22/06/2016 Reporting Scotland

The two sides in the EU referendum campaign make their final pitches

There is a choice between remaining on the fringes of an unreformed and

unreformable EU. Or taking control of our own destiny. If you want to

see an outward looking country, part of the world's biggest single

market, working with other countries to tackle big issues, vote to

remain. Also on the programme,

The convicted drug smuggler, Melissa Reid, is on her way back

to Britain after being released We hear from the man who gave up

a dream life in the music industry to care for his mum

after she got dementia. Gordon Strachan says

despite not qualifying for the Euros his Scotland team

is better than some And life after the oil industry -

the workers made redundant who are now finding

unlikely new careers. have issued a joint statement

backing a Remain vote But on this final day

of campaigning, Scottish Here's our political

correspondent, Glenn Campbell. A late surge of energy in an

otherwise lacklustre Scottish campaign. Up remained dance at

Holyrood but Vote Leave say it is too early to party because UK

opinion polls are close. Scottish votes could be decisive. So, on the

last day, In campaigners gathered in Glasgow and a statue of Donald Dewar

as his deputy and all of his successors as first Minister confirm

support to remain. I am off to Benidorm! The current first Minister

said that leaving the EU would make travel and trade harder. I want

people to remain in the EU tomorrow with passion to protect the jobs and

people to remain in the EU tomorrow investment that come with being part

of the single market, to protect freedom of travel but also to

protect our place in the world. To remain a country that is outward

looking and. One that shuts itself. Remain campaigner is like the first

Minister think that continued membership of the EU, with access to

its single market, is the best way to protect jobs and respiratory but

those on the Leave side believe that outside the European Union, the UK,

including Scotland, but trade more freely around the world. The EU is

an important market but not the most important but it is important but

once were outside we can still sell into the single market, we would not

have to burden every single company in Scotland with a regulation that

comes with that. Some want to see the back of the EU. To give the UK

more control over fishing, farming and immigration. In -- the EU is a

catastrophe, it is undemocratic, commissioners ruling the

bureaucracy, or that has no power, it is not a democratic organisation.

We are not ruled by Parliament, we are ruled by property. Fresh from

her television clash with Boris Johnson, a Scottish Tory leader

argued this was not a referendum on border control. You are more likely

to be treated at hospital by somebody from the EU land be behind

them in the queue, you don't solve immigration by crushing the economy.

Coming out of the EU will damage the economy. Tomorrow is not the date to

cast a protest vote... In London, a final plea from Labour while on the

doorsteps in former Scottish Labour heartlands, the last push to trade

support for turn three. Jeffrey side wins, and this referendum the public

and not politicians call the tune. On our relationship with the EU. If

you think Scotland has heard a lot from politicians over the past

couple of years, you are right. Voters here are being asked to make

a choice for the fifth of the European Parliament, MPs,

MSPs, and not least the question With another trip to the ballot box

tomorrow, here's our political correspondent, Andrew Kerr,

with a summary of the main issues It has been a tough fight

controversial elements. The campaign has been characterised by some well

worn arguments. Those wishing to remain in the EU have focused on the

economy, they say a quarter of a million Scottish jobs are linked

with EU trade and voting to leave, they say, would be catastrophic for

the economy. Those who wish to leave take the opposite view. Calling the

EU's system failing and dysfunctional, saying UK trade and

jobs will thrive after a vote to leave. That side has a favourite

topic. Immigration. You will be familiar with the phrase take back

control. The belief is that we will not be able to control our borders

or the level of immigration by staying in the EU and a number of

people coming to the UK is putting a strain on public services. But the

remain camps says immigration is good for the economy and a new deal

means in work benefits for a new EU migrant worker will be limited for

the first non-for years. For us in Scotland, this vote has a

constitutional dimension. The Prime Minister urges vote to remain to

save the UK while the first Minister, who wants independence,

tax that vote also but she has warned that a second independence

referendum could be triggered if the rest of the UK votes to leave the EU

but Scotland does not. However, some who advocate Brexit want Scotland to

remain in the UK while others want the UK out of the EU and Scotland

out of the UK. Got it?! Votes will be cast tomorrow but as we have seen

in Scotland, it might be up for debate whether a referendum actually

settles any argument. I'm joined now by our political

editor, Brian Taylor. Brian, Andrew mentioned

the independence referendum. Is there a sense that many people

here don't feel an emotional connection to this one compared

to how they felt 18 months ago? That is possible, back in 2014 this

referendum in Scotland has been even genteel, very few mass rallies, no

street campaigns or street crowds. Very few having eggs thrown at them.

But we should not allow that to mask the importance of this. For Scotland

and the UK and the EU and noble interconnections. This is crucially

important and every single vote in Scotland is every bit as valid as

every single vote in England. Is it the case that some people will be

voting tactically but for a myriad of reasons? Tactical voting is

almost intrinsic in Scottish politics but there will be a range

of reasons, some people might want to kick David Cameron out of Downing

Street and some might want to give his rivals a bloody nose and in

Scotland some will consider the impact upon the independence

campaign either way and Nicola Sturgeon is aware of that and says

that remaining is the best option in that regard but the thing to bear in

mind is that they made all of this intrinsic, slightly subtle and

nuanced feature, there will be tactical considerations pressing

upon the brains of people but these are not on the ballot paper, it is

simply remain or leave and the Scots vote was in the ad to those piles.

Across the whole of the UK and consider those questions but perhaps

bearing mind a court from Eleanor result used by Nicola Sturgeon in

different context- do what you feel in your heart to be right, you will

be criticised anyway. You will be covering this every step of the way.

Now, in other news, the convicted drug smuggler Melissa Reid

is returning to Scotland from Peru after being freed from jail in Lima.

The 22-year-old, who's from Lenzie near Glasgow,

has been expelled under an early release scheme for first

It contains flash photography. Melissa Reid. The centre of media

attention as she leaves Lima. Out of jail through an early release scheme

for foreign prisoners. Every step taking her closer to the departure

gate. Leaving her drug smuggling sentence behind her. Her father,

Billy, was in Peru once more but this time to bring his daughter

home. At the family house, this'll be a much hope for homecoming. It is

almost three years since Melissa Reid was stopped at Lima airport

with that consignment of cocaine. That is a situation that no parent

wants to face. And this has been a very difficult episode for her

family here. Mr Reid took part in an anti-drug smuggling film for the

foreign office. They bear the heartache of the family. Events such

as Christmas are nonexistent for us, there will be no celebrations. It

was on August 20 13th that his daughter was stopped with

was on August 20 13th that his Michaella McCollum from Northern

was on August 20 13th that his Ireland with 11 kilos of cocaine in

their luggage. Hidden inside food packets, they were heading for

Spain. At first she protested her innocence, saying they were forced

to carry the drugs but they later pled guilty, and receiving a

sentence of six years and eight months. Today, at home, a range of

views on her early release. Everybody deserves a second chance.

She has done her time. Good on her. Six years should be six years

because all it will do is give people the incentive to think, well,

if I can get three years, it is worth it for the risk. I hope she

has learned her lesson and she makes up to her parents for all the

distress she has caused them. In 1983, Sandra Gregory from

Aberdeenshire was in the headlines for trying to smuggle heroin out of

Bangkok. She served sentence in Thailand and Britain using bad

experience, she visits schools to educate the young women and says

that Melissa Reid needs to come to terms with what she did and move on.

My only advice to her Whitby, the honest. Apologise to the people you

need to apologise to and maybe use honest. Apologise to the people you

it for other people, I am getting the tooth to be going around schools

so perhaps Melissa can do that for me. Whatever Melissa Reid decides to

do in Scotland, because her crime was committed abroad, she will have

no official criminal record. An offshore oil and gas company has

announced up to 430 job losses Subsea Seven expects most of them

to be from its Aberdeen operations, It plans to axe 1200

roles worldwide, to leave The company is cutting more

than ?200 million from its costs, and taking some ships out

of its fleet. After giving up a dream life

in the music industry to care for his mum,

who had Alzheimers, Tommy Whitelaw has spent the last

five years touring the country, listening to carers

and advising professionals. Today he addressed hundreds

of nurses at the Royal College Our health correspondent

Eleanor Bradford has been For years, Tommy Whitelaw lived a

hectic life in the music industry. He travelled the world but Kylie

Minogue, the Spice Girls and U2. Then, his mother got dementia. I

think it changed everything about our lives, it has changed me. People

used to phone my mother and did not phone is often an people who would

pop in for a cup of tea, and a chat, they did not pop in. And the

loneliness and isolation has a massive impact on her health. Tommy

struggled to cope on benefits and became isolated from family and

friends. So he went on tour. This is where left for my walk. Around

Scottish towns and cities. To take on the life stories of people. Tommy

spoke to 52,000 people. He gave 474 talks. The latest was today. 200s of

nurses at the Royal of nursing congress in Glasgow. It was a

district nurse, she said, I am going to come here every Friday morning at

ten o'clock, just to make sure both of you are OK. The most beautiful

sentence my heart had ever heard in five and a half years of carrying

sentence my heart had ever heard in former mother. Tommy's mum died in

2012 but his campaign continues, to persuade everyone they can make a

difference. Sometimes people think, what difference can five minutes

make? But sometimes, the only person we saw over one month was when my

mother went to the podiatrist with the clinic or nature, and somebody

came to the house, so those conversations and moments left you

up and make you think, I can get through tomorrow. Or they can knock

you down. There are opportunities you had a knife that a lot of people

would love to have. Working with those bands. Do you think you can go

back to that? I am going to Thoughout the EU referendum campaign

we've attempted to take the temperature of the debate up

and down the country and our final stop tonight is the most westerly

point of mainland Britain. There's been no great

debate about immigration on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula

because depopulation As Jackie O'Brien reports,

more investment to keep people in the crofting

community is a hot topic. The wild peninsula, from where

Canada is the next stop across the Atlantic. This is the windswept

Ardnamurchan lighthouse sitting on the most westerly point of the

British mainland, a world away from where many decisions are made in

Brussels, but people around here are determined to make their thoughts

loud and clear as referendum day approaches. I think we forgotten

about out here, living away here. This man was born and bred in a

nearby village. A crofter, grass cutter and part-time firefighter, he

depends heavily on agricultural subsidies that he believes more

funding is needed to keep people in his community. The price of fuel

here is a lot more than it is in the city, a lot more than in Fort

William or Mole, and that is an island. But you've got to live here,

you know. European development cash has paid for improvements to the

single-track road into the village, but that isn't enough to sway the

undecided voters here. Everybody should look at the wider picture.

You just came down our roads today. They are a disgrace. A lot of

farmers are going to leave because of the subsidies. People are

frightened by what is going on and they are not too sure and they are

thinking, it isn't going to get any worse, so should we just leave? But

the recently restored castle has become a symbol of progress here.

The luxury hotel is owned by businessman Donald Houston, who

believes the EU could benefit from an overhaul. It is by no means

ideal. It's hugely bureaucratic and undemocratic. But you can't change

that if you are outside it, and being part of an economic union or

an economic area, where we've got free trade and movement of people,

is hugely important. Even up here, we wouldn't be able to run the

holiday houses, the hotels would suffer. All the tourist attractions

would suffer without Eastern European is the stuff they are a

vital part of the community. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,

the message resonating from the wise monkey statues. Some advice from

Ardnamurchan perhaps to those accused of scaremongering on both

sides of the debate. Let's get tonight's sport now

and it's over to David. Everyone's talking about

the Euro 2016 in France - including the Scotland manager

Gordon Strachan. He says his Scotland

team is better than some That's despite the fact the Scots

didn't qualify. He says he's looking

forward to the challenge of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup

in Russia, which he He'd rather be in France but his

team didn't make it to Euro 2016, so Gordon Strachan was in Aviemore

promoting a novel sport of foot golf and putting a positive spin on

Scotland's absence from the main event. At that tournament we are as

are as good as and once that are poorer or better us. I know that if

we got there, between the fans in ourselves and the players, we can

make it a better tournament and it is just now. The captain of the

national team is also doing homework, this time for Celtic's

national team is also doing pre-season match against Leicester.

He is of a similar mind. On our day, we have played Germany and Poland

and challenged well. Ireland and Northern Ireland, we have given them

great games in the last couple of years. Sturridge. Cahill couldn't

get off the floor. It is there! England are level. Scotland will

have a chance to prove themselves against two teams who qualified for

Euro 2016 when the World Cup qualifiers begin in the autumn.

England, probably. On the whole, I've probably got the best goal of

the players. Maybe Spain, France, Slovakia eight a few times. They are

strong. Physically strong. Good players. They are going to be hard.

It's going to be a heck of a tournament. A heck of a qualifying

session. We look forward to it. We'll find out how good Scotland are

when the Russia 2018 campaign kicks off in September. That's the

football, not the foot golf. Meanwhile the agent

of Northern Ireland hero Michael McGovern has told BBC

Scotland that clubs in the English Premier League

want to sign the out of contract McGovern was in scintillating form

against Germany last night - taking one for the team

in the process - and if he does leave Hamilton, then Accies chairman

Les Gray hopes it's not to join one That would be more difficult to

take. If there isn't a move for Michael that is attractive enough

for him to move away, then I think that in modern keys could be pushing

the boat out as far as we can do match anything that anybody in

Scotland could offer. The Scotland rugby captain

Greig Laidlaw says the national team have adjusted well

to the high-speed, high-stamina Vern Cotter's men have moved

from Toyota City to Tokyo City ahead of Saturday's second

and final test of the series, After their win last weekend, the

Scots travelled in style to their new home in Tokyo. Hopping aboard

the iconic 200 mile an hour bullet train, which whisked them across

country. Tokyo has been a culture shock with 58 million people in the

greater metropolitan area, and one road crossing where 2000 people

across that each green light during rush hour. One of Japan's's great

industries providing the backdrop for training at this rugby club. In

the back of the minds of the players, the knowledge that when

they play Japan it's a faster game with much more running than they are

used to. There are some hard running metres. A cute boys came up. It was

different to the Six Nations. -- a few boys. I felt we matched them. We

converted a few more opportunities, if we had, we would have come out

with a better scoreline. These games come as Japan gets ready to host the

2019 Rugby World Cup. I went to meet the man in charge.

TRANSLATION: We see the accommodation as a big challenge,

especially here in Tokyo or in the neighbourhood area. If possible, of

course, we'd like to have it together if reasonable. We probably

need to ask for funds to pay a lot of money may be for them. Japan is

testing its organisation and its structures ahead of the World Cup.

The Scots are on a fact-finding mission. Before that, a Test match

to be one this Saturday. Earlier, we heard about

the latest job losses The announcement comes as increasing

numbers of oilworkers who've lost their jobs are being forced

to make radical career changes. Our reporter, Fiona Stalker,

has been speaking to some of them. Horizontal section... Getting to

grips with the basics of barbarism. A very different working day for

these ex-oil and gas workers. -- barbarism. This man worked in the

industry for 17 years before losing his job. I've been looking around to

see the jobs are used to do before but there is not much out there.

Barbour ING is popular. Everybody always needs a haircut. It's

difficult to imagine two different careers from oil and gas offshore

life to be pampered world of Barbouring, but I'll bear

similarities? I was working with my hands, fixing a lot of equipment, so

I'm quite good with my hands, quite fussy. These guys are grabbing this

opportunity with both hands but not without some nerves. It's good but

it's a challenge. It will be the fact of touching somebody else's

air, which is totally out of your fact of touching somebody else's

comfort zone. The progress of these trainee barbers has delighted the

Aberdeen salon which recruited them. There is an air of maturity, which

is great, which is a skill set which isn't always there with a 16 or

17-year-old leaving school. These men are around thousands of people

laid off from the oil and gas industry since the downturn being

offered support this event in Aberdeen. Organisers say more and

more are being forced to look at alternative careers. And, for the

barbers to be, a first look at their new soon-to-be workplace. A new

career and a new future. This story was immensely popular the

last time we run it. Aberdeen's shoplifting

seagulls are back - swooping in to steal crisps

from a late night shop. Zaman Iqbal filmed this one

being chased out of his shop on the city's Crown Street,

as he foiled its robbery attempt. Gulls have been blamed for a series

of similar raids in Aberdeen Now here's Shelley Jofre

with details of Scotland 2016. Time for the weather now

and Kawser has your forecast. We have had quite a few sharp

showers around in the north, but lots of sunshine as well. Feeling

quite warm today. It reached 21 degrees in the east. And we've had

some lovely pictures from weather watchers from across the country,

this one from Peter in the Highlands. A lovely landscape. We'll

continue to see some showers this evening but, through the night, they

will tend to ease and some clear spells developing for Central and

eastern areas. You can see where both showers are focused, mainly in

the west. Through the evening, some drifting into parts of

Aberdeenshire. Overnight, they tend to leave and fade away. Mainly

confined to the Western Isles. The wind still generally light. Tonight

will be mild and quite humid. Tomorrow morning, a good deal of

sunshine around, especially first thing in more central and eastern

areas. By the afternoon, we risk of showers, mainly towards the north of

the Central belt. They could be quite heavy. 4pm tomorrow, a few

scattered showers in the north-west, the Highlands, the islands. Some

sunshine between the showers. Perhaps some sunshine edge showers

in the Inverness closed. 21 to 22 degrees. In the central belt, some

decent sunshine towards Glasgow. South of the central lowlands, a

good deal of sunshine around still feeling warm. Tomorrow marks the

start of the royal Highland show in Edinburgh and Ingliston.

Temperatures around 21 degrees on Thursday. The risk of one or two

showers. A greater risk on Friday and maybe the odd rumble of thunder

in spots. Saturday, a few degrees lower. For Friday, in an area of low

pressure across the country with some showers spreading in. Some of

those come with the risk of some pale and thunder.

Now, a reminder of tonight's main news.

Scotland's First Minister 's past and present have issued a joint

statement to stay in the EU. Convicted drug smuggler Melissa Reid

-- Melissa Reid is returning to Scotland from Peru after being freed

from jail. We will be back later. Good evening.