07/04/2017 Reporting Scotland

one consult si which supports self-employed people. Software is a

big focus for us and a shortage of engineers is a problem. With skills

shortages, recruitment specialists say this is an area of concern after

Britain leaves the EU. Access to skilled people from the EU is a real

challenge. It is parts of our plan to make sure we have people for the

industry in the long-term. We would love to see more people coming from

within the Scottish population and joining the sector. But it is not an

overnight solution. It will take a long time to train people. Today's

other report shows the problem is not widespread. Almost everyone

needs some tech skill and we are not keeping pace. Chambers of Commerce

asked member what is are the most important skills and three quarters

said computer skills, communicating through IT, handling data. But more

than half say the demands of IT are putting extra pressure on staff and

a third are struggling to meet customer requirements. This is

impacting on every employee in the workforce today that does require to

have these basic skills, technology is moving at a fast pace and

business and our staff are not keeping up with that. Do the workers

think they have the skill they need? Probably not. Definitely lacking in

them. Probably an age thing. I think imquite well trained for the job I

do. Also I have children and they're into IT. They're good and could

teach me. We have personal training and go through the training

programmes and if there is major changes, it is almost self taught. A

will the A lot of jobs s seem to be threatened by technology. Where work

meets technology, the race is on to harness it before it harnesses our

jobs. The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon,

met the former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

in New York last night. They chatted backstage at the Women

in the World conference, where they each gave

separate, live interviews. From New York, here's our political

correspondent, Glenn Campbell. They welcomed her like a celebrity

and interviewer Tina Brown asked her about the US election. President

Trump is the president of United States and I respect that. She took

care not to renew her criticism. I'm here as the guest of the United

States just now... LAUGHTER But I want to be allowed back in in

future. She praised German's Angela Merkel for standing up to the

president and heaped praise on his defeated rival. What Hillary

Clinton, she has been a trail blazer for women in politics and pleads I

easier for women like me in politics. I think for that, I and

women across the world, owe Hillary Clinton a debt of gratitude. The

First Minister was asked why Holyrood has three female leaders.

Something in the water! Exactly. Or something in the whisky. Something

in the whisky. To describe her relationship with Theresa May. We

both like shoes. That is a good starting point! She criticised the

treatment of female politicians in the media after this front-page. So

this you know tendency to reduce women to body parts or to, what they

wear or their hair, it is not innocent and it is not something we

should just laugh off. It is a deliberate attempt to demean women

and we should speak out about it. Mr Her contribution was well received.

She was may favourite person speaking today. Oh, my God. Perfect.

She was really good. I love what she said. We need more women like her.

Awesome. I loved her. Over seas endorsement for a politician billed

here as queen of Scots. You're watching BBC

Reporting Scotland. The remains of an Edinburgh woman

who has been missing for 15 years The photographer who became his own

subject when he spiralled Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has

signed a new four-year deal He's already led the club

to the league title this season and remains on course

for the domestic treble. The former Liverpool boss says

agreeing a contract extension Here's our senior football

reporter Chris McLaughlin. After news that a major

announcements was coming, this. Celtic Football Club is delighted to

announce that we have agreed a new contract with Brendan. The term of

the contract will be four years. And it will run to June 2021. This was

Rogers taking the job last May a big name and a big reputation. And this

was him just last week, League Cup in the bag, celebrating the title

with eight games to spare and on course for the treble. I have loved

my life in Glasgow. It has been a great city. People have been

fantastic. Really loved living here. For me, Celtic's the greatest club

in the world. I have the privilege to manage it and I want to make it

the best I possibly can. It is warding off invaders from south of

board hear the have been linked with Brendan Rodgers. You know, whatever

scenario at perhaps Arsenal or Spurs, he has been linked with the

top jobs in England. The news might not have been expected, but it will

certainly be welcomed by the Celtic fans, Brendan Rodgers simply in

their eyes can do no wrong and of course we know this deal does not

necessarily mean he will stay until 2021, but the four years in itself

is pretty significant. Why? Well, there are some here who believe that

in four years time this club could go on to break a record and secure

ten league titles in a row. Now, who's your bet

for the Grand National? The most famous horse race

in the world takes place tomorrow, and, for the first time in a long

time, a Scottish-owned horse One For Arthur is

highly-fancied amongst the 40 Meet One For Arthur and his two

owners, friends with an intriguing partnership name. Our other halves

play a lot of golf. We don't mind. We are delighted! We have been at

school together, pony club together and we had kind of gone our separate

ways, and then we found our friendship in this yard, and we

thought it would be fun to go into partnership. After is part of

Lucinda Russell's yard near Kinross. And the word is, if you fancy a

flutter, he's a horse in form. We go there with more than hope, we go

with a strong level of expectation. So, you know, I am as confident as

one can be going in for a race like this. It has been a while, almost 40

years, in fact, since the last Scottish winner. This was TechHub

stick coming home first in 1979. It takes a year of preparation to get a

horse ready for the most talked about horse race in the world. So,

what makes One For Arthur want to watch? I suppose the horses that we

have run in it before have been fantastic courses but they really

needed heavy ground. This horse is better on soft but he can cope with

good ground as well. It's something that I really want to do, it is not

just for Scotland, it's for Britain and it's for the team here, for his

owners, for everyone connected with him. I think he deserves his place

this year. He's done really well this season and he deserves to be

down there. All we want is for him to come home safe and sound, enjoy

his race, and anything else would be a bonus. It certainly would, a huge

financial bonus, with ?1 million awaiting the winner.

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited has reported an overall

increase in passenger numbers of just over 15%

The Scottish Government-owned company said more than 1,600,000,

The business operates 11 sites in the Highlands,

Western and Northern Isles, Argyll and Dundee.

Inverness, Sumburgh, and Dundee were among its busiest.

Graham MacIndoe was a successful photographer

who went from the streets of West Lothian to taking portrait

pictures of some of the world's most famous celebrities.

He became addicted to drugs and ended up

During his devastating descent into drug

addiction, he turned the camera on himself -

giving a remarkable insight into an addict's life.

An exhibition of those photos is now going on display

at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

A warning, this report contains images of drug use. I think it is

the content, because it shows you... For photographer Graham MacIndoe,

there is no normal exhibition. It tells the story of his descent into

chaos, caused by addiction to drugs. After growing up in West Lothian and

studying at the Edinburgh College Of Art, he moved to New York to do

portrait pictures of some of the biggest stars in the world. The

stresses of his life led to a reliance on alcohol, cocaine and

then heroin. I was having a good time, I was drinking heavily, people

were doing drugs I had never tried. I was just like, try that. It

started off as partying and using sometimes with friends and it turned

into a real serious habit, which turned into addiction, then became

something that I was totally incapable of dealing with. The

instinct of a photographer never left him and he started taking

pictures of himself. I caught a glance of myself in the mirror once

when I was in somebody's apartment where people were using drugs. I

looked at myself, and I thought, wow! This is how bad I look! I

realised that photographing myself was more relevant than photographing

other people. He hit rock bottom when he spent four months in New

York jail for drug possession, five more in an immigration centre. In

the end it was love that helped him conquer his addiction. He's been

clean for nearly eight years. I first saw these pictures when Graham

had accidentally posted some of them online, and it was during the period

when we were together. At first it was devastating for me, because this

was his life that I had not been privy to. I'm really proud that he

has put them out there and the reaction has largely been very

positive. I'm certainly not when rising it, I am showing it

bare-bones as to what it was like for me, you know. What I really want

people to take away from it is that you can fall really far, but you can

get back on your feet and you can get clean and healthy.

An environmental charity in the Highlands is heralding

a horticultural breakthrough which could preserve one

The aspen has suffered more than most species from centuries

of deforestation, but experts have successfully persuaded saplings

to flower in nursery conditions and this could yield thousands

of seedlings to be planted out in the wild.

a beautiful tree with shimmering leaves. But it is a bit like the

giant panda of the tree world. The aspen only produces flour catkins

once every few years. And pollination in the wild is hit or

miss. The trees don't flour very often and an individual aspen is

either male or female and you need the two in close rocks are many to

pollinate. It is a very attractive species for deer, they will not eat

anything else. So if the seedling gets eaten, that is the end of the

line. This elderly aspen they have fallen over but it is still alive,

and in a few weeks' time, they will be producing catkins which can

produce seed if they are pollinated. In these tunnels, they are giving

nature a bit of a helping hand. Emma, she was getting male pollen

from male trees, and she was painting the pollen onto the female

flowers that we have here in the tunnel. And that's the first time we

have been able to do that with female flowers, so we're really

excited. And increasing the spread of aspen in Scotland is likely to

benefit a range of other species, too. It is a very special tree for a

number of reasons. It has a whole suite of rare organisms that grow

only with it, things like rare mosses, special lichens. Aspen is

also a favourite nesting site for species like the great spotted

woodpecker. These valuable saplings effectively represent a captive

breeding programme for trees. Once released into the wild, their

offspring should spread biodiversity - and colour - into Scotland's wild

environment. It would go down as their greatest

victory if the Dundee Stars ice hockey team can win the UK Elite

title this weekend. The unfancied side head to Sheffield

this weekend hoping to see off Jonathan Sutherland has been to meet

the underdogs hopeful Could the champagne be nice for the

Dundee Stars? Formed in 2001, they are in the UK play-off finals for

the first time. It is massive for us, we are a small club and it is

the first time in our history that we have been to the final four. I am

very proud of the group behind me. Dundee is famous for many things,

but ice hockey, perhaps not. They are desperate to make a statement in

the sport this weekend, but they go into it very much as underdogs. They

upset the odds last weekend by seeing off fellow Scots the Braehead

Clan. They may have one of the smallest budgets and one of the

youngest teams, but if they beat the Cardiff Devils tomorrow, and then

either Belfast or Sheffield in the final on Sunday, they will win the

biggest prize in UK ice hockey. Can they upset the odds? Yes. I have

been in a situation like this before, being the underdog. The

pressure is not on us but we know that if we play the way we have

been, with the same kind of resolve and tenacity that we have shown over

the past two months, then we have as good a chance as anybody to produce

the goods. We were down and out in January, we were not even in a

play-off spot. The guys fought through and came together at the

right time. We just have to win two game, that is all it comes down to.

Sheffield and Belfast, in the other semifinal, and the winners play on

the Sunday. It is 120 minutes of hard work, and hopefully we will

come back with the trophy. It might be a stretch for the stars to align,

but on Grand National weekend, there is always hope for a long shot.

That is the only ice you will be seen tonight, I hope! We have some

good weather for the start of the weekend, but it goes downhill on

Sunday, I'm afraid. Today has been fairly settled, with fairly cloudy

conditions, but largely dry, thanks to the high pressure which has been

dominating the weather for much of the week. It is holding on, just,

for the time being. Waiting in the wings in the north-west, though, we

have a weather front. This picture came from Aberdeenshire today. This

evening it is mostly dry, still fairly cloudy for some. Clearer

skies as we had through the night, especially for central and east

parts of the country just across the north-west and the Northern Isles,

it stays cloudy here with patchy light rain and drizzle and a

strengthening south-westerly wind. We may have some low cloud across

the Galloway coast by the start of the day tomorrow. In the clearer

skies, in rural areas, temperatures could get close to freezing. There

could be a touch of frost. But in the towns and cities, 4-7 Celsius.

The cloud to start will melt away and we will have plenty of sunshine

tomorrow across much of the country. Only across the very far north-west,

I'm afraid, it stays fairly cloudy and breezy with some drizzle. Around

four o'clock in the afternoon, Shetland I'm afraid stays rather

cloudy and damp. Some writer spells perhaps for Orkney. Across the

north-east, temperatures could get up to 18 Celsius. Elsewhere, plenty

of sunshine. So, a good day if you're planning to go out for any

help or activities. The hills and mountains, fairly dry conditions

here. While the valleys have liked winds, as you go up in height, the

gusts could be getting up to 45mph. Further towards the east, a pleasant

day for walking. The Cairngorms, gusts of up to 45mph. Still quite

breezy across the Border hills. Clear spells as we head into the

evening and night. Once again, cloudy in the north-west. Looking

ahead to Sunday, the high pressure slips further towards the east and

we have his weather system arriving, bringing with it some outbreaks of

rain, heaviest across the north-west at first. Becoming colder behind it.

Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.

Russia, an ally of Syria, has condemned a missile strike

authorised by President Trump on a Syrian government target.

59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles were fired from US warships

in the Mediterranean at the Shayrat air base.

It was from there, according to Mr Trump, that this week's deadly

chemical weapons attack in Northern Syria was launched.

The remains of an Edinburgh woman who has been

The remains of an Edinburgh woman who has been missing for 15 years

Louise Tiffney was last seen leaving her home in the city's