28/03/2014 Reporting Scotland


28/03/2014

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Am Good evening. It's four months to the day since a

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police helicopter crashed on to the roof of the Clutha Bar in Glasgow,

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killing ten people. Tomorrow a memorial service will be held at St

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Andrews Cathedral. Some of those who were there have been telling Aileen

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Clarke what they remember. On the last Friday of every month these

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friends would meet up in the Clutha Bar to enjoy each other's company

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and listen to the band. They remembered Friday the 29th of

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November. Their train was late so I ended up sitting in the station

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waiting for them so when we got into the pub we were three quarters of an

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hour later than normal so the corner we usually student was occupied so

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we ended up standing at the door. If we had been any other corner we

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would all have walked out, simple as that. Joe was standing right next to

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me. I turned away from him to talk to Callum. Then it all went black.

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There was dust everywhere. Next thing we knew we were trapped. We

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could not move her legs. I look to my left and I could not see. Our

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friends were standing there one moment laughing and joking and then

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there was nothing. There was silence. We kept seeing, where was

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Joe. I got out and someone said a helicopter has hit the pub, I

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thought it was a bomb. Could you take in that information that a

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helicopter had hit the pub? Now, we were standing looking at it we could

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see the rotor was sticking in the roof but we still could not

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understand it. It was too surreal. Amongst that group, Joe Cusker was a

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particular friend? Yes, I knew Joe from school. We were very close. He

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brightened up any company. He was a great person. He drank gin with one

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bottle of tonic all night. He was a great sky. Losing Joe was awful. It

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was horrendous. You are all still carrying injuries from that night.

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Yes, I fit blinds and I can't... He cannot use his left hand. Are you

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going to manage keep the last Friday of the month club going? Yes, we

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cannot wait to get back. We want to make sure we keep this going by

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yourselves, but as a memorial as well to Joe. The first night will be

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very emotional but we are determined to go through with it. Whenever we

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meet, we will always have a toast to Joe.

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A report in the Guardian tonight suggests the UK Government would

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share the pound with an independent Scotland - despite insisting

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publicly that it would not. The newspaper quotes an unnamed UK

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government minister as saying "of course there would be a currency

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union." Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it could only add to

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the sense of crisis engulfing the No campaign. The Scottish Secretary,

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Alistair Carmichael, dismissed the report.

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The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, has compared the SNP's desire

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for Scottish independence with UKIP's plan to take Britain out of

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the European Union. Addressing his Scottish party conference in

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Aberdeen, he said both parties wanted to, as he put it, "break

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apart" established partnerships between nations. Here's our

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political correspondent, Glenn Campbell.

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The trouble with dinosaurs is the art extinct. The Lib Dems don't want

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their record in government to do for them at the next election or to lose

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votes for the union in the independence referendum. Willie

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Rennie has a sunshine strategy to remain positive. We need to make

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sure we emphasise the positive. We have to emphasise the great unions

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we have across the United union, the research union between our

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universities, these are great things. The message of Nick Clegg

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seem to be, I agree with Willie Rennie. It is right that we explain

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the risks and consequences of Scotland voting to leave the union,

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we must also set out the opportunities of voting to stay. The

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prospect of remaining in the United Kingdom must be just as thrilling as

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the drama of leaving it. He favours further devolution if there is a no

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vote, but fresh from his debate with the UKIP leader, he could not resist

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seeking a parallel with the SNP. They both represent the same impulse

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to break apart. It is irresponsible to sow division and build walls

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between nations and communities. The Lib Dems want Scotland in Britain

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and Britain in the European Union but because they are in power in

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Westminster at a time of relative austerity, they know that does not

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make them the most popular party in Scottish politics. Here in Aberdeen

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the Scottish Lib Dem leader has called for the bedroom tax to be

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scrapped. Lib Dem ministers have hinted they will hand Holyrood more

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power to offset the impact. For the Yes Campaign, chief

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executive Blair Jenkins said he believed many Liberal Democrats in

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Scotland were now recognising the benefits of independence. I think a

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lot of people in the Liberal Democrats will be reappraising no, I

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reading up on the wrong side of this debate? I do believe most people on

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the Lib Dems in Scotland want a different society with different

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values which is currently different from what is being reflected in the

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conservative coalition. That is unhappiness in their ranks in the

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Liberal Democrats in Scotland. Here's Kirsteen now with the weekend

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weather outlook. That's Reporting Scotland. Thank you

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very much. Much of Scotland looks cloudy, the one exception is the

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north-west Highlands. We start the day on a cloudy note tomorrow with

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some rain around for a time. That's readable gradually diets. It will

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remain cloudy in the East. -- that rain will gradually die out. Best of

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the weather in the south-west, into the north-west and the Inverness

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area with highs of 14 Celsius. The clocks go forward by one hour

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tomorrow night. Thank you very much. the weekend. The clocks do go

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forward on Saturday night. Now here is Nick Miller with the national

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forecast. Hello. The clocks go forward this

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weekend, marking the beginning of British summertime, BST. It has

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nothing to do with the weather. As the clocks changed last year we were

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coming out of the March freeze. This year, though, as the clucks

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change, the weather is warming

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