:00:17. > :00:19.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news.
:00:19. > :00:22.Alex Salmond tells MSPs that there's a major police
:00:22. > :00:28.investigation into phone hacking in Scotland but refuses to say whether
:00:28. > :00:30.he's been hacked himself. How Scottish children are turning
:00:30. > :00:38.their backs on fizzy drinks but they're still not eating enough
:00:38. > :00:42.fruit. And later in the programme.
:00:42. > :00:47.First it was opera for babies, now it's the turn of the toddlers to be
:00:47. > :00:50.introduced to the aria. And the world of snooker pays
:00:50. > :01:00.tribute to Stephen Hendry as he announces his retirement from the
:01:00. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.game. He says he has no regrets. When you're not putting the work in
:01:04. > :01:08.and not that the singer not enjoying playing in a little
:01:08. > :01:12.tournament sand playing two boxes with no people present, it is not
:01:12. > :01:14.worth it. Alex Salmond has revealed that 40 police officers are
:01:14. > :01:17.investigating claims of phone hacking by newspapers, including
:01:17. > :01:20.Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in Scotland. But the First Minister
:01:20. > :01:22.told MSPs that that investigation would be compromised if he bowed to
:01:22. > :01:27.pressure to set up a separate parliamentary inquiry into the
:01:27. > :01:30.claims. The First Minister will appear before the on-going Leveson
:01:30. > :01:40.Inquiry next month but he wouldn't say whether his own phone had been
:01:40. > :01:45.hacked. Here's our political editor Brian Taylor.
:01:45. > :01:50.Alex Salmond's opponents will be pursuing him on their Rupert
:01:50. > :01:54.Murdoch links anywhere but in that local elections that bite. He
:01:54. > :02:00.arrived for questions knowing full well what they would be about.
:02:00. > :02:03.Johann Lamont said the issue had now come home with allegations the
:02:03. > :02:07.former First Minister Jack McConnell and Joan McAlpine had
:02:07. > :02:13.been victims of phone hacking in the past. Labour demanded a
:02:13. > :02:17.separate Scottish inquiry. First Minister's relationship with
:02:17. > :02:21.Rupert Murdoch is preventing any real scrutiny of News
:02:21. > :02:24.International's activity in Scotland. Alex Salmond said the
:02:24. > :02:32.existing inquiry already covers Scotland and Strathclyde Police had
:02:32. > :02:37.that -- gave 40 officers to a separate investigation. Johann
:02:37. > :02:41.Lamont accused Alex Salmond of ducking the questions. The First
:02:41. > :02:47.Minister runs away from accountability. His supporters
:02:47. > :02:53.pointed out he was in Parliament answering questions. Alex Salmond
:02:53. > :02:59.accused Labour of hypocrisy. idea that a harder you complain,
:02:59. > :03:06.people often get about 15 years of association with News International.
:03:06. > :03:10.People look at the Labour Party and say humbug and hypocrisy.
:03:10. > :03:16.Ruth Davidson demanded to know whether Alex Salmond had himself
:03:16. > :03:22.been a victim? Or did he not need to bother tapping his own because
:03:22. > :03:27.he was already on speed dial? Parliament is asking, Scotland is
:03:27. > :03:31.watching - First Minister, where you hacked? He said he would tell
:03:31. > :03:35.all to the lead as an inquiry when he is question next month.
:03:35. > :03:43.Willie Rennie said the First Minister had spoken up for Rupert
:03:43. > :03:47.Murdoch in exchange for the Scottish Sun backing the SNP.
:03:47. > :03:52.has traded favours with Rupert Murdoch and defended him on the
:03:52. > :03:57.phone hacking, stood up for him on BSkyB and now protects and in
:03:57. > :04:05.Scotland. That was dismissed by the First Minister who said his
:04:05. > :04:10.interest had always been to protect Scottish jobs.
:04:10. > :04:13.Scotland's most senior law advocate has visited Libya as part of a
:04:13. > :04:19.continuing investigation into the Lockerbie bombing. He travelled to
:04:19. > :04:23.Tripoli for talks with the new Libyan Prime Minister.
:04:23. > :04:32.Details of this have just emerged, what had they hope to get from this
:04:32. > :04:36.meeting? What they hoped for was an agreement from the new Libyan
:04:36. > :04:40.authorities, the new government following the downfall of Colonel
:04:40. > :04:46.Gaddafi, that they might be able to carry on their investigations into
:04:46. > :04:49.the unit -- the Lockerbie bombing in Libya. Perhaps to speak to
:04:49. > :04:54.Libyan nationals are those who might be in prison at the moment as
:04:54. > :04:58.a result of the fall of the last regime. Also, to look at papers
:04:58. > :05:05.that may have been in the archives of the old regime which may still
:05:05. > :05:10.exist. This is assumed to be still alive investigation? Very much so.
:05:10. > :05:15.It is an investigation involving a the UK authorities and the FBI for
:05:15. > :05:19.the American government. Dumfries and Galloway police ask in January
:05:19. > :05:26.for extra funding so that they could beat up the unit which they
:05:26. > :05:32.maintain it is still looking at the Lockerbie tragedy. It was always
:05:32. > :05:36.said that if Megrahi had done it then he was not doing it alone and
:05:36. > :05:39.was part of a conspiracy involving the Libyan secret services.
:05:39. > :05:42.It was a murder that shocked Scotland. A 13-year-old boy, out on
:05:42. > :05:45.his own in the early hours of a Sunday morning is attacked and
:05:45. > :05:48.killed close to a town centre. Today another teenager, Jordan
:05:48. > :05:50.McCready who was 16 at the time, admitted the murder of Jon Wilson
:05:50. > :05:53.in Kilmarnock last September. McCready also admitted slashing a
:05:53. > :06:03.stranger and robbing another teenager in the hours after the
:06:03. > :06:04.
:06:04. > :06:09.murder. Laura Bicker reports. 13-year-old Jon Wilson was supposed
:06:09. > :06:14.to be spending a night with a friend. He changed his mind and
:06:14. > :06:18.tried to walk home just after 2am. He was battered to death by 17-
:06:18. > :06:23.year-old Jordan McCready. He was high on Valium and but fast. He
:06:23. > :06:27.later told police he had jumped up and down on the 13-year-old's said.
:06:27. > :06:33.Later that night he stabbed a stranger and stole another
:06:33. > :06:36.stranger's well phone. He faces life behind bars. The, not
:06:36. > :06:41.community shocked at the savagery of the murder rally to remember the
:06:41. > :06:46.teenager they had lost. The court was told it has had a devastating
:06:46. > :06:52.impact on his family. At the time of his death, his head teacher was
:06:52. > :06:56.quick to pay tribute. He was challenging sometimes. He was a boy
:06:56. > :07:01.that could certainly did taken issue with you. He was a boy that
:07:01. > :07:05.had potential and I think that was the key to this. It is so sad that
:07:05. > :07:10.he will not be able to achieve that and he will be sorely missed in the
:07:10. > :07:19.school. His killer has shown no remorse. He told police he was glad
:07:19. > :07:22.he had done it and admitted the attack. Sentencing will be in June.
:07:22. > :07:25.You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the
:07:25. > :07:27.programme. Returning to the land they helped liberate from the Nazis
:07:27. > :07:33.- Scots veterans head for the Netherlands to join the
:07:34. > :07:38.commemoration. In sport, the end of any air as
:07:38. > :07:43.seven-times world champion Stephen Hendry retires from snicker. We
:07:43. > :07:48.look ahead to tonight's SPL action and she has a more successful
:07:48. > :07:50.golfer at the moment but she wants to become an Olympian.
:07:50. > :07:53.Scottish secondary schoolchildren are drinking half as many fizzy
:07:53. > :07:56.drinks as they were 10 years ago but they still don't eat enough
:07:57. > :07:59.fruit and they're drinking too much alcohol. That's according to a
:07:59. > :08:01.survey by the World Health Organisation which compared the
:08:01. > :08:06.behaviour of Scottish 11, 13 and 15-year-olds with their peers
:08:06. > :08:13.across the globe. Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford
:08:13. > :08:17.reports. It's the water cooler, not the
:08:17. > :08:21.vending machine. The juice, not fizzy drinks, for Scottish
:08:21. > :08:26.schoolchildren, according to just one of the findings of this
:08:26. > :08:31.comparison of European children. This survey by the World Health
:08:31. > :08:36.Organisation found startling changes in the habits of 11, 13 and
:08:36. > :08:43.15-year-old for better or worse. normally drink juice.
:08:43. > :08:53.Consumption of fizzy drinks us have been a decade. I text a lot. I am
:08:53. > :09:09.
:09:09. > :09:17.I don't take wards of sweets but I ate a fair amount. The only time I
:09:17. > :09:20.have other include new years and even then it is a small one.
:09:21. > :09:30.There is one thing Scots still Arran doing enough of to help their
:09:30. > :09:39.children stay healthy. Back in 2002, this NHS advert encouraged us to
:09:39. > :09:44.talk to our children. Today's survey suggests Scottish children
:09:44. > :09:48.don't talk to their parents as much as other European children. We're
:09:48. > :09:54.so bad we are in the bottom 10 at a 39 countries. We know from research
:09:54. > :10:00.that is particularly important for making young people feel good about
:10:00. > :10:03.themselves and feel happy but it also tends to reduce substance used.
:10:04. > :10:08.Government policies are important but what happens in the home as
:10:08. > :10:10.important as well. A man charged with being part of a
:10:10. > :10:14.terrorist conspiracy over an explosion in Sweden has gone on
:10:14. > :10:16.trial at the High Court in Glasgow. Nasserdine Menni denies acting with
:10:16. > :10:19.Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, from Luton in Bedfordshire, who is now
:10:19. > :10:24.dead, in connection with the explosion in Stockholm just before
:10:24. > :10:27.Christmas 2010. Thousands of candidates chasing
:10:27. > :10:30.millions of votes will find out soon whether weeks of campaigning
:10:30. > :10:34.have been successful. Tomorrow morning the polling places open in
:10:34. > :10:37.the local government elections. But once you've got your ballot, what
:10:38. > :10:47.do you do, and how is it counted? Our local government correspondent
:10:48. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:52.Jamie McIvor can explain. As easy as one, two, three. When
:10:52. > :10:57.you vote simply place the candidates in your order of
:10:57. > :11:02.preference. Number as many or as few as you want. Next up the
:11:02. > :11:07.party's if you want or not. You can express one preference and just put
:11:07. > :11:13.a number one against your choice. If there are 10 or 14 candidates,
:11:13. > :11:16.you can number or the way to 14. The choice is up to you. We will
:11:16. > :11:22.all end up with the ear for councillors depending on where we
:11:22. > :11:32.live. Although voting is easy, counting isn't. The calculation
:11:32. > :11:36.used is quite complicated. This means some mathematical Magic. A
:11:36. > :11:40.magic number is calculated for each ward. That number depends on how
:11:40. > :11:45.many fought and how many councillors are being elected.
:11:45. > :11:51.First off, the number one votes are counted. All the candidates to
:11:51. > :11:55.reach that magic number Raven. Then come the number two votes on the
:11:55. > :12:01.papers of the candidates already elected. A fair share is then given
:12:01. > :12:04.it to the other hopefuls and anyone who reaches that magic number is in.
:12:04. > :12:10.The disappearing act then begins among the others if enough have not
:12:10. > :12:15.been elected. If you run out of supposed votes then you start
:12:15. > :12:21.excluding others and you move second preferences in until you
:12:22. > :12:25.have enough candidate selected. polls open at 7am tomorrow and we
:12:25. > :12:31.should start to get a clear sense of the outcome by lunchtime on
:12:31. > :12:38.Friday. A look now at what else has been happening across the country
:12:38. > :12:43.this Wednesday. A care assistant who fed a dog
:12:43. > :12:47.biscuit to a man with dementia has been sacked. The incident happened
:12:47. > :12:53.in washer during a therapy session last year. A spokesman for Bass
:12:53. > :12:56.said it was an unfortunate but isolated incident.
:12:56. > :13:01.A BBC investigation has learned the UK Government was warned about the
:13:01. > :13:06.dangers posed by the dumping of radioactive instrument dials as
:13:06. > :13:10.early as 1958. The site is the centre of a long-running
:13:10. > :13:16.controversy following discovery of radioactive particles there.
:13:16. > :13:19.The newest Lifeboat Station has taken delivery of its rescue vessel.
:13:19. > :13:26.The vote arrived on the Isle of Harris this afternoon. Funding is
:13:26. > :13:32.being made available for the station to operate on a trial basis.
:13:32. > :13:37.The last two weeks we went down and everyone feels like they are ready
:13:37. > :13:42.and confident so we can deal with anything we're thrown at.
:13:42. > :13:48.An Aberdeen barman is bidding to be one of the world's top cocktail
:13:48. > :13:54.makers. He will represent the UK at an international event in Amsterdam
:13:54. > :13:59.next month. Going through the world finals, it is back to the start
:13:59. > :14:04.again. You're already getting some recognition and now it is just do
:14:05. > :14:09.your best and enjoy yourself. 16 lambs rejected by their mothers
:14:09. > :14:15.at birth have been raised by a woman in North used. She feeds them
:14:15. > :14:25.formula milk from a bottle. There are more stories from Urania
:14:25. > :14:27.
:14:27. > :14:29.and all the latest news 24 hours a Dr David Howarth, Jean Monnet Chair
:14:29. > :14:35.of European Political Economy, years ago, where crockery a ground
:14:35. > :14:41.with an opera for babies. Now, Scottish Opera why is watching a
:14:41. > :14:51.production for toddlers. Sensory O uses sound, and smell to encourage
:14:51. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :15:01.youngsters to enjoy opera a. Like any opera, it has an
:15:01. > :15:07.outrageous plot, colourful costumes and stories told in song. The
:15:07. > :15:11.audience an entirely made up of two and three-year-old. The I idea is
:15:11. > :15:16.they can engage with what is going on, the music, the action and the
:15:16. > :15:25.costumes, in a very calm way. It is very different to their
:15:25. > :15:31.experience of music elsewhere. The shore crew out of this one, which
:15:31. > :15:40.has now toured the world and is one of the most requested shows in
:15:40. > :15:45.Scottish Opera's repertoire. tells us there is huge demand out
:15:45. > :15:49.there and many hundreds of parents want to give their children this
:15:49. > :15:57.new experience and they are very brave, they will try new things. In
:15:57. > :16:07.some ways, the audience is literally responded with their feet.
:16:07. > :16:08.
:16:08. > :16:13.A if a good review is the measure of a successful adults sure,... It
:16:13. > :16:20.sounds daunting but it really made it child-friendly and the kids were
:16:20. > :16:24.all engaged and joining in and it was OK to join them which was great.
:16:24. > :16:29.Hearing live vocals and those wonderful harmonies, it brings the
:16:29. > :16:38.hairs up on the back of your neck. They had a great time, it is for
:16:38. > :16:43.all ages. Really exciting and fun for the kids. These topics of a
:16:43. > :16:52.Scottish tour on Friday and so far it is as much of a hit as the
:16:52. > :16:56.company's older shows. The end of an era in the sport now.
:16:56. > :17:02.I am still here but Stephen Hendry, who has been described as the
:17:02. > :17:06.greatest snooker player ever, seven times world champion, at the age of
:17:06. > :17:11.43 has announced his retirement from the sport.
:17:11. > :17:18.Why? He says he is getting fed up losing.
:17:18. > :17:25.Please welcome the best of the best, Mr Stephen Hendry. He had won the
:17:25. > :17:31.trophy more often than anyone else. The day after he called it quits,
:17:31. > :17:36.world champions of yester year lined up to a plot his achievements.
:17:36. > :17:43.A was in the sport to win, and to be the best, and for a little while
:17:43. > :17:52.I was. Hendry was tipped for big things from an early age even
:17:52. > :17:57.before he won TV's Junior Pot Black at the age of 14. His single minded
:17:57. > :18:01.approach to get this was in evidence here that in 1986. I
:18:01. > :18:11.thought I would be shaking like a leaf but I shot myself, I was not
:18:11. > :18:21.shaking and I was not nervous. His grace under pressure helped him to
:18:21. > :18:25.
:18:25. > :18:30.win his first major championship at the start of the 1990s. In snooker,
:18:30. > :18:36.that decade's belonged to Stephen Hendry, winning a record seven
:18:36. > :18:44.world titles. In 1990 and then five in a row between 1992 and 1996, and
:18:44. > :18:48.finally at the end of the decade in 1999. There was a time when I
:18:48. > :18:54.fetched in principle. In my best season, I won five or six
:18:54. > :19:01.tournaments. -- I felt invincible. Those other days I look back on
:19:01. > :19:05.fondly. But he failed to shine so brightly in the years that followed
:19:05. > :19:13.and reaching the last date of this year's championship proved to be
:19:13. > :19:19.his swansong. I have achieved so much, seven world championships,
:19:19. > :19:24.three maximums. Motherwell will be guaranteed a place in the
:19:24. > :19:30.qualifying rounds of the Champions League is Dundee United to 0 win
:19:30. > :19:35.against Rangers at Ibrox this evening. They took a step to
:19:35. > :19:39.clinching the third-place finish in the Premier League with a 1-0 win
:19:39. > :19:44.against Hearts at Tynecastle. Meanwhile, the battle to avoid
:19:44. > :19:50.relegation continues. It is between Dunfermline and Hibernian. They are
:19:50. > :19:55.separated by only to the point. Iberian play Inverness tonight and
:19:55. > :20:02.Hibernian play Aberdeen. Dunfermline have taken four points
:20:02. > :20:09.from their last two matches while Hibernian have lost. The players
:20:09. > :20:13.are focused and I have been pleased with their performances. I thought
:20:13. > :20:20.some of the criticism of the players after Sunday was scandalous.
:20:20. > :20:28.I thought they had been very good. There is coverage of today's
:20:28. > :20:33.matches on sport sound tonight. The show is on there now. Scotland's
:20:33. > :20:38.top woman golfer is aiming for a place at the Olympic Games, in four
:20:38. > :20:46.years' time in Rio the Janeiro. She says that having the sport in the
:20:46. > :20:51.games will bring more players into the sport. Last year's Scottish
:20:51. > :20:56.woman's champion in fine form today as she prepares to defend her title.
:20:56. > :21:03.She also has dreams of representing Team GB at the Olympics in Brazil
:21:03. > :21:07.and four years. It's might be nice. I might still be around. My two
:21:07. > :21:14.children would be on a -- old enough to come and enjoy it. It
:21:14. > :21:19.would be something. Calipers is only 19 but has been a professional
:21:19. > :21:25.for the last two years. She is only now do it -- realising what it
:21:25. > :21:29.means. There was a lot of expectation for me to perform
:21:29. > :21:35.really well in the first year. With the sponsors and everything
:21:35. > :21:39.involved and the pressure and I put on myself, it was a bit too much.
:21:39. > :21:47.As for the reigning champion, she says the competition this weekend
:21:47. > :21:54.is the toughest she has faced on home soil. There are some big names.
:21:54. > :21:59.Lot a, Janice, Linsey right. There are a lot of good players. It will
:21:59. > :22:03.be harder. It's is unlikely the weather conditions in the East
:22:03. > :22:13.Lothian will match those in Rio so let's hope the golfers do not
:22:13. > :22:14.
:22:14. > :22:18.become too grumpy. 67 years ago after months of
:22:18. > :22:24.intense fighting, British troops helped liberate the people of the
:22:24. > :22:29.Netherlands from years of Nazi and a -- occupation. Two of them were
:22:29. > :22:35.from East Lothian. They have travelled back to the battleground
:22:35. > :22:39.to remember the sacrifice of their comrades who did not return.
:22:39. > :22:49.The two veterans said of this morning on a personal journey of
:22:49. > :22:53.
:22:53. > :22:58.remembrance. In 1945 the war was entering the final phases. The
:22:58. > :23:04.triumph of the D-Day landings was fading fast as the fighting in
:23:04. > :23:09.Holland became entrenched in waves of bloody battles. It is just
:23:09. > :23:13.unbelievable that we did those things, under fire, bullets flying,
:23:13. > :23:19.mortar bomb shells raining down and yet, there you were at that tender
:23:19. > :23:26.age, in the thick of it. Comrades around you were being wounded and
:23:26. > :23:31.killed and yet, you just carried on. Like most of his generation, he was
:23:31. > :23:36.just a boy when he was called up to fight in this man's war. For the
:23:36. > :23:41.people of Poland, the Nazi occupation took a heavy toll. They
:23:41. > :23:45.were expected to give their liberators a hero's welcome.
:23:45. > :23:50.Dutch people suffered perhaps more than others during the occupation
:23:50. > :23:55.and when they were liberated, it was the greatest days of their
:23:55. > :24:01.lives and the liberators were very much heroes. As the pair set off
:24:01. > :24:07.today they also recalled their fallen comrades. We will be paying
:24:07. > :24:12.our respects to those men who died. There are not many of us left.
:24:12. > :24:22.is my comrades Madill. I wear this for my comrades who gave their
:24:22. > :24:30.
:24:30. > :24:34.lives, the real heroes in the war. A glorious day across much of
:24:34. > :24:40.Scotland with plenty of sunshine. You can see their cloud burning a
:24:40. > :24:43.way through the day particularly on the East coast. Central and eastern
:24:43. > :24:48.parts -- western parts of the country did see the highest
:24:48. > :24:53.temperatures. Even Braemar not too bad. Right on the East coast a
:24:53. > :24:57.different story, Aberdeen and Edinburgh just eight to ten degrees.
:24:57. > :25:05.That is thanks to the low cloud and the onshore breeze. Tonight, dry
:25:05. > :25:11.and cloudy. Also some clear spells. Temperatures for almost no Lord
:25:11. > :25:15.Dannatt and five Celcius but the far north Highlands could be down
:25:15. > :25:20.to freezing. Note is this weather front to the far north - that is
:25:21. > :25:26.the dividing line between war Meyer and cold air. Tomorrow, for much of
:25:26. > :25:31.the mainland, it will be dry. The best of the sunshine in western
:25:31. > :25:36.parts with the highest temperatures on the West coast. Further east,
:25:36. > :25:43.staying cloudy and subsequently a bit cooler as well. In the
:25:44. > :25:48.afternoon, it will be warm. 17 or 18 degrees in the West. The
:25:48. > :25:51.Lothians and the borders in the East coast will be cooler but much
:25:51. > :25:59.of Stirlingshire and power Charla and Ireland and Murray will be
:25:59. > :26:04.basking in sunshine. Overnight, the rain will sink southward towards
:26:04. > :26:09.the southern half of the country. That is the dividing line between
:26:09. > :26:19.warmth and cold. It is sitting across the southern half of the
:26:19. > :26:19.
:26:19. > :26:25.country. Temperatures will be down. Wet weather on Friday sunshine and
:26:25. > :26:32.showers with snow over the hills. Tomorrow will be the last day of
:26:32. > :26:37.temperatures in the teens. A summer's day of the main stories:
:26:37. > :26:42.the coroner at the inquest into the debt of the MI6 officer of Gareth
:26:42. > :26:51.Williams, whose body was found any sport back, has ruled out suicide
:26:51. > :26:55.and says his body was -- he was probably killed will fully.
:26:55. > :26:59.Alex Salmond has revealed that 40 police officers are investigating
:26:59. > :27:03.claims of phone hacking by police officers but he told MPs that the
:27:03. > :27:09.investigation would be compromised if he set up a separate
:27:09. > :27:14.parliamentary inquiry. His 17-year- old youth, Jordan McCready, has
:27:14. > :27:18.admitted murdering 13-year-old Don Wilson in Kilmarnock last September.
:27:18. > :27:24.He also admitted slashing a stranger and robbing another