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but it'll be turning quite breezy. Thank you very much. That's it. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The referendum campaign takes to the air. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
"Yes" leaders canvas seven cities by helicopter, | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
urging voters to have the confidence to opt for independence. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
The No side takes to the streets, highlighting economic worries being | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
This campaign surging across the seven cities of Scotland today will | :00:23. | :00:37. | |
carry Scotland to victory. There are huge risks. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
We'll have two business leaders live in the studio, | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Also on the programme, we'll hear from campaigners across the country. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
We're in Moray, hearing from voters and campaigners in Elgin. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Accident and Emergency consultants in Aberdeen have warned NHS Grampian | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
for a second time that staff shortages are at risk | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
And Rangers raise just over 3 million pounds | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
It's been a day of frantic campaigning in the referendum. | :01:14. | :01:28. | |
Yes campaign leaders canvassed seven cities by helicopter, | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
urging voters to have the confidence to opt for independence. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Alex Salmond accused the No side of co-ordinating business | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
But supporters of the Union said the economic | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
worries were real and Scotland should stick with the Union. | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
This from our political editor Brian Taylor. | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
No time to lose, Alex Salmond takes to the air, smiling despite an | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
onslaught of business warnings. Orchestrated, he says, by Downing | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
Street. But this contest is grounded on the doorstep encounters. Alex | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Salmond's aim is to engender confidence that Scotland's economy | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
could prosper and the NHS could be healthy under independence. And | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
public opinion? I am pleased about the various polls rose, but I am | :02:24. | :02:39. | |
more pleased about this activity. Between them, the Yes campaign | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
leaders covered seven cities today. Ed Miliband arrived by bus at | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Edinburgh. He says Scotland's economy would falter and the NHS | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
soccer if the union ends. He appealed directly to wavering Labour | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
voters. Anybody who is undecided needs to recognise and realise that | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
there is change coming with now, but there are huge risks with a yes | :03:05. | :03:19. | |
vote. Scottish robbery -- Scottish rugby stars endorse a no vote. Staff | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
at Edinburgh check thousands of postal votes, already in. , millions | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
more will add to these piles when the third macro open. There is all | :03:32. | :03:46. | |
to play for, and the stakes could not be higher. We have heard this | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
evening that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has cancelled his visit to | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Australia, with two things in mind, with the objective of staying in the | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
UK, to exhort able in the -- in Scotland to stay within the UK, and | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
also to deal with the aftermath, should there be a yes vote. There is | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
a sense of frenzy in both campaigns, with the opinion polls suggesting | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
that it is absolutely neck and neck with only a few days to go, before | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Scotland decides upon the prospect of independence. And out of that | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
frenzied campaigning, what did the two sides had to say today? There is | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
a range of issues, the European Union, the future of Scotland's | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
relationships with the other nations on these islands, but it is becoming | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
elemental, it is becoming distilled down to the core economic message. | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
Hearing from Ed Miliband and others on the No campaign that there is a | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
genuine threat to Scotland from independence, and they argue that | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
that threat would result in a knock-on threat to services like the | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
NHS. We heard from the other side that the business threat is being | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
orchestrated from Downing Street and is being talked up and engendered by | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Downing Street comic she says that Scottish people should discount | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
that. He says they should have the courage to stick with the prospect | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
of an enhanced economy, and defending the NHS. Mirror images | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
from both sides. Thank you. The bosses of some | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
of the country's biggest companies have clashed over the potential | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
impact of Scottish independence. Tonight, | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Richard Branson says he thinks It flies in the face | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
of comments from British Airways' boss earlier this year, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
who told the BBC that independence Meanwhile, some retailers are | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
claiming prices would rise, while the head of the Wetherspoon chain | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
of pubs says there was no reason why Scotland couldn't be successful | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
if there were a Yes vote. Our business correspondent | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
David Henderson reports: It is hard to stay cool as the | :06:03. | :06:15. | |
referendum campaign hots up. At this food fear new Edinburgh today, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
Scottish firms were showcasing what they sell, hoping for orders from | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
all over the world, and wondering if life will change this time next | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
week. We supply a lot of customers down in England. What will happen if | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
we are an independent country Western Mark will be still be | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
interested? There is so much cross-border trade within Europe | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
itself. With, for example, shellfish. I can't see independence | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
being a major stumbling block. As the day draws near, some of the | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
country's best-known retailers have weighed into the debate. Asda and | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
John Lewis have warned that prices may rise if Scotland vote for | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
independence. The costs of running our business is spread across the | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
whole business, but it is more expensive to do business in Scotland | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
today. Business rates are higher, distributional cost higher. If | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Scotland was independent today, with businesses run separately in | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Scotland, as will be the case, yes, prices would be higher. The Yes | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
campaign claim that is scaremongering, and say that if one | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
supermarket chain raised its prices in an independent Scotland, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
customers would shop elsewhere, and they point to Europe, where | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
retailers operate without problems across several countries. Tonight, | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
this flamboyant figure, Richard Branson, says he would love to see | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Scotland stay within the UK. That is the contrast with his rival, the | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
boss of British Airways, who has says -- who has said independence | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
could be a positive move for his company. Some see the changes that | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
would come with a yes vote as a glass half full, not a glass half | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
empty. The man who runs this hub chain sees independence as an | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
opportunity and not as a risk. There is no reason in the why Scotland | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
couldn't be a very successful independent country. New Zealand has | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
the same population and does very well, Singapore is smaller, and | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
incredibly successful. Switzerland does well. There is a lot of | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
nonsense talk, particularly by businessmen. As both campaigns put | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
the finishing touches to their message, it is clear the debate has | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
split the business community. Many bosses and staff will face a | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
difficult choice next week. To debate some of these issues I'm | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
joined now by two Scottish business people - | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
Ian McDougall, managing director of McDougall Johnstone, a corporate | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
finance and accounting firm, who And Daniel Johnson, | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
creative director of the card company Paper Tiger, | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
who speaks for Better Together. Ian MacDougall, we heard from Tim | :08:59. | :09:13. | |
Martin, there are, but we have also heard from Asda and John Lewis and | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
other companies, all saying that independence would lead to higher | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
prices. Are they wrong? I think Tim Martin was right. I am not asking | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
about him, I am asking about the others. He has said that these | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
arguments are insulting the intelligence of the Scottish people, | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
and I agree with that. By the last two years, they have been insulting | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
the Scottish people. But are the retailer is wrong? They clearly | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
believe what they are saying? No. I think they are wrong. I think they | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
have been coerced into moving towards those arguments, and I think | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
what this is doing is driving the debate into the gutter, because | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
you're aiming at the most vulnerable in society, pensioners, people | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
living in poverty, and giving them by saying that if the don't vote | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
now, their food shopping will be more expensive, and that is dragging | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
the debate into the gutter. Do you think there has been political | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
engineering in their statements? They're absolutely has. Whether or | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
not that is the case. They are still the bosses on -- bosses big | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
companies, and I am asking you if you think they are actually wrong in | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
their judgement? Yes, I think they are. I think Tim Martin, boss of | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Wetherspoon, has said the opposite, he sees it as an opportunity, as do | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
many other bosses of very large companies. There are contracting | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
voices in this debate. Daniel Johnson, we heard from Wetherspoon | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
today, that independence would be good for business. Surely a system | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
made in Scotland with taxes and regulations tailor-made to suit | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
businesses in Scotland has got to be good for the country? Tailor-made, | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
but in different. I am a retailer. I own a shop. The basic truth is that | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
if you have two systems of tax, two systems of regulation, two | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
currencies, that increases costs, and that is just a basic rule of | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
business. We are hearing from the likes of as that and Morrisons, from | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Standard Life, from RBS, from the companies that we trust with our | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
weekly shop, and our pensions, I think that make the choice is really | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
quite real for people. But costs could also go down as well as up. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Morrisons said that prices could change, if the costs of doing | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
business change, but they could lower them. The basic rule of | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
business is, if you have complexity, you add cost. Even if corporation | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
tax goes down? My colleagues here is an accountant. I would like to ask | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
him, how many tax returns would you like to do? We are talking about as | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
that year. We are talking about people who own or Walmart and Asda. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
These are massive companies. As you said, if corporation tax comes down | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
in an independent Scotland, any other cost in terms of that will be | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
easily offset. These are companies which deal all over the world, so | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
this is simply another country that they have to deal with. The world, | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
so this is simply another country that they had to deal with. They do | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
with it every single. Do you think Asda prop up their operations and | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
their prices in Britain from their operations in the rest of Europe? | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
The price according to the cost in each country. Yes, it is a big | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
company, but the real cost will be the accompany the side of mine. | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
Small businesses, which give the bulk of and won in Scotland. Small | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
companies will find the administered a burden and the complexity is very | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
costly. That is why most small businesses see the opportunity. In | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
Business for Scotland we have many hundreds of businesses who all see | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the opportunity and look forward to that. Better Together don't have | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
anything to look forward to. Is it not more of a hassle having to | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
systems, rather than one? And having possibly a different currency? I | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
don't think we will have a different currency. I believe we will have a | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
currency union, and that is another skier sorry that has been introduced | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
to scare people. -- a skier story. A scare story. It has been introduced | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
to frighten Scottish people. What is your vision for the Scottish | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
economy? This is the biggest decision we are making, that we have | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
ever faced, and when there are real questions about how things would | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
work, how businesses would operate on an rather than engaging with | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
them, rather than looking at them, they just dismiss them. That is not | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
good enough. See? He has no plan. I believe in creating jobs. We can do | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
that with devolution. We will have the ability to borrow to Billy and | :14:27. | :14:38. | |
pounds. -- ?2 billion. If I could speak on behalf of the undecided | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
voters here. How are people able to make a judgement on this, when we | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
have two successful Scottish businesses here, and you look at the | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
same potential situation, and one of you sees risks, and one of you seize | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
opportunities. Is there no meeting of minds here? It is a matter of | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
trust. Westminster has not served Scotland well. They have ruined the | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
economy with the recession of 2007, and we are still suffering from | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
that. It is a matter of trust. Who do you trust to look after Scottish | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
wealth? Able making decisions in Scotland, or people 500 miles away | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
in London? I think you're just a fantastic example of scaremongering. | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
These are the companies that we trust. John Wallace and Standard | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Life. If these companies, that we trust with our day-to-day well-being | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
and livelihoods, I think we should listen to what they are saying. What | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
about Aberdeen Asset Management. He thinks that Scotland could be a | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
partly prosperous country. Why does the boss of Aberdeen Asset | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
Management think that? I think you can find other examples of that. You | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
can find others who have just moved their pensions south of the border. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
That is the reality. There are some people who might be able to... The | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
reality is the style works of Scottish business, Standard Life and | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
others, these leading style works by saying no thank you, because they | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
believe that devolution holds a better prospect. Are due | :16:24. | :16:36. | |
underestimating the risks in order to make a point that you believe in, | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
passionately? That the future is risky, nobody knows quite what | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
independence would mean. Scotland has a hugely strong economy, oil and | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
gas is only 13% of it. It is strong in Food Drink, tourism, life | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
sciences, education. We have a strong and wealthy nation. But the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
wealth does not stay in Scotland and that is the issue. We have a very | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
strong economy and will be a very successful economy when the vote | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
yes. Oil and gas is a big part of the economy. Another big part of the | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
financial services sector. Alex Salmond the other week could not | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
answer the question of how it would work without a lender of last | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
resort. He simply does not have the answers. He expects us to choose on | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
blind faith. I am not willing to gamble jobs and livelihoods. I think | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
we should go for the guaranteed prospect of devolution and say no | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
thank you to independence. We have high ambitions for Scotland. We are | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
looking for more growth, higher wages. We are not happy with the | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
status quo. Thank you both very much. UKIP leader Nigel Farage has | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
stepped into the debate with a call for the Queen to get involved. | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Tonight in Glasgow he will say and independent Scotland would end up | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
having to join the euro. David Porter is outside the venue where | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
Nigel Farage will be speaking. The Nigel Farage bandwagon has rolled | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
into town. It is causing a good deal of interest. Behind me in Glasgow | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
city centre, around 50 demonstrators have turned up to give Nigel Farage | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
what they would regard as a traditional Glasgow welcome. It has | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
been noisy and good-humoured. This is his first intervention in the | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
referendum debate. He's not speaking on behalf of of Better Together but | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
here's saying he wants Scots to vote no in the referendum. He says | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
independence would be a false prospectus for Scots. He says that | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
because things are looking so tight in the opinion polls he would like | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
the Queen to intervene. But his intervention has caused high | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
emotions on both sides of the argument. This is not an | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
independence referendum. Alex Salmond says it is and Better | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
Together says it is, but this is about separation from England and | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
signing up to be a full member of the EU states. You could argue that | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
the EU is good or bad for Scotland but you cannot argue that as a | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
member of the European Union that Scotland would be independent, it | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
cannot. Nigel Farage enters policies are unwelcome in Scotland which you | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
could see in the voting intentions of the people of Scotland. He does | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
not represent my views on the EU, and on the future of Scotland. Not | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
all of Nigel Farage's visits to Scotland go to plan. He has arrived | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
in Edinburgh previously and been forced to take refuge in a pub | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
because he was met by demonstrators. He is due to speak in Glasgow in the | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
next couple of hours, and people will have some fairly strong | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
comments for him. Laura Bicker has been travelling around Scotland | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
finding out how the vote has been affecting people. She is now in | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
Elgin in Moray. This area is an SNP stronghold. They have Richard | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
Lochhead MSP and Alex Salmond MP in the past. They have been campaigning | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
hard and, round the corner, there is a yes shop right on the high Street. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Certainly, when you go out and meet people, there are a number of no | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
voters and undecided voters. The question that kept coming up was | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
about the nearby military bases. Some are now feeling the pressure to | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
come to a decision. Steve is one of many. This hands-on boss has put up | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
the business. Her husband was in the forces, based nearby. It is one of | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
the concerns she has about independence. When RAF Kinloss shut | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
we had to wait for the Army to come up. That hit the area quite badly. | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
We had a drop in income. This is her query, to both sides. My concern is, | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
what would happen if we go independent, because what would the | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
MOD do? We went on the campaign trail to answer her question. It is | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
a fantastic opportunity for Scotland. The local MSP, Richard | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
Lochhead says that this area is an SNP stronghold, but he understands | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
that some have concerns. Some people seem to think defence assets belong | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
to the UK government, when they belong to the people of Scotland | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
just as much. We are entitled to a share of these assets and they will | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
be based at RAF Lossiemouth so it will be more secure under | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
independence. RAF Lossiemouth was saved in Westminster defence cuts. | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
There are over 2000 personal based here. And nearby army base at | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Kinloss has seen the Royal Engineers moving. They may be outgunned and | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
outmanned in terms of campaign resources, but Better Together say | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
that their arguments are winning them votes. I feel sorry for these | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
people who live and work around the Lossiemouth base and at Kinloss | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
because they want to make sure that it will be there and five, ten, 15 | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
years time, but they do not get that certainty from the Yes campaign. At | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
the cafe, I find polarised views on independence. Strong yes views and | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
strong no views. I do not think independence would do anything for | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Scotland I hand I am very Scottish and I do not want to be divided. We | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
believe Scotland would be a better place if we were able to rid -- | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
control our resources ourselves and put the money back into this | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
country. Both campaigns use words like confident and optimistic but it | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
will be six days when they will find out, yes or no. Support for yes is | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
strong in this area. I popped into the local chip shop and ask people | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
and all the hands went up. But Better Together said that they have | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
been campaigning hard and Lord try to win over every single vote. I | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
will be back later with two activists from both sides explaining | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
how they see the campaign in this area. Still to come tonight, we look | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
at at the 1997 referendum which led to the establishment of the Scottish | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
Parliament. BBC Scotland can reveal that accident and emergency | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
consultant in Aberdeen have warned NHS Grampian that staff shortages | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
are at risk of endangering patient safety. Our reporter is outside | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
Aberdeen Royal infirmary. The owner, over to you. -- Fiona. Last | :24:33. | :24:46. | |
Friday we can tell you that a group of accident and emergency consultant | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
is asked to address board members to repeat worries about patient safety. | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
Three months ago they raise these concerns with NHS Grampian. They | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
said that they were worried about continuing their primary role, which | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
is resuscitating seriously ill patient's. Last week they brought | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
those concerns to the board to say that the situation had not fully | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
changed. I understand that there are specific concerns about weekend | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
cover and that consultants have been working extra weekend shifts since | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
August. They say that that is not sustainable in the long term. One | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
accident and emergency consultant described it to me as a perfect | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
storm, and said that it could take a couple of years for the situation to | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
be solved, because of staff shortages. NHS Grampian has said | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
that there will be continuing staff shortages, they continue to face | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
challenges, and the board says that it is not specific to Aberdeen, it | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
is a problem across the UK. The board said that it is working hard | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
to recruit more doctors and is working hard with other departments | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
at Aberdeen Royal infirmary to alleviate that problem. Tonight, NHS | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Grampian has assured members of the public that Haitians attending | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
accident and emergency are safe. -- that patient's. We have safe cover | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
in place for the weekends. But it is almost on a day-to-day basis that we | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
are working. It is not just about bums on seats and about doctors and | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
departments, it is about getting the right quality to see the patient at | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
accident and emergency. Accident and emergency is also under review by | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
Healthcare improvement Scotland, the body invited by NHS Grampian to | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
review patient safety. It is also looking at other departments | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
including elderly care, intensive care, gynaecology and obstetrics. A | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
report on that is due out in November. A Midlothian man charged | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
with murdering his wife and child says he killed them in a moment of | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
madness. The High Court in Edinburgh has been shown a police interview | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
with Gary Locke Art in which he said that he strangled his wife while | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
drunk then suffocated his son, Michael, with a pillow. He said he | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
also intended to take his own life. Gary Lockhart said that he returned | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
home late after a night out. This ledger management with him and his | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
wife. She had been preparing to leave her House for work at Tesco at | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
4am. She was concerned that Gary would be unable to care for their | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
son. In a police interview shown in court, Gary Locke Art said that he | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
argued with his wife, snapped, and strangled her, then he went upstairs | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
to be with his sleeping son. When he woke in the morning, he played with | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
Michael as usual, then placed a pillow over his face and suffocated | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
him. The court heard that Gary Lockhart did not want his son | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
growing up with one parent dead and one in jail, and that the only | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
solution was for all three of them to die. Asked how he felt after | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
killing the toddler, he said, devastated. He said that he lay and | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
cuddled him. The friends and family of Gary Lockhart where in court. He | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
admits murdering his wife and killing his son, but he denies that | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
the death of the little boy it was murder. The family of Janet lock-up | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
sobbed as they heard how she and her young son died. The trial continues. | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
-- Lockhart. A leading children's charity says | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
lessons must be learned in Scotland from | :28:51. | :28:52. | |
the Rotherham child abuse scandal. Barnardo's says the experience | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
of Rotherham, where at least 1,400 young | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
people were victims of child sexual It says child abuse is going on | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
in Scotland and politicians and child support agencies should | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
not become complacent. Celtic have reported pre-tax profits | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
of just over ?11 million That's up almost ?1.5 million on the | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
previous year, but revenue is down Researchers at Glasgow University | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
say they've made a breakthrough in They say their process is fast, | :29:19. | :29:26. | |
clean and cheap - and can store | :29:27. | :29:36. | |
energy from the sun and wind. Here's our science correspondent | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
Kenneth Macdonald. Scotland is rich in renewable energy | :29:39. | :29:49. | |
sources, but when the wind drops and the sun goes down, if only we could | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
bottle power. That is what they have done at Glasgow University, using | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
electricity to split water into oxygen and hydrogen, then capturing | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
the hydrogen gas in the liquid. Leon Charles liquid is here. It is | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
yellow. It is like an inorganic diesel. When you take the liquid, | :30:10. | :30:22. | |
you can pour it through a sieve. All you need to do is store this, using | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
gravity, then open the valve, then it goes over the sieve then you use | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
the hydrogen and the application will store it, as you need. Hydrogen | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
is carbon free. It burns, giving off heat and leaving only water. This is | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
a fast and relatively cheap way of creating hydrogen from sun, wind and | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
water. What we can do with this system is more conveniently store | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
electricity in a liquid form as hydrogen, then you can use a | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
pipeline to pipe at around and you could get round the problem of the | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
wind turning on and off because when the wind stops blowing we stop | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
producing hydrogen, and you would have to turn it on and off, then it | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
is very expensive. With our system, you choose when you want to make the | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
hydrogen. The team says that it's process is 30 times faster than the | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
current state-of-the-art method and could be 30 times cheaper. There is | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
a lot of work still to be done but we could be seeing a glimpse of a | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
new hydrogen-powered future, so that even on days when the sun does not | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
shine and the wind does not blow, the lights could still stay on. | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
Ts start with some news from Rangers, and | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
the Ibrox club have confirmed that they've raised just over ?3 Million | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
For more on this let's join our Senior | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
Rangers launched what's called an open offer last month | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
and said they hoped to raise as much as ?4 million for working capital | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
They set a minimum target of ?3 million and today they announced | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
they'd raised just over that figure from existing shareholders - | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
Incidentally, Mike Ashley, the Newcastle owner, | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
So some of the money that was raised will go to paying bills | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
You also have to factor in another of today's developments. | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
That was the out of court settlement between Rangers and their former | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
We don't know the settlement sum was, but Rangers | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
say it was significantly less than the ?620,000 he was looking for. | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
At the launch of this open offer last month, Rangers said that | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
if the minimum level of ?3 million was raised, they would then have to | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
raise additional working capital by the end of the calendar year. | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
So having got enough to keep them going in the short term, | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
the Rangers board will seek permission from shareholders to | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
allow them to raise further funds from a wider share issue. | :32:46. | :32:56. | |
Scotland will take a step closer to reaching the | :32:57. | :32:58. | |
Women's World Cup Finals if they beat the Faroe Islands tomorrow. | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
The match is their penultimate qualifying tie | :33:02. | :33:02. | |
and, while they lie second in their group, a win is likely to see | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
As if the match is not a big enough occasion in itself, for one Scotland | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
One of Kim Little's 34 goals scored for Scotland, and on Saturday she | :33:12. | :33:26. | |
passes another milestone when she wins her 100th cap for her country. | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
I have said before. It is something I never thought about. For me, it | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
was just about playing and representing Scotland, and having | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
got to this point quite early, it is very nice. Her team-mates are full | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
of praise for the Aberdeen born player. Ever since she has been | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
involved, she has always brought an immense amount of professionalism. I | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
don't know anyone who has worked harder than she has and she was a | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
young girl, so she deserves everything she gets, and she is a | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
delight to play with. The game on Saturday against Farao Islands by | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
full -- is vital, if Scotland are to stand a chance of reaching the | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
finals. Not being complacent, and not being too nervous, just having | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
the right mindset going in there, try to move the ball quickly, taking | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
a lot of initiatives, trust your ability, and score a lot of goals. | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
The team have had some downtime in preparation, but when the | :34:34. | :34:35. | |
whistle-blowers, they are aiming to hit their target. | :34:36. | :34:36. | |
Edinburgh are looking to make it two wins on the bounce | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
After beating Munster last weekend in the opening match of the season, | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
they face Irish opposition again as Connacht come to Murrayfield. | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
Glasgow Warriors have made four changes to their team | :34:47. | :34:48. | |
They face the Welsh side on Sunday fresh from their win last weekend | :34:49. | :34:55. | |
Although we did a lot of things well, our handling was not as | :34:56. | :35:13. | |
accurate. Probably more players getting too enthusiastic and going | :35:14. | :35:21. | |
past the ball carrier. We know we can be wetter than this. We will | :35:22. | :35:23. | |
train and get better. New for this season you can access | :35:24. | :35:23. | |
English commentary There's also on-line commentary | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
of both matches too. Andy Murray has accepted | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
a wildcard into this month's Murray is trying to accumulate | :35:32. | :35:33. | |
enough points to qualify for November's World Tour Finals | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
in London. The world's top eight singles | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
players take part, at The Olympic silver medallist Luke | :35:42. | :35:43. | |
Patience has set himself a target - And this weekend his quest gets | :35:44. | :35:53. | |
underway, as the Helensburgh sailor takes part in the World | :35:54. | :36:00. | |
Sailing Championships in Spain. The event allows Patience | :36:01. | :36:03. | |
and his partner Elliot Willis the chance of securing a berth | :36:04. | :36:05. | |
for the 2016 Olympics Games. London 2012 was a silver for Luke | :36:06. | :36:22. | |
Patience, competing in his first Olympic Games. Since that day, he | :36:23. | :36:25. | |
has made no secret of the fact that only gold will be good enough at the | :36:26. | :36:33. | |
next games. These World Championships are an important | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
marker along the way. We have been working hard all year, and the goal | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
for us is to bridge is our best performance -- to produce. Run the | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
season we have had, we know that if we produce our best performance, | :36:48. | :36:50. | |
that is Goodenough to challenge for a gold medal. Luke Patience and his | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
team-mate Elliot Willis have just returned from the Olympic test | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
event. We finished up with a self medal, had a great week, great | :37:03. | :37:09. | |
speed, and everything is in -- encouraging. We have been getting | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
used to the venue, getting used to the surroundings, and this marks the | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
end of our season, and the pinnacle of our season, so hopefully we will | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
take some metal home to the UK. That would be very nice indeed. | :37:26. | :37:27. | |
Let's see what we can expect from the weekend weather now. | :37:28. | :37:29. | |
A case of mixed fortunes this afternoon. This evening, dry and | :37:30. | :37:56. | |
bright for some. From 7pm, it looks like this, and then it stays dry | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
overnight. Temperatures, by the end of the night, certainly in towns and | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
cities, double digits. A little cooler in the countryside, certainly | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
a few have clear skies. For tomorrow, it will be dry, fairly | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
cloudy, but it should improve, but the mist and fog will take a while | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
to lift, particularly through the central belt, and as we head through | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
the afternoon, the best of the brightness across western parts of | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
the country, and the temperature not too bad at all, certainly a few get | :38:27. | :38:33. | |
the sunshine. 18 Celsius, 19 Celsius, perhaps 21 Celsius. The | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
mist just lapping the shores here. The West slightly better. You can | :38:37. | :38:45. | |
see the sea fog lingering around this area, probably all day. A few | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
are walking or climbing around western arrangers, after some mist | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
and fog it will improve. Very light winds. Across eastern ranges, a | :38:54. | :39:05. | |
cloudy start there, but a few are above wonders by the defeat, it will | :39:06. | :39:13. | |
be clear up there. -- 1500 feet, it will be clear. And East, South East | :39:14. | :39:23. | |
breeze. Moderate visibility, occasional patches of fog. Best of | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
the afternoon into the evening, some late spells of sunshine, certainly a | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
few had them for the good part of the day. Sunday, high pressure still | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
year, but starting to drift away awards Scandinavia. Still keeping us | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
dry, but a bit breezy and a bit cooler, and a bit cloudier. On | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
Sunday, thicker cloud. More sunshine towards the West. Maybe the odd spot | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
of light rain and drizzle on the East goes. Tonight, a few get some | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
clear skies to the north of the country, look North, because you | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
could well see the Northern lights if you're lucky. | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
Last night we looked back at the build-up, | :40:06. | :40:18. | |
the result and the consequences of the 1979 devolution referendum. | :40:19. | :40:24. | |
Tonight, Julie Peacock has been considering the 1997 referendum, | :40:25. | :40:26. | |
which resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament. | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
The Scottish Parliament has been a pivotal part of the political life | :40:33. | :40:40. | |
for 15 years now. In 1979, this all would have looked like a distant | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
dream. Margaret Thatcher had come to power that year. She had no interest | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
in home rule and the Conservatives now oppose the idea. In Scotland, | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
Mrs Thatcher was hugely unpopular with many voters. The | :40:57. | :41:03. | |
industrialisation and mass unemployment created a feeling that | :41:04. | :41:06. | |
Westminster was distant and disengaged. The introduction of the | :41:07. | :41:14. | |
poll tax in Scotland one year earlier than the rest of the UK | :41:15. | :41:22. | |
cause even more anger. It sets the scene for renewed support for | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
devolution. The Constitutional Convention was set up in 1980, soon | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
after the failure of the first referendum. It involved political | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
parties, unions, church and civic leaders. We say no and we are the | :41:36. | :41:43. | |
state, will, we say yes and we are the people. The Conservatives refuse | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
to take part, believing it to be a slippery slope to independence, and | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
the SNP pulled out when it became clear that independence was not up | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
for session. Labour supported devolution, and had high | :41:59. | :42:01. | |
expectations. The Scottish parliament inside the United Kingdom | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
would kill the UK, because the majority of people within Scotland | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
want control over domestic affairs, but they don't want to wrench | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
Scotland out of the United Kingdom. The general election in 1992 marked | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
another turning point, when Scotland voted Labour but got a Conservative | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
government. Support for devolution grows stronger. Shortly after | :42:25. | :42:32. | |
Labour's win in 1997, the new government announced a Scottish | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
referendum on devolution. Donald Dewar led the campaign for yes, | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
alongside the Liberal Democrats the Greens. The SNP were also now on | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
board. The No campaign was relatively low-key by comparison. In | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
September 1997, Scotland went to the polls. The result exceeded all my | :42:53. | :43:01. | |
expectations. It ends much argument and dispute. This time, support for | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
devolution was huge, with almost 75% of voters in favour of a Parliament, | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
and many in favour of taxation powers. The first elections took | :43:11. | :43:18. | |
place in 1999, and Parliament was opened by the Queen the same year. | :43:19. | :43:28. | |
Fast forward 15 years, and this referendum campaign is at its final | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
point, and we are getting ready to report how you voted. Whichever way | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
the result goes, this is another historic moment, so what happens | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
next? Well, that is something for Scotland to decide when it goes to | :43:45. | :43:45. | |
the polls next week. Let's go back to | :43:46. | :43:47. | |
our current referendum correspondent Laura Bicker, | :43:48. | :43:49. | |
who's in Elgin for us tonight. One of the things that has made this | :43:50. | :44:00. | |
referendum so special is the fact that so many people have got | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
involved, people who have never been involved in politics before, and all | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
of those town hall meetings being held around the country. My | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
colleague came here to Elgin to speak to some business women. I am | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
climbing the corporate ladder this evening to sample the mood of the | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
business women here who have gathered in the boardroom for some | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
debate. I couldn't watch the last debate. You couldn't hear one | :44:31. | :44:37. | |
speaking for the other. It completely put me off. They are not | :44:38. | :44:44. | |
engaging you as a businesswoman to make the right decision, because | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
they are too busy point-scoring? Scotland's economic future is rarely | :44:51. | :44:57. | |
off the agenda. This group's regular gatherings focus on it. Some are | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
still looking for answers. I am undecided. But I think if we don't | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
try it we will never know, but I am scared. The stories I am hearing | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
about people moving their bank accounts south of the border | :45:13. | :45:19. | |
already, scared about a yes vote. I fundamentally agree. Policies could | :45:20. | :45:29. | |
change depending on how the photos. There will be a big transitional | :45:30. | :45:32. | |
period which will affect everybody, but if you don't do it you will | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
never know. The deliberations spill over into dinner, whether is a lot | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
to consider and digests. There are bigger things happening in | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
Scotland... Reaching a decision which is good for both their | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
business and their home life is particularly hard for some members | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
of this group. Many are military wives and partners of the local | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
servicemen, and the differing defence policies of the Yes campaign | :45:57. | :46:06. | |
and No campaign leave them torn. I am worried about what will happen to | :46:07. | :46:13. | |
the military. That is a scary thing to think about, that we could have a | :46:14. | :46:18. | |
double army, after just recovering from the recession. | :46:19. | :46:27. | |
Women are being targeted by both sides. But many here remain | :46:28. | :46:38. | |
undecided. We have attracted something of a crowd in Elgin. I am | :46:39. | :46:45. | |
then to speak to two mothers who take time out to campaign, and I am | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
not sure where you find the time. You have never been involved in | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
politics before and you have got involved in this campaign. What | :46:55. | :46:57. | |
inspired you to come forward and start campaigning? I have got three | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
young children myself. When I first started looking at the campaign, I | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
thought I would look into it a bit deeper because it is about the | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
future of my children. I found a passion, I found my beliefs of how | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
we would be able to make a positive future for my children in an | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
independent Scotland, with our future being forged by ourselves. | :47:24. | :47:29. | |
Your kids go to school together but you have different views. You come | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
to the campaign from a different angle. About one year ago, it is | :47:34. | :47:40. | |
something I am passionate about, to keep Scotland as part of the UK. I | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
want what is best for my children and their future. I am thinking in | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
terms of that as well. On the doorsteps, what are they saying to | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
you? We are getting a positive response. We hear both sides of the | :47:54. | :48:00. | |
argument. So many people are involved in it. That itself is very | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
encouraging. OK, there are risks, what also great rewards for it. We | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
want to make a positive future for our children, and we know that we | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
have to move forward on it. People around us are enjoying the fact that | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
the TV cameras have come to town. How have you found the campaign, has | :48:23. | :48:28. | |
it been quite difficult? We know that this is an SNP stronghold. But | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
going around the doors, we see some houses that are not have stickers up | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
but they are strong no voters. We have had a good response. I think | :48:39. | :48:45. | |
there is a bit of intimidation there, people feel they do not want | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
to speak out. But people say that this is now the time for me to speak | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
up, and I want to be part of the UK. Some people have mentioned | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
intimidation from the Yes campaign. One woman today told me that she had | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
been not invited to a wedding. Can you say anything to reassure people | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
from the Yes campaign site? We must remember we all have to live | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
together at the end of the day and everyone is entitled to their own | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
opinion and everyone is coming at it from a different angle. You have to | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
look at both sides of the campaign, what is better for you, but I and a | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
lot of people I have spoken to feel that having the power to make our | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
future ourselves and make changes to the country, that we think would | :49:36. | :49:38. | |
suit Scotland more, is a positive way forward. Thank you both for | :49:39. | :49:45. | |
joining me tonight. You can get that now to put the kids to bed. One of | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
the things you heard, both sides of the argument, quite a lively town | :49:51. | :49:58. | |
centre in Elgin tonight, as the referendum campaign enters its final | :49:59. | :50:05. | |
few days. All this week we have been taking a detailed look at how | :50:06. | :50:08. | |
independence might affect important parts of Scottish life. Tonight we | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
will look at the possible impact on education. Jamie McIvor can explain. | :50:14. | :50:21. | |
How would independence affect education? There would be no direct | :50:22. | :50:25. | |
effect on schools and colleges. There could be a big effect on | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
universities. There are two major issues, with big implications for | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
students and universities. Student tuition fees and research funding. | :50:36. | :50:37. | |
Let's look at Jewish and these first. With students from England, | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland have to be given free tuition to meet | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
European rules? Potentially at a huge cost and maybe even squeezing | :50:48. | :50:58. | |
out Scottish students? These students all attend Glasgow | :50:59. | :51:06. | |
University. Lyle is Scottish and gets free tuition. Dominique ez from | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
Lithuania and also gets free tuition. I get my tuition fees paid | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
by the Scottish government. But I have to work to earn money to live | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
here because I cannot get the student grant. Carroll has not | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
travelled so far, he's from Wales. He has to pay substantial tuition | :51:29. | :51:36. | |
fees. With the middle ground being Welsh I pay only 3700 go to | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
university from within the UK, but I have English friends who pay an | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
awful lot more. I'm still not fortunate enough to get free Jewish | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
like my Scottish and European Union counterparts. Students from England | :51:52. | :51:58. | |
and Northern Ireland pay up to ?9,000 to study in Scotland, but | :51:59. | :52:11. | |
European law enables Domenikya to be treated the same way as Scottish | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
students. With this arrangement still be legal if Scotland became an | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
independent country? A separate state to England, Wales and Northern | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
Ireland? Supporters of the unions say that an independent Scotland | :52:25. | :52:26. | |
would not be allowed to maintain the current system, a claim that | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
Scottish students of the future that they could lose out. There is a | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
limit to the total number of races and that would mean that the present | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
numbers, one in three Scots who would otherwise get into university | :52:41. | :52:43. | |
would no longer get the place. Independent supporters believe that | :52:44. | :52:48. | |
those fears are misplaced. In Germany and Ireland in particular | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
where concepts of residency at that as a patient qualify for the type of | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
exemption Scotland seeks. If the SNP forms an independent government it | :53:01. | :53:03. | |
will seek to maintain the current setup. Some legal challenge seems | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
almost inevitable, and it could take years for Europe to reach a final | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
decision. So the students will graduate before the final legal | :53:13. | :53:18. | |
position on tuition fees is absolutely clear. This is an issue | :53:19. | :53:22. | |
that could double away from years. There will be immediate issue, with | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
the tax payers money that universities receive for research. | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
Some of that comes from UK having wide funding bodies. The Scottish | :53:30. | :53:35. | |
government wants that a continuous. When putting as fair share into the | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
cash pot. Opponents fear that this would not work out and that there | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
could be less research money. So there are two major issues to mull | :53:45. | :53:48. | |
over, and it is for voters to decide which case is the more compelling, | :53:49. | :53:56. | |
next Thursday. Whiskey is the nation's second-biggest export. | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
Forecasts only show growth. Its importance shows that it is an | :54:00. | :54:05. | |
industry with a big role in the independence debate on the Isle of | :54:06. | :54:14. | |
Arran there is a small distillery making a big pack around the world. | :54:15. | :54:23. | |
Half a million leaders of whisky are made every year, and the prediction | :54:24. | :54:30. | |
-- production has been skyrocketing along with demand in the last couple | :54:31. | :54:33. | |
of years. That has been replicated across the industry. The industry | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
seems to be getting its sales and marketing right. The big companies | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
are very good at sales and marketing and smaller companies like ours can | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
follow in their footsteps. We can see the casks sitting in your | :54:48. | :54:50. | |
warehouse for 18 years. This is an industry that is used to planning | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
ahead. But things could be about to change after next week. Everyone is | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
waiting to see what the result is. Everybody will deal with it from | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
that point on. Other companies are more explicit about their fears on | :55:08. | :55:10. | |
how independence would impact the industry. I do not think that the | :55:11. | :55:15. | |
whisky industry is different from others and can say that we will have | :55:16. | :55:19. | |
two or three years of not being sure what is going on on a whim and on a | :55:20. | :55:26. | |
prayer, on the tick of a box. All of that support will go. That is a | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
worrying thing. The whiskey industry pays in around ?1 billion per year | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
in taxes to the UK Exchequer, which is a significant part of the UK tax | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
take and would be even more important to an independent | :55:42. | :55:43. | |
Scotland. Whatever the concerns of the industry, there is no talk of | :55:44. | :55:51. | |
distilleries relocating because to officially classify as Scotch | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
whiskey, it has to be made here. This industry is linked to the | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
landscape. Because it is such a lucrative industry, both the UK and | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
Scottish government want to keep whisky within their boundaries. At | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
the moment the local economy gets the employment of whiskey but | :56:11. | :56:14. | |
campaigners for independence on Arran hope that whatever taxes are | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
taking goats directly to an independent Scottish government, and | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
they think that better decisions would be taken to boost production | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
of whisky. If they cut corporation tax it'll help every industry, not | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
just whisky. We are hopeful that that is going to give us a positive | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
outcome. Whisky is unique to Scotland and Scotland is a famous | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
country, and this vote has made it even more famous. There is no end of | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
demand for whisky. I see it as a prosperous industry and it will be | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
even more prosperous. With production to rise further in the | :56:53. | :56:55. | |
coming years, the crew one is a golden goose for whatever government | :56:56. | :57:03. | |
can get their hands on it. -- whisky is a golden goose. Our political | :57:04. | :57:10. | |
editor, Brian Taylor, is in Edinburgh tonight with the last | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
weekend of the referendum campaign coming up. Fierce campaigning, no | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
doubt. What can we expect to see? Deutsche bank has issued a warning | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
about Scottish independence in fairly blunt terms. Gordon Brown is | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
likely to refer to that in his speech, arguing that it is another | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
element in this case that independence would be economically | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
damaging and the No campaign will be addressing that point as they | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
campaigned throughout the weekend. The yes camp have finished a | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
whistlestop tour of the seven cities of Scotland. They are putting up | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
thousands of activists and millions of leaflets around the streets and | :57:55. | :58:00. | |
doorsteps of Scotland. They will be arguing that Scotland is wealthy | :58:01. | :58:03. | |
already and potentially could grow that economy, using the skills and | :58:04. | :58:08. | |
talents of the people. Two perspectives of the future in | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
Scotland, either in the union or outside of it. What is your | :58:13. | :58:15. | |
assessment of where we stand tonight? It is extremely tight. It | :58:16. | :58:22. | |
would appear from the opinion polls. It would appear so, from what you | :58:23. | :58:29. | |
hear on the street and the anecdotes and a chat and the gossip. People | :58:30. | :58:34. | |
are hugely engaged in a campaign. I think large numb as people still | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
making their minds up. The opinion polls and I'd suggest there are as | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
many as 17% undecided. This is going to go to the wire. I will be back | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
with the headlines at eight o'clock and the late bulletin just after the | :58:52. | :58:57. | |
ten o'clock news. Until then, from the team across the country, good | :58:58. | :58:58. | |
evening. | :58:59. | :59:02. |