:00:00. > :00:15.goodbye from me. On BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where
:00:16. > :00:19.On tonight's Reporting Scotland: Calls for a summer truce from a
:00:20. > :00:22.former First Minister. Jack McConnell says this year's
:00:23. > :00:30.Commonwealth Games in Glasgow should be free from political debate about
:00:31. > :00:34.the independence referendum. This woman was killed, and her body
:00:35. > :00:36.cut up and placed in a suitcase. Now her son goes on trial for her
:00:37. > :00:39.murder. It's a beautiful country, but
:00:40. > :00:48.Scotland's government says the distribution of who owns the land is
:00:49. > :00:52.unfair. It may not be fair but is it fair that your wife is prettier than
:00:53. > :00:55.mine, that you win the lottery and I don't?
:00:56. > :00:58.Should pupils be given taxpayers money towards their savings? Find
:00:59. > :01:02.out why Glasgow City Council is giving each school child ?10.
:01:03. > :01:06.Paul Lawrie says he's swinging better than ever and tells us why he
:01:07. > :01:10.thinks he can make this year's Ryder Cup at Gleneagles.
:01:11. > :01:15.Good evening. The former First Minister, Lord McConnell, is calling
:01:16. > :01:18.for both sides in the independence referendum debate to call a "truce"
:01:19. > :01:21.during this summer's Commonwealth Games. But Alex Salmond says it's
:01:22. > :01:27."nonsensical" to suggest that politics would overshadow Glasgow
:01:28. > :01:37.2014. Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. The
:01:38. > :01:45.host for the 2014 Commonwealth Games will be Glasgow. Alex Salmond was in
:01:46. > :01:54.show anchor to celebrate when blase won the right to host the games. But
:01:55. > :01:58.the 2014 B at was launched by his predecessor as first Minister, Jack
:01:59. > :02:05.McConnell. He wants formal referendum campaigning suspended for
:02:06. > :02:08.the games. I think it would be great for Scotland if both sides of the
:02:09. > :02:14.campaign would agree there will be a truce during and in the run-up to
:02:15. > :02:18.the games. Then they can start again. As the two campaigns limber
:02:19. > :02:24.up for the last nine months before the independence vote, neither side
:02:25. > :02:30.seems keen on a truce for the games. They said they think it's hard to
:02:31. > :02:37.see that happening and that it is unrealistic to think it could.
:02:38. > :02:47.Scotland's first minister could not foresee any problems. The idea that
:02:48. > :02:51.politics could overshadow the games is nonsensical. They will be one of
:02:52. > :02:59.the greatest events Scotland has ever seen. Ladies and gentlemen, the
:03:00. > :03:06.Wimbledon champion for 2013, Andy Murray.
:03:07. > :03:13.Politicians do like to celebrate sporting achievements, so how should
:03:14. > :03:18.they play the Glasgow games at a sensitive political time? This
:03:19. > :03:24.former badminton ace thinks they do need to be careful. Both sections
:03:25. > :03:29.are going to be visible at the games but if they are too visible, it
:03:30. > :03:35.possibly detracts from the Scottish performance and the Scottish
:03:36. > :03:43.accident -- the Scottish athletes. I hope they are not too visible and it
:03:44. > :03:50.should be about the athletes. Not all of Scotland's greats will be
:03:51. > :03:53.competing. But it is Scottish politics that Jack McConnell wants
:03:54. > :03:59.to keep out of the sporting arena at the Glasgow games. Well, we can
:04:00. > :04:02.cross to Westminster now and join our political correspondent, David
:04:03. > :04:05.Porter, in the lobby of the House of Lords. A debate is taking place
:04:06. > :04:11.tonight about the Commonwealth Games? That is correct. It will get
:04:12. > :04:17.underway in the next hour or so in the House of Lords chamber. They
:04:18. > :04:22.will be discussing the plans to guarantee the success of the 2014
:04:23. > :04:26.Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. That is a fairly wide-ranging debate. It
:04:27. > :04:30.should allow peers to pick up any points they want to. There are a
:04:31. > :04:35.fair number of peers who have some sympathy with Jack McConnell and his
:04:36. > :04:39.call for the politicians to butt out for that fortnight in July and
:04:40. > :04:42.August when the games take days to allow the athletes to take centre
:04:43. > :04:47.stage. Some think that although that may be a good idea, it is rather
:04:48. > :04:51.naive idea and that politicians will not be able to resist the
:04:52. > :04:57.temptation. Other peers and MPs I have spoken to actually doubt
:04:58. > :05:01.whether the public will have a -- an appetite for politics was the games
:05:02. > :05:07.are going on. They point out what happened during London 2012, when
:05:08. > :05:13.politicians tried to get involved -- try to get involved, they got the
:05:14. > :05:18.rough end of the stick. They will be mindful of that. The politicians
:05:19. > :05:23.themselves may decide it is wrong to try to compete with sport during the
:05:24. > :05:27.two weeks of the Commonwealth Games. In that case, they may find you know
:05:28. > :05:31.campaign so that when the Commonwealth Games are over, in the
:05:32. > :05:43.last six weeks before the referendum vote, that is when the big fish will
:05:44. > :05:46.take place. Thank you. And BBC Scotland has a new series of
:05:47. > :05:50.referendum debates - beginning in Greenock on the 21st of January and
:05:51. > :05:53.touring the country over the next nine months. If you'd like the
:05:54. > :05:56.chance to come along and put your questions to senior politicians,
:05:57. > :06:00.then go to our website for more details about how to take part.
:06:01. > :06:04.A witness has told a murder trial how he noticed "very white teeth" on
:06:05. > :06:07.the ground in a clearing in an Edinburgh wood. James Dunleavy, also
:06:08. > :06:09.known as Seamus, is accused of murdering his 66-year-old mother,
:06:10. > :06:12.Philomena, and dismembering her body and burying it in a suitcase on
:06:13. > :06:16.Corstorphine Hill. Catriona Renton was in court.
:06:17. > :06:23.On the 6th of June last year, a cyclist found human remains. For
:06:24. > :06:27.weeks, the victim's identity was unknown but after many police
:06:28. > :06:35.appeals, detectives established it was 60 Six Rd Philomena Donleavy
:06:36. > :06:41.from Dublin. Today, in court, her 40-year-old son went on trial. The
:06:42. > :06:49.first witness to be called was the whip -- the cyclist who found her.
:06:50. > :06:53.He described how he was cycling home and took a deep to up the hill. He
:06:54. > :06:58.said it was a fine day and he decided to have a rest in a clearing
:06:59. > :07:01.he had spotted. He said almost instantly the first thing he noticed
:07:02. > :07:07.were very white teeth. He realised what he was looking at were a skull
:07:08. > :07:12.and teeth and he said there were markings on the ground that look
:07:13. > :07:16.like they have main -- they had been made by a shovel. He took a photo
:07:17. > :07:21.and later went to the police. He said, I could not remember what I
:07:22. > :07:27.said exactly to them but it was something like, I think I have found
:07:28. > :07:31.the body. The court was shown a photograph of what confronted him
:07:32. > :07:39.with a warning that some might find it disturbing. The accused denies
:07:40. > :07:45.murdering and dismembering his mother. He also denies telling
:07:46. > :07:49.others that his mother was ill and had gone home to Ireland when it is
:07:50. > :07:58.instead claimed that he put her remains in a suitcase and took them
:07:59. > :08:05.to the hill, where he buried them. Still to come on the programme: Why
:08:06. > :08:09.local campaigners are fighting hard to save this piece of printing
:08:10. > :08:12.history. And Paul Lawrie on trying to get
:08:13. > :08:17.over the nightmare of last season and get into the Ryder Cup team. And
:08:18. > :08:32.can you put a price on this level of the site -- meant excitement?
:08:33. > :08:42.MSPs will have failed Scotland if they fail to reduce the dominance of
:08:43. > :08:50.traditional sporting estates. That is the message from some.
:08:51. > :08:55.Research suggests just 432 people own half the Private held land in
:08:56. > :09:02.Scotland. That is largely down to big estates created for shooting and
:09:03. > :09:05.fishing. A league table of big landowners includes the government,
:09:06. > :09:09.the National trust for Scotland and even the RSPB. But traditional
:09:10. > :09:18.estates still hold five of the top ten places, with the Dukes estate
:09:19. > :09:23.leading the pack. The government wants to see change. We believe
:09:24. > :09:27.there should be a fairer distribution of land. The
:09:28. > :09:36.communities should have access to land in order to achieve what they
:09:37. > :09:41.want to. And if in decades to come we still have a pattern of land
:09:42. > :09:45.ownership in rural Scotland where our landscape is dominated by
:09:46. > :09:52.sporting estates, will that be a failure of government? If we do not
:09:53. > :10:00.see a fairer distribution of land, we will have failed. But is this an
:10:01. > :10:07.issue the government should act on? One man who owns a very large estate
:10:08. > :10:11.inks not. It may not be fair but is it fair that your wife is prettier
:10:12. > :10:20.than mine? That you win the lottery and I do not? It is a concern
:10:21. > :10:30.stirred up, as far as I can see, by those with access to these things
:10:31. > :10:38.but those who live in these areas it does not seem to bother them. The
:10:39. > :10:43.government are looking into this. The gentleman looking into it has
:10:44. > :10:54.said that he does not want to get rid of all big estates, but he wants
:10:55. > :10:57.to look at it properly. And you can see more on that story in BBC
:10:58. > :10:59.Scotland Investigates: The Men Who Own Scotland, tonight at 10.35pm on
:11:00. > :11:03.BBC One Scotland. A Super Puma that crashed into the
:11:04. > :11:06.North Sea killing 16 men was declared fit for service the day
:11:07. > :11:09.before the tragedy. A fatal accident inquiry in Aberdeen also heard that
:11:10. > :11:12.the aircraft operator's head of engineering wasn't aware that a
:11:13. > :11:15.fault had been found with the helicopter in the days before the
:11:16. > :11:24.crash. Steven Duff's been listening to today's evidence. Jackie, this
:11:25. > :11:28.has been at times a very technical fatal accident enquiry. Today, we
:11:29. > :11:34.heard from James Gilmour who was the director of engineering at Bond
:11:35. > :11:40.offshore helicopters in 2009. He was shown a photograph of the crashed,
:11:41. > :11:46.seen here in flight in 2005, and he showed -- he confirmed that a
:11:47. > :11:50.licensed engineer had certified the helicopter fit for service the day
:11:51. > :11:53.before the crash. The same engineering team also lifted the
:11:54. > :11:58.need for additional inspections on the aircraft which had been imposed
:11:59. > :12:03.on previous days because a metal particle had been found in its
:12:04. > :12:07.gearbox. That is important because later the air accident investigators
:12:08. > :12:12.pinpointed the presence of metal particles as being fundamental to
:12:13. > :12:17.the cause of the crash. Asked if he knew about the particle or the extra
:12:18. > :12:22.inspections, he said that he did not. Asked if he should have done he
:12:23. > :12:27.said he would did not get involved in day-to-day hanger work. The
:12:28. > :12:34.enquiry is still being attended by many of the relatives of the 16 men
:12:35. > :12:37.who died and will continue tomorrow. The European Commission is looking
:12:38. > :12:40.into claims that Celtic Football club broke EU rules in land deals
:12:41. > :12:42.involving Glasgow City Council. Officials in Brussels say they've
:12:43. > :12:45.asked for information from the authorities here, after receiving
:12:46. > :12:48.several complaints from members of the public. Glasgow City Council
:12:49. > :12:50.confirmed one of the complaints focussed on land deals around Celtic
:12:51. > :12:54.Park. The St Mirren player Paul McGowan
:12:55. > :12:57.has been sentenced to 130 hours of unpaid work and a one-year
:12:58. > :13:01.supervision order for attacking two police officers. The midfielder
:13:02. > :13:04.admitted kicking one constable and repeatedly kicking another in
:13:05. > :13:08.Airdrie and at Coatbridge Police Station last August. A sheriff told
:13:09. > :13:11.McGowan, who has a previous conviction for police assault, that
:13:12. > :13:18.his punishment was a direct alternative to custody. Pupils in
:13:19. > :13:23.the first year of secondary school in Glasgow are to be given ?10 by
:13:24. > :13:27.the City Council, in a bid to halt the rise of high-cost payday
:13:28. > :13:31.lenders. It's become the first local authority in the country to run a
:13:32. > :13:34.voluntary scheme, giving youngsters the chance to open a credit union
:13:35. > :13:38.account and learn to save responsibly. Suzanne Allan reports.
:13:39. > :13:47.Are you going to think about joining? Today, pupils were amongst
:13:48. > :13:52.the first to try the scheme. The council will give any first-year
:13:53. > :13:56.pupil at a Glasgow secondary ?10 to put into a credit union account. We
:13:57. > :14:00.are making sure that our young people have the opportunity to do
:14:01. > :14:04.join the local credit union. They will learn how to manage their own
:14:05. > :14:10.finances and hopefully save money. We are providing ?10 for each
:14:11. > :14:18.account holder to start a savings fan. Pupils cannot touch the money
:14:19. > :14:21.for at least a year. I think it is great having credit unions at
:14:22. > :14:28.school. It is teaching young people how to save money. Is that something
:14:29. > :14:33.you already need lessons on? I think I probably need some lessons. I
:14:34. > :14:42.think it is great because if you want to know what you'd needed for
:14:43. > :14:46.in the future. With the recent recession, the numbers of people
:14:47. > :14:54.taking out payday loans is soaring. 100,000 people in Glasgow last year.
:14:55. > :15:00.Do credit unions see people coming to them who have had had experiences
:15:01. > :15:04.with payday lenders? Yes, they have got into bother. It has cost them an
:15:05. > :15:11.awful lot of money. And possibly through speaking to family, friends,
:15:12. > :15:17.relatives, they understand that by saving, they can then borrow at a
:15:18. > :15:22.very low interest rate. This scheme is voluntary and already a thousand
:15:23. > :15:27.of the 4000 pupils in Glasgow have signed up in advance. Be investing
:15:28. > :15:35.in one year 's time to see if those accounts are zero or ?20. -- it will
:15:36. > :15:38.be interesting. Other stories from across Scotland
:15:39. > :15:41.this Wednesday. Police in the Highlands are
:15:42. > :15:45.appealing for witnesses to an accident when a man was apparently
:15:46. > :15:52.killed by his own vehicle. It happened between Maryburgh and Tor
:15:53. > :15:56.north of Inverness. To the driver, a 44-year-old man was
:15:57. > :16:01.run over by his own vehicle at the head had stopped his vehicle in this
:16:02. > :16:04.lay-by. -- after he had. The accident happened when the road
:16:05. > :16:07.would have been busy with commuter traffic heading home.
:16:08. > :16:11.A woman who died in a three vehicle crash on the A75 Dumfries by pass
:16:12. > :16:13.yesterday has been named as 50-year-old Lynne Trainor who lived
:16:14. > :16:17.nearby. Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses.
:16:18. > :16:20.Administrators for the Orkney-based jewellery company Ortak say that
:16:21. > :16:27.they've been unable to find a buyer for the whole business, leaving
:16:28. > :16:29.dozens of jobs in doubt. The company, which operated 15 stores
:16:30. > :16:34.across the UK, went into administration in March last year.
:16:35. > :16:38.Dumfries and Galloway Council wants to tap into a ?30 million government
:16:39. > :16:44.fund to open up to four new railway stations in Thornhill, Eastriggs,
:16:45. > :16:49.Dunraggit and Beattock. The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh
:16:50. > :16:52.celebrates its centenary today. Originally called the Kings Cinema,
:16:53. > :17:00.it's had to reinvent itself to survive the threat from home-based
:17:01. > :17:03.entertainment. I think there is still a real appetite for seeing
:17:04. > :17:08.films in a cinema, a collective experience. It is unique. Archivists
:17:09. > :17:11.at the Black Watch museum in Perth have begun studying documents left
:17:12. > :17:14.by an officer who fought during the First World War.
:17:15. > :17:16.Lieutenant Colonel John Stewart left instructions the letters and other
:17:17. > :17:21.papers were to remain sealed until 2014. It's one of the biggest
:17:22. > :17:26.collection of papers left by an individual from the war.
:17:27. > :17:39.And there are more stories from your area and regularly updated news on
:17:40. > :17:42.BBC Scotland's website. Let's now get the sport news from
:17:43. > :17:52.David. Yes, good evening. Paul Lawrie says
:17:53. > :17:55.his game is in better shape now than it was in the run-up to the last
:17:56. > :17:58.Ryder Cup. The 44-year-old Aberdonian admits he endured a
:17:59. > :18:02.nightmare last season but that a hard winter of practice has him in
:18:03. > :18:05.good shape for the start of his bid to make the European team for
:18:06. > :18:29.Gleneagles this autumn. Phil Goodlad reports.
:18:30. > :18:32.Now, a look at what else is happening across Scottish sport.
:18:33. > :18:42.Test test test. The remaining three spots in the 12
:18:43. > :18:49.player team, they will be picked by the captain. Last year, I would have
:18:50. > :18:54.had no chance but I think I have got myself sorted out. I did a little
:18:55. > :19:01.work with my swing coach and we have got things sorted out. It is
:19:02. > :19:05.probably better than it was in 2012. There is a lot of confidence coming
:19:06. > :19:12.back. Peter Lawrie will be in the Middle East next week, where his
:19:13. > :19:20.quest to qualify for the Ryder Cup in Gleneagles begins.
:19:21. > :19:32.Supporters of second division club Albion Rovers are in a great mood
:19:33. > :19:45.this evening. The fans here are choosing what they
:19:46. > :19:50.want to pay to watch the match. I think football is expensive. It
:19:51. > :19:55.has become a crease in the expensive and times are difficult at the
:19:56. > :19:58.moment. We are not yet out of the recession. I know there are some
:19:59. > :20:04.green shoots of recovery but we are not yet there. I do think football
:20:05. > :20:08.clubs and the game in general needs to look at the pricing models and
:20:09. > :20:17.make sure it is fit for purpose. Nobody Albion Rovers attracts two
:20:18. > :20:22.wooden 50 spectators -- normally Albion Rovers attracts 250
:20:23. > :20:29.spectators. They do need a bit more support. People make jokes about it.
:20:30. > :20:40.I think people should get behind the team. They would rather go on watch
:20:41. > :20:44.-- go and watch Rangers and Celtic. After their Scottish cup win over
:20:45. > :20:48.Motherwell and the cost eight constant gripe amongst fans, this is
:20:49. > :20:59.at least an example of a football club trying to do something for the
:21:00. > :21:02.long-suffering fans. And now I look at what else is happening in the
:21:03. > :21:05.world of sport. Andy Murray's been seeded fourth for
:21:06. > :21:10.the Australian Open. The draw's made on Friday. The tournament starts on
:21:11. > :21:12.Monday. Murray's picked up the runners up award in the competition
:21:13. > :21:15.three times. Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes has
:21:16. > :21:18.been talking about reports suggesting he wants to sign David
:21:19. > :21:21.Goodwillie. The Blackburn striker's loan deal at Dundee United is due to
:21:22. > :21:32.end this month. Inverness have extended the contracts of two
:21:33. > :21:38.players. High Speed two agents every day and we are looking for players.
:21:39. > :21:41.-- I speak to agents. Midfielder Danny Williams has signed up till
:21:42. > :21:44.summer 2016 and so has tough tackling left back Carl Tremarco.
:21:45. > :21:49.Hibernian's Kevin Thomson has been told he can leave the club. The
:21:50. > :21:51.former Scotland midfielder's contract runs till the end of the
:21:52. > :21:54.season. Scott Brash has kept his place at
:21:55. > :21:58.top of show-jumping's world rankings. The 28-year-old from
:21:59. > :22:03.Peebles is also the sport's overall 2013 Global Champions Tour winner.
:22:04. > :22:17.And there are more sports stories, plus all the latest news, 24 hours a
:22:18. > :22:27.day on BBC Sport Scotland's website. Some transfer news, Dundee United
:22:28. > :22:34.have signed a former Falkirk striker on loan from Brentford.
:22:35. > :22:38.Historians and local campaigners are working on plans to save one of the
:22:39. > :22:42.last remaining working print shops in Scotland. They building housing
:22:43. > :22:48.the machinery is hidden in a side street in Blairgowrie. It's a time
:22:49. > :22:51.capsule housing the old fashioned printing presses with their letters
:22:52. > :22:54.and fonts. But the premises are in danger of collapse, as Elizabeth
:22:55. > :22:56.Quigley's been finding out. Putting words together, piece by
:22:57. > :23:02.piece. It is painstaking and time-consuming. This the listed
:23:03. > :23:06.print shop has been here in Blairgowrie since the end of the
:23:07. > :23:14.19th century, complete with all the original cases and fittings. The
:23:15. > :23:18.technology might have changed but the language we use today is
:23:19. > :23:25.littered with phrases from the world of printing. They had the upper case
:23:26. > :23:30.and lower case, which had the upper and lower case letters in. And the
:23:31. > :23:34.individual letters in those cases were known as sorts, we you had a
:23:35. > :23:43.box of sorts. If you ran out of letters, sorts, you were out of
:23:44. > :23:47.sorts. The bed of the press was where you put the newspaper to bed.
:23:48. > :23:53.It looked like a big double bed. All these other terms became gradually
:23:54. > :23:58.absorbed into everyday language. This is a real time capsule. It is a
:23:59. > :24:04.method of printing that is all but forgotten, consigned to the history
:24:05. > :24:08.books but it could get a new lease of life. There are ambitious plans
:24:09. > :24:16.for the disused local school. What you have seen today is some unique
:24:17. > :24:23.machinery, going back 150 years. It is still working. The primary school
:24:24. > :24:27.project will represent an opportunity for us to take these
:24:28. > :24:32.machines, put them into a new purpose-built museum and let all the
:24:33. > :24:38.generations of today see what the generations did in the past. This
:24:39. > :24:46.way of printing might be long gone, but perhaps the machinery will find
:24:47. > :24:57.a new way to live on. Time now for the weather forecast.
:24:58. > :25:07.This is the map from seven o'clock. Some showers across the north and
:25:08. > :25:14.north-west. Maybe a spell of snow across the a 468. Further north,
:25:15. > :25:23.largely dry and Chile. Temperatures in towns and cities in low single
:25:24. > :25:27.digits. Some frost in rural parts. Tomorrow, it is a day much like
:25:28. > :25:34.today, fairly settled. Bright spells and a couple of isolated showers.
:25:35. > :25:37.The showers will be isolated, across the West and nothing too heavy. By
:25:38. > :25:47.mid-afternoon, a touch cooler than today. Seven Celsius at times. Some
:25:48. > :25:52.blue skies. Come further north, the showers will be a bit more frequent
:25:53. > :25:57.and that breeze coming in from the West or the north-west. Then the
:25:58. > :26:00.rest of the afternoon into the evening and overnight, still some
:26:01. > :26:08.showers to content with added will be called -- it will be colder.
:26:09. > :26:12.This front will bring in some rain and much cooler air as well. On
:26:13. > :26:17.Friday, it starts dry and bright in the East but turning wet by late
:26:18. > :26:24.afternoon. It should improve by dusk.
:26:25. > :26:27.And that cold air right overhead as we head to win to Saturday. It is
:26:28. > :26:31.the tail end of the very cold conditions they have had in the
:26:32. > :26:40.United States. But thankfully, not that cold. Just about average for
:26:41. > :26:44.us. It will be fairly cloudy this evening. The chance of seeing the
:26:45. > :26:53.aurora borealis, but maybe tomorrow is the best night to see that. That
:26:54. > :26:57.is the focus for now. There were angry scenes at the Royal
:26:58. > :27:02.Courts of Justice after a jury found that Mark Duggan was lawfully killed
:27:03. > :27:06.when he was shot in a police marksman.
:27:07. > :27:11.Lord McConnell is calling for both sides in the independence referendum
:27:12. > :27:15.debate to call a truce during the Common of games. Alex Salmond says
:27:16. > :27:21.it is nonsensical to suggest politics would overshadow the games.
:27:22. > :27:24.Air force personnel have spent the day removing ammunition and a brief
:27:25. > :27:30.run a beach in Norfolk where a US military helicopter crashed last
:27:31. > :27:32.night. The aircraft was taking part in a low-flying exercise.
:27:33. > :27:39.And that's Reporting Scotland. I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm.
:27:40. > :27:42.Until then, from everyone on the team here in Glasgow and around the
:27:43. > :27:45.country, have a good evening.