21/04/2017 Reporting Scotland

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The trial of the former owner of Rangers, Craig Whyte,

has been hearing evidence from two of the club's former managers.

Walter Smith and Ally McCoist told the High Court in Glasgow

about the first time they met Mr Whyte, shortly before he took

He denies acquiring Rangers by fraud.

Craig Whyte arriving at the High Court in Glasgow for a trial which

will focus on his takeover of Rangers six years ago. He faces two

will focus on his takeover of charges. He is accused of fraud by

pretending he had the funds available to buy the club and he is

alleged to have breached the companies act. The first witness in

this trial, one of football 's best-known figures, Walter Smith. As

he celebrated winning the league in made 2011, his rain at Ibrox was

ending, just as Craig Whyte acquired control of the club. But today, he

admitted Rangers' finances were in a perilous state when the club was

sold with a bank overdraft of ?18 million and a lack of money for the

playing squad. Defence counsel asked Walter Smith, did you know by 2011

if the bank had had enough of bankrolling Rangers? Mr Smith said

yes, we had had an indication of that before 2011 with difficult cuts

being made at Rangers to make the club more viable. Donald Findlay

asked him, it must have been very distressing to see the club in a

state like that. Yes, Mr Smith replied. It was. But we had been

trying our best to handle the situation while it was there.

Today's other witness, former Rangers star Ally McCoist, who took

over the manager 's role at Ibrox when Walter Smith's top-down. He

talked of his difficulty in getting funds to boost his squad of players.

He claimed offers being made by the club to sign players were not

He claimed offers being made by the realistic. The prosecutor asked Ally

McCoist about the level of investment in the playing squad

after Craig Whyte took charge at Rangers. Ally McCoist reply, we got

some players, just not players that would have kept as at the same

standard as we had. But Ally McCoist acknowledged that new players were

signed after Craig Whyte took over at Ibrox. Craig Whyte denies both

charges against him and his trial will continue on Monday.

Drug-driving limits and roadside testing are to be introduced

It follows moves by the Scottish government to cut

Our correspondent Lucy Adams reports.

The footage is genuine. Shot by a member of the public, it shows how

erratic some motorists are prepared to be. The driver, impaired by

alcohol and drugs, was later jailed. Hendry Robertson runs a guest house

in Inverness. His father died after being hit by a car whose driver had

taken cannabis, LSD, and methadone. My dad lived on a farm just outside

Forfar. And every day in life, he would go for a walk. He was out for

his evening walk and was struck by would go for a walk. He was out for

car driven by someone who was under the influence of drugs. Kenneth

Robertson was 92 at the time. He died in hospital two weeks later.

The driver was sent to prison for died in hospital two weeks later.

eight years. It is long overdue, this facility should be in place and

people should be tested if they are thought to be using drugs whilst

driving. Most people don't know what the current impairment test

involves. Or how long it takes. I volunteered to allow specially

trained officers to show us. I am going to examining the size of your

pupils. Officers can stop drivers when they have reasonable cause. It

is already illegal to drive while impaired by drugs in Scotland but

the current test takes around 15 minutes and means being taken back

to a police station if you are suspected of having

to a police station if you are Then there's a blood test that

follows. In future, the idea would be to do an instant roadside test by

your car. Scotland is following changes in England and Wales where

officers now use a saliva test which detects cannabis and cocaine. They

caught 8000 people in the first 12 months of using the test. Police

Scotland welcome the move and warned people to avoid anything which

impairs their driving. This is about all drugs. A drug is anything that

can impair your ability to drive. People need to be mindful, it is not

just about heroin and cocaine, it is also about prescribed

antidepressants. You need to be following guidance given by your

doctor. Road safety campaigners say the test could have been introduced

sooner. But ministers say Scotland will soon be ahead of the rest of

the UK. There are some drugs where it will be a zero tolerance

approach. You will be committing an offence. And for others, it will be

a specified amount. In the same way it is with alcohol. We will engage

with stakeholders around what those limits should actually be. Ministers

will be setting out exactly which drugs will be limited and how in the

next few months. 200 jobs are set to be created

in the West Highlands, after a contract was signed to build

parts for floating wind The dry dock there was last

used to work on the Skye The yard was built to construct

North Sea oil platforms and in the 1970s employed more

than three thousand people. Rangers say they're "shocked

and saddened" at the death of their former player

Ugo Ehiogu at the age of 44. He suffered a heart attack yesterday

at Tottenham's training ground, Ehiogu played for Rangers ten years

ago, and is often remembered for this winning goal

against Celtic. Wildlife experts are hoping

to rescue a whale which has become It's hoped that the 20-foot minke

whale can be refloated later tonight, when the tide

is high enough. A team of around eight people from

British Divers Marine Life Rescue The minke was spotted on a beach

west of Elie by a passer-by. Coastguard teams from St Andrews

and Leven were at the scene. Olympic gold medallist

Dame Katherine Grainger has been Great Britain's most decorated

female Olympian retired from rowing, after winning a medal at a fifth

Games last summer. She'll succeed Rod Carr

as head of the funding Let's get the weather forecast

now from Christopher. Good evening. A chilly night in

store with clear conditions. There will be a number of showers across

the far north. That is how we start things tomorrow morning. Being blown

in bad -- on that brisk wind. Elsewhere, a sunny morning. The

cloud will bubble up through the course of the day. Showers further

north. They will continue. Across the UK, reasonably settled and

drive. Some bright spells through parts of Wales, the Midlands and the

north of England. Temperature wise for us, we are looking at around ten

or 11 Celsius for many. You can see the cloud having bubbled up through

the course of the day but still some bright weather and sunny spells.

Further north, vary -- varies that rash of showers. Most of them,

wintry on the tops at times. As we head to the rest of the afternoon

into the evening, showers still with us. Largely dry for many overnight.

A cold night. And then for Sunday, high-pressure influencing conditions

for most of the UK but low pressure across the far North brings a wet

and windy spell of weather for the far north and the Northern Isles. We

could see some gale force gusts. Elsewhere, a largely dry day to come

on Sunday with some sunshine and cloud. Temperatures up a notch but

they will come straight back down again into Monday and Tuesday. An

arctic blast of wind and the wrist were mackerel risk of wintry showers

everywhere.