19/04/2016 Reporting Scotland

A group of senior UK Independence Party activists

are calling for their leader in Scotland -

In a letter to party bosses - seen by Reporting Scotland -

the group warns that unless a new spokesman

is appointed their Holyrood election campaign will be damaged and the EU

Here's our political correspondent Glenn Campbell.

plant in Edinburgh on the day he published its Holyrood manifesto but

the smiles mask deep divisions inside this party. At the end of

February ten key activists in Ukip Scotland including five local party

chairman wrote to party bosses in London complaining about

dysfunctional management of Ukip Scotland and calling for the

leadership team to be cleared out without action, they said Ukip's

Holyrood election campaign would be seriously impaired and its efforts

in the EU referendum campaign would be jeopardised. Waiting to grasp the

opportunity... Ukip's regional organiser in Scotland is Kevin

Newton. The letter says he has failed and should be replaced. Ukip

Scotland's chairman stood down after being charged with making indecent

phone calls. The letter says he should be neither seen nor heard

until the court case is resolved. Euro MP David Cockburn is Ukip's

leader in Scotland. The letter says he is not suited to being the

Scottish face of the Brexit campaign and should be replaced as lead

spokesperson. This former Ukip activist in Glasgow agrees that

change is needed at the top. The party's really autocratic,

it is a pure dictatorship, so there will be no change

in Scotland unless the top Despite the criticism David Coburn

continues to make the case No action appears to have been

taken by UK party bosses. He is colourful, he is larger than

life. He just occasionally says things

that perhaps he might regret later. When you're a small party with no

prospect of being elected to When you rise in the polls

and people can see there's the prospect of getting elected

into Hollyrood all sorts Mr Cockburn dismisses the criticism

as nonsense from a disgruntled minority -- Cockburn. Something, no

longer party members. He is expected to be joined by Nigel Farage on the

campaign trail in Inverness tomorrow, as both are ready to face

as many questions about Ukip as they fight for seats in Scottish

Parliament. The majority of Edinburgh schools

closed amid building safety fears have resumed teaching -

though many at The final 600 affected

pupils restart tomorrow, The delayed restart for 17 schools

with structural defects Thousands of children sent

to different classrooms around Their own school buildings

are too dangerous to open. Because it has been here longer

and we have more fun. It feels awkward being bussed

all over the city but I am glad It takes time to transport

the children at rush hour, It might be fun for the children

but one week extra holiday at Easter has meant extra childcare costs

and more time off work for many families, and now there are fresh

concerns how this disruption I am more scared today

about them going on coaches. It is a pain but I would rather

they were safe than in harms way. The education will be spoilt

because they have to travel. Warm welcomes from many schools

but this school had yet another day At first it seemed the impossible

task, the area we were in was full of rubbish and was not clean

and did not look like classrooms, but thanks to the staff it's been

transformed into a lovely school. The school buildings affected

are owned and managed by Edinburgh Again no update come in a statement,

no interviews from them. We've had to put these operations

in place, there's no doubt of it, not a perfect situation,

clearly disruptive, time to minimise the disruption as far

as we possibly can. Some schools are split over several

locations, their teaching team fragmented, siblings

separated and parents worried there is still no word

when this major displacement Politicians and trades unionists

have pledged to support the 200 workers whose jobs are under threat

at the Carron Phoenix The parent company is planning

to transfer production to Slovakia. Here's our political

editor Brian Taylor. It was Nicola Sturgeon's turn to

address the Scottish TUC delegates behind me. Her theme was a

willingness to intervene in industry to protect jobs were that is

possible. It turned out to be appropriate. What can politicians do

in the face of factory closures and job losses? They concluded that the

Government had intervened to protect Lanarkshire steel jobs. And so when

she met workers from Carron Phoenix here in Dundee she promised to do

all she could while stressing that it would be vital first to gather

the facts. We will do everything possible to secure those jobs and

that is the and I have given to the workers and the trade unions. We

made is a commitment with the steel plants and helping you to secure a

future for them. At this stage I am not going to tell someone that I can

deliver what I don't know yet that not going to tell someone that I can

they can deliver but I will promise to, as we did in steel, though no

stone unturned. -- there is going to be an outcome, ... This is a very

worrying time for people in Aberdeen and full Court and elsewhere where

they are losing jobs. We have to redouble efforts to help people who

have fallen out of work. Help them get the skills and agencies they

need. Long term we have dementia we have government support available

for people all the time. I think the economy in Scotland need a robust

intervention strategy to make sure we are supporting vital industries

in Scotland but we also need to make sure we have got a skilled workforce

and that is what we have got at Carron Phoenix. There are some

excellent workers and we need to support them. We need to invest in

reskilling, retraining, education is at the heart of this. We need to get

all of our government agencies working together on the ground and

the sure are in their singing is there are ways we can take this

forward, whether that is a new buyer or a team to help with the workforce

themselves, but we also need to have a regime in Scotland, a business

regime that supports the companies that are here. And of course the

Scottish TUC here showing their sympathy for the Carron Phoenix

workers and pleading for the support to help them in that regard. In

terms of the election, the focus tomorrow moving on to the SNP

manifesto and I am certain that jobs and the economy will be centre stage

for that as well. The left-wing alliance Rise has

unveiled its manifesto for the Holyrood election -

calling for the Scottish Parliament to have the power to call

an independence referendum They've also detailed their plans

on how they would end austerity Our political correspondent

Andrew Kerr was at the launch All change on the left,

a new alliance of socialists, Rise, grew out of the referendum campaign,

the four letters spelling out what they think

is a radical perspectives. In the manifesto, beginning

with the letter R, how they demand respect and are living income

for unpaid carers. I for independence, they want

Holyrood to have the power to call a second referendum

in the next five years. S is for socialism, a plan

for the richest to pay higher taxes and the scrapping of the council tax

on income-based tax. And the E for environmentalism,

they want free public transport. So the movement turned into a party,

how professional is it? They got the referendum date wrong

in the manifesto introduction, mixed percentage with pense

and they get the threshold wrong Small details, says the party,

look at the bigger picture. Rise offers an alternative,

a manifesto no one else is offering, we are talking about a living wage

to eradicate poverty wages, 100,000 new houses, affordable

housing and a second referendum primarily because that is the big

issue in this election, the big issue in Scottish politics,

and for business. Colin Fox was a socialist MP,

the left in Scotland has Jean is another candidate

with a party past leaving the SNP when it ended

its opposition to Nato. Yet some SNP supporters say this

party risks splitting There was never going to be one

route to independence and I don't believe that one party will ever get

there and I think the SNP The independence referendum

fundamentally changed the political landscape and now the party hopes

voters will rise up to the prospect 450 sheep - worth an estimated

?60,000 - have been stolen The cheviots were taken

sometime between Sunday Police Scotland say the theft

of such a large number of animals would have needed careful planning

and several vehicles. It's over to Christopher now

with the weather forecast Hello. Good evening. A lovely day

from many of us. Blue skies, clear skies, but tonight that means it is

rather chilly. Driver most of the twins. Dawn tomorrow a touch of

frost in countryside. A few light showers but most it is a bright and

sunny start to Wednesday morning. Any mist patches short lived. They

will be gone by most of us being up. Five, six, seven Celsius early

tomorrow morning and some cloud across a good part of the north-west

Highlands. Clouds getting up towards Orkney and Shetland. As we head

through Wednesday, the cloud across the north-west will slowly drifts

out into watersports of Aberdeenshire. Many will see cloud

bubble up through the course of the day. Across the UK, set fair. Plenty

of sunshine. Temperatures up to the mid-teens for the heart of. If it

were a breeze in the coast. -- a bit of a breeze. 12 or 13 Celsius at

best. If you get the sunshine with my twins, lovely. Some brightness to

end the day in the West and showers continuing at times. High pressure

just about holding on on Thursday but retreating westwards. A sign of

change of that but for most it is a dry and settled today. Plenty of

sunshine through central and southern Scotland. Through the

course of the day the cloud tripped southwards. Judge Melville in the

south, maybe 15 Celsius. As we head towards Friday in the weekend, quite

a chilly feel. We will start to see that on Friday. Let's look at the

detail. Temperature wise, six, seven, eight Celsius. Further south

still some sunshine. Cold there with us into the weekend. It will be

chilly at times. With that a number of showers and some of them wintry.

Our next update is during Breakfast at 6:25am tomorrow morning.

But from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow -