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Nicola Sturgeon says voting for Brexit could mean a Tory

Leave campaigners dismiss it as desperate scare tactics.

Unemployment falls for the first time in four months,

but a leading economic forecaster predicts things could get

The macro benefits is just no good, especially when you've got children.

Experts question whether the Scottish Government's ambitious

plans to transform how women are imprisoned will succeed

And we'll tell you why this women has made Scottish sporting history.

The First Minister has provoked fierce controversy by claiming that

leaving the European Union would result in a Right-wing

Conservative government imposing further austerity upon Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon said the outcome would be cuts in Scottish spending

But Jim Sillars, the former SNP Deputy Leader,

accused her of resorting to Tory-style scare tactics.

This from our political editor Brian Taylor.

Political war but not as we know it. Rival flotillas in the Thames. Nigel

Farage backing Brexit for a fishing fleet in proud Titanic style. Bob

Geldof not impressed. You are no fishermen's friend! Stop lying! Cue

Euro Scots MP... Is all right for millionaires! Alistair Darling backs

George Osborne as the Chancellor warns of tax rises and spending cuts

after Brexit because the economy would slump. Nicola Sturgeon reckons

it won't be down to him. She says Brexit would oblige the Prime

Minister and Chancellor to resign, paving the way for Boris Johnson and

Michael Gove to govern with a right wing agenda. I think that raises

real concerns about workers' writes, wing agenda. I think that raises

about public spending and it would hit Scotland hard, so if you don't

want to come out of the EU and use the benefits of the single market

and workers' rights, but also if you don't want to see that kind of

political direction, it is really important to vote Remain. This is

about the future of our country and for young people and that's why I

think we have to remain. The Nicola Sturgeon, this is a political tactic

and narrowing of tactic. It is setting the Conservatives to one

side and instead issuing a direct dog was an appeal to those who

dislike Conservative rule and suspect or emotive. In essence, it

is saying David Cameron and the Tory leadership must deal with their own

camp and the others in Remain will appeal to those who are on

intuitively anti-Conservative. Enter a nationalist from the left and four

reads -- former Tory MSP from the right, both backing Leave. She is an

excellent First Minister and I have respect for her but I am extremely

disappointed she is now adopting the same tactic

as Cameron and company, which is to try to bribe people onto the Remain

side out of unjustified fears. I don't see why there needs to be

all right when Conservative government. I simply see that there

would have to be a government with credibility because new people might

come in who have not been making ridiculous scare stories. Questions

to the Prime Minister... But this European question has already moved

well beyond the Commons to the countries that comprised the UK.

The number of people in work in Scotland has fallen,

while it's risen across the UK as a whole.

And one of the country's leading economic forecasters has warned that

Our business correspondent David Henderson reports.

Looking for work can be a challenge. Lorraine wants a job in a shop or

cafe. But it is a frustrating search. Just got to keep trying,

keep going and going at it. You don't get anywhere if you don't try,

I suppose. Does it get you down? It does, it does, because I would like

better for my wee boy. It would be better with a job than on benefits.

But the situation is made worse by the situation on the high streets

with unemployment refusing to grow. Unemployment has fallen but

Jobcentres like this are still in demand. The latest figures show

160,000 people across Scotland are out of work and looking for a job.

Centres like this one in Glasgow have changed over the years. They

advertise most jobs online now and help with training and matching

workers with available work. In my area at the moment, we are seeing

lots of jobs in the contact sector centre which call centre type jobs,

and we are seeing sector jobs and we work very closely with a lot of the

hoteliers in the city centre as well as small businesses, and we are

seeing care jobs and retail vacancies. The crash in the oil

price has hammered the offshore industry and led to thousands of job

losses onshore. The result, a fall in Scotland's employment rate. The

UK economy is performing better than Scotland as we see from today's

unemployment and labour figures, but by and large, Scotland is doing

quite a bit worse, and this is why the unemployment figure has risen in

quite a bit worse, and this is why Scotland and why the gap is now

wider since 2004. So can the new powers coming to Holyrood be used to

boost the sluggish economy? Someone it is an urgent challenge.

Apologies, we have lost the picture on that report.

The Education Secretary says he wants unions to suggest ways

John Swinney was speaking ahead of the result of a ballot

Meanwhile, the Government has been hosting a summit on raising

Opposition parties took part, along with a wide range of people

The Government says it's seeking a consensus on the way forward.

Its critics believe this is unlikely.

Police divers have been searching the River Clyde

in Glasgow city centre, as efforts continue to trace

a deaf woman who has been missing since the weekend.

Kirsty Aitchison, who's 30, left Campus bar at 3am on Sunday morning.

CCTV footage later showed the mother-of-four walking barefoot

"quickly and with purpose" by the river.

Experts have questioned whether plans to transform the way

women are imprisoned in Scotland will succeed in lowering

Under the proposals, Cornton Vale will be replaced

by a much smaller prison and five new community-based custodial units.

But in a BBC investigation to be broadcast tonight,

critics claim similar schemes have failed elsewhere.

Scotland has one of the highest rates of female imprisonment in

northern Europe. Now new plans are underway to transform the way we

deal with female offenders. Written Mac will close and women will be

placed in five new custodial units where they will be more closely

integrated with the local communities. -- Carlton failed. They

want to look like prisons, they will look like the buildings around them,

so they won't have bars or wire. Within the units woman will live in

small flat houses. In Canada, units like this have been in use for the

last 20 years but campaigners say overcrowding and failure to

rehabilitate the women means they have failed. When we were embarking

on this initiative in Canada, it was cast as one of the best reform in

initiatives internationally. 26 years on, I would have to say it has

not been a dismal failure but pretty darn close. Here, other alternatives

like this project in Glasgow are hailed as more effective than

custody. As far as I was concerned, it was like a holiday camp. But this

place, it changed my life completely. The Scottish Government

is being urged to divert more cash towards projects like this. The

Justice Secretary says there is for both. Nobody has actually achieved

what we're trying to which even with the new community-based approach

that we want to take here in Scotland. We've already had a

gradual shift of that Budget into the community and small though it

has been, it is important of a signal of the intent of where we

want to go to. The authorities. Moving women out of here in the

summer. The new custodial units will be ready by 2020.

And Women Prisoners: Throw Away the Key?,

presented by Helena Kennedy QC, is on BBC One Scotland

An oil supply ship has been detained at Aberdeen Harbour for nonpayment

The Malaviya Seven will stay at port until the workers are paid,

according to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

The RMT union says 15 people onboard have not been paid

A second vessel has been held in Great Yarmouth

The Malaviya had been on charter to BP.

A ?10,000 reward is being offered for information leading police

to the killers of Aberdeenshire man Brian McKandie.

The charity Crimestoppers is offering the cash more than three

months after the body of the 67-year-old was found

at his home near Rothienorman, on the 12th of March.

He'd been beaten to death with a heavy weapon.

Police want to speak to two men seen speaking to Mr McKandie

Now, let's go back to the EU referendum campaign.

Polls suggest that voters in England are keener on leaving

the European Union than voters north of the border, with

We've sent our reporter Steven Godden to one bit

of the Midlands which retains a Scottish influence.

It does. The statue behind me is the Corby steelworker and a prominent

reminder in the town centre of the industry that brought so many Scots

to the town. So much so that it was dubbed Little Scotland, a tag that

stock, but it's also more than five hours Drive from the Scottish border

and in the context of the EU referendum, that's a very different

environment, so when it comes to Corby Scots casting their vote, does

geography or history play any part? If you look and listen carefully,

the Scottish influence is clear. But with the date fast approaching, how

does Corby's experience of the EU referendum compare? I want the

chance to vote for it, too. In the town's Theatre, they are exploring

it on stage. Corby is a very diverse town and there are many people who

have come from other places to help the town grow and it might be that

it has a particular kind of insight about EU debate that you might not

get in other places and maybe not in Scotland, but certainly they are

very energised about it here in Corby.

ARCHIVE: The gigantic machine is shifting man across the field...

Decades ago, Corby's steel industry was a magnet for Scots looking for

work. Today, people arrive from different directions. Immigration is

a big talking point. They are coming in their thousands now, lots of

people, and we have more eastern European voices that you hear, more

than the English voices, and I think it's widespread. You've got to

remember that if it wasn't for economic migrants, Corby wouldn't be

here because it was built on economic migrants. And I think

people have got a short memory. At this butcher 's, business is the

priority. Scotland is an important market. The owner is mindful of a

possible Scottish dimension to the EU result. If the second referendum

comes and Britain decides to leave the EU, then I think that

personally, businesses in Corby that deal with Scotland would definitely

sit up and listen. Corby has already voted to leave the EU, albeit in an

unofficial referendum held last year. The remaining campaign

dismissed that as nothing more than an attempt to grab headlines. --

Remain camp. But the capital's voice with its distinctive cock --

Scottish twang will be heard for real.

This lady has just made Scottish sporting history.

She's 22-year-old Jade Konkel and today became the country's first

She's already a regular for the national women's team

but says turning pro is a dream come true.

Hundreds of professional rugby players have walked down the tunnel

at Murrayfield, but until now they have all been men, but that is why

Jade is unique. My dream has turned into reality and it is a massive

Jade is unique. My dream has turned opportunity and one I did not

expect, but I am thoroughly excited. There are couple of thousand rugby

players who are female in Scotland and the RFU wants to increase

number. It is about providing aspirational models for young girls

in the game and the more we can do the creating full-time opportunities

for women in the game and the success of our national team, that

will die participation in the game at grassroots level. Scotland's team

lost all their matches last year, if Jade can inspire young women to take

up the sport, perhaps in the longer term the results will improve. Our

colleagues are looking to get more girls playing at school level and

under age level and will allow them to start the journey early and end

up at the same level as Jade and in the national team. Jade is giving up

her job as a care worker for the life of a professional athlete and

she says it is the beginning of a new chapter in Scottish rugby

history. It is a massive step in the investment we are getting is huge

and it is the beginning of a journey and it will have lots of stories to

The 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival is now under way.

The event opens tonight with the world premiere

The film tells the story of a father and son who,

despite very different views, both made golf the professional

The director, Jason Connery, says he drew on his own relationship

In this particular instance, rather like I guess me and my father,

although I am more directing, we are both in the same profession and

there is a certain amount of synchronicity there. But I think as

a director whenever you tell a story you really related to flee from a

personal aspect, whatever story you are telling.

A long-lost prehistoric figurine has been rediscovered after it went

The object which has been nicknamed the Skara Brae Buddo turned up

Meet Buddo, over 5000 years old he is one of the earliest

representations of a human ever found in Britain. First discovered

in the 1860s, just over 50 years later it had completely vanished. It

is assumed it remained in a collection right the way up until

the 1930s, but when that collection was disbursed amongst several

museums there was no record of it going to any of those museums. It

was assumed lost since then. It was found hiding in a previously

unopened box and instantly found hiding in a previously

recognisable for a sketch made by George Petri. It takes its name from

an arcadian word for a friend. It is one of only two sites in Scotland

were such figurines have been found, Skara Brae. The Orkney Venus was dug

up back in 2009. At ten centimetres tall Buddo is the first discovered

made of whalebone. Archaeologists are now trying to work out what its

purpose may have been. The idea of it being an idol is something quite

common in a lot of Victorian and early 20th century thought. We are

not really sure, it may even have been a toy, or it could have been a

representation of somebody or even a household god or an idol like the

Victorians thought. Orkney has many famous sons, George Mackay Brown and

the Arctic explorer Sean Rae. While Buddo might have been doing its best

to avoid that list for a while, it looks like that might all be set to

Now here's Shelley, with details of Scotland 2016.

Tonight Scottish vote leave accuse the First Minister of Project free

after she warns Brexit vote could risk a right wing Tory takeover. And

why do a woman's chances of going to jail depend on where she lives. Join

I would like sunshine and a heatwave.

Let's have a look. It has been very cloudy and there is a bank of cloud

and there are a few thunderstorms around. The best of the sunshine in

the Northern Isles. This picture comes from Shetland. Tonight it is

cloudy and damp for most. There is surface water and spray on the

roads. Generally overnight it is cloudy and damp with outbreaks of

rain almost anywhere. Temperatures are holding into double digits for

most. Tomorrow low-pressure is with us and it is bringing more outbreaks

of rain, but not as heavy as today. It is another cloudy day, the rain

most likely in the north, but in the central belt as well. As we head

into the afternoon, through the central and southern bit of

Scotland, cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Tayside is generally drier

than today. Further west towards Inverness and the North West it is

cloudy and down. The Western Isles and the Northern Isles are

reasonably dry. Into the evening and the rain continues to ease off and

pulls away and on Friday it is just affecting you Eastern coastal path.

Some brightness coming through. To the weekend and a couple of dry days

in store. There is a weather front edging in, but most of the rain has

gone, so it should be dry. On Saturday it is dry with some

sunshine. The wind is coming from the north, so a cool feel.

Mid-teens, and on Sunday it is the second Friday for everybody. It will

Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.

The First Minister has provoked fierce controversy by claiming that

leaving the European Union would result in a Right-wing Conservative

government imposing further austerity upon Scotland.

But Jim Sillars, the former SNP Deputy Leader,

accused her of resorting to Tory-style scare tactics.

Police in the US state of Florida say the search for a two-year-old

boy who was snatched by an alligator at a hotel near Disney World is now

The child was dragged into the water whilst paddling

in a lagoon at the Disney-owned resort in Orlando.

I'll be back with the late bulletin just after the News at Ten.