclyde Police have confirmed
:14:54. > :14:59.that are so a report was sent to the Procurator Fiscal in August
:14:59. > :15:02.after he was accused of abusing a 12-year-old boy. Do we say there
:15:02. > :15:07.was nothing to connect his murder to those allegations.
:15:07. > :15:15.Statistics show that fewer Scots died during last winter than the
:15:15. > :15:25.previous 50 years. The number of registered deaths dropped by 61
:15:25. > :15:25.
:15:25. > :15:29.despite the unusually cold winter. Let us move on to the Poppy Appeal.
:15:29. > :15:35.The 90th Poppy Appeal has been launched in Edinburgh. The charity,
:15:35. > :15:42.which looks after former military personnel, was created by a Field
:15:42. > :15:47.Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. The aristocratic general, born in
:15:47. > :15:52.Charlotte Square in Edinburgh. The man who ordered soldiers in their
:15:52. > :15:57.tens of thousands over the top in the First World War. He is buried
:15:57. > :16:05.here, not far from his family home in the Borders. He is one of the
:16:05. > :16:12.most controversial figures in military history. He set up the
:16:12. > :16:18.veterans charity. It is now known as the poppy appeal. 90 years on,
:16:18. > :16:22.it is still helping veterans from all conflict. People like Bill
:16:23. > :16:29.Walker, who was injured fighting in Burma and India with the Royal Scot
:16:29. > :16:35.in World War II. Do you think people understand what it means?
:16:35. > :16:41.think so. There has been that many wars, so many people killed and
:16:41. > :16:48.wounded, it is a way of life now, you know? People who have been
:16:48. > :16:54.injured and comeback have had help from the poppy appeal. It helps
:16:54. > :17:04.people not only in the forces now, but people who wear on the forces.
:17:04. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:14.-- who were formerly on the forces. The campaigns in Afghanistan and
:17:14. > :17:15.
:17:15. > :17:19.Iraq go on. The charity continues to evolve. Earlier this year, it
:17:19. > :17:24.merged with the British Legion. All the money raised in Scotland and
:17:24. > :17:30.the Scottish Poppy Appeal will be spent in Scotland.
:17:30. > :17:33.A seal pup on an island in the River Forth has managed to escape
:17:34. > :17:41.drowning after being trapped in a lobster pot. They were tossed
:17:41. > :17:51.around by waves off the east coast on Tuesday. It has been named as he
:17:51. > :17:53.
:17:53. > :17:58.DD by staff at the Scottish Sea Life Centre. -- Houdini. It is not
:17:58. > :18:03.known whether it ultimately survived.
:18:03. > :18:10.The seal escaped but I am still here! The Dundee United manager
:18:10. > :18:14.Peter Houston says he expected his chairman to back him publicly. That
:18:14. > :18:19.is after reports he was on the verge of getting sacked. He said
:18:19. > :18:25.that, if he does go, he will leave with his head held high.
:18:25. > :18:32.The spike the manager's world -- words of discovered Park -- words
:18:32. > :18:42.of encouragement, the defeat at the League Cup tie against Falkirk has
:18:42. > :18:44.
:18:45. > :18:50.prompted questions over Peter It is a far cry from the Scottish
:18:50. > :18:57.Cup glory of just 17 months ago. Peter Houston says his record is
:18:57. > :19:04.second only to that of Jim McLean. He says if he is sacked, he will
:19:04. > :19:08.leave with his head held high. Many of that team have now left.
:19:08. > :19:13.Regardless of cost cutting, Peter Houston must reserve -- must
:19:13. > :19:17.reverse the slide. And fast. What did Neil Lennon say to his
:19:17. > :19:24.players at half-time at Easter Road last night? Whatever it was, it
:19:24. > :19:29.worked. It seemed that it was Neil Lennon's rousing team talk that
:19:29. > :19:39.inspired a Celtic comeback. 1-0 down and things are looking grim
:19:39. > :19:57.
:19:57. > :20:01.What caused the transformation? What are the managers say to the
:20:01. > :20:04.team at half-time? The players knew themselves that the first that
:20:04. > :20:11.performance was not up to scratch and that he let us know that.
:20:11. > :20:21.will probably never know what was said. Rhetorical flourishes and
:20:21. > :20:23.
:20:23. > :20:30.roller King's a part of the fabric of the game. Get your cells
:20:30. > :20:36.prepared mentally! If that kind of treatment works for Neil Lennon,
:20:36. > :20:42.why does he not do that before the game? I don't think you'd go down
:20:42. > :20:52.too well as he did it at the start of the game -- if he did it at the
:20:52. > :20:57.start of the game! The Scotland women's team are about to start
:20:57. > :21:05.qualification for the 2013 finals. Their match tonight, the first
:21:05. > :21:14.match, is at Tynecastle High. Last-minute preparations. It is the
:21:14. > :21:18.first home tide of the UEFA 2013 qualifiers. Tonight's match against
:21:18. > :21:26.Wales is a key match. The and a good side. They can score goals
:21:26. > :21:33.against any team. We played them in February and we are under no
:21:33. > :21:37.illusions that it will be a difficult game. If we can take her
:21:37. > :21:46.opportunities then we're confident we can come out with a win. It is
:21:46. > :21:49.high times for the women's game. 27,000 girls now play football at
:21:49. > :21:56.schools. The SFA's say these are the building blocks for the
:21:56. > :22:02.national side. If we have strong clubs, then we have strong national
:22:02. > :22:09.teams. We see any investment in clubs as benefiting the whole game.
:22:09. > :22:13.Scotland is now ranked 23rd in the world. They missed out on the last
:22:13. > :22:18.European Championships by one point. This time, the focus is on getting
:22:18. > :22:28.through. We want to be out there in Sweden. We are not being arrogant
:22:28. > :22:30.
:22:31. > :22:40.about it. It would be something the men's team have not done since 1998.
:22:41. > :22:41.
:22:41. > :22:45.No hairdryer treatment in the one in's Game! -- the ladies' game!
:22:45. > :22:52.It was one of the most controversial broadcasts in history.
:22:52. > :22:58.In 1926, Scotland was told that London was under siege. But it was
:22:58. > :23:08.all a spoof. In this book, it tells of how staff escaped reprimand
:23:08. > :23:13.because it led to a surge in interest for radios. The wireless
:23:13. > :23:19.was a fairly new invention in 1926 and for many listeners, the spoof
:23:20. > :23:28.report was a serious worry. understand that they Houses of
:23:28. > :23:36.Parliament are about to be demolished. There were urgent phone
:23:36. > :23:42.calls from certain people asking after their relatives. They thought
:23:42. > :23:48.it had gone very wrong. In the end, the BBC's manager let
:23:48. > :23:57.the matter ago, perhaps swayed by an upsurge in demand for radio
:23:57. > :24:04.licences. From those five people in an amateur studio career nationwide
:24:04. > :24:14.organisation recording every sort of programme. This was their
:24:14. > :24:14.
:24:14. > :24:20.contribution to the war effort. It was a religious affairs programme,
:24:20. > :24:27.from Glasgow, which made an even greater contribution. The scripts
:24:27. > :24:32.were always late back from the sensors. Now we know why! I was
:24:33. > :24:36.waiting on the script being sent back to me because it was carrying
:24:36. > :24:46.coded messages from the French resistance because of the war.
:24:46. > :24:56.Nobody ever seem to know this. the 1950s, the BBC expanded into
:24:56. > :24:57.
:24:57. > :25:04.television and made history with a live outside broadcast from Sky. It
:25:04. > :25:07.is on that hide that Mr Walker concludes his history. The rest, he
:25:07. > :25:15.says, is for another writer and another book.
:25:15. > :25:25.And if you thought that handsome news reader bore an uncanny
:25:25. > :25:30.
:25:30. > :25:37.resemblance to one of our own, It will be fairly dry. Though
:25:37. > :25:44.showers should disappear. One or two showers working into Orkney and
:25:44. > :25:52.Shetland her, however. Much of the mainland dry and cloudy. Cooler
:25:52. > :25:57.than of late. Temperatures in towns and cities going down. There is the
:25:57. > :26:07.chance of a light frost in the Borders. We see the low pressure
:26:07. > :26:24.
:26:24. > :26:27.out in the Atlantic. It is working it will be dry. For much of the
:26:27. > :26:34.country, not too bad at all. A southerly breeze in there as well.
:26:34. > :26:39.The north-west will start to see cloud pushing in. Some outbreaks of
:26:39. > :26:43.rain for the Outer Hebrides and for Shetland, probably in the latter
:26:43. > :26:50.half of the afternoon. That rain will continue to increase. It will
:26:50. > :26:55.move its way eastwards, accompanied by some strong, southerly winds. We
:26:55. > :27:03.can see these weather fronts moving their way end. There will be strong
:27:03. > :27:11.winds for the first half of the weekend. With those southerly winds,
:27:11. > :27:21.some shelter across their east coast. Still some heavy and
:27:21. > :27:22.
:27:22. > :27:28.persistent rain in the West. You can keep up-to-date on Twitter.
:27:28. > :27:33.Just before 7 o'clock, a summary - the financial markets have reacted
:27:33. > :27:36.favourably to a deal aimed at saving -- solving the eurozone
:27:36. > :27:42.crisis. They have boosted the eurozone funds to around one
:27:42. > :27:45.trillion Euros. The triple child killer Robert
:27:45. > :27:51.Black has been convicted of the murder of nine-year-old Jennifer