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Campaigners against independence deny they're in | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Salmond says Better Together are in a state of "total disintegration". | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The saltire has been raised above Downing Street. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Tomorrow, David Cameron, Ed Milliband and Nick Clegg are making | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
In a live interview, I'll ask Alistair Darling why support for | :00:25. | :00:36. | |
We find out what rural communities think of the campaign. | :00:37. | :00:49. | |
We'll have the latest on the referendum campaign | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
And also tonight, after defeat in Medinah, the US Team | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
say they aim to get even and reclaim the famous trophy as Gleneagles | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
David Cameron and Ed Miliband are to miss their weekly clash at | :00:58. | :01:14. | |
Prime Minister's Questions to travel to Scotland tomorrow to campaign | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
for a no vote in the independence referendum. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
They'll be joined by the Deputy Prime minister Nick Clegg | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
as the leaders of the three main UK parties pledge to do all they can to | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
The announcement came as Alex Salmond said the | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Better Together campaign was in a state of "total disintegration". | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Here's our political editor Brian Taylor. | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
Symbols matter. So today the sole tyre was raised over Downing | :01:46. | :01:57. | |
Street... Only to fall down. As number ten told Scotland to stay | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
under the union fight. I want to do everything I can to put | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
arguments in front of the people. I want Scotland to know that the rest | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
of the United Kingdom wants them to stay. | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Also Scotland bound, Ed Miliband. Today he was in Liverpool. Nick | :02:19. | :02:28. | |
Clegg will complete the trio. Panic? Perish the thought save the Unionist | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
leaders in Scotland. All offering a timetable for more powers which they | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
claim will definitely protect the NHS. They say that their endeavour | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
means more cloud for the Scottish Government who ever wins the next UK | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
election. We have had enough of our commitment | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
to being rubbished by the SNP. They cannot answer simple questions and | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
the risk to peoples jobs. The point is that whatever happens I will | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
fight with every fibre of my being to ensure that what happens will be | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
more powers for the Scottish parliament. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Alex Salmond says that however you spell it out, yes is the better | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
option, much more to Scotland's taste. On the NHS he says that Scott | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
needs full financial control -- Scotland. He says that the Unionists | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
are driven by desperation. This is a repackaging of what they | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
said in the spring. People have passed the verdict on that, it is | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
inadequate, not enough. It does not approach what Scotland needs to | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
create jobs, protect the health service, told a better society. It | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
is the day that the No campaign fell apart at the seams. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
So, what difference does a timetable for more devolution make to the | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :04:03. | :04:12. | |
24 hours ago it was Gordon Brown's timetable. Now all the Unionist | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
parties call their own. They say that if we vote now they will start | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
work on more devolution. With a progress report by October. Broad | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
agreement and a White Paper by the end of November and draft | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
legislation towards the end of January. This former top civil | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
servant says is a tight timetable. It is a demanding timetable which | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
takes until the end of January to give the timetable to produce extra | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
powers. That is hard work and challenging but it is deliverable. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
Everybody who has waited for a boss knows that timetables are subject to | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
change but the prounion parties say they are determined to reach | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
agreement on exactly what powers they will deliver to the Scottish | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
parliament in order to make sure that the new schedule does not slip. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
The Scottish trades union Congress thinks that the Unionist parties are | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
already playing catch up. For this to happen in the last few | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
days of the campaign in reaction to polls devalues the process and the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
proposals being made. This think tank boss helped produce | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
a detailed plan for further devolution she tried to persuade the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Unionist parties to unite behind before the vote. -- which he. | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
There has been an arrogance, saying, we will win this anyway, we don't | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
promise you anything, we will just be very negative, and then once we | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
have one, we are in charge, we decide what we give. They have | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
suddenly had a wake-up call. They could lose this. Now they realise | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
that it was a mistake not to set out a comprehensive set of powers | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
beforehand. Laura McConnell says that the new | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
timetable may not be enough to event a Yes vote. Lord. The Labour First | :06:23. | :06:41. | |
Minister of Wales also want a redesign of the UK. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
We need to make the method and structure the same in Scotland, | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Unionist parties have different | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
ideas about where we might end up. On income tax for instance, would we | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
have the full devolution proposed by the Conservatives and the Liberal | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Democrats or opt to 15p on the basic rate as proposed by Labour, with the | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
power to raise the upper rate? Or might you end up with a compromise | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
in between? That is why the Yes campaign argue | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
that only a vote for independence guarantees the transfer of power | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
from Westminster to Holyrood. Well I'm joined now from | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Downing Street by our Westminster An unprecedented move by the three | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
UK political leaders David, A growing sense that politics as | :07:35. | :07:52. | |
normal has been suspended because the Scottish question is seen as so | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
important. Normally Prime Minister's Question Time is the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
highlight of the Westminster week, yesterday we were assured that David | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Cameron would not visit Scotland this week, then there were talks | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
between David Cameron and Ed Miliband and it was decided that | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
they and Nick Clegg should travel to Scotland to campaign. They will have | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
a core message, we want you to stay. There is a change in tactics, it is | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
becoming more emotional, less economic and technocratic. They are | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
trying to push emotional buttons. Claiming that they recognise there | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
will be change but that a No vote is not a vote for no change. It is | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
interesting that the Scottish flag is about Downing Street tonight. The | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
SNP say they like to see it fly, as far as the UK parties are concerned, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
the No campaign is in utter panic and the meltdown. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Edinburgh - what will be the impact here of this campaigning trio? | :08:57. | :09:08. | |
It is intriguing to speculate as to the impact. That is down to the | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
voters. But think of the motivation. Politicians blithely usher us they | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
pay little attention to opinion polls, -- is -- assure us. David was | :09:21. | :09:39. | |
talking about the emotional pitch. There was some stuff about the head | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
as well. They are stressing the risks they believe will because I | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
independence. And also an offer, to give more powers to the Scottish | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Parliament, particularly in tax. They are recalibrating, and talking | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
up the impact of the offer. They are not stressing, or setting out the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
details of any new powers. But they are trying to say that it is | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
guaranteed because there is a timetable. Does that mean that | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
claims of risk have gone? They have not. They will return. But for now | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
they feel that the situation sufficiently grave for their | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
campaign that they must accentuate the positive. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
We heard Alex Salmond claimed that they are falling apart at the seams. | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
Are they in real trouble? From the polls, it would seem that | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
they are losing or have lost the ground they had. They had Dave early | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
substantial lead. -- a fairly substantial. It has evaporated | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
entirely to the point but a recent poll suggests they are neck and | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
neck. Boy, will this be some campaign for the final week. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Well I'm joined now by the leader of Better Together Alistair Darling. | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
You were last on the programme a couple of weeks ago perceived as | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
having won the first head to head the debate. You were ahead in the | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
polls. Now your campaign is accused of falling apart at the seams. What | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
went wrong? Alex Salmond would say that, | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
wouldn't he? I have always said the polls would narrow as we got towards | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
the date. This is the biggest decision many of us will take, about | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
our children and generations to come. What is important, certainly | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
today, is the fact that we can offer a different vision to separation and | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
raking up, one where you have a strong Scottish parliament with more | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
powers, and a specific timetable, when we will have agreed | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
legislation, ready to go when the statute book, meaning greater | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
control over Scotland's financial affairs. It would be able to decide | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
how much it spent on the health service. It does not matter what is | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
happening elsewhere in the United Kingdom. We would have control. | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
These are proposals that have still to be agreed. | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
But you have a commitment from three parties in broadly the same | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
position. Otherwise we have years of wrangling and not knowing what is | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
going on. Look at what is happening with the turmoil in the markets | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
because of uncertainty. We can offer the certainty of change within the | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
United Kingdom where you have that security, the opportunities that | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
come from that, and you avoid uncertainty and wrangling, which | :13:15. | :13:26. | |
will be damaging to job prospects. Let's assume you do all come | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
together and agree. Let's call them devolution max. That is something to | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
which the coalition and the Better Together group, to which you have | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
belonged all along, ruled out. Now you are suggesting that instead of | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
voting yes, you offer devolution max! | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
I said we could have the best of both worlds within the United | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
Kingdom and the strength and the opportunities being in something | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
bigger. But the first question is are we staying or going? If we go a | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
whole different ball game arises. If we stay then we have always said | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
that what we want is to strengthen the Scottish Parliament. A Labour | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
government legislated to set it up and extended to those powers, we | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
want to go further. What you will have in a few months time as | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
legislation giving the Scottish Parliament more powers, over health, | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
which has been an issue for the last few weeks, and nobody can tell us | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
what to do with health, totally within our control. That is what | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
most federal governments in Western Europe... | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Is it not a mark of the disarray you are in that today, Nicola Sturgeon | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
of the Yes campaign is talking to voters about poverty, and you are | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
talking about processes. There is a sense of panic and you must surely | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
accept that. She cut college places from people | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
in poor backgrounds. This SNP government has taken ?1 million out | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
of poverty programmes. We are talking about substantial change. | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Change of substance. Most people in Scotland want the jobs that come | :15:39. | :15:48. | |
from being part of the UK. We have been talking about the things that | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
matter to voters. And we're also talking the risks. We answered the | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
questions people ask us. They still can't tell us how to provide when | :15:59. | :16:12. | |
relying on volatile oil. Why do you think the markets are jittery? They | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
don't understand anything that is going on here. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Why was this announcement only made yesterday by Gordon Brown, and not | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
you? This is a man with whom you have had, let's just say, a | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
challenging relationship, and perceived as one of the most | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
unpopular prime ministers the UK has ever had. And who has not played a | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
role in domestic politics for some time. Again, it points back to a | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
sense of disarray, desperation, let's call on whoever we can, with | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
whatever we can. Gordon has been making speeches for | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
over a year now. Arguing a powerful case for something he was writing | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
about 30 years ago when other people thought, it doesn't really matter. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
He is formidable and I know that having worked with him for many | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
years. But the answer to your question is that ever since the | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
party published its proposals people ask me, how can you be sure they | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
will be delivered? We can now show the process. It will start in just | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
over ten days and by next January result in legislation on the statute | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
book. Is it not better to have a Scottish parliament with control | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
over taxation and welfare so it can repeal the bedroom tax, in the | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
months? Because it will take years to this and tangle the UK. -- | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
disentangle. What do you think will happen to jobs? We have seen the | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
damage done to the economy by the fall in share price, the fall in the | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
pound. We need to avoid risks. We need to jobs that matter to the | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
future of Scotland. If it is that vital, it must be | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
pretty uncomfortable for you that one of the weakest tasks Better | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
Together faces is to win back a swathe of Labour voters. -- bigger | :18:27. | :18:41. | |
tasks. It is my job to win over as many as | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
possible. I am confident we will win. In all my experience I believe | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
we will win. But I have always said that in an issue like this where | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
people are genuinely agonising... I spoke to someone who switch from no | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
to yes and back to now again, they are genuinely agonising. What we | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
decide when we go into the polling station, when we mark our cross on | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
the ballot paper, it is for our children and the generations to | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
come. You cannot just click the government in the teeth. -- kick. We | :19:23. | :19:35. | |
will also get the advantages and the security of being part of something | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
bigger. But this is not where you wanted to | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
be at this stage or were you thought you would be. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
I said when somebody asked me, take the polls with a pinch of salt. I | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
always thought it would get closer. I am confident we will win. We can | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
show Scotland we have a better vision of what Scotland can be, we | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
can do it faster, and in a more secure way. | :20:07. | :20:20. | |
Tomorrow, the First Minister will be here to talk to us about his hopes | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
for a Yes vote on September the 18th. | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
Well let's go now to our Referendum Correspondent who's with | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
a group of undecided voters in a pub in Cupar in Fife. | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
These are undecided voters who were just listening. What did you think? | :20:38. | :20:51. | |
I like the idea of what Alex Salmond is saying. But I would rather have | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
a, this is definitely going to happen. I could not really hear what | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
he was saying very well. But I think that definitely needs to be more | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
facts involved. They have said, look, there is a | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
timetable. Because now they know what people | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
want. But there needs to be definites. I don't like this, we | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
might do this, might do that. What goes through your mind and | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
trying to make a decision? I dry not to think of the | :21:34. | :21:51. | |
politicians involved. I like to think that I will just do it on the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
day and just... What about yourself? | :21:56. | :21:56. | |
I am just worried about my job with the NHS at the end of the day. Is it | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
just scaremongering? On both sides? | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
It is up for grabs. Is that the first thing on your mind | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
when you go to the polling station on September 18? | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
And my pension. We have to live longer for them. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
You sound like you're leaning towards a No vote. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
Could be, but there is all sorts as well. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
But you lean towards a yes? Slightly. I wish that Gordon Brown | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
and Alistair Darling changed tactics. Rather than all of these | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
skill stories about pensions, jobs, etc. -- scare stories. You need to | :22:43. | :22:52. | |
think of future generations. Should they be ruled by someone from | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
Buckingham Shire of Oxford Shire? You need to bring your own | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
parliament to your own country. You have all still got to make up | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
your mind, certainly when it comes to the polls... | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
It will be last-minute. Yes, a last-minute decision. We will be | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
back here to tell you more about what has happened on the campaign | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
trail here. The hotly contested issue | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
of currency returned today with the Governor of the Bank of | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
England Mark Carney telling the TUC conference that a currency union | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
would be incompatible with I'm joined by the BBC's | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
economics editor Robert Peston. Robert, the governor has hinted | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
at this before, how significant is Certainly so close to the vote it is | :23:31. | :23:46. | |
significant. But it is a slightly odd thing he said. He did not save | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
the independence of Scotland, he said, sovereignty. He said currency | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
union is incompatible with sovereignty. Some would say that if | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
you look at, for example, the Eurozone, Germany still remains a | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
sovereign nation even though it is in a currency union. What the | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
governor is hinting at is that in order for a currency union to work a | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
nation has to give up an enormous amount sovereignty, for example it | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
absolute control over budget making, taxing, spending, borrowing. So what | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
he is hinting at, is that if Scotland were to go independent and | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
enter into a currency union with the rest of the UK, Westminster would | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
and that Scotland give up so much of its ability that it would not | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
properly be independent, but even saying that in a curious sort of way | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
is a bit order for the bank of England because the parties have | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
said, it is not a runner. We will not the man that Scotland gives up | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
powers, because we don't want the union. So it was an awed | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
intervention. But when you get rid of all the oddity, it does appear to | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
be, in a rather complicated manner, the governor lining up alongside the | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
Unionist leaders. Thank you very much. | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
The share prices of some Scottish based companies which fell | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
in trading yesterday have shown signs of recovery. | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking group both made gains | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
after seeing their value slip after opinion polls suggested | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
a surge in the yes vote in the referendum campaign. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
Elsewhere on the campaign trail today, attention has been centred | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
on what independence might do for some of the most disenfranchised | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
The deputy first minister was in one of Labour's heartlands - | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
trying to persuade voters that independence would help to reduce | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
Our political correspondent Tim Reid has been finding out. | :25:59. | :26:08. | |
It has been the focus of many a campaign over the decades. | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
Easterhouse on the outskirts of Glasgow. Long classed as an area of | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
deprivation though it has seen some investment in recent years. Today, a | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
warmer welcome to the area from anti-poverty campaigner, Bob | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Hallman, a lifelong Labour member, he will vote yes mixed those day | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
because he believes that independence is the only way to | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
improve the social problems here. Things will get worse here for the | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
poor. In my view this can only be changed when we have a government | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
independent of the wealthy House of Commons, where MPs are just about to | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
get another large pay rise. Over a decade ago and Bob met | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
another senior politician on a visit here. Iain Duncan Smith was then the | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
Conservative leader and is now Work and Pensions Secretary. | :27:05. | :27:14. | |
How do you like it? Rubbish. It is a shambles. | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
That local resident has since been rehoused. Visiting today, a | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
politician be very different issue. How persuasive when the items? -- | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
argument? I am scared that we will fall on our | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
faces and look back to England again and they will knock us back. | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
Are you undecided? Me and my wife are voting no. | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
But those who advocate independence insist that Westminster has failed | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
poor families hit by reforms. We take power and resources into our | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
own hands so we can tackle the problem of poverty. We will not be | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
eradicated overnight, this is not a panacea, but it equips us with the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
powers needed to make a difference. It is traditional Labour territories | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
like this one where the voters are but campaigns need to attract. | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
Polling evidence is suggesting that Labour voters are swinging to the | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
Yes campaign, but people who have never voted at all could also prove | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
crucial. Do you know how you will vote? | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
Even if I did, I would not tell you! The No campaign claim that tackling | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
poverty needs perseverance, not independence. A tricky issue no | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
matter what ever the vote next week. Still to come in this extended | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
edition of the programme: What both sides have two say about plans for | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
childcare. And we return to Fife to find out what impact the campaign | :29:03. | :29:04. | |
has had on rural communities. Police are hunting two men who raped | :29:05. | :29:13. | |
a 32-year-old woman The woman had travelled to the area | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
from Glasgow city centre on Sunday Two of them attacked her | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
on the canal path, The victim went to a nearby shop | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
and police were called. She suffered minor injuries | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
but declined medical help. Rangers have been granted leave to | :29:33. | :29:33. | |
appeal against having more than ?620,000 | :29:34. | :29:41. | |
of their assets frozen. The club's former commercial | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
director, Imran Ahmad, is claiming half a million pounds | :29:46. | :29:47. | |
for an unpaid bonus and ?120,000 legal costs in a case due to be | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
heard at A cyclist killed in a crash | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
in Aberdeen has been named as 32-year-old man whose three children | :29:55. | :30:04. | |
included seven-week-old twins. Keen sportsman Neil Jaffrey died | :30:05. | :30:06. | |
after a collision with a car on North Anderson Drive, | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
close to the junction with His is survived by his wife Dawn, | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
daughter Jessica, two, "He was much loved by us all and | :30:12. | :30:18. | |
will be greatly missed." Highland Council has thrown out | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
controversial plans for a 14 turbine windfarm | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
in a scenic part of Ross-shire. Local authority officials say | :30:27. | :30:28. | |
the Carn Gorm windfarm would have had a detrimental visual impact | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
on the iconic mountain Ben Wyvis. The John Muir Trust said that they | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
hoped it would send a clear message to wind farm developers to | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
stay away from areas of wild land. A man's appeared in court | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
following a theft valued at about ?20,000 from a jewellery shop | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
in Aberdeen last month. Daniel Koterbski, who's 35, | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court charged with theft | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
after the incident at the Northern Diamond store on Union Street | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
on Tuesday the fifth of August. He made no plea or declaration, | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
was committed for further Let's get tonight's sports news | :30:58. | :30:59. | |
from Rhona. The US Ryder Cup Team Captain Tom | :31:00. | :31:10. | |
Watson has said his "gut was hollow" after the Americans | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
lost in Medinah 2 years ago. Watson and his men will begin their | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
campaign to 'get even' and reclaim the famous trophy at Gleneagles | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
in just over a fortnight. It Is the second time as Captain | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
for Watson. He won the event with the Americans | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
in 1993, beating the Europeans Do Is a. One defeated captain and | :31:27. | :31:52. | |
one victorious. Reunited 21 years later. We were down and finally | :31:53. | :32:03. | |
became back. It was looking great for the European time and lazy for | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
hours in the singles matches. We started coming back and it was | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
interesting. This will be the second time at the helm for Tom Watson. He | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
has waited a long time for the honour. When I got the call couple | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
of years ago, I said I have been waiting for this call for 20 years. | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
I wanted to be captain again. I did not promote myself but I have been | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
waiting for this for 20 years, thank you. As he looks ahead to the event, | :32:34. | :32:43. | |
he is keen to avoid the defeat at Medinah two years ago. I had an | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
empty feeling for a few days. I really don't. I have never had that | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
empty feeling playing for myself. My gut was hollow. The American team | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
had to get back contract. The loss should stick in their crawl. All | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
those members to play in the team this year, they need to take care of | :33:05. | :33:14. | |
business. They had to go out there and try and take care of business | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
and basically get even. The Europeans have been warned. The | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
battle begins on Friday 26th of September. | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
Jim McIntyre has been confirmed as the new manager of Ross County | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
after resigning from his post at Championship side Queen | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
McIntyre began his managerial career at Dunfermline | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
He inherits County at the bottom of the Premiership table after | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
He is a young manager that wants to get involved in the game as a higher | :33:41. | :33:57. | |
level. Good luck to him, I hope he does well. I think it could be a | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
positive change for the club. Hopefully he proves good direction. | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
And you get good results. Excellent, I think that is really good. The | :34:10. | :34:11. | |
team needs stability and average them all the best as I do for him. | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
It is always disappointing to lose your manager but, that is something | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
about Jane MacIntyre, I was never convinced about him. I wish all the | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
best. I just will be does not steal the players. -- I just will. | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
The draw has been made for the semi finals of the Petrofac League Cup. | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
Battling it out for a place it in the final, | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
Livingston will be at home to Stranraer. | :34:41. | :34:41. | |
And in the other semi-final, Alloa Athletic will meet the winners | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
The Alloa manager considers which side he | :34:45. | :34:53. | |
As a manager you want to get into the final. I ensure the fans would | :34:54. | :35:07. | |
like Rangers to come and play. -- I am sure. | :35:08. | :35:09. | |
Andy Murray is set to drop OUT of the world's top 10 | :35:10. | :35:12. | |
The Scot will be overtaken in rankings next Monday by Marin | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
Cilic, the Croatian who won the US Open in straight sets yesterday. | :35:17. | :35:19. | |
Murray and his coach Amelie Mauresmo are now working towards a run to | :35:20. | :35:22. | |
the final of either the Shanghai or Paris Masters to | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
stand a chance of qualifying for the season-ending World Tour Finals. | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
Another lovely day for much of the country, is it going to continue, | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
Christopher? Another lovely day. Some sunshine | :35:38. | :35:49. | |
and cloud. 19 degrees in the Central Belt. Staying dry and settled this | :35:50. | :35:57. | |
evening. Perhaps the cloud is thick enough for one or two light spots of | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
rain towards Shetland and the Western Isles but the bulk of the | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
country will be dry. Clear skies and the countryside. One or two missed | :36:06. | :36:12. | |
and four patches in the Glens. Tomorrow high pressure continues. | :36:13. | :36:20. | |
The difference is as light southerly drift, from down south, bringing up | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
mild a. That will increase the amount of sunshine and increase the | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
temperature as well. As a sunny day across the. Towards the afternoon, | :36:32. | :36:37. | |
temperatures will be around 19 or 20 degrees. Quite pleasant with light | :36:38. | :36:46. | |
winds. Colder at the coast. After a cloudy start, it should improve in | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
the north-west as well. The cloud will be more stubborn over the | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
Northern Isles but it should be reasonably polite -- writes. Into | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
the evening and overnight, the cloud will melt away. It will be a chilly | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
night. With more moisture in the year, perhaps more mist and fog as | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
well. I pressure continues to hold onto a giant set of day on Thursday. | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
Colder again and then as an fog taking longer to clear. Sunshine | :37:19. | :37:26. | |
returns in the afternoon. 21 degrees as possible. On Friday, the Windsor | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
from the south-east. Best of the sunshine on the West Coast. More | :37:31. | :37:38. | |
cloud in the East. Temperatures around 20 degrees. Staying settled | :37:39. | :37:41. | |
throughout the week. That is the forecast. | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
Let's return to events surrounding the referendum. | :37:47. | :37:48. | |
The debate may be raging but the issues remain, | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
and one of the key areas of in the battle for your vote is childcare. | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
The Scottish Government has pledged to radically extend free childcare | :37:57. | :37:58. | |
but says it can only do so under independence when IT benefits | :37:59. | :38:01. | |
from the extra income tax raised from more women going out to work. | :38:02. | :38:04. | |
But the Better Together campaign says it's a "con". | :38:05. | :38:06. | |
Our political correspondent Lucy Adams examines the arguments. | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
It has cut become a key issue in the referendum, with both sides vying | :38:11. | :38:21. | |
for the female vote. Both offer a key issue in the referendum, with | :38:22. | :38:23. | |
both sides vying for the female vote. Both offer happy to know that | :38:24. | :38:33. | |
effective childcare for many of our children, where it is great | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
quality, it really improves the learning opportunities for those | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
children. Equally, our economy is being held back by the number of | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
people who can work, you're skilled and want to work and cannot fulfil | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
their potential because of childcare arrangements. Parents in the UK on | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
average currently spend more than a quarter of their income on | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
childcare. More than many of our neighbours in Europe but will that | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
change with independence? The Scottish Government has increased | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
childcare provision but in the white -- in the White Paper promised to | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
extend it further, offering 30 hours a week in term time until children | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
reach primary school. Labour has promised to extend it to 25 hours a | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
week. The Conservatives are offering a childcare subsidy of ?2000 per | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
child. The twister material is that Scotland already has control of | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
childcare. -- twist in the table. Critics say a key question is how an | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
independent Scotland could afford to pay for the promises of the Yes | :39:47. | :39:50. | |
Campaign. What do parents think of the story so far? If you have the | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
money to do it, why not offer it now? Personally, I do not think it | :39:55. | :40:01. | |
is going to happen and I do not think they can guarantee it. I think | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
it is empty promises the SNP are giving us on everything, not just | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
childcare and I would take a chance on it. Howard -- are childcare bill | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
is twice the cost of our mortgage. If we get the chance, we should make | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
our own policies and take the opportunity. We cannot even begin to | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
get a feel grasp on it, that is so much going on. Experts say the | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
referendum has at least pointed agencies in the right direction. | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
Childcare is to spend for the vast majority of families. That is not | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
enough suitable childcare close to where they live or work. Also, child | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
care is often not flexible and cannot be fitted around their | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
working lives. We have to change that. Politicians have been aware of | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
the problems and the referendum has given this a new dynamism to the | :40:58. | :41:03. | |
discussion. We cannot know yet how this story will end. It will depend | :41:04. | :41:16. | |
in many ways on how parents vote. Let us return to their pub in Fife. | :41:17. | :41:29. | |
I do not even have a drink in my hand yet. Most people I have been | :41:30. | :41:36. | |
speaking to today in Fife agree that they want change in Scotland. They | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
disagree on who should hold that power and we're that power should | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
live. When it comes to the referendum, it is a battle lines | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
drawn. I went to a cafe and mentioned the word referendum and | :41:52. | :41:54. | |
added beat carried on. This is what happens. In the divided fields of | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
Fife, the talk is of power and with it should live. This farmer is in no | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
doubt. As he leaves his new recruit behind and heads off to check on his | :42:08. | :42:13. | |
sheep. He believes Scottish farmers have been short-changed by | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
Westminster. As a farmer, I fear the Scottish Government has always been | :42:21. | :42:23. | |
more willing to listen to the farmers of this country than the | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
Westminster Government, especially in our relations with Europe. We | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
would have a much stronger voice in Europe as the Scottish Government | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
was at the table in Europe and we would be more able to put our case | :42:36. | :42:42. | |
in the European Union. These junk children play, blissfully unaware of | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
the political argument engulfing the country. Inside a group of no voters | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
say there are signs have been vandalised. We had two big signs up | :42:53. | :42:58. | |
outside the town. One has been stolen altogether and the other was | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
vandalised. The novel was painted out and a big yes was painted. I | :43:05. | :43:10. | |
have repainted it with an novel again. We will see a lot of laughs | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
this time. Others in the get involved. This is not about | :43:16. | :43:25. | |
economics... Ignored his study. Ignore his study. -- yesterday. | :43:26. | :43:35. | |
A Conservative MP outlines how agonising this is being for those | :43:36. | :43:44. | |
who have not made up their minds. He hopes the promise of new powers for | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
Holyrood will lure these waters towards the North. People who | :43:49. | :43:56. | |
thought they might vote yes are interested in the proposition begin | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
another stronger Scottish Parliament, and not lose that link | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
with the rest of the UK. Some here say they have heard those promises | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
before and real power only lies with independence. Although they admit | :44:09. | :44:22. | |
they are finding one group of people difficult to convince. Voters over | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
70 hour that offers to come thence to say yes. There was a bit of | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
conservatism, with a small C. People recognise it is time for change. | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
Each day conversations in Scotland seem more impassioned and the | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
arguing more intense. Where should the power line? Only the vote on | :44:45. | :44:52. | |
September 18 will answer that. I am joined by two people who know this | :44:53. | :45:01. | |
area very well. This is the third largest constituency, isn't it? Jack | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
Daniels, imagine meeting you in a pub! How the Tube in finding the | :45:07. | :45:14. | |
campaign on the doorsteps? I have been on hundreds of doorsteps. -- | :45:15. | :45:21. | |
how have you been finding. The two issues are at families who are | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
concerned about the break-up of the family, the break-up of the United | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
Kingdom, the family of nations. The family that fought in war and done | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
things together. On a more personal level, the concern about if there | :45:38. | :45:46. | |
will be the smallest hassle of visiting grandchildren in Bristol or | :45:47. | :45:53. | |
anywhere else. Is it getting more impassioned? It is inevitable. Only | :45:54. | :46:00. | |
of places like Quebec, it will get more impassioned. The second issue | :46:01. | :46:08. | |
is very much young people. I have worked with young people all my | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
life. We have taught young people to be adventurous and international, to | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
look outwards. Everything about this whole nationalist, said it thing is | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
to make people look in words, smaller and argue about his study. | :46:27. | :46:33. | |
Blame somebody else. That is not what young people should be talking | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
What is your experience? I have to young children who are thirsty for | :46:38. | :46:55. | |
knowledge and thirsty to talk about it. It is amazing to watch people, | :46:56. | :47:02. | |
not just them but their friends who want to talk about issues which | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
affect them. University fees, can get a job. Both of my children are | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
in employment, my daughter has just returned on an adventure in | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
Australia. This will not change if we are independent, she can still go | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
to Australia or England. The issues that come across on the doorstep | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
just now seem to be what ever the media has portrayed that week. | :47:30. | :47:35. | |
People talk about what was in the paper that week. I have been | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
campaigning for over two years now on the doorstep. When there was | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
something about pensions, that was what people would talk about or | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
Europe, it depends entirely what the national mood is that week. It is | :47:51. | :47:58. | |
good, it gives people something to talk about. They can focus for | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
discussion so you have a different every time. Different points can be | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
raised by both sides and people can make their minds up. What is | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
fantastic about the referendum is that people can get together | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
everywhere and have meetings. It is fantastic we get back to having | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
meetings. It is very good to being back in public meetings where you | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
get shown to town. There was a hundred people in a public meeting | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
in a local hotel. When did that last happened? When were people in series | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
to talk about what they wanted for Scotland? I know you too could talk | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
about this all night. I know you will both remain friends. I very | :48:46. | :48:53. | |
much hope so. Unfortunately, there are not some good signs but I really | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
do all. When people talk about who stupidity of Westminster and the | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
playing fields of Eton, this is going on. Thank you very much. As | :49:05. | :49:13. | |
you can see, passionate views. Fife is going to be a difficult one to | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
call on the night. Thank you very much. We will see you | :49:19. | :49:20. | |
in Dundee tomorrow. One of the big issues | :49:21. | :49:25. | |
in the referendum debate is what will happen to the armed forces | :49:26. | :49:27. | |
if Scotland votes yes next week. The United Kingdom currently spends | :49:28. | :49:30. | |
?34 billion each year on defence including the Trident | :49:31. | :49:32. | |
nuclear deterrent. The Scottish government wants to | :49:33. | :49:34. | |
remove Trident and drastically reduce defence spending while | :49:35. | :49:36. | |
building up conventional forces. Our reporter Cameron Buttle has been | :49:37. | :49:38. | |
looking at both sides This is the rather forbidding | :49:39. | :49:52. | |
engines to Scotland's secret bunker. I am heading underground. This is | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
Scotland would have been run in the event of a war. Both as part of the | :49:57. | :50:04. | |
United Kingdom and as part of NATO. The United Kingdom was a vital part | :50:05. | :50:08. | |
of the front line of the Cold War. It is still seen as a major player | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
on the world stage, punching above its weight and influencing | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
international events. All of that comes at a price. The UK defence | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
budget is one of the largest in the world, ?34 billion a year. That | :50:24. | :50:30. | |
covers 148,000 personnel across Army, navy and air force. The | :50:31. | :50:40. | |
Scottish Government wants to get rid of Trident, take what it believes is | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
Scotland's Shearer of the conventional armed forces and create | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
the Scottish defence Force. What would that look like? -- Scotland's | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
Shearer. It said it would have a budget of 2.5 billion pounds. It | :50:57. | :51:05. | |
would have a land force of 3500 troops and 1200 reservists. It would | :51:06. | :51:13. | |
also include an aviation unit of six helicopters. The maritime forces | :51:14. | :51:20. | |
would include two frigates, for mine countermeasure vessels and two | :51:21. | :51:23. | |
offshore vessels. It would also have other support ships and would need | :51:24. | :51:30. | |
2000 personnel and 200 reservists. The air force would have a quick | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
reaction alert squadron of 12 Typhoon jets. It would also have | :51:36. | :51:46. | |
George Clarke it should be an extension of what your foreign | :51:47. | :51:49. | |
policy requirements are. Looking after our coastline. Looking after | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
our North Sea oil installations. These are very important to Scotland | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
and also to play our part in international affairs and work with | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
our NATO partners. UK forces currently train with other | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
international forces and that continue with the Scottish League so | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
is. The strength of being together with the UK forces is a strong bonus | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
of course it is. That is the opportunity of all the defence jobs | :52:22. | :52:24. | |
in Scotland, whether it is shipbuilding in the Clyde or it is | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
issues about high-tech engineering. All across Scotland there are | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
thousands of jobs which rely on the Ministry of Defence. Both sides | :52:34. | :52:40. | |
dispute the effect independence would have won the defence | :52:41. | :52:43. | |
industry. The no campaign say would bring an end to shipbuilding in | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
Scotland. Thousands of jobs would go of Trident was moved. Yes Campaign | :52:48. | :52:53. | |
says contracts would still be one because of the Scottish expertise in | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
shipbuilding. Basing the Scottish Defence League at Faslane would | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
safeguard jobs. The secret bunker is now a tourist attraction. A chilling | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
insight into the role of Scotland and the Cold War. The referendum | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
offers two options, staying with United Kingdom defence forces, with | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
that established global influence as a nuclear power or develop a new | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
Scottish Defence League is at a fraction of the corset, | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
purpose-built for Scotland. If a nuclear bomb had ever been dropped, | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
this is where the Secretary of State for Scotland mate as that. The | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
decision is up to you if someone will sit somewhere like this and | :53:42. | :53:53. | |
what they can do. Let us return to our political editor Brian Taylor in | :53:54. | :53:58. | |
Edinburgh. How have events move the debate own? -- debate own? The | :53:59. | :54:08. | |
opportunity for voters is of course on Thursday, September 18. His final | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
appeals to the heart and head, anything you like. The picture | :54:14. | :54:21. | |
tomorrow will be one attempt at unit -- unity, you have all the | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
Westminster parties saying they are united in arguing that Scotland | :54:27. | :54:37. | |
should stay in the UK. Alex Salmond will be campaigning here with | :54:38. | :54:41. | |
prominent yes activists, including Jim Sillars who will be there with a | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
memorial for his late wife Margo MacDonald. You had these two | :54:48. | :54:52. | |
competing visions of unity about this debate about the future of | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
Scotland in the United Kingdom. Thank you very much. Alex Salmond | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
will be joining us for an interview in the studio tomorrow night. But | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
after the fascinating day on the campaign trail, that is Reporting | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
Scotland. Until the ten o'clock News, have a very good evening. | :55:14. | :55:14. | |
Goodbye. | :55:15. | :55:17. |