:00:21. > :00:27.The referendum rules, Alex Salmond denies a Becks and tells Parliament
:00:27. > :00:31.he will consult other parties on the independence vote.
:00:31. > :00:37.Kimberley Hainey, the mother who murdered her son and left his body
:00:38. > :00:47.in this flat is jailed for 15 years. The Crown Office has released the
:00:48. > :00:49.
:00:49. > :00:54.first pictures of Declan Heaney. Going the extra mile, plans to
:00:54. > :01:02.reinvigorate one of the world's most famous streets.
:01:02. > :01:05.One never panders the SEC, it is the boy one.
:01:05. > :01:11.The First Minister has denied he is trying to fix the independence
:01:11. > :01:21.referendum. Labour level the accusation in a heated debate. Alex
:01:21. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:25.Salmond said he wanted a consensus. Thinking of the past, a 700 year-
:01:25. > :01:35.old letter offering support to William Wallace is returned to
:01:35. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:39.Scotland. Looking to the future, all parties must be involved in
:01:39. > :01:46.setting the rules for the referendum. She said it was wrong
:01:46. > :01:52.Alex Salmond named the date. A to many of us, inside and more
:01:53. > :01:59.critically outside this chamber, that looks cynical. Alex Salmond
:01:59. > :02:06.insisted he wanted to build consensus but warned if the allied
:02:06. > :02:16.to closely with the Conservatives. Let me warn the Labour Party, if
:02:16. > :02:22.the ball when with the Tories, they will spit you out. Could Scottish
:02:22. > :02:27.politics descend into this? The presidential election 12 years ago,
:02:27. > :02:31.court room fights over disputed thoughts. My concern is the result
:02:31. > :02:41.of the referendum might be determined by the courts, not the
:02:41. > :02:50.
:02:50. > :02:55.people. We moved to First Minister's Questions. His
:02:55. > :03:01.accusations Rees serious doubts over whether he wants a legal and
:03:01. > :03:08.decisive referendum. If he has evidence against their impartiality,
:03:08. > :03:18.will he produce it? Alex Salmond insisted he was not impugning the
:03:18. > :03:19.
:03:19. > :03:29.commission's integrity. In the bought tonight, the SNP majority
:03:29. > :03:32.
:03:32. > :03:40.backed plans for a holy writ to control the referendum's. A bit of
:03:41. > :03:47.a problem happening. Joan McAlpine is a parliamentary aide to the
:03:47. > :03:54.First Minister. She appeared to be questioning the commitment of
:03:55. > :04:03.opposition parties to Scotland. make no apology for saying the
:04:03. > :04:09.Liberals, the Labour Party and the Tories are anti-Scottish in defying
:04:09. > :04:15.they will of the people. The member should consider what she is saying.
:04:15. > :04:25.Given the views of the vast majority of Scottish people, is she
:04:25. > :04:25.
:04:25. > :04:31.suggesting they are not patriotic? She issued a statement suggesting
:04:31. > :04:36.she was doing no such thing. She said she was criticising the
:04:36. > :04:43.leadership of the opposition parties were ganging up against
:04:43. > :04:49.Scotland's democratic right. Where does this leave us? We learned
:04:49. > :04:56.little in a pragmatic approach towards a referendum. There was
:04:56. > :05:04.sound and fury. There was some conciliation between the parties.
:05:04. > :05:12.Regarding this, it is not the case that one party imposes the rules
:05:12. > :05:17.for a decision determining its future of Scotland. Kimberley
:05:17. > :05:27.Hainey who murdered her baby son and concealed her death -- his
:05:27. > :05:29.
:05:29. > :05:36.death has been jailed for 15 years. Today, the judge said people
:05:36. > :05:40.thought she was a devoted my mother but months later Declan was dead.
:05:40. > :05:50.This Latin Paisley is where Kimberley Hainey and heroin addict
:05:50. > :05:55.who had given up drugs love with our son. These are the pictures
:05:55. > :06:05.revealed yesterday of the chaotic flat and which Declan's badly
:06:05. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:13.decomposed body was found. Empty bottles in the playpen. No one but
:06:13. > :06:23.this woman knows how she went off the rails. No one else knows how
:06:23. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :06:58.That isolation and there were no warning signs for social workers.
:06:58. > :07:06.She was plausible. She spun a web of deceit and she corned lot of
:07:06. > :07:12.people. We would normally get alerts from families. In this case,
:07:12. > :07:20.they did not. Some neighbours were in court. They were satisfied she
:07:20. > :07:25.had been sentenced. They said 15 years was not long enough. She has
:07:25. > :07:32.been returned to Caunton Vale prison but is that the central
:07:32. > :07:41.legal arguments. Following a case brought by the BBC, there was the
:07:41. > :07:51.publication of photographs of the flat. Borders of Declan are said to
:07:51. > :07:57.be released soon. The judge argued such a move would breach Kimberley
:07:57. > :08:05.Hainey's right to privacy. In the last few minutes, the BBC
:08:05. > :08:10.has won that case and we can show you the pictures. This is the first
:08:10. > :08:17.time like this has been shown. These pictures were shown to the
:08:17. > :08:25.jury but not on the monitors and court. There is a picture of Declan
:08:25. > :08:35.with his bottle. There is another picture with a bottle. He looks
:08:35. > :08:38.
:08:38. > :08:48.healthy as indeed he was. The next image is a shot from Hallowe'en
:08:48. > :08:50.
:08:50. > :08:59.Twitter 1008. Another picture from that same night. The final picture
:08:59. > :09:06.that has been released his him as a toddler. These are the pictures
:09:06. > :09:11.that the Crown did not want us to publish. What is the legal
:09:11. > :09:18.significance of the fact but we are allowed to show them? This is a
:09:18. > :09:27.significant case. The judge said there was no chance that the
:09:27. > :09:37.objection which was Kimberley Hainey's right to privacy would
:09:37. > :09:46.
:09:46. > :09:52.have overcome the BBC's claim that free speech was important. It was
:09:52. > :10:02.said to be important for the public to see significant productions
:10:02. > :10:06.
:10:06. > :10:15.photographs in major trials. Still to come. One of the country's most
:10:15. > :10:19.historic streets. Machines take over sorting mail.
:10:19. > :10:24.Scotland has footballing talent but most of it wants to play in his
:10:24. > :10:34.England. Any more of this and the Hibernian striker will be in
:10:34. > :10:39.trouble. There is a claim that thousands of
:10:39. > :10:49.children with asthma are being put at risk because schools are run not
:10:49. > :10:50.
:10:50. > :10:57.allowed to keep emergency and healers.
:10:57. > :11:03.There 72,000 children with its asthma and Scotland. A survey found
:11:03. > :11:07.that two-thirds of them have had an attack and needed and healers. The
:11:07. > :11:13.problem is you can only get this on prescription. Schools are not
:11:13. > :11:17.allowed to have them. It is up to pupils with the condition to know
:11:18. > :11:23.where the ink in healer is kept. More than half of children said
:11:23. > :11:30.they did not know where it was or how to get it.
:11:30. > :11:36.This child suffers from asthma. Her mum felt her condition was not
:11:36. > :11:43.catered for at school. She was told teachers could not be responsible
:11:43. > :11:48.for handling this drug. At her first school, I was told unless I
:11:48. > :11:52.was able to articulate why she was able to use it, the school could
:11:52. > :11:58.not administer it. For a five-year- old child, it would be difficult to
:11:58. > :12:06.put that pressure on her. A child who feels well will not ask foreign
:12:06. > :12:11.and healer. She keeps in any lower at school. Asthma UK Scotland
:12:11. > :12:17.believes thousands of pupils are being put at risk. We want schools
:12:17. > :12:23.to have emergency supply is. It could have their a catastrophic
:12:23. > :12:30.incident. Sarah and her mumsy it has been difficult to get anyone to
:12:30. > :12:40.listen to them. There are preconceived ideas that asthma is a
:12:40. > :12:42.
:12:42. > :12:47.wheeze. Asthma sufferers require their medication. Sarah goes to
:12:47. > :12:54.school knowing Warwick where remedial is kept. It is thought
:12:54. > :13:04.many children do not know. The MHRA told us they have no plans to
:13:04. > :13:13.
:13:13. > :13:17.change the rules. The EC in the Strathclyde Police have launched an
:13:17. > :13:22.investigation into sectarian comments on the Web site of a
:13:22. > :13:26.former referee. It follows a complaint by Celtic Football Club
:13:26. > :13:31.about anti- Catholic and anti- Celtic abuse posted on the website
:13:31. > :13:41.of Jeff Winter who retired eight years ago. It has been removed from
:13:41. > :13:44.A 53-year-old man has been jailed for two and a half years after
:13:44. > :13:46.being caught with almost half a million photographs and movie clips
:13:46. > :13:49.featuring child pornography. The High Court in Edinburgh heard that
:13:49. > :13:52.the seizure at Brian Porter's home in the city's Craigentinny Road was
:13:52. > :13:59.the biggest single recovery of indecent material by Lothian and
:13:59. > :14:02.Borders Police. At the top, there's an ancient
:14:02. > :14:05.castle, at the bottom a modern parliament, not to mention a royal
:14:05. > :14:08.palace. But in between, is there much to celebrate on Edinburgh's
:14:08. > :14:10.Royal Mile? Today, a conference has been looking at how to improve the
:14:10. > :14:20.experience of one of Scotland's best-known thoroughfares. Lisa
:14:20. > :14:24.
:14:24. > :14:31.It has got caucus, character and culture. It attract millions of
:14:31. > :14:38.tourists each year. This medieval street is just over one mile long
:14:38. > :14:48.and a World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful building. We do not have
:14:48. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:53.anything like this. architecture is very different.
:14:53. > :15:01.When you walk down the royal Mile, you are stepping through hundreds
:15:01. > :15:07.of miles of he -- hundreds of years of history. But there needed to
:15:07. > :15:11.preserve the past and the desire to capitalise on his reputation is
:15:11. > :15:20.sometimes difficult to get right. There is a feeling at the moment
:15:20. > :15:29.that the balance is not right. That is why retailers, residents and
:15:29. > :15:33.experts have been meeting. I think there is a real opportunity for
:15:33. > :15:40.Edinburgh to reduce its World Heritage Site status to appeal to a
:15:40. > :15:50.higher segment of the tourism market. The council say that
:15:50. > :15:55.everybody has to play a part. utility company builds -- digs up a
:15:55. > :16:01.dream, and they should be thinking about replacing the cobbles and not
:16:01. > :16:05.just pouring in tarmacadam. The bus driver has to think it is important
:16:05. > :16:11.Street and use it carefully. Heritage groups all welcome the
:16:11. > :16:16.positive ideas but say that words must turn into action to ensure a
:16:16. > :16:19.positive future for tourists and for those who live in Edinburgh.
:16:19. > :16:25.A look now at what else has been happening across the country this
:16:25. > :16:30.Thursday. I Bob Bank of Scotland is shedding
:16:30. > :16:35.another 3500 jobs are mainly in the investment division.
:16:35. > :16:39.Investigations are under way after a man died in a blaze in Dundee.
:16:39. > :16:46.Another man was killed in a fire in Perth.
:16:46. > :16:51.Despite protests last year, plans for a waste recycling centre of the
:16:51. > :16:56.at a park in Aberdeen were approved today.
:16:56. > :17:03.Critics say the side would create smells and noise but councillors
:17:03. > :17:09.have dismissed the concerns as groundless.
:17:09. > :17:14.Begum's it do help emergency services and track down lost
:17:14. > :17:20.climbers had been approved for use for the first time. We will pass
:17:20. > :17:24.the information to the police who will know how to continue.
:17:24. > :17:32.Work to refurbish the Royal Yacht Britannia should be finished this
:17:32. > :17:37.week. The line-up for the Shetland folk
:17:37. > :17:40.Festival has just been announced. 14 banneds from 10 different
:17:40. > :17:48.countries will play across the islands they may.
:17:48. > :17:52.A chance encounter with an islander led archaeologists to a medieval --
:17:53. > :18:02.to a possible medieval fishing village in South Uist.
:18:02. > :18:04.More on those and other stories on the BBC Scotland website.
:18:04. > :18:08.It already has robots delivering meals, linen and even cleaning the
:18:08. > :18:12.floors. Now Forth Valley Royal Hospital has switched on a new
:18:12. > :18:15.robot to sort the mail. It is the first of its kind in any hospital
:18:15. > :18:20.in Europe. Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford went to see it in
:18:20. > :18:23.action. At the speed of more than 2,000
:18:23. > :18:25.letters an hour, Forth Valley's newest robot sorts the mail. This
:18:25. > :18:30.hospital now has a fleet of robots in underground tunnels delivering
:18:30. > :18:35.meals and linen. It even has them cleaning floors. And organising the
:18:35. > :18:45.pharmacy. This robotic mail room is a far cry from the way the mail
:18:45. > :18:48.used to be sorted. That was all by hand, much as it was in the famous
:18:48. > :18:54.1936 Night Mail film captured in W H Auden's poetry and Benjamin
:18:54. > :18:57.Britten's music. This is the Night Mail crossing the border bringing
:18:57. > :19:02.the cheque and the postal order, letters for the rich, letters for
:19:02. > :19:05.the poor, the shop at the corner and the girl next door. It is an
:19:05. > :19:14.atmosphere the boss of the hospital remembers in his first job in a
:19:14. > :19:16.Royal Mail sorting office. There was a line of postmen, 10 or 12
:19:16. > :19:19.postmen, standing in front of pigeon holes like this. The
:19:19. > :19:25.remarkable thing was that they were all singing. As they sang, they
:19:25. > :19:35.swayed and they sorted the mail into the pigeon holes. I thought,
:19:35. > :19:42.
:19:42. > :19:45.But as we enter the era of the e- mail, is a robot still needed?
:19:45. > :19:52.process over 300,000 items of mail per month in a hospital this size,
:19:52. > :19:55.so absolutely, yes, there is a need. The robots here are proving very
:19:55. > :20:05.effective, but there is still the need for a human touch. People like
:20:05. > :20:08.
:20:08. > :20:15.Stephen still have to take the Let's see how the sport is looking
:20:15. > :20:18.tonight. Here's David. Is the Scottish Premier League
:20:18. > :20:21.becoming little more than a feeder league for clubs in England with
:20:21. > :20:24.the best young talent lured southwards with the promise of
:20:24. > :20:28.higher wages? You might not call it a brain drain, but it's certainly a
:20:28. > :20:37.talent drain and it's showing no sign of drying up. But is it
:20:37. > :20:43.Some of these young people may be dreaming of one day playing in the
:20:43. > :20:49.Scottish Premier League. The one who has already made it aspires to
:20:49. > :20:59.playing elsewhere. England. At the end of the day, you are being paid
:20:59. > :21:05.more money. That is where the money is. You do not blame guys for
:21:05. > :21:12.wanting to go down there and play. One day, I hope I can play in the
:21:13. > :21:21.Championship. It is not a bad thing. But it is not just about the money.
:21:21. > :21:29.At least according to one player. It is the freshness. You are only
:21:29. > :21:37.playing each team at twice a season. The crowds are bigger. Looking at
:21:37. > :21:45.that aspect, it is a good thing. The is no doubt Scotland has got
:21:45. > :21:50.talent. Adrian Donnelly is the country's scorer. He will probably
:21:50. > :21:57.end up moving to the Premiership for the Championship. But Scottish
:21:57. > :22:03.football has always haemorrhaged talent to England. Kenny Dalglish
:22:03. > :22:08.left Celtic for Liverpool. But they have moves probably benefit the
:22:08. > :22:13.national team as well. Maybe there is a silver lining to the talent
:22:13. > :22:17.drain. The Hibs manager Pat Fenlon says
:22:17. > :22:19.striker Leigh Griffiths might not get a place in the team if his on
:22:19. > :22:22.field behaviour does not improve. Griffiths, who is on loan from
:22:22. > :22:24.Wolves, has been handed his second suspension of the season by the
:22:24. > :22:28.football authorities for making gestures towards supporters. Fenlon
:22:28. > :22:35.says he will not tolerate it any longer.
:22:35. > :22:45.He has got to learn quickly or he will not play. If that is going to
:22:45. > :22:50.continue through the season, he won't play. It is up to him. He
:22:50. > :22:53.knows where we stand on it. Ricky Burns has announced the
:22:53. > :22:56.identity of his first opponent of 2012. The Coatbridge boxer will
:22:56. > :22:58.make his first defence of the interim WBO Lightweight title
:22:58. > :23:02.against Paulus Moses. Burns will face the 33-year-old former world
:23:02. > :23:05.champion from Namibia at Braehead Arena on the 10th of March.
:23:05. > :23:08.A couple of Scots golfers have made a bright start to the Johannesburg
:23:08. > :23:11.Open in South Africa. George Murray and David Drysdale, who you see
:23:11. > :23:20.here, fired first rounds 65. That's six under par, two behind the
:23:20. > :23:25.leaders Damien McGrane and Jamie Elson.
:23:25. > :23:29.That is the sport. I'm sure you will have a robot doing it next
:23:29. > :23:31.week! Just months after arriving in
:23:31. > :23:34.Scotland, Edinburgh Zoo's male giant panda has been taken off
:23:34. > :23:37.public display suffering from colic. Yang Guang will only appear
:23:37. > :23:47.occasionally over the next fortnight while he gets over the
:23:47. > :23:48.
:23:48. > :23:53.condition. Rob Flett reports. This is not a beer with a sore head.
:23:53. > :23:57.It is a pan that showing symptoms of colic. A condition more commonly
:23:57. > :24:04.found in babies. But you would not put this panda over your shoulder
:24:04. > :24:10.to but him. Yang Guang means that sunshine. But this film shows he
:24:10. > :24:15.was clearly under a bit of a cloud. He has been taken off display at
:24:15. > :24:24.Edinburgh Zoo to recover. That can take up to two weeks. But the
:24:24. > :24:29.female panda is as right as rain. Apparently, colic is relatively
:24:29. > :24:38.common in pandas, a bit like a man through. It is not thought to be
:24:38. > :24:45.through. It is not thought to be It has been a beautiful day.
:24:45. > :24:50.Yes, but it won't last. It will be a cold and frosty evening and at
:24:50. > :24:55.night across the whole of the country tonight. It will be pretty
:24:55. > :24:58.noticeable, the first widespread frost we have seen for a while. But
:24:58. > :25:08.it will be dry. As we go through the night, the temperature will
:25:08. > :25:11.
:25:11. > :25:17.fall away. By tomorrow morning, most places will be freezing. Some
:25:17. > :25:26.places with temperatures of-four or five. Once the sun does come up
:25:26. > :25:30.tomorrow morning, they will be sunshine. But the cloud in the
:25:30. > :25:40.north west and north-west. Some of that cloud will work its way across
:25:40. > :25:41.
:25:41. > :25:46.the country. By mid-afternoon, not bad at all for western areas.
:25:46. > :25:54.Further inland and further east, a cloud your story. Some drizzle over
:25:54. > :26:00.the Hebrides. As we go into the evening tomorrow, it will be
:26:00. > :26:04.another chilly night. Some mist and fog patches developing as well
:26:04. > :26:10.which could be quite stubborn. The weekend will be dry with light
:26:10. > :26:14.winds. This area of high pressure is in charge of the weather at the
:26:15. > :26:24.moment and it will be with us until Sunday. But it will not be as
:26:25. > :26:27.
:26:27. > :26:35.bright on Saturday as it was today. Mist and fog patches could linger.
:26:35. > :26:42.For Sunday, perhaps a little more in the way of sunshine. But still
:26:42. > :26:50.cold. Four or five degrees. Tonight, it will be cold and a widespread
:26:50. > :26:53.frost across the whole of the country.
:26:53. > :27:03.Kimberley Hainey, who murdered her baby son Declan and then concealed
:27:03. > :27:04.
:27:04. > :27:06.his death, has been jailed for at least 15 years. The First Minister
:27:06. > :27:09.has denied that he is trying to fix the independence referendum.
:27:09. > :27:12.Labour levelled the accusation during a heated debate at Holyrood,
:27:12. > :27:16.but Alex Salmond said he wanted to reach a consensus on how the poll
:27:16. > :27:18.will be organised. Shares in Tesco, one of Britain's
:27:18. > :27:22.biggest retailers, plummeted today after the supermarket issued its
:27:22. > :27:29.first profit warning in living memory. Tesco had its worst