well, almost 30 years after it caused a national sensation, it's up for sale. they and in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, an independent review has found that a toxic environment within swimming clubs in england has allowed dangerous training practices and bullying to prevailfor years. good afternoon. almost 20 years ago, a young woman called emma caldwell was murdered in south lanarkshire, but a series of police blunders meant her killer was only convicted last month. well, about now, emma's mother is meeting the first minister of scotland, to call for a public inquiry into that botched investigation.

it took 19 years to bring iain packer tojustice, leaving him free to attack other women. emma caldwell�*s family lawyer says she was failed by a toxic culture within the police of "misogyny and corruption". our correspondent steve godden is at the first minister's residence, bute house. like bring us the latest. the caldwell family arrived here around ten minutes ago and have gone into the building behind me. we expect the building behind me. we expect the meeting to last around an hour. it is an opportunity for margaret caldwell, emma caldwell�*s mum, to ask first minister humza yousaf and the justice ask first minister humza yousaf and thejustice minister, to hold a public inquiry, that she has been calling for since iain packer was convicted of murdering emma caldwell and sexually and physically assaulting 21 other women. after

that verdict police scotland apologised for failings in the original inquiry and one of the questions the caldwell family want the public inquiry to answer is why senior officers chose to disregard evidence that had been gathered against iain packer as early as 2007. as my colleague alexandra mackenzie now reports. emma caldwell had a happy upbringing. but when her sister died of cancer, she turned to drugs and prostitution. her killer was iain packer. for a quarter of a century he carried out a campaign of sexual violence against women. now emma's mother wants to know why one of britain's worst sex offenders remained free for so long. margaret believes that officers systematically sabotaged an investigation into packer for a decade, and have blood on their hands. margaret caldwell now wants a public inquiry. i've gone this far, i'm going on. ijust want the truth,

i want the truth to come out. scotland's first minister has said a judge—led inquiry is being considered, given the systematic failings in the case. i'm looking forward to hearing directly from margaret caldwell, and then, of course, rightly, as you'd understand, we'd update parliament in terms of any next steps that we choose to take forward. by 2007, police had identified iain packer as a sexually violent user of prostitutes. but four turkish men were charged with emma caldwell�*s murder. those charges were later dropped. in 2015, packer was exposed by a newspaper and a bbc documentary. the crown office ordered a new police inquiry. and in 2019, he was confronted by a second bbc investigation. did you kill emma? no, i never. i can look you in the eye and say, no, i had nothing to do with it whatsoever. another three years passed before packer was charged with her murder.

police scotland say they were exceptionally sorry that the women, including emma, had been let down, and lessons had been learned. margaret caldwell may have finally gotjustice for her daughter, but said her emma will always be in her thoughts. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, glasgow. today's meeting with the first minister is the first of three margaret caldwell will hold this week. tomorrow she will meet scotland's chief constable and on thursday she will meet the lord advocate, the most senior law officer in the country. following the verdict the judge in the case paid tribute to margaret caldwell�*s campaigning, saying it was testament for her love for her daughter. that campaigning work continues. steven godden in edinburgh. the bbc understands that the chancellor will keep the freeze to fuel duty in tomorrow's budget, and urge

councils to cut down on diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives. jeremy hunt is widely reported to be considering a cut in national insurance and money raising policies may come in areas such as air passenger duty, and an extension on the windfall tax on oil and gas companies. let's speak now to our deputy political editor vicki young. any more clues as to what will be in the budget tomorrow?— the budget tomorrow? important to sa at this the budget tomorrow? important to say at this point _ the budget tomorrow? important to say at this point we _ the budget tomorrow? important to say at this point we are _ the budget tomorrow? important to say at this point we are talking - say at this point we are talking about rumour and speculation, as ever on the day before a budget. as you say, that fuel duty freeze is likely to continue, it would be very surprising if a chancellor in what is likely to be an election year decides to change that for the very first time in a long time. we know the prime minister and chancellor have said openly they want to cut personal taxes. the question is, how is he likely to do that? national insurance seems to be the most likely vehicle. it's something he

did in the autumn, a 2p cut is possible again, repeating that. it would cost around £10 billion and it's important to say it would affect workers and doesn't give anything to pensioners. the question is, how will he pay for it. you listed a few options there and another option is to close some loopholes for non—doms. that is a labour policy so could cause them some difficulty. one of the other things being floated is the idea of those with second homes who use them as holiday lets and rent them out, some tax breaks for them would be taken away. labour say this is simply taking with one hand and giving back with the other. you mentioned _ giving back with the other. you mentioned it _ giving back with the other. you mentioned it is _ giving back with the other. you mentioned it is almost certainly an election year so how much will pure politics feed into this budget? an politics feed into this budget? in awful lot. the chancellor wants politics feed into this budget? fifi awful lot. the chancellor wants to give something to his mps to cheer about but also to voters too. many might say, look at the autumn statement where he cut national insurance and it hasn't seemed to made a difference to the polls. the

economic backdrop is pretty gloomy. there is low growth, high inflation, there has been high interest rates which has made borrowing much harder for the government. he is probably going to have to look at public spending, looking ahead to the future. what are those figures going to look like come on a day when we are hearing about another council, lots of them effectively going bust and really struggling. nhs waiting lists, of course, lots of demand for public services. public spending may still be going up in real terms but not necessarily by very much. labour have said they will not reverse any personal tax cuts but say the tories are responsible for a mismanagement of the economy, and they say more people are actually being dragged into paying more tax so that all of this is just really smoke and mirrors. this isjust really smoke and mirrors. . ~ this isjust really smoke and mirrors. w ., this isjust really smoke and mirrors. a ., ., this isjust really smoke and mirrors. ., ., , , mirrors. vicki young, our deputy olitical mirrors. vicki young, our deputy political editor, _ mirrors. vicki young, our deputy political editor, thank _ mirrors. vicki young, our deputy political editor, thank you. -

to politics in the united states now. today is super tuesday, the biggest day so far in this year's race for the white house. a total of 15 states will be choosing their candidates for president. no one is expecting any surprises. donald trump is the clear front runner for the republicans and joe biden for the democrats. that will pave the way for a re—run of the 2020 presidental election come november. from colorado, our north america correspondent emma vardy reports. america's getting ready for a big political contest. but despite the millions of votes being cast, its already pretty clear which candidates will be facing off in the presidential battle. as colorado goes to the polls, sisters mandy and nicky are headed to the ice. we are such a divided nation. but the one thing i like is when i walk into the hockey rink, we're all the same. the feeling is rather different on the campaign trail. crooked joe biden, you're fired! before polls have even closed, there's been a victory for donald trump.

the state of colorado was in a fight to kick him off the ballot entirely for his role in the capitol riots onjanuary 6th. but the us supreme court struck it down. his republican opponent is undeterred. i defeated a dozen of the fellas. cheering. ijust have one more fella i got to catch up to. the question is whether nikki haley quits the race, or decides to hang on. it wasn't presidentjoe biden, but the first lady doing the rounds on the democratic side, going after female voters. donald trump is dangerous to women and to our families. we simply cannot let him win. but the prospect of a joe biden rematch with donald trump is unpopular with many voters. i do wish there were more choices. that's another thing i don't love about our political system here. contenders that have been there before and they're kind of ready to go again. so not the most exciting match?

not this time, no. because neitherjoe biden nor donald trump has any serious competition this year, as political games go, the result is rather a foregone conclusion. what matters now is that after tuesday, the real start of the election campaign will begin. and unlike this somewhat predictable super tuesday, the result of the presidential election in november will be much harder to call. emma vardy, bbc news, colorado. we can get more on this and go to nomia iqbal, our washington correspondent. as we were hearing, pretty much a foregone conclusion, this super tuesday. what's your reading of where we are in the race for the white house now? you reading of where we are in the race for the white house now?- for the white house now? you are riaht, for the white house now? you are right. ben. — for the white house now? you are right, ben. super— for the white house now? you are right, ben. super tuesday - for the white house now? you are right, ben. super tuesday is - for the white house now? you are| right, ben. super tuesday is super because it has the potential to shape the outcome of the race and has the potential to establish front runners. president biden, when he was the candidate in 2020 actually

turned it around on super tuesday back then. of course there is no pressure on him this time around, we know he will win the democratic primary is. as for his opponent donald trump, it is pretty much a foregone conclusion that he will continue to clean up the primary is as he has been doing so far, which will likely lead to his last republican rival nikki haley dropping out. having said all that, what will be interesting to see is by what margins they win in all these states. believe it or not there are still plenty of independent voters left in this country and a lot of polls suggest many americans don't actually want a rematch of president biden and donald trump, pointing to their older ages and all the criminal indictments donald trump is facing. i think both men will be interested to see to what extent there is still support for them out there. but i think it is safe to say that super tuesdayis think it is safe to say that super tuesday is in some respects more of

a coronation, less of a competition. we will not officially know who the candidates are, they will be declared in august, but we are getting that step closer to their presidential election in november. nomia iqbal, thank you. the prisons watchdog has found that a vulnerable girl being held at a young offenders' institution in west yorkshire was twice pinned down and forcibly stripped by male guards. officials say staff at the site in wetherby had acted to prevent the girl from harming herself. our home editor mark easton is here now. some pretty disturbing revelations in this report. some pretty disturbing revelations in this report-— in this report. shocking stuff, but a bit of context. _ in this report. shocking stuff, but a bit of context. almost - in this report. shocking stuff, but a bit of context. almost all - in this report. shocking stuff, but a bit of context. almost all the i a bit of context. almost all the children locked up in wetherby where this happened are exhibiting high risk behaviours, a huge amount of violence and a lot of self—harm, particularly among girls. managing these vulnerable and dysfunctional children, we shouldn't forget, is a huge challenge and a problem made more difficult by the balance

between the genders. the vast majority of young people locked up, 440 our boys injust majority of young people locked up, 440 our boys in just seven are girls and most of those are in wetherby. when inspectors turned up unannounced in november last year these two shocking incidents were revealed to them of this girl, and as you say it is important to remember they were trying to save her life because she was intending to use her clothing to hang herself. the ministry ofjustice say that yes, it is an awful incident but lessons on this occasion have been learned and they are introducing new measures to make sure the youth estate is secure and safe for all those inside.— estate is secure and safe for all those inside. mark easton, home editor, those inside. mark easton, home editor. thank— those inside. mark easton, home editor, thank you. _ our top story this afternoon... the murder of emma caldwell — herfamily are meeting scotland's first minister now to press for a public inquiry. and how monitoring from space could help to curb global greenhouse gas emissions.

coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, the home nations, including defending champions england, will find out their path to euro 2025. we'll have all the details of the qualifying draw. the widow ofjohn dignam, who was murdered by the ira in 1992 for being an alleged british informer, has revealed that the army tried to recruit her after his death. claire dignam said she was shocked by the approach. later this week an interim report will be published into the killings of suspected ira informers, as peter taylor reports. john dignam was murdered by the ira in 1992 and branded as a special branch informer. i personally can't see him working for the ruc. i couldn't believe it, knowing johnny, and living with him. i interviewed claire

dignam 30 years ago. he was my husband and he was the father of my children, and i loved him. no matter what people say he did or he didn't do, i loved him. every bone in my body. the ira interrogated dignam and two of his ira comrades, and tape recorded their alleged confessions. i finally managed to get hold of the tapes. the banging of a pan was the sign to start talking, to hide the interrogator�*s voice. metal pan clangs. my name isjohnny dignam from portadown. i'm aged 32. i told the police handlers that i was on a weapons training camp in limerick. dignam admitted being recruited by special branch. he paid the penalty — a bullet in the back of the head. his body was dumped on a lonely country road. he always went in to kiss the kids goodnight.

and he didn't. .. he never has come back to do it. that's hard. in your case, you've suffered for 30... 31 yea rs. and are you still suffering from it? yes, peter, iam. i don't have a photograph of my husband because it's the memory of that... itjust brings up a dark, dark time. itjust conjured up all the emotions, all the emotions that i've buried deep down inside. we'll play a few clips from the original film. and, you know, it will obviously be emotional because of what happened tojohnny. after you've seen the clip, we'll pause and i'lljust ask you your reactions to it. metal pan clangs on recording. oh, is that the... no, i don't want to hear that. i don't know if i could cope. the sound was too painful.

but claire quickly composed herself and came back to carry on and thank me for doing the interview. this is healing — it's healing for me. what are you hoping operation kenova will do? give answers to all the families, and myself. no matter what them answers may be, just to give us answers. peter taylor, bbc news. there's more embarrassment for germany today, after new details emerged about how a hacker managed to eavesdrop on a high level military call about ukraine. germany's defence minister has admitted that one of the participants on the call dialled in on an unauthorised connection from the singapore airshow. live now to berlin and our europe correspondent, jessica parker. jess, a lot of red faces

there where you are? yes, although i think they are trying to save their blushes a little by explaining what they think happened. a theory was doing the rounds that maybe a russian spy dialled into this conference call and sat on the line without being noticed. defence minister boris pistorius was very keen today to say thatis pistorius was very keen today to say that is not what they think happened. they believe one of the official participants in the call, a senior german air force official, dialled in from an insecure line in singapore where he was attending an airshow. mr pistorius is trying to argue this was individual human error rather than german systemic failure. on friday russian state media publish this tape which appeared to show air force officials discussing highly sensitive issues around military aid to ukraine from germany, france and britain. mr pistorius says he is calling around allies and believes trust in germany

is unbroken, but he clearly hopes that given what they have found out so far, this will be a one—off, rather than the tip of the iceberg. jessica parker, thank you. unions representing senior doctors in england have agreed a pay deal with the government. consultants who are members of the british medical association have staged four strikes in their pay dispute so far, and narrowly rejected a previous offer by the government. it is understood some more money has now been offered and the bma will recommend it to its members. our health correspondent nick triggle is here. this has been a dispute that has dragged on for months and months? yes, the best part of a year. the british medical association has been asking for above inflation pay rises. all consultants got 6% extra in april and then in december a fresh offer was made. for some consultants that would have meant

close to 13% extra, but some consultants, particularly those in the early stages of their career, were to get nothing extra, and that was rejected by a narrow margin. what has happened is they have gone back to the negotiating table and tinkered with that deal to give the consultants due to get nothing extra on top of that 6% a little more, close to 3% more. the british medical association recommends its members accept the deal, they say it is a hard fought which will lead to changes in the way doctor pay rises are calculated in the future. ministers have described it as a good deal for ministers have described it as a good dealfor doctors, patients and the taxpayer, but i think it will be a couple of months before we hear whether it is enough to end this long—running dispute. in the meantime nhs bosses point out that ministers and junior doctors need to get back to the table. that dispute has been going on for even longer.

thank you, nick triggle, our health correspondent. more than 100 charities have backed a letter to the chancellor urging him to provide more financial support to families with disabled children. it comes as a mother from doncaster, who provides round—the—clock care to her severely disabled son, says she has been left in a desperate situation by the cost of living crisis. samantha tolmie's letter has now got the support of nearly 3,000 otherfamilies. here's her story. lewis, he was born in 2004. when we got his diagnosis eventually in 2014, i think it was, they said that he might live to 11 or 12. he is nearly 20 now. he is just proving everyone wrong, every day. he's a miracle, and i can say he's my hero. all of this equipment that you can see now is always running. so he's got his ventilator, which most of the time

is breathing for him. and then the humidifier. then the sats monitor, two feeding pumps. and all these pieces of equipment are so essential that we have to have two of each piece of equipment, so that if one stops working we have another one. all these items are on charge all the time, all plugged in all the time. there you are. it's always been difficult financially since lewis became unwell. surviving on benefits from the government. but then when the energy crisis impacted, and the amount — it wasn'tjust £5 or £10 a month, which you would still have to find, it was £200 or £300. i had to think about what i could switch off, what could i not use. with lewis' equipment i can't turn anything off. i can't not charge his equipment. i can't switch his ventilator off. "oh, yeah, i have to switch your ventilator off for a couple of hours, lew—lew, because we can't afford to pay the electric." you have to have lewis in your sight and in your awareness all the time, every second of every day. it's exhausting.

emotionally it's terrible, because you're having to be on top of everything. and all of this clinical stuff. you can't comprehend, i don't think, unless you know of it first hand. yeah. it doesn't matter what the weather's like, we have to come out with lewis. he needs to come out for his chest. and also, it helps with his partial gut failure, that i mentioned earlier. if i don't come out with lewis every day, then very quickly i'll start to think about all the things that aren't great, and then you end up spiralling into a black hole that is very difficult to climb out of. if the sad side wins that battle, then i can't move forward from that. if i can't be happy and positive, what good am i to lewis? it's crazy that i should be scared that we're going to lose our home

because we haven't got enough money. when we find out how much universal credit we're going to get, which i hope will be soon, all i know is it is going to be a lot less than it has been. and combining that with the energy costs, yeah, i literally am being an ostrich. i'm just hiding at the moment. "she was tidying the house when suddenly there was a knock on the door." we can't do this. other families can't do this. we are giving our heart and soul to looking after our children. we just want some help to let us do that, help us to do that. help us to help ourselves, to look after our children. don't put us into poverty. feeling like you're not going to be able to look after your child... that's the end of the stories now. it's time to go to sleep. wanting to look after them and care for them, and be everything for them that they need, that's all we want to do. night—night.

samantha tolmie and her son lewis. well, the government says its priority is to get people benefits that people are entitled to as soon as possible, and it says it is increasing such disability benefits by 6.7% in april in a support package worth £104 billion. there were two significant rocket launches last night. one put a new methane monitoring satellite into orbit. the other released a crewed spacecraft that docked with the international space station. the new satellite, methanesat, will allow methane leaks from oil and gas facilities to be tracked almost in real time. the aim is to significantly reduce emissions of this powerful greenhouse gas. here's our climate editor, justin rowlatt. three, two, one.

ignition, and liftoff. a falcon 9 rocket blasts off from the california coast, carrying an important new tool in the battle against climate change. it is a satellite designed to sniff out the telltale fingerprint of methane in the light reflected back from earth. methanesat will orbit 15 times a day, tracking methane emissions leaking from oil and gas facilities around the globe. rising methane emissions from human activities, like these plumes from an oil well in kazakhstan, have been responsible for almost a third of climate change since the industrial revolution. methane is 80 times more powerful a warming gas than co2, but it doesn't stay in the atmosphere nearly as long — just a dozen years compared to centuries for co2. that means cutting emissions now can rapidly slow global warming. the fossil fuel industry is the second biggest manmade source of methane after agriculture.

we know that these emissions are fixable. so with current technologies, all the emissions... all the methane emissions from the oil and gas operations can actually be fixed at almost zero cost. so if you don't know where you cannot fix them, so if you have data on where the emissions are happening, you can fix them. the data will be publicly available. it will help oil and gas companies identify leaks from their operations, and, at the same time, regulators and the general public will be able to check to make sure those leaks are fixed. the hope is it will help cut emissions from the sector by more than 40% in the coming years. last night's other rocket launch released a craft carrying crew members for the international space station — three us astronauts and one russian cosmonaut. it docked successfully. spacex is one of the few areas in which the us

and russia still collaborate. the iss, like methanesat, has a sensor capable of detecting methane. crew eight being joyfully welcomed aboard the international space station... the new crew members will be conducting experiments, including one involving growing artificial replicas of human organs in the low gravity environment of space. justin rowlatt, bbc news. now, when the actor colin firth emerged from a lake wearing a wet white shirt in the bbc�*s adaptation of pride and prejudice back in 1995, it caused quite a stir. well, today that famous shirt is up for auction, and its expected to raise up to £10,000 for charity. noor nanji has more details. it was the image that set pulses racing — colin firth as mr darcy,

emerging from a lake in a wet shirt... mr darcy! ..in the 1995 bbc adaptation of pride and prejudice. now that very shirt could be yours. it's one of more than 60 costumes to be auctioned in london, with all the proceeds going to charity. it's just a simple linen shirt, but it's going under the hammer with an estimate of £7000 to £10,000. i think it's going to be interesting to see what their next life is, yeah. and who buys them and for what purpose. the collection here is incredible. it includes this vintage1950s gown worn by madonna in evita and this beautiful dress worn by drew barrymore in ever after. but, of course, everyone is talking about this shirt here, the one that was worn by colin firth as mr darcy in pride and prejudice. also up for sale are costumes

from tv drama series including peaky blinders and downton abbey. we're standing here against some very pretty downton abbey pieces. we have matthew and we have lady mary here, for example, but we have an entire downton abbey grouping here. when we look at something like a series, like downton abbey, we look at where it was worn to try and capture the moment it was worn and who.... and there were three designers for downton, also give each designer a credit, which i think is quite nice to do. the entire collection spans more than 400 years of changing fashion trends. for hollywood costume collectors, as well as die hard fans, this is their chance to own a piece of screen history. noor nanji, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear.