16/08/2016 Reporting Scotland

most high-profile Islamist preacher has been convicted of

support for so-called Islamic state. support for so-called Islamic state.

-- Anjem Choudary. A BBC investigation finds

the construction faults which closed 17 schools in Edinburgh

were much more widespread. I'm shocked, I'm more than shocked.

In my view, this is malpractice. Also on the programme,

we're live at the Olympics Can Laura Muir win a medal here?

There was disappointment in the velodrome for one Scottish cyclist.

Pressure grows on Aberdeen City Council to publish a secret report

into the roles of senior managers in the babies ashes scandal.

As Nicola Sturgeon prepares to meet EU nationals living in Scotland,

we speak to a German couple who've decided not

And it has been a beautiful day of whether right across the country,

finally, but will it last? Join me just before the end of the programme

for a full forecast. Thousands of children in Edinburgh

are preparing to return to school buildings deemed unsafe

following the collapse of a wall While they are now fixed,

a BBC Scotland investigation has found at least 30 schools

across the country have had Fiona Walker has been

meeting families affected. We were getting ready for school one

morning and we have the radio on. They got a text saying there had

been school damage and the school had been close. I thought I would

pass and see what was happening. I stopped the car in the middle of the

road, I was so shocked. This is why. This pile of rubble weighs more than

a turn and lies in the exact spot where Julia stands with her son

waiting for the school day to start. If it had happened during the day it

would have been a number of fatalities. You actually try not to

think about it because it is such a horrible thought. Parents were told

wall ties, like these sticking out, were defective. They hold the wall

together and connect them to the rest of the building. It turned out

all 17 schools built under the same private finance deal in Edinburgh

had some of these faults, so they were too dangerous to occupy. The

last of the repairs have now been finished in time for the school

going back after the holiday. But it wasn't just in Edinburgh. These are

pictures we have not seen before of inside the cavity walls at a school

in East Renfrewshire. We asked an expert what he thought of them. I'm

shocked. More than shocked. I would suggest it is not only contravening

standard practice, in my view this is malpractice. I would suggest some

of these things are very worrying indeed. A wall built like this, is

of these things are very worrying it safe? Is it safe? Well, no is the

of these things are very worrying answer. BBC Scotland has discovered

at least 30 schools across the country have had wall or header tie

defects that have had to be fixed over the last five years. 17 in

Edinburgh that we already know about. There are eight more schools

in South Lanarkshire had to install additional wall ties to ensure that

the outside wall was attached properly. At five more schools, the

impact was far greater. An investigation into the Edinburgh

schools will officially start tomorrow. The Council there says the

defects may not just be in schools, they are checking every public

building built the same way. It might be that this is a national

issue that has to be tackled in terms of how you supervise the works

going on, how they are undertaken. We have just tried to make sure that

Edinburgh schools are safe right now. However, it depends on what the

inquiry says. For now, children in Edinburgh have been reinsurer they

can go back to school. They believe that their walls are surely the

safest in the country. And Fiona joins us now from outside

Oxgangs Primary in Edinburgh That's right. They will queue up

right outside this wall as they have always done. And this is the wall

that collapsed. Very little evidence that it was a pile of rubble six and

a half months ago. Of course, what we can not see is what is behind the

bricks. That is extra steelwork and ties that we have been assured make

the building safe. Of course, this story has raised so many questions,

not least of which is how on earth could all of these schools have been

built in a way that has left the could all of these schools have been

walls defective and potentially unsafe? That is a question that we

hope to shed light on in a documentary next Monday at 7pm on

BBC One Scotland. It is called How Safe Is My School?

Callum Skinner's already picked up a gold and a silver at the Olympics,

but his hopes of more medals are over after he was

Our reporter Jane Lewis joins us now from the Olympic Stadium

Thank you very much. Quiet at the minute, but it is gearing up for the

evening sessions. We have already had some action with Scottish

interests, and we will look ahead to a couple of really big races from

Scottish athletes competing for Team GB out here in Rio. Let me bring you

more on the disappointing news that he talked about from a Scottish

cycling point of view. In the velodrome earlier this afternoon,

Callum Skinner was disqualified in the keirin. He had been given

another chance to make the semifinal of the keirin, but he was

discoloured fight for almost colliding with the American rider.

He has since apologised and says his disqualification was correct. I'm

sorry for cutting up the American. It is just one of these things that

happens. You could have no argument, it was quite clear? I kind of knew

myself, when I saw the replays, it was a fair decision. He does go home

with two Olympic medals, so it is not that bad. To the athletics, what

about the athletics from earlier today? Good news for Ilicevic or

them. She qualified and brilliant news for her. She has been plagued

with injuries over the last couple of years. Booking the automatic

place in the final. Her fellow Scots competing for Team GB in the same

event failed to qualify. But McColgan was relieved to get to the

final. I'm over the moon, there were a couple of times when I thought I

was going to go down. A lot of people were falling. I just stuck

in. I wanted it so badly. It was difficult to describe. Brilliant

news. Also good news for Scottish athlete Chris O'Hare, he is through

to the semifinals of the 1500 metres. Also doing well in his heats

to book his place in the semifinals. He qualified in fourth place and are

safely through. More on the action from the Olympic

Stadium in a minute. Away from the athletes and the sport, another

group of people running in Rio, helping to make sure the games are a

success. Hello and welcome to the 2016 Rio Olympics! They have added

colour and noise to these Olympics. But the volunteers play a vital

role. While the majority are from Brazil, others have come from

further afield. Hello! Having a good day? Where are you off to? I did the

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014. Obviously I got the bug from

that. I was on the Facebook groups. Somebody posted and said that the

applications for Rio are open. I thought, why not? It has been

fantastic. It has probably exceeded my expectations. All I have seen

before was quite negative stuff, not much positivity. But I have loved

every minute. I hope we can do that again tomorrow. This Scott is a

volunteer veteran. It's a big commitment, I have a full-time job,

family back home. They have put up with me going abroad for three weeks

to do this. There are lots of skills that you get, and you meet people

from all over the world. You integrate with other cultures and

people from other countries. It has been a very positive experience for

me. The games themselves, they have been fabulous. The volunteers have

played their part, on hand day and night to assist. And to entertain.

They are a noisy bunch, but they are doing a great job. Amy Doyle does in

the semifinal of the 400 metres hurdles later on. That is around

1:10 in the morning. She won her heat yesterday and is eyeing a place

in the final. After she runs, all of the focus will be on Laura Muir. She

is already in the final of the 1500 metres, she runs in that this

evening. The final is taking place at 2:30am. After breaking the

British record in the 1500, she is in good form and hoping for a medal.

It has been a long time coming since a Scottish athlete won and

individual medal at the games. Liz McColgan and Yvonne Murray get it

back in 1998. We are keeping our fingers crossed for Laura Muir. She

goes in the final of the 1500 metres. Go for a nap, make sure you

set your alarm clock, it could be a cracker.

As speculation continues about the future of Kinloss

army barracks in Moray, it's emerged the Ministry of Defence

has had confidential talks with senior officials at Moray

The MoD is currently reviewing its property assets

to try to save money and the local SNP MP Angus Robertson says he's

heard this could result in the closure of Kinloss.

But the MoD says no decisions have been taken.

Pressure is growing on Aberdeen City Council to publish

a secret report into the handling of the baby ashes scandal.

As we revealed yesterday, councillors are preparing to discuss

the authority's official response into practices at Hazelhead

Crematorium where babies were cremated with unrelated adults.

But a second external report about senior management

isn't being published, as Kevin Keane reports.

It is a report that was much anticipated, Aberdeen City Council's

response to the devious practices at its crematorium. But the briefing

contains little about who knew what, when. Instead, this is in a secret

report, seen by few, but said to be damning of those at the top. This

bereaved father is calling for the report to be published in full by

the chief executive, Angela Scott. His son died from cot death after

just a month and he says the council's handling of the issue has

added to his grief. We were promised honesty and transparency from the

Council, by Angela Scott herself. There is an opportunity to confirm

this honesty and transparency, and she seems to want to avoid it. I

think that detail needs to come out. You can omit the names and you can

still put the details after of what went on at Hazelhead Crematorium.

The report focuses on what senior officials did or did not do. This

man has come in for criticism after a ferry to slow cooking babies. He

remains in post as director of communities, housing and

infrastructure. The main report provides a detailed response to each

of the criticisms levelled at the crematorium. None of that point

addresses the precise question of who was to blame. The chief

executive told me accountability is happening, but it needs to be kept

private. The practices consistent with the legal framework and the

standards that the people of Aberdeen have the right to expect,

and I will continue to follow the process I need to do in terms of

holding stuff to account. Can you guarantee at the end of the process

that all of the information in this report will be out there? What I am

focused on is I am in a life process. I will not say anything

publicly that will compromise that life process. On the conclusion of

that, I will seek further advice around what I can or cannot do. For

now, the damning report into what happened that the most senior level

will remain secret. But pressure to publish is growing. As much of that

as possible, you have to get to the public. To give the public

confidence and families confidence that something is happening, it

should go into the public domain. I think I have supported right across

the council chamber. Tomorrow, councillors will discuss the main

report in this chamber. On a second report is presented, the doors will

close to the public and it will remain secret. -- when the second

report is published. People from other European Union

countries who live in Scotland will meet Nicola Sturgeon tomorrow

to discuss Brexit. The First Minister wants to reassure

EU citizens they're still welcome here, despite the UK-wide

vote to leave. But our political correspondent,

Glenn Campbell, has been meeting one German couple who have

decided not to stay. We are in the warehouse where we

store the goods. When Thomas Western came to live and work in Kirkcaldy,

it was supposed to be his last move. We have a stock of electrical

it was supposed to be his last move. if any of them goes faulty, we

replace them on behalf of retailers. He and his wife relocated from

Ireland. We love this country, we wanted to be here. We bought a house

to grow old. But the EU referendum has changed everything. The decision

to leave Europe was a decision that meant, for us, we had to leave, sell

the house and use the assets to reinvent ourselves. How do you feel

about that? We have a future here. We had dreams. I need a new dream.

Thomas is married to an artist who, like him, no longer feels welcome in

the UK. I cannot see myself living in a

country where I have to apply for a working permit and visa every time I

want it live in my own house. They have decided not to wait and see if

post-Brexit Britain makes them a better offer. What will you miss

most about living here? . My flends. My friends. What do they say to you,

when you tell them you have My friends. What do they say to you,

to go. Stay. Sorry, we have to stop here. The Westons are among 173,000

EU nationals living here in Scotland. The First Minister, Nicola

Sturegon, is trying to persuade as many as possible to remain. But the

Westons have made up their minds. To pack up and leave these shores, to

find a new home, in a country that is definitely remaining part of the

EU. Around 20,000 lambs are being bought

and sold at Europe's biggest one-day The mood at that market is seen

as a barometer of the health of the agricultural economy

of the north of Scotland. Craig Anderson has been finding out

whether that Brexit vote Snr farming, fishing and tourism,

industries which form the bedrock of many parts of the Highland and

Islands, but sectors where ups and downs in the economy are most keenly

felt, prices at this vast land sale are a keen indicator of how

optimistic farmers are for the future Brexit will be helping here

today because the strength of the pound has weakened and our lambs are

looking more of an attract position to exports. We will have to wait and

see what will happen, fingers crossed we will carry on. Up where

we are, without it, we are struggling. The UK Government has

promised to honour many current EU funding programmes to 2020 but

Scottish ministers say the guarantees don't go far enough, and

there are hundreds of millions of paments and subsidies that will

seize when Britain is free from Europe. The subsidies are wholly

inadequate. The #i78 pact in Scotland is that ?360 million

expected to come from Europe and agreed with Europe from 2020 that

the UK Government have completely failed to guarantee.

Over the past 25 years, some ?1 billion of European development

money has been invested in the Highland and Islands. It's affected

people from all walks of life, building massive bridges like this

one, to building fences for Crofters in the Western Isles but once the

one, to building fences for Crofters purse strings come back to

Westminster, the Government there will they be as sympathetic to the

places like the Highland and Islands? I would say look at what we

do. I was here in March to reach an agreement with Scottish Government

and partners for an Inverness city deal ina the UK Government is

putting in 53 million. Without some special deal, or independence for

Scotland, those vital EU funds will eventually dry up. Whether the UK

Government will be as generous towards the Highlands and eye lapsed

is a quay concern. Although at least today, sheep prices at the Lairg

sale were well up on last year. A look at other stories

across the country. Fishermen on the west of Lewis

are seeking compensation for lost earnings as salvaging the grounded

oilrig means they are unable to work The rig has been stranded on Dalmore

beach for over a week, leaking 12,000 gallons

of diesel into the sea. We have seen in Shetland the

fishermen got compensation when they were denied access and we would

insist that a similar compensation scheme is in place for our members

that have been denied access until it is removed.

Plans to close or cut down on maternity and in-patient hospital

services will be put out to consultation by NHS

The health board is considering proposals to save ?69 million

The public will be asked their views on the closure of Lightburn Hospital

and shutting the maternity unit at Vale of Leven hospital, among

The Inverness based life sciences firm Lifescan is planning to invest

The firm - part of US-giant Johnson Johnson -

currently employs more than eleven hundred people in Inverness,

developing and manufacturing products for diabetes treatments.

In the last four or five years we have invested over ?40 million in

the facility. Going forward we are investing a further ?8.7 million. It

is a Tryone men dues signal that J J in the Highlands is here to stay.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced extra funding from what's

known as the Attainment Scotland Fund at Burnfoot Community

The latest allocation sees almost ?3 million distributed across 46

primary schools in Scotland where a significant number of pupils

These include Burnfoot and St Margaret's, both in Hawick.

It is being replicated across the country. There are now mother than

300 schools benefitting from attainment funding and that will

increase as we go through this Parliament. - there is now more

than. It's one of her most

personal projects to date. National poet Jackie Kay has written

a poem for her grandfather to mark the centenary

of the First World War. It features in a film made

by her grandson Matthew Kay, which was introduced

at the Edinburgh Book Festival this Our arts correspondent

Pauline McLean reports on four generations of the Kay family -

starting with Private Joseph Kay. It was my dad, of course, a

soldiers, 16, 17 when he joined up in the 14-18 war. It was difficult

to get a job in the early 1920s, so he was on what you call the spare,

in the corporation where you hung about until you got picked up, sow

started conducting in the trams then became a driver. - so he started. It

struck me that he wouldn't be wearing the tram drivers' uniform at

all had he not survived the war and if he had not survived my dad

wouldn't have been born and if he hadn't been born, I wouldn't have

been adopted by him. I was thinking about lines, broken lines and the

way they are affected and created by chances. He didn't talk about the

war very much at all. Sometimes a wee song from the trenches here and

there, and maybe some funny episode or whatever. He prepared to sing

some of the songs that were - oh, what a lovely war and that, some of

the old ones he remembereded. Often it is a poet's job, really, to try

and find a way to voice the stories that are not worded. If you look at

the First World War poets, they tried to say the unsayable and tried

it speak the words that weren't actually being said. I think

sometimes, when somebody has had that experience of war, it was very,

very common for people not really to be able it talk about it and that

silence becomes part of the story. In my grandfather's cakes I remember

him vividly as a man who loved to sipping and a man of great warmth

and generosity. I remember him as a wee girl. He died when I was four.

My son, Matthew has made this film that honours his great grandfather

and my dad's father. There is something really lovely about that

generational line that makes our family storey. It is a kind of joint

family, team evident, isn't it, dad? Time for the weather now

and its such a lovely evening here in Glasgow that we've sent

Chris doon the watter to the Riverside Museum

on the banks of the Clyde. Bot brt Good evening. It is a

beautiful evening down here on the Clyde. Sailing boats on the water

behind me. That's the Royal Yachting Association preparing for a taster

day for some schoolchildren here to. You can come down and see some

Olympic sailing on the big screen, too. It has been a beautiful day of

weather. 27 was our top hot spot in the north West Highlands, the

weather. 27 was our top hot spot in warmest part of the UK today. This

evening, lovely evening sunshine across the country. Here is the

chart from 7.00pm. You will notice there is little in the way of

weather on it. It stays dry and tonight, long, clear spells for

many. There will be mist and low cloud falling across eastern parts

of the country. And through parts of the eastern central belts and

towards tie side. Temperatures, in towns and cities no lower thank 12

but in the country side into single digits. Tomorrow, dry, bright and

sunny day for many. Early morning mist and low cloud will quickly burn

back as it did this morning. And another fine day, you will notice on

the chart, around the west coast and for the robery December, cloud and

spots of rain, an approaching weather front. A closer look at the

warmest part of the day, 4 O'Clockpm. And for many, across the

mainland, 20 to 24, pleasant conditions indeed but certainly kin

tire, up through western parts of Argyll across the Hebrides, Sky are

Skye, cloud and outbreaks of rain throughout the afternoon. Elsewhere

plesant apt. Where we have the cloud and threat of rain a touch cooler,

for many, 20 Celsius or more. A touch cooler down the east coast

with a breeze off the North Sea which is light to moderate

southerly. To end the afternoon, lovely spells of sunshine for most.

If we look at the pressure chart you will notice that weather front

bringing the rain is pulling away by Thursday, so Thursday itself, it

doesn't look too bad. It is dry for most, more in the way of cloud, a

touch cooler as well. The rain in the west clearing. Friday, it goes

downhill turning wet and windy as the weather system pushes in from

the south-west. The next few days look lovely as indeed it does down

here on the Clyde. Back to you. Thank you very much. That's

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