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Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
It's taken 18 years and three trials, but today, Ronnie Coulter | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
was finally convicted of the murder of Indian waiter | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Coulter was tried for a second time following changes | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
He'd been originally cleared of the stabbing in Overtown | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
in North Lanarkshire following a trial in 1999. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
The case resulted in wide-ranging changes to the police | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
and prosecution service after mistakes were made | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
by the Crown Office and there was found | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
to be institutional racism within the police. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
After an 18-year fight, the family of Surjit Singh Chhokar | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
Surjit was a loving son, father and brother, who was lucky | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
to have two stubborn parents, who refused to be silenced | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
as they fought for justice as a right and not a privilege. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Surjit's late father, Darshan, always said that, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
that he would have a hope for justice. | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
Whilst the dead cannot cry out for justice, it is the duty | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
after Ronnie Coulter was convicted of murder. | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
He was working at this Indian restaurant | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
while also claiming unemployment benefit. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
He had a flat here in Gowkthrapple, Wishaw. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Ronnie Coulter, seen here, also lived in the same building, | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
The trial heard that, on the morning of the 4th of November, 1998, | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
Andrew Coulter, jobless and looking for cash to buy alcohol, | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
broke into Mr Chhokar's flat and stole a giro cheque for ?100.70. | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
After getting his Uncle Ronnie to forge Mr Chhokar's signature, | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Mr Chhokar's partner, Elizabeth Bryce, found out | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
what happened and threatened to call the police. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
It was a threat which ended in murder. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Most of the time, Mr Chhokar lived here, | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
in Garrion Street, Overtown, with Elizabeth Bryce. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
On the night of the 4th of November, Ronnie and Andrew Coulter, | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
travelled here to meet Mr Chhokar coming home from work. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
There was a confrontation in the street and it ended | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
with Ronnie Coulter stabbing Mr Chhokar to death. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Ronnie Coulter was tried and acquitted of murder in 1999. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
The following year, Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery were also | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
There was criticism of how the case was handled. | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
One report found institutional racism within the police. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Today, officers said the lessons learned from the original case | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
have vastly improved the way things are done. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
The thing for us to do is make sure these things never happen again | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
and we continue to work the way we do just now. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
In terms of this type of investigation, | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
it's only the second double jeopardy, so these are pretty much | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
models that we carry out, not just investigation, | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
but also how we deal with the family and the people involved around about | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Ronnie Coulter once boasted of getting away | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
Now, he faces a life term, when he's sentenced later this month. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
The Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, has warned | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
the SNP government not to pick fights with Westminster. | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
She was speaking at her party's UK conference. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Our political correspondent, Nick Eardley, was there. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
She's something of a superstar at Tory Conference. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Ruth Davidson used her keynote speech to say government | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
She's been basking in the Scottish Conservatives' | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
recent electoral success, and she told delegates what she'd be | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Instead of picking endless fights with Westminster about | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
whatever grievance you concocted, pick a fight with poor literacy | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
and numeracy, and standards in Scotland's schools. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
You are the government of Scotland and you were elected to improve | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
You've seen Nicola Sturgeon on the television most weeks | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
telling you that Scotland is up in arms, again. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Asserting that independence is closer now than ever before. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
Declaring that separation is somehow inevitable. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Well, today, speaking to people from across the UK, | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Ruth Davidson has again been given one of the most prominent slots | :04:50. | :04:59. | |
And although Brexit has been the key theme, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
there's been plenty talk too of support for the union | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
and opposition to another independence vote. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
A message that continued as Theresa May set out | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
I will always fight to preserve our proud historic union | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
and will never let divisive nationalists drive us apart. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
Nicola Sturgeon thinks Mrs May's vision | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
She's branded immigration proposals hugely worrying. | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
The Prime Minister insisted change would come. | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
But she promised it would work for all. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
So, my vision is for Britain to be a great meritocracy. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
It's what I've always believed in, the cause of everything | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
I've ever done in politics has been designed to serve. | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Because a country based on merit, not privilege, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
That's the message they hope will emerge from this conference. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
It's one the Conservatives think people want to hear. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Nick Eardley, Reporting Scotland, in Birmingham. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Holyrood has taken the first steps towards | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
increasing the top four bands of the council tax. | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Speaking to Holyrood's Local Government Committee, | :06:07. | :06:07. | |
which endorsed the plan, the Finance Secretary Derek Mackay | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
said he wanted some households to pay more for a ?100 million | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
attainment fund which would help the poorest children. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
on the next generation of Royal Navy submarines, | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
which will carry controversial Trident nuclear missiles. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
The first steel was cut at Barrow-in-Furness, | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
but they'll be based at Faslane on the Clyde. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
We're investing in Faslane, all our submarines are going to be | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
based in Faslane, not just these Successor submarines, | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
but the Astute-class submarines, of which three have already | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
been built, and eventually, the Trafalgar-class submarines | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
that are moving up from Portsmouth, so Faslane will become the base | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
for all Britain's submarines in future and that is a vote | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Workers at Scotrail have voted to accept a deal to end | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
The RMT union said the agreement guaranteed that guards | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
would retain their responsibility for safety. | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
A union spokesman said the settlement should be | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
where a similar dispute is continuing. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
of missing Clydebank teenager Scott Diver. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
The 16-year-old has been missing for almost three weeks | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
and police and his family are increasingly worried. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
This image is of Scott walking through Dalmuir Park in Clydebank | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
just before three on the afternoon of Saturday the 17th of September. | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
It's the last confirmed sighting and police hope anyone who remembers | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
An oil supply ship has been detained for a second time | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
at Aberdeen Harbour for non-payment of seafarer's wages. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
The Malaviya Seven was detained in June | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
under merchant shipping regulations, but later released. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has confirmed it has been detained | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
again and will remain in harbour until the workers are paid. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
The Scottish Government's set out seven priorities | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
They include resilience, responsiveness and adaptability. | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
And will the aims cut crime and keep communities safe | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
at a time of financial efficiencies? Morag Kinniburgh has this report. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
That is really buckled. Yeah. | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
Community support in West Lothian, | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
where more local policing is welcomed. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
I think, in previous years, we have seen a little bit of a shift | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
away from community policing and it's nice to see | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Because I think that's about prevention. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
You know, if we've got good quality officers on the ground | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
who know the people here, know the community and people know | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
them, they build up trust and they build up a rapport that | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
just strengthens the relationship. And they can nip things in the bud. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
They know who's who, people know who they are, | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
The Justice Minister met police leaders to unveil seven | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
new strategic priorities, inclusion, prevention | :08:53. | :08:53. | |
In practice, that means the force is to tackle developing | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
threats, like cyber crime, as well as community policing. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
What the purpose of these new priorities is to make sure | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
we get that balance right, reinforcing the localism | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
of policing, but at the same time, making sure the police are able | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
to adapt and to respond to those new and emerging threats, | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
which can be in someone's front room. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
But new priorities come with no new funding and there's already | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
Well, we need to make the most of the money that we've got, | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
we need to spend it wisely and I'm convinced that we can do more | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Ultimately, we will have to make choices and that's the same in any | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
But we are going to do that with people, rather than to them, | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
and people understand and agree with the decisions we are making. | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
On the ground, volunteers here hope that means the authorities | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
are listening and responding to local needs. | :09:46. | :09:46. | |
Morag Kinniburgh, Reporting Scotland, West Lothian. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Rangers midfielder Joey Barton has been charged with breaking rules | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
relating to gambling on football matches. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
The 34-year-old is accused by the Scottish Football Association | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
of placing 44 bets between July and September this year. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
The player has a week to respond to the charge. | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
SFA rules ban players, coaches and club officials | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
from betting on football anywhere in the world. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Scots scientist, Sir Fraser Stoddart, is among | :10:12. | :10:12. | |
three recipients of this year's Nobel Prize for chemistry. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
It has been awarded for his work developing molecular machines. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
The machines are a thousand times thinner than a strand of hair. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Sir Fraser was brought up in Midlothian and educated | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
at Edinburgh University, where he also endows | :10:27. | :10:27. | |
He was back here in April and we had a really, really, | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
very enjoyable ceremony and he always enjoys coming back | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
and I think one of the things that came across from him | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
was just how... what a nice individual he is. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
He's a very, very kind man and he was inspiring. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
He gave a presentation to all of our | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
postgraduate students and researchers and they were inspired. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Bayern Munich showed their class against a young Hibs side | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
with a comfortable 6-0 win at Easter Road in the Uefa | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Hibs were in the last 32 of the competition | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
The sides meet again in Germany next Wednesday. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
And Scotland Under 21's have lost 2-0 to Iceland in their latest | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Well, let's get the weather outlook from Kawser. | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
Thank you, good evening. Today was another lovely day and a fine | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
evening. We have had some beautiful pictures, look at this sunset across | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the Western Isles, beautiful colours! For the rest of tonight it | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
will be dry, breezy and we see cloud increasing, coming on and on fairly | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
strong east and south easterly wind, pushing across more eastern parts, | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
the wind strong across the Western Isles and Galloway coast. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Temperatures 7-11 degrees. Under clear skies in the North West, | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
perhaps dipping down to four or five Celsius for sheltered claims. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Tomorrow morning cloudy across southern and eastern parts, the best | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
sunshine across the North West once again, but if you're heading out at | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
around eight o'clock it will be fine and dry. Sunny spells breaking | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
through, perhaps back. Across the North West but lots of sunshine. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Fresh wind across the north-eastern coast and for all be and good | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
sunshine in Shetland. And the rest of the UK, fine and dry unsettled | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
conditions for all, more cloud pushing in across eastern coastal | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
areas with the risk of some showers across East Anglia and south-eastern | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
England. For the North West of Scotland, once again, the best | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
sunshine and temperatures could reach 16 or 17 degrees. This fine | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
and settled weather is courtesy of low pressure, still across | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Scandinavia, pushing into Norway, keeping of these Atlantic weather | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
systems at the and we continue with dry weather for most although more | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
easterly wind and bringing some cooler air across southern England | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
and the risk of some showers. For Friday, largely dry, and fine for | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
most of Scotland, but elsewhere at the risk of showers, mainly to the | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
east, and temperatures near average, 13-15d. That is your forecast. | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
Thank you. That is Reporting Scotland, | :13:32. | :13:32. |