:00:00. > :00:08.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.
:00:09. > :00:12.The trial begins of a teenager accused of the murder
:00:13. > :00:15.of a 16-year-old boy at a school in Aberdeen.
:00:16. > :00:17.His head teacher tells the court about the efforts
:00:18. > :00:23.which will handle the benefits that'll be devolved to Scotland.
:00:24. > :00:37.It came from outer space. A meteor lights up Scotland's night sky.
:00:38. > :00:45.-S the most surreal experience I've ever had. I looked to my son saying
:00:46. > :00:47.what the hell was that. He said it might have been a meteor.
:00:48. > :00:51.Claims that a company that provides housing to asylum seekers
:00:52. > :00:54.is failing to follow guidelines on eviction procedures.
:00:55. > :00:57.And the long distance dedication of a teenage skating star who's
:00:58. > :01:01.notching up the road miles to make her Olympic dreams come true.
:01:02. > :01:26.in Aberdeen after been stabbed in the heart during a fight.
:01:27. > :01:28.16-year-old Bailey Gwynne was fatally injured at Cults Academy
:01:29. > :01:34.Today, another 16-year-old boy, who can't be named for legal reasons,
:01:35. > :01:36.went on trial accused of the murder, which he denies.
:01:37. > :01:50.Steven Duff reports from the High Court in Aberdeen.
:01:51. > :01:56.The school Cults Academy should have been like any other on 20th October
:01:57. > :02:01.last year. It ended as a day pupils and staff will probably never
:02:02. > :02:05.forget. 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne strapped to death during the lunch
:02:06. > :02:09.break. Today, a fellow 16-year-old pupil, who can't be named for legal
:02:10. > :02:14.reasons, went on trial charged with his murder. Bailey's family were in
:02:15. > :02:19.court when, for the first time, it was revealed how he died. In a joint
:02:20. > :02:20.minute, that's an agreement of the facts between the prosecution and
:02:21. > :02:24.minute, that's an agreement of the defence, it was revealed Bailey and
:02:25. > :02:29.the accused had been fighting inside the school. Bailey was struck in the
:02:30. > :02:37.body by a knife by the accused. The cause of death, a single penetrating
:02:38. > :02:42.stab wound to the heart. The Cult Academy head teacher spoke of the
:02:43. > :02:48.moment she saw Bailey Gwynne lying injured, bleeding and very pale. She
:02:49. > :02:49.said the accused was distraught, gesturing towards Bailey indicating,
:02:50. > :02:53.that was my fault. A boy who gesturing towards Bailey indicating,
:02:54. > :03:01.witnessed the fight that led to the stabbing said it appeared to start
:03:02. > :03:05.in a row over a biscuit. He said he remembered the boys' punching each
:03:06. > :03:10.other, holding on to each other. He said the accused reached into his
:03:11. > :03:15.pocket, pulled out a knife. He thrust it into Bailey, into his
:03:16. > :03:21.tummy. The fight stopped and he departed. The accused denies murder
:03:22. > :03:24.and having two weapons on school property. The trial continues.
:03:25. > :03:27.Scotland is to get a new agency to handle 11 benefits
:03:28. > :03:30.which are to be devolved to Holyrood.
:03:31. > :03:33.The benefits include support for carers,
:03:34. > :03:38.Ministers say the new agency will treat people with
:03:39. > :03:44.The powers won't be transferred until after next year.
:03:45. > :03:46.But already there's a political battle over the level of benefits
:03:47. > :03:53.This from our Political Editor, Brian Taylor.
:03:54. > :04:02.For more than 20 years, this voluntary centre in Glasgow has
:04:03. > :04:06.provided helped and hope to people with disabilities. Always in the
:04:07. > :04:13.background, worries over benefits. They've cut my benefits right down.
:04:14. > :04:18.That's a worry. You'll start worry about how to pay bills, buy food.
:04:19. > :04:24.How am I going to live with the cuts? Pay my rent and my council
:04:25. > :04:29.tax? Scottish ministers offer reassurance. They say benefits will
:04:30. > :04:34.be paid promptly and in full by a new Scottish welfare agency. So, by
:04:35. > :04:38.far the biggest budget to be devolved to Holyrood, a range of
:04:39. > :04:44.benefits to help people with disabilities. Other benefits to be
:04:45. > :04:48.devolved are the careers allowance, winter fuel payments and Sure Start
:04:49. > :04:52.maternity grant. There's no change to the state pension and child
:04:53. > :05:00.benefit. Those remain in Westminster control. What age is your father?
:05:01. > :05:04.87. In Edinburgh, Alex Neil meets careers from ethnic minority
:05:05. > :05:08.communities. He's promised to increase payment to careers and
:05:09. > :05:13.scrap the bedroom tax. Social security is about gig knitty,
:05:14. > :05:16.fairness, respect and entitlement. None of us know when we're going to
:05:17. > :05:21.require the social security system to see us through a bad patch.
:05:22. > :05:31.Labour will match the ministerial offer and plans to double maternity
:05:32. > :05:35.grants. Visiting an east Lothian school, Kes ya promises a full grant
:05:36. > :05:37.for pupils going from care into higher education. She's ready to
:05:38. > :05:42.for pupils going from care into push up income tax by 1% and wonders
:05:43. > :05:46.where the SNP will find the money. You can't make promises you can't
:05:47. > :05:53.keep. The the SNP will have to explain how they will increase the
:05:54. > :05:58.amount of revenues to increase these spending powers. On-Lamont for the
:05:59. > :06:02.Conservatives warned any reforms must discourage dependency on
:06:03. > :06:08.benefits. Willie Rennie said Scotland must work together to make
:06:09. > :06:11.the new system effective. Back at the Glasgow voluntary centre,
:06:12. > :06:18.they're listening closely for signs of change. Sometimes, disabled and
:06:19. > :06:22.vulnerable people, you feel like sometimes you're walking around with
:06:23. > :06:24.a bullseye on your back. For folk here, this isn't political, it's
:06:25. > :06:34.personal. Brian, the Skollish Government is
:06:35. > :06:40.looking to allow the Scotland I bill to be voted into law by SNPs in how
:06:41. > :06:45.important is that? A very big deal. We're not quite there yet.
:06:46. > :06:51.Parliament has to Dziwisz consent. We are perhaps nearing the end. This
:06:52. > :06:55.started with the post referendum consideration, the Smith Commission,
:06:56. > :06:59.those tax power we've been debating, welfare powers we've looked at
:07:00. > :07:04.today. An accumulation of new powers for the Scottish Parliament. Giving
:07:05. > :07:07.the go-ahead to the Scotland bill, the statute that puts that forward
:07:08. > :07:11.at Westminster, that is a significant move indeed. After all
:07:12. > :07:18.the debate, there hasn't been much of a bang but a sympathetic whimper
:07:19. > :07:22.we're close to the policy debate. Tomorrow, we'll hear more on plans
:07:23. > :07:28.to reform council tax? What can we expect there? It's been on the stock
:07:29. > :07:33.for decades. Scottish ministers will set out their proposals tomorrow.
:07:34. > :07:35.They are looking to assign a share to local authorities. There will be
:07:36. > :07:40.new bands, particularly at the top to local authorities. There will be
:07:41. > :07:42.end. Perhaps those living in the largest properties paying more
:07:43. > :07:45.proportionately than those down the largest properties paying more
:07:46. > :07:48.ranks in terms of property prices. It is a very difficult decision.
:07:49. > :07:53.Each of the parties will have to come to that decision as to what
:07:54. > :07:57.their proposals are to go to those elections here for the Holyrood
:07:58. > :08:01.Parliament in May. Big league, big politics, big choice. Thank you.
:08:02. > :08:04.Inquests into the deaths of 30 British holidaymakers
:08:05. > :08:06.killed in a terrorist attack on a beach in Tunisia
:08:07. > :08:11.Two couples from Scotland, Jim and Ann McQuire from Cumbernauld
:08:12. > :08:14.and Billy and Lisa Graham from Bankfoot in Perthshire,
:08:15. > :08:17.were among those who died in the attack, in the resort
:08:18. > :08:22.But at a hearing in London today, the judge who's been
:08:23. > :08:26.appointed as coroner said there was still an enormous
:08:27. > :08:33.amount of work required, before the inquest could get under way.
:08:34. > :08:33.You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC.
:08:34. > :08:38.Still to come on tonight's programme:
:08:39. > :08:41.Claims that a company that provides housing to asylum seekers
:08:42. > :08:45.is failing to follow guidelines on eviction procedures.
:08:46. > :08:47.In sport, the Dons boss Derek McInness
:08:48. > :08:50.defends the mental attitude of his squad.
:08:51. > :08:52.And we meet the Stirlingshire teenager, with the toughest
:08:53. > :08:55.of regimes, hoping to go all the way to the Winter Olympic Games.
:08:56. > :09:07.There were dozens of calls to the emergency services
:09:08. > :09:11.across Scotland last night after a fireball lit up the night
:09:12. > :09:17.As Jackie O'Brien reports, experts say it was likely to be
:09:18. > :09:21.a meteor about the size of a tennis ball, burning up,
:09:22. > :09:32.Scotland saw the light just before 7.00pm last night. It only lasted
:09:33. > :09:37.seconds but a number of people managed to capture it on their
:09:38. > :09:43.dashboard cameras as they drove home from work. What's the hell's that?
:09:44. > :09:44.What the hell was that? It was the most surreal experience I've ever
:09:45. > :09:49.What the hell was that? It was the had. I looked at my son. I said,
:09:50. > :09:54.what the hell was that? He just looked at me and went, I think a
:09:55. > :09:59.meteor or something. Bright light then dark again straight after. It
:10:00. > :10:03.was absolutely amazing to see. It wasn't until I stopped the car,
:10:04. > :10:08.looked at my dash camfootage I realised it might have been a
:10:09. > :10:12.meteor. The huge flash of bright light illuminated the skies right
:10:13. > :10:18.across the north of Scotland. It was seen by thousands of people here in
:10:19. > :10:22.the Highlands and spotted as far south as County Durham. Suddenly,
:10:23. > :10:29.there was an enormous flash which lit up the sky. Of course, I knew it
:10:30. > :10:33.wasn't something simple like a firework or lightning. It was
:10:34. > :10:37.something very different. I called the police, 101, the officer I spoke
:10:38. > :10:41.to said he'd had several calls around this. He was able to tell me
:10:42. > :10:45.at the time it wasn't an aircraft but they were investigating. The
:10:46. > :10:50.earth's atmosphere creates all kinds of different light. But experts are
:10:51. > :10:56.convinced that this display was caused by a meteor. A small lump of
:10:57. > :11:01.space rock heading towards Scotland. Millions of pieces fall on the earth
:11:02. > :11:04.all the time. Most tiny. Every so often you get a larger chunk. The
:11:05. > :11:10.one last night was probably about the size of a tennis ball, maybe a
:11:11. > :11:14.bit bigger. We estimate something like half a million objects like
:11:15. > :11:20.that urn about up in our atmosphere. It is uncommon to see them as Spock
:11:21. > :11:22.tack laterally as last night. The identification of this flying object
:11:23. > :11:26.does end some of the more identification of this flying object
:11:27. > :11:30.far-fetched speculation that it could have been extra Terreest
:11:31. > :11:32.reeling or even Tim peak trying to brighten up a long, dark, Scottish
:11:33. > :11:35.night! A man has been arrested
:11:36. > :11:41.following alleged "xenophobic The incident happened
:11:42. > :11:47.at about 4.40pm on Saturday, during the SPFL game
:11:48. > :11:52.at Tynecastle Stadium in Edinburgh. The incident happened just
:11:53. > :11:57.before 7.30 this morning. It caused the closure
:11:58. > :12:00.of a nearby primary school. Police Scotland said there was a
:12:01. > :12:03.small fire but no-one was injured. They're trying to trace
:12:04. > :12:05.a silver Volkswagen car, that was seen in
:12:06. > :12:13.the area at the time. A new report's found Scottish
:12:14. > :12:18.Government policies haves helped to cut the amount of alcohol people are
:12:19. > :12:20.drinking. NHS health Scotland said the ban on multi-buy promotions such
:12:21. > :12:25.as three for the priors of two, had the ban on multi-buy promotions such
:12:26. > :12:29.helped tackle Cholet byes. But it warned more needs to be done,
:12:30. > :12:33.including the introduction of a new minimum price for alcohol.
:12:34. > :12:39.Asylum seekers living in Glasgow may have had their locks changed to
:12:40. > :12:44.remove them from their homes according to emails obtained by the
:12:45. > :12:48.BBC. A former employee of Orchard and Shipman, which provides housing
:12:49. > :12:52.to asylum seekers in Scotland told the beak the company failed to
:12:53. > :12:57.follow agreed eviction procedures which could leave some people
:12:58. > :13:01.homeless. It comes as politicians have called for an inquiry into
:13:02. > :13:12.asylum accommodation in the UK. The Home Office gave Serco
:13:13. > :13:17.contract to home asylum seekers in Glasgow. It was subcontracted to
:13:18. > :13:21.orchard and Shipman. The company may have breached Government guidelines
:13:22. > :13:25.by changing the locks of asylum seekers whose applications to remain
:13:26. > :13:29.in the UK have been refused potentially leaving them homeless.
:13:30. > :13:33.Internal emails abtaped by the BBC show staff have been issued about
:13:34. > :13:39.lists of asylum seekers who needed to be removed of the one e-mail from
:13:40. > :13:44.a manager provides a number of adryss and says staff needs to
:13:45. > :13:48.advice them to leave. If they do no move, perform a lock change at the
:13:49. > :13:53.first available opportunity. Make sure this is given absolute
:13:54. > :13:59.priority. In another entitled lock changes, the same manager provides a
:14:00. > :14:04.list of addresses. Ensure we bag and tag belongings at the same time as
:14:05. > :14:09.performing lock changes. The company said none of the residents left the
:14:10. > :14:17.properties within three months of that e-mail. Serco's agreement and
:14:18. > :14:22.Home Office guidelines says when someone's application for asylum has
:14:23. > :14:28.been refused they need to be begin 21 days to leave. We have learned
:14:29. > :14:33.orchard and Shipman's never obtained an eviction order in the Scottish
:14:34. > :14:41.courts. The company said under the asylum and immigration acted there's
:14:42. > :14:47.no legal requirement for orchard and Shipman to... This man told us some
:14:48. > :14:50.asylum seekers were removed when their applications were removed.
:14:51. > :14:55.They will look at a time to catch them when they are out so they can
:14:56. > :14:58.change the locks. As simple and brutal as that. From their
:14:59. > :15:04.perspective they want that flat cleared so they can move the next
:15:05. > :15:07.paying customer in. But it does leads to these horrendous situations
:15:08. > :15:13.where people that are extremely leads to these horrendous situations
:15:14. > :15:15.vulnerable are getting evicted. The company said it routinely changed
:15:16. > :15:21.vulnerable are getting evicted. The the locks after the vacation of
:15:22. > :15:26.granted and refused asylum seeker departures because keys may be
:15:27. > :15:30.duplicated. It said it followed all legislation and it was meeting its
:15:31. > :15:33.duplicated. It said it followed all contractual obligations. The support
:15:34. > :15:37.it provided excited Home Office requirements. The Home Office said:
:15:38. > :15:43.If there was a requirement to to do so and all other avenues have been
:15:44. > :15:47.exhausted, it is the responsibility of the provider to undertake legal
:15:48. > :15:51.proceed us to evict the people from the property. We'll investigate any
:15:52. > :15:56.complaint we receive that a contractor is falling short of these
:15:57. > :16:01.standards. Today, politicians called for an inquiry before the
:16:02. > :16:06.multimillion pound contract to house asylum seekers is renewed next year.
:16:07. > :16:08.A look now at other stories from across the country.
:16:09. > :16:10.Greggs is to close its bakery in Edinburgh.
:16:11. > :16:15.However, the company said it was investing in its Clydesmill
:16:16. > :16:21.Scotland's biggest fish farming company, Marine Harvest,
:16:22. > :16:23.has confirmed that 80 jobs are going as part
:16:24. > :16:29.Most of the redundancies are in Lochaber, including office
:16:30. > :16:31.staff in Fort William, people working at the town's fish
:16:32. > :16:34.processing plant and staff, at the harvesting station in
:16:35. > :16:40.Work is underway at an Arbroath boat yard on a pair of new masts
:16:41. > :16:45.They're being shaped from the trunks of two Douglas Fir trees,
:16:46. > :16:51.The masts, measuring up to 17 metres, will be fitted
:16:52. > :17:07.Nowadays it would be unusual. It's aluminium and steel mass nowadays.
:17:08. > :17:09.The wooden masts are a thing of the past, really. But it keeps us in a
:17:10. > :17:14.job. Scotrail's announced plans
:17:15. > :17:16.to expand its Smartcard system for all season ticket holders
:17:17. > :17:18.across every route in Scotland. Right now, it can only be used
:17:19. > :17:21.on four routes in the central belt. But by the end of the summer,
:17:22. > :17:24.it will be available Scotrail's also looking to introduce
:17:25. > :17:35.the card to buses and ferries. It's going to help transform the way
:17:36. > :17:40.people travel across Scotland. It will reduce the queueing time at
:17:41. > :17:43.ticket offices. You will buy your products on the sofa and use them
:17:44. > :17:48.the next day and get through the gates really quickly.
:17:49. > :17:51.An academic at Edinburgh University has been awarded the world's most
:17:52. > :17:54.Professor Richard Morris has received the Brain Prize
:17:55. > :17:56.in recognition of his work to understand how we
:17:57. > :18:02.He shares the one million euro award with fellow neuro-scientists,
:18:03. > :18:10.Let's get the latest sport now with Rhona.
:18:11. > :18:11.Thank you very much, David. Good evening