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at Ten: The people of Scotland have rejected independence by a decisive | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
majority. There was joy and relief for those who'd campaigned to keep | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Scotland within the United Kingdom. We know that we're proud Scots but | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
we are proud to be British. And we were better together. But dejection | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
and disbelief for those who'd believed that an independent | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
Scotland was within reach. I'm devastated. The sole reason is I | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
wanted more than anything a "Yes" vote. Within hours of the verdict, | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Alex Salmond announced he'd be stepping down as First Minister and | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
leader of the Scottish National Party. For me as leader, my time is | :00:51. | :01:03. | |
near over. But for Scotland, the campaign continues. And the dream | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
shall never I do. At Westminster, questions are raised about the Prime | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Minister's suggestion of new devolved powers for the rest of the | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
UK. So now it is time for our United Kingdom to come together and to move | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
forward. A vital part of that will be a balanced settlement, fair to | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
people in Scotland and importantly to everyone in England, Wales and | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Northern Ireland as well. We'll have details and analysis of the | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
referendum, what it means for Scotland, and the constitutional | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
changes being suggested for the rest of the United Kingdom. | :01:40. | :02:15. | |
Good evening from Edinburgh, where the official result of the | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
referendum on independence was declared earlier today. The people | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
of Scotland voted decisively to remain within the United Kingdom. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Within hours, the First Minster, Alex Salmond, announced his decision | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
to resign as David Cameron declared that not only would more more powers | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
be devolved from London to Edinburgh, but changes would also be | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
made to the governance of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This was | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
the outcome of yesterday's vote. More than 1.6 million backed | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
independence, but more than 2 million objected. It was a 10% | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
margin of victory, wider than most polls predicted on a record turn out | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
of 85%. Tonight, we'll have the latest reaction and analysis and | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
more on the far-reaching constitutional changes planned for | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
the entire UK. But first our political editor Nick Robinson | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
reports on the day Scotland said NO to independence. There's some flash | :03:10. | :03:21. | |
fory in t rep Put away the flags. Stop the campaigning. The great | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
national debate is over. More people carried, more people believed, more | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
voted for independence than ever before. But for now that dream is | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
dead. Scotland has voted no in this referendum on independence. The | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
result in Fyfe has taken the "No" campaign over the line and the | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
official result of this referendum is a no. The final result, 45% yes, | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
55% no was clearer than most had predicted. It produced joy from | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
backers of the union, and despair from those who believed Scotland | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
could do better. This morning, Alex Salmond put a brave face on defeat, | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
accepting what he called the democratic verdict. But this | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
afternoon he called the media to the First Minister's office in Edinburgh | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
and announced that he would soon quit the job. For me as leader, my | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
time is nearly over, but for Scotland, the campaign continues and | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
the dream shall never I do. He warned that David Cameron could | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
renege on the promise to give Scotland greater powers and to do it | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
fast. The real guardians of progress are no longer politicians at | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
Westminster or even at Holyrood. But the energised activism of tens of | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
thousands of people who I predict will refuse to meekly go back into | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
the political shadowoes. We have now the opportunity to hold | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Westminster's feet to the fire on the vow that they've made to devolve | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
further meaningful power to Scotland. The story of the night was | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
clear, almost from the very first result at half past 1 this morning. | :05:06. | :05:17. | |
"No," 19,036. CHEERING. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
The "No" campaign subdued for so long celebrated as result after | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
result in 28 out of 32 areas had them winning. In Glasgow, Nicola | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Sturgeon, Alex Salmond's deputy and surely his successor now, knew it | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
was all over. The news from Scotland's biggest city, a | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
consolation prize. "Yes" 194,000. "No," 1 9,347. Not so long ago few | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
would believe they would do this well or come this close. But for | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Alex Salmond it simply was not close enough. For them, those who had | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
fought for Scotland to remain in the UK, the relief was palpable. You | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
represent the majority of opinion and your voices have been heard. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
We've taken on the art and we've won. The silent have spoken. Those | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
watching outside Scotland had simply had to hold their breath. The Prime | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Minister watched for much of the night, aware that a "Yes" vote would | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
destroy not just his country but his reputation. The people of Scotland | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
have spoken and it is a clear result. They've kept our country of | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Four Nations together. Like millions of other people, I am delighted. The | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
debate was settled for a generation, he said. There could be no disputes, | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
no reruns. Scotland would get more power, but change would go much | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
further than that. Just as the people of Scotland will have more | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
power over their affairs, so it follows that the people of England, | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland must have a bigger say over theirs. The rights | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
of these voters need to be respected, preserved and enhanced. | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
The Tory leader revived an old undelivered manifesto promise, to | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
ensure that English laws are made only by English votes. But I have | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
long believed that a crucial part missing from this national | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
discussion is England. We've heard the voice of Scotland and now the | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
millions of voices of England must also be heard. Some will ask, why on | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
earth are politicians talking about constitutional change on the very | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
day when the Scottish people have rejected independence? The answer is | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
clear and it is here in Glasgow. The people of this great city voted by a | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
majority to leave the UK. The anger they feel at the way Westminster | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
currently runs things is felt up and down what remains our united King | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
don. Watching these extraordinary events unfold the Queen has been at | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
her Scottish estate, Balmoral. Tonight in a rare written statement | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
she urged people to unite in their enduring love of Scotland. Knowing | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
the people of Scotland as I do, she wrote, I have no doubt that Scots | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
are able to express strongly-held opinions before coming together | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
again in a spirit of mutual respect and support. She sends simply, my | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
family and I will do all we can to help and support you in this | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
important task. Elizabeth R, Balmoral. Tonight, her kingdom | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
remains united. But an awful lot divides people over how it ought to | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
be run. More than 3.5 million Scots took part in yesterday's referendum. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
A level of electoral turnout not seen in Britain since 1951. The "No" | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
vote was boosted in more rural parts of Scotland. But the city of | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Edinburgh also voted strongly against. The "Yes" campaign pointed | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
to notable success in Glasgow. Scotland's biggest city, as we saw | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
in Nick's report. Allan Little, who has followed the entire campaign, a | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
examines the factors that convinced the majority of voters to back the | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
union. Glasgow woke this morning to the news that it had voted yes but | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
the country had not. To too many, the blueprint for independence was | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
incomplete, with too few clear answers on key questions. Edinburgh, | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
home to Scotland's financial services industry, voted 61 to 39 to | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
stay in the UK. This is quite a well-off country, and I think a lot | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
of people felt they had quite a lot to lose. I don't think it is a | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
surprise that parts of the country where people didn't have quite so | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
much to lose would vote yes. 300 years of history and achievement, | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
just bringing people together. We should be coming together rather | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
than breaking apart. Even here though, more than one in three | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
people voted yes. I'm devastated, yes. I've been up all night. | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Heartbroken, but also inspired, because we know that half the people | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
get it, so that's kind of nice. It is going to be a bit weird though | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
knowing that half the people are scared of change and half are ready | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
to do it. I think overall it's been very, very beneficial to Scotland, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
despite the fact we didn't win. Although I was a "No" voter, when I | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
heard the results I started crying, relieved but also kind of worried | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
about what happens now. In less prosperous places, more voters | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
favoured independence. Both Dundee and Scotland's biggest city, | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
Glasgow, voted "Yes." Here, Labour voters who crossed to the "Yes" camp | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
in large numbers were decisive. Is it over for them now? Will they | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
return to the Labour fold? I'm devastated. The sole reason is I | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
wanted more than anything a "Yes" vote. A change in Labour's policies | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
that were too close to Tory policies for me. I listened to the SNP's | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
views and promises and so on at the time and decided to change to SNP. | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
After what happened with Tony Blair and stuff I don't think the working | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
class necessarily trust Labour any more. They've obviously gone over to | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
the SNP. They maybe offer a wee bit more hope. In this, the intervention | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
in the last stages of the campaign by a seemingly rejuvenated Gordon | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Brown may have helped stem the flow of Labour voters to the "Yes" camp. | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
The margin of victory for the union was clear and decisive and beyond | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
dispute. Does that mean job done, that the union is saved? 45% of the | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
population of the country on a high turnout voted to end United Kingdom | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
statehood in Scotland. That would have been unthinkable even 15 years | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
ago when the Scottish Parliament was first set up. We've got to remember | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
that 1.6 million of our fellow citizens voted yesterday to leave | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
the United Kingdom. A majority in Glasgow, a large majority in Dundee. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
I think the really important thing to do at the moment is to try and | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
understand and then to respond adequately and effectively to the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
reasons why people voted "Yes". The Anglo-Scottish union has survived | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
the greatest challenge to its existence in 300 years. Scotland has | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
settled the question peacefully and democratically. But the popular | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
challenge to the UK's legitimacy in Scotland has not gone away. Alex | :12:33. | :12:44. | |
Salmond's decision to step down as First Minister and leader of the | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
Scottish National Party will take effect in mid November. Mr Salmond | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
has been a towering figure in Scottish politics for two decades, a | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
period in which he let the transformation of the SNP from a | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
small political force to a party which put independence at the top of | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
the agenda. James Cook reports on the resignation of one of Britain's | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
most charismatic leaders. There's flash fore in this report to. It | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
could have been so different. For weeks the world had been watching | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Alex Salmond, wondering, would he be Prime Minister of an independent | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Scotland? It wasn't to be and today in defeat, he faced the cameras. Let | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
us not dwell on the distance we've fallen short. To many people Alex | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Salmond is the Scottish National Party. He hails from Linlithgow, a | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
traditional Labour stronghold in central Scotland. But his rise, and | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
that of Scottish nationalism, are inextricably linked. Alex Salmond | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
went to Westminster in 1987, a democratic insurgent determined to | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
wrest Scotland from London's grasp. He was already shaking up what had | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
been a rather eccentric party when, three years later, he was elected | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
for his first stint as leader. His gradual approach to the pursuit of | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
independence very nearly paid off. First campaigning for a Scottish | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
Parliament, celebrating alongside his political rivals, when this | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
referendum at least went his way. I think we had better sit up and take | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
notice that something is changing in Scotland. It was. In the end, Alex | :14:20. | :14:31. | |
Salmond served two decade-long stints as SNP leader. The last ten | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
years saw stunning success. He took his party to power at Holyrood and | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
went one better. I heard a rumour. I think we won the election. Winning a | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
second term with a majority most said was impossible. It gave him a | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
mandate to pursue his life's goal, and two years ago he shook hands | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
with the Conservative Prime Minister on an agreement to put his dream to | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
the test. Go Scotland! Alex Salmond has always been a populist | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
politician. But he doesn't appeal to all. Critics say he he can ores | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
opponents, putting off women voters in particular. Tonight though, there | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
was a rare glimpse of a different Alex Salmond. Heading home with his | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
wife after a remarksable week and a remarkable career. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Brian Taylor is with me. The end of Mr Salmond's leadership, the end of | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
this momentous referendum campaign. What are your conclusions? Standing | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
beneath Edinburgh Castle reminds me I've covered Scottish politics since | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
before Braveheart was a boy. I remember in 1979 when devolution was | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
almost defeated. On this occasion Alex Salmond is largely responsible, | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
he has matured the SNP, allowed it to grow and made it above all a | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
modern party of Government. The Scots poet talked of the Caledonian, | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
a posh way of saying we Scots are capenable of looking two ways at | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
once. We can gurn or be confident and comparable out. Alex Salmond | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
argued for the latter, to be confident. A good motto for Mr | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Salmond and for Scotland on this remarkable day. | :16:26. | :16:37. | |
It became clear early this morning, when David Cameron spoke in | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
Downing Street, that the result of this referendum could trigger | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
extensive constitutional change, not just in Scotland but | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
The Prime Minister spoke of new powers for England, | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
But doubts were raised almost immediately about the likelihood | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
of cross-party agreement, and about the ambitious timetable for drafting | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
new proposals, with a general election just eight months away. | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
James Landale reports on possible changes to the constitution, | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
It was a solemn vow by the leaders of the UK's largest parties, | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
a vow to let Scotland decide more of its taxes, welfare and spending. | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
But today the Government promised similar powers to the rest of the UK | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
and fewer powers for Scottish MPs at Westminster. | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
It becomes inconceivable to continue to allow Scottish members to vote | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
on everything that is happening in England when, as you know, | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
English and indeed Scottish members, can't vote on so much | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
The Government hopes to agree its plan for UK-wide devolution | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
by November, publish draft laws in January and | :17:39. | :17:39. | |
introduce the changes after it has been put to voters in the election. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Labour say they will also move quickly on devolution to Scotland | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
but they want a national debate on English devolution | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
before holding a constitutional convention in the autumn of next | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
One lesson we know is that we can't do this in a knee jerk, | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
But the most important thing is that it can't be stitched up | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
I don't think people would stand for that. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
We need to start with people and the change they want to see. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
Labour see the Government plans to give English MPs a greater say | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
They fear that curbing the powers of Scottish MPs, | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
most of whom are Labour, will make it harder for Ed Miliband as Prime | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Minister to get his legislation and his budgets through the Commons. | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
So none of this constitutional change is going to come easy. | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
David Cameron does not have the full support of Labour and he also has | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
some trouble in his own ranks, many of whom think that Scotland is | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Extensive promises have been made to the Scottish people which will | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
assume that Scottish politicians can continue to adjudicate on taxes | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
raised on English taxpayers, and also assume that English taxpayers | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
will continue to shore up the whole settlement with extensive | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
The UKIP leader wrote to all Scottish MPs asking them to stop | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
The English need to be able to vote and debate on their issues alone | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
And if Scottish MPs agree to do that it will be | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
Throughout Westminster there are reminders that this parliament | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
represents all four corners of the UK, including | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
Northern Ireland and Wales, where expectations have now been raised. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
Scotland has been offered first-class devolution. | :19:21. | :19:21. | |
There is a risk that Wales will get second or | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
even third class devolution and we must make sure that our devolution | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
settlement is as good if not better than what they get in Scotland. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Honouring this vow could transform Britain's constitutional settlement. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Breaking it could lead to yet another breach of public trust | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
in politics, and already agreement looks hard to find. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
James Landale, BBC News, Westminster. | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
Some of England's biggest cities, including Birmingham | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
and Manchester, have backed calls for greater devolution | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
Those calls have been echoed in some of the biggest regions, | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Mark Easton has been exploring the potential impact of devolved | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
The restlessness of the Scottish lion has stirred the Lions of | :20:05. | :20:23. | |
England. Today we have seen Northern English newspapers demanding similar | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
devolution to their Scots neighbours, London's mayor demanding | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
fiscal devolution the big cities, and although the government says it | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
won't happen, popular calls for an English Parliament. All it is is the | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
Scottish being talked about. There should be a voice for the English. | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
We would all like to see development of power and decision-making from | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
London to local regions. I want independence for England but it's | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
not going to happen because we won't get a referendum. It's certainly not | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
easy. The promise that MPs represented at Westminster will only | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
vote on matters affecting their nations risks having rival UK and | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
English governments under the same roof. There is a determination to | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
avoid having a UK Government and an English central government. That is | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
why they are talking devolution, pushing powers down to regions, | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
cities and towns where the power would be, rather than two opposite | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
governments in London. In a field in Leicestershire is the exact spot | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
identified as the middle of England, now the epicentres of a new debate | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
that goes far beyond the Prime Minister's promise of English votes | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
for English laws. Finding agreement on what the change should look like | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
we'll be hard. Since the dark ages, England has set its face against | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
regional government. There has been fierce resistance to almost any | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
reform of administrative boundaries, with some activists removing or | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
relocating offending road signs. In a referendum for a Northeast | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
regional government decade ago, an inflatable white elephant helped | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
convince people resoundingly to vote no to more politicians. But all | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
three major UK parties now talk about empowering cities in England | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
to counteract the dominance of the capital. In Bristol, as in many | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
English cities, you will find a strong sense that London, and what | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
is seen as the Westminster elite, have too much control over people's | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
lives. Demands for devolution are often driven by distrust of national | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
politics and national politicians. That is good in theory, as long as | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
you have the appropriate people in place in the cities who can manage | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
it well. What is the point of a parliament if the different cities | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
have power over themselves? Maybe there is strength in numbers and we | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
should all be together. The search for a new and fair settlement for a | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
United Kingdom looks set to open up ancient divisions. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Let's take a moment to look at some of the day's other news stories. | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
French fighter jets have attacked a base belonging to the Islamic State | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
France is the first country to join the United States in military | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
action against the jihadists who control much of Iraq and Syria. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
The British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has been fined | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
a record ?297 million by a Chinese court, after it admitted bribing | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
doctors and health officials in order to win contracts. | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
The court also imposed a suspended prison sentence on | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Mark Reilly, who used to run the company's China division. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
The Director of Children's Services in Rotherham, Joyce Thacker, | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
is to leave her post in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal. | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
She'd faced criticism after a report said senior council | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
managers had "underplayed" the scale of the abuse, which involved up to | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
Administrators have announced 628 redundancies at | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
The business, which has a total workforce of more than 5500 went | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
into administration earlier this week after it lost a major contract. | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
The first result last night came from the smallest local authority | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
area of Clackmannanshire, the first of many no votes from the 32 | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
counting centres, and the verdict was clear by 5am this morning. | :24:20. | :24:48. | |
It was a wider gap than anything the polls were telling us. Let me show | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
you the map of Scotland after the result. We have coloured in areas | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
where the noes one. The noes in red, and almost the whole of | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Scotland covered. You can see the four areas where they yes votes were | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
ahead. Glasgow and surrounding, and then Dundee in the north-east. But | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
largely, the map has been coloured red. If we go back to the councils, | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
these are the 32 council areas in which voting was counted, and you | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
can see it is awash with red. So many red councils. Looking for the | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
four green ones. Glasgow, the biggest, went for yes, 53%. So did | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
North Lanarkshire, another big council. But that wasn't enough. The | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
other huge councils going from no. And the first results we had came | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
from the smaller councils. Clackmannanshire, Shetland, Orkney, | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
all coming in early in the evening, all going no. It was quite some time | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
before Dundee city became the first yes. So, after this extraordinary | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
night, I can show you hear a spread of council areas with the noes on | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
this side and the yes is on this side. Again, this just illustrates, | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
you would not call it a whitewash, but it is certainly a very | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
convincing victory to those who argue that Scotland should stay in | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
the United Kingdom. Look at these four councils, the four yeses. Those | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
were the only four yeses of 32 councils. Come down with me and you | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
will see the other councils. You will see the margins, increasing as | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
you come down here, until we get to the councils which voted no most | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
decisively. Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, for example. | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Orkney and Shetland, the island councils. Yes, this was convincing, | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
as you can see. In the end, only four council areas went with the | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
arguments of those who said that Scotland should leave the UK. | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
And there's further analysis and a full breakdown of results | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
on the BBC website at bbc.co.uk/scotlanddecides. | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
There's been reaction to the referendum result | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
In a moment we'll hear more views on how the result was received | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
But first Reeta Chakrabarti has been speaking to people in Lincoln | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
about their perspective on the people's verdict in Scotland. | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
Under the majestic towers of the ancient cathedral, | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
the people of Lincoln could only watch events in Scotland. | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
Like the rest of the UK they had no say in the decision, but that | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
I think we are losing something if we split Scotland from the UK. | :27:44. | :28:01. | |
I think it's been done the right way, too, | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
The main response on this English high street is one of relief that | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
Scotland has voted to stay, but people's thoughts are now turning to | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
Something definitely needs to change, I think. | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
We've had the same system for quite a few years and perhaps | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
needed to evolve with the times and the political situation. | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
The cathedral houses one of the few copies of Magna Carta, | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
the 800-year-old document which limited the king's powers. | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
With the transfer of power over tax, spending and welfare about to take | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
place to Scotland, where does that now leave the rest of the UK? | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
I think it's right that the Scots do have devolved powers | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
but I also think it's right that the English and the Welsh | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
I think there's been an unequal balance between Scotland | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
having more powers and getting more money through | :28:59. | :29:00. | |
I think that's unfair and English people deserve the same powers, | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
Many here understand that it's not just Scotland | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News, Lincoln. | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
This was a campaign fought on the streets and filled with passion. | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
For those who won, joy and jubilation. | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
For those who lost disappointment, heartbreak and despair. | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
I think it's the older generation that have | :29:34. | :29:35. | |
We were in tears when the result came through | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
because it is that big a deal to people in Scotland, to yes voters. | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
Here in Scotland's biggest city, Glasgow, | :29:46. | :29:47. | |
a majority of voters indicated they wanted to leave the union, but still | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
The sentiment here was not reflected in the country as a whole. | :29:52. | :29:58. | |
People at this snack bar were relieved that independence is | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
I love Scotland very much but I don't know if we could manage | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
There was an energetic grassroots campaign | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
for yes, but a quiet majority, like these people in North Berwick, | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
And we've been absolutely fed up for the last two years. | :30:16. | :30:25. | |
I would like to think this is the end of it. | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
We had a chance and the country said no, so as far | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
So Scotland remains as part of the United Kingdom. | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
There is now time for reflecting, reuniting, healing, | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
Our political editor Nick Robinson is here. | :30:41. | :30:54. | |
I think it is fair to say we will be reflecting on what happened here for | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
a very long time. I do think we have ever experienced a day like this, | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
have we? A vote to reject major constitutional change in one country | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
in the UK has triggered a debate about major constitutional change in | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
all the countries of the UK. The man without whom this might not have | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
happened, Alex Salmond, has quit, meaning he won't be here to lead | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
that debate when it kicks off. And the people who were on the street | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
with their flags, chanting and protesting, they lost the vote but | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
there is a sense they might just get a little bit of the change they were | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
actually wanting. Why has this happened? Because when we analyse | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
this vote, it wasn't purely about independence, about self-government | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
and national identity. In many ways it was treated by the electorate | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
here as a referendum on the Westminster establishment, the way | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
power works in the UK today. And many people know, no, as well as yes | :31:53. | :32:00. | |
voters, were deeply unhappy. Those leaders in Westminster sniffed the | :32:01. | :32:02. | |
air and thought, we could easily have lost. If a referendum is held | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
in Cornwall, the Northwest or the north-east, we could lose their, | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
too, hence the promises of change. I think now you will see that a | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
subject which was normally one for political train spotters and nerds, | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
constitutional change, will now be a the centre of politics. David | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
Cameron is posing as the man who will fight for England. There will | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
be people here who will fight for Scotland and in all the other | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
countries, too, it is at the centre of politics again. Thank you. | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
That's all from the team in Edinburgh on the day Scotland's | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
future within the United Kingdom was reaffirmed. | :32:35. | :32:36. | |
In a moment, the news where you are, but we'll leave you with some | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
enduring images of referendum night in Scotland. | :32:41. | :32:51. | |
The BBC's forecast now is that Scotland has voted | :32:52. | :33:12. | |
So now it is time for our United Kingdom to come | :33:13. | :33:27. | |
As leader, my time is nearly over, but for Scotland, | :33:28. | :33:38. | |
the campaign continues and the dream shall never die. | :33:39. | :33:48. |