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Gay men who were convicted of homosexuality before Scots Law | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
was changed in 1980 are to be given a full pardon. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
The Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said it was vital | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
It covers all convictions for same-sex activity, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
There are also plans to remove these convictions from police records. | :00:28. | :00:39. | |
Gay activist Derek Hogg says it is a wonderful | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
act of reconciliation but he remembers | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
a very different time in | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
Working-class gay men in Scotland where they to come out, they | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
faced physical brutality and shaming and ostracism from their community. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Middle-class professional people lost their professional status. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
It was a catastrophe in the lives of people | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
and of course just the | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
silence of living with that sense of guilt year after year after year | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
drove many people to suicide, to self harm and | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
At Holyrood, the Justice Secretary put it simply. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
We want to produce an automatic pardoned for | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
people convicted so they know they are absolved fully of that | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
We want to address the injustice that people experienced | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
There will also be moves to disregard such conviction | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
In England, different reform is under | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
way following the posthumous pardon granted to Alan Turing, the wartime | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
There is a long history here, while sexual acts | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
between women were not specifically outlawed, it was 1980, | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
13 years after England, before gay sex was | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
legalised in Scotland with men aged over 21. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
In 1994, the age of consent was registered to 18, then 16 in | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
The first same-sex marriage in Scotland was at | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Today's announcement won cross-party support. | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
That is a hugely welcome announcement, in fact nothing short | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
of an historic moment for Scotland to be a more equal and respectful | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Both Kezia Dougdale and Patrick Harvie raised the issue of a | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
While many welcome a pardon, others take | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
from it they are being forgiven for having done something wrong. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
The Cabinet Secretary promised to look | :03:01. | :03:01. | |
seriously at that issue when the pardon law is introduced. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
Plans for the expansion of Heathrow's third runway have been | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
welcomed by the Scottish government, Scottish airports and businesses | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
who want to see improved options for air connections. | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
But environmentalists are warning it's a backward step | :03:19. | :03:36. | |
This has been maturing for as long as it has taken to decide on a new | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
runway in London. This patch will be ready | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
about the time the next This distillery near Inverness has | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
trouble requirements. Frustrated by London's | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
airport bottleneck. It is not that important | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
for us to get out because we know how to get out, | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
but for distributors and their customers coming in, | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
they need a smooth transition, and Heathrow usually | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
is the airport of choice. London has lots of airport capacity | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
but not enough where it's needed, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
at Heathrow and Gatwick. That is where feeder flights can | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
link to the world, but what about the noise, say | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Heathrow's neighbours, and aircraft The concerns are that we receive | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
a significant increase, 70% It will increase pollution, | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
make the demands that the planet is facing, carbon emissions, | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
even more stark. Three Scottish airports link | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
with Heathrow but the British Not the setting has come | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
at an economic cost, while other global hubs have been | :04:33. | :04:45. | |
grabbing market share. We need to have this | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
as soon as possible. Because of the delays we have had | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
over many years, what you are seeing is further | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
development in western Europe, and in Dubai and Istanbul, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
and that isn't the cost of the UK. After consultation and potential | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
legal challenges, a hard-fought Commons | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
vote, we are still a long way from Some Gatwick supporters | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
think Heathrow's I am frustrated as a taxpayer and | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
a businessman and an airport guy who But in the end we just | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
have to get on with what There is a catch, the aviation | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
market is changing. people in and out of London, | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
they are looking for direct routes, indeed they are already flying them | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
to European cities, North America and the Middle East | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
and eventually they hope to Asia. With that kind of growth, | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Edinburgh might need another Police have been using a helicopter | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
in the search for a young French national who's gone | :05:45. | :05:56. | |
missing in Edinburgh. Antoine Maury, who's 21, | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
was last seen late last night after leaving his friends | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
in the city's Milton Road area. Officers say they're growing | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
increasingly concerned Scotland's prisons watchdog wants | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
more help for offenders who are released into the community | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
at the end of their sentence. The Chief Inspector of Prisons says | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
too often people leave jail without knowing where they'll sleep | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
or whether their healthcare needs will be met and it makes reoffending | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
more likely. Scotland's prison | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
population is the lowest annual inspection | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
report is positive. Praise for staff who work | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
with prisoners about to be released. This report pleased | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
to be publishing today. David Strand says there should be | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
better integration of their work with services | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
provided in the community by local authorities, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
the NHS and charities. I see too many people | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
leaving prison, not knowing where they are going to | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
sleep that night, people with health care problems, not | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
sure whether addiction support will come, | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
and people leaving with insufficient | :07:05. | :07:05. | |
money to support them until their This lack of support, | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
he says, is one of the many reasons why many offenders | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
return quickly to prison. This challenge for society | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
is being tackled by Mentors, many of themselves | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
with prison records, help those about to leave | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
jail and for the year They offer practical | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
support and advice It has been six months, | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
and there is a real empathy, because | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
we do understand. A lot of the guys I have worked | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
with, from the team, there is a real deep understanding | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
in the whole team, But the charities concerned that | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
funding could come to an end. It will have to find other ways to | :07:58. | :08:13. | |
prevent offenders returning to prison. | :08:14. | :08:14. | |
Football and there was one game in the Scottish Premiership tonight. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
The international rugby head coach Vern Cotter says no team should | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
try to stop a player representing his nation. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
The top English sides have voted not to release Scotland players | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
for the Autumn tests unless the SRU settles what's claimed to be | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
The next generation honed their skills on a tour of the | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
national rugby stadium, the man in charge of Scotland's | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
first 15 fields questions about a row with top | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
English teams who say their players might represent Scotland unless | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
allegedly outstanding medical bills are settled. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
You can't deny people the opportunity to play. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Even though it may be frustrating at times when | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
you have players leaving or injured or coming back injured, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
International rugby is important fixtures | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
try and deprive a player of that possibility to play for his country. | :09:08. | :09:19. | |
To kick off the autumn Test series, the World Cup | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
runners-up Australia are | :09:22. | :09:22. | |
here at Murrayfield a fortnight on Saturday. | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Head coach Vern Cotter will need his strongest available | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
But because of the club versus country row, he's not sure | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
whether his English-based players will be available to him. | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
The five in question are the Saracens duo of | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Fellow back Tim Visser of Harlequins. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Forward Moray Low of the Exeter Chiefs. | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
And most crucially of all, Gloucester's Greg Laidlaw, the | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
You cannot have a Scotland test periods without the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Greg Laidlaw is in there as the Scottish captain for | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
And he should not be used as a political pawn between a | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
It's a distraction Vern Cotter could do without as he prepares for | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
He will be replaced next summer by the Glasgow Warriors head coach | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
If you're doing something and you want to go | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
somewhere and you've got objectives in mind, | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
Moving on this autumn will be less of an ordeal if | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
key players like the captain can join the party. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Experts who repaired the Forth Road Bridge have won | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
the coveted Saltire Society award for civil engineering. | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
Scotland's longest bridge was closed to all traffic in December last year | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
after fractures were found in the steelwork. | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
Judges have said the team deserved the Greatest Contribution to | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Scotland award for their 'remarkable engineering achievement carried out | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
in adverse weather whilst ensuring public safety. | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
The weather is next. Lovely smells of sunshine earlier | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
today but in the cloud had built, a sign of things to come. We will see | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
some cloud and rain and some strengthening winds. The clouds did | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
build through the afternoon and are still with us as we head through the | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
ceiling and overnight. Quite breezy in the north-west with patchy | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
outbreaks of rain. To the south of the UK, some are fairly dense fog | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
patches to if you are catching a plane to airports in the London | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
area, perhaps Bristol, may be some disruption tomorrow morning. This to | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
home, for us tomorrow morning, is a fairly start -- cloudy start. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Nothing like the low temperatures this morning. Ten or 11 or 12 | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
Celsius. A bit murky at times, though. Some early brightness | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
perhaps in the north-east and into the north-west, cloudy with | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
outbreaks of rain but improving for the Western Isles with some sunshine | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
coming through here because this weather front is slowly edging way | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
through the course of the day. It will tend to fizzle away as it does | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
so. Tightening up behind it and a breezy day for all with moderate to | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
fresh south-west race. Most of England and Wales, closet about | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
high-pressure that we saw earlier, it will be largely dry and bright. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Some Dems patches but once the sun comes out, temperatures responding, | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
into the mid-teens. Despite the sunshine in the north-west, a few | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
into the mid-teens. Despite the blustery showers in the afternoon. | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
Thursday, there's the high pressure in the Indus Channel. We are to the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
north of it so more in the way of winds. Another breezy day on | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Thursday. Outbreaks of rain in the north-west edging south and east | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
words but the further south and east you are, generally drier and | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
brighter. Come Friday, the winds are lighter, generally drier and the | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
rest of the sunshine is in the North. | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
Our next update is during Breakfast at 6:25 tomorrow morning. | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
Until then, from everyone on the late team here | :13:17. | :13:21. |