:00:00. > :00:09.Now on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.
:00:10. > :00:13.More than a ?100 million given to councils to pay for free
:00:14. > :00:15.childcare has not been spent on funding the programme.
:00:16. > :00:17.That's according to a government report.
:00:18. > :00:20.But the local authority umbrella body Cosla says the report
:00:21. > :00:22.is a "crude assessment that doesn't reflect the reality".
:00:23. > :00:29.Here's our political correspondent Lucy Adams.
:00:30. > :00:31.Increasing free childcare is one of the SNP's most
:00:32. > :00:39.The policy should offer all three- and four-year-old and vulnerable
:00:40. > :00:48.But the first analysis of its kind shows that
:00:49. > :00:52.has given local authorities ?329 million to spend on the policy,
:00:53. > :00:55.just ?189 million has been spent on child care.
:00:56. > :00:58.So what has happened to the remaining money
:00:59. > :01:06.and what impact has it had on families?
:01:07. > :01:10.You might have a place between 9 o'clock and 12.10.
:01:11. > :01:13.You can't pay to have your child there before or after.
:01:14. > :01:16.For most working parents that is unusable.
:01:17. > :01:20.So it is frustrating to hear there is funds available that
:01:21. > :01:23.haven't been spent and if we spent those could we have made
:01:24. > :01:33.The BBC has learned that ministers will publish a childcare blueprint
:01:34. > :01:35.to propose new models, including child accounts,
:01:36. > :01:40.under which funding follows the child and not the institutions.
:01:41. > :01:46.They will use this report to help cost the models.
:01:47. > :01:48.It has shown we have fully funded councils to deliver the expansion
:01:49. > :01:52.and now it is for councils themselves to account
:01:53. > :01:56.for what they have done in relation to additional spending.
:01:57. > :01:58.But it makes it clear where additional spending was requested,
:01:59. > :02:11.But Cosla said it is a crude assessment which shouldn't detract
:02:12. > :02:14.from the success of them providing 600 free hours to children and said
:02:15. > :02:16.that the government's own report said the gap
:02:17. > :02:23.The Scottish Government has promised to almost double
:02:24. > :02:35.The same amount of time children spend in school is expected to cost
:02:36. > :02:39.The hope is by then all the authorities will have
:02:40. > :02:47.Closing speeches have begun in the trial of a man accused
:02:48. > :02:53.of the 1998 murder of Indian restaurant worker Surjit Singh
:02:54. > :02:57.The prosecution has asked the jury to convict Ronnie Coulter,
:02:58. > :03:05.Ronny Coulter, the man accused of murdering Surjit Singh Chhokar,
:03:06. > :03:17.The prosecution said Surjit Singh Chhokar's death
:03:18. > :03:26.was a tragic tale which happened after the theft of a giro cheque.
:03:27. > :03:29.The prosecution said in 1998 Surjit Singh Chhokar was on his way
:03:30. > :03:34.home from work, looking forward to pleasant evening
:03:35. > :03:38.and he was confronted in the dark by three men, he was attacked,
:03:39. > :03:41.stabbed, killed, murdered and left in the street.
:03:42. > :03:46.He said the person responsible for that is Ronny Coulter -
:03:47. > :04:00.The jury heard Mr Coulter was tried and acquitted of murder in 1999.
:04:01. > :04:03.Mr Prentice said the outcome of that trial in relation to this
:04:04. > :04:11.The defending QC started his closing speech and said it was Mr Coulter's
:04:12. > :04:14.position that he did not stab Surjit Singh Chhokar and he told
:04:15. > :04:17.the jury that the trial had heard from atrocious
:04:18. > :04:28.And he said race had no place in the case.
:04:29. > :04:32.48-year-old Mr Coulter denies murdering Surjit Singh Chhokar,
:04:33. > :04:40.The Scottish Government has apologised after it emerged that
:04:41. > :04:43.payments to farmers have been hit by another error.
:04:44. > :04:46.The snag relates to loan payments - which were only introduced
:04:47. > :04:51.because IT problems undermined the main funding system.
:04:52. > :04:54.Farmers leaders said it was "deeply disappointing".
:04:55. > :04:57.Earlier, I put it to our political editor Brian Taylor that this
:04:58. > :05:01.was an embarrassing development in a long-running saga.
:05:02. > :05:06.Opposition leaders are furious and demanding a full Parliamentary
:05:07. > :05:08.statement by ministers at the earliest
:05:09. > :05:20.Bearing in mind what happened, they were due payments and they had
:05:21. > :05:22.to be processed by the Scottish Government and there were endless
:05:23. > :05:28.problems with the IT system, the money wasn't getting through.
:05:29. > :05:32.In comes a new minister who says we will sort this out
:05:33. > :05:34.and in the meantime bring in a loan system to provide support
:05:35. > :05:37.to farmers and guess what, the loan system has gone wrong
:05:38. > :05:41.in regard to payments due to be paid and hundreds
:05:42. > :05:54.This falls into the department of you couldn't make it up.
:05:55. > :06:02.The NFU said there have been moves to ensure the payments.
:06:03. > :06:12.Farmers will watch out and I have got to say I think, given earlier
:06:13. > :06:23.An SNP MP has been detained and questioned by police in relation
:06:24. > :06:28.Chris Law won the Dundee West seat for the nationalists
:06:29. > :06:32.Police Scotland say they detained a 46-year-old man
:06:33. > :06:36.who was released pending further enquiry.
:06:37. > :06:40.A source close to the MP says Mr Law has agreed to provide the police
:06:41. > :06:42.with further information and is confident the matter
:06:43. > :06:47.A search has been launched for an RAF serviceman
:06:48. > :06:49.from Dunfermline, who's been missing since the early hours
:06:50. > :06:55.Corrie McKeague, who's based at RAF Honington in Suffolk,
:06:56. > :07:00.was last seen in the town of Bury St Edmunds after a night out.
:07:01. > :07:01.CCTV footage suggests that the 23-year-old briefly slept
:07:02. > :07:09.in a doorway in the early hours of Saturday morning.
:07:10. > :07:15.A merchant navy cadet, who was stranded for weeks
:07:16. > :07:17.on a container ship off Singapore after the parent company went bust,
:07:18. > :07:20.has vowed to return to sea to complete his officer training.
:07:21. > :07:22.Ruaridh Hanna arrived back in Scotland today,
:07:23. > :07:31.A warning that Craig Anderson's report contains flash photography.
:07:32. > :07:40.Back on home soil after a few weeks, Ruaridh Hanna is greeted
:07:41. > :07:45.He said it was the uncertainty of their situation rather
:07:46. > :07:50.than conditions that caused them most concern.
:07:51. > :07:55.But he was taken aback by the welcome at Inverness airport.
:07:56. > :08:02.I can't believe so many people took on board our story
:08:03. > :08:13.It is quite flattering and also a bit embarrassing.
:08:14. > :08:17.He has another few months' training to go qualify as a deck officer.
:08:18. > :08:20.It made me take a hard look at the industry and any romantic
:08:21. > :08:27.vision of going to sea has been done away with.
:08:28. > :08:31.But as for putting me off, no, I'm still determined
:08:32. > :08:37.to complete my training and to become an officer.
:08:38. > :08:47.That is his choice and I would hope he would complete his training,
:08:48. > :08:50.because otherwise it would have been, you would say,
:08:51. > :08:54.a waste of time putting up with what he has put up
:08:55. > :09:04.So I'm proud that he has wanted to go back.
:09:05. > :09:09.The public is being urged to help solve the mystery of plans
:09:10. > :09:11.for a second RAIL bridge over the Forth.
:09:12. > :09:14.The drawings date back to 1945 but were only discovered recently.
:09:15. > :09:16.Historians are investigating a few theories about why
:09:17. > :09:19.the plans were made, but they want to find out more.
:09:20. > :09:33.Plans from 1945 were found in a box under a desk in Glasgow.
:09:34. > :09:38.They want to know why the designs were made and then dropped.
:09:39. > :09:41.We have a lot of drawings, but concentrating on the original
:09:42. > :09:44.construction of the bridge we see today.
:09:45. > :09:46.So this is a real mystery and why they were created,
:09:47. > :09:54.The second rail bridge would have been built downstream
:09:55. > :10:06.That is the time the V bombs were landing in London.
:10:07. > :10:11.My theory is they were thinking of more rail travel.
:10:12. > :10:13.The existing bridge was being heavily used and they
:10:14. > :10:22.Network Rail stress the original bridge remains in good health
:10:23. > :10:26.and there has not been a need to put the plans for a bridge coming over
:10:27. > :10:32.But it is keen to find out more about these alternative designs.
:10:33. > :10:53.Because the Forth Estuary does split Scotland badly
:10:54. > :10:57.From all those years ago, 71 years ago.
:10:58. > :11:05.Sometimes more than than they do now.
:11:06. > :11:07.Historians are asking for public help to solve the
:11:08. > :11:16.Let's get the weather outlook for tonight and tomorrow
:11:17. > :11:29.Good evening. It was a real autumnal feel to today. Blustery showers,
:11:30. > :11:33.some sunshine, a few rainbows. The showers are still with us.
:11:34. > :11:36.Thundering across the North of England and the border but becoming
:11:37. > :11:40.confined to the central lowlands overnight and also a number for the
:11:41. > :11:44.Northern Isles where the winds remain strong. Elsewhere, winds are
:11:45. > :11:48.lighter than last night. If it's dry with clear conditions, good chance
:11:49. > :11:53.of catching the Northern lights. This picture was taken last night.
:11:54. > :11:57.To start the day tomorrow, certainly across central Scotland, cloudy with
:11:58. > :12:01.a few showers. North and south of here, bright morning sunshine,
:12:02. > :12:05.chilly in the countryside. A rash of showers across Orkney and Shetland.
:12:06. > :12:09.Through the course of the day, the cloudy Shari zone eases off with
:12:10. > :12:14.showers becoming more combine to Argyll and the West Coast.
:12:15. > :12:18.Elsewhere, some sunshine. Some sunshine south of the border, a few
:12:19. > :12:23.light showers. Not as breezy as today. Similar for Northern Ireland
:12:24. > :12:28.and for us by afternoon, similar conditions. Bright spells, a few
:12:29. > :12:33.light showers and the wind is nothing like what we have had of
:12:34. > :12:37.late. Temperatures around the mid teens, perhaps 15 or 16 in the
:12:38. > :12:41.north-east. Into Friday night, the showers are still with us and all
:12:42. > :12:44.eyes on the weekend. We are watching this developing area of low pressure
:12:45. > :12:48.pushing through Ireland in towards Wales and England. Deign to the
:12:49. > :12:52.south, but producing card for southern Scotland and a few showers.
:12:53. > :12:56.The week and doesn't look too bad. Best of the sunshine on Saturday for
:12:57. > :13:01.Central and North western Scotland, a few showers across Grampian,
:13:02. > :13:05.cloudy in the South. Winds light, temperature is around 14 degrees.
:13:06. > :13:09.Low-pressure pulls away towards Scandinavia on Sunday. Behind it, we
:13:10. > :13:15.fridge of high pressure. Sunday probably the better of the two days
:13:16. > :13:18.because behind it, the dry, bright sunny weather more widespread.
:13:19. > :13:19.Temperatures by mid around the mid teens.
:13:20. > :13:25.But, from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow
:13:26. > :13:28.and around the country - goodnight.