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continuing wintry flavour. That's all from the BBC News at six and we

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can join Nicola Sturgeon launches

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the SNP's manifesto, describing it as her job application

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to be First Minister. We look at the state of the Scottish

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economy as the latest figures show a 20,000 thousand rise

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in the number of jobless. Ronnie Deila says he'll leave Celtic

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at the end of the season. One former manager says he'd be

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interested in coming back. Who wouldn't for a job like that?

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I'm not promoting myself for the job. I will leave that to the powers

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that be. Also on the programme,

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hundreds of mourners turn out for the funeral of the Clydebank

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teenager Paige Doherty a month And preventing type one

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diabetes in children - a major trial is set to begin

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in Scotland to try to find the root The SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has

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launched her party's manifesto for the Holyrood elections -

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stressing that she's out to win She said that improved education

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for all would be the "defining mission" of her government,

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if she is returned to power. But she also intends a new campaign

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to build support for independence. This from our political editor,

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Brian Taylor. Is a cute as if for a rock concert.

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The selfies, the programme from government. They loved the support

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act. Waiting in the wings, the boss. No, not Bruce Springsteen, Nicola

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Sturgeon. To the manifesto, big emphasis on early years and support

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for pensioners. They liked both but, from the soles of their shoes,

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Bayern Munich for independence. So how about that second referendum? --

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they yearn for independence. I would like that very much. But she won't

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contemplate it unless there is clear majority support or Scotland is

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taken out of the EU against the popular will, but she plans a new

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campaign to build the backing for men that you prefer independence.

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Among other policies, the manifesto pledges ?750 million extra for

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schools, aimed primarily at helping those from more deprived

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backgrounds. A large chunk of the money goes directly to headteachers,

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effectively bypassing local authorities. There is ?2 billion

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extra for the NHS, a real terms increase, according to SNP leaders.

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They will be a reformed practice for the NHS and more money for mental

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health care and there is ?20 billion for infrastructure to boost economic

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growth in Scotland, roads, railways, schools and broadband. -- ?20

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million. They have raised money from council tax and from scrapping a

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client cap on income tax for higher earners but they have phrased the

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standard rate paid by all and wouldn't increase the top rate. For

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Nicola Sturgeon, this is personal. This bold, ambitious manifesto is

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essentially my job application as I ask people to elect me as First

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Minister, and it is very much a programme for government. This

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election isn't a contest for second place. It isn't a game of chance

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with the electoral system. It ages -- it is a decision about who forms

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the next government and who is the next First Minister. I am asking

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the next government and who is the people on the strength of this

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manifesto to elect me. With new powers for Holyrood, they promised a

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fair Row welfare system and scrapping the bedroom tax. They

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would cast desperate they would cut air passenger duty and they would

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extend the small business bonus so that 100,000 small firms would pay

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nothing in rates. Finally on stage, the backing band, seeking your

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support. The state of the economy is always

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top of the political agenda. This morning new figures

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were published showing that Scotland continues to have a higher

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unemployment rate The jobless total increased

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by 20,000 in three months. In a moment we'll find out

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the reaction of the politicians, but first our Business Correspondent

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David Henderson takes a look This engineering plant is a long way

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from the North Sea, but it is still feeling the impact from the collapse

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in the price of oil. It makes high-tech parts for the offshore

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industry, but buyers are saving their cash, so jobs here have been

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lost. Things have got much tougher over the last year. We are a

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fraction of the turnover we've been doing before, and we have lost six

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people from our workforce. We had to make them redundant. Most of our

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competitors have done the same thing. The oil industry has been hit

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hard, bad news for employment. The latest figures in Scotland show the

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number of people out of work and looking for a job rose by 20,000,

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and Scotland's unemployment rate is now higher than it is across the UK

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as a whole. But these problems go beyond the north-east and the

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offshore industry. Scotland's manufacturers have had a difficult

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year, with some of the best-known names like Texas instruments facing

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closure. And Scotland's service sector, which employs the most

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people, has barely grown. Perhaps surprisingly, given that you might

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think this would be concentrated in the oil industry, the figures for

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women are worse than for men. So this doesn't augur well going into

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the future. So, as our big employers faced big challenges, what scope is

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there for small-scale job creation? At this event in Glasgow today,

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entrepreneurs and community groups were talking shop, using old, empty

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buildings for new ventures and jobs in uncertain times. This is

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happening all over the world and maybe if we actually recognise that

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and go, we are living in one of the most volatile economic times, we

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need to be more flexible and allow innovation. We can't hark back to

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the past, with people saying, wouldn't it be good if Woolworths

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came back? That's gone. This engineering firm is taking up the

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challenge, looking for orders beyond the oil industry. The question now,

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can other Scottish employers and its workforce do the same?

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I'm joined now from Edinburgh by our political editor Brian Taylor.

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This a pretty key issue in the election, isn't it?

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That is right. You can see Edinburgh behind me, and the issue of the

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economy, the issue of employment and that of growth, those issues

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combined will play a very large role in deed in determining who forms the

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Scottish Government in the capital behind me. Today, the parties were

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setting out their stalls. The opposition parties saying the SNP's

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economic programme was wrong, that they had the balance wrong. The SNP

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dissent, not surprisingly. We are operating in a turbulent global

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economy and we can see all of the international reports about the

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difficulties. That has an effect on the Scottish economy but what we can

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try and do is take measures and initiatives that try and improve

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employment prospects of people here. We have been successful in a variety

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of areas, where we have staved off closures. It is a worrying set of

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statistics coming off the back of high profile job losses. We must we

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statistics coming off the back of double our efforts to support people

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who have lost their jobs, which is why the Labour Party is advocating a

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new agency to help people get into work and also support people in work

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to get on in work. The increase in unemployment is concerning. It shows

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how reliant we are on the North Sea and how much of a folly it would

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have been to rely on that for independence. That is why we need

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now to invest in the skills and talents of people who live and work

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in Scotland. That way, we can grow the economy. There is a clear

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difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK, and that will only

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get wider if we make Scotland the highest taxed part of the UK. That

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will put off the jobs, investment and growth that we need. We heard

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the SNP manifesto today. How many more to go? Just over two weeks to

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go. We expect the Labour manifesto a week today, just a week from

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polling. Today, the focus was primarily on the SNP, given that it

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was the launch of their manifesto, a big moment in the campaign. From now

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on, for the next two weeks in a day, all of the parties have their

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opportunity to convince people, to persuade and to cajole. After that,

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it is make your mind up time. Still to come on tonight's programme

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- the major medical trial aimed at preventing Type One

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diabetes in children. And tonight's sport comes from

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Celtic park as the Scottish champions begin their search for a

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new manager, but who are the potential candidates?

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The mother of Clydebank teenager Paige Doherty

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has urged those angered by her death to put their energy

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into remembering a "beautiful smiling girl".

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Pamela Munro paid tribute to her daughter during a funeral service

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at St Margaret's Catholic Church in Clydebank,

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which came almost a month after the 15-year-old's body was found.

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600 friends and relatives of Paige Doherty gathered at Saint Margaret

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's Catholic Church in Clydebank for her funeral. Bright colour was the

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theme of the service, which focused on the happy moments of the

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15-year-old's life. My daughter had a smile across her face every day

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and that is how she should be remembered. There is no room for

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evil. There is no disputing that Paige was taken from us in a cruel

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way but they take comfort in knowing she is in a safe and happy place

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where nobody can hurt her. Sleep tight. Keep dancing in the sky and

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show them what an angel is. Paige's body was found in Clydebank on the

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21st of March, two days after she went missing. After the service, she

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21st of March, two days after she was taken for a private burial. A

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31-year-old man, John Leathem, has appeared in court charged with

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murder. A trial has heard a young boy

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describe how he was punished by two In a filmed interview,

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the child said Rachel and Nyomi Fee forced him to take cold showers

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if he wet the bed The women deny murdering

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two-year-old Liam Fee in Joanne Macaulay's

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report distressing. The jury watched a recording of the

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young boy when he was being interviewed by a police officer and

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a social worker in the weeks after the death of Liam Fee. This is the

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same child who earlier told interviewers he had strangled Liam

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but later said he had made it up. The child said he wasn't allowed to

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go to the toilet during the night but, if he wet the bed, he had to

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take a cold shower which made him shape. He said he had been smacked

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on the bare bottom and made to drip dry in the hallway and sometimes

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gets nothing to eat for the rest of the day. He described sleeping in a

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cot in his underwear with no cover. Earlier, the child spoke about when

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he realised that toddler Liam Fee was dead. The boy said, I saw it.

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Rachel and Nyomi Fee deny murdering Liam Fee and hurting two other boys.

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The trial continues. The final pupils affected

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by the Edinburgh school buildings crisis have returned

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to classes this morning. Around 600 first to third year

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students from Craigmount High School were bussed to temporary locations

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around the capital. 17 schools have been fully or partly

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closed since the Easter break College lecturers have

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given their overwhelming backing Last month, they staged a national

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one-day strike over both the planned pay rise and the disparities

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between how much lecturers earn But members of the EIS

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Further Education Lecturers' Association voted by a margin of 96%

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to 4% to accept a revised A major medical trial

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is set to start in Scotland aimed at preventing type one

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diabetes in children. If successful the study

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could challenge long-established thinking on what lies

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behind the disease. Here's our Health Correspondent

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Eleanor Bradford. Kyle's dad has type one diabetes.

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Kyle is one of the first to sign up to a massive trial which wants to

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trace every child in Scotland who has a close relative with the

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condition. My dad has to take insulin lot of the time, three times

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a day, before he goes out. We were at the doctor's and then I saw the

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poster and I was like, hey Mum, we could do that. Kyle will have a

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blood test to see if he is at risk. It Kyle is at high risk of diabetes,

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researchers want to find out whether giving him a common diabetes drug.

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It is developing, offering the first real hope of a preventative

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treatment for childhood diabetes. It is all based on a new theory about

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what causes type one diabetes. Until now, it has been thought it is a

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disorder of the immune system which attacks cells in the pancreas. May

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be the immune system isn't at the front of the sequence that causes

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diabetes. Maybe it is at the back. And maybe modern living factors of

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modern life are stressing the beta cells and they are selling out --

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sending out signals to the immune system that, in certain people, is

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coming and attacking them and finishing them off. Scotland have

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the third highest incidence of type one diabetes in the world. If this

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trial shows drugs can be used to stop it developing, not only were

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thousands of cases be vented, but our understanding of the illness

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will be totally revolutionised. The Ukip leader in Scotland,

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David Coburn, has said his critics in the party

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should consider quitting. On the campaign trail in Inverness,

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Mr Coburn's hit back at the ten senior activists who wrote

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to party bosses calling for him Here's our political correspondent,

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Glenn Campbell. Ukip's larger leader in Scotland has

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Nigel Farage for company in Inverness. The UK party leader

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endorses David Coburn and has little time for those who have demanded his

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replacement. We are on the verge of establishing a toehold in Holyrood.

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Some people who didn't make it are jealous. It happens in every walk of

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life will stop among the critics, Ukip's former treasurer in Lothian,

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who says he acted out of concern for his party's reputation. I look at

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David Coburn in that position and I think that whoever made the decision

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that he is a good candidate, because he clearly isn't, in terms of his

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character and competence. Mr Cockburn's opponents say Ukip is

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dysfunctional in Scotland and, in a letter to party HQ, they blame him

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for bad publicity. After appearing on a BBC debate on immigration, Mr

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Cockburn make comments comparing an SNP government minister to the

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terrorist supporting cleric Abu Hamza. It was a stupid thing to say,

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inappropriate. He apologised but the activist's letter describes this as

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a major gaffe. The document also raises concerns about a strategy to

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undermine the SNP Euro candidate. Tasmania. I will tell you what she

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says. I am sorry, love, I am a patriot. Today, the Cockburn

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insisted he hadn't realised he had used the wrong name. Before arriving

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in Inverness, David Coburn dismissed the criticism as nonsense. He said

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those responsible were a disgruntled minority and that half the group of

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ten had already left the party. Now he wants the other half to think

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about going, too. They should consider their positions. They

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haven't been doing very much for the party. They certainly didn't help me

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get elected and they are not doing anything in this campaign, so quite

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honestly what is the point of them being in the party? David Coburn is

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keeping his job and he doesn't think his party critics will harm his

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chances of hosting future election success.

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The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has dropped

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an investigation into former Scottish Secretary

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In a report into the leaking of a Scottish Office memo

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aimed at damaging SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, Kathryn Hudson said

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Tonight's sport is dominated by events at Celtic Park,

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so let's go there now and join David Currie.

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Good evening. The Scottish champions are in the market for a new manager.

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The club announcing that Ronny Deila is stepping down at the end of this

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The man he took over from, Neil Lennon says he's interested

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in returning to the job - while another former Celtic

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favourite says there is no shortage of big name candidates.

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It's all quiet outside Celtic Park this evening but inside the search

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is on for a new boss. Ronny Deila's days at Celtic were probably

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numbered before they were knocked out of the Scottish cup by Rangers

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but with only three of them between that and the announcement that he is

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quitting, saying,... The team are eight points clear in

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the title race with five games to play. Ronny Deila led them to the

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premiership title in his first season. Crucially, under him, they

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have failed to qualify for the Champions League. Have performances

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been good enough this season? They haven't. Europe, Celtic have failed

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time and time again in the big games. His predecessor played in a

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charity golf event today, throwing his hat into the ring as a potential

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successor. I think you're far better of with experience at both clubs. As

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five and a half years as a manager, I have the experience. Another

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former Celtic favourite says there are plenty of candidates. David

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Moyes is one of the big beasts out there. He is out of work and after a

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big statement in Spain, he has been tremendously successful in Everton.

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Celtic supporters clearly have their own views on succession. Neil Lennon

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leaving broke me. If anyone comes back, I hope it is him or Henrik

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Larsson. Ronny Deila retained the premiership title would afford him

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one last hurrah. -- if he retained. Has this act acknowledged that the

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experiment with Ronny Deila has failed? I think it probably does.

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The question is why it has failed. He was unveiled two years ago and it

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was seen as a bold, gamble. He was progressive, he had ideas about diet

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and bringing young players through. As a Celtic manager, you have two

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win the league, play attractive football, the fans demand it, you

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have to regularly make the Champions League group stages. He is going for

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the second lead in a row. The fans weren't keen with the football being

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played here but, most importantly, the board were unsure whether Ronny

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Deila could make the Champions League this year. That is probably

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the catalyst why he is leaving. What are you hearing regarding

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succession? There will be no manager named until Ronny Deila has gone.

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Celtic want to concentrate on the league. There will be a list. Some

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names will be further up than others. Pretty near the top or at

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the top will be David Moyes. He is the favourite. If he wants the job,

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I suspect he will get the job. Aston Villa are also keen on him. We have

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heard from Neil Lennon, Robbie Keane, Malki Mackay. There is

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pressure on the board to get it right. Because their experiment

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hasn't worked, they need to get it right. Time to go and get your cap.

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Plenty more on this on BBC Radio Theatre. That's it from me. As that

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taxi disappears into the sunset, so will I.

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Well you can hear lots more discussion on who might be

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the next Celtic manager on BBC Radio Scotland's

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Now here's Shelly with details of how you can be part

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of the audience in a forthcoming Scotland 2016 debate.

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I will be holding our last debate, this time on the subject of housing.

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If you want to go on the debate, fill out an application form on our

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website. What can I say? What a day. Did we all share such a nice day

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today? Was it just Scotland. Beautiful blue skies like this one

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and our weather watchers have been sending in their snaps from the

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North to the south of the country. The clear skies will mean it is

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rather chilly in the countryside tonight. Through northern parts, a

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few spots of light rain or drizzle. Most of the mainland is dry and

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clear and at times chilly. Town and city temperatures around three or

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four Celsius. In the countryside, colder than that. High pressure is

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still with as tomorrow. Another largely dry day. Some sunshine on

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offer for Central and eastern parts of the country. In the north and the

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Highlands and Islands, a bit of cloud moving in. The cloud building

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up through the Borders and in towards the central belt, in towards

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Tayside. After a cloudy start, bright and sunny in the north-east.

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Not as warm, as areas further south. Into the evening, the cloud melts

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away. Some evening sunshine and a great sunset. The high pressure that

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has been our friend the last couple of days turns into our foe. It moves

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westwards. In doing so, it drags in colder air from the north. That is

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going to bring in the cold northerly wind. A different feel to the end of

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the week. A few showers possible in northerly areas. Holding into double

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the week. A few showers possible in digits in the south-west. Chilly to

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start the weekend. A number of showers in the East. That's it from

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others. Good night.

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