:00:00. > :00:08.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:09. > :00:11.Tommy Sheridan was back in court today defending his ?200,000
:00:12. > :00:13.defamation win - ten years ago - against
:00:14. > :00:18.Appeal court judges are considering whether to overturn
:00:19. > :00:23.News Group Newspapers argue that because the former MSP was later
:00:24. > :00:27.convicted of perjuring himself, the verdict should be set aside.
:00:28. > :00:46.Ten years ago Tommy Sheridan walked out of the Court of Session,
:00:47. > :00:51.jubilant. What we have done in the last five weeks is the equivalent of
:00:52. > :00:55.Gretna taking on Real Madrid in the Santiago Bernabeu and beating them
:00:56. > :00:59.on penalties. He has just won a defamation case against the News of
:01:00. > :01:05.the World and was awarded ?200,000 in damages. The defunct paper
:01:06. > :01:09.claimed he was a swimmer and had cheated on his wife but after
:01:10. > :01:13.winning the case in 2006 his innovation wasn't to last. Four
:01:14. > :01:18.years later he was convicted of perjury and sent to prison. Now News
:01:19. > :01:23.Group Newspapers are appealing to have the verdict overturned. Back at
:01:24. > :01:27.the Court of Session, Mr Sheridan arrived for the hearing in front of
:01:28. > :01:35.three appeal judges. News Group Newspapers say the conviction for
:01:36. > :01:39.perjury is conclusive proof that he lied over central important part of
:01:40. > :01:42.his defamation case. Tommy Sheridan would want to read an e-mail
:01:43. > :01:47.exchange between use of the world executives, detailing what the
:01:48. > :01:51.newspaper had paid to send a witnessed described as flaky to
:01:52. > :01:56.Dubai in case she was recalled to give evidence. Tommy Sheridan told
:01:57. > :01:59.the court he had not lied in his defamation case, reading out a
:02:00. > :02:03.statement from a woman who in his 2006 trial had claimed she had sex
:02:04. > :02:08.with him many times, and later retracted it. Mr Sheridan said this
:02:09. > :02:11.was proof that the newspaper printed piece lies. The hearing will last
:02:12. > :02:14.here for three days. One of the accused in
:02:15. > :02:16.the Liam Fee murder trial has told a court of the night
:02:17. > :02:19.the toddler died. In a police statement
:02:20. > :02:20.read out in court, Nyomi Fee said she went to check
:02:21. > :02:37.on Liam and knew he was dead Family liaison officer Dorothy
:02:38. > :02:48.Miller ripped from a statement she has taken on March 26, 2014, four
:02:49. > :02:51.days after Liam was found dead. Miss Fee said she was in the living room
:02:52. > :03:00.with her partner Rachel Butcher decided to go and check on Liam, and
:03:01. > :03:04.noticed it that his party had moved and his was white. She said she
:03:05. > :03:09.lifted his hands up but they were floppy and she said she knew he was
:03:10. > :03:13.dead because he was so bite. She said she screamed for Rachel and
:03:14. > :03:18.called 909. The operator told how to perform CPR. She trotted over and
:03:19. > :03:26.over again but it wasn't working. She said Rachel had collapsed on the
:03:27. > :03:31.floor. A second statement made by Rachel Fee was read out to the jury
:03:32. > :03:34.by the family liaison officer. She also recalls what happened that
:03:35. > :03:43.night. After she heard a screen, Rachel says she rent the bedroom and
:03:44. > :03:46.saw William, pale, lifeless and limp. Greater described hearing a
:03:47. > :03:52.crackling sound and said, I don't know what this was but it will haunt
:03:53. > :03:55.me forever. In the statement, Rachel also said she screamed at another
:03:56. > :03:59.child who was there, saying, what have you done. She said the boy had
:04:00. > :04:03.not said a word but put his hands to his face and neck. The trial
:04:04. > :04:07.continues. Police are investigating
:04:08. > :04:09.what they've described as the "suspicious" death of a child
:04:10. > :04:12.in Glasgow three weeks ago. The toddler, believed to be
:04:13. > :04:14.14-month-old Inayah Ahmed, was reported to have become unwell
:04:15. > :04:16.at her home in Drumchapel. She was taken to the city's sick
:04:17. > :04:23.children's hospital where she died Police are following several lines
:04:24. > :04:27.of inquiry into the circumstances At Holyrood there's a battle
:04:28. > :04:34.building over the key post Tricia Marwick will step
:04:35. > :04:38.down on Thursday after She's urged reforms to strengthen
:04:39. > :04:45.the role of Parliament. And that's a key issue
:04:46. > :04:47.as MSPs consider how best to scrutinise
:04:48. > :04:50.a minority SNP government. This from our political
:04:51. > :05:06.editor Brian Taylor. Marwick attends upon the Queen,
:05:07. > :05:13.reminder that the remit is wide part", part diplomat, part keeping
:05:14. > :05:17.order in Parliament. Her deputies, Elaine Smith and John Scott, here
:05:18. > :05:21.welcoming the president of Ghana, are keen to step up. Miss Smith
:05:22. > :05:26.wants to inform colleagues first. John Scott is ready. I would aim to
:05:27. > :05:33.bring fairness to the job. I have at all times been kept awake at night
:05:34. > :05:37.by that, thinking if I am being fair and across the board to all members.
:05:38. > :05:44.The first presiding officer was David steel, followed by George Reid
:05:45. > :05:49.of the SNP then Alex Ferguson of the Conservatives took the post and
:05:50. > :05:54.finally, Tricia Marwick from the SNP, all left their parties behind
:05:55. > :05:57.when they took the job. Labour said it during the election that the
:05:58. > :06:00.preserving officer shouldn't come from the governing party. The SNP
:06:01. > :06:08.are more than happy to concede that is because as a minority, they can't
:06:09. > :06:11.afford to give up even one vote. Within the Conservative group, Murdo
:06:12. > :06:15.Fraser is seriously considering the prospect and is thought to have
:06:16. > :06:20.backing from Ruth Davidson. But would SNP members back a Tory,
:06:21. > :06:26.perhaps to remove one vote from Tory ranks. But some say it's up to
:06:27. > :06:30.Labour. Their former leader is a contender. Some in the SNP question
:06:31. > :06:35.her comments in the daily record where she said Parliament needed to
:06:36. > :06:41.correct government mistakes but she says she was making a general point,
:06:42. > :06:46.not singing out the SNP. I think it's about asserting the role of the
:06:47. > :06:50.Parliament. At different stages, we did different things better but our
:06:51. > :06:56.ambitions for the parliament, the role of the committees, scrutinising
:06:57. > :06:59.the government, cross-party, we can agree with that. It's not simply
:07:00. > :07:08.about government having a good idea and forcing it through because they
:07:09. > :07:09.have a majority. That is Labour's Ken Mackintosh in his election
:07:10. > :07:16.campaign video. He says he also Ken Mackintosh in his election
:07:17. > :07:20.seeks to spread harmony at Holyrood. We need somebody who can work with
:07:21. > :07:24.people, that against them. I have no particular agenda I am pursuing
:07:25. > :07:29.through the office of Presiding Officer, quite the reverse, I would
:07:30. > :07:36.work with others. A solution could be at hand. Gary Tank Commander says
:07:37. > :07:41.he will do the job. If he gets a throne.
:07:42. > :07:44.Hundreds of young lambs are being killed or injured
:07:45. > :07:47.in attacks by ravens in the north of Scotland.
:07:48. > :07:49.Farmers in Caithness have launched a petition calling
:07:50. > :07:52.for more effective action against the protected species.
:07:53. > :07:55.Scottish Natural Heritage says it will consider greater controls,
:07:56. > :08:10.The lambing season is normally the highlight of the year for sheep
:08:11. > :08:16.farmers like Ali and Martin Watson but then newborn stock is under
:08:17. > :08:22.attack from the common raven, which is wreaking havoc on their holdings.
:08:23. > :08:27.I have lost bubbly about 30 lambs to ravens this year, and I had not
:08:28. > :08:33.getting a chance to save any lambs either. Is haunting to see your hard
:08:34. > :08:38.work just lying there, dying, it's not nice at all, not only that, for
:08:39. > :08:42.the children to experience as well, it's very upsetting. Images of the
:08:43. > :08:48.slaughtered lambs are too gory to show you. The birds attack their
:08:49. > :08:51.eyes and tongue 's first. Here on this farm, there is evidence they
:08:52. > :08:56.strike when the sheep is giving birth. The carnage is repeated
:08:57. > :08:57.further north in Caithness, when farmers are reported hundreds of
:08:58. > :09:05.losses. The ravens are teaming up, farmers are reported hundreds of
:09:06. > :09:10.basically, and attacking the lambs. Which you didn't mind one or two
:09:11. > :09:18.over the season, but it's getting more and more, more of them are
:09:19. > :09:21.appearing. Ravens can be shot under licences issued by Scotland natural
:09:22. > :09:31.heritage but farmers say the rules on permits are far too restricted
:09:32. > :09:34.restrictive. It is now felt this has reached a climax in the needs to be
:09:35. > :09:40.serious control measures put in place, however we do believe that S
:09:41. > :09:44.and age could stick late season that would be permitted to carry out
:09:45. > :09:47.Raven control. Conservationists warned they will turn into any move
:09:48. > :09:55.to is taken off the protected species list but Scottish natural
:09:56. > :10:01.Heritage say they will heed the farmers calls. The talent for us is
:10:02. > :10:07.to find the most proportionate and responsive way of tackling the
:10:08. > :10:12.issue. It will be part of the conversation. Farmers throughout the
:10:13. > :10:14.area will be on high alert as the so-called bird of darkness continues
:10:15. > :10:19.to cast a shadow over the livestock and livelihoods.
:10:20. > :10:20.Edinburgh Council expect an independent inquiry
:10:21. > :10:23.into the closure of 17 schools in the city to conclude before
:10:24. > :10:27.They say the search for a chair - who'll determine
:10:28. > :10:32.the inquiry's remit - could extend beyond Scotland
:10:33. > :10:37.with the aim of having someone in place by the summer.
:10:38. > :10:39.Football - and Dundee United and Partick Thistle drew
:10:40. > :10:41.3-3 in tonight's Scottish Premiership match.
:10:42. > :10:43.And there were goals and incidents aplenty in the Championship playoff
:10:44. > :10:51.The visitors went ahead through this Millar effort
:10:52. > :10:56.McGregor then put the Edinburgh side ahead
:10:57. > :11:01.before a Hibs had a penalty claim dismissed when a Falkirk defender
:11:02. > :11:12.A mistake by Hibs keeper Logan then allowed Falkirk to equalise
:11:13. > :11:16.to leave the sides tied at 2-2 ahead of Friday night's
:11:17. > :11:36.Plenty of warm sunshine on offer for many of us today and how about this
:11:37. > :11:54.for an earlier satellite and radar picture? It's not often we see that.
:11:55. > :12:01.As far as the night and the overnight period is concerned, the
:12:02. > :12:05.emphasis on plenty of dry weather and clear skies, the exception being
:12:06. > :12:09.the far north, where we will see some mist and fog patches developing
:12:10. > :12:13.and a bit more low cloud in the far south-west of the corner. Tomorrow,
:12:14. > :12:19.if you are heading out tomorrow morning this is what you can expect.
:12:20. > :12:24.A bit more cloud around first thing in the far south-west, a few spits
:12:25. > :12:29.and spots of rain but elsewhere, plenty of fine and dry weather and
:12:30. > :12:35.some sunshine to. Afresh onshore breeze for many parts of the East
:12:36. > :12:42.Coast, some mist and fog patches for the far north of the country. That
:12:43. > :12:47.does quickly blown away during the course of the morning, the emphasis
:12:48. > :12:53.again on a fine and dry day, we can't rule out one or two showers
:12:54. > :12:57.pushing into some southern parts. A bit more in the way of cloud for the
:12:58. > :13:03.rest of the UK and some showers around, some of which are fairly
:13:04. > :13:11.beefy in nature. For us in Scotland, looking at 22 or 23, best in the
:13:12. > :13:16.West. As we head into Thursday, still under the influence of
:13:17. > :13:20.high-pressure, but bringing in a north-easterly airflow, taking
:13:21. > :13:24.temperatures back, particularly along the east coast, but not a cold
:13:25. > :13:26.day, and the best of the temperatures further west.