:00:15. > :00:16.The headlines on Reporting Scotland this Thursday lunchtime:
:00:17. > :00:19.Party leaders are among the people casting their votes as the polls
:00:20. > :00:25.And a grieving family calls for a review of automatic
:00:26. > :00:33.early release of prisoners in England and Wales.
:00:34. > :00:36.People across Scotland are casting their votes at
:00:37. > :00:41.Four million people are registered to vote in the election,
:00:42. > :00:45.which will see 129 MSPs returned to the Scottish Parliament.
:00:46. > :00:49.And for the first time in a Holyrood election, 16 and 17-year-olds
:00:50. > :00:58.Our political correspondent, Lucy Adams, reports.
:00:59. > :01:07.Smiles, sunshine and a surfeit of handshakes. SNP leader Nicola
:01:08. > :01:13.Sturgeon arrived at the brewhouse community Hall with her husband and
:01:14. > :01:19.SNP chief executive Peter Murrell. Kezia Dugdale cast her vote in
:01:20. > :01:25.Edinburgh, accompanied by her partner, the wheeze riddle. Scottish
:01:26. > :01:30.Conservative leader Ruth Davidson also voted in Edinburgh with her
:01:31. > :01:35.partner, Jen Wilson. Willie Rennie, the Liberal Democrat leader, cast
:01:36. > :01:43.his vote in Cambridge, and the Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick
:01:44. > :01:46.Harvie cast his vote at the Glasgow Kelvin target seat for the Greens.
:01:47. > :01:50.People have been headed to the polling booths today for the first
:01:51. > :01:55.Scottish parliamentary election since the parliament was created but
:01:56. > :02:03.the first in which 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote
:02:04. > :02:06.for 129 MSPs. About for me and people are registered to vote in
:02:07. > :02:12.this election. Each will be asked to mark a crossed to select their
:02:13. > :02:19.contingency MSP, of which some 73 will be elected, and to vote for the
:02:20. > :02:23.regional MSPs allocated to parties through a form of reportable
:02:24. > :02:29.representation. Polling booth will close at 10pm and ballot papers will
:02:30. > :02:34.be hand counted through the night, with the first results expected
:02:35. > :02:36.around two-way and live coverage by the BBC through the night. -- two
:02:37. > :02:37.a.m.. Members of the jury in the Liam Fee
:02:38. > :02:41.murder trial wept as they were shown a video of the toddler's body filmed
:02:42. > :02:43.by detectives Jurors immediately asked for a break
:02:44. > :02:47.after watching the 12-minute film that included distressing images
:02:48. > :02:50.of the young boy lying in his pyjamas on the
:02:51. > :02:53.floor of his bedroom. Rachel and Nyomi Fee deny murdering
:02:54. > :02:57.Liam at a house near Glenrothes The trial at the High Court
:02:58. > :03:04.continues. A Renfrewshire family is calling
:03:05. > :03:07.for an independent review into the automatic early release
:03:08. > :03:10.of prisoners in England and Wales. It follows the murder of their son,
:03:11. > :03:13.Craig Hepburn, four years ago at the hands of two men
:03:14. > :03:36.who were being supervised Create happy earn, a member of the
:03:37. > :03:44.Milngavie pipe and, was 19 when he was murdered near Huddersfield any
:03:45. > :03:48.family visit. He was attacked by Anthony driver and Luke Elliott, who
:03:49. > :03:55.stabbed him 11 times and kicked him as he lay bleeding. Both were on
:03:56. > :03:59.licence, released early from prison. Craig's parents wonder why the men,
:04:00. > :04:05.who each had a string of convictions for violence, were free to kill
:04:06. > :04:11.their son. If the courts made them serve the full time it would have
:04:12. > :04:16.saved. Tougher sentences given out to crimes like this and they would
:04:17. > :04:21.have to serve their home time and not be allowed out early and if they
:04:22. > :04:26.were out on licence they should carry that through. The National
:04:27. > :04:30.offender management service carried out a review of the case last year.
:04:31. > :04:35.It revealed Luke Elliott, convert that of murdering Craig, was
:04:36. > :04:41.recalled to prison for breaching his licence conditions that was
:04:42. > :04:44.rereleased. Driver has 54 convictions and was also on licence.
:04:45. > :04:48.The review says he was not sufficiently controlled within his
:04:49. > :04:55.licence after breaching its conditions several times. For every
:04:56. > :04:59.paragraph in that report it ends with, there are lessons to be
:05:00. > :05:03.learned. We would like to see those lessons learned that you will be
:05:04. > :05:10.sitting with another family ten years from now and those same
:05:11. > :05:12.lessons will have to be learnt. The National offender management service
:05:13. > :05:17.says it will carefully consider the findings in this case but could not
:05:18. > :05:22.say if its recommendations had been carried out. The Hepburn family want
:05:23. > :05:25.an inquiry into early releases in England to ensure other families do
:05:26. > :05:26.not suffer as they have. Another ?450 million is being set
:05:27. > :05:29.aside to compensate Clydesdale Bank customers for mis-sold payment
:05:30. > :05:30.protection insurance, taking the total cost of mis-selling
:05:31. > :05:33.to just over ?2 billion. The vast majority of the new
:05:34. > :05:35.financial provision is coming from the National Australia Bank,
:05:36. > :05:38.the former owner of As Lucy Adams said earlier,
:05:39. > :05:49.the polls are open until 10pm and then the ballots will be counted
:05:50. > :05:51.throughout the night. We'll be on-air with our election
:05:52. > :06:06.results coverage, We're an air from 10:30pm and we
:06:07. > :06:11.will be with you tonight, bringing you all the key moment. Our
:06:12. > :06:14.reporters are on location at times across the country. We will
:06:15. > :06:21.broadcast live from Shetland to Dumfries. I'll be offering analysis,
:06:22. > :06:29.inside, assessment of the results as they come in, the personalities and
:06:30. > :06:33.the policies on offer. I'll have pretty news from across the count
:06:34. > :06:37.and will keep you up to date with headlines in Scotland and the rest
:06:38. > :06:42.of the UK so you don't have to miss a thing. Scotland's political
:06:43. > :06:49.landscape looks at to change tonight. We will show you how using
:06:50. > :06:54.state of the art graphics. Last time we voted in 2011 this was the
:06:55. > :07:02.result. The Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Lib Dem 's Orange and
:07:03. > :07:08.SNP yellow, and there were also 56 MSPs elected through the regional
:07:09. > :07:12.vote, including a couple of Greens. Eight regions, seven MSPs apiece.
:07:13. > :07:21.Tonight we start again. The map is about to be redrawn. Here in our
:07:22. > :07:25.election cafe we bring to get their media spin doctors and voters to
:07:26. > :07:31.give us their reactions to results as they come in and we will keep an
:07:32. > :07:40.eye on social media so used the # SP 16. Join us at 10:30pm on BBC One
:07:41. > :07:42.for the most comprehensive election coverage in the country.
:07:43. > :07:44.Now let's get the polling day weather outlook, and Sarah
:07:45. > :07:57.It's looking like a decent day for most of us, some lovely blue skies
:07:58. > :08:03.across Aberdeen sure and it is looking bright and breezy foremost
:08:04. > :08:07.this afternoon, but we are seeing a fair amount of cloud across the
:08:08. > :08:11.borders, that will gradually break up, in between it looks like a
:08:12. > :08:14.lovely day but with cloud and rain affecting the western isles, that
:08:15. > :08:19.will push in towards the Highlands and become lighter and more
:08:20. > :08:24.fragmented, but it stays breezy with strong winds, elsewhere a lovely
:08:25. > :08:29.afternoon, decent spells of sunshine and in that sunshine we already see
:08:30. > :08:38.temperatures reaching 16 along the Mori coach, perhaps elsewhere 14
:08:39. > :08:42.Celsius and winds will start to ease, so we decent end to the day
:08:43. > :08:48.for most, then overnight it will stay largely dry with the odd spot
:08:49. > :08:54.of rain in the far north, and clearer spells, so-called than last
:08:55. > :08:59.night, two or three in more rural spots. Then tomorrow we see this
:09:00. > :09:05.weather front linger across eastern Scotland, so we will hold onto more
:09:06. > :09:11.cloud that in general tomorrow looks like it isn't day. Fine and dry
:09:12. > :09:14.weather, good spells of sunshine, especially for western parts of
:09:15. > :09:19.Scotland. Perhaps the odd spot of rain up towards the north-east but
:09:20. > :09:20.best temperatures in the West. We'll be back with more
:09:21. > :09:24.news, sport and weather From everyone on the lunchtime team,
:09:25. > :09:30.have a very good afternoon.