08/08/2016 Reporting Scotland

The headlines on Reporting Scotland this Monday lunchtime -

Calls for a minimum school clothing grant to help low income families,

and a teenager who knocked down and killed a nurse is jailed

Anti-poverty campaigners are calling on the Scottish Government

to introduce a minimum school clothing grant.

They say the cost of uniforms means low-income families are having

to cut back on essentials to afford them.

Our reporter Andrew Black is in the newsroom this lunchtime.

Andrew. With schools across Scotland about to return from summer

holidays, parents have been getting children kitted out with new

uniforms, but at an estimated cost of at least ?130 per child, that can

be expensive. There is a system in place to help low-income families

pay for uniforms, run by councils, but the amount of cash available

varies widely between local authorities, from ?20 per child and

Angus up to ?110 per child in West Lothian. A coalition of

anti-property groups has called on ministers to bring in a minimum

school clothing grant, saying it would be an important step to

tackling inequality. We understand the Scottish Government and local

authorities are under financial pressure but it is a question of

priorities. The Scottish Government and many local authorities have said

their priority is to include reducing child poverty and the

attainment gap and the introduction of minimum school clothing grants is

a practical way of taking a step to achieving those things. This is very

timely given that the Scottish Government has today proposed

legislation which it says wants to eradicate child poverty. Earlier

this year ministers gain new powers to introduce minimum school clothing

grants, and they are about to start talks with other groups representing

councils to see who would be entitled to claim and how it could

be paid for, with the aim, says the government, of ensuring all children

have the clothes they need to help them private school. Thank you very

much. A salvage operation is getting under way in the western isles

after, a 17,000-tonne oil rig has run

aground after being blown ashore The Transocean Winner

was under tow west of Lewis It became detached from

the tug boat overnight, before running aground at Dalmore

beach in the Carloway area. it had more than 70,000 gallons of

diesel on-board and is being monitored by the Maritime and

coastguard agency. A teenager who knocked

down and killed a nurse on her way home from work has been

jailed for six years. Dylan Jenkins was being

pursued by a police car when he lost control of his vehicle

and struck Jill Pirie. She was taken to the

hospital she worked at, the Edinburgh Royal

Infirmary, for treatment, Suzanne Allan reports

from the High Court in Glasgow. It was around eight o'clock on

Thursday, May 12 20 oh was walking home having finished dish it as a

nurse at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary nurse at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

-- finished a shift. Dylan Jenkins was driving a Ford car he bought

from ?40 from the Internet. He was trying to exquisite -- escape police

and driving at excessive speed when he ploughed into the back of Jill

Pirie. She was taken to hospital but died from her injuries. Dylan

Jenkins escaped but handed himself in to the police next day. In court

the judge talked about the toll it had taken on Jill Pirie's family and

how it had robbed a five old boy of his mother. He added although Dylan

Jenkins showed remorse, to him there were no mitigating factors. Dylan

Jenkins wept as he was led away in handcuffs to start his six-year

sentence in the Young offenders institution, and he is disqualified

from holding a driving lesson for seven years.

Great Britain won their first medals at the Rio Olympics last night

with gold and silver in the pool for Adam Peaty and Jazz Carlin.

But the Scots in Team GB are still waiting

for their first medals, and there was deep disappointment

Kheredine Idessane was courtside watching them, and joins us now

Kheredine. Alistair, what an amazing night of drama we had in the Olympic

tennis centre behind me, out went Serena and Venus Williams in the

doubles, out went Novak Djokovic in the singles, beaten by one Martin

del Potro, out unfortunately also from a Scottish perspective, when

the Murray brothers, who played an epic match against their Brazilian

opponents, losing in straight sets but going out in the end 16-14 in

the second set tie-break, saving six match points but couldn't say the

seventh, and are naturally disappointed Andy Murray spoke to me

giving his reaction afterwards. You don't get this opportunity often.

Another four years until the next one, who knows where we will both be

then. And obviously the way the match went, it's a tough one to lose

as well. It wasn't meant to be today. We saved some chances but

when we had an opportunity, it didn't quite go for it, and the way

the match finished, the net cord, just one of those days

unfortunately. Yes, deep disappointment for Andy Murray in

the doubles. He played well in the singles, though, safely through to

the second round tomorrow where he plays Juan Monaco of Australia. A

disappointing weekend for the Scots. Hannah Miley missed on a bronze

medal on Saturday in the pool. Could Richard Kruse do better in the

individual foil fencing? He was in the bronze medal bout but lost out

in a match in which he was always behind, couldn't get back on terms,

and again, and understandably annoyed and frustrated Kruse who

talked with afterwards. I was trying to play him to physically and he is

stronger than me, so I started to relax and enjoy the chest game but a

few decisions went away from me and the match was gone at 10-5. Did

those decisions affect your tour? Eight cost me a bronze! You can see

the replay up there. It could have gone either way. There were close

calls and they went to him. Yes, Richard Kruse prostrated there. He

still has chances in the team event later. Not the start we had hoped

for four Scottish athletes in Rio so far. Maybe forgings will change in

the water, we will get our first glimpse of Heather Stanning later at

the rowing lakes, the defending champion in the women's pairs, she

and Helen Glover have not lost on 36 races and there is action in the

canoe Stal, David Florence through to the semifinals in the singles

tomorrow, in the two man canoe. Fiona Penny in the single kayak as

well, plenty to come later this afternoon. Kheredine in Rio, thank

you. This year's Glasgow International

Piping Festival has It's the 13th year of

Piping Live, a celebration 200 events will take place,

with over 50,000 people expected Now let's get the weather

forecast, and Judith It has been unseasonably windy spell

of weather, this deep area of low pressure to the north-east of us but

we still have gales in the Northern Isles, the isobars still tight and

will open during the afternoon, but still a brisk wind across the

country, a good drying afternoon, and those brisk winds bringing

showers, mainly across northern and western parts but a lot of dry

weather is still in the forecast and bright with good sunny spells as

well. We have a yellow weather warning for severe gales at times

across Shetland this afternoon lasting into the evening, possible

gusts of 55 mph with rain as well not going away till evening.

Temperatures north- south, 12 Celsius in Celsius, in the south we

could see 18 or 19. Through the evening the showers die away, lovely

sunshine actually, so windy across Shetland 's -- still windy,

gradually easing, and gradually stepping down overnight. Clear skies

although showery rain in the north-west by dawn tomorrow.

Temperatures inland could fall to seven Celsius, more typically around

ten. Tomorrow starts dry and bright, still breezy, with this weather

front introducing showers for the the west, cloudy here but bright

elsewhere, clouding across much of the country through the day with

everywhere at risk of a shower, still brightness in between, the

wind easing and still feeling on the cool side. That's your forecast.

We'll be back with more news sport and weather

in Reporting Scotland at 6:30 tonight.

From everyone on the lunchtime team, have a very good afternoon.

interviewing key figures. There was a decisive moment in this campaign.