:00:09. > :00:14.All 7,600 pupils affected by Edinburgh school
:00:15. > :00:16.closures now have alternative plans for their education
:00:17. > :00:22.Many will be bussed several miles across the capital.
:00:23. > :00:24.But some of the younger students at one secondary won't
:00:25. > :00:27.return till Wednesday - a week and a half since the closures
:00:28. > :00:35.We will confirm when pupils are returning...
:00:36. > :00:39.waiting all week for, Susan's son is in the first
:00:40. > :00:56.returning to school on Tuesday in one of 16
:00:57. > :00:57.temporary classrooms being
:00:58. > :01:00.delivered this weekend. But for his mum, it has been a stressful week.
:01:01. > :01:04.It just feels as though we have been up to 90 all week, trying to find
:01:05. > :01:07.out what the contingency plans for the council are, I just feel as
:01:08. > :01:10.though they have just, the council has been really slow with it.
:01:11. > :01:12.Hundreds of pupils are already being accommodated in other schools. More
:01:13. > :01:15.Some will have lessons at Napier University.
:01:16. > :01:21.council has apologised to parents but say the alternative arrangements
:01:22. > :01:26.I know it is still an effort and a slight
:01:27. > :01:30.disruption for pupils to move from one location to another, but they
:01:31. > :01:33.are moving with their class groups and existing teachers, so they are
:01:34. > :01:36.still in the same classrooms, you know, not physically, but with their
:01:37. > :01:37.classmates and teachers, and that will stay
:01:38. > :01:42.period of time that they have to be outside of their own school, so to
:01:43. > :01:54.is a concern, but not all parents are worried it will affect pass
:01:55. > :01:58.rates. It is a critical year for my oldest son, he is attempting to get
:01:59. > :02:03.good grades in his highers to get to the university of his choice.
:02:04. > :02:07.Thankfully, he has been working hard, the school have been
:02:08. > :02:09.supporting him since the preliminary results came through, so touch wood,
:02:10. > :02:16.A week on since the safety concerns were
:02:17. > :02:23.first raised, 14 schools in the city remain closed.
:02:24. > :02:27.Alternative arrangements are now in place for all pupils, but if the
:02:28. > :02:31.buildings cannot be fixed soon, the question is just how adequate are
:02:32. > :02:40.More questions are being raised over how the completed school
:02:41. > :02:44.This was done by the construction company involved -
:02:45. > :02:49.Earlier, I put it to our education correspondent Jamie McIvor that many
:02:50. > :02:51.people would be surprised to learn the council didn't actually
:02:52. > :03:01.sign the buildings off when they were completed.
:03:02. > :03:09.A process of self certification was used. The construction company was
:03:10. > :03:13.responsible for signing off the building, for reassuring Edinboro
:03:14. > :03:16.council that had been properly built, complied with necessary
:03:17. > :03:20.arrangements. Council building officials would not have been
:03:21. > :03:24.involved in that stage of the would-be would have been involved
:03:25. > :03:32.earlier in the construction process. I have been speaking to an industry
:03:33. > :03:37.expert who argues that the fact that self certification took place as
:03:38. > :03:41.sinister, it is a common arrangement, but he does argue that
:03:42. > :03:44.it is a system that can be potentially open to abuse.
:03:45. > :03:47.A young boy giving evidence in the Liam Fee murder trial has
:03:48. > :03:49.told the court that he strangled the toddler.
:03:50. > :03:51.The jury at the High Court in Livingston were played
:03:52. > :03:54.a pre-recorded video of the child talking to a police woman
:03:55. > :03:58.It was filmed two days after two-year-old Liam died.
:03:59. > :04:10.The jury watched three and a half hours of video evidence on the fifth
:04:11. > :04:22.day of this trial. The boy being questioned is the one who is accused
:04:23. > :04:24.falsely blaming for Liam Fee's death.
:04:25. > :04:26.He was found dead in
:04:27. > :04:29.Glenrothes. The young boy was asked questions about the day he died. The
:04:30. > :04:32.child broke down and struggled to speak at times when he was
:04:33. > :04:35.questioned. It was put to him that he knew something serious had
:04:36. > :04:38.happened that Saturday night. He was asked, what did you do that was bad?
:04:39. > :04:41.He replied, I strangled Liam. He raised a hand to his mouth and was
:04:42. > :04:45.asked, what happened when you took your hand away? He said that Liam
:04:46. > :04:50.was sitting up. When questioned further, he said that Liam was
:04:51. > :04:56.looking at the telly. Earlier, the boy had described accompanying
:04:57. > :05:00.others into Glenrothes on the bus. He said he had been with the couple,
:05:01. > :05:03.with Liam and another boy. He said they had lunch at McDonald's and
:05:04. > :05:07.Liam had eaten a happy meal. He said he played with Liam and the other
:05:08. > :05:27.The Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto
:05:28. > :05:29.for the Holyrood elections - giving top priority to extra
:05:30. > :05:34.They'd fund that by increasing income tax - although they insist
:05:35. > :05:36.a Westmister increase in the personal allowance will help
:05:37. > :05:45.This from our Political Editor Brian Taylor.
:05:46. > :05:57.We like to organise our visits to send a message in pictorial terms...
:05:58. > :05:59.Exactly one week ago, Willie Rennie finds out
:06:00. > :06:15.with animals. And so at the tea party for the press, he ensured that
:06:16. > :06:18.the only pigs were small, sweet and above all stationary.
:06:19. > :06:22.was at a children's play area in Leith. Why? Willie Rennie explained
:06:23. > :06:25.the event symbolised their pledge on childcare which will be extended to
:06:26. > :06:29.a wider group. The Lib Dems would raise income tax by 1% at all levels
:06:30. > :06:37.in Scotland, devoting the cash to education. Inevitably, some might
:06:38. > :06:41.frown at the tax hike. In the last Parliament, Willie Rennie was one of
:06:42. > :06:46.five Lib Dems. Are they now on the slide, falling behind the Greens?
:06:47. > :06:50.Definitely not, says the leader. With our record of punching well
:06:51. > :06:55.above our weight, and a positive, optimistic agenda to make Scotland
:06:56. > :06:58.the best in the world again, I think the Liberal Democrats are back to
:06:59. > :07:05.Being back to our best with that agenda means we can grow
:07:06. > :07:08.with more MSPs, punching well above our weight. I think the chances are
:07:09. > :07:14.For the NHS, they would recruit more GPs.
:07:15. > :07:21.50,000 more affordable homes with plans to keep them warm. They would
:07:22. > :07:24.reform police powers and decriminalise sex work. They say
:07:25. > :07:27.they would transform mental health care, more cash going into the
:07:28. > :07:33.system, in particular doubling the support for younger people. They
:07:34. > :07:36.intend to reform drugs policy, offering help to users, not prison,
:07:37. > :07:41.and ultimately allowing the personal use of cannabis. And they intend to
:07:42. > :07:49.ban fracking, as well as banning opencast coal mining as part of a
:07:50. > :07:52.drive towards renewable energy. So a fun launch, but Willie Rennie knows
:07:53. > :07:57.politics is not child's play. He is seriously determined to win seats
:07:58. > :08:04.and influence policy. Brian Taylor, Reporting Scotland.
:08:05. > :08:15.Here is the weather. Wintry conditions continuing more
:08:16. > :08:20.especially across the north tonight and into tomorrow. Snow potentially
:08:21. > :08:25.falling to low levels at times. Else where tonight dry and clear. A
:08:26. > :08:33.widespread frost developing. Risk of ice on untreated roads and surfaces.
:08:34. > :08:37.We will continue to see these showers tomorrow morning. Wintry in
:08:38. > :08:42.nature, gradually becoming fewer and further between through the course
:08:43. > :08:47.of the day. Around lunchtime tomorrow southern and Central
:08:48. > :08:54.Scotland a lot of dry and bright weather. One or two sharp showers
:08:55. > :08:56.across the southern uplands. Turning cloudy across the Western Isles
:08:57. > :09:00.across the southern uplands. Turning tomorrow afternoon. Across the north
:09:01. > :09:04.sunshine and showers. They will become fewer and lighter and they
:09:05. > :09:09.will tend to become a high ground feature. The rest of the Duke
:09:10. > :09:15.tomorrow afternoon, sunshine and showers across Northern Ireland,
:09:16. > :09:18.northern England, for much of central and southern England this
:09:19. > :09:25.band of rain continues to track south eastwards. Cold northerly here
:09:26. > :09:29.across the UK tomorrow, temperatures will struggle to reach double
:09:30. > :09:33.figures. Into the evening across Scotland, Schober is dying out and
:09:34. > :09:45.becomes dry and clear and cold across the board. Rain feeding then.
:09:46. > :09:49.That is a sign of things to come. For Sunday and East West split.
:09:50. > :09:53.Cloudy in the West and light patchy rain being pushed in. The best of
:09:54. > :09:54.the conditions will be in the East. From everyone on the late team
:09:55. > :09:59.here in Glasgow and around