07/06/2016 Reporting Scotland

?2.53 can buy the recommended maximum weekly intake of alcohol.

That figure - from a survey carried out by a charity -came as appeal

court judges in Edinburgh resumed hearing arguments about the Scottish

government's policy of imposing a minimum unit price for alcohol.

Our home affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson reports.

It is a was four years since the Scottish Parliament legislated for a

minimum price of alcohol. But the policy remains in the shell. The

charity alcohol focus Scotland published a survey on how cheap

alcohol can be and found 18p per unit which would always trouble if

they policy of the government were unit which would always trouble if

to be introduced. -- almost trebled. Wine could be bought for 32p per

unit and vodka for 36p. Both would have to increase in price

significantly. It is reignited the garden was before the Court of

Session which resumed its hearing today. The price of most ranks has

not risen in the five years since the last alcohol focus survey and

then a recovering economy that makes it relatively affordable but the

charity says in that period delays the invitation of the minimum

pricing policy have led to further hospital admissions crime and deaths

caused by article. Hundreds of people would not be dead and

hundreds of families not grieving of this policy had been implemented and

fundamentally the Scottish Whisky Association membership have to look

in word and asked themselves as a continuing and prepared to continue

to put profits before the health of the people of Scotland. " The

government lawyer argued alcohol consumption has recently risen and

ministers are concerned it could be a trend that the Scots Whisky

Association said Wallace supports efforts to reduce the harm caused

welcome whole the legislation of the government will not address it. We

believe that lower unit pricing will not tackle the core of the problem

and will not tackle those people in Scotland who drink too harmful and

hazardous levels. There are better and much more targeted approaches

and minimum unit pricing is a blended approach which does not

differentiate between those who drink responsibly, most people in

Scotland, and those who drink drink responsibly, most people in

harmfully or hazardous lake and have a problem with alcohol. The Esther B

Lee urges the court to rule that the government policy would go against

the EU free trade laws and minimum pricing should be strapped.

--The EWA. The minimum amount of our call we should drink each week is 14

units but the unit found a bottle of strong cider at ?3 99 you could get

a week and a House and take of alcohol for less than ?4 and the

government argues that is causing harm to society.

The RMT union says Scotrail guards have voted overwhelmingly in favour

of strike action in a dispute over driver-only trains.

No timetable's been set for industrial action.

That's due to be considered soon by the union executive.

But ScotRail management question the support for a strike.

Nearly half of our people and not in him all of strike action. -- are not

in favour. That is no surprise. I have already gone out and guaranteed

the number of jobs for employees and no one will lose their jobs and pay

and conditions will be gun teed as will the future of the role of a

conductor in Scotland. It is about safety and we want to ensure that

Scotland's trains will run safely and by removing the guard from the

train that ensures that Scotland's trains do not run safely and if, God

forbid, there is collision or the real meant there will be no one

responsible on the train to ensure that passengers leave the train

safely. A former head of the Navy has

said the UK government "must come clean" -

and admit a lack of money is delaying a ship-building

programme on the Clyde. Unions have warned that

if work on the new warships Here's our business correspondent,

David Henderson. It is here they build

the navy's warships, like this one, under wraps

while it is under construction. But for workers on the Clyde yards,

the The question on their

minds is this - when will they start

building the next generation Massive vessels designed

to hunt submarines. They had expected to start cutting

steel for those ships here later this year, but that

timetable appears to have slipped. MPs want to know why,

prompting this broadside There is almost no money extra

available this year, and we are The Government are not

coming clean about I think, if they did,

people would understand. The British people are not stupid,

but to pretend, no, we're going to order these,

there are problems of design and things, it is being economical

with the It has been a busy few years

at the Clyde shipyards, building sections of

two aircraft carriers. They have been moved

to Now they are building much smaller

ships for the Royal Navy, five of these offshore patrol

vessels, but that work can The Government said 13

frigates will be built by BAE Systems here

on the Unions want a delay could be

catastrophic, but the company made clear today they don't

want to lay off staff. We are fortunate that we have

the carrier programmes, and we would like to explore how we can

use our employees on the Clyde to support those programmes

if there were to be The UK Government says its spending

?8 billion in the next decade on warships -

much of it here. But that is unlikely

to calm its critics. David Henderson, Reporting Scotland,

Glasgow. Scotland's new Lord Advocate James

Wolffe has been sworn in at a ceremony in the Court

of Session in Edinburgh. He takes over from Frank Mulholland,

who stepped down at The EU referendum debate has just

over two weeks to go. The argument - to leave or remain -

is raging in some But in Scotland it's

far less visible. So, we sent our political

correspondent, Glenn Campbell, Today in England, Boris and his bus

are battling for Leave. With David Cameron

countering for Remain. While Nigel Farage

is campaigning for out,

the Liberal Democrats are among Meanwhile, in Scotland,

there is nothing like the Not much going on, nothing

coming in the door. Election fatigue could be one

factor, we have at the European Parliament election,

the independence referendum, the UK general election, the Scottish

Parliament election, and now this EU referendum, five big votes

in less than two years. That is not to say that

nothing is happening. A lonely flitter targeting Edinburgh

commuters this morning, on the day Hollywood journalists heard this

campaigner argue that leaving the EU would make the Scottish

Parliament more powerful. Agriculture would come back

and a GoalControl, but in fishing, when you start

to manage fishing areas, then you have a real sign

of the industry being totally But the Remain sides say staying

within the EU is better for All of our business

organisations, the farmers be' union, the whisky industry,

they are saying they want to stay part of it, do not

take us out of it. Two years ago, the independence

referendum was There was so much vigour to that

campaign, the public was so involved, and in Scotland

you would barely know there is a EU A few reasons, the EU is not

something that people feel as passionately about as Scottish or

British nationalism, and I think it But both sides are

arguing their case in local debates, like this one held

by the Church of Scotland, which you can attend if you are anywhere

near their London outpost. Scotland's largest solar farm has

been officially unveiled.55,000 panels have been installed

on the 70-acre site Scotland's largest solar farm has

been officially unveiled.55,000 panels have been installed

on the 70-acre site The 13-megawatt scheme on the Errol

estate will provide enough It is key for Scotland have both

solar and wind to balance the great so we have sold in the summer and

winter in the winter predominantly and if you put them together it

tells great more of a balanced grader. -- great.

The Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Erraid Davies will face

a medical panel tomorrow to assess whether she is eligible to take part

The 15-year old swimmer from Shetland became

the youngest-ever Commonwealth Games medallist at Glasgow 2014.

Davies has a disease, which affects her hip bones and joints.

She was told by a classification panel in April that her impairment

was not serious enough for her to compete.

Flash flooding has affected parts of Scotland disrupting roads

and some rail services.These pictures were taken

in Penicuik in Midlothian - where heavy rain led to streams

of water running along roads and pavements before entering some

Train services between Inverness and Perth were disrupted for a time -

It's over to Judith now with the weather forecast

Tonight it is dry with cloud increasing everywhere and it will be

fairly mild. This is so tomorrow morning starts and we will see some

coastal mist towards West Coast. Low cloud affecting many parts of the

country be quite quickly that starts to burn off as we had through the

morning. It will be quite mild and muddy start of the day through

southern Scotland central lowlands the North feeling fresher. For the

Northern Isles it will be a predominantly dry day with some

sunshine for Shetland but we will see one or two showers for me. As

far as the rest of the morning goes, it stays merely dry with better

sunny through but then we start to see a few sharp showers picking at

the West mainly over the high grounds with the likes of the

Galloway hills and the Southern uplands and the West Highlands so to

all intents and purposes it will be a dry and by day with a wee bit of

coastal mist along these coast. A lovely day for Northern Ireland was

a line of quite potent showers across western areas and again

mainly high ground feature but for most will be dry and sunny with warm

temperatures as well across southern England around 24 or 25 Celsius or

26 for London. The lad nagging could not easily breeze egging

temperatures right back in the same goes here back in Scotland. But for

us we will see high is potentially of 23 Celsius for the south-west and

a pleasant 18 or 19 degrees. As far as the rest of the afternoon and

evening goes a few shows which will die away and will be dry overnight

with some cloud. He was the picture for the rest of the week.

High-pressure holding for Thursday and is a lot of dry weather but then

waiting in the wings quite a switch to pressure weather with Atlantic

blows coming and bringing outbreaks of rain. Let's enjoy Thursday while

we can. It will brighten up with sunny spells and another warm day

pretty much everywhere. Our next update is during Breakfast

at 6.25 tomorrow morning.