:00:17. > :00:20.Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight, the contract to run the
:00:20. > :00:23.West Coast mainline comes off the rails.
:00:23. > :00:26.The Scottish government warns it could cause problems for the
:00:26. > :00:29.awarding of other franchises north of the Border.
:00:29. > :00:34.How the increasing use of mobile phones by children in classrooms is
:00:35. > :00:44.disrupting lessons. Hope on the horizon for people
:00:44. > :00:48.blighted by their neighbours' nuisance hedges. Be it is
:00:49. > :00:53.exhausting, it is emotionally draining. Ice have to leave my
:00:53. > :00:56.house to get the sunshine somewhere else.
:00:56. > :01:02.And I have gone all starstruck at Saint Andrews, where showbiz meets
:01:02. > :01:05.sport at the Dunhill Golf Championship.
:01:05. > :01:09.Scotland's Transport Secretary says there are "uncertain times ahead"
:01:09. > :01:12.for some of the country's key rail routes. It comes after the UK
:01:12. > :01:17.government scrapped a deal to let Aberdeen-based FirstGroup run the
:01:17. > :01:22.West Coast Mainline. It had been due to take over the route from
:01:22. > :01:30.Virgin in December. It is now unclear who will run the service.
:01:30. > :01:34.Our Business Editor Douglas Fraser is here. What is going on?
:01:34. > :01:37.future of the railways has been derailed.
:01:37. > :01:40.Because the government had to admit flaws in the way it handles
:01:40. > :01:43.franchises - the right to run part of the railway for several years.
:01:43. > :01:46.Facing a legal challenge over the West Coast line between Glasgow and
:01:46. > :01:50.London, the Transport Secretary is admitting to "deeply regrettable
:01:50. > :01:52.and completely unacceptable mistakes made by my department".
:01:52. > :01:55.This is a battle featuring Scotland's two big transport
:01:55. > :01:59.companies. On one side, Virgin Trains, led by
:01:59. > :02:02.Sir Richard Branson. He is in partnership with Stagecoach in
:02:02. > :02:05.Perth, where Sir Brian Souter's in charge.
:02:05. > :02:09.In the summer, the government said they had lost the competition to
:02:09. > :02:13.run the West Coast route, beaten by FirstGroup. That was, until today's
:02:13. > :02:23.astonishing reversal. Bad news for First Group. But what
:02:23. > :02:24.
:02:24. > :02:29.does it mean for passengers? Linking Glasgow with the South, the
:02:29. > :02:36.timetable will remain the same, but it remains unclear whose name will
:02:36. > :02:41.be on the trains. We need to make sure the service pattern Sarin
:02:41. > :02:49.plays for the likes of advance fares, his best and if people
:02:49. > :02:54.bricking up for Christmas to go and visit family and friends. This has
:02:54. > :02:59.to be put right as quickly as possible. To have confidence in the
:02:59. > :03:09.rail services going for were, we need to have confidence in the
:03:09. > :03:13.franchise system. The element of uncertainty is the view of the
:03:13. > :03:20.franchise process. We have to see what that throws up. We are going
:03:20. > :03:26.to throw up the service that started in Scotland. On the East
:03:26. > :03:34.Course writ, the bidders have twice run out of steam. Could be
:03:34. > :03:43.nationalisation be the answer a question mark? Evert was run well,
:03:43. > :03:50.I do not see why private companies could not do it. It seems to me
:03:50. > :03:54.that privatisation has Beanie disaster. -- been a disaster.
:03:54. > :03:56.No huge impact on passengers just yet, but quite a change in fortunes
:03:56. > :04:00.for those two big Scottish transport firms.
:04:00. > :04:03.Stagecoach, as part of Virgin, saw shares up by 2% today. First Group
:04:03. > :04:13.were down by more than one fifth. And the Whitehall government, its
:04:13. > :04:14.
:04:14. > :04:19.stock has taken a big knock as well. Tim Reid joins us now from
:04:19. > :04:23.Westminster. This is a pretty costly mistake, isn't it? And it
:04:23. > :04:31.seems to have caused a bit of a rift between the UK and Scottish
:04:31. > :04:39.governments. Yes, or this is going to not only cost �40 million, but
:04:39. > :04:43.the share prices of companies involved in have been affected. The
:04:43. > :04:47.Department has admitted making mistakes at suspended three
:04:47. > :04:52.officials, but the pressure will undoubtedly come on the Ministers
:04:52. > :04:55.who oversaw this process. The Labour Party says it shows the
:04:55. > :05:00.government is incompetent. The Scottish National Party is very
:05:00. > :05:04.upset about not been told about this before today and is seeking an
:05:04. > :05:08.urgent meeting with the United Kingdom Transport Secretary. And if
:05:08. > :05:13.Sir Richard Branson had not gone to the High Court to challenge this
:05:13. > :05:19.franchise in the first place we may not have found out about the flaws
:05:19. > :05:27.in the process and that casts a shadow over the ball rail franchise
:05:27. > :05:37.procurement deals. Labour introduced as when they were in
:05:37. > :05:37.
:05:37. > :05:40.power and this has come back to slap them in the face then stop.
:05:40. > :05:42.The increasing use of mobile phones by children in school is having a
:05:42. > :05:45.disruptive effect on teaching. Teachers says mobiles are becoming
:05:45. > :05:55.a distraction for pupils and adding to problems they face in the
:05:55. > :05:57.
:05:57. > :06:06.classroom. Out of order and out of control. The students here are just
:06:06. > :06:12.acting out this scene, but it is a problem in schools. They are
:06:12. > :06:17.Scottish government report says that violence or abuse affected
:06:17. > :06:22.over one third of secondary staff. 26 % of classroom assistants are
:06:23. > :06:29.also affected and 27 % of primary head teachers. Most of the
:06:29. > :06:34.destruction is low-level, such as calling out and, more frequently,
:06:34. > :06:40.mobile phones. The report confirms that most young people behave well
:06:40. > :06:49.most of the time. So-called minor disruptions have become a minor
:06:49. > :06:52.issue. In my class, at the was absolutely no work done. We had to
:06:52. > :07:02.take a word work warm because we could not do any work in the
:07:02. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:07.classroom. Just listening to other people simply doesn't happen.
:07:07. > :07:14.you are going to swear in my classroom, you can go and stand
:07:14. > :07:20.outside. If you try and take a mobile phone of the classroom that
:07:20. > :07:25.means a confrontation. Back in lead to a build up of because up and
:07:25. > :07:30.behaviour that impacts on every other child in the class. They're
:07:30. > :07:34.learning is been impaired by that process. The Scottish government
:07:34. > :07:42.says that bad behaviour is the declining problem and says they
:07:42. > :07:48.will tackle it wherever it is found. Still to come on the programme...
:07:48. > :07:51.25 years on, the Peterhead Prison siege, broken by the SAS.
:07:51. > :07:53.And in sport, Celtic manager Neil Lennon is pinching himself after
:07:53. > :07:57.the Scottish champions' dramatic Champions League victory and not
:07:57. > :08:00.sure if it has got anything to do with Europe's win over the USA in
:08:00. > :08:10.the Ryder Cup, but Holywood star Bill Murray vents his spleen at St
:08:10. > :08:14.
:08:14. > :08:17.Is one of these casting a giant shadow across your garden? Battles
:08:17. > :08:22.between neighbours over hedges and trees are difficult to sort out and
:08:22. > :08:32.often end up in the courts without resolution. But that might be about
:08:32. > :08:34.
:08:34. > :08:38.to change. Audrey Alexander used to brought vegetables in her garden,
:08:38. > :08:44.but the neighbour its hedge now stands at 50 ft tall and there is
:08:44. > :08:51.not enough light for her plants to grow. Now her last what is the
:08:51. > :08:55.change in the law. It is exhausting, it is training. To have a winter
:08:56. > :09:01.where there is a sunny day and you are in darkness. It is very
:09:01. > :09:08.demoralising. I have got to lead my own house to go somewhere else to
:09:08. > :09:13.get the sunshine. I should have that here. He ages like these can
:09:13. > :09:17.go up to 80 ft tall. If you are in dispute with a neighbour, under
:09:17. > :09:21.current law there is little you can do about it. Scotland is really
:09:21. > :09:27.part of the United Kingdom that does not have legislation to tackle
:09:27. > :09:32.this issue. Under the proposed lot, when mediation fails, the local
:09:32. > :09:37.council can be called in. If they Hedges team to be too high and very
:09:37. > :09:43.owner refuses to act, the council will move in and cut it down and
:09:43. > :09:50.send the Bill to the order. There are other ways of the dispute been
:09:50. > :09:56.resolved, but if they cannot, at this is the resort. I think having
:09:56. > :10:00.a bill which will result that will make it better for all concerned.
:10:00. > :10:05.With government backing, the Bill is likely to become law by spring
:10:05. > :10:08.next year. At Holyrood, Labour is accusing
:10:08. > :10:11.ministers of being dishonest with voters about the cost of key
:10:11. > :10:15.services, in order to gather support for independence.
:10:15. > :10:25.But the SNP insist they are working within a tight budget in order to
:10:25. > :10:28.
:10:28. > :10:34.help hard-pressed families. Labour's Johann Lamont says Colin
:10:34. > :10:37.may not be able to afford three tuition fees and three
:10:37. > :10:42.prescriptions and said it was dishonest of Ministers to pretend
:10:42. > :10:47.that we could. It said more money should go to college places and
:10:47. > :10:56.care services. If you are a care worker and a person worried about
:10:56. > :11:03.your child's education, it is not funny, it is the real world. They
:11:03. > :11:12.claim that Labour politicians are worried about potential damage in
:11:12. > :11:16.the future. Nicola Sturgeon sought to deny that. Stand-up those at the
:11:16. > :11:21.Labour benches who think we should take away the bus pass? How many
:11:21. > :11:27.think we should re- introduce tuition fees? She said they were
:11:28. > :11:33.designed to make things easier for Scotland's people to court. It
:11:33. > :11:38.beggars belief that the Labour leader's best response to
:11:38. > :11:45.Conservative cuts is to take away benefits from pensioners, the SEC
:11:45. > :11:50.and families already struggling to make ends meet. As always in
:11:50. > :11:56.Scottish politics, the underpinning of this is the independence
:11:56. > :12:06.referendum. Labour accuses Ministers of ducking the top
:12:06. > :12:07.
:12:07. > :12:12.choices now, in order to keep people sweet before that referendum.
:12:12. > :12:15.Now the other stories from around Scotland this Wednesday.
:12:15. > :12:17.The mother of a young boy left wth serious health conditions after an
:12:17. > :12:23.E.coli outbreak involving an Aberdeenshire nursery has hit out
:12:23. > :12:25.at a report into the incident. The mother says her child lost his
:12:25. > :12:33.sight and too many questions remained about the outbreak,
:12:33. > :12:36.centred around the Rose Lodge Nursery School in Aboyne. She is
:12:36. > :12:40.angry because she believes the report does not answer the
:12:40. > :12:43.questions about how her child became affected.
:12:43. > :12:45.The brother of a Scottish Christian missionary, who vanished two years
:12:45. > :12:50.ago while looking for Noah's Ark, has been assured by Turkish
:12:50. > :12:53.prosecutors the case is "still open". Derick Mackenzie has
:12:53. > :12:57.travelled from Stornoway to Turkey in a bid to solve the disappearance
:12:57. > :13:01.of his brother Donald. An early image of Jesus has been
:13:01. > :13:04.uncovered on one of Scotland's most famous Pictish symbol stones.
:13:04. > :13:14.Carvings on the Hilton of Cadboll stone had been interpreted as a
:13:14. > :13:14.
:13:14. > :13:19.Pictish princess riding a horse. It is just one of these things. You
:13:19. > :13:24.inherit that ID and that is what a lot of people think. But a lot of
:13:24. > :13:27.these objects can be looked at in a different way, especially when you
:13:27. > :13:30.are looking at Christiane meanings. The Harris Tweed industry is
:13:30. > :13:33.continuing its recovery, with over one million metres of the fabric
:13:34. > :13:37.set to be produced this year, more than double the figure for 2009.
:13:37. > :13:42.The increase is being put down to a marketing campaign in Japan, which
:13:42. > :13:46.now accounts for 40% of tweed exports from the Western Isles.
:13:46. > :13:48.A workbook to help stroke survivors has been launched. The patients use
:13:48. > :13:51.the workbook with the help of a trained professional and their
:13:51. > :14:01.families to set goals for their recovery and trials of the system
:14:01. > :14:07.suggest positive outcomes. It you imagine having something that you
:14:07. > :14:11.can call your own and you can work with another person to gauge you,
:14:11. > :14:13.that Caerphilly supports people, motivates them, to want to move
:14:13. > :14:17.forward. And there are more stories from
:14:17. > :14:20.your area and all the latest news, 24 hours a day, on BBC Scotland's
:14:21. > :14:24.website. 25 years ago today, the SAS were
:14:24. > :14:27.used to end a siege at a Scottish prison. The operation at Peterhead
:14:27. > :14:30.jail was ordered by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, where prisoners
:14:30. > :14:40.were threatening to kill one of the two officers they had taken hostage.
:14:40. > :14:53.
:14:53. > :14:56.Steven Duff has been speaking to Care labels of the morning in
:14:56. > :15:06.October 1987 under SAS end the siege in which a prison officer had
:15:06. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:17.been taken hostage. He had an gas mask, I said, I am the officer, and
:15:17. > :15:22.he took me away. Five days earlier and the start of what should have
:15:22. > :15:31.been a routine shaft for Jackie who is now 81. But he was in the wrong
:15:31. > :15:36.place at the wrong time in Scotland's toughest jail. Prisoners
:15:36. > :15:46.started stabbing another officer. I went to his aid. That is when I was
:15:46. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:53.taken hostage. A second prison officer had also been taken hostage
:15:53. > :16:03.but was released. It left Jackie to be effectively tortured by his
:16:03. > :16:06.
:16:06. > :16:13.captors in full view of the nation's media. I had a punching
:16:13. > :16:17.every now and again, different things like that. Margaret Thatcher
:16:17. > :16:21.take the go-ahead to the operation to save him which was over in
:16:21. > :16:25.minutes. SAS soldiers melted into the night and the government would
:16:25. > :16:31.neither confirm nor deny their involvement. This siege was the
:16:31. > :16:40.beginning of the end of Peterhead's status as Scotland's maximum
:16:40. > :16:44.security status. These Victorian cell blocks will soon disappear.
:16:44. > :16:54.HMP Grampian is nearing completion and will be a world away from HMP
:16:54. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:14.Peter Head of old. But in all the Let's turn our attention to sport.
:17:14. > :17:20.David has been keeping abreast of I have. Let's start with the
:17:20. > :17:28.Champions' League. Neil Lennon said he had to pinch himself after
:17:28. > :17:35.Celtic's 3 - 2 victory over Spartak Moscow last night. This 90th minute
:17:35. > :17:45.goal from a Georgios Samaras meant so much. The last time Celtic won a
:17:45. > :17:45.
:17:46. > :17:53.way from home in the European Cup proper was in 1986. His still
:17:53. > :18:01.sinking in. I kept pinching myself on the plane. It was a very special
:18:01. > :18:05.occasion. It had been a very special start when Gary Hooper
:18:05. > :18:12.opened the scoring but Spartak Moscow answered back with goals
:18:12. > :18:15.either side of half-time. But when Gary Hooper was fouled Spartak
:18:15. > :18:21.Moscow were reduced to 10 men and substitute James Forrest made an
:18:21. > :18:26.immediate impact. Then, a dramatic late winner from a Georgios Samaras.
:18:26. > :18:31.Celtic are second in Group G, now they face a dramatic double header
:18:31. > :18:34.against Barcelona. We play the greatest club side in the world
:18:34. > :18:41.over the next two games so if we can get anything out of that it
:18:41. > :18:44.would be fantastic. The victory is one of Neil Lennon's best moments
:18:44. > :18:54.as Celtic manager and the Scottish champions now have a real chance of
:18:54. > :18:54.
:18:54. > :19:00.I am here at St Andrews along with the world's top golfers and a host
:19:00. > :19:03.of celebrities. This is the Dunhill Championship, a unique event. There
:19:03. > :19:13.is a prize for the top professional and a prize for the top pro-
:19:13. > :19:14.
:19:14. > :19:18.celebrity team. As a hard-bitten reporter you're not supposed to get
:19:19. > :19:28.star-struck. But I don't care, I have got my autograph book here.
:19:28. > :19:36.Let's go pro-celebrity hunting. Thank you very much, sir.
:19:36. > :19:46.Absolutely. Professional golfer, Greg Kinnear. The crowd is ready,
:19:46. > :19:49.
:19:49. > :19:57.the action is about to happen. We're going to have a great day.
:19:57. > :20:01.And here is an Olympic legend. what other sport can you be
:20:01. > :20:06.involved, playing with the best guys around, actually being in the
:20:06. > :20:14.competition? The second-biggest earner on the European tour and you
:20:15. > :20:23.are actually walking the fairways? And one of the biggest attractions
:20:23. > :20:33.this week is Scotland's ferry on the Ryder Cup here off. -- very own
:20:33. > :20:34.
:20:34. > :20:42.Ryder Cup hero. Can gradually oceans, Paul. You have got a friend
:20:42. > :20:50.with you. -- and gradual nations. What is going through your mind
:20:50. > :20:53.going into this tournament? I am a little tired as you can imagine.
:20:53. > :21:01.But I will have a nap in the afternoon, sleep well tonight, be
:21:01. > :21:11.raring to go to more. A host of celebrities here, too many to
:21:11. > :21:18.Two of Edinburgh possmac oldest rivals are back in action. After
:21:18. > :21:24.more than a century the clocks at the railway hotels have helped
:21:24. > :21:30.insulate passengers do not miss their trains. The Caley ticket
:21:30. > :21:38.office clock back in action. Part of a multi-million-pound refit of
:21:38. > :21:45.the grand old railway hotel. started as a pageboy in 1963. In
:21:45. > :21:53.the main hall. My boss was a sergeant major. I thought I had
:21:53. > :21:58.joined the Army! In the golden age of steam at rival rail companies
:21:58. > :22:02.competed. The old Grand stations with massive hotels and in
:22:03. > :22:07.Edinburgh a became landmarks at each end Princes Street. Their
:22:07. > :22:12.iconic clocks were set by minutes fast so that passengers were less
:22:12. > :22:21.likely to miss trains. Will the original pieces were found in a
:22:21. > :22:25.dusty store room the original clock was retained. You just have to be
:22:25. > :22:32.careful you do not remove any important pieces. The after be very
:22:32. > :22:42.careful. The restored clock is still keeping time five minutes
:22:42. > :22:47.
:22:47. > :22:54.We are looking at other showers this evening but they will direly
:22:54. > :22:58.during the next couple powers. -- they will die away during the next
:22:58. > :23:02.couple of hours. Across the mainland we're looking at long
:23:02. > :23:07.clear spells developing with very little wind across the mainland. If
:23:07. > :23:16.that means we could see frost tonight in many parts with
:23:16. > :23:21.temperatures below freezing. Minus two, minus three possible. Across
:23:21. > :23:31.the Northern Isles it will stay rather breezy. Tomorrow starts do I
:23:31. > :23:35.but cold. Actress and lovely autumn morning. -- a crisper and lovely.
:23:35. > :23:45.We're looking at a lot of dry weather for the Outer Hebrides,
:23:45. > :23:46.
:23:46. > :23:50.sunshine and fewer showers. Fewer showers towards Glasgow and the
:23:50. > :23:59.south-west with temperatures generally around 12 or 13 Celsius.
:23:59. > :24:06.Plenty of sunny weather for the bottles and the Edinburgh at area.
:24:06. > :24:13.-- for the Borders and the Edinburgh A rare. The rest of the
:24:13. > :24:17.day, at the showers will start to gather force on Thursday. Winds on
:24:17. > :24:22.the light side at keeping a fresh westerly wind across northern
:24:22. > :24:29.Scotland. The outlook, the low pressure that has been responsible
:24:29. > :24:34.for those showers will move away and take them with it. On Thursday,
:24:34. > :24:44.and Rainey start, especially across the north and west, gradually
:24:44. > :24:47.
:24:47. > :24:51.The top stories: transport secretary says they are uncertain
:24:51. > :24:57.times ahead for key rail routes after the UK Government scrapped a