20/03/2017 Reporting Scotland

New powers to tackle pyschological domestic abuse.

We speak to one woman whose experience has helped

Controlling the friends that I saw, the way that I spoke, the close eye

war. It was complete control of every aspect of my life.

Police divers begin their search of a Lanarkshire canal for this

schoolgirl who went missing 60 years ago.

A doctor tells a disciplinary hearing she was in a state

of disbelief, fear and panic over the temperature of ebola

Energy and attack, what Gordon Strachan is looking

for from his men ahead of their crucial

And the story of the 80's darts legend Jocky Wilson

Many victims of domestic abuse have suffered in silence for years

because the law didn't recognise controlling or coercive

But now the Scottish Government is to create a new law to deal

with the problem of psychological or emotional abuse in relationships.

This report by our home affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson begins

with the powerful testimony of one survivor.

For seven years, Nicola was the victim of psychological and coercive

abuse. Difficult to report and proved, it was insidious and

damaging. I was living in terror, intense fear, intense anxiety. Not

depression in the way people experience depression, but extremely

unhappy and constantly, constantly on edge and in fear of danger and

the consequences of not complying with the behaviour of the abuser

expected of me. Her abuser was arrested but there was no evidence

against him, apart from the damage to her life. There was financial

abuse, controlling the finances in a way that was very disadvantageous to

me. Controlling the friends that I saw, the way that I spoke, the close

that I wore. It was complete control of every aspect of my life. At a

woman's Centre in Glasgow, the first woman met survivors of abuse. For

the first time, this bill aims to define it as a crime whether it is

physical or not. The bill talks about a series of incidents, which

physical or not. The bill talks would be two or more incidents of

abuse. If you are subject to that psychological abuse, the impact on

your life can be just as severe as somebody physically abusing you. It

is important the legal system recognises that. The bill has been

welcomed by survivors groups as encouraging victims to come forward.

We know from young women they struggle to notice, recognise and

address patterns of coercive control and domestic abuse within their

relationships. This legislation is important because it addresses the

whole pattern spectrum of domestic abuse, including other forms and

physical abuse. The government says it knows legislation won't end the

scourge of domestic abuse, but it is hoped the bill will be passed by

Holyrood this year. Police divers have started

to investigate five sections of the Monklands Canal in the search

for a North Lanarkshire girl An operation began last week to scan

a section of the waterway in an attempt to find the remains

of 11-year-old Moira Anderson. Convicted paedophile,

Alexander Gartshore Difficult and highly skilled work.

Two meters of self and the meter and a half of water above. The divers

work in shifts because you cannot stay in this canal but too long. The

search is underway to see if the remains of Moira Anderson are here,

a short distance from where she was seen 60 years ago. Five areas of

interest were identified by experts working here last week. This is

about recovering and assessing what there is in the water and the silt.

I am pretty confident we will recover. Anything recovered will

have to be brought to the towpath. There is a number of tents that have

been set up. We have a number of specialist resources, police search

teams and staff from the University of Dundee so any bone structure at

all recovered can be quickly identified if it is human or not.

Moira disappeared after getting on a bus, she was just 11 years old.

Prosecutors have said if local bus driver, Alexander Gartshore had been

alive, he would have been charged with her murder. The search has been

a long one. This operation in a cemetery four years ago yielded

nothing. The operation here could last the best part of the week, but

the hope is at the end of it there will be some answers for her family

and some conclusion to an investigation which has lasted 60

years. There are fresh tensions this

evening between the UK and Scottish governments over the announcement

of the triggering of Article 50. Holyrood's Brexit minister,

Mike Russell criticised the UK Government after claiming

conservative politicians in London "forgot" to inform Scotland

of the date when Article 50 The Prime Minister was in Swansea

today as part of a UK Well, I am very clear I want to

ensure we get the best possible deal for the United Kingdom that works

for everyone across the United Kingdom and in all parts of the UK,

when we entered these negotiations. I have set out my objectives and

those include getting a good free trade deal, they include putting

issues like our continuing working together on issues like security at

the core of what we are doing. We are going to be out there

negotiating hard, delivering on what the British people voted for.

Our political correspondent Glenn Campbell is outside Holyrood.

How has today's developments been perceived?

It has been known for some time Theresa May would trigger the

process of leaving the European Union by the end of March. There

hasn't been much surprise about the 29th being the date chosen. But

nonetheless, Scottish ministers are not happy they weren't told in

advance. The fact the Prime Minister didn't

advise us of the announcement today is symptomatic of the disdain and

disregard which he has exercised throughout this whole period. It is

nine months since the EU referendum and nine days to go, and the fact

she is not engaging properly with the Scottish Parliament or the

Scottish Government, says all we need to know about how this right

wing Conservative government is treating Scotland.

The Scottish Conservatives have hit back accusing the SNP of hypocrisy

and double standards. They say when Nicola Sturgeon stood up in

Edinburgh a week ago and announced plans for a second referendum on

Scottish independence, she had not consulted anyone outward of her own

circle in advance. And Glenn there's a busy few days

at Holyrood coming up? Yes, MSPs will debate and vote on

Nicola Sturgeon's plans for a second referendum over the next couple of

days. She will ask them to give her the authority to request from the UK

Government, the power to hold a second independence referendum and

she wants Holyrood to be able to set the date for that. The question and

to decide who gets the vote in any future referendum. The Greens will

back her on Mac, they want to ensure EU nationals and 16 and 17-year-olds

are included and their vote should give Nicola Sturgeon an overall

majority here at Holyrood. But the Conservatives, labour and Liberal

Democrats will vote against. Interestingly, the Tories are trying

to make sure the referendum doesn't take place before April 2019. In

other words, until after the two-year Brexit negotiations are

complete. But potentially that would make it possible for there to be

another independence referendum later in spring 2019 and that is

still within the First Minister's time frame. She said if parliament

here votes for another referendum, that it would be democratically

acceptable for Theresa May not to accept that. But Labour are saying

the First Minister routinely rejects votes in the Scottish Parliament

when opposition parties defeat the government. Thank you very much.

A doctor has admitted misleading other medics after the warning sign

of a raised temperature for Pauline Cafferkey was concealed,

hours before the Scottish nurse fell seriously ill with the Ebola virus.

Dr Hannah Ryan though, has denied misconduct,

at a tribunal hearing today in Manchester.

The images are familiar and the repercussions of Pauline Cafferkey's

illness are still ongoing. This was one of the four occasions when the

Scottish nurse had to be isolated for treatment for Ebola. Unwittingly

contracted well volunteering in Sierra Leone, there is a chance and

initial warning sign could have been spotted on her return a Christmas

2014. Today's medical practitioner's Tribunal heard a doctor that

travelled with Paul Vicky to Heathrow concealed her temperature

during checks. Dr Hannah Ryan on the right, as admitted misleading others

of the temperature of 32 centigrade rather than 38.2 which is above the

warning level for Ebola. That enabled Miss Cafferkey to catch a

connecting flight to Glasgow, where she fell seriously ill the next day.

The tribunal told were chaotic scenes at Heathrow that they with

some returnees worried they would miss their flight. In a return to

hurry up the process, the medics agreed to take and record each

other's temperatures. A few days later, Dr Ryan admitted what she had

done. In 2016, Miss Cafferkey was cleared of misconduct over claims

she had hidden her infection. The panel ruled her judgment was

impaired by her illness. The tribunal continues tomorrow.

Offshore workers have voted to reject a new pay

offer from employers, in a move which could pave the way

Unite said 81% of its members who took part in the consultative

The unions will now consult about the next step to be taken,

but say a ballot on industrial action is likely.

The Offshore Contractors Association, which represents

employers, said it's "extremely disappointed".

We were quite clear with the work first that if they reject those of,

the next stage will be a move towards industrial action ballot.

There are now procedures in place the union will have to follow. That

is the next age. It is very likely, given the strength of feeling, but

there is time for more negotiations. But this is a clear message from the

workforce, enough is enough. The Scottish government is to create

a new law to deal with the problem of psychological or emotional

abuse in relationships. Residents of a Perthshire village

are debating how to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds left to it

by a former German prisoner of war. A health care revolution

is being predicted, following new funding

for the Edinburgh Researchers there are using

artificial intelligence to create robots that will learn

from their environment, This from our science

correspondent Kenneth Macdonald. It is lovely to see you. And it is

lovely to see you. Soon this will be showing people around shopping mall

and adding to its artificial intelligence. There has been some

big advancements in AI in human language and processing and it has

to do with new machine learning methods and also much faster

machines. She is one of a new generation of robots. They learn

from what is around them, especially us. We are interested in how to

develop robots that are programmable by everyone, so they can learn from

us in a natural interaction. The Centre for robotics is a joint

project with two universities. It is funded by the research Council and

that is now upping the funding. The end, to revolutionise health care.

It means technology that could work to help disabled people walk here.

They are developing a robot body to help people with autism to read

other people'splaces. To work out help people with autism to read

somebody is annoyed with you, is difficult for us, but the robot

allows you to isolate parts of the face you can look at face

recognition in or find a way. Husky looks less human. Its job is to go

places we can't and learn as it goes. With robots that are able to

go to hazardous places and do dangerous things, the difference

here is they are teaching husky to think for itself. Humans will still

make the big decisions, everything else is down to the robot. All of

this confluence of robotics AI, social network systems and knowledge

sharing is driving a huge, new revolution. We have to invest in

that here in the UK in Scotland, Edinburgh

because if we don't do it here, somebody else will do it and we will

be playing catch-up. Robots will still be able to do our dirty work

and dance, but they will be watching, learning and changing our

lives. A Perthshire village is deciding how

to spend a windfall of hundreds of thousands of pounds left to it

by a former German prisoner of war. Heinrich Steinmeyer,

who served in the SS, outside Comrie towards the end

of the Second World War. He died four years ago, leaving his

entire estate to the village. Nestling in the Perthshire hills,

camp 21, as it was known during the Second World War. Around 4000 German

soldiers were held at this camp during the war, including summer,

a's most committed Nazis, among them a young 19-year-old SS soldier,

whose time here in Perthshire would transform his life. He was Heinrich

Steinmeyer, captured in France in 1944. I don't actually know the

history of where he was posted... 1944. I don't actually know the

nearby Comrie, a friendship which 1944. I don't actually know the

would last a lifetime began. The show of kindness was such a moving

experience for him, that when he died, he decided to leave all his

experience for him, that when he worldly goods to the people of the

village. Two years before he died in 2013, Heinrich Steinmeyer remembered

how the camp had changed him. TRANSLATION: I was in the third hut

on the front. It was a 50 man barrack. We were prisoners of war,

and yet they treated us well. Each hut housed up to 100 German

prisoners. When he returns in later years, it was the hills that

Heinrich remembered. He just stood and looked all round about him. He

says, these hills are what kept me going during the war. Now, the

villagers in Comrie have to decide how to spend Heinrich Steinmeyer's

legacy, ?400,000 he decreed should benefit older people. Our thought is

that it could help groups and individuals, get people out of their

homes into the fresh air around the countryside. And Heinrich

Steinmeyer's legacy will also ensure that friendships forged between

Steinmeyer's legacy will also ensure enemies 70 years ago in a small

Perthshire village will not be forgotten.

The one million disabled people living in Scotland are all able

to get help when they travel by plane, train or ferry.

That's because of European Union legislation, and it

As we all prepare for Brexit, our reporter Ian Hamilton has been

Morag and her husband are regular flyers. She can remember only too

well how difficult that was before the EU regulated the system for

disabled flyers. I do remember a time when you were flying, nobody

knew who was helping you, how you were getting on the plane exactly.

But now, it's much better organised. I know except the where to come,

there's plenty of people on hand to support me. And make sure that I get

on and off the plane safely. -- exactly where to come. Since 2006,

it has been the responsibility other ports to provide assistance to

passengers with disabilities. European law underpins the right of

travellers like Morag and I to get the help we need at airports. Here

in Glasgow airport, they assist 103,000 disabled passengers every

year. Glasgow airport say they have no intention of winding back the

clock when the UK leads the European Union. It is not just air travel

which disabled people benefit from. Getting help on ships and trains is

also big elected by the EU. And the blue badge parking scheme runs

across all member countries. Organisations of disabled people are

concerned about any future erosion of these rights. Those rights would

not have existed unless European law had influenced British law. And we

are frightened that in the future, similar decisions made by the

European court will not apply in Britain. And so, some of the

entitlements in terms of discrimination that will be

available to European citizens won't be available to British citizens.

The UK Government has taken steps to reassure people with disabilities.

European Union disability legislation is so embedded in

European law, it won't be easy to pick it apart. Like everything else

regarding Brexit, it is just another unknown.

The Scotland football manager believes the national team's

fortunes could be transformed, IF they can beat Slovenia on Sunday.

Gordon Strachan and his players are currently fifth

in their World Cup qualifying group and are currently preparing

for Wednesday's warm-up match against Canada.

Anyone who has seen Gordon Strachan working at close quarters knows none

of his passion for this job has waned. But increasingly, Scotland's

results are undermining him. The next few days, beginning with the

friendly against Canada, could be pivotal. It is a hard time of the

season, where you can see the final hurdle, but it's hard work getting

there. We have got guys in promotion battles or relegation battles, it is

a hard, hard time for them, and for the fans as well. But we would like

them to be along there to give us that support, but we need it.

Scotland need all the support they can get right now. The group table

makes for grim reading far games in. With second placed Slovenia

preparing to visit Hampden Park, the manager is determined to restore

supporters' Faith. There is a disappointment in the Scotland fans

at the moment, we understand that. Will you have got to do is, in the

next couple of games, especially Sunday, make them feel better. There

is a chance on Sunday to change the whole thing. That's the great thing

about football, but you can change the whole atmosphere with one

result. The Scotland manager maintains his positive outlook,

despite an unimpressive start to the qualifying campaign. But there is a

sense that if that upturn in fortunes he desires does not

materialise on Sunday, then not only will it represent an end to

qualification hopes, but also very possibly to his time as the national

manager. He was an unlikely sporting hero,

but the darts player Jocky Wilson found fame by winning the world

championship title twice. This was at a time when darts on TV

regularly drew audiences Well, Jocky's rags-to-riches story

is now a stage play. Our arts correspondent

Pauline McLean reports. JOHN PARROTT: One dart could give

him the World Championship... Yes! He may not look like like a sporting

hero, but jockey iron put darts, and Scotland, on the map. You're on your

own, with the punters at your back, expecting you to play like a

champion. This new show revives the story of Jocky Wilson for a new

generation. He's your classic underdog, not just in terms of any

disadvantage he ever had in his life, and becoming world champion in

spite of that, even in the darts world, he was at a slight

disadvantage because he was about 5ft tall, and the darts board was

further away to him, proportionately. Family pints would

you have during a fairly tense game? About five or six pints. Even when

you're on the television? Yes. How can you see the board? It's a funny

old game. Jocky was a household can you see the board? It's a funny

name, and people loved him. But just as quickly as he stepped into the

limelight, he withdrew from it, spending the last 20 years of his

life as a recluse. Today, the game may have changed enormously, but

modern players believe they own Jocky a great debt. Whenever you

speak to Scottish people, Jocky Wilson is the first name they come

speak to Scottish people, Jocky out with. I can remember sitting and

watching him with my dad, the way he out with. I can remember sitting and

played. They always said, the worse his snatch got, the better he

played. Some of the stories about him, he was some passenger the new

Embassy world professional to champion! The play focuses on an

early episode in Jocky's life when he hitchhiked across the Nevada

desert. No need to recreate the smoky bargains of the plus. The fact

that the drinks were involved, it does not mean that they weren't

really determined and under pressure and practised and practised and

practised. They expect 100-plus... In this show, at least actor Grant

O'Rourke doesn't have to throw a dart. Let's have a look at the

weather. Good evening to you. Today we have got a mixture of sunshine

and blustery showers. That showery theme very much continues over the

next day or two. The night and into tomorrow morning, there will be a

wintry flavour. That has prompted the Met Office to issue a yellow

weather warning. He is the reason why. These showers continue to pile

in across western and central Scotland tonight. We are expecting

some snow, even to lower levels at times, accumulating over the high

ground. The odd rumble of thunder, some hail in the mix also. And with

clearing skies at times, iced will be a risk on any untreated surfaces.

All in all, some difficult driving conditions. Temperature-wise, we are

hovering around freezing tonight, Sju slightly below in shelter.

Tomorrow morning, the risk of snow and ice very much continuing. As we

go through the day, I think the snow will become confined to the

mountains and hills, largely rain at lower levels, and there will be some

sunshine in between the showers Aspas we have had today. Immoral

afternoon around three o'clock, a lot of dry to come. The showers

continuing to affect Argyll, through much of the Highlands, towards the

Western Isles and across Orkney. It will be feeling cold again, with

brisk westerly winds, especially around the coast. Tomorrow evening,

the showers gradually become fewer and further between. Clearing skies,

a touch of frost developing and the risk of some icy stretches.

Wednesday, some uncertainty risk of some icy stretches.

regarding this area of low pressure. It is due to bring some rain to our

shores. How far north that goes is open to doubt that the moment. It is

expected to fall as snow over the hills and mountains. Largely dry,

though, further north. Further ahead, high pressure moving in, so

largely dry by day, with frosty nights.

Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.

The Scottish Government is to create a new law to deal with the problem

The United Kingdom will begin the official process of leaving

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