From BBC Scotland today:
Network Rail is to face court action after an Aberdeenshire train crash which claimed three lives.
Driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the train derailed at Carmont on 12 August 2020.
The train hit a landslide after heavy rain.
Network Rail is due to face criminal action at the High Court in Aberdeen on 7 September.
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That Network Rail responsible for track maintenance across the UK is responsible to the UK Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps at the time is not made clear.
Hours after the incident in August 2020, on BBC Scotland’s The Nine, viewers saw James Cook, repeatedly interrupt the Scottish Transport Secretary, Michael Matheson to say:
Well, exactly! Well, that’s rather the point! Isn’t it. We hear that there are these problems. In 2014, a report specifically mentioned this exact area being greatly affected by earth-slips. A report last month warned that there had been over six times more flooding events in the year to 2019/20 and earthworks failures nearly trebled. Did you read that report? And if so, what action did your government take on it?
Let’s be clear. Rail infrastructure, the track, the signals and related hardware, and critically, the prevention of landslips onto the track, is a reserved matter, presumably in case the UK Government ever feels the need to use it for some strategic purpose which the Scottish Government might object to and try to obstruct.
Full responsibility for the funding, the maintenance, the inspection and the warning to operators of risk, lies with the UK agency Network Rail which in turn is responsible, only, to the UK Minister. The report was a report for that UK minister and though the Scottish Government may or may not have received a copy, it could not have acted upon it.
Why was Cook not aggressively asking Grant Shapps, the UK Minister for Transport, the questions he misleadingly threw at Matheson?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Because Cook is employed by the BBC as a propagandist.
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It’s the same old story the Scottish Govt are treated quite differently by the BBC in Scotland than the BBC treats Govt or devolved ministers anywhere else. How they can pretend that this isn’t institutionalised discrimination nobody knows.
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Sky the same.
Lunchtime they say,
‘Will Scotland ever return to an Average drugs death rate?, after this period of horror.
Next to last line.
Westminster say that the current devolved powers are sufficient.
People are dying during the time politicians talk.
Seems that we are getting gaslit from the media on lots of fronts.
They really want a slab win in Hamilton.
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Knife deaths in England are a “UK” problem.
The repeated health scandals in NHS England are nothing to do with the English Health Minister or his government.
Staffing levels in schools hospitals, police et al are NEVER compared.
The BBC in Scotland is a colonial State propaganda outlet.
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