04/10/2016

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:00:00. > :00:14.More on the Ukip leadership crisis on the BBC News Channel.

:00:15. > :00:18.The Scottish Government is planning a radical extension of the ways

:00:19. > :00:20.electronic tags can be used on offenders.

:00:21. > :00:22.Sobriety tags, GPS tracking and tagging will be used

:00:23. > :00:28.as an alternative to remand for the first time here.

:00:29. > :00:34.Our political correspondent Lucy Adams has this report.

:00:35. > :00:43.It means offenders can stay at home rather

:00:44. > :00:48.Electronic monitoring has been used in Scotland

:00:49. > :00:51.for almost 15 years, mainly as a form of house arrest.

:00:52. > :00:55.Now it is fitted, that's when we would

:00:56. > :01:02.In future, these could be used as an alternative to remand

:01:03. > :01:05.and for those who offend under the influence of

:01:06. > :01:07.alcohol, and for the first time in Scotland it could be used

:01:08. > :01:09.to monitor the movements of offenders using GPS

:01:10. > :01:13.This is a typical screen we would see for a person that has

:01:14. > :01:27.There's more than 1,000 people currently tagged in Scotland.

:01:28. > :01:30.G4S says in future the numbers could be limitless.

:01:31. > :01:32.They warned there are still blackspots in

:01:33. > :01:38.reception for GPS and tracking but said overall it is effective.

:01:39. > :01:41.It is not a soft option, it is a

:01:42. > :01:46.restriction placed not only on offenders but also the families.

:01:47. > :01:49.Sobriety tags will be able to pick up on tiny traces of drink in

:01:50. > :01:55.people's sweat for those who reoffend when drunk.

:01:56. > :01:57.We spoke to one offender who has been monitored

:01:58. > :02:03.When I was in prison, I was embarrassed and

:02:04. > :02:07.ashamed, I didn't want my children to visit me in a place like that

:02:08. > :02:08.because every dad is Superman to their children

:02:09. > :02:11.so they don't want to be exposed as having any weaknesses.

:02:12. > :02:13.I was ashamed to be in prison and to have

:02:14. > :02:15.done that my family, so having

:02:16. > :02:29.the opportunity to be out meant the world to me.

:02:30. > :02:32.It's all part of a wider government review on penal policy.

:02:33. > :02:35.The objective is to be about thinking about the outcome we are

:02:36. > :02:42.If it is an individual where we want to monitor

:02:43. > :02:45.and restrict where they are at particular given times, GPS tagging

:02:46. > :02:51.could be the most effective way to do that alongside other measures.

:02:52. > :02:56.can use electronic monitoring more but we also have to be very careful.

:02:57. > :02:58.We have seen the SNP get soft on issues of justice,

:02:59. > :03:01.and whilst there is a role to play we have got to

:03:02. > :03:03.make sure victims don't feel forgotten.

:03:04. > :03:05.For the Scottish Government now, the job will be

:03:06. > :03:19.persuading judges monitoring is more effective than prison.

:03:20. > :03:21.A woman who suffered life-changing injuries in a car crash

:03:22. > :03:23.when she was sixteen has been warning teenagers about

:03:24. > :03:27.Laura Torrance has been a wheelchair user since the accident in 1999.

:03:28. > :03:30.With traffic accidents the biggest killer of young people in Scotland,

:03:31. > :03:31.she's hoping they'll learn from her experience.

:03:32. > :03:40.My friend passed his test on the Monday,

:03:41. > :03:44.this was Thursday night, we went for a drive, had a laugh

:03:45. > :03:53.We came up to the corner to quickly and rolled into

:03:54. > :03:58.the farmer's field and I don't remember much after that.

:03:59. > :04:00.I was 16 and I didn't think this would happen

:04:01. > :04:05.Hopefully they will look at me and think this can happen to me,

:04:06. > :04:10.One can have silly mistake and it can

:04:11. > :04:12.lead to something devastating and life changing.

:04:13. > :04:14.Demonstrating safety to those about to drive on our

:04:15. > :04:30.Young drivers up to 25 make up for 10% of drivers in Scotland

:04:31. > :04:35.and 20% of crashes, it is a disproportionate amount so we need

:04:36. > :04:41.to do engagement with them to make sure they are where they are

:04:42. > :04:43.vulnerable and need to work on their experience.

:04:44. > :04:46.This has been designed to show what a crash might feel

:04:47. > :04:56.That was a really nasty jolt and it was only six miles per hour.

:04:57. > :04:58.I'm learning to drive so this makes me more

:04:59. > :04:59.aware of my situation and

:05:00. > :05:04.I don't think it will put off anyone from driving,

:05:05. > :05:09.but I think it will make everyone more cautious about it.

:05:10. > :05:11.If you're going faster, what would it be like?

:05:12. > :05:19.One person is killed every week on our roads,

:05:20. > :05:22.campaigners want people to belt up, slow down, and not use mobile phones

:05:23. > :05:32.Police in Suffolk searching for a missing airman from Fife say

:05:33. > :05:35.they still haven't found his phone after checking the contents

:05:36. > :05:39.Detectives believed his handset may have been lost or discarded

:05:40. > :05:45.Corrie McKeague, who's from Dunfermline, went missing ten

:05:46. > :05:47.days ago after a night out in Bury St Edmonds.

:05:48. > :05:55.There has already been huge publicity about the disappearance of

:05:56. > :05:58.Corrie, who went out ten days ago on a Friday

:05:59. > :05:59.night, a few beers, into

:06:00. > :06:06.the early hours of Saturday, last seen on CCTV, after that nothing.

:06:07. > :06:09.Police trapped his mobile phone from Bury St Edmunds to this area about

:06:10. > :06:15.They tracked by using massed in the area.

:06:16. > :06:17.The theory is it could have been lost or discarded,

:06:18. > :06:20.mixed in with rubbish, and got into the back of the bin lorry.

:06:21. > :06:22.Police seized that vehicle and found there

:06:23. > :06:38.They say they are going through hours of fresh CCTV footage.

:06:39. > :06:41.They are hoping for a fresh glimpse of

:06:42. > :06:57.BBC Scotland has obtained the first exclusive pictures of an oil leak

:06:58. > :07:02.Around 95 tonnes of oil leaked from the Clair field on Sunday,

:07:03. > :07:06.BP says three surveillance flights flew over the slick today and it

:07:07. > :07:12.The company says it believes the environmental impact

:07:13. > :07:17.of the spill is likely to be minimal.

:07:18. > :07:19.Senior Tories have tonight turned their fire on the SNP,

:07:20. > :07:22.accusing the First Minister and her party of using Brexit

:07:23. > :07:24.as a lever to try and bring about independence.

:07:25. > :07:27.The prospect of a second referendum has been described as a Sword

:07:28. > :07:28.of Damocles hanging over the Scottish economy.

:07:29. > :07:36.Here's our political correspondent, David Porter.

:07:37. > :07:38.Separate but inextricably linked, since that vote in June Brexit and

:07:39. > :07:41.Scottish independence, issues both vying for attention and causing

:07:42. > :07:57.From Scotland, no such verbal pitfalls but strong

:07:58. > :07:59.rhetoric nevertheless on how Brexit is being portrayed.

:08:00. > :08:02.Using it as an excuse to threaten a second

:08:03. > :08:04.independence referendum, that's not what the people of Scotland want,

:08:05. > :08:06.it is a sort of Damocles, the single

:08:07. > :08:07.biggest threat to Scotland's economy.

:08:08. > :08:09.And a very direct message to the Government.

:08:10. > :08:11.We will negotiate as United Kingdom, leave as the

:08:12. > :08:14.United Kingdom, and face the future together as the United Kingdom.

:08:15. > :08:16.Elsewhere at the conference, time for the Conservative leader to meet

:08:17. > :08:20.Most of the stuff I got was, you are from who?

:08:21. > :08:22.They liked that, but again the issue of Brexit,

:08:23. > :08:26.It becomes the post of First Minister, the way she has

:08:27. > :08:29.tried to exploit the vote to get independence back on the table, I

:08:30. > :08:32.think even she has realised she went too far.

:08:33. > :08:33.The First Minister will

:08:34. > :08:35.take issue with that and probably this as well.

:08:36. > :08:37.Who would we like to see Ruth in Theresa May's cabinet?

:08:38. > :08:40.Look at that, will you be disappointing these people?

:08:41. > :08:44.So she doesn't want to be in Theresa May's

:08:45. > :08:47.cabinet but tomorrow Ruth Davidson will share a platform with the Prime

:08:48. > :09:01.It becomes the post of First Minister, the way she has

:09:02. > :09:04.tried to exploit the vote to get independence back on the table, I

:09:05. > :09:07.think even she has realised she went too far.

:09:08. > :09:08.The First Minister will

:09:09. > :09:10.take issue with that and probably this as well.

:09:11. > :09:12.Who would we like to see Ruth in Theresa May's cabinet?

:09:13. > :09:19.Look at that, will you be disappointing these people?

:09:20. > :09:28.So she doesn't want to be in Theresa May's

:09:29. > :09:31.cabinet but tomorrow Ruth Davidson will share a platform with the Prime

:09:32. > :09:42.charged in connection with child pornography offences.

:09:43. > :09:45.Scottish Labour councillor David Fagan,

:09:46. > :09:47.who represents the Airdrie South ward, is due to appear

:09:48. > :09:52.A Police Scotland spokeswoman would only confirm a 52-year-old

:09:53. > :09:56.man had been arrested on the seventh of September.

:09:57. > :09:59.An MSP is calling for a fatal accident inquiry to be held

:10:00. > :10:06.into the death of the Dundee boxer Mike Towell, who died on Friday,

:10:07. > :10:08.after being knocked out in a fight the previous evening.

:10:09. > :10:10.The 25-year-old had been in a bout with Dale Evans

:10:11. > :10:14.The Conservative MSP Brian Whittle says it would be

:10:15. > :10:17.silly to ban boxing, but there needs to be a full

:10:18. > :10:20.investigation to establish if Mr Towell had a brain injury

:10:21. > :10:34.In this instance, my concern is around whether there were steps are

:10:35. > :10:38.missed, we understand he was having headaches beforehand and if that is

:10:39. > :10:43.the case, why was that Mr? Other steps that are not there that should

:10:44. > :10:46.be there. It is incumbent upon the sport to ensure that every caution

:10:47. > :10:51.is taken to ensure tragedies like this don't happen and lessons have

:10:52. > :10:55.Two Scottish-born scientists have won the 2016

:10:56. > :10:59.Professor David Thouless - who was born in Bearsden -

:11:00. > :11:00.shares it with another Scottish-American,

:11:01. > :11:01.Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University.

:11:02. > :11:04.Together with the third recipient, Duncan Haldane, they've been

:11:05. > :11:06.recognised for their work in condensed matter physics.

:11:07. > :11:09.At the announcement in Stockholm, a member of the Nobel Prize

:11:10. > :11:11.organisation attempted to explain the phenomenon by tearing a hole

:11:12. > :11:22.Now for the weather. Good evening. Many of us started the day on a

:11:23. > :11:25.beautiful note and ended on a lovely note, too. Some glorious sunrise

:11:26. > :11:31.pictures set and ten from weather watchers. And sunset pictures as

:11:32. > :11:38.well. The rest of the night will be largely dry. Breezy proposal areas

:11:39. > :11:42.and some clear spells towards the north west of the country. Low cloud

:11:43. > :11:47.across parts of Aberdeenshire, Angus and the eastern Borders.

:11:48. > :11:55.Temperatures likely to drop to around four or five Celsius. By

:11:56. > :11:59.morning it will be around nine, 11 Celsius. The fine and dry stout in

:12:00. > :12:04.the day. Sunny both developing and if you're heading out around 8am, it

:12:05. > :12:09.will be fine, settled and with the best of the sunshine across the west

:12:10. > :12:14.coast up to the north-west. The east will be cloudy, still fine and dry.

:12:15. > :12:18.Temperatures around 12 or 13,000 years. The wind still quite strong

:12:19. > :12:22.coming in from the south-east. The north sea coasts and the Northern

:12:23. > :12:28.Isles as well. But the wider look at the rest of the UK, fine, settled

:12:29. > :12:31.and dry for much of the country. Some decent spells of sunshine to

:12:32. > :12:36.England and Wales. A bit more in you will cloud for England and southern

:12:37. > :12:43.Scotland. Damage is around average for the time of year. A shade cooler

:12:44. > :12:46.than it was today. This settled weather is courtesy of an area of

:12:47. > :12:50.high pressured word Scandinavia and around it we're getting some fresh

:12:51. > :12:54.winds coming in from the east by the time we reach for their estate. That

:12:55. > :12:59.high pressure is keeping the Atlantic weather systems at bay. For

:13:00. > :13:02.most of us on Thursday we are looking at fine, dry set of

:13:03. > :13:08.conditions continuing, although it will feel cooler with the wind is

:13:09. > :13:11.coming in from the east apart from England and Wales. The best defence

:13:12. > :13:16.Temperatures best across the UK here.

:13:17. > :13:21.From everyone here on the late team in Glasgow, goodnight.