:00:15. > :00:18.Pressure piles on the Catholic Church, as the fallout from
:00:18. > :00:22.allegations of child abuse at a school in the Highlands reaches
:00:23. > :00:32.Australia. We'll have reaction from Sydney, as a police investigation
:00:33. > :00:33.
:00:33. > :00:39.there gets underway. There is a widespread feeling here
:00:39. > :00:41.that the charts has failed to deal properly with the cancer of
:00:41. > :00:44.paedophile priests within its ranks here and overseas.
:00:44. > :00:47.Also ahead on the programme. A former First Minister gives his
:00:47. > :00:54.verdict on Scottish football's financial fortunes, ahead of the new
:00:54. > :01:04.season kicking off this weekend. What does the future holds for this
:01:04. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:08.place? I will be reporting live. And I am at first park where mother
:01:08. > :01:11.will begin their European adventure. Allegations of sexual and physical
:01:11. > :01:14.abuse at the Fort Augustus Abbey school in the Highlands are adding
:01:14. > :01:19.to pressure on the Catholic Church in Australia, which is at centre of
:01:19. > :01:22.a national child abuse inquiry. One of the monks who worked at the
:01:22. > :01:28.school, Father Chrystosum Alexander, was named in a BBC Scotland
:01:28. > :01:31.investigation this week, which uncovered the alleged abuse. Our
:01:31. > :01:41.reporter Mark Daly confronted Father Alexander at his home in Sydney as
:01:41. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:48.part of that investigation. Can I speak to you please? I am from
:01:48. > :01:54.the BBC. I don't care who you are, just get off my property or I'll
:01:54. > :01:56.call the police. I want to speak to you about allegations that he
:01:57. > :01:59.sexually abused a boy. The case has made headlines in
:02:00. > :02:02.Australia, where the authorities are investigating a raft of sexual abuse
:02:02. > :02:09.allegations against the Catholic Church. From Sydney, Phil Mercer
:02:09. > :02:16.reports. These are ominous times for
:02:16. > :02:21.Australia's Catholic church. It's under unprecedented pressure after
:02:21. > :02:26.allegations that routinely protected paedophile priests and Hendon police
:02:26. > :02:33.investigations and intimidated those who spoke out. They are separate
:02:33. > :02:39.enquiries into handling the abuse in Victoria and New South Wales. The
:02:39. > :02:44.church is in the sights of a new national investigation. I am
:02:44. > :02:48.recommending that a Royal commission be appointed. It is examining
:02:48. > :02:55.religious institutions and other state-run institutions. A BBC
:02:55. > :03:00.Scotland exposing of abuse by Australian priests has made
:03:00. > :03:05.headlines here, keeping further embarrassment on the church. Police
:03:05. > :03:14.are investigating claims that he retired Australian priest abused
:03:14. > :03:20.children when he worked overseas. escaped punishment after being
:03:20. > :03:23.transferred back to Australia. There has still been no public comment
:03:23. > :03:29.from Father Chrystosum Alexander at his home in Sydney since the
:03:29. > :03:36.allegations were first broadcast. New South Wales police say an
:03:36. > :03:43.investigation has begun but will not give any specific details. Legal
:03:43. > :03:47.experts say that priests accused of molesting children were spirited
:03:47. > :03:53.away from countries to escape justice should face the full might
:03:53. > :03:59.of the law. It is an ongoing scandal that goes to Rome and unless the
:03:59. > :04:02.international leaders of all religious orders involved unite in
:04:02. > :04:08.the firm action and agreed to cooperate with the police and agree
:04:08. > :04:13.they will send people back to the countries they are wanted, we will
:04:13. > :04:20.not stop this process. In response to the various official enquiries
:04:20. > :04:25.within the church, Australia's most senior Catholic cardinal says he
:04:25. > :04:29.will walk the fully with investigators. The truth should be
:04:29. > :04:35.uncovered, he says, but there's a widespread feeling here that the
:04:35. > :04:39.church has failed deal properly with the cancer of paedophile priests
:04:39. > :04:42.within its ranks here and overseas. A man and a woman have been found
:04:42. > :04:45.dead in the room of a five-star hotel in Edinburgh. Police and
:04:45. > :04:49.firefighters wearing chemical protection suits were sent to the
:04:49. > :04:53.Scotsman hotel earlier today. The sixth floor of the hotel was
:04:53. > :04:56.evacuated, but police say there's no danger to anyone in the hotel or to
:04:56. > :04:59.the public. A body has been found in the River
:04:59. > :05:03.Tay at Perth, close to where a 16-year-old boy went missing.
:05:03. > :05:07.Searches for Mateusz Wilamowski had been underway since Sunday night.
:05:07. > :05:11.The teenager was last seen trying to cross the river with friends near
:05:11. > :05:16.the city's North Muirton area. He's from Poland and has been living with
:05:16. > :05:20.relatives in Perth since May. Motorists in remote areas of
:05:20. > :05:23.Scotland could soon be paying less for their fuel. Today, a litre of
:05:23. > :05:32.unleaded costs just under �1.34 in Glasgow, in Inverness its just under
:05:32. > :05:35.�1.35. But in Ullapool it's just shy of �1.46 a litre. To try and tackle
:05:35. > :05:37.that difference, the UK government's proposing extending its scheme
:05:37. > :05:46.that's already seen prices fall on many Scottish islands. Here's
:05:46. > :05:51.Cameron Buttle. This filling station on the
:05:51. > :05:56.outskirts of Selkirk is just one of hundreds the UK government wants to
:05:56. > :06:01.consult with. They are looking to gather data from the last six
:06:01. > :06:06.months' fuel prices and places like less because we need the evidence to
:06:06. > :06:10.build a case. They want to expand the fuel rebate scheme and they want
:06:10. > :06:16.the permission of the European commission to do that. It would
:06:16. > :06:24.bring a 5p per litre cut. It already exists in places like Shetland. Even
:06:24. > :06:29.with that, a litre of diesel in shipments today is around �1 50
:06:29. > :06:35.compare to around �1 40 and the Borders. Many in Shetland say the
:06:35. > :06:40.cut has closed the gap but has not had a huge impact. High distribution
:06:40. > :06:45.costs and a lack of competition remain a problem. The islands fuel
:06:45. > :06:51.rebate scheme also covers the NL and outer Hebrides and the islands of
:06:51. > :06:56.the Clyde. The UK government wants to consult with fuel stations in
:06:56. > :07:03.Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway and the
:07:04. > :07:12.Borders. The consultation will take some time and it does not mean that
:07:12. > :07:15.any area taking part is going to be automatically eligible for a rebate.
:07:15. > :07:20.They are strict criteria and rules and even if it is eligible,
:07:20. > :07:22.expanding the scheme is still has to be sanctioned by Europe and even the
:07:22. > :07:25.UK government admits that will not be easy.
:07:25. > :07:29.You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on the
:07:29. > :07:31.programme. We take a look at the state of football finances ahead of
:07:31. > :07:35.the new season kicking off this weekend.
:07:35. > :07:38.And the race is on to save this castle on the Isle of Rum.
:07:38. > :07:43.Tonight's sport comes from Fir Park, as Motherwell enter the European
:07:43. > :07:51.football fray. We'll look ahead to their Europa League tie with Kuban
:07:51. > :07:54.Krasnodar from Russia. We will have a very special guest. I'll also have
:07:54. > :08:04.the latest from Belarus where St Johnstone are in action, and we'll
:08:04. > :08:05.
:08:05. > :08:09.see the goal from Celtic's Champions Police investigating the discovery
:08:09. > :08:14.of a baby boy's body on an Edinburgh footpath last Sunday have released
:08:14. > :08:19.details of the blanket the body was wrapped in. The Early Days blanket
:08:19. > :08:22.with a circus motif has been on sale since March. Only 70 have been sold
:08:22. > :08:32.in Primark's Edinburgh store since then and police have appealed for
:08:32. > :08:33.
:08:33. > :08:38.anyone who may have bought it as a gift to contact them.
:08:38. > :08:43.We would ask that people like they are family friends may have bought
:08:43. > :08:46.this for an expectant mother and after they have some kind of
:08:46. > :08:50.suspicion or any information at all, please get in touch with us.
:08:50. > :08:53.The current wife of a sitting MSP told a court that she has reported
:08:53. > :08:55.her husband to the police for pushing her. Bill Walker, who
:08:55. > :08:58.represents Dunfermline, is accused of assaulting three of his ex-wives
:08:58. > :09:06.and his stepdaughter between 1967 and 1995. Catriona Renton was in
:09:06. > :09:11.court. June Walker has been married to her
:09:11. > :09:17.husband for two years and has known him since the 1980s and lived with
:09:17. > :09:22.them since 1996. She was asked by his lawyer that she had ever gone to
:09:22. > :09:25.the police. She said she did once. She had found out her husband was
:09:25. > :09:30.having some sort of relationship with the woman in Germany that he
:09:31. > :09:34.had met when she was working in Scotland. The woman had fallen and
:09:34. > :09:42.there was a row. She said she kept her husband in the shins and he
:09:42. > :09:47.pushed hard. She tried to frighten her husband by telling the police.
:09:47. > :09:52.They took him to the station where he said he had been trying to stop
:09:52. > :09:56.her from punching and kicking him and she agreed with less but was
:09:56. > :10:01.very angry and they split for a time. Earlier, he completed his
:10:01. > :10:08.evidence on his own behalf. He denied he was a caveman behaving in
:10:08. > :10:18.a domineering way. The procurator fiscal said to him, your violent
:10:18. > :10:25.
:10:25. > :10:29.abuse. He says he was defending himself in any of the charges.
:10:29. > :10:32.Scottish football needs a cultural change if it wants to improve its
:10:32. > :10:36.financial fortunes. That's according to former First Minister Henry
:10:36. > :10:39.McLeish, who was tasked with finding ways to improve the game. As the new
:10:39. > :10:42.season gets under way this weekend, club finances will be under as much
:10:42. > :10:51.scrutiny as performance on the pitch. Our business and economy
:10:51. > :10:57.editor Douglas Fraser reports. Take your seats for the kick-off of
:10:58. > :11:02.a new season. Not just the anticipation of the football on the
:11:02. > :11:08.field but the dubious decisions in the finance sector as well.
:11:08. > :11:14.Rangers, hearts, Dunfermline, all had financial problems. In Scotland,
:11:14. > :11:20.it seems to be about lack of money. There's a new structure for the
:11:20. > :11:26.leagues but no sponsor. We are in dialogue and I am confident that
:11:26. > :11:31.given the high profile in the positivity around the game, I am
:11:31. > :11:37.confident we can be attractive to a number of potential sponsors.
:11:37. > :11:45.few clubs, high debts hanging heavy but experts say the worst may be in
:11:45. > :11:51.the past. If you analyse clubs in Scotland over the last few years,
:11:51. > :11:56.most relates to previous debt going back ten or 15 years where the game
:11:56. > :12:00.was overheated with television money going up and then going down.
:12:00. > :12:08.Another factor is the diverging fortunes of Scottish and English
:12:08. > :12:14.football income. South of the border, more than �1.5 billion but
:12:15. > :12:24.around 15 million in Scotland. For every �100 in Scotland, -- in
:12:25. > :12:25.
:12:25. > :12:30.England, there is only �1 in Scotland. It pays to do a lot more
:12:30. > :12:36.in the sport. Some of the smaller and medium-sized clubs could do what
:12:36. > :12:40.other people do in horse racing and look to build on revenue from these
:12:41. > :12:45.you are not performing sport. We have fantastic facilities here which
:12:46. > :12:50.are pretty to look at whether there are horses or not. Football is not
:12:50. > :12:55.like other businesses as there's rivalry on the part but they need
:12:55. > :13:03.each other to succeed and we need people in charge who realise this is
:13:03. > :13:12.not about Eagle or emotion. They are hard-nosed financial reality is
:13:12. > :13:18.otherwise some may not see next season. There has been a warning
:13:18. > :13:20.that time is running out to save Kinloch Castle on the Isle of Rum.
:13:20. > :13:30.Islanders are working with Scottish Natural Heritage to try to find new
:13:30. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:37.uses of the building. This is a small island with in big problem.
:13:37. > :13:46.Kinloch Castle. Eccentric, idiosyncratic, everything a Cassell
:13:46. > :13:55.ought to be. But it is also under threat. The magnificent Kinloch
:13:55. > :14:03.Castle. Built for one of the richest men in Edwardian Britain. The
:14:03. > :14:11.Cassell is famed for its magnificent interiors and lavish house parties.
:14:11. > :14:21.This is the great Hall. An amazing space. We have this beautiful
:14:21. > :14:23.
:14:23. > :14:29.castle. But the years have taken their toll. The challenge is to
:14:29. > :14:33.preserve the past and security financial future. We are working
:14:33. > :14:37.with a number of stakeholders and different organisations to think
:14:37. > :14:42.about what we can do with the building. It is in quite a remote
:14:42. > :14:50.place. So you have to take into account visitor accommodation,
:14:50. > :14:58.residential accommodation, a conference, events Centre.
:14:58. > :15:04.castle's eccentricities continue to draw visitors. And there is an
:15:04. > :15:12.engineering fascination with the building's rather alarming plumbing.
:15:12. > :15:19.My favourite one is the jet. I can leave that to your imagination!
:15:19. > :15:29.the people who live here, a debate about the island's economic future.
:15:29. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:39.It is the iconic image of wrong for a lot able. -- run -- Rum. There is
:15:39. > :15:42.an overwhelming feeling that we should not miss this opportunity.
:15:42. > :15:50.Attempts at regeneration have failed in the past but the need to do so
:15:50. > :15:52.grows greater but every passing year.
:15:52. > :15:55.Other stories from across Scotland now: Investigations are to be
:15:56. > :15:59.carried out at sand dunes near the former RAF base at Kinloss, which
:15:59. > :16:02.may be contaminated by radiation. Test pits will be dug, where it's
:16:02. > :16:06.believed large numbers of aircraft were buried at the end of World War
:16:06. > :16:09.Two. Four new 'super' colleges have been
:16:09. > :16:12.officially launched. They've been created from eleven existing
:16:12. > :16:16.institutions, and will cover Ayrshire, the West of Scotland, Fife
:16:16. > :16:21.and part of Glasgow. A man's been taken to hospital,
:16:21. > :16:26.after his car crashed into the side of a house in Fife. The people in
:16:26. > :16:29.the house in Lochore got out safely - the driver was taken to hospital.
:16:29. > :16:33.Police have found three brass plaques stolen from a war memorial
:16:33. > :16:38.near Kinross. The plaques had been removed from the Orwell Memorial in
:16:38. > :16:41.the village of Milnathort. Archaeologists in Orkney have found
:16:41. > :16:46.what they believe is the best example of Neolithic art to be
:16:46. > :16:55.unearthed in the last fifty years. The carved stone was found in
:16:55. > :17:00.excavations at the Ness of Brodgar in Stenness. Although we have a
:17:00. > :17:07.catalogue of over 400 pieces now this is exceptional. The quality,
:17:07. > :17:10.the clear, its inscription, it is a beautiful piece of art.
:17:10. > :17:13.The two polar bears at the Highland Wildlife Park have been taking part
:17:13. > :17:17.in their annual weigh-in. Arktos and Walker were enticed on to scales
:17:17. > :17:21.using their favourite snack, sardines. And there are more stories
:17:21. > :17:31.from your area - and all the latest news, 24 hours a day on BBC
:17:31. > :17:35.
:17:35. > :17:41.more than �4.8 million since the introduction of us lane cameras in
:17:41. > :17:45.the city last year. That is more than has been collected in Edinburgh
:17:45. > :17:51.and Aberdeen. Glasgow City Council said today that the number of
:17:51. > :17:59.motorist fined as steeply declined. But in motoring body said more must
:17:59. > :18:04.be done to highlight bus lanes. is about the detail. In a city
:18:04. > :18:09.centre all it takes is a single bus to hide the line. It is confusion
:18:09. > :18:18.that is causing people to go into these bus lanes. We must make
:18:18. > :18:25.certain that signposting is as clear as possible.
:18:25. > :18:33.Welcome, Motherwell are about to enter the European football fray. I
:18:33. > :18:39.will be speaking to the manager, Stuart McCall. First, in Belarus,
:18:39. > :18:48.we're St Johnstone are plain against Minsk, they are 1-0 ahead.
:18:48. > :18:56.Motherwell play Kuban of Russia here. Stuart, you are about to give
:18:56. > :19:04.the team top. What will you be single and boys? -- team talk. What
:19:04. > :19:10.will you be saying? To win the game, and make sure we are in it
:19:10. > :19:18.when we go to Russia in one week. You will know more about your
:19:18. > :19:23.opponents than I do? They are strong defensively. They defend compactly
:19:23. > :19:29.and break quickly on the counterattack. We will need to be
:19:29. > :19:38.patient tonight but hopefully we can break them down. A crowd of 12,000
:19:38. > :19:47.expected. Will you ask them for nations? -- to be patient.
:19:47. > :19:53.cannot do that! But hopefully we can emulate a fantastic result for St
:19:53. > :19:59.Johnstone. You have signed Stephen McManus, and guys who have been over
:19:59. > :20:02.the course in big matches. Yes, and we have players that have been
:20:02. > :20:12.involved in Europe for the last couple of seasons. So we have the
:20:12. > :20:13.
:20:13. > :20:21.experience. A prediction? Will you be brave enough? As long as they do
:20:22. > :20:27.not score I will be happy! You can listen on radio Scotland. Also,
:20:27. > :20:34.reaction to the St Johnstone game. Celtic take a narrow lead to the
:20:34. > :20:42.second leg of their champions league qualifier against Elfsborg. They
:20:42. > :20:47.were victorious 1-0 last night, Kris Commons scoring the only goal. A new
:20:48. > :20:54.team-mate is desperate to play in the return leg. I cannot wait to
:20:54. > :21:01.play. I am very fast, I can travel, I have a good shot, and I can
:21:01. > :21:10.provide crosses. Heart of Midlothian have been banned from registering
:21:10. > :21:14.new players until January 2000 14. -- 2014. The ban has been imposed as
:21:14. > :21:18.punishment for going into administration. Rangers are now
:21:18. > :21:26.wanting classification as they were famed in thousand pounds for the
:21:26. > :21:33.same offence will stop -- find. I can tell you that St Johnstone have
:21:33. > :21:38.one in Belarus. 1-0. And good news for Scottish swimming, we're the
:21:38. > :21:46.running for medals at the world Championships. Craig Mick Na Li is
:21:46. > :21:52.in the final of the 200 metres backstroke. -- McNally. Michael
:21:52. > :22:01.Jamieson also made it into the final of the 200 metres backstroke. The
:22:01. > :22:11.finals are tomorrow. I am laughing because my script it just blew away
:22:11. > :22:23.
:22:23. > :22:26.Eskdalemuir. Welcome to the Eskdalemuir Observatory. 100 years
:22:26. > :22:33.ago today somebody started working in the building behind me. Clever,
:22:33. > :22:38.quiet, good with numbers. And what he developed in this peaceful
:22:38. > :22:44.location is still being used today to forecast the weather. He has been
:22:44. > :22:54.to forecast the weather. He has been celebrated today. Lewis Fry
:22:54. > :22:54.
:22:54. > :23:01.Richardson. I head of his time. He came to Eskdalemuir in 1913 as a
:23:01. > :23:07.physicist and mathematician. -- ahead of his time. Weather
:23:07. > :23:10.forecasting was basic, to say the least, at that time. It was about
:23:10. > :23:16.knowing what the wind direction was and just assuming the rain would
:23:16. > :23:21.continue in that direction. Richardson knew a great deal more
:23:21. > :23:28.about the behaviour of the atmosphere. He realised that the
:23:28. > :23:34.best way to forecast intricacies was with mathematical formula. But the
:23:34. > :23:37.formulas were incredibly complex and time-consuming. If he had set out
:23:37. > :23:40.yesterday to predict that the appalling weather today, it would
:23:40. > :23:50.take him between three and six months to come up with the answer
:23:50. > :23:50.
:23:50. > :23:59.that commission Mark -- the answer! His theories were sound but he
:23:59. > :24:03.needed a computer to prove it. is the computer output, that is what
:24:03. > :24:13.Richardson's mathematics have given us. It fundamentally changed the way
:24:13. > :24:15.
:24:15. > :24:18.we did things. We are into proper, hard edged science. Today, a plaque
:24:19. > :24:28.was unveiled at the Observatory entrance to mark the centenary of
:24:28. > :24:38.the arrival of the man now called the father of modern forecasting. It
:24:38. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:54.away from the mainland. Overnight we will see more patchy rain throughout
:24:54. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:06.the mainland. A fairly humid night. Temperatures overnight, no more than
:25:06. > :25:13.the mid teens. Tomorrow starts of grey and murky and damp. But a
:25:13. > :25:19.southerly wind will create an east/west split. Good spells of
:25:19. > :25:29.sunshine in the east, cloudy with showers in the West. By mid
:25:29. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:38.afternoon, 4pm, holding onto the muggy air. 19, 20, 21 Celsius. Very
:25:38. > :25:48.strong wind from a southerly direction. To the east, across the
:25:48. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:55.Moray coast, temperatures around 24 Celsius. Aberdeen, her, Angus, --
:25:55. > :26:04.Perth, towards the Borders, generally bright with good spells of
:26:04. > :26:11.sunshine. Similar story towards the weekend. Take a look at the pressure
:26:11. > :26:19.chart. Low pressure of the West Coast. -- off. On Saturday, still a
:26:19. > :26:24.breeze, but fresher. A number of showers in the West with the best
:26:24. > :26:31.conditions are still in the east. Similar outlook on Sunday. East/
:26:31. > :26:41.west split the best conditions in the east and showers in the West.
:26:41. > :26:42.
:26:43. > :26:46.That is the forecast from beautiful allegations of child abuse by
:26:46. > :26:54.Aniston alien priest at a Scottish school is heaping pressure on the
:26:54. > :26:58.Catholic Church in his home country. -- and Australian priest. The UK
:26:59. > :27:05.government could begin selling its 39% stake in Lloyds banking group as
:27:05. > :27:15.early as Monday morning. It made just over �2 billion in the first
:27:15. > :27:17.
:27:17. > :27:20.half of the year. That compares with the �450 million lost last year. A
:27:20. > :27:27.scheme could be extended giving motorists in discount on fuel
:27:27. > :27:33.prices. Edward Snowden has left Moscow airport after receiving the