15/11/2012 Reporting Scotland

Tonight on Reporting Scotland... The First Minister apologises after

being accused of misleading Parliament. I apologise to the

chamber. He said he gave incorrect information about college funding.

Labour said Scotland would never be able to trust him again. The body

of a soldier from Glasgow shot dead in Afghanistan is returns to

Britain. Questions raised about a treatment plan for people that are

terminally ill. There are hypocrites in the medical

profession. And later, the fisherman trying to get local

produce To catch on with children. What did you not like? It did not

taste nice, the taste of it. It is good for our Hearts and brains.

testing taste for pupils on the Isle of Skye as we did into seafood

landed on your doorstep. Alex Salmond has denied apologised City

MSPs for getting his figures wrong on the college funding. He claimed

it had increased from last year but under pressure he was forced to

acknowledge he had used an incorrect figure and that they had

It is about them. Students. Also about the Glasgow College boss

pressed to quit after secretly recording a meeting with the

minister. But now it is about them. Were ministers misled. Some people

have said that the Budget was up from last year to this but Labour

disagrees. It was in fact wrong. It is misleading of Parliament and is

that not an offence that would cost him his job? Alex Salmond that his

minister. I think five large and 45 million is by definition an

increase in funding. -- 545 million. Outside the chamber, both dismissed

the attack. She calls for everybody's resignation except hers.

If they do not make a case in the chamber, that is an end to the

matter. A You are not going anywhere saying? The minister

insisted he was not comparing like with like. Funding was initially

set at 544.7 million. But that was set at 544.7 million. But that was

topped up to 555.7 million. This year, the planned figure was 506.9.

The final total, after top-ups... And that, said Labour means that

And that, said Labour means that funding has been cut and not

increased. Interrupting normal these days, Labour said the First

Minister was drawing a line. Well, Ding, Dong, presiding officer.

the government, they said the figures were being checked out. And

finally, Alex Salmond admitted using the wrong figure for last

year and that they had been a cut. I take responsibility for what I

have said in this chamber and I take the earliest opportunity to

correct a figure. It should have been five under and 56 million, not

545 million. And I apologised. -- 556 million. Labour said it was not

an isolated incident. After the dip Arkell in Europe, how can anybody

believe a word that he says? -- the problem in Europe. Not his happiest

hour but he said that people would understand and accept a genuine

The body of a soldier from Glasgow shot dead in Afghanistan on Sunday

has been returned back to Britain. 41-year-old salt died after a

member of the Afghanistan army opened fire. -- Captain Walter

A military plane bearing the body of the latest Scottish serviceman

to be killed serving his country. Fellow soldiers from the regiment

of Scotland carried his coffin back on to British territory. His family

attended a private service shortly afterwards. The 41-year-old was in

Helmand Province training and mentoring members of the

Afghanistan army. He was a keen footballer and he was playing in a

match like this one against local forces when he was shot at close

range by an Afghanistan soldier. A military salute for a popular

officer. Colleagues, friends and members of the public were among

the people paying their respects. Captain Walter Barrie was the 12th

British serviceman to be killed by Afghanistan soldiers this year and

the Fifth in the last month. This spot just outside Brize Norton has

become a focal point for returning servicemen and women killed in

action abroad. Many members of the regiment of Scotland have turned

out to pay their cricket to Captain Walter Barrie. -- tribute. He was

very popular and he said the second and 1st Battalion and he was killed

on duty with the 1st Battalion. We are a strong of regiment and we

have been a part of his life. Everybody that could come as paid

their respects. He was killed playing football this weekend and

out of respect, his favourite team, Rangers, will play with black

The mother of a man accused of killing his grandmother --

murdering his grandmother broke down in court and said he was

innocent. Garry Kane is charged with murdering 87-year-old Kathleen

Milward at her home in Lanarkshire Kathleen Milward, seen in the

middle came to court to give evidence. -- his mother. Garry Kane

is accused of killing -- murdering his grandmother. She had a heart

condition or her life and was infirm. But at the time of her

death, her daughter said she was feisty and 110 %. On January 3rd,

she was found dead and badly beaten on the kitchen form -- floor of her

home at Garry Kane was staying with her at the time. He had been living

with his mother but she said she put him out as he had stolen from

her. She said on the day her mother died she had contacted him and had

no concerns. She telephoned again at 7 o'clock and there was no reply.

She tried again and again and became anxious. She asked her son

to check on his grandmother. She said she knew there was something

wrong. She went to the house and the police were there. She said

that he was in shock, saying, my grandmother. She said that he had

been a heroin addict but told the court he had been getting treatment.

She said all his life, Garry Kane and her mother had been closed. The

prosecution asked if he had a prosecution asked if he had a

stronger relationship with her than Garry Kane denies murdering his

grandmother and the trial continues. You are watching Reporting Scotland

from the BBC. Coming up... How a funding project is helping

disadvantaged youngsters learn music. And in sport, Celtic's

goalscoring prodigy gets a new long-term deal. Details later and

some stark talk. What will be matched with Luxembourg do with

Billy Stark's chances of getting the job full-time? Questions are

being raised about a common treatment plan for people

terminally ill. The Liverpool Care Pathway offers specialised care and

dignity for be dying but some people think it is a stabbing death

in in appropriate circumstances. -- accelerating death. This is your

82nd birthday... Four years ago, he walks into hospital after a funny

turn. A streak was suspected and in hours he was in a hospital bed and

apparently dying. His daughter accidentally knocks the drip out of

his arm. Instead of dying as you were told you would not make big

night, you started to wake up and started asking, is that you? Where

am I? We started having fun with him because the doctors said he

would not leave until Sunday and he would be dead. That was four years

ago. I do not know what was happening. I was going back and I

put my trust in the medical profession. Where I have lost my

trust, I do not trust them now. story is one of many connected to a

care plan called Liverpool Care Pathway. This pathway or a version

is used in every health board in Scotland and was designed to give

people a dignified death, removing the obligation to give futile

treatment. In some cases, food and spirits can be withdrawn. But

somebody should only be put on the plan with the agreement of

relatives. David's family had a different experience. He watched

his mother and dad died from cancer. His mother died alone in hospital

at night but depart weight meant his father's death was more

controlled. --, but his father's death. I was there and my son was

there. My mother died alone and it was terrible and it has haunted me

ever since. The Liverpool Care Pathway seems to have helped some

and failed others. Many people say it is not the rules which fail,

Other stories from around Scotland... The manufacturers of a

helicopter which ditched in Shetland said it could be February

before the model involved comes back into service. The company told

an industry meeting that they are still carrying out tests to resolve

the problem. We need to regain confidence and in particular,

confidence of the passengers and crews in the aircraft and the way

in which we as a company tackle this problem. A �25,000 reward is

being offered to catch the people responsible for the reigning a main

East Coast line. An object had been deliberately placed on a track

north of Dundee earlier this month. The constabulary are investigating

a report that helicopters were used to kill deer on an estate. A hill

walker claimed he saw helicopters being used to drive them towards

marksmen, which is illegal. The estate said helicopters were only

used to take personnel to areas where deer were to be shot. A cycle

route for people communicating in Edinburgh is to be opened. It is

hoped the corridor from the city centre at the Edinburgh University

will help improve safety and encourage cycling. 60 photographs

of the Queen are going on display at an exhibition to celebrate the

Diamond Jubilee. The collection starts at the moment of Ascension

in 1952 and catches Her Majesty on occasions ranging from formal

gatherings and relaxed get- togethers with her family. The

exhibition is at Holyrood House. More stories from your area and all

the latest 24 hours every day The charity set up in the name of a

schoolgirl at disappeared in 1957 has launched a bid to open a great

way it is believed she was buried. Moira Anderson vanished on a trip

to have local shop in Coatbridge 55 years ago. The disappearance has

been treated as murder. Moira Anderson disappeared just weeks

before her 12th birthday. She was sent to the shops and banished. It

was February, 1957. She was last seen at this bus stop. Her family

always hoped she would return. waited each night at an evening

meal and we hope she was going to come back. We thought she might

have been deducted. It never -- abducted. We hoped she would come

back but hopes faded. A but years later, suspicion fell on a bus

driver. A convicted child molester, he was exposed as the likely killer

by his own daughter. She accused him in a book of murder and set up

a foundation in the name of Moira Anderson to help the people

I would not have imagined he was a black sheep, that his own father

had blamed him for all sorts of things, including the Moira

Anderson thing. The Moira Anderson Foundation has asked for a grave at

the cemetery in Coatbridge to be opened. Buried in this graveyard is

a man called Sinclair. He is thought to have been a friend of

Alexander. A friend once described as having done a special favour. He

was buried in 19 it 57, around the same time as Moira Anderson. --

1957. The decision will be made by the court. No date has been decided

for that hearing. It could be a matter of weeks. They may live

along the West Coast and many are born into seafaring families that

school children on Skye are being urged to eat more seafood on their

doorstep. Local groups have joined forces with a project promoting

their health and economic benefits of eating the locally sourced

products. Lucrative patches of shellfish are landed on Skye. As

always, the bulk is bound for the Continent and not for local did

tables. A few miles up the roads in Portree, a new attempt is being

made for to encourage schoolchildren have to eat more of

the country's finest exports. What was it you did not like? It was not

a nice texture in my mouth. bulldog chewing a wasp. I used to

be the same! Prawns may be in plentiful supply a but few

supermarkets sell them. To change that, local fishermen have donated

a catch to the project at Portree High School this week to help

educate young palates. If we can grow a market through encouraging

today's youth to have a taste for the product, they will carry that

through it their lives. We are generating a market, we are

generating sustainability of demand that will allow the retailer the

confidence to stop the product on the shelves. As well as getting to

grips with cooking seafood, the health benefits are being anchored.

The message getting through... learned it is high in a meagre

three and that is good for us. It is one of the very few meat that

has a meagre three. It is good for hearts and brains. It is hoped

initiatives like this will give children a true taste of the wealth

of seafood on their doorstep. Eventually, it is hoped shelling

one of these will become as easy as opening a packet of crisps. Now the

sport. Celtic's in-form young striker Tony

Watt says the last seven days have possibly been the best of his life.

After his famous goal against Barcelona, the 18-year-old has

signed a new four-year contract. His ambitions now are to help

Celtic win the League, and to keep scoring goals.

No wonder he is smiling. Just 18 years old and imposition of a

brand-new four-year contract. a dream come true. -- and in a

position. All the boys are brilliant. It is good I am in the

team. He is aim is to become a regular in the Celtic team. Two

years ago, he was learning his trade at a tree United. Did he

foresee it? Know. -- no. Some people told me that I did not

believe them. I was always hard on myself. It was from here that Tony

Watt hit the most important strike of his career, a goal against

Barcelona in the Champions League followed by a new contract. Surely

the best week of his life. Yes, possibly. I want to win as much as

I can for Celtic. I want to be here for him long time. I warned people

to remember me. -- I want people. Many more goals like this and he

will be hard to forget. One of the potential candidates to

be the next Scotland manager has had a taste of what it is like to

be in charge of the national team. Under interim manager Billy Stark,

the Scots beat Luxembourg by two goals to one. That will not have

done his prospects any harm as the Scottish FA starts working on a

shortlist of contenders for the job. The few Scotland fans holding on to

any hope of reaching Brazil, what they will take from this game with

Luxembourg will be in question. A morale boosting game will give the

Billy Stark are a chance of sticking the job. It started well.

Scotland opened the scoring. He was keen to make his mark. A chance

inside the box. He made it 2-0. After a good first half, it tailed

off. There was a second path free- kick that made it 2-1. Jordan

Rhodes was denied a hat-trick by an offside flag. What chance of Billy

Stark keeping the job on a full- time basis? I have been asked to

take the team through this game. I am delighted we had a victory. We

will see what happens. Billy Stark will be a worthy full-time boss,

says the Scotland goalscorer. Without a doubt. You have to look

at his record. He has had an under 21 record at the last two campaigns.

He is since -- he is experienced as a player and a manager. Without a

doubt, I would say. Billy Stark remains in the frame but a

Luxembourg friendly is out of the way and the FA will work up a

shortlist as the search for a full- time Scotland boss begins.

The Hearts manager John McGlynn says first team players may be sold

in the January transfer window to keep the club in business. Hearts

have been given until December 3rd to pay a tax bill of �450,00. Some

players have deferred their wages but McGlynn says that might not

enough. It may well be there are players

who will be out of contract at the end of the season who may get some

interest from others who may come forward and make bids. It may not

be because the bids are enough money for the football club to help

survive. If that was to happen, the main thing is that the club

survives. South Africa's rugby players will

provide more than just a physical challenge for Scotland to overcome

this weekend, according to new Scots captain Kelly Brown. Whilst

the home side are coming off the back of that heavy defeat to New

Zealand last Sunday, the Springboks showed their power in coming from

behind to beat Ireland in Dublin. The Strentz were there, kicking

game, their physicality. -- the strengths. They and all sides are

looking to expand their game. I am sure on Saturday we will be faced

by more than just a huge physical challenge. That is all the sport.

Learning to read music can be daunting but now it has a project

funded by to -- where Children In Need is helping youngsters take

their first steps by a using colours and symbols.

Singing, trying out instruments and creating their own tunes, these

children in Edinburgh are being introduced to music through the

figure Notes system. Instead of following what can be confusing

black notes on a white paper, they match colours and shapes on the

page to symbols on the instruments. It aims to make music accessible.

For some children, they like -- they lack confidence and they have

not found their voice yet. One of the strength of this method is it

allows them a different way in through playing an instrument so

they can get confidence with their own musical ability and following

on from that, they can join in and start to sing. They feel, I am

musical and I can do this. figure notes project is getting

nearly �5,000 from Children In Need. It will be run in two poorer areas

of Edinburgh. The hope is children from less well off that groans will

have equal access to music. well-off backgrounds. They have

musical talent and ability. It is important we can nurture that in

the children at this early age. began in Finland but has had

encouraging results in Scotland. That Children In Need money means

more youngsters will have the chance to develop their creativity

and have fun. Some of us saw sunshine today but

most saw the cloud and the rain and the fog. Tonight, not much changed.

Generally cloudy and wet. That is thanks to the with a friend in the

north-west. It will moved southwards towards Argyll. --

thanks to the weather front. It is generally dry with quite tonight.

That rain, if we look at the pressure chart, we can see the low

pressure and the rain. Particularly across western parts of the country.

As we head through the day towards the afternoon, it is an East West

split, with that West having the better conditions. It will be

rather cloudy. Some brightness here and there. Dry but cloudy for the

capital. In Glasgow, it is wet. Further east, Perthshire,

Aberdeenshire, cloudy with some rain. In the north-west Highlands

will be generally showery. As we continue through the day, the rain

will head southwards. It is a wet evening for southern Scotland. That

is thanks to the weather fronts. It will continue to head southwards

towards England. It is a cold front so colder air behind it. The good

news, Saturday and Sunday are not looking too bad. It will be dry and

bright After the Rain. But there will still be showers. On Sunday, a

window of dry and bright conditions. But then wet and windy on Monday.

On Sunday, it is not too bad. Dry and bright. Some sunshine. The

temperatures will feel colder than of late. In the north-west, wet and

The headlines: Alex Salmond has apologised to MSPs

for getting his sums wrong over college funding. He had claimed it

had increased from last year to this. But under pressure from

Labour, he was forced to acknowledge that he had used an

incorrect figure and there had actually been a cut in funding.

Three people have died in southern Israel after rockets fired from

Gaza hit their apartment block. They were the first Israeli deaths

since Hamas' military chief was killed in Gaza yesterday.

The former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis has been arrested on