:00:09. > :00:14.Tonight, on Reporting Scotland. A 12-year-old girl dies at a school
:00:15. > :00:26.in Edinburgh after an internal wall collapses on top of her. Somebody
:00:27. > :00:29.has been killed or hurt. A lot of first years are in tears.
:00:30. > :00:31.An investigation is launched and the school is closed for the rest of the
:00:32. > :00:34.week. Also on the programme.
:00:35. > :00:37.A group of doctors accuses the whisky industry of delaying life
:00:38. > :00:39.saving legislation by continuing its legal action against minimum
:00:40. > :00:43.pricing. Choosing your own care. People can
:00:44. > :00:49.now decide what kind of service they want and who delivers it.
:00:50. > :00:50.And how draining a Victorian swimming baths in Glasgow created an
:00:51. > :01:10.unlikely music venue. Good evening.
:01:11. > :01:14.Keane Wallis-Bennett went to school as usual this morning. Within an
:01:15. > :01:17.hour ,she was dead. The 12-year-old was killed after a wall within the
:01:18. > :01:21.PE block at Liberton High School collapsed. The accident comes just
:01:22. > :01:25.weeks after Edinburgh City Council was fined for an incident at the
:01:26. > :01:28.same school when a girl was injured after she fell down a lift shaft.
:01:29. > :01:30.We'll be asking whether this raises wider concerns about school
:01:31. > :01:39.buildings, but Catriona Renton reports on the events of the day.
:01:40. > :02:00.It was the worst news. Parents rushed to Liberton High School. They
:02:01. > :02:12.had been sent a text. 12-year-old Keane Wallis-Bennett button first
:02:13. > :02:17.year and had been in the changing room.
:02:18. > :02:24.Everybody was really upset. I just saw my friends crying. Just shocked.
:02:25. > :02:31.It is a sad day. A lot of people have been in tears. First years
:02:32. > :02:38.especially. There is a big wall in the changing rooms and it collapsed.
:02:39. > :02:45.In the gym hall, the ball fell onto a girl. None of the other people
:02:46. > :02:50.were injured. One pupil told us that she had already told the teacher
:02:51. > :02:57.about the wall. There was a wall that has been shaky for months. And
:02:58. > :03:04.now this has happened. The ball has just collapsed on top of her. At
:03:05. > :03:09.this time of day, just after lunch, the school would normally be very
:03:10. > :03:14.busy. Instead, senior PeopleSoft been sent home and younger ones
:03:15. > :03:28.collected by their appearance. -- senior pupils.
:03:29. > :03:32.At ten o'clock this morning, police and other emergency services were
:03:33. > :03:34.cold to a school with regard to a 12-year-old pupil who suffered
:03:35. > :03:41.injuries at that time. Unfortunately, that child was
:03:42. > :03:51.pronounced dead at the school. Enquiries will now continue. Our
:03:52. > :03:54.thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends of people at this
:03:55. > :03:58.tragic time. This is obviously a very distressing time for all the
:03:59. > :04:05.pupils and staff, and the community of Liberton High School.
:04:06. > :04:13.Tonight, Flowers for a lovely friend who went to school this morning but
:04:14. > :04:19.never came home. Our reporter Morag Kinniburgh has
:04:20. > :04:24.been at the school most of the day. An investigation is underway?
:04:25. > :04:30.Yes, investigators have been here for most of the day. Their job is to
:04:31. > :04:36.work out what happened, what caused that ball to collapse and who, if
:04:37. > :04:44.anyone, is to blame. Social media has seen many messages of
:04:45. > :04:47.condolence. Tributes have been laid here during the course of the
:04:48. > :04:54.afternoon. This school is grieving the loss of another pupil. A
:04:55. > :05:00.13-year-old died whilst playing football for Tynecastle. Some of the
:05:01. > :05:04.parents and pupils we have spoken to are extremely worried about the
:05:05. > :05:09.structure of this building, especially because there had been
:05:10. > :05:16.problems here before. In December 2011, a girl was injured when she
:05:17. > :05:20.fell down a lift shaft. Investigators have to decide whether
:05:21. > :05:26.this school is safe to be open after the Easter holidays.
:05:27. > :05:29.Our education correspondent Jamie McIvor is with us. Jamie, does this
:05:30. > :05:33.tragedy raise any wider concerns about the state of school buildings?
:05:34. > :05:36.This report was discussed by councillors in December and the
:05:37. > :05:44.recommended significant investment in Liberton. A separate report last
:05:45. > :05:51.year proposed prioritised work on the building's fabric. But there is
:05:52. > :05:57.nothing to suggest that anything at the school was considered dangerous.
:05:58. > :06:02.The school was classed as being in a satisfactory condition. Across
:06:03. > :06:06.Scotland, government figures suggest that school buildings are generally
:06:07. > :06:14.in a better condition than they were a few years ago.
:06:15. > :06:17.Now tonight's other news. The whisky industry has defended its
:06:18. > :06:20.continuing court battle against minimum unit pricing of alcohol. It
:06:21. > :06:23.follows a call from some senior doctors and health charities
:06:24. > :06:25.accusing the oranisation of delaying life-saving legislation. The Scotch
:06:26. > :06:28.Whisky Association says it's pursuing the case as a matter of
:06:29. > :06:33.principle. Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell.
:06:34. > :06:37.Setting a minimum price for every unit of alcohol sold is intended to
:06:38. > :06:45.reduce consumption by raising the cost of the strongest, cheapest
:06:46. > :06:51.brands. This would cost ?7 50. At the moment, it is ?3 99. There would
:06:52. > :06:57.be a big change in the price of this product. This man is one of 22
:06:58. > :07:01.doctors, academics and health campaigners who have signed an open
:07:02. > :07:04.letter to the Scotch Whisky Association urging them to stop
:07:05. > :07:08.delaying what they see as life-saving legislation by fighting
:07:09. > :07:15.minimum pricing in the courts. Had the minimum price been introduced by
:07:16. > :07:24.year ago, campaigners say it would have resulted in...
:07:25. > :07:28.We believe that a minimum unit price would do a lot of good in Scotland.
:07:29. > :07:36.The Scotch Whisky Association should be part of that, they should be part
:07:37. > :07:41.of an industry that wants to do business but not harm consumers. But
:07:42. > :07:46.the Scotch Whisky Association says it is important to test the law in
:07:47. > :07:50.court. For us, it is a matter of principle. We do not think the
:07:51. > :07:59.policy will work, there are better ways of tackling alcohol misuse. And
:08:00. > :08:07.we are concerned about the impact on the Scotch whisky industry.
:08:08. > :08:14.The Scotch Whisky Association lost the first part of its battle when a
:08:15. > :08:22.judge here said minimum pricing was not incompatible with the new law.
:08:23. > :08:27.No matter how the appeal goes, the wrangling is set to continue. It
:08:28. > :08:36.could be years before minimum pricing takes effect and only if the
:08:37. > :08:40.Scottish Government wins the case. The trial of a man accused of the
:08:41. > :08:44.murder of Greenock teenager Elaine Doyle has heard that her parents
:08:45. > :08:46.were spoken to by police as her body lay just yards away from the family
:08:47. > :08:50.home. Ex-policeman William Carmichael told the High Court in
:08:51. > :08:53.Edinburgh he cold at the Doyle household after a body was found in
:08:54. > :08:57.a local lane in June 1986. He suspected it was Elaine after her
:08:58. > :09:00.parents said she had not returned from a night out and described her
:09:01. > :09:03.clothing. John Docherty, 49, denies killing 16-year-old Elaine in
:09:04. > :09:07.Greenock. From today, people who need care
:09:08. > :09:10.from their local council can choose to have the cost of it paid directly
:09:11. > :09:13.into their bank account. Under the Self-Directed Support Act, they can
:09:14. > :09:16.then organise their own care, deciding what they get and who
:09:17. > :09:24.delivers it. Here's our Health Corrrespondent, Eleanor Bradford.
:09:25. > :09:29.This woman has been organising her own care for many years. Instead of
:09:30. > :09:36.the council arranging who comes in and when, it gives her the money to
:09:37. > :09:41.employ her own personal assistance. It has made a huge difference. I
:09:42. > :09:51.could make friends for lunch or dinner. It meant I could wash my
:09:52. > :09:59.here. It meant that if I chose, but if I had -- it meant that I had more
:10:00. > :10:06.choice in life. She is the boss of her carers. The most difficult
:10:07. > :10:14.aspect of that is then getting up or going to bed and you need to argue.
:10:15. > :10:17.If something is not right, you need to sort it and I am not one for
:10:18. > :10:24.leaving it to the next May. It is difficult having personal care
:10:25. > :10:31.delivered. Like many charities, the union Unison supports the idea. But
:10:32. > :10:36.there is a concern that councils are giving people less money than they
:10:37. > :10:43.need. They are being given budgets that are closer than the cost of
:10:44. > :10:50.providing care. The care that they need. Controlling her own care
:10:51. > :10:54.budget has allowed her to find people she trusts who have even
:10:55. > :11:06.joined her on foreign holidays. For most of the time it is perfect, or
:11:07. > :11:09.nearly enough perfect. After some damaging headlines in
:11:10. > :11:12.recent days, pro union campaigners have once again insisted that
:11:13. > :11:15.Scotland would not be able to share the pound if it becomes independent
:11:16. > :11:19.and say that for Scottish ministers to suggest otherwise is untrue. But
:11:20. > :11:23.the First Minister says the no campaign is in trouble and that
:11:24. > :11:27.their position on the currency union is weak. Our Westminster
:11:28. > :11:41.correspondent Tim Reid reports. Scotland's future is the subject of
:11:42. > :11:47.several April fool's hoaxers today. But the possibility of Scotland
:11:48. > :11:50.leaving the UK is no joke. Those opposed to independence and
:11:51. > :11:54.reiterated their message today at this engineering firm after
:11:55. > :11:58.appearing to suggest that people elsewhere in the UK should have
:11:59. > :12:03.their say whether UK should have the pound. The leader of the no campaign
:12:04. > :12:07.sought to clarify his position. There will not be a currency union
:12:08. > :12:18.because it is not in the interests of Scotland or the UK. When Nicola
:12:19. > :12:22.Sturgeon said yesterday about asking the people in the UK, it is a
:12:23. > :12:30.hypothetical question that does not arise. These are serious headlines.
:12:31. > :12:32.On a visit to Glasgow airport, the First Minister claimed his opponents
:12:33. > :12:39.were in trouble with their core message. We think we should share
:12:40. > :12:46.selling as part of currency union. -- sterling. We've now that are
:12:47. > :12:55.named government ministers believe that as well. They are just trying
:12:56. > :13:01.to bluff and scare the Scots. One independent expert following the
:13:02. > :13:03.campaign says he believes that those fighting against independents are
:13:04. > :13:15.playing into the hands of those who do. There are too many messages. Yes
:13:16. > :13:19.campaigners want them not to have a credible narrative or message. This
:13:20. > :13:26.is playing into the hands of the yes campaign. He believes today's April
:13:27. > :13:31.full's stories show some of the apathy and indifference the rest of
:13:32. > :13:37.the UK have towards the independence campaign.
:13:38. > :13:40.An extra ?1 billion worth of investment in building projects like
:13:41. > :13:42.schools and hospitals is to be found by extending a not-for-profit
:13:43. > :13:45.funding method. The Finance Secretary John Swinney also
:13:46. > :13:47.announced millions of pounds of extra spending for childcare, free
:13:48. > :13:50.school meals and the help-to-buy scheme. But opposition parties
:13:51. > :13:53.questioned the credibility of the plans and said they demonstrated
:13:54. > :14:11.previous promises had not been fully funded.
:14:12. > :14:14.This winter's heavy snowfalls in the hills may have brought joy for
:14:15. > :14:18.skiers, but the conditions have led to a huge increase in the risk of
:14:19. > :14:21.avalanches. Mountain safety experts say the build-up of snow has meant
:14:22. > :14:24.the number of reported avalanches has more than doubled. Though the
:14:25. > :14:25.number of accidents and casualties is down.
:14:26. > :14:28.Craig Anderson reports. It may look spectacular, but it
:14:29. > :14:41.poses a danger. There have been 345 and blanch -- avalanches this year.
:14:42. > :14:44.They can be triggered by people, but rises in rainfall and temperature
:14:45. > :14:52.can provide the trigger for the avalanche. You can see behind me and
:14:53. > :14:56.those ridges, the cornices with the wind has blown the snow across the
:14:57. > :15:01.bridge. They can be treacherous anybody underneath as they can break
:15:02. > :15:06.away. They can also catch out inexperienced mountaineers who do
:15:07. > :15:14.not realise they are not walking on solid ground.
:15:15. > :15:22.These are huge amounts of snow and the drop onto the lowest slopes. We
:15:23. > :15:25.tried to release the avalanches are not more often than not with
:15:26. > :15:35.explosives. This year, I have done more cornice control than ever.
:15:36. > :15:44.Members of Lochaber Mountain Rescue fell through the cornice file on a
:15:45. > :15:50.search and rescue attempt. It is hard work to read through that snow.
:15:51. > :16:00.It is not much fun and far more dangerous than people realise.
:16:01. > :16:05.In April, the thought may be helping to stabilise the snowpack, but there
:16:06. > :16:11.is still a serious risk these cornices collapsing. Beautiful, but
:16:12. > :16:15.potentially deadly. A look at other stories from the
:16:16. > :16:18.across the country. A 25-year-old man has been rescued
:16:19. > :16:21.from a fire at a hotel in Aberdeenshire and taken to hospital
:16:22. > :16:24.after breathing in smoke. 35 firefighters were called to the
:16:25. > :16:24.Waverley Hotel in Peterhead early this morning.
:16:25. > :16:36.The the go-ahead has been given through
:16:37. > :16:38.flood prevention scheme for Celtic. The Borders council say will mean
:16:39. > :16:42.nearly 600 properties will be taken at the National Flood risk register.
:16:43. > :16:47.Work will begin in November, and it is due to be completed by the end of
:16:48. > :16:50.2016. A man has been jailed for two years and five months for a bomb
:16:51. > :16:53.threat to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
:16:54. > :16:56.A dying patient and eight others who were critically ill in intensive
:16:57. > :16:58.care had to be evacuated from the hospital following Gareth Benbow's
:16:59. > :17:01.hoax call last year. A petition to rename Prestwick
:17:02. > :17:04.Airport after the poet Robert Burns is being considered by the Scottish
:17:05. > :17:06.Parliament. The petitions committee has been told re-branding the
:17:07. > :17:17.airport could help reverse its falling passenger numbers. I think
:17:18. > :17:21.Scotland has a great opportunity here to say something to the world
:17:22. > :17:27.about who we actually are, and what is important to us as a nation. And
:17:28. > :17:29.what heritage, culture and history mean to the people of Scotland.
:17:30. > :17:32.The world's second oldest Rolls-Royce has gone on display at
:17:33. > :17:36.Glasgow's Riverside Museum. The family who owned her called her "the
:17:37. > :17:40.old girl" and left her to a trust to restore, on the condition that she'd
:17:41. > :17:45.be on display in Scotland. Our arts correspondent Pauline McLean
:17:46. > :17:50.reports. This is the story of one car's
:17:51. > :17:54.journey. The world's second oldest Rolls-Royce. Six were built, and
:17:55. > :17:59.only this one survives. For most of its life, it was a family car. Adam
:18:00. > :18:06.and SBA were the last to own it. It was just part of the family, so it
:18:07. > :18:11.was their baby. This was their girl. They went to different rallies in it
:18:12. > :18:14.as well. It was lovely. When they die, the car was placed in trust on
:18:15. > :18:18.the condition that it should remain in Scotland. It has taken 15 years,
:18:19. > :18:23.and there is still work to be done, but this old girl is a survivor.
:18:24. > :18:28.People fall in love with her and do what they can to preserve her, so
:18:29. > :18:31.she's gone through the thick family who have preserved her, the Royal
:18:32. > :18:35.Scottish automobile club are now doing their bit to preserve it, and
:18:36. > :18:40.they have handed it to us to look after for the next step in her
:18:41. > :18:43.life. And while her days of rolling around the Scottish countryside may
:18:44. > :18:49.be over, she has a new lease of life, and a prime position in
:18:50. > :18:56.Glasgow's Riverside Museum. Sport now, and problems mount at
:18:57. > :18:58.Hearts. Rhona. They certainly do, Jackie. Thank you very much. Good
:18:59. > :19:01.evening. The man running Hearts admits
:19:02. > :19:04.liquidation could become a stark reality this time next week. Bryan
:19:05. > :19:07.Jackson's told BBC Scotland he's reluctantly having to consider the
:19:08. > :19:09.possibility of starting again. It all hinges on decisions beyond
:19:10. > :19:16.Hearts' control as our senior football reporter Alasdair Lamont
:19:17. > :19:22.reports. Fans have scarcely been allowed a
:19:23. > :19:26.celebrating the pleasure of winning Sunday's derby. There is an
:19:27. > :19:28.increasing threat to the club 's existence, drowning them out. The
:19:29. > :19:39.crux of the matter is, bikes, but boils down to this, Herts' Ukrainian
:19:40. > :19:46.shareholders, who won 50%, and another sponsor who own 25% and hold
:19:47. > :19:48.ownership of the stadium. Both companies have collapsed, so they
:19:49. > :19:54.need credit is to transfer the shares. If you don't have the answer
:19:55. > :19:57.you are hoping for, do you have to then go to heart and say, we're
:19:58. > :20:02.going to have to plant the worst, liquidation? Yes, I think that will
:20:03. > :20:06.be the case. There are one or two other technical options, new options
:20:07. > :20:09.we are exploring right now, but they will be difficult, could be costly,
:20:10. > :20:14.and could be time-consuming, and just may not work for us. We're
:20:15. > :20:17.looking at them, but you are mostly right. Come what may, Jackson has
:20:18. > :20:22.determined hearts will pull down their fixtures, partly to avoid
:20:23. > :20:27.harming any future request for a new company to be admitted to the
:20:28. > :20:31.league. It is a prospect he is relentless and me having to
:20:32. > :20:35.consider. If we can get the club through administration, I suppose
:20:36. > :20:38.there is no real option but to start again. There is a precedent for it.
:20:39. > :20:41.It is not good. We are doing absolutely everything we can to
:20:42. > :20:46.avoid it. Obviously, I am mulling that plan, but I am trying not to
:20:47. > :20:49.think about it too much until I know it is something we really have to
:20:50. > :20:54.think about. That unpalatable precedent was set by Rangers, who
:20:55. > :20:56.re-entered the league in the bottom level. Hearts very much want to
:20:57. > :20:59.avoid this fate. The Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths
:21:00. > :21:02.has been issued with a notice of complaint after he was filmed
:21:03. > :21:05.mocking Hearts' predicament before Sunday's Edinburgh Derby. The former
:21:06. > :21:09.Hibs player was recorded on a mobile phone singing "Hearts are going
:21:10. > :21:13.bust". An SFA hearing has been set for April 24.
:21:14. > :21:20.Now, a look ahead to some of tonight's Scottish football.
:21:21. > :21:26.They did not enjoy their last visit north, but Motherwell can move into
:21:27. > :21:30.second place if they produce a winter night at Inverness Caledonian
:21:31. > :21:33.Thistle. A top three finish in the Scottish premiership will secure
:21:34. > :21:38.their season target. Our main aim is to make sure we try to consolidate
:21:39. > :21:43.European victories at the end of the season, but I saw comment after the
:21:44. > :21:47.game on Saturday saying it is a must when game for the other team, and I
:21:48. > :21:50.think we must approach this way as well. Nothing Celtic out of the
:21:51. > :21:57.league cup was the highest point of the season, but Morton's lead place
:21:58. > :22:01.has floundered. Relegation is certain to live if they fail to beat
:22:02. > :22:05.Dumbarton. For all the ups and downs of tonight 's Scottish football
:22:06. > :22:11.action, tune into ball sports sound on radio Scotland.
:22:12. > :22:14.That is it for tonight. Jackie. It's one of Glasgow's most treasured
:22:15. > :22:17.buildings - a Victorian swimming baths in the west end of the city.
:22:18. > :22:20.People have been exercising and relaxing there since 1876, but as
:22:21. > :22:22.Peter Watt reports, they've recently replaced the water with some water
:22:23. > :22:25.music. Generations of adults and children
:22:26. > :22:30.have come to the west and bass club, some relaxing, others swimming, and
:22:31. > :22:34.a few even learning to swing on a trapeze overwater. But this week,
:22:35. > :22:38.the pool has been transformed for a very different purpose. Organisers
:22:39. > :22:44.are marking the run-up to a summer of sport and the city. Hosting the
:22:45. > :22:49.Commonwealth games, we felt we wanted to celebrate a great year.
:22:50. > :22:56.The last time we did this was another big event, in 1990, the year
:22:57. > :23:01.of culture, and we try to celebrate big-city events. Draining the pool
:23:02. > :23:07.is not as simple as it sounds, though. Clearing 345,000 Tbit meters
:23:08. > :23:08.of water takes around 12 hours, but then, you need to find a way to fill
:23:09. > :23:19.it all over again. We'd like to do a re-enactment of
:23:20. > :23:24.the 1890 variety concerts that were held here at the Western bass on a
:23:25. > :23:31.Sunday, but there was no concert hall in the West End of Glasgow.
:23:32. > :23:34.This charity concert gave the Glasgow Phoenix choir a chance to
:23:35. > :23:40.make use of the Victorian acoustics and BAE listed building. Having
:23:41. > :23:42.taken the opportunity to fill the pool with music, next week they will
:23:43. > :24:22.be filling it all over again. cloudy note, missed, low cloud,
:24:23. > :24:25.coastal fog. It spells of sunshine for the first light towards the West
:24:26. > :24:32.Highlands, and the Northern Isles not feeling too bad either.
:24:33. > :24:36.Outbreaks of showery rain started pushing to the south-west in the
:24:37. > :24:39.afternoon. A cloudy picture for the Hebrides, Dumfries Galloway, and
:24:40. > :24:42.the borders, with bits and pieces of rain pushing up from south of the
:24:43. > :24:46.border. Further north, it stays dry through the afternoon into the
:24:47. > :24:50.central lowlands. Up into the Highlands as well, almost holding
:24:51. > :24:54.onto the misty cloudy conditions. Sunshine from the West Highlands,
:24:55. > :24:58.towards the north-west as well, and the Outer Hebrides. Eyes and may be
:24:59. > :25:04.15 or 16 Celsius, quite a contrast to the east, so bad at all. So
:25:05. > :25:10.really quite good weather for the time of year there. The rain across
:25:11. > :25:13.southern part starts to move north and become more persistent, pushing
:25:14. > :25:17.through the central lowlands and extending to most places overnight.
:25:18. > :25:21.Largely liked easterly winds are bit fresher down to the south-west
:25:22. > :25:24.corner, notably breezy here. For the rest of the week, we're looking at
:25:25. > :25:29.these two weather fronts moving in tomorrow night, and again, a change
:25:30. > :25:34.in wind direction, which is good news is in Scotland. We see the mist
:25:35. > :25:38.and low cloud finally lifting. As far as the day is concerned, a
:25:39. > :25:41.fairly cloudy day, outbreaks of rain, dry and brighter towards the
:25:42. > :25:45.north-west. Some dry interludes as well. Highs of about 11 or 12
:25:46. > :25:50.Celsius, with light winds. On Friday, we start to see some hopeful
:25:51. > :25:53.weather for the West. Rain is initially confined to the east. Some
:25:54. > :25:57.sunshine, Tebbutt has finally left in the East. Thank you.
:25:58. > :26:03.Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.
:26:04. > :26:06.A 12-year-old girl has died in Edinburgh after a wall collapsed on
:26:07. > :26:11.top of Earth. Keane Wallis-Bennett was killed in the PE block at
:26:12. > :26:12.Liberton high school. That is reporting Scotland. From all of us
:26:13. > :26:40.here, good night. All across the country, millions of
:26:41. > :26:41.families