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Welcome to The Sunday Politics. As Rotherham heads for a by-election | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
on Thursday, the Labour-run Council is engulfed by a row over the | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
decision of its social services department to remove three children | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
from their foster parents because the couple were members of UKIP. We | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
will be talking to a former Children's Minister in our top | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
story. This week marks the 70th | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
anniversary of the Beveridge Report, which gave us the welfare state. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
But is it now time to build a new welfare state? Liam Byrne, Labour's | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Work and Pensions spokesman, joins us for the Sunday Interview. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
And to regulate or not to regulate the press by statute. That is the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
burning question the Prime Minister will have to answer this week, when | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Leveson reports on Thursday. The two sides go head to head. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
And on Sunday Politics Scotland... Could you afford to pay for your | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
defence if you are charged with a crime? Holyrood wants to cut the | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1601 seconds | :01:38. | :28:20. | |
Legal Aid budget. So who picks up What ever plan is sketched out, it | :28:20. | :28:30. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1601 seconds | :28:30. | :34:19. | |
10 us never forget, you cannot really talk about a free press and | :34:19. | :34:25. | |
the situation. I a lot of this was to do with the behaviour of the | :34:25. | :34:34. | |
newspaper group with which you were involved. There are plenty of laws | :34:34. | :34:44. | |
already in place. Except the press still behaves disgracefully the way, | :34:44. | :34:53. | |
for instance, it has treated the McCann family. Why does it deserve | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
another chance in the last-chance saloon, when you have been drinking | :34:58. | :35:08. | |
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in there for 60 years and nothing has changed? Their recent cases, | :35:08. | :35:18. | |
but not instantly recent. The newspaper industry is not going to | :35:18. | :35:26. | |
go back down that road. There are other ways of dealing with | :35:26. | :35:35. | |
miscreants and cases of bad conduct. There could be a system of press | :35:35. | :35:45. | |
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regulation by the press, but not run by them, but run by outsiders. | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
That they said, we are going to behave ourselves, everyone would | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
say that is OK. But the lesson is that that that does not get a deer | :35:55. | :36:05. | |
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to. When it comes to the lock, you can only make use of the lot if you | :36:07. | :36:14. | |
are incredibly rich. But what about people who are attacked to do not | :36:14. | :36:24. | |
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have any money. That has to be stopped. They will lose conditional | :36:25. | :36:30. | |
fee arrangements, which was the only way that people who had no | :36:30. | :36:39. | |
money could get redress. The E East have access, the swift response and | :36:39. | :36:49. | |
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guaranteed action by the newspapers are to act upon what they were told, | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
in you lot would not force the police to do anything we did not do | :36:53. | :37:03. | |
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in the past. To suggest that the rules put forward will work is just | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
nonsense. It is just a contract between the press which the press | :37:09. | :37:19. | |
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will not enforce. The is no barrier to entry at all. He is there is. | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
Every newspaper war have an ombudsman. There will be forced to | :37:29. | :37:39. | |
act swiftly. But they will be hired by the press. The law. Is it will | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
not be. The proposals which have been put forward to say that. If | :37:45. | :37:54. | |
you have not seen them, I will give you a copy of them. The full thing | :37:54. | :38:04. | |
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is actually quite a long report. Thank you for that. It is all there. | :38:06. | :38:16. | |
But this is the Mafia getting together. It is not the Mafia. | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
when we talk about the disgraceful treatment of the McCann family by | :38:20. | :38:29. | |
some British tabloids, will that not happen again. Mr X will always | :38:29. | :38:39. | |
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be made. -- mistakes will always be made. But there will never be a | :38:41. | :38:48. | |
case like that of the McCann family ever again. Their report is | :38:48. | :38:57. | |
Good morning and welcome to Sunday Politics Scotland. Coming up on the | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
programme... If you ended up in a criminal court, | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
could you afford a lawyer? Changes set to come in will mean fewer | :39:05. | :39:15. | |
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people will qualify for legal aid. The Justice Secretary says the | :39:15. | :39:25. | |
small not undermine access to justice. And I will be finding out | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
how a skills shortage in the renewables sector threatens | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
Scotland's energy targets. And will Spain and Catalonia live | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
happily ever after? We will be live in Barcelona, the day they go to | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
the polls. Could you afford to pay for your | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
defence if you are charged with a crime? The government wants to make | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
more people stump up, but critics say they are targeting those who | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
can least afford it. So is this a simple tweak in the Legal Aid Bill | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
or a dangerous challenge to access to justice? Hayley Jarvis is at | :39:56. | :40:03. | |
Glasgow Sheriff Court. If you end up in here, will you be | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
able to afford to pay for a lawyer? The criminal legal aid bill last | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
year was �98 million. The Scottish government says this has to change | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
and more people will have to come up with the cash. | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
Under their plans people who, at the moment, would get their defence | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
costs paid will face bills of hundreds of pounds. And if you have | :40:22. | :40:25. | |
a disposable income of more than �68 a week, you are in the frame | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
here. Lawyers are threatening to strike | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
over the plans, but those who support the bill say the Justice | :40:32. | :40:40. | |
Secretary has to balance the books somehow. He has made the policy | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
choice that he wants to provide civic legal aid. I personally think | :40:46. | :40:52. | |
it is the decent thing to do. We are any recession. | :40:52. | :40:59. | |
So who will have to pay? Not those on benefits would fall below the | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
threshold and not middle income families, who would not qualify for | :41:02. | :41:04. | |
criminal legal aid anyway. Critics of the plans say it is | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
those who can least afford it - people who are working, but do not | :41:08. | :41:18. | |
make much money. Now is is about access to justice. It is about the | :41:18. | :41:25. | |
21-year-old on the minimum wage who would be represented in court, but | :41:25. | :41:33. | |
who might not be. It is not a contribution, it is the removal of | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
legal aid. The government wants to save �3.9 | :41:37. | :41:39. | |
million on the criminal legal aid budget, saying the system must | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
become more efficient. They insist the changes will widen access to | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
justice. But their critics say they will have the opposite effect. They | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
are predicting chaos in the courts with more people defending | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
themselves and innocent people pleading guilty because they cannot | :41:50. | :42:00. | |
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afford a defence. Very often, people do not have sympathy for a | :42:06. | :42:14. | |
solicitor's. But there is the case that a fair trial could be | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
interfered with and this is a test of the Scottish legal system. | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
Everyone in Scotland has a legal right to a fair trial. For a | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
government hoping to save money, the cost of denying people an | :42:24. | :42:26. | |
adequate defence could prove extremely expensive in the appeal | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
courts. Just before we came on air, I spoke to Justice Secretary Kenny | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
MacAskill, who was in our Edinburgh studio, and suggested to him there | :42:32. | :42:40. | |
was an obvious danger that access to justice would be compromised. | :42:40. | :42:49. | |
do not believe so. What we have got to remember is that the legal-aid | :42:49. | :42:56. | |
budget was the second highest on record. Two-thirds of that was | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
spent on criminal legal aid. We have been faced with massive cuts | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
from London and we have to look at the role of every organisation. We | :43:07. | :43:15. | |
need to preserve the integrity of the legal system - not go down the | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
road of south of the border where you cannot get legal aid for a | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
whole range of things - and that is why we support the principle of | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
contributions to the victims of domestic violence, there should be | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
contributions from the alleged perpetrators. These contributions | :43:35. | :43:42. | |
would be the same. There is obviously a legal obligation on you | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
to run a system which guarantees a fair trial. If we look at the | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
potential consequences of what you are proposing, if people plead | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
guilty because they feel they cannot afford legal aid, that is | :43:56. | :44:02. | |
one issue. Another one is that if people defend themselves and come | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
up against a professional prosecutor and a thrill weight of | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
the government prosecuting machine, you are saying you have no concerns | :44:10. | :44:19. | |
about this would breaching fair trial considerations? Nor, I do not. | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
I do not want to be where we are, but we have the huge legal-aid | :44:24. | :44:34. | |
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budget and we are facing huge cuts. We need to have a shared burden. 82 | :44:35. | :44:41. | |
% of people who apply for work legal-aid do not have to make a | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
contribution. After that, the contributions would be fairly minor. | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
This has been made clear by Parliament, why should the victim | :44:53. | :45:01. | |
of domestic violence have to pay for getting a protection order when | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
the alleged perpetrator does not have to pay? That has been a | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
manifest injustice in Scottish legal aid. We are going to change | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
that. We want to create a level playing field. As I said, the vast | :45:15. | :45:19. | |
majority will not have the contribution to pay and others will, | :45:19. | :45:25. | |
but it will be assessed on their ability to pay and, in most cases, | :45:25. | :45:30. | |
the contributions will be modest. That way, we protect the integrity | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
of the system and there is no evidence that similar systems which | :45:33. | :45:41. | |
operate elsewhere that justice is interfere with. It is the 20 % that | :45:41. | :45:46. | |
you are talking about who will be called on to contribute. It could | :45:46. | :45:52. | |
be argued that people who are regularly in court to not have jobs | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
and a guaranteed to fall below this threshold. It is low income | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
families who will be most affected by this. For example, someone with | :46:03. | :46:12. | |
an income of �160 a week will pay �473 as the contribution to the a | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
legal aid. That is just a few pounds short of the entire fixed | :46:17. | :46:27. | |
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fee. That is not a contribution figure which is known to me. Back | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
interior of someone who earns more than �200 who will have nothing to | :46:34. | :46:44. | |
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pay. The figures you for what are not recognisable to me. It does | :46:44. | :46:53. | |
seem to me that there has to be some parity. At the moment, we're | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
getting children who have to be taken into care should have to pay | :46:57. | :47:04. | |
a contribution. Victims of domestic violence should not have to pay | :47:04. | :47:10. | |
when the alleged perpetrator does not. They should have to pay. It is | :47:10. | :47:19. | |
wrong that they should not be in the victim should have to. What | :47:19. | :47:29. | |
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about the expenses park? We are never had that system in Scotland. | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
He faced the sanction that the court pits upon you. It is not a | :47:37. | :47:42. | |
question of expenses. For instance, someone who is privately paying | :47:42. | :47:52. | |
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would not get any costs back. someone defends himself in court | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
and Barnes really expensive court time and if it turns out you have | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
to then go to the Appeal Court, this amount in savings will be a | :48:03. | :48:10. | |
drop in the ocean? That is right. If the scenario panned out that way, | :48:10. | :48:20. | |
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but the evidence from elsewhere is that there are not many more people | :48:23. | :48:30. | |
appealing. There are always some people who choose to appear | :48:30. | :48:37. | |
unrepresented in Scotland. But evidence from elsewhere suggests | :48:37. | :48:47. | |
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that people do not become more unrepresented. Are you reviewing | :48:48. | :48:58. | |
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the threshold? He yes, they are. This threshold is the same | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
threshold for a similar legal aid. I have made it clear I would like | :49:02. | :49:08. | |
to see an increase in the threshold. It would be manifestly unfair if | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
the victim of domestic violence should have to pay a higher | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
contribution than the alleged perpetrator. I am prepared to | :49:15. | :49:20. | |
increase that threshold. We will have discussions with the loss | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
society on that. But we have no more money for that, so it will | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
have to come out of the legal aid budget. Her which she described | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
you're relationship with Scotland's solicitors, who are threatening to | :49:35. | :49:42. | |
go on strike again. I do not like to see us and the situation. But we | :49:42. | :49:48. | |
are having to cope with cuts from Westminster. I do not like to see | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
injustice anywhere. But we have to come to terms with the consequences | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
of cuts from Westminster and we have to look at that budget. The | :49:58. | :50:06. | |
budget from my office says that legal aid will have to be cut by | :50:06. | :50:12. | |
seven % in its budget. But that compares with a cut of 17 % south | :50:12. | :50:22. | |
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of the border. The but it will mean that we retain all the situations | :50:26. | :50:34. | |
where back people will still be able to get legal redress. He know | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
that in civil actions you can get expenses and you can get damages | :50:38. | :50:48. | |
from that. Do you accept that you where it defence solicitor that you | :50:48. | :50:55. | |
will be astonishing them with this proposal? You can have your | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
children taken from year by the powers that are available and the | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
consequences that up apply to civil matters. I have never | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
underestimated the amount of trauma in relation to the likes of | :51:09. | :51:17. | |
domestic violence. There is a manifest injustice there. A work | :51:17. | :51:27. | |
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legal-aid budget is the highest ever. 14 legal firms received over | :51:27. | :51:35. | |
�1 million from legal aid. But it is their own fixed fees and this | :51:35. | :51:41. | |
idea that they are all making money hand over fist is not right. If | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
they are learning that, they are doing it the requisite number of | :51:45. | :51:52. | |
cases. I have not seen the are a earning money hand over fist. | :51:52. | :51:58. | |
suggesting we are in difficult times and the need to take a share | :51:58. | :52:06. | |
of that band that burden. We will protect those who need to be | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
protected. That goes for the victims as well as the perpetrators. | :52:10. | :52:19. | |
Thing to very much. -- thank you very much. | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
A leading engineering company has called on the Scottish government | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
for help to bridge a skills gap in the renewables sector. This comes | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
as a report from Holyrood's energy committee says that gap and other | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
key areas are hurdles to ambitious green energy targets. It is hoped | :52:32. | :52:34. | |
the equivalent of 100% of Scotland's electricity needs will | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
be generated from renewable sources by 2020. There are some flashing | :52:37. | :52:45. | |
images at the beginning of this report. Degree is a bright future | :52:45. | :52:53. | |
in a growing industry for these apprentices. But training from this | :52:53. | :53:02. | |
college courses not enough to get people up to scratch. We would like | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
them to be here for the remainder of the week that there is no | :53:05. | :53:11. | |
funding mechanism for that to happen. We need to do more tough | :53:11. | :53:21. | |
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bridge that gap. It is agreed that the skills gap could hurt the | :53:21. | :53:31. | |
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industry. Some environmental groups say that the targets are to | :53:34. | :53:42. | |
bureaucrat of too bureaucratic and counter-productive. We want to be | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
good places for communities and to his arm. There is adequate space | :53:48. | :53:57. | |
for us to be developing an infrastructure. That was not a few | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
shared by everybody. The committee took the view that the independence | :54:05. | :54:15. | |
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debate was not having a negative The Scottish government see the | :54:19. | :54:23. | |
report as a vindication of their green policy. It is about | :54:24. | :54:33. | |
generating income for communities, jobs for many people in the nation. | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
Not 18,000 as the First Minister stated, then corrected this week. | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
Of those jobs will be subsidised by households across the UK. | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
Westminster makes clear how much that bill will be in the future. | :54:46. | :54:53. | |
are investing into cream -- green energy. At the moment it is 2% of | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
people's bills by 2020 it will be 7%. Infighting has made the | :54:58. | :55:06. | |
decision about setting green targets has been delayed until | :55:06. | :55:13. | |
after the next election. Ed Davey has been diminished and his | :55:13. | :55:20. | |
defensive about this delay. Opposition parties have been angry | :55:20. | :55:26. | |
that targets have not been made. Crucial hurdles need to be met | :55:27. | :55:35. | |
before they can be achieved. Joining me from our Dundee studio | :55:35. | :55:43. | |
is Mike Weir and the MSP Tavish Scott. Mike, if we look at the | :55:43. | :55:49. | |
subsidy structure, how much is a problem is to secured long-term | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
investment if there is not a certainty about the subsidy | :55:51. | :55:58. | |
structure coming out of Westminster. Investors want to know the long- | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
term structure because these investments are for the long term. | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
The energy bill has put forward a new structure, we have yet to see | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
the detail. There are already worries about how which will work | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
and whether the price for Nuclear will be higher than for offshore | :56:15. | :56:21. | |
wind. We need to detail this to see how we go forward. We need -- we | :56:21. | :56:27. | |
are keen to build up renewable energy. But we need to have the | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
structure correct. Tavish Scott, access to the grade is being called | :56:32. | :56:37. | |
for, but it looks as if the islanders will not get reduced | :56:37. | :56:43. | |
costs at this stage? Yes, that issue needs to be resolved. But | :56:44. | :56:49. | |
Shetland has agreed to set up a working group to tackle the | :56:49. | :56:56. | |
island's issues. The two governments should work together on | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
this vitally important thing, that renewables coming into Scotland can | :57:00. | :57:05. | |
feed into the grid. The regulator is right to roll-up -- to insist | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
that happens at a cost which does not put this projects in jeopardy. | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
De you feel that the independence to pay -- debate is itself creating | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
controversy and putting off investors? That is the view of | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
Scottish and Southern Electricity, one of the biggest players in the | :57:24. | :57:32. | |
industry. Their views, the industry views, are more cautious than the | :57:32. | :57:42. | |
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political ones. It means that there is uncertain future simply because | :57:43. | :57:51. | |
why could England rely on this, they could purchaser from anywhere. | :57:51. | :57:55. | |
Is there evidence that the debate in itself, or where energy would be | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
bought from in the future, would be a problem? No, there is none. If | :58:01. | :58:08. | |
you look at a Viva, who invested in Scotland to build wind turbines. | :58:08. | :58:15. | |
England will still need energy. Maybe -- Tavish Scott Scott says | :58:15. | :58:22. | |
maybe they won't buy it from Scotland, who knows. But Scotland | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
has a huge black -- potential for renewable energy. The capability | :58:26. | :58:33. | |
gap between what is produced and what is needed within Great Britain | :58:33. | :58:43. | |
is producing. But Scotland can continue to sell energy to the rest | :58:43. | :58:53. | |
of the UK. It is not unusual to sell energy across Borders. Tavish | :58:53. | :59:02. | |
Scott, let me ask you about the other potential hurdles, is the | :59:02. | :59:07. | |
planning or training? The crucial issue is training. We have had a | :59:07. | :59:12. | |
discussion over college funding in recent weeks. Your report | :59:12. | :59:17. | |
illustrated the need for funding of colleges. It has been cut in | :59:17. | :59:21. | |
government -- in Scotland by the Scottish government. I want the | :59:21. | :59:27. | |
government to get their ducks in a row. I think it is right to have | :59:27. | :59:31. | |
these desirable long-term targets but they also have the -- have to | :59:31. | :59:37. | |
have the other building blocks in place, the skills. The college | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
sector is under pressure from the government and they need to be | :59:40. | :59:47. | |
given the flexibility to get on. Mike comedy next accept that there | :59:47. | :59:57. | |
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is a problem with training at this point? -- Mike, do you accept. | :59:57. | :00:02. | |
should look at what the oil and gas industry are doing. They have their | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
own training bodies. People in my constituency are getting | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
apprentices. It is a competitive industry and there are crossovers | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
between it the renewable industry and oil and gas. It is not only the | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
government, the industry itself also should look at how it trains | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
up the skills that it needs. What about construction and generation, | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
what you think the picture is at the moment at the moment? In | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
different parts of Scotland, is there enough of a spread? Projects | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
are delivered by individual companies making assessments of the | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
best capabilities. In other words, where it is best to put wave and | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
tidal energy. The West Coast and the Northern Isles of Scotland are | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
important in terms of the ways and tides. In terms of the construction | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
contracts, would that have to be a these localised places, or could | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
there be a better spread? I don't think it is for the government to | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
start laying down will wear Industry decides where it wants to | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
build wind turbines Towers or other infrastructure that they need for | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
these projects. We didn't tell Aberdeen to become the offshore | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
centre of Europe. The industry did that. That's the way it should be. | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Mike, we are out of time but do you think you'll meet your electricity | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
target by 2020. We will, in a way we have already exceeded our | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
interim target and there is a bright future for renewal energy in | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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Scotland. Coming up after the news, we visit | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
the Spanish region of Catalonia as voters go to the polls as the | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
governing party seek a mandate to hold their own referendum. Let's | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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cross now for the news with Maxine Good afternoon. One woman has died | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
and hundreds have been driven from their homes in storms. Scotland has | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
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form -- has borne the brunt of the weather. -- the South West. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
The rain has stopped but the market town of Malmesbury is under three | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
feet of water. People had to be rescued from the worst floods in | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
decades. We had around eight or nine inches on Wednesday night. | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
Everybody has said they had never seen anything like this before. | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
Dozens of businesses have been -- homes have been left under water. | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
All we could do was mark the position of the flood water. At the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
height of the storm, high winds brought down the streets in Exeter. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
A woman had been camped in the tent underneath. Two men were also | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
injured. It was the south-west which bore the west of the | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
overnight rain. At one point there were four severe flood warnings in | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
this county. There are still more than 200 alerts in place. In Devon, | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
hundreds of homes were deluged by the floodwaters, with the residents | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
using any means to keep the flood waters down. It is coming in all | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
the rooms. The flood waters may have begun to recede for now, but | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
there is more to come. Another band of heavy rain is expected. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Our correspondent is in Cornwall where the river burst its bank -- | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
its banks. More bad weather on the way? | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Yes, and things were pretty bad last night in the whole of Cornwall. | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Overnight, the river levels here rose dramatically, resulting in a | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
severe flood warning, the most severe that the Environment Agency | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
give. That has been downgraded in the last hour. The skies are still | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
looking pretty leaden. The rain it may have stopped but we know that | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
more bad weather is on the way. A fresh weather system is due to come | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
through bringing more rain to the south-west and heavy and persistent | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
rain to the north-west of England and the north of Wales this | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
afternoon. A new law criminalising stalking | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
has come into effect in England and Wales today. Those convicted will | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
face up to six months in jail. The change followed a parliamentary | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
inquiry which showed that 120,000 people, mostly women, are stalked | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
every year. People have died in a clothing | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
factory fire in Bangladesh. People jump from windows to escape the | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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blaze. It was in the capital. Good afternoon. BAE Systems could | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
decide to close one of their major shipyards next month. The future of | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Govan, Scotstoun and Portsmouth are in doubt after the completion of | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
two new aircraft carriers. The chief executive has warned | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
manufacturing may stop at one of the sites. BAE are in discussions | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
with ministers about the future - union leaders say they're | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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apprehensive. We have had talks with the company and that has been | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
the suggestion. In reality, the sooner the decision is made, the | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
better. It is just fuelling speculation. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Scottish Women's Aid is launching a campaign to highlight why women do | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
not leave violent homes when they're being abused. It's called | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Together We Can Stop It and looks at ways the public can stop abuse. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Victims' real stories have been recorded and released on the | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
charity's website. Rugby - and Andy Robinson has | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
stepped down as Scotland coach. The Scottish Rugby Union made the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
announcement in the last hour. Yesterday's defeat to Tonga was the | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
19th in Robinson's 35 matches in charge and comes at the end of a | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
calendar year which began with the RBS Six Nations wooden spoon. | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
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After all the fine weather yesterday, a rather dull affair. A | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
lot of rain around central Scotland and eastern Scotland. That will go | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
into the North Sea. It would turn to snow near Aberdeen. A trying | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
picture from the West. It will fill rather cold today under all that | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
cloud temperatures will go to about six Celsius. We are picking up a | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
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fresh northerly wind across the Now it is that time of the day | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
where we take a look back at the highlights of the Week in 60 | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
Seconds. It was a wet start to the week for | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
many people across Scotland, with flooding causing major disruption | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
to roads and towns. The further education saga | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
continued, when Education Secretary Mike Russell apologised to MSPs for | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
giving wrong information on college budgets. | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
MSPs from Scotland's three largest opposition parties launched their A | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
New Union plan, to find agreement on further powers for Holyrood if | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
Scots vote no to independence. Labour's Michael McMahon was banned | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
from the chamber for a day after heckling the Speaker, Tricia | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Marwick. Mr McMahon said he felt the punishment did not fit the | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
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crime. Order! Order! I would ask you to withdraw it that remark. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
And no agreement on the European Union's budget. Prime Minister | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
David Cameron insisted the deal on offer "was not good enough". | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
The people of Catalonia vote today after a bitter and hard-fought | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
campaign dominated by the issue of independence from Spain. The | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
elections were called by Catalan president Artur Mas, in a bid to | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
get a mandate for a referendum, something the government in Madrid | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
has ruled out. But there has been a furious response, with one Spanish | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
newspaper accusing Mr Mas of corruption just a week before the | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
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poll. Our political correspondent is in Barcelona. Sealed with a kiss. | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
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A happy couple celebrate their wedding day. Modern Spain was | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
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united. Their political successors have fallen out. President Artur | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Mas called for a referendum to get the mandate on independence. It was | :10:00. | :10:10. | |
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rejected by Madrid. A sea of red and yellow Catalan flags came out | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
demanding a new place within the country. Even if he does get | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
support at the ballot box, it does not mean it is going to happen. The | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Spanish constitution blocks the road to independence. Independence | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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campaigners say they need to have their say. TRANSLATION: We need to | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
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be given the chance. Things got rather messy after a leading | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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newspaper accused Artur Mas of corruption. Companies are come here | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
because what it is like and have people find that the government is | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
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putting up walls around the region, it would be catastrophic. Those in | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
favour of independence hope that the vote goes their way and the | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
force Spain to give them a fort on independence few. What kind of | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
result is expected? What are the early indications? It is clear | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
enough that there will be a majority in favour of independence. | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
The real question is whether Artur Mas gets the out right majority he | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
needs. He is having to deal with these corruption allegations. He is | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
accusing the Spanish President of been behind these allegations. But | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
of course, there are also having to deal with their share of the | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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austerity of which is gripping all of Spain. As Scotland been | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
mentioned in this? Yeah, it is very interesting. Artur Mas has called | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
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for an Alex Salmond style push for independence. Now, at regarding the | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
NATO situation, they have become very clear on this, as opposed to | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
Scotland, when Alex Salmond became very defensive when asked on the | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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issue. Thank you for that. Sorry that we were slightly off sink on | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
that report. We will have to leave it there. We will get early polling | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
and L indications of their results later this evening. | :13:33. | :13:37. |