28/05/2013 Reporting Scotland

on new details emerged about the fatal shooting of this man in the

capital. Please widen the enquiry. We are making investigations across

the United Kingdom and will continue to follow those avenues. And also

the same-sex marriage bill will go in to Holyrood this month. A ban on

smoking while children are inside. And the father of Scottish crime

novels, his classics hit the boot shells again. And the new man to

lead Scottish rugby, but not for another year. A strange decision

says one former international. Police are trying to piece together

a series of events that brought a car chase and gun event in

Edinburgh. At 220 men are thought to be involved. -- up to 20 men. Our

reporter has more. This quiet street remains cordoned off. You can still

see the tent where the man died after being shot in the body several

times. That was the end of a car chase. The events that led to this

unfolded in another part of the city. Windows smashed and what

appear to be bullet holes by the door. This is where these leave the

gangland shooting began on Saturday night. Police are still trying to

trace ten men. There were 2-macro groups of vehicles chasing each

other across the city. And this man was short and left for dead on a

suburban street. The dramatic events began here in the high -- early

began here in the high -- early hours of Sunday morning. The man who

was shot was left on the street dying. Others sped away, possibly

through the tennis club and up the hill. Police were looking for any

evidence of the chase. 45 minutes evidence of the chase. 45 minutes

after that attack another man was found injured. His injuries are not

thought to be then. These officers continued to sweep Gardens and

streets looking for clues today. The man who was shot and his father were

arrested over drugs offences earlier in the month. He was a jolly boy who

was running about here and there. Nobody knew she would be involved in

these kind of activities. We now know this is a nationwide hunt for

the killer with police forces across the UK involved. There is a third

unconnected incident also being investigated in the region. The

Scottish Government is to press ahead with plans for gay marriage.

It's told MSPs the necessary legislation will be introduced at

Holyrood within the next month. But, religious

religious organisations who do not want to conduct same sex marriage

ceremonies. We're joined now by our Political Editor Brian Taylor,

Brian. The Cabinet Secretary announced he was going ahead with

the Bill and said it would happen sooner rather than later. He said

electoral calculations never entered his mind. I am not thinking in terms

of a referendum but rather the principles of the Bill. I would hope

the timetable would be such that we could see this Bill become law

sooner rather than later. Several religious organisations still have

reservations about this law, will baby given the guarantees they want?

The Minister mentioned consultation, that drew a substantial response.

Many of religious persuasion have believe though. We have seen

opposition to those wanting the Bill to go through. Those who are in

favour of the idea of same-sex marriage say the idea of civil

partnerships should be extended to mixed sex couples. He gave a

guarantee that those churches who do not want to conduct same-sex

marriages will get that legal protection. People waited have been

waiting longer than ever in Scottish Accident and Emergency departments.

Since December one in ten people have waited four hours or more to be

seen or transferred. Our health correspondent Eleanor Bradford joins

us now. Announced more details today of a �50 million action plan to

speed up patients journeys through emergency depts. You're watching

Reporting Scotland from the BBC. We have seen higher than normal levels

of nodal virus and flu. All this means that one in ten people have

been waiting for hours or more to be treated since Christmas with

ridiculously long wait in the Lothians. These would seem out with

the control of anyone. As well as all the chaos with the weather there

have even higher levels of certain viruses and flu than we have seen in

this winter just gone. This has led to criticism of the government for

not handling rings correctly. More people have been treated in under

four hours. A number of people are being treated at 90 cent. Across

Scotland as a whole the figure is 92%. That is not a figure I would

like to see but we need to get to between 95 and 98%. That is our

objective. There was also an action plan previously announced to speed

up peoplepos-mac progress through the NHS. Engineers on the Clyde boot

the finishing touches to an aircraft carrier. And three novels credited

with starting "tartan noir" are republished for the first time in

two decades In sport a former Scotland rugby international says

it's a strange decision to appoint a new National coach who won't take

charge for another year. He says there would be an outcry in other

sports. And Scots athletes have travelled far and wide to qualify

for Glasgow 2014. So far 25 have gone the distance in their bid to

represent team Scotland. A man accused of murdering South Uist

teenager Liam Aitchison on Stornoway has told a court he didn't kill him.

22-year-old Stefan Millar is giving evidence in his own defence in the

trial at the high court in Glasgow. Catriona Renton reports. They

stabbed and beaten body was found here at this derelict house near

Stornoway. The man had moved to Lewis shortly before he died. He

became acquaintances with the accused. The court were called about

the evening of November 22. The drinking

drinking at the house of the co- accused, they had been fooling

around. The court has previously heard that we had been accused of

stealing a bottle of aftershave. Mr Miller tried to say that we knew he

had stolen it. The QC asked if he had punched Liam and he said he had

not. Miller said the three had what together until Liam left them on

this road to go to the house of a friend. His cell-mate alleges that

he admitted to the killing. Miller denied that. He said he had never

been to the house where we was found. Both accused deny modelling

Liam by stabbing him, hitting him with a bottle and stamping on his

head. The case continues. One of the men accused of murdering three

members of a Helensburgh family, also slashed a man's face more than

eight times, a court has heard. Richard McKinney said Robert

Jennings attacked him as he returned home from work at Rhu marina in

January 2010. Mr Mckinney also told the court that he had complained to

his boss at work about his colleague Scott Snowden, the other man accused

of killing the Sharkey family in a house fire in July 2011. Robert

Jennings and Scott Snowden deny murder as well as other charges

against them including the assault on Mr McKinney. Should smoking be

banned in vehicles when children are inside? One MSP is launching a bid

to make it illegal and he's supported by a number of health

organisations. But a smokers' campaign group says the move is

unnecessary and an intrusion into people's lives. Andrew Anderson

reports. This has been a common sight on our streets with smokers

having to leave pubs and restaurants to light up. Cigarettes now have two

be covered in shops selling them. Now there is a call to ban smoking

in cars were a child is present. This is about protecting young longs

in an enclosed space where there is smoking present. What do smokers

think of that? If they are going to ban it, how can they? If there are

other people in the car it should be banned. It is up to the pagans.EB

games here is fine just now but what we will see is if we put it in the

car and someone lights up. argument is that being in a car

where someone is smoking is like being in industrial smog. It can

cause damage in the short term with glue ear and emergency admissions.

Also in the long-term with things like emphysema and run titres. The

world health organisation with tell us that anything above 10,000 with

the cause for concern. A ban on smoking in private vehicles would

represent a major intrusion into people's private lives. The proposal

to make smoking illegal in vehicles that carry children will go out to

public consultation. The Government is putting out an awareness campaign

and will study its success before deciding on further measures.

Emergency services are searching an area of Scapa Flow in Orkney the two

divers who have gone missing. A lifeboat and helicopter at the

scene. The divers have been diving on the wreck of a German battleship

that is lying in 36 metres of water. The soft drink manufacturer Barr's

is reporting an increase in sales, outperforming the market. Total

revenue increased by 2.4%, compared with one year ago. Company says it

compares favourably with the overall drinks market, which was flat. The

Competition Commission is due to report on a planned merger between

Britvic and AG Barr. Engineers on the Clyde are putting

physician taxes -- finishing touches to an aircraft carrier. They're

planning on moving it to a barge and then move it to Rosyth where the

ahead of time, it is almost ready to go, a 750 tonne piece of a giant

steel jigsaw. This is like an airport tower, and

from here, the new aircraft carrier will be able to aim its punch, its

fighter jets and helicopters. It is on a scale, in terms of

engineering and production, that we have never seen before. It is a

challenge and feet. When you see the aircraft carrier in Rosyth, it is a

view to behold. It will provide a fantastic capability for the nation

going forward. Assembling the vessel presents a challenge. HMS Queen

Elizabeth is so vast she has been built section by section in yards

right around the UK and puts together at Rosyth dockyard in Fife.

The sheer scale of the ship is all too obvious when pieces, like this,

I moved up the River Forth for assembly. When she is ready, the

flight deck will carry four acres and will be home to as many as 40

jet planes. This part of a carrier is designed

to control the aircraft which fly from here. In an emergency, it can

be used to control the whole ship. 65,000 tonne vessel will be steered

using this little wheel. -- of the 65,000. In two weeks, this piece of

the ship will be loaded onto a barge ready for its journey around the

Let's look at other stories from across the country. A Shetland

salmon farmer has become the first person in the UK to be convicted of

using nets which can kill seals. Graham McNally pled guilty at

Lerwick Sheriff Court to using prohibited nets to catch or kill the

animals over a five month period in 2011 while he was regional manager

at Meridian Salmon Farm. He was fined �800.

Highland Council's leader says Easyjet has given an encouraging

response to questions on the future of Inverness-Gatwick flights. A

three times a day service operated by Flybe is in doubt following the

airline's decision to sell its take-off and landing slots at

Gatwick. Easyjet, which also operates a Gatwick-Inverness

service, is set to take over the slots next March in a �20m deal.

Virgin Trains is increasing the number of seats on its trains

between Scotland and Birmingham by more than a quarter to cope with

increasing demand. An extra 3500 seats will be offered every day from

December. Argyll and Bute Council is facing

further political turmoil. A newly formed grouping of councillors,

called Argyll and Bute For Change, wants to take over from the new SNP,

Liberal Democrat and Conservative ruling administration - which only

officially took power last week. The number of basking shark

sightings off Scotland's west coast has fallen this year - possibly due

to the cold spring weather. The Marine Conservation Society says the

lower sea temperatures may have reduced the presence of plankton -

the basking shark's favourite food. And there are more stories from your

area - and all the latest news, 24 hours a day on BBC Scotland's

start of an era in Scottish crime writing called tartan noir are being

republished for the first time in 20 years. Despite the boom in even

reading, the Laidlaw trilogy is being republished in the

old-fashioned form. You think of Glasgow, that each of

its four Corners is kind of a housing scheme. There is pollack and

Castlemilk. William McEldowney observed a city on a cusp of change.

Glasgow folk have to be nice people, otherwise they would have burned the

place to be nice people, otherwise they would have burned the placed

the ground. Like to write about a certain character. Once I knew it

was in Glasgow, I wanted a way to go around Glasgow and go to the bad

places as well as the good. No mean city, no ordinary city, Glasgow is a

character in the Laidlaw trilogy, because William McIlvanney never set

out to write a detective novel. More recent crime writers like

Christopher Brockmeier say that he was an inspiration.

It is partly encouraging because you see someone from your own part of

the world and uses your language, but it is also intimidating when he

is so good. These crime novels were out of print, ironically it is an

Edinburgh publisher that is revising them. Laidlaw, when it was first

published, change the face of Scottish writing and crime writing.

The appetite has never been bigger the Scottish crime fiction. There

has never been a better time for Laidlaw to be got up the fact back

on the market. There is talk of television and film and William

McAvennie has not visited -- ruled out revisiting the genre. Would not

advertise it as people die of old age for me to fulfil some of my

ambitions, but a prequel is possible. Will there be another

There is a bit of mystery now surrounding the new Scotland rugby

coach. There has been head scratching going

on. Thank you, Jackie. One former Scottish international says it is a

strange decision that Scottish Rugby union has made a announcing a head

coach that won't take charge for 12 months. Vern Cotter is currently in

charge of Clermon. He will be until next time next year.

You could call it forward planning, but the fact that he won't take over

the reins at Scotland for another year, is that good for the game and

the team? One man who wore the shirt 23 times and is now a coach believes

a similar decision in other sports would be frowned upon. If this

happened in football, people would be up in arms. It is good to have

him, that's not to buy him out of his contract seems strange. Two

years before the World Cup, we got a chance of producing something, but

Tony give him a year. It seems very difficult. This is Vern Cotter, a

51-year-old New Zealand man who led Clermon to the final of the Heineken

Cup. The present team don't see anything. I think we are in a good

place. We had a relatively successful Six Nations and there's

much to do on the tour. The management staff are great at the

moment. He will have input over the next year and I'm sure we will see

the way he wants us to play. From what I have heard, he has taken a

lot of superstars and made them a strong team at Clermon. It is

positive. As Scotland prepare in Perthshire, Scott Johnson will

continue as interim head coach. There is 14 months to go until the

Commonwealth Games, but qualification times and distances

are flowing in thick and fast from Scots and's athletes. 25 have made

the standard. That is in contrast to their track and field counterparts

in England where the standards are higher. The director of coaching

thinks it is an exercise in English An eighth place for the Scot in...

Competing for his American University, James MacLachlan jumps

is weighed to the standard with Scotland's second best ever

performance. They are just too on the roll of honour so far. The 25

athletes that have made the qualifying are these people going up

the screen. Looking at the calibre of the athletes, I would have been

disappointed if they had not qualified at this stage. They glide

doing what the programme says they Qualifies for team Scotland at the

London Marathon, but many English rivals trailing in their wake are

finding their team standards impossibly high. The English

standards? They could have the standards as they like. I think it

is good PR for them. We are happy that our standards are equitable.

What we need to see is good performance. The man in charge can

relax for the moment. The prospect of Glasgow never far from his

cloud around and rain. This is the picture today. Just poking up

through the north-east, some late sunshine to part of Aberdeenshire.

It is a fairly pleasant evening, but in the south-west, quite cloudy and

damp. That rain should pull away in the next few hours and many areas

will be dry. There will be milder air pushing across the North Sea,

producing low cloud and mist and fog. Overnight lows of around five

or six Celsius. Tomorrow we have this massive front towards the

continent. Low pressure is dominating and feeding our weather

and a mystique start across eastern part of the country, at times in the

Forth Clyde Valley and Inverness. Then it is an east-west split with

the best of the weather in the West. The further east you are, there will

be some thick cloud, thick enough to produce rain. The best of the

weather would be in the West, we could be looking at 19 Celsius. It

will be cooler further east, particularly on the coast. That mist

and Mark couldn't linger. The Hebrides is doing quite well,

Shetland will improve by the end of the afternoon. The rest of the

afternoon looks better. The rain moves westwards, but fizzles out. As

we head into Thursday, we are in between the two areas of low

pressure. Thursday looks quite good. Not wall-to-wall sunshine, but

some. In the sunshine, up to 18 Celsius. The eastern side of the

country is plagued by some low cloud. By Friday, we have a weather

front coming the other way from west to east and it moves it away quite

smartly with outbreaks of rain. But The headlines: investigations are

continuing into the gangland car chase and murder in Edinburgh.

The Scottish Government says it will introduce legislation for gay

marriage within the next month. One of the suspected killers of