15/03/2017 Reporting Scotland

The Prime Minister claims Scotland will be leaving the European Union

regardless of whether or not we vote for independence.

Theresa May also told SNP MPs that constitutional game-playing should

not be allowed to break the deep bonds of the UK

after the SNPs Deputy leader Angus Robertson told Theresa May

she was breaking promises to secure a UK-wide agreement on Brexit.

Our political correspondent Nick Eardley reports

Theresa May does not want another referendum

to happen but at some stage the Prime Minister has to decide

In the Commons she was asked with reference to the

SNP manifesto pledge if it could hold one

Though she agreed that the Government should

stick to its manifesto promises and, if so,

In response, a hint perhaps on what might influence

I of course recognise there was a vote that took place for

the Scottish parliament and the First Minister

was returned as First Minister in a minority government.

Since September 2014, the Scottish people

vote on whether or not they wish to remain in the United Kingdom.

They chose that Scotland should remain

The SNP wants you to know they have tried to

find a middle ground but they say the UK Government is not listening.

If she is not prepared to negotiate on behalf of the Scottish

Government and secure membership of the single market, people in

The PM insists her deal will work for

the whole UK and says the union is more important than the EU.

We have been one country for over 300 years.

We have fought together, worked together, achieved together.

And constitutional gameplaying must not

be allowed to break the deep bonds of our shared history and our future

There will be more conversations before Article 50 is

triggered but it seems unlikely will be a deal

which meets the demands of

The most important question that remains

tonight is will Theresa May allow another independence vote?

Unlikely we'll get a more substantive answer

on that until after Holyrood debate sit next week.

As seasons change in Westminster, we will wait to see on

Meanwhile, Scottish Government ministers have told BBC Scotland

that they remain committed to full independent membership

But they acknowledged that the position would only be

completely finalised in time for the planned referendum.

The comments follow an academic survey which indicated

support for independence is at a record high.

This from our political editor Brian Taylor.

For Scotland, the campaign continues, and the dream shall never

And for the SNP, it never has, although for the rivals that is a

The latest academic survey suggests independence is backed by 46%,

Devolution attracts 42% while just 8% want no parliament at all.

Among the options on the EU, 25% would

quit while 42% want to cut be you's our.

It might be hard to win more converts to independence with a

You'll agree if we are, and if it is going to be based

on somehow trying to get Scotland back into the European Union,

today's evidence shows it will be a more difficult argument for the

First Minister and the SNP to make than we otherwise thought.

There is no clarity about staying in Europe.

If Scotland were on their own, stuff would get done

and we would not get pushed to one side.

I find the whole thing is like the gramophone record.

For some, Brexit is a driver for independence and others the

What is being proposed at the moment about leaving the UK is

A lot more has changed since the last referendum.

Just as the idea of leaving the European Union.

And there should, I think, be little doubt about this.

Does that explain why Nicola Sturgeon noted the final policy

position on Europe would depend on prevailing circumstances to be

absolutely clear full membership remains SNP policy for the big

Scotland has been taken out of the EU, might

the initial focus be upon

The single market membership is really

Exports depend on it, jobs depend on it.

Respectable EU nationals and Scottish jobs depending on them, we

The problem is we have no clarity from the

Brexit position from the United Kingdom government.

Just now it is looking worrying indeed.

If it is a running jump of a hard Brexit cliff said that is good

It is about having a Scottish seat around the table to fix it.

That is what we can do with independence.

In the 2014 referendum, 16 and 17-year-olds had a vote and they

were included in the survey for the first time with the young

Scotland's choice if and when it arises again.

Five of the six families, promised an investigation

following the deaths of their babies, have been excluded

The Health Secretary ordered the review

following the unnecessary deaths of six babies at Crosshouse

hospital in Ayrshire, in the past nine years.

The review team says it's offered an open invitation

But the BBC has learned it will only formally look at cases that happened

The Government ordered a review into six baby death

The six families, five have been excluded from the review.

Some have asked that we do not identify them.

Babies A, B and C will not be included.

Elise who died in 2009 and Campbell who died during

childbirth in 2012 will also be excluded

for the Lucas Morton is the

only case from the original six who will definitely be included.

He died during childbirth in November, 2015.

Rebecca Pringle who was not part of the original six was born in

She won't be included in the review either.

Rebecca was born at the hospital five years ago.

Her mother was told she would not survive.

They told me that Rebecca would be transferred to

At the hospital they told me Rebecca would die on

Christmas Eve at ten o'clock in the morning

She has cerebral palsy and cannot walk or talk and finds Aquarians

I find it disgusting it takes families to dying children to

Dawn says her life was split apart when her daughter died in 2009.

We thought that this is finally a chance.

It is absolutely devastating to find out there is a cut-off

It is almost like our stories are not valued and the experiences

we have been through, they mean nothing.

The reason that December 2013 was chosen by the health care

Scotland as the date was many of the cases

had already been looked at

They have spoken to those families and any

issues emerging from those discussions, even if those cases

that predated December 2013 should be part of their report.

Families like Rebecca's have always

They want to ensure mistakes are not needed.

The review is due to be published shortly.

If the family do not get answers, some believe the

The murderer of teenager Paige Doherty is to have his

deli business dissolved and its assets seized.

32-year-old John Leathem stabbed the 15-year-old 61 times

at his shop in Clydebank before dumping her body.

Companies House has now given two months notice that his business

will be struck off the register and its assets handed to the Crown.

The driver of the lorry which overturned on the Forth Road Bridge,

in January, blocking it for 19 hours,

has been fined ?1,000, banned from driving for two

years and ordered to re-sit the driving test.

Aleksander Nyemyets pleaded guilty to dangerous driving by failing

to comply with prominent road signs showing the bridge was closed

to high-sided vehicles due to strong winds.

Meanwhile a lorry driver whose vehicle overturned on the

Forth Road Bridge yesterday, causing major traffic

The 56-year-old denied dangerous driving by failing

to comply with road signs prohibiting high sided vehicles.

He was granted bail and his trial was set for June.

A revamp of Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens has been approved.

The project will see better access to the sunken park

in the city centre as well as a cafe and gallery space.

In 2012 a ?120 million proposal from businessman Sir Ian Wood

to raise the level of the park was scrapped by the council.

Well, it's over to Christopher now with the weather outlook

Good evening. It is pretty mild and cloudy tonight. Maybe some fog

around the coast. We are between the warm front and cold fronts. Breezy

around the West Coast and that is how things start tomorrow. Fairly

cloudy conditions and some spots of rain. At eight o'clock, it is

reasonably dry through the central belt and some brightness towards the

Borders. Temperatures around 10 Celsius. The warmest part of the day

tomorrow at 8am. Further north and north-west, outbreaks of rain

continuing. Cloudy and breezy here. As we had through the course of the

morning, that rain will start to edge its way south Andy Swiss. We

will see a spell of weather for a time and turning heavy. Quite a

soggy start of the afternoon. The Midlands and the south-east,

low teens. Behind that rain, telling low teens. Behind that rain, telling

-- turning quite cold. The temperatures fall away to four

Celsius. It will feel really quite cool. Overnight, further showers and

some of them wintry and a further spell of rain as we head towards

Friday. For the end of the week, pretty wet and some snow across the

high ground. Reasonably dry but it will be called for all in the

central belt. Looking ahead towards the weekend, the unsettled theme

continues. There will be some rain and wind at times to stop Sunday,

that is the case of showers the most. -- foremost. Our next update

is during breakfast from 6:25am. From everybody here in Glasgow, good

night.