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The campaign has started but already taxes showing itself to be a key | :00:00. | :00:31. | |
battles ground. Nicola Sturgeon said the she would not follow the | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Chancellor's plan. He does our political editor. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
New tax powers due next year mean that the players not observers. The | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Chancellor has increased the income threshold at which people start | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
paying the higher rate of tax. That adds up to a tax cut for high | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
earners from next year. Labour says they would reverse that for Scotland | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
and they plan a 1% income increase and they plan a 1% income increase | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
-- income tax increase across-the-board. It would also | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
increase the top tax rate from 45p 50p. When thousands of people are | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
losing their jobs, a tax cut for the better off cannot be a priority. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
This Parliament should not be a conveyor belt for Claudius | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
territory. The First Minister said she would spell out detailed plans | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
next week, but, questioned repeatedly, she may claim she does | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
not like the Chancellor's tax cut for high earners. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
A large tax cut for 10%, actually, of the population, | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
those on the highest incomes - at a time when support | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
for the disabled is being cut and at a time when our public | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
services are under pressure - is, in my view, the wrong choice. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
If I think it is the wrong choice it is not one angle to make myself. She | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
has already said there will be knowing crease in the standard rate | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
because it would be no lies per pupil. She is sceptical about | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
increasing the top rate for Scotland alone, worrying that people might | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
dodge the tax. It looks like she will reverse the Chancellor's | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
increase in the 40p tax threshold. From April you will start paying the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
40p higher rate of income tax for new and more than ?43,000. The | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Chancellor has increased that from April next year to ?45,000, a tax | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
cut for higher earners. Limiting the increased inflation would mean only | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
a increase in the threshold, reducing that tax cut. It is about | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
cross-border calculations. The Tories said that Scotland must not | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
display the wrong message. I do not want to see a sign that says there | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
are higher taxes here. I think it is the wrong choice for Scotland. The | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Liberal Democrats queried how services would be protected | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
otherwise. Having rejected our penny for education proposal, how will the | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
First Minister prevent cuts to education budgets and colleges? The | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
exchanges today confirmed that the Scottish Parliament elections in May | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
will focus on tax. The driver of the bin lorry that crashed in Glasgow in | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
2014 killing six people has appeared in court charged with dangerous | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
driving and insurance fraud. The 59-year-old man allegedly drove a | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
car dangerously on the 20th of September 2015, knowing he had had | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
two previous medical incidents. He appeared in private this afternoon | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
amid no plea or declaration. He has been released on bail. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Tens of thousands of colour shouldn't some lecturers -- tens of | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
thousands of college students had lecturers cancelled today when there | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
was a strike over pay. The members are unhappy with college conditions. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Unions say the action has been a long time coming, with its members | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Just before we came on air, I spoke to our education | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Across Scotland it has been a deal massive disruption for college | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
shouldn't. Some 4000 lecturers colleges were on strike. What do we | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
want? Equal pay when did we want it? Now. The issue is pay, particularly | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
the discrepancies between different colleges. Out on picket, Susan | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
White. She is a business studies lecturer in one of these disparities | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
dealt with quickly. Every students who achieves an HNC or HND has to | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
achieve the same standards and every lecturer who is involved in the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
delivery for those students is also having to meet the same standards of | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
performance. Susan White earns about three and a half thousand pounds | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
more than Katrina three and a half thousand pounds | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
are different examples. The three and a half thousand pounds | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
claims that the gap is sometimes more than ?10,000. If you are a | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
nurse she will get paid more than ?10,000. If you are a | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
regardless where you work, if you are policemen you will get paid the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
same regardless where you work, if you are in the further education | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
sector that does not happen. The organisation that represents | :05:35. | :05:34. | |
colleges is disappointed that the organisation that represents | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
strike went ahead and they said that an agreement could be close. Those | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
differences have built up between local management and local unions. | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
We need to talk about those differences and make sure that this | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
fair pay for doing the same job. Just now we do not have that, we do | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
not have people doing the same job, they have different conditions and | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
pay levels and they do different things were different working hours. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
The strike is over pay and it will be resolved if there is a deal, but | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
many of the people taking part are keen to highlight other concerns. We | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
have seen college lecturers and people should just. We are seeing | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
anomalies and pay rewards for principles that has fuelled the | :06:23. | :06:23. | |
anger. There is one set of rules for workers and another for college | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
lecturers. Colleges get most of their money from the Scottish | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Government and lecturers took their concerns to Holyrood. Talks are due | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
tomorrow, but many more strikes are planned. | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
The president of Ghana is visiting Scotland despite of concern about | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
his human rights record. He received plate applause, but some MSPs remain | :06:58. | :06:58. | |
silent. -- plight applause. plate applause, but some MSPs remain | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
The president has come to Hollywood to strengthen economic ties with | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Scotland. Ghana is more stable and prosperous than many African | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
countries, but it still has a bad human rights record. We want to | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
present some of the specifics around the use of torture and tear gas and | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
high LGBT people are treated and women who are accused of witchcraft. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
We need to make sure that the world is watching when these issues are | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
happening in other countries. Welcome to the Gallery the president | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
of the Republic of Ghana. There was a plot in the Holyrood Chamber, but | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
some MSPs sat on their hands, including the Labour leader. The | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Speaker resisted calls for her to raise issues of human rights. What | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
human rights concerns will you raise with the president of Ghana? I will | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
make clear to him the importance of equality and tolerance. These are | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
universal values. The Government later said there was also a specific | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
discussion on the rights of gay people from Ghana, who can be jailed | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
because of their sexuality. What do you say to those who criticise | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
Ghana's human rights record? As a heavy check my credentials, the | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
president addressed MSPs, this was boycotted by the Green Party. The | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
right to rule of law is strong. Having avoided hard questions on | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
human rights, the president has been treated to a lunch of smoked salmon | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
and B. Now in his delegation are heading to Aberdeen to make new | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
business with the aisle and gas industry. The president recognises | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
the skill and expertise that businesses that operate in the North | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
Sea can bring to that market. The president is to be honoured by | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Aberdeen University and as he heads north he will be hoping to leave | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
human rights controversy behind him at Holyrood. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Edinburgh Council has been forced to close the more schools after a | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
structural problem was discovered. The decision to shut the school 's | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
followers a second closure of Ox gangs primary school yesterday. | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
Safety inspections were ordered after the war collapsed they are in | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
the storm in January. All four schools were built ten years ago by | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
the same contractors. The Scotland rugby coach says his | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
focus is solely on winning their final Six Nations match and not on | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
how high his team finishes on the table. The Scots are in Dublin for a | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
match against Ireland. Our reporter is there as well. When | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
else to be on St Patrick's Day but Dublin? For the Scotland players | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
arriving here this afternoon, the Scotland players arriving here this | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
afternoon, they focuses less on revelry and more on the Irish rugby. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
It will be difficult. Ireland have just come off a winning victory | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
against Italy. They have been preparing for this game. It is | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
against Italy. They have been exciting to be able to have another | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
good opponent in cricket. He makes three changes for the match this | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
weekend. With Ben Russell ruled out, Douglas Weir comes in for his first | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
out of the tournament. I feel very excited about the opportunity. Going | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
to Dublin last year it is a big challenge, but one I'm looking | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
forward to. Scotland can finish second in the championship if | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
results go their way this weekend and it can rise to seventh in the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
world, but the head coach is not keen to dwell on such thoughts. Just | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
thinking about the game. With less than 40 hours to go until kick-off | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
it is unlikely that the Scotland players will be partying for St | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Patrick's Day. But when here in Dublin on Saturday and there would | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
be a lot to celebrate. Now the weather. Good evening. It | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
was the warmest day of the year so far. Aberdeen reached 19 Celsius. It | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
was colder along the coast where there was Dublin cloud. The cloud | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
with key today. It did burn off to the central belt but many coastal | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
parts remain stubborn. If you ended the day with clear skies and | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
released the first part of the night will be clear and quite cold, but | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
then look cloud will move on. There will be frost in some places, but | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
there will also be cloud and it will be too cold. Tomorrow it will be a | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
grey and cloudy start with some brightness and the south-west. The | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
central lowlands and the East Coast will be grey and cloudy and cold. | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
The central Highlands may see something brighter to start the day. | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
The far north will have thick cloud with low cloud along the coast and | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
the odd spot of drizzle. Through tomorrow at the cloud will thin and | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
break and it will brighten up, although the sunshine will not be | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
widespread. Across the UK as a whole with high pressure continuing the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
West is best in terms of sunshine, Wales and the south-west in Northern | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Ireland and western Scotland will be in double digits with the sun comes | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
out. Where it remains cloudy it will be cold. Into Friday night declared | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
a mystery forms and some drizzle will start to work its way and an | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
across the far north and down the eastern side of the UK. The high | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
pressure is moving westwards. We will start to develop more of a | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
north westerly flow and that will mean more cloud. On Saturday it is | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
grey and cloudy for most of the few spots of drizzle. There will be some | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
drizzle to the south of the hill fog and that is where we like to see | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
things cheering up, but not by much. What pressure will still be with us | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
on Sunday but it will be slowly moving away Livingston weather | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
fronts in the far north with a threat of something wet. That is the | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
forecast. That is Reporting Scotland. From the | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
late team, good night. | :13:31. | :13:32. |