:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight on Timeline: It's Bafta weekend.
:00:08. > :00:10.We talk with film-makers hoping for a gong and find out where we're
:00:11. > :00:16.We ask who's to blame for dangerous dog attacks.
:00:17. > :00:42.And Andy Murray has been answering your questions.
:00:43. > :00:47.This week we've got hold of figures that suggest serious dog
:00:48. > :00:55.I've been hearing from one attack survivor who's
:00:56. > :00:56.now so scared of dogs, she's frightened to
:00:57. > :01:00.And we'll talk live with a dog expert who says councils
:01:01. > :01:02.are not using their dog control powers properly.
:01:03. > :01:05.Plus, as Andy Murray reveals plans to play Roger Federer in Glasgow,
:01:06. > :01:14.we ask the world number one, and dad of one, your questions.
:01:15. > :01:19.Any more children on the way? Not that I am aware of!
:01:20. > :01:22.Andy will be taking more of your questions later.
:01:23. > :01:26.First tonight, two film-makers from Scotland are up for a Bafta
:01:27. > :01:29.award this weekend for their short film about a community in India
:01:30. > :01:33.who live on the edge of a coal mine which has been on fire for more
:01:34. > :01:39.Bosnian-born Samir Mehanovic and Michael Wilson from Glasgow took
:01:40. > :01:42.a crew from Scotland to the open cast coal mine to
:01:43. > :01:54.Timeline went to meet them ahead of Sunday night's awards.
:01:55. > :02:04.This huge ecological disaster, people survive this. It is an
:02:05. > :02:16.incredible place, hard to believe it exists in the modern world.
:02:17. > :02:26.Longevity is about 50 years. It is so polluted and this does affect us.
:02:27. > :02:30.Jharia in East India is a site of a large opencast mine. People live
:02:31. > :02:38.around the edge, scraping together a living. I wanted to make a film
:02:39. > :02:42.about it. It is actually a British company that opened this and the
:02:43. > :02:48.fires have started in 1916 and they are still burning, the whole houses
:02:49. > :02:57.are collapsing. And the humans are dying from respiratory problems.
:02:58. > :03:04.The government wants to read highest them for a very small amount of
:03:05. > :03:09.money, we're talking about ?5 or ?10, and the worst of the coal is
:03:10. > :03:15.$200 billion so there is a big ecological disaster and political
:03:16. > :03:19.game. On the last day we filmed on the coal mines the police came and
:03:20. > :03:25.we thought they were going to shut us down. Again, our wonderful fixer
:03:26. > :03:28.had a big discussion with this policeman and who are desperately
:03:29. > :03:34.trying to film the scene before something happened and they shut us
:03:35. > :03:38.down. The police man went away and I said, what happened? He said, I am
:03:39. > :03:45.going around to his house for dinner tonight and I will pay him off. I
:03:46. > :03:49.was told early on, do not tell them the whole story, that you are going
:03:50. > :03:54.to India to make a film about child labourers because they will not like
:03:55. > :04:01.it so we had to edit the truth a little bit on the working visas. I
:04:02. > :04:05.was travelling first in Jharia and on a train journey I asked the
:04:06. > :04:10.gentle manner across from me if he knows any school or orphanage and
:04:11. > :04:14.could you point me to that, and I went and introduced myself and I did
:04:15. > :04:19.a workshop with the kids. And I had a choice of two of them, I could see
:04:20. > :04:26.one of them had some experience and the other boy had a better face and
:04:27. > :04:34.I went for the face, I looked at him and I moved my nose like this and he
:04:35. > :04:37.responded and that was it! This is a Scottish film with the Scottish crew
:04:38. > :04:42.and a Scottish production and we're very proud to say that I am half
:04:43. > :05:00.Scottish, and lower my kilt at the Bafta! -- I will wear my kilt.
:05:01. > :05:07.There is no question that Scotland has the capacity to have another
:05:08. > :05:12.studio. We have a studio facility at the moment but it is pretty much in
:05:13. > :05:19.use most of the time on the TV show. Outlander. I am working on that.
:05:20. > :05:23.They bring an American producer over and they fly them in a helicopter
:05:24. > :05:27.and show them Glencoe ad-blocking nest and they think it is incredible
:05:28. > :05:32.so where can we build the interior sets? There is no question that over
:05:33. > :05:37.the years we have suffered and we have lost on work because of the
:05:38. > :05:40.lack of a sound stages and it is time the government stepped up to
:05:41. > :05:43.the plate and did something about it.
:05:44. > :05:45.Well, best of luck to the guys for the Baftas.
:05:46. > :05:47.But what about this business of a Scottish film studio?
:05:48. > :05:54.Belle Doyle from the Association of Film and Television Practitioners
:05:55. > :05:56.Scotland is here with Natalie Usher, who's the Director of Screen
:05:57. > :06:03.at the Scottish government's arts agency, Creative Scotland.
:06:04. > :06:12.How long have we been talking about a Scottish studio? Probably about 30
:06:13. > :06:17.years. It might even be more. I think it has been a question people
:06:18. > :06:22.have asked for a very long time. It must be frustrating? Very
:06:23. > :06:27.frustrating. As Michael pointed out, he has a production manager. He
:06:28. > :06:33.knows that we're capable of as a nation I think, speaking on behalf
:06:34. > :06:38.of the crew in Scotland, who would love to have decent facilities that
:06:39. > :06:46.are permanent because that is what Outlander has managed so far. If we
:06:47. > :06:55.had two more Outlanders, think what we could achieve. Why is this taking
:06:56. > :07:01.so long? Well... The studio facility at Ward Park is a converted Studios,
:07:02. > :07:06.it was mentioned in the clip. What has been passed through the planning
:07:07. > :07:11.is an additional two purpose-built studios. Great news for Scotland.
:07:12. > :07:16.But we must remember that this is a commercial entity, the studio is
:07:17. > :07:21.owned by a private company and in that, as we know, is Outlander,
:07:22. > :07:26.returning television drama so what is important is the must find a
:07:27. > :07:31.point in the schedule when they can construct two studios. They must
:07:32. > :07:36.think of this as a positive and that will happen. It just needs to work
:07:37. > :07:43.for those commercial organisations. What we also have got is the
:07:44. > :07:48.Pentlands proposition which is going through the planning process. That
:07:49. > :07:58.was called in by the government. It has been with them for ages? It will
:07:59. > :08:02.be close to one year, really. You think a decision is due very soon?
:08:03. > :08:08.It is with the Scottish government planning team and we cannot
:08:09. > :08:13.influence that but we hope to have a decision very soon. That is a
:08:14. > :08:20.fantastic opportunity for Scotland and we that... There are other
:08:21. > :08:28.opportunities, there is a building in Leith, 160,000 square feet with a
:08:29. > :08:35.tank and 30 metre ceilings and infrastructure, gantries to support
:08:36. > :08:40.up to 20 tonnes. That is a sort of place where they can build sets so
:08:41. > :08:42.we are marketing that and hope to build large scale productions in
:08:43. > :08:47.Scotland and we have interesting enquiries. If that gets the
:08:48. > :08:53.go-ahead, will that do the job? That is fine but part of my job when I
:08:54. > :08:56.worked at Scottish screen, I was talking to people in America and
:08:57. > :09:02.everybody is very keen to come here and film but I think the problem is
:09:03. > :09:08.we cannot, if we cannot demonstrate some kind of commitment to sound
:09:09. > :09:13.stages and infrastructure, people start thinking we do not have any
:09:14. > :09:21.cruise facilities or postproduction here. Scotland becomes harder sell
:09:22. > :09:25.we're good at selling locations but we cannot really offer any at the
:09:26. > :09:30.moment that level of infrastructure where we start to build the crew and
:09:31. > :09:38.start -- stopped losing people to London. What do you want's we need a
:09:39. > :09:43.decision on Pentland, preferably by the end of February, it is supposed
:09:44. > :09:49.to be the 22nd, that is the deadline, and we would like to
:09:50. > :09:53.see... I think that the place in Leith is great but it needs a lot of
:09:54. > :09:58.money spent on it so we would have to have a big production there. We
:09:59. > :10:04.need something around Glasgow as well. Glasgow suffers because it
:10:05. > :10:08.does not have the facilities that it should. What would you say to those
:10:09. > :10:12.who work in this industry and who have moved to London and Hollywood
:10:13. > :10:21.and elsewhere? Why should they stay here? Want them to stay here and
:10:22. > :10:25.come back. What we're doing is we are trying to enhance the studio
:10:26. > :10:30.infrastructure and Buster is more to be done, we have already got the
:10:31. > :10:36.opportunity for the two soundstages at Ward Park, Pentland is there,
:10:37. > :10:39.there was a huge opportunity and not huge amounts of money needs to be
:10:40. > :10:43.spent, we would need to spend a degree of money on a production
:10:44. > :10:48.there but there are already gantries and rigs and IT and all of that
:10:49. > :10:51.infrastructure that is very important and makes it attractive
:10:52. > :10:54.and it is attractive to the people we are talking to and hopefully we
:10:55. > :11:00.will get a very big production there very soon but equally, we have
:11:01. > :11:05.managed to attract Churchill to Scotland, that was a Brian Cox
:11:06. > :11:12.production, we had Glenn close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, we
:11:13. > :11:19.had Trainspotting two. We need more. We are attracting big productions?
:11:20. > :11:24.We do agree on that. I think the frustrations for the crew are at the
:11:25. > :11:30.slowness of just how things happen in Scotland. What we would like to
:11:31. > :11:32.see is more like the Northern Ireland or Republic of Ireland
:11:33. > :11:35.approach, people say yes and they build it. Thank you both very much
:11:36. > :11:38.for coming in. To be continued... Do we need to be educated more
:11:39. > :11:41.on how to deal with dogs safely? This week a couple were jailed for
:11:42. > :11:45.12 months after their Japanese Akita attacked 60-year-old Sylvia Baillie
:11:46. > :11:47.in the face last summer. I caught up with her
:11:48. > :12:00.at her home in Paisley. All I could see was the dog's teeth
:12:01. > :12:11.coming towards me and grabbed me. It was from the year, around my jaw.
:12:12. > :12:18.And from there, I did collapse. And I passed out. You were at a funeral
:12:19. > :12:23.with your neighbours. Take me through what happened leading up to
:12:24. > :12:31.this attack. After the service, we came back, we never went to the
:12:32. > :12:38.wake, and Leanne invited us in. We did have a couple of drinks. We sat
:12:39. > :12:43.and we spoke and the dog was next to me, I was petting it, it was fine
:12:44. > :12:51.and it was giving me it's paw, I did not feel anything. Not intimidated.
:12:52. > :12:59.So I got up to leave and the way I leaned over the couch to pet the
:13:00. > :13:04.dog... Cheerio, I am away. It was fantastic all day. All I could see
:13:05. > :13:11.was the teeth coming towards me. And grabbed me. It was from my ear,
:13:12. > :13:19.right round my jaw. A plastic surgeon put 17 stitches on the left
:13:20. > :13:24.side of my face. Transferred me to the Southern General Hospital, where
:13:25. > :13:30.the ambulance had to stop twice because my blood pressure went very
:13:31. > :13:37.low. They would not show me my face. I was allowed to go to the toilet
:13:38. > :13:43.with my drip. I could see my face in the mirror. I was shaking like a
:13:44. > :13:50.leaf. It was not me in that error. It was like The Elephant Man. My
:13:51. > :13:54.face was swollen. I never went over the door for three months, I could
:13:55. > :14:01.not eat for ten weeks. Soup and ice cream. The doctor put me on
:14:02. > :14:06.different tablets to calm me down. I was still getting flashbacks. Do you
:14:07. > :14:11.think you will ever be able to approach a dog again? No, no. I
:14:12. > :14:19.cannot even visit my brother or my nephew. Because they have dogs. I
:14:20. > :14:24.used to have dogs. For years. By kids were brought up with dogs. My
:14:25. > :14:29.mother always had a dog. But, no, I would never approach another dog.
:14:30. > :14:34.Are you sure you did nothing to provoke the dog? It was said in
:14:35. > :14:40.court that he tried to kiss it? No, no. That is one thing. I never tried
:14:41. > :14:45.to kiss the dog. The couple who had the dog, it was their baby. They
:14:46. > :14:52.never checked that for anything. But they know about. Definitely, 100%
:14:53. > :14:58.record I did not bent down to kiss the dog. What would you like to see
:14:59. > :15:03.done? I don't want to take this out on the owners, I would like to see a
:15:04. > :15:08.dog on a lead at all times and if they know it is out of control, it
:15:09. > :15:12.should have a muzzle. It emerged in court that just two weeks before the
:15:13. > :15:16.attack, the dog had attacked somebody else. How did you feel?
:15:17. > :15:19.That dog should have been destroyed there and then another not be
:15:20. > :15:24.sitting here speaking to you. It would never have happened.
:15:25. > :15:28.Back in 2005-2006, there were 363 emergency admissions to hospitals
:15:29. > :15:33.across Scotland involving patients bitten or struck by a dog.
:15:34. > :15:40.But look how the number of cases has risen over the following decade.
:15:41. > :15:44.In 2014-2015, 652 people were taken into hospital,
:15:45. > :15:51.For the last six years councils have been able to issue
:15:52. > :15:56.notices or orders to make you control your dog.
:15:57. > :15:59.More than 1,000 have been handed out.
:16:00. > :16:01.But we've found the law is being used very differently
:16:02. > :16:07.So in Fife, for example, the council has issued 196
:16:08. > :16:13.Compare that with Glasgow where they've only issued three.
:16:14. > :16:26.In the studio now is Elaine Henley who's a dog behaviourist.
:16:27. > :16:31.Just three dog control notices in Glasgow, yet the rate of attacks in
:16:32. > :16:39.that area is rising. If the legislation working? The legislation
:16:40. > :16:43.is working, but it is not being implemented effectively across the
:16:44. > :16:49.board in Scotland. With the caseload that I have, because I work with
:16:50. > :16:54.people who have problematic dogs who are attacking other dogs, dogs who
:16:55. > :16:59.are attacking other people, my caseload for those problems is
:17:00. > :17:02.increasing drastically. It is surprising there are such
:17:03. > :17:07.discrepancies across Scotland with how many control notices are being
:17:08. > :17:12.handed out. One has to go into the local parks and you see professional
:17:13. > :17:21.dog walkers with eight, nine, ten dogs of lead, no control, rushing up
:17:22. > :17:26.to people and children. Is there any regulation for professional dog
:17:27. > :17:30.walkers? No, there is none. What about the local authorities? You
:17:31. > :17:37.have trained them to enforce the notices. What is it that they are
:17:38. > :17:40.not doing? Six years ago the Association offered their services
:17:41. > :17:44.to the Scottish Government to deliver a training package tailored
:17:45. > :17:48.for local authorities across Scotland in how to implement the new
:17:49. > :17:54.dog control notices. Part of that training was what is at problem and
:17:55. > :17:58.what is not? What useful steps they could take in their dog control
:17:59. > :18:03.notices in order to bring the dogs under control? One of the measures
:18:04. > :18:11.could be keeping the dog on a lead, muscling the dog. But also making
:18:12. > :18:14.sure that they had to seek counselling, behaviour modification
:18:15. > :18:22.therapy for the dog's problems. Come to someone like you. Yes. How often
:18:23. > :18:27.does that happen? In the last six years I have not had one single
:18:28. > :18:30.referral from a local authority in Scotland referring any dogs to me
:18:31. > :18:38.for rehabilitation of their behavioural problems. Why do you
:18:39. > :18:43.think that is? I think perhaps the councils are not effectively looking
:18:44. > :18:48.at the legislation and enforcing it. That is problematic, especially when
:18:49. > :18:53.given those figures. The incidences of serious injuries is increasing.
:18:54. > :18:58.We have to remember the serious injuries are the ones that people go
:18:59. > :19:02.into hospital for. People are less likely to go to hospital for a minor
:19:03. > :19:08.injury, but they are still being bitten. That might be a bite, a
:19:09. > :19:13.puncture, scratch, they are less likely to go to hospital and are
:19:14. > :19:17.more likely to go to a GP and a chemist. Sylvia said it was not the
:19:18. > :19:25.dog that is the problem, it is the owners, you would agree? No, I do
:19:26. > :19:29.not agree. Behaviour begins at conception, so things that happen
:19:30. > :19:33.even before the puppy is born May affect its future behavioural
:19:34. > :19:39.development. The most important time in a dog's life is between three
:19:40. > :19:45.weeks and 11 weeks. The most important time in a dog's life is in
:19:46. > :19:50.a breeder's has, it is where the dog learns about the world, a so-so
:19:51. > :19:56.ionisation period. The majority of that time is spent with a breeder
:19:57. > :20:02.and not with a caregiver. One of the few clinical animal behaviours that
:20:03. > :20:05.does puppy classes is me and I see puppies coming into my class at
:20:06. > :20:12.eight weeks of age with problematic behaviour. People post pictures of
:20:13. > :20:19.themselves on social media with their dogs. What do you see when you
:20:20. > :20:24.see dogs like that? What I see is dogs that are highly stressed, they
:20:25. > :20:28.would like to be away from the situation, they are displaying tense
:20:29. > :20:33.body language. But people assume dogs and children will all be at
:20:34. > :20:37.Disney dog and they will all be happy and we have to make people
:20:38. > :20:38.more aware of that. Thank you for joining us.
:20:39. > :20:42.I'm looking forward to seeing Rodger Federer in a kilt.
:20:43. > :20:47.You may remember he got kilted up when he announced he'll play
:20:48. > :20:50.Andy Murray in a charity match in Switzerland this April.
:20:51. > :20:52.Well, Andy's returned the request and Federer will now come
:20:53. > :20:54.to Scotland for the first time for Andy's showcase
:20:55. > :20:58.John Beattie has been to London to meet the World number one
:20:59. > :21:12.Tell me about being Scottish, what does Scottish mean to you? I love
:21:13. > :21:17.being Scottish, I am very proud of being Scottish. I am very attached
:21:18. > :21:24.to my home in Dunblane, the place means a lot to me. Yes, I like being
:21:25. > :21:29.Scottish. What we tell him about your country? What will you show
:21:30. > :21:35.him? His time is very precious, so he will not see much of it. In my
:21:36. > :21:39.opinion the people are fantastic, friendly, very welcoming to people
:21:40. > :21:47.coming to visit. Hopefully if everyone treats him well, it will be
:21:48. > :21:55.good. Your mum has put in an application about a tennis academy.
:21:56. > :22:00.How important is that? What would happen if it did not go ahead? I
:22:01. > :22:03.would be sad for my mum because she has put a lot of time and effort
:22:04. > :22:10.into it and she is doing it for all the right reasons. The Davis cup
:22:11. > :22:15.does not suit the top players in the schedule. Would you like to see it
:22:16. > :22:23.shifted? Not so much the schedule, I would rather have the format change.
:22:24. > :22:27.What would you like changed? If they played it on Saturday and Sunday,
:22:28. > :22:32.the crowds are not so good on Friday. The best of three sets on
:22:33. > :22:36.Saturday and Sunday would guarantee live matches every day. On Sunday
:22:37. > :22:43.the matches do not mean anything if you have a game on Friday. You have
:22:44. > :22:50.been drugs tested four times in the last three weeks. Why? You have
:22:51. > :22:56.never touched the stuff. No, but it is a positive thing. The more that
:22:57. > :23:01.drugs testing is done, the better to protect your spot. Do you think some
:23:02. > :23:06.people at the top do? At the top level in all sports there are
:23:07. > :23:11.issues. It is not a problem in one spot more than others and that is
:23:12. > :23:24.why drugs testing is so important, not just in tennis, but in every
:23:25. > :23:34.sport. Loads of questions. Any more children on the way? Not that I am
:23:35. > :23:37.aware of. Mike says, do you fancy a game in North Berwick? I have played
:23:38. > :23:46.there before, I used to go there with my family in handicap events
:23:47. > :23:54.and things. Yes, it was not pretty tennis conditions. Any special
:23:55. > :23:59.rituals before a match? Special rituals? No, not really, I used to
:24:00. > :24:08.listen to music, but not any more. What makes you sad? You are an
:24:09. > :24:12.emotional guy, I have watched you. Lots of things make me sad. In my
:24:13. > :24:18.tennis I do not like it when I feel I have not done myself justice or
:24:19. > :24:23.something like that. That upsets me. Losing I do not like, but if I feel
:24:24. > :24:30.I have played badly, then that makes me feel bad. If Lendl was at his
:24:31. > :24:35.peak, would you hammer him or not? I do not think I would hammer him, no.
:24:36. > :24:42.I think the surface would dictate the result is a bit. Would you ever
:24:43. > :24:48.come back to live in Scotland? A good question. I don't know. I am
:24:49. > :24:53.sure I will spend a lot more time there when I retire, whether I live
:24:54. > :24:58.there or not I don't know. That is a question more for my family. It
:24:59. > :25:04.depends if they are settled where we are just now. If you had one place
:25:05. > :25:11.to visit for one night in Scotland, you have had a bad day, it cannot be
:25:12. > :25:19.Dunblane, one night, one place in Scotland. I don't know. One place I
:25:20. > :25:24.would go? It would be dumb Blaine, that is where it would be. I have
:25:25. > :25:34.not been to loads of places in Scotland. It would be Dunblane that
:25:35. > :25:41.is where I would go. Are you happy? Future looking good? Yes, obviously
:25:42. > :25:49.last year was great. The first month of this year was OK. I would have
:25:50. > :25:55.liked the Australian open to have gone better, but yes I am in a good
:25:56. > :25:56.place. Physically I feel good. I took a little break after the
:25:57. > :26:02.Australian open. Hopefully I will be ready to go at the Indiana Wells
:26:03. > :26:07.Andy Murray, and looking forward to seeing him take on Federer.
:26:08. > :26:15.If you have anything you think should be on Timeline,
:26:16. > :26:18.then it's easy to get in touch through social media.
:26:19. > :26:19.As ever, we'll be keeping the conversation going
:26:20. > :26:22.Before we go though, we'd like to introduce
:26:23. > :26:24.you to BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician
:26:25. > :26:31.of the Year, 21-year-old Charlie Stewart from Perthshire.
:26:32. > :26:37.Congratulations on winning, that must have been an amazing
:26:38. > :26:42.experience. It was a shock, have not got over it, but it was great. It
:26:43. > :26:50.was in City Hall in Glasgow, you were nervous? Yes, I was nervous.
:26:51. > :26:54.The worst was the sound check playing into this empty room where I
:26:55. > :27:00.have seen loads of bands and then being on the other end feels really
:27:01. > :27:05.wrong. But it was good fun. Has your new-found fame made a big difference
:27:06. > :27:08.this week? It has made a big difference to how many Facebook
:27:09. > :27:16.notifications I have got and a few more e-mails. Just trying to keep my
:27:17. > :27:20.head down and deal with it all. What made you put yourself forward in the
:27:21. > :27:25.first place? I was actually in the pub with a guy who won it last year
:27:26. > :27:31.and he was saying, no one has entered it, you should enter it. It
:27:32. > :27:35.turned out there were loads of people in my competition. I said,
:27:36. > :27:41.why have you done that to me? But I am glad he did. You want to make
:27:42. > :27:47.music your career, but you are still studying. Yes, this afternoon I did
:27:48. > :27:53.the sound check and I went back to study. You are going to play us out
:27:54. > :28:03.of the programme today. What are you playing us out with? It is a very
:28:04. > :29:10.old jig. Take it away. I will take it away. See you next week. Goodbye.
:29:11. > :29:22.I'm giving you the best advice that he knows, like a big brother.
:29:23. > :29:25...from breaking the law in Scotland...