09/01/2017 Reporting Scotland

The girlfriend of the missing RAF serviceman, Corrie McKaig,

has revealed she's pregnant with his child.

April Oliver discovered in October she was having a baby,

weeks after Corrie disappeared after a night out in the Suffolk

She's always wanted to be a mother, but looking at the scan of her and

Corrie's unborn child, she wishes circumstances could be different.

The personal trainer first met him on an online dating site last summer

and only discovered she was pregnant fortnight after the RAF gunner went

Being a mother is something I always wanted to be, right from

when I was younger, but it is just...

It is just a horrible time, isn't it, really?

Corrie's mother and April's parents have known about the

pregnancy since the outset and they are supporting her.

It's something I hoped he would be here to help me

make the decision with, but he isn't, so it's

Not the most pleasant thing to go through on your own,

especially when the person you love is not present.

Corrie was last caught on CCTV in the early hours of

Saturday the 24th of September in the centre of Bury St Edmunds.

The 23-year-old had been enjoying a night out

left this nightclub alone in the early hours.

After entering an area behind some shops, he disappeared.

As this home video shows, Corrie McKeague is an extrovert and happy

His family say he would talk to anyone.

Every week, his mother flies to Scotland to coordinate the search

It is difficult to balance the excitement of a new baby

to what we are trying to focus on now and that is finding Corrie,

We will get through this but just now I have

got to, for my own sanity, just try to concentrate on trying to find

Corrie and doing everything I can to find him.

Preparations are already in place for the birth

April now hopes to some personal privacy for her and her

Both families are now determined that efforts are focused

on finding Corrie, this unborn baby's father.

Scotland's tougher drink-drive limits are still failing to deter

motorists from drinking too much and getting behind the wheel.

This festive period there was a 38% rise in the number of drivers

Here's our home affairs correspondent, Reevel Alderson.

The drink-drive limit is 50 mg of alcohol in 100 millilitres blood. It

was previously 80 mg. How much is that? The new limit is probably less

than a pint of beer or a glass of wine. But you should not take a

chance, although drivers did. From December until this year, six and in

25 motorists failed a breath test, an increase of 38.3% over the

previous festive period. Worryingly, only 57 of the drivers who failed

were only over the new limit, meaning 90.9% would have failed

before the new levy came into force. Police tested more motorists over

the festive period than in recent years, campaigners say that the only

way to deter drivers who deliberately chose to take

to the wheel after drinking The focus is on making sure

the majority of people get the Unfortunately, the people breaking

the limit now I fear don't take any They need to be caught

by the police to And there is apparent support

in this Edinburgh pub for the tougher limits and

tougher enforcement. I believe there should be zero

tolerance on drink-driving. I don't think you should get

in your car after drinking. You are out of control

when you've had a drink, so the answer should be quite simple,

you shouldn't allow a limit, you If you drive, you don't

drink and that's it. I think in their head they know

is wrong, and I don't know how we can change that.

Police say although drink-driving has had a

high profile during the festive period,

it will continue to be a

When not going to stop targeting drink-drivers

simply because the festive period is over.

There will still be a focus on it throughout the year because there

is a hard-core element of motorists disregarding the safety of other

people and we will continue to pursue those individuals.

My message is still the same, regardless of

whether it is Christmas or summer, don't do it.

The figures also showed an increase in the people caught the

morning after drinking, which police said was reckless.

Campaigners south of the border have been calling for

a reduction in the drink-driving limit there and have expressed

concern to that with so many Scottish drivers being over the old

limit, it may dissuade legislators from bringing England and Wales into

The driver of a lorry which crashed into a house killing a woman had

blacked out with what a court heard described as an

55-year-old Catherine Bonner died and her partner, Jim McColl,

was badly hurt in the crash in Fairlie in 2013.

A Fatal Accident Inquiry heard from a doctor who said

driver George Marshall had an underlying medical condition.

A charge of death by dangerous driving was dropped after details

The way skills are taught needs to be urgently overhauled to cope

That's according to a think tank which is warning more needs done

Here's our business correspondent, David Henderson.

They are here to retrain and keep pace with changes at work.

This class is popular with mature students who want to take on new

skills for a career in nursery education.

You learn to deal with people differently, your

communication changes as you develop different

working relationships with

your mentors and lecturer and other classmates.

I think it is vital that we keep learning and not give up at

the age of 37, you know, decide to change your life for the better.

Soon the owners classmates will take this training to where they work.

Most of the students here are under 25

but the average age is on the rise as more people look to renew their

The college principal told me those skills

are focused on the jobs that

Employers help shape and design the courses in the

programmes, in some cases helping deliver

those programmes with us and

They provide real live work experience and

projects for the students studying in college so they are tapping into

talent that exists in the College at the same time as preparing the

Technology is becoming ever present in the workplace, like this robot,

which was taught to sort clothes, and the gathering pace of change in

so many lines of work means skills training may have to adapt.

In Scotland there is an issue with people

medium-skilled into more highly skilled positions and we've also

found there is an issue around skills mismatch in Scotland, where

the skills are not meeting the needs of employers.

We feel the skills system needs to reform and become

more flexible to meet these needs and to be

able to be fit for the

One the things we have done to respond to that particular

challenge of helping people progress in their careers is extra funding to

So working patterns are being redrawn and very

Instead, change is the order for the day.

That presents challenges but opportunities too.

The centralisation of the control rooms of the Scottish Fire

and Rescue Service is being blamed for a series of call-out errors.

Critics claim a lack of local knowledge has led to the mistakes.

Fire brigade control centres in both Aberdeen and Inverness were closed

down at the end of last year with the new North operations hub in

Dundee part of a ?10 million reorganisation and investment in

The closures were always controversial and in recent

weeks it is alleged that emergency fire crews have been sent out when

there were other crews close at hand.

One crew was called out from Lairg to attend an incident on the

Another station was asked to go to an

address in Dundee and that defies belief, that in a life-threatening

situation and a life safety service, these things are happening.

Councillors in the Highlands have always been against the

centralisation and are now calling for the closure of the local call

Politicians are demanding answers to the current

We need to sure that fire engines go to the right place right

across the Highlands and Islands and that has

not happened recently so

Parliament should look into it and find out what went wrong

and make sure the Fire Service operate as it

Scottish Fire and rescue declined to be interviewed about the

allegations, but in a statement, they said

they had reviewed what were

unsubstantiated claims and was set aside that in all cases the correct

results have been sent to the incident involved.

They added that in any area local knowledge came not

just from control room staff, but also from

We've had some outbreaks of rain, merging into longer spells and

clearer spells to the east. That will be the case for the rest of the

night along with brisk winds. Gail Folsom the Western Isles along the

West course on for the Northern Isles. Through the night, fairly

mild. Clear spells towards the east. By morning, showers for the far

north, the Northern Isles and the North West. Temperatures, 4-5 C. Dry

in the central belt and across the borders. As we head through the day,

we will see improving conditions and this band of rain is continuing

across the west coast in particular. Sunny spells along the east coast.

The rain extends down south across towards north-western parts of

England and into Wales and the South West of England. Brian is along the

east coast all the way down into the south-east. Temperatures 9-10 C.

Tomorrow evening, further rain for a time, but as this moves through, we

get much colder air for tomorrow night into Wednesday. It is going to

turn a very windy indeed, with night into Wednesday. It is going to

severe gales for the North and gale force gusts across Scotland and

Northern Ireland. Showers become increasingly wintry. Wednesday,

those showers with sleet and snow in the North West. Brighter moments

between these showers, but bitterly cold and temperatures of 5 degrees.

But with the wind chill, it will feel extremely cold. The Met office

have issued several warnings for the strength of the wind and for snow

showers with snow falling readily to lower levels on Thursday. Those

warnings across most of Scotland in the West on for Northern Ireland,

too. Thursday, widespread across Scotland and extended to the coast.

Our next update is during Breakfast at 6.25am tomorrow morning.

But from everyone on the late team, goodnight.