12/01/2012 Reporting Scotland

The referendum rules, Alex Salmond denies a Becks and tells Parliament

he will consult other parties on the independence vote.

Kimberley Hainey, the mother who murdered her son and left his body

in this flat is jailed for 15 years. The Crown Office has released the

first pictures of Declan Heaney. Going the extra mile, plans to

reinvigorate one of the world's most famous streets.

One never panders the SEC, it is the boy one.

The First Minister has denied he is trying to fix the independence

referendum. Labour level the accusation in a heated debate. Alex

Salmond said he wanted a consensus. Thinking of the past, a 700 year-

old letter offering support to William Wallace is returned to

Scotland. Looking to the future, all parties must be involved in

setting the rules for the referendum. She said it was wrong

Alex Salmond named the date. A to many of us, inside and more

critically outside this chamber, that looks cynical. Alex Salmond

insisted he wanted to build consensus but warned if the allied

to closely with the Conservatives. Let me warn the Labour Party, if

the ball when with the Tories, they will spit you out. Could Scottish

politics descend into this? The presidential election 12 years ago,

court room fights over disputed thoughts. My concern is the result

of the referendum might be determined by the courts, not the

people. We moved to First Minister's Questions. His

accusations Rees serious doubts over whether he wants a legal and

decisive referendum. If he has evidence against their impartiality,

will he produce it? Alex Salmond insisted he was not impugning the

commission's integrity. In the bought tonight, the SNP majority

backed plans for a holy writ to control the referendum's. A bit of

a problem happening. Joan McAlpine is a parliamentary aide to the

First Minister. She appeared to be questioning the commitment of

opposition parties to Scotland. make no apology for saying the

Liberals, the Labour Party and the Tories are anti-Scottish in defying

they will of the people. The member should consider what she is saying.

Given the views of the vast majority of Scottish people, is she

suggesting they are not patriotic? She issued a statement suggesting

she was doing no such thing. She said she was criticising the

leadership of the opposition parties were ganging up against

Scotland's democratic right. Where does this leave us? We learned

little in a pragmatic approach towards a referendum. There was

sound and fury. There was some conciliation between the parties.

Regarding this, it is not the case that one party imposes the rules

for a decision determining its future of Scotland. Kimberley

Hainey who murdered her baby son and concealed her death -- his

death has been jailed for 15 years. Today, the judge said people

thought she was a devoted my mother but months later Declan was dead.

This Latin Paisley is where Kimberley Hainey and heroin addict

who had given up drugs love with our son. These are the pictures

revealed yesterday of the chaotic flat and which Declan's badly

decomposed body was found. Empty bottles in the playpen. No one but

this woman knows how she went off the rails. No one else knows how

That isolation and there were no warning signs for social workers.

She was plausible. She spun a web of deceit and she corned lot of

people. We would normally get alerts from families. In this case,

they did not. Some neighbours were in court. They were satisfied she

had been sentenced. They said 15 years was not long enough. She has

been returned to Caunton Vale prison but is that the central

legal arguments. Following a case brought by the BBC, there was the

publication of photographs of the flat. Borders of Declan are said to

be released soon. The judge argued such a move would breach Kimberley

Hainey's right to privacy. In the last few minutes, the BBC

has won that case and we can show you the pictures. This is the first

time like this has been shown. These pictures were shown to the

jury but not on the monitors and court. There is a picture of Declan

with his bottle. There is another picture with a bottle. He looks

healthy as indeed he was. The next image is a shot from Hallowe'en

Twitter 1008. Another picture from that same night. The final picture

that has been released his him as a toddler. These are the pictures

that the Crown did not want us to publish. What is the legal

significance of the fact but we are allowed to show them? This is a

significant case. The judge said there was no chance that the

objection which was Kimberley Hainey's right to privacy would

have overcome the BBC's claim that free speech was important. It was

said to be important for the public to see significant productions

photographs in major trials. Still to come. One of the country's most

historic streets. Machines take over sorting mail.

Scotland has footballing talent but most of it wants to play in his

England. Any more of this and the Hibernian striker will be in

trouble. There is a claim that thousands of

children with asthma are being put at risk because schools are run not

allowed to keep emergency and healers.

There 72,000 children with its asthma and Scotland. A survey found

that two-thirds of them have had an attack and needed and healers. The

problem is you can only get this on prescription. Schools are not

allowed to have them. It is up to pupils with the condition to know

where the ink in healer is kept. More than half of children said

they did not know where it was or how to get it.

This child suffers from asthma. Her mum felt her condition was not

catered for at school. She was told teachers could not be responsible

for handling this drug. At her first school, I was told unless I

was able to articulate why she was able to use it, the school could

not administer it. For a five-year- old child, it would be difficult to

put that pressure on her. A child who feels well will not ask foreign

and healer. She keeps in any lower at school. Asthma UK Scotland

believes thousands of pupils are being put at risk. We want schools

to have emergency supply is. It could have their a catastrophic

incident. Sarah and her mumsy it has been difficult to get anyone to

listen to them. There are preconceived ideas that asthma is a

wheeze. Asthma sufferers require their medication. Sarah goes to

school knowing Warwick where remedial is kept. It is thought

many children do not know. The MHRA told us they have no plans to

change the rules. The EC in the Strathclyde Police have launched an

investigation into sectarian comments on the Web site of a

former referee. It follows a complaint by Celtic Football Club

about anti- Catholic and anti- Celtic abuse posted on the website

of Jeff Winter who retired eight years ago. It has been removed from

A 53-year-old man has been jailed for two and a half years after

being caught with almost half a million photographs and movie clips

featuring child pornography. The High Court in Edinburgh heard that

the seizure at Brian Porter's home in the city's Craigentinny Road was

the biggest single recovery of indecent material by Lothian and

Borders Police. At the top, there's an ancient

castle, at the bottom a modern parliament, not to mention a royal

palace. But in between, is there much to celebrate on Edinburgh's

Royal Mile? Today, a conference has been looking at how to improve the

experience of one of Scotland's best-known thoroughfares. Lisa

It has got caucus, character and culture. It attract millions of

tourists each year. This medieval street is just over one mile long

and a World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful building. We do not have

anything like this. architecture is very different.

When you walk down the royal Mile, you are stepping through hundreds

of miles of he -- hundreds of years of history. But there needed to

preserve the past and the desire to capitalise on his reputation is

sometimes difficult to get right. There is a feeling at the moment

that the balance is not right. That is why retailers, residents and

experts have been meeting. I think there is a real opportunity for

Edinburgh to reduce its World Heritage Site status to appeal to a

higher segment of the tourism market. The council say that

everybody has to play a part. utility company builds -- digs up a

dream, and they should be thinking about replacing the cobbles and not

just pouring in tarmacadam. The bus driver has to think it is important

Street and use it carefully. Heritage groups all welcome the

positive ideas but say that words must turn into action to ensure a

positive future for tourists and for those who live in Edinburgh.

A look now at what else has been happening across the country this

Thursday. I Bob Bank of Scotland is shedding

another 3500 jobs are mainly in the investment division.

Investigations are under way after a man died in a blaze in Dundee.

Another man was killed in a fire in Perth.

Despite protests last year, plans for a waste recycling centre of the

at a park in Aberdeen were approved today.

Critics say the side would create smells and noise but councillors

have dismissed the concerns as groundless.

Begum's it do help emergency services and track down lost

climbers had been approved for use for the first time. We will pass

the information to the police who will know how to continue.

Work to refurbish the Royal Yacht Britannia should be finished this

week. The line-up for the Shetland folk

Festival has just been announced. 14 banneds from 10 different

countries will play across the islands they may.

A chance encounter with an islander led archaeologists to a medieval --

to a possible medieval fishing village in South Uist.

More on those and other stories on the BBC Scotland website.

It already has robots delivering meals, linen and even cleaning the

floors. Now Forth Valley Royal Hospital has switched on a new

robot to sort the mail. It is the first of its kind in any hospital

in Europe. Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford went to see it in

action. At the speed of more than 2,000

letters an hour, Forth Valley's newest robot sorts the mail. This

hospital now has a fleet of robots in underground tunnels delivering

meals and linen. It even has them cleaning floors. And organising the

pharmacy. This robotic mail room is a far cry from the way the mail

used to be sorted. That was all by hand, much as it was in the famous

1936 Night Mail film captured in W H Auden's poetry and Benjamin

Britten's music. This is the Night Mail crossing the border bringing

the cheque and the postal order, letters for the rich, letters for

the poor, the shop at the corner and the girl next door. It is an

atmosphere the boss of the hospital remembers in his first job in a

Royal Mail sorting office. There was a line of postmen, 10 or 12

postmen, standing in front of pigeon holes like this. The

remarkable thing was that they were all singing. As they sang, they

swayed and they sorted the mail into the pigeon holes. I thought,

But as we enter the era of the e- mail, is a robot still needed?

process over 300,000 items of mail per month in a hospital this size,

so absolutely, yes, there is a need. The robots here are proving very

effective, but there is still the need for a human touch. People like

Stephen still have to take the Let's see how the sport is looking

tonight. Here's David. Is the Scottish Premier League

becoming little more than a feeder league for clubs in England with

the best young talent lured southwards with the promise of

higher wages? You might not call it a brain drain, but it's certainly a

talent drain and it's showing no sign of drying up. But is it

Some of these young people may be dreaming of one day playing in the

Scottish Premier League. The one who has already made it aspires to

playing elsewhere. England. At the end of the day, you are being paid

more money. That is where the money is. You do not blame guys for

wanting to go down there and play. One day, I hope I can play in the

Championship. It is not a bad thing. But it is not just about the money.

At least according to one player. It is the freshness. You are only

playing each team at twice a season. The crowds are bigger. Looking at

that aspect, it is a good thing. The is no doubt Scotland has got

talent. Adrian Donnelly is the country's scorer. He will probably

end up moving to the Premiership for the Championship. But Scottish

football has always haemorrhaged talent to England. Kenny Dalglish

left Celtic for Liverpool. But they have moves probably benefit the

national team as well. Maybe there is a silver lining to the talent

drain. The Hibs manager Pat Fenlon says

striker Leigh Griffiths might not get a place in the team if his on

field behaviour does not improve. Griffiths, who is on loan from

Wolves, has been handed his second suspension of the season by the

football authorities for making gestures towards supporters. Fenlon

says he will not tolerate it any longer.

He has got to learn quickly or he will not play. If that is going to

continue through the season, he won't play. It is up to him. He

knows where we stand on it. Ricky Burns has announced the

identity of his first opponent of 2012. The Coatbridge boxer will

make his first defence of the interim WBO Lightweight title

against Paulus Moses. Burns will face the 33-year-old former world

champion from Namibia at Braehead Arena on the 10th of March.

A couple of Scots golfers have made a bright start to the Johannesburg

Open in South Africa. George Murray and David Drysdale, who you see

here, fired first rounds 65. That's six under par, two behind the

leaders Damien McGrane and Jamie Elson.

That is the sport. I'm sure you will have a robot doing it next

week! Just months after arriving in

Scotland, Edinburgh Zoo's male giant panda has been taken off

public display suffering from colic. Yang Guang will only appear

occasionally over the next fortnight while he gets over the

condition. Rob Flett reports. This is not a beer with a sore head.

It is a pan that showing symptoms of colic. A condition more commonly

found in babies. But you would not put this panda over your shoulder

to but him. Yang Guang means that sunshine. But this film shows he

was clearly under a bit of a cloud. He has been taken off display at

Edinburgh Zoo to recover. That can take up to two weeks. But the

female panda is as right as rain. Apparently, colic is relatively

common in pandas, a bit like a man through. It is not thought to be

through. It is not thought to be It has been a beautiful day.

Yes, but it won't last. It will be a cold and frosty evening and at

night across the whole of the country tonight. It will be pretty

noticeable, the first widespread frost we have seen for a while. But

it will be dry. As we go through the night, the temperature will

fall away. By tomorrow morning, most places will be freezing. Some

places with temperatures of-four or five. Once the sun does come up

tomorrow morning, they will be sunshine. But the cloud in the

north west and north-west. Some of that cloud will work its way across

the country. By mid-afternoon, not bad at all for western areas.

Further inland and further east, a cloud your story. Some drizzle over

the Hebrides. As we go into the evening tomorrow, it will be

another chilly night. Some mist and fog patches developing as well

which could be quite stubborn. The weekend will be dry with light

winds. This area of high pressure is in charge of the weather at the

moment and it will be with us until Sunday. But it will not be as

bright on Saturday as it was today. Mist and fog patches could linger.

For Sunday, perhaps a little more in the way of sunshine. But still

cold. Four or five degrees. Tonight, it will be cold and a widespread

frost across the whole of the country.

Kimberley Hainey, who murdered her baby son Declan and then concealed

his death, has been jailed for at least 15 years. The First Minister

has denied that he is trying to fix the independence referendum.

Labour levelled the accusation during a heated debate at Holyrood,

but Alex Salmond said he wanted to reach a consensus on how the poll

will be organised. Shares in Tesco, one of Britain's

biggest retailers, plummeted today after the supermarket issued its

first profit warning in living memory. Tesco had its worst