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A row over the intervention of business leaders and banks in the

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Scottish independence debate has intensified on the final weekend of

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campaigning. Deutsche Bank says voters and politicians have failed

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to grasp the negative consequences of independence. Scotland's First

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Minister, Alex Salmond, said the Scots would not be bullied by

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businesses or by the Westminster Government.

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This is the busiest day of political campaigning Scotland has ever seen.

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The campaign for a Yes vote says 35,000 volunteers are on the streets

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up and down the country, advancing their arguments trying to win every

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crucial vote. I think there is so much energy around the Yes Campaign

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now. We're going to have a fantastic weekend. People are campaigning all

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around Scotland and that's going to carry on. We're confident about

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where we are in the polls, but what we are hearing and seeing around

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Scotland tells us the momentum is with yes. The campaign to keep

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Scotland in the UK and they have 1,000 street stalls around the

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country and it feels like everyone in Scottish politics is involved. If

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you look at the plans of what's on offer in the referendum, more powers

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for the Scottish Parliament, real change coming with the Labour

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Government, compare that to the risk and uncertainty, the threat to jobs,

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the threat to living standards. I think Labour voters understand that

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their future lies best in a No vote and in a Labour Government coming

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in. Suddenly, it seems, everyone is

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interested in Scotland. Today, Deutsche Bank warned that a Yes vote

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would be as bad for the economy as the blunders which led the world

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into the great depression between the wars.

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If there was a Yes vote and Scotland was to become independent it would

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be catastrophic for Scotland. The depression would last for a number

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of years. Supporters of independence says Scotland would be stable after

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a Yes vote, not least because it would keep the pound. They say the

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sirens are sounding a false alarm. It is mruf and bluster. They're

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talking about really an economic tsunami that could affect Scotland

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if we vote for independence on the basis of the financial risks from

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the banks. This has been superseded because the banks have said they

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will move their offices to London. So they will have the protection

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from the Bank of England. The debate is getting noisier. The stakes

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higher. The vote ever closer. Well, the former Prime Minister,

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Gordon Brown, has been out campaigning this morning.

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Live now to Iain Watson. A busy week and no sign of any

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let-up? No. Gordon Brown is still speaking inside this community

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centre on a council estate because one poll showed that or suggested

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that of the people who have voted for Gordon Brown at the last general

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election in 2010, four out of ten in Scotland are likely to back

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independence. He is straoug to stem the -- trying to stem the flow of

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support. During the last weekend, you can see protesters outside here.

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The rhetoric has been ramped out. We have heard from Deutsche Bank

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suggesting we could get a new Wall Street crash if Scotland becomes

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independent. Inside there, I was listening to Gordon Brown and he

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said if Scotland doesn't meet its full share of the debt as Alex

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Salmond threatened, well it will become a financial outcast.

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Alex Salmond is saying he won't be bullied by big business, big oil or

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big Government at Westminster. If you think the rhetoric can't be

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ramped up any further, just wait until Thursday!

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The family of a British aid worker, being held hostage by Islamic State

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militants, have urged his captors to contact them. Earlier this month the

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group threatened to kill David Haines unless the United States

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halted air strikes against it in Iraq. Mr Haines, who's 44 and comes

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from Perth, was kidnapped last year while delivering aid in Syria.

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The Oscar nominated actress, Samantha Morton, says she was

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sexually abused as a child while living in care homes in Nottingham.

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She told the Guardian newspaper that it happened in the 1990s, when she

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was 13. Ms Morton, who's now 37, claims that when she reported the

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abuse, nothing was done. Nottinghamshire Police says it has

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A 15-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of starting the Manchester

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Dogs Home blaze which killed at least 50 animals has been released

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on bail. More than ?1 million has now been raised in a campaign set up

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within hours of the fire. The rescued dogs are being cared for in

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Warrington, where we can now join our correspondent, Danni Hewson.

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So bring us up-to-date? Well, there have been extraordinary scenes here

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this morning as hundreds of people have turned up wanting to donate

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their time to donate food or to adopt some of the dogs. ?1.2 million

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has been raised as the public responded to extraordinary scenes of

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dogs being pulled from burning buildings and many of them

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traumatised and 43 dogs died. Of the 150 rescued, only one is now causing

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concern and is under the care of the vet. Back at the scene today, about

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half an hour from here, investigations into the cause of the

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blaze are continuing. And police who were questioning a 15-year-old boy

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about the incident have now released him on bail. The main focus here now

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though is on trying to create some space on re-homing at least 50 of

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the dogs and they are looking for 50 people to take them on a temporary

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basis so it can allow them to continue with the work they normally

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do and to treat the traumatised dogs who need a bit of extra TLC

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In Southern California hundreds of firefighters are tackling a wildfire

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that's burning out of control. The fires are in a remote area, but

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officials ordered 30 people in 30 homes to evacuate.

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You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel. The

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next news on BBC One is at 5.40pm. Bye for now.

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Bottom Good afternoon. If you have spent the weeking looking at the

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fine conditions outside, at least they

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