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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight on your national news. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Shell says it has found a second leak from the Gannet Alpha platform | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
in the North Sea. Getting ready for the big day - as | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
the schools go back - this assurance from the government over | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
Scottish Education. Sick I do not know anyone in Scottish education | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
who is complacent. Also tonight: Doon the watter and | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
coast coast - this massive section of the aircraft carrier is moved | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
from the River Clyde to the Firth of Forth. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
And watch out, it is a jungle out there. The new exhibition prowling | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
the streets of our capital. The oil company Shell says it has | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
discovered a second leak from its Gannet Alpha oil platform in the | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
North Sea. However, the release of oil has slowed to around two | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
barrels a day. The company confirmed yesterday that more than | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
200 tonnes of oil have escaped since last Wednesday, when it was | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
first alerted to the leak. But that has not stopped claims that Shell | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
should have been more open about the incident. Am Irene Scotland | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
spotter plane tracks the extent of the oil slick. -- at Marine | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
Scotland. Now we have a very minor leak, no doubt related to the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
original spill close by which we are actual -- still trying to find | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
the source of. It is currently measured at less than two barrels | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
per day. That is compared to several hundred barrels on day one | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
her its started. The operation to control the spell is been run from | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
the Shell headquarters in Aberdeen. -- control the oil spill. They are | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
-- control the oil spill. They are leak was discovered last Wednesday. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Shell on form the UK Government but it was not until Friday that they | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
leak was made public. Repeated requests for interviews were turned | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
requests for interviews were turned down until today. We have seen the | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
story come out in bits and pieces and I think that is unsatisfactory. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
I think Shell will know from their own experience and the experience | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
of other companies in the oil industry, it is important to have | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
public confidence in what you're doing. We needed sufficient over | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
flights and on some days the over flights were not possible because | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
of the weather conditions. It is only now, on Monday, that we have a | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
real confidence around the No. We wanted to share. Conservation | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
groups have raised fears for her wildlife. One expert believes the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
consequences will be minimal. area is very small so the chances | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
seabirds being affected is small. For other marine life, whales and | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
dolphins for instance, are very resilient. I would say there would | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
not be a massive impact from this. Tonight, efforts go on to stem the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
second week. The company and accused of trying to stem the flow | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
of information. Let us go to Amanda in Aberdeen. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
What is been done to stem the second leak? Divers and remotely | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
operated vehicles have been used to pinpoint the exact location of this | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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leak. It is coming from a relief valve close to the original spell. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
-- the original oil spill. Fresh information from Shell tonight is | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
that leakage is below a barrel a day. The company says weather like | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
this is perfect for breaking down the oil spill. It would seem this | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
is far from being an environmental disaster but questions remain on | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
the impact on Shell's reputation. The company has come under attack | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
for a lack of openness. They finally gave us an interview and | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
then spent the list of the day trying to clarify what his own | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
spokesman meant when he described the second leak. Shell insisted | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
this was not a new leak and said that the oil had found a second | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
path we from the pipeline to the sea. Thank you. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Should Scottish businesses be subject to lower tax rates than | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
companies elsewhere in the UK? The SNP says, yes. They want to be | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
given control over corporation tax and then they would cut it. Setting | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
out their plans today, they say it would create jobs. Opponents | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
disagree. They say it would only create confusion. Our business and | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
economic editor is here to explain. Corporation tax: that is the share | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
the Westminster government takes from the profits made by most | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
businesses. On big profits, 26 % businesses. On big profits, 26 % | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
goes to the public purse. The most recent new figures show Scottish | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
business paid �2.6 billion in corporation tax. So what happens if | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
Holyrood gets powers over its tax, as the Scottish government wants? | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
More growth, more jobs? It could even mean more tax revenue. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Ministers point to Ireland where it did just that with less than half | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Britain's tax rate. Things have changed in Ireland and here, | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
leading some doubts about how the business would respond to a tax cut | :05:36. | :05:46. | |
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business would respond to a tax cut here. I think our own company are | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
more franchise base and it would be difficult to relocate. It is a | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
possibility for the head office but it would depend on the saving you | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
could generate. I am sure for businesses were location is not | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
Primary, the tax savings could be quite substantial. That is the | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
response the architect of these plans is hoping for. If we have the | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
ability to break the level of corporation tax, we can see a | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
beneficial economic impact, new employment and new companies. More | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
economic growth arising out of this economic initiative. F just within | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
the round of public finances, it is a strong and attractive proposition. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
But it is the short term which worries some people. For me the | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
biggest thing is the funding gap. Recognising we would have a | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
reduction in the block grant from Westminster. What have to fund the | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
gap somehow. The idea in the paper that a mini-gym to long term that | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
would be in the way of region to long-term economic activity. But | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
for me there is a question about how much we would have to borrow to | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
maintain public services and the uncertainty about the rate. So it | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
gets complicated. Long-term benefits perhaps by short-term | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
headaches. What if they choose to raise tax rather than reducing it? | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
How much with the Treasury cut from the block grant? Potentially a lot. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
The document is merely intended to spark discussion. It helps build | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
the SNP argument for change ahead of the referendum on independence. | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
You are watching Reporting Scotland - still to come. The grisly tale of | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
the Scottish cannibal comes to the French. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Sport - and then there was one. I'll tell you why this man is the | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
only player to keep his place in the Scotland rugby team for their | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
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final World Cup warm-up match. There's no room for complacency in | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Scottish education according to the Scottish Education Secretary. What | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
might the new school year hold for parents, pupils and teachers. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Rain permitting - this time tomorrow schools like this may be | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
full of youngsters intent on play. Parents and teachers may be focused | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
on other things. Cuts and cash dash never far from | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
the thoughts of parents getting ready for the start of term. We're | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
hoping that teacher numbers do not go down. If they bring more cuts, | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
there will be more pressure on children, teenagers, the young | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
children coming up from primary schools. We have to try and keep as | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
many of the teachers in jobs as possible and keep the standard of | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
education as high as possible and make cuts on admin side. Teachers' | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
leaders know all about the spending squeeze and it is linked to pay in | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
conditions. This is about to be reviewed in a major inquiry. This | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
is very difficult period ahead. We await with some trepidation the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
publication of the review. Cuts which may or may not affect | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
standards of education. Schools can make or blight the future of a | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
child. Our research body has said education in Scotland is not what | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
it should be. It says too many leave school without qualifications | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
or skill. It says an egalitarian or skill. It says an egalitarian | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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education culture is not enough. The Scottish government says the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
The Scottish government says the big picture is... There are tens of | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
thousands of Scottish pupils in thousands of good schools being | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
taught by tens of thousands of good teachers. That is the reality. We | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
could always do better. One of my big concerns his attainment at the | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
moment. No complacency. There is no one in Scottish education who is | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
complacent. A potentially tough year ahead. Centre stage - | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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standards, staffing and funding. Rural areas had been given nearly | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
�70 million to improve broadband connections. It is part of the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Government's drive to ensure that 90 % of homes and businesses have | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
access to super-fast broadband by 2015. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
A Hearts fan accused of attacking the Celtic manager at Hain Castle | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
last May has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault. -- tine Castle. | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
John Wilson will face trial later this month. This was his first | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
public court appearance. He has been in custody for more than three | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
months since he was arrested following a Hearts Celtic match. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Prosecutors said he ran onto the pitch where he was shouting and | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
swearing and made a sectarian comment. They say he lunged at Neil | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Lennon and glad -- gratin around the make. He is accused of assault | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
and breach of the peace. Prosecutors say it was aggravated | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
by racial prejudice. There were certainly sentience that night | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
between France. The assault took place in the 49th minute after the | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
second goal for Celtic. It was a 3 nil victory for Celtic. It was days | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
after police detained men for sending parcel bombs to Neil Lennon. | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
It also comes just after the government set up a joint action | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
group to tackle sectarianism in football. There was a brief | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
appearance for John Wilson today who pleaded not guilty. At eight | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
has been set for a trial on 29th August. -- a date has been set. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
The TA secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has told a | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
newspaper he was involved in the decision to close RAF Leuchars and | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
keep open an RAF Lossiemouth but only as a Treasury minister, not as | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
a Highland MP. He had been accused by Sir Menzies Campbell of | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
interfering in the process to help his own political soap -- political | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
survival. Train fares could increase by as much a six % next | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
year. First ScotRail will be allowed to put fares up by 1% above | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
inflation. ScotRail say they will decide on their new prices later | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
this year. A painting by Margaret MacDonald | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
MacIntosh has been bought by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
Art. It cost �230. It is the first of her works to be acquired by the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
National Galleries. She met her has been Charles Rennie Mackintosh | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
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where she was a student at Glasgow It weighs 8,000 tonnes and is as | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
tall as a block of flats. The middle section of the Royal Navy's | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
newest aircraft carrier today began its journey around the coast of | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
Scotland. But there is no guarantee of vessel will ever be used at sea. | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
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Friend against the Erskine Bridge the giant barge sounds its form. -- | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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framed. It is the first of two careers are built upstream at Govan. | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
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-- carriers. It is on the barge with the togs | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
alongside. Hopefully it is as straight forward. But there are | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
safe havens along the way. It will be interesting for the public to | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
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see their truck -- see the trap. These charity cyclists set off | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
today with the task of beating the barge to its destination. | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
We are very proud. We are putting the Clyde on the map again. | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
There is however uncertainty as to the ultimate fate of this | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
particular chunk of Engineering. One career is said to be mothballed | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
and another will not the sea's surface of for nine years. | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
Government ministers would give no guarantees. | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
We have still to come figure hour armed forces are for 2020. Much of | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
VAT depends on apprenticeships in 2015. -- much of that. | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
The spending review will help determine whether putting both to | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
use is a reality. A campaign are for Shetland | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
independence from Scotland found himself in handcuffs today | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
following a disagreement with the Sheriff and caught at Lerwick. He | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
challenged the jurisdiction of the court and refused to state his name. | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
The Sheriff will give his conclusions on the matter tomorrow. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Wild animals are taking over Edinburgh. The city is being | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
invaded by a life-sized animals -- models made of fibreglass and | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
decorated by scores of artist and celebrities as part of the Jungle | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
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City campaign. Comical, curious, captivating. Some of the world's | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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most endangered species transformed into campaigning hard. -- barked. - | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
- art. Created to raise awareness of the threat of extinction faced | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
by certain creatures in the wild. If you save an Apex species then | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
everything which comes after it will come together. Small pilot | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
schemes will not work. Jungle City has secured a royal | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
support in recent months. This is my humble Arena. I will be | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
very sad to let my work could go at the end. But I have had a fantastic | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
time and doing so. It is good to raise awareness of endangered | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
species. They are surviving the elements at | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens before they will be unleashed on | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
the streets next month and then sold at auction in an attempted to | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
raise as much as �1 million. The concept will then be taken | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
worldwide, combining creativity and conservation in the hope of saving | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
endangered animals in the wild. Organisers believe that it will | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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And now the sport. Scotland's rugby coach, Andy Robinson, has announced | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
his starting line-up for the final World Cup warm-up against Italy at | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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Murrayfield on Saturday. Sweeping changes are being made to the team. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
A victory over Ireland 10 days ago and Scotland's build up to the | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
World Cup appears to be going well. But on Saturday, just one of player, | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
Graham Morrison, will keep his place in the starting line up. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
He mastered the six nations are through injury so it is about | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
getting him back into the team. And number of players who were rested | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
there getting a new opportunity. It shows you the competitiveness | :19:40. | :19:50. | |
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within the squad that we can make so many changes. | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
Dan the Parkes returns. He can play in different ways. What | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
is important is that he gets the opportunity to go out and work on | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
things he has been training for. He can also bring other people into | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
the game. It is everybody's dream to go to | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
the World Cup. I have done a lot of hard work in the jam and on the | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
training field. I am hopeful things go well this week and I will get | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
there. Only 30 of four to seven squad | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
members will make the final cut, Hearts have told the BBC they have | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
paid the tax bill which threatened to send them into administration. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Motherwell's Jamie Murphy has told Scotland he is unfazed with | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
speculation linking him with a move away from a Fir Park. He has been | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
watched by English Premier League teams. His goals have helped a | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
Motherwell to the top of the SPL. Today he was promoting a mental | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
health initiative but remained relaxed about transfer of talk. | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
I pay no attention to the newspapers. I let other people | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
worry about that and focus on doing my best for Motherwell, scoring as | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
many goals as possible. Until somebody makes an offer I have no | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
decision to make. I am quite happy until that time comes. | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Scotland will have a team in the knockout stages of the Champions' | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
League - Glasgow's city around the knockout stages of the women's | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Champions League. They won their final group match against | :21:49. | :21:57. | |
opposition from the Faeroe Isles. It goes alongside a victory against | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
the Serbian Champions which included one of the best goals of | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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Now, a tasty treat. Cannibalism. A dance production at the Edinburgh | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
Fringe is taking Sawney Bean as the unlikely inspiration for a new show. | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
The creators hope to horrify a new generation with the grisly tale. | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
His story has fascinated people since the 16th century. Sawney Bean | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
and his sprawling family of cannibals who ate his said killed | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
and eight hundreds of innocent victims in Scotland. This a modern | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
twist sees them finding a new victims in their nightclubs of | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
modern Scotland. There are a lot of gaps in the | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
history. So in terms of working with the story it is very | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
interesting, theatrically, when you can hypothesise about what happened | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
in those gaps. Historians might dismiss the tail | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
as anti-Scottish propaganda but these -- those involved believe | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
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that there is still an appetite for the story. | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
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I certainly have not eaten anybody! I am not a vegetarian, however. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
The company admit that the show is not further light hearted and would | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
be to everybody's taste. It should be unnerving. We should | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
be looking at how the horror translates to the stage. But it has | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
to be entertaining and by transferring events to and | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
nightclub it should prove a roller- coaster ride and thoroughly | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
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And now the weather. The weather is not so tasty, sadly. The schools | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
are going back so it feels like the end of summer and with the rain | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
that only adds to it. This band of rain will push through the country. | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
This evening and overnight it will continue its journey northwards. We | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
can see that band of rain which is gradually pushing into the North | :24:54. | :25:03. | |
Sea overnight. Most places will be contrived. -- become dry. It will | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
turn a little bit chilly. Temperatures dipping 27 Celsius. | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
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Milder around the coast, ten Celsius. -- dipping 27 Celsius. -- | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
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dipping to 7 Celsius. Tomorrow, cooler further north. In Shetland, | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
slightly wet. They must do the rain today but will not tomorrow. -- | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
missed. Through the central belt is where we will see the top | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
temperatures of around 18 Celsius. Tomorrow evening, we will keep hold | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
of the showers but many places will become drive. Into Thursday, the | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
same mixture of a sunny spells and showers. Especially in the north of | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
the country where the rain will be a little bit heavier. Friday, a dry, | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
with good sunny spells. For the rest of the week, how is it | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
looking? A mixture of sun and rain. A little bit more like the typical | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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The top stories: shell claimed they have discovered a second leak from | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
their or oil platform in the North Sea. The company admitted yesterday | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
that more than 200 tonnes of oil have escaped. There is still | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
criticism that the company should have been more open about the | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
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A letter written by the former News of the world's royal editor claims | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
that phone hacking was widely The Scottish Government have set | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
out plans to take controls of corporation tax. John Swinney | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
claims it would stimulate investment. But Labour claimed that | :27:15. | :27:24. | |
Police in England and Wales may be given further powers to prevent | :27:24. | :27:28. |