:00:21. > :00:27.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news.
:00:27. > :00:30.10 people have been injured in a crash near Stirling.
:00:30. > :00:32.One of the country's richest men declares his support for
:00:32. > :00:34.independence. Jim McColl says Scotland should be allowed to make
:00:34. > :00:37.its own decisions to kick-start the economy.
:00:37. > :00:40.One of Glasgow's most deprived areas is to get a multi-million
:00:40. > :00:50.pound facelift in a bid to win the youth Olympics, but not everyone is
:00:50. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :00:57.happy. Our homes are being taken from us. They made a public promise
:00:58. > :01:06.and a public commitment to 400 people and they are going back on
:01:06. > :01:16.their word. Also in the programme, she was the
:01:16. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:26.face of the sixties, now Twiggy is A number of fire and ambulance
:01:26. > :01:31.crews are dealing with a serious incident involving a good so fickle
:01:31. > :01:35.and the people carrier in Stirling. -- a goods vehicle.
:01:35. > :01:41.You can see behind me the extent of the damage from this crash. It has
:01:41. > :01:47.been quite horrific. At about 3:15pm this afternoon the red lorry
:01:47. > :01:55.that you can see behind me was travelling down this road when Da
:01:55. > :02:01.Silva people carrier was coming out of this local pub. The people in
:02:01. > :02:09.the pub heard a great bank and they came out to do what they could to
:02:09. > :02:15.help. First, I phoned the emergency services. I told them that we
:02:15. > :02:20.needed a fire brigade because we saw diesel and petrol. I told them
:02:20. > :02:25.that we needed at the fire brigade and more than one ambulance. I went
:02:26. > :02:32.round myself with a couple of my team members to assess who needed
:02:32. > :02:36.the most help. The people who were able to talk we tried to reassure.
:02:36. > :02:41.A few more of the people were just lying there with lots of blood and
:02:41. > :02:49.we went in to get howls and cloths and stop the blood flow through the
:02:49. > :02:56.cuts and in their heads. -- get towels.
:02:56. > :02:59.Any news on the injured? There were seven people in the people carrier.
:02:59. > :03:04.They were all taken to the local hospital and we have just heard
:03:04. > :03:10.from them in the last few minutes that Five are seriously injured,
:03:10. > :03:12.five at less so. They are still in hospital undergoing treatment. The
:03:12. > :03:17.road remains closed and will do so for some time.
:03:17. > :03:22.Thank you. One of Scotland's most successful
:03:22. > :03:29.businessman has given his backing to independence. Billionaire, Jim
:03:29. > :03:32.McColl, who founded the company Clyde Blowers voiced his support
:03:33. > :03:38.just after George Osborne had criticised the SNP for not
:03:38. > :03:42.providing enough detail on how independent Scotland would work.
:03:42. > :03:47.Jim McColl has built his substantial fortune in the
:03:47. > :03:50.engineering industry. He has also supported greater economic powers
:03:50. > :04:00.for the Scottish Parliament in the current economic union. Now he
:04:00. > :04:11.
:04:11. > :04:16.wants to go further. In an article The timing of that article is very
:04:16. > :04:19.handy indeed for the Yes campaign. Last night, the Chancellor George
:04:19. > :04:23.Osborne used his speech in Glasgow to accuse the Scottish government
:04:24. > :04:30.of failing to give details of how up an independent Scotland's
:04:30. > :04:34.economy would work. I know that the proponents of independence applying
:04:34. > :04:41.the most reassuring bedside manner say that an independent Scotland
:04:41. > :04:46.would retain everything from the pound, the Bank of England to UK
:04:46. > :04:51.financial services regulation. However, I simply do not think it
:04:51. > :04:54.is credible to suggest simultaneously that in an
:04:54. > :04:58.independent Scotland everything will change and do nothing will
:04:58. > :05:03.change. Those claims have been dismissed by the First Minister
:05:03. > :05:11.issued today, with Jim a call beside him, was at the Council of
:05:11. > :05:15.economic advisers. Jim McColl are normally lives in a low-tax
:05:15. > :05:20.Monaco's so what notice should voters take up his views? I would
:05:20. > :05:27.rather have somebody creating jobs in Scotland like Jim McColl rather
:05:27. > :05:32.than the Chancellor who is destroying jobs. Jim McColl's
:05:32. > :05:37.company pays lots of taxes into the Scottish economy and creates lots
:05:37. > :05:41.of jobs. We have got to choose and Scotland between the people who are
:05:41. > :05:46.prepared to invest here or a Tory chancellor who tells us that we
:05:46. > :05:51.cannot do what we want. Jim McColl declined to be interviewed today
:05:51. > :05:58.but expect to hear from him again as the economy plays a central role
:05:58. > :06:01.in the referendum campaign. Meanwhile the Chancellor has
:06:01. > :06:06.announced a tax break to encourage investment in the old up oil and
:06:06. > :06:13.gas fields in the North Sea. Our reporter is at Aberdeen harbour.
:06:13. > :06:17.What did the Chancellor announced? What he announced was a measure to
:06:17. > :06:22.appease an industry which he angered last year by announcing an
:06:22. > :06:26.increase in the supplementary tax that they pay on the revenue
:06:26. > :06:31.generated from the oil and gas sales from what they exploit from
:06:31. > :06:35.the North Sea here. The reason why that angered the industry was
:06:35. > :06:39.because that would squeeze the margins of some of the relatively
:06:39. > :06:43.smaller companies who themselves extract from difficult to get to
:06:43. > :06:46.places, use more advanced techniques and therefore have
:06:46. > :06:52.already squeezed margins. This announcement is directly targeted
:06:52. > :06:56.at those because it only affects the older fields and it ring fence
:06:56. > :07:00.is a quarter of a billion pounds of their revenue from VAT
:07:00. > :07:04.supplementary tax. That means that that of the revenue they generate
:07:04. > :07:09.that quarter of a billion pounds will be free of that tax.
:07:09. > :07:18.Thank you. You are watching Reporting Scotland
:07:18. > :07:24.from the BBC. Still to come. Tackling a tough condition head-on.
:07:24. > :07:30.The actress putting a MS centre stage.
:07:30. > :07:34.Tonight's sport comes alive from just outside the Scotland team
:07:34. > :07:42.hotel on eve of their World Cup qualifier against Serbia tomorrow.
:07:42. > :07:46.I will be joined later by the Scotland manager.
:07:46. > :07:50.An appalling betrayal, that his house some residents in north
:07:50. > :07:57.Glasgow have described plans to transform their area. Sighthill has
:07:57. > :08:03.been placed at the heart of the city's bid to host the 28 Tina used
:08:03. > :08:13.Olympic Games. But many homes will be demolished in the process. --
:08:13. > :08:15.
:08:15. > :08:19.Sighthill is a strong and at times notorious Community and it will be
:08:19. > :08:27.the site of the athletes village if Glasgow wins of the Youth Olympic
:08:27. > :08:31.Games. In a �250 million transformation it will include many
:08:32. > :08:38.improvements. But not everybody likes this new vision. Our homes
:08:38. > :08:43.will be taken from us. They made a promise to 400 people, a public
:08:43. > :08:48.promise, a public commitment and they are going back on their word.
:08:48. > :08:52.Regardless of the bid's outcome, the work will go ahead. This is the
:08:52. > :08:56.kind of investment that Sighthill needs. In the current environment
:08:57. > :09:01.we did not expect that we would be in a position to be making these
:09:01. > :09:07.announcements for at least 20 years. One-to-one meetings are now being
:09:07. > :09:13.arranged with all of those affected by the move. It is half a kilometre
:09:13. > :09:19.from the city centre and if they make it better, fair enough. This
:09:19. > :09:24.is the only place that we go, this is our club. We are going to lose
:09:24. > :09:30.that and I think it is a disgrace. Sighthill is crying out for
:09:30. > :09:34.regeneration, but what people questioned is how it is being done.
:09:34. > :09:39.Everything he will be demolished. The council says it is the legacy
:09:39. > :09:42.of the bid's process. Other people say if -- other people say they are
:09:42. > :09:47.ripping the heart out of the community.
:09:47. > :09:54.The funeral has taken place of the two boys who drowned in a canoeing
:09:54. > :09:56.tragedy it two weeks ago. Mourners packed Inverness crematorium to
:09:56. > :10:02.remember five-year-old Ewen Beaton and his brother Jamie, aged two,
:10:03. > :10:07.who died along with a two-year-old girl. At coastline search is
:10:07. > :10:10.continuing for the body of the boy's father.
:10:10. > :10:16.Emotion and drama today at the Paralympics involving Scottish
:10:16. > :10:20.cyclist, Karen Darke. She was hoping to add up to the Italian
:10:20. > :10:24.master so far by athletes. Our games correspondent can tell us
:10:24. > :10:31.more. I think this takes team spirit and
:10:31. > :10:41.it comradeship to a new level. Karen Darke, who has already won a
:10:41. > :10:45.silver left will -- silver medal, she was going in a bronze medal
:10:45. > :10:51.position but she came across the finishing line with her team-mate
:10:52. > :11:01.hand in hand. The official went for a photo finish and a Karen Darke
:11:01. > :11:09.was denied by a matter of millimetres. The Scottish team in
:11:09. > :11:14.the Paralympics stays at Number 11. Strong sports like cycling was
:11:14. > :11:19.where we picked up three medals. But there are other sports as well
:11:19. > :11:23.wait we have picked up medals. It has been a good spread across the
:11:24. > :11:30.sports and hopefully more to come. So a very good Paralympics for the
:11:30. > :11:36.Scottish athletes here as well as a few weak as a go at the Olympics. -
:11:36. > :11:46.- a few weeks ago. If you can get here, you will be able to see some
:11:46. > :11:52.
:11:52. > :11:57.of our top Olympians and Paris She has won a scholarship's best-
:11:57. > :12:02.known actresses, but when Alison Peebles was first diagnosed with MS
:12:02. > :12:06.she was determined to keep it a secret. A decade on, she is upfront
:12:06. > :12:11.about her condition and she has put it centre stage with a new show
:12:11. > :12:19.that she has created for the National Theatre of Scotland.
:12:19. > :12:23.The story is based on a true story... This story is about MS,
:12:23. > :12:28.something the actress and director has been dealing with for a decade.
:12:28. > :12:34.Her initial reaction was to keep it hidden, but now she is speaking out.
:12:34. > :12:39.I wanted to express something about this extremely complex and
:12:39. > :12:45.confusing condition. You do not know what the future will be, you
:12:45. > :12:51.cannot predict it, nobody knows, the medical professionals don't
:12:51. > :12:58.know. You cannot tell. She has already tackled the subject on film.
:12:58. > :13:05.I want to be myself, Alison Peebles, somebody cue Mac and directs and
:13:05. > :13:09.sometimes also! Of bringing profile to a condition which affects a
:13:09. > :13:13.disproportionate number of the Scots. I think the key thing is
:13:13. > :13:17.that Alison is showing that she can still work and she is a tremendous
:13:17. > :13:22.role model, particularly for women in Scotland. We have relatively
:13:23. > :13:30.high prevalence of MS and we also know that women are twice as likely
:13:30. > :13:34.to be affected as men. For Alison, the touring will be tough, she
:13:34. > :13:44.suffers from chronic fatigue. Her life may be shrinking, but she is
:13:44. > :13:46.
:13:46. > :13:48.Oh look now up what else has been happening across the country. The
:13:48. > :13:51.Government's given the go-ahead to a controversial 36-turbine windfarm
:13:51. > :13:56.near Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. Scottish Natural Heritage and the
:13:56. > :13:58.RSPB dropped their objections after the original scheme was scaled back.
:13:58. > :14:01.Doctors are warning that around a quarter of all in-patients in
:14:01. > :14:06.Scottish hospitals have some form of dementia - but many of them
:14:06. > :14:09.haven't had their condition properly diagnosed. The Royal
:14:09. > :14:18.College of Physicians is calling for more training to ensure staff
:14:18. > :14:22.can spot the symptoms of dementia - and provide appropriate treatment.
:14:22. > :14:27.Research shows that although you have to invest in staff to detect
:14:27. > :14:30.dementia, the early detection and good care is cheaper because it
:14:30. > :14:35.stops hospital admissions and stops people being institutionalised
:14:35. > :14:37.early. The airline FlyBe is to pull out of
:14:37. > :14:40.its Aberdeen-to-Gatwick service from next month. The last flight
:14:40. > :14:42.will be on October 28th. A BBC investigation has found
:14:42. > :14:45.almost half of Scotland's councils have cut back their community sport
:14:45. > :14:51.provision. 15 authorities have reduced opening hours at one or
:14:51. > :14:54.more venues, and seven have closed a facility to the public.
:14:54. > :15:04.And there are more stories from your area - and all the latest news,
:15:04. > :15:06.
:15:06. > :15:10.24 hours a day - on BBC Scotland's People whose diet is high in fat
:15:10. > :15:14.could be damaging the part of the brain that controls that appetite.
:15:14. > :15:21.Bat has been one of the Today's hot topics at the British Science
:15:21. > :15:26.Festival in Aberdeen. Scotland has a weight problem - you
:15:26. > :15:29.don't say! I am not the only person in Scotland fighting a long and
:15:29. > :15:33.lonely fight against stuffing my face, but what researchers have
:15:33. > :15:37.been telling the British Science Festival is that people like me
:15:37. > :15:43.lack important psychological skills called executive function. Here in
:15:43. > :15:48.Aberdeen, they have been working in -- on ways to not just in the right
:15:48. > :15:52.direction. People know what they should be eating. The issue is to
:15:52. > :15:56.get people to make the decision. We have been developing signs to
:15:56. > :16:00.display at food order point in the coffee bar when you are standing
:16:00. > :16:04.next to the cakes. Other research has been unveiled this suggests
:16:04. > :16:08.people with a high-fat diet are actually damaging the very part of
:16:08. > :16:11.the brain that is meant to control their appetite. We took mice that
:16:11. > :16:16.were susceptible to gaining weight and put half of them on a high-fat
:16:16. > :16:21.diet and half on a low-fat diet. We looked at the area of the brain and
:16:21. > :16:24.found that the proteins had changed and they were the same ones that
:16:24. > :16:30.would change if you had o lack of blood supply to this part of the
:16:30. > :16:37.brain or had an infection. Elsewhere, research suggesting
:16:37. > :16:41.these Vikings had the first criminal profiling. It is quite
:16:41. > :16:51.useful to have this kind of aggressive tendency but the problem
:16:51. > :16:53.
:16:53. > :16:59.is when they get back home. It is by King Crimewatch. -- Viking.
:16:59. > :17:04.David is at the Scotland team hotel. Scotland's World Cup campaign
:17:04. > :17:10.starts tomorrow and the national team manager's message is, Bring It
:17:11. > :17:19.On. It's a home game against Serbia at Hampden and Craig Levein says
:17:20. > :17:28.his team are ready and confident. This is the venue, and this is the
:17:28. > :17:33.opposition. Serbia - a team packed full of top players, no, but they
:17:33. > :17:41.do have real quality. You will see the likes of Manchester City and
:17:41. > :17:46.Chelsea players. Do you think they go in as favourites? He ice, but
:17:46. > :17:51.the unfortunate -- fortunate thing for me is that our players have
:17:51. > :17:56.improved enormously. Two years ago at the start of the previous
:17:56. > :18:02.qualifying game, it was different. A host of key players are missing
:18:02. > :18:06.through injury. Charlie Mulgrew, Scott Brown, Diane Fletcher and
:18:07. > :18:11.another player was at this out. The selection headache? Maybe not as
:18:11. > :18:15.others have been drafted in. The man who will win his 50th cap and
:18:15. > :18:19.lead the team that has belief that this time it can be different.
:18:19. > :18:26.have a lot of players that can step in and do the job and it's an
:18:26. > :18:29.opportunity for them and a big game to go and take it. They are ready
:18:29. > :18:34.for battle physically and psychologically, so what of
:18:35. > :18:41.suggestions that the Serbians think Scotland can't play with a ball at
:18:41. > :18:45.their feet? My father gave me a couple of really important bits of
:18:45. > :18:51.advice a long time ago. When in conflict, don't tell anybody what
:18:51. > :18:56.you are going to do. Tough talk ahead of a tough campaign. Craig
:18:57. > :19:00.Levein and Scotland - it's over to you.
:19:00. > :19:06.The national team could take their first step towards the World Cup
:19:06. > :19:13.finals in Brazil in 2014 tomorrow, but how confident are you? How
:19:13. > :19:20.confident and optimistic should we be? It would be the first World Cup
:19:20. > :19:30.finals we have been that since 1998. The road to Brazil. We can all
:19:30. > :19:39.
:19:39. > :19:45.dream! In a glass half-empty kind You might think the Brazilian bar
:19:45. > :19:50.in Glasgow is as close as we will get to Rio in 2014. Look at the
:19:50. > :19:58.qualifying group we are in - Serbia, Macedonia, Belgium Wales and
:19:58. > :20:05.Croatia. Maybe I should be more positive. What is in this?! It is
:20:05. > :20:12.not too difficult for Scotland and. With the home crowd behind you and
:20:12. > :20:17.the travelling Tartan Army, Scotland will be very happy.
:20:17. > :20:24.have a Brazilian national tartan for the World Cup. Can they qualify
:20:24. > :20:28.for Brazil 2014? After that, I feel more positive
:20:29. > :20:33.about our chances with my Brazil tartan waistcoat on. I even have a
:20:33. > :20:43.Brazilian tartan kilt, although it may be a bit short and probably
:20:43. > :20:54.
:20:54. > :20:58.That's more like it. Rio, here we You probably didn't enjoy watching
:20:58. > :21:04.that put you will enjoy watching highlights of the match tomorrow on
:21:04. > :21:09.BBC One Scotland. You can also listen to it on BBC Radio Scotland.
:21:09. > :21:13.I have saved the best for last tonight because I am joined by the
:21:13. > :21:17.Scotland manager at Craig Levein. The team are in their behind us -
:21:17. > :21:21.it's the night before a big match. What's going on? A I don't know.
:21:21. > :21:25.I'm out here with you! They are just preparing for their evening
:21:25. > :21:30.meal. We will have a team meeting after that and then they will go to
:21:31. > :21:38.bed. Is that when you tell them who is in the team? Can you give us any
:21:38. > :21:43.hints? No, I can't tell you. I will be telling the players later this
:21:43. > :21:48.evening. Some of the lads like to know if they are playing or not. I
:21:48. > :21:54.am not going to tell the media. shocks or surprises? I wouldn't
:21:54. > :21:59.think so. The hopes of a nation of resting on your shoulders. Do you
:21:59. > :22:03.feel nervous on occasions like this? No, I love it. This is why I
:22:03. > :22:08.took the job - to be involved in occasions like this. There are not
:22:08. > :22:12.enough occasions like this. I love it. Bring it on. Are you happy with
:22:12. > :22:16.the way things have gone? The preparations for the match - is
:22:16. > :22:20.there anything that hasn't gone according to plan? I have become
:22:20. > :22:26.immune to that, almost, because it happens every time we have a
:22:26. > :22:30.gathering. I have got the players I want and everything is settled and
:22:30. > :22:35.we are really happy. Thank you very much for joining us and all the
:22:35. > :22:42.best for tomorrow. From me and the national team
:22:42. > :22:47.manager, back to you in the studio. She is known as the world's first
:22:47. > :22:50.supermodel and continues to be a fashion icon in the 60s. Twiggy is
:22:51. > :22:57.in Aberdeen for the 10th anniversary of the city's festival
:22:57. > :23:01.for people over 50. Twiggy, with her trademark glamour.
:23:01. > :23:07.She caused as much of a stir today with all ages as she did in her
:23:08. > :23:11.1960s heyday. The doe-eyed model exploded on to the fashion scene at
:23:11. > :23:16.aged 17 and made it through to the other side. She relishes her more
:23:16. > :23:19.mature at role-model status. can change your career and do lots
:23:19. > :23:28.of different things. You don't have to live a complete his gambler's
:23:28. > :23:33.life. I happen to be happily married. -- a scandalous a life. I
:23:33. > :23:38.hope that I'm a bit of a role model. As well as getting advice and tips
:23:38. > :23:41.from an international fashion icon on how to stay stylish and greater,
:23:41. > :23:49.Aberdeen's over-fifties can go to a film festival, learn how to paint
:23:49. > :23:52.or take part in a tweed workshop. was pathetic and jury and then I
:23:52. > :23:57.tried stain glass - a complete failure. So I thought I would do
:23:57. > :24:02.this. I have never worked with tweed. I don't do any embroidery or
:24:02. > :24:06.seven, but it is my birthday so I decided to do something different.
:24:06. > :24:10.Although at 62, a cup of tea might be more to her taste, Twiggy has no
:24:10. > :24:18.plans to slow down and she says that is the secret. Join a cooking
:24:18. > :24:25.club, join the computer club, but I think to just retire and do nothing
:24:25. > :24:34.would be so bad for your head, apart from anything else!
:24:34. > :24:37.Hope for was all! Let's see what we We are holding on to the tune at
:24:37. > :24:42.temperatures this evening. A lot of dry were there to be found and some
:24:42. > :24:47.brightness across eastern and northern parts. Patchy rain or
:24:47. > :24:52.drizzle across western areas. These conditions extend across the far
:24:52. > :24:59.north with rain putting into the northern isles. Humid and on the
:24:59. > :25:03.mild side overnight. Tomorrow morning starts on a dry, cloudy
:25:03. > :25:09.night but we will see things brighten up across eastern areas,
:25:09. > :25:17.particularly the north-east. Come the afternoon, we should see some
:25:17. > :25:24.brightness breaking through towards the south-west corner. Temperatures
:25:24. > :25:30.up to 19 Celsius for the south-west and Lanarkshire. Holding on to more
:25:30. > :25:34.cloud towards North Argyll. Rain and drizzle in the Hebrides. On the
:25:35. > :25:44.north coast, some sunshine coming through. The rain stays put over
:25:44. > :25:49.Shetland. Maybe 23 for inland parts of Aberdeenshire. Towards the South
:25:49. > :25:54.East corner, temperatures looking very respectable. For tomorrow's
:25:54. > :26:00.football, it should be dry for the Hampden match. Good luck to the
:26:00. > :26:06.boys. If you are heading out to the hills, you will fare better with
:26:06. > :26:12.the sunshine coming through. Quite a dusty wind at the peaks,
:26:12. > :26:19.certainly across the Cairngorms. For the Western Rangers, quite a
:26:19. > :26:27.contrast with quite extensive hill fog. It will be fairly windy at the
:26:27. > :26:37.tops. The north-west Thailand rangers have a strong wind. For the
:26:37. > :26:43.
:26:43. > :26:48.inshore waters forecast, the As far as the rest of the afternoon
:26:48. > :26:52.is concerned, holding on to brightness in the east. Quite a
:26:52. > :26:56.fresh and strong south-westerly wind. For the rest of the weekend,
:26:56. > :27:01.the weather Front starts to approach bringing some rain and a
:27:01. > :27:11.stronger wind. Some sunshine on Sunday morning with cloud
:27:11. > :27:14.A summary of the top stories: 10 people have been injured in a crash
:27:14. > :27:16.between a lorry and a people carrier near Stirling.
:27:16. > :27:20.Five people are said to be seriously injured.
:27:20. > :27:23.French police have given their first details of the conversations
:27:23. > :27:26.with a four-year-old who survived the shooting of a British family.
:27:27. > :27:31.She was found hidden in a bullet- ridden car and is under police
:27:31. > :27:35.guard. Police are investigating a possible dispute with the brother