08/03/2017 Reporting Scotland


08/03/2017

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 08/03/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

:00:00.:00:07.

Scotland is to receive an extra ?350 million,

:00:08.:00:10.

Philip Hammond also announced measures to support

:00:11.:00:13.

But the Scottish government says despite today's funding boost

:00:14.:00:17.

there's been almost ?3 billion worth of cuts to the Scottish budget

:00:18.:00:19.

Here's our political correspondent, David Porter.

:00:20.:00:33.

The clock is ticking and the pace of events is speeding up. Today, it is

:00:34.:00:41.

all about the numbers but like everything in politics at the

:00:42.:00:44.

moment, this is a budget that has to be seen through the prism of Brexit

:00:45.:00:52.

and what it could mean for Scotland. For the Chancellor, the first

:00:53.:00:55.

opportunity to pose with the red budget box outside number 11 Downing

:00:56.:01:00.

St. Once in the Commons, a very direct message to Scotland and

:01:01.:01:06.

Scots. Our announcements today deliver on it -- additional funding

:01:07.:01:09.

of ?350 million for the Scottish Government. Cheers from his own

:01:10.:01:17.

side. From the nationalist benches opposite, a muted reaction. In

:01:18.:01:20.

Edinburgh, ministers were not so impressed. In the context of ?2.9

:01:21.:01:28.

billion worth of production since the Tories came into office, it is a

:01:29.:01:31.

production overall in terms of what we would have had. But it is a drop

:01:32.:01:37.

in the ocean to the resources that we could have had. At Westminster,

:01:38.:01:44.

to coincide with the budget, and International woman's Day, a noisy

:01:45.:01:49.

protest by female pensioners who say they have been unfairly treated.

:01:50.:01:52.

Likewise opposition parties were less than condiment tree of the

:01:53.:01:57.

Chancellor 's handiwork. He did not mention Brexit, the biggest

:01:58.:02:04.

influence in generations. A damp squib of a budget. There is nothing

:02:05.:02:09.

to help living standards in Scotland and across the rest of the UK. We

:02:10.:02:14.

always knew this was going to be a difficult budget because the

:02:15.:02:17.

Chancellor does not have much spare cash. It became apparent today that

:02:18.:02:25.

he has no ideas and no ambition. Although few overt references to

:02:26.:02:28.

Brexit, it's clear the message the Chancellor wants to get across. Our

:02:29.:02:35.

United Kingdom has a proud history. We have done remarkable things

:02:36.:02:41.

together. But we look forward, not backwards, confident that our

:02:42.:02:43.

greatest achievements are ahead of us. In the shadow of Big Ben, a

:02:44.:02:53.

piper plays. This time many for the benefit of the tourists. With Brexit

:02:54.:02:58.

talks due to start soon, not everything in the future might be as

:02:59.:02:59.

harmonious. Our business and economy editor

:03:00.:03:02.

Douglas Fraser has been looking at the impact on Scotland's

:03:03.:03:06.

finances. How will it play down at the dog and

:03:07.:03:18.

duck? That is one key question for any budget. Making a further ?100

:03:19.:03:27.

million of capital available immediately for new tree arch

:03:28.:03:32.

Project at English hospitals. Philip Hammond isn't just UK Chancellor, he

:03:33.:03:38.

is Finance Minister Foderingham. But how does it all translate to

:03:39.:03:48.

Scotland? It only partly mitigates the cuts that were already on the

:03:49.:03:51.

way. How is he going to pay for that? By raiding the income of

:03:52.:03:56.

self-employed people and in Scotland, that is one in eight

:03:57.:04:06.

workers. The rise in national Insurance for those above low play

:04:07.:04:10.

with the coupe is to bring them into line with employees but it is far

:04:11.:04:15.

from welcome. It makes it much more difficult to justify becoming

:04:16.:04:20.

self-employed. The government to not understand the benefit to the wider

:04:21.:04:23.

economy of having self-employed flexible workforce where businesses

:04:24.:04:29.

can bring in help and resources for short periods of time which

:04:30.:04:34.

ultimately helps employers expand their business and actually take on

:04:35.:04:38.

more people. The Chancellor repeated his intention to help draw more

:04:39.:04:45.

investment into oil and gas. Though no decisions yet. By taking away

:04:46.:04:49.

this barrier we have highlighted we think it will encourage assets to

:04:50.:04:52.

transfer more effectively and we know that when that happens, we will

:04:53.:04:57.

see more investment and activity being stimulated. And more

:04:58.:05:01.

development drilling. That leads into more production later on. And

:05:02.:05:06.

what wasn't spelled-out today, cuts to welfare, previously announced,

:05:07.:05:14.

soon to bite. The big picture, the economic outlook is not as bad as

:05:15.:05:17.

feared last year but is the pain being delayed? It is still very

:05:18.:05:23.

uncertain. If you look at what has been driving growth, it has been

:05:24.:05:27.

about what is happening in consumption but other levels of

:05:28.:05:31.

investment and greater stability still remain relatively fragile. We

:05:32.:05:36.

are still very much in the wait territory. The main theme from

:05:37.:05:40.

Philip Hammond, uncertainty and caution as governments and economy

:05:41.:05:41.

face up to the Brexit challenges Police say they're confident

:05:42.:05:44.

that the body of missing airman, Corrie McKeague, will be found

:05:45.:05:47.

at a landfill site The 23-year-old disappeared last

:05:48.:05:49.

September after a night out in the nearby town of Bury St

:05:50.:05:52.

Edmonds. It's now known that a bin lorry

:05:53.:05:54.

which collected rubbish from where he was last seen

:05:55.:05:56.

was carrying a significantly heavier Slowly and methodically, specially

:05:57.:06:13.

trained officers carefully rake through waste, mindful that just

:06:14.:06:17.

feet below them could lie the remains of Corrie McKeague. Nearby,

:06:18.:06:20.

a digger waits to come -- collected after each search. To search this

:06:21.:06:27.

area, we are using the digger to draw out the waste, to lay it out on

:06:28.:06:33.

the ground carefully. Katie Elliott from Suffolk police has led a

:06:34.:06:38.

five-month investigation. She is confident her team will find Corrie

:06:39.:06:40.

McKeague the year. This landfill site is massive. Police have said up

:06:41.:06:53.

a compound for the search teams. This is the last image of the

:06:54.:06:57.

23-year-old airman in the early hours of the 24th of September. He

:06:58.:07:02.

went missing from this area of Bury St Edmonds, a rubbish lorry made a

:07:03.:07:05.

collection from here within an hour of his disappearance. The last

:07:06.:07:09.

movements of his mobile phone coincided with the route the lorry

:07:10.:07:19.

took to the landfill. It is not the agony of not knowing, because when

:07:20.:07:22.

you don't know, you can still believe that they are alive. The

:07:23.:07:32.

agony is when you do know... We had just got to find him first. Police

:07:33.:07:40.

say the error over the weight was made by the waste company who

:07:41.:07:43.

provided the data but they say there was no intention to mislead the

:07:44.:07:47.

investigation. Had the least known at the outset about the true weight

:07:48.:07:51.

of the bin, how different would this investigation have been? But also,

:07:52.:07:57.

why did it take more than five months for this fact to emerge and

:07:58.:08:01.

if Corrie McKeague was in that bin, how could a body be taken to a land

:08:02.:08:07.

full like this and for no one to have noticed? It bothers me, of

:08:08.:08:15.

course it bothers me that somebody... Is that is what has

:08:16.:08:18.

happened, then we need to understand how that has happened and to

:08:19.:08:22.

understand the circumstances of what happened. In five months, police

:08:23.:08:28.

only made one arrest. Last week they arrested a man on suspicion of

:08:29.:08:35.

attempting to convert the course of justice. A second man was also

:08:36.:08:40.

caution. All eyes are now focused on this landfill site near Cambridge.

:08:41.:08:44.

Corrie McKeague 's family are praying for the best but are now

:08:45.:08:45.

more than prepared for the worst. Police are understood to be looking

:08:46.:08:52.

into whether the death of a 14-year-old boy in Fife was linked

:08:53.:08:55.

to prescription drugs Liam McAlpine was found at home

:08:56.:08:57.

in Glenrothes on Sunday. A number of youth football

:08:58.:09:00.

clubs have been suspended from their leagues due

:09:01.:09:04.

to their coaches not having It follows the Scottish Youth

:09:05.:09:06.

Football Association's promise to tighten up procedures

:09:07.:09:09.

after our investigation found thousands of coaches were working

:09:10.:09:11.

without the necessary disclosure. Earlier I spoke to our Senior

:09:12.:09:13.

Football Reporter, Chris McLaughlin. Following on from our investigation

:09:14.:09:27.

last year, they found two and a half thousand coaches were working in

:09:28.:09:30.

Scotland in youth football without the necessary background checks.

:09:31.:09:36.

They said OK, you have until the 28th of February to get your house

:09:37.:09:41.

in dash into order. Let's have a look at some figures given that

:09:42.:09:46.

deadline has now passed. 488 coaches have now been suspended. The fallout

:09:47.:09:50.

from that is that 18 clubs have now been kicked out of the league. That

:09:51.:09:56.

is actually a revised figure. I was told earlier it was 20. We believe

:09:57.:10:02.

around 350 children will be impacted, basically meaning that

:10:03.:10:05.

around 350 children who should have had a game of football this weekend

:10:06.:10:09.

will not have a game of football this weekend. Who is to blame, that

:10:10.:10:15.

is the question? They have got to get their house in order and that is

:10:16.:10:18.

what they are doing with the actions they have taken. We have to look at

:10:19.:10:22.

the SFA because they are the government body for football in

:10:23.:10:25.

Scotland and that is where we need to be looking at, good governance

:10:26.:10:29.

and good anticipatory action from them. The Association released a

:10:30.:10:37.

statement disabling saying it is disappointing but player safety is

:10:38.:10:40.

the number one priority. I did speak to one chairman of a club this

:10:41.:10:42.

evening and he said the association is to blame in his opinion. He said

:10:43.:10:48.

they cannot deal with the backlog and honest coaches are being

:10:49.:10:51.

suspended and it is extremely unfair.

:10:52.:10:55.

MSPs have defeated the Scottish government in a vote on education.

:10:56.:10:58.

Parliament backed a Labour motion describing the SNP's stewardship

:10:59.:11:00.

of education as "failing teachers, parents and pupils"

:11:01.:11:02.

The SNP has not had an overall majority at Holyrood

:11:03.:11:05.

It has also lost votes this month on NHS recruitment and university

:11:06.:11:09.

Thank you. And a very good evening to you. We saw plenty of showers

:11:10.:11:30.

rattling through today but we did see some brighter interludes. Rain

:11:31.:11:37.

for a time tonight and it will be windy. It is tied in with this

:11:38.:11:40.

weather front crossing the country, bringing outbreaks of rain. It

:11:41.:11:45.

sweeps away fairly quickly. Tomorrow morning, we are left with the legacy

:11:46.:11:49.

of Cloud initially. Something brighter coming through at times but

:11:50.:11:52.

also a few showers across eastern Scotland. There will be the odd

:11:53.:11:58.

shower. And then the start of something brighter coming through.

:11:59.:12:02.

Some showers across northern areas. It will still be quite breezy across

:12:03.:12:08.

Orkney and Shetland. The rest of the day is improving. Showers dying

:12:09.:12:15.

away. Scattered with lighter winds. Temperature is not bad either. Nine

:12:16.:12:20.

or 10 Celsius in the sunshine. A pleasant feeling spring day. And

:12:21.:12:29.

that goes for the rest of the UK. Good sunny spells. Temperatures

:12:30.:12:32.

looking quite warm across the Farsala. 14 or 15 across the London

:12:33.:12:39.

area. Some cloud coming into the far south-west later in the day. Back

:12:40.:12:46.

home in Scotland, it is still a dry end to the day. Plenty of sunshine

:12:47.:12:52.

as we head towards dusk as well. These conditions will lead to a dry

:12:53.:12:55.

night with fairly lengthy clear spells across northern Scotland.

:12:56.:13:01.

Quite a widespread frost. A touch of frost in the south and then another

:13:02.:13:05.

change coming our way on Friday, as you can see. Starting off largely

:13:06.:13:09.

dry but outbreaks of rain eventually. It will be wet across

:13:10.:13:15.

western Scotland initially. Rather murky conditions. Shetland does stay

:13:16.:13:23.

dry. All in all, a rather dull and damp day with hints of bright

:13:24.:13:24.

weather. That is your forecast. Our next update is during Breakfast

:13:25.:13:27.

at 6:25 tomorrow morning.

:13:28.:13:31.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS