:00:16. > :00:19.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight.
:00:19. > :00:26.Detectives believe this 80-year-old woman may have been murdered after
:00:26. > :00:30.her body was found in her remote Perthshire home. We all the seen
:00:30. > :00:39.her on Saturday morning. She was out, when they had the blizzard, it
:00:39. > :00:42.was a fighter out and she was out walking the dog. That was Jenny.
:00:42. > :00:45.Also tonight. Craig Whyte denies trying to make a
:00:45. > :00:54.fast buck out of Rangers and more on the controversial deal involving
:00:54. > :00:56.season ticket money. Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary calls
:00:56. > :00:59.the owners of Edinburgh Airport prats and announces he's cutting
:00:59. > :01:03.flights in a row over charges. And the extraordinary story of
:01:03. > :01:13.Scots born jazz singer Annie Ross is told in a new film premiering in
:01:13. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:16.Police believe an 80-year-old widow found dead at her home in a hamlet
:01:16. > :01:19.in rural Perthshire may have been murdered. Jenny Methven's body was
:01:19. > :01:27.discovered last night in Forteviot. Andrew Anderson is there for us now.
:01:27. > :01:31.Andrew. It is now a little over 24 hours
:01:31. > :01:38.since the Janet Methven was found lying badly injured in her home
:01:38. > :01:42.here at Forteviot. Her death has sparked a major police
:01:42. > :01:48.investigation which is continuing tonight. The events have shocked
:01:48. > :01:53.this quiet rural community which was Jenny's home for at least 50
:01:53. > :01:59.years. This is a quiet cottage where she lived. Today, it was
:01:59. > :02:05.cordoned off, looking very much like a murder scene. She shared
:02:05. > :02:11.this house with her son. He found his mother lying injured here. She
:02:11. > :02:21.died soon after. Jenny had lived in the area for around 50 years. She
:02:21. > :02:22.
:02:23. > :02:31.was often seemed out walking her dogs. -- was often seen. We saw her
:02:31. > :02:37.on Saturday morning. She was out, when we had the blizzard, there was
:02:37. > :02:42.a white-out and she was walking her dog. That was Jenny. She was very
:02:42. > :02:49.active in the community. Throughout the day, forensic teams have been
:02:49. > :02:59.searching a house. This afternoon, the search moved to a garden in
:02:59. > :03:05.front of the cottage. I would appeal to anyone in the area
:03:05. > :03:11.yesterday, if it the sort any vehicles in the area or people in
:03:11. > :03:17.the area -- if they saw any vehicles in the area. I a post
:03:17. > :03:21.mortem will be carried out tomorrow. We now know that the last time
:03:21. > :03:25.anybody spoke to Jenny was yesterday morning at around half
:03:25. > :03:29.past 10 on the telephone. She was not seen by neighbours as she
:03:29. > :03:38.usually bores out walking her dog in the afternoon. This is the kind
:03:38. > :03:45.of community were -- where unusual things are spotted and detectives
:03:45. > :03:48.are hoping this will help them. The Rangers chairman Craig Whyte
:03:48. > :03:51.has told fans he's not out to make a fast buck. In a lengthy statement
:03:51. > :03:54.this evening, he also denied illegality. Meanwhile, the
:03:54. > :03:57.administrators who are running the club said the �18 million debt to
:03:57. > :03:59.Lloyds Bank was paid off by money from the finance company Ticketus.
:03:59. > :04:09.Our business correspondent David Henderson is here now. David,
:04:09. > :04:14.explain the significance of the Ticketus deal.
:04:14. > :04:19.The information today sheds new light on Craig Whyte's deal to buy
:04:19. > :04:24.Rangers. We're the money came from a for that deal. It has been
:04:24. > :04:28.claimed that Craig Whyte did not use his own money to buy the club,
:04:28. > :04:34.but sold Rangers season tickets years in advance and use that money
:04:34. > :04:41.to fund the deal. Today, administrators confirmed that the
:04:41. > :04:48.deal with a company involved, Ticketus, brought Rangers �20
:04:48. > :04:58.million. Subsequently, �80 million it was transferred to the Lloyd's
:04:58. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:07.banking group. That suggests that Rangers debts were paid off using
:05:07. > :05:16.Ticketus money. Craig Whyte has always insisted that bet takeover
:05:16. > :05:20.was -- that the takeover was funded from his own money.
:05:20. > :05:25.What about the tax bill that forced the club into administration?
:05:26. > :05:30.Yes, tax authorities see the bill was one up after Craig Whyte took
:05:30. > :05:35.over. Craig Whyte has said that he offered a deal to the taxman to pay
:05:35. > :05:41.off his debt. He said that the tax authorities rejected that deal, and
:05:41. > :05:45.another deal as well. He has accused the tax authorities of
:05:45. > :05:52.treating Rangers unfairly. With doing deals with other big
:05:52. > :05:58.companies, but ruling out Rangers. We do things go from here?
:05:58. > :06:02.The administrators are still investigating Rangers' finances.
:06:02. > :06:07.The Scottish Football Association has launched its own investigation.
:06:07. > :06:14.But Craig Whyte seems to be digging in. He has said he did not act
:06:14. > :06:16.illegally. Thank you.
:06:16. > :06:22.You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC.
:06:22. > :06:29.Still to come on the programme. The extraordinary story of Scots
:06:29. > :06:32.born jazz singer Annie Ross is told in a new film.
:06:32. > :06:34.In sport, The Scottish FA asks a prominent judge to head its inquiry
:06:34. > :06:42.into Rangers. And Six Nations rugby is back. Just
:06:42. > :06:45.don't mention the wooden spoon to this guy. More on that later.
:06:45. > :06:48.The mother of missing office worker Suzanne Pilley has been telling a
:06:48. > :06:57.court of the turbulent relationship her daughter had with the man
:06:57. > :06:59.accused of her murder. Suzanne Pilley went missing in May 2010.
:06:59. > :07:07.David Gilroy denies seven charges, including murder and attempting to
:07:07. > :07:12.defeat the ends of justice. Lisa Summers reports.
:07:12. > :07:17.Suzanne Pilley's mother was emotional and she identified her
:07:17. > :07:21.daughter from the CCTV footage the day she disappeared. She told the
:07:21. > :07:31.court that Suzanne's relationship with David Gilroy it was turbulent.
:07:31. > :07:32.
:07:32. > :07:39.She said her daughter had mixed feelings. She told the court her
:07:39. > :07:43.daughter had met another man called Mark. She said that things were
:07:43. > :07:47.going well and topped off plans for the future with him. But that was
:07:47. > :07:53.the last time she heard from her daughter. Later that day, she
:07:53. > :08:00.received a call from Suzanne's work saying that Suzanne had not turned
:08:00. > :08:07.up. By early evening, she phoned the police to report her daughter
:08:07. > :08:17.missing. The court also heard from this man. They had just recently
:08:17. > :08:35.
:08:35. > :08:42.Suzanne stayed with Mark that Monday night. He described dropping
:08:42. > :08:47.her off near her flat. He said that she seemed happy. It was the last
:08:47. > :08:52.time he saw her. David Gilroy denies all the charges against him,
:08:52. > :08:55.including murder. The trial continues.
:08:55. > :09:04.Aberdeen South MP Dame Anne Begg is being treated in hospital for a
:09:04. > :09:08.broken leg and wrist after falling from her wheelchair. The Labour MP
:09:08. > :09:11.is being cared for at a hospital in London after the fall. It is
:09:11. > :09:13.understood she will not be in a position to attend the House of
:09:13. > :09:16.Commons for some time. 20% of the world's CCTV
:09:16. > :09:19.surveillance cameras can be found in the UK. And new research seems
:09:19. > :09:22.to indicate that we could be the most-watched part of Britain. More
:09:22. > :09:25.than 6,000 cameras are operated by Scottish councils alone. And civil
:09:25. > :09:32.liberty campaigners say that level of monitoring is out of control.
:09:32. > :09:35.Aileen Clarke is here to tell us more.
:09:35. > :09:41.Well, more than 6,000 CCTV cameras around Scotland run by our local
:09:41. > :09:50.councils. Top of the CCTV top ten for Scotland's councils is Fife
:09:50. > :09:53.with 1,420 cameras. The next up is Aberdeen City Council who have 942.
:09:53. > :09:55.That means that, individually, they have more cameras than councils in
:09:55. > :09:58.Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds combined Though both Fife and
:09:58. > :10:00.Aberdeen say the vast majority of their cameras are security cameras
:10:00. > :10:07.on council buildings, with just over 100 each monitoring town
:10:07. > :10:17.centres for example. So have you spotted more springing up lately
:10:17. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:25.CCTV cameras have become a common sight around our buildings and
:10:25. > :10:30.streets. But civil liberty campaigners say this rapid growth
:10:30. > :10:40.is not justified. It looks as if its some Scottish cities are right
:10:40. > :10:41.
:10:41. > :10:48.up there with the most wanted in the UK. But there is not a
:10:48. > :10:54.disproportionately lower crime rate. Airdrie was one of the first towns
:10:54. > :11:02.to employ a CCTV to try to cut vandalism. The policeman in charge
:11:02. > :11:05.of that initiative is now and MSP. Crime it fell by nearly a third. We
:11:05. > :11:15.measure that crime over a couple of years and those falls were
:11:15. > :11:17.
:11:17. > :11:25.maintained. Even from the point of view of detecting serious criminals.
:11:25. > :11:35.CCTV is increasingly be images like this helped convict this man or
:11:35. > :11:39.
:11:39. > :11:45.murdering Moira Jones. -- CCTV is increasingly being used in court
:11:45. > :11:54.cases. Images like this helped convict this man of murdering Moira
:11:54. > :11:57.Jones. I think it is quite a good thing. There is a lot of crime.
:11:57. > :11:59.And don't be thinking cameras tend to be concentrated in urban areas.
:11:59. > :12:02.Take a look at our island communities. Orkney islands have a
:12:02. > :12:06.modest 14. But the Shetland Isles and the Western Isles have 210
:12:06. > :12:11.cameras each. Wherever you go in Scotland, it seems a CCTV camera is
:12:11. > :12:14.not far away. Thank you.
:12:14. > :12:16.Alex Salmond has spoken to Rupert Murdoch following the media
:12:16. > :12:19.tycoon's apparent support for Scottish independence via Twitter.
:12:19. > :12:21.The First Minister said he welcomed any contributions to the debate,
:12:21. > :12:31.but the SNP's rivals said that it was the endorsement every
:12:31. > :12:32.
:12:32. > :12:39.politician dreads. This from our Like many politicians, Alex Salmond
:12:39. > :12:48.quoted Rupert Murdoch in the past. He remains intrigued. He apparently
:12:48. > :12:53.backed independence by declaring... Earlier, he said, Alex Salmond is
:12:53. > :13:01.clearly the most brilliant politician in the UK. But
:13:01. > :13:11.politically, Rupert Murdoch's Asset has declined since at the Leveson
:13:11. > :13:12.
:13:12. > :13:19.Inquiry. It is the endorse one that every politician the Reds. You need
:13:19. > :13:25.more than eight words from a troubled media tycoon. Are Alex
:13:25. > :13:33.Salmond phoned Rupert Murdoch today to discuss a new plans for the
:13:33. > :13:40.publication of a new Sunday newspaper. It words. An expert
:13:40. > :13:44.example of how to employ a tweet and caused a stir. We have an
:13:44. > :13:54.international debate on Scotland's future, and I welcome all
:13:54. > :13:55.
:13:56. > :14:03.contributions. The Sun has changed tack over the years. It has
:14:04. > :14:08.encouraged independence, then withdrew its support. Last year, it
:14:08. > :14:14.endorsed Alex Salmond and the election for the SNP. For marketing
:14:14. > :14:20.reasons, newspaper sometimes follow winners rather than picking them.
:14:20. > :14:27.They identify already popular leaders. Plainly, media coverage in
:14:27. > :14:34.general will be influential in the referendum contest. But I do not
:14:34. > :14:41.expect Alex Salmond will be inviting the but Murdoch to join
:14:41. > :14:49.A look now at what else has been happening across the country this
:14:49. > :14:54.Tuesday. Police are investigating the claims of online it argues over
:14:54. > :15:02.the future of Aberdeen city centre. One person has claimed of
:15:02. > :15:06.intimidation and e-mail hacking. The railway at in the North were
:15:06. > :15:11.Scotland is unfit for purpose according to the Chamber of
:15:11. > :15:20.Commerce. There are told that the rail line some of Dundee must be
:15:20. > :15:23.improved. ShareLink council has agreed to pay out compensation of
:15:23. > :15:31.the long-running dispute over a bridge over the harbour of which
:15:31. > :15:38.has never been built in Lech. A study is being carried out to
:15:38. > :15:43.address one of or a pause at's crash spots. Waves crashing over
:15:43. > :15:50.the barriers have hit a number of vehicles over the years. A buyer
:15:50. > :15:54.has been sought for the Care and gone sports area. The development
:15:54. > :16:00.agency decided to test the market after two outstanding skiing
:16:00. > :16:10.seasons. There was a pleasant surprise for one of Scotland's top
:16:10. > :16:12.
:16:12. > :16:20.artists. This plating was done specially for this exhibition?
:16:20. > :16:29.it is a surprise to me that it is hanging here. Each chip shop in
:16:29. > :16:35.Castle Douglas won the best chip shop of the year. It is all about
:16:35. > :16:41.decent potatoes to start with and then what you fry them in.
:16:41. > :16:43.there is more than those and other stories on the BBC website.
:16:43. > :16:48.The people running Scotland's biggest airport have been described
:16:48. > :16:51.as "prats" by Michael O'Leary, the owner of the budget airline Ryanair.
:16:51. > :16:56.Mr O'Leary, who is in dispute with Edinburgh Airport over charges,
:16:56. > :16:59.announced he is cutting flights from the capital. But there is a
:16:59. > :17:09.row about what that will mean for jobs at the airport, as Cameron
:17:09. > :17:11.
:17:11. > :17:16.Buttle reports. When Ryanair calls a press conference, controversy is
:17:16. > :17:22.usually never far away. He said that at deal with egg and Airport
:17:22. > :17:32.had fallen through a neighbour's cutting aircraft and writs, which
:17:32. > :17:32.
:17:32. > :17:40.would lead to 300 jobs being lost. They are tried to maximise the
:17:40. > :17:45.price for their Airport for their Spanish shareholders. Ryanair have
:17:45. > :17:51.said that they are cutting five routes, but only one is currently
:17:51. > :17:58.running, but want to be our line. Four hours where taking bookings
:17:58. > :18:03.but have not started yet. All of these talks have been cuts. There
:18:03. > :18:09.are accusing the people who own the Airport of mismanagement. They say
:18:09. > :18:14.it is being run by prats who are more interested in short-term gain
:18:14. > :18:23.that long-term growth. But there is a feeling that Ryanair are trying
:18:23. > :18:30.to exploit the sale of the Airport. Ryanair say that even some of the
:18:30. > :18:38.flights cut have not started flying, 300 jobs will be lost. I am
:18:38. > :18:45.confused by the job loss number. is not something we recognise. He
:18:45. > :18:49.said is that is badly managed and run by prats. Well, clearly we
:18:49. > :18:57.would disagree with that. We think it is the best run the Airport in
:18:57. > :19:02.Europe for its size. To date, Ryanair said people who had already
:19:02. > :19:06.booked flights will get a refund or offered alternative flights. The
:19:06. > :19:13.spokeswoman said, it is not responsible for third-party
:19:13. > :19:17.bookings, such as hotels are cards which people may have made. No, let
:19:17. > :19:19.us get the sport. The Scottish FA has chosen the man
:19:19. > :19:23.it wants to head the independent inquiry into the takeover and
:19:23. > :19:26.running of Rangers by Craig Whyte. He is retired judge Lord William
:19:26. > :19:29.Nimmo Smith. His findings are expected to be published in two
:19:29. > :19:39.weeks' time. Meanwhile, the SFA has revealed other clubs are concerned
:19:39. > :19:39.
:19:39. > :19:43.about getting money they are owed by Rangers. He is the man who said
:19:43. > :19:48.is the killer of the Edinburgh teenager Jodi Jones and hear the
:19:48. > :19:53.appeal by the Lockerbie bombers. He has now been passed by the SFE to
:19:53. > :19:56.find out what has been going on at Rangers. The Ibrox club have been
:19:57. > :20:01.in administration for over a week and people in charge of Scottish
:20:01. > :20:05.football are looking to find out how and why they got there. Today,
:20:05. > :20:09.as the Scottish Football Association lodged plans for a new
:20:09. > :20:18.Performance Centre, it was revealed that other clubs are feeling the
:20:18. > :20:21.effect of Rangers' plight. What could be done to help them?
:20:21. > :20:31.Scottish Premier League have the ability to offset against future
:20:31. > :20:39.payments. What possible good use was the NHS from an interest man.
:20:39. > :20:44.The owner of Sale Sharks rugby team has made tentative inquiries. It
:20:44. > :20:53.has a grave situation, not just for the club, but for Scottish football.
:20:53. > :21:00.It is usually sad and as I said my earlier press statement, it is not
:21:00. > :21:03.an good spectacle for the game. Neil Lennon says the SPL is right
:21:03. > :21:06.not to tinker with its fixture schedule to avoid Celtic being able
:21:06. > :21:09.to win the championship at Rangers' Ibrox stadium. The clubs are due to
:21:10. > :21:13.play there at the end of next month, when three points for Celtic could
:21:13. > :21:15.be enough to win the title. Police are worried that could lead to
:21:15. > :21:23.trouble inside and outside the stadium. The Celtic manager says
:21:23. > :21:29.the date of the match should not be switched. It is just the way this
:21:29. > :21:37.season has progressed and it is maybe, incidental but that could be
:21:37. > :21:41.an opportunity for us to win the title there. I would not be overly
:21:41. > :21:45.pleased that the change the fixtures for the sake of it.
:21:45. > :21:48.Scotland wing Lee Jones has been given a bit of a boost ahead of the
:21:48. > :21:50.Six Nations match against France on Sunday. He has signed a new
:21:50. > :21:53.contract with his professional team Edinburgh until 2014. National team
:21:53. > :22:00.skipper Ross Forbes, meanwhile, says he does not see Sunday's match
:22:00. > :22:06.as the start of a fight to avoid the wooden spoon. You want to win,
:22:06. > :22:15.you want to be in the top half of the table. Which has fought his are
:22:15. > :22:18.one game at a time. Be want to go out there and perform well.
:22:18. > :22:21.She was born into one of Scotland's greatest showbiz families and
:22:21. > :22:25.packed off to America as a child to become the new Shirley Temple.
:22:25. > :22:29.Now 81, the extraordinary story of jazz singer Annie Ross is told in a
:22:29. > :22:39.film being premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival. Our arts
:22:39. > :22:41.
:22:41. > :22:50.correspondent Pauline McLean has been to meet the lady herself.
:22:50. > :22:54.flew to Paris and it was bliss. a Ross has lived life to the full,
:22:54. > :22:59.from Paris to New York, she has been at the centre of the jazz
:22:59. > :23:06.scene for more than 60 years. She came from a showbusiness family,
:23:06. > :23:14.below games, and performed from the age of four. Her family what she
:23:14. > :23:22.would become the next Shirley Temple and to go to America. I got
:23:22. > :23:31.a contract in Hollywood and went out to California. Up one point, my
:23:31. > :23:40.mother left. I do not remember it. My mother had always said she would
:23:40. > :23:44.never sell me and I felt like I had been sold. Working with Dizzy
:23:44. > :23:49.Gillespie, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker brought her fame,
:23:49. > :23:59.but also introduced her to the downside of the jazz scene - heroin.
:23:59. > :24:06.She battled her addiction. To date, she is still singing, once a week
:24:06. > :24:12.at the New York jazz club. But this week, she is in Glasgow for the
:24:12. > :24:22.film premier and to live concerts. When people say to me, you are
:24:22. > :24:31.going to be 82, how did she do it? My answer is, and music. I am so
:24:31. > :24:41.happy at against will enjoy it. Let us get the latest weather
:24:41. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:50.Hello. This week has been all a bit wet, windy and mild weather. This
:24:50. > :24:59.is the reason why, this can be a part built of isobars pushing wet
:24:59. > :25:06.and windy weather away. Tonight, heavy rain is forecast. This will
:25:06. > :25:09.operation from the West and from the date on words, it will
:25:09. > :25:16.intensify and be persistent for much of the country overnight. The
:25:16. > :25:26.wind picking up, but mild temperatures for most of us. There
:25:26. > :25:32.is see a lot better off his warning in place for the rain. It may
:25:32. > :25:38.affect areas and some tricky driving conditions. There could be
:25:38. > :25:45.some localised flooding. On the East course, try but cloudy. Come
:25:45. > :25:50.mid-afternoon, the rain will start to ease. Temperatures eleven or 12
:25:50. > :25:54.degrees Celsius. On the East course, dry and the chance of some
:25:54. > :26:04.brightness through parts of Aberdeenshire. Further inland and
:26:04. > :26:04.
:26:04. > :26:10.West, it stays cloud at cloudy and damp. Into the evening tomorrow,
:26:10. > :26:15.the rain finally starts to disappear, leaving a cloudy but
:26:15. > :26:19.breezy night. Wednesday to Thursday, you can see these weather fronts
:26:19. > :26:27.continuing to work their way and. There is a warm front and behind
:26:27. > :26:32.that. On Thursday, we are in between the two. It will be much
:26:32. > :26:38.higher compared with tomorrow. Most of the brightness, again on the
:26:38. > :26:43.east coast. Tonight and tomorrow, more rain.
:26:43. > :26:46.Now, let us recap tonight's main stories.
:26:46. > :26:49.Police in Tayside believe an elderly woman found dead in her
:26:49. > :26:51.home may have been murdered. Jenny Methven's body was discovered by a
:26:51. > :26:54.relative last night in Forteviot. European leaders have welcomed the
:26:54. > :26:57.bail-out deal designed to prevent Greece from crashing out of the
:26:57. > :27:00.Euro. The Greek finance minister has said his country has avoided
:27:00. > :27:02."the nightmare scenario". The President of the European
:27:02. > :27:06.Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, said the measures were "long
:27:06. > :27:12.overdue". Rangers chairman Craig Whyte has
:27:12. > :27:14.told fans he is not out to make a fast buck. In a lengthy statement
:27:14. > :27:17.this evening, he also denied illegality. Meanwhile, the
:27:17. > :27:27.administrators who are running the club said the �18 million debt to
:27:27. > :27:27.
:27:28. > :27:31.Lloyds Bank was paid off by money from the finance company, Ticketus.
:27:31. > :27:33.That is all from us for now. Our next main news bulletin is just