31/03/2016 Reporting Scotland

Two, 11 o'clock in Scotland. That is it from us, now on BBC One, time for

all the news where you are. Have a Police Scotland has confirmed that

it's investigating claims by the BBC that a leading member

of Glasgow Central Mosque has had links with a banned

Islamic terrorist organisation. Sipah-e-Sahaba has previously

committed massacres in Pakistan. Our Home Affairs correspondent

Reevel Alderson reports. list deadly bomb attack

Pakistani city three years ago killed more than 300 people. It was

carried out by the armed wing of a banned group, Sipah-e-Sahaba, which

targets Shia Midlands and other minority groups, including

Christians. These documents outline how Sabir Ali was named the Scottish

president of Sipah-e-Sahaba. After it was banned in Pakistan and the

UK, heels at a memorial service at the mosque for the group's

assassinated leader. This journalist and writer on Pakistani fears that

should be links between Scotland and the terror group. It is a nasty

sectarian violence organisation, but we have evidence in 2002 that this

group was going after Western targets. So obviously it seems

disturbing that anybody in this country would have those kind of

link to a group like that. The document to BBC has obtained also

show that Hafiz Abdul Hamid of mosque in Edinburgh was the leader

of Sipah-e-Sahaba UK. In 2004 after the group was banned here he said it

would work for the political the group was banned here he said it

dominance of Islam. There is evidence his mosque sent financial

dominance of Islam. There is support to the group. Police say

they are now investigating. That investigation started today and we

will try to verify the claims that have been made in the media today.

That will take place from officers based in Gartcosh. It is hard to see

how long that will take, but we will make every effort to get to the

bottom of the claims that have been made today as quickly as possible.

Today's revelations and earlier claims about the Imam of Glasgow's

mosque, Scotland's largest, Eddery hastily convened conference

involving the wider Muslim community. This last week has been

the worst for our mosque in living memory. We know we cannot carry on

in this way. But we are agreed on one thing. We are determined to

continue to enrich the community fabric of Glasgow and Scotland,

building on our proud heritage, and we look confidently to the future in

a spirit of inclusion and unity. Sabir Ali is head of religious

events at the mosque. In Edinburgh, the leader of the Polwarth mosque

has yet to respond to the BBC. Nuclear waste is to be transported

from Dounreay in Caithness, in what's being described

as the biggest-ever shipment of highly-enriched uranium

from the UK to the United States. But some in the Highlands say

they're worried about how The Dounreay nuclear site, which is

being decommissioned, stores and undisclosed quantity of highly

enriched uranium. Now in a landmark deal, the UK Government is to censor

the hundred kilograms of the weapons grade material to America. In

return, the US will send a different type of used uranium back to Europe,

where it will be used to help diagnose cancer. The deal is being

welcomed in some quarters as one way of reducing Britain's stop Isle of

the clear materials. But here in Highlands leaders want safety

assurances at a time when the UK Government is set to axe the last

remaining emergency tug boat operating around the area's

coastlines. I need a lot of assurance, which I do not have just

now, on behalf of Island, and the first assurance I need is knowing

that our waters are covered if there is some sort of unthinkable

accident. It is unclear how the material will be transferred, but

the respect elation it will be flown across the Atlantic. Materials such

as this have been transported before, and occasionally and in

small quantities. So far we've been lucky. We are not always necessarily

going to be lucky, and the consequences of an air accident on

take-off or landing do not bear thinking about. Secondly, there is a

problem of terrorism. This is materialism' material that would be

attractive to terrorists, while on the Move it is susceptible. A UK

Government source has described the deal as a win- win. But others have

said the material should be dealt with closer to home. Some of the

material will go to other places to be made safer, but places within the

UK or at worst Njie bits of Europe. Certainly there is no need to send

anything to the elected states, and certainly no need for anything in

the States to be sent across Europe. The movement of nuclear waste is a

reserved matter, and SNP leaders have already criticised a separate

plan to fly waste out of Dounreay's closest airport at Wick. But the UK

Government says there are established procedures for the

transportation of nuclear materials, transfers which have happened across

the country for decades. He made up half of one

of the country's greatest comic double acts and he maintained

life-long links with his Ronnie Corbett died

today at the age of 85. Our Arts Correspondent Pauline

McLean looks back on his life Name, Ronald colli Corbett.

height was the subject of many of his own jokes. But his stature as

one of the country's top comedians his own jokes. But his stature as

was never in question. It goes back to a church youth club in Edinburgh.

A Church of Scotland upbringing, we had the youth club and put on shows

of Christmas and Easter and festival time. And we did a Christmas

pantomime and I played the wicked aunt in a pantomime. I was in drag

very early! At just over five feet tall, Ronald Belford Corbett

very early! At just over five feet continued to play schoolboys long

after leaving Edinburgh's Royal high school. In the 1960s he appealed to'

appeared in a famous Mayfair nightclub owner spotted in cabaret

by David Frost. That in turn introduced him to Ronnie Barker. As

part of the cast of the Frost report that you've a common bond. Two

former grammar school boys... I know my place. Who had not been

university educated. It's part one of the most famous double acts in

the world. For almost two decades, The Two Ronnies was one of the most

popular shows on British television. Fork handles, handles for forks. A

mix of sketches, comedy numbers, spoof newscasts, and Ronnie

Corbett's famous monologues. I told the producer this morning, I've had

enough. There is an awkward little lump in this chair. He said, "Don't

I know it". He came home often, indulging his love of beekeeping and

golf at his house. Retiring was never an option for Ronnie or his

wife Anne. She has been singing, dancing and acting ever since. It is

good night from me. And good night dancing and acting ever since. It is

from him. changes to its income tax policy,

after dropping plans to reduce Labour wants to put a penny

on all income tax rates. Here's our Political Correspondent

Glenn Campbell. The bad news for you all is that

this is a speech about tax. When Labour Frost said they wanted to put

a penny on all income tax rates, they promised a ?100 rebate for

lower earners. That was meant to be a temporary fix. To be replaced with

new protection in 2017 when Holyrood's tax powers are extended.

In the BBC debate, the party leader was pressed to explain how this new

protection would be achieved. You have new powers which allow you to

set the threshold rate we should set new thresholds to protect...

Changing the tax thresholds, the point at which people become liable

to pay a particular rate of tax adds complexity. And because it would not

only help those on the lowest incomes, but all income taxpayers,

that could add up to a significant amount of lost revenue. Perhaps

that's why I the time the SNP leader was cross-examining Kezia Dugdale on

the second TV debate, the idea had been dropped. Because of the changes

to the personal allowance I can 100% guarantee that everybody earning

under ?20,000 a year will not pay a penny more in tax. The Chancellor,

George Osborne, is raising the personal tax-free allowance.

Allowing Labour to save their extra penny would not increase what basic

ratepayers contribute now. My Scottish taxpayers would be paying

more than those anywhere else in the UK. In the Cairngorms, the

Conservatives condemn Labour's change of direction. They said they

were going to help restore earners in Scotland, and then they said they

were going to take that away. This is an embarrassment for Kezia

Dugdale. In Hollick, the SNP leader adds to the criticism. It is a

broken promise, but more than that it is really letting down the people

who most need the help of government. In Edinburgh, Liberal

Democrats say Labour is more in step with them on tax. Labour have moved

into the right place. It protects people on low incomes but it

guarantees investment on education, that is the right thing to do.

Visiting entrepreneurs in Edinburgh, Labour's shadow Scottish Secretary

defends his party's plans. Every single country in the world is

different tax rates in different tax levels, and we have said clearly we

can either stay on this downward spiral of austerity in Scotland by

being a conveyor belt for Conservative cuts in Westminster or

we can do things differently. Labour's trouble is that their idea

of doing things differently on tax has changed from one week to the

next. Well, it's over to the weather

outlook for tonight and tomorrow. Thank you. It was a lovely ends

today from any, and to start the night it has been dry but quite

chilly. Overnight the cloud builds. Temperatures recover, and there is

rain on the way. Through the early hours high-pressure slips southwards

allowing this weather fronts to arrive, bringing some fairly

persistent rain and some strengthening winds. But to start

the day tomorrow, from any central and eastern parts probably a dry

morning. The rain already set in across Hebrides and the West Coast.

It clock tomorrow morning, for eastern areas perhaps the odd spell

of mourning brightness, milder than this morning. That rain set in

across the West Coast and the Hebrides. Perhaps the odd shower

head that rain band but for most it is a dry start. That rain edges in

towards Orkney and will continue upwards towards Shetland as well

across most of Scotland through the course of the morning, slowly edging

its way eastwards. The further east you are, the drier and patchy at

that rain is likely to be. Edinburgh perhaps staying dry, but further

west difficult conditions on the roads with surface water and spray.

Similar for Northern Ireland with splashes across Wales. For most of

England it is dry with averages into mid-teens. For us it is cloudy and

wet. Some brighter moments towards the cost of Aberdeenshire and

Murray, but for many areas it is rain. The rain clears away towards

the south but the weather front becomes stuck just south of the

border, and then starts to come back north again. And as it does so, some

uncertainty on the speed of its progress northwards. You can see

they're pushing towards southern Scotland, perhaps the central belt

by mid-afternoon. South of the rain it is dry and bright in the

sunshine, and certainly drive for Highland and Grampian. Into Sunday,

low-pressure pulls away, but this other low-pressure system is nearby

meaning win at times in those conditions lasting with us through

to Monday. Our next update is during Breakfast

at 6:25 tomorrow morning. But, from everyone on the late team

here in Glasgow and around