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Two former teachers have been convicted of abusing boys

at a residential school in Fife in the late '70s and early '80s.

The First Minister describes talks about Brexit at

the British Irish Council as "frank and robust".

First strikes on Scotrail - now the RMT ballots for strike

The Scotrail boss says it's a deliberate national

The two young lifeguards being praised for their part

in rescuing five people after their car plunged

I ran down the beach and sought two people jumping out of the car so I

phoned the Coast Guard. But should that be upgraded

to an Olympic silver medal, after the Russian who took gold

was revealed as a drug cheat? Two former teachers have been

convicted of sexually and physically abusing six boys at a residential

school in Fife in the late Paul Kelly and John Farrell carried

out their crimes while working at the former St Ninian's

school in Falkland. Paul Kelly and John Farrell were

supposed to care for pupils at St Ninian's. Instead, when they worked

at the school in the late 70s and early 80s, they sexually and

physically abused boys as young as 11. The foreclosure in 1983, St

Ninian's was run by the Christian order for children from broken or

abusive homes, and the school was supposed to give them a chance of

life but in some cases that didn't happen. The trial at the High Court

in Glasgow heard that, as well as being indecently assaulted, some

boys were subjected to a brutal regime of corporal punishment. They

were repeatedly punched and kicked, hit with belts and, in one case, a

boy's head was slammed off a think. Investigators began investigating

when a small number of pupils came forward. In 2012, three independent

people came forward saying they were victims of abuse at St Ninian's 40

years ago, all from different parts of the country, unbeknown to each

other that they were reporting these offences at the same time as the

others. As the trial got under way, the former pupils, now middle-aged,

relived what happened to them at St Ninian's in the hope of bringing

their abusers to justice. It was seen as an important step. It

changes your spirit. You know then that your whole experience, as awful

as it has been, has come to an end because you have been believed.

People know it has not been your fault. The crimes against these

boys, those assault carried out by those who are supposed to care

protect these boys, are deplorable and it is only down to the courage

and bravery of the victims to come forward and disclose these offences.

The former pupils suffered may now feel justice has been served, but

the horrific memories of what happened to them at St Ninian's will

probably never fade. This has been a difficult

case, hasn't it? Yes, it has been a long and

distressing case, a 30 week trial so complicated it took the jury eight

days to come back with its verdict, and much of the evidence has been so

harrowing, we haven't been able to report it. Paul Kelly and John

harrowing, we haven't been able to Farrell originally faced more than

50 charges. Ultimately, Kelly was acquitted of 22 charges and Farrell

was acquitted of 18. But the charges they were convicted of are still

extremely serious. After the verdict, I spoke to a former pupil

and, like many classmates, he didn't want to be interviewed but he did

say he was happy with the result. In terms of what happens next, Paul

Kelly and John Farrell were remanded in custody. They will be sentenced

at a later date by Judge John Matthews. It looks like they will

face lengthy jail terms. It's been suggested that

all devolved governments across the UK should have to approve

the timing of the start of the formal process

of leaving the EU. Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones

argued for the move at an emergency meeting of the British-Irish council

in Cardiff - which Scotland's First Minister described as "one

of the most important ever Our political correspondent

Nick Eardley is there tonight. This meeting was called

today to try and find a common way forward

for the different But there are also some key

differences. Two of the UK's nations, England and Wales, voted to

leave, while Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay. Carwyn

Jones's suggestion like parliaments and governments should have to

approve the timing of the formal process of leaving is designed to

start to bridge some of those differences but, as I have been

finding out, that might not be easy. Cardiff, a city which voted firmly

to remain in the EU, the capital of a country which voted out. Closed

today to a summit of devolved governments, themselves divided over

what happens next. The British Irish council met today to discuss the

challenges of Brexit and a common way to work forward. To work

together Doctor Who there are different standpoint on stability

and prosperity. Nicola Sturgeon made clear she wants Scotland to protect

its relationship with the EU. We have different interests. In

Scotland, we voted to remain so my job is to seek to protect our

interests. Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster thinks the

decision UK wide has to be respected. We have to respect that

the question was asked of the whole country. WAG what does the host

think? Do I think it is possible for there to be different relations

between the constituent nations individually with the EU? I hope so,

because from our perspective we have a good relationship with the

commission. It depends how flexible the union wants to be. Theresa May

says she wants UK agreement before starting the formal process of the

UK's leading the EU but, even the disagreement the different devolved

governments have, is that possible? Voters have given the politicians a

difficult task to reach negotiation. There are very different positions.

2016 has been the year of breaking presidents and having to do things

and new. This will be a totally new process. Carwyn Jones thinks he

might have a solution. Any future deal should be ratified by all four

parliaments in the UK in order to get the greatest power. Theresa May

said last week she wanted it before get the greatest power. Theresa May

triggering Article 40 that all parts of the UK were comfortable. How will

that be made reality? Carwyn Jones's proposal is one way. The Scotland

Office minister at today's talks says no country should be able to

halt the process. No part of the UK has a veto. It's a responsibility of

the UK Government to reach that UK negotiating position and to lead

those negotiations with the EU. On the UK's future outlook, more talks

to come in uncharted waters to be navigated.

All of these different perspectives to come together. Where does the

process go? In many ways, Sally, bridging those questions is the

million-dollar question, how to that common ground. I think we will see

more talks in coming weeks. They will doubtless threw up more

questions. What we will start to see after that formal proposals. Once we

have more of an idea about what Brexit looks like for the UK

Government, we will have the Scottish Government and other

devolved government is offering their opinions on what they think

could work, what needs to be improved, what needs to be changed.

As we have seen today, there is still a long way to go before you

have a UK wide agreement, which is what the Prime Minister wants.

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Still to come on tonight's programme:

Never mind the Buzzcocks, it's all about the crofts.

We preview a photographic exhibition of abandoned buildings

in the Western Isles by former punk drummer John Marr.

In sport, the Russian doping scandal affects one

And is the standard of Scottish football good enough?

Hearts are dumped from the European competition by Maltese opposition.

RMT union members working for Virgin East Coast

trains are to be balloted on industrial action.

It means the potential for more disruption for passengers

already affected by strikes on Scotrail services.

Tonight, the managing director of Scotrail has said he believes

Steven Duff is at Aberdeen station for us tonight.

Virgin East Coast operate services to Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee,

Edinburgh to London King's Cross. The potential for disruption, RMT

balloting its members amid claims the company is bulldozing through

cost-cutting measures that could lead to job losses. This comes as

the union is in dispute with ScotRail over driver only operating

chains Crush -- driver only operated trains. The ScotRail managing

director is claimed all this evidence points to a concerted

campaign by the RMT. The RMT has called for a similar dispute with

Virgin Trains east coast, confirming this is part of a national campaign

about RMT policies, not what is best for Scotland. I am convinced that,

if we are allowed in Scotland to come together and resolve on a

genuine base is what the issues are that are best for Scotland's

modernising railway, we will have a solution. The RMT says, yes, we are

involved in a national campaign against driver only operated trains

on safety grounds. On the ScotRail dispute, it is calling on the

company to get back round the table again to find a resolution. We are

not quite facing a national strike in Scotland on the runways, but we

are looking at two of the major operators looking at industrial

action at the same time and all of the disruption that comes with that.

The energy firm Ineos have come out fighting for fracking,

launching a stinging attack on green groups.

The boss of Ineos Shale says Friends of the Earth "scaremonger"

and are blinded to the benefits of extracting gas from underground.

But the group says that's a "mark of desperation"

as Ineos, they say, are losing the argument.

Here's our correspondent, Andrew Kerr.

It's the biggest energy dilemma of our age. Fracking could give

somewhere like Grangemouth a huge jobs boost or it could be bad for

your health and the environment, depending who you listen to. The

petrochemical giant Ineos has been on a charm offensive, explaining how

drawing gas from underground could work. The gloves are off in a fight

with environmental groups. We see a lot of misinformation put out by

various parties and I would describe some of that is scaremongering. The

evidence for this technology is overwhelming. The evidence that it

is environmentally alternative, if we are going to supply our economy

in the next couple of decades, is overwhelming. This scaremongering

Barb is targeted at Friends of the Earth. Most of Scotland is against

the idea of fracking the central belt, so they know they are going to

lose and this is a mark of desperation, taking us on and

personally insulting us. The Scottish Government moratorium on

fracking continues, with independent reports you back by the end of the

year, followed by public debate. The company at the heart of this say

that is welcome but it is taking too long, as they seek to benefit from

fracking. Ineos will start importing shale gas from the US in late

September to be processed in Grangemouth, but they would far

rather use gas fracked from Scotland. It is clear that Ineos

feel they are on the cusp of something big but environmentalists

are keen to dampen down that prospect.

Two young lifeguards are being praised for their part

in rescuing five people after their car plunged

A 14-year-old girl managed to jump out of the vehicle. All five were

treated for shock. Watching the water today, sisters

Kayleigh and Vicky Rede lifeguarding, but yesterday's

emergency is still on their minds. The car was parked here yesterday.

Suddenly, the engine revved and shot across this promenade. It went two

metres of the promenade and into the water. It was high tide at the time.

Luckily, Kayleigh and Vicky were on the beach. They heard the commotion

and saw what was going on and they responded. A lot of people gathered

quickly and they rent -- I ran down the beach and I saw two people

jumping out. I radioed because God. jumping out. I radioed because God.

-- the Coast Guard. The public helped. It is understood that the

driver needed help getting to safety. Vicky has been training with

driver needed help getting to her rescue board and she immediately

travelled to where the car was thinking. I don't know how fast it

would have been, as fast as I could, to get there as quickly as possible.

The RNLI as seven of these lifeguard stations at beaches in Scotland, in

the front line of keeping people safe. One of the big differences

between lifeguard and lifeboats is that lifeguards have a presence on

the beach during the day and they are working with the public to

prevent incidents from happening. Thanks to the team here, five people

are alive and well. A Scottish military unit

is recruiting women It comes as the ban on women

fighting in close-combat roles is being lifted

by the Ministry of Defence. The Scottish and North Irish

Yeomanry is giving potential recruits a taste of army

life this weekend. The military, getting in step with

society. That's how the army sees lifting the ban on women in close

combat roles. Here, executives and bosses are getting a taste of

military life. A weekend exercise, hosted by the army's newest

military life. A weekend exercise, regiment, the Scottish end of Irish

Yeomanry. A reserve unit that is now the first in Scotland actively

looking for women to join their ranks. Women have been serving on

the front line for many years and in many roles. Medics, engineers and

interpreters, for example. But those are what they call supporting roles

and the main difference now is that they can serve in close combat roles

which the military defines as closing with and killing the enemy.

which the military defines as For women on the exercise today,

it's not about how or where you fight, it's about opportunity. There

has never been any reason why that shouldn't be the case, it gives

women the opportunity to do everything the men can do. It should

be the same for men and women, if you want to do something you should

be able to do it and not be excluded because you are a woman. Senior

officers insist standards will not be, eyes. We have males who cannot

reach that is not as if we will stop that. They need and opportunity,

they want the opportunity, the opportunity now exists." That roles

for this unit will be open from November. It will be 2018 for the

infantry, Royal Marines and RAF Regiment.

Let's get all the sport now from Rhona.

One of Scotland's greatest athletes, Yvonne Murray believes she has been

cheated out of an Olympic silver medal because of the

Murray won a bronze in Seoul in 1988, the Russian who took gold

was revealed as a drugs cheat five years later.

Murray suffers from severe depression, on her behalf, husband,

Tom Murray-Mooney has appealed to the International Olympic

Committee, to upgrade the medal, an appeal which has been rejected.

Tom, this is the medal in question, a bronze medal. This is a treasured

possession for Yvonne. As you believe and she believes it should

be upgraded. We believe it should be upgraded to a silver medal.

Very good bronze medal for Yvonne Murray.

Ran and got the bronze medal. Behind the winner seven encode from Russia.

1993, she tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. It has

always upset Yvonne, that her medal was not upgraded. You received a

always upset Yvonne, that her medal letter from the IOC, what did they

say. It would be contrary to jeer process

and natural justice. They don't feel in a position to

proceed with any potential reallocation. Are you encouraged at

all by the IOC's treatment of you? Do you think you may eventually get

what you want? Firstly, I don't think so, but given the first letter

we got back, they did not even get the event right, it was 3000 metres

steeplechase, which she never competed. I think it is too big for

them to take on. The standard of player in Scottish

football is simply not good enough. That's the view of former Hearts

assistant manager Billy Brown after his old side were dumped out

of the Europa League It's not the first time Scottish

clubs have been humbled by supposed Hearts would be booed off the pitch

after they were humbled by Birkirkara, the first leg in Malta

finished 0-0, the Maltese side controlled the tie.

On social media the former captain Michael Stuart said:

they had a penalty saved and scored a late consolation goal. But this

season, Scottish sides have lost European matches from sides from

Malta, Luxembourg and Gibraltar. Teams are about the players you've

got. I don't think we have the players in this country. We are not

good enough. We are not good enough, the standards have dropped. When you

think back to not many years ago that we had Henrik Larsson in this

country, Paul Gascoigne, Brian Laudrup, world-class players. We

haven't got anything like that now. Hibs are also out although they gave

a good account against them -- account of themselves beating the

Danish side in Copenhagen. John McGinn had his spot kick saved as

the Easter Road side lost out in the penalty shoot out.

Leicester City take on Celtic tomorrow in Glasgow.

The English champions caused one of the greatest upsets in sport

last season as they won the English Premier League title.

Our senior football reporter Chris Mclaughlin's been speaking

They were last year's footballing fairy tale, training here this

evening at Celtic Park ahead of their match with the Scottish

champions tomorrow. Their manager has been speaking to the media. Does

he expect tomorrow's game, which is essentially a friendly, do have a

competitive edge? I heard a few people billing this game, talking

about this game as a Battle of Britain, Scotland versus England,

can that add an edge to tomorrow's game? There is no battle. There is

an Italian. game? There is no battle. There is

Peace and love. Peace and love sounds quite rock 'n' roll, Sally.

He shot to fame as a teenager, drumming with punk

But John Marr has found a new life on the Isle of Harris,

Now some of his pictures are on show in Glasgow.

John Marr has lived in Harris for 14 years, he moved his business

building high-performance engines there from Manchester. Then he

started taking pictures, documenting decaying buildings and abandoned

croft houses across the Outer Hebrides. It is more relevant to me

than going into an old museum or something. Because this is the real

thing, this is what real people left behind. It also tells me something

about the people who live on the island. Although there aren't any

people in any of the pictures, you get the sense of the people who

lived in these houses, by the things they left behind. This is all very

different from what we know of your past life as a punk band drama. --

drummer. I guess so, the band split in 81 and I did a few freelance

things for a couple of years after that but eventually I just dropped

the music thing. Now it looks as though one spin off from his

the music thing. Now it looks as photography might be a new

initiative to bring some of these abandoned homes back to life, lived

in again by local people. The housing body on the island saw them.

They want to acquire some of them, renovate them to the point where we

can actually see people move back into some of the houses. Possibly

some of the one that our own exhibition now. That would be a

really nice photo, to cap the whole thing off, at some point seeing

people move in. The exhibition, part of architecture and design

Scotland's say hello to architecture programme runs at the Lighthouse in

Glasgow until the end of August. Let's see what we can expect from

the weekend weather. Good evening. A mixed bag in terms

of weather over the weekend. This evening, most of us will stay dry.

We will see some bright spells of sunshine. Showers across eastern and

north-eastern areas will clear way to the North Sea and leave a dry

night. Some clear spells across eastern Scotland especially. The

cloud will increase in the west followed by one or two showers in

towards the Western Isles by the end of the night. Most of us holding up

into double figures. Fairly muddy and close nights to come. Tomorrow,

dry for most with spells of brightness and some sunshine for

Eastern and central areas especially at the start. This patch of rain

will push to the west. It will gradually across the country during

the cause of the day, becoming much lighter and patchy. Southwest,

tomorrow afternoon, the Glasgow area and pert Shyam Sterling shire

outbreaks of rain. For much of the South East and eastern coastal

areas, towards Aberdeenshire holding onto largely dry conditions with

some spells of brightness and sunshine. Temperatures peaking 19 or

20 degrees, pleasantly warm. Northern Isles holding onto largely

dry conditions and across much of the north west, the Western Isles

looking fairly cloudy with further outbreaks of rain. Brisk southerly

winds for western coastal areas and the Western Isles. Temperatures 15

to 17 degrees. Hill walking and climbing, more North Western ranges,

some outbreaks of rain. Perhaps some brightness. Nine to 12

Celsius on the summit. And the wind is coming from the south, south

west, 25-30 mph. For the more southern ranges, a lot of dry

weather, perhaps some brightness and sunshine at times, especially for

the Borders hills. Wind coming from the South or Southwest. Mean speeds

of 25-30 mph. There will be a fair amount of cloud around and further

mostly light and patchy outbreaks of rain. Sunday, another weather fronts

coming our way into the Southwest. Mostly dry start. The rain will push

across the country as we go through the course of the day. Around 19

Celsius. Monday, some showers and longer spells of rain, fresh

westerly winds and a cooler field. Now, a reminder of

tonight's main news... A major police operation is underway

in the German city of Munich There are reports of

several casualties. The attacker or attackers are

thought to still be at large. Two former teachers have been

convicted of abusing boys at a residential school in Fife

in the late 70s and early 80s. And that's Reporting Scotland.

I'll be back with the headlines at 8 and the late bulletin just

after the ten o'clock news. Join me, Katie Derham,

as I don my dancing shoes once again