24/01/2017 Reporting Scotland

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The First Minister says fundamental issues about Scotland's future have

been raised by the Supreme Court ruling, that Holyrood does not need

The court found that MPs should have a say

on triggering Article 50 - but ministers are not legally

compelled to seek approval from the devolved administrations.

In a moment we'll ask whether this takes us closer to a second

But first, our Westminster correspondent Nick Eardley has this

Time to find out who has the power to fire the starting gun on Brexit.

This morning, all eyes were on the Supreme Court as it delivered a

landmark ruling on the legal basis for triggering Article 50. By a

majority 8-3, the Supreme Court rules that the government cannot

trigger Article 50 without an act of Parliament authorising it to do so.

On the devolution issues, the court unanimously rules that UK ministers

are not legally compelled to consult the devolved legislatures before

triggering Article 50. This case was never Brexit whether that read about

whether Brexit happens, but how. The Prime Minister showed last week pass

towards the hardest of hard Brexit is. I do believe there is a majority

for that in the House of Commons, and certainly not across the

country. This is an opportunity for a House of Commons to assert itself

and have a say, but not just on the narrow question, but the board are

of negotiation as well. The Scottish parliament will still vote on

article 54 political pressure still matters. Legally, it will be in

Westminster that they all have joined a shredder and article -- on

Article 50. We will within days introduce legislation to give the

government legal power to trigger Article 50 and begin the formal

process of withdrawal. Other parties won't make that simple. The SNP

wants unanimous agreement from devolved governments. Without that,

it will vote against Article 50. Scotland's Labour MP says he's

prepared to vote against the government, too. The Labour leader

says his party will... Support Article 50 being triggered, we have

made that clear. That is a result of the referendum we have to respect

that. It doesn't mean we have deep debt and we abdicate the field, it

means we pressure on the long-term direction this country wants to go.

This implies that the process will be backed. With your depth possibly

voting against two, it means just perhaps one of Scotland's MPs will

vote for. I believe the people of Scotland want the two governments to

work together and get on with ensuring we can negotiate with a 27

other countries that best possible deal for leaving the EU. The UK

Government hopes it can get approval to start the process, and quickly.

The legal questions over Article 50 are over. It's back to politics. And

that politics continues this week. It is expected on Thursday that the

government will publish the legislation it hopes will allow it

to trigger Article 50. It then hopes that it can get that through the

House of Commons within a fortnight. As we have heard, there will be

amendments. The SNP alone say they could table up to 50, Labour and the

S agree the UK Government needs to provide more detail. Whatever

happens in the building behind me, the tensions between the Scottish

Government and UK Government -- and the SNP. Over Brexit show no signs

of abating. We are still at the start of the process of finding out

what the ramifications of a Brexit vote are. And what the future holds.

The First Minister has repeatedly warned that a second independence

Andrew Black has been trying to find out.

Just before the last Westminster election, Nicola Sturgeon revealed

what it might take to call a second independence referendum. I don't

know. Perhaps if the Tories wanted to drag is out of the European Union

against our will, for example. APPLAUSE

After most of Scotland voted to stay in the EU, she said this... I think

an independence referendum is now highly likely. She then said that

staying in the single market would remove the short-term prospect of a

second independence referendum. If we can find a way of protecting

Scotland's economic interest, protecting our democratic interest

within the UK, I'm up for trying to do that. And taking independence of

the table in the short-term? In a Brexit, that is what I have been

clearer about. When the PM it out, she hit back. Some regard make a

second referendum all but inevitable for independence? I think that is

very likely the case. Why likely and not definitely? The S never wanted

a referendum under the circumstances. -- the SNP. The rest

of the UK's outside Europe, you've got a single market, a European hard

boundary between England and Scotland, which we wouldn't have had

last time. So there was -- they wanted a referendum with both

countries inside the EU. The polls are showing support for independence

pretty much where it was in 2014. I have made it very clear that that

option is very much on the table, and as I have said before, I think

with every day that passes right now, it's becoming clear that

Scotland's voice cannot end is not able to be heard within the UK on

this question. Nicola Sturgeon says she will ever get what -- give up on

independence in the long term. The question of when we might get

another referendum remains unanswered.

Earlier our political editor Brian Taylor was at Holyrood,

and we asked Why doesn't Nicola Sturgeon call

Nicola Sturgeon doesn't want to hold a referendum, she wants to win one,

and these are not particularly good circumstances, nor the time of her

choosing. If she is to hold one, and I think she will, then there has to

be preparing the ground beforehand. I think she wants to several things.

First, she is genuinely seeking in discussions with the UK Government

to get concessions towards Scotland's interests as she sees

them. Second, she wants to prolong those discussions in order to enable

the late. Third, if there is to be a referendum, she was to be able to

say to British people, the Scottish people, I did everything in my power

to try and strike a deal within the UK, and it proved impossible. She

wants to set the grounding for that referendum if and when it occurs.

How to keep Scotland's lights on, as our energy demands increase.

Today the Scottish Government published its vision

for the transition away from oil and gas, towards an emphasis

on renewable sources - and its most ambitious target yet.

But a return to coal could be on the cards.

Our environment correspondent Keven Keane reports.

It was the end of an era as Scotland's last

coal-fired power station was finally shut down.

But now this and other locations could be reborn from the

ashes as ministers propose repowering some infrastructure.

This site is due for demolition, but is the location which is of value,

right in the middle of a power line network.

If carbon capture can be revived, ministers are not ruling

When it comes to carbon capture and storage,

we may trial in Scotland, but we have enough resource with the

technology we have today to meet our carbon emissions within this

Many of today's announcements were in last week's

climate plan, but a new target was set, creating half of our energy

needs from renewables by the end of the decade.

It is ambitious and it will be challenging, but the

modelling we have done suggests that we are

in the right ballpark between

With the initiatives we put in our climate change plan, we

The target is a tough one, not least because of

a drive to rely more on

electricity for our heating and to power

our cars, so the demand is

And there is still no intention to extend the lives of

our nuclear power stations at Torness and Hunterston,

This could have been written on the back of a beer mat.

It is not going to tackle the issue of where our

industry in Scotland gets its energy from.

It is not going to tackle how we keep the lights on and the

Scottish Government admit we have a problem with how we produce

It is not going to with fuel poverty.

In the 1970s, this was the future, and would change our lives.

Ministers are to explore replacing the natural gas in our

pipes with hydrogen, but that's a long way into the future.

An Aberdeenshire restaurant manager who killed a chef in a row over

a takeaway order has been jailed for 32 months.

Hidayet Ozden repeatedly punched Shahzad Shah

at the Mirchi Indian takeaway in Mintlaw in April last year.

Ozden, who is from Falkirk, was charged with murder but later

Up to 80 jobs are under threat at an Inverness company

which makes products for the treatment of Diabetes.

Lifescan's parent company Johnson and Johnson announced

it is reviewing its options and it could sell the business.

Lifescan currently employs 1,100 people in the Highland capital.

The public watchdog Transport Focus says there's been

a big fall in customer satisfaction with train services in Scotland -

however levels remain higher, than in the UK as a whole

ScotRail continues to face pressure over late and cancelled services.

More than 1300 passengers were interviewed

towards the end of last year, as part of a UK-wide survey.

Its publication comes a day after ScotRail announced it had

appointed Alex Hynes as its new boss.

Sir David Attenborough, met Inti the Armadillo

He posed with the hard-shelled creature to recreate a famous

The veteran broadcaster is in the capital to collect

a donation for the charity Fauna and Flora International,

which works to conserve wildlife around the world.

Well, It's over to Judith now with the weather outlook

Good evening. We haven't seen much rain so far this month, and not much

in the forecast over the next few days either. We did see the sun

breaking through, here is a lovely sunset. Red sky at night, Shepherd's

delight, it will be largely die leg dry day. The ever brings fairly

cloudy and -- Friday. We'll see extensive freezing fog across the

south-east of England, just be aware of that, because the fog will cause

travel disruption tomorrow morning if you're heading down towards

Gatwick, Heathrow or other airports down south. Tomorrow morning starts

cloudy, breezy. A few spits and spots of rain, perhaps. It'll be a

mild start, too. Temperatures rising to 7-9 C first thing tomorrow

morning. I think we'll see 10 degrees. Thing are really shifting

either. Gales over Shetland at some point during the day, too. This

Lazarus of the morning is concerned, the cloud will thin and break.

Something brighter tomorrow, Northern Isles not faring too badly

either. As was the rest of UK's concerned, a similar story across

the best of some trend towards Wales, staying cloudy and cold

across south-east England. Temperatures here struggling,

really, and that cloud. Come further north, you will see those values

rising, as you can see. In Scotland, there is a potential tomorrow to see

temperatures of 13 Celsius along here, widely reaching ten sources as

well. Range is pushing into the Western Isles by the end of the

afternoon. The rain leaves towards the north to ride, then dry with

clearing skies tomorrow. The winds start to back into the south-east,

drawing in colder air from the near continent. It has been very cold

this winter so far. A window day -- windy day. Temperatures

around five successes. That is your forecast.

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