27/02/2014 Reporting Scotland

Tonight, and independents warning from one of Scotland's biggest

financial companies. Standard Life says it might move some of its

operations out of the country in the event of a yes vote.

We will have analysis from our business and political editor. Also

in the programme, the controversial scrapping of cooperation in criminal

trials moves a step closer after MS please reject the bid to keep it.

After months of rain and flooding it is official, it has been the wettest

winter on record stop we hear from the woman who nearly died after

being gored by a stag. I am very lucky I can talk the talk,

walk at all. A fan's revolution at Rangers. They

want to take control of the board and put Dave: -- Dave King at the

helm. Good evening. One of Scotland's

biggest finance companies have said it could leave the country if there

is a yes vote in the independence referendum. Standard Life is making

contingency arrangements to move south of the border because of the

uncertainty surrounding the decision. The Scottish cup and says

there will be no need for businesses to relocate. Two-day's statement

sparked heated exchanges at the Holyrood parliament.

Standard Life has corporate cloud, it has become the standard bearer

for footage finance. It employs 5000 Scots and manages 244 billion

pounds. While neutral on the vote this man want to day he may move

staff out of Scotland if there is a yes vote.

The concerns here start with the currency Scotland would use,

financial regulation, the taxation system. Concern also for pensions

for high earners and clear access into European markets. With these

uncertainty the company is taking precautions. The statement said...

Standard Life doing what they have always been clear they will always

do, putting their customers first and the interest of their customers

first. They are being realistic about the impact of some of the

uncertainties that come from the referendum process.

Royal Bank of Scotland is also looking at the risks it could face

from changing currency and radiation as well as credit ratings, saying

there could be prolonged uncertainty.

The ratings agency said the challenges facing an independent

Scotland would be significant but not on Sevastopol -- unsurpassable

we may have to put contingency plans in place to make sure they can

continue as normal, whatever the outcome.

Standard Life have made a bold decision. Other companies are having

the same conversations. How does this affect the debate on

Scotland's future? Jobs are hard to get anyway. If all

the jobs are going to go down south, you might not have your job to go

to. It is quite crushing to the

estimate, the companies will only do what is best for them, and what is

best for Scotland. It will make people think about it,

if that is one company, and more thinking the same way.

Businesses don't have votes but lots of workers vote for them.

Douglas is with us now as is our political editor. How has this gone

down politically? There was a huge argument at

Holyrood, there were answers in place, shared currency, shared

regulation. If Scotland leads the UK, jobs leave Scotland. She ditched

her argument by rewriting a proclaimers song.

If there is a yes vote, isn't it the case we will need to rewrite the

song, Standard Life, no more, RBS, no more, shipbuilding, no more. The

Scotland we love and fight for, no more. And all for Alex Salmond, a

price worth paying. We have seen through the scaremongering. If we

hadn't seen through it we would have this Parliament. Scotland will go on

to prosperity and more equality through an independent Scotland. It

will not be the business, no more, it will be Labour, no more.

Is there any way this can be resolved first remark -- resolved?

For now it is stalemate, it is a war of attrition. Alex Salmond is

stressing in his fiscal commission their answers such as a currency

unit that will offer the assurances that Standard Life are seeking.

There is the quandary he faces, for those to be implemented, it requires

the intervention of the other party, the UK government, and it is not in

their interest, it is in their interest to turn down his request

for now, at least up until that referendum. Why? They want to

increase out, the prospect of there being a no vote in the referendum .

Why have Standard Life played this card so publicly, and can we expect

more announcements? It is not because companies like

this one in Edinburgh want to get involved in the political maelstrom

of the debate about Scotland's future, they have a responsibility

to set out the risks they face, and to reassure shareholders as well as

customers about any concerns they have got. These companies have a

long list of risks, and those associated with Scottish in the

release of them. For the yes campaign is good news, if the polls

are narrowing business will engage more about the possibilities of

independence so they will be taken more seriously, but it is not so

good Standard Life is a big player in Edinburgh, it is rooted in

Scottish economy, its advice is widely respected, and it has

concerns which will be heard throughout the financial sector and

beyond. The abolition of a long-standing

principle of corroboration in Scots law has come a step closer despite

an attempt to block the controversial proposal, the Scottish

government has narrowly won a vote to press ahead with reform.

Abolishing corroboration will and the requirement for evidence to come

from at least two sources incremental cases for top ash max

and requirement. Please gathered evidence from more

than one source, because only with his corroboration will any case gets

to court. The government says it is a barrier to justice in many cases

of sexual crime and domestic violence. Victims groups, the peace

and prosecutors agree, the wider legal establishment does not. They

want to keep corroboration as a safeguard against wrongful

conviction. The government has appointed former judge Lord upon me

to see what alternative safeguards might be needed. Opposition MSPs so

they shouldn't be asked to vote on corroboration before he has

reported. The Cabinet Secretary is asking us if they should put his

plans out to tender now, ask members to write a blank cheque, with a

promise they will receive the goods sometime in the future. The justice

secretary says they will be able to consider and act on the report

before corroboration goes. And he urged MSPs to back reform. We cannot

have those who suffer from rape or sexual offences, those who suffered

domestic abuse behind closed doors, those who are young, vulnerable,

elderly, preyed upon, picked up on, and be routinely denied access to

justice. He once passionate support. Do what

is morally right to ensure justice and this is morally right.

Critics say removing corroboration could make matters worse. More

prosecutions are not the same as more convictions, and there is

nothing just inputting victims through the ordeal of gruelling

interrogation, by the defence. It was a close vote. Yes, 61, no,

64. In the end the justice secretary has

managed to keep the abolition of corroboration in the bill at this

stage. There is a further fight to come when the legislation goes back

to Hollywood's Justice committee where there may well be an attempt

to remove it. The Royal Bank of Scotland has

announced pre-tax losses of ?8.2 billion for last year. Despite the

fall, the bank which is 80% owned by the taxpayer has revealed it has set

aside ?576 million for staff bonuses.

It is a big loss, will this mean branch closures?

It seems like they will be continuing down the line, moving

from the idea of bigger and better as a bank, to the new motto which

are smaller and simpler. People are doing banking on their phones, it

will see more closures. The good news is the daily business of the

bank was still profitable, the day-to-day high-street banking, it

was big fines, big debt write-offs the bank had to do so the debt was

so huge and the losses so huge at the end of the day for stop what

about staff? Huge implications, 11 South and --

11,000 staff employed in Scotland. They have been worried about rumours

of staff losses. Today we had confirmation of that.

It is very clear that business costs are far too high. We are still

looking as though we are an organisation that is a global unit

and we have disparate aspirations. They haven't said where the job cuts

are going to take place, they have given some assurance to staff saying

they will be consulted first. You watching Reporting Scotland,

still to come, the woman who was gored by a charging stand says she

is lucky to be alive for top Rangers supporters groups one former

director Dave King to lead a fan -based takeover.

Scotland's Welch and the inbox gets up close to the man who once his

title. -- world champion boxer. This may not come as much of a

surprise, but Scotland, along with the rest of the UK, has had its

wettest winter on record. Figures from last December show an average

rainfall across Scotland of just under 70 centimetres. That is the

most since records began in 1910, and nearly five centimetres more

than the last wettest winter in 1995 when nearly 55 centimetres was

recorded. There has been a wide variation across the country, in the

far north and on the Moray coast, it has been much drier than average. In

places like Angus, Aberdeenshire and Borders, there has been more than

twice much rain than usual. That has also been the case for Dumfries and

Galloway. A dramatic end to 2013 for this

family. Airlifted to safety when floodwaters surrounded and entered

their farmhouse. It was the area's worst day of rainfall this winter,

out of many. That WH bought the river to its

highest ever recorded level, and washed away this 30 metre length of

the levy of flood barrier. It allowed the water to gush down the

valley towards the farm, cutting it off completely. With Sam and his

foretold an inside. -- for children. Months and the effect is being felt.

He lost three of his 50 sheep in the flood water, a further 21 have died

since. Cause unknown, but some kind of contamination suspected for stop

carpets and furniture need replaced. Erosion which caused this needs to

be fixed. A constant reminder it could easily happen again.

Terrifying to know how quickly something that this can happen. It

is a learning curve for pretty much everybody now. And may happen more

often? It could very well happen more often. A this family just once

the sun to shine. A 62-year-old oil worker has died after falling into

the water from a North Sea platform. He fell during overnight maintenance

work from Taqa's Harding platform, about 200 miles north east of

Aberdeen. The casualty was airlifted to hospital in Shetland but couldn't

be saved. The company says it's trying to establish the cause of the

incident, and police have flown out. A look at some other stories. A

petition with 3500 signatures has been handed to MPs calling for

improvements to offshore helicopter skiing today -- helicopter safety.

The way that South Ayrshire Council is run has been heavily criticised.

If not addressed, issues would jeopardise public confidence. A

horse has been removed from a house on the Isle of Lewis. The owner

insisted that the horse was perfectly happy but authorities

insisted they had removed the pony on grounds of animal welfare. I said

where is my pony? My first reaction, apart from a sigh and a

gut feeling was could they not have knocked on my door first and said

they were going to take the pony? A woman gored by a charging stag while

on holiday in the Highlands says she is lucky to be alive. Dr Kate Stone

was hit by the animal last December while out with friends. The stag's

antlers damaged her vocal cords and fractured her neck, before hitting

her spine. Two months later she is still recovering, as Craig Anderson

reports. Convalescing at her sister's home, Kate Stone is still

being fed through a nasogastric tube. It was here in Lochailort that

a stag trapped in a garden rushed through a gate to escape. I just

felt a massive thud, and then a second thud and then I was on the

ground. I knew I had been hit by an animal and I knew that my neck was

in a very bad way. It was quite scary. She was flown to hospital in

Glasgow and kept in an induced coma. The scientists runs a printing firm

in Cambridge she was kept in a coma. The antler has gone through my

trachea, my oesophagus, damaged my vocal cords, fractured my neck and

went into my spine. I'm told it stopped just a few millimetres

before my spinal-cord. That is why I am very lucky that I can talk at

all, walk at all. You're lucky to be alive? I am totally lucky to be

alive. If the Anglo Sikh punctured her neck slightly to the

left-to-right, she would have bled to death. But she remains

philosophical. Life is short and that at any moment something can

happen to us. Something I have felt for quite a while. I always thought

it would be a car accident, a stag accident is much more my style.

Craig Anderson reporting on Dr Kate Stone. Now let's find out what's

happening at the sports desk. Rangers supporters groups say they

want to take control of the board, and put former director Dave King at

the helm. Fans groups have unified to back King after he called for

them to withhold season ticket money, unless the current board

meets a series of demands. Jonathan Sutherland reports. Rangers fan

groups have united behind the former director Dave King and the message

is clear that the fans have run out of patience. They do not want to

have dialogue and know we're talking about money and they must listen to

us now. War has broken out for the control of Rangers. Fans groups have

joined forces and stand against the current board. They would prefer

current director Dave King to be running the show here at Ibrox. They

have backed Dave King's plan. Essentially, the fans want to regain

control of the club with Dave King leading the way. We have to consider

why we should continue to hand money to a board which seems to waste any

revenue that we generate. Once again the wranglings at Rangers refused to

go away. Ricky Burns' team is rubbishing claims their man's a

third rate boxer- calling the man who wants to take his world title

from him a "typical brash American." Burns and Terence Crawford came

face-to-face today ahead of their fight this weekend. Our reporter

Phil Goodlad was there. Temp two -- Ricky Burns does not seem phased but

his trainer does. The open their mouths and let the tummy rumble. I

confident you will be the champion? Yes. It does feel as a Scottish

boxing has been here before. In 1980, a confident young American

arrives in Glasgow saying he will beat the reigning Scottish

champion. Jim Watt had other ideas. I was really pumped up and Ricky

Burns will have to be the same. Ricky Burns admits it will not be

easy. I would say this will be the most difficult fight of my career

but I cannot wait to get in there. Now, a look at what else is

happening across Scottish sport. St Mirren manager Danny Lennon has

apologised to his opposite number at Ross County Derek Adams - for his

part in their touchline spat at the weekend. Both men face an SFA

disciplinary hearing after being sent to the stand. Inverness-based

Orion Engineering won't be renewing its shirt sponsorship of Inverness

Caledonian Thistle when the current deal finishes at the end of the

season. After beating Porto's Yaow So-sa in straight sets Andy Murray

will play Gilles Simon of France in the quarter finals of the Mexico

Open. They're on court early tomorrow morning. This is England's

Simon Dyson, he leads the Shwane open golf in Souh Africa. Jack

Docherty and Peter Whiteford are the leading Scots on three-under-par,

four shots behind Dyson of England. Scotland's record points scorer

Chris Patterson's taking part in a Scottish Rugby Union survey into

concussion. Other ex-internationals are being encouraged to help uncover

potential links with psychological and physical problems. Not the

greatest dancer - especially in slow motion - but he's the fastest rugby

player on the planet. Glasgow Warriors have signed him. The USA's

Carlin Isles runs the 100 metres in 10.13 seconds. And you can take as

much time as you like to read about Carlton and all the latest sports

stories whenever you like on the BBC Sport Scotland website.

Now, running a farm's a tough enough job, but how do you manage when

you're also a best-selling crime writer? That's the challenge facing

Fife farmer James Oswald whose third "Inspector McLean" novel is

published today. Andrew Anderson has been to meet him. For James Oswald,

running his own farm and writing his novels go together. 50 shades of

hay. Last year, Penguin released his first two Inspector McLean novels.

It has been a roller-coaster ride. This is the third book coming out

and it is not quite a year since the first one came out. I have done

publishing deals with Penguin and it is relentless but it is brilliant.

When he is not taping at the computer, James Oswald is looking

after his cattle and sheep. I get a lot less sleep than I had before but

we are touring down the farming a bit and I can afford to employ

people to help out at busy times so we manage that I like being busy and

I would rather be busy than not. At a Dundee book shop, James is signing

copies of his latest book. Another three will be out by the end of the

year. It is a double life for this farmer and crime writer but it is

harvesting rich rewards. No further weather.

The weather will be unsettled over the next few days but nothing on the

scale of what has resulted in Scotland seeing its wettest winter

on record. Tonight we will see deals show is confined to western coastal

areas. Elsewhere it will be dry and there will be up across the Rhine

for western and eastern areas. There will be a case perhaps in the West

where we have seen some showers today. It will be a fairly cold

night to come with temperatures around one degree or two Celsius.

When this will be light. -- winds will be light. Tomorrow we will

return to what we have seen of the last few days, a mixture of sunshine

and showers. Tomorrow afternoon, we will see heavy showers across the

Northern Isles and brisk winds. Similar situations will develop

across the North West. Perhaps some showers will move on towards Central

Scotland tomorrow afternoon and the best of the dry and bright weather

with sunshine will be an eastern areas with highs of around nine

Celsius. The wind will generally be light. As we move into Friday

evening it will be dry with the threat of a widespread frost. On

Saturday, when it is daylight we expect it to stay dry and fairly

settled but we're looking at this weather front which is set to move

on to our shores later. On Saturday there will be a lot of dry and

bright weather with some showers moving into the south and west with

rain later. Now, a reminder of tonight's main

news. There have been heated exchanges in Holyrood after Standard

Life said it could leave the country if there's a yes vote in the

independence referendum. The Scottish Government says there will

be no need for businesses to relocate. And that's Reporting

Scotland. I'll be back with the headlines at 8pm and the late

bulletin just after the ten o'clock