13/02/2017 Reporting Scotland

Not one player was drugs-tested in Scottish domestic football

The Scottish Football Association says funding is in place to ensure

tests are carried out during the rest of this season -

but tonight the President of the World anti-doping agency

criticised the lack of testing. Alasdair Lamont has more details.

The fight to keep trucks out of sport has never been more intense or

so high profile. From state-sponsored doping in Russia,

investigations into wrongdoing in cycling to a lengthy ban for Maria

Sharapova, one of tennis's biggest stars. A year ago BBC Scotland

published figures that show that only eight trucks tests done in

Scottish football between April and December of 2015. Now it has emerged

that in the same period last year not a single test was carried out.

It is, in my view... The Scottish FA lost its funding

from the UK anti-doping agency last April. And finally agreed on funding

package in November. There was disappointment within the SFA at the

decision to stop funding testing here, that was apparently down to

prioritising the ?7 million budget, particularly in what was an Olympic

year. Regardless, the SFA now expect some funding to kick in to allow

testing to resume in Scottish some funding to kick in to allow

football. The former chairman of Ukip in Scotland has afforded jail.

after admitting making a series of sexual phone calls

Arthur Misty Thackeray pled guilty last month.

At Glasgow Sheriff Court today he was placed on the sex offenders

register for three years, and told to complete 270 hours

of unpaid work as part of a community payback order.

Father Denis Alexander has always denied the allegations. Denis

Alexander appeared via a video link from a remand centre at Silver water

prison here in Sydney, he was in a wheelchair. He did at times appear

to be quite fragile but fully aware of the legal proceedings. His

barrister told the magistrate that given his age and various medical

conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, his client should be

released from custody pending what could well be a lengthy extradition

process. A lawyer for the UK Government argued against the bail

application, saying that father Alexander presented a flight risk.

He suggested that the former monk may even be spirited away to a

Benedictine monastery somewhere in Australia. The lawyer also argued

that the priest first-macro medical conditions would not be made worse

in custody. The magistrates as it was a difficult application to

consider stop he did reject the bail application, what this means is that

Denis Alexander will remain in custody pending that full

extradition hearing in Sydney in three months' time.

The Scotland rugby captain Greig Laidlaw's availability

for the rest of the Six Nations is in doubt tonight.

Laidlaw has left the national squad to have his injured ankle assessed

The return of the walking wounded from France. Scotland rugby squad

arrived back in Edinburgh mentally and physically battered bruised. It

was a catalogue of injuries and started with the site no Scots

friend wanted to see. Their number nine buckling in pain. The captain,

the highest points scorer, playmaker and inspiring team member, rolling

to the ground and then taken off. His future in the championship they

are requiring further assessment. Calling the shots from the sidelines

was never in the game plan. To recover now, sometimes when they get

sent back, it means they are going to be out for a number of weeks they

like to get them back to the club physio is, a massive loss because he

has proved himself over the last couple of seasons as a leader who

manages the game exceptionally well he is a fantastic player. There were

positive moments for Scotland. But a whole lot of negative, too. After

Laidlaw went off, his replacement as captain John Barclay went off. After

Barclay was sidelined from his positional replacement John Hardy

also succumbed to a head injury and finally the hooker Fraser Brown,

another head knock and another player taken off not to return to

action. They are all subject to continued hit injury assessment. The

game was so brutal, you could understand you get some head knocks

but to get four in a game, for them to be crucial plays for Scotland, it

shows you how brutal and rough and physical the game is becoming.

Questions will be asked about the bungled conversion attempt. With the

calm head of Laidlaw have fared better under the pressure of being

told to rush and take it? The squad have until a week on Saturday to

recover when the next wave of attack will come, this time from Wales.

Aberdeenshire Council has apologised for planting dozens of trees

The trees appeared on the playing field at Logie Durno over

the weekend, sparking confusion among residents.

We sent our reporter Rebecca Curran to investigate.

Tree up front, Ireland usual formation in Scott didn't do across

Scottish football. Dozens of trees up and planted here and residents

aren't happy. There is not really much to do in this area, get your

kids out, do something active, the goals are in place, all of a sudden

kids out, do something active, the we have got trees! Aberdeenshire

councils says the plan was to turn over part of the area for

biodiversity as anecdotally it was really used. Whenever we take a

football and play here, not on the big pitch, but I don't know why the

council have put them there. They are good for dribbling round!

Because it gives you good practice. Aberdeenshire Council couldn't

confirm how much it cost to plant trees or how much it could be to

remove them. The trees will stay where they are until an agreement is

reached with residents. I'm certainly not dressed for the

occasion and these are certainly not football boots but it's just a Paul

and some trees, how hard can it be? It's over to Kawser now

with the weather outlook For most of us it's "A cloudy night

so far, the cast our minds back to earlier today. Some contrasts across

the country, stepping out across the North-East, temperatures here

struggled. But we reached 11 Celsius here in Skye, plenty of sunshine.

The good news is that sunshine will be more widespread tomorrow although

it will be breezy. The night some very strong winds across the Solway,

perhaps even touching gale force, clearer skies in the North-West,

temperatures could dip to minus five Celsius in the Highlands. For

tomorrow morning, heading out at around eight o'clock quite a bit of

cloud around the North-East across more central areas, towards the

north it used, quite chilly, quite breezy as well, more sunshine across

western part of the Central belt, towards the East some breaks in the

cloud to allow sunnier spells through. More in the wake of

sunshine across northern parts of England and towards the South-East

but across the south west, across Northern Ireland, more in the wake

of cloud and outbreaks of patchy rain. Milder air being drawn in,

temperatures may be 11 or 12 in the south-west. The wind direction

becomes more southerly and withdraw in that milder air but also more

unsettled conditions. Looking ahead to Wednesday, we are looking at a

contrast compared to recent days, most of the cloud further towards

the West this time. Further towards the east, likely to see the best of

any brightness, most likely across the Murray first and for all of us

to preachers will rise by the end of the week.

We're back tomorrow morning. Good night.