:00:00. > :00:09.Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: Our future in Europe. The First Minister
:00:10. > :00:11.heads to Belgium to outline why he believes an independent Scotland
:00:12. > :00:15.would be welcome in the European Union. Alex Salmond's also been
:00:16. > :00:20.criticised after expressing his admiration for aspects of Vladimir
:00:21. > :00:29.Putin's Russian presidency. Also on the programme, an emotional
:00:30. > :00:37.plea. She took the job ad twice for whatever reason. -- took the dog out
:00:38. > :00:41.twice. She never returned. A fresh appeal to help solve the killing of
:00:42. > :00:44.a Glasgow mother murdered in a local park while walking her dog.
:00:45. > :00:50.How some people with chronic pain are waiting nearly two years to see
:00:51. > :00:55.a specialist on the NHS. What does this little girl's shoot
:00:56. > :00:59.have to do with the Commonwealth Games? Join me later to find out.
:01:00. > :01:02.And Kris Commons says retiring from international football was key to
:01:03. > :01:15.winning the Player of the Year award.
:01:16. > :01:20.Good evening. The First Minister says an independent Scotland would
:01:21. > :01:23.be an enthusiastic member of the European Union, and that we have
:01:24. > :01:29.suffered by not being directly represented in Brussels. Mr Salmond
:01:30. > :01:32.was giving a speech in Belgium this lunch time. But his efforts on the
:01:33. > :01:36.international political stage have been criticised after it emerged in
:01:37. > :01:42.a magazine article that he admires the Russian President, Vladimir
:01:43. > :01:48.Putin. He expressed qualified admiration. Glenn Campbell reports
:01:49. > :01:53.from Bruges. The city of Bruges has been
:01:54. > :01:59.synonymous with a British brand of Euroscepticism ever since Margaret
:02:00. > :02:04.Thatcher came here in 1988 and spoke against ever closer union. We have
:02:05. > :02:08.not successfully roll back the frontiers of the state in Britain
:02:09. > :02:15.only to see them reimposed at the European level. Today it was a much
:02:16. > :02:26.more Euro friendly politician who arrived. Alex Salmond's objective to
:02:27. > :02:40.stake a claim in an independent Scotland's membership of the EU if
:02:41. > :02:43.there is a Yes vote in September. The Scottish Government thinks it
:02:44. > :02:49.could negotiate full membership of the EU within 18 months of a Yes
:02:50. > :02:55.vote. If for Scotland leaves the UK. But critics say there could be
:02:56. > :02:58.obstacles along the way. European countries have been very clear. If
:02:59. > :03:03.we leave the United Kingdom we also leave the European Union and that
:03:04. > :03:06.would be a real risk for Scottish jobs and businesses. The European
:03:07. > :03:11.Union is our biggest market. While Mr Salmond is here in Bruges
:03:12. > :03:13.presenting himself as a Scottish prime minister in waiting, his
:03:14. > :03:19.political opponents have questioned his capacity to handle sensitive
:03:20. > :03:23.international matters after the First Minister was quoted praising
:03:24. > :03:27.certain aspects of Russia's President, Vladimir Putin. In an
:03:28. > :03:45.interview for GQ magazine, the First Minister said...
:03:46. > :03:52.People throughout Scotland and the UK will be horrified by these
:03:53. > :03:58.comments. To pay tribute, even as Russia was an accident by force the
:03:59. > :04:04.Crimea, to pay tribute to the restoration of pride in Russia is a
:04:05. > :04:09.gross error of judgement in international relations. What I
:04:10. > :04:16.pointed out was that I disapproved of a range of Russian polity --
:04:17. > :04:21.policies including the human rights agenda. Alex Salmond will hope that
:04:22. > :04:26.his Bruges lecture is not overshadowed by the magazine
:04:27. > :04:30.interview and that those who see him speak are convinced of his case that
:04:31. > :04:36.an independent Scotland should be welcomed by the EU.
:04:37. > :04:40.The daughter of a woman murdered in a Glasgow park in December makes a
:04:41. > :04:46.heartfelt plea on tonight's Crimewatch programme. It is the
:04:47. > :04:50.first time Jean Campbell's family has spoken publicly about their
:04:51. > :04:54.loss. Police believe someone in the local community knows who murdered
:04:55. > :05:00.her. Around 10:30pm on Friday the 13th of
:05:01. > :05:05.December, Jean Campbell was seen on CCTV working her dog, Kai, to
:05:06. > :05:08.Cranhill Park. The next morning she was found dead there. In a
:05:09. > :05:12.Crimewatch appeal tonight, her daughter talks movingly about her
:05:13. > :05:20.mother. My dad always walked the dog. Later on that night, she took
:05:21. > :05:31.the dog out twice. For whatever reason. In the second time, she
:05:32. > :05:37.never made it home. Jean's what it was found by Lianne's. The next
:05:38. > :05:41.morning. He went to look for her when he came home from his night
:05:42. > :05:46.shift. The family is devastated. Tonight Crimewatch will forecast a
:05:47. > :05:49.reconstruction of Jean's last known movements and police are sure
:05:50. > :05:55.someone in the local community knows he killed her. One of the most
:05:56. > :05:59.alarming things about this case is that Mrs Campbell died so close to
:06:00. > :06:03.her own home. She came from the flats just beside the park and the
:06:04. > :06:09.next morning her body was found in the park just beyond these gates.
:06:10. > :06:16.This is the second time this murder has featured on the programme. The
:06:17. > :06:20.badly beaten body of 53 -year-old... 80 police officers have been working
:06:21. > :06:25.on this case and an appeal has been targeted through Glasgow's social
:06:26. > :06:30.media users and hundreds of DNA samples have been taken from local
:06:31. > :06:34.people. The day before she died, Jean Campbell was just another wife,
:06:35. > :06:40.mother and grandmother out doing her shopping. The next night she met a
:06:41. > :06:44.violent death. Jean's family hope that tonight's appeal will lead
:06:45. > :06:51.detectives to who murdered her, and why. Somebody does know something.
:06:52. > :06:57.Somebody knows who is responsible. Do not keep somebody else's secret.
:06:58. > :06:59.At the end of the day, you don't want somebody else's family going
:07:00. > :07:09.through this. Some people in chronic pain are
:07:10. > :07:12.waiting nearly two years to see a specialist, according to a damning
:07:13. > :07:15.report into NHS care. Around 800,000 people in Scotland suffer from
:07:16. > :07:18.chronic pain, but despite decades of official reports, the latest NHS
:07:19. > :07:30.investigation says services are still patchy and under-staffed.
:07:31. > :07:35.Eleanor Bradford reports. These are some of the children I
:07:36. > :07:41.have seen and visited. Professor Tim Eden has spent his life treating
:07:42. > :07:45.children with cancer but has always suffered with a bad back. When he
:07:46. > :07:50.went to a pain clinic in Scotland he was pleased with the results but
:07:51. > :07:55.shocked to see how few staff it had. They took me seriously, tried to
:07:56. > :08:00.find out what my problem was. However, they were very limited in
:08:01. > :08:04.terms of the number of staff, the services, the resources. They are
:08:05. > :08:08.clearly limited and you inevitably have to wait some time to get an
:08:09. > :08:13.appointment. Someone has chronic pain if their pain does not go away
:08:14. > :08:18.after 12 weeks, but a report by a health care watchdog found they face
:08:19. > :08:26.long waits. In the Borders, patients waited up to 104 weeks, two years,
:08:27. > :08:30.to see their pain psychologist. On average, people wait 26 weeks just
:08:31. > :08:34.to see a pain therapist, despite the fact this can cut the chance of
:08:35. > :08:40.long-term problems. There have been reports and recommendations on pain
:08:41. > :08:46.care stretching back 20 years. Dorothy Grace Elder tried to make a
:08:47. > :08:51.difference when she was an MSP in the early days of devolution but she
:08:52. > :08:59.told me that of interest from health boards was the problem. We have
:09:00. > :09:03.never prioritised chronic pain. We can deal with something more
:09:04. > :09:08.headline grabbing and sexy. That has been going on for years. A new
:09:09. > :09:12.specialist centre for the most severely affected pain patients is
:09:13. > :09:17.about to be set up in Scotland. The kind of service cancer doctors like
:09:18. > :09:21.Professor Eden take for granted. But much can still be done to nip
:09:22. > :09:26.problems in the bud so that fewer people need specialist help at all.
:09:27. > :09:29.You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC. Still to come on
:09:30. > :09:34.tonight's programme: Warnings that rising costs could see a return of
:09:35. > :09:37.paupers' funerals. In sport, Kris Commons says retiring
:09:38. > :09:42.from the international game has been key to his success for Celtic.
:09:43. > :09:45.And the sport where pounds mean prizes. But the younger brother in
:09:46. > :09:53.the Franchitti driving dynasty fears he's missing out.
:09:54. > :09:58.Prosecutors seized ?8 million from criminals in Scotland last year,
:09:59. > :10:01.under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The assets taken, which included houses
:10:02. > :10:11.as well as cash, are then used for community projects. Reevel Alderson
:10:12. > :10:16.reports. This man was jailed for heroin
:10:17. > :10:22.dealing and last month ordered to pay more than ?200,000 under
:10:23. > :10:26.proceeds of crime legislation. This woman was fined thousands of pounds
:10:27. > :10:33.for employing illegal immigrants. Last September she was ordered to
:10:34. > :10:37.pay more than ?700,000. Prosecutors have also seized criminals' property
:10:38. > :10:42.including this luxury house owned by a drug dealer. What a cute as say it
:10:43. > :10:51.is a valuable tool in their fight against crime. -- prosecutors say.
:10:52. > :10:56.It allows us to target criminals and tidy the revenue streams they have
:10:57. > :11:00.from their businesses. That puts them out of business and destroys
:11:01. > :11:05.their lifestyles. They have also targeted new crimes. In the first
:11:06. > :11:11.confiscation in an animal cruelty case, a person in Stirlingshire who
:11:12. > :11:20.kept dogs in squalid conditions will have to pay thousands of pounds. The
:11:21. > :11:23.powers we have allowed our investigators to compel people to
:11:24. > :11:28.interview, to produce documents, to basically explain why there can be a
:11:29. > :11:35.financial black hole in their finances. Their lifestyle is costing
:11:36. > :11:41.more than they have on paper. And where does the money go? To sports
:11:42. > :11:46.facilities to enable young people in deprived areas to make lifestyle
:11:47. > :11:49.choices beyond crime. Funeral costs in some parts of
:11:50. > :11:53.Scotland have almost quadrupled in the last five years. And it's
:11:54. > :11:56.claimed there have been significant increases in the charges imposed by
:11:57. > :12:00.local authorities for burials and cremations. The Church of Scotland
:12:01. > :12:08.is warning that the spiralling costs could lead to more paupers'
:12:09. > :12:15.funerals. Suzanne Allan reports. The passing of a loved one is a hard
:12:16. > :12:19.time in anyone's life. As well as the emotional upset, there are
:12:20. > :12:23.practical considerations, too. This minister takes at least one funeral
:12:24. > :12:32.week. He is worried about spiralling costs. The charges of Fat to high
:12:33. > :12:38.and if they go up further -- if they put the charges up far too high
:12:39. > :12:46.families will not be able to afford a funeral and the local authority
:12:47. > :12:53.will have to pay. The average cost in Scotland is now ?680. But some
:12:54. > :13:01.areas like here in South Lanarkshire have tripled. In 2009, the cost was
:13:02. > :13:08.?665. Now, in 2013 slash 14, the price is ?1800. At this funeral
:13:09. > :13:12.director's for the first time they have seen families not able to pay
:13:13. > :13:23.for funerals. Dai at the moment we find the defaulting is becoming
:13:24. > :13:28.more. As a small funeral director we are feeling the brunt of it. South
:13:29. > :13:29.Lanarkshire Council say they are investing nearly ?2 million in
:13:30. > :13:46.cemeteries over the next few years. The report on funeral costs will go
:13:47. > :13:53.before the Church of Scotland's General Assembly next month.
:13:54. > :13:58.The newly appointed head of the teachers' union the SS TA has left,
:13:59. > :14:02.just weeks after she took up the job. Sheila Mechan took up the post
:14:03. > :14:08.of general secretary earlier this month. BBC Scotland understands
:14:09. > :14:11.there have been some disagreements over the future direction of the
:14:12. > :14:17.union. The union described the decision as regrettable.
:14:18. > :14:20.A look at other stories from the across the country: Police have
:14:21. > :14:23.confirmed another two red kites have been found dead in Easter Ross,
:14:24. > :14:26.bringing the total number of raptors to have died around the Black Isle
:14:27. > :14:30.since March to 22. Tests have shown that many of the
:14:31. > :14:33.birds were poisoned. The reward for information leading to a conviction
:14:34. > :14:36.now stands at more than ?27,000. Three youths are assisting police
:14:37. > :14:39.with their enquiries after a fire at a derelict daycare centre in
:14:40. > :14:42.Aberdeen yesterday. The blaze in the Mastrick area of the city took
:14:43. > :14:45.nearly four hours to bring under control. Residents were advised to
:14:46. > :14:48.stay indoors as fire fighters tackled the outbreak.
:14:49. > :14:53.Prices of houses in Shetland have more than doubled in the past ten
:14:54. > :14:56.years. According to a Bank of Scotland report, it's topped the
:14:57. > :15:01.UK's house price rise percentages for the past decade, mainly down to
:15:02. > :15:05.employment prospects. The average house there costs just over
:15:06. > :15:08.?150,000. Work has begun to rebuild a
:15:09. > :15:13.250-year-old house which stood on the original site of the Royal
:15:14. > :15:16.Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. Botanic Cottage, which was located in Leith
:15:17. > :15:27.Walk, has been dismantled stone by stone and is now being put back
:15:28. > :15:33.together in Inverleith. It is coming to where it actually belongs. The
:15:34. > :15:38.fact it is going to be used for lecture theatres, for children to
:15:39. > :15:42.learn, for people to come and find out more about the work of the
:15:43. > :15:46.Botanic is just great. The boy band One Direction will open
:15:47. > :15:49.Radio 1's Big Weekend next month. They'll join the likes of Coldplay
:15:50. > :15:52.and Katy Perry for the music festival on Glasgow Green. It's part
:15:53. > :15:54.of the BBC's contribution to the Commonwealth Games.
:15:55. > :15:58.Scotland's only polar bears look set to be getting a mate. The Highland
:15:59. > :16:02.Wildlife Park at Kincraig say a female bear has been recommended to
:16:03. > :16:16.them to join the park's two male polar bears, Walker and Arktos.
:16:17. > :16:18.Here's Rhona now, with the sport. Good evening.
:16:19. > :16:21.Kris Commons says his decision to retire from international football
:16:22. > :16:25.was key to him winning the Player of the Year award. The Celtic forward
:16:26. > :16:29.believes that's why he's in the form of his life. He was one of the big
:16:30. > :16:31.winners as players and managers honoured their own. Our senior
:16:32. > :16:37.football reporter Alasdair Lamont reports.
:16:38. > :16:40.Kris Commons has been the number one player in Scotland this year
:16:41. > :17:04.according to his peers. And here is why. And it's Kris Commons! Despite
:17:05. > :17:07.his form, do not expect to see this site again. His absence from the
:17:08. > :17:12.international scene is why he thinks things are going so well. There is
:17:13. > :17:17.nothing better for me after playing football than spending time with my
:17:18. > :17:21.family. I think I played my best football for Celtic because of the
:17:22. > :17:26.little mini break that you get throughout the season. I think I
:17:27. > :17:30.would rather play an extra four or five years at the top level of club
:17:31. > :17:36.football than rather try to balance them both. The same cannot be said
:17:37. > :17:41.of the Young player of the year. Andrew Robinson one -- won the Young
:17:42. > :17:47.player of the year. As good as that goal might have been, this strike
:17:48. > :17:53.against Aberdeen for Celtic got plaudits.
:17:54. > :17:57.One of Scotland's leading drivers says he is being priced out of the
:17:58. > :18:00.Le Mans 24 hour challenge. Marino Franchitti recently won a major
:18:01. > :18:03.title in the US, but the younger brother of Indycar legend Dario says
:18:04. > :18:07.there's a lack of multi-million pound backers and that is stopping
:18:08. > :18:17.his chances of further success. Phil Goodlad's been to meet him.
:18:18. > :18:24.If it has an engine and can go fast, then Marino Franchitti is
:18:25. > :18:29.interested. Just like older brother Dario, it is four wheels that is his
:18:30. > :18:35.forte. He won a prestigious 12 hour race in Florida last month. To win
:18:36. > :18:40.the second most important sports car race in the world after Le Mans is a
:18:41. > :18:46.dream come true. I never thought it would be possible. It is the closes
:18:47. > :18:51.finish in that race's history. Next he wants a crack at the big one, the
:18:52. > :18:57.Le Mans race. But he may not get its chance. The market is very strange.
:18:58. > :19:02.There are drivers coming from single seaters with big budgets and playing
:19:03. > :19:07.-- painful seeds in bigger cars and they are making it difficult for
:19:08. > :19:15.other cars and dad for other drivers. -- they are paying for
:19:16. > :19:18.seats in bigger cars. It is time to hang out with Dario who is to
:19:19. > :19:23.recovering from the crash which ended his career. He is getting
:19:24. > :19:29.better every day. We were out on the pushbikes, riding around some locks
:19:30. > :19:36.yesterday. The ankle is healing, the head is getting better. Swapping the
:19:37. > :19:39.pushbikes for something faster is Marino's next challenge.
:19:40. > :19:40.Now, a look at the top stories in Scotland's international rugby,
:19:41. > :19:44.hockey and cricket. The new head coach of the Scotland
:19:45. > :19:46.cricket team has been named. The 47-year-old New Zealand test
:19:47. > :19:50.cricketer Grant Bradburn will lead them in their 2015 World Cup
:19:51. > :19:53.campaign. The experience of two seasoned
:19:54. > :19:58.15-a-side players has been added to the Scotland Sevens Squad. Nick de
:19:59. > :20:04.Luca and Richie Vernon have been named in the squad for the Glasgow
:20:05. > :20:08.IRB World series at the weekend. Scotland's hockey men have lost all
:20:09. > :20:12.matches in their Four Nations international in Glasgow. With nine
:20:13. > :20:20.weeks until the Commonwealth Games, they believe funding is vital in
:20:21. > :20:26.future big events. The guys have had to organise time off work, some have
:20:27. > :20:31.mortgages. In the future, we need to look at getting secure funding
:20:32. > :20:35.because there is a -- without going into it in part-time basis.
:20:36. > :20:42.And there are more sports stories plus all the latest news, 24 hours a
:20:43. > :20:46.day on BBC Sport Scotland's website. That's it.
:20:47. > :20:49.An area of land in Rutherglen, left derelict for 50 years, is being
:20:50. > :20:58.transformed into a woodland park, as part of the Commonwealth Games
:20:59. > :21:02.regeneration project. Al Commonwealth Games reporter has
:21:03. > :21:08.been for a look. The River Clyde cuts its way through an area of land
:21:09. > :21:11.disused for more than 50 years. It is directly opposite the Athletes
:21:12. > :21:16.Village built for the Commonwealth Games. The games has been a catalyst
:21:17. > :21:20.for a ?5 million project to turn this land into a natural woodland
:21:21. > :21:24.park. Thousands of trees are being planted. Natural wildlife is being
:21:25. > :21:29.encouraged back into the park and a boardwalk and pedestrian bridge will
:21:30. > :21:33.link it to the Athletes Village. It will look fantastic. In the centre
:21:34. > :21:38.of the East End of Glasgow, we stand here and it doesn't feel like you
:21:39. > :21:46.are in the city at all. This area has a rich history. 200 years ago,
:21:47. > :21:51.it's supplied -- it housed the main treatment works for Glasgow. It then
:21:52. > :21:55.became a dumping ground for the slum clearances. Now it has been turned
:21:56. > :22:00.into a huge woodland park for the local community. In the 1960s and
:22:01. > :22:10.1970s, when tenements were pulled down, many ended up here. It is the
:22:11. > :22:17.focus of an arts project. I may be climbed the tenements building
:22:18. > :22:23.delivering the mail. It is part of the heritage of glass go that could
:22:24. > :22:27.easily have disappeared and I think we are looking at the artefacts and
:22:28. > :22:34.we can see that we can celebrate that past. But also enjoy what the
:22:35. > :22:38.future will bring to the park. There is still much work to be done but
:22:39. > :22:43.the plan is to create a little bit of countryside in the middle of the
:22:44. > :22:50.city. Now how is the weather shaping up?
:22:51. > :22:59.A record-breaking day across Scotland. The highest amateurs of
:23:00. > :23:04.the year in Aviemore. Shetland, certainly the west side of
:23:05. > :23:09.Shetland, a bit lower. By the end of the week, those temperatures will
:23:10. > :23:22.fall quite noticeably. Cloudy conditions in the South. Some sea
:23:23. > :23:26.fog down to the south-west. Tomorrow morning we see that missed and low
:23:27. > :23:31.cloud burning off doing the course of the day. Cloudy conditions
:23:32. > :23:35.tomorrow across northern Scotland but some brightness in the morning.
:23:36. > :23:40.There will be some sunshine for the South. Come the afternoon, a bit
:23:41. > :23:44.more cloud then we have seen of late. So a little rainfall Shetland.
:23:45. > :23:55.We can seize and brightness eventually tomorrow. -- a little
:23:56. > :24:03.rain fall Shetland. A fine day for Aberdeenshire tomorrow. A not lower
:24:04. > :24:09.than today. South of the mountains, dry, sunny and warm temperatures as
:24:10. > :24:13.well. Through the rest of the afternoon, it stays dry and sunny
:24:14. > :24:19.through central and southern parts. Cloud increasing in the north. A
:24:20. > :24:25.brisk north-easterly wind. Mr and low cloud becoming extensive again.
:24:26. > :24:33.-- missed and low cloud. On Wednesday, the low cloud. That
:24:34. > :24:38.increases across Wednesday and Thursday. It will bring rain.
:24:39. > :24:41.Wednesday styles of dry but rain in the North will extend southwards. It
:24:42. > :24:47.becomes colder in the north by the end of the day.
:24:48. > :24:51.Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.
:24:52. > :24:53.The First Minister says an independent Scotland would be an
:24:54. > :24:58.enthusiastic member of the European Union - compared to what he called
:24:59. > :25:01.rising Europhobia at Westminster. A teacher has died after being
:25:02. > :25:07.repeatedly stabbed at a school in Leeds.
:25:08. > :25:12.Pupils who witnessed the attack raised the alarm and a 15-year-old
:25:13. > :25:15.boy was detained by other teachers. He has now been arrested. Anne
:25:16. > :25:18.McGuire was 61 and taught Spanish and religious education at Corpus
:25:19. > :25:20.Christi Catholic College, a state secondary school.
:25:21. > :25:26.And that's Reporting Scotland. I will be back with the summary at 8pm
:25:27. > :25:30.and the Ten O'Clock News. Goodbye.