30/09/2014 Reporting Scotland

blustery. Thank you very much. That is all from us.

Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: Gordon Brown's 14 point plan

for new powers for Holyrood. In an exclusive interview

the former Prime Minister tells us it would give Scotland the best deal

in the United Kingdom. The controversy over police

routinely carrying firearms, now officers may be asked to keep them

concealed to reduce public alarm. Only 85 days to go

but a legal dispute might mean that Aberdeen will lose its Christmas

street lights. Hibs celebrate their victory

at Ibrox some Rangers fans are now calling

for Ally McCoist to step down. They do not have the same mentality

in the north of America we're customer is king.

A new university course might be the answer.

David Cameron wants to introduce English votes for English laws but

Gordon Brown has something to say about that. He wants to rapidly

devolve more power to Holyrood. He suggests 14 areas where the parties

might agree but he wants to resist plans for the full devolution of

income tax. The plan is to devolve that to Scotland and then remove

Scottish MPs which in my view is the wrong decision. They are putting the

union at risk by the back door by failing to recognise there is a

Scottish interest in income tax decisions and there will always be a

Scottish interest in the budget members decisions because they will

affect Scotland in totality. There would be huge consequences for the

United Kingdom. If there was a guarantee of voting rights on

budgetary measures would you be prepared to consider

budgetary measures would you be demolition of income tax? This is a

matter that goes from one parliament to the next. The attack

matter that goes from one parliament guarantees. Income tax is a

matter that goes from one parliament matter. It is about the Barnett

formula, why is that not mentioned in the parliamentary motion signed

by either the UK party leaders? That was also talking about new

legislation and there is no need for that on the Barnett formula. Nobody

can backtrack on that and nobody should attempt to. Was

can backtrack on that and nobody when you thought yes might win? Now,

I did not think yes might win. I thought it was important we put our

argument in the best possible way. I am a patriotic

argument in the best possible way. I part of the United Kingdom. Was it

around what one it? It was not, it part of the United Kingdom. Was it

was a silent majority as well as a very vocal minority. We have learned

a lot from this referendum. I am too old to be a comeback kid and too

young to be an elder statesman. I knew when we lost the election that

was it, I accepted that result. I came back during the referendum

campaign because I felt this was a decision quite different from any

other. He is an MP who intends to make his voice heard at the next

phase of devolution is heard. What is the significance of this

intervention? Gordon Brown is effectively opening negotiations on

further devolution from outside Lord's left was my commission which

has been set up to find agreement tween all five political parties

represented at Holyrood. Gordon Brown thinks the last 14 areas where

the parties should be able to break agreement, whether on increasing

borrowing powers, infrastructure or the transfer of housing benefit or

attendance allowance. He thinks Labour should go further on tax by

agreeing to allocate a sheer of VAT revenues to Holyrood. He thinks they

should hold there round on income tax. He favours increasing

Holyrood's sheer of income tax to be able to increase the upper rates and

he thinks they should be resistant to the idea of the full devolution

of VAT tax because it would increase the argument for the Conservatives

to pursue English votes for English laws. They think Labour is only

resistant to that idea because F Ed Miliband was to become prime

minister in certain circumstances it could deny him a majority in the

house of commons. Ruth Davidson agrees with the Prime Minister that

the referendum no vote offers an opportunity to the Tories here. Our

reporter is that the party conference in Birmingham. It is a

political brand which conservatives believes has been detoxified by the

referendum campaign. There is just one Tory MP in Scotland but the

party leader is hopeful that, the next general election there will be

many more. It has been a long dark night for the Scottish Conservatives

but the sun is rising once more in our sky. We have got back confidence

and self belief. The Tories have now promised a new commission to ensure

taxes are kept low. I want Scotland to be the winner 's most dynamic

country in Europe in courage in businesses and start-ups and

ensuring the working people of our country keep more of what they are

in. Few could attract as big a crowd as the Prime Minister. Thanks to the

wisdom of a clear majority of Scots wondering is the capital of Britain

and the capital of the United Kingdom. I believe it will remain

sort through our lifetimes. You have permission to park. The fees and

working age benefits Scottish Tories might find more difficult to sell on

the doorstep. A third name is set to enter

the contest to become the next deputy leader of the SNP.

Tomorrow, the youth employment minister

Angela Constance, will declare that she will stand for the post left

vacant by Nicola Sturgeon's decision to seek the leadership.

There are already two runners in the race -

the Transport minister Keith Brown, and the party's treasury spokesman

at Westminster, Stewart Hosie. BBC Scotland has learned the police

here are to review the way officers carry and cover up their firearms to

try to quell public fears. Tomorrow Police Scotland will

announce that the controversial policy which

allows trained officers to routinely carry weapons will remain.

That's despite two separate ongoing reviews by police watchdogs.

Our political correspondent Lucy Adams joins us from Edinburgh.

What's the background to this Lucy? Last year police Scotland rolled out

a policy across the country allowing firearms officers to carry handguns

at all times while on duty rather than getting up especially to go to

a specific incident. It proved controversially as photographs

emerged of officers waving guns in shopping centres the moral police

Scotland well announced they plan to continue the policy despite

criticism. The three of 13,000 officers north of the border there

are tonnes and how visible they are when being worn. Opponents say it is

not about covering the problem up. They want to question we are, why

and when officers carry guns in the first place.

You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC.

Still to come on tonight's programme:

Some of the thank you gifts to philanthropist Andrew Carnegie go

on show in his home town. In sport:

Gordon Strachan names two rising stars in his squad, he says they

could become Scotland regulars. And Rangers under pressure.

Is time running out for Ally McCoist as fans boo their defeat?

Aberdeen city centre could be left without its usual

Christmas lights this year. It's all because of a legal dispute

over the tendering process for providing the illuminations.

Kevin Keane is at the city's Union Street for us now.

Kevin, the city couldn't really lose its Christmas lights, could it?

Well, apparently so according to the council. They awarded the contract

earlier this year for Christmas lights to be strung up across the

city centre, primarily in union Street. Over the Christmas period

the twinkling is much stronger as this granite Michael becomes the

twinkling mild and many people are attracted to the city centre to see

it as well as the lights on the big Christmas tree which is usually

immediately behind me. There will be a legal challenge by one of the

other tenderers who tried to get the contract to provide those lights. It

is a legal challenge. While that cases active the council says it

cannot award the contract to another provider. If this continues they

will try to produce something, probably more subdued than they

would normally have. The real hope is these proceedings can be overcome

fairly quickly and Christmas will go ahead in Aberdeen as it is in the

rest of the world. Meanwhile, police in Aberdeen are

investigating the death of a Polish man in the Torry area of the city.

The 49- year-old died after an incident on

Balnagask Avenue yesterday. It's understood he was stabbed.

Police want to speak to anyone who was in the area between nine am

and two pm. They've made no arrests so far.

More and more of us are living much of our lives online.

We shop, socialise and use internet banking.

But there's a warning from a legal firm that we need to do

more to store our passwords, or our families might not be able to

access our assets when we die. Suzanne Allan explains.

This boy's mum died of cancer aged just 36. For his dad, coping with

the loss was hard enough at sorting out her online accounts, especially

social media, has been very difficult. People who do not

social media, has been very when it comes up to her birthday

social media, has been very post funny or silly messages on her

page which is post funny or silly messages on her

becomes very responsive because people are finding out again. A few

years ago this was people are finding out again. A few

now what are we doing? We publish our photographs on instead RAM, when

we go away for the weekend we put it on Facebook and for online banking

we keep passwords safe. The has always been do not tell anyone

those passwords safe. The advice has always been do not tell anyone goes

past words but no lawyers are saying keep them all in one place,

somewhere like a will. Talking to your family about this may seem

gloomy but this lawyer says it is pragmatic. It is about making people

are we of what you would want to happen. Whether you want things

memorialised, posts going out at your death, that type of thing is

useful to know. It is a difficult thing to have a conversation about.

Writing it down somewhere is the obvious thing. Right back row this

man says even a few years ago he would never have given past words a

second thought but as we increasingly live our lives online

protecting ourselves is seen to be a greater need.

Now, a look at other stories around the country today.

Hundreds of school pupils and staff in Grangemouth had to be kept

indoors this morning, following a gas leak at the nearby oil refinery.

Roads were closed around the Ineos site as emergency services responded

to reports of a leak of butane gas onboard one of their vessels.

Police said the leak posed no risk to the public.

A windfarm planned for Rannoch Moor in Perthshire has been debated

by MSPs. The Dutch developers

of the scheme say views of its 125 metre high turbines will be minimal

from key areas around Loch Rannoch. Conservationists argue

the twenty-four turbines will be visible much more widely.

This trust is about protecting and enhancing wildland areas and we are

very concerned about this intrusion and the negative impact.

Holyrood's petitions committee is to write to Historic Scotland

about protecting a monument to Scottish travellers.

The Tinkers Heart, overlooking Loch Fyne in Argyll, is a traditional

place for gypsy weddings. But there are fears that cattle

feeding and tramping on the pattern of quartz stones will destroy it.

A retail park on the border at Gretna is expanding on

the back of record trade figures. Work on a 19,000 square foot

extension to the Gretna Gateway Village starts next month,

creating around 50 Village starts next month,

A spokesman said August was the busiest month

in the centre's 15-year-history, with cross-border Commonwealth Games

traffic a contributory factor. Shetland is the first island

in the Scotland to be visited by a new mobile bone density scanner.

This morning patients in Lerwick started undergoing

the twenty minute test to check for signs of osteoporosis.

It's part of a pilot project aimed at improving access to care

in remote and rural communities. We've all been there.

We've all been less than pleasant on the phone or hung up

on somebody who simply won't deal with our complaint.

But Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh thinks it has

the solution. It's offering

the worlds first postgraduate degree in professional complaint handling.

Lisa Summers reports. I do not know why I am bothering,

nobody will listen anyway. Or maybe not. The thing you need to know is

how to communicate in these situations. Davis now a postgraduate

degree for people who work in the complaints industry. People are more

willing to make complaints which has led to more people being involved in

the complaints industry. For the first time at postgraduate level we

provide something for people who are professional complaint handlers so

they have something that can help them do there job better and raise

standards. The financial ombudsman centre received more than 2 million

complaints last year. I am quite good at dealing with expediency is

because I am a manager and get it all the time. If it is busy they are

quite rude. They do not have the same mentality as in North America

we are customer is king. The course will not be quite like this. I don't

gear! But those running it believe it will make a difference. Sometimes

the complaints will be false, OK? The next time something is bothering

you, get your finger out! Now never any complaints about the sports

department, what have you got for us? You might be surprised!

Rhona, you have centre stage - and news of rising stars?

Gordon Strachan's given first international call ups to two

youngsters he says could become Scotland regulars.

Striker Stevie May and midfielder Ryan Gauld are in his

squad for the Euro 2016 qualifiers against Georgia and Poland.

And the national manager's considering

bringing in a third as yet un-named young gun as David Currie reports.

This is the man himself arriving to name his newest squad. Stevie May

earning his first call up. I saw him last week against reading and I am

pleased with them. If I was not, he would not be in the squad. Ryan

Gauld in there as well. They could well be joined by a third new beat

but the voice is not prepared to reveal two or even give us a clue.

This could be like 20 questions. He is inclined to invoke the spirit of

these fellows, the Ryder Cup winning golfers. It is up to everybody to

take responsibility like the 12 guys dead on Sunday. Everybody put in a

terrific performance. To come anywhere near that would be

fantastic for the excitement. Tickets to see Scotland do not come

with a guarantee of excitement but that is half of the fun.

The former Rangers chairman Craig Whyte, who took the club into

administration before liquidation ensued, has been disqualified

as a company director for 15 years. It's the maximum penalty

he could've received. Now one of the men left to pick up

the pieces from the Whyte era, manager Ally McCoist, is facing

calls from some fans to step down, after losing three first half goals

to Hibs at Ibrox last night. Kheredine Idessane has more.

3-0 down at half-time and your central defender remonstrating with

fans in the main stand. This was not in the script for Rangers last night

and some fans have had enough. I think the fans are just too loyal

because of what he stood up for through it all. It will come good,

we are only six or seven games into the season. Dealers only so much a

manager can take and I think Mr McCoist has just had it. The way

Hibernian tour through Rangers was helped by some woeful defending.

This was the opener. By the own admission, Rangers simply were not

good enough at the back. Witness this second from Hibernian after

half an hour. And just when Rangers and the fans were thinking things

could not possibly get worse. It is Cummings, it is 3-0. The booths

around the ground at half-time where a real indication the home fans

wanted instant improvement. After the interval there was some

improvement thanks to Nicky Law but they could not make any inroads. The

Hibernian manager with a great platform on which to the bill and

the Rangers manager with the lot of work to do to revitalise his title

quest. Now a look at what else is happening across Scottish sport.

Andy Murray rallied the second set and dominated the card. Queen of the

South have named James Fowler as the new manager. He joined the club

during the summer as player/coach and has been temporarily in charge.

I am really excited, looking forward to the challenge ahead. It has been

a busy few weeks. And after beating Inverness Aberdeen are looking for

the third successive home win tonight. The dons are expecting a

challenge. It would be nice to finish off the four game home spell

with another win. There has been an improvement over the last few games

and we are we are another strong performance is needed. That is live

on BBC radio Scotland. That is it for tonight.

56 caskets presented to the famous philanthropist

Andrew Carnegie have gone on display together for the first time,

in his home town of Dunfermline. The caskets were gifts from towns

and cities around the world to say thank you for the libraries, schools

and swimming pools he gave them. Our arts correspondent

Pauline McLean Just one of 56 caskets presented to

Andrew Carnegie. This was to say thank you for funding in New Jersey.

Insight is something from the railways of the United States. He

did treasure them and displayed most of them in his home library at ski

Ball Castle. He was very proud of them but not only because of the

shininess of them but what they stood for as well. Some of the

caskets are quite literal. A miniature library, an inscription of

banks, some are more lavish and complex. These treasures have

remained largely hidden in storage at the museum which Marx 's birth in

Dunfermline. This is the first time all 56 have been shown together. The

exhibition is showing international interest. I think we may have to

take these caskets onto. I think the whole collection as one piece, I

have no doubt in my mind this will go on to. Andrew Carnegie of then

used the presentation of these caskets to talk publicly about his

Gillian is here with the weather. 100 years

It looks like the second Could this be the driest September

It looks like the second Whitford. -- record. Judy, much like

the rest of the month before it was drier than expected. Tomorrow you

will notice a distinctly fresher feel. That is close to what we would

expect for this time of year. Through this evening we will see

some patchy rain filtering through the evening. It will be dry for a

time before another belt of rain pushes end. Mild for most of us with

temperatures up to double figures. Tomorrow it is a cloudy and damp

start for most part but rapidly improving. The rain will clear

eastwards. Some good spells of sunshine on the cards once again.

eastwards. Some good spells of The last of the cloud and rain

around three o'clock in the eastern borders but plenty of sunshine in

Dumfries and Galloway, Argyll, the central belt into Perthshire.

Temperatures certainly fresher, 14 or 15 Celsius. We will see a

scattering of showers across the north-west Highlands. Through the

rest of the afternoon and tomorrow evening we will keep a feed of those

showers going but generally a lot of dry weather. Clear skies tomorrow

night will make than it has been for quite some time. In 2008

high-pressure is hanging on but there is a change waiting in the

wings in the form of these weather fronts. Very wet and windy weather

on the way. For much of Thursday it will be fine, dry and bright with

some good spells of sunshine. You will notice those strengthening

winds getting up and this new batch of rain will arrive. Some will be

heavy. There are strong to deal force winds and it stays unsettled

into the weekend. Now a reminder of the main news. Gordon Brown accuses

the Conservatives of putting the United Kingdom at risk. David

Cameron wants to introduce English votes for English laws with further

devolution to Holyrood. That is all for now. From all of the team, good

evening.