:00:00. > :00:10.The leader of Aberdeen Council has spoken for the first time
:00:11. > :00:14.since the conviction of a 16-year-old boy for the killing
:00:15. > :00:20.Jenny Laing says an independent review that's been set up
:00:21. > :00:22.into the circumstances surrounding the death of Bailey Gwynne
:00:23. > :00:24.at Cults Academy will be important for his family.
:00:25. > :00:37.Stabbed to death at Cults Academy in Aberdeen last October.
:00:38. > :00:39.Immediately afterwards, an independent review was promised.
:00:40. > :00:42.It has been announced today that Andrew Lowe will head the review.
:00:43. > :00:45.He has a background in social work and mental health care.
:00:46. > :00:48.One question for him perhaps is why the headteacher of Cults Academy
:00:49. > :00:51.told the trial that the boy who killed Bailey Gwynne
:00:52. > :00:54.had been warned about the dangers of carrying knives.
:00:55. > :00:57.Yet in a statement at the end of the trial the council said
:00:58. > :01:07.teachers were not aware he was carrying weapons into school.
:01:08. > :01:10.Aberdeen's leader Jenny Laing did not want to talk to us earlier
:01:11. > :01:11.but later gave us an interview.
:01:12. > :01:14.If it is found that evidence that the boy who was found guilty
:01:15. > :01:18.if it is found there were warning signs in the past,
:01:19. > :01:20.as BBC Scotland has found, but they were ignored,
:01:21. > :01:30.I do not want to pre-empt any outcome from the independent review,
:01:31. > :01:35.Because I think that is very important for Bailey and his family,
:01:36. > :01:41.that we await the independent review. I am sure that Andrew Lowe
:01:42. > :01:45.is an excellent chair, he will make sure the heads of terms cover all
:01:46. > :01:49.areas necessary and I wouldn't want to pre-empt the findings of that and
:01:50. > :01:52.I would like to wait and see what they are and we will obviously take
:01:53. > :01:59.the appropriate action based on the findings we have. But if that
:02:00. > :02:03.appropriate action amounts to carpeting somebody over ignoring
:02:04. > :02:07.warning signs... Thank you for your time, I feel I have answered what
:02:08. > :02:10.needs to be answers today, we are in the position of an independent
:02:11. > :02:15.review and we need to let that take its course.
:02:16. > :02:17.The review will cover difficult ground
:02:18. > :02:19.but that will not deter the man in charge.
:02:20. > :02:21.I am aware of the sensitivity of these matters
:02:22. > :02:25.Putting those things together means I will inevitably be looking
:02:26. > :02:28.at a range of factors that have bearing on the events
:02:29. > :02:33.That is my overall brief and that is what I will do.
:02:34. > :02:40.If it means going back further in time, that will also happen.
:02:41. > :02:48.This review is expected to be concluded by September.
:02:49. > :02:50.The First Minister has told BBC Scotland that increasing the
:02:51. > :02:54.top rate of income tax in Scotland could end up cutting the cash raised
:02:55. > :03:00.That's because she says top earners could shift their money elsewhere
:03:01. > :03:07.The warning comes on the eve of the SNP conference in Glasgow.
:03:08. > :03:14.Our political editor Brian Taylor reports.
:03:15. > :03:21.Very big choices indeed that the parties, I am here at the venue for
:03:22. > :03:25.the SNP conference. From next year, Scotland will have control of all
:03:26. > :03:29.income tax rates and bands and it is concentrating minds. Nicola Sturgeon
:03:30. > :03:34.already said no to increasing the basic standard rate of income tax
:03:35. > :03:41.but what about the top rate, the 45p rate by those earning over ?150,000.
:03:42. > :03:45.Labour say they would increase it to 50p. Nicola Sturgeon was pretty cool
:03:46. > :03:47.about it and said it could end up costing Scotland money. That is a
:03:48. > :03:50.about it and said it could end up judgment we have to make, there are
:03:51. > :03:55.less than 20,000 people in Scotland who pay the higher rate of income
:03:56. > :04:01.tax. These are some of the most mobile people in the country and it
:04:02. > :04:04.wouldn't take many of them to shift the income out of Scotland and for
:04:05. > :04:07.us to not make money out of that but lose revenue. There are other
:04:08. > :04:12.options, it is thought that next week the Chancellor in his budget
:04:13. > :04:16.will push up the threshold at which people enter the 40p tax rate, in
:04:17. > :04:21.effect meaning you have to learn a fair bit more before you go into the
:04:22. > :04:26.upper rate and in effect, a bit of a tax cut on those who have middle and
:04:27. > :04:30.high earnings. Nicola Sturgeon could say that the Scotland, if they have
:04:31. > :04:33.the power, they will not implement that and keep the threshold as it
:04:34. > :04:39.is. She confirmed it is an option they are looking at. I have George
:04:40. > :04:44.Osborne is sensible now. I am not hugely hopeful about that but I hope
:04:45. > :04:49.he sees this is not a time for significant tax cuts for the better
:04:50. > :04:52.off in society. But I believe that is the case so we will wait and see
:04:53. > :04:55.what comes in the budget and we will base our decisions once we know what
:04:56. > :04:58.what comes in the budget and we will happens in the budget. And without
:04:59. > :05:02.telling me the outcome, you will have the option of reversing that
:05:03. > :05:05.tax cut? Of not doing that, of course we will have the option, as
:05:06. > :05:09.we will have a range of options around income tax. We had two days
:05:10. > :05:14.of the SNP conference to come, the focus next weeks ships to Labour,
:05:15. > :05:17.with their spring conference. They had the main event pushed back to
:05:18. > :05:23.November, this one is a bit ad hoc but one name that will not be
:05:24. > :05:27.featuring is Jeremy Corbyn, he will not be attending, it is said to be a
:05:28. > :05:30.time question but there are also indications that Labour want to keep
:05:31. > :05:32.the focus on Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish leader.
:05:33. > :05:36.The father of a climber who's been missing on Ben Nevis for almost
:05:37. > :05:38.a month has spoken of his family's heartache.
:05:39. > :05:40.Tim Newton and his girlfriend Rachel Slater failed to return
:05:41. > :05:42.from a climbing trip on the Valentine's Day weekend.
:05:43. > :05:51.It was on a weekend in February when Rachel Slater and Tim Newton
:05:52. > :05:57.But the Bradford couple failed to return from their outing
:05:58. > :06:04.Today, Tim Newton's father described the moment he got the news.
:06:05. > :06:13.I had a phone call from the police at Fort William,
:06:14. > :06:17.saying that Rachel had been reported missing
:06:18. > :06:28.Because 50 years ago, my sister was killed
:06:29. > :06:37.And I remember it all coming back to me.
:06:38. > :06:48.And we had to wait because it was in Yugoslavia.
:06:49. > :06:53.It was a Communist country that time.
:06:54. > :06:58.It is like having to wait all over again.
:06:59. > :07:05.I think the agony, for me, was the thought that they might be
:07:06. > :07:06.alive, but absolutely buried
:07:07. > :07:16.And how could I cope with my child suffering like that?
:07:17. > :07:20.Rachel and Tim were reported missing on Monday the 15th of February.
:07:21. > :07:23.It is thought they were caught in an avalanche.
:07:24. > :07:25.They knew the risks but, Mr Newton said,
:07:26. > :07:30.He said they would never be forgotten.
:07:31. > :07:32.They were so young and enthusiastic,
:07:33. > :07:39.full of life, with everything in front of them.
:07:40. > :07:49.Football and there was one match in the Scottish Premiership tonight.
:07:50. > :07:54.Motherwell came from behind to beat Dundee United 2-1 and severely dent
:07:55. > :07:58.the Tayside club's hopes of top flight survival.
:07:59. > :08:00.Let's get the weather outlook for the weekend now,
:08:01. > :08:12.Thank you very much. Good evening. A fairly cloudy and damp conditions
:08:13. > :08:15.across the country this evening and those conditions lasting into
:08:16. > :08:21.tomorrow. It was a fairly cloudy day but a lovely picture from one of our
:08:22. > :08:25.weather watchers. Over the next 24 hours, low pressure in the Atlantic,
:08:26. > :08:29.high pressure towards Scandinavia and in between, the south-westerly
:08:30. > :08:33.flow bringing cloudy, damp but mild conditions. Most of the heavy rain
:08:34. > :08:36.tomorrow in the West but there will be some outbreaks of rain further
:08:37. > :08:40.eased and that wet weather is stretching south in towards Northern
:08:41. > :08:43.Ireland and the far north-west of England. Most of England and Wales,
:08:44. > :08:49.largely dry and bright, spells of sunshine but fairly persistent fog
:08:50. > :08:52.in the at first. For us, through Saturday morning, cloudy and damp
:08:53. > :08:55.with the rain slowly working its way ever eastwards with the winds from
:08:56. > :09:00.the cerebral south-west, fresh, occasionally strong around the
:09:01. > :09:03.coast. -- from the cerebral south-west. Cloudy and dump the
:09:04. > :09:09.northern half of the UK but further south, dry with some brightness
:09:10. > :09:11.coming through -- cloudy and damp. As we head through the afternoon
:09:12. > :09:15.coming through -- cloudy and damp. into the evening, some brightness
:09:16. > :09:18.around the Inverness area, Northern Aberdeenshire and overnight into
:09:19. > :09:23.Sunday, a lot of the rain clears away and Sunday is a very different
:09:24. > :09:25.day all due to high pressure. Dry and brighter across the north-east,
:09:26. > :09:28.still if you outbreaks of rain up and brighter across the north-east,
:09:29. > :09:34.towards the Northern Isles through the afternoon but most areas dry and
:09:35. > :09:39.where we do get the sun low to mid teens is possible. Most areas double
:09:40. > :09:43.digits. High pressure bringing this condition stays through next week, a
:09:44. > :09:47.lot of dry unsettled weather around, some cloud and sunshine for the best
:09:48. > :09:51.of which is likely in the West and the potential for some hard
:09:52. > :09:55.developing around the east coast. From everyone on the late team
:09:56. > :10:00.here in Glasgow