09/11/2017 Timeline

Tonight:

We hear from the family

of Kirsty Maxwell, six months

after she fell to her death

from a balcony in Benidorm,

as questions remain

about what happened.

And why ballet could be getting

more popular among men.

Welcome to Timeline,

where ahead of Armistice Day,

we look at the new musical tribute

to an old connection.

Between the poet Wilfred Owen

and a former Edinburgh

hospital for soldiers.

And ...

..Very important policeman.

Actor Jordan Young will be

here to tell us about the return

of Scot Squad.

It's just over six months

since Kirsty Maxwell fell

to her death from the 10th floor

balcony of a Spanish

apartment block.

She was part of a group

of 20 women who travelled

to Benidorm for a hen party.

Kirsty's death is still being

investigated by Spanish police -

but many questions

are still unanswered.

I've been speaking

to her husband Adam,

and her parents Denise and Brian.

Kirsty was a beautiful... Kind,

happy, from childhood straight

through. Never complained about

anything and she was trust worthy.

She was my best friend. We had a lot

of good times as mothers and

daughters do.

She was just always a joy to be

around. Meeting Adam, she was so

happy to meet Adam as well.

Adam,

you were the one who took the call

to say that something had

happened... What did they say? Who

called you?

I received a phone call

about mid-day on Saturday the 29th

of April. In very broken English, he

advised me he was a Spanish police

officer. He asked if I was Adam

Maxwell, Kirsty Maxwell's husband.

He then asked if I was seated.

Which I did. And then he explained

to me that Kirsty had died. I didn't

get much more than that at all. It's

quite hard to describe the feeling

at that moment. I mean, obviously, I

was still in shock at the time. You

don't want to believe it.

The phone went and I just got a

voice saying "Denise" I thought it

was Adam. But at that point I had a

gut feeling it was something was

wrong, it was Kirsty. I kept

screaming in the car.

So, you are trying, Brian, to deal

with this terrible, terrible shock

and process exactly what happened as

well, did you head off to Spain

right away?

We just wanted to get

across there, to be where Kirsty

was. We had nowhere to stay, we

didn't know what to do, where

Kirsty's body was, we had to go to

the police station the next day.

Then we found out what had happened,

it turned into a homicide.

What are you able to ascertain about

the circumstances that led to her

death that night so far?

We know at

Kirsty's party there were 20 girls

there. They were staying over three

floor, the 8th, 9th and 10th. The

room that Kirsty died on was on the

10th floor, next door to Kirsty's

party. At some point between 7.00am

and 7.45am, Kirsty left her room.

The door which, I have been to the

apartment myself, it is a heavy

door. It had closed behind Kirsty

and she was in the floor above.

There were five men in the room?

Five men. One of the men were

arrested. It was treated as a

homicide. He was later released two

days after. So we were in Spain at

that point.

Do you think she may

have accidentally ended up in this

room?

We think so. From that moment

on, we, it's hard to put into words

what could have possibly happened.

Where is the police investigation

now?

At the moment it's still open.

We have had fears over the last six

months that it would be closed at

certain pointsment It's now been

declared as complex, which is a term

in Spain where effectively they have

to keep it open at the moment. We

don't know how long it will take, we

don't have any idea of timescales

but as a family we owe this to

Kirsty to do whatever we can to find

out what happened. It is not clear.

You want the Scottish Government to

do more to help those who have lost

loved ones abroad, what more can

they do?

Well, we feel that they can

do a lot more, not just the Scottish

Government but the UK Government as

well. We feel there should be

procedures in place so that when

something like this happens to

someone abroad, that there is a

procedure that picks you up, a

vehicle that takes care of you, so

that you are not running around

endlessly not knowing what to do. We

feel we were abandoned for a week.

Imagine this is taking over every

waking moment of your life?

A lot of

the things that we are doing are not

very nice. It is important for us to

remember the nice life we had

together. Ten of the happiest years

I have ever had and most likely ever

will.

Well we wish you well in your quest

for answers. I know it's not been

easy. Thank you for talking to

Timeline.

Adam Maxwell and Kirsty Maxwell's

parents, Denise and Brian.

If you have a story

to share or anything you'd

like us to follow up then

get in touch.

You can find us on facebook,

twitter, and online,

or you can email us.

And many of you have

been doing just that.

Yes, especially after we brought

you the story of how the brain

handles our local lingo and dialect

AND English in the same

way as if we speak two

different languages.

This is what the broadcaster,

Jim Spence, told us:

The Dundee dialect is a language on

its own.

Every tonne downian is bilingual,

some multilingual.

It can slip quicker than you can

saying... -- Dundonian.

A big

reaction on social media.

Let's take a look at

what you've been saying.

John from the US says that:

Here in Pittsburgh they sell

dictionaries to help newcomers

and visitors understand

"Pittsburghese".

And, a bit closer to

home, Jeanette from

the North East reckons:

Excellent, Glenn but can you tell me

what Foville means?

What to you

reckon?

Confused?

I thought so too

but apparently it means stammer.

Well if you know better, please get

in touch.

-- Faffle.

-- Faffle.

A growing number of Scottish boys

are taking up ballet,

but what about Scottish men?

Funny you should ask -

because a new evening class just

for men has started in Glasgow.

And it's believed to be

the first of its kind.

So is it a Nutcracker of an idea -

or a step tutu far?

Do you hate that one?

I do.

So, how many of you have never done

a ballet class before? There are a

lot of beginners ballet classes

around but they are mostly attended

by women and I know as a man you can

feel a little bit intimidated coming

into that kind of space, you are

usual ale the only guy in there.

I developed a real joy in dance in a

men's only environment because I

felt like I could come in and there

was nobody there who had a lot of

knowledge, there was no intimidating

people...

Well, I almost didn't come

in as I was quite scared to go into

a ballet class. But I thought, you

don't know until you have tried it.

I have been to gym and all kinds of

challenging thing but this is not

easy as all. It's not as easy as it

looks.

It's a type of training that

you don't get anywhere else. It

works muscles you are not going to

work in any other type of class. A

lot of boxers do ballet, football e

rugby players, a lot of the

top-level professionals are really

getting on board with the idea that

it's, you've got to train different

muscle groups in different ways and

have that kind of cross-training.

We

are taking one, two, three, close

four.

A lot of the time with the gym and

sports, you are in a really

competitive environment and it is

about who can do the most and the

best. What I find really amazing

about dance, is that it's just for

you.

It's quite fun! Apparently I have

good hips, and that always helps. So

just waddling through!

It feels like

we're trying to be beautiful, which

men aren't often allowed to be in

men-only spaces, so I feel quite

strongly that is important.

Yeah, I think there is a mental

health element to it. The release

endorphins that you get from

exercise always helps with any

issue. I think everybody Leaves

feeling better. That's great. Do you

fancy it? I'm not sure it's on my

bucket list. But impressed with John

Beattie when he tried it last year.

But impressed with John Beattie

when he tried it last year.

New figures reveal that death rates

for the over 60s from alcohol are up

by more than a third,

with a sharp rise in the number

of deaths among women.

So are we turning a blind eye

to the wine o'clock culture

of drinking at home,

and to drinkers not normally

considered a problem?

We've been finding out

what some of you think.

It's a habit I try to break out of

but, yeah, definitely. I come in,

the kids are in bed and a wee glass

of wine, definitely.

Due to

stressful jobs, people, the first

thing that they reach for when they

come back from work is a glass of

wine.

I never had thought about it

being bad for people.

The last time I was at the doctor,

he said he considered me a binge

drinker but I wouldn't have thought

that as I only drink when I go out.

But he was saying that I drink more

when I'm out. But I don't drink

regularly through the week.

I think

when you aren't out, because of

price, that is why people have drink

in the house.

Allison, who are the problem

drinkers? A lot of us assume that

the problem drinkers are younger

people but it is those of us in the

middle to older age that are

drinking the most and suffering the

greatest harm. As you showed the

death rates are going up in the late

50s and early 60 age groups.

Why is that? Why that particular age

group?

It is basically a life time

of drinking. A change in culture for

women, I think, that we are drinking

more than perhaps our parents or

grandparents did. But also an

accumulation of drinking over a

number of decades that we are seeing

the long-term health harms. And the

problem is that people don't have an

appreciations of the health harms as

shown on the clips. There is an

assumption if we are there or there

abouts with our peers, we are not

causing ourselves harm. But there

are a whole range of harms from

cardiovascular diseases and cancers,

and also liver problems.

Why is it worse in Scotland than as

opposed to down south?

Part of our

Scottish identity is that we are

very hail fellowow and like to have

a drink and people tend to associate

relaxing with drinking and being

friends but we have fallen into a

pattern of drinking and encouraging

one another to drink, that it is not

acceptable to opt out of drinking.

So, a kind of go on, take a drink

culture?

Absolutely.

What must we do about it?

The

evidence is strong that increasing

the price of alcohol, hopefully next

week we will hear, very much, we

hope to hear of the success for the

case for the Scottish Government to

implement minimum unit prices and

the widespread availability of

alcohol. We have a licensed premises

for every 250 King's Cross. And you

will know yourself, you see it as

coffee shops in a way you did not

used to in the past, so limiting the

ability. So not every corner shop is

selling alcohol.

Thank you very much.

It may feel like longer, but it's

now a year since Donald Trump

won the US election.

The half-Scottish president

is a wholly controversial figure

as we found in Scotland when he came

to build a golf resort.

Glenn's been looking

at President Trump's difficult

relationship with Scotland

for a documentary on air tonight.

Among the people he's been speaking

to is the veteran photographer,

Harry Benson, a Scotsman who's taken

many pictures of President

Trump over the years.

Here's his take.

Presidents don't behave like that.

Presidents are for uniting people.

There was always the decency of

doing the right thing.

Heery is with $1 million. It's in

the casino at the Taj Mahal. He told

me he didn't like this picture when

I was photographing him for Time

magazine. Because it is greed. You

couldn't come pairing with anybody.

With any of the bushes, Nixon, Jimmy

Carter. If you think of JFK really,

what they represented.

I mean,

there's loads more.

You put them

back because Glenn Campbell bending

them!

Did you really bent Harry

Benson's photos? No, but he was

bantering like that throughout the

whole time we spent together. I

think with him it's like you can

take Harry Benson out of Glasgow but

you can't take Glasgow out of Harry

Benson. Are we going to see more of

the documentary? Yes. For those of

you who don't know Harry Benson,

he's the guy who photographed the

Beatles having a pillow fight, he

was there when Bobby Kennedy was

assassinated and as you saw in the

film, he has photographed every US

president since Eisenhower. Is

extremely well-connected and we have

saved the story of what Donald

Trump's first wife told Harry about

Trump's relevancy to the presidency

when they bumped into each other in

a restaurant. Interesting, what is

to be got? We traced his family

heritage to the Isle of Lewis where

his mum was born and brought up. We

also look at his golf businesses,

including many in Aberdeen shirt and

wonder where the investment that

Donald Trump promised has gone. We

also try and join the dots between

the Donald Trump who came to

Scotland as a businessman and the

Donald Trump who is now occupy

notably the highest presidential

office in the present in me... BBC

One Scotland. I should be rushing

home to see! Backs!

As armistice day approaches,

the role that Edinburgh's

Craiglockhart Hospital played

in helping soldiers

recover from shell-shock

during the First World War is being

marked by a special musical project.

A violin-maker has created three

new instruments as a tribute

to a trio of celebrated

war poets with strong

links to the hospital -

Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon

and Robert Graves.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys. But someone

still was yelling out and stumbling,

foundering like a man on fire. Dim,

through the misty panes and thick

green light. As under a green sea

they saw him drowning.

Especially a

blackbird. They can sing out like a

bow, working with wood and trying to

get a voice out of it is very much

like listening to some of the

songbirds. Wilfred Owen wrote some

of the best-known anti-war poetry

and that is what these are standing

for. Not just a violin maker, I like

to take trees and give them

connections. Chance came up for

brands from Craiglockhart which have

been looking for four years. That's

actually from a tree. This is where

the Wilfred Owen violin came from

and the Robert Graves violin. You

for corner blocks... So the Wilfred

Owen violin was made in 2014, the

Sassoon violin was made in 2017 and

the third violin was the month after

in October 20 17th, for Robert

Graves.

Before Wilfred Owen came

here he has had some bad experiences

on the front line. The story goes

that he was beside one of his

compatriots and was honestly blown

to pieces. Wilfred Owen had to stay

where he was for some considerable

time.

What is passing bells for

those who died cattle. Only the

monstrous anger of the guns... No

mockeries now for them, no prayers

nor bells, nor any voice of mourning

save for choirs. The shrill,

demented choirs... And bugles

calling for them.

'S Wilfred Sassoon

was sent to the hospital because he

protested against the continuous of

the war. Robert Graves, the other

one in the trio pleaded that Sassoon

should be badly shocked by what he

had seen on the front. Sassoon comes

to the hospital in the July, Wilfred

Owen is already here and he affects

an introduction. Sassoon encourages

him to sweat is puts out writing

poetry. Graves, although he was

never a patient at the hospital did

come back and visit and on the

occasion of the three poets meeting,

Wilfred Owen takes Robert Graves to

the golf course where Sassoon is

playing an Owen shows Graves poem

that he's just written as well, to

which Graves says that Saddam fine

poem.

It's quite interesting because

they are all different interests

instruments. With these named after

the war poets they have got

different characters, different tone

and different reaction from people

who listen to them so they are

unique characters like in real life.

And especially this year being the

anniversary of Wilfred Owen arriving

in Edinburgh. The most important

thing for me is keeping these men

and boys remembered.

A beautiful piece of music. I was

college there, you could sense the

history around you.

They're the TV bobbies

on the beat you might not

want to rely on in an emergency.

The new series of the comedy

cop show, Scot Squad,

is about to return to our screens.

The first episode sees an unwanted

eyeful for PC Jack McLaren -

played by Jordan Young.

My partner, Sarah, went to check

fire exits and a look around the

building to see what else had

changed and he gave me a tour of the

VIP area.

VIP, very important

policeman. If you want them in here,

that's what will get.

Is that for

the football.

Yeah, that's were lots

of football. And an insight into the

extras you get in this room.

Is at

the toilet? That's illegal, you

cannot film a toilet. Sarah, now.

Don't drop your trousers. No. I saw

it, I saw that. Sarah, I saw that!

No, that is wrong on every level.

I

love that show! Jordan is with as

now. That looks at such fun to make,

Jordan.

I can on this estate is a

great show to make. It is just a

good laugh because it is improvised,

you're kind of free.

Is it all

improvised?

I would say the

majority. You have an outline and

suggested lines but the majority of

it is just whatever comes out of

your mouth. It's up to the editor to

make you funny, they're the real

heroes of this!

How do you find your

own character? Lumb went into the

audition with your own character so

I decided to make mine one of these

wannabe Robo cops, he loves himself,

arrogant. Someone really far removed

from myself! And you just go with it

and in improvisation you hold onto

your character and hope that the

lines come. What are the real police

think of it, have you had much

feedback?

Only positive feedback. A

lot of people, so you must have an

insider because so much of this

stuff we shoot they say is true to

life and almost not as far. That

happens a lot, but police say that.

This year we have some pretty

extreme storylines, so make you want

to be a real copper!

This is the

fourth series now?

Yeah.

So nearly

days did anybody mistake you for the

real police?

In the first series, me

and Sally were sitting in the police

car as they were setting up and we

were chatting to the show's creator,

Joe, who is in the back of the

police car but insidious, we were in

police gear. A guy was standing

outside and we didn't know he wanted

our attention but Joe looked like we

were apprehending him. And us being

actors, we were saying Joe, that

someone at the window. He leaps out

and approach the guy and a guy got a

fright because he thought that he

was getting out of a word with him.

Then the real police who were on had

to have a word with the guy to come

on down.

Of course your character is

very different in this to your other

character in River city. The bad

guy, Alex. Let's have a look at this

guy.

And have a quiet word with her.

He gets results.

Guinea results is

having the police little about. That

stupid? Caitlin told the entire...

Is a nasty piece of work.

He is.

A

lovable rogue.

Is not very nice.

Who

do prefer playing, the good of the

bad guy?

It's good fun but is just

nice to be working, it's nice to get

out of the House! I don't know, they

are both completely different. I

love doing comedy but also River

city is great being the bad guy,

been sinister and duplicitous. I

killed the guy. That's been on the

telly, that's fine, I can say that.

I did know it is going to spoil or

not. It's the brothers who are both

now deceased.

I hear there is a big

storyline coming up over Christmas,

you part of that?

Yes.

Is all you

can tell is?

Yes. It's myself

editing thinking what can I say and

what can't say. I'll just say yes

and that gets me out of anything.

How far router you filming in

advance?

We have filmed up to march

now. Before coming here are just

filmed my last seen before the

Christmas break.

So we know he

survives until March!

Yeah, I think

mid-March goes up to. So quite far

advance.

And in the meantime we've

got Scots what to look forward to.

Cheers.

Scot Squad is on BBC One Scotland

on Wednesday night at 10:40pm.

That's your Timeline for this week.

Thanks for watching.

Don't forget Glenn's Trump

documentary at 9pm on BBC1.

Thank you for that!

Thank you for that!

Shereen and I will be back

next Thursday at 7:30pm.

From both of us, bye for now.

Goodbye.