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The majority of valid votes cast yesterday by the people of Scotland | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
in response to the referendum question, "Should Scotland be | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Scotland says No - voting to remain part of the United Kingdom. | :00:13. | :00:28. | |
The margin of victory is wider than some had predicted. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
David Cameron says he's delighted at the result. | :00:32. | :00:43. | |
We now have a chance, a great opportunity, to change the way the | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
British people are governed, and change for the better. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Disappointment in the Yes camp, but Alex Salmond says he accepts | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Unionist parties made vows later in the campaign to devolve more powers | :00:57. | :01:09. | |
to Scotland. Scotland will expect these to be honoured. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Scotland's new powers will be outlined in the new year, | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
but there are now calls for more devolution in Wales, Northern | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
As Scotland now looks to the future, we'll have all the reaction to | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
the referendum result - and what it means for the UK as a whole. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
President Hollande announces that French jets have launched | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
their first air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
And under pressure from increasing demand - | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
England's flagship health trusts in deficit for the first time. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
The referendum No vote - what will it mean for the capital- | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
And the Big Issue is given a permanent pitch indoors at | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:54. | :02:19. | |
The people of Scotland have spoken - and the answer is No. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
By a wider margin than many people had predicted, Scotland has voted to | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Early this morning, the head of the Yes campaign, Scotland's | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
First Minister Alex Salmond, conceded defeat - calling on all | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
David Cameron says the debate is now settled for a generation - but has | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
promised a new and fair devolution settlement for all parts of the UK. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
With all councils now declared, the No campaign took 55% of the | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Turnout was a record 84.6% - more than 3.5 million people voted | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
28 council areas voted No - including here in Edinburgh, | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
Fife and Alex Salmond's own constituency of Aberdeenshire. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
That included Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
This lunchtime, we'll have all the reaction to the referendum results - | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
and will discuss the political consequences here in Scotland and in | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the rest of the UK, where there are now calls for more power to be given | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
by Westminster to other parts of the country. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Our first report is from our political correspondent | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
This is the moment it became official. Scotland had said no to | :03:43. | :04:00. | |
independence. Yes. The number of votes, 1 million 617900 and 89. No, | :04:01. | :04:13. | |
the number of votes, 2,001,926. Even before the final result was formally | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
declared, it had become obvious on Alex Salmond's face. But the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
referendum was not just about the politicians. Millions of people had | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
invested their hopes, dreams, fears and nightmares in a campaign which | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
had become intense over the past two Magri weeks. It had really lasted | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
for the past two years. Some were elated, others disappointed, but | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Mike -- many quite simply exhausted. Whatever his heartfelt, Alex Salmond | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
put a brave face on the result when he arrived in the Scottish capital. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Thank you to Scotland for 1.6 million votes for Scottish | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
independence. But he's told his supporters to reconcile themselves | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
to defeat. I accept that verdict of the people and I call on all of | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Scotland to follow suit and accept the democratic verdict of the people | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
of Scotland. APPLAUSE | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
When he became Scotland's first-ever First Minister 15 years ago, the | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
late Donald Dewar believed the devolved Scottish Parliament would | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
consign the SNP's ambition to history. Well, it did not quite work | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
out like that. Four out of ten voters in Scotland have voted for | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
independence, but senior figures in today's Labour party are stressing a | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
No vote does not mean no change. The leader of the Better Together | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
campaign said they had listened to the concerns of those who had not | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
voted for them. As we celebrate let us also listen. More than 85% of the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Scottish population has voted. People who were disengaged from | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
politics have turned out in large numbers. And the Prime Minister | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
promised more devolution for Scotland, Wales and Northern | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Ireland, but made clear he felt the question of independence had been | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
decisively answered. Now the debate has been settled for a generation, | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
or as Alex Salmond has said, perhaps for a lifetime, so there can be no | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
dispute, no reruns, we have heard the settled will of the Scottish | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
people. The first result set the tone of the night. The Yes campaign | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
had been hoping for success in Clackmannanshire in central | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
Scotland, but a majority of voters rejected independence. No, | :06:28. | :06:39. | |
19,000... 19,036. The Yes campaigners were given a boost which | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
soon became a consolation prize, when most voters in Glasgow, | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Scotland's biggest city, opted for an independent Scotland. Yes, | :06:48. | :07:05. | |
194,000... No, 169,347. They shouted yes, but they have spent the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
campaign saying no, and at the Better Together party they weres | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
there were celebrations when it was clear most voters had embraced the | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
union and decided to keep the UK United. | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
As we said, more than 3.5 million people voted - | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
an unprecedented turnout of just under 85%, the highest | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
So how are the people of Scotland feeling this morning? | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Our Scotland correspondent James Cook has been out and about, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
A grey dawn over Edinburgh, a black day for supporters of independence. | :07:36. | :07:48. | |
They had come here for a victory party, but it never got started. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Instead, results from across the country left them in despair, dismay | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
and disbelief. Scotland has thrown away a real opportunity here. A | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
chance in a lifetime and we have thrown it away. I think people have | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
been scared by the Better Together scares and they have not seen the | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
opportunity and I don't know when we will get the next chance. This is a | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
really bad day for Scotland. Through the tears there is anger here as | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
well, with many blaming the media, in particular the BBC, for the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
result. It was always one-sided and how can people possibly make up | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
their mind if they only get one side of the story? It is disgusting. I am | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
disgusted with the British state and the media, absolutely disgusted. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Their opponents think the dismay is overdone, suggesting that Scotland | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
will now have the best of both worlds. More powers for Edinburgh | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
within the United Kingdom. Delight and relief. I stayed up all night, | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
at least until three o'clock in the morning, just to watch. It was very | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
exciting but there are questions to sort out and hopefully we can work | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
together. Even Alex Salmond is probably secretly happy he's getting | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
all these powers. A good result. This result has opened wounds which | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
will take time to heal and while one question has been answered another | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
remains. What is the settled will of the people in this restless, divided | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
Scotland? Our assistant political editor | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Norman Smith is in Glasgow. Not quite as close result as many | :09:20. | :09:35. | |
predicted? No, I am in the centre of Glasgow. Glasgow, one of the few | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
cities to actually vote Yes, but where people are coming to terms | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
with the scale of last night's really quite decisive defeat. A | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
defeat brought about, it seems, by the shy noes, the silent majority, | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
people who did not put up posters or web badges or talk to us | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
journalists, but who in the privacy of the polling booth finally | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
expressed their true support for the union, bringing about what is a | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
defining moment. It was for so long, politics in Scotland has been | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
dominated by the issue of independence and it has hung over | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
relations between London and Edinburgh, even soured relations | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
between the two capitals. Now, all sides accept that is over and maybe | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
even longer, but if the referendum is over it -- its aftermath could | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
prove as protracted and difficult. David Cameron will have to live up | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
to his promise to hand more powers to the Scottish parliament, he has | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
coupled that with a promise to devolve more powers to the rest of | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
the UK, and to the same timetable as handing over other powers to | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Scotland. What that means is he wants a new deal for England, Wales | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
and Northern Ireland, by January of next year. That is an | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
extraordinary, daunting, difficult and potentially divisive process. | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
So now the focus will be on how the UK government delivers | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
its promise of more powers for the Scottish parliament. | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
This morning, David Cameron said the government would follow through on | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
its pledge - but added that there must be what he called "a new and | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
fair settlement" for Wales, Northern Ireland and England as well. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Our political correspondent Ben Wright reports. | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
After an anxious night wake in Westminster, by dawn it was clear, | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
Scotland will stay in the UK. But something else was clear, politics | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
here has changed for good. Let's start with England. The question of | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
whether it is fair for Scotland's MPs to vote on laws that only apply | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
to England has been discussed, but ducks, four years. This morning the | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Prime Minister said it needed to be answered. The question of English | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
votes for English laws, the so-called West Lothian question, | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
requires a decisive answer. So just a Scotland will vote separately and | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
the Scottish Parliament on the issues of tax, spending and welfare, | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
so to England, as well as Wales and Northern Ireland, should be able to | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
vote on these issues and all this must take place in tandem with and | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
at the same pace as the settlement for Scotland. The debate around | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
England only legislation has simmered for years and it is | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
controversial territory. What laws would Scotland's MPs be excluded | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
from? Could a future Labour Prime Minister relying on Scottish MPs get | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
a complete set of budget measures through the House of Commons? Even | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
by Britain's standards of constitutional improvisation, this | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
is being done on the hoof and in a hurry. It means actually that the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
next general election will see the English question being one of the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
major issues that we have to face and I have long campaigned that | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Labour should be ahead of the curve on this and I hope we will be by | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
long before the next election. This morning, UKIP's leader Nigel Farage | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
posted letters to Scottish MPs, telling them not to vote on English | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
issues at Westminster. It is playing catch-up at the last minute. Mr | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Cameron is scared of how English view voters will view those promises | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
made towards the end of the campaign we could get all 59 Scottish MPs | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
promised between now and the next election not to take part in debates | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
or votes on English-only issues. The government wants to push more power | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
down to cities as well, such as Carlisle. I think we should have the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
same as Scotland, where you get free prescriptions and everything. Why | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
not spread that our way? We'd all like to see a development of power | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
and decision-making to local regions so we can make decisions about local | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
populations in terms of health and social care needs. Local government | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
should have a say in the north-east and north-west. What about Wales? It | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
already has some devolve powers, but the pledge of guaranteed extra | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
funding for Scotland and more power has prompted calls for further | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
devolution to Cardiff. Promises have been made to Scotland, far reaching | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
promises, and there are implications for Wales. Scotland has been offered | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
first-class devolution. There is a risk that Wales will get second or | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
even third class devolution and we must make sure that our devolution | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
settlement is as good if not better than what they get in Scotland. At | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Stormont, the First Minister of Northern Ireland said all the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
nations of the UK had to be involved in the discussion about new | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
devolution. The referendum in Scotland is over. The arguments over | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
how Britain had should be governed have just begun. | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
A timetable to deliver change was set out by the former | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
He's argued that all the proposals should be laid out | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
by the government by the end of October, and draft legislation | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
Our correspondent Christian Fraser looks at the timetable. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
So finally we know - the people of Scotland have rejected | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
independence, and for the time being all these powers | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
What it doesn't mean though is a return to the status quo. | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
In the final weeks of the campaign, Better Together promised substantial | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
change - and the SNP will certainly hold them to that commitment. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Here are two powers which look set to be further | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
At the moment the Scottish government can vary the level | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
of income tax by up to three pence, though it has never used these | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
And under the 2012 Scotland Act they'll have further scope to adjust | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
But faced with the threat of independence, | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
the three main Westminster parties agreed to go even further. | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
The Tories and the Lib Dems want to give Holyrood complete control | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
in the setting of personal income tax rates, with negotiations to | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
We might also see more powers over VAT, on air transport duty, | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
perhaps also the power to change inheritance tax and capital gains. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
What about that other power - over here - social security and benefits. | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Labour would like to fully devolve housing benefits policy - | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
Alex Salmond promised that with independence | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
the Scottish government would scrap the so-called bedroom tax - and that | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
may still be the case if the Scottish government can fund it. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Nicola Sturgeon said this morning they want more on welfare, | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
So it seems likely they will push for more than has | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
We can show you Gordon Brown's timeline here. | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
A white paper by the end of November. | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
Draft legislation appearing here, somewhere near the end of January. | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
A second reading of the bill before the end of this parliament - | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
which does look a tight deadline in mind of the dissent now brewing | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
The clamour on the Tory backbenches is growing for a federal UK, | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
The beginnings then of what could be a huge constitutional wrangle. | :17:12. | :17:24. | |
As we've heard, the implications of the No vote | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
In a moment we'll hear from our correspondents in Wesminster | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
and Belfast, but first let?s speak to Hywel Griffith in Cardiff. | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
Give us a sense of what people are saying there. Well, if David Cameron | :17:42. | :17:51. | |
thought that offered to put Wales at the centre of the debate over a new | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
UK would find him some friends in the Welsh assembly this morning, he | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
was wrong. Labour's Carwyn Jones, the First Minister for Wales, | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
rounded on him, accusing David Cameron of almost sleepwalking into | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
disaster over Scotland and now potentially doing the same over the | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
rest of the UK. For two years, Carwyn Jones has been calling UK | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
constitutional convention. That, it seems, is not going to happen in | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
some three months. The real problem for Welsh Labour is twofold. First, | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
they don't have much leverage. This discussion is increasingly going | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
over the relationship between Scotland and England. Secondly, not | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
what -- one for the Welsh MPs, the Clywd West problem, because Labour | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
has 26 MPs in Wales. If you take them out of Westminster, that causes | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
a headache next May. So the response to that offer from David Cameron, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
cool, I have to say. People do want more powers, but they want a proper | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
seat at the table as well. That is the view in Cardiff. | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
The big question for Northern Ireland is can it handle any more | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
devolution, any more power? Government at Stormont is not like | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
the rest of the United Kingdom, we have a mandatory coalition of five | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
parties, the two main parties, the DUP, centre-right, and Sinn Fein, | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
had left, nationalist. They do not agree very much. In fact, the First | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Minister and Deputy First Minister are at loggerheads at the moment | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
over the Clemente should of welfare reform, which has not happened in | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Northern Ireland, and it will cost the budget ?84 million this year. -- | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
over the implementation. The question arises as to whether, if | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
they got further tax raising powers, or if they got the ability to have | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
more power over their financial affairs, would they be able to | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
manage that? The 1 thing they agree on is that the devolution of | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
corporation tax should be devolved, but two quotes, from Peter Robinson, | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
no point giving the Executive more powers when it cannot control the | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
powers it has, and Arlene Foster says that there needs to be a huge | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
dose of reality. Andy Martin, thank you. Vicki Young is at Westminster, | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
there is going to be pressure as well from the English regions, the | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
scale of this is quite eye watering. Yes, it is, and it is not clear | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
whether the slumbering beast of English nationalism really has been | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
kicked away, as one constitutional expert but it is today, but we have | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
had a parade of very angry Conservative MPs, angry that they | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
have not been consulted about what they see as a very generous promise | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
given to Scotland during the referendum campaign. That is what | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
David Cameron was trying to address today, saying he would speak to and | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
listen to the millions of English voters, but member there is still no | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
agreement across the political parties about what powers needs to | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
be devolved to Scotland, what English devolution might look like, | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
or whether Scottish MPs should be banned from voting on English laws | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
altogether, something that would put Labour in a real bind because they | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
have the largest number of Scottish MPs. So a long list of promises, not | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
clear how quickly whether it can be delivered. Thanks very much now. | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
The pound hit a two-year high against the euro this morning, | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
and a two-week high against the US dollar, | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
as Scotland voted against independence. | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
Meanwhile, the Royal Bank of Scotland, | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
which had drawn up plans to move its registered head office | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
to England in the event of a yes vote | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
says what it had described as a contingency plan | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
Our business correspondent Simon Jack is in the City. | :21:41. | :21:50. | |
Simon, we always say the markets hate uncertainty, I suppose they now | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
have a little more certainty than they did yesterday. Yeah, they have | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
got a bit of clarity, the markets got the results they wanted, frankly | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
the 1 they always expected. They saw it as a odds on bed, they had a | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
scare last week from some opinion polls, but the stock market is up | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
about 1%. RBS, a big jump in their share price, up 4%, those | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
contingency plans to move their legal home south of the border can | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
go in the bin, or at least in the bottom draw for the foreseeable | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
future. The existential question has been answered, but you can see that | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
the pound rallied against the euro, but that is wearing off as mine turn | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
to this new complexity - what do these devolution powers mean? Will | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
doing business in the UK be more congregated? I would say there is | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
relief but not euphoria here. -- complicated. | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
That's it from us in Edinburgh for now. | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
for more reaction to the No vote in the Scottish referendum. | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
And that is our top story this lunchtime. | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
Scotland says no, voting to remain part of the United Kingdom. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
And the latest on the hunt for Alice Gross. | :23:04. | :23:17. | |
Wembley Stadium will host the semis and final of Euro 2020. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
And one of the finest collections of old master paintings, | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
the great gallery at the Wallace Collection opens its doors again. | :23:25. | :23:38. | |
Forensic officers are still searching the house of the builder | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
formerly convicted of murdering his wife in Latvia | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
and now wanted in connection with the disappearance | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
of 14-year-old Alice Gross in west London. | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
Arnis Zalkalns was sentenced to seven years in prison | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
He was last seen a week after Alice Gross vanished. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds reports. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
They've been searching the home of Latvian builder Arnis Zalkalns | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
He failed to return home two weeks ago. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
He left his passport and phone behind. | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Police have recovered large objects from the flat | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
he shared with his partner, including a bike. | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
He's a suspect because, on the day Alice went missing, | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
she crossed this bridge in Brentford, West London, | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
and 15 minutes later so did Arnis Zalkalns, | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
In 1988, Arnis Zalkalns was jailed for murdering his wife | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
and, according to reports from Latvia, | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
with indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl in 2009. | :24:39. | :24:48. | |
He regularly cycled to a building job | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
along the towpaths where Alice went missing. | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
As a Latvian EU citizen, he currently has the right to work here | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Only evidence he poses a serious and present risk | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
would allow Britain to prevent his entry. | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
means the investigation has entered a new phase, | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
but also searching for him across Europe. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
French jets have carried out their first strike | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
against Islamic State militants in Iraq. | :25:24. | :25:24. | |
says planes attacked an IS depot in north-east Iraq, | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
and he said there would be more raids in the coming days. | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
The action follows more than 170 US air strikes against the jihadist | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
group since mid-August. have recorded a financial deficit | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
for the first time. including hospitals, mental health | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
and ambulance services, reported an overall deficit of | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
?167 million between April and June. The figures highlight | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
the financial challenges facing the NHS in England as it deals | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
with rising demand for health care. How worrying is this? Well, Simon, | :25:59. | :26:12. | |
individual trusts being in deficit is nothing new, but this is the | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
first time the whole sector for foundation trust has been in deficit | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
over a three-month period, and to give you some indication, it | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
recorded a surplus in the same three months last year. Hospital chiefs | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
say they are dealing with record numbers of patients, and that was in | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
the summer, never mind winter pressures, more people coming | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
through A, more need for care, particularly amongst the elderly. | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
The Government say, well, it is only three months of the, often | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
efficiency savings come through later in the year. They are urging | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
Hospital bosses to be more efficient, they say the NHS budget | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
has increased over this Parliament. As winter approaches, there will be | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
real concerns over whether this rising demand for care, higher | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
population and so on, continues, and with the cold winter. We had a mild | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
winter last day, and if that is not repeated, they could be increasing | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
pressure in months ahead. Thank you very much. More now on our main | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
story, the people of Scotland have voted no to independence. | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
The Queen is expected to release a statement later today | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is there. | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
Nick, would it be fair to suggest there must be a degree of relief in | :27:31. | :27:40. | |
the Royal household today? Yes. I think we can say that without fear | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
of contradiction. Relief and, of course, this statement this | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
afternoon, we expect a short statement, I think it is a logical | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
assumption that now that the decision has been made after a | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
divisive campaign, the Queen will focus on the fact that Scotland has | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
made its choice, and she will ask both sides to accept that choice and | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
to reconcile with each other and to move ahead. And indeed the | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
overwhelming emotion here, I think privately, is one of relief. The | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
Queen, I think, privately would have found it very unhappy, had it been | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
the break-up of the United Kingdom. Balmoral is a moat and secluded, | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
repeatedly her favourite home, but she is kept in touch with the | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
closing stages of the campaign. -- is remote. So private relief and a | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
wish now for reconciliation. Thank you very much, Nicholas Witchell at | :28:36. | :28:36. | |
Balmoral. Scotland's decision to remain | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
part of the United Kingdom Our diplomatic correspondent | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
Bridget Kendall has been gauging international | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
reaction to the No vote. The United Kingdom | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
is still united this morning... Intense interest and some relief | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
at this result. There's deep affection | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
for Scotland's distinct identity, did not want to see it split | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
from the United Kingdom, fearing it would fuel separatism | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
elsewhere and turn the UK | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
into a weaker partner. But it may be that Britain's global | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
influence will be eroded anyway. the United Kingdom | :29:13. | :29:19. | |
is already in decline. The days of the British Empire | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
may be long gone, like China, India, Russia and Brazil | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
have grown in strength, medium-sized countries like Britain | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
have lost clout. And though the UK will still be | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
a staunch ally of countries like the United States, | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
new devolved powers for Scotland, and probably constitutional reform | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
elsewhere, mean the United Kingdom | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
is going to change. I think there will still be | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
negative implications, even from the No vote | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
that we now have. The whole issue about powers for | :29:58. | :29:59. | |
other parts of the United Kingdom, er, constitutional change, | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
this will be a huge distraction And in the European Union | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
there is another uncertainty. If Conservatives win | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
the next British election, which could take the UK out | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
of the EU in three years' time? But perhaps there is | :30:15. | :30:22. | |
one silver lining. While many countries may find it | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
incomprehensible that Westminster agreed | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
to let the Scots held a vote, it does show British democracy | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
is alive and well. It is actually pretty remarkable | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
that a state can say, we are not going to compel | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
part of what has been our country that perhaps did not want | :30:42. | :30:44. | |
to remain part of our country, we are going to allow | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
the democratic process. To do that you have to be a country | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
that has enormous confidence As the next step in the UK's journey | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
to remake itself begins, the rest of the world | :30:54. | :31:02. | |
will be watching closely. Let's get the thoughts of our | :31:03. | :31:17. | |
Scotland correspondent James Cook, because you have covered this right | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
from the beginning, a very long campaign. This margin of 55-45, is | :31:21. | :31:28. | |
it sufficient to lay the question of independence to rest now? I think | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
the short answer is, it's depends, it's depends on what happens with | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
these more powers. You are right, it has been an extraordinary couple of | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
years, exhilarating, exciting, depressing and divisive, and that | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
does not depend what side you have been on, people have switched from | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
emotion to emotion, regardless of their position on the argument. If | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
you take a broader view, aside from the ins and outs of what Scotland | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
should look like, this is to a certain extent tapping into a sense | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
of restlessness about the capitalist, western democratic | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
model, and that has found expression in this referendum in a way that it | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
does not normally in a general election or other type of election. | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
So I think that is interesting, that will not go away. But also this | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
question of more powers, I mean, crucially, the parties do not agree. | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
The three Westminster parties do not agree on what these powers should | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
be. They could not agree with the Union at peril, as it appeared to be | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
in recent days, so some nationalist worry and fret and stress that they | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
will not be able to agree at all, and they will be watching very | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
closely to ensure they do. James Cook, thank you very much. We must, | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
as we do, take a look at the weather prospects, just trying out in | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
Edinburgh I think, let's find out what it is like where you are in the | :32:50. | :32:51. | |
UK. Lively conditions in some areas, you | :32:52. | :33:02. | |
may have been woken by thunder and lightning, torrential storms | :33:03. | :33:04. | |
rumbling across southern counties, serious issues in some places. They | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
extend westwards, through the West Country towards Devon through this | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
morning. They are now heading further northwards, losing some of | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
their power but still some sharp showers through parts of Wales, the | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
Midlands and parts of northern England. By comparison, further | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
north, much quieter, cloudy for many places, as we saw in Edinburgh, but | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
some brightness in the Highlands and the Grampians, patchy rain across | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
the far north-west, another gloomy, misty, cool day along the North Sea | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
coasts. , showers in northern England, but another clutch of | :33:40. | :33:42. | |
potentially nasty storms developing through the afternoon across | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
southern counties. High temperatures, warm afternoon, 24-25 | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
in one or two places. Then interesting again, into the evening | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
some really lively storms pushing up through parts of southern England, | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
the Midlands, making their way towards eastern counties. Met offers | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
warnings are in force, thunder, lightning, alias possible as well. | :34:05. | :34:11. | |
-- Met Office. We could get down to single figures across the North West | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
of Scotland. A different day tomorrow, sunshine developing across | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland, a lovely afternoon to come. Further | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
south, cloud, remnants of the overnight storms will ease away, a | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
few more developing across southern counties, not as potent as today. | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
Still muggy in the South, fresh air arriving from the North. It all | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
hinges on a cold front, along the eastern coastal counties you have | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
had days of gloom, haven't you? Mist and low cloud, and as that front | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
clears southwards, through this weekend, a transformation along the | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
eastern coastal areas, welcome sunshine at last. That front will | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
clear through as we go through Saturday and into Sunday, and behind | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
that high pressure is building again, clean, fresh high, lots of | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
sunshine, the odd shower for a time in East coastal areas, but most | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
places dry with light winds, feeling very pleasant. We will lose the high | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
temperatures across the South, mid-to high teens, feeling very | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
pleasant indeed. To sum up this weekend, the storms will ease away, | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
the cloud will lift, hopefully sunshine and fresh as well. | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
Well, that's it from us here in Edinburgh | :35:25. | :35:26. | |
on what is an historic day for Scotland and the rest of the UK. | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
and have chosen to stay in the United Kingdom. | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
We'll leave you with some of the images from a memorable night. | :35:35. | :35:36. | |
MUSIC: "In A Big Country" by Big Country | :35:37. | :35:50. | |
is that Scotland has voted no to independence. | :35:51. | :36:04. | |
and I call on all of Scotland to follow suit | :36:05. | :36:11. | |
in accepting the democratic verdict of the people of Scotland. | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
So there can be no disputes, no reruns. | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
We have heard the settled will of the Scottish people. | :36:19. | :36:23. |