Convictions for burglary had been freed from prison in February but has now emerged probation staff failed to follow the correct procedures because they didn't refer the case to the parole board to decide if it was safe for McCann to be released one probation officer has since been demoted and 2 others including an agency worker have been dismissed for that poor performance a man on a drugs binge has admitted murdering an innocent father in his home in Aberdeenshire 20 year old Liam Haye stabbed 51 year old Anthony again in Cummins time in June the court heard the farm worker had been bingeing on drink and drugs for several days sentence was deferred for background reports the London Fire Commissioner Danny cotton has to step down at the end of the month 4 months earlier than planned she's faced calls to resign from relatives of the $72.00 people who died in Grenfell terror after an inquiry report said more people could have been saved her decision has been welcomed by the mayor of London City Conn or a picture of it certainly could have also started she is as a firefighter she's leaving the fire service at the end of this month of things the right decision is very important but they don't fabricate facts on the record ashes made by the judge in the face one of the inquiry he concluded that there were essential for ideas from the f.b.i. a British couple have one nearly 120000 pounds in damages after being discriminated against by not being allowed to adult Sunday Penryn I'm under from Maidenhead said they were told that most of the children who need homes were whites and because of their Indian heritage they would not be considered. The German leader Angela Merkel has visited the site of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland for the 1st time as chancellor during a ceremony with the Polish prime minister and a survivor of the camp Mrs Merkel expressed her deep shame our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill says the visit is timely her visit there is seen as very very significant particularly at a time almost 75 years after that death camp was liberated when in Germany and across here we are starting to see more instances of anti-Semitism nationalism and as a she herself said today racism intolerance or beginning to grow well that's the news Georgian Elgort has the sports Celtic manager Neil Lennon says it is very likely that star striker also had waltz start Sunday's League Cup Final with Rangers he's missed their last 3 games through injury winning that final is more important for Rangers and Celtic That's according to Steven Pressley the former defender play for both clubs he's told as the Rangers players need to prove they can win trophies lest the city manager Brendan Rodgers has signed a new contract he had been linked with to the vacant position but he's committed his future to Leicester until 2025 in rookie head coach Dave Ronnie says Glasgow have reached the point they must find top form to avoid their season falling apart they face La Rochelle in the Champions Cup tomorrow where is a looking at bringing in Fiji. Back to Scotstoun after he was stopped by refs in 92 and Scotland's John Higgins in action in the quarter final of the u.k. Snoo could championship 3 frames to one down against China's young beings how that's the sport's. History to top it with the travel Thanks George and good afternoon high wind warning on the Sky Bridge the a 96 Aberdeenshire cues both ways it on through the old works there are further cues it invaded and again at Port Elphinstone the a $71.00 was colder that accused both ways on Main Street and the a subject each awful hole. Just looking at the sensors long queues on the m 8 right up to Carlisle told here further queues nearby on the b. 802 through cold or bank 8 o 3 Bishopbriggs those road works affecting traffic in both directions the Citibank use a back to quarter so buying shoes to on switch back road from county's been told on to temple I mean the West Bank used 14 foot market to 17 Great Western Road spine 1000 honest interest bike to 22 plantation and the m 74 slow site by the junction for me to Ville and single monarch the a 71 hurdle for drop there's a broken down caravan just at the Belfield interchange is causing issues really on all approaches but especially on hold for George itself b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel and Scotland's weather tonight will bring clear spells and some further showers to the north and west as cold air digs into the northern Alza Sherry's may well turn wintery dry conditions with clear spells in the east will return in a Touch of Frost developing in sheltered rule areas cloud would increase in the West to during the early hours followed by outbreaks of rain edging into them Friess and Galloway and Argyle lows in the west of 7 or 8 Celsius it listening to b.b.c. Radio Scotland at 7 minutes past 4 and this is news Dr tonight with Laura Maxwell our top story a man described by police as one of the most dangerous sex offenders ever seen in the u.k. Has been found guilty of a string of charges at the Old Bailey Joseph McCann who $74.00 was accused of $37.00 charges relating to 11 women and children including rape false imprisonment and kidnap Detective Chief Inspector Catherine Goodwin is from the Metropolitan Police McCann is a horrendously dangerous individual who's shown complete contempt for his victims is clearly one of the most dangerous sex offenders I think that we've ever seen in this country when the chief executive of Her Majesty's prisons in probation service Dr Jew farmer has apologized unreservedly for the failings in this case which led McCann's release 2 months before he embarked on his rampage the B.B.C.'s home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw is that the Old Bailey some of the attacks and some. The descriptions of what the victims had to go through was just horrendous and the jury one point were actually told by the judge that should they seek or need help then then they would have it then there would be counseling made available the ordeal suffered by some of the 11 victims went on for hours in some cases McCann subjecting them to sexual acts that they did not consent to even though he said that they had consented in his defense that they'd consented to being kidnapped bundled into cars and then made to do the most awful things in some cases in front of each other. The victims the youngest was an 11 year old boy the oldest was a 71 year old woman and there were 2 sort of seats of the attack one took place in what food and in the London area and then after McCann laid low for a while he then reappeared in Lancashire in Greater Manchester and carried out another spate of attacks he was finally tracked down by police caught in a field where he was where he climbed up a tree and from that moment onwards he was really playing games with the police and with the criminal justice system he refused to come to court only once did he put in an appearance at the Old Bailey and that was when the jury wasn't there so the jury never saw him in the dark for his 1st court appearance the chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot actually had to go to prison she had to go to Belmarsh Prison to actually ensure that she could see him and that the charges were read out in that particular case the sense was that here was a man who showed up to contempt for the legal system for the process and what the victims are gone through and the guilty verdicts were unanimous on all 37 counts McCann had an appalling criminal record stretching back to when he was a child in 2008 at the age of $23.00 he was jailed for a violent burglary at the home of a frail 8. The 5 year old man and he was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection in those controversial sentences that was scrapped by the coalition government and he served a minimum term of 2 and a half years before he could be considered for release the parole board rejected his applications for the release on 3 occasions he was finally released and when he was released he went in committed another burglary so he was on license in the community committed another burglary and at that point the parole board should have been informed because they in essence should have taken charge of his case and then decided when he could be released again but they were not that was a terrible failing what it meant was that McCann was sentenced for that burglary as though he was a determinant sentence prisoner he was released at the halfway point and then a few months later he began this terrible spree of offending the parole board never knew about the fact that McCann was actually committed an offense on license the failings it seems sits at the door of the National Probation Service and indeed a number of probation officers have been subject to disciplinary proceedings one of them has been demoted and 2 others have lost their jobs because of their poor performance down the show reporting there from the Old Bailey the term just 11 minutes past 4. Now how can places like Aberdeen be shielded from economic damage when the climate crisis forces a transition away from oil and gas well over the next year and a half a Scottish government appointed commission will grapple with that very question the idea is to avoid the impact felt in places like Fife when the coal mines closed in the eighty's it's called climate justice and it's hot topic for many nations which are meeting at the un climate change conference in Madrid from there our environment correspondent Kevin Keen reports. Was a story us in the north of Spain it's a region of heavy industry which for centuries was fuelled by coal. Here communities honor those who died underground their memories boring Juric than the industry itself. The rare years where mines a close saying the government is injecting a quarter of a 1000000000 euros to help create a just and fair transition will of the model that the demagogue is these miners say the area has suffered badly and seen little cash for them but it was a total impact because you're not sort of any other alternative that was a total closure of mining the values of up to $24.00 of those in the rent they're not even free in the UK whether. If there had been a change on what should have come with new jobs created a few companies but they only lasted 2 years we don't know where that money went wonderful but I said you know I had the holding. Young people don't have access to anything the majority have to leave you know maybe a few working till the job situation here is bad. But you know you may have a lot more years. It's an echo of what happened in some parts of Scotland in the 1980s that's less shops. And the high street says. See the med it is communities like law have long been scarred by the sudden closure of the pits with no thought to the aftermath they suffered badly because there was no investment nor train and no future if the bonus for you for anybody and especially young for I mean it was just devastating guys if that the put closed Well some of them did get seen in a low another that seen the game along never what the game and the late consisted of getting them on and going for the people going for a walk that was in the violence in Leslie and then gone but to the that these and crawl with coal mine on now. Sends out all of your better me. In Spain they're keen to avoid repeating the past by rebuilding the economies affected in one town they're using old mine shafts to create geothermal heat for the local hospital and university Gregorio Roberto Martinez president of her group which set up and runs this project says it's had limited effect on the old mining jobs that were lost owned by me. Playing to a 3 walkers in eighty's now we. Are workers. Of the biggest company in the other but campaigners at the u.n. Climate summit say one important it has to be about more than jobs and a barrier a director of the International Institute of law and the environment it's important to have to hear what are the economic sectors that can. Something in that area as not just training for training she said then I thin that they screwed be a way to integrate these communities to new economic activities. The global concept of just transition is about leaving the communities behind replacing a defunct industry is not easy especially if it's one that community was built on. That was our environmental core Kevin Keane will be talking live to Kevin from Madrid just after 5 o'clock this evening. Was news drives on b.b.c. Radio Scotland tonight's headlines Boris Johnson has responded to a video of the b.b.c. Broadcaster Andrew Neil challenging him to take part in a t.v. Interview by saying he cannot accommodate everyone 10 victims of a rollercoaster crash at a theme park have secured a total of $1200000.00 pounds in damages and a preliminary hearing for the fatal accident inquiry into a helicopter crash near Shetland that claimed 4 lives will be held next month it's time to honor those who have truly influenced the traditional music scene and the women of this year's award is the winner gets a little nervous joy Medion Kennedy and Ken Carney at the Aberdeen Music Hall for playing your performances excitement and drama the biggest night in the Bradley calendar as we celebrate the great the good and the ridiculously talented bunch that make up our Scottish music scene the 2019 n.-g. Alabama Scotch tribe Music Awards thank you so so much why tomorrow night for months on b.b.c. Alibaba and b.b.c. Radio Scotland You're listening to b.b.c. Radio Scotland this is news Dr tonight with Laura Maxwell and 3 years ago this month the rugby legend Audie we are was given the devastating news that he was suffering from motor neuron disease since then he's devoted his life to. Fundraising while adjusting to living with the illness a documentary to be shown tonight on the b.b.c. Scotland channel chart studies progress and his campaign to find a cure b.b.c. Radio Scotland's John b t reports. By jeff. Gordon We have played at the very highest level 61 international caps and the 2 with the British and Irish Lions when he goes like that he's like I'm not just out but he's got rich in 2017 he told the world that he'd been diagnosed with a terminal muscle wasting disease m n d the previous Christmas we met at his old club ground in Melrose the supports been unbelievable very humbling can believe everything really but I think it's just it's the rug Republican a bigger bigger public Israel with a lot we can find a cure and I'll be here to know you from him in here since then his charity has raised more than 4000000 pounds for him in the research and to help sufferers he's travelled around the world and United the rugby world behind his campaign former England player Will Greenwood you can't help but feel great and unite with face in the. Second and market yourself so the whole host of mixed emotions you leave for today. I think the overriding one is. It's a bit like playing on a rubber field yourself this fatality in that we might have and that one more point but we haven't been away from the public events dadi is a devoted family man who lives on a farm in the borders with his wife Kathy and 3 teenage sons. They agreed to give us behind the scenes access to tell their story. What he's illness has changed all their lives Cathy with the boys a really good you know kids are really really resilient and they get on with their everyday life but I think it's important for us as a family to keep I want normal life as well because as much as everything that's happening. On top stick we need to remember that this is our life feed in the hands and feet of machines but living out here on a windy hill on a roll so you know we have to keep things as normal as possible for us and the boys as well so yeah yeah life's not all big Dennis is a fundraising and life is like I'm really different countries and this is all life here. So we need to try and keep us as well as going to know that on top of things that we're doing Dodi's been left frustrated by the way he and other I mean the suffering as a treated from the one that you got dying knows with a man the is told there is your kid and she's going to help you is nothing else we can do no I don't agree with that I told everyone one thing I mean the basic self q. And we and I don't have a medical background so I don't know what I'm doing if it helps a lot of people in the same place pretty much of a new patient with them indeed it grew warm and health care which I just don't think is agreeable now it's been my 1st fish and for the last 3 years or so it was nothing there to help the patient though these are complicated and intelligent man who likes to make people laugh and feel better he has a fight on his hands with them in deep but over the past 2 years or more I've watched his spirit shining through life for living life to celebrate their I do get more tired now and just of the want to go on for well over all because that's not the best for you the any good that would keep go in and just enjoy it so don't complain keep smiling you positive enjoying life. Dodie we're there ending that report by Joan Beatty and you can see Dodi we are one more try tonight at 7 pm on the b.b.c. Scotland channel and afterwards on the b.b.c. I Player. Now the Scottish mansion which inspired the tales of Peter Penn has been named one of the coolest places to visit by Time magazine no break and I'm free says where the author j.m. Barrie played as a child and inspired the story of Wendy chasing Peter shadow the building is now the National Center of children's literature and the center managers Simon Davidson is delighted to be considered cool. And we're obviously flattered to be included in this really prestigious list we've only been open for 6 months so it's a real honor to be in such a company the list has places such as Mission Control in Houston not to Diamond Patterson the Statue of Liberty in New York so it's a fantastic accolade when you think about what we what become of this house by 2 So 1009 when it was a except it wrecked long abandoned after disclosure as a nursing home there was a long way to indicate in the decision to see that for the people it's been 3 Sunday school and yeah we've sort of followed the fund raising and redevelopment of the building over the last few years for those who don't know the story tell us a bit about it. Well the house itself was built in 1823 and it was designed by Walter knew it was a very prestigious architect and safe and the house went into private residence and in the 18th seventy's the garden family lived and body moved don't you and he 73 to live with his brother who lived in a nearby street about 50 yards away and while he was there he came to play with the garden family here and this is where he developed his extraordinary ability to imagine other worlds and created Neverland that he's had if you like and he played in the garden here. For several years he he created this is 1st play here and then of course he went on to university and that's not him and then to London after that and he wrote to Japan and the play in 1004 was no voice in 101-1104 it came out in a priest and it was there that you know it's that. It was a Soundgarden priest that was the genesis of that mysterious kind of Peter Pan and never mind have you managed to redevelop it and what makes it so special Well the main facet of the whole experience really is the car the garden slopes on 3rd Avenue if a miss is having a number of interesting trees and plants and we've also put in some exciting clearly as for children which include. Pirate Ship memories look good and Wendy has of course there's also a number of stone carved crocodiles for example to find on the trail we've come they've got some floating sculptures by artist and he says Love of The Lost Boys which are hidden in the trees the other main feature of course is this phenomenal Georgi