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Alex Salmond urges Scots not to let the opportunity for independence | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
slip through their fingers. Better Together says a no vote would mean | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
faster, greater and better change in Scotland. From seven o'clock | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
tomorrow morning, 4 million people make their decision on a historic | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
day for the future of Scotland and the rest of the UK. We are live in | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Edinburgh as the latest poll suggests results will be too close | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
to call with a slender lead for the no vote. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Also this lunch time: Unemployment falls below 1 million for the first | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
time in six years but average earnings still lag behind inflation. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Police in Thailand widen their investigation into the killing of | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
David Miller and Hannah Witheridge after new evidence appears. | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Detectives looking for Alex Groth say they are also looking for a man | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
who disappeared a week after her disappearance. -- Alice Gross. | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
And the Ebola vaccine is tested for the first time on human beings. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
On BBC London: A ?10 charge to see the New Year's Eve celebrations. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
And a survey shows London has the highest levels of childhood obesity. | :01:35. | :01:57. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. In less than 24 | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
hours, the people of Scotland will go to the polls with one question to | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
answer. Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes and no | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
campaigns are making last-ditch attempts to win the hearts and minds | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
of the 4 million people who will make that historic decision for the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
future of Scotland and the rest of the UK. The latest polls suggest the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
results will be too close to call with a slender lead for the no vote. | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
In a moment we will be hearing from Ian Watson, Better Together trail, | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
but first we report from Glasgow on the yes campaign. Actors, musicians | :02:38. | :02:49. | |
and politicians have poured onto the streets. They are in high spirits. | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
You want real power, and you want to stay in Scotland. Vote yes. | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
These campaigners say this is about hope versus fear. They say that | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
opponents are trying to frighten voters, but now they guess camp also | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
stands accused of trying to drown out the debate. In the last couple | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
of weeks we have seen a pretty obvious attempt to exaggerate | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
everything which is not absolutely perfect conduct. The classic thing | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
in any campaign is to try to change the subject, when you are losing the | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
argument. I think the no campaign are trying to do that. There is no | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
doubt this campaign has been desirous of, but it has also | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
breathed life into Pozzo ticks in Scotland. The area is crackling with | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
energy, as the country enters the final hours of this campaign. The | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
Deputy First Minister was also in Glasgow, addressing a rather younger | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
audience. They have lowered the voting age for this referendum, but | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
not quite this far. Nicola Sturgeon's message - a yes vote | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
would mean better childcare and a better future. People understand | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
independence is not a magic wand, but increasingly, they know that if | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
we vote yes, we take control of the decisions, powers and resources we | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
need in Scotland for the next generation. As this marathon | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
campaign turns into a sprint for the line, one thing is clear - they say | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
people do not care about politics, they are wrong. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
The former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
withering attack on claims by the yes campaign in Scotland that the | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
only way to save the NHS is to vote for independence. In a speech in | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Edinburgh, he accused the Scottish National Party of peddling alive by | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
claiming the Health Service would face cuts and privatisation imposed | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
by Westminster. Iain Watson reports. Critics say the no campaign has been | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
too negative. Today, they put the positive face. Stunned by criticism | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
that voting against independence was somehow unpatriotic, this rally in | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
Scotland was called Love Scotland, Vote No. And this former Prime | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
Minister gave one of his most animated and passionate defences of | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the union and Scotland's place in it, speaking more like a revivalist | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
preacher than a politician. We built the Health Service together, we | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
build the welfare state together, we will build the future together. And | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
what we have built together by sacrificing and sharing let no | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
narrow nationalism split asunder ever. On the sidelines of this very | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
public meeting, privately, the no campaign say they are dilated by the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
opinion polls, which are showing they have a narrow lead at the | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
moment, which means it is possible for them to win on Thursday, but | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
there is no room for complacency. So, the message is very clear - if | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
you do not want Scotland to leave the rest of the UK, you will have to | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
go out and vote for it. At this rally, Conservatives and Liberal | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
Democrats were joining senior Labour figures. The Prime Minister was not | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
here, but he sent his own message to the people of Scotland - stay within | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
the United Kingdom. We are all fiercely patriotic and proud of the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
country in which we live. But I say that my head and my heart say, no, | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
thanks to the risks of separation. The message from the no campaign | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
today is that you can be both Scottish and British. But at the end | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
of a two-year campaign, some say the political wounds inflicted will take | :07:02. | :07:02. | |
a long time to heal. The latest opinion polls suggest | :07:03. | :07:14. | |
that between 8% and 14% of voters are still not sure which way they | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
will vote tomorrow. Our correspondent Christian Fraser is in | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Livingston. Thank you very much. Until late | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
tonight, I am sure, there are two armies of activists marching the | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
pavements, banging on the doors of estates like this one in north-east | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Glasgow, pleading with the undecideds to come in their | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
direction. It could feasibly come down to just a few thousand votes, a | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
few thousand people who shape the future of Scotland and the United | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Kingdom. Today, with both the yes campaign and the no campaign, we | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
have been out hunting those elusive wavering voters. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
The last day, the last push, and everything still to fight for. Since | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
the weekend, millions of leaflets have been pushed through the doors | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
of Scottish voters. Yet the polls tell us there are still tens of | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
thousands who are undecided. The men may be more fixed in their decision, | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
the women are more inclined to be looking out the whole scenario and | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
trying to make a judgment which they feel is honest and true for | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
themselves. In this area of Livingston, a Labour stronghold, the | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
no campaign are also out in force, working hard to make sure their | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
support stays strong. They find Mr Taylor, a pensioner, who is torn | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
between his head and his heart. I am not 100% sure. I am going to say no, | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
to be quite honest with you. You have just decided that while we are | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
here? I have just decided. Because of the campaigning? But also, my | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
main concern is my pension. It is a frenzied day of activity on both | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
sides. There is a plan. Each is targeting those areas they perceive | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
can still be won, making sure that every supporter goes out to vote. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
You think it will make a difference in this neighbourhood? I think it | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
will, yes. I think a lot of people are still unsure. Is this going to | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
change your mind? No. You are sticking to yes? I am, yes. In the | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
end, for many, tomorrow it will come down to a gut instinct in the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
polling booth. What will they decide? | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
In this area, north-east of Glasgow, there are two unknown factors. | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
Firstly, those who do not normally vote, who did not vote in the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Scottish elections, which makes up half of the country. The other | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
unknown factor is the Labour vote - will it hold up, in terms of the no | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
campaign? But I can tell you that neither side is complacent, they are | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
taking nothing for granted, and they will go late into the night. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
One question which repeatedly crops up in this campaign is over what | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
currency Scotland would use, should it vote yes for independence. Alex | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Salmond has again insisted that Scotland would be able to use the | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
pound, whether there was a currency union or not. But the Westminster | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
party leaders have repeatedly made it clear that that will not happen. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
We can speak to Robert Peston now. Who is right in this, is there any | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
way of sorting it out? Well, this is a complicated and incredibly | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
important question. Alex Salmond is confident that there will be | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
monetary union with the rest of the UK. What does that mean? It means | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
that Scotland would continue to use sterling, more or less as it does | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
today, with continuing influence over interest rates and also | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
influence over the way the Bank of England regulates and protects | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
banks. However, the Westminster government and Labour have said, | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
over their dead bodies. They say there will be no such agreement, | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
because they say, look at what happened in the Eurozone, where | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
there was a similar kind of arrangement, leading to economic and | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
monetary disaster. So, there appears to be an impasse. On the one hand, | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
Alex Salmond believes that the Westminster government will simply | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
buccal. He may or may not be right. Even if they do not buccal, however, | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
there is the option. And of simply using sterling without an agreement. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
But that would not be cheap or particularly easy. According to Bank | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
of England analysis, they would have to accumulate big reserves, will be | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
?20 billion or more, and that would not be money which would then be | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
available for spending on schools and hospitals, for example. So, yes, | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
it is true that Scotland could continue to use the pound, even | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
without the agreement of the Westminster government, but that | :12:28. | :12:28. | |
would not be an easy option. Norman Smith has been following both | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
campaigns from Glasgow, and he joins me now. Norman, those are some of | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
the big arguments, but we have also been listening in this last day of | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
campaigning to the arguments from the heart, particularly from Gordon | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Brown? Yes, there are not really any new arguments to make. We have heard | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
about sterling, the economy, about whether Scotland could join the | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
European Union. Today, on both sides, is is about emotion and | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
passion and patriotism. That is why, when Alistair Darling and Gordon | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Brown were led out onto the stage earlier, they were led up to the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
sound of bagpipes. The intended message - there is nothing | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
unpatriotic about voting no. There is real resentment I think amongst | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
no campaigners about the way they feel they have been trade as somehow | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
unScottish. They say that by arguing for a more inclusive, open Scotland, | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
where they do not sever ties on both sides of the border, they are the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
true patriotism. Across town, we have had a rally from the yes | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
campaign which has been trained to make a similar, patriotic point. We | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
had the open letter from Alex Salmond earlier, saying to Scots, do | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
not let this once-in-a-lifetime moment treble through your fingers. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
The reason there is this appeal on both sides to patriotism is to | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
galvanise their supporters. In the end, this referendum may be decided | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
by which side can get out there vote. | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
I will be back with more on the referendum later in the programme. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Unemployment has fallen again - with the number | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance dropping below one million | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
The jobless total was down by 146,000. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
But average earnings are still significantly behind inflation. | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
Our correspondent Simon Gompertz reports. | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
It is still a big total wanting jobs, but this is another | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
significant fall in unemployment, peaking at 6.8 million in 2011, now | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
down close to 2 million. But remember, it remains well above the | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
low of 1.4 million, before the financial crisis. Youth unemployment | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
is down by a record amount. This man in Leeds had help from a government | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
funded scheme and now has a job in a hotel. I was starting to get a bit | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
down and annoyed. This scheme made me realise, plenty of fish in the | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
sea, and if you keep plugging away at something, you can get to where | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
you want to go in life. With Kelvin and other young people moving into | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
work, the total claiming jobseeker's allowance has dipped below 1 million | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
for the first time in six years, with schemes like the one in Leeds | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
playing their part. Unemployment among young people has reduced by | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
around 40%. In this region that figure is higher than the national | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
picture, but we know that what we are doing works. But the wages on | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
offer are still rising painfully slowly - so, the work might be | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
there, but you could be struggling to keep up with the cost of living. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Wages are up just 0.7%, excluding bonuses. The latest inflation | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
figures shows going up by double that. Employers can find people they | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
need at roughly the current rate of wages which are being offered. So, | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
employers do not need to pay more. The Bank of England committee which | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
sets interest rates is under less pressure to raise rates to control | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
the recovery. Their discussions, published today, show most of them | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
still want the cost of borrowing to stay at its all-time low. | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
Police in Thailand are widening their investigation | :16:37. | :16:37. | |
into the brutal killing of two British tourists on the island of | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
They say that two British men wanted for questioning about the murders | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge have been stopped | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
The bodies of the victims were found on a beach on the island on Monday. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Our correspondent Jonathan Head sent this report. | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
Thai police were back on the crime scene again today, hoping to find | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
any evidence that they may have overlooked. But this area was never | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
sealed off from the public. Today's search was probably more for the | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
cameras than solving the murders. The bodies of David Miller and | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
Hannah Witheridge have already been moved to Bangkok. There, British | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
embassy officials met forensic experts to learn of any progress | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
that has been made. They seem confident of success. With the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
information we have, I think we can identify the murderer. However, we | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
must wait for the test results to come out. After initially focusing | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
their efforts on local people, the police say they are now holding two | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
British men for questioning. They were with the victims in the days | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
before they died and were stopped from leaving the country at Bangkok | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
airport. Three days on, and you do get the sense now of an | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
investigation that is kicking into a higher gear. But after some pretty | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
mixed messages from the police, you have to wonder whether opportunities | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
and perhaps even evidence to solve the crime might have been missed. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
There is great pressure on the police to get a quick result. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
Reputation of Thailand's tourist industry is at stake. But the sheer | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
horror of this crime places another responsibility on the authorities, | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
to make sure that that result is the right one. Jonathan Head, BBC News, | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
Thailand. Our top story this lunch time: With | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
less than 24 hours to go, campaigners on both sides of the | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Scottish independent campaign make their final plea for votes. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Still to come: A new vaccine for the Ebola virus. We will be asking how | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
effective it is likely to be. On BBC London: The key to the capital. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Southern railway's smart card is likely to be. On BBC London: The key | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
to the capital. Southern railway's and from stage to screen, a | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
controversial story of privilege. We speak to the right behind The | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Riot Club. Detectives searching for | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
Alice Gross, the teenager who disappeared three weeks ago, | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
say they're also looking for a man Arnis Zalkalns, a Latvian builder, | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
cycles to work along a similar route to where | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
the 14 year old was last seen. Our home affairs correspondent | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
Tom Symonds has more. Symbols of hope hanging from every | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
lamp post in some of the streets in this area. But nearly three weeks | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
on, there are no firm clues as to what has happened to Alice Gross. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Police have these tantalising glimpses of her setting off on a | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
walk, a dark rucksack on her back. She told her parents she would be | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
home that evening. Last night detectives told the BBC's Crimewatch | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
programme what they know of her movements. She left her home in | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Hanwell, up here, and followed the Grand Union Canal to Brentford, | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
which is where she may have done some shopping. She then returned | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
back along the same route. The last confirmed sighting we have is at the | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
bridge on Trumpers Way at 4:25pm and we are keen to speak to anyone who | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
might have seen her. During her walk that day, she arrived at this busy | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
road. Naturally her route would have taken her down this secluded path | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
that follows the river. She appears to have taken the decision to go | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
along the main road instead. She was caught on CCTV cameras but her bag | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
was found down there. Dark, with splashes of colour, it had been | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
picked up, examined and moved by several passers-by. Her white | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
iPhone, with the cracked case, has not been found. It might reveal what | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
she was doing online. It may have been taken from the bag. The canal | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
path where she disappeared are used by walkers and cyclists and this | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
man, 41-year-old Arnis Zalkalns, who has also gone missing exactly a week | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
after Alice Gross. Is there a link? Police say he is not a suspect but | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
they want to speak to him. Meanwhile, her family wait. There is | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
not a moment of the day when you don't think about Alice and where | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
she is and what might have happened and why she might have gone missing. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
It is almost impossible to describe what that pain feels like. The last | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
two weeds have been completely heartbreaking but we just want her | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
to know, please, Alice, if you are out there, come home. This is still | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
a missing persons inquiry. Extensive searches of the area have turned up | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
nothing more. Alice's disappearance remains a mystery. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
A new experimental vaccine for Ebola has been tested on human beings | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
The results from animal trials are said to have been promising | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
and the drug is now being given to 60 healthy volunteers in Oxford. | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
With me is our global health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Tell us about this vaccine. How does it work? 60 volunteers will be | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
injected with this vaccine which includes a single Ebola protein, a | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
benign protein, which cannot cause the virus because it does not | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
material in it to do that. The hope is that it will trigger an immune | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
response, which will encourage the body to produce antibodies to fight | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
the virus, the idea being that if someone does become infected they | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
will have the antibodies in them ready to fight the virus. This is | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
how many vaccines are developed and how they work already. You give | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
people a tiny bit of the disease and they then build immunity to it. This | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
particular study seeks to establish two, firstly that it is safe, and | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
secondly that it has a good immunity responds. How quickly can we see it | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
being rolled out to where it is needed? This has been fast tracked | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
at an unprecedented rate. This study will go on for a few months but we | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
will have the preliminary safety results in a few weeks. It will be | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
tested the Gambia and in Mali and if all goes well, it will be given to | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
health workers putting their lives on the line every day in Africa so | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
that they will be able to protect themselves, by the end of the year, | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
we are hearing. We are also hearing from the World Health Organisation | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
that it is still a few months off. In the coming weeks, thousands of | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
people will die. 2500 are already dead as things stand and they say | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
more international help is needed now on the ground. We saw that the | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
US gave 3000 troops to build facilities yesterday and they are | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
looking to contain this utterly out of control outbreak. Thank you. | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
Police in Hertfordshire have arrested | :24:00. | :24:00. | |
a 48-year-old man on suspicion of stealing artefacts and munitions | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
Officers searched a property in St Albans this morning and | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
discovered explosives dating back to the First and Second World Wars. | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
In a suburban street on the outskirts of St Albans, police | :24:10. | :24:22. | |
marked the latest phase of an investigation that spans the | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
battlefield Britain and Europe. For the past three years English | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
Heritage have been investigating illegal metal detecting on protected | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
conflict sites. That investigation led to the arrest and the operation | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
now unfolding around one semidetached property. A team from | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
Countryfile captured these pictures of the contents of an adjoining | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
garage. On shelves and stables, from floor to ceiling, hundreds of items | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
ranging from uniforms to weapons and most worryingly to munitions. We | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
have essentially found a museum for World War I and World War II relics. | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
That includes at this stage some firearms, some ammunitions, and some | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
munitions as well. Police say some items are at least 100 years old and | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
due to the risk of public safety, they have called in an army | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
explosives team. Nearby properties have been evacuated as experts | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
examine the shelves and emissions to see if they can be moved without | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
risk. Illegal metal detecting, night hawking, has long been a cause of | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
concern for those striving to protect our past. This is the first | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
time that English Heritage in partnership with the police have | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
targeted those that they believe are regularly taking and trading in | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
battlefield artefacts. We are talking about potentially live | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
munitions here but we also have the archaeological element, which is | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
that this material is being removed in uncontrolled conditions so we are | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
losing the archaeological knowledge as well. In view of the age and | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
possible instability of the munitions, police say the army may | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
need to carry out controlled explosions, either on the site or on | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
open ground nearby. Work here is due to last at least 48 hours. | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
More now on the Scottish referendum. Let's go back to Gavin at Holyrood. | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
Thank you. Let's give you an idea of what happens over the next 48 | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
hours. 4.2 million people have registered to vote, which is 97% of | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
the Scottish electorate. The polls will open at seven o'clock tomorrow | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
morning and will close at ten o'clock tomorrow night. The polls | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
will open at seven o'clock tomorrow morning and will close at ten | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
o'clock tomorrow night. Areas around Scotland. When will we know the | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
result? Our best guess is about seven o'clock on Friday morning and | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
there will be a special overnight programme. Brian Taylor is in | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
Glasgow. First, give us a sense of this historical moment. I suspect | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
for any Scots born after World War II, this is the biggest moment of | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
our political life. It is remarkable. There have been parallel | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
campaigns, connected but not entirely. The public campaign | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
involving the media, involving the leaders, but alongside that a quiet | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
and private discourse in their homes, offices, pubs and village | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
halls of Scotland. It is that quiet, private discourse, influenced | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
hugely by the public campaign of course, that will come to a | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
conclusion tomorrow as the people of Scotland, nearly 4.3 million of them | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
able to vote, cast their decisions. There were two rallies in Glasgow | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
this morning, both talking about confidence. The yes campaigners | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
saying that it would be Scotland and the no campaigners pleading with | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
people to have the confidence to vote no, arguing that was the | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
patriotically action. Can we talk about the flavour of the campaign, I | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
suppose? I have witnessed many good-natured discussions, sometimes | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
very passionate, but good-natured discussions up and down the country. | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
The country is split broadly 50-50. Is there bad temper? Are people | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
worried about waking up on finding those decisions still exist on | :28:19. | :28:26. | |
Friday morning? -- and finding. There are appeals for calm and I | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
believe that will be respected. The General Assembly of the Church of | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
Scotland, Scotland's Parliament in a censure, and perhaps we should | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
listen to them moderator on this one, he is urging unity whatever the | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
outcome of the campaign and of the vote. Thank you very much. The BBC | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
will be bringing you all the twists and turns of the independence vote | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
tomorrow night with our special programme Scotland Decides. Huw | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
Edwards presents live coverage from Glasgow with reaction from across | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
Scotland. That is from 10:35pm tomorrow evening. As for the | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
weather, well, in Edinburgh we would summarise it as dreak but Nina might | :29:11. | :29:20. | |
have other words. Thank you. It is cloudy at the moment but we have | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
reached the middle of the month and it has been the driest start to | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
September that we have had for over 50 years. Just 7% of the total | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
monthly rainfall average so far. Not just that, but across the UK daytime | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
temperatures are currently sitting at 2 degrees above average. That has | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
not been the case for all of us. If you have been stuck under this | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
stubborn cloud to the East, it is currently very cool. The sunshine | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
has made the difference to the temperatures on the Isle of Wight | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
with 22. There is sunshine across western Scotland. In central and | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
eastern areas it is cloudy. Some of the rain in eastern areas could be | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
heavy at times. High temperatures of 70 it Edinburgh. Dry and bright in | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
Northern Ireland with sunny spells and sunshine in North West England. | :30:11. | :30:17. | |
-- high temperatures of 17 in Edinburgh. Along the South coast, | :30:18. | :30:24. | |
sunshine with the mid 20s possible. It will be breezy and gusty in South | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
West England through the afternoon. Into the evening, a greater risk of | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
heavy showers developing here with some thunderstorms. Elsewhere, the | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
low cloud will be drawn back in affecting central and eastern areas | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
with light rain and drizzle possible. Temperatures similar to | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
the last couple of mornings, 14 or 16, but warm in the South West | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
corner. It is in the South West that we could pick up heavy showers | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
tomorrow. Thunderstorms in places, quite a lot of rainfall in a short | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
space of time, but not everywhere. Cool and cloudy in the North East | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
but a slice of sunshine in between could potentially live to | :31:08. | :31:09. | |
temperatures across South East England to around 25. -- lift | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
temperatures. On Thursday evening, the showers become more of a | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
feature, starting off across the Channel Islands and pushing their | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
way North. We could see some nasty thunderstorms as we head into the | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
early hours and as we start Friday morning. Thank you. | :31:29. | :31:32. |